Reborn Dragon Vein Warlock, Genius Beauty Mage

After signing the agreement, the follow-up matters will naturally be handled by the people below.

The steward Victor Duran and the steward of the Barony of Lorient jointly counted the town's population in preparation for payment of the ransom, and he was also responsible for the subsequent ceding of half of the town's land.

Lord Pierre Legrand and Knight Abel went to the capital city of France to handle the procedures for Christine to inherit the title. At the same time, they asked the Goddess of Wealth Church to send a priest when passing through Rennes City.

It is impossible for nobles, including the Baron of Lorient, to save so many gold coins at home. Regardless of the high income of nobles, they also have high expenses. Holding a banquet, buying a hound, or a noble lady buying a dress or a piece of jewelry are not enough. A lot of money spent.

If the gold coins are not enough, you have to use property to offset it. The priest of the Goddess of Commerce is proficient in appraisal and can evaluate a suitable price for jewelry, famous paintings, artworks, and weapons and equipment.

Even if Christine doesn't need so many physical items, she can sell them to the chamber of commerce affiliated with the Goddess of Wealth Church at a 10% discount. It is encouraged for the priests of the Goddess of Wealth to talk about business.

Yes, the "Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce" affiliated to the Goddess of Wealth Church is the largest chamber of commerce in mainland China and has operations in various countries.

However, this process takes a long time. It takes at least a week from the time the priest comes to the completion of all appraisals. Kristen does not want to waste time here.

So she generously handed the town back to Orika and asked him to arrange the relocation of the family members in advance, leaving her uncle Liam and butler Victor to take care of the follow-up affairs before returning to the territory.

Of course, before going back, Christine had to go around the four villages newly incorporated into the territory and accept the allegiance of the people in the territory under the witness of the priest of the God of Order. This was an essential procedure.

More than ten days later, Liam and Victor brought back each other's compensation for the defeat, which totaled 120,000 gold coins, more than 20 war horses, more than 30 draft horses, and more than 20 oxen.

Christine did not like the collection of Baron Lorient, whether it was jewelry or weapons, so he sold them all to the Chamber of Commerce of the Church of the Goddess of Fortune in exchange for gold coins.

The next step is to reward merit, and holding a victory banquet is essential.

Since there were not many dead and injured soldiers, the pensions were not large. As long as each soldier participating in the war was rewarded with a gold coin, and those with meritorious service were rewarded with another gold coin. This would already allow them to praise the lord's generosity.

The knights were each rewarded with two hundred gold coins because of their merits in fighting on the battlefield. The lord and retinue were only rewarded with one hundred gold coins because they only sent soldiers.

Don't think that Kristen was stingy when she received so much land and gold coins but only gave out a negligible reward, but the rewards and punishments were already established.

First of all, the lord gives the lords and knights fiefs, and they have to lead troops to fight for the lord, so no matter how much the spoils they get, they naturally belong to the lord.

Secondly, during the war, the lord was responsible for logistical supplies and death and injury compensation. The war between the Baron of Stuart and the Baron of Lorient was fully fought, but it only lasted for half a month and did not cost much. However, if it was like other nobles, it would last for several months or even hundreds or thousands of people a year, with food, grass, treatment, pensions, etc. Weapon repair and replacement, etc. add up to a large sum.

Finally, rewards given to knights are based on military merit. The two sides fought a battle, and the other side suffered more than 40 casualties, including more than 30 people who were killed by Christine's "fireball technique". He walked around the battlefield without any merit, and was rewarded with two hundred gold coins in line with the usual reward rules.

Since the captured soldier Orika has not been redeemed, whether he is released or becomes a slave is all a matter of Christine's words.

However, she was reluctant to become slaves for these soldiers who had been on the battlefield, but it was not against the rules to let them go like this, so she made them work as coolies for a year first, repairing the public facilities in Longzhao Town and nine villages, and the roads between villages and towns. They have all been repaired. Not only do stone roads need to be paved in the village, but the walls must also be made taller and thicker.

Since the relatively wealthy villages in the Barony of Stuart have stone walls, they are only two and a half meters high and one meter thick. The villages in the Barony of Lorient still have walls that are half stone and half wood. Now it is necessary to uniformly build stone walls four meters high and two meters thick, and build wooden watchtowers at the four corners of the village.

If there is no fence to protect the wild beasts at night, it is easy for them to sneak into the village and hurt people or eat the livestock. Not to mention that there are monsters that are more ferocious than wild beasts. Therefore, every village and town on the mainland has a fence, but most of them are made of wood. Just for the Lord.

Of course, these three hundred people alone are not enough, but the lord can ask the people to do corvee work, that is, bring food to the lord for Bai Gan's work. This time, because they are building walls to protect their own villages and towns, no one is lazy.

Therefore, the only expenditure for the Stewart Baron was the food and tools consumed by more than 300 people.

Since there were new horses, Christine selected 30 more standing soldiers, and added to the previous ones to form a cavalry team of 50, equipped with lances, helmets, half-body armor, small bucklers, etc. , each person’s equipment cost ten gold coins.

The remaining two hundred militiamen have all been converted into standing soldiers because they have all been on the battlefield. Anyway, she is not afraid that she will not be able to support her now that her territory has expanded. As for the militiamen in each village and town, they just need to select and train strong ones.

Standing soldiers need to live in the barracks of the castle. The nobles provide daily food, clothing, weapons and equipment, etc., and the knights are responsible for training. These soldiers did not receive military pay, but each was granted a large amount of land for their families to cultivate, so morale was very high.

Christine further refined this system. Every ten people selected a squad leader to grant double the land to ordinary soldiers. The five squadrons are composed of a squadron, with the knight squire as the squadron leader, and additional gold coins are given as reward.

Because she had acquired a lot of pack horses, Christine designed a carriage called Territory Craftsman and made it. Although the cost was not cheap, it was still worth the money.

In addition to the two drivers, this two-horse carriage can also carry ten fully armed soldiers and carry enough food for them to fight for three days. Because it has a waterproof roof, it is not afraid of rain or snow.

After all, fighting in the Cold Weapon Age required a lot of physical strength from soldiers. If a soldier's combat effectiveness dropped by at least one-third after marching on foot for half a day, walking would not be as fast as riding a carriage.

A total of thirty such carriages were produced, and the extra ones could not only be used as spares but also transport grain, grass and baggage. It was considered that all the troops in the territory had become mules and horses.

The reason why there are so many soldiers is that the territory has expanded, especially with the addition of a castle, so someone must be stationed there. Secondly, as a mage, she is going to the Rain City Mage Guild to learn that she is not always in the territory. There are more soldiers who can intimidate Xiao Xiao.

As for farm cattle, it is naturally impossible to kill them and make steaks to eat. Of course, they must make the best use of them to cultivate more land and grow more food.