I, the prince in distress, send money

Chapter 243 The Free Player

As the former capital of the Kingdom of Bagnia, and due to the Republic's regressive policies, most citizens of Votradnoi did not actually have much resistance to Chris's arrival.

The few remaining resistance fighters were wiped out in the nighttime turmoil due to the formation of the Jihadist Army in Arak.

Although some diehards held out for the kingdom on the day of entry, once they were purged, there was no more opposition in the entire city of Voltradnoy.

This does not mean everything is fine; on the contrary, it is the beginning of trouble.

Wotradnoi is larger and more populous than Oncandra, yet both face similar predicaments: food shortages and tens of thousands of starving people piled up in the city, exhausted and hungry, awaiting rescue.

Chris had enough food, but he didn't have enough manpower... and this manpower didn't refer to soldiers, but to reliable and capable grassroots civil servants to manage the city's daily affairs.

Don't underestimate grassroots staff just because they seem insignificant and unimportant, or because you can easily find a large number of them.

However, this idea might not be a big problem in modern society, but it doesn't work in Chris's current situation.

Grassroots civil servants play a key role in urban management, responsible for organizing and implementing daily tasks such as food distribution, maintaining public order, and infrastructure repair.

Without a sufficient number of grassroots civil servants, Chris's policies and relief measures are difficult to implement effectively.

For example, even if food is plentiful, if it is not distributed properly, starving people may cause new chaos due to hunger.

Urban infrastructure needs repair, but without overall planning and supervision, the repair work is difficult to advance.

Chris didn't have much of a solution to this predicament; he could only try to find solutions internally. However, this process of finding solutions and training takes time, and during this period, he had to manage the two major cities in a flat organizational structure.

Since the structure has become flat, it means there will be more things to do.

Fortunately, Chris had dozens of intelligent butler-controlled scribes to help him. They were capable and reliable. Even so, he was exhausted. In two days, he slept less than five hours a day.

Amidst this busy schedule, he also had to host and plan player events... and support Hegland.

Because of his busy schedule, Chris does not plan to go to Hegland; he intends to hand over the event's controller to the players.

However, handing this over to the players doesn't mean they can just ignore everything and abandon the task. Chris needs to at least select reliable players from the player base to act as leaders of the main force.

Secondly, once the event is launched and people have signed up, the rewards for the event also need to be prepared.

Thinking about this gave Chris a headache.

The players' group structure is not too bad. They already had a warband, and others such as Ultra Warriors, Overlord Tigers, Han Tang Warriors, Liaodong Iron Cavalry, Roman Praetorian Guards, Little Erlang Backpackers, and Zhongshan Wolf have all signed up to participate.

The leaders of these battle groups form a legion, with the legion commander at the top and the battalion commanders, company commanders, and auxiliary army commanders below them all elected by the players themselves.

Anyway, set a reputation value and contribution value so that qualified guild leaders can participate, and those who don't can skip it.

For higher positions, players elect their own people; for lower positions, players promote those they trust.

These positions, regardless of rank, all have the right to grant other players quests, reputation points, and weapon/equipment rewards.

With such authority, players are believed to be able to manage themselves... and if they can't, they can be replaced. For the sake of this authority, T0-level players and guild leaders have been holding meetings for the past two days. According to the guards outside the tents, the sounds of clashing swords can be heard from inside from time to time, followed by the dragging out of one or two corpses.

Whenever this happens, Chris knows that the player has resolved a dispute or a difference of opinion.

Although it's somewhat bloody and cruel, it's extremely efficient, isn't it!?

Since Chris could handle the players' issues himself, he didn't interfere too much in their affairs.

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A person's achievements come from personal struggle, but more importantly, from personal choices.

Just like old Jack, before the night of the city's capture, he was just an ordinary citizen in Waterladnoy, running a mediocre grocery store, neither starving nor making much money.

When war broke out, he, who had neither great wealth nor high prestige, nearly starved to death at home with his family.

However, after the night of the city's capture broke out, Old Jack met his benefactor that very night.

They hacked down an entire street.

The name is strange, yet fitting; it describes a mad, powerful samurai capable of single-handedly killing all the enemies on an entire street.

Thanks to the old man's appreciation and Old Jack's contribution in leading the way on the night of the city's capture, Old Jack was honorably promoted to a level 24 civil servant after the war... the head of the second street in the D district of Waterladnoy.

This was a position Old Jack had never heard of before, and his responsibilities were quite simple... He was in charge of all the residents of Second Street, and he needed to catch thieves, mediate disputes, register resident information, assist in tax collection, and many other tasks that he was currently unaware of.

Besides his responsibilities, he could recruit two captains and twenty militiamen. He personally received fifty silver dollars a month from Prince Chris, enough to feed his entire family and even have a surplus of grain to sell.

Hey, judging from the job description, Old Jack still didn't know what this village head was all about, but looking at the monthly salary, he understood.

I've become the master now!

Although the territory was small, and mistakes would lead to dismissal, along with many inexplicable rules and regulations, old Jack believed he had become the master!

Haha, civil servant, that name sounds very prestigious.

Although it has a temporary prefix, it doesn't stop old Jack from arrogantly inviting several of his neighbors to drink at the shabby tavern at the end of the street tonight... to drink the pale beer that Prince Chris provided.

Inviting people for drinks was expensive, to the point that it pained Old Jack, but it was something he had to do. Only in this way could he spread the news of his status as a lord on Second Street as quickly as possible, letting others know about his affairs.

At the same time, similar things were happening in different districts and streets of the city of Waterladnoy.

In order to gain control of Waterladnoy as quickly as possible, Chris is issuing temporary, lowest-ranking civil service positions to city residents who are inclined to support him.

Not only in Vautradnoy, but also in Oncandra, the number of low-ranking civil servants was increased by having people board the train first and then pay the fare later.

Regardless of quality, let's focus on increasing quantity first.

(End of this chapter)