On December 30, 996, Lant's team finally returned to the territory of Rotorland. The tower of the castle saw them when the team crossed the boundary river.
"Finally coming back!" Huck Galloping Horse breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that his fourth son was back. Since he became a baron, he had never doubted himself as much as he had in the past few weeks.
"Finally, we don't have to hold those busy meetings anymore," Huck muttered, thinking back on the past two weeks.
Ever since his son handed over the territory to him, he has been doubting whether he is a qualified lord every day, wondering whether Lant was his own child, and even more doubting whether Lanya is a certain magician who has hidden his identity. .
When Lanya found Huck on the first day of Lant's departure, Huck even thought that Lanya was here to throw herself into his arms, but he didn't expect that the woman sent 4 pages of paper.
These 4 pages are the daily plan for the territory made by Lant and Lanya, from the most basic territory population, gold coins, livestock, food, various materials, and the number of magic pattern boards; to the training of knights, the study of children, The daily affairs of the administrator, the cleaning of the castle rooms and various tents, and finally the harvest of each hunting party, the progress of construction projects, and even the names of prominent civilians.
In a word, Lant followed the principle of building his own system since there is no system, and designed a statistical and task system for the territory based on various management games in his previous life.
For the entire statistical work, Lant only requires one thing, which is to be true and accurate. There are no mission goals, rewards or penalties, but every number in the statistics must be true.
The construction tasks are formulated according to the approximate needs of the territory and have corresponding progress requirements. Starting from the day when Lant left, Laniya would hand over 5 pieces of paper to Huck every day. On the seventh day, he handed over 10 pieces of paper, which were made by Makoto and Laniya.
Huck basically couldn't understand all the content written on these papers, except for the gold coins, the population of the subjects, and the amount of food.
What’s even more frightening is that Lanya actually holds a territorial joint meeting every five days. Huck, who is completely unaware of the situation, is invited to the big tent and watches dozens of demon-loving or demon-free butlers reporting to her. Nearly five days of work and difficulty.
Whether it is Luo Erhe who leads the training of the knights, Kurya Gan who is responsible for the maintenance of all iron tools, Neil who is responsible for training horses and sending out cavalry for reconnaissance, Nancy who is responsible for taking care of the children, and others including Mei Wennan Several housekeepers will report their respective tasks according to a general routine. No matter whether they are demon-lovers or demon-free, they will not question Laniya's management.
In Huck's eyes, Laniya was the actual manager of the entire territory, and he, the pioneering baron and the lord's biological father, was just a statue at the venue.
Huck asked Albert in private whether Laniya was so rampant when Lant was there, but Albert actually said that Laniya was more meticulous when Lant was there because Laniya couldn't tell. There was a correlation between the different numbers, but Rand could see it.
Laniya sometimes couldn't hear the nonsense numbers the demon-lovers were making up, but Lant could. Lant could even tell from the children's tone which teacher was not teaching seriously enough, so no one dared to speak at the meeting. Inflated numbers.
"Good boy, this third child went to the church in the capital, so he doesn't want to learn these things, right?" After hearing his brother's description, Baron Harker simply suspected that his youngest son was the one who was sent to the capital to receive education from an early age.
However, Huck has not always had very high requirements for himself. It is okay if he cannot understand the statistics table. But what depresses him the most is that Lant actually took away all the five demon-possessed girls without any hesitation. Leave it to him and Ryan. They don't have to do anything these days, but it's good to keep in touch with each other.
In Huck's eyes, these girls are the same as Lant's fire. Although they are very precious, who they are with should not depend on fate.
Finally it was all over, Rand was back, and all the reports and meetings could be away from him.
"Roll, gather the knights quickly to welcome Lant!" Huck roared, finally having fun.
. . Lant, who had just crossed the boundary river, saw the huge formation of his own knights and felt extremely happy.
Hundreds of cavalry lined up next to Lant's carriage and escorted the carriage into the tent area around the castle.
Rand's subjects were moved upon hearing the sound and came out of the camp to welcome him.
"My lord is back"
"The lord is back"
"Running horse! Galloping horse!" A large group of barbarians were ready to start singing. When Huck and Ryan followed Laniya, Albert and others to the gate of the camp and saw everyone welcoming their sons, pride, jealousy, confusion, and all kinds of emotions came to their hearts.
In Huck's eyes, the territory is composed of the families of the demon possessors. His intentions must be realized by the demon possessors, and his wealth relies on the continuous accumulation of demon possessors.
However, his son Lant gave a ruling method that was very different from the previous knights and nobles. Almost the lord himself led a group of demon-free people to rule every citizen of the territory.
Of course, if Lant knew about his father's confusion, he would only cry out for injustice. After all, in his opinion, all meetings now have to be held, and all data must be counted, for the management of the people in the territory. In Lant's eyes, it was even more rough.
The luxurious carriage was getting closer and closer. Lant poked his head out of the door behind the coachman and saw his father, Laniya and others.
Lant, who had not returned to his territory for two weeks, missed his big tent and territory very much. It had already snowed for several rounds from Galloping Horse Plains to Maned Wolf City, and the white land looked covered in silver.
"Father! Big brother!" As they approached the entrance of the camp, Rant simply walked to Pete's side and stood on the car waving to everyone.
The welcoming crowd burst into cheers, and the barbarians sang about their galloping ancestors and fathers. Amid everyone's welcome, Lant returned to his big tent first. These days, Lant's tent has been carefully taken care of, and there is a fire at all times to heat the entire tent.
Every day after Lanya reports to Huck, she will also send the camp's daily report to Lant's tent.
Sure enough, as soon as he entered the tent, Rant entered the lord mode, reading the weekly report and listening to the reports from Laniya, Makoto and others.
After learning that the various leaders who had returned from Lant were also arriving at Lant's tent, Huck watched a new meeting begin, and his head began to hurt.
However, what Huck didn't expect was that although Lant had been reading the reports, the actual meeting was not very long. He asked about the project progress, grain stocks, main livestock stocks and slaughtering in the territory, and asked about the children's studies. progress, and then stop asking.
"Everyone, I would like to announce three things. First, a new magician has come to our camp, Master Ben Kaul. This magician is knowledgeable and ambitious. He came to our camp to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors' legends. ." Lant pointed at Ben who was near the tent door.
"Lanya, you must prepare all the food, clothing, housing and transportation for this mage. If there is anything that this mage needs that is not available in our camp, just tell me and I will ask people from Maned Wolf City or the Royal Capital to buy it back!"
"What?" The first person who found it incredible was Huck. As a knight lord, it was hard for him to imagine why Rant would praise a mid-level mage so highly.
"This mage?... Ben... Kaul?" Albert kept thinking about it, always feeling that there was such a name in his mind.
"Albert, don't you remember me? I still haven't forgotten your grace in the royal capital!" At some point, Ben had already arrived at Albert's side, and Albert suddenly remembered,
"You...you." Albert looked at the intermediate mage with wide eyes. He wanted to say something, but he didn't dare to say it.
"Yes, that's me, Ben Call." The mage took Albert's hand and said
"If you think about it, I didn't expect that you have really stayed here all these years and trained young people like Lant." Caul said as he pulled Albert out, because Lant's subordinates all looked at him. This time it was regarded as a joint meeting of the territories, so I was very dissatisfied when I saw the two of them leaving.
"By the way, this mage is also Albert's classmate in the imperial capital. Uncle Albert, you guys just want to chat more, it'll be fine." Lant directly approved the two of them to leave.
