CHAPTER 538: CHAPTER 286: CURRENTLY, THE LARGEST POPULATION INFLOW IS...

At this moment, Zhou Bai was unaware that someone, intent on causing trouble for Hope Village, was diligently searching for allies, whether it be her or Hope Village itself, they were both focused on development.

After all, it was the time when Hope Village had just started its external operations, attracting people with the territory’s products and welfare benefits first. To attract more settlers later on, naturally, it was necessary to increase the supporting facilities of the territory.

Furthermore, the territory had just experienced a Territory War, and it was still a long time before the next one, providing ample time to develop.

With the right time, location, and people, it was indeed the best opportunity.

For Zhou Bai, these past few days had also been a rare chance for her to relax and immerse herself entirely in combat.

The affairs of the territory, in front of a gradually forming system, had already become orderly.

Currently, Hope Village had seven departments, each with no fewer than ten staff members, not to mention some special departments such as the City Construction Management Office and the Commercial Management Office, which had dozens to hundreds of staff members.

With ample personnel and clear responsibilities, basically, whenever something new happened in the territory, all departments could allocate and handle these new events in a very short time, and after completion, they would even summarize and raise a headline.

With this group of assistants, Zhou Bai, as the Lord, naturally became much more relaxed.

By just reading the headlines, Zhou Bai could generally understand what was happening in the territory. If there was an event that she found interesting or needed to pay attention to, she could also use the headline to find the corresponding document number and read it in detail.

As for this arrangement, the staff at the Lord Mansion had already gotten used to it, and even gradually felt that it was quite good. Working according to established procedures and having a certain degree of autonomy made their work very smooth.

Many of them were local residents, who also understood the operational conditions of other territories’ offices. None were as open as Hope Village, where some important events were primarily decided by the Lord, leaving no room for their participation.

However, just because they were involved in Hope Village did not mean they had decision-making power, as many matters were decided through discussion, and power was distributed among everyone. After being distributed, their own share of power was almost nonexistent, at least not monopolistic.

Although they did not enjoy the privileges they had imagined when they joined the Lord Mansion, after getting used to the office environment for a long time and developing trust in their own territory.

Because they knew well that the territory would never suddenly turn on them one day for no reason, no longer having to fear the anxiety of offending nobles by accident.

Their fundamental task was simply this: to work hard and develop the territory.

At this time, at the Lord Mansion.

Early in the morning, Zhou Bai had already arrived at her office; the first thing she did was to open the Lord’s control panel and immediately start checking the NPC information of the Heroic Spirit Hall and the Beast God Temple.

Heroic Spirit Hall: Intermediate Doctor, Intermediate Architect, Intermediate Ironsmith, Intermediate Pharmacist.

Beast God Temple: Intermediate Warrior (Bull-man)

Today’s NPCs were still wholly intermediate, especially those summoned from the Heroic Spirit Hall, who were NPCs with strong skills, exactly what the territory currently needed most.

It truly suited her intentions perfectly!

Zhou Bai did not hesitate, promptly summoning all and directly issuing notifications to these NPCs.

These past few days, she had summoned NPCs again. Because of the groundwork laid on the first day, when they came to report at the Lord Mansion subsequently, there were staff members ready to lead them to their respective positions.

So far, the NPCs who had arrived in Hope Village had adapted quite well.

But there was one issue; these past few days, the Bull-men summoned all came from the same territory. According to the messages reported by Lucas and O’Neill, their territory had suffered an attack from another Beastman Territory, causing a shortage of food, and this territory was one that could be persuaded to form an alliance.

She clearly understood Lucas and O’Neill’s desire to pull these Beastmen to Hope Village, but she was still unwilling to force them.

Upon their arrival in Hope Village, she treated them justly in the manner she treated all residents, paying them fairly for the amount of work done. Whether they would stay or not depended on their personal wishes.

Setting this matter aside for the moment, Zhou Bai began reviewing the submitted affairs of the territory.