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Chapter 657 Chapter 658 See the attitude
"On a cold night, with a dim moonlight,

The clouds covered the steep cliffs.
At this time, the sky gradually brightened.

It might be a sunny day.

Sitting there, realizing,

He just missed the carriage."

The actors sang local folk songs enthusiastically on the stage, with only two audience members in the audience.

Maria listened attentively, nodding to the beat from time to time.

Seeing how attentively she listened, the actors performed even harder.

Nowadays, there are so few customers that the actors have to make a living by doing cross-stitch.

Now two local tycoons have come, staying in a hotel for three days, eating in different restaurants, and paying enough money to watch performances, which has brought a bit of vitality to the town.

At the end of the performance, the troupe owner, actors and musicians came out to take their bows. Frederick and Maria went on stage and shook hands with them one by one, just like when they were watching the performance in the Duchy of Wessen.

Maria was chatting with the actors, and the boss pulled Frederick aside and whispered, "Boss, what do you think of our girls?"

Frederick's mouth twitched. Here comes the pimp.

He shook his head and said, "My wife is here, why don't you find a pub and I'll buy you a drink and talk about the troupe's business."

The troupe boss' eyes lit up and he agreed immediately.

The behavior of these two people was very strange, and the locals were muttering about it for many days, suspecting that some important person was acting as a vanguard.

Frederick said something to Maria and asked her to go back to the hotel by herself, and followed the owner of the theater to a bar not far away.

The bar is not big, with three round tables in the middle and three private seats surrounded by long sofas in the corner.

On the way, the boss introduced himself as Jedlica, a local.

As he entered the tavern, Frederick asked a question that had been bothering him for days.

He pointed to a bulletin board by the door and asked, "Jedlica, why is there a bulletin board in every tavern here, and it's so clean."

Jedlica replied in a low voice: "When those officers were still here, they often boasted about how many flowers they had spent the night with here, so someone created a ranking list. They not only competed on the battlefield, but also here."

"In the past two years, the nobles of the Rhine Alliance in Linden City also started to come here. Later, when they heard that Grand Duke Wessen was coming, they thought they were inferior to him, so now they are clean."

Frederick's mouth twitched and he pretended not to hear.

They sat down on the sofa and Jedlica asked the boss to bring two beers.

Frederick took a sip and seemed to feel good about it.

Jedlica said unconvincedly, "We have the best hops nearby. Holecek from Budweis also came here to buy hops, but they were lucky. Grand Duke Wessen went to their place instead of ours."

"I believe that if Grand Duke Wesson came to our place, he would definitely invest in the same way."

He was frustrated, the local beer was the best in the world, but no such luck.

Frederick smiled and said, "This beer should suit his taste. I'll go back and tell the adults about it. Maybe he'll come."

Jedlica asked in surprise, "You know Grand Duke Wessen, is he planning to come?"

It is now known that Archduke Wessen and his fiancée were on vacation in Bohemia, and if the couple were paving the way for him, that would explain why they took turns staying in different hotels.

This was a good opportunity, enough to convene Parliament in the middle of the night.

Frederick shook his head and said, "The Grand Duke Wessen's convoy went to another spa town."

Jedlica was immediately deflated. There are many places with hot springs in this area, so it is not necessary to come here. Frederick continued, "Let me introduce myself first. I am Charles Smith, the investment analyst of the Wesson family. My main job is to find investment opportunities for Grand Duke Wesson."

Jedlica immediately perked up and asked, "Commissioner Smith, do you mean that Grand Duke Wesson might invest in us?"

Frederick said, "It's not certain yet. The main process is that I will write an investment feasibility analysis report after I find an opportunity. If Grand Duke Wessen thinks it is feasible, he will send two other groups of investment analysts to investigate. The reports of the three of us will be combined into a complete report, and Grand Duke Wessen will use it to decide whether to invest and how much to invest."

After hearing this, Jedlica sighed and said, "It sounds amazing."

"So your opinion is important?"

Frederick nodded and said, "It can be said that my report determined the first impression of Grand Duke Wessen."

"I have a question that I can't figure out, and I want to ask you for advice."

"Although the war is over and the officers can no longer do business, why are there no customers from other places coming?"

Jedlica smiled bitterly and said, "In addition to the hot springs, our town has another advantage: convenient transportation. The main road leads to Boheim City in the east, to Linden City in the north, and to the Principality of Wessen in the southwest."

"But the main road to the north was abandoned due to a massive landslide, and the main road to the southwest became a swamp due to the blockage of the valley river during the war. The nobles of Boheim City have neither the money nor the time to go on vacation, so it has become like this now."

Frederick nodded and said, “That is to say, if we want to revive the town, we must restore the roads to the north and southwest.”

Jedlica thought for a moment and said, "That should be the case. I'm just a screenwriter and don't know much about business issues. I can contact you to meet with the mayor."

Frederick took a sip of beer and said, "I hope to hear the voices of people from different industries, look at the problem from different perspectives, and better understand the problem."

Jedlica nodded, thinking that he would incorporate this sentence into the play in the future.

He asked somewhat nervously: "Will Grand Duke Weisen still invest?"

“Building roads requires a lot of money…”

He couldn't continue speaking because he saw Commissioner Smith's mouth curled up into a disdainful smile.

Frederick smiled and said, "Don't doubt anything, don't doubt the money of Grand Duke Wessen and his enthusiasm for road construction."

Maria wanted to turn this place into an art center, so naturally he would support her. It was just building a road, nothing special.

Jedlica thought of the rumors about Grand Duke Wessen and felt that he could not refute them.

Frederick asked him a few more questions about the climate and nearby agricultural supplies, then paid the bill and left.

That evening, Jedlica called a meeting of the town's leaders to inform everyone of Commissioner Smith's news.

At the same time, Maria changed into her pajamas and asked Frederick curiously: "Why did you want to make this public in this way?"

Frederick had just contacted the convoy by telegram. After packing up, he said, "I remember you had some opinions about the notice issued before the inspection by the higher authorities."

Maria said angrily, "Yes, every time they know I'm coming, they prepare in advance, so we can't see any problems."

Frederick smiled and said, "Because the purpose of the inspection is just to get things that have gone off track back on track. It is an opportunity to self-correct and correct mistakes."

"I often say that many big problems develop from small problems. The purpose of this kind of inspection is to let the people below eliminate the small problems themselves."

"There's a joke in school. Before a mother leaves her child, she tells her child that she will check her homework at night. Her only goal is to get her child to finish his homework. If a mother doesn't tell her before she leaves, but comes back at night and directly checks her child's homework, she's probably looking for a reason to beat her child, and this may have been accumulated for a long time."

"This kind of inspection also has an important function, which is to see a person's attitude towards work. If they don't even do the preparation work, then there is something wrong with their attitude."

Maria nodded thoughtfully.

Frederick continued, "The reason I did this is to see their attitude and whether they really want us to invest."

“Whether they want us to invest or not, we’ll be able to feel it starting tomorrow.”

(End of this chapter)