our family is gone

A large number of teams began to enter the city, divided the areas according to the plan, and began an in-depth "cleanup". Cartloads of things were pulled into the castle.

This is the only place here that is separated from other areas and has enough space to accommodate those things.

Lance didn't care about many things because there were people in charge of these matters. The first thing he did when he arrived in the castle was to pick up trash and explore for possible secret doors.

This is not a secret. After all, it is very common in this era. Eagles have it, and so do earls.

There were many secrets hidden in the castle's complex structure, but Lance quickly found them.

The treasure room was filled with gold, silver, and other treasures, as well as some strange things that he had collected but did not dare to use.

Most of these are things from the mountain barbarians, probably the inheritance of the tribes he had conquered, as well as the carriers that once housed the spirits of nature, and all kinds of strange and extraordinary equipment.

Lance just likes this. He has no interest in jewelry, jade, gold coins and antiques. Instead, he plunges into those things.

Soon Lance understood why the earl had put these things aside, because they were all based on the core of the spirit of nature, which the earl did not have.

And it was obvious that the church would not allow him to study these things openly, so he could only do it secretly.

Given the Earl's suspicious and distrustful character, he would not reveal these things even if he did find a consultant, let alone one.

The best example is that Francis, a superhuman, was actually asked to be a white glove? Instead of using this knowledge to win him over?
Even if he met consultants like Amanda and Alhazred, he would not be able to recruit them for such a move, not to mention that if he angered these two, it would not be surprising for the scholars to pull a meteorite over and smash Bastia.

Therefore, the Earl can only study a little bit on his own, but the problem is that the Earl's own extraordinary talent is average, and at most he has a little strength thanks to the enhancement of a few pieces of equipment.

I am completely clueless about mysticism. I have collected some things but I don't understand them. I only know the dangers of supernatural powers.

Simply put, you cannot expect an illiterate person to be able to understand a book, especially one written in another language.

Fortunately, he didn't understand it so nothing happened. Otherwise, if he had done something to it, there might have been big problems. You know, super powers are not that fun.

Ignorance is a form of protection in some ways.

This is because they have no foundation. If they are allowed to develop for a few generations, collect enough knowledge of mysticism, and then someone with the talent to become a spellcaster comes along, then they will be able to transform these things.

But the death of the second emperor would only benefit Lance.

Greendale might have known about these things, so she followed in as well, but when she saw them, she felt a little sympathetic.

These tribes, like the Deer Head Tribe, disappeared in the long river of time, and only the things left behind can prove that they once existed.

"Let's go back and study it slowly." Lance also felt Greendale's emotions. Without saying anything more, he took the things away first.

The Count had so many miscellaneous collections that the showroom was filled up, so Lance could only put some of the non-dangerous things in Alvis's space.

As for pollutants like the [Secret Book of Ascension], you can only feel safe by carrying them with you.

I had studied it a little on Lance Road before. It seemed that the thing was a space opened up in the narrow space by a powerful spellcaster, and the core of it was a wizard tower.

Being able to become a legendary spellcaster, there are probably more secrets involved than those of these barbarians. This makes Lance a little impatient to go back and study it.

After leaving the secret room, Lance came to the highest terrace of the castle. The traces left here showed that the count seemed to like coming here very much, whether it was looking towards Hamlet or the mountains...

"Want to go?"

Greendale noticed that Lance's eyes were on the mountains, so she blurted it out.

“Although Bastia occupied part of Hamlet’s territory, they also opened up a lot of territory that spread towards the mountains. Otherwise, there would not be a city here.

Although the mountains have rugged terrain and complex environment, they have also fostered a very unique ecology, and the resources therein are an excellent supplement to the development of the territory, especially in terms of transcendence.”

This sounded like Lance was talking nonsense, but it meant that now that Hamlet had recaptured the city, he had taken over the earl's karma and was in irreconcilable conflict with the mountain barbarians.

Besides, Lance also coveted the resources of the mountains. Especially after obtaining the eagle group and the earl's inheritance, he became even more interested in the richness of the mountains.

Not only furs, herbs and other mountain products, but also magical beasts with extraordinary bloodlines and various extraordinary resources.

Greendale understood. This was not a question. It meant that when the mountains had been included in Lance's plan, the barbarians in them had only two choices.

Surrender or die!

But she didn't say anything. The barbarians didn't have much relationship with each other, and they even fought each other to the death.

"Are you going to do it now? We don't even know what the beast disease is like?"

"No, it's not the right time yet. The army has been out for so long and has been engaged in a series of fierce battles. We can't go on like this any longer.

What's more, those who escaped down the mountain are only people from small tribes. Those big tribes are probably still powerful. If we meet them in a complex and unfamiliar environment, we will suffer losses.

Moreover, the territory we just recovered is in need of reconstruction, which has further distracted our energy. Now Hamlet no longer has the ability to start a new war."

Lance was very rational. The war was over when he captured the city of Bastia. Not only did he recover the territory, he even swallowed up a lot of it.

But it is not enough to just conquer a place; it needs to be governed to be controlled. For example, the current situation in Bastia cannot be resolved in a short period of time.

"No more blockades. We won't hunt down those small tribes. If they escape, we'll resettle them. But if they cause trouble, we'll deal with them directly. There's still room in the sanatorium."

Although Reims abandoned the Count's plan to weaken the barbarians, he did not relax his supervision over them.

It would be a bit excessive to shoot all those bastards, but there would definitely be omissions if only half of them were shot. Burning, killing and looting are their specialties, and barbarity and bloodiness are their bywords.

"Leave Boslake here to take charge of this matter. He has experience."

Suddenly Lance looked up at the sky, stretched out his hand and said slowly -

"Snowing……"

Greendale looked around and saw the white snow falling in the cold wind as if to wash away the blood and tears shed on this land... The first snow of this year came later than usual, but Lance also completed his plan and recovered the territory before the snow season came.

Lance handed the Bastia matters over to his subordinates. After some experience, they were able to complete those tasks and everything was progressing in an orderly manner.

If Lance caught those guys, at most he would send them to work as road builders. Generally speaking, they would not be sentenced to death unless the crime was too serious.

But that cult truly achieved "equality for all". It can be said that few of the bureaucrats and wealthy businessmen in the city were alive, which saved a lot of investigation and trial work.

The main task now is to ensure the survival of most people and then restore production and life as much as possible.

That is to say, we need to take inventory and statistics, concentrate resources and allocate them, so that those people can be resettled first, so that at least no one will starve to death or freeze to death outside.

Then they began to gather people to do work, such as cleaning up the city. Anyway, they were given something to do, using work as a substitute for relief, and gradually restoring Bastia...

These tasks are destined to take time to complete, because Bastia is not just a city, the surrounding territories also need to be rectified.

For those knight territories or baron territories, it is not enough to have an affairs officer in charge of grassroots management. They need people with sufficient prestige in the local area to cooperate.

Bruce fulfilled his promise, announced that he had given up his inheritance rights to Bastia, and persuaded the knights to give up resistance.

But he didn't stay. He turned around and left, as if he had made some decision.

Lance did not try to stop him, nor did he do anything bad to him, and even gave him a horse.

That was quite generous of him, and perhaps Lance was just curious about what kind of fame the wandering knight Bruce would make.

Once Bruce left and all the nobles were arrested, the responsibility of this matter had to be placed on Lawrence.

Margaret stayed there because she could check and balance Lawrence, and this righteous child would truly implement Lance's will.

As for the army, a commander and five hundred regular soldiers were left there, along with twenty cannons placed on the city wall.

Because after the territory is recovered, that is the border. Although the mountain will be closed due to heavy snow, there won’t be much movement at least until the snow melts in the spring of next year.

But we also need to be wary of the invasion of barbarians, the spread of beast disease, and even other noble lords.

Five hundred are obviously not enough, so some conscripts will be recruited. Their treatment will certainly not be so good, but they can be guaranteed to have enough food and clothing, and they will receive pensions if they die in battle.

This is Lance's purpose of relieving stress. Previously, in order to counter the ever-increasing treatment of his ancestors, basic living security only accounted for a small part, and wages, subsidies, training and other things were the bulk of the expenses.

Now Rance wants to tell them that evil has been destroyed, the territory has been recovered, and Hamlet is at peace.

Allow those who are not adapting to the times or are tired of fighting to retire, give them a lump sum of money, give them priority in allocating land, and go home to live with their wives and children.

Of course, there are also people who retired from the army and became officers and police officers. These people have received training, and Lance is unwilling to waste their talents like this.

As for the soldiers who remain, they will be transferred to non-commissioned officers and make up a portion of the reserve forces whose treatment has been restored to normal levels. At that time, new recruits can be directly selected from among these people with good performance.

In the end, among the three or four thousand people who were forcibly recruited in the chaos, only about one thousand might be retained as non-commissioned officers, and the rest would be recruits, simply renamed conscripts.

Not only in Bastia, Lance plans to station troops in Owendo and the south. This will also divide the already small number of troops, and these will have to be used as the backbone to supplement new recruits later.

If you calculate it, when the reform is completed and stability is achieved, the number of troops will probably be around three thousand, because the territory is larger and you will need more people to defend it.

It seems that there has not been much reduction, but military expenditure has definitely been reduced, because the training cost of the most basic musketeers is lower, but artillery also needs to be trained.

Next, they need to recuperate, develop industry, commerce and technology, and invest in infrastructure and development. They cannot let the army drag down Hamlet's already unhealthy economy.

Bruce could just walk away, but Lance still had to solve this troublesome problem.

The corresponding plans were constantly improved, and the military reform was quickly completed. Retirement applications signed by the lords were sent back to the soldiers, freeing them from the war.

They survived, but how many people along the way did not live to see this day...

"The army cannot arbitrarily interfere in local governance, and cannot become a city defense force guarding the gate, which will seriously undermine the army's combat effectiveness.

Localities should set up their own police stations and solve public security problems on their own. We can help train personnel, and you can also train your own people and send them to learn…”

In the hall, Lance was not satisfied with the demands of those people. Although the martial law state could maintain stability, it could not last forever. The army also had its own things to do and needed to adapt to the new round of military reforms as soon as possible.

Lance still advocates that the police should be responsible for public security, and that cities like Bastia and Owendo should have a branch with independent training capabilities that can radiate to surrounding areas.

Because there may not be any garrisons in those towns, public security is the responsibility of the police.

But small places obviously do not have the ability to train a qualified police officer, at most they can only provide some militia training.

Therefore, the city must take responsibility and Reims cannot allow the grassroots to get out of control.

As for Hamlet's law, there have been many patches due to the accumulation of various messy cases along the way, but it will take time to integrate and perfect it to form a new law because there are still many cases that have not been investigated.

After regaining the territory, although Reims gained a lot more resources and land, and also seized the assets of those nobles, bureaucrats and wealthy businessmen, there were also many more areas that needed to be managed.

It is more difficult to digest all of this than to fight a war. Fortunately, a large group of people have been trained now, and some smart and capable people have been promoted through the experience during this period. Finally, he doesn't have to worry about it anymore.

“I know everyone has their own connections, but if someone asks you for help, just refuse. Don’t talk about comradeship or life-saving grace. If there is really a problem, won’t the organization help? Do you need to intervene?
Finally, I emphasize again that I don’t care who you are, what your status is, or how many contributions you have made. If anyone abuses his power for personal gain and harms the interests of everyone, I will not forgive him at all.”

A large number of soldiers were transferred to become affairs officers and police officers. These people were scattered throughout the territory, involving politics, security and economy.

If they collude with each other, it will be a big trouble and Lance must give them a warning.

Lance is not a child anymore. He knows that people will change. How much merit he has made is different from whether he will do evil. Don't ignore human nature. Only by strengthening supervision can we save them.

We will drink from the golden cup together, and we will not spare each other with swords! (End of this chapter)