Your Highness, please spare the concubine

"Don't...don't...don't expect me...I'll be...grateful..."

"You...you...evil...devil..."

"That's not true!" Becky stood behind Wei Lisi, trying to retort, "Her Highness Wei Lisi is a good person!"

Hearing this, Winnie glanced at her and stopped talking.

"Okay, you have a good rest, let's go."

Willis took Becky away.

On August 8, a comprehensive population census in Wushi City began.

The repair work of the West City Gate is also in progress...

Wei Lisi led the people out of the city gate and looked at the place where the rebels and miners were buried.

"Build a cemetery for our warriors, and commemorate them forever!"

Wei Lisi's words made many miners and soldiers who followed her shed tears.

And as soon as she opened her mouth, Xieryou said in pain: "You are so cool, how much money do you have to pay now?"

On August 8, the census progressed smoothly, and the civilians were very cooperative.

Wei Lisi is busy almost every day until late, writing and drawing on paper, planning various policies that Wushi City will implement in the future.

At this moment, Becky was brought in by Ophelia.

"Your Highness, are you looking for me?"

"Well, there's something wrong." In the study, Wei Lisi nodded.

"what's up?"

"One thing that only you can do."

An evil smile appeared on the corner of Wei Lisi's mouth.

PS:

Although today is the 3rd update, but two chapters with more than 3 words add up to almost [-] words

If there is more, it will be [-] words

Work hard~

So ask for a monthly ticket~

Also, don't worry about letting Winnie go.

leave just to get better

Hmph, look forward to the next story of Winnie, hehe~

Volume 144#Chapter [-] Get out of the way, I'm going to develop agriculture!

Wushi City...

8 month 16 day.

With the advent of the city lord's mansion's one-year tax exemption policy, Wei Lisi's reputation among the common people reached another peak.

After Burden and Nidenia's constant efforts these days, lobbying for speeches everywhere.

Slogans praising Willis can be seen almost everywhere in the streets and alleys.

They were either tacked up to the side of the street with wooden signs or written in ink on the walls.

Not only that, every day there are people in charge of preaching in the streets and alleys to continue loudly propagandizing.

It mainly talks about Wei Lisi's various measures to benefit the people, as well as words of praise for her.

Over time, even children can recite it.

"It's a bit over the top."

Wei Lisi hugged her chest with some chills, still a little unaccustomed to being pursued by people like this.

She is now wearing civilian clothes, and Anne, Victoria, and Ophelia are walking on the street.

"Does Your Highness feel embarrassed?" Annie smiled teasingly.

"Ahem, how is it possible!?"

Of course Willis would not admit it.

It's just that being worshiped as a bright saint like this, more or less, has an invisible pressure.

"Praise Your Highness, Lord Lord Wanan!"

A female passer-by bumped into them head-on and greeted them like this.

It confuses Willis.

She twitched the corner of her mouth and asked suspiciously, "You know me?"

"Ah?" Passers-by were also confused, "That...you are?"

At this time, Annie hurriedly pulled Willis away.

While walking, he turned his head and smiled at the passerby: "Ahaha, she is new to Wushi City, she doesn't understand, forgive me, forgive me!"

Passers-by were also relieved: "If so, then I wish you a happy life here."

When they were far away, Ophelia couldn't help asking: "That one just now..."

"It's a greeting that has become popular among the people in the past two days..." Annie laughed, "Your Highness, your popularity and reputation among them is very high now!"

"I almost thought I was exposed..." Wei Lisi breathed a sigh of relief.

"But I didn't expect it to develop like this in just a week or so. It's beyond my expectation."

Annie took the words, her eyes narrowed into beautiful crescents.

"Because this is the reward of His Highness's hard work... If you treat them with kindness and generosity, you will naturally win respect."

Wei Lisi shook her head helplessly: "It's not enough to just have a reputation, you have to come up with more practical results."

"Otherwise, all of this is just a castle in the air, like a dream in the sky, fleeting and broken at the touch of a finger."

Prestige and popularity are the basis of her governance.

But this is only a short-term phenomenon.

Once people calm down from the initial fanaticism, they still need to face real problems.

Can they eat enough, dress warmly, have spare money to use under Wei Lisi's governance, can they have a rich spiritual life...

At least don't make those who are idle feel tempted to commit crimes...

These problems will come one after another.

To maintain long-term and deep-rooted popularity requires more than just propaganda and empty promises.

Wei Lisi must come up with the results of governance as soon as possible in the later time.

Because the people will only sincerely follow the lord who can lead them to live a good life.

However, there are frequent chaos in Wushi City, and now it has just been stabilized.

It is very necessary and urgent to comfort people's hearts and stabilize society.

Now it seems that everything is going well.

Although there were still some youngsters making trouble, overall Wei Lisi was very satisfied.

"I believe His Highness will be able to do a good job!" Annie happily moved over.

The scent from her body hit Wei Lisi's nostrils.

That glamorous beauty made Wei Lisi a little short of breath.

"Annie will always help His Highness, this is our agreement!"

Speaking of this, Wei Lisi remembered.

"Didn't you want to learn swordsmanship from Huang Jie and get close to her, why are you always following me now?"

Willis asked.

"There is nothing important now, you can go to her."

Hearing this, Annie pouted, showing dissatisfaction.

"What I plan to do is—after the First Princess returns to the academy, I will study with her. Anyway, His Highness will go to the academy to be a teacher at that time, right?"

As she spoke, Annie showed longing.

"Well, can I be His Highness's student then?"

When Wei Lisi heard this request, she couldn't make up her mind for a while.

Annie to be her own student?

How does it feel weird?

Then what kind of identity should her teacher, Bree Donald, use to get along with her?

"Ahem, if you want, you can."

She suddenly had an urge to see what the teacher's expression would be then.

So no rejection.

But Wei Lisi thought to Anne's intelligence, why should she come to be her student?

Annie giggled, and Ophelia behind her pursed her mouth a little bit.

Victoria, who was the guardian knight, kept quiet, only glancing at Willis's skirt from time to time.

Absolute territory there...

It made her involuntarily think of the night when Wei Lisi bullied her.

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Along the way, Willis inspected the situation on every street.

Ask the prices of items bought and sold in each shop and stall, and compare the evaluation of each commoner who comes to buy things for his life.

Although everyone has a longing for the future and trust in the current lord.

In fact, their lives are indeed improving.

but……

"Because of the previous closure of the city and the war, the price of goods is indeed much higher than usual."

Wei Lisi looked worried, and Anne on the side kept comforting her.

"Your Highness, it's just the beginning, just take your time."

"As long as the commerce and trade in Wushi City and the surrounding areas are resumed, prices will soon stabilize."

"Yeah." Wei Lisi nodded, "These things will indeed settle down quickly, but relatively..."

She found a problem.

"Almost all the families we visited just now have one or two idle laborers. Apart from children and the elderly who cannot work, women are also an important labor force."

"But now they are faced with the situation that they have no job to find. The biggest employment in Wushi City is the mine..."

"But young people and women in their 20s are not suitable for working in mines."

After hearing Wei Lisi's worries, Annie smiled and said, "Didn't His Majesty allow His Highness to expand the army, why not recruit directly from these people?"

"I really want to..." Willis smiled wryly.

"But now excluding the food that needs to be distributed and used for parity, what we have left is only enough to maintain the current army and the City Lord's Mansion."

"Now the money left in my hand should be used to buy food, so as not to run out of food in the future."

"And for every 3 more soldiers, the daily food consumption will increase by almost [-] catties."