Vlad originally planned to stay alone in the Lord's Mansion and quietly sort out his memories.
In order to avoid making mistakes in the future and being spotted by others, Vlad tragically discovered that as a newly appointed lord, he did not have much free time.
Yesterday, after the allegiance ceremony ended, the four major families spent the whole night expressing their loyalty and reporting.
Another person came to visit early this morning. It was Robin Timm, the Home Affairs Officer.
Meanwhile, Vlad was catching up on his sleep in bed.
The little maid Anne carefully approached Vlad, who was sleeping with one foot outside the quilt, his head held high, his mouth slightly open, and his sleeping posture extremely ugly, and she whispered, "Your Highness, Your Highness?"
After a while, Vlad opened a crack and vaguely saw the fair face of a pure and cute girl.
He just said "oh", closed his eyes again, turned over, turned his head and fell asleep.
The maid Anne tiptoed closer and looked at Vlad, whose eyes were closed. After hesitating for a moment, she came closer and exhaled, Rulan, and called softly.
"Your Highness, Your Highness?"
"Lord Robin, the Internal Affairs Officer, is here. He made an appointment with you for nine-thirty in the morning. It's already nine o'clock now."
"Is Internal Affairs Officer Robin here?"
Vlad opened his eyes suddenly and jumped up from the bed like a spring, just in time to bump into the little maid Anne who was approaching.
"Ouch."
The sound of pain sounded at the same time, Vlad and Annie rubbed their foreheads.
Vlad glared and said in a pretentious manner, "Hey, I haven't cried out in pain yet, but you shouted out and asked, why are you so close? Are you trying to kill me?"
Anne was dumbfounded when she heard this. For a long time, she said softly and timidly.
"Your Highness... No, I just want to confirm whether His Highness is awake. I don't want to assassinate His Highness!"
Vlad nodded secretly, and sure enough, the feeling of a frog turning into a prince is different!
If it were in the past, let alone reprimanding such a silly and cute little lolita, even just talking to each other, the cute girls would have to shout, "Uncle is acting like a hooligan."
But why does the last sentence of this silly girl sound a bit awkward?
"It's okay, I'm just teasing you."
When Anne heard this, she smiled and said to herself that His Highness is still so playful after becoming a lord.
This Anne was picked up by Vlad on the roadside when he was a child. The main reason for picking her up was to raise her as a wife. This was indeed what Vlad thought when he was a child.
"Is Home Affairs Officer Robin Timm here?"
"Well, Master Robin is already waiting in the living room."
"Quick, get me dressed."
After a lot of hesitation, Vlad finally appeared in front of the mirror wearing a black coat and unknown animal skin boots. Looking at the handsome and heroic man in the mirror, Vlad was very satisfied.
The genes of the St. Richard family.
Touching his head, he found two small bones hidden under his purple-black hair. Unfortunately, the horns on his head failed to grow.
As a member of the Moon Demon clan, you don’t even have good-looking horns. It’s a failure, a complete failure!
Vlad sighed softly and thought to himself, without horns on his head and tail behind his back, would he still be a qualified Moon Demon clan?
Vlad looked at himself in the mirror and muttered to himself, "It's no wonder that His Majesty the King drove you to a small border province. He must have been living in fear of being dominated by the green light since you were born!"
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Vlad was very happy. Although he was not particularly ugly in his previous life, he could still be considered above-average ugliness, which did not allow him to be modest.
Vlad was very satisfied, he even didn't believe that the handsome man in the mirror was himself.
Anne saw Vlad nodding frequently to herself in the mirror with a satisfied look on her face, and the little maid pursed her lips and smiled.
Vlad took out the pocket watch in his pocket and looked at it. It was already nine-fifteen. It was late. It had already been fifteen minutes of waiting.
He decisively gave up his self-absorption and walked towards the living room.
"Your Highness, breakfast is ready," the maid reminded.
Vlad waved his hand and said, "Business matters, let's have breakfast and lunch."
Anne was leading the way. Anne had been wandering around the Lord's Mansion all day yesterday and was already quite familiar with the Lord's Mansion.
Vlad was walking behind Annie, and happened to see Annie's colorful tail swaying lively and gently as she walked. It was fluffy, teasing people's playfulness, and Vlad wanted to touch it.
Vlad had actually tried it before, but Annie wouldn't let him. The tail was a taboo for their demon clan.
Walking in the wide and clean corridor, the shoes on the marble slabs made a faint echo, which was very pleasant.
There is a neat arched corridor with potted flowers on both sides of the corridor. Outside the arched door you can see a crystal clear fountain pool and a neatly trimmed green lawn.
I walked from the bedroom to the living room for five minutes and still didn't arrive.
Vlad looked at his watch frequently, wondering why it hadn't arrived yet.
"Is it really because the house is too big?"
"Sure enough, as the successor of socialism, I still can't adapt to this luxurious, corrupt and degenerate life?!"
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When a new official takes office, it is understandable to ask his subordinates to wait for a while, but it is not good to make people wait in a hurry. After all, everyone wants to save face. Since others have come in advance, it can be regarded as respecting the leader and making people wait for a long time.
, it’s really not a problem.
In the end, Vlad had no choice but to speed up his pace. If he didn't have to maintain the noble persona of His Royal Highness, he would have wanted to run immediately.
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"Creak!"
The door to the living room opened, and a fat man with a big belly sat on a chair.
This should be the Internal Affairs Officer Robin. This person looks ordinary. He looks like a human being. In the world of the Demon Moon, looking like a human is not a compliment. On the contrary, he does not have the characteristics of a demon, which often means that the demon blood has not been awakened.
, the failure of the demon blood to awaken means that the strength is very, very weak.
As for where these people who seem to have more humans than demons come from, this can be traced back to the war between gods and demons more than 30,000 years ago. In this war, many humans were plundered and taken to the Demon Moon Realm for food, but the demons had
A common shortcoming is that they like to create people, so many beautiful men and women have been brutally murdered.
For this reason, the demon world has an additional race, the demon race. In fact, after tens of thousands of years of chaotic interbreeding, there are almost no demons with absolutely pure blood.
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Seeing Vlad coming, Robin quickly stood up and performed a standard Dark Night Empire military salute, "I have met His Highness the Prince."
Vlad walked up to the fat man and looked the Robin up and down. Although he was fat, he had an upright military appearance, a kind smile, and was very approachable. He was worthy of being the steward of the province.
Vlad returned the military salute and said with a smile, "Master Robin, please take a seat."
Vlad pointed to a cup of tea on the table and said, "Well, how can you give our Lord Robin such a low-quality drink? He is my honored guest, and he will assist me in managing the territory in the future. Quickly bring me in
Take out the Diligu brought from the Imperial Capital and give it to Lord Robin to try."
A servant dressed in maid's clothing in the living room quickly responded softly and hurried out.
Diligu is a drink made from ground nuts in the poop of an extremely rare animal in the Far North. It is similar to cat poop coffee. The former prince drank it cutely, but now, he wants to drink it again.
Just a fool.
Robin quite likes it. This thing is not only rare, but also a tribute, not a royal reward. You can't drink it, not to mention that this place is hundreds of thousands of miles away from the ice field. A southerner like Robin might not be able to drink it in his lifetime.
Have a chance to go to the far north ice sheet?
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
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"Lord Robin is also a soldier?"
"I did serve as a helmsman in the Pluto Marine Corps for a period of time. It was considered a logistics unit. It's a pity that I have never raised a sword to kill an enemy!"
Robin looked a little lonely and in a low mood.
Vlad was a little embarrassed. He originally planned to get close to his future subordinate, but who knew that this Lord Robin would be sad when it came to it.
However, to be honest, for a weakling like Robin, going into battle to kill the enemy is simply sending him to death. If he becomes a logistics soldier, he might still be able to come back alive.
Of course Vlad couldn't say it directly, and he was only a little better than a weak chicken, and that little bit was extremely limited.
"Logistics is also very important. Sir Robin is doing a very good job in charge of taxation. The imperial evaluation officials speak highly of you!"
Robin's expression was slightly unnatural, and he waved his hands repeatedly.
"That's because the evaluators think highly of the subordinates. There are still many shortcomings that need to be improved. They need to be improved."
This Robin is very abnormal. He is not confident enough and there is something fishy about him. Maybe there is something wrong with the taxation.
"Then what does Master Robin want to see me for?"
Robin hesitated for a moment, and finally pulled out a thick account book from a box and handed it to Vlad, and carefully reported the report.
"Because the former governor of the province handed over most of the province's tax revenue this year to the Hades Marine Corps for military expenses before he left office, the budget this year is very tight. Please see, Your Highness..."
Vlad secretly thought that something was wrong. It was impossible for a new official to take office without money. How could he win people's hearts without money and trick everyone into starting a business together?
Although Vlad was worried about taxes, he always followed his principles as a prince.
Those are the three principles of asking more, reading more, and expressing less opinions. After all, it is still a fake and shoddy product, and people cannot tell the authenticity.
Vlad closed the thick account sheet and asked, "Except for the military expenses of the Hades Marine Corps, how much money is left?"
Speaking of the Hades Marine Corps, you have to know the geographical location of the Methos Province. Methos Province is located in the southernmost border area of the Eternal Night Empire. It is the smallest and second poorest province in the empire. The poorest is Beiyuan.
The main reason for the province is that although it is a large place, it is too cold and there are really not many people there. Naturally, the economy is not good if there are no people.
The province of Methos is also called the Methos Peninsula. Due east, southeast and northeast are the endless seas, and to the east are the gravel islands, where there are many free pirates.
To the southeast is the Pandaria Empire, which is home to two major races, the orcs and the undead, and has never been able to deal with the Eternal Night Empire.
The Hades Marine Corps is stationed in the southernmost part of the province of Methos, which belongs directly to the center of the empire.
Vlad will definitely not get back the taxes he sent out, and he doesn't dare to wrestle with the empire's major legions yet.
Moreover, the Pluto Marine Corps has a particularly important military role, responsible for combating pirates on the Gravel Islands to the east and resisting the possible invasion of the Pandaria Empire to the south.
As for collecting next year's taxes in advance, that's even more impossible. It's only February now, and there are still about ten months until next year.
Robin said cautiously, "There are still two hundred and thirty-five thousand, seven hundred and eighty-six magic dragon coins left."
Vlad glanced at Robin in surprise. It wasn't that there were many magic dragon coins, but the numbers were very accurate.