The Fantastic Journey of the Void Mage

Chapter 6 Patrol the Territory
After dealing with Galen's matter, Josh finally breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time, he confirmed that his guess was correct when he asked the maid.

Today is the waiting day of the next bud month. If it is replaced by Josh's previous world calculation, it will be May [-]th, and today is also the first planting day.The Muya Continent is still a serfdom society dominated by agriculture. Everyone will celebrate on this day and the serfs will symbolically sow seeds for the harvest in autumn.

The festival represents a new beginning for the crops and for men and women everywhere.So Josh's memory is quite deep, and the most important thing is that he clearly remembers that he went to Valoran before the Day of Waiting and the Day of First Seeding.

"Can this be considered a moderate surprise?"

Josh thought to himself, although he didn't know how long he had been in a coma since he came back, but Josh woke up at around six o'clock in the morning, and Josh experimented with magic at almost seven o'clock last night and passed through, and he clearly remembered him After staying in Valoran for one night and wandering around the forest for half a day, no matter how he looked at it, he knew the time was wrong.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter whether time has stopped or the flow rate of time is wrong, it's a good thing for me anyway, isn't it?"

Josh was very open-minded and didn't care that much. He was even guessing where he would go when he traveled next time.

"I hope it will be a relatively peaceful place. Don't scare yourself half to death as soon as you go up, and then encounter an enemy who may not be able to do it even if you try your best. This kind of life is too tragic, and one time is enough." It’s better not to travel through time after coming here a few times.”

Well, Josh really isn't interested in challenges that are too difficult.Not only is he a prince now, he doesn’t have to worry about eating and drinking, and he doesn’t have to worry about being a woman. Simply put, even if he is a useless person, he still has the blood of Augustus flowing through him, and his father will still give it to him. He arranged a wedding and made several children's.

"Does this count as having no purpose in life, like a salted fish waiting to die?"

Just as Josh was thinking wildly, a young man in a very orthodox aristocratic robe slowly walked up to him and saluted him: "Good morning, respected son of Augustus IV, Lord Josh."

"Oh, good morning, Sir Frank." Josh quickly reacted and replied.

Frank Anderson is Josh's steward and can also be regarded as an advisor to Josh's territory.Although Constantinople is not very big, there are still some minor nobles gathered here, but the highest one is only the lord, which is completely incomparable with Sir Frank, let alone the prince Josh.

In fact, this is also specially arranged by his father. Although Josh himself has not won the title, he has already obtained a fairly good territory. If Josh's magic has grown enough by then, instead of just looking like it is now But it's useless, then Josh has the opportunity to return to the imperial capital and take over some relatively important positions.

Of course, if Josh is still like this, then he may be assigned a noble title and stay in his territory honestly. Although this place is not rich, it is not poor either. It is no problem to use all the resources here to support a person. Of course, the premise is that there are no big nobles here.

Constantinople is like this, and if Josh is self-motivated at that time, I am afraid that Augustus IV will not be stingy to give him a noble enfeoffment order, and then Josh will be able to entrust a group of people without territory. The little noble came to protect his rights and interests. It can be said that although Josh's father didn't meet with Josh often, he could see that he was good to his children.

"Lord Josh, today is the waiting day and the first planting day. I think you should go to inspect your territory and inspect your people." Frank respectfully and gracefully stated the purpose of his visit, and also emphasized One sentence: "You have been in Constantine for almost a week, but you are always only in your own castle. You neither go out nor patrol the territory and do not receive visiting nobles. This is not in line with the nobleman's style, my lord."

Well, hell with style.Josh shrugged helplessly, thought for a while and replied: "Okay, I understand, I will go to my territory with you to take a good look after I have breakfast, and at the same time hold a dinner party tonight, invite those Little nobleman, no problem, Frank."

"I respect your will, my lord." Frank bowed and saluted, and at the same time planned to leave because he could see that Josh seemed to be impatient with these things, but after thinking about it, Frank still said: "Yes, lord My lord, if you encounter an assassin next time, please don't solve the trouble alone, although you were completely fine and captured the assassin, but next time it will be even more troublesome."

"I'm not questioning your ability, but if this kind of thing is necessary, please find your guards, this is their duty!"

"Okay, okay, I get it, you go away first, I'll go find you when I'm ready."

Finally sent this guy away, and Josh felt much more comfortable. Although this guy was a bit rigid, he had to be said to be a model of nobility. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been arranged to follow him all the way to Constantine just because he was a jazz. Ding Bao, not only can be done with enough loyalty.

Frank's family is a really good noble family, and it has been hereditary for many generations.But Frank is not the son of the patriarch of the contemporary Anderson family, which involves some direct lineage, probably because his ancestors had enough births to have such troubles, but Frank has performed well since he was a child, so he entered the royal family Gaze, and then slowly became Josh's housekeeper.

To be honest, Josh admires him quite a lot, and his level of practice is not bad, at least he has reached the third level when he was 25 years old, although he can't compare with those geniuses, at least he surpassed the average level of the entire Muya continent at that time, right? Well, but thinking of himself, Josh immediately became proud.

At the age of 16, he has almost reached the third level, and Josh believes that as long as he finds time to consolidate his cultivation, and at the same time exercise those void elements in his body that sneak into his body and are not obedient, he will be able to reach it. Level [-] is also safe!

After enjoying breakfast, Josh changed into a nobleman's robe and left his castle with a group of guards. It is very interesting to say, because his castle is called Constantinople, and his entire territory is Taking this castle as the name, of course Josh is also thinking about when to change the name, because it is a bit of a headache to remember.

In Josh's words: "Do you want me to remember that this is a castle or is this a territory?"

Thinking wildly, Josh also started to inspect his territory under the leadership of the guards and Frank. To be honest, Josh was really curious about what his territory was like, and at the same time, he was also curious about the living standards of his subjects.

结果
"This is my territory?" Josh couldn't take it anymore after patrolling his territory for less than 10 minutes. He dragged Frank and the others all the way to a forest before Josh dared to kick loudly. He didn't dare to speak but I was disgusted by the environment in the so-called city!
"Stinks all over the streets? There is sewage everywhere? What the hell! What's the difference between this and the slums in the imperial capital I remember?"

"But this is indeed the case now, my lord." Frank was actually disgusted, but his aristocratic qualities forced him not to show any irregular expressions.But he still emphasized: "Actually, every place is the same. After all, you used to live in the imperial capital, so it's different there."

"What the hell is different!" Josh doesn't care about so many rules and regulations of the nobles. To put it bluntly, no one dares to say anything about him even if he is like this. After all, he is also a prince, isn't he?

After thinking about it for a while, Josh said to Frank: "Frank, I will give you time, you pick enough people to build a team that can manage the territory, and then the first thing I want you to do is to conduct a census, no problem Bar?"

"Of course no problem, my lord." Although Frank was puzzled about the scope of the census, he still nodded. "But my lord, why are you doing a census? You know that there are many refugees in Constantinople. It doesn't make much sense for you to do so."

"Refugees? This is easy to deal with." Josh thought for a while, and said a solution directly: "I ask you to count all the permanent residents here, and then give them something that can be identified. This thing is too troublesome. You should record it. Although I am a little tired, count all the permanent residents here, including those bankrupt beggars and slaves who wander on the streets, and count them all. Do you understand?"

"As for those refugees, hey, as long as our permanent residents are counted, then there is no need to have sympathy for those refugees. If they find a job and work hard, let them stay. If they come here as beggars Get them all out of here, you know?"

"Um, won't this be bad, my lord?" Frank swallowed, it was the first time he heard such an order.You must know that if the nobles in each territory make many free people unable to live due to governance issues, they will leave. Of course, there are also slaves who escape.

It’s okay if it’s only the slaves who are driven away, because if it is found out, then these slaves will only have the fate of being hanged, but those free people can be regarded as the citizens of the Augustus Empire, and it seems not very good to do so. .

(End of this chapter)