As the battle within the southern territory ended, various post-war work gradually began.

The Hosmann prisoner war camp was still the largest prisoner war camp after the war. Tens of thousands of coalition prisoners were waiting for their future fate in this camp, but letting so many people live in the camp for a long time to eat rice was a huge waste. Therefore, after the staff problem of the escort team was alleviated, Gao Wen began to order the people in the prisoner war camp to be sent in batches to the aristocratic coalition in Kant and Cecil, but in fact, most of them were farmers and hunters recruited from the fields. These people were completely useless in war, but they were good at farming and working in the fields, and they had no loyalty to their old masters. As long as they were sent to the construction area, they would be labor force.

At the same time, a team of 200 soldiers, more than a dozen government officials and several "guides" also entered the Hosmann leadership.

The team's guide was several old Hosmann troops who survived the gravel ridge shelling that day (and they may also be the only survivors of the people brought out by Hosmann). Under their leadership, the "South War Reconstruction Working Group" composed of soldiers and government officials came to the castle of Earl Hosmann. The soldiers who stayed behind the castle and the Count's retainers had already been defeated by the noble coalition. There was no way to know that the Cecils took over the southern border. After all, a huge prisoner of war camp was built on the edge of the territory. These people waited tremblingly in the castle for more than ten days. After the Cecils appeared, they opened the castle gate without any resistance, and tied the Earl Hosmann's children to the carriage and sent them to the Cecils government officials.

According to the order issued by Gauven, the nobles' descendants, family members and the old knights who were granted were all sent to Cecil as prisoners, and the working group took over the Earl's castle directly, began to reorganize the castle order, issue government orders, and set out to establish a second-level government affairs office.

The young government official Dedaros sat in the study that once belonged to Count Hosman. In the study, several of his colleagues also moved the originally flashy and heavy wood carvings and tin flower racks in the study into the warehouse. Then he placed a large table and some chairs in the study, treating it as a temporary office, and also transformed several nearby rooms with similar techniques. In these converted rooms, government officials from Cecil were planning the new order of the land bit by bit.

Looking at the scene of his colleagues working at their desks and looking around at the gorgeous murals and bookshelf that still remain in the study, Dedaros couldn't help but feel a little moved.

He was a Hosman at least once.

He was the son of a merchant in Hosmann and an apprentice to a respected historian. He was once the enviable target of his peers, and the hope of his family joining the ranks of society and becoming connected with the nobles. If it weren't for his teacher offending Count Hosman when he studied the genealogy of the Southern Nobles, and he ran to the castle to defend his mentor because of his youth, perhaps his fate would be completely different from today.

But he should be grateful for the bad experiences, although when they happened, he thought it was the worst day of his life. Those experiences made him leave the Hosmann leader and wander in Tanzan to become a down-and-out scribe, and also made him in a difficult situation because of the reward of two gold coins. The poor Cecil leader became one of the first apprentices of clerks.

From clerk to clerk, then from clerk to second-level assistant to government affairs officer, then from assistant to government affairs officer... The territory developed rapidly during the founding period, and with it, the territory's management team was also developing rapidly. The lack of manpower and his own strength allowed the young Dedaros to complete these enviable promotions within one year. In the end, he returned to the Hosman Territory, from an exiled scholar apprentice to an official responsible for receiving the territory and preparing for the establishment of the second-level government affairs officer.

The past year seemed to be living in a dream, but now is the deepest time for the dream.

But returning from the glory does not mean that one can indulge himself. Dedaros knew this that Cecil's legal system and the management rules of the Department of Government were extremely strict. This new authority was established not to plunder the wealth of the territory, but to truly maintain the order of the territory and protect the rights and interests of citizens. Moreover, the talented and magnificent lord seemed to have taken into account the corruption of people after gaining power and status at the beginning of the establishment of the Department of Government. He set up a strict cross-regulation and evaluation system in every level of management. Although Dedaros knew that no matter how strict the system was, it could not eradicate the corruption of the powerhouses, at least he was willing to abide by those systems. It was those systems that ensured Cecil's strength, Cecil's victory, and ultimately ensured that he and the government officials team he led could sit here and control the land that once belonged to an earl.

After searching the entire castle and finding the former consultant and housekeeper of Earl Hosman, the soldiers quickly found the files that recorded the various affairs of the territory, saying that they were files. In fact, those things were so simple that they basically just put the deeds of various parties and the general situations of various regions in a few large books, which were completely incomparable to the archives in the Cecil Government Affairs Department, which were clearly and detailed and convenient to read, but they were better than nothing.

Based on those simple files, plus the information collected along the way after entering the territory, the plan for taking over all the noble estates in the territory was quickly formulated. After the population and land statistics were completed, land allocation and population migration would be carried out, and in the process, basic order would be ensured... The working group had many tasks, but everything was formulated before departure, and Kant's experience was first, so Dedaros did not feel under too much pressure.

After completing the drafting of a new document, Dedaros raised his head and moved his slightly stiff neck, while the office door was pushed open, and two soldiers walked in with a tall and thin black-haired man.

These soldiers were not only the guards of the working group and the "bandit suppression troops" after receiving the territory, but also the administrative executives before the normal operation of the second-level government affairs department. Thanks to the continuous education work in the Cecil area, every soldier in the combat corps has basic literacy and writing skills. Although he still does not meet the standards of clerks and clerks in the government affairs department, in this era, ordinary Cecil soldiers were already stronger than the aristocratic officials in many places. Most of the latter were illiterate.

"What does this man do?" Dedaros looked at the man brought in by the soldier with curiosity. He confirmed that he had never seen the other party before.

"We found him in a cellar. He seemed to be planning to leave the castle from the tunnel, but we caught it," a soldier reported. "He said that his name was Green, a fur merchant in the territory. He was caught by the lord because he could not pay the tax. He heard that the lord was defeated and was ready to escape in the chaos."

"Green..." Dedaros raised his head and looked at the black-haired and hook-nosed man in front of him. The other party also showed a fearful and humble smile at the right time. He bent over and said in a tone that was least hostile: "Sir, I am just a duty businessman... I was originally going to Cecil to do business, but you also know that Earl Hosman hated Cecil people. Merchants who wanted to do business in the southeast would be exploited and detained by him in various names, so I..."

"Green Wolf, the intelligence consultant of Count Hosman, a low-level stalker, thirty-two years old, male, thin, black-haired and hooked nose, was a well-known mercenary in the Hosman area in his early years. He was almost beaten to death for a quest for an exploration, but while he was recovering from his home, he found a knight sword sealed in the wall, and took this opportunity to enter Count Hosman's castle..." Dedaros pulled out a card from a pile of documents, and raised his eyelids while reading, looking at Green, "... On the night of the defeat of Count Hosman, your dinner was stewed with potatoes and lamb, and drank two glasses of Karna wine, right?"

All Green's smile was stiff on his face, his eyes slowly widening, full of disbelief.

As an intelligence leader, he knew very well what the card the other party casually pulled out meant.

"Mr. Green, Cecil is everywhere, please keep this in mind," Dedaros returned the card match with Green Wolf's detailed information to the folder and looked at the other party's eyes and said slowly, "You shouldn't have lie at first, it's not good for you to shorten the labor deadline."

Green Wolf felt his cold sweat begin to seep out, and he subconsciously repeated a word in the other person's words: "...labor?"

"Yes, labor, according to the orders of the Duke of Gowen Cecil, all the descendants and relatives of the defeated nobles, the retainers and knights, and the extraordinary who are vassals shall be transformed by labor. Mr. Green, you will realize in the great labor the glory of being Cecil citizens."

The two soldiers stepped forward and sandwiched Green Wolf in the middle.

"You should feel glad, Mr. Green, Duke Gowen, Duke Cecil is kind and just, and Cecil's law is strict. The law punishes you and protects you. You only need labor, and you don't have to be filled in the shell crater like those who resist stubbornly," Dedaros said, taking out a document printed in advance, filling in the key information and signing the name, and then handing it over to one of the soldiers, "First send to the prisoner-of-war camp, and then to the North Shore Development Zone, where there is a shortage of people. This is his identity certificate and handover document."

"Wait...wait!" Green Wolf realized at this time that the special methods of Cecil's behavior were completely different from what he expected. None of the plans he had conceived when he was caught came in handy, which made him very unwilling. Moreover, he did not know what the other party meant by "labor transformation". In the face of such things that he had never heard of, he was instinctively uneasy, "I am willing to be loyal to Duke Cecil. I still have a lot of property, all hidden in my countryside manor, I can take them out, sir, I can redeem myself, I know the rules of ransom... Sir, I have an idea... No, no, I have a suggestion..."

"Of course you will be loyal to Duke Cecil, I'm very sure of this, but that's after you complete the labor reform," Dedaros interrupted Green Wolf, with a formulaic smile on his face, and he took the previous documents from the soldiers. "But for your bold thoughts, Cecil has a complete set of laws trying to bribe the government officials to evade labor reform, and recommends an extension of the labor term for two months."

Green Wolf was stunned for a moment, and then watched helplessly as the document was handed over to the soldiers after some new entries were added.

"Mr. Green, I wish you a smooth transformation and a glorious Cecil citizen as soon as possible. Goodbye."

After the soldiers left with the former "intelligence consultant", Dedaros couldn't help but smile and shook his head, and said to his colleagues beside him: "How could they have thought that the technicians who built the magic network and the merchants who were active in the territory had military intelligence agencies?"

"This is still the intelligence leader," a government official shook his head, "We are better at catching a goose over there than such people."

"Why is it a goose?"

"I don't know, this is what the lord said, and he said that the director of the Military Intelligence Bureau is only more powerful than the Goose."

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Chapter completed!