Some of them were excited, some of them were worried, however, Alfonso didn"t give them time to ponder, he continued with his explanation."The decision I made was based on the criteria I wanted for every ministry, as for the exact functions of every ministry and how it will work… I will enter in detail with the ministers themselves, however, I will tell you something from now on, this ministry will serve for the people and will respond only to me, since ancients times, regulations were needed for a society to survive, we are the same, I plan to do a ma.s.sive immigration project, this land is huge, nevertheless, we have three hundred people at most, this is unacceptable! We need ten thousand people at the very least! So, for people to find this place attractive enough we need two things, commerce,and land, we already have one and the other one, we will get that eventually" Said Alfonso.
Everyone agreed with Alfonso"s thought process, it was true, Wasteland Valley was huge, however, there were so little people that not even 2% of the land was used.
"Next in the agenda is our commerce, Tulip town will send the people I requested in three days with that, we will begin our commerce, as for what will sell, well… the Amazons will help me with that, Antiope" Said Alfonso.
Antiope when to the front and put two objects on the table, one was a potato and the other one, incredible enough was salt!
"Most of our vegetations were destroyed with our village, however, this two managed to survive, luckily, our leader loves potatoes, so she safeguarded them in a special place near the tomb of our ancestor, the amount we have there are almost five tons! As for the salt, thanks to his highness, we went to the tribe of one of our neighbors to look for survivors, we didn"t find one, however, we found a small cave with dozens of rocks of salt… I don"t know the use of this, however, his highness said this is extremely important so we made a route to transport this salt, some of our sisters will bring these rocks in carriages as soon as we tell them"
The discovery of this mine of gold, aka mine of salt, made Alfonso cried, he finally got lucky!
And what luck!
"Salt, it"s as good as gold, maybe you don"t understand this, however, this small rock will be our princ.i.p.al product, this will not only serve for food but also for medicine, I will explain the uses later, Hygeia, you will need to a.s.sist some cla.s.ses as well, got it?" Said Alfonso.
"Got it!" Said Hygiea.
"Good! The ministry of Economy will handle the commerce, as for this, Taylor, you will be in charge of the commerce, you are the only one here who had been in other parts of Leitol besides me and Ribeiro, plus, you are a scholar, I will tell you the properties and the uses of the salt, you will make an esteemed of the price and we will sell them ,I trust that you will do a good job" Said Alfonso.
"As your orders, your highness," Said Taylor.
"Finally, we will talk about the military, Deferio, how is the Spartans doing?" Asked Alfonso.
"Sir! The platoon is in their highest mind after hearing your heroic feats, we are training with diligence and are ready to fight for you anytime! Plus, the new recruits have matured and with a couple of months more, they will be at your stand" Said Deferio.
"Good! Now is the turn of you, Caesar, how are my Romans doing?" Asked Alfonso.
"Sir! We have followed your training plan, we are ready to show our results!" Said Caesar.
"Alright, I will give you your first mission them, go with the Amazons to the Jubila forest and explore others tribes, if you find survivors, bring them here, if you don"t, look for their source of food, I will give you one month, Antiope a.s.sign the two elders to go with them" Said Alfonso.
"I will not fail my lord!" Said Caesar while kneeling.
"I will tell them… however… Sister Pentesilea may be against…" Said Antiope.
"Oh right, she hated men didn"t she…" Though Alfonso.
"Whatever just tell her that I asked her this favor," Said Alfonso.
"Oh right, I almost forgot, Cerberus, you and a group of wolves go to the other side of the Jubila Forest, we used to have mine there if my memory doesn"t fail me, we used to have a gold mine… correct Ribeiro?"
"Yes, your highness" Said Ribeiro.
"Go there and search the mine, I remembered that there was something there that made the mine closed after you investigated, bring me the report" Said Alfonso.
"Eh~? Why do I have to go… its cold, let White fang do it~" Said Cerberus while yawing.
"This lazy dog…" Though Alfonso.
"White fang can"t go because he has to be with Susana" Said Alfonso.
"…ok…" Said Cerberus.
"Good, everyone has your own duties, that will be all, dismiss!" Said Alfonso.
""YES, YOUR HIGHNESS!"" Said Everyone.
After that everyone left except for Artemis and Demeter.
"Artemis, I have a mission for you, you have to-"
"I refuse" Said Artemis interrupting Alfonso.
"… At least let me finish…" Said Alfonso.
"You will go and do something reckless again, so, I decided to be by your side all time, I don"t have time to do a mission," Said Artemis.
"…Demeter, help me a little, will you?" Said Alfonso.
"Sorry Alfonso, I think the same as Artemis, you can"t be alone so she and I will take turns to be with you, you don"t have any objections, right?" Asked sweetly Demeter.
"… Listen, the mission I want you to do has to do with your student, plus, I gave you my word today in the morning that I won"t do anything like that again, my word means so little to you!?" Asked Alfonso.
""Yes"" Answered both of them without a single bit of hesitation.
Alfonso felt the word "yes" piercing his heart.
"Look, I only want you to train harder than usual and asked about her origins, okay?" Said Alfonso defeated.
"I can do it; however, I will do it if Demeter is with you, otherwise, forget it"
"…Alright…" Said Alfonso.
Alfonso stood up and made a small sigh.
"Well, now that everything is settled let"s go bac-"
*kacha*
Before Alfonso could finish, He listened to the doors closing from the inside…
"Why…are you locking the door…" Asked Alfonso feeling that something was wrong…
"There is something we need to talk about" Said Demeter.
She walked towards Alfonso and touched his neck.
She retrieved a small collar…
Alfonso"s face was becoming whiter and whiter.
"What could this be~?" Asked Demeter.
"Well…that"s…you know… I…I found it… yes! I found it lying there in the ground…so-"
"Strange, this looks exactly like grandma"s collar, doesn"t it?" Said Artemis.
"Haha… a coincidence like this actually exists, how strange the world works right!? Well, I have things to do, so-"
"You know, those Amazons told me an interesting story… it implicated a certain someone returning with a hickey" Said Artemis.
"What a coincidence~ I also heard another story, it was a certain boy that let seven naked girls in his room~" Said Demeter.
"…What a player that guy was, I mean, seven girls, really! I envy him, well, it"s already late so-" Said Alfonso while running towards the door.
""ALFONSO!""
"HELP!"
The word help sounded in all the manor of Alfonso, however, n.o.body dared to enter.