Chapter 145 Results
"The new name of the territory has been approved. His Majesty the King has chosen Wilshire County. From now on, you are Viscount Wilshire." Livland, one of the lieutenants, followed Andre and reported quickly, "The boundary markers of the territory have been reinstalled. The nobles in the surrounding areas are a little restless, but there has been no actual conflict with our people.
"The new policy is being implemented methodically throughout the territory. The registration of residents and leased land in villages and towns is underway... As you expected, after learning of tax reductions and free magical education opportunities, many bandits and thugs roaming outside the villages have chosen to quietly return to the villages and become good citizens.
"The Knights are conducting both open and covert investigations to identify and investigate these individuals. As you stated, if they are simply seeking a living, or are forced by corrupt officials to resort to banditry, committing petty theft and robbing the rich to give to the poor, we will feign ignorance of their past, treating them as ordinary refugees and keeping them under close surveillance.
"If they live a good life and don't commit any crimes again, we will forgive them; if they do commit crimes again, we will arrest them immediately.
"For those criminals who have committed serious crimes such as murder and arson, we will first thoroughly investigate and hold our ground. When all the criminals have let down their guard and believe that we will not investigate their past, and they all return, we will then capture them all in one fell swoop."
"Yeah." Andrei responded, "Well done."
Previously, Baron Neumann was only interested in making money and didn't care about the lives of his subjects, which forced many poor people to leave their homes and become displaced, turning them into thieves and bandits. These people often hid in the mountains and forests, guarding the mountain roads and robbing passing merchants.
However, most people were just trying to make a living, and their actions were based on boundaries. If someone from their own village or nearby town passed by, they would quietly let them go if they had no grudges against them. Only merchants would be stopped, charged a toll, and allowed to pass after a few boxes of goods were left, and most of the time, no lives would be lost.
Andrei planned to show leniency to these people. If they could take this opportunity to return to the village and farm, work, and do business, it would save the Knights a lot of work, and he would not have to pay to support the prisoners. Everyone would be happy.
Of course, there will also be extremely vicious bandits. These people are bloodthirsty and do evil things to the world, and they must not be let off.
After Livlan finished his report, Nolan stepped forward and said, "Everything is going smoothly with the Knights. The team has been fully integrated. Those troublemakers have been trained and are no longer daring to act rashly. They have been eager to take on the missions we have been sent out on, and the missions have been completed very well."
Andrei knew this clearly. He had already completely defeated several small groups of soldiers, and now he had broken up the entire group and mixed them with the one hundred soldiers transferred from the army.
His father was a master at training soldiers; these one hundred knights were the cream of the crop, radiating righteousness and ready to strike wherever they were commanded. The once shrewd and scheming knights of the Eston West City branch, once led by them, instantly became like huskies among wolves, each one hunched and obedient, their eyes gleaming with clarity.
——It is necessary to be clear-headed. They only dare to show off their power when they are in gangs. Once they are dispersed, their voices immediately become 70% lower and they dare not think of any tricks.
The Kingdom Knights were now of use, freeing Andrei to act without restrictions. He deployed several teams in each city, ten men in each town, and one to three garrisons in each village. He also provided a contact list for communicating with the branch headquarters in West Eston. If anything happened, word could be sent immediately.
"In less than a week, the number of refugees and bandits in the territory has decreased by 80%. The remaining 20% are extremely vicious and cruel. We have already begun to round them up and will soon produce results."
After Nolan finished speaking, Angris took over as the adjutant. He said with a bitter face, "The new school in the west city of Eston has been completed. Many magicians have applied for the position. We have selected five highly respected magicians to teach the advanced classes, and five young, promising and capable assistant teachers to teach the basic classes."
"So many people?" Andre was a little surprised. He thought that recruiting two or three people would be enough.
"Boss You's snack bar has sparked a culinary craze at the Royal School of Magic. Now, if you want to try one of their signature dishes, you have to get up early and line up... It's okay if you've never tried it, but once you've tried it, the delicious flavors are hard to erase from your memory. The magic mud, the hard bread, the barley porridge... it's simply unpalatable!" As a loyal takeout customer of the Brewing Workshop, Angris can clearly understand the greed and pain of the magicians who can't eat delicious food. "As soon as they heard this was the main store, they rushed over. They even got into several fights before our interview!"
Andre: "..." He still underestimated the lethality of the small bone delicacies.
"We had no choice but to increase the number of recruits," Angris said, "otherwise I'm really worried that they will fight each other... They are all well-known magicians!"
Andrei, flipping through the magicians' resumes, laughed. "It's okay. It's just a few more magicians. We can afford them. We'll provide them with takeout every morning, noon, and night, rotating them around."
These professors and teaching assistants were at least senior lecturers at the Royal Magic Academy, some even tenured professors. Giving lectures here was simply a waste of their talents. They were making a killing this time, so they couldn't even laugh at the profits, so they naturally couldn't push them away.
"The fish sauce factory is already built. The large ceramic vats and magic circles for brewing are also ready, and the supply of raw materials has been negotiated. We just need to wait for the Knights to capture the criminals, and then we can officially begin production... But, is it really reliable to let prisoners brew sauce?"
"Let's give it a try. They're all prisoners sentenced to around ten years anyway," Andre said. "Their crimes aren't too serious, nor too light. It would be a waste to keep them around. We don't keep idle people in our territory. It would be much better to let them do some work and support themselves."
Serious criminals are difficult to control, often serving sentences of decades. If they were to face dead fish and rotten shrimp every day, they would probably riot after just a few days. It's also not safe to let them touch food.
But prisoners serving sentences of around ten years are in a delicate situation. If they persevere, they might see their families and be freed, not to mention the chance of a shorter sentence if they behave well. Even facing dead fish and rotten shrimp, they will endure as long as possible. These prisoners, hoping for a sentence reduction, desire to brew a delicious fish sauce more than anyone else.
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