Alexander sat in the second-floor outer hall, where he was holding council with his advisors, two days after he had moved in.
"So, where are we with the farmers?" Alexander asked Menicus from sitting at the head of the table.
Food was the most important resource for Alexander to secure right now and overseeing its production was his first and foremost priority.
"We have done as you have instructed comma…pasha," Meniscus replied, slightly calling Alexander by the wrong title.
And then continued, "The surrounding land had fortunately been already titled by the women folk under the instructions of the nobles and so the twenty thousand slaves had little problem planting the wheat and rye."