Dear Broom Knight

These two aspiring scholars working at the magic shop happened to be one male and one female, so they simply and automatically divided the tasks.

As aspiring scholars who had to go out and earn their own living expenses, they didn't yet possess the abilities of scholars, but they already had their quirks… they really disliked communicating with 'idiots'.

Sometimes, even a mage like Lorry couldn't understand the criteria these scholars used to judge who was an idiot in their eyes, let alone Cheska. The female knight unhesitatingly gave them the greatest freedom within a certain range.

Such as shift times and the choice of co-workers.

In any case, Lorry's magic shop didn't have any revenue requirements. It didn't matter if no one bought anything, and there was no need to work overtime if someone did.

All work units directly under the Ghazal territory were this relaxed.

Although everyone didn't understand why Baron Lorry insisted on setting the working hours from nine to five, with one day off every six days, and the option to apply for a half-month long vacation every six months… Fortunately, the first batch of workers were all local children who hadn't passed the final selection at the castle for various reasons, but had indeed participated in the preliminary selection and initial training, and their identities had been verified. Otherwise, people would really suspect that Baron Lorry was planning to do some kind of evil sacrifice or something.

But since the lord was trustworthy, and the benefits were going to their own people, it was a great thing, and no one would refuse.

However, although the work was easy and the salary was considered generous, the biggest problem in the Ghazal barony was that there were very few opportunities to earn extra money.

Moreover, the channels for advancement were almost non-existent: given the age of the four Tole siblings and the fact that they were all professionals, they could work for at least forty years.

All that others could compete for was their assistant position, regardless of the profession.

This was also why many young people stayed in their hometown, but the talented children all chose to go to the King's army or even major adventure groups… Some people were unwilling to be ordinary and just wanted to make a name for themselves.

But those who were willing to stay were more open-minded and did things entirely according to their own wishes.

For example, these two aspiring scholars very happily chose to work at the same time, but if it was the lord's exclusive counter, which only they could handle, then they would each serve customers of the same gender.

Then, they divided the apprentices into several teams according to their judgment, ensuring that each counter would never have to serve customers of the opposite gender.

Cheska initially didn't quite understand why they did this.

To be honest, in Ghazal territory, it was almost impossible for harassment incidents to occur.

In fact, the Northern Land law was very strict in its judgments on this kind of petty matter, but there was no way to prevent victims from 'voluntarily' taking money to solve the problem.

It was already rare enough that at least the money received was real after the White Dragon King came to power.

But Lorry never accepted resolving such matters with money, so the best outcome for these harassers was to be thrown into carrying stones, implicating their entire family to be expelled from the country, and in the most serious cases, they were even sentenced to death… men and women alike.

There was no choice, the northern border had always had a tough folk custom, and women would not play the game of covering up and hiding like the young ladies in the inland areas, calling it a 'romantic date'.

Snatching them home if they took a fancy to them was their way.

Therefore, if the lord was not strong enough, as long as the talent was not good enough and the family did not have enough background, then not to mention pretty young girls, even good-looking boys would not dare to go out casually.

Territories like Ghazal, where people of all ages and identities dared to stroll around in places like commercial streets, were few and far between.

It wasn't to say that these guys dared to do anything. The unlucky children of poor families couldn't really refuse, but sometimes, 'being noticed' itself represented endless trouble.

Moreover, what could be done about those who were just being handsy and flirtatious?

Not every lord would be willing to handle even such small cases.

And those who dared to do this were not easily beaten back by the harassed… In this world, even a rogue's whistle was not something anyone could blow at, it would really lead to being killed, and no one would think the killer was wrong.

Sometimes, it wasn't that the lords didn't want to intervene, but where was the evidence?

In a situation where even the victim didn't know when they would retract their statement, no evidence was useful, and moreover, it would suddenly disappear.

Besides, the person who could make the victim retract their statement could definitely influence the lord himself.

To put it bluntly, Lorry could do this because his information was very accurate, and he didn't need to worry about misjudgment at all. Moreover, he never cared about the plaintiff or the defendant, he would just deal with it directly when it happened, regardless of whether they sued or not.

The severity of the punishment was all within the scope stipulated by national law, and no one could accuse Baron Ghazal of being ruthless.

Cheska couldn't understand how Lorry could be awakened by the system warning sound in the middle of the night, and then go crazy clutching his hair when he saw that the territorial emergency events he had just cleared had exploded with more than a dozen pages.

Unfortunately, he was still a bit of a coward.

Following a boss like the White Dragon King wouldn't lead to any losses, but rebelling would definitely lead to misfortune… Although dying wasn't painful, Lorry still didn't want to feel the aura of death again.

Especially after he had finally completely confirmed that he wasn't living in a dream and that excessive extravagance would really lead to death.

Therefore, he could only use all his rationality and choose the bottom line of humanity, the law, as his reliance.

Although some laws existed because when the country was founded, the first Northern Land King only had a few thousand people under his command, and female citizens accounted for only one-tenth.

It should be known that those who could follow him for thousands of miles and experience countless bloody battles were all professionals… At that time, it seemed that it wasn't as difficult to advance as it was now.

Therefore, the degree of damage caused by harassment incidents could simply drive the first king, who had several gold mines in his hands but was very short of supplies, crazy… He wanted to build a country, which meant seizing the right to speak from other countries, and he would naturally be sanctioned.

Even if he received the full support of the Lord of Storms, the support given by the Storm Church was still limited.

How should I put it? They were very generous with money, but the delivery of supplies was always one step behind.

Their approach naturally suffered retribution. Although the Northern Land Kingdom claimed to be the Land of Storms, and almost everyone from top to bottom worshiped the Lord of Storms, they really didn't respect the Storm Church that much.

Only those knights who were sent to the Northern Land King by the Storm Church were willing to choose the church between the king and the church.

But for the Northern Land King back then, he could only endure this grievance himself.

Therefore, in order to make his subordinates more sensible, he made the punishment for harassment crimes so severe… Moreover, most of them were punishments for helping him work for free.

After all, he had many mines that no one was mining!

As long as he survived the initial period of founding the country, the mined ore would be money to buy supplies again.

Lorry sincerely thanked this founding king's little thoughts, and also those subsequent Northern Land kings who, because of certain petty thoughts, hoped to leave themselves something that could be used, so they resolutely refused to delete the initial legislation.

Of course, not deleting didn't mean not being able to change it.

These laws had actually been added with many notes and exceptions, the most interesting of which was that most laws, except for treason and crimes of intending to assassinate royal members and noble lords, could be pardoned with the permission of the lord.

And the lord who pardoned the criminal had to pay a fixed amount of atonement money to the national treasury according to the severity of the crime… The money the lord himself received would naturally be more, and in some chaotic times, it was said that it could reach a ratio of 1 to 10.

Therefore, the lord's character was too important to a territory.

If they encountered a money-grubber, the commoners in the territory would definitely have no way to survive.

Of course, if the lord went too far, and the commoners felt that even if they were caught by other lords as refugees and sent to do hard labor, it would be better than being in this territory, then he would have to bear the consequences of his actions.

Moreover, once this kind of thing happened, the king could bypass the lord to pardon these commoners and arrange for them to go to wasteland reclamation.

Then, the small cities they opened up would be controlled as direct territories of the king, and municipal officials and the like would be dispatched by the royal family.

Although there were not many such independent small cities in the Northern Land Kingdom, there were still a dozen or so.

With the Northern Land royal family's scheming, these small cities were bound to be located between the border and the inland.

Even the weakest Northern Land King had never lost his ruling power, at most he was constrained by the nobles and found it more difficult.

They could still detect the large-scale escape and death of commoners, they couldn't hide it at all, it just depended on whether the royal family wanted to intervene or not.

However, the most interesting part of this law was that it did not include knights and landless nobles, including those court nobles, in the list.

Therefore, once they were antagonized by the lord, it was really troublesome for these people.

But whether nobles who owned legal manors were considered small lords was ambiguous.

That is to say, although the lords could do some excessive things, if these manor lords found another noble of the same level who could support them, then the lawsuit could be taken to the royal family.

Then, the royal family could make a judgment according to their own ideas while eating from both sides.