From Baron to Lord

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Of course, with Allen's orders, it couldn't leave the duchy, nor could it harass civilians, and it had to be home before dark.

Safi immediately ran off happily to stroll around, while Allen took Marco directly into the palace.

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Chapter 265: Enthusiastic Commoners, Knight Training Progress (5)

A few days later, the news of the King of Norton personally enfeoffing Allen and changing the name of the Duchy of Shack had reached the ears of the southern commoners.

From this moment on, everyone in the Allen Duchy would refer to themselves as commoners of the Allen Duchy.

Allen had been living in the royal capital for the past few days.

The reason he hadn't returned to Wolfsbane Fortress was that Allen was preparing to expand Wolfsbane City a bit, renovating Wolfsbane Fortress again, and building it into a palace, and then changing Wolfsbane City into the new royal capital.

After all, Allen was dissatisfied with many parts of the old royal capital.

So, during this time, before the new royal capital was completely built, Allen and the others needed to live in the old royal capital. Of course, this didn't affect the lives of the residents of Wolfsbane City, after all, it was just expanding and renovating Wolfsbane Fortress, expanding the Earl's castle into a palace.

It would probably only affect Allen's life.

"Your Excellency Duke, according to your instructions, the new royal capital is already being expanded. In addition, the orc construction team is fully expanding the new royal capital, so the factory's affairs have been temporarily suspended."

Inside the duchy's council hall, Allen sat on the throne, listening to the reports from the officials below.

"In addition, the three major factories have been relocated and are being greatly expanded. Our main industries have gained a firm foothold in the Allen Duchy. Furthermore, the cooperation with the Roland Merchant Guild has allowed us to instantly open up channels to the northern duchies and kingdoms. The three major factories are now in a period of explosive growth, and the future is bright."

"I believe that within a year, the deficit in the national treasury can be completely reversed."

Sparrow said, with Oliver beside him. At this moment, the former bald-headed Minister of Finance had completely become Sparrow's assistant.

Sparrow reported, and Oliver provided data for Sparrow.

Allen was very satisfied after listening.

Due to the addition of the three major factories, the Allen Duchy had injected new economic vitality, and the economy of the Allen Duchy began to recover, with a large amount of labor force moving from idle state to working state.

After all, in any duchy, there is a part of the idle labor force. These people originally lived a life of idleness, passing their days in a daze.

But the appearance of the three major factories gave them the opportunity to work.

This greatly increased the enthusiasm of the people, and for a time, the commoners in the duchy became more and more grateful and respectful to Allen.

Even the most carefree guy in the entire duchy was incredibly respectful when mentioning Allen.

This was the effect of Allen's title of Grand Duke. With the development of the three major factories and this title, Allen felt that the people under his rule should all be his little fans.

After all, this title was given after completing the main quest, and it didn't have any additional effects, it just allowed everyone to become his brain-dead fans.

"Leave the treasury matters to you two."

Allen nodded and began to let the next agricultural officer, Bax, speak.

"Lord, the desertification problem in the Moore County in the south is becoming more and more serious, and the surrounding counties are also about to experience farmland desertification. We must solve it as soon as possible."

Bax said with some worry. Originally, this agricultural officer was in a very good mood. After all, leaping from an agricultural officer of a county to the Minister of Agriculture of a duchy was a great thing for any agricultural officer.

But after the initial excitement and agitation, Bax immediately encountered difficulties.

The desertification situation in Moore County in the south was becoming more and more serious.

He made a special trip to the south for this purpose, collecting some information and data, and bringing a lot of manpower.

But he just couldn't find the reason and couldn't solve the problem.

This made Bax extremely frustrated. He couldn't solve the first problem he encountered after coming to the duchy, which made him unable to let go.

"Oh, is it this problem? Bax, don't worry, it's not your fault. I will personally go to Moore County tomorrow."

Of course, Allen couldn't forget the soil problem in the south. Since the system had released a side quest, it meant it could be solved.

"I understand, Duke."

The agricultural officer Bax immediately closed his mouth. Now it was winter, and there was basically nothing for him to do.

Allen communicated with the officials one by one, and unexpectedly, the Allen Duchy was recovering (cfbh) very well.

The post-war trauma was steadily recovering.

After the meeting, Allen and a few of his closest ministers continued to communicate in the room behind the council hall.

Albert and the others had already gone out to take over the various Marquis territories, while Marco, as Allen's guardian knight, stayed in the royal capital, becoming a marquis in the royal capital, similar to the Rose Marquis in the Ryan Duchy.

After all, Allen also needed someone to solve some things in the royal capital.

"Marco, inform the four Marquis territories to start recruiting warriors. Also, how is the training of those Level 6 knights going?" Allen naturally didn't forget his other side quest.

These Level 6 knights were carefully selected by Oliver and had sworn allegiance to Allen and would not betray him.

Allen had previously asked the potion masters to do their best to train them.

It had been a while now, and Allen was preparing to ask about the progress.

“Oh, my lord, their progress is good. After all, they are all talented people, lacking only resources.” Speaking of this, Marco's eyes lit up.

“I've observed them, and ten of them will be able to break through within a month. The rest may take a few more months, but this is already good. Also, my lord, Jackson also broke through to become a Gold Knight not long ago.”

Marco's eyes flashed with a hint of a smile as he said this.

He was happy for his old friend.

Alan also smiled when he heard this: “Is that so? Not bad.” “We can consider letting Jackson take over a Count's territory.”

Alan patted Marco on the shoulder: “The Duchy is short of talent now, so let him go to the Count's territory near the Southern Earth Lizard Marquisate.” Marco was overjoyed when he heard this. Alan had directly promoted Jackson to a Count!

This was simply a meteoric rise.

“Thank you, my lord!”

Marco immediately bowed and said.

Alan smiled and continued to have in-depth discussions with the others.

As for the construction matters, Alan did not bring them up immediately. He planned to solve the drought problem in the south first, and then bring it out to see the effect.

Fortunately, it was winter, and there were not many things to do in Alan's Duchy. The main thing was post-war recovery.

So, everyone quickly discussed a plan and left.

Alan left the meeting hall, passed through the corridor and garden, and came to the castle where Lucy and he lived.

At this moment, the dragon Saffi was lying on the ground, getting close to the spirits of nature.

Alan's appearance made Saffi call out happily. “Alan!”

Lucy waved to Alan. The palace had some magic arrays for insulation, so there was no snow on the ground and the temperature was moderate. “Lucy.”

Alan smiled and hugged Lucy, then glanced at Saffi: “Saffi, after today, you should have some more companions.” “Roar?”

Saffi was stunned, not understanding Alan's meaning.

Chapter 266: Steel Dragon Cubs and Emerald Dragon Cubs (1)

“Roar, roar.”

Saffi shook her big head slightly, indicating that she didn't understand Alan's meaning.

Alan smiled. He waved his hand gently, and immediately brought Lucy and Saffi into the advanced dragon nest.

The advanced dragon nest was extremely large, completely a small world, but not as huge as the Dragon Ranch of Norton Royal City~.

Alan was also a little curious about how the so-called Dragon Ranch was formed, possessing the power of dragons and vast space.

It was simply another version of the dragon nest…

Hmm?

Dragon nest?

Alan was slightly stunned. Since his system named this place Dragon Nest, it shouldn't be a random name, right?

Alan immediately used his wisdom. Obviously, because dragon nests also existed in this world.

And maybe the so-called Dragon Ranch was one of them?

Of course, this was Alan's own conjecture. Regardless of the connection between the dragon nest and the Dragon Ranch, the reason Alan entered here this time was obvious: to buy dragon eggs here.

Based on the price of one million gold coins per dragon egg, Alan squeezed out two million gold coins from his already meager wallet.

Before taking over the Duchy of Alan, Alan could be said to be the richest person among the Counts.

The gourmet shop had made Alan a fortune.

And the three major industries continued to provide him with gold coins. It was no exaggeration to say that the three major industries would only become more and more profitable!

Because the larger Alan's territory was, the larger the scale of the factory would be.

When Alan was a Count, the products produced could barely satisfy a Duchy, but when Alan became a Grand Duke, the products produced could probably be popularized to the Kingdom.

For Alan, he never lacked a market for his products. What he lacked was only manpower and territory.

But even if Alan's wealth was abundant, after becoming a Grand Duke, he still felt it was not worth mentioning.

Gold coins and resources had to be used to cultivate his own strength.

The younger brothers under his command were clamoring for food, and Shack had not left behind too many valuable things. What was even more speechless was that it was winter now.

This led to the current state of the entire Duchy being unable to make ends meet, with a fiscal deficit.

Alan had to face this problem.

So, being able to extract two million gold coins now was already good.

“Alan? What is this place? Ah! There are dragon bones there!”

Lucy curiously looked around. In this space where the power of the dragon was excessively strong, Lucy quickly saw the dragon skeleton in a valley in the distance. “This is Grand Duke Shack's steel dragon skeleton.” Alan explained after leading Lucy in. “This is the Dragon Nest, Saffi's home.”

Alan said here, Saffi shook her head and lightly roared twice, indicating that she would never return here again. It was too lonely and boring here.

Although there was the power of the dragon here, it was nothing compared to freedom! “It seems Saffi doesn't like it here anymore.” Lucy said, touching Saffi's head.

“That's good, we'll leave it to the other little guys.” Alan said with a smile. “Others?” Lucy was slightly surprised.

Alan nodded, and then, in Lucy's surprised gaze, two dragon eggs covered in scales appeared in his hand. “Roar?!” Saffi was startled.

Alan didn't care about Saffi and Lucy's gazes. He directly dripped two drops of blood from his fingertips.

The two drops of blood fell on the two dragon eggs respectively.

Soon, the blood on the dragon eggs disappeared quickly.