Chapter 132: Office of the Interior

Chapter 130: Internal Affairs Office

With the increase in population, it was far from enough to rely on Maya alone to manage the territory, even if the population of the territory obeyed orders, the inefficient way of running the territory completely limited the potential of the territory, so Owen decided to form the Internal Affairs Hall.

The hall was located in the center of the expanded town, with Maya as the consul and Howard as the city defense officer, respectively in charge of the civil and military affairs of the territory.

Next were the grassroots administrators who were converted from citizens and were responsible for the territory’s paperwork, statistics, taxes, finances, publicity, and organization.

At the same time, Owen also appointed a few citizens to become basic officers, responsible for the daily training of soldiers and logistical support, greatly reducing Howard’s burden, after all, although he is familiar with all aspects of the affairs, but human energy is always limited.

In addition, Owen squeezed out a few quotas for doctors, merchants, and jewelry craftsmen, all of which are the talents that the territory needs.

However, because of the western background, the doctor belongs to the foot pain chopping feet, headache crushing the skull of the kind, just look at the anesthesia method rely on wearing an iron helmet and then use a hammer to smash the approach to know that the doctor’s technique has reached the realm of light weight, otherwise a slight error can not be opened the knife people died.

The only advantage is that the doctor has mastered a wealth of surgical techniques, dare to lay hands on, what all dare to cut, and can also be sewn up, so that the patient looks like a living person, which is very rare.

Owen fancy is the doctor’s sewing craft, white fresh is effective, but only suitable for small wounds, the wound is too big, if you want to heal must be stitched up before.

As for the shortcomings in other aspects, it can be completely replaced by magic potions, such as anesthesia magic potion, so Owen directly confiscated the doctor’s pitted small iron pot helmet and bloodstained hammer, he felt that the doctor did not need these things.

The doctors were handed over to Dale to learn how to use the magic potions, and at the same time, Emilee was also asked to teach some midwifery skills, because the territory was about to receive its first wave of babies, and in case there was a need for a cesarean section, these doctors would be needed.

The next transferred merchant can make the territory’s industry work, because food, fur, wood, tools, weapons, these territories are not in short supply, and can be completely sold to the surrounding lords.

At the same time trading with foreign merchants will need them to take over, which these peasants and commoners can’t do.

The last jeweler is because he has obtained a lot of jewels from the relics, he only needs to simply process them, then he can take them to the border of the empire and sell them for a good price, and the money exchanged can be used to buy population, or as a reserve of gold for the territory, after all, every time the town center is upgraded, the amount of gold needed will be greatly increased.

The appearance of the grassroots managers let Maya breathe a sigh of relief, she immediately made arrangements to divide the entire territory into several regions, each region was arranged with a grassroots manager, so that any orders she gave could be implemented well.

The role of the grassroots administrators was not limited to this, they were responsible for the statistics and management of hundreds of people in their area, similar to a neighborhood committee, and were also responsible for the formation and training of the militia, so that when necessary, they could bring out a militia in their area at any time, which was a very great role.

However, although the emergence of grassroots managers temporarily solved the problem of grassroots management, such a territory was still unsound, so Maya took out the documents that had been conceptualized before and went to find Owen.

“Currency system?” Owen froze, he recognized all the words on it, it was the combination that exceeded what his brain capacity could comprehend.

“In fact the Territory is a complete blank slate right now in terms of commerce and currency.” Maya pointed out the territory’s biggest problem right now, and it was also the problem that had been ignored by Owen.

Unless the territory was full of serfs, commerce and currency were both necessary.

However, Owen’s place was an exception, because all the population was transformed by the system, although they owned their own houses and farmland, they were in fact just for show, all the labor was done collectively, and they never asked for individual remuneration, so they did not have any personal property.

This was the biggest crack in the territory, and Owen was immediately shocked into a cold sweat. Fortunately, it was not too late, Owen immediately agreed to Maya’s application, ready to start the territory’s financial program.

The first thing was the currency, although because of upgrading the town center, the gold reserves of the territory didn’t have much left, but the circulation of gold coins wasn’t much, so it didn’t have much impact.

Placed in front of Owen was the currency of the empire, gold, silver and copper, the patterns on it were crown, scepter and sword and shield, representing the royal family, nobles and knights.

This is the currency minted by the royal family, the circulation is not high, it is mainly used as a reward and as a template.

Noble lords around the world will be in accordance with the style and purity of the royal currency cast their own currency, although the pattern is different, but the value is not very different.

Occasionally, some clever people choose to mix other metals, but soon because of the lack of credibility and lost circulation, after all, surrounded by lords, in addition to their own territories, these poor quality currency can not be circulated.

Owen thought about it, and set the pattern to Hydra gold coins, Knight silver coins, and Scythe copper coins, representing Hydra family, administrators, and lords respectively.

After finalizing the draft, minting was very simple, and the synthesis furnace could synthesize tons of metal currency at a time, even including the old treatment.

These currencies were quietly distributed to the citizens as soon as they were minted, and at the same time, the percentage of tax for the territory was set.

Peasants needed to surrender 50% of the harvest of their farmland as taxes, which was quite a merciful ratio, as many noble territories had tax rates as high as 60% to 70%, or even 80% to 90%, and even the seeds were not necessarily recovered.

But it is not enough, because of the perfect water conservancy facilities, excellent farming tools and sufficient animal power, although the land in the north is a bit barren, but the number of farmland is here, so the grain production in Akita Town is not low, even if only half of the grain, the farmers can not eat it all.

This is mainly due to the fact that most of the farmers nowadays are two families, and all of them are strong laborers, with no elderly people and very few children, so there is no drag, so there is naturally a lot of surplus.

Therefore, Owen stipulated that the farmers would sell the excess grain to the territory in exchange for money, and then use the money to buy daily necessities and bread, which also stimulated the commerce of the territory in disguise.

It was easy to say, but it would take at least two to three months to perfect it, because Maya also decided to build a market to facilitate the trade between the territory and outsiders.

Owen did not intend to bother with these things, because it was too time-consuming and energy-consuming, and less Maya incarnated as a strong woman to squeeze the toothpaste, self-conscious of his improved strength, he decided to go to Dale.

The mental power boosted by his puppeteer profession allowed Owen to make great progress in magic spells.

Owen, whose instincts had increased greatly, won in some way for the first time.

However, thinking about Emile and Bella, Owen felt that he had a long way to go in this area, there was still a long way to go, can’t be proud, can’t be proud, can’t be proud, can’t be proud, important things to be said three times, still have to dive into the study.

(End of chapter)