"Meier." Richard said with a smile.
"Lord." Maier bowed.
"You know, I'm a little disappointed in you all of a sudden."
"Sir...can you tell me why?"
"Yes, it's actually very simple, because I originally thought you had several important qualities as my subordinate, but it turns out that you don't."
"Sir!" Maier called out, sincerely, "I am absolutely loyal to you, and I can swear it on the name of my ancestors."
Do you want to be the second White Stone Tower profiteer Alex... This is not the first time that I dug up his ancestor's grave... Do you want to do the same... But there shouldn't be any Black Spirit King's treasure hidden in your ancestor's grave, right? … Then it’s not worth digging for.
Richard raised his eyebrows, met Maier's sincere eyes, and said loudly: "I don't doubt your loyalty... In fact, it doesn't matter if you are not loyal, because I have enough means to make you loyal, believe me. "
Richard nodded to Maier very convincingly, paused, and continued: "Compared with loyalty, I value wisdom more, and you score very low in wisdom. First of all, you are in the economic union If you privately support a group of thieves to plunder the area and obtain bloody money, it shows your stupidity.
After all, although supporting bandit gangs to plunder can accumulate a lot of wealth in a short period of time, over time, business development will stagnate or even regress, making it completely unsustainable. On the contrary, if you look long enough, you can see that to maintain law and order and allow commerce to prosper, the amount of long-term trade taxes alone is an astronomical figure. Not to mention that you can rely on your own strength to seize a monopoly position in one or several business fields and make huge profits.
To put it simply, it is the difference between dividing a small cake or making the cake bigger and dividing it, and you chose the former. This is really short-sighted and does not meet my expectations of your intelligence. "
"But sir..." Maier didn't fully understand what Richard said, but it didn't affect his understanding. Richard still suspected that he had colluded with the thieves, so he tried to defend himself, "But sir... I really don't know the thieves." He has nothing to do with the bandits."
"Alas." Richard shook his head, exhaled, looked at Maier and whispered softly, "Look, this is what disappoints me most about you, and it is also the real reason why I decided to give up on you. In fact, you can be stupid. You can also make mistakes - as the saying goes, man is not a god, at least one mistake is allowed in his life.
After all, you can't be sure what the economic complex area will look like when it develops. It doesn't matter if you want to make a little money. After all, you didn’t invent this method, you just followed the rules of the game that you already had and made it bigger.
The thing is, you can't make the same mistake over and over again. I have already asked you and the rest of the people to investigate in your jurisdiction when I ask you to gather in Blackwater City. So what I am talking about is naturally not something I heard casually, but I have seen it with my own eyes and verified it with my actions. In this way, I will ask you in front of so many people at this meeting.
If you can figure this out, admit your mistake decisively, and then go back and kill your brother-in-law, or make other arrangements, in short, clean up the thieves group, and let the economic complex area embark on the path of healthy development, everything will be fine.
But you... well, what should I say, you have to deny and refuse over and over again. You make me feel... Not only do you think your own wisdom is not that good, you also think that my wisdom is not that good either.
In this case, I really can't bear it. "
At the end of the sentence, Richard stared at Maier with weight.
Maier's body was shaken, as if he was penetrated by two spears. His lips opened and closed, and he still wanted to struggle. He said with a somewhat aggrieved voice: "Sir, I really didn't..."
"That's enough!" Richard spoke out, interrupting Maier's words. Then he looked at Maier's face for several seconds and said slowly, "Please... shut up."
As soon as the last three words came out, the air in front of Richard fluctuated, and ripples appeared like water, which quickly rushed to Maier and slapped his upper body.
Maier sat back down in his seat with a bang. He wanted to open his mouth, but found that an invisible force had sealed his mouth, blocked his nose, and strangled his throat.
"Woooooo~"
Maier made a vague sound deep in his throat, his eyes almost popped out of his sockets, his feet kicked on the ground, and his hands grabbed his neck tightly, trying to tear away the mysterious power. But he couldn't do this at all. He could only blush a little bit, then turn purple and black, and his eyeballs were bloodshot and almost exploded.
Finally, his whole body twitched, and he collapsed limply on his seat, motionless.
The people around and in the audience saw this change completely. Most people's bodies trembled slightly, and some even clamped their legs to restrain their sudden urge to urinate. They didn't dare to breathe, and the place was deathly quiet.
If we say that Bibi showed up a week ago, the method she displayed was gorgeous and shocking.
So the method that Richard is showing now is both ordinary and creepy.
After all, Bibi's method is obvious at a glance. If you hit the body, you will either die or be in pain... But in most cases, it will be over after death, and the pain will not be felt - just for a moment.
Richard was different. The method he used was a death of suffocation, pain, and despair.
This is a bit scary.
At this moment, when people in the field looked at Richard, they already felt that the person coming was not a powerful wizard, but a dark devil.
The Dark Lord didn't seem to be aware of this, as if he didn't know how much his actions frightened the people present. After dealing with Maier, he paused for a few seconds and then spoke again: "Okay, it seems that Mr. Maier is not suitable to be the deputy minister of the Sarin Efficiency Department, so who among the rest of you is willing to give it a try? "
"this… "
Everyone in the venue looked at each other and sat like primary school students without saying a word. The whole place was silent, no one dared to speak out.
Several capable managers who wanted to compete with Maier in the past also behaved in the same way, with complicated hearts.
Speaking of which, they were happy when Richard killed Maier. It can be expected that once Maier dies, a lot of interests will become ownerless, and then they can be divided up as much as they like—even if they can't divide them all, things that come for free are always good.
In addition, Maier's death can be regarded as clearing their obstacles, making it possible for any of them to become deputy minister of the Department of Efficiency.
But the joy only lasted for a few seconds. After they took a serious look at Maier's body with wide eyes, slumped on the seat, and not yet cold, they calmed down and had to think more comprehensively.
Maier was the first one to stand up. The situation was originally good, but after Richard asked two questions, he died.
What about them? Will they follow in the same footsteps
He might not be able to catch up with Maier, and he might be killed by Richard after standing up and only being asked a question. Because to be honest, compared to Maier, their jurisdiction and power may be much smaller, but they do similar bad things. After all, they are all for making money. They have to participate in murder and arson.