Mystery: The New Dark Emperor Arrives

Chapter 454 Reminder from Poet Classmate

Hobert looked at the 17 extraordinary materials on the altar: the harvest season is here!

He put away the materials, sacrificed the "Provocative Warhammer" to "The Fool", and waited for another 15 extraordinary materials.

At this moment, Hobert thought of a very serious problem, these 17 pieces of five different materials, it was difficult for him to distinguish their names and the way they belonged!

His first thought was, who to ask for advice?
At this moment, a messenger suddenly appeared in Hobart's room, and a letter flew precisely into Hobart's raised hand.

Hobert took a look at the sealing seal on the envelope. It was an abstract pattern of books and eyes, which was relatively unfamiliar.

Opening it, it turned out to be a letter from "Vice Admiral Iceberg" Edwina.

The content of the letter was very short, it simply told Hobart that pirates had discovered the flagship of "Vice Admiral Twilight" in the southwest of the Stormy Sea.Edwina promised that she would continue to send people to investigate the exact location of "Vice Admiral Twilight".

There is also a page of drawings in the letter, which is a very neat hand-drawn version of the nautical chart that is not inferior to the printed version.

The beautiful font on it simply marked the locations of several islands, and also marked the location where "Vice Admiral Dusk" was found.

Hobert compared the charts he bought from Feneport City earlier, and easily obtained the approximate location of "Vice Admiral Dusk".

Putting down the chart, Hobert suddenly thought, isn't there a ready-made teacher here!
So he started to write a reply letter, first thanked Edwina for the information, and then asked for the five kinds of extraordinary materials he got this time with pictures and texts.

……

"Land Abandoned by God", City of Silver!
Chad, the old man in charge of logistics, took Derrick to the top of the round tower, the chief's room: "Your Excellency, look quickly, Derrick was lucky enough to get an extraordinary weapon during a trip to collect materials!"

Chad handed over some bloodstains, some stains, and looked very old Extraordinary weapon.

Chief Colin took over the "Provocative Hammer" and looked at it. As a former "Weapon Master", he probably knew the capabilities of this weapon as soon as he touched it with his hands.

Finally, I came to a conclusion: it is very suitable for use when facing monsters!
Colin, who has always been rigorous, had a slight smile on his face, and he casually asked Derrick, "How did you get it?"

Derrick, who has grown up during this period of time, has already prepared a response: "Your Excellency, because I owe him a pair of 'Mirror Dragon's Eyes' in a transaction with a companion, so I will go to Trying to hunt a mirror dragon, on the way..."

Derrick spoke vividly, how he met a powerful monster, how he restrained it with his own abilities, and after a fierce fight, he got this war hammer by accident.

"Very good." Colin said to Chad: "Exchange him for more merit!"

As he spoke, he gave Chad a wink.

Chad understood, and caught the "provocative warhammer" returned by the chief with both hands: "Yes!"

Derrick secretly heaved a sigh of relief in his heart. His reason just now was originally intended to be told to Chad, but he did not expect to report to the chief.

After the two left the Round Tower together, Chad really exchanged some merit for Derrick.

After receiving the meritorious service and exchanging the materials, Derrick went back happily.

Because he met the chief, Derrick was more cautious this time. He didn't immediately exchange the Extraordinary material that needs to be paid to the "Emperor" as planned, but only exchanged a piece of "Sun Priest" main material.

After Derrick left, Chad took the "Provocative Hammer" and came to the chief's room again.

Colin picked up the "Provocative Warhammer" from the wooden box: "What did Derrick exchange for his achievements?"

"A main material of 'Sun Priest'." Chad Hui reported: "After returning from this exploration operation, he has exchanged for a main material of 'Sun Priest'. I heard that he also exchanged some on the black market. Unused main material."

Colin was taken aback: "The main material you can't use?"

"Yes, it's all the potion pathways we have mastered that don't use the main material, and can be exchanged for a lot with very little merit."

Colin thought for a moment and asked again: "Isn't 'Mirror Dragon's Eye' one of his exchange options?"

"I don't know about this either." Chad said, "But I heard that what he exchanged were all the main materials of the Sequence 8 level."

He recalled for a while and said: "About 20 days ago, he did come to exchange for 'Mirror Dragon's Eye', but it just happened to be out of stock."

Colin nodded. In other words, there is nothing suspicious about Derrick except that the main materials that cannot be exchanged are abnormal.

He stared at the "Provocative Warhammer" for more than ten seconds, and suddenly he had a thought, found a damp rag, wiped the old-looking part of the weapon, and wiped it several times, and it was completely clean.

The same goes for wiping other places, and soon the weapon in Colin's hand became brand new.

Chad also noticed something was wrong, because the weapons seized from monsters had never been so clean, and the stains on them could not be wiped off with a single wipe: "Chief, do you want someone to watch..."

Colin raised his hand: "No need, give Derrick a certain amount of freedom, maybe he can bring us some surprises."

……

Fenepot Kingdom, Geoffrey Territory.

Hobert learned that "Little Sun" would have to wait a few days to pay for the weapon in order to avoid being suspected by the Chief.

Hobert first sacrificed the 17 extraordinary materials he obtained to the "Nation of Disorder", and waited until evening, finally receiving Edwina's reply.

Just as Hobert expected, Edwina knew all the five main materials, and gave a relatively detailed explanation of the monsters that obtained the five materials.

In this way, Hubert can count, and it will be easier to set prices when he sells out in the future.

Then Hobert was thinking about what gift he would give Edwina in return for her answer.

Although Hobert knew that the other party was a good teacher, he still had to express his gratitude so that he could speak up when he asked her a question next time.

After thinking for a while, Hobert remembered that he had a notebook of the Duke of Seville in the Quaternary Epoch, which contained many interesting humanities in the middle and late Quaternary Epoch.

For Hobert, there are only a few passages in this notebook that are important, and Kress has already made excerpts.

In fact, for those who don't know "0-05" and "Deng Shen", those conversations that are more important to Hobert are just anecdotes about the Night Emperor.

Hobert came to the "Nation of Disorder" and rummaged for a long time, finally found the notebook, read it again, and simply tore up some places that might contain important information, planning to lie that the notebook was only a part of it. .

This kind of ancient book is also a waste here in Hobart, so it is better to give it to Edwina who has such hobbies.

After the second oven of donuts in the kitchen was ready, Hobert wrapped the reply letter and the notes full of interesting things about the Humanities of the Fourth Epoch into a package, and gave them to the courier together.

In the evening, it was time to wash the feet again.

After putting down the footwashing water, Dennis hurriedly replied: "My lord, you asked me to wash your feet, because you want me to exercise my arms and waist while fetching water, right?"

Hobert looked at Dennis with bright eyes: "If you think I'm so superficial, I think you'll have to wash your feet for another 50 years."

Dennis froze for a moment, and resumed his contemplation.

Before falling asleep, Hobert received another reply from Edwina. She expressed that she liked the notebook very much and read it in one go after receiving it.

Hobert smiled: "As long as you like it."

While thinking about how to hunt "Video Admiral Dusk", Hobert fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Hobert was soundly asleep when a letter floated on his face.

When he opened the letter, the messenger was already entering the spirit world, as if to express his dissatisfaction with starting work so early.

Hobert yawned: "Who wrote to me so early?"

To his surprise, it turned out to be Leonard's letter.

In the letter, Leonard briefly described the process when they took the tourists out of Bokron Mountain Villa, and they also found two or three secret puppets who were arrested on the mountain.

However, the pollution on those secret puppets didn't seem to be serious anymore, and they solved the problem relatively soberly.

Then Leonard reminded Hobert that the secret existence of those secret puppets should be solved by a certain big man of the Fourth Epoch who is dead but not stiff. Let Hobert be careful not to completely trust that this state is not good gods.

Hobert smiled helplessly: Shall I remind him to pay attention to the old grandfather in his body?
But thinking of Leonard's kindness, he wrote back a letter to express his gratitude.

The kitchen of the Lord's Mansion had no choice but to start making donuts at dawn.

The messenger was called again, and while receiving the letter, the messenger said: "You are very busy recently, sending letters so frequently, I don't have much time to rest."

Hobert immediately said: "This time I'll add three donuts for you!"

"Be busy!" The messenger quickly disappeared into the spirit world after getting six donuts.

Hobert smiled, took the remaining donuts to the dining room, and shared the food with Donna and Forsi.

After breakfast, Hobert started today's work. First of all, the land division work that lasted for a week was basically completed, and Conrad came to report the progress of the work to Hobert.

At the same time, in the past two days, Hobert's potion was digested again, but the degree of digestion was not as obvious as last time.

Of course, such a formal official business should be discussed in the main hall. Hobert knew how much arable land and orchard land there were in the territory, and had a clear understanding of the work reported by Conrad.

The arable land in the territory is very abundant. After all the land is distributed, there is still a large part of the arable land belonging to the lord.

After reporting on the distribution of the land, Conrad said again: "My lord, I discovered a phenomenon when the land was distributed. Every village has a lot of people!"

Hobert was taken aback: "When we did the household registration before, did we falsely report the population?"

"That's not true," Conrad smiled. "I've done some research. The extra people are residents of the surrounding territories. After hearing that we don't collect taxes here, they come to seek refuge with relatives and friends."

Hobert nodded and asked, "How many people are there?"

"According to my preliminary understanding, there are more than 300 people who have relatives and friends who can turn to them." Conrad said: "There are about 800 people who have no relatives and friends who just want to rent fields here."

Hobert pondered for a while: "Didn't you just say that there is still a lot of land belonging to the Lord's Mansion? If those lands are divided, how many people are enough?"

"About 400 people."

"Then distribute it!" Hobert smiled and said, "However, it should be noted that the land allocated to these people is slightly less than that of the original residents, and the relatives and friends of the original residents are given priority to reflect the preferential treatment for the original residents, and Create a little sense of superiority for them!
"I suggest that the extra land can be distributed to about 500 people, and you can figure out the specific situation yourself!"

Conrad immediately opened his notebook and wrote down, "Yes."

"Since these people want to live in this territory, they must do three things. The first is household registration! The second is to divide households into units! The third is to obey the dispatch of the Lord's Mansion."

Conrad immediately said: "I will do a good job in publicity."

"As for the housing of this group of people," Hobert continued, "the Lord's Mansion leased tents to them free of charge, and gave them building materials on credit at a fair price.

“They can return building materials in the form of gold risols, and they can return building materials in the form of crops.

"The tents rented to them are only free for one year. The building materials given to them on credit are repaid at a reasonable price within one year, and part of the interest will be paid after one year!"

Those tents were seized by the "Jeffrey Army" from Dock Island, and they were piled moldy in the warehouse of the Lord's Mansion.

As for building materials, in the future, what Jeffrey Ling will lack most is building materials.

Conrad in shorthand said that the lord is an expert in government affairs that he has never seen before, and he always has a way to "turn waste into treasure", no matter what problem comes to him, it is not a problem!

"As for the remaining 600 people, we can't give up!" Hobert said, "Their housing problems can also be solved by renting tents and giving them building materials on credit.

"The problem of food can be solved by the construction site that is currently in short supply. If one member of the family works on the construction site, it can provide food for other family members.

"But the food has to be deducted from the salary of the person who works. If the salary is not enough to pay for the food of the family members, one more person in the family must work on the construction site!"

Hobart paused and said, "This will put a lot of burden on the accounting work in the territory. Go and call Philip and Roy, and we'll discuss a standard."

This discussion lasted for more than two hours. Now there are more and more written work in the territory. As long as the residents in the territory have a little bit of grammar skills, they will be assigned to the corresponding copywriting work.

Hobert asked the teachers of the school in the territory to hold an evening class to give these copywriters extra lessons.

It also stipulates that only those who have passed the corresponding exams and graduated after evening school make-up classes can get full salary.

At the end of this meeting, Hobert made another major personnel appointment: "I am going to make Conrad the mayor of Jeffrey Town!"

In the main hall, the three people who had been trained to a certain level of governance and politics were all taken aback for a moment. With the lord here, does Jeffrey Town still need a mayor?

"After the town government is built, Conrad will take your team there to work." Hobert is both explaining and making arrangements:
"You recommend a few candidates to me from your subordinates, and I will re-appoint a 'household knight', who will be in charge of the mayor in the future.

"Roy will be the 'Building Knight' from now on, under the management of the mayor.

"When Albert returns, he will also be under the mayor's control as a 'judicial knight'.

"There is also Wayne, the 'Shipping Knight' who was just conferred, and Donna, the 'Tax Knight' who is about to be conferred.

"In the future, after hospitals and schools are built, there will be 'Medical Education Knights'.

"After the tourism industry in the territory develops, there will also be 'tourism and culture knights', 'agriculture and animal husbandry knights', etc., all of which will be under the jurisdiction of the mayor."

Conrad felt a burst of joy, this is equivalent to the number two in Jeffrey's leadership!
At this time, he also understood the significance of Sir Sir's setting up the mayor, and couldn't help feeling in his heart: Luckily!I took this opportunity, or my life would have been wasted in mediocrity.

Hobert glanced at Philip: "From now on, you will be the 'Financial Knight', and I will take care of you.

"When Kerwin comes back from overseas, he will be the 'Human Resources Knight', responsible for talent introduction and promotion of staff. I will directly inspect and be responsible for promotions to the knight level. From now on, Kerwin will also be under my control!"

Philip smiled and bowed slightly: "Yes! Do I take on the butler's job concurrently, or..."

Of course he was happy. Although their father and son were not as high-ranking as Conrad, both father and son were in charge of key departments, especially the "Knight of Finance" who was obviously a confidant of the Sir.

Such an arrangement is obviously more important to the Sir than Albert and Kerwin, the original knight father and son.

"Alan is very careful, and the job of housekeeping can be handed over to him!" Hobert had already thought about the future arrangements.

Allen, who was at the door, suddenly smiled. Although he did not become a "knight", he must be trusted by the Sir as a housekeeper.

In the end, Hobert said: "These personnel arrangements are kept secret for the time being. After the town government is established, we will reach such an arrangement step by step."

During the meeting at noon, Hobert consumed a lot of energy, which made him catch up on a nap at noon, and only taught Freya vocabulary in the afternoon.

……

Rorsted Islands, Bayam.

Rafter Pound passed the final round of assessment and finally became a tutor at Tony Manor.

It is said that Tony's Manor is one of the largest manors in the entire colony. Some people say that it is one-third the size of Maxi Country. After several days of observation, Rafter feels that this statement is a bit exaggerated.

However, one-fifth of the mountainous area in the middle of Blue Mountain Island belongs to Tony Manor; nearly one-quarter of the most fertile land on Blue Mountain Island belongs to Tony Manor.

In addition, it also includes a large number of rainforests, beaches, lakes, etc., and even the Tony Manor built a railway to transport the products in the manor.

As for the background of the Tony Manor, there are many speculations. Some people think that this is the king's estate, because the largest manor in the Rorsted Islands is actually the "King's Manor".

It is not easy for the royal family to buy another manor of similar size, so it is simply called the Tony Manor.

Others believe that the behind-the-scenes power of Tony Manor is the family of Valentin Tony, the first governor of Rorsted Islands.

Although Governor Van Lundin has made great military exploits, the Tony family currently has little influence in Backlund. Some people say that Governor Van Lundin has exchanged all his military exploits for land in the colony.

No matter what forces are behind it, in short, ordinary people can't afford it.

Now that Tony Manor is looking for a tutor, Rafter intends to use his status as a tutor to cover up some of his illegal activities in Bayam.

Yes, he intends to establish his own gang force in Bayam, and then gain a certain amount of development by bribing the Governor's Mansion, so as to digest the "briber" potion.

But doing so is very risky, and it is easy to be targeted by the official Extraordinary or other Extraordinary organizations that come to pan for gold, so an identity that can stay out of the matter at any time is needed.

At the same time, we have to prepare for the "Corrupted Baron" in the future. If we can get along well in Tony Manor and become the manager of a certain area in the manor, we can take the opportunity to digest the potion of Sequence 6.

If the mix is ​​not good, Rafter is ready to take the forces he has built to the Southern Continent to look for opportunities.

The forces of the countries in the Northern Continent are even weaker there, and there are warlords everywhere.

He had the same idea as Hobert back then, he could pull up a team by himself, with his Sequence 6 strength, enough to occupy a piece of territory and become a small warlord.

It's not surprising that Rafter passed the examination, because he has a pure Backlund accent, and he also understands noble etiquette and noble dances. Most importantly, he also knows a lot of real-time noble information.

In addition, Rafter never forgot to act as a "briber" and bribed the examiners of this assessment, adding another layer of insurance to this assessment.

In this way, Rafter took the carriage to the Tony Manor, which looked like a small palace.

In fact, this manor is not far from Bayam. It takes an hour to drive to the port of Bayam from here.

Under the leadership of the butler, Rafter saw Master Tony with blood-colored hair, two beards and black pupils.

I don't know why Rafter always felt that Master Tony was very familiar, and Master Tony also smiled and said, "You look very much like one of my nephews."

Rafter immediately climbed up the "pole" and directly called Master Tony, who was seven or eight years older than him, his uncle.

After leaving Backlund, Rafter completely let go, the original noble etiquette and dignity have long been forgotten, and now he wants to be promoted quickly and become a "chaos mentor"!
This is the first step in restoring the glory of the family.

After getting Master Tony's approval, Rafter finally settled in this huge manor. The treatment here is very good. He has his own room with a study and a living room, which gives him enough freedom. .

However, the housekeeper specifically warned that after 8:[-] pm, Rafter's range of activities was limited to the yard where he lived.

Rafter solemnly agreed on the surface, but he didn't take it seriously.

In the afternoon, I met five school-age students, all of whom looked well-educated.

He was not the only tutor in the entire manor, but the Tony family had five children of the right age, so they had to find a new tutor, and the other tutors also had their own students.

At night, Rafter got up secretly, ready to return to Bayam to find a suitable gang force that could be recovered secretly.

After carefully observing the situation outside, there was no one patrolling!He flew to the top of the wall and suddenly froze: "I don't sleep well at night, what are you doing jumping on the top of the wall?"

So he went back to his room and changed into his pajamas, when Rafter suddenly realized: Why am I back again?

He put on his neat clothes again, and just jumped onto the wall: "Today's moon is so beautiful!"

After admiring the moon, Rafter went back to his room again, put on his pajamas and lay down on the bed: Why the hell am I back again?

Really, have to change clothes again.

He always felt that something was wrong, and he could think about it for a long time, but he couldn't remember what was wrong!
Rafter came to the wall again: "Byam at night is so beautiful!"

He went back to his room again, put on his pajamas and lay on the bed, his eyes wide open, not sleepy at all.

Although he still couldn't remember what was wrong, he was sure that something was wrong tonight.

(End of this chapter)