Arcane Lord

Soon, the time came to the next day, and the debriefing meeting of the heads of various departments in the territory, which had been temporarily canceled yesterday, was restarted today.

And compared to Xia Duo's sudden arrival and impromptu convening yesterday, today everyone received the news in advance, arranged the work at hand early, and waited in the conference room.

When Xia Duo arrived, he was already the last one to arrive. From the moment he entered, he saw everyone in the conference room bowing and saluting.

Xia Duo waved his hand and motioned for everyone to sit down without courtesy, and then he walked directly to his own more exquisite high-backed chair at the end of the conference room.

After sitting down, he glanced around the people in the conference room. When he saw the two scribes in the corner holding pens and papers with their heads lowered and listening, Xia Duo nodded with satisfaction.

Of course, this is not the only place he is satisfied with. A long conference table has been placed in the middle of the conference room, and the heads of the various departments in the territory are sitting on the left and right sides of the conference table.

Only Leighton sat on Chateau's left hand as the consul.

Of course, the two clerks were not qualified to sit at the conference table. They could only huddle in the corner. They only had a seat because of the special nature of their work.

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"Archon Leiden, let's begin!"

"Yes, Lord Lord!"

Leiden stood up and bowed slightly towards Xia Duo, then turned to face the conference table and announced loudly: "The sixth meeting of the regular meeting of the heads of various departments in Daxia starts now!"

After speaking, Leiden sat down and his voice became lower, but still very powerful. "Everyone, the content of today's meeting is mainly to report to the lord the status of the territory in the past month. Of course, it also needs to review the work of this year. Let’s make a summary. As usual, let’s start with the development department!”

Although Jeff, the director of the development department, is far inferior to his deputy Clark, who was born as a slave, in managing specific development affairs, he is much better than his deputy in terms of reporting and summarizing work.

When Leiden called him first, he didn't panic at all. He stood up immediately, first saluted the lord, then greeted his colleagues, and finally began to report:

"Lord, in the past month, due to the arrival of new citizens, the Development Department has successively added more than 500 personnel and 32 new working groups.

“At present, the Development Department has a total of 204 large and small working groups with a total number of more than 3,100 people. According to the actual development needs, they are divided into five parts: logging, cutting, transportation, burning, and leveling, all of which are rotated.

"In the last month, that is, November, the development department has developed a total of nearly 50 meters, and the developed area has increased by nearly half compared to October!"

Then, Jeff began to introduce the specific work process and work plan of the Development Department, as well as the number of fields currently cleared and leveled that can be used for sowing.

While listening, Xia Duo compared the meeting minutes and copies of territorial documents he saw yesterday. He found that the numbers Jeff mentioned were slightly improved compared to the numbers on paper. It seemed that they had really put in the effort. Even in recent years, The daily progress is included in it.

After Jeff, there is Jacco from the Resettlement Department.

The work of the Resettlement Department does not require much physical effort, but it is quite tedious. It is mainly responsible for identity registration, housing resettlement, department allocation, information updating, file preservation, etc. related to the residents.

Similar to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but not as comprehensive.

There is no difference between the information reported by Jia Ke and what Xia Duo learned yesterday. It can be seen that the relevant work should have been completed before yesterday. As long as there are no major changes in the territory, the Resettlement Department will be relatively free.

Of course, Xia Duo didn't think it would be a waste of time to listen to the information he already knew again. After all, what he knew before was from cold documents.

But now a real person is reporting to him, and he can hear a lot just from the tone of his voice. He can also see the subtle attitudes of the various supervisors in the territory towards their work.

These are not comparable to cold, impersonal paperwork.

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After Jaco, the Logistics Department also began to report. Cade, the head of the Logistics Department, was originally just a farmer. Later, because of his outstanding performance, he was assigned to the first wooden house in the territory.

Afterwards, even if "Jane is in the Emperor's Heart", when Xia Duo appointed the person in charge of the wooden house processing workshop in the territory, he easily thought of Cade.

Later, the territory was restructured and a logistics department was established, and Cade was successfully promoted again.

In fact, whether it was Cade, Jako, or Shado, they were all appointed very casually. This was mainly because the foundation of the people in the territory itself was not very good.

They were either landless peasants, bankrupt small traders, or so-called barbarians or slaves. Whatever professionals they were looking for could not be found at all.

However, Xia Duo believes that experience comes from practice. Put Jiaco and Cade in that position first, and the environment will allow them to grow up. After all, it is not a very professional job.

Of course, Xia Duo's appointment of these people was not completely random. They must have outstanding qualities to catch Xia Duo's eyes. This itself was already a screening process, but it was relatively sloppy.

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Cade's report was as simple as ever, but well-organized. However, even though it was the sixth meeting, Cade was still a little nervous when he spoke, and his voice had a slight tremor.

In this regard, Xia Duo couldn't say anything to him. After all, Cade could be said to be the one with the worst foundation among everyone here. It was already very gratifying to be able to grow to this level.

Giving Cade an encouraging look and motioning for him to sit down, Shado interrupted the meeting for the first time: "Elder Atwood, just talk about the agricultural situation in the territory. There is no need to do anything else in the meeting room in the future. explain!"

After all, the new nature concept is somewhat sensitive. There is a big difference between doing it alone and bringing it to the territory meeting in a grand manner.

Hearing what Xia Duo said, Atwood quickly understood and immediately stood up and replied: "Lord, at present, the Daxia Territory has a total of about 1,200 acres of farmland that can be cultivated.

“Limited by factors such as the number of seeds, difficulty of cultivation, and number of planters, only 400 acres have been sown in autumn, and other land has only been planted with scattered vegetables.

"In addition, seedling raising has become a necessary process in Daxia Ling agriculture and has been implemented in the actual agricultural production process."

After Xia Duo listened, he nodded slightly. He actually knew these things yesterday, but now that he heard them again, he still had an extra layer of feelings.

Whether it was the tradition of "food is the first necessity of the people" brought from his hometown, or the "self-sufficiency" requirement put forward by Severington Council to become a regular worker, they all drove him to value agriculture and its practitioners.

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