Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 116: The Peaceful and Prosperous Gezar Territory

The two prospective scholars who entered the magic shop to work happened to be a man and a woman, so the tasks were automatically assigned to them.

As quasi-scholars who have to go out and earn some funding for themselves, they don't have the ability of a scholar yet, but they already have the problems of a scholar... They really don't like to communicate with "idiots".

Sometimes, even a wizard like Lori couldn't understand the criteria these scholars used to judge the fools in their eyes, let alone Cheska. The female knight chose to give them the greatest freedom within a certain range without hesitation.

For example, small things like duty hours and the selection of co-workers.

After all, Lowry's magic shop doesn't have any revenue requirements. It doesn't matter if no one buys, and there is no need to work overtime if someone comes to buy.

All the work units directly under the Gezar Territory are so relaxed.

Although no one understands why Baron Lori must set the working hours to 9 to 5, with one day off every six days and a half-month vacation every six months... Fortunately, the first batch of workers were local children who did not pass the final selection of the castle due to various reasons, but did participate in the preliminary selection and initial stage of training, and their identities were verified. Otherwise, people would really suspect whether Baron Lori was planning to do some evil sacrifice or something like that.

But since the lord is trustworthy and the ones who benefit are his own people, it is a great thing and no one would be unwilling.

However, although the work is easy and the salary is generous, the biggest problem in the Barony of Gezar is that there is little external income to be gained.

Moreover, there is almost no upward channel: considering the age of the four Toller siblings and their professional status, they can work for at least forty years.

The only people who can compete are their deputies, no matter what their professions are.

This is why, although many young people stayed in their hometowns, the talented children chose to join the King’s Army or even the major adventure groups... There are always people who are unwilling to be ordinary and just want to make achievements.

But those who are willing to stay have more open personalities and do things completely according to their own ideas.

For example, these two prospective scholars happily chose to work at the same time, but if it was a lord's exclusive counter that only they could be in charge of, they would each receive guests of the same gender.

Then they organized the apprentices into several teams according to their judgment, to ensure that no counter needed to receive customers of the opposite sex at any time.

At first, Chesca was a little confused as to why they did this.

To be honest, harassment incidents are almost impossible to occur in Gezar Territory.

In fact, the northern laws have very severe sentences for this kind of thing, but there is no way to prevent the victims from "voluntarily" paying money to solve the problem.

It is rare to be able to do what the White Dragon King did after he came to power, at least the money he got is real.

But Lowry never accepts using money to solve such problems, so the best outcome for these harassers is to be forced to carry stones, and their entire family will be deported. In the worst cases, they may even be sentenced to death... This applies to both men and women.

There is no way around it. The people in the northern border have always been tough, and women there won't be as secretive as the ladies in the inland areas, who call it a "romantic date."

It's their style to take something home as soon as they see it.

Therefore, if the lord is not strong enough, as long as his talent is not good enough and his family is not confident, then let alone pretty girls, even good-looking boys will not dare to go out casually.

There are only a handful of territories like Gezar Territory where people of all ages and identities dare to stroll around in places like the commercial streets.

It’s not that these guys dare to do anything, and it’s not that the unfortunate kids from poor families can’t really say no, but sometimes, “being noticed” itself means endless troubles.

Besides, what can we do to those people who are just greedy and talkative?

Not every lord would be willing to handle even such a small case.

But anyone who dares to do this is not someone who can be easily fought back by the person being harassed... In this world, not everyone can blow a rogue whistle, as they will be killed if they do so. And no one thinks that killing is wrong.

Sometimes, the lords do want to intervene, but where is the evidence?
When even the victim doesn't know when he will change his confession, any evidence is useless and will disappear suddenly.

Besides, anyone who can make the victim change his confession can definitely influence the lord himself.

Frankly speaking, Lowry was able to do this because his information was extremely accurate and there was no need to worry about misjudgment. Moreover, he never cared about who was the victim or not. He would just deal with it directly when it happened, regardless of whether they were the plaintiff or the defendant, or whether they sued or not.

The severity of the punishment was all within the scope prescribed by national laws, and no one could accuse Baron Gezar of being cruel.

Chesca couldn't understand why Lori was so mad and pulling his hair when he was woken up by the system warning in the middle of the night and saw that the sudden incidents in the territory he had just cleared had exploded for more than ten pages.

At that time, he just wanted to kill everyone who disturbed his sleep.

Lowry, who finally had a good quality sleep and enjoyed the happiness of going to bed early and getting up early, no longer having to worry about dying suddenly in the middle of the night, hated anything that dared to affect his sleep!
If he didn't have a little bit of reason, letting him know that he was just an ordinary person and couldn't make people die with just one order, Lowry wouldn't care about the laws of the kingdom... He really wanted to shout that his thoughts were the laws. It was so cool. Unfortunately, he was still a little timid.

Following a boss like the White Dragon King would not cause any harm, but rebelling against him would bring disaster... Although death would not be painful, Lori still did not want to feel the breath of death again.

Especially after he was finally completely sure that he was not living in a dream and that being overly artificial would really lead to death.

Therefore, he could only use all his rationality and choose the bottom line of humanity and rely on the law.

Although, some laws exist because when the country was founded, the first King of the North had only a few thousand people under his command, and only one-tenth of the citizens were women.

You know, those who can follow him across thousands of miles and experience countless bloody storms must be professionals... At that time, it seemed that it was not as difficult for professionals to be promoted as it is now.

Therefore, the degree of damage caused by the harassment incident was enough to drive the first king crazy, even though he had several gold mines but was very short of supplies... He wanted to establish a country, which meant snatching the right to speak from other countries, and would naturally be sanctioned.

Even with the full support of the Lord of Storms, the support given by the Church of Storms was still limited.

How should I put it~the money is paid promptly, but the delivery of materials is always a step slow.

Naturally, they received retribution for their actions. Although the Northern Kingdom is known as the Kingdom of Storms and people across the country basically believe in the Lord of Storms, they don't really respect the Church of Storms that much.

In other words, the knights who were originally sent to the King of the North by the Storm Church were willing to choose the church over the king.

But for the King of the North at that time, he could only endure this kind of grievance.

So, in order to make his subordinates more sensible, he made the punishment for harassment so severe... and most of them were punishments for working for him for free.

After all, he has a lot of mines that no one has mined yet!

As long as we can survive the early days of the country, the minerals we dig out will be enough to buy supplies.

Lori was grateful from the bottom of his heart for the careful consideration of the first king, as well as for the successive northern kings who, out of some small-mindedness, wanted to leave something useful for themselves, and therefore refused to delete the first generation of legislation.

Of course, not deleting does not mean that it cannot be changed.

These laws actually have many notes and exemptions added to them. The most interesting one is that most laws, except for treason and the attempted murder of royal members and noble lords, can be pardoned with the permission of the lord.

The lord who pardoned the criminals had to pay a fixed amount of redemption money to the national treasury according to the severity of the crime... Then the lord himself would inevitably receive more money. In certain chaotic times, it was said that the ratio could be 1 to 10.

Therefore, the character of the lord is very important to a territory.

If they meet someone who is greedy for money, the civilians in the territory will definitely have no way to survive.

Of course, if the lord goes too far and makes the common people feel that being captured as refugees by other lords and sent to do hard labor is better than staying in this territory, then he will have to bear the consequences of his own actions.

Moreover, once such a thing happened, the king could bypass the lords to pardon these civilians and arrange for them to open up wasteland.

Then the small cities they opened up were controlled as territories directly under the king, and the city officials were all sent by the royal family.

Although there are not many independent small cities like the Northern Kingdom, there are still about a dozen of them.

According to the ideas of the Northern Royal Family, these small cities must be located between the border and the inland.

Even the weakest king of the North has never lost his right to rule. At most, he feels uncomfortable being checked and balanced by the nobles.

They can still discover the escape and death of a large number of civilians, and it cannot be concealed at all. It just depends on whether the royal family wants to intervene.

However, the most interesting thing about this law is that it did not include knights and landless nobles, including those at court.

Therefore, once the lord becomes hostile to them, it will be really troublesome for these people.

However, the question of whether nobles who own legal manors are considered small lords is blurred.

In other words, although the lords could do some excessive things, if these manor lords could find another noble of the same level who could support them, the lawsuit could be brought to the royal family.

Then, the royal family can make the judgment as they see fit while eating from both sides.

(End of this chapter)