Three days later, under the watchful eyes of people, the first diplomatic mission in Muxi City gathered at the camp outside the city, prepared, and set off; dozens of carts loaded with food were escorted by hundreds of soldiers.
, and drove toward the eastern border with great force.
Todd stood on the balcony of the palace, looking at the meandering team outside the city, holding tightly to the railing with both hands.
"Your Majesty, the envoy has gone far, go back." Huggins stood behind Todd, holding a newly made cane, and said softly.
Looking up at the cold mist looming in the sky, Todd tightened his collar and said with blurred eyes: "It's going to snow."
Huggins followed the instructions and looked into the air and whispered: "This winter will probably be colder than previous years."
The two left the terrace, followed the aisle, and returned to the palace atrium.
Huggins looked outside and said to Todd: "Your Majesty, you have been busy arranging missions these days. It is a rare free day. What do you want to do?"
Todd was a little surprised when he heard the word leisure. In his mind, rest was already a distant concept for him.
In his previous life, he could sleep in and watch movies during holidays.
But since arriving in another world, Todd recalled that it had been too long since he could calm down and take a breath.
Huggins thought for a moment and suggested: "How about watching a play? The Grand Theater is performing "The Lonely Traveler" today, and I heard that the venue is full."
Todd shook his head and thought to himself that instead of watching a drama, it would be better to go back to the soul space and relive the movie he had already watched.
"How about hunting? The hunting ground in the north has just been built, and there are many animals in it. The horses and hunting bows are in the palace."
Todd shook his head again. He had no interest in this kind of entertainment that was popular among nobles in the Middle Ages. Riding on a horse, holding a bow and arrow, chasing a group of fleeing animals, this behavior seems a bit silly no matter how you think about it.
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However, when talking about hunting, Todd remembered something.
"I asked you to let Henry the Griffin go last time. How did things go?"
A strange look appeared on Huggins' face: "Are you talking about that war beast? According to your instructions, we removed all the fences that restricted its activities, but it just refused to leave Muxi City."
Todd looked curious: "Come on, let's go to the stables to see it now."
Huggins arranged the carriage and guards and accompanied the king to the stables at the headquarters of the Muxi Knights.
As soon as he stepped off the carriage, Todd heard Henry's harsh cry.
"What's going on?" Todd jumped out of the carriage and hurriedly opened the stable door, only to see a scene that made him dumbfounded.
Two cooks, a row of grills, and three large pots of fresh meat.
The griffon Henry's belly was in the air, his hind legs straightened, his eyes staring straight at the fork rolling in the cook's hand, and he screamed impatiently.
Whenever a chef puts a grilled steak on the plate in front of Henry, the latter will always use the critical eye of a gourmet to carefully examine the color, oiliness, thickness and tenderness of the grilled meat, and after confirming the quality
, will eat the food slowly.
The monk in charge of the Knights' stables ran all the way and came to Todd. The first thing he did was to complain to him: "Your Majesty, no matter what we do, this guy just refuses to leave! This month is used to buy fodder.
Half of the funds have been eaten up by it!"
Todd looked at the gryphon's round belly, sighed helplessly, and went directly into the soul space to find Henry.
Seeing the griffin looking around, Todd made a flying gesture with his hands and said to Henry: "Don't you miss the sky?"
Henry opened his beak and made a barbecue gesture with his wings, looking mean.
Todd rolled his eyes and made a ball shape with his hand: "Don't you miss your child?"
Henry's wings paused in mid-air, and his eyes were slowly filled with tenderness. After a while, it stood upright and let out a long roar toward the sky.
Todd walked up to the griffin, touched his head gently, and said softly: "Bring your family to Muxi City. Here, at least you don't have to worry about food."
As if he understood this sentence, Henry rubbed his head against Todd's cheek and flapped his wings happily.
Leaving the soul world, Todd said to the servants in the stable: "Go find a canvas bag like those used on mules and horses."
Soon, people brought a double bag that was put on the back of a mule and horse and connected with canvas.
Todd picked up the canvas bag and tied it up with his own hands for Henry the Griffin. He also found a large amount of cotton and stuffed it into the bag, then patted his neck.
Seeing that Henry was looking at the grilled steak, Todd asked someone to wrap the barbecue in oil paper and stuff it into the bag together.
After doing all this, Henry closed his eyes, rubbed Todd's cheek with his head again, walked back to the open space in the middle of the stable step by step, flapped his wings vigorously, and slowly left the ground and rose into the air.
Looking at the smaller and smaller figure in the sky, Todd closed his eyes and breathed a long sigh of relief. Turning around, he saw the monks and servants in the stable hugging each other, with tears filling their eyes.
These people kept cheering with words like: "Finally! That terrible monster is finally gone!"
"The monster you call will soon return to Muxi City with his wife and children."
Regarding this news, Todd chose to keep it secret for the time being. When the gryphon hovers over the kingdom again, he will find it very interesting to think about what the expressions of these people will be like.
Huggins glanced at the people who were still cheering, frowned and said, "Your Majesty, where should we go next?"
Todd walked out of the stables at the Knights' headquarters and returned to the street. After thinking for a moment, he pointed to Muxi Square in the distance and said to Huggins: "The next place is over there."
Huggins looked in the direction of the king's finger and found that the place Todd was talking about was the kingdom's newly built government building.
Before the official examination, most of the government affairs in Muxi City adopted the elder responsibility system of the ancient Tailuo period; after the implementation of the imperial examination system, the original government affairs mechanism transformed into the departmental decentralization system common in the late feudal dynasty.
Public utility functions such as agriculture, commerce, urban planning, taxation, law, personnel, etc. are each independently divided into corresponding large departments. Within the framework of the large departments, they are divided into small departments responsible for specific matters according to the needs of the city.
In the past, the number of government officials was small, their professional skills were rough, and their workplace space requirements were relatively small; but now, the imperial examination system has brought a large number of professional civil servants with higher education levels and industry skills. Naturally, the workplace
The requirements are getting higher and higher.
In order to cope with the office needs of hundreds of civil servants, Muxi City decided to select a suitable address in the city center to build a government building for daily city government affairs.
After choosing and choosing, the earliest building in Muxi City, where the king once lived when he was a priest, and the short Muxi Church came into people's sight.
Initially, many people expressed strong opposition to this renovation proposal.
Every brick and tile in this church was built by the first batch of immigrants in Muxi City. Every speech given by the king here was the only comfort for people to yearn for light in that difficult and dark era. How? Maybe it should be demolished.
After a long confrontation and persuasion, and Todd's approval of the proposal, the proposal was finally passed.
After that, many architectural designers worked together, using continuously upgraded cement materials and increasingly complete special energy systems, so that the style of the original site was preserved to the maximum extent, and all government departments had enough space for activities.
After several upgrades and expansions, the original small church finally became the current four-story building that is 20 meters high, covers an area of nearly 1,000 square meters, and has a construction area of more than 3,000 square meters.