las called for a meeting "gentlemen now that we got rid of the direct threat for my rule the bandits and james , i want to give you official titles first william come forth "

william got near las and kneeled " your a battalion commander this means that you have command of our army besides the knights "

william was satisfied "im grateful my lord " then leonard was called " leonard from now on you will be the knight commander " leorard was grateful as william

then las called both oliver and alfread he smiled at them and spoke " you two have contributed to the territory the last 40 days so both of you will become ministers ,first oliver you will become the minister of industry this means that you will only be responsible for the cities and the production from them and the region around them this means if i open a paper mill in a farm land you will be responsible for it even if it is far from a city "

oliver was happy with his position this comes with better pay and his work load will decrease "im grateful my lord "

las then looked at alfread "alfread you will become the minister of agriculture you are responsible for the villages and the production of food and other materials like wood "

"thank you my lord "

arthur was besides las he signal him to go where the other were to take a position arthur you are to become the head butler you must educate the servants and the people we brought with us from the village "

"as the lord commands "

las then called for noz he wasn't used to the noble sermons but he kneeled "noz you have contributed the most by making the cannons "

everyone in the room acknowledged it ,the cannon was the most incredible thing they ever saw they could not understand how it worked but when they first saw it they were left with their mouth open

"you are the head blacksmith every new idea of mine will be first made by you "las was very happy with noz he was a talent he didn't expect to find a talent like him in a place like this

noz spoke "but my lord you are the one you made the cannon i just hit the iron nothing more " las said that he invented it ,it was more believable but las truly understood how it worked and it takes time to truly understand so he never felt guilt

las spoke "yes but you were the one to make it reality ,it was your talent noz so i need you "noz was happy with the lords compliment "yes my lord i will serve from my position "

"good " las was smiling the entire time then he called for an unexpected name the village chief samuel

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las looked at him and spoke "samuel i don't know if you will be given a title but i would like to ask you something "

"if i can answer my lord "

"have you ever serve a noble ? first your educated second your daughter is recognised by nobles as an alchemist if you had never served a noble this would have been impossible for a commoner "

samuel smiled " yes my lord i have served a noble once and i am willing to serve you if you have the need"

las laughter and said "very well from now one you are the minister of intelligence you must keep the cannons gunpowder ,cement , and paper a secret from others this is your mission for now "

"i will live up to your expectations my lord" las trusted him and at the same time he wouldn't dare to betray him after all his granddaughter and daughter was under him and under they are surveillance from the knights

after an hour the real meeting had started

las looked towards oliver "you said that in our territory he had 36.000 people this is too small for a viscount and we lost 11.000 after losing land in north south and west and my rule is not really strong we must sent men to take back all the land that the bandits had and take care of other small groups "

then he looked at willim " i want you to make a plan to take back the control of the land , have it in 4 days its not hard he just need to march around and give ranks to the soldiers according to their performance not birth i will handle the supplies "

" as you command my lord"

then he spoke to leonard "take the knights and take all the valuable thing from james castle and put under arrest all of them take the horses and equipment too "

"after that take the 500 guards of the city and train them when william leaves "

"as you command "

"im sorry but go and do it right away before they leave the city and take the gold with them " leonard saluted and left

then las looked at the ministers and spoke " we tax 70% now right ? we will reduce it to 20% and the tariff will be reduced to 15% from 60% that is now "

oliver spoke in surprised " my lord we have 70.000 silver coins now this is a lot but we won't have an income we will burn our savings "

las smiled " oliver i want to reduce the tax to 20% in order for my people to recover most of them can't feed themselves others can't afford clothes and many don't even have a job "

"and for many years merchants did not dare to come so if we reduce the tariff more of them will come we can trade the paper that we will start to produce and i have other products to introduce so we will not be without income "

"what paper my lord ? are you sure that you want to try it "las just gave a smile[ he had talked about the new method to produce paper but oliver was still not sure about it ]

"alfread i want you to bring 5 of the men we brought with us from the south " las gave 2 papers and said "this is where the paper mils will be build and this is how the architecture will be "then he looked at oliver

"oliver i had order you to teach 1000 men how to use cement are they ready ?"

"yes my lord i took commoners do you want to make them build the paper mils with cement? "

"yes i heard that there is a mine that brings some iron i want to meet the head of the mine o and it belong to the house right ?"

"i will call for him and yes the mine is yours my lord "

"samuel i want to block any information from the paper mill and mine handle it and alfread sent officers to the territory to divide the land the way you see in the paper "

the paper had lang divided in boxes and had names like a1 a2 and it was written if the land was fertile or not

"my lord this will need a large amount of our manpower and it will take 2 month the least why do you want it ?"

"to give the commoners land and have in paper who has what "

everyone in the room looked and scream "whattttt ?????? are you going to give land to the commoners for free ????"

las just smiled