Organizations and Units

After exiling Marquis Victor with an iron fist and crushing the resistance of the few die-hard nobles in one thunderous stroke, the emancipation of slaves and the land reform finally began rolling out across Evernight Territory at an unprecedented, unrelenting pace.

The old aristocratic factions that had previously paid lip service while dragging their feet were now confronted with a bloody lesson.

They had no choice but to submit.

Yet the moment tens of thousands of slaves gained freedom, and vast tracts of noble estates and manors were seized and placed under direct control of the lord’s household, an unprecedented and extraordinarily severe challenge crashed down upon Vivian and her core administration.

Evernight City itself, after nearly a year of meticulous planning and construction, had already formed a relatively efficient and centralized governance model.

The council hall coordinated policy.

Production was handled by workshops and mana-crystal mines.

Military affairs fell to the new army system.

Education belonged to Evernight Academy.

Everything operated smoothly under Vivian’s direct gaze and control.

But now the territory under management had ballooned dozens of times overnight.

No longer just one city, but dozens of villages and towns of varying sizes, endless farmland, forests, mining nodes, and a population that had exploded in number.

How could the finely tuned governance model of Evernight City be effectively extended to such a vast and scattered domain?

How could the Demon Lord’s will and decrees pierce every layer of distance, reach the remotest hamlet, and be faithfully executed?

How could the real situation at the grassroots, the people’s needs, and brewing problems be grasped in real time?

As the old saying went: the county magistrate is no match for the local clerk; imperial authority stops at the village gate; the heavens are high and the emperor far away.

The most crucial function of the old nobility had been to help the sovereign manage an immense territory.

Now that slaves were freed and land reclaimed, the question of how to efficiently govern this colossal domain became urgent.

Previously, Vivian only had to manage Evernight City—everything was under her nose, easy to control.

Now she had to govern the entire territory.

This required elevating administration from ad-hoc measures to a systematic, institutional level.

The noble system had been rotten and inefficient, yet it at least formed a network that reached the grassroots—even if that network existed solely for exploitation and control.

By smashing it with her own hands, Vivian now had to immediately weave a new, more efficient, and more loyal one in its place.

Otherwise, the vast lands would fall into a power vacuum, breeding chaos, new local warlords, or infiltration by external forces like Gulaim.

Fortunately, Vivian had foreseen this.

She had prepared.

She came from a modern civilization where information flowed freely and organizational power was supreme.

She understood what “organizational capacity” truly meant to a regime.

Scattered individuals could never produce great strength.

Only a people effectively organized could unleash the power to reshape the world.

What Vivian wanted was simple: organize everyone into collectives, into units.

Let all labor follow collectively established systems and procedures, then distribute the fruits of that labor fairly.

In her vision, her citizens needed stronger organization, stronger centralization, stronger planning.

She needed to rebuild a grassroots structure that incorporated every single subject.

Only with organization came discipline.

Only with discipline came order.

Only with order came planning.

This was exactly how Evernight City had been rebuilt—everything orderly and methodical.

Residential districts and workshops were divided by zone.

Each zone was subdivided into streets and alleys.

Every resident was registered.

Then each street established a residents’ committee.

These committees would bring every registered resident under unified management.

At first, committee members would be appointed by Vivian herself—demons who had attended Evernight Academy’s night school, possessed basic literacy and knowledge, and understood at least part of her ideals.

They would handle foundational tasks.

Once most residents were literate, grassroots elections would begin.

Capable individuals would be chosen as local cadres to carry out essential duties and establish the most basic “units.”

Work assignment, wage and grain distribution, skill training—all these grassroots functions would fall to the residents’ committees.

Once the foundational layer was in place, higher functional organs would be built atop it.

Neighborhood committees would handle daily life within their districts.

Work-related issues would be managed by higher specialized units.

All problems and feedback from community and functional units would be compiled and passed upward to even higher departments for discussion and resolution.

Anything that could not be solved would continue upward until it reached Vivian herself.

This was the administrative system of the modern society she had known before transmigrating.

Everyone belonged to a unit.

Units formed the body politic.

Work advanced according to Vivian’s will as the guiding principle.

When grassroots citizens faced problems, they raised them upward through proper channels.

After study, solutions were issued downward.

The system was both authoritarian and democratic.

Of course, building it from scratch was extraordinarily difficult.

So in the beginning, Vivian had not tried to govern the entire territory at once.

She had started simply: rebuild the Demon Lord’s city, restore production at key mines.

Now, after nearly a year of reconstruction, Ever, Evernight City had taken shape.

Population had recovered significantly.

Basic literacy campaigns and collective consciousness were advancing alongside other policies and already showing results.

In Vivian’s design, a post was like a single part.

A unit was a module composed of many parts with specific functions.

Multiple units formed higher departments—halls, bureaus—like complete components.

Components coordinated to become divisions, like the parts of industrial machinery.

Many parts working together became a highly efficient machine.

The state machine.

And the one who determined the machine’s purpose and direction was the highest will.

The system was admittedly somewhat complex.

But its greatest advantage was the ability to integrate all resources for coordinated development.

And once the foundation was laid, even if Vivian were absent from the territory for long periods, the land would not collapse into leaderless chaos.

With the basic unit structure in place, it could operate on its own and maintain stability.

“This will be our most important, most critical task for the foreseeable future.”

After explaining her grand vision in exhaustive detail to her subordinates, Vivian issued the final order.

“Aria, you will oversee the overall coordination. When necessary, the new army will provide support to ensure order and security during the rollout of the new policies.”

“Lucia, you are in charge of selecting, training, and dispatching grassroots cadres. Prioritize promising graduates from Evernight Academy and the night school.”

“Luna, assist Lucia. Focus especially on ensuring livelihood, medical care, and literacy programs reach the grassroots under the new system.”

“We will use Evernight City as the core demonstration zone and gradually radiate successful practices to surrounding villages and towns.”

“There will be resistance. There will be friction. There will be mistakes.”

“But we have no retreat.”

“Only by truly organizing all the power of Evernight can we face any threat the future may bring!”

“Yes, Lord Demon Lord!”

Aria, Lucia, Luna, and the others nodded solemnly at Vivian’s vision.

They accepted their orders and immediately set to work on the new phase.