"Queen mother Kimberly, can you handle it?"

"Yes, your highness!" Mother Kim answered seriously.

"Good!"

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Mother Kim felt very excited as well as confident that she and her team will be able to improve the situation to some extent before Landon got back from his mission.

It has been over 2 years since she began working for her Ministry, and now... She knew most of the protocols and procedures needed in handling such matters.

Immediately, her mind went to work... and she had quickly decided to head towards Riverdale city as soon as Landon left Baymard.

Of course she would first give her morning lectures, before heading out at 1 P.M to the city to collect more stream & lake water samples.

She and her team would also have to find a way to lower the water pollution rate as well.

Because even though they had placed several signs along the streams..... and also informed all those coming into the city about the rules, Tourists still did as they pleased.

So this time, they had to take a more dramatic approach instead.

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Landon nodded at mother Kim before finally facing Mother Winnie.

"Alright!

As for Mrs. Winnie from the ministry of Health & Long Term Care..... during my period of absence, you and your team will still do all your regular duties and inspections involved.

Please properly conduct your monthly inspection of all batch samples for drugs, eyewear or anything healthwise.

More importantly, all restaurants and areas carrying food also need to be inspected as well.

Any place that doesn't reflect the health and safety codes when handling, packaging or storing meat, dairy or any other foods.... should be properly punished as protocol.

And this goes without saying, but those places need to be extremely clean as well.

No mice!"

"Yes, your majesty!" Mother Winnie responded seriously as well.

The meeting continued on, with Landon talking about the responsibilities that both Grace and Lucy had to deal with.

For Grace, she was currently working with the Ministry of Trade & Investment that dealt with imports and exports, all matters concerning trade nationally and internationally... As well as National investments too.

And apart from doing all that, she also had to attend several meetings with different associations.

But the biggest meeting that she had to attend during Landon's absence, was the annual merchant meeting.... which basically consisted of all registered merchants that came to and fro Baymard.

Yes!

Baymard had a Merchant Association.

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For the annual meeting, only registered members could attend the event.

And anyone who brought in any unregistered member as a guest had to be sanctioned heavily, and might even be suspended from the association indefinitely.

One should know that this meeting was an exclusive one for members only... And was also one of the many perks entitled to members as well.

Of course, some of the perks were simple things like; longer Visa dates, better-discounted prices, 5% off schooling fees for their children and so on.

In short, all these perks were a way of saying thank you to them because half of Baymard's income came from these merchants who exported goods on a daily basis and distributed them throughout the Pyno continent... as well as to other places in the world.

And so with all those benefits, almost all merchants who wanted to work with Baymard in the long run immediately registered for under the association.

The association had over 300 members who were either wealthy merchants, ordinary merchants or even merchants that just started up.

In short, everyone within the continent knew that signing up under this association was a good starting point for new merchants.

As they could easily mingle with other wealthy merchant associates or even have the opportunity to give proper business proposals as well.

And in addition to that, they also had several perks from Baymard a well.

So how could they not scramble to sign up for it?

This annual meeting/meet-up was a 5-day one... With different activities and meetings that had been planned out for the associates.

For sure, people from all over the continent would be swarming over like flies.

So with how big the event was going to be, Landon was already certain that Grace would have her hands too full during his absence.

But since she said that she could handle it, then so be it.

"Your majesty, the event will definitely be successful.

So worry not." Grace said confidently.

"I believe in you, Miss Grace." Landon replied, before focusing his attention to the last person on the list.... his fiancee, Lucy.

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In her case, she worked within the Ministry of National Security, Peace & Defence.

Of course this goes without saying, but as the future queen .. she had to protect the empire whether Landon was present or not.

As a minister within the department, she also had to work with the leaders of all armed forces within Baymard.

Anything to do with security and peace had to pass through her ministry.

So she and her team had to ensure that everyone was following protocol.

Her ministry had so many things to do, like working alongside those who might fight wars, countering global and domestic terrorist threats, screening goods at the ports to see if any black powder, explosives or hostile individuals that tried to make it through, and so on.

In short, she and her team were those people in movies that spoke to Mr. Mrs. president about important security matters and came up with ideas on what to do when facing national attacks.

And aside from that, Lucy was also a registered member of the military and Navy forces, as she had been training every Tuesday, Friday and Sundays alongside the soldiers and Navy officers.

So if there were actually any attacks during his absence, he was confident that she would properly handle the situation to the best of her capabilities... with the help of Lucius, Gary and the rest, of course.

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And so just like that, Landon had properly settled everyone before finally heading off to bed.

It didn't even take up to a minute before his heavy eyes quickly gave way.

Yup!

He was dead tired!

But luckily for him, the sandman was there to nestle him warmly all night long.

It truly felt like time went by too swiftly.... because before he knew it, the morning had already come once again.

And now, It was finally home for him to leave!