After getting enough rest, everyone's mental outlook was completely different. Lu Chen could see the smile of hope wherever he went. Even some people who were mourning their lost friends and relatives did not show too much sadness, and their faces were full of determination to face life bravely. But thinking that most of the dead were due to their own thoughts, Lu Chen felt a little uncomfortable, although this kind of damage was inevitable in this dangerous period.

"Lord, you don't have to be sad for the dead. This is not your fault. Even if you have the strength of the ninth level, what should happen will happen. This is how people are. While war brings destruction, it will also make people progress and make a slack society move forward. If human nature and morality are excluded, it is also considered a law of survival of the fittest that belongs to humans."

Curiously, Lu Chen found that these "extreme" comments from a third party were actually said from the mouth of the big-bellied man Karim. He immediately focused his eyes and scared him to kneel down immediately.

Paen, who was beside him, suddenly interrupted, after thinking about it for a while, and said, "Are you the illegitimate son of a god? Why can you meet talents everywhere? Uh~ He should be considered a talent, right? Although he is a little fat~"

"Well, he is a talent, the manager of the business alliance of Bryon, but now it seems that this position is too submissive. If Pratt uses him as the chief executive, maybe he wouldn't have what he is today." The other party was a former city lord and had also stood with Tony and the others. Although he performed well at the moment, he had not had time to check his background. The most important thing is that he vaguely mentioned his strength. Lu Chen, who did not want to get into trouble, unconsciously brought some threatening elements to his tone.

"No, no, what the villain said was from a miscellaneous book, but..." He never expected that his mouth would soon cause such trouble. Karim, who didn't know where he was wrong, quickly wanted to clarify, but he didn't know how to continue halfway through his words without preparation.

"Just what? Want to please your new lord? Regain power?" Angus lost power, and Clarence was escaping reality and focused on military affairs. Paine, who suddenly became the focus, couldn't stand the flattery of the nobles of the royal capital, so he was forced to throw the military industry to his father-in-law. He took his wives out to relax. The situation happened in front of him, which naturally made him feel as if he was back in the royal capital.

"Uh~ Yes, yes, the villain was wrong~" Although he really wanted to maintain his original life, Karim didn't want to be suspicious of the new lord for this, so he could only admit it. He used a small mistake that he didn't know where he was wrong; however, Vales suddenly inserted, not only unexpectedly relieved him, but also gave him a new opportunity.

"Lord, Your Highness. I was just about to find you... Karim, you are~" Vales hurriedly came with several officers. After all, some reports still need to be known as Lu Chen as soon as possible, such as the food and clothing issues that everyone needs. But Karim's presence and expression made him pause in a little bit of surprise. Then he continued: "Sir, Bryon can develop into a medium-sized city. Karim's contribution to Karim may be higher than my soldiers." Although Lu Chen is easy to talk to, there is a third prince next to him. Vales, who can see something, can only click to stop. He dare not comment too high.

"Oh, isn't he? Is he a Pratt?" Lu Chen became interested. He did not have systematic and comprehensive business management capabilities, and the trustworthy business personnel were no longer around him. Vales's words were undoubtedly a great supplement.

"This ~ Prat is the city lord. If it weren't for him that he needed to ensure the safety of the coastal defense and attract businessmen, even I might be his. Karim is a local. Like most of us, he has always hoped that his hometown would be prosperous and strong, so he is also very dedicated to making profits for the merchants to promote the development of Bryon."

"Then it's really not easy for him. Tony's guys are not easy to deal with." Lu Chen didn't believe Vales, but since he wanted to use people, it was very necessary to figure out his abilities.

It was not clear what the lord was thinking, but his performance so far was worth entrusting everything. Vales thought about it and continued to say what he knew, the method used by the manager of the business alliance to balance both ends: only if the merchants and the city people had more money, they could get more taxes from them.

The superficial meaning is real damage, and more tax revenue will only make people suffer, but the premise will be completely different. Unexpectedly, I heard about financial problems in such places, but it was a small manager from a remote place. Not to mention that Lu Chen's eyes lit up, even Parn lit up his head after thinking for a while.

But just when everyone thought the matter was over, Lu Chen poured another basin of ice water: "Haha, it's not bad, Karim, I didn't expect you to have such an opinion, how much bribes did you use to convince Pratt and Tony?"

What he said just now was very good, but suddenly it was implicated as corruption. No one had time to react. Karim himself was even more trembling as if he had an epileptic seizure. But he didn't know that he was stupid and was really frightened. He actually answered tremblingly, using nearly 80% of his own greed, and using it to convince Pratt, Tony and others.

"Very good. In the future, I will allow you to leave 30% of the places left, but you must list the accounts and hand over them secretly. By the way, don't call me like "Lord" in the future. Just use "Young Master" like Humphreys and the others. And you are the same. Just be simple, it's okay to call me my name directly."

Everyone was stunned at this moment, but the officers and Karim both understood one thing. After a difficult escape, they finally became the "people" of the new lord.

The people around had already realized the tactfully and had left the space. Lu Chen, who had solved Karim and business manpower problems at the same time, simply listened to Vales's somewhat excited report on the spot, because except for the food problem that was only enough for a week, the loss of personnel in this battle was almost the same as in the past when fighting pirates, and it was almost negligible.

But Lu Chen, who still frowned, made Valas misunderstand ask whether to take people to hunt nearby to supplement the shortage of food reserves.

"Don't worry, your young master is not worried about food, but he has made an old problem again. You should know that since he took over the Red Thorn Flower, no matter how difficult it is, the mercenary group has never lost a single person." Knowing that Lu Chen was sad for the dead, Paine was very helpless for him who could never adapt to this. Of course, his words were not only for Vales and the others.

"I know, but after all, it's a thousand lives, and the other party's are not counted." He is already merciless to the enemy, but Lu Chen still finds it difficult to accept the appearance of death for innocent people and his own people, although he can force himself not to interfere like the night of the battle.

Then, after taking a breath, Lu Chen made a temporary arrangement: "Okay, first meet with my two legions, and then separate. You will take the people to find a place to settle down. I will take a legion and the "friends and neighbors" who care about us to visit their territory one by one, and raise some urgently needed materials from them. At that time, if there is anything that is difficult to make a decision, you can report to this guy, or you can just call him the second leader." Regardless of whether Parn wants or not, Lu Chen sets up his identity in Andres.

When most of the people who heard that a prince had become the second leader and knew Parn's identity were immediately stunned by a sense of happiness, because it was equivalent to that they would be the private ministers of the third prince. If Parn gained power in the future, they would also leapt from an unknown minor official to an important official in the kingdom.

However, a few of them who are as smart as Vales still have firmness towards Lu Chen in their eyes, especially Karim, who was just accepted. Although he was very timid, he almost knelt down again when Vales secretly told the person who was with Lu Chen that the third prince was the third prince, but he did not have the intention of turning around because he was praised by the prince before.

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On the 26th, the night shift the day before yesterday, maybe it was food poisoning, and my head hurt so much that I couldn’t concentrate my mind. It was only slightly better last night. I was broken for the whole day. I’m really sorry!

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