Almighty Lord: I can modify hidden entries

The study is Gudern's most important office location. Being able to be arranged to report work here is undoubtedly a step into the confidant level.

Immediately, Gudern stepped up his steps and headed towards the study.

Hummingbird's original name was Auston, and he was sitting quietly waiting for the young master to arrive.

As the wooden door of the study room was pushed open, Alston quickly stood up.

"Master."

"Auston, sit down, how are you staying at the receptionist's house in Snow Valley these days?"

Gudern did not come up to ask about the mission, but began to inquire about the situation and bring the relationship between the two parties closer.

"Master, I have lived up to your expectations. I successfully contacted and obtained the information."

Auston, who had gone through the training camp, sat upright and answered questions.

Seeing this, Gudern felt quite happy. The other party learned this very quickly.

So I gave up on beating around the bush and got straight to the point.

"Then tell me, how did Roy answer the two questions given to you."

"Yes." Auston nodded and began to retell the conversation between the two one by one.

"Regarding the news about taxation, Roy said that he learned about it from the tax collector in the tavern. The tax collector in Xuegu Ridge arrived a week earlier than the one in Qingyuan Town."

"Tavern?" Gudern didn't quite believe this answer.

"Yes, it's the tavern." Auston nodded.

Gooden has a lot of doubts about this, but for now, he still waits for Alston to finish his report before analyzing it with Old Joseph.

"Well, keep talking."

"In answer to the second question, Roy said that the only problem he found was that the Charleson family was collecting food in the Snow Valley Ridge."

"More than half of the food grown by the farmers in Xuegu Ridge has been taken away by the Charlieson family at a low price."

"There are even times when grain needs to be brought in from outside to provide food for the town. This has been going on for two years."

At this point, all the information Auston received from Roy has been reported.

"In addition, when I left Snow Valley Ridge, I found someone following me, so I diverted to Jinyuan City to stay for one night, and then pretended to make a wide circle to the northern front before returning."

Gooden was very satisfied with Auston's alertness and said with a smile on his face.

"Well done, thank you for your hard work. I'm going to take a break these two days. Also, the training clothes have been delivered. You can try them out later."

"Thank you, Master!"

Among today's guards, the temptation of monetary rewards is far less than that of holidays or extra meals.

After all, you are not allowed to drink or have fun while on duty or training, which is too much for these young and strong guys.

But every seven days, the young master will give them a day off. On this day, there will only be a small amount of training tasks, and after completion, they will be free to move and rest.

Auston left the study after thanking him. His task had been completed, and the rest was for the bosses to discuss and arrange among themselves.

"Do you believe the news from Roy?" Gudern looked at Old Joseph and asked.

Roy accidentally obtained such confidential information from the tax collector who arrived early in the tavern, and Roy was able to successfully deliver the letter to him.

Gudern would naturally not believe such a coincidence. The probability of such a series of events was lower than the chance of him traveling through time again.

Old Joseph shook his head: "I don't believe it. I was wondering how I got this kind of information at the time, but now that I know the truth, I think it's a bit ridiculous."

"I think so too." Gudern also fully agreed with Joseph Sr.'s words.

At this time, Gudern remembered something that happened recently in the small town.

"Speaking of which, do you still remember the reaction of the 'worms' during this period?"

"Remember, what's wrong?" Old Joseph nodded.

The ‘borers’ that Gudern refers to are the residents who were supplying letters to the Charleson family.

During this time, they frequently began to send out various intelligence letters to the outside world.

If Gudern hadn't made arrangements in advance, and all the residents around each 'borer' had been bribed by him, everything they did would have been sent to the castle as soon as possible.

Even hidden letters sent will be intercepted.

At the same time, in order to prevent Charlieson from discovering that all the informants had been exposed, Gooden also specially found a 'handwriting master' from among the literate people in the town.

This handwriting master was naturally modified by the entries and used to process these letters, erasing the sensitive content and sending them to the Charleson family.

And it just so happened that the content reported in the letters from the worms recently was about what he was doing in his daily life, how he seemed to be in mood, and even recorded various oddities in the blacksmith shop.

"Do you think there is a possibility that the Charleson family is still wary of Roy, so they deliberately released this news to test our reaction."

"If this is the case, it makes sense why Roy happened to hear this news in the tavern."

"If we act very panicked and start preparing for a tax crisis in advance, then Roy should have been exposed by now, and the news that comes back later does not rule out that the other party deliberately exposed it to us again."

Gudern's reasonable guess and the reaction of the borers gave old Joseph a chill in his back.

If this analysis continues, the Charlieson family's 'killing move' this time is one link after another.

The Charleson family is fully prepared for the taxation incident. Even if this matter is exposed in advance, the young master's personality and thoughts in the past are simply not capable of handling it.

At the same time, Roy's loyalty can be tested. If it is a fake rebellion, then he can use his hand to pass false news to the young master to mislead him.

"Not talking about this, the second news from Roy is a bit interesting..."

Gooden touched his chin, looked at the bookshelf with squinted eyes, and began to analyze to himself.

"Here, let's make an assumption, because I gave the order to prepare secretly, and it happened by mistake that Roy was not exposed."

"Secondly, the second piece of news from Roy is also true. Xuegu Ridge is very short of food."

"So, what is the reason why such a large Xuegu Ridge is so short of food that it needs to purchase food from outside to maintain the town?"

"There are many more residents in Xuegulin than in Qingyuan Town, and there are not many fields that can be planted. If all the grain is kept for personal use, we can barely achieve self-sufficiency."

"Under such circumstances, the Charleson family purchased more than half of the grain at low prices, and even imported grain from outside."

"And it lasted for two years, so where did the hoarded food go?"

"Hoard until the war breaks out to sell or use it yourself? But how can he determine the date when the war breaks out?"

Chapter 67 Shocking speculation, how to deal with it

Gudern's soliloquy made old Joseph's hair stand on end.

But this is not the end yet. Gudern, who has already entered into brainstorming, continues to talk to himself.

"With such a large force entering the country, there will be problems with eating, drinking, and drinking, and it will be easy to trace the number of people..."

"The orcs have sneaked into the country. There are hundreds of people. How do they solve the problem of food and drink?"

One sentence is the words of the captain of the Dedalo Cavalry detachment of Kanehara Castle, and the other sentence is Gudern's own question and guess.

Gooden, who once studied social work out of boredom, connected the bits and pieces of information during this period together and finally gave a surprising answer.

"If this batch of food is provided to the orc scout troops..."

"hiss--"

At this point, Old Joseph was so frightened by the young master's shocking speculation that he took a breath.

If the facts were true, the meaning of this matter would be different.

Maybe he would have to bear the pressure and contact his family to handle it. This kind of thing is no longer something that the young master can handle on his own.

"wrong……"

Suddenly Gooden frowned and found that there was a bug in his analysis.

"If we had started preparing food supplies two years ago, with the output of Xuegu Ridge, it shouldn't be a problem to raise an additional hundred orcs."

"Even if we support them for two years, it's more than enough, and we won't need to transfer food reserves from outside."

Regarding the problems that arose in the analysis, Gooden couldn't help but start thinking again to see where he had missed them.

As the memory continued to flicker, Gooden fixed the image in his mind on the day when his predecessor was attacked.

"Private soldiers!"

Thinking of this, Gudern's eyes lit up, he casually pulled out a piece of white paper from the side and began to calculate something quickly.

Seeing the young master analyzing it so carefully, Old Joseph couldn't help but feel a little bitter.

I thought that being sent here would allow me to stay away from power struggles and live my life quietly, but I didn't expect that it would be full of murderous intentions.

If the young master hadn't woken up unexpectedly and recovered, he might have returned to the capital with the young master's body.

It was also after awakening that Old Joseph felt that the young master's current thinking and methods might be quite mediocre among his brothers and sisters in the family.

But it is enough to leave here and go to a wider city for development.

How about trying to contact the family this year?

At this moment, Old Joseph was already thinking about Gudern's future development.

Gudern, who was doing quick calculations, finally calculated a rough value.

But looking at this string of numbers, his eyebrows knitted together again.

"Master, what's wrong?" Old Joseph was still very concerned about Gudern's situation.

"Something's wrong. Based on the output of Qingyuan Town, the output of Xuegu Ridge is calculated. There is no problem with the food reserves to feed one or two thousand people."

"But even if you count the number of orcs that were wiped out, plus the number of the lord's largest private soldiers, there are only six or seven hundred people."

"What are you doing with such a large amount of leftover grain? Raising insects?"

Old Joseph couldn't keep up with the young master's peculiar analytical thinking, so he could only stand aside and listen silently.

"Did he violate the law and raise more private soldiers?"

"That's not right. Where did he come from to hide thousands of private soldiers? There's no way he can live and eat as well as the orcs?... Damn it?!"

Suddenly, Gudern's mind was opened. What if the number of orcs he raised was not just a hundred, but thousands?

In this way, there is a reasonable explanation for the consumption direction of large amounts of stored grain.