I, the prince in distress, send money

Chapter 179 Threats and Fun

Managing a city is indeed troublesome. Xiaodao now realizes this and begins to regret it.

He originally thought that turning Oncandra into the regiment's base was a good idea, but he also felt that his idea was a bit whimsical. After Marlow surrendered and handed over the city, he casually submitted an application to the rear.

Then Prince Chris unexpectedly agreed to his application, but also made corresponding requirements.

Prince Chris asked Xiaodao to restore order in Oncandra and eliminate hunger in order to continue serving as the interim mayor, and the Mountain Tiger Regiment could also share 20% of the city's commercial tax revenue.

After Prince Chris successfully restores his country and re-establishes the aristocratic system, if Xiaodao can obtain the title and promote the regiment to level three, then Oncandra can become his fiefdom, with limited power to formulate his own laws and obtain 50% of its tax revenue.

This seems like a win-win situation, but in practice it is fraught with difficulties. Xiaodao not only has to deal with the complex security issues in the city, but also has to solve a series of livelihood problems such as food shortages and price fluctuations.

Judging from the duties of the interim mayor, Xiaodao needs to be responsible for the daily management of the city, including maintaining social order, ensuring material supply, and handling emergencies.

This is similar to management responsibilities in the military, such as the need to establish a strict duty system like the military, maintain constant readiness and uninterrupted command to deal with various emergencies.

At the same time, he also needs to allocate resources reasonably like managing an army to ensure the normal operation of the city.

However, unlike the army, there are more complex interest relations and social problems to deal with in the city. Xiaodao not only has to deal with public security issues in the city, but also has to solve a series of people's livelihood problems such as food shortages and price fluctuations.

He also needs to balance the interests of all parties while restoring urban order and ensuring the stability and development of the city.

Xiaodao realized that although Prince Chris gave him opportunities and resources, to truly achieve his goals, he would still need to burn a lot of brain cells and have extremely high patience.

Why the hell is it so hard to manage a city?!
Xiaodao was extremely irritated.

It’s not that he can’t do these things, but they are very tedious and take up his time to practice martial arts and go out to kill the bandits around him.

"Why the hell doesn't Prince Chris send some people over to help me with the work?"

Just when Xiaodao was getting extremely annoyed and was about to give up his plan, there was a knock on the door of the temporary mayor's office. The knocks were steady and rhythmic.

"Come in."

"Click..."

The person who pushed the door open was a young man with fuzz around his mouth and acne all over his face. He looked like a recent adult. He was wearing a neat dark coat and a silver badge on his chest with patterns engraved on it that Xiaodao couldn't understand.

This young man was a clerk recommended by Marlowe, who was said to be able to reduce Xiaodao's clerical work.

To be honest, it's a good thing to have someone to help, so Xiaodao hired the young man as his mayor's secretary without thinking, and gave him one hundred silver dollars a month, which made the latter and the old man very happy.

And this young man was indeed capable and worthy of the monthly salary of one hundred silver dollars. It only took him three days of work for Xiaodao to organize the paperwork in perfect order. The data on the inflow and outflow of grain were all clear and without any error.

Xiaodao has an intelligent butler. If the NPC falsifies the data, he will definitely not be able to hide it, so he is not afraid of being deceived.

If something like this really happened, Xiaodao and Dadao would definitely not hesitate at all.

"Alex, is there something wrong?" "Yes, Mayor."

Alex subconsciously bent down, lowered his head, raised a gilded letter made of fine sheepskin with a light beige luster in his hand, and placed it on the desk.

"What is this?"

"Invitation, Mr. Mayor, this is an invitation to a banquet from the eight chambers of commerce and twelve guilds of Oncandra. Please attend the banquet in three days."

"Um!?"

Xiaodao's impatient mood immediately changed. He straightened his back, reached out to take the invitation, tore open the cover roughly, took out the paper inside, took a look at it, and threw it to Alex.

"Come on, tell me, what the hell did they write?"

Xiaodao has a system translation function that can translate Bagnian text in real time, but this time the translation function seems to be ineffective. He can understand the translated Chinese, but after combining them together, he doesn't quite understand what it means.

Alex took the letter and read it carefully.

His eyes quickly scanned the letter, and his lips moved slightly, as if he was silently reciting the contents of the letter. After a moment, he raised his head and looked at Xiaodao with a serious expression on his face.

"My Lord Mayor, this letter is a joint invitation from the eight Chambers of Commerce and twelve Guilds of Oncandra. They invite you to attend a grand banquet in three days at the Chamber of Commerce Federation Hall.

The letter mentioned that this banquet was to welcome you as the interim mayor and that they hoped to establish a good cooperative relationship with you to jointly promote the economic development and restoration of order in Oncandra.

Oh, there is something else behind the words, this is it!
Xiaodao doesn't like doing copywriting work, but he is not a stupid person.

Xiaodao had done a lot of reading comprehension in Chinese class, so when he heard Alex's words, he immediately understood the underlying meaning of the invitation letter.

The location was chosen to be the Chamber of Commerce Federation Hall, and in conjunction with the "invitation letter jointly issued by the eight chambers of commerce and twelve guilds of Oncandra", it can be understood that the person who wrote the invitation letter was declaring to the city hall that the economy of this city is in our hands, and you are only the temporary mayor.

"Establish a good cooperative relationship" is even more interesting. Literally, it means nothing, but if you think about it more deeply, this sentence can mean that they intend to bribe you, or it can be understood in reverse...it becomes a threatening statement.

Xiaodao laughed.

"This is someone who comes with bad intentions."

Alex stared at his interim mayor for a moment with his eyes wide open. His lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, nothing came out.

Xiaodao didn't notice his secretary's movements. He was thinking about the contents of the invitation letter. As he was thinking, he began to laugh.

"That's good. Fun comes to me when I'm really bored."

What is the most important thing about this city to the Mountain Tiger Regiment?

It’s definitely not those guilds and chambers of commerce.

(End of this chapter)