Chapter 1154: Culture and Education Department, Resumption of Work and Production

Of course, being heartless does not equate to being evil.

Or rather, it has no absolute connection to good or evil; this is merely an internal, personal psychological portrayal, not an external judgment of behavior.

Before Lawrence and the others explicitly violate the territory's laws and regulations, Xia Duo at most simply dislikes this lifestyle; it is far from the point of wanting to attack or kill them.

Furthermore, he also believes that the changes in Daxia Territory will definitely keep Lawrence too busy to handle, leaving him with no mind to think about wandering elsewhere.

……

After discussing a series of task details with Lawrence and the others, Xia Duo called Laidun to the Reception Room. After introducing the tasks for Lawrence and his group, he issued his instructions:

"Establish the Territory Culture and Education Department, primarily responsible for the territory's cultural and educational construction. The territory's Night School will be placed under the jurisdiction of the Culture and Education Department. Additionally, you must also be responsible for coordinating the exchange activities between Lawrence and the others, the territory's residents, and the Tower of Time. You will temporarily be in charge of this department. If you have any good candidates, you can report them to me at any time."

Laidun was stunned for a moment, then agreed without hesitation: "Yes, Lord Territory Lord!"

In his view, the soon-to-be-established Culture and Education Department was not much different from the previous Night School; at most, it just added the function of receiving and settling Lawrence and the others.

However, the territory is preparing to gradually grant land to all residents. This work cannot be handled personally by the Lord every time, so it basically fell upon him.

And now, the territory is adding another Culture and Education Department. Laidun deeply felt that his work was becoming increasingly busy. In order not to delay the normal operation of the territory, he happened to think of a suitable person, so he took the opportunity to suggest:

"My Lord, I hope to have Yatewude assist me!"

"Yatewude?"

Xia Duo quickly understood Laidun's meaning. He considered it for a while and did not refuse, but he did not explicitly agree either, only saying: "Have him come see me this afternoon!"

Laidun nodded in acknowledgment, and then Xia Duo signaled for the meeting to end.

As for the few Bards, except for Lawrence who submitted his work in the form of a manuscript, the others all demonstrated through actual performances. In particular, the two main-theme plays by Jianaer and the others took up quite a lot of time.

The time had already reached noon, and Xia Duo himself was a bit hungry, so he could not ignore the few Bards who had been performing all morning and were already his de facto subordinates.

……

After lunch, Xia Duo flipped through the documents and files generated in the territory over the past few days in the Study. After the land-granting ceremony, the territory's public security situation had clearly improved quite a bit.

Besides the Tower of Time forcing some Apprentices from Daxia Territory to take leave so they could reunite with their families, the more important factor was the land-granting itself. The territory had truly distributed land to the residents, and there were so many Gold Coins!

With such a hopeful life, thinking about how to accumulate merit every day was the proper business; where would there be much mind left to stir up trouble!

In the merit book organized by Laidun, the work enthusiasm of the residents in the last two days had clearly more than doubled compared to before, and even the number of accumulated merits had risen by a large margin.

Currently, all Working Groups of the Development Department and Logistics Department have resumed work and production. Judging from the latest work reports submitted by the Development Department, they have already exceeded the completion of clearing and leveling work for all land in the existing development area.

And they have already begun to launch a new round of development towards the north of the Tower of Time!

If one does not require the land to be cleared to the extent of being plantable, but only aims for connectivity, perhaps there is hope this year to open up a spacious passage in the Green Pearl Forest to connect Daxia Territory and Savile Territory!

Xia Duo has already begun to fantasize about how, after the two places are connected, he can influence Savile Territory through various methods in a subtle way, eventually incorporating it into the Daxia Order.

Thinking of the key points, he would occasionally pick up a pen to jot down some key information for future reference.

Although he can trace his memories at any time, the premise of tracing is knowing that such a concept exists, and knowing that a relevant memory was generated at some moment in the past, in order to conduct relatively precise tracing.

If he hadn't even thought of this premise, then tracing would be too much trouble.

Memory Retrospection is not omnipotent; it is more similar to hard drive retrieval in a computer, rather than direct memory access.

Although this ability is not strenuous to use, Xia Duo has to admit that this is an ability that requires him to actively use it. If he does not use it actively, he cannot recall many memories from the past.

Of course, constant tracing also helps to convert shallow memories into deep memories.

If he wants to turn the Memory Retrospection ability into a passive attribute, Xia Duo speculates that it will at least have to wait until the Conscious Mind and subconscious are integrated.

……

Not long after, the villa guard Nuoman came to report: "My Lord, Master Yatewude has arrived."

"Invite him in!"

Xia Duo replied, then put down the work in his hand and stood up to walk out of the desk. He valued Yatewude quite highly.

Although he wouldn't go so far as to rush out barefoot to welcome him like Cao Cao, the proper posture still had to be maintained.

In fact, Xia Duo had already instructed those outside before that Yatewude could come directly to the Study when he arrived. And now, although the reporting procedure was not completely waived, he also knew that Yatewude should already be outside the Study.

Sure enough, when Xia Duo arrived at the center of the Study, Yatewude also walked in from outside the Study, bowed to Xia Duo, and said:

"Lord Territory Lord, Yatewude greets you!"

"Elder Yatewude, no need for such formalities, please sit!"

Subsequently, the two went to the reception area of the Study together. Compared to the formal Reception Room, the atmosphere here was more relaxed, with not only home-style chairs placed close together that appeared more intimate, but also tea and snacks prepared at all times.

Yatewude had seen plenty of these in Seventon, but because of the restrictions of the original Doctrine of the 【Golden Oak Branch Order】, he could not enjoy too much.

Now that he is in Daxia Territory, although the objective material conditions are still not as good as Seventon, on the level of Yatewude's physical sensation, the current treatment is much better than before.

Most importantly, the "rebellious thoughts" he had always insisted on also received support here and found a true path for development!

"Lord Territory Lord, did you have Executive Laidun find me because you wanted to ask about my progress in perceiving Holy Power?"

"That is one of the purposes. Since we are on the subject, please let Elder Yatewude introduce it first!"

For the past few months, Xia Duo had been tied up by various affairs, and only recently had he become slightly freer. Even if Laidun hadn't reminded him today, he would have contacted Yatewude within these one or two days to ask about the situation of the other's perception of Holy Power.

Another thing is the shared perception experiment; he is also prepared to do it a few more times to see the fine-tuning and correction situation of the "Natural Will" in Yatewude's perception regarding a believer's cognition of the Magic Net.

"Lord Territory Lord, some time ago I already perceived a kind of Natural Holy Power, but this kind of Holy Power cannot be obtained stably; it is always intermittent, and in the last few days, it hasn't even been born at all!"

Speaking of this matter, Yatewude also had a helpless look on his face.