Sean looked at the people who came with Anduin. In addition to his followers, there were four in total, three were adult men, and one was a little girl.

The three grown men noticed Sean's gaze and quickly knelt down towards Sean:

"Lord! Welcome back to Hetan Town!"

Sean didn't speak, just smiled and nodded towards them.

[Secret Guardian] Kyle, who was standing next to Sean, also introduced to Sean in a timely manner:

"Lord, these are the right-hand men recruited by Lord Anduin."

As Kyle spoke, he pointed to the two men on the far left: "These two are local residents of Hetan Town, and the other is a retired mercenary of the Blazing Cross Mercenary Group.

In the past few days, they have made a lot of efforts in combating underground evil forces and helping the townspeople restore their lives and production!"

"That's it. No wonder I haven't seen them."

Sean walked up to the three of them and said to them:

"It must be very hard for you during this time, right?"

After hearing Sean's words, a tall and thin man among the three took a step forward, bowed and said to Sean:

"Lord, my name is Youn. We are residents of Hetan Town, and we do this for the bright future of Hetan Town, so we don't feel it's hard!"

Hearing what Youn said, the two people behind him also agreed:

"Yes, yes, Lord Lord! We don't have to work hard!"

"Since you don't work hard, then I won't give you a bonus?!" Sean joked.

The three of Youn: "..."

"Ha ha!"

Sean patted Eun's shoulder encouragingly:

"I was just kidding!

Tomorrow I will ask Anduin to distribute bonuses to you according to your merits. What I am most in need of right now is gold coins."

"Thank you Lord Lord!"

Yuen and the other three were overjoyed.

…

After promising rewards to Eun and the others, Sean also looked at the little girl beside them.

This little girl is Vivian. Although she wears a mask, Sean recognizes her appearance with a mask.

...

Sean stepped forward and rubbed Vivian's head:

"Vivian, how are you doing in Riverside Town?"

Vivian was caught off guard and was rubbed by Sean.

But the strange thing is that Vivian didn't have any objection to Sean rubbing her head, but was actually a little happy.

So Vivian smiled and nodded: "Hetan Town is peaceful and peaceful. I like your...town very much."

Vivian realized that there was ambiguity in what she said and felt her face getting hot.

But fortunately, through the mask, Sean couldn't see her flushed face.

"That's good!"

Sean patted Vivian on the shoulder: "Come to my castle tonight! I have a good thing for you!"

Sean bought Vivian a lot of trinkets to enhance the effect of meditation, and Sean also planned to take this opportunity to give them to Vivian.

"Okay!" Vivian lowered her head.

...

Then, Sean turned to look at Anduin:

"Anduin, it's getting late now. Let's take the team back to Hetan Town. We'll talk about anything on the way!"

Anduin was holding Khadgar's hand tightly and saying something, and Wenyan replied:

"Okay, sir! Let's set off now!"

...

At this time, the large army of dwarves also arrived at the place where Sean and Anduin met. Sean and Anduin led the large army to climb Thorny Ridge.

In the process of climbing Thorny Ridge, Sean asked Anduin as he walked:

"Anduin, are the dwarf blacksmiths' quarters ready?"

"My lord, everything is ready, and all the houses are the best in the town!" Anduin replied.

"That's good!"

Sean nodded:

"How is the development of Hetan Town recently? Is it still going well?"

"Sir, Hetan Town is developing very well!"

Anduin smiled and said: "Now the lives of the townspeople have returned to normal, most of the farmland has been planted with crops, and we have completely cleaned up the evil forces in the town, but..."

"only?"

Anduin replied apologetically: "It's just that the expenses are very large. Now the government's finances have already experienced a serious deficit. Up to now, they owe 136 gold coins, and there will be more in the future!"

After listening to Anduin's words, Sean smiled and patted his shoulder:

"As long as it's about money, it's not a problem! Do you know my property in Jon City?"

"Of course I know. I heard that you made a lot of gold coins in the city of Jon?"

"Yes, now my industry can produce one or two thousand gold coins a day."

At the same time, Sean also pointed to the carriage behind him:

"Did you see the carriage behind me? It contains a full fifteen thousand gold coins!"

As soon as Sean finished speaking, the exclamations from Eun and the three people sounded behind Sean:

"Fifteen thousand gold coins!!!"

They couldn't believe their ears.

That’s fifteen thousand gold coins!

Youn and the others might not be able to earn so many gold coins even if they work for two hundred years without eating or drinking!

But the lord just left for twelve days and already made money!

How did he do it? Did he rob the bank of the Kingdom of Anjou?

Sean ignored the exclamations of Eun and the others, and took out a beautifully wrapped contract from his backpack and handed it to Anduin:

"And the fifteen thousand gold coins are not all, this contract is the thirty-five thousand gold coins that the Marquis of Rivers and Robert still owe me.

Anduin, please keep it safe. The money you owe me will have to be paid back sooner or later!"

After hearing Sean's words, Eun and the others felt that they had been completely fooled.

I originally thought that fifteen thousand gold coins was an astronomical figure, but I didn't expect that the lord still owed thirty-five thousand gold coins!

How did the lord earn 50,000 gold coins in twelve days!?

This is so unbelievable!

Originally, the three of them had some doubts about the gold coin reward that Sean promised them.

After all, Anduin was very frugal some time ago. He wanted to break a silver coin in half and spend it.

After hearing "fifty thousand gold coins", they realized that they were still too young!

...

Anduin was surprised when he saw that the contract was indeed worth thirty-five thousand gold coins, and he quickly and carefully collected the outstanding contract.

But now that Riverbank Town's financial crisis has been lifted, Anduin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief:

"Sir, with this large sum of money, Hetan Town can finally develop rapidly!

Otherwise, it may take three or four years to restore Hetan Town to its original appearance by relying on tax collection, let alone rapid prosperity!"

Sean smiled and nodded: "Yes, the development of the territory is really inseparable from money. Without money, it will be difficult to do anything."

If you want to develop rapidly, you must complete primitive capital accumulation. Every gold coin in primitive capital accumulation is stained with blood.

The gold coins that Sean earned were no exception. These gold coins were squeezed from the people by the nobles, and they were also full of blood.

But Sean is different from other lords. What he extracts from his subjects, Sean will also return it to the subjects in other ways.
Chapter completed!