The princesses all come to help me move the bricks [Infrastructure]

70.

Mrs. Wade's words were deafening.

If it is said that Master Wade still had the courage to fight hard when he was young, he is already at this age, with many worries and many entanglements, he has long since lost the lonely courage he had before.

Hearing Madam's words, his heart was shocked, and all kinds of thoughts were surging for a while, and finally turned into a sigh.

"Tomorrow, I will send someone to contact the lord who should still be in the first district."

He said this with a bit of emotion, but after all, he had already made a decision. In this way, it actually cleared up the thoughts that he couldn't hide in his heart, as if he had unloaded a huge burden.

This time, he didn't have to hide it.

Although he planned to return everything to the lord's hands, he still hoped to take care of the last few things in the little time left.

Not to mention handing in a good answer sheet, at least it seems that he can survive, and he looks a little more sincere.

With such a plan in mind, he also began to rearrange the tasks.

First count all the remaining materials in the inventory again, and then find the most difficult part of the people in the territory of the second district, that is, those who live in the collapsed "poor area" houses, and then count the shares Count, do some distribution.

However, because the situation of this group of people is really too bad, so the food must be mature, such as noodles, bread or rice porridge, and other vegetable bran, there are almost no such things, it is good to have a bite of rice .

In addition, clothes are distributed according to the number of people, and the temporary accommodation is not very warm, but there is no condition for them to burn charcoal in the fireplace, so they can only distribute some thick clothes to make ends meet.

Then, Master Wade brought his "consultants" together to sort out all the ledgers, affairs and other things in the second district over the years.

In addition, he also counted the only money left in the mayor's mansion.

Most of them have actually been used up, and these are basically used to feed the "wolves" who can't fill up. Fortunately, there are still a lot of subsidies used for people's livelihood, otherwise the second district would not be able to It has become a small town that looks pretty good and has maintained its scale for several years.

At present, there are more than 800 people in the second district, of which there are about dozens of people, who belong to the chamber of commerce and nobles and other mobile personnel who do not belong to Oran or unstable belong to the second district.

In addition, there are three or four hundred people, who are already poor or have been displaced to poverty due to the snow disaster. Some of these people are widows, some are sick and weak, and they all have their own reasons for poverty and hardship. It is possible. One-to-one precise assistance is required, and the problem is very large.

The remaining more than 1000 people are the ordinary labor force belonging to the second district.

There were more than 2000 before, and they were attracted by the first district and many others. They are workers who are more mobile and seek a living. They can run and work everywhere, and they can go wherever they are paid. ——

Once they chose District [-] because District [-] was too tough to survive, with job opportunities and more possible big places.

Now because of the redevelopment of District [-], they were attracted back to their hometowns again, and even some people who originally belonged to District [-] were attracted back to District [-].

After this inventory is completed, it takes a little bit of time.

In order to show his sincerity, Master Wade brought his subordinates to work overtime, and then distributed all the remaining food and supplies in the second district. After the remaining money can be paid off, this Finally got Anna.

Before and after, it was only two days.

On February 2th, Anna finally had time to respond to the matter in the second district.

It's not that she left it on purpose, Master Wade also made it very clear in the letter, and sent a few letters in a hurry. The people in this group are just suffering from having nothing to do, but they are willing to hand over power honestly.

Anna originally didn't want to embarrass him too much.

It was the time when there was a shortage of people, and she had estimated that maybe this time this time, it would have to wait for the winter to pass completely, and when the spring began, all kinds of follow-up troubles would be exposed, and then she would be willing to bow to her. , I didn't expect to be so "honest".

People who know each other are always relatively better.

Of course, this is no comparison no harm.

Tall out of short ones——

Unlike Grand Victor who deliberately rebelled in the third district to cause trouble for her and almost kidnapped Cinderella, from this point of view, Master Wade is an honest person. The most important thing is that he made the right decision within the last range of her tolerance. s Choice.

In comparison, Grand Victor is very annoying.

Anna also heard people say that they did have other disagreements, but at the time she was accompanying the Ice Queen to another place to search for fragments—this was proposed by the Ice Queen. power, especially in her territory.

So, this time, we still sent Cinderella, the clerk.

The situation in the third district seems to have stabilized a lot.

The Beast King and the Adventurer's Association all surrendered, and the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth teams of the Heart of the Brave all surrendered, and these six teams were completely split from the big organization of the Heart of the Brave go out.

That is to say, the original twelve teams after the expansion of the Heart of the Brave lost six of them. The eight teams came from knowing the current affairs, while the second and third teams with four, five and six teams were loyal. come.

In short, Anna's idea of ​​splitting the Heart of the Brave and ending the monopoly of the Human Adventurer's Guild led by Brother Victor has been fully completed.

In this way, both she and Cinderella originally thought that the remaining Victor brothers and other subordinates were not sufficient.

Unexpectedly, they would never die.

On February 2rd, I actually thought of a way to contact a group of people who had lost the "cake" they had plundered because of Anna's new rule rule, and a group of people who had ruled over her The disgruntled evil accomplices, these people who were originally born with unreasonable ambitions, are determined to suppress Anna's reputation in the third district and threaten her by controlling some of the past subordinates arranged by the Lord's Mansion.

They seem to want to do something else—

It was only later that Anna found out that their confidence came from the fact that they had a dark magic item. If Anna agreed to some of their conditions, the magic item would take effect, and this dark item would act as a "cornerstone" for their ambitions.

In terms of principle, it is a bit similar to the curse of the witch. Anyway, without her knowing, a certain curse effect or transaction condition can be achieved.

For example, this is a bit similar to the way the villain witch Karabos cursed the princess of the Kingdom of Slade. Now the princess named Aurora has a new name "Sleeping Beauty".

At that time, Karabos was the only uninvited witch who participated in the princess's birth banquet. There were originally many fairies present. Witches are recognized as good fairies, and it was not easy for the king and his wife to invite them for their daughter.

Among them, the first six fairies sent various blessings to Princess Aurora, giving them a considerable "halo" from appearance to talent to moral character.

Until the sixth fairy finished speaking, the evil witch Carabos came uninvited and directly cursed Princess Aurora on the grounds that "the king did not invite her, which is an offense", saying that she met the spindle when she was 16 years old. will die instantly.

Then, this very famous evil witch on the mainland left, and the curse had already taken effect, even though no one wanted to see it all.

After that, there was the last fairy, who changed the previous curse of Carabos through a new blessing, although she couldn't touch it directly-because the witch's power was too powerful.

In this way, the poor "Sleeping Beauty" did not die immediately, but as we all know now, the palace is surrounded by thorns, and there are many red roses that are almost indestructible, and many palace personnel also followed Sleeping together, and the princess sleeping in the center of the country is Princess Aurora who accidentally ran into the last spindle car.

And Brother Victor and the others rely on such a special dark prop.

The effect is similar to Karabos' curse, but there are certain conditions for it to be achieved, that is, Anna must "promise", once she agrees, no matter what excessive conditions they put forward, it will take effect.

That's why they tried to threaten Anna by kidnapping other people, and then used this threatening curse to satisfy their own desires.

According to them, the effect of this dark prop is comparable to the "curse of Karapos". There is no way that the most famous witch in the mainland is Karapos.

Of course, she has been famous for a long time. Anna also specially asked another "retired" witch, Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother, Old Stephanie, and another quiet witch, Rapunzel. Ernst, foster and godmother.

But both said they didn't know much about Carabos.

Because of "different ideas".

Rapunzel's foster mother, Ernest, is the kind who doesn't like to be high-profile, and only likes to do things in one place by herself, so all she has been doing is growing vegetables in the previous small village, researching curses and magic, and It's raising kids after you have lettuce.

And Stephanie, Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother, is even more so, she has already "retired".

According to the attribute bar, many of her dark-related skills have been locked. Now even if someone from the Church of Light comes, not a particularly powerful red-clothed archbishop, it can't be seen that she has dark attributes or related skills. The personnel simply whitewashed themselves beyond whiteness.

When Anna went to ask, she also got a smile that was not a smile.

She claimed that she had not been involved in affairs for a long time. Although she had some ambitions when she was young, she was different from the witches of Carabos who persisted in becoming famous and engaged in affairs. She had already "washed her hands".

In this way, Anna almost knew that the witch Karabos could be regarded as the "ceiling" on the bright side of the known witch world.

As for other people who have done things in private, such as Anna's former adoptive mother queen, such as Alisa's stepmother who was driven away earlier, it is unclear.

Anyway, true or false, there are many things.

There are not many witches like Karabos who can achieve such a high-profile, world-renowned, and at the same time make the Church of Light helpless.

As a result, the prop that the Victor brothers and others got, which was said to be comparable to the curse of Karabos, was easily destroyed by Anna.

Not to mention that Anna's level is far beyond them, and her magical attainments are much higher than this dark prop——

Anna even suspected that they got a fake one, and they were still using chicken feathers as arrows. It might be a dark prop, but the power contained in it was too weak to affect Anna at all.

Even if Anna agrees, it is impossible for her to have any bad consequences.

Not to mention, after knowing that Cinderella and the others might be in danger, the angry Anna slashed down with a sword, and all kinds of great magic came together, and the things were already reduced to ashes.

Speaking of this incident, to put it simply, it was Brother Victor, mainly Brother Victor, who used this prop to find someone to make trouble.

The reason for picking out his younger brother is that this little Victor is really not a good guy. He is a "twenty-five boy" and had other thoughts. After realizing that his brother could never defeat Anna, he did not hesitate. He adopted his "alternative plan".

He directly betrayed his brother and his team.

The backhand was a sell, and he really surrendered to Anna, which was considered a good deal.

What he said about the dark props was what he said, and he also gave all the income he and his brother Victor had worked hard for over the years.

It can be regarded as a tail-docking to survive, and it was a huge hemorrhage. It immediately pulled me to the level of an ordinary third-district citizen, and I didn't know how to do it. I was still in various "evil records", and I was stunned. The name of the name came out of it, and all of them were hung under the name of Grand Victor.

As the lord, Anna can of course punish or kill them at will.

But she still hopes to take this opportunity to establish new laws and regulations in the three districts, and now is the best time.

Therefore, according to the relevant evidence principles under the new regulations, Victor Jr. is "extremely suspicious" and needs "focused observation", but it is not to the extent that he will be put in prison.

Originally, according to general habits, people like Grand Victor and his men who caused troubles would be directly pulled out and beheaded. After all, it was a felony such as "rebellion" and "attacking public officials", but Considering her current shortage of manpower, and Little Victor's active surrender.

After the final negotiation, most of the property of all their participants was "confiscated", leaving only the most basic level for their families to live on, and then they themselves, according to the "no-period" standard, came to work as coolies .

This idea was also proposed by Cinderella.

Originally, Anna was considering whether to exile them. It seems that according to the laws of the Kingdom of Lore, although the death penalty exists, it is almost never executed. Instead, there are more strange and even tortured punishments. For example, there are some The punishment of broken legs, tattooing and even castration, and the most common is direct exile.

In the case of Oran, it is basically thrown into a particularly poor place or directly into the sea.

But in this case, there is a possibility that these people will become rogues or robbers or pirates.

Anna didn't want to leave any hidden dangers, and she didn't want to start a killing spree in her territory. In addition, Cinderella insisted, so the final arrangement was to control them in the third district, have special personnel monitor them, and let them do hard work.

The so-called coolies naturally do a lot of messy and tiring work. There is no such thing as an eight-hour work system. Working twelve hours a day is normal. It is definitely tired from morning to night, and there are special supervision during the period. The kind that smokes people if they don't work hard.

The food will not be much better, not to mention that there is a shortage of food due to the snowstorm, and there are only two meals a day. Of course, it is impossible to guarantee a full stomach.

But these are people who have made mistakes, and they have made a distinction according to the level of punishment, and the big Victor himself who caused the trouble is naturally the most serious level.

After the announcement of such an arrangement, even many people who had "old" relationships with Victor in the three districts had to sigh for their good fortune.

Everyone felt that the lord could not be more wise, not only powerful, but also kind-hearted, and he treated the people very generously.

The loyalty and prestige value of the entire three districts towards her has been directly pulled up a step, from the original thirty or forty to seventy or eighty.

This was faster than Anna's original distribution of food and supplies, which made her speechless.

And Cinderella, who offered to deal with this matter, seemed very satisfied. She took full responsibility for all the content before and after this, so Anna had time to receive the Snow Queen and go out with her to find the fragments.

However, after going to the coolie labor camp arranged and arranged by Cinderella, especially after seeing the miserable conditions of those people, Anna was a little uncertain——

Is Cinderella's natural black color intentional or unintentional?

Anyway, don't piss off my clerk.

Ana validates the idea.

Her "little leader" wearing a monocle is really getting more and more majestic and outstanding!

"Sister, sister!" Maria ran out, followed by Little Amy and Little Red Riding Hood, "Are you free?"

Anna was originally planning to go to the second district for related matters, and some documents were sent over there. She probably hoped that she would read them first, and she would leave early tomorrow morning, so she could stay up late at night to take a look and approve some documents by the way.

"Of course!"

But her younger sister brought her friends to find her, so of course she said she was free.

Maria showed her some lyrics and tunes she had just written, all of which she had figured out on her own, with some help, of course.

For example, she went to Rapunzel to help her read the lyrics and music.

Princesses are naturally talented in singing and dancing. Rapunzel didn't develop this ability much before, but it doesn't mean she doesn't have this level.

Every princess has a beautiful voice like an oriole, but everyone's development is different at the moment.

Among the children, those who can help Maria are Amy and Little Red Riding Hood Little Stephanie. After leading the way before, the relationship between Anna and Stephanie's family has become closer, and Little Red Riding Hood has been following her recently. The grandma, who was busy playing in the alchemy studio, naturally came to the Lord's Mansion.

However, although little Amy is very organized, she doesn't seem to have special talent in singing and dancing. Although she can organize things in an orderly manner, she looks like a little adult, and she can also help Maria, who is not very good at it, to organize things. take care of it.

But Little Red Riding Hood, as another fairy tale heroine, is also very good at singing.

While she has a good voice, she is better at singing casual little tunes such as ditties, and often composes lyrics and music similar to "Fairy Tales in the Woods", which is not exactly the same style as Maria.

However, Little Red Riding Hood is not as persistent and serious as Maria in this regard.

It seems that Maria has found the goal of "singing songs that make everyone feel happy", and Little Red Riding Hood belongs to the kind of undecided, innocent and cute state that seems to be in a state of being undecided and having no special desires.

Rapunzel is also idle at home, and it happens that the Lord's Mansion also has a piano and violin.

Originally, she also wanted to do prenatal education for the baby. This concept seems to be suggested by Dr. Tang. Originally, it was just to teach the baby to read, but in the end it turned into playing the piano and singing for the baby.

After going back and forth, Maria became more familiar with the pregnant sister.

Anna actually doesn't know much about music, and even a few birds can help Maria more than she herself.

Princess Xibeihuo is very guilty, so she always regards the expectation of Maria as the maximum encouragement, anyway, it is "good", "I like it very much", "support" and "agree" and similar attitudes.

However, although Anna didn't understand, she was very serious when she asked her questions.

What Maria wants to express, she will try her best to understand.

For example, in a song "Three Little Girls in the Woods" written by Maria, it mentioned the activities of picking mushrooms, picking up wood, and chasing butterflies. Other thoughts and more.

Then she will know that the three little girls are Maria, Amy and Little Red Riding Hood. Then, it turns out that Little Red Riding Hood mentioned that she was chasing butterflies in the forest in spring, but neither Amy nor Maria had experienced it. However, they are looking forward to it, they want to go out to play together after the spring, and they want their sister to come too.

So, Anna nodded and agreed to the matter.

Although she doesn't know when she will be free, she has already written it in the memo, hoping that after the beginning of spring, she will really have such a free day.

After knowing a little bit about it, the time is almost up.

The three little girls went back to rest, and Anna continued to work overtime and approve documents.

After becoming a lord, I realized that there are so many things that a lord wants to do.

Originally, there were a lot of content to be busy in the first district. For example, the previous drawings were finally drawn out. When I had the drawings for the smelter, I immediately compared them with the original design concept, and then started work.

In addition to the content of resuming work, there is a new wave of recruitment, spring recruitment matters, the original disaster relief follow-up work, and the improvement of the legal provisions of the first district, as well as supplementary matters related to the territorial civil servants, as well as the previous territory. Compensation for contribution value...

This is only a small part of the content of the first district. She needs to nod for everything, and because it is just the beginning, she has to read almost every document. It is not the kind that is handed over to Cinderella for revision and approval. Words will do the trick.

Cinderella is also very busy, and Anna is also very busy, and now there are three more districts.

Anna has already started preparing for a new wave of recruitment of territorial civil servants, but even if they come, they still need to be screened and trained, and those who are not good may be eliminated even if they are admitted.

Now, there are more things about the second district.

The good thing is that there are traces to follow in the second district.

Master Wade already has his own leadership team, and his habits are there, but the government affairs are not completely clear, at least half of the work is done like a human being.

The only problem is the one with the nobles.

Whether it's power or money, it seems to be very unclear. It belongs to the kind of messy accounts that drag on year after year.

The only thing she was lucky about was that Master Wade still had some brains, knowing that he would pay off all the "arrears" in the end.

When it comes to the matter of owed money, it is inseparable from the previous breakup.

It was only then that Anna knew that the second district was so big. For so many years, with various subsidies and support every year, she enjoyed the supply of the entire Oran. Seeing the economy develop, it has formed a small town. It seems that there is still a situation of "the government owes money" in the end.

This is not the form of "government bonds", and it is not a high-end means of financial development.

At the beginning, both Master Wade and the Second District needed money and support. He used part of the power and interests of the Second District to obtain the approval of some nobles, and then supported him and helped him. The district earned the most valuable investment at the beginning.

However, those who promised to go out at that time were relatively "ambiguous". As a result, after the gradual development of the second district, the unclear funds became the "hands-on" for these nobles to ask Mr. Wade to give up more power in the second district again and again. and money reasons.

Up to now, this has completely become a bad debt that cannot be broken.

The simplest example is, for example, there are four commercial streets in the second district, which are contracted to different vendors. People" stores, and some of them belong to the fixed positions of large caravans.

These four types are roughly inseparable.

Then, [-]st Street, [-]nd Street, [-]rd Street, and [-]th Street will each have some "tax revenue", which is one of the local fiscal revenues in District [-].

This point is similar to District [-], just like District [-] requires a business license and corresponding tax rules.

However, there is a problem in the second district that the first five shops of so-and-so on the first street belong to the taxation of such-and-such aristocrats, rather than directly handing over to the local finance of the second district.

This situation is almost everywhere in the second district.

From residents' "residential tax", "daily tax" and "water and electricity tax" to various fees, as well as the various interest divisions of commercial streets, and so on, anyway, there are many names. Of course, on the surface, these are all Usually there is only one name, such as "shop tax".

But in Master Wade's account book or the account book jointly controlled by him and the nobles, it will show what detailed items are included in the "store tax".

Then, these nobles would use the clauses they had signed with Mr. Wade. At first, they were unclear clauses, and then they became unequal clauses, and then they were random clauses that they just found a reason for...

In short, there are many names, and the same store's small tax may be divided among four or five nobles. The most outrageous thing is that the same "water and electricity tax" may be collected several times.

Different aristocrats came to gather their wool, and in order to prevent this part of the tax from being pressured into the hands of the citizens of the second district, which would lead to a worse situation, starting from a certain year, because the direct fiscal revenue could no longer guarantee the income of the aristocrats. After losing his appetite, Master Wade had to give a part of the subsidy from the Lore Kingdom directly to these nobles to fill this part.

In the past, it was better. This kind of filling was less, and more money was used for local development and construction in the second district, such as basic livelihood arrangements such as building roads and houses, and part of it was used to attract investment and so on.

Later, there was basically nothing else to offer, and they were all directly fed to the nobles, so it gradually became a bad debt.

Anna saw that—

Grit your teeth.

She has always been the only one to pluck other people's wool, but now she is holding back Master Wade for various reasons, and then she has been gnawed off so much meat little by little, after so many years.

Anna was short of breath, but she also understood why the mayor's mansion in the second district was not very rich, and the local finances were not sufficient.

Isn't this all in vain?At least you can see ripples if you hit the water, this is the meat bun hitting the dog!

Anna almost wanted to tear up these bad books with her hands.

No wonder Master Wade said at the beginning that he had paid off the money. It turned out to be the reason.

Under such circumstances, Master Wade can still manage to scrape out some of the accumulated money for local finance.

If there were no snow disasters, then it wouldn't be a big problem if he didn't have any hoarded winter supplies, but now it was exposed all at once.

Another point is that Anna directly deducted the money that should have been given to the place.

This was directly given to her by the king. The poverty alleviation materials originally allocated to Oran were now directly given to her by the king together with her personal subsidies after she returned to the royal city for the holiday.

The problem with not issuing it is that Master Wade didn't get it either.

Naturally, he couldn't come up with the money requested by so many famous figures from the nobles.

The nobles pretended to be stupid, and began to urge after the snow disaster.

They clearly know that part of the "unreasonable money" and "money exceeding the original amount" they received came from financial subsidies for poverty alleviation.

But they didn't admit it, as if they didn't catch the place to suck blood, they just insisted that they should have the money in their names, signed the terms and so on.

Master Wade also pretended to be stupid, and now that the burden was thrown on Anna, he directly said that he didn't know and didn't count. Originally, not so many were signed, but it had become a bad debt anyway, and later it was almost like a nobleman shouting How much amount, and then Master Wade dealt with it.

In fact, he also knows that the amount shouted, in fact, the nobles have also communicated with each other during the period. If you get more for this year, such as commercial tax, then next year, you will get a little less for this thing, or other resident taxes. a little more.

The cake was divided among the nobles.

How much money is given by the finances every year is also very large.

This time, Master Wade used the money he got out of his teeth for disaster relief.

He also gave everything that was supposed to be given in name. As for the extra stuff that the nobleman said out of thin air, he planned to throw it all to Anna.

After unloading the burden, Master Wade doesn't care much anymore.

The big deal is to be beheaded and punished, as long as it doesn't harm his family, he has already admitted it, not to mention that his district mayor's mansion is really clean, how much money he has, and whether he lives in extravagance, you can tell at a glance.

He really didn't have the ability to handle this matter well.

But at the beginning of the situation in the second district, he had no other way to save it. He was desperate to find the support of the nobles, and he barely saved it.

The whole of Oran at that time belonged to the "land of exile", and only officials who had been abandoned would come here, or there was really no way to do it.

Even the head of the district at that time didn't want to care about who was behind him. He was just the head of the district in the second district of Oran, so there was no other way.

The distance between District [-] and District [-] is closer than District [-] and District [-].

Because Anna saw this bad debt, she was furious at night, and she wanted to go to the second district immediately to beat up Master Wade and those nobles, so she set off early the next morning.

At around nine o'clock in the morning on the 6th, she had already arrived in the second district.

At the same time, Cinderella finally took care of most of the follow-up matters in the third district, and took the carriage back to the first district.

The remaining part of the third district is to re-plan the content of governance and development. The remaining disputes, including the handling of the snow disaster, have been almost handled by her.

And the subsequent development and new planning can only be continued after Anna nods.

Right now, Master Wade in the second district got up early in the morning to wait.

"The Grand Duke won't come so early?"

Mrs. Wade was still sleepy. Her husband woke up at six o'clock in the cold weather, and it was really difficult for her to have to get up so early.

"Why don't you go rest for a while?"

Mr. Wade asked uncertainly.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Mrs. Wade rolled her eyes, "I must not show my hands to the Grand Duke, let her see my butler's ability."

For a wife these days, being able to housekeeper or arrange sumptuous dishes is a solid bonus.

A large number of women have no other way to realize their self-worth, and housekeeping is the best time for them to show themselves.

Although Mrs. Wade is a little irritable, she is really good at this aspect.

Her good dishes are well-known locally.

"Honestly, how long did it take until dawn, how do you know that the Grand Duke will set off early in the morning?"

"Ah... this..." Master Wade paused for a moment, with a mournful face.

"After seeing those bad debts, the Grand Duke probably couldn't wait to come over and cut off my head?"