Book 12: Chapter 31
“It’s finally over.”
Freya placed the pen in her hand down with a sigh of relief. She had finally finished signing the last command. The site selection for the factory, the workers, the governing system and my subordinates’ area grading were finally all confirmed.
Thanks to the assistance of the former nobles, Freya and I were introduced to all of the trustworthy people. The people were former nobles who were willing to help us and absolutely trustworthy. I arranged for locals and people I trusted to manage things. In doing so, I avoided agitating the people due to ignorance.
I followed the province, city and village classifications to divide the North into ten parts. I divided them up with local specialties, tribe population and religion as the criteria for one group. However, for Ling Yue’s sake, I gave the Imperial City a very wide radius so that Ling Yue’s home could be included as part of it.
Basically, the new policies, area distribution and population census were in the midst of being carried out. I didn’t intend to declare myself the new King after occupying the Imperial Palace. I wanted to wait for the population census and policies to be completed before officially declaring myself King of the North.
The North was still a mess. Besides the small population, everything else was good. We didn’t lack resources or anything of the sort, either. The large plain in the centre wasn’t inferior to the plains where food was produced in the South. Furthermore, the North had the terrifying mana-powered machines. The plan was for me to first control the factories, and then permit private factory operations once the population in the North stabilised.
In essence, we already did what we could for the meantime. We were just waiting for the population census and for the guardians to inform the people of the new policies and area distributions so that they were mentally prepared. Then, I need to wait for my children to be born. That was about it.
Mommy Vyvyan prepared names for my children in addition to clothing for them. She told me there was a particular one I wore when I was a kid, and then I watched her hold it up to her nose and sniff it with her eyes blood-red. Boy, I was so scared I didn’t even dare to speak.
Aside from clothing, Mommy Vyvyan also brought powder to mix with drinks. She apparently didn’t have much faith in Lucia’s body. To be fair, Lucia’s body was small and cute, but not flat chested!! I once caught Mommy Vyvyan comparing her boobs to Lucia’s! Come on, man, that had to be unscrupulous play!!
