Utopia

"Your Highness, you..."

"It's okay."

That said, but the maid who had been accompanying Her Highness broke into a cold sweat.

However, for Princess Jiaqi, how could she cook for everyone what she dared not, could not, or did not want to eat?

After all, she was a cook, and she and her classmates in the cooking class were responsible for the dietary problems of dozens or hundreds of classmates and instructors. If she did not want to have various indigestion or food poisoning in her company, she had the obligation to analyze what was safe to eat.

So even if she dared not, could not, or did not want to eat something, she had to taste it one by one. Otherwise, she, as a cook, would really be sorry for every classmate and instructor who tasted her cooking.

Obviously, not everyone could achieve her awareness. Just a personal test of poison showed that she had great courage.

At the same time, on the chaotic northern border of the Principality of Akern, Marquis Usoda looked at the headless bodies lying in the open space with anger.

Obviously, his anti-rebellion army's investigation and suppression work in the border area was very bad. And he checked the bodies of his men wearing uniform armed clothes. Without exception, the knife wounds on their bodies were very smooth.

"Do you know who did it?"

"To answer the Marquis, the Unbending Butterfly."

"They are, right? Good, good. They really dare to give me face."

Marquis Usoda knew about the Unbending Folding Organization. As a resistance organization formed by the surviving guards of the former Archduke Sidney of the Principality of Akern, the organization has always taken advantage of its base camp in the northern border to trade with the dark elves. It has repeatedly attacked the members of the ruling forces who took over the principality.

From the most basic digging pits and burying spike traps, to later homemade wooden bows to shoot poisonous arrows, and now to establish an underground armed organization with thousands of people. He, Marquis Usoda, had thought about how to capture the family members of the Unbending Butterfly members before, but the 54 headless corpses he was lying on were the men he sent out to capture people.

Needless to say, the news leaked out, and there was an insider who reported it. Unbending Butterfly probably moved some people away now, so it would be difficult for him to arrest people again.

And at this time, he realized a problem. Wasn't there a special official who registered the household registration of the people during the time of Grand Duke Sidney?

But when he thought about it carefully, Grand Duke Sidney's people had been killed by his own people a long time ago, and even their houses were burned down. Household registration information and other types of registration information... are probably burned to ashes now.

If he really wants to re-check the situation of the people on the northern border, he must send people to knock on the door and register door to door like Grand Duke Sidney did at that time. Otherwise, he will never know how many people there are in the border area, and he can't even grasp what these people do and their whereabouts.

Once such basic information is not grasped, a group of nobles including him will not be able to complete the work of recruiting soldiers and appointing people to work.

Marquis Usoda may not know what worse consequences this will lead to, but Abu Sogen, who once served as the statistical affairs officer of Marle City, knows it very well.

If the registration of grassroots people is not done well, it means that these unregistered people can easily become lawless bandits, robbers, pirates, and road bullies, thus endangering their own national defense.

Although there are some "smart people" in the Old World who specifically look for these "black people with illegal households" to engage in some shameful activities, the result of these "smart people" who think they are smart is often that the "black people with illegal households" betray them in various ways.

Anyway, "black people with illegal households" belong to "non-existent people" in legal terms. How can you, a "smart person", find a group of "non-existent people" to vent?

Moreover, these "black people with illegal households" are not stupid. They know very well that they belong to the category of "non-existent people". Once they have any unfriendly attitudes and ideas, they will cause unpredictable and serious harm to nearby areas.

So this is also an important reason why the Western human countries in the Old World are not as good as the Eastern human countries.

In terms of the grasp of the situation of their own people, both the Western human countries and the Kahn Empire in the New World have very problems. You must know that under the feudal system they generally adopt, the lords below are very likely to conceal the population situation for some special purposes.

In this way, the lords who fail to register their own people or deliberately let them go will suffer a great loss sooner or later. Especially in terms of conscription, the lords who cannot control the people in their territory are actually failed lords.

Although a basic lord only needs to worry about the army and the wallet, he doesn't even know what the people in the territory are like...

Anyway, Marquis Usoda, who finally realized how important the household registration system is, immediately asked his men to clean up the bodies, and he got on the carriage and returned to his private residence as soon as possible.

It's time to manage how many people there are in the principality.

Even if the people counted in the end are obedient, it would be a very good and important thing. Otherwise, he doesn't even know how many people are obedient.

At the same time, he looked at the sky that was completely ruled by the night. For some reason, he always felt that something was wrong. Just like...

Dong!

As a result, before he could react, an arrow suddenly flew into the carriage from outside, which frightened him.

[To be honest, I have been using it recently, both Android and Apple are available. 】

Although he was assassinated without any danger, his feeling was right. He not only had to re-register how many people in the Principality of Akern were still obedient, but also had to think about how to wipe out organizations like the Unbending Butterfly.

Otherwise, this time it was an arrow, and next time it would be a stone bullet fired by a crossbow.

At the same time he was assassinated by a bow and arrow, the acting Grand Duke in the mansion, Mortarion van Kahn, was also frightened by an arrow that flew from nowhere.

Although the murderer who shot the arrow had been surrounded by guards, the murderer suddenly pulled out a dagger and stabbed himself in the chest.

Obviously, when the murderer fell in a pool of blood, it was impossible for him to tell any kind of information.

In this regard, the acting Grand Duke Mortarion was helpless. Even if the forces loyal to the former Grand Duke Sidney lost power, the influence of Grand Duke Sidney was still strong.

As the acting Grand Duke, he, Mortarion van Kahn, had a headache more than anyone else. How can he gain the support of the people instead of facing their secret resistance? After all, if there is a first assassination, there will be a second one...