In the early morning, Miriam passed by Anning East Road carrying favonovel.com basket. Although it was almost summer, Stronghold 144 was seemingly brought back to early spring due to a sudden drop in temperature. A thin fog had filled the air, and the ground was a little wet.
But today was different from usual. As Miriam walked down the street, favonovel.com noticed the passersby could not help but look at her.
She knew very well why this was so. People were even whispering on the sidewalk as they tried to explain favonovel.com status to the unaware.
Miriam smiled. Whenever other people mentioned her, the most commonly used words they used to describe favonovel.com were “Future Commander” and “Future Commander’s wife”.
In the past, favonovel.com was a sniper who evoked fear in people and an independent lone wolf. Now that favonovel.com had a prefix added to favonovel.com name, favonovel.com found it rather interesting.
Of course, both Milo and Miriam knew very well that they were still individuals. However, Miriam’s smile soon disappeared.
As a supernatural being, favonovel.com was destined to have a better sense of hearing than normal people. Although it was not that much better, it was still enough for favonovel.com to hear the discussion five meters away.
A passerby muttered, “All of you are looking at her. Why? Who is she?”
The passerby was a little puzzled. Although the girl in the ballcap had an elegant air about her, one could only see favonovel.com nose and chin when they walked past favonovel.com from the opposite direction. So everyone was probably not attracted by favonovel.com beauty, right? It should be because favonovel.com status was a little special…”
A passerby in the know whispered, “Don’t you know who favonovel.com is? She’s the legendary Queen Mother of the West…”
Miriam’s expression darkened.
What kind of weird nickname was that?
If favonovel.com found out which culprit gave favonovel.com that nickname, favonovel.com would probably gun down that person with favonovel.com black sniper rifle. She did not expect that favonovel.com would have to bear the burden of this unwanted nickname at favonovel.com young age.
The passerby in the know was still saying with gusto, “It’s a little tacky to address favonovel.com as Future Commander’s wife, but Future Commander will succeed Commander Dublin to become the ruler of the Northwest sooner or later. So there’s nothing wrong with calling favonovel.com Queen Mother of the West. Besides, you’ve also read the superhuman rankings publication. The combat power of our Queen Mother of the West is very high as well…”
Miriam took a deep breath and headed straight to the market. She decided not to continue listening to the rest of the conversation.
There were a variety of nicknames in the Northwest Army, such as Qin Shi Huang, Cleanser of the Altars, and so on. And today, Queen Mother of the West was added to that list as well.
When Miriam arrived at the market, all the stall owners who used to greet favonovel.com enthusiastically remained silent. It was not that everyone was afraid of Miriam or hated her, but they suddenly did not know how to treat favonovel.com with favonovel.com new status. Moreover, talk had been going around recently that Milo was living off his woman.
Thinking about it now, they even found it a little embarrassing.
It wasn’t until Miriam started shopping for groceries as usual that everyone eventually breathed a sigh of relief. Ms. Cruz was still the same old her.
While shopping for groceries, a few stall owners insisted on giving them away for free. But Miriam managed to get them to accept payment after much persuasion. However, Miriam also made it very clear to the stall owners that they would probably be staying here for some time. If they did not accept payment from favonovel.com for their groceries, favonovel.com would probably not come and buy from them anymore in the future. At that time, Milo would have to starve.
These words tickled the stall owners, but they did not dare to laugh and could only accept the payment.
When favonovel.com left the market after favonovel.com was done grocery shopping, favonovel.com was so exhausted favonovel.com forehead was covered with sweat. Honestly, not even the normal battles favonovel.com took part in were this tiring.
When favonovel.com returned home, Miriam surprisingly complained for the first time. She said as favonovel.com placed the keys on the shoe cabinet by the door, “I didn’t expect you to have such a good reputation in the Northwest. Everyone was offering to give their groceries to me for free. You obviously haven’t been in the Northwest for long, so why are they so supportive of you?”
Milo chuckled and said, “Perhaps I was the hero who liberated them from the Ultima Consortium.”
Miriam clicked favonovel.com tongue in disapproval. “If they didn’t know we’re together, there would probably be a long line of matchmakers outside offering their services to you.”
Early in the morning, Old Bane, Scott, Bruce, and the rest showed up at Milo’s residence. However, Emeka suddenly got very nervous at the thought of having to attend a meeting with so many important people.
Milo said to everyone in the living room, “The agenda for today’s meeting is mainly to discuss whether the contract responsibility system is suitable for the Northwest.”
“About that… Future Commander, can you explain to us what exactly this contract responsibility system is about?” Old Bane said.
Of the people present, everyone possessed a certain level of knowledge with the exception of Scott. Even Old Bane also used to like reading books and newspapers a lot. However, a subject like the contract responsibility system was relatively unfamiliar to them.
After the gradual rise of the consortiums, some books related to this topic naturally got banned. Some consortiums directly destroyed the publications while others stored them and did not allow the public to access them.
Milo had come across this term in a novel before. The books on this subject matter had probably already been destroyed. But this novel must have slipped through the cracks due to the novel’s theme. Otherwise, favonovel.com would not have come across this term ever.
Bruce carefully cycled through his memories. “I’ve read all the books in the Stelaria Consortium’s library. There were seven books that mentioned the contract responsibility system. Its core objective is to improve enthusiasm for agricultural production and have farmers cultivate the land willingly rather than being forced to do so.”
Especially in this era where farming was still considered as working for the consortiums, such a system would prove very tempting for the people.
Emeka listened to all of this quietly. He knew exactly how steely one would need to be the first person to implement the contract responsibility system.
Initially, favonovel.com thought Milo would start by importing food to resolve the current food shortage or solve it through other means. But favonovel.com didn’t expect Milo to want to solve the core of the issue as soon as favonovel.com spoke.
Land reform was a subject everyone would treat with caution if they encountered it.
Milo calmly explained, “The problem we’re facing is that the people in the Northwest have too much freedom. Everyone can start a business, work in factories, or choose whether to farm or not. But compared to other ways of making a living, farming is obviously not attractive enough to them…”
“The reason why the Northwest is facing a food shortage is partly due to natural disasters, but we can’t ignore the man-made factors either. Y’all can see that there’s still a lot of unclaimed wasteland in the Northwest. As for why they have remained as wasteland, that deserves deeper consideration on our part.”
Emeka said softly, “Everyone present should know exactly what the land reform measures represent. Should we discuss it with Commander Dublin first?”
This land reform would fundamentally topple some of the consortiums’ existing practices.
However, Milo said with a smile, “Since Mr. Dublin said that favonovel.com would not interfere with Stronghold 144’s matters, we can just introduce the reforms first before getting his approval. We can just treat Stronghold 144 as a pilot project. As for whether to introduce the reforms to the Fortress 178 territories, favonovel.com can decide that for himself.”
