However, the elves soon became excited again.

The Count of Castres' stay at the Metasequoia Hotel is undoubtedly a huge publicity and the most effective recognition of the hotel.

I wonder what could be a more useful advertisement than the lord checking in personally.

The alarmed hotel owner, the moon elf from Luna Island, even climbed out of bed overnight and came to visit Charlotte in person. Not only did he waive Charlotte's fees, he also enthusiastically gave many Luna gifts.

A precious gift from the island.

The enthusiasm of the attitude is completely different from the arrogance and indifference of the elves recorded in the books.

It can only be said that in the face of absolute power and interests, even elves with arrogant personalities are not immune.

These long ears are not as old-fashioned as the ones described in the books Charlotte read.

In fact, many elves who are keen on business are even much more tactful than humans.

In addition to the elf boss who was extremely enthusiastic after learning Charlotte's identity, after learning that Charlotte had arrived in Silver City, the mayor of Silver City also led a large group of officials to visit him personally the next day.

Charlotte was not surprised by this.

Caiyin City is also under the direct jurisdiction of Castells. As a lord, even if he goes to inspect the vassal's home, his territorial vassals need to accompany him, let alone go under his own direct jurisdiction and conduct a private visit incognito and reveal his identity.

When Charlotte revealed her identity last night, she already guessed that various officials would be coming the next day.

However, rather than coming to pay homage, it was more like he came out of fear to ask for forgiveness.

At least, the mayor of Caiyin City fell to his knees as soon as they met:

"Lord Earl, it's all our fault! I didn't expect that something like this would happen in the mining workshop!"

The mayor, who seemed to be in his sixties or seventies, led a group of city officials and bowed down in front of Charlotte to apologize.

"Your Majesty Amel, please wake up. The mining workshop is jointly managed by various families and is not directly under the jurisdiction of Silver Mining City. This matter has nothing to do with the municipal officials."

Charlotte said.

This is true. Silver City is directly under the jurisdiction of Castel, but the mine is not.

In order to consolidate their rule, the Castel Silver Mine has long been a tool for the Castel family to win over various nobles.

However, if the city officials in front of her really didn't know anything about the silver mine, Charlotte didn't believe it.

The fact that the Mithril Mine can be concealed so well means that the forces involved behind it are by no means as simple as one or two, and 80% of these officials are also unclean.

But Charlotte still understands the truth that when water is clear, there are no fish. What she has to deal with is the vampires hiding behind the scenes. As for the city officials in front of her... it doesn't matter.

Many of them are not even nobles.

Eliminating opposition forces and consolidating territorial power does not mean a thorough cleansing of the territory; it means greater chaos.

Charlotte's rule requires experienced hands. This is not a game. You can remove one manager and replace it with a new one and still keep running.

This has nothing to do with strength. Even if Charlotte has the strength to crush everything, she will not be able to effectively rule the territory if she cannot obtain the cooperation of local forces.

Not to mention, her invincible strength is fully activated for only a few dozen seconds.

She had done her homework in advance. In the history of Miria, there were examples of local nobles joining forces to force away legendary lords.

The method is also very simple. The lord is both obedient and uncooperative, leading to the complete paralysis of the entire territory's bureaucracy. At the same time, it incites people to riot, and finally makes the lord with legendary strength helpless...

After all, you can’t just kill everyone, right?

There are kingdoms and churches watching from above!

In a world with gods, everything has rules. Even the legendary lord has to act according to the rules, unless you have the idea and strength to fight against the rules.

As a "quasi-evil god", Charlotte has reasons and thoughts to fight, but unfortunately... she is not strong enough.

For this reason, Charlotte never had the idea of ​​​​renovating Castel in one fell swoop from the beginning.

In fact, she couldn't do it either.

Find out the forces behind the scenes, kill the culprits, and then win over all the people you can win over. Once you have secured your position and rule, you can take care of things slowly.

When her prestige increases, when her faith becomes solid, Castel will not be what she is talking about?

After appeasing the officials of Silver City, Charlotte announced that she would not accept any other visits in the near future.

This is mainly aimed at the nobles. Since the Castel Silver Mine is causing such a big fuss, I am afraid that nobles will get the news soon and come quickly.

Forget it about meeting the officials of the direct territory. Since she had already decided to formally meet with the nobles of the territory at the Beigang banquet in a week's time, if she made an opening before then, she would not be able to have any more time before the banquet.

It can be regarded as a sideways expression of dissatisfaction to the nobles. After all... she is also qualified to express dissatisfaction regarding the mithril mine.

As if to verify Charlotte's prediction, in the next few days, envoys from various families rushed to Caiyin City to ask for an audience.

"Are you doing the cutting pretty quickly? Are you all so eager to get yourself out of the mining workshop so quickly?"

Charlotte chuckled softly as she listened to the noble envoys' various reasons for meeting and words of loyalty.

Of course, she didn't see anyone. The messengers tried their best to convey these words, and some even shouted that they were wronged in the hotel lobby, and then were directly stood down by the guards.

"Tell them that I suspect that there are nobles in the territory colluding with cultists. I don't plan to meet any nobles before the Beigang banquet."

Charlotte looked at the list compiled by Sebastian in her hand and said.

After saying that, she looked at Sebastian again:

"Is that all the workshop managers can recruit?"

"That's all. Except for finding out which family the approximate supporters behind them are, any crime committed by anyone will only involve some unimportant characters in the end."

"I even used the power of spiritual control you gave me to conduct trials, but these stewards... don't seem to know much. Many of them are motivated to cover up the truth out of their own greed, not orders."

"Master, I suspect that they have also received some kind of spiritual suggestion. However, they... are just abandoned children, and the vampires behind the scenes may have already planned to abandon them."

Sebastian said respectfully.

"Maybe, but...the people behind the scenes have abandoned these stewards, but they still need nobles to do things for them. They can follow the clues and touch each family, even if there is no evidence."

Charlotte said.

After speaking, she stretched and ordered:

"Complete the handover of the mining workshop as soon as possible, and then let's return to Beigang as soon as possible. Well... those stewards with problems will also be escorted along."

Sebastian saluted respectfully:

"I will obey your orders."

After spending another two days reorganizing the workshop, Charlotte left Silver City.

This time, the mining workshop has undergone a major change, and almost two-thirds of the stewards have been dismissed.

As for the remaining one-third, it cannot be said that every one of them has no problems at all, but it is already Charlotte's limit.

She still needs manpower to do the work, and she can't really completely paralyze the mining workshop.

Again, it's enough to clean up the big problems and those with small problems, warn them, and let them realize who is the lord again.

As soon as she returned to North Port, Charlotte received another important message from the Principality of Boulder.

The Duke of Bold... died of illness.

Sorry! I had already finished writing, but I took a nap and accidentally overslept! I woke up in the early morning! This chapter is from the 18th, not the 19th.

Ahhhh! My leave request note!
Chapter completed!