seven days.
Seven days.
Officials from all over Sarin waited in Blackwater City for seven days in a manner similar to being under house arrest, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the new lord Richard.
In the past seven days, they had no idea what Richard was investigating in various parts of Sarin. They didn't even know whether Richard had launched an investigation before that. After all, after the carriage coming from Xiaya drifted to a stop, from inside What came out was a weird Bibi, not Richard. Almost no one knows exactly when Richard left the carriage and let Bibi drive alone. Maybe the two of them were separated as soon as they left Xia Ya.
But no matter what, the day to announce the results came. Seven days later, Richard officially arrived in Blackwater City and convened a meeting with all officials.
The officials were waiting for this moment, their eyes were red and the bags under their eyes were as swollen as eggs. After hearing the announcement, they rushed to the venue impatiently. They thought it would be a common oath-taking ceremony, allowing them to declare their allegiance to the new lord and discuss the taxes to be paid in each jurisdiction. But when I arrived at the venue, I realized that it was not that simple.
…
Seven days later, a hall in the Blackwater Theater.
The place was hurriedly packed up and arranged into a conference venue. After the officials at all levels in Salin took their seats, Richard stepped in and walked towards a wooden table on the stage.
Official Shalin stood up subconsciously and looked around with the corner of his eyes, guessing whether he was saluting the new lord or doing something else? After all, they have never participated in similar scenes. They originally thought that Richard would be sitting alone, and they stepped forward one by one to swear an oath, but the result was completely different from what they imagined.
Richard noticed the performance of the Salin official, waved his hand quickly, and said simply: "No need to salute, just sit down. I know you have been waiting for me for many days and you are all a little anxious, so we don't need to waste time and strive for End this meeting early. You can rest assured that I have time to do what I want to do."
The Salin officials had different expressions, but after hearing what Richard said, they felt reluctant to disobey the order and sat back in their seats.
After glancing at the venue and seeing that most people were doing well, Richard flipped his hand and took out a scroll, placed it on the table and unfolded it, revealing the names written on it.
"Next, I will call the names. The person whose name is called will answer." Richard spoke out, and without giving everyone time to react, he had already read out the first name, "Gustav John."
"Ah?" A middle-aged man with a gray beard stood up quickly, his expression slightly flustered, and he really didn't know how to respond.
Answered? Just shout "Dai Zi"? No way
The middle-aged man's eyes flickered, sometimes looking at Richard and sometimes at the people next to him, hoping to get some hints. There was no response, but within a few seconds, he was already sweating.
Fortunately, at this moment, Richard looked over, pressed his hand down and said, "Just sit down."
"Yes." Gustave John seemed to have had his strength drained from his body. He took a long breath and sat down quickly in his seat.
At this time, Richard began to read out the second person's name: "Neil Ivan."
"brush!"
A fair-skinned man in his thirties stood up, looked at Richard, and asked tentatively: "Are you here?"
"Yes." Richard nodded and gestured to sit down, and Neil Ivan quickly sat down.
After watching it, the eyes of the rest of the people in the field lit up slightly, feeling that they had received some important signal.
Next, the answering process started to become smoother.
"Addison Thomas?"
"arrive."
"Barron Adolphus?"
"arrive."
With the people in front serving as role models, the people behind will become more and more calm, and some will even perform some appropriate performances.
for example…
"Male Grover?" Richard called out.
"Yes, sir." A man with a bowler hat stood up, bowed slightly, and gave a respectful greeting to Richard, "Mair from the west of Salin, greets you and declares his allegiance. I wish you, my lord, always good health and a long life.”
"Yes." Richard nodded, waved for the other person to sit down, and read out the next name.
"Simon Irons?"
"Dear Sir Richard, hello." A man wearing a bright red coat stood up and said imitatively, "Simon from the East of Shalin greets you and declares his allegiance. I wish you eternal youth and peace. .”
"Yes." Richard also nodded and motioned for the other party to sit down without saying anything else.
"Lynn Kate?" Richard read out another name.
A middle-aged man in his fifties stood up. His face was full of vicissitudes of life, his hair was half white, and there was a scar on his left cheek that was twisted like a centipede. With his fierce appearance, he looked more like a bad guy than a bad guy.
However, the other party was very capable. He shouted "Here" and sat down without any other performance.
Richard treated this equally and read out the subsequent names without any change in tone.
In the next few minutes, in the hall of the former theater, roll call and answer calls came and went one after another, full of a sense of dissonance. Those who didn't know it thought they were on a university campus on earth.
Richard didn't feel much disgust about this. Although it was against the rules, it was fine if it could be used. At least it allowed him to successfully match the names on the list with every Sarin official in reality.
Then comes the actual content of the meeting.
A few minutes later, after reading the name, Richard put down the scroll, glanced across the audience, and said slowly: "Thank you for waiting these days, I believe you know very well that I am your new lord Richard. Next, I want everyone to cooperate and do something for Sarin.
As you know, Sarin is similar to other fiefdoms. It is divided into a large area into several small areas, which are managed by you respectively. This can reduce the workload of my lord, but some corresponding orders cannot be communicated in a timely and smooth manner. . "
Richard did not tell lies. Most of the fiefdoms in the main continent are currently in a similar situation. A large fiefdom was divided into many small fiefdoms at multiple levels, which were managed separately by his subordinates. The advantage of this is that as long as the lord takes care of his own direct jurisdiction, he will be fine. Officials in other jurisdictions will handle the affairs of the responsible area according to the situation and pay the taxes on time.
However, Richard was not prepared to do this. After all, in this case, the logic of "the vassals of my vassals are not my vassals" made it difficult for his orders to be conveyed to the bottom. Although he can easily collect money, he is not short of money. He came to Sarin because he wanted to successfully transform Sarin in a relatively short period of time and unleash its powerful potential to feed back his research.
So…
Richard paused, looked at the people in the audience and said, "Next, I want to set up a new organization - the Efficiency Department."