Chapter 409 Old Acquaintance

As we near Xishan, the afterglow turns the town in the middle of the lake into a golden color, and smoke is already rising from the chimneys on the roofs of many houses.

In an office on the west side of the Lord's Mansion, Ladi Setia finished her day's work. She put various documents and files into the cabinet, carefully locked the doors and windows, and walked outside the Lord's Mansion. Paul went Fulan Gang inspected and did not go to say goodbye to him.

Originally, she was just Paul's political and economic consultant, and her work was still very leisurely. But later, Paul promoted the "New Life Movement" and gave her the task of popularizing health knowledge. Since the director of the Education Bureau "Betty" left, Educational work also fell on her, and a series of changes made her even busier. There was nothing that could be done about it, after all, she was now the most knowledgeable person around Paul.

Before "Betty" left, she formulated a large and detailed education construction plan. The first stage was to build enough schools in various large towns in Alda, Bairding, and Emden to enable ordinary civilians to Children of families receive education at low tuition fees. The second stage is to focus on cities and towns in various places and radiate educational resources to the surrounding rural areas.

However, hundreds of thousands of silver coins may have to be invested in just the first phase, which aroused the dissatisfaction of many officials in the Government Affairs Council. In the view of these people, although civilian education must be developed, spending such a huge amount of money is really too wasteful.

Although under Paul's influence, these old vassals of the Gleiman family can be said to be the most enlightened people in the Northwest Gulf, they were used to living a hard life before. If four or five years ago, when Paul's father was still in power, the lord would have spent hundreds of thousands of silver coins just to teach the children of common people how to read, then someone would have been killed at the door of the lord's mansion and remonstrated with blood. After all, at that time, the lord's own income (including various taxes and economic output from the land), after deducting miscellaneous expenditures throughout the year, only had a pitiful surplus of a few thousand silver coins at the end of the year, and every disaster year there was a high probability of a surplus. Spending up years of accumulation.

With Paul's accession to the throne, the pirates who had been troubled for many years were wiped out, the sea route to the south was opened, various new industries with huge profits were established one after another, and the tax revenue of the earldom of Bailding was also integrated into the State Council. Finally, compared with other territories in the Northwest Gulf, Emden, which can be said to be prosperous, was placed under the control of Lake Town. Alda's financial revenue increased exponentially year by year.

But the lord's spending speed also increased exponentially. In addition to building schools, the lord also wanted to expand the administrative system, raise a full-time army, build roads, build water conservancy, build public toilets and bathhouses, shelter refugees, and also We need to pay high salaries to recruit those Jingyao guys who look down on others with their nostrils turned upward.

Everyone knows that this is a good thing in the long run, but spending money so lavishly is really unacceptable. This made them very uneasy. According to traditional views, it was the duty of a vassal to help their lord accumulate more wealth and leave it to the next generation. Even if you have to spend money, you should decorate your castle first. This is related to your dignity as a lord.

As a scholar, Ladi strongly agreed with the education plan left by Irene, but she was also very clear about the resistance of some conservative bureaucrats to this plan. Fortunately, these resistances were not worth mentioning with the support of Lord Graiman.

She walked out of the gate of the Lord's Mansion and walked south along the central street of the Lake Island District. She came to the bridge connecting the island district to the south bank. After crossing the bridge and walking for a while, she could reach Feilong Pavilion, a restaurant run by her family.

In recent years, the residents of Huxin Town who have saved some spare money have also begun to improve their material living standards. Therefore, the restaurant specializing in Jiaowan cuisine run by her mother Xie La has been very prosperous since its opening. Considering that Fulan to the west More and more people from Kok Wan are moving to Hong Kong for a long time, and they are currently planning to open a branch there.

It was dinner time at this time, which should be the busiest time for mother and Lisa, so it was better not to cause trouble for them. La Di did not go to the main entrance, but turned into the side alley and walked towards the backyard of Feilong Pavilion.

"Sure enough, the comfortable life has been too long? I didn't realize it until now..."

When she reached the corner of the alley, she suddenly said something self-deprecating, and then turned around suddenly.

A cloaked pedestrian behind him also stopped, and now they were the only two in this alley.

"It seems that the vigilance you have developed over many years as an adventurer has not been completely worn away."

The person following her spoke and turned out to be a woman too.

"Who are you?"

Ladi asked coldly without any pretense. If the other party can say "adventurer", it is obvious that he knows his identity. It is not an honest visit, and there is probably something shady about it.

She secretly prepared to call the police.

That's right, just call the police. On the one hand, the policemen under Director of the Department of Public Safety Ruth Hayden are very trustworthy. The public security in Huxin Town is very good under their maintenance. There are policemen on the street that I just walked through. While patrolling, on the other hand, she didn't want to personally reveal her hidden identity.

"I'm not an enemy. Do you remember what I look like?"

The person pulled off his hood and revealed his face.

Someone you know? Ladi looked at the other person's face carefully and searched her memory.

The other party smiled slightly, showing a hint of charm, "Let me remind you, the party in 1988 in the Holy Calendar...do you remember it? The Blue Witch."

La Di was horrified that the visitor actually knew her nickname in the circle of spell casters.

"Are you...Assitini?"

She searched for the name in her mind.

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In the backyard of Setia's house, Ladi and Sevilla sat across a stone table from each other, with only a ray of afterglow in the sky.

"You did a great thing in Niceburg."

Ladi had long known at Cecil's routine briefing that a witch named Asitini had broken into the prison in Horn Bay. She was also amazed at her courage, but because of her vague memory at the time, she did not connect this matter with her old acquaintance many years ago.

"Haha, in fact, I also want to hide away and live a leisurely life by myself." Sevilla narrowed her eyes.

The accusation in the words hurt Ladi's heart, "Humph! I don't think I have any obligations to other spellcasters."

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"That's right. You are used to being alone. Isn't it normal that you can't feel the feelings of your kind? Although you are one of the most powerful spellcasters in Horn Bay..."

Ladi frowned and said in a bad tone: "Enough! Did you come to Northwest Bay just to laugh at me?"

"Of course not!"

Sevilla stood up with a smile. The two were not familiar with each other. The reason why she was so presumptuous in front of Ladi was that she had already grasped her temper. When she was still in Horn Bay, in order to find an ally against the church, she tried to find the mysterious and powerful Blue Witch who had only met a few times and collected all kinds of information about her, but she didn't find the witch herself, but found her companions when she was an adventurer before. From her companions, she further deepened her understanding, but her companions kept their mouths shut about the whereabouts of the witch and refused to disclose any information.

Yes, that's it, first arouse her guilt.

With this in mind, Sylvia slowly walked to Ladi, leaned over to her ear, and whispered:

"I heard from the locals that the lord here trusts you very much?"

Her voice was slow and pleasant, but with a hint of indescribable meaning.

"The power of the church here is not strong, are you interested..."

Sylvia's eyes sparkled with brilliance.

"Let this lord submit to the power of magic?"