Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Linde, who had just obtained the power of the lord, was not in a hurry to deal with the pile of paperwork, but first found Lowry, the old soldier who had followed him all the way.

Since Lowry is a second-level professional, the knights treat him relatively well. After arriving at the territory, this guy started to slack off, joking around with Rena's knights, and has even become a celebrity among the knights.

When Lind asked someone to bring Lowry over, the guy was not very happy and said he wanted to go with the knights.

But I finally got here.

"Is it so interesting to hang out with those noble knights?"

Lind's face was full of helplessness. It was just that the time was short and Lind could still get the people over. Maybe if he waited another two days, these knights would treat Lowry as one of their own.

"At least I won't have to be whipped."

Laurie found a stool and sat down lazily. The two of them had become familiar with each other on the way to escape and were old friends, neither of them put on airs.

So Linde stopped chatting and said directly: "First, let everyone in the territory stop their work and let your border troops take over the management. Register everyone's name, age and occupation."

"If conditions permit, we will also compile a household register."

Linde had done a simple registration with Laurie when he was fleeing with his subjects, but Laurie complained, "Hey, Lord, a simple registration is fine, but those old soldiers are not very good at compiling household registers. Household registration is not like before, where you just register a name casually. Moreover, most of those border troops are illiterate, and only a few of them can read and write."

Linde looked at Lila beside him and replied, "This maid will bring the maids to assist you. There is no need to be as detailed as other nobles. Just figure out how many households there are in the territory."

Reina didn't need so many maids, so Linde simply pulled the entire maid team over to Lila to manage, because most of these noble maids could read a little and were natural service personnel. Who wouldn't it be better to let them serve the people?

Then Lind continued to command as if he had already made plans: "Also, have everyone except Miss Lars' knights gather at the river bank tomorrow morning. I have something to announce."

After saying that, Linde prepared to get up and leave.

"Then what are you going to do?"

Laurie raised the question curiously as he looked at Linde who was about to leave the lord's tent.

"I want to see what resources Grand Duke Lars has given to his precious granddaughter."

Linde picked up a list of supplies on the desk and muttered, "And I need to figure out how to set up a tent."

After everything was arranged, Lind looked at the list in his hand and sighed.

"The rich are feasting on wine and meat."

Because Lena had run away with the knights, the transfer of power was very smooth. After all, Linde was the nominal lord, and no one would refuse a day's rest.

It’s just that the registration is a bit troublesome. Except for Reina’s knights, most of the people in the territory are ordinary people. There are not many literate people. Because they have to compile households and register them, the people brought by Lind also need to be registered again.

Fortunately, the maids were quite responsible. After all, for these maids who sold themselves to the nobles' homes, being busy was not the most scary thing; having no work to do was the scariest thing.

Registering the household registration of civilian refugees was not a difficult thing for these maids to accept, because it was a serious job after all. Any gossip in the maid circle was much more perverted than this. It was not uncommon for nobles to throw maids to refugees after getting tired of them.

There were still several serfs who didn't have names, so Laurie had to scratch his head and pick some funny names. After getting the names, the serfs kissed Laurie's boots to express their gratitude. Laurie also accepted the kisses of these serfs calmly in the face of Lila's contemptuous eyes.

Linde was even busier than the other two. Due to Lena's chaotic management, the numerous supplies had long been in disarray. He had to go on board the ship in person to see which ship was carrying which supplies.

Moreover, setting up a tent was more tiring than Lind had imagined. Even because of the different terrains, the standards for setting up tents were slightly different.

With the guidance and help of the supervisor, Linde successfully set up a large tent by himself.

After doing all this, it was almost evening. Reina finally came back with her knights, carrying two pheasants in her hands.

"How is the work going, Lord?"

Reina took off her helmet after entering the big tent, and the crystal sweat dissipated along with her beautiful golden hair. Although she was sweating profusely, Reina was obviously very excited. It had been a long time since she had been able to ride freely with her knights like this. After coming back, she even had the mood to tease Linde.

"Awful."

Linde, who was still writing something by the oil lamp, put down his quill and said to Lena with a stern face: "What you did before was a complete mess. Everyone ate different food and did different work every day. You ordered the people who were setting up tents today to unload goods the next day, and then to build fences the next afternoon. And the standards you required for clearing land and setting up tents were different every day, and even the goods to be unloaded were different every day."

"There are even three overseers and two knights managing one serf at the same time. You might as well do nothing."

Perhaps because he was really angry about Reina's previous messy management, Linde changed his previous servile attitude and started to toughen up.

Facing Lind's criticism, Reina turned her face away and whistled in embarrassment.

In fact, Lena also knew that she had done a terrible job managing the territory in the past few days. Hundreds of people had not yet been settled. Often, the orders she issued in the morning were forgotten in the afternoon, and then she would change them immediately the next day when the knight reminded her that it was inappropriate to do so.

Turning her face away was Reina's last act of stubbornness.

Seeing Rena turning away, Linde calmed down. After all, the person in front of him was his best friend and financial sponsor, and scolding him would not make the territory better.

But the most important thing is that Linde saw that Lena actually listened to his complaints and even turned her head away, which showed that she still had some shame and knew that she did not do well.

Reina is just like in the game, clear-headed yet a little silly. As long as it does not involve her former fiancé, the fourth prince Clan Augustine, Reina still knows the priorities of things.

But Linde did not expect that Lena, the eldest daughter of the Lars family, would have no idea how to govern the territory.

"Ms. Lars, the treaty with Grand Duke Lars states that we should jointly manage the territory, so there is something I need to tell you about. I need to transfer some of the supplies at the dock first. Is that okay?"

Afterwards, Lind handed the list of supplies he had prepared to Reina, who only glanced at it symbolically and said guiltily, "No problem, Lord, you can use whatever supplies you want."

After returning the list to Lind, Reina shook the pheasant in her hand and said, "Lord, calm down and eat my chicken."