66 Improvement (3)

"Yulin, step up to the center and accept your task." Mu Qing Lang followed the procedure of Ancient Chinese Monarchy System to issue task for his people one by one.

"Subject Yulin presents." Yulin half-kneeled before Mu Qing Lang awaiting for her task.

"You will be assigned to handle the secretariat task related to the Military Department based on your experience in handling these matters. Your assignment includes the payroll to the soldiers. Every squadron will receive a payment of one hundred and five Small Xian Pills every ten days."

"Ten pills a soldier, with the Squadron Leader taking fifteen. As for the Platoon Leaders, they will be issued with fifty Small Xian Pills once every ten days. Merits from battles will be calculated as an addition to their bonuses. As for Subject Yulin, you will be paid with twenty pills every ten days."

Mu Qing Lang's budget assigned to the Military Department can be said to be generous to the soldiers. They pay itself doubled compared to what was given to the farmers, workers, and new settlers.

And of course, Mu Qing Lang's generosity is given to them based on their employment risk. With such a large budget issued to the Military Department, not only the recruited soldiers will put more effort into their job, but it would also help in increasing the number of recruits due to the generous pay.

"Also, increase the number of recruits to three hundred. They will be assigned into squadrons once there is a requirement of additional platoons. Otherwise, use them to replace the platoon members after the war." Mu Qing Lang ends his instructions here.

"Subject Yulin will try her best to accomplish this task!" Yulin replied and returned to her previous spot.

"Fengbu, step up to the center and accept your task." Mu Qing Lang summoned for Fengbu next.

"Subject Fengbu present," Fengbu replied, repeating the same action as Yulin earlier.

"I believe the experience of thirty days handling the Fengbu Exchange Store is more than enough for you to accept this task. From today onwards, the Fengbu Exchange Store will only handle commercial internally. For external trade, the Eastern Changzhou Trading Department will be the one handling them."

"As the most experienced follower of mine, I'll have to ask you to become the director of the Trading Department, handling both Internal and External Trade. As for manpower, you may employ a maximum number of ten workers in each sector."

"Basic workers will be paid with five pills every ten days, and Fengbu, as the director handling two sections, will be paid with sixty pills every ten days." Mu Qing Lang's next sentence gave everyone presents a surprise included Fengbu himself.

"Sixty pills every ten days far exceeds your subject's expectation. Master, please revise your decision to reduce the misunderstanding between everyone here with Fengbu." as attractive as his salary, Fengbu dare not to have his pay surpass his other colleagues so much.

After all, appreciation, rewards, and favoritism is a life-threatening danger if one doesn't possess sufficient strength to back themselves. With only Luoli as a member of his household, he possesses no backing at all!

"I suppose that I have to explain the reason for Fengbu's salary. Except him alone, is there anyone present skillful in the topic of trading, merchants, market, and products?" Mu Qing Lang's question is straightforward. Is there anyone had the knowledge better than Fengbu in this matter?

"Answering to master's question, none of us dare to say we're skillful in front of master and Director Fengbu." everyone present kneeled before Mu Qing Lang to appease his anger if he does had some hidden inside.

"Fengbu."

"Everyone."

"The salary issued to everyone has been revised again and again by myself attentively before I bring it up in this meeting. If everyone thinks that Fengbu getting paid with sixty pills every ten days is too much, why did nobody question Yulin's pay of twenty pills?"

Mu Qing Lang's tone went down an octave to reveal a hint of his unhappiness.

"Subjects doesn't dare!" everyone knows that where they are now were all given by Mu Qing Lang. Without him standing with them, helping and taking one person after another, perhaps they're not even that well organized as now.

"Your matter is finished. Make sure that I see an improvement in both internal and external trades with the help of ten subordinates in each section." Mu Qing Lang had Fengbu returned to his spot before summoning the next person.

"Queen Spider, Wolf King, Mother Sparrow, come forward for your assignments."

"My lord." the three tribe's top leadership came forward.

"Queen Spider, I believe that your tribesmen's carapaces can be molted out frequently. Can you help the Eastern Changzhou to increase our Mineral Metal production and slowly proceeds to metal strengthened structures?" Mu Qing Lang did not hides the fact he's not all satisfied with their current bamboo buildings.

"My lord, the Yulan Three Spiders Tribe will do their best to provide as much material as we could. But in exchange, the spiders will need a large amount of food to accomplish the task." the Queen Spider reported faithfully.

"Food will not be a problem. Once the next batch of Prairie Golden Potato is harvested, the Yulan Three Spiders Tribe will be the first to receive their support." Mu Qing Lang promised the Queen Spider and continued with the two remaining subjects.

"Ashen Wolf King, I heard from the goblins that some of the Ashen Wolves evolved to a different breed." when it comes to the Ashen Wolf Tribe, Mu Qing Lang's mood become much more cheerful.

"Yes, my lord. Our numbers now expand to 400 wolves. Three evolved into Prairie Black Wolf, making their number a total of four, and fifty of them evolved into Ashen Battlewolf." the Ashen Wolf King replied.

"Good." this was his first praise so far in the meeting.

"Summon one of them here." Mu Qing Lang is eager to take a look on the rumored Ashen Battlewolf, where even Guan Yi says that it was far taller than him if the Ashen Battlewolf stands.

"Yes, my lord. AOU!" the howl brings in an Ash-Grey Ashen Wolf about 4meters from head to tail and can reach 3.7meters in height if stands on two legs. From its weight alone, Mu Qing Lang estimates it won't be anything lesser than 300kg.

"Master." the sound the Ashen Battlewolf made is harsh but understandable.

"Did you say there are fifty of them inside the nest?" Mu Qing Lang asked.

"Yes, my lord," the Ashen Wolf King replied.

"Master, please permit Guan Yi to add a remark." Guan Yi took a step to his side to make himself clearer to Mu Qing Lang before he kneeled and request for an audience.

"Permitted." Mu Qing Lang waved his hand and allowed him to talk.

"Clap, Clap, Clap!" Guan Yi's three clappings summoned Dou Yi into the Meeting Hall. But today, he looks different from how he used to be.

"Dou Yi, go." Guan Yi pointed at the Ashen Battlewolf.

"Go!" Dou Yi went to the side of the proud Ashen Battlewolf and took the opportunity to ride it. Unexpected to many, the Battlewolf actually allowed Dou Yi to ride on its back and became much stronger than before.

This sight of a gigantic wolf with a Hobgoblin Rider behind made Mu Qing Lang immediately thought about calvary.

"Battlewolf-Mounted Hobgoblins? What kind of expectations should I have towards them?" Mu Qing Lang cannot control his expression and shows everyone presents a smirk.

"My Lord..." the Ashen Wolf King stares at his master and evaluates the meaning hidden behind his smile.

"Very good. How soon do you think we can have a hundred Ashen Battle wolves?" Mu Qing Lang know it was improper for him to ask, but looking at the pressure given by the Battlewolf-Mounted Hobgoblin before him, how can Mu Qing Lang afford to wait for nature to take the course?

"Half of the Ashen Wolves are pregnant and expected to give birth at ten to fifteen days later. This Wolf King will make sure that the time we had a hundred battle wolves won't be long." the Ashen Wolf King replied.

"I'll be waiting for the day a hundred Ashen Battle Wolves stands alongside with a hundred Hobgoblins. Qing Yi, make sure that the Prairie Goblin Tribe cooperate with the Ashen Wolf Tribe to establish this calvary-platoon."

"As for Guan Yi, I'll rely on you to train them. This platoon will be named as Prairie's First Calvary Platoon. The Prairie Black Wolves will help you to make sure everyone ready for deployment at any time." Mu Qing Lang finished his instruction to Ashen Wolf Tribe, and finally, it was the Blue Lightning Sparrow Tribe's turn.

"Mother Sparrow. I heard that the number of Matured Lightning Sparrow had grown to five. How are they doing lately?" among the eight tribes, the Blue Lightning Sparrows can be said to be the second smallest population after the Lesser Mystic Behemoth.

"Reporting to my lord, the nest is indeed grown five Matured Lightning Sparrows. At this moment, they're training with five squadrons under Platoon Leader Ka-Ba's lead learning how to provide ranged scouting. As for the younger on, there's twenty-five of them still maturing inside the nest." the Mother Sparrow replied.

Without a clue about it, the Mother Sparrow already laid her the fifth batch of her eggs. It seems it won't take them too long to expand in numbers since there are five matured sparrows at this moment.

"Great. There will be more to do in the future, especially we're planning to complete the four platoons and three backup platoons. We will need at least seventy Mature Lightning Sparrows to fit every squadron with one." Mu Qing Lang proposed before he allowed the Mother Sparrow to retreat to her spot.

"Thank you, my Lord. It won't take too long to accomplish the request." the Mother Sparrow added before she retreated voluntarily.

It is finally the turn for the two last tribes.

"Prairie Goblin Tribe's Qing Yi, Guan Yi, and Xiao Qing step up to the center and accept your task!" Mu Qing Lang's summoned them forward.

"Yes, my Lord!"