It was already dark, and fine snow continued to fall from the top of the sinkhole, turning into water droplets before it reached the ground.
At a hole at the bottom of the pit, Lant was still sitting on the stone platform, holding a large pile of documents in his hand. With the light of the surrounding magic, he sometimes lowered his head to write something, and sometimes looked at the thorn fairies who were still busy in the sky.
"Lant? What are you doing?" The dragon girl's voice came from behind.
Turning around to look over, Gulea Blue Dragon was wearing a spider gauze dress. Her already exquisite body was wrapped in white sand and looked even more graceful. In addition to the usual headdress, hand ornaments, two horns and tail tip There are also magic pattern ornaments for decoration.
The appearance of the dragon girl suddenly touched Lant's heartstrings, causing his brain to freeze and making him unable to speak.
"I heard that Mr. Gorkes came to see you this afternoon?" The dragon girl didn't look at Lant's eyes carefully. She just sat next to him on the stone platform, her tail naturally wrapped around Lant's legs, "Isn't that right? What did he say that made you uncomfortable?
He is thousands of years old, even older than Her Majesty Tyriana. For him, it doesn't matter whoever sits on the throne, but making Dragon Tooth City surpass the imperial capital is the most important thing. "
After she finished speaking, Gu Leiya realized that Lant's gaze had been falling on the top of her head.
"Look here! Look here!" The dragon girl's tail stretched out between the two of them playfully. She watched Lant subconsciously reach for the tip of her tail and said with a smile, "Have you grown up? You're actually staring at her. Look at people’s tails and horns.”
"I really didn't take a close look at it before, but now I feel it's particularly beautiful!" Lant was tapped on the forehead by the tail and said with a smile, but found that Gu Leiya's face was already so red that she was about to spit fire.
The two played around for a while, and Lant finally rested on Gu Leiya's lap, still holding the end of her tail in his hand.
Gu Leiya knew that Lant had been working hard these days, and while caressing Lant's forehead, she said: "Little Cardinal said that you have been too busy recently, and she has many things to wait for you to decide."
"Look, aren't they all?" Lant patted a pile of documents beside him.
"What...are these?" Long Nu picked up a few pages of paper, and all she saw were names, brief introductions, and official positions.
"You really want to know?" Lant was a little surprised.
"why not?"
"Wendy and the others hid when they saw these documents," Lant said with a smile. "The future official system of the Galloping Horse Kingdom, the appointment of personnel in the territory, military merit, canonization, division of territories, and nearly 15 cities in the next five years. The industrial planning, 20 commercial routes, 15 shipping routes, three horizontal and two vertical magic network distribution on the entire plain, that’s probably it.”
"Hey guys, we're going to build a whole country!"
"Yes, we just want to build a kingdom," Lant nodded, "but the most troublesome are the first few items, especially the official system, official positions, and personnel."
Lant's tone gradually became lazier, and he took out three pieces of paper with various graphics densely drawn on them: "Although our territory is an entire plain, there are actually two signs. One is the Barbarian Galloping Horse Tribe, and the other is the Barbarian Galloping Horse Tribe. In the future, the country will be established as the Benma Khanate; the second is the human duchy of Yeqicheng, which will be established as the Benma Kingdom in the future.
The advantage of having two brands in a set of people and horses is that the Imperial Finance Department cannot control the accounts of the Benma Khanate. The Benma Khanate can also accept orcs, mermaids, and river porpoise people as officials. Compared with the management of the Benma Kingdom, the management is more flexible. . But the Galloping Horse Kingdom also has its own advantages, that is, it can be recognized by the empire and the elven tribes. "
"My current idea about the official system of the Benma Kingdom is to set up three people: the Prime Minister, the Imperial Minister, and the Privy Council Minister. As the three most important ministers directly under the Imperial Palace, the Prime Minister serves as the political officer, in charge of various departments, and is responsible for the execution of government affairs; the Imperial Minister serves as As my representative, I issue various government orders; as my military advisor, the Privy Councilors consult on various matters.
In addition to these three ministers, there are nine ministers under the Prime Minister. Three ministers are in charge of state affairs, sacrifices and clan affairs, and the other six ministers are in charge of 24 departments, namely defense, land, foreign affairs, intelligence, agriculture, industry, commerce, and transportation. , personnel, urban development, tribal development, territory, magic, education, health, culture, finance, taxation, shipping, justice, supervision, internal affairs, referee,"
In fact, Lant's official system is a mixture of three provinces, six ministries and three public officials and nine ministers, but it is modified according to the situation of Galloping Horse Kingdom.
For example, the minister of state in Lant's mouth actually corresponds to the state affairs of the empire, that is, to handle the affairs of the imperial capital and the royal capital. For the Galloping Horse Kingdom, this is the most important diplomatic content, but within the human empire, this is also the most important diplomatic content. The internal affairs of the empire, therefore the weight of the minister of state is higher than that of other ministers.
The Department of Foreign Affairs, which dealt with the orc tribes and lizard people, was under the control of the Minister of Defense along with defense, land and intelligence.
"Is it so complicated?" Guleiya asked with a frown, "I don't think the dragon system is that complicated."
Lant nodded and said: "Yes, this set of stalls is too big. Now the 36 people are not even together. Even if I count all of you, I still can't get them together."
Different from the previous complacency mentality, Lant has a complete official system plan for Galloping Horse Kingdom. He would rather vacate some positions first and maintain a huge administrative establishment than follow the system of Dragon Kingdom that revolves around Dragon Tooth City.
"Wait a minute, I didn't see the cities of White Wolf City, Iowa, Salt Mine, Iron Mine, or the Knights' army here."
"Yes, these are the central departments of the Galloping Horse Kingdom. There will be two large cities corresponding to the ducal fiefdoms: White Wolf City and Iowa City. These two important border towns will be under my direct jurisdiction. Each knight will There will also be a rotation between these two cities and Yeqi City.
In addition to the two large cities, there are also five medium-sized cities corresponding to the earl fiefdoms: West 7, North 5, Salt Mine, Iron Mine, Hal City (Great Forest Palace), these 7 cities, as well as Roseburg and La in the orc territory. Niah City, Maned Wolf City in the south, and White Tree City, there are a total of 9 count cities. A complete set of management teams will be installed in these cities, and the palace counts will be in charge. Patrol teams and knights will also be stationed in the cities.
In addition to the dozens of inn castles in other viscounty territories, I will also open 2 mines in the northern part of the Iowa Mountains, and establish 3-4 settlements in the Great Forest and Frostwolf Forest.
In addition to these cities, the central gathering area of the 8 branches of the Benma Tribe has basically built a city. This will also provide 8 cities equivalent to the viscounty territory, as well as 2 cities negotiated with the River Tribe, which will also be based on the viscounty territory. Small town scale construction.
It is estimated that after all the construction is completed, all the intermediate and above knights currently following me can be sealed off. "
"Hmm..." The dragon girl began to hold her chin and think, "Are you saying that all the intermediate and above-level members of the Knights are now knighted? I'm afraid they don't have that many territories, right?"
“It’s no longer necessary to think about making a baron,” Lant said with a smile. “Being a baron is closely related to the military system. My current idea is to personally control the army, but set up a Privy Council as the military command department. Galloping Horse The Knights, the Frostwolf Knights, the Auxiliary Army and the Elf Knights (a paddling group composed of Elf Housemen), various city knights, patrols, and the cavalry team of the Galloping Horse Tribe are all mobilized by military orders issued by the Privy Council.
In the future, the leaders of the three regiments of Galloping Horse, Frostwolf, and Elf must be high-ranking. The leaders of the City Knights are senior knights. These leaders have field titles, and the captains must have palace titles. The treatment of ordinary knights is handled by the knights.
Now that Galloping Horse has ushered in peace, the knights who have obtained military merits, especially the two main knights, can choose to give up their positions in the knights and concentrate on running the territory, or they can choose to hand over their status as lords to others and concentrate on their work. Training within the Knights. "
"The little cardinal has drawn up the ranking of knights based on their military merits. Except for my father and eldest brother, who are the closest to me, among the remaining knights, those with the highest military merits are Tierney, Houndstooth, Neil, and Petreu Lanyuan. , Nedland Wilson and Yaweni Jinyue. The actual fiefdoms of these people are based on the treatment of viscounts, and they may be named palace marquises in name. Among the others, Elenda Maned Wolf and Honir Galloping Horse need The title of court earl, the rest..."
"Lant! Please wait a moment, do you know what kind of person can be awarded the title of Marquis of the Palace?" Gu Leiya suddenly interrupted Lant, "Even Tierney's grandfather is just a count. How can you get it?" After arriving at Yeqi City, he was only a War Marquis! He had just been granted the title of Palace Earl."
"That's right," Lant nodded. Yawenni has been working as a Golden Knight for almost 50 years, and she was so happy when she finally got a palace viscount. Now Neil and Dogtooth haven't reached high-level yet. To the Marquis, it is indeed a bit outrageous.
"That should..."
"The viscounts and earls can each be divided into three levels. The five who have made the most merit will be appointed as third-level earls. The rest will be divided into first to third level viscounts, first to third level barons, lords, and knights according to their merits."
"Well, you're right, this is indeed more appropriate,"
Watching Lant make corrections on the paper, Gu Leiya added: "In addition to these, we also need to give some magic potions to Ned Land, Dogtooth and Neil, so that they can at least reach the level of Grand Knight, otherwise it will not be in line with the rules."
"Yeah, well, after arranging all these territorial knights, the current inn territory will probably be able to obtain enough population to operate," Lant nodded and said, "But back to the central government system just now, it belongs to the Galloping Horse Kingdom and the Galloping Horse Khan There are still too few administrative bureaucrats in the country. Even if Peter can buy all the people recently assigned by the imperial capital, only a small part of the positions can be filled, and the rest can only wait for the civilian mages trained by Galloping Horse Academy."
"They are not the only ones. The children of the Benma family, the members of the Benma Foundation, and the high-ranking people in the imperial capital who have gained military glory in the past. You can recruit some side children from them and give them a small city first. Work hard at your job, and if there are good talents, then promote them."
"It's also an idea." Lant suddenly discovered that Gu Leiya was surprisingly very good at government affairs. "Is this what the Lanlong family does?"
"It's the Lan Yuan family. When I was a child, I lived in the Longtai Mountain Palace for a while. At that time, the then king Borya Honglong and his father Beto Lan Yuan often said this, and they would point at us children. They said that in the future, let us all enter various departments of the Dragon Kingdom and be the heads of departments."
"No wonder," Lant nodded. Bao Ya was the king who was forced to abdicate by Kebbins and others. His father, Beto Lanyuan, was not only the king for decades, but also the king for decades before that. The Prime Minister of the Dragon Kingdom in 2000, it can be said that he is very familiar with administrative affairs.
With that said, Lant handed the order in his hand to Long Nu. "Then help me see if there is anything else that needs to be improved?"
As a highly valued child of the Blue Dragon family, Guleiya was naturally trained and educated from an early age, not only to become a dragon mage, but also to high-level lords and priests.
Thinking of this, Lant even understood the deep meaning of McLaren sending Gu Leiya to Ye Qicheng. That is, if Lant really couldn't handle the complicated government affairs, with an internal helper like Gu Leiya who had been immersed in Longtai Mountain since childhood, at least he could Can understand the feudal lord trick.
"I think it should be almost done," Gulea took the list handed over by Lant. "In addition, you not only have military and government affairs, but also need a complete administrative team within the palace, as well as the Lords Council and the High Court. You have to start preparing for the Hierarchy Council, or even the Legend Council."
After hearing the High Council and the Noble Council, Lant couldn't help but said: "Headache!"
(End of chapter)
