The news that I'd swept the wealthy farmers away spread among the villagers through Chief Wentner.
Truth be told, with the cavalry having descended on the wealthy farmers' estates and turned them upside down, there was no way the villagers couldn't have known. But when word got out that I was confiscating the livestock and distributing it all to them, the response was warmer than I'd expected.
When it was announced that Chief Wentner would be in charge of the distribution, there was some commotion, but it quickly died down once they learned it was on my orders.
The redistribution of wealth is the sweetest fruit of revolution that the have-nots most desire. In this way, I'd laid the foundation for the villagers' support and for growing the village's scale.
Right from the start, I'd killed two birds with one stone.
"My first official task being to wipe out the entrenched powers—that's more dramatic than I expected."
