3rd November 1574
In the short span of just four days, the changes that happened to all my lands would be unimaginable if not for the fact that I could see them with my very own two eyes.
Starting with the trains, instead of carrying all the wounded back ho and continuing to resupply both the army that remained in the place to secure it and all the settlers that took the opportunity to start their lives anew on my lands. With the space in the train previously reserved for the provisions now freed for the sake of building materials, those damned four days alone were enough for seventeen of the designed outposts to have their baseline areas well under the construction, with a set of an iron mine, coal mine, processing plant and housing area already nearing their finish!
After all, even with the train, all the resources that I required in the forr Ostros land had to be transported over a relatively long distance. Adding all the limits of the current train system starting with only a single track connecting all the major points, if two supply wagons would arrive every day, most of the logistic departnt would end the day by going to get their drinks in order to celebrate!
"Sir, the second stage of fourth-order is finished!"
"Sir, the fourth stage of the nineteenth order requires more steam engines in order to conclude!"
One by one, reports continued to flood my area no matter how far I would attempt to escape them. This was one of the points that made unable to enjoy the fact that all my plans were finally coming to the fruition.
The montary relief when the news about the muscovites retreat arrived fell short on the insane workload that I had before the news. With the increased progress of the developnt on all fronts, what I considered to be an entire day worth of work, was nothing more but a small part of what I had to do now!
"Mike, aren't you a bit too hard on yourself?"
As soon as he finished registering the pieces of information that various ssengers continued to busy with, Al stood up from his desk before slamming his hands right on my workspace.
"What do you an?"
Raising my eyes at one of the two oldest and most loyal retainers, I couldn't really understand what was going on through his head. With the rapid change that happened to the military force that I operated, Al no longer could find a place in it. Despite several attempts, it looked like if he just couldn't adapt to the new way of conducting warfare, quickly leading to rather depressing thoughts and extensive drinking from his side.
Despite how busy I was with all my matters, finding a job for him was one of my priorities. That's why, when Elemo actually brought this matter to my eyes, I quickly arranged for so of the officers to take this trusty friend of mine to a trip around all my lands, hoping that so job would catch his eyes.
To say that I was surprised when Al finally ca to and asked to be my secretary, would be akin to comparing a small pile of potatoes on one's plate, to the highest mountain in the entire country!
"Sir, with all due respect, but what will be the point of achieving so much, if you were to collapse right here and now? Let's not forget how the mourning could influence the pregnancy of the lady Elia"
Even back in my tis as a manager of the company, I never had an actual secretary for myself. One could even say that this kind of role turned obscure with all the progress that humanity made ever since advancing to the information era. Outside of the absolute biggest fishes, no one could really care about spending a small fortune on the wage for a secretary, if the sa work could be done even better by an AI designed for it from the very beginning!
But right now, I couldn't just ask soone to go and program an artificial intelligence specialised in client reception. In fact, even if soone could handle the coding, there would be no computers or even machines that could work based on the code to do the bidding that I required in the first place!
That's why, as surprised as I was by Al's proposition, giving him the role of my personal secretary ca at the slight cost of breaking all my childhood dreams of what having a personal secretary ant.
And with all honesty, given the situation I found myself in right as Al joined the office, I couldn't care less for a long-legged, big-breasted and always willing beauty.
"I think you are right But it's not like those matters can wait"
In the short period of just a few days, Al managed to co up with a system of grading the news and reports, nearly eradicating all of the work from my office for a mont. Sadly, as people got used to this new organisation of the work, every minor officer of mine seed to be enchanted with the possibility of putting his request right on my desk rather than going through the departnt of officials especially designed to fulfil this work!
"If you an all those reports, then it's another trick of mine. You can actually ignore all of them. Do you rember the group of people that I asked for? The number of the stage that the report is marked with actually ans the departnt that the report should go to, while the number of the order ans that this particular piece of news will co to the group bearing the sa number. While everyone outside of this building thinks that those numbers are just for the sake of future archives"
Stopping his small lecture only to look at with a huge smile, Al proved that all those tis when he saw building up the tension in the crowd listening to proved to be beneficiary to him as well.
"They are actually the places where those orders will be taken care off!"
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