The Wise Lord

Chapter 150 – New Deputy Administrative Officer (2)

“What, what?”

“Do you rent grain from the Marquis?”

“Is that true?”

At the man’s cry, the people around him questioned in dubious doubt.

No, it was a face full of doubt, let alone half-doubt.

“Have these people been deceived! Really!”

“Cha, is that true?”

“What about lending grain from the marquis family?”

“That’s right!”

The man spoke enthusiastically.

“Instead, I have to refund the amount I received in the fall harvest!”

“oh my! That’s just the way it is!”

“How can I live if I endure now!”

At the same time as such a man’s words, people shouted with great joy.

A bad year meant a year in which crops yielded little.

That is, the year in which the quantity of crops is absolutely low.

Even if they had what they had, there was no way to do anything because the harvested grain was small.

In such a situation, lending grains was literally a relief from drought.

but.

“ah···.”

“ah···.”

Not everyone was like that.

Not all people in the Marquis Territory could afford it.

A poor year is a year in which the harvested crop is absolutely low.

Basically, it was a year when many people were naked and starving.

“We can’t afford that…”

“Son, I’m sorry…”

Even if grain was borrowed, not many people could afford to pay it back.

Although there were people who were delighted with the man’s words.

Most people just bowed their heads in silence.

and.

“·······”

Hurin was one of those who bowed their heads.

Hurin, a mere serf.

Hurin, like most people, bowed his head.

Right then.

“furthermore!”

The man’s cry was heard again.

And the man’s call that followed.

“They say that people who can’t afford it will be given free meals!”

In an instant, Hurin’s eyes flashed open.

straight sight.

There, many people with their heads bowed were looking at the man with expressions like Hurin.

“Of course, it’s about one meal… but how can they give you something to eat!”

Surprised, two eyes open.

“That, what is that…!”

“Are you lying…?”

People shouted at each other.

The man’s words were so shocking and unconventional.

Giving food for free to those who don’t have it.

Because that meant releasing the bar grains the nobles had.

But I couldn’t.

Aren’t they the ones who used to ignore starving people?

They were just aristocrats who were satisfied with their stomachs.

They didn’t care if people starved or not.

But now…

“Well, if you don’t believe me, go see for yourself! They are rationing at the entrance of the village now!”

With those words, the man disappeared somewhere.

People stared blankly at the spot where the man had left.

Silence as if a typhoon had swept through it.

Hurin stood there like a dumbfounded person.

It’s a lie.

What the man said was obviously a lie.

Hurin kept denying the man’s words in his head.

but trudged.

Soon, Hurin’s footsteps were moving towards the entrance of the village.

and appearance.

“Oh, get well. Thank you so much! Thank you!”

“Live! We live now!”

I could hear the voices of people who were the first to be thrilled.

After that, it was possible to find people receiving food rations.

“I-I was really…?”

Hurin’s mind went blank for a moment.

Not only Hurin, but also the people who followed him as if possessed.

“Sick people over there, go to the clinic!”

In the meantime, other people’s voices flowed.

the place you looked at.

There, a man was shouting something to sick and sick people.

Hurin hurriedly approached and asked the man.

“Hey, look! Is it a treatment center? You mean there’s a clinic in our town?”

“Ah, well that’s it. Even the therapist took care of me so well that my daughter got better right away!”

“Oh my God…”

Hurin was once again dazed.

“You know that’s all there is to it? They say that the entire Marquis Territory is now cultivating Guhwang crops!”

“You mean the Guhwang crop…?”

“okay! They say the entire farmland is being plowed up and in progress!”

“So, will there be something to eat soon?”

“That’s right! If you hold out just a little bit, this infernal famine will end!”

The man laughed broadly and shouted.

There was a certain vitality in the man’s voice.

It was a town full of despair until just a moment ago.

Hunger and famine, starvation and hardship.

It was a village that was frustrated by the despair brought by the famine.

But now.

“mom! Drink this bread! Eat one too, mom!”

“Oh my baby, you have a pretty heart.”

The smell of hope was blooming inside.

“Look! Come on, let’s eat together!”

“You’ve been starving for a long time, so start eating porridge here! ha ha ha!”

People no longer suffered from the despair brought by the famine.

Bright hopes were blooming all over town.

“Ahh···.”

Hurin slumped in his seat and sat down.

In the meantime, the days when I was naked and starving.

The sadness of seeing children who are getting thinner day by day.

Even so, the misery of not being able to do anything.

Even so, the despair of reality that doesn’t get better.

But now hope it can happen again.

Numerous thoughts and feelings tangled in Hurin’s head.

And one of those thoughts that comes to mind.

“Who the hell… who is like this…”

who made this

And the answer came right away.

“You say all of this is what Confucius Xian ordered?”

“What? Confucius Xian? That, that marquee’s idiot?”

“Yes, this man! Damn you! Genga talking about when!”

“Not a fool, but a savior, a savior!”

People chanted and praised Xian’s name.

And it wasn’t just this town.

All villages and all territories under the jurisdiction of the Marquis of Ellandur.

“thank you! Thank you very much, Confucius Xian!”

“Long live Prince Xian!”

The name of the new deputy administrator, Xian, echoed endlessly.

#

Tring!

“hmm?”

Xian tilted his head at the sound of his smartphone suddenly ringing in his arms.

‘Has the mobile lord awakened?’

Xian checked his smartphone just in case.

The contents of the notification window so confirmed.

＜Your name is resounding throughout the Marquis of Ellandur.＞

〈Reputation points +300 P〉

〈Reputation points +500 P〉

〈Prestige Points +200 P〉

〈Prestige Points +150 P〉

.

.

.

“······ What?”

Xian wanted something like this.

Suddenly, a notification window that the reputation point is rising.

“······ What is this?”

Xian really wanted something.

That’s because Xian didn’t have anything to do.

There was nothing I was really doing.

I was just sitting in a luxurious chair and lying down.

of course.

“230 sacks of wheat in Jedra Village… The cost of hiring a therapist and…”

Next to Xian, Python was busy filling out approval documents.

Beside him, many of Python’s subordinate administrators were also moving their pens.

Xian just watched the scene in silence.

To be precise, he just gave orders and sat there.

Then, if there is a problem, how much do you point it out?

“Gongja. Here is the supplementary budget statement.”

Eventually, Python put a payment form on Xian’s desk.

and.

Tring!

〈Prestige Points +400 P〉

〈Prestige Points +200 P〉

Again, the reputation points began to pile up on the screen of the smartphone.

‘What is it really?’

Xian really wanted something.

But that’s for a while.

‘Ah, I don’t know.’

Xian put the smartphone back into his arms.

When did you ever understand the mobile lord?

And well, accumulating reputation points wasn’t a bad thing.

Now, I can’t even use the reputation points until the mobile lord wakes up anyway.

Just thinking about it made my head hurt.

Xian shook his head and checked the approval letter written by Python.

In addition to various treatment items, a written payment for the therapist’s employment expenses.

That amount alone was approximately 1.2 million gold.

“Hmm… that’s not bad.”

bang.

Xian did not take it seriously and put a seal on the approval letter.

#

Xian put his seal on the approval document without hesitation.

And when things got to this point.

“Second, General Administrator. Is it okay to do this…?”

“At this rate, not only the hostess, but also the head of the family might play a bell…!”

One by one, the administrators of Ellandur began to express their concerns.

That would also be the budget Xi’an is using.

It’s really like using water, because the word was just right.

If it stayed like this, the budget might be blown away.

Of course, Elandur’s astronomical funds did not disappear.

But what about the budget Xi’an is using right now…? It was enough to make me think of a question.

“The deputy administrator’s behavior is excessive…”

“Chief Executive Officer, please say something.”

The administrators expressed their concerns one by one to Python, the general administrator.

but.

“Kuhmm…”

Python couldn’t utter a word.

First of all, I was not in a position to say anything about Python.

Of course, the position was higher for the python.

General Administrator and Deputy Administrator.

The position was that Python was Xi’an’s superior.

However, the word was his direct superior, the other side was never.

Of course, that didn’t mean I couldn’t say a word.

No matter how much Xian is Elandur’s bloodline.

Even if it is a talented person who is receiving attention from Durak.

Wrong is wrong.

could have said that.

but.

“Thanks to you, my wife and children. Families were able to live.”

“Thank you! Thank you very much, my dear! I will never forget this grace.”

“Even though we are ignorant, we know the grace we received. Oh yeah!”

Xian had no justification for that!

Cool judgment and analytical skills.

And even the charisma that seizes the rebellious vassals.

What’s wrong is a b*tch.

Thanks to Xi’an’s policies, the damage from the poor harvest is quickly fading!

Well, it was true that the budget was overestimated in the process.

But it was all for the sake of the people of the Marquis.

So there was nothing that Xi’an benefited from that.

Rather… I don’t know if Xi’an committed embezzlement and corruption.

If he had secretly swindled money, Python would have gone out immediately.

“Are you meticulously filling out the books according to the use of the budget?”

But Xian didn’t.

“Yes, old. I am recording every single thing.”

“Give me one more time.”

All funds were used transparently and fairly.

“hmm? hey here Isn’t budgeting wrong? I think one more 0 was written?”

Even mistakenly omitted parts of the ledger were accurately identified.

This was no different from a veteran who had been rolling in administrative work for decades.

Of course, Xi’an knew that he had been appointed as the lord of Ruben.

But Ruben was only a small estate.

It is also a garbage territory located in the dark forest.

Ruben and the Marquis of Ellandur were different from their size.

Well, that might be of some help.

“Ah, ah… I’m sorry.”

“Always be careful with numbers. It’s all money, money.”

But it wasn’t like this!

And that’s all.

Xian had no hesitation in using the budget.

There was literally no hesitation at all.

And this Python was sure of.

Those who have been rolling for several years as merchants.

Or a talent called a target person.

No, even if there is a permanent resident of the caravan that dominates the entire empire.

It won’t be as good as Xi’an.

You won’t be able to follow Xi’an.

Ellandur’s enormous funds that are now stamped on the budget.

In front of that astronomical amount of money, it was clear that everyone would be a father.

Shall I say it openly?

A few years ago, it was clear that the Brahe guild, which had a reputation as a caravan, would hesitate.

If you hit it, hundreds of thousands!

If you do something, millions!

If we move in earnest, thousands of thousands of people!

These were the budget books that sounded like this.

Python who has been working in Ellandur for decades.

Even Python’s hands trembled when making a payment.

But what about Xian…

“what. It only costs 5.2 million gold to plow the farmland of the marquis and plant the crops? is it very cheap? Is it because it can be replaced by manpower?”

I was paying for nothing at all!

No, far from being insignificant, he was using the expression ‘cheap’!

“Was 5.2 million gold cheap?”

“Well, well…?”

Well it’s a b*tch.

It was never cheap!

And it was by no means an amount worthy of the word “only”!

How can a family of four spend 14,444 years playing and eating cheaply?

Of course, it wasn’t a huge amount if you look at it in terms of territory.

Even so, it was an amount that could never be expressed as cheap.

Payments of that amount were going back and forth countless times.

Where the hell does that distribution and guts come from…?

However, it was a clear result.

Also, public sentiment towards Ellandur was piercing the sky.

Given this situation, the vassals of Elandur, including Python.

“Huh…”

“How can I do this…”

I couldn’t be bothered to say anything about Xian’s actions.

“Deputy Administrator. This time, additional grains were added to the Raffle estate—”

“huh. Take it and write it.”

It’s not my money anyway.

Xian put his seal on the approval document without hesitation.

#

Immediately after completing the budget approval letter related to the one-time relief policy.

Xian was organizing the ledgers in the ledger storage area.

While checking the ledger one by one like that.

“It’s really amazing.”

Xian burst out in pure admiration.

It was also true that the scale of Ellandur’s funds was truly enormous.

Even though I spent it like water, far from making a hole in my finances, I was still sound.

Xian looked at the ledger written today.

Numbers intricately intertwined.

If you hit one place, millions! A voice came out right away.

Now, the sum of the funds recorded in this single ledger amounted to tens of millions of gold.

And now here, the warehouse where the books are kept.

Countless ledgers like this were piled up tightly.

“indeed···.”

Is Elandur an Elandur?

It didn’t even compare to the gold that Xian used on Ruben.

Well, considering the scale of the Marquis of Ellandur, it was an understandable scale.

The family that almost dominates the entire eastern part of the empire, Elandur.

It wasn’t for nothing that they were called the two families that supported the empire.

so that.

“I’m sure they’ve made some sort of slush fund…”

Xian couldn’t help but think.

That’s also true, because Elandur didn’t just do clean business.

Right away, Isabel was able to count the amount of gold spent when she assassinated Xian.

Things that can’t be revealed in the sun.

So things that can’t be written in the ledger.

There must have been black money secretly used for such a thing.

And that black money is here now.

It was supposed to be laundered in the ledger and quietly sleeping somewhere.

If he could find it, Xian could have done it with a gulp.

That’s what it is, literally Black Money.

Because it was blind money whose source could not be revealed.

A slush fund conspired by Elandur.

I didn’t know that, but I was going to eat tens of millions of gold lightly.

Really, maybe even a billion units could go.

“Embezzlement in cash is embezzlement in cash, but…”

The slush fund is another story.

It could have been a weapon capable of shaking Elandur itself.

Of course, it was also money that Xian could afford.

“hmm···.”

Xian studied the ledger closely.

but.

“I don’t know.”

I couldn’t figure it out even after looking at the ledger.

In the first place, the amount of ledgers was too large.

Besides, Xian didn’t know how to read the ledger.

Although Xian directly instructed the relief policy.

There was a reason why the preparation of specific approval documents was all delegated to administrative officers.

Still, I have experienced administrative work like this.

‘I can see why Hans died like that.’

Elandur still has many administrators.

Leuven’s magistrate was Hans alone.

‘I’ll have to hire some administrative personnel when I go back.’

well, anyway.

Ellandur’s slush fund was also an important money from Ellandur’s point of view.

Such an important amount of money, a huge amount of money.

It didn’t make sense that Xian, who had no particular experience, could know just by skimming through the ledger.

I don’t know, but I must have washed it and hid it.

There was no way Xian could know right now.

“Amelia would know.”

The Brahe upper class that dominated the western part of the Empire.

Amelia was the daughter of Brahe’s guild.

Although it has now collapsed, the kammnyang was not going anywhere.

Above all, Amelia, as seen by Xian, was a woman with outstanding talent as a sangjae.

Timber to be targeted enough.

If it were Amelia, she would be able to understand the flow of funds by looking at the ledger.

So, of course, the source of Ellandur’s slush fund.

Maybe he could have figured out a way to get this slush fund away.

but.

“How do you get this ledger?”

It was only if there was this ledger.

This ledger is also strictly handled within Ellandur.

I hope Xi’an doesn’t become an administrator this time.

Unless you’ve been entrusted with full authority by Durak.

Also, if it hadn’t been for such obvious results and building trust.

It was a ledger that could not be touched or even seen.

Well, even now, right in front of my eyes like this.

There was nothing wrong with secretly taking the ledger.

If you put it in your inventory right away, no one will know.

but.

“If the ledger disappears, of course they will be suspicious.”

Suspicions about the missing ledger could not be avoided.

The bar that Xian has been watching.

Because the ledger was thoroughly managed.

In the end, the only way was to transcribe this ledger.

But that wasn’t fair either.

“Gongja. It is time to leave.”

Because Xian wasn’t alone in checking the ledger.

Where I looked, the general administrator, Python, was approaching Xian.

Beside him, many administrators were preparing to leave the warehouse.

If it was a kind of surveillance, it could be called surveillance.

The ledger was just as important and was strictly managed.

In a word, it was impossible to transcribe leisurely.

It was absolutely impossible to copy and avoid their eyes.

That’s why I memorize this vast ledger in its entirety?

‘Nonsense.’

That was impossible for Arnaise Elodie, let alone a dragon.

‘Sorry.’

Xian shook off his regret and moved on.

No, it was exactly when I was about to move.

Tring!

Suddenly, I heard the notification sound of my smartphone in my arms.

‘Am I saying my reputation points went up again?’

Xian smiled and checked his smartphone.

and.

〈You can use the smartphone’s photo shooting function.〉

‘huh···?’

I was able to check the strange notification window.