Alien Knights

Three days later, under the watchful eyes of the people, the first diplomatic mission in Muxi City gathered, prepared, and set off at the camp outside the city; dozens of carts full of food, escorted by hundreds of soldiers, drove towards the eastern border.

Todd stood on the terrace of the palace, watching the winding procession outside the city, his hands tightly grasping the railing.

"Your Majesty, the mission has gone far, go back." Huggins leaned on a newly made cane, stood behind Todd, and said softly.

Looking up at the looming cold mist in the sky, Todd tightened his neckline, his eyes blurred: "It's going to snow."

Huggins looked into the sky as he said, and said in a low voice: "This winter, I'm afraid it will be colder than previous years."

The two left the terrace, followed the aisle, and returned to the atrium of the palace.

Huggins glanced outside, and said to Todd, "Your Majesty, you have been busy arranging missions for the past few days. You have a rare free day. What do you want to do?"

Hearing the word free, Todd was a little surprised. In his impression, rest was a long-standing concept for him.

In his previous life, every holiday, he could sleep in and watch a movie.

But since coming to another world, Todd recalled that it had been too long since he could calm down and take a breath.

Huggins thought for a moment, and suggested: "How about watching a play? The Grand Theater is showing "The Lonely Traveler" today, and I heard that the show is full."

Todd shook his head and thought to himself, instead of watching a drama, it's better to go back to the soul space and relive the movies he has already seen.

"How about hunting? The hunting ground in the north has just been built, and there are many animals in it. The horses and hunting bows are in the palace."

Todd shook his head again. He has no interest in this kind of entertainment popular among nobles in the Middle Ages. Riding on a horse, holding a bow and arrow, chasing a group of fleeing animals, this kind of behavior feels a bit silly no matter how you think about it.

However, speaking of hunting, Todd remembered one thing.

"I asked you to let Henry the Griffon go last time. How is it going?"

Huggins had a strange look on his face: "The war beast you are talking about? According to your instructions, we removed all the fences that restricted its activities, but it just refused to leave Muxi City."

Todd looked curious: "Come on, let's go to the stables to see it now."

Huggins arranged the carriage and guards, and accompanied the king to the stables of the Muxi Knights headquarters.

As soon as he got off the carriage, Todd heard Henry's piercing cry.

"What's going on?" Todd jumped out of the carriage and hurriedly opened the door of the stable, only to see a scene that made him dumbfounded.

Two cooks, a row of grills, and three large pots of fresh meat.

Henry the Griffin was on his belly, his hind legs stretched out, his eyes were fixed on the fork that was rolling in the cook's hand, and he let out an impatient squealing sound.

Whenever a chef puts the grilled steak on the plate in front of Henry, the latter will always carefully examine the color, oiliness, thickness, and tenderness of the grilled meat with the discerning eyes of a gourmet, and will eat the food slowly after confirming the quality.

The head monk in charge of the Knights' Stables trotted all the way and came to Todd. The first thing he did was to complain to him: "Your Majesty, no matter what we do, this guy just refuses to leave! Half of the funds used to buy fodder this month have been eaten by him!"

Todd looked at the chubby belly of the griffin, sighed helplessly, and went directly to the soul space to find Henry.

Seeing the griffin looking around, Todd made a flying gesture with his hands, and said to Henry, "Don't you miss the sky?"

Henry opened his beak and compared his wings to a barbeque, with an ugly face.

Todd rolled his eyes, and compared the shape of a ball with his hand: "Don't you miss your child?"

Henry's wings paused in the air, his eyes slowly filled with tenderness. After a while, it stood up and let out a long howl towards the sky.

Todd walked up to the Griffin, touched his head tenderly, and said softly, "Bring your family to Muxi City. Here, at least you don't have to worry about food."

As if he understood this sentence, Henry rubbed his head against Todd's cheek, and flapped his wings cheerfully.

Leaving the soul world, Todd said to the stable servants: "Go find a canvas bag like the one used on mules and horses."

Soon, people brought a double bag that was hung on the mule and horse and connected with canvas.

Todd picked up the canvas bag, tied it up for Henry the Griffin himself, found a lot of cotton, stuffed it into the bag, and patted his neck.

Seeing that Henry was looking at the grilled steak, Todd asked someone to wrap the grilled meat in oiled paper, and stuffed it into the shoulder bag together.

After doing all this, Henry closed his eyes, rubbed his head against Todd's cheek again, walked back to the open space in the middle of the stable, flapped his wings vigorously, and slowly lifted his body off the ground and into the air.

Looking at the smaller and smaller figure in the sky, Todd closed his eyes and let out a long sigh of relief. Turning around, he saw the monks and servants in the stable hugging each other with tears in their eyes.

These people kept cheering such words: "Finally! That terrible monster is finally gone!"

"The monster you speak of will soon return to Muxi City with his wife and children. 』

Regarding this news, Todd chose to keep it secret for the time being. When the griffin hovered over the kingdom again, what the expressions of these people would be, as long as he thought about it now, he thought it would be very interesting.

Huggins glanced at the people who were still cheering, frowned and said, "Your Majesty, where are we going next?"

Todd walked out of the stables of the Knights Headquarters, returned to the street, thought for a moment, pointed to Muxi Square in the distance, and said to Huggins: "The next place to go is there."

Huggins looked in the direction of the king's finger and found that the place Todd mentioned was the kingdom's new government building.

Before the official examination, most of the government affairs in Muxi City adopted the elder responsibility system in the ancient Tailuo period; after the implementation of the imperial examination system, the original government affairs mechanism was transformed into a departmental decentralization system that was common in the late feudal dynasty.

Agriculture, commerce, urban construction planning, taxation, law, personnel and other public utility functions are independently formed into corresponding large departments. Under the framework of the large departments, they are divided into small departments responsible for specific matters according to the needs of the city.

In the past, the number of government officials was small, their professional skills were relatively rough, and the demand for workplace space was relatively small; but now, the imperial examination system has brought in a large number of professional civil servants with higher education levels and professional skills. Naturally, the requirements for workplaces are also getting higher and higher.

In order to meet the office needs of hundreds of civil servants, Muxi City decided to choose a suitable address in the city center to build a government building for daily city government affairs.

After choosing and choosing, the earliest building in Muxi City, the place where the king lived when he was a priest, and the small Muxi Church came into people's view.

At first, many people expressed strong opposition to the renovation proposal.

Every brick and tile of this church was built by the first batch of immigrants in Muxi City. Every speech the king gave here was the only consolation for people to look forward to the light in that difficult and dark age. How could it be demolished at will?

After a long confrontation and persuasion, coupled with Todd's approval of the proposal, the proposal was finally passed.

After that, many architects worked together to make use of the ever-upgrading cement materials and the increasingly complete ability system, so that the style of the original site was preserved to the maximum extent, and all government departments had enough space for activities.

After several upgrades and expansions, the original small church finally became the four-story building with a height of 20 meters, an area of ​​nearly 1,000 square meters, and a construction area of ​​more than 3,000 square meters.