After learning that Iver had emerged from seclusion, Isabel abandoned her official duties and hurried over.
Grandet's Construction Team was incredibly efficient—the team, composed almost entirely of transcendents, had even built the rough outline of a palace in just one week.
Of course, compared with the original Good Lord's palace, its scale and splendor were far inferior. Even in terms of decoration, it was not as impressive as the Silver and Tin Palace on Glass Island. But at least it was already usable.
During Iver's seclusion, with Sherlock's assistance, Isabel had quickly assembled Wanning's first leadership team. Although she truly did not understand Parthian customs very well, that was not necessarily a bad thing—some things that seemed cruel and inhumane to her were actually considered acts of mercy by the Parthians.
For example, a ten-hour workday, or having only one day off each week...
This disparity in understanding did not allow Isabel to exploit these former Parthian slaves with a clear conscience.
—She still believed it was wrong.
For now, this was merely a transition, meant to deal with the mess left behind by the Parthian Ancient Kingdom... At the very least, people had to adapt to surviving in the new environment and wait until their lives returned to normal.
Otherwise, if she gave them overly generous benefits all at once, only for their quality of life to fail to improve immediately due to inadequate infrastructure and disorganized grassroots administration... then, when she wanted to make some concessions to the people of Wanning and tighten management again, the resistance would be enormous.
The Isabel of today was no longer the little girl who knew nothing.
She no longer needed Sherlock's guidance to know what to do in such matters.
As for folk customs, there was also assistance from the "Brave,"