421.Chapter 419 418 Let Heroes Control Heroes, Let Good Men Check Good Men

Chapter 419 418.Let Heroes Control Heroes, Let Good Men Check Good Men

As Professor Malcolm received the roster made by the Pioneer Legion for the 50,000 aid workers, Murphy, who was far away from the Scarlet Fort, received a reminder from Territorial Manpower 56,843.

This made the Governor exceptionally happy, not only because he had 568 more player slots to allocate, but also because the arrival of this batch of manpower had officially made Transylvania’s current registered population exceed 180,000, just one step short of the 200,000 he had set as his goal for the “Hundred Days of Great Construction Operation”.

And according to the statistics of the administrative office, with the current progress of the small players in searching for stragglers, Murphy was confident enough that after the end of the 100-day building operation, which was just over one-third of it, the population of his own territory might really break through 300,000 people.

The once seemingly unattainable goal was already right in front of his eyes, which made His Excellency Murphy rather feel a sense of fluttering.

After taking over this mess of Transylvania for two and a half months, he had made the territory flourish, could he really be the legendary “genius ruler”?
“However, these 50,000 people are a hidden danger!”

The serious voice from Miriam pulled Murphy back from his fantasy, and he looked back at all the people in the conference room behind him with an elegant stance.

Basically, other than the military chief officers, all the middle and high level managers under the entire Scarlet Fortress ruling system were here.

Miriam would be lecturing her subordinates as the consul.

She stood on the speaker’s platform, holding a straight wooden stick in her hand that would cause boys to go into ecstasy pointing at the map of Transylvania hanging behind her, and speaking to the administrators of the various fields below her with notebooks in their hands:
“The Kingdom of Goldfinch has sent us the manpower we need most at this time, but their moves to harbor evil cannot be hidden.

These 50,000 people without good placement will set off a new round of law and order problems in our newly stabilized territories, and although the previous solution of dealing with the Yankee mob can be applied, it is really difficult to digest them in a short period of time with our law and order forces.”

“Your Excellency the Consul, it’s not that it’s impossible to digest, but it’s completely unnecessary.”

The old Mediterranean man, Knight Portman, who was sitting down, shook his head and said:
“The locals have no good feelings to speak of towards the Kingdom of Goldfinch that had invaded us, even if these border guards were nominally also once members of the Portia Confederacy, they are no different in the eyes of the locals from the jerks from East Prussia, and the relationship between the two sides couldn’t be said to have been much better in previous eras.

My opinion is that we don’t need to try to digest them and actively accommodate them!

They need to recognize who and what they are!
They were sent to Transylvania by their generals to die, and even their own people don’t care about the lives of these scum assholes, so why should we be so attached to them?

In the words of Governor Murphy, outsiders who want to fit in with our collective have to be a little more proactive instead of waiting for pie in the sky!
Transylvania will open its arms to anyone who contributes to this land, but little smartasses who only want favors but refuse to do their duty are not the kind of people we need.

Therefore, my advice is not to give them any favors!

Throw them into various construction sites first, those places always need people.

Especially the southern mines, although we signed an ore-for-food deal with the Winterwolf Legion, the Yankees aren’t interested in running an enclave, so we’ll have to dig up our own ore and send it to Fort Crimson to complete the deal.

There isn’t much time left for the first delivery, and even though we’ve recruited more dog-headed miners to dig up the ore, the progress there is still unsatisfactory.

These supporters have come at the right time.”

“I am not denying your hawkish offer, Mr. Portman.”

Miriam said, shaking her head:

“I just want to emphasize that the very act of throwing over fifty thousand of your people into the mines requires strong execution, and I don’t see those yummy scum picking up a mining pick of their own accord.”

“We could set up overseers!”

Big Cook Xiao Wan, who was in charge of Scarlet Fort’s logistics and all site canteens, shouted with his hand raised high:

“Our soldiers are already training, I go to the barracks every day to deliver supplies and I can see that our stick lads are already armed with discipline and conviction. They need to see some blood, and the bastards need a good thrashing to teach them the rules of Transylvania.

The way I see it, why don’t we get some people to stir things up and get the dumbest harboring pricks among them to jump in and start something on their own accord, and then we’ll crack down in name only.

After we’ve plucked out the disobedient pricks, the rest can be slowly reformed.

And to be honest, Professor Chen’s attempt to teach us to use ‘greenhouses’ to grow counter-seasonal vegetables was very successful, but trying to expand the vegetable gardens of the earthen greenhouses would require lots and lots of manpower.

I’m making suggestions from my own area of expertise.

If we want our soldiers to have good enough meals in the early spring against the Jackals, we need to start preparing now.

At least three large vegetable gardens will have to be dug before the first snow falls, and the pigs placed in the collective farm for domestication will have to be expanded. In short, I’ll need at least a thousand men to take charge of this, and General Maxim has asked me to train up a group of specialized cooks…”

“Shut up, you’re not the only one short of men, you insatiable bastard.”

Knight Portman, who was in charge of all militia matters in the territory, couldn’t help but retort:
“I haven’t even mentioned the severely insufficient number of militia between our rapidly expanding various farms, you can’t be so lionizing! It’s more than enough to refine 5,000 socially useful talents out of 50,000 scum, this is simply not enough for us to share!

Moreover, Sister Jules hasn’t even asked for them, aren’t we even more short of medics?

Who are you, a cook, to talk here?”

Seeing that the “big guns” under her command were about to quarrel, and that Ms. Parian was eager and ready to “join the battlefield”, Miriam suddenly had a headache.

As a consul, she could too well understand the real thoughts of this group of “over-aggressive” people under her command.

They were not only asking for talents for the sake of the territory’s development, but also for the sake of their own career.

At the end of the year, the first round of the civil service performance review will be held, and these guys who have already become administrative knights are eager to win an opportunity for themselves to become “administrative barons”.

Some time ago, Prof. Malcolm was awarded the title of Administrative Baron and also got a small piece of fiefdom in Andromeda Hills, which has stimulated these guys’ eyes to turn red, and they have to expand their own authority in order to strive for more political rewards.

In Transylvania at present this political situation is still very primitive, we can not talk about what the struggle experience and skills of the place, people means power, the more people in charge of the power will be greater!
These bottom-feeders who had first tasted the delicious taste of power simply couldn’t let go.

Miriam intended to wait for them to bicker and then discuss a distribution plan, however Murphy was already tired of these guys’ bickering.

He didn’t dislike the managers under his command, but you guys should at least look at the situation, right now, this stall until the black plague can be retained is a problem, now there is no point in competing for power and profit ah!

There is no vision or pattern at all.

So has been sitting in the back row did not speak Murphy suddenly rose, this action let this closed door meeting in the quarrel immediately suspended.

Everyone turned their eyes to Lord Murphy, waiting for the Governor to speak.

“Don’t be in a hurry to eat this batch into your respective mouths as a delicacy, as Miriam said, we have more important things to deal with than distribution right now.”

Murphy said in a commanding tone:

“Whether you recognize their value as aiders or not, they are already forces that can be mobilized by us when they cross the Transylvanian border, it’s how they are properly placed that’s the big issue, I need them to be integrated into the Transylvanian building process as fast as possible.

You can discuss the specific distribution method in private, don’t waste time here.

And for that I already have a preliminary plan, Miriam, how are the rest of the laborers on the southern defense line behaving, aside from those assholes who think about screwing up all day long and keep getting caught and executed over and over again?”

“According to the information I’ve received, most of them have already adapted to the intensity of the labor reform.”

Miriam flipped through her notes and answered:
“According to the reports from the Blood Rat Gang scouts who are currently mixed in with the laborers, their work efficiency has improved significantly in the last half a month, and the cutting within the laborers has also begun. The laborers who truly want to restart their lives in Transylvania have been guided by the scouts and have begun to take the initiative to distance themselves from those who are holding back their bad intentions.

The boundaries between the two sides were becoming more and more obvious, those with bad intentions had been isolated, and the supervisors over there had sent the dog-heads to keep an eye on them, the dog-heads may be stupid, but they were honest and obedient, and they would always report on everything, so that the stubborn ones who resisted the reform had no power at all to do so.

From this, we can conclude that our rehabilitation program for them is fruitful.

After all, despite the labor intensity over there, the daily supplies have not been withheld, and according to the reactions of some laborers, the stew they eat with us is even better than when they were building the railroad in the great wilderness.”

Hearing the consul appreciating the laborers’ food rations, Big Cook Shawan instantly puffed out his chest in triumph, he was the one who took care of all these things.

Trying to keep the food ration of the laborers in a delicate zone where they would not starve to death, and still have enough strength to work, but not let them eat too much so as to avoid trouble was a very difficult thing to control, fortunately, Chef Shawan had a little bit of experience in this area.

“Good, that’s what I want to see.” Murphy said with a big wave of his hand:
“Deploy 500 of the best-performing laborers from the southern defense line, award them with the title of ‘model worker’ commendation and give them the job of ‘trainee foreman of the Brotherhood of Stonemasons’. Have them move as quickly as possible to the northern POW camps under construction to receive laborers under their command and join in the construction of the north and south roads as planned by the Brotherhood of Stonemasons.

‘Bringing in the old to bring in the new’ is a good tradition, and we had promised to give those guys a way out.

Now it’s time to fulfill that promise.”

“It.”

Miriam hesitated a little as she said:

“Letting the Yankee Soldier Boys manage the Soldier Boys of the Canary Flower Kingdom? Will this trigger a conflict between the two sides?”

“Your Excellency the Consul is too kind, yet that’s the effect His Excellency the Governor wants!”

Mr. Portman, who had once served as a constable in Cadman City, immediately reacted as he explained to Miriam:

“The conflict between the two sides is inevitable, even if we don’t intervene, both sides will beat the dog brains out of each other, but this is not a bad thing for us, once the soldier ruffians and criminals of the Golden Cockatoo Kingdom hold a grudge against the Yankees, then we, as the neutral administrators, can be in a position to mediate.

The Yankee foremen need our support to stay in their positions, while the soldiers of the Goldenrod Kingdom can no longer see us as enemies if they want to gain power for themselves.

Best of all, seeing the rewards for good work and the promotion of status will serve as a good example to the other undecided laborers on the construction site.

In this way, the hearts and minds of the people were stabilized.

After that, we only need to reconcile the conflict between the two sides and the labor standards to let them adapt to the rules of this land as soon as possible, which is much better than the stupid method of inducing mutiny and then suppressing it proposed by some cook.

Worthy of being Lord Murphy!”

“I also admit that the Lord Governor’s method is very ingenious, but I’ll take credit for your fucking secret mockery of me.”

Big cook Shawan cursed:
“In the future, be careful when you eat in the cafeteria! Didn’t your mom teach you not to mess with people who cook for you and can fill your stomach?”

“Don’t argue, you two.”

Sister Jules, a sincere Avalon believer and the current faith administrator in the territory, persuaded with some headaches:
“Unity is what will allow us to persevere in this stormy time, besides, I propose that we can look for those followers of Avalon’s teachings amongst the soldier boys and criminals of the Kingdom of Goldfinch.

They come from East Prussia, where the light of Avalon once shrouded the land as well.

I can coordinate the sending of priests from the Church of Avalon to the POW camps, and President Natalie and Sister Marianne have urgently trained a group of armed priests who are well versed in the Scriptures.

Not only do they have a deep understanding of the teachings, but they are also deeply blessed by our gods and can participate in the heat of battle if necessary.”

“A sword in one hand and the Scriptures in the other.”

Murphy exclaimed:
“Natalie is a quick learner, that’s the way it has to be!
Armed priest.
Good!
Now that’s the kind of abundant martial virtue my great Transylvania deserves!

Our priests who pick up the scriptures to purify their hearts and put them down to overtake evil spirits, that’s the kind of believer I want to see.

If you all have no objections, let’s do something as soon as possible.

I’m here to give you guys some perspective.

By next month at the latest, I’ll be pulling out some of my warriors and military forces to head to the Dirty Swamp, where reconnaissance operations are nearly complete and military action should be on the agenda. With the military drawn away, local security will be left to the militia and the new sheriffs, so Commander Portman, the time for you to shine is upon us.

Everyone’s looking at you.

Don’t let your fellow officers who crawled out of hell with you look the other way.”

“Will not let you down!”

The Mediterranean Knight rose with a flourish and made a knightly salute to Murphy in style.

Although his origin was not high, but this thing of grooming is something that will actively improve with the personal status, who would have thought that a groping uncle in the Cadman police station at the beginning could achieve such a high rank and salary in the present?

Portman and other managers here can be taken as “inspirational models” to publicize the situation, they are the classic model of the “Transylvanian dream”.

If they survive the black plague, their stories will be told across the land.

After the others left, Murphy and Miriam looked at Ms. Parian who stayed behind.

The Lord Governor said softly:
“Are you ready? Lady Parian, all I can say about the journey to the Genoa Peninsula on behalf of Transylvania is that this trip means a great deal to us.”

“Frankly, I have little confidence, my lord.”

The capable and spirited Lady Parian didn’t feign confidence in front of the Governor as she touched the bloodstone knight’s ring on her finger and sighed:

“I spent the first half of my life as a merchant running a small business, never imagining that I would one day be able to represent my homeland to the most business-rich place on this continent.

For me, rumors of halfling cities and affluence existed only in the far reaches of dreams, but I also know what we have now.

I will do my best to help you with your final preparations.”

“The list of talented children in the territory has been compiled.”

Miriam took out a list and handed it to Ms. Parian as she said:

“A total of 500 people will accompany you and Professor Malcolm to the Genoa Peninsula, and the Little Count of Sherron with two hundred winged cavalrymen under his command will travel with you and do the defense.

In addition, two of your daughters will be appointed …”

“No, not necessary.”

Ms. Parian said, waving her hand:

“I spoke with my daughters.

They don’t want to leave here when they are needed in their homeland, they are Transylvanians too, they inherited the rough and savage part of our bloodline. What’s more, I can’t convince them any more than I could before.”

Speaking of which, Ms. Parian gave Governor Murphy a somewhat sultry look as she grumbled:

“They have seen souls more distinguished than the finest men this land can produce, and it is as if they had seen eagles soaring in the heavens and no longer wished to keep company with roosters lying prostrate on the ground.

I must protest to you as a mother, Lord Murphy!
That Mr. ‘Graybeater’ under your command has been hanging on to my poor daughters and not responding to their enthusiasm, and it has made my poor girls sad all day long.”

“Uh.”

Murphy really didn’t expect this to actually end up concerning him, and he could only shrug helplessly and say:

“I would love to help, Ms. Parian, but unfortunately, I can’t regulate my warriors in terms of their feelings, it’s their freedom. Above all, as you know, they do not see the world in the same way as we do.

So my advice to you is to let nature take its course.

I’m sure the Greybeard won’t be a heartless man, and if he is, then I’ll punish him!”

(End of chapter)