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While Albrecht snores at his desk and clears out the paperwork, Karpen enters the office.
“You couldn't wait for me to get rid of that bird because I had all the money? ”
Albrecht raises his head and says with a playful smile.
“Come on. This is the Node now. The clans have decided to send people over, so you're gonna have to take over. ”
“People?”
“Don't you need people to take care of the palace? I was thinking of hiring people from their clans to work in and out of their homes. ”
Albrecht speaks, and Karpen shakes his head.
“The most powerful clans here are like the nobles of the North. If you call the nobles to do the hurdlework, you will do it because you are afraid of them right now, but it is dishonorable for them. ”
Albrecht couldn't wait. He thought of the tribes as just the people below the castle or the villagers, but this was a different way of life.
Even though it was not a Feudal Lord like the North Continent, the people who lived in the clans were nobles in their own cities.
‘That's why you sent women instead. ’
Instead of doing dishonorable things, they sent their daughters or nieces as concubines. Due to the nature of this place, chieftains thought it was better.
“You have to pay people or buy slaves to get them to do the hurdlework. ”
Although it is not the modern sentiment of the Earth, the nobles of the North Continent did not deliberately enslave them. I considered it dishonorable to let slaves into the castle or to do things with their hands.
In this era, slaves were mostly sold to high risk of death, such as slaves and mining. Most of them died within a year, with only three years of respect for Benza.
Albrecht thought about it and said,
“Then we'll send them back when they get here. I'll hire someone to do the chores. ”
At that, Carpen smiled and said.
“You don't have to send it back. I know how to run an exclusive business. I don't know about anything else, but people on the Eastern continent can't figure it out. ”
Albrecht was slightly tilted. When it comes to doing proprietary business, they're all tied up in tribes, so why don't they just steal it? Even if they weren't, they couldn't do it, so they could do things in the best interest of their tribe.
Albrecht doesn't like it, but he's decided to leave the job to the end.
However, Carpen glanced at Albrecht's face and said something gracefully.
“Chuckle. You can tell it's not hot. Don't worry.The tribes are usually involved in silver relationships. If you use it well, you can do whatever you want. ”
Albrecht was still ugly, but more likely. It's just, I've felt it before, but I think you know too much about investigating.
“No, you're from the Banhenheim family, the investigator. How do you know all that? ”
Carfen said with a distinctive, shitty laugh.
“Chuckle. No, come on. Guardian of the Holy Land. What's so funny about investigating? You have to have fun with this. ”
Albrecht wonders if this geek can do anything right.
However, the next day, documents began to pile up on the office desk, but it was not a fake list.
By classifying all the sizes, types, conditions, and silk goods ( ), heavy goods, and yawns, documents were constantly uploaded up to the number of each.
Albrecht decided to review it later, but first, with a few documents, he stepped out to see if he was actually right.
It is the largest trading city in the world, so I had to walk to the warehouse a little bit.
Once inside the huge warehouse, there were young men with turbans and skin scraping from the seeds walking around each area, checking for supplies and writing them down on paper.
Three knights were watching them, and Albrecht gave an example when he came in.
First, I asked the people I was working with based on the documents I brought, and I checked them one by one. I got it all right. But I couldn't find Carpen anywhere.
“Where's Carpen? ”
The knights didn't know it.
“I just said I was leaving, but I didn't say where I was going. Wanted and found right now? ”
“No, thank you. ”
Albrecht hurriedly goes to his room, looking for the hood. A tunic made of silk, a shabby hood, and a strange dress with a sword on its waist.
I couldn't get out on the horse before the last crowd hit again. I'm about to leave the palace, but some knights are following me.
“Don't follow me. I'm going out alone.”
“Ha, but, King...... No, Master. He's dangerous by himself.”
Albrecht's eyes widen as he tries to say the knight is king. Then he fixed the knights because they were masters.
I couldn't keep up with the knights because they focused on me all the time. Albrecht once again said:
“Are any of you stronger than me? Who's protecting who? Don't follow me.”
“Ha, but......”
Albrecht walks out of the palace, ignoring the disgraced knights.
For the knights, running toward their master's back at the forefront made me feel unspeakably moved.
Moreover, the knights were asked to be saved by Albrecht during the battle, and they had never properly followed Albrecht's lead.
And I saw Albrecht fight braver than anyone, and I even saved him, so if Albrecht really ordered me to, I'd jump into the pits of hell.
However, failing to protect Albrecht was an unacceptable order.
But it can't be. As far as I can tell, they're just looking out at Albrecht's back, a little further away from the palace.
Albrecht came out of nowhere and went to the cathedral. I tried to go, but I didn't know the way. I asked people for directions.
They were just teaching me the way if you didn't think Albrecht was the Guardian of the Shrine at all.
Let's go according to the teachings of the people. It was a little better than the church I had seen in the North Continent, but it was fifty hundred years old.
Of course, there were several churches or mosques in the city, so I looked around a few more churches, but I didn't see Carpen.
And the time went on forever. There were a few more churches left, but it could be nighttime to look around them all.
Albrecht thinks for a moment and heads to the shrine. Upon arriving at the shrine, the people of the Sun sat down and worshipped, and the people of the cross were kneeling and praying.
It seemed like flowers and simple things were sacrificed everywhere, but no one touched the sacrifices in this wicked world.
Unless modern science develops and becomes a solid atheist, there has always been heaven and hell in the minds of people of this world, even though they do not hardly believe in religion. It must have been awkward to touch the sacrifices.
Albrecht looks around and sees Carpen looking at the shore. Albrecht quietly approaches and together looks at the shore.
“Are you not working? ”
Karpen glances at Albrecht and smiles.
“You couldn't resist that bird? ”
“You're supposed to be in charge, so you can just leave it to the people downstairs and go outside? ”
Carfen smiles and says, looking at the horizon. The sun was about to sink into the sea.
“Keep the Oval Office clear. Diego, Amigo, he won't work like that. ”
Even though the style of working could be different, suddenly 180 degrees was too different, so Albrecht couldn't adapt to it.
Carpen said with his eyes still on the horizon. The sun was already trying to sleep on a blanket of red light.
Carpen suddenly bites.
“Why did you release hundreds of thousands of prisoners? ”
Albrecht also said as he watched the sun move toward the horizon.
“Well, it's nothing. I just wanted to kill less people. ”
“What's the point of killing less people? ”
“What do I need? That's just it. Or it's just luxury. Luxurious people are luxurious. ”
Albrecht suddenly remembers Rutger, but quickly throws him out of his head. However, the scar around his eyes was trampled on.
Carpen said as he watched the year he tried to go to sleep into the sea comfortably.
“Luxury...... I hope you will use a lot of luxury. ”
And then, Carpen was silent for a long time. Albrecht didn't say anything more.
Then, when the world began to have a pale blue light, Carpen opened his mouth and said,
“After knowing that Michael's dead, I'm strangely not so cool. I always wondered what it would be like to fight Michael instead of fighting him. It never leaves your mind. ”
Carpen said, looking at the year when he began to hide almost his tracks with a poor look.
“But if I'd fought Michael, I'd be dead. Then why did I kill my brother and buy it? I've asked God thousands and thousands of times, but he's not answering. It's the same here in the sanctuary. Perhaps God will not forgive me until I am dead. ”
Albrecht laughs as he glances at the setting sun on the horizon, suddenly seeing if a prank has moved from Carpen.
“Is that what you asked? You didn't tell me that. ”
Karfen frowns slightly, thinking for a moment about what Albrecht said, and then gives up his empty laugh. Then he laughed loudly.
“Ha, haha, hahaha! ”
Albrecht just smiled. As Carfen starts laughing loudly, the believers who were praying and worshiping around him look at them puzzled. Carfen laughs for a long time, regardless.
Carfen did a good job, as he assured me. Albrecht was in the office briefly yesterday, but the paperwork kept pouring out of the warehouse.
During the night, Karfen organized the whole thing into a few pages and left the paperwork in Albrecht's room.
Albrecht reads quietly that Carfen's way of doing things was not different, but a kind of merit package.
For example, if a proprietary silk came in 1,000 pills a month, it would be unwrapped in 100 pills to the gyrex, but it would be paid more to the hard-working tribe.
Albrecht nods and signs the document. I haven't been able to seal it yet.
Since then, Albrecht has been relinquished to Carpen on proprietary matters. But from the outside, he also seemed to be relinquished to the people sent by the tribes.
I've been walking around outside all morning and all night doing what I do. When I heard from the knights, they were mostly helping people. And every once in a while, we stop by the docks and see how much stuff's coming in.
Albrecht insisted that he would stay quiet because he was such a geek, but he decided to leave it to the end.
He later suggested installing trade stations in seven cities, with the exception of Zairexl. Of course, it was because silk and ceramics coming up from the south weren't the only ones coming from Zairex.
A week after the restoration of the shrine, the merchants began to bring great gifts in order to obtain a certificate of trade. When Karpen asked how to deal with this, he gave an unexpected answer.
“Leave this to the amigo. You know, dealing with people is annoying. Just make a list of the merchants who will issue the permits. ”
Albrecht opens his eyes and looks at him. He was a strange man. She was good at her job, but hated it.
One day, I heard that the lazy and talented man was real, and Albrecht wondered if he was right when he saw him.
Karpen smiles at Albrecht and walks out of the palace today.
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