A night of silence.

When I woke up early the next morning, as an attendant of the palace, everything had been arranged.

And this situation made Eileen feel a little unnatural.

She used to take care of the young master, but today her job was taken away.

When he saw Eileen's eyes drifting towards the maids just now, Gooden noticed her gloominess and asked with a soft smile.

"What's wrong, are you jealous?"

"No...no!" Erin took a bite of bread, shook her head and said firmly.

Seeing the stubborn look on the little maid's face, Gooden chuckled, and then gave instructions to the maids on the side.

"From now on, you mainly serve her and don't worry about me."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

After giving the instructions, Gudern turned around and looked at Irene.

"This way, they serve you and you serve me. This is fair."

Seeing the young master's arrangement, Irene's smile returned to her face.

While the two were still enjoying breakfast, Garei, the chief attendant, led a group of people to the palace.

Garay, on the other hand, came to the restaurant alone and greeted the two of them respectfully.

"Good morning, Your Majesty, Countess."

The countess's voice made Irene's face suddenly turn red nervously.

Although Gudern has promised her the status of his fiancée, this is not considered a compromise!

Irene was more or less embarrassed to call her Madam directly.

But Garay didn't care that much. After saying hello, he asked Gudern.

"Your Majesty, do you have any plans to go out today?"

"Not yet." Gooden shook his head slightly.

He just arrived in the royal capital yesterday and has not yet figured out the situation. He has not made any plans to go out today.

When Ga Lei saw this, he immediately picked it up.

"That's just right. Lord Earl, please take advantage of your free time now to measure the Earl's dress to be used in the investiture ceremony, so that the tailors can complete the adjustment as soon as possible."

Seeing that extra custom-made clothes were required, Gooden secretly sighed at the trouble of the ceremony, but still nodded and agreed.

"Okay, let's measure it later after breakfast."

"Okay, Your Majesty."

After Garay responded respectfully, he waited aside.

After the two of them finished their breakfast, they took Gudern to the room dedicated to measuring clothing data.

Just when Erin wanted to step forward to help, Garay spoke.

"Countess, you also need to measure your custom-made clothes. Please follow the maid to another room."

Seeing that she also wanted to measure, Erin was stunned for a moment and looked at Gudern.

"Watch what I'm doing. Go ahead. By the way, give me a copy of the clothing data after the measurement. Then it will be convenient to find someone to customize it."

"Okay, Your Majesty."

The measurement didn't take long. After all, a dozen or so people were measuring and arranging the measurement at the same time. In less than ten minutes, all the data for making suitable clothes was recorded.

But before Gooden could stop, a second wave of personnel came to the door.

"Hello, Lord Earl, my name is Giovant. I have been ordered by His Majesty to arrange the rewards for this award. Today I am here to negotiate and determine the planning of the territory and the management of the mine."

"Hello, Giovant."

Facing his reward, Gudern was also looking forward to it. After greeting him, the two of them went to the living room.

The person brought by Giovant opened a huge map next to the living room, which was a detailed map of the entire northern territory.

"According to His Majesty's decree, all the areas currently planned in red in the north will be classified as your fiefdom."

"It includes eleven cities including Jinyuan City, Ancient Stone City, Howling Tooth City, plus sixteen surrounding family territories, all of which belong to you."

Looking at the huge circled area, Gudern was a little stunned. This almost included half of the western part of the northern border to him.

Is this a fucking lord? The planned area is forty or fifty times larger than Qingyuan Ridge and Xuegu Ridge combined.

The area spans more than a thousand miles. If calculated carefully, the area here is almost comparable to the area of ​​the three eastern provinces of Blue Star.

"Such a large area is all my fiefdom?"

Gudern confirmed again in disbelief.

"Yes, Lord Earl, you have made such great achievements in the north. These areas are also the places you saved, and there is nothing wrong with them being yours."

Turning his attention to the map again, Gudern saw that some family territories were also included in the plan, and the Songhai Forest of the Lantega family next door was also included in it, which made him a little curious.

"What's going on with these family territories? Why do they belong to me too?"

"It's like this. In this disaster, many people from these families were massacred by orcs, and the whole family died. However, some families gave up their due honor and relied on orcs to betray the empire, so they were exempted from all wealth and territory."

Hearing what Giovant said, Gudern couldn't help but turn his attention to the map. If this was the case, it seemed that the orcs' sneak attack had killed a lot of people.

On the map, in addition to the territory planned for him in the red area, there are many other dots of different colors within the northern territory.

Giovant also introduced.

"These dots of different colors represent different mines. Gold is gold mine, silver silver mine, brown copper mine, gray iron mine, black coal mine, etc., as well as other special types of metals and gemstones. Waiting for minerals.”

"The ones in the red circle belong to you by default, so they are not included in the requirements. You can choose five additional mines."

It seems that his father was stingy and only selected five additional mines for him, but you must know that the area planned by the red circle covers hundreds of thousands of square kilometers. In such a large area, only Gudern saw There are nearly a hundred mines.

There is even a gold mine, two silver mines and a copper mine in this area, which are directly owned by him. Not to mention the iron mines, there are more than a dozen as far as the eye can see.

With such a huge family fortune, Gudern swallowed hard and broke through, asking Giovant.

"Is there any statistical information on the distribution of minerals in my territory?"

"Yes, Lord Earl, please take a look."

As Giovant said, he took out a piece of paper with statistics and handed it to Gudern.

After receiving the statistics table, Gooden took a cursory glance and was shocked by this luxurious mineral.

In addition to the three gold, silver, and copper mines, there are a total of thirty-seven iron mines, thirteen of which are underground mines, and the rest are open-pit mines.

There are eleven coal mines, eight lead mines, six tin mines, five zinc mines, two mercury mines, and two gem mines.

In addition to the above, there are also nineteen other metal mines being mined scatteredly, and the total number adds up to ninety-four mines.

Such a huge amount is enough for him to have enough resources for production and development, not to mention other mineral veins that may be hidden.

A mine of this size also makes Gudern a little embarrassed to ask for other minerals.

"Well, let's hold off on the additional selection of minerals for a while. I didn't expect that His Majesty would give me such a large area of ​​territory. Let's hold off on this matter for a while."

"Okay, Your Majesty."

Qiao Fant nodded and agreed.

He is just an errand commentator. If Gooden wants to postpone it, then he should postpone it for a while.

Then Giovant continued to talk about other rewards after he was promoted to earl.

"My lord, in addition to the rewards from the territory, your Majesty has also prepared other rewards for you. The details are here. Please take a look."

Looking at the newly handed paper, Gudern took it with curiosity and inspected it. After carefully inspecting it, Gudern suddenly felt the urge to return to the royal family.

My biological father gave me too much!

But Gudern held back.

Not to mention coins, I gave him a total of 300,000 gold coins in cash, plus a large exemption guarantee, such as no need to pay taxes for three years, and various imperial policy benefits in the territory, etc.

In addition to these, there is also the power to appoint a large number of city officials, etc., and even the 27th Army Corps stationed in the north and west was directly transferred to him, with a total of 200,000 people responsible for stabilization.

However, this number seems to be a lot, but when allocated to eleven cities and sixteen territories, it is pitifully small. Basically, it only plays a role in self-defense and maintenance.

But overall, his father has turned a large area in the west into an independent autonomous region, which is considered to be treated as a country.

This kind of treatment is beyond the normal treatment of counts. You must know the division of autonomous regions. Only the three founding grand dukes in the empire can enjoy it.

The other eight ordinary dukes only have more territories and immunities, but they still cannot achieve the same independence as the autonomous region.

To understand such a large area, Gudern chatted with Giovant for almost several hours before he had a general understanding.

But as soon as this was over, Gudern was summoned by Olek and went to the palace to meet.

Helpless, Gudern could only put down what he was doing temporarily and follow the attendants to the palace to meet his biological father.

In a shooting range in the palace courtyard, Olek and Hogtz are waiting for Gudern.

After the leader arrived here, Olek dismissed the other attendants around him.

"How do you understand the territory and rewards? Is there anything else you need?"

Seeing Gudern's arrival, Olek asked with a smile.

"Your Majesty, the reward is that there are too many things to do, and the self-selection that was required before is no longer necessary."

"Tsk, people say the more the better, but here you still don't have too much. It's strange..."

Olek shook his head and then said.

"I'm here to talk to you about the kind of weapons your subordinates are equipped with. Hogtz should have told you about it. Can you bring out a sample for me to see?"

Business matters are done publicly, private matters are done privately, Olek has only talked about this matter now.

Gudern nodded slightly and took out the foreign trade version of the rifle from his magic storage device.

The overall structure of the rifle is slightly shorter than that of the second generation, but it does not affect the human-machine function and is still very easy to operate.

The two of them were a little strange looking at the 'fire stick' in Gooden's hand. Hogtz had seen the appearance of a third-generation rifle, but this thing in front of him didn't look like that.

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