Chapter 374: Recruiting Talent

As the day of the annual celebration approached, more and more nobles arrived at Wushan Castle.

At this time last year, not only did Princess Blanche grace the event with her presence, but the two Counts, Hesusu and Aosen, were also there stirring up trouble, which added quite a bit of speculation and complexity to the already lively banquet.

This year, however, there were no such troublesome people or matters, and the overall atmosphere of the banquet was both peaceful and lively.

Although Lulansi had already recovered, only a limited number of people knew this information. Not wanting to expose it, the old man simply made a brief appearance and left the rest of the time to the young people.

As the most discussed figure in Wushan Territory recently, Luoning deservedly became the focus of the entire banquet.

Besides the three Viscounts, Weituolinuo, Sanduoluo, and Mawen, pulling Luoning aside to chat about territory management and discussing how to squeeze labor, many nobles also wanted to cooperate with Luoning.

For example, Baron German.

His idea was that he could provide some labor to help with the construction of Wubei Territory.

Once the port construction was successful in the future, German hoped to allow various specialties from Lake Town to be transported to Wangdu via the waterway at relatively favorable prices.

In this way, he would find a new outlet for the economy of Lake Town.

Besides him, there were many other nobles who wanted to package labor, renting out serfs or free citizens to work in Wubei Territory, and having them return to the nobles' territories once the work was finished.

Isn't this just working for hire? Luoning was actually quite able to accept that.

At the lively banquet, Daianni took the opportunity to display the Wubei Territory porcelain stemmed cups.

This emerging item immediately aroused everyone's curiosity, and upon hearing that it was a product of Wubei Territory, many people immediately came to show their support.

Regardless of whether this support was a genuine desire to purchase the porcelain or just giving Luoning face, in any case, an order for a total of over two thousand stemmed cups was secured.

Luoning prepared to talk with Daianni to see if the aesthetics of the stemmed cups could be improved, thereby giving Jim and the others a clear direction for improvement.

If he could take advantage of this order to receive good reviews and subsequently open up the market, that would be even better.

Happy times are always short, and the next day the nobles left Wushan Castle one after another.

Without the threat of the Bolante Bandit Group and the Black Gold Brotherhood, there might be no war for Along time to come, and they had more energy to devote to how to make money and manage their territories.

Luoning had wanted to sleep in, but was dragged out of bed early by Buleidun.

This young brother, who had always admired strength, now regarded Luoning as his idol; in his own words, it would be his honor if he could receive guidance from his idol.

Helpless, Luoning had no choice but to give the other party some love from an older brother and an idol.

Although he controlled his strength and did not use any Battle Technique or Magic, his swordsmanship and combat experience had improved significantly after the high-intensity combat training with Ruidar some time ago.

Buleidun had clearly put in the effort in swordsmanship and combat, and had killed many Level 2 Magical Beasts in the wilderness trials, but he still quickly fell behind when facing Luoning's attacks.

"I'm not fighting anymore!"

Buleidun threw the sword to a Servant, panting, and took a towel to wipe the sweat from his face.

"Last year I could still hold out for several moves in front of you, but now I have no power to fight back at all. Brother, how do you train?"

Luoning did not want to dampen the other's confidence: "I'm just a bit stronger than you; you've already performed very well."

Buleidun leaned in, "I heard that the sons of the three Viscounts in the territory are all in Wubei Territory. Why don't I go there too? What kind of work will you arrange for me?"

In the past, he was single-mindedly focused on training, all to change the family's predicament.

Now that this matter had been completed by Luoning, not only was the pressure in his heart a little less, but he also had more ideas.

For example, going to Wubei Territory to contribute to Luoning.

"You?"

Luoning did not expect that Buleidun also wanted to come to Wubei Territory; he thought about it, but really couldn't find a suitable task to hand over to him.

Luogena liked to move around and was arranged as a transport officer;

Yousefu was an Advanced Mage and was currently following Aierlong to learn Magic Potion making;

Lisi, who was about to arrive in Wubei Territory, relied on his proficiency in water, and Luoning planned to let him train the Wubei Territory naval forces.

If Buleidun joined, Luoning really had no good arrangement.

On one hand, he was young and his strength was not high; Luoning couldn't possibly let him join the territory's security patrol, could he?

On the other hand, his status was quite special; historically, there had never been a case of an heir to a liege lord working for a vassal.

"As the heir to the family, what you need to do now is to train well and strive to become a Knight who can stand on his own as soon as possible."

Luoning said, "Wait until you become... um, a Bronze Knight, then come to me for training."

Upon hearing this, Buleidun immediately hung his head.

"Alright..."

Luoning stepped forward and put his arm around the other's shoulder, "Although you can't come to my territory, I still have one thing I want to entrust to you."

Buleidun was pleasantly surprised, "Tell me!"

"Wushan Extraordinary Academy has many excellent students; use your status and connections to pull more of them to Wubei Territory for me."

"You want me to help you recruit Professional Knights?"

Buleidun understood, "But many of the classmates in the academy haven't awakened their Battle Qi Seed yet. Even if they become Professional Knights, the majority are Primary level, and those whose strength can reach Advanced are few and far between."

Students at the Extraordinary Academy basically graduate around the age of twenty.

Those who can become Advanced Knights at this age have very good aptitude, but the number of such people is truly too small.

However, Primary and Intermediate are not bad either; even the Wushan Castle Knights have Intermediate Knights.

"As long as you can pull them in, I am willing to accept them. However, you don't need to bring too many at once; I'll give you a quota of one hundred for now."

Luoning said: "Besides Professional Knights, you also need to win over students who are literate or have special skills in certain areas, such as craftsmen or water conservancy. I don't care if they are of noble birth or Free Citizens, as long as they are willing to work for me."

He added: "For people like this, I want as many as you can get!"

With the expansion of the territory, the shortage of Transcendental was fine, but what gave Luoning the biggest headache was administrative officials like Wilson.

The population structure of Wubei Territory was complex, with Slaves, Serfs, wild people, and criminals. Selecting administrative officials from among them, not to mention their ability to govern, even having the ability to communicate normally was a struggle.

While the students in the academy had no experience, they had the advantage of a good foundation, young age, and strong learning ability, and most importantly, the pay was low.

Those ordinary students from commoner backgrounds were probably dreaming of defecting to some lord and working for them.

Luoning threw out this olive branch; even if the pay was low, as long as it could guarantee their survival in Wubei Territory, there would certainly be many people scrambling to give it a try.

"I understand, Brother. Leave this matter to me!"

Buleidun patted his chest, looking as if he were certain of success, "One month, at most one month, and I will be able to give you an answer!"

"Then I will leave this matter to you!"

Luoning patted the other's shoulder, "Once the count is finished, have someone notify Luogena at Zhaozebao, and I will have him take men to Wushan Extraordinary Academy to receive them."

Buleidun, however, said, "There is no need for such trouble; I will just have them go there themselves when the time comes."

Luoning shook his head.

The distance from Wushan Town to Zhaozebao is not short; if an accident were to occur along the way, would that not become a stain on the Wubei Territory?

Therefore, it is still more appropriate to have Luogena lead a team to receive them. (End of chapter)