My territory is filled with block creations.

Chapter 43 Naro

good!very good!very good!

Thorne sighed helplessly.

Just recently at noon, Alex had dissed herself, saying that her management skills were no less than those of an adult loaf of bread.

However, it wasn't even afternoon yet, and these villagers were already starting to cause trouble for themselves.

Fortunately, Lester appeared in time and proved to be very reliable, quickly bringing the situation under control and bringing the perpetrators to his aid.

It would have been better if they could have been a little gentler. After all, seeing two people who had a conflict get whipped at least 300 times with a belt together was still a bit too frightening.

At this moment, the two of them obediently knelt on the grass outside the work area. Lester deliberately made sure they couldn't even enjoy the shade of the canopy and were exposed to the sun. Thorne, seeing this, walked out with a helpless expression.

"Naro...you two...tell me, what did you do?" He added after he finished speaking, "Stand up and tell me."

"Brawling."

"He... I think he has it too easy, so I wanted to switch with him, but he wouldn't agree."

Naro and Maotou spoke one after the other, but perhaps because Maotou's tone was too anxious, it sounded rather fast. This hurried tone made Lester, who was behind him, hear it in a completely different way.

He walked over and kicked the young man in the butt, sending him sprawling face-first onto the floor: "Show some respect to the village chief!"

After hearing what the two men said, Thorne covered his forehead in exasperation: "My goodness, how can a young man in his twenties compete with an old man for the job of watching the machine?"

After he finished speaking, he looked at the two people in front of him. They were originally white, but now they were red from being slapped. He waved his hand helplessly.

"You've all been punished. Go back and get back to what you were doing, especially you, kid, stop bullying people."

Thorne had barely finished speaking when he was interrupted by a single sentence: "Village chief, that's not enough. You should gather all the villagers together, read out to them what we did wrong, what kind of punishment we should receive, and carry out the punishment in front of all the villagers, instead of letting us leave so easily like this."

Mao Tou originally thought that if this matter went directly to the village chief, he would be expelled from the village. Unexpectedly, he was only beaten. Just as he was about to kneel down and kowtow to Thorne in a joyful mood, he heard Naro's voice, which sounded like a devil's whisper, next to him.

As the boy stared blankly, and Lester felt that Naro's words were challenging Thorne's authority, and was about to kick him, Thorne suddenly raised his hand to stop Lester's action.

However, he couldn't stop the boy's hostile and bewildered gaze, but that wasn't a big deal. He just looked at Naro with surprise: "You... know a lot?"

Naro nodded: "After all, if we don't do this, these kinds of things will definitely increase. So you should nip these things in the bud, let the other villagers know what is wrong, and that doing wrong things will be punished. Make them see it for themselves, make them afraid, so that they won't make mistakes."

After Naro finished speaking, Thorne squinted at Naro for a while, then returned to his desk in the corner, took out the stack of village files, and came out again, asking with a strange look, "Didn't you say your education was zero, your profession was farming, and your specialty was patience? Did you lie when you filled out the file?"

Before Naro could reply after Thorne finished speaking, he raised his hand again to stop Lester from striking him with the belt: "Lester, this is not your business for now. Go and train them."

Rice nodded and turned to leave, at which point Naro spoke up: "I did lie before."

Thorne nodded: "So what did you do before? What is your real past? And finally, tell me why you lied."

Naro conceived his words: "When I was young, I studied at the Royal Capital Academy to become a sage. Later, I worked as an apprentice in the Royal Capital Administrative Office. Then I was assigned to the White Dome City Administrative Office as an administrative adjutant. A year ago, I resigned and was captured by slaves, and finally ended up here."

"As for why I didn't tell the truth, it's because I thought a village with only 50 people wouldn't need someone like me. After all, the village chief is the most basic and highest-ranking administrative official here. Having someone like me would only challenge the village chief's authority and create a second voice in the village."

After Naro finished speaking, Thorne raised an eyebrow. He had just told Alex that the person who casually freed the slaves was actually a talented administrator, a story spun by a bard. And now, such a talent had actually appeared.

Isn't that a coincidence?

Suppressing the burning joy in his heart, he continued, "So, from the beginning until now, you've said so much, you feel that the village needs you again, right?"

Naro nodded without hesitation. He genuinely felt that the village needed him now. In just one morning, he could see that Thorne's management skills were basically equivalent to a whole loaf of bread. He struggled to manage fifty people, let alone more in the future.

If it were just an ordinary territory, he might just let it go, since it wasn't his territory and whether he managed it well or poorly was none of his business.

However, this territory is clearly different. With its two trump cards of commerce and agriculture, it is only a matter of time before it becomes increasingly powerful.

Most importantly, although Thorne was not a good manager, he was undoubtedly a good person. He did not have the bad habits and nasty mentality of those traditional nobles and foolish officials. Under his rule, ordinary people could really survive and even live quite well.

In order to enable more ordinary people to live a decent life, Naro believes that he can do what he can for the village and for other ordinary people who are struggling to survive.

Of course, in order to see whether the village chief could accept an administrative staff member who appeared out of nowhere and patiently listen to the staff member's suggestions, he still had to conduct a test beforehand.

Although such a test is very offensive to those in positions of authority, if someone in a position of authority can accept such an offense, then he must be someone who can listen to advice. In that case, one would not have wasted their efforts, been whipped with a hundred and fifty belts for nothing, or dared to challenge authority for nothing.

Naro admitted that there was an element of gambling involved, and he spoke out about it.

He said in a deliberately offensive tone, "Because, village chief, your management is really not very good!"