Warlord: King of All Clans

By the time Leo heard the news and rushed to greet her, Seti had already recorded twenty or thirty suggestions for reform in her little notebook.

This is the difference between a real manager and a slacker. When Leo saw the messy situation of Isenbol and couldn't figure out what was going on, he had to just start.

But Olivia, who had been running Hewan for a long time, had already made a specific plan within half an hour of entering the city.

Of course, the two have always had a clear division of labor. Leo considers the superstructure, while Olivia considers the economic foundation, so they look at things from different perspectives.

She only needs to take care of the problems that are visible to the naked eye. As for the deeper and long-term considerations, that is Leo's area of ​​responsibility.

Olivia watched River Bend transform from a small camp into a neat town from beginning to end, and then looked at the wildly growing Isenbol, and felt that every place did not meet her expectations of a city.

Riding his horse to the front of the carriage and walking alongside it, Leo threw Freya into the carriage, then greeted Olivia with a playful smile, "Wife!"

Olivia suppressed her smile and asked with a straight face, "How many have you married?"

Leo scratched his head, "How many do you mean?"

"Not married yet?" Olivia was relieved, but also felt a little disappointed. "Agata is lying again!"

She brought so many people to Isenbol in a mighty manner, wasn't it just to create a strong momentum and overpower the smaller ones?

As a result, there is no combat target!

She said in annoyance, "Agata told me that as long as a man has power, he will keep looking for wives. You haven't been home for ten days or half a month, you must be secretly taking a concubine without telling me!"

Leo suddenly felt regretful. He had not met any of the noble ladies of Isenbol yet. These days, apart from dealing with post-war affairs with Rigolav, he had been playing around with Freya.

He can only blame this bad friend for holding him back.

Soon, the team entered the lord's castle.

This castle is not a large one. If you really compare it, it is about the size of a standard junior high school, with a construction area of ​​less than 20,000 square meters.

But in this era, especially in backward areas, this is already a unique building.

It is located in the northeastern part of Isenbol City, where the terrain is the highest. The foundation is seven or eight meters higher than the outer city area. The main castle is at least twenty meters high, and there are two higher-level ancillary buildings on the outside: the Mage Tower and the Watchtower.

Standing on a high place, you can overlook the entire Isenpol.

The outer walls of the castle formed an irregular circular wall with at least one-third of it facing the water. If Tariq had stayed in the castle and not left, he could have held off a small legion for a long time with just a hundred elite soldiers and some servants.

After entering the main gate of the castle and reaching the inner square, which was completely isolated from the public's view, Olivia put aside her airs as the mistress, took Fesa and Cedee out of the carriage, and looked around the new territory with excitement.

She pulled Fisa and spun and jumped, "We have a castle too!"

Fraser also wanted a castle, but she preferred that her castle be at the river bend, so she begged Olivia, "Let's go back and build a castle too! It has to be bigger than this one!"

Olivia shook her head. "That's too extravagant. It would take at least eight to ten years to build a castle like this!"

It took Linhai Town two months to build a circle of stone city walls. If you put it in the construction of the castle, even the labor required to lay the foundation is more than that.

Not only that, but all the cement reserves in Hewan were used up.

Fisa's plan failed. She wagged her tail and pestered Leo, "Leo, when are you going to conquer the next city? I want a castle too!"

Leo said mercilessly: "You are dreaming!"

This city was stolen with the help of Tariq rather than Leo's strategy.

If they really want to attack the city, Hewan does not have the strength to do so.

"If you want a castle, find a way yourself."

Fraser's little brain began to work, plotting how to get a castle in the shortest time possible.

As the hostess moved in, the castle's steward presented the account books of the entire lord's mansion.

The servants and garrison troops in the lord's castle were cleared out. Ninety percent of these people were lower-class civilians who worked for pay, but there might also be a few "national heroes" who endured humiliation just to stab their new master in the back.

Leo wasn't afraid, but not everyone had his strong physique and agility.

Olivia is now almost at the beginner-intermediate level of the extraordinary, and she still gets her hands pricked when sewing clothes.

Because she lacks the ability to protect herself and needs to get in touch with the lower classes of society, the four Rose Knights stay by her side 24 hours a day.

The castle's chief steward was also among those who were fired, but because he was in charge of the entire property accounts of the lord's mansion, he could not be fired directly and had to wait for the handover.

The butler did not feel wronged. In fact, all the butlers of the great lords were management talents with excellent academic qualifications and high emotional intelligence.

Moreover, he himself has the status of a corner flag knight. As long as he is not implicated and demoted by Tariq, he can continue to maintain his wealth and glory.

The higher the status of a noble, the higher the status of the family's butler.

The king's butler at least started out as an earl, and he was a man of outstanding ability and talent.

Leo simply fired him instead of taking the opportunity to confiscate his property and exterminate his family. This was already quite tolerant of the butler of the defeated party.

The small nobles did not have so many staff, and the mistress herself was the head housekeeper, so when Olivia came over, she immediately took control of the accounts representing property income.

Olivia opened the account book, frowned at the backward accounting method, and then looked at the contents carefully.

After reading only a few lines, Olivia asked in disbelief, "A leather workshop only makes five gold soles a month in net profit?"

The butler had not yet realized the seriousness of the matter, and only perfunctorily said, "This leather workshop has fifteen craftsmen and fifty apprentices. Normally, the cost is quite high. In the past few months, it has been a war, and the leather input is not much, so the output is very low. It is good that we are not losing money."

The dog-headed girl Seti hid behind Olivia's seat and looked at the butler. She couldn't help but exclaimed: "Woof woof woof! So strong! I can't even smell a lie!"

Although you are a habitual liar and even a dog-headed man can't smell it, even a simple dog knows that you are not telling the truth!

Hewan also has its own leather workshop, with a similar number of employees, but the profit is ten times that of this workshop.

It is inevitable that the leather workshop in Hewan is closer to the production site, has lower labor costs and higher assembly line production efficiency, but the ten-fold gap is still too exaggerated.

There isn't much machinery involved in workshops these days; the main consumption is still manpower.

With new tools and superior systems, the craftsmen of the river bend were able to triple or quintuple their productivity, but not tenfold.

Olivia didn't think too much about it and continued to look through the account book.