Chapter 287: Rumors from Lester

The next morning, Lester called his seven subordinates to his room.

"It's OK for this review to meet the standards. If the other party doesn't want us to know something, then we won't know it."

"We are the Title Review Department, not the Military Merit Verification Department, nor the Security Patrol Department. Give the other party some face, and the other party will not embarrass us. You must remember this."

"Yes, captain." The seven people nodded and replied.

If it were an old team member, Lester would not have told him so. Unfortunately, there were three new people from other departments in his team, so he had to tell them in advance not to bring the working style of other departments into his team, otherwise he, the captain of the 33rd Review Team, would suffer.

Taking the briefcase, Lester took out eight tables from it, representing the eight directions of the review.

For the three new members, Lester gave them the three simplest tasks of population, army and territory area to review, and the other four tasks were given to the old team members, and he was responsible for the review of the lord's strength column.

After sending the seven away, Lester directly wrote on the form that the standard had been met, without recording Weilin's specific strength in detail.

"Okay, it's done."

Lester stretched his body, put the document he was responsible for into his briefcase, and left the room and walked towards the Qixing City Adventure Tavern.

The wine he drank last time was very delicious, which made him linger. This time he must buy some wine to take back.

In the next three days, Baird arranged officials to cooperate with the review team to collect information on some areas of Qixing Territory.

Everyone took Lester's instructions to heart. If the accompanying officials tactfully advised that they could stop, they would not continue.

After three days in the Adventurer's Tavern, Lester returned to his residence and checked the documents in the hands of the team members one by one.

"Fourteen thousand five hundred square kilometers." Lester saw this data and widened his eyes. The area of ​​Qixing Territory is much larger than that of an ordinary viscount territory, almost catching up with three-fifths of the area of ​​an ordinary earldom.

In his decades of review career, he has never seen a baron territory with such a large area.

After a moment's thought, Lester was no longer so shocked. He sorted out the documents in his hand and put them into his briefcase.

"I declare this review over. Everyone will rest for two days, and then we will set off to return."

"Yes, captain."

Everyone answered excitedly. The public travel can be reimbursed when they return, and there are many fun places in Qixing Territory, so they don't want to miss it.

There are strict procedures for the promotion of barons to viscounts. It is not as simple as the promotion of pioneer lords to barons, which only requires submitting a document.

On the other hand, Weilin received the news that the review was over, so he asked Kyle to invite Lester to the castle as a guest to keep in touch.

In the evening, Lester wore a brand new dress and went to the castle to keep an appointment.

In the hall, dozens of maids, under the command of Kyle, placed exquisite food in front of the two one by one.

Looking at such rich food, rare ingredients, and such high-standard hospitality in front of him, Lester was very moved.

Kyle got a black butler outfit from somewhere, holding a glowing wine, and stood aside to pour wine for the two people, attracting Weilin and Lester's frequent sidelong glances.

"Brother Weilin, I will call you Viscount Weilin soon."

Weilin raised his glass to indicate, and replied with a smile: "It's just luck. The continuous crises have caused the pioneers in the northwest to flee. I just ate the dividends of the times, and no one competes with me."

"You can't say that. If you don't have strong strength, how can you gain a foothold here."

Lester is very good at dealing with people. Weilin always feels happy when talking to such people.

If the other party gives him face, he is willing to give the other party enough face.

Halfway through this private banquet, Weilin signaled Kyle with his eyes, and the other party immediately took out a gift box and placed it in front of Lester.

Seeing this scene, Lester did not refuse. The other party gave him a gift because the other party thought highly of him. If he refused, it would be ugly.

Lester was shocked when he opened the gift box a crack and saw four intermediate magic crystals inside, but he didn't show it on the surface. He controlled his expression very well and didn't show his emotions.

"Brother, the geographical location of Cardero Province is very important. You must seize the opportunity. Anyway, the laws of the kingdom don't stipulate that the viscount can't own an area of ​​50,000 or 60,000 square kilometers."

"Brother Lester is joking. How many people are needed to fill such a large land area? Besides, such a large territory is almost equivalent to one-third of the area of ​​Cardero Province. This kind of thing can't be done now." Weilin said with some regret.

"Hehe, brother, you don't understand this." Lester took a sip of wine and said slowly.

Weilin raised his eyebrows and asked in confusion: "Oh, is there any gossip about this?"

"Ahem, I don't know about gossip or anything like that. I just happened to hear from my elders at home that His Majesty the King is planning to move a large number of poor people in the eastern region to the western region, and it seems that this will be implemented after the war."

"Why is this?" Weilin frowned, full of doubts.

"There may be two reasons for this. One is to reduce the population pressure in the eastern region and use the excess population resources to avoid waste."

"The second reason, I guess, is that the last invasion of the famine priests and the Gray Wasteland monster coalition caused a large loss of population in the western region, and the population needs to be replenished as soon as possible."

"Then do you know how many people died in the last three years of famine?" Weilin looked at Lester and asked curiously.

Lester's face became serious and he spit out an astonishing number: "At least five million people were lost."

"So many people, no way!"

With the protection of Ms. Astanashia, there was no famine in Qixing Territory, and Kadlo Province was close to the border and was rarely affected by the famine sacrifice, so only tens of thousands of people starved to death.

The famine sacrifice broke out from the Earldom of Falkreath in Monni Province and stretched across eight provinces in the west, but Weilin did not expect that so many people would die.

Although the western region claims to have a population of 100 million, it is actually only about 80 million. The loss of one-sixteenth of the population at once is really terrifying.

"Brother, just treat this as my drunken nonsense. Don't believe this kind of news from unknown sources!" Lester pretended to be drunk and said vaguely.

"Don't worry, brother, I know it in my heart." Weilin responded with a smile and kept this news in mind.