Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

According to the original plan, Arturo will return to the North with Harvey, leaving Sirius and Prall to lead some necromancers to prepare for the Academy of Sciences branch in Jinhui City. This will be their first foreign base for recruiting young apprentices and reserve talents in the future, so there is no room for carelessness.

"Mr. Arturo is much more restrained than I expected." Harvey joked, "I thought that after such a long period of discrimination and contempt, the necromancers would not look kindly on these orthodox spellcasters who change their ways with the wind."

Arturo sighed and bowed, "Lord City Lord, your attitude is the standard for our actions... As long as we can recruit more spellcasting and alchemy talents for the North, we don't have to fight for a moment of pride. Besides, this time the Academy of Sciences has benefited greatly from you. Not only has it completely established its reputation, but it can also openly recruit apprentices in the capital..."

A group of "changed" necromancers can openly establish an organizational branch in the capital of the secular kingdom and recruit apprentices... This was something that no one dared to think of at any time in the past.

Harvey nodded and reminded, "But there is no need to lower your attitude too much in order to attract talents... At any time, you must understand that our faction is the cornerstone of the existence of the Academy of Sciences and the only dominant one."

"Yes, I understand." Arturo bowed in response.

While the two were chatting, Pierce hurried into the captain's room of the flagship and reported to Harvey: "Sir, many rumors suddenly emerged in the city since yesterday... Several pregnant women claimed that they were the lovers of the late Grand Duke Saint Valen, and the fetus in their belly was the Grand Duke's posthumous child, and the only remaining bloodline of the Saint Valen family..." "Oh?" Harvey raised his eyebrows and said, "It seems that some nobles who escaped from my hands have not completely given up..." However, their methods are not completely stupid and brainless. At least they know to find a few pregnant women to make up rumors. If it were a lively illegitimate child, Harvey's alchemists would have plenty of ways to give them a set of magical "paternity test". Pierce looked ruthless and asked Harvey in a deep voice: "Sir, the secret police are currently investigating the source of the rumor... But I think the nobles who were pardoned by you before are more or less related. Why not kill them all..." Harvey waved his hand and said, "There is no need to be so extreme. Dickinson just took our soldiers to the border to persuade the feudal lords in the country to surrender. Killing the nobles in the capital at this time will force them to rebel against me." What's the point of getting a few posthumous children of Grand Duke Saint Valen? At present, no one dares to claim that these children still in the pregnant woman's belly have the legal right to inherit the duchy. That would be equivalent to directly breaking up with Harvey, which is a completely suicidal act. Arturo, who had been silent on the side, suddenly made a joke, "Fortunately, the rumors they made up were about a dead archduke. If a few of your illegitimate children suddenly appeared, the situation would be difficult to deal with..." Harvey couldn't help but spit out the hot tea he had just drunk. Pierce, who was eager to protect the dignity of his master, hurriedly said, "Mr. Arturo, be careful with your words! How dare those despicable nobles spread rumors about the private life of a high-ranking spellcaster!" Arturo leisurely adjusted the hem of his robe and laughed, "The city lord told me to tell more jokes in my daily life, which helps to delay the loss of humanity and emotions..." After Arturo left, Harvey kept Pierce and ordered, "Notify the secret police in the city. There is no need to make a big fuss about spreading rumors, and too obvious targeted actions... will make the people suspicious and think that we are eager to hide the truth. "

Pierce was stunned and said: "Then let them be so arrogant? Everyone knows that although the Grand Duke of Saint Valen has died and fallen, he has not officially announced his abdication, but you are the actual controller of the capital!"

Harvey smiled and said: "Think about their purpose... It's just the useless struggle of the rats in the gutter. Besides... Soon there will be a more shocking news among the people, attracting everyone's attention... Then no one will mourn for the deceased former Grand Duke."

"What shocking news? I didn't hear any news at all?" Pierce asked in confusion.

Harvey waved his hand and took him to the desk and pointed to the administrative documents just sent from Xinghuo City. At this moment, Harvey has yet to complete the last approval process himself.

[Jinhui City will completely remove the title of Saint Valen Capital, and its future administrative level will be equal to Fengyuan City. 】

【The Principality of Saint Valen will be renamed the United Kingdom of the North, with Spark City as the new capital of the kingdom. 】

【The city lord Harvey will return to the North soon to officially hold the coronation ceremony...completely abandoning the tradition that the succession of the royal family of the southern countries must be crowned by the Holy City Pope himself. 】

Pierce read the contents of the document transmitted from the magic brain instrument in a daze, and reacted after a moment, and said with surprise and joy: "My lord, you finally decided..."

Harvey nodded and said: "It's far more than that. I plan to migrate part of the population from Jinhui City to the North, and maintain the population of this former capital to be equal to that of Fengyuan City, so as to avoid the development gap caused by unequal resources between the two cities in the future."

Administrative management has always been the part that Pierce is least good at, but he can clearly see that Harvey is deliberately teaching him, so he patiently listens attentively. "But the residents of the capital have always lived a prosperous life, and you intend to really implement the tax exemption and tax reduction policy you promised them before. You want to migrate them from the warm central southern border to the bitter cold wasteland... I'm afraid it will be difficult to achieve without forcing them by force."

"I don't plan to migrate those nobles and wealthy families there." Harvey smiled, "Spark City will always open its doors only to people who create wealth through labor. When my land recovery policy begins to be implemented, these rentier noble groups will soon taste the bitterness of shrinking wealth and falling class."

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Harvey intends to recruit as many laborers who are trapped on the land by the nobles as possible to the North with generous treatment. When these nobles have a lot of land under their names but no one is cultivating it, they will import a large amount of high-yield grain from the North to stabilize the local grain price, so as to prevent the rich merchants from hoarding goods and causing a large-scale famine. This will inevitably lead to a sharp drop in the income of the nobles' land rent... At that time, Harvey will start to reclaim the land and severely suppress the price.

Although this operation takes a long time and the process is relatively complicated, it can accumulate a relatively good reputation for Harvey compared to the violent confiscation of nobles' property. It also sends a signal to the princes and lords in the Principality of Saint Valen that they don't have to fight to the death.

After listening to the long speech, Pierce thought for a moment and muttered softly: "Is it really that difficult? Kill them all, and the land will naturally come to hand..."