Start As a Lord In a Viscount

Early in the morning, Hunter walked into the Viscount Mansion wearing a blood-stained armor.

As soon as he met Claire, he half-kneeled, "Report to the lord, fortunately not to be disgraced!"

"Get up." Claire waved his hand, "How much gain?"

"They carried a total of 460,000 gold coins!" Hunter said with excitement.

Claire nodded lightly and looked at Robin, the political officer beside him.

Robin naturally knew what Claire wanted to ask, and quickly said: "The price I negotiated with them yesterday was 300,000 gold coins. If you add the 430,000 gold coins that were recovered, the financial deposit of our Viscount Mansion has reached 300,000 gold coins. More than half a million."

"500,000 gold coins, Nafu City's ten years of taxation." Claire muttered to herself.

Then he turned to look at Regan, and said softly, "Frank is dead, and our viscount is missing an administrative officer..."

Reagan bowed slightly, "Master, I will go to another city to find a qualified political officer."

"No." Claire shook her head slightly, "Isn't there a good candidate right now?"

Reagan had some doubts in his heart, and looked around for a while, but still didn't understand who Claire was talking about. Robin was already a tax officer, so he couldn't let Hunter be the political officer.

"You!" Claire pointed at Regan, "You will be the administrative officer of the Viscount House in the future."

Reagan was frightened and hurriedly refused: "Master, I..."

"Needless to say, you are a qualified steward of the Griffin family, and I also believe that you can become a qualified steward of the Viscount. Besides, you can help me lighten the burden."

Regan's eyes flickered, and he finally bowed deeply, "Thank you, young master, for being able to look down on me as an old man."

Claire smiled and said, "Although the nobles in the city have been purged, the people below are still in a state of lack of supplies and poverty..."

"So, my next step is to rebuild the entire Nafu City!"

Claire's remarks caused a thousand waves, and Reagan was the first to raise his hand to object, "Master, rebuilding Naft City is estimated to cost a lot of money." As the steward of the Griffin family, he has always been averse to wasting money. This kind of thing is very sensitive.

Although Robin didn't say anything, his expression was a little bit of an opinion. It was a waste of money that he finally got from the nobles and put it into useless construction, and it was completely related to the lack of materials and poverty of the lords. It doesn't matter.

Claire shook her head and smiled mysteriously: "Have you heard of cash-for-work!"

Reagan and Robin looked at each other and shook their heads, they really hadn't heard the word. Only Hunter stood on the side stupidly, he didn't know anything about this.

"Reagan, remember what I said to you before, money is for spending. Money is not used for hoarding, storage, and only when it flows can it generate value. It is only one aspect of rebuilding Nafu City. The main purpose is to Redistribute this money and distribute it to the hands of the people below."

"Whether a territory is prosperous or not depends not on how rich the lord of the territory is, but on whether the people in the territory are rich enough, the people are rich and the country is strong, and they are rich enough to drive the development of the entire territory."

Claire's explanation really shocked Reagan and Robin, and they looked at each other again, and they all saw the shock in each other's eyes. They had never heard such a statement.

Claire continued: "What I said before is not empty talk, I want to rebuild Nafau City first, let's not say anything else, get the sewers up, the rubbish and feces on the street are too unpleasant. , and it is easy to produce plague if it accumulates for a long time.”

"Hmm!" Robin nodded again and again, which he agreed with.

"What I said before was not empty words. The establishment of schools and hospitals must be built. In this way, in another ten or twenty years, there will be no illiteracy in our entire Viscount, and all diseases will be born. If it can be cured, there will be no such thing as the quack doctor before, the people can live and work in peace and will no longer be oppressed, and the whole territory will be prosperous."

Just listening to Claire's description, everyone was a little excited.

Said that Claire set her eyes on the three people in front of her, "I'll leave this matter to you, can you do it?"

"Can!"

"First make room for the aristocratic industries to build night schools, so that some adults can also read."

"No problem." Robin replied. He was responsible for receiving the property from the nobles. Naturally, he knew where to use it as a night school.

"Teacher, you can only wait for a while before recruiting from other territories." Claire said regretfully.

"No need, Lord Viscount!" Robin said excitedly: "My wife is a teacher! She used to teach the children of nobles, so it should be fine for her to be a literacy teacher. As for elementary school teachers If you don't worry, the school hasn't been built yet, so you can look for it slowly."

Claire's eyes lit up, "Okay! I'll leave this to you." It seemed that the night school wouldn't have to drag on for too long.

"Oh yes, now that you have money, let's increase the maids' wages to twenty-five silver coins."

"Yes, Master!"

...

At noon, Reagan personally took a lot of paper to the city gate and posted it. This was originally what a political officer should do.

The first one posted was an announcement from Claire granting him the Viscounty Conservatorship, and the next few were announcements about recruiting workers.

As soon as someone came to post the announcement, the pedestrians entering and leaving Nafu City all gathered around and looked at the posted announcement in unison.

"Don't squeeze. Didn't you say last time that you are illiterate, and you still squeeze."

"As I go, if anyone in the entire Nafu city can read, I just want to get closer."

"..."

When everyone was almost there, Reagan cleared his throat and said loudly: "I! From now on, I will be the administrative officer of the Viscount Griffin!"

The people below looked blank, watching Reagan discuss.

"Who is he? I didn't say much."

"What about the administrative officer last time?"

"I don't know, why did you suddenly change to a political officer?"

Reagan stopped their discussion and said loudly: "The last time the administrative officer who collected taxes at will has been driven away by Mr. Viscount! I am the newly appointed administrative officer of Mr. Viscount!"

"Oh! Lord Viscount accepted his fate!"

As soon as they heard Claire's name, the people below instantly became excited.

"The last administrative officer should be hanged! But it's fine for Lord Viscount to drive him away. Long live Lord Viscount!"

"Yes! The administrative officer that the Viscount personally accepted his fate must be countless times better than the last one!"

Seeing the people below praise the young master, the corners of Reagan's mouth turned up unconsciously.

Then I explained to them the content of the announcement posted later, about the night school, and the announcement of the rebuilding of Nafu City and the new hospital and primary school.

After listening to Reagan's explanation, the people below boiled again.

"Really! Going to work for a month to get 20 silver coins?! And also to eat?!"

"The announcement made by the Viscount is of course true!" Another person also said excitedly: "It's not a busy time for farming, so you can spare time to work!"

"Yeah, with such a generous reward, what if it's a little hard work!"

"And there are not many restrictions on the above, basically an adult is enough! I want to go back to the village and tell them the good news!"

"Our good day is finally here! Long live the Viscount!" someone shouted while running.

In just a few minutes, the entire city of Nafhu roared in unison: "Long live the Viscount!"