On the day before the new year, Reggie prepared a speech and prepared to deliver a speech to all the people of Xuexicheng to summarize the achievements of the past year and plan the work tasks for next year.
When it was time to deliver the speech, things were not as expected. The location of the speech was not in the square, but in the conference hall.
The people listening to his speech were not all the residents of Suixue City, but all the officials.
In this regard, Bacello gave a more euphemistic explanation. The New Year is coming and everyone prefers to stay at home.
To put it more bluntly, everyone is busy celebrating the New Year, and no one thinks of being in the square, listening to the lords comparing nonsense while the cold wind blows.
Seeing a bunch of officials sitting in the conference hall, Reggie's interest dropped significantly. After a few brief words, he asked the new officials to introduce themselves.
First, two fiscal and tax officials were added, one was named Rodgers and the other was named Quentin DeLo. Both of them passed secondary education and passed the entrance examination for higher education. They are currently moving towards the Bachelor of Science degree.
effort.
After the two finance and tax officials arrived, Finans offered to resign, but Reggie refused. Since Sane left, Reggie was sure that Finans had not tampered with the accounting, so he decided to stay on.
As a financial and tax official, first of all, his ability is beyond doubt. In addition, it is also very interesting to torture Finans mentally.
There is also the newly arrived internal affairs officer Avila, who is the only female official selected. She is twenty-two years old this year. Women of this age should be busy getting married and having children, but this poor girl is a special case. She does not
Putting experience into the young man's hands, she passed her secondary education with honors and got the highest score in the official selection exam.
Reggie felt very relieved to receive education and change his destiny. This is the process of human progress.
There are also two foreign affairs officers. One is named Joshua, who serves as the northern foreign affairs officer and mainly deals with the Bile country. The other is named Anthony, who serves as the southern foreign affairs officer and deals with the Bair country.
There are also two agricultural officers, Jabko and Catino, and two civil officers, Nardan and Ilet.
As for the two commercial officers, Batchelor chose Old Hill and Dexter. Jiawen had always had some opinions on this matter. The relationship between Old Hill and Dexter was too good, and it was easy for them to collude for personal gain at work, and
Decto failed to pass secondary education and was not suitable to serve as a high official. Most importantly, Decto left the army, which was a big loss to Jarvan.
But Bachelo's reasons are also very good. The nature of business officers is very special. There are no better businessmen than them in the entire Snow City.
According to Reggie's request, Batchelor selected a total of three judges. Although their law examination scores were very impressive, in Batchelor's view, they were still far from being qualified judges, and the right to review important cases still rested with them.
Reggie and Batchelor share the mastery.
There are also two integrity officers. One is named Samuel. He was originally the favorite student of Heyman, Bachelor of Arts. However, because of his upright character and extremely unpleasant personality, no one was willing to accept him as a student after Heyman went to Hanmaple Fortress.
In desperation, the young man chose to take the official selection examination.
The other one is more special, he is Roland Field.
As the most promising young man in the army, he resigned from the position of battalion commander and chose to be an integrity officer. This was really an incredible thing. Although Jiawen Gusta tried to persuade him to stay, Roland was still loyal to him.
choice.
After simply listening to the work report, Reggie decided to stop wasting time and directly provide everyone with useful information and give out year-end bonuses.
All officials, bachelors, soldiers, teachers, doctors, workers in Shattering Snow City... will receive year-end bonuses ranging from five to thirty gold coins based on their annual work performance. There are special bonuses for Calaf, Natalie and Imma.
Those who contributed were given a special reward of fifty gold coins each, and the remaining civilians would also receive a reward of three gold coins.
But this did not include Batchelor and Jarvan. Although Batchelor didn't care about these gold coins, he quietly reminded Reggie that since his wife left, Jarvan's life has not been easy. He put his food and
All the military pay was distributed to the soldiers, but now their pockets are so empty that they may not even be able to afford a New Year's dinner.
Everyone has different contributions to Xuexicheng and has different meanings to Xuexicheng. Reggie has already had a sense of proportion in his heart.
After the meeting ended, everyone left the hall one after another. Reggie took Batchelor and Jarvan to the Lord's Castle. He ordered people to carry out two boxes, each containing a thousand gold coins.
"This is yours, my friends."
Jiawen was born into a noble family, but he was still a little surprised when he saw a box of gold coins placed in front of him.
"S-Sir, this, this shouldn't be the case," Jiawen couldn't help but shake his head and said, "I, I have already received a salary much higher than that of a soldier. I have no reason to accept these anymore..."
"Take it, you are different," Reggie stood up and said, "You have dedicated all of yourselves to Broken Snow City, and part of Broken Snow City will also belong to you."
Although he did not discuss it with Bachelo in advance, Reggie's approach was expected by Bachelo, and he readily accepted Reggie's gift.
But Jiawen was still a little anxious. He hesitated for a long time, as if he suddenly remembered something: "Sir, there is another person. You should not forget him. I am willing to give him half of my reward."
"Of course I haven't forgotten him," Reggie said with a smile, "I've already prepared his share."
Bachelo, Jarvan, and Erwin, if any one of them chose to give up, today's Shattered Snow City would have fallen under the iron heel of the Bayer Kingdom.
They are eligible to own a part of Snow City, just like the founders of a company are eligible to own shares of the company.
After dividing the gold coins, it's time to discuss difficult issues with Jarvan.
"We have a serious shortage of soldiers and we have to find a way to solve this problem as soon as possible."
Jiawen said helplessly: "I have been mobilizing young people to join the army, but more young people have chosen to receive education."
Such remarks made Bachelo a little dissatisfied: "Knight Gusta, it seems that receiving an education and joining the army are not contradictory things."
Jiawen shook his head and said: "When young people receive education, they will have more choices, and the military will lose its appeal to them."
Batchelor said: "Everything we have done for Broken Snow City is for everyone to have the right to choose. Isn't this the Lord's wish?"
Jiawen said: "If we are unable to protect Broken Snow City, where does the power of choice come from?"
Batchelor said: "Protecting Broken Snow City requires more than just an army. Wisdom is sometimes more important than an army."
This is a dispute between the brave and the wise. Behind the dispute is an irreconcilable contradiction. Should we be martial or civilized? This is a problem that every ruler must face, but the problem that Reggie wants to solve is not this.
"I think we have gone too far," Reggie said. "There are not many young people in Shattering Snow City. What I want to say is, can we consider other recruitment channels?"
Jiawen seemed to be aware of Reggie's thoughts. He looked at Reggie warily and asked, "What recruitment channels do you mean..."
"What I mean is, can you consider recruiting soldiers from the new residents? They also have many very good young men."
"New residents?" Jiawen frowned, "Are you referring to slaves?"
"Well... I hope we don't use such insulting names for them again..."
Before Reggie could finish speaking, Jiawen decisively rejected his proposal.
"Sir, although my soldiers are few, they are capable enough. There is no need to replenish a large number of soldiers at the moment. I will not let these slaves tarnish the purity of the army."