Chapter 120 Sophia Is Pregnant

As the territory grew larger and the population grew, things became more complicated.

Richard was gradually too busy to handle government affairs, and he had handed over the affairs of the Baron's Mansion to the butler Bernard Luca.

In addition to taking care of Richard and his wife, Wendy and other members of the Harland family, Bernard was also responsible for managing the orc slaves.

The Harland family now has three butlers. The chief butler Gibson Harland follows William, who is mainly responsible for the Harland family's socializing and managing the mansion of Black River Castle.

The second butler Bernard Luca follows Richard and is responsible for managing the orc slaves and the William Castle Lord's Mansion.

There is also a housekeeper Liliana beside Lady Ola, who is responsible for taking care of William and Lady Ola's underage children, and is involved in some of the Harland family's business activities.

The industry run by Lady Ola is now mainly managed by Liliana and the court lady Ms. Kelly.

Lady Ola no longer directly manages the industry. Her main task is to be a good baroness and communicate with the noble ladies of Black River City.

Part of the intelligence network of the Harland family is also in the hands of Mrs. Ola.

Richard wants to get out of the complicated administrative work, and now he urgently needs to find a few assistants in government affairs. He already has several candidates in mind.

Both cousins ​​Adrian and Tang En are candidates.

Richard has arranged some work for them this spring. Both cousins ​​have done a decent job, not too outstanding nor too incompetent.

Adrian and Tang En have received a complete education, which is more than 99% of the people in the territory.

If you want to be Richard's assistant, you must at least not be illiterate.

There are more than 25,000 people in the territory, but only a few dozen can read.

The literacy rate on the Dawn Continent is much lower than that of ancient China.

Under the conscious blockade of the nobles, there is no one like Confucius in this world.

Only one out of hundreds of people in the Kingdom of Grant can read.

The threshold for studying is very high. Even if you send them to a church school, you have to pay several gold coins for tuition every year. Ordinary serfs and citizens cannot afford the cost of studying.

Only high-income earners, such as senior craftsmen, butchers, mercenaries, hunters, soldiers, and bounty hunters, can afford to let their children study for one or two years and have the opportunity to change their fate.

In this world, only nobles have the right to be bureaucrats. Even if ordinary people have studied, they are of no use in a closed society.

Nobles will only use their own people as bureaucrats and assistants. Even the caravans controlled by nobles will give priority to their people and secondly use slaves.

Even if ordinary people are talented, they can only be small businessmen at most and make ends meet.

On the contrary, the Seven Gods Church will train some poor people.

Church schools will absorb smart students, reduce their tuition fees, reduce the burden of going to school, train them to join the church, grow into professionals, and slowly enter the church management.

Because there are gods in this world, although the Seven Gods are still asleep, the top leaders of the church are basically people with faith. These people are generally more moral than the aristocracy, and church priests are relatively more civilized than feudal nobles.

Because investing in children's education is not cost-effective, even high-income earners rarely let their children read and write to become cultured people.

Richard basically entrusted important tasks to all the scholars in the territory, and all of them got rid of physical labor.

Even if they were asked to write and calculate, register reports, and count materials, Richard felt that it was more efficient and useful than physical labor.

Richard planned to let Adrian manage the sanitation of the territory. In addition to being the director of the hospital, he also had to prevent plague and study diseases.

Through the sheep-headed man, Richard discovered several herbs for treating diseases, such as rush for diuresis, goldenrod for treating malaria, and loquat leaves for treating coughs. After research, these herbs also work on humans.

Because there are magic factors in this world, Richard doesn't know whether the Chinese medicine theory in his previous life is useful.

But through plants and minerals, diseases can indeed be treated.

Richard arranged for Adrian to summarize the experience of using herbs to treat diseases, hoping to develop a widely applicable medical theory.

If the medical theory is developed, it will benefit the vast majority of ordinary people.

On the Dawn Continent, ordinary people can only fend for themselves if they get sick, unless you are a devout believer and know the pastor of the church, then you may be able to obtain magical power for treatment.

Adrian is responsible for managing the medical and health care of the territory, while Tang En is responsible for the planting and farming of the territory.

In the future, Richard will not need to personally cultivate farmland and grow food in the territory, just let Tang En keep an eye on it.

Richard did not give the brown sugar tree plantation, which Richard attached the most importance to in agriculture, to Tang En, but appointed an old man with rich planting experience, Ihakir.

Ihakir used to be a fruit farmer of Baron Diram, responsible for managing the orchard for Baron Diram.

After the fall of Malte Castle, Ihakir became a slave, and was later rescued by Richard and came to Harland Territory.

When planting brown sugar trees, Richard found some people with experience in caring for trees to manage them. Ihakir has done a good job in the past two years. This time, Richard took the opportunity to make him a free man and promoted him to become a manager in the brown sugar plantation.

It was not easy to find someone to manage government affairs and laws for Richard. Those who could handle government affairs and were proficient in legal provisions were basically nobles.

It was still difficult for a baron to get a noble to leave his family and assist him.

Only when you reach the level of earl can you really recruit some idle talents.

Richard is going to discuss with Sophia and write a letter to his two brothers-in-law to see if he can let them return to the northern border to share some of the government affairs and legal work for him.

In a territory of more than 20,000 people, he has to find himself to judge all trivial matters. How can he do without a judge?

Richard had just finished a busy day and suddenly found that Sophia's face was a little pale. He was about to ask a question, but suddenly Sophia bent down and made a retching sound.

"How is it, are you pregnant?"

Richard had experience in his previous life. Seeing this scene, he was happy and asked Sophia immediately.

"I don't know either. I always feel a little tired and can't lift my spirits during this period. Whether I am pregnant or not, I have to wait for a while and see the changes in my belly to confirm it."

There is neither Chinese medicine nor Western medicine in the Dawn Continent, and magicians can't create a magic to detect whether a pregnant woman is pregnant?

In this world, women rely on experience to check whether they are pregnant or not. Sofia's mother died at the hands of orcs, and without her mother's guidance, she didn't know anything about this matter.

In the end, it was only when her belly gradually showed that she knew she was pregnant.