The Majority and the Minority

Majority and Minority

On the afternoon of the 33rd, the teachers from Blue Dragon School all came over, along with a dozen or so children who had chased after Gleia to attend school. The most important guests for tomorrow's ball also arrived one after another to attend tonight's reception banquet.

The eldest son of the kingdom's Southern Marquis territory, Baron Jacob Elk, came specially to coordinate grain matters with Landen. "Viscount Landen, the Southern Marquis territory has already received the approval document from the Imperial Agriculture Department. The first batch of 100,000 tons of old grain will arrive next month, and in the future, at least this amount will be delivered every quarter."

"Thank you so much. Please rest assured, Baron, our territory will deliver the livestock and warhorses on schedule." Landen attached great importance to Jacob coming in person this time. He was the only heir to a lord who had personally come from the alliance formed by the Eastern Marquis, the Southern Marquis, and the Southwestern Count. The other two families had only sent a fourth son or an agent in the Royal Capital to tidy up their family properties.

"My Lord, actually, I very much want to know why a newly born territory like yours has not applied to the empire for subsidies for impoverished regions?" Jacob asked. "I heard that other poor Gallop territories elsewhere can even receive additional mineral and agricultural subsidies from the Gallop Fund!"

At the mention of subsidies, Landen began pouring out bitter complaints. "I asked about it before, but just applying for that subsidy requires nearly 200,000 gold coins as a credit deposit, and the paper materials that need to be prepared are calculated by the ton. Even a small viscounty has more than 300 indicators that need to be audited.