Little Lord

For Jiang Zhuozhuo, Maine was the first bird she met after coming here.

Mei Yin is a reliable person who works seriously. Although she sometimes deliberately maintains a safe social distance from others (such as the "lord" Jiang Zhuozhuo), most of the time Mei Yin is helpless and soft-hearted towards her.

Jiang Zhuozhuo's personality is the type that will be soft if you are soft, and hard if you are hard.

In the past, her younger brother once blocked her and asked angrily why she treated her classmates' younger brothers and sisters better than them (at that time, she drew social media account avatars for several of her classmates' younger brothers and sisters, and they happily changed their avatars).

Jiang Zhuozhuo found it very strange after hearing what her adopted brother said. It was obviously they who didn't want to get along with her, so how could it be that she was being mean to them?

They had all made it clear that they did not welcome her, so why should she be nice to them? She did not have the legendary devoted personality that she had to approach and beg others to see her "goodness".

If you have that much free time, you might as well do more of what you like.

Similarly, if someone is nice to him, Jiang Zhuozhuo will remember it in his heart even if he doesn't say it.

Maine, who was like her "guide" to another world, naturally became Jiang Zhuozhuo's closest and most dependent person here.

——It’s as if she has lived with her grandmother since she can remember, so whenever she encounters something happy or sad, she would want to share it with her grandmother first.

The little orb buried itself in the owl's snow-white breast feathers for quite a while, and the melancholy of being a stranger in a strange land in its heart finally dissipated for the most part.

Seeing that it was already so late, Maine gently advised, "Your Highness, go to bed early." She paused for a moment and added, "Your Highness will have a meeting tomorrow morning. Can Your Highness get up at nine in the morning?"

When the little round bird heard this, he felt unhappy and felt that he was being looked down upon.

It’s exactly nine o’clock, which bird can’t get up?
This isn't early morning!

The little round bird vowed: "I can definitely get up!"

Maine said, "Okay, let's set the meeting time to nine o'clock."

The little round bird remembered that he had to attend an important meeting the next day, so he flew back quickly and fell asleep.

……

At 8:30 the next day, personal assistant Anna began to call Jiang Zhuozhuo to get up.

The little round bird rolled around on the big bed without opening its eyes.

It’s only half past eight, sleep a little longer!

Anna reluctantly asked someone to tell Maine about this. Judging from the speed at which he got up, today's meeting might have to be postponed.

Maine was not surprised at all. She moved the part that required Jiang Zhuozhuo to appear (in fact, Jiang Zhuozhuo only needed to listen to the report) to after ten o'clock, and first discussed the various tasks with her subordinates.

When Jiang Zhuozhuo opened her eyes, she heard Anna telling the time in her ear: "It's already half past nine."

The little round bird was confused.

Didn’t it just close its eyes and try to sleep a little longer?

How did an hour go by so quickly?
Impossible, there must be something wrong with the way she woke up.

How about closing your eyes again and waking up again?
"Your Highness, Adjutant Maine has already postponed your attendance once. Do you want to postpone it a second time?"

Anna gently crouched down beside her bed and whispered softly...very scary words.

The little round bird suddenly woke up.

I felt a bit nervous as if I had accidentally skipped a professional course.

There was a popular saying in the waste world back then, which was "You must skip elective courses, and you can choose to skip compulsory courses." This shows that even those students in colleges and universities who believe in getting by with 60 points are all right have a certain respect for professional courses.

Fortunately, after they switched between humans and birds with one click, all the cleaning work was completed and there was no need for any extra washing and care. At most, they just had to consider whether to change clothes.

Jiang Zhuozhuo was also curious about where his clothes went after he turned into a bird. Why did they disappear when he turned into a bird, but reappear after he turned into a human?

Maine said that this is stored in a place similar to the sea of ​​consciousness. The stronger the consciousness, the more things can be stored.

Jiang Zhuozhuo was very curious and kept stuffing things into his pockets, and found that... if the weight exceeded ten kilograms, the excess weight would fall out randomly, sometimes it was the money in his pocket, and sometimes it was his pants!

Therefore, the current upper limit of the weight of her mysterious sea of ​​consciousness is ten kilograms. If she does not want to suffer financial losses or even social death, it is better not to carry more than this amount of "personal belongings" with her.

Unfortunately, they currently have no way to open this "sea of ​​consciousness" on their own, and can only passively store things in it when they transform into birds. If someone successfully figured it out, wouldn't it be equivalent to them having a portable space that can be continuously expanded by enhancing their spiritual consciousness!

Wow!

If I have the chance to go to the imperial capital in the future, I will have to propose this research topic to the sages.

A truly smart bird should know how to use the wisdom of others!
Now that you are a sage, you must rise to the challenge and solve major problems that will benefit the general public!

Jiang Zhuozhuo has already recorded a lot of such topics in a small notebook, waiting to submit them to the Academy of Sages when he goes to the imperial capital in the future.

There's no other way. We can't let Maine bear all the responsibility!

Jiang Zhuozhuo tidied himself up, flew over to the meeting room and looked inside furtively.

With this sneaky and guilty look, it's obvious that he is not a wise and powerful lord.

Maine: “…”

Maine smiled and carried the person to the main seat.

Jiang Zhuozhuo was a college freshman who had never even experienced campus recruitment. He was met with so many pairs of eyes all of a sudden and didn't know what to say for a moment.

She couldn't help but look at Maine.

What meeting is this?

It's not her fault that she didn't know. Maine hadn't originally planned to let Jiang Zhuozhuo attend this somewhat boring meeting. He just squeezed her in because he saw that Jiang Zhuozhuo was a little listless yesterday.

When people have something important to do, many bad emotions will slowly dissipate.

Main said: "A new month is about to begin. This meeting is mainly to summarize the work that has been completed and arrange the next work."

Jiang Zhuozhuo listened attentively, using a calm expression to hide the fact that he knew nothing about these contents.

As long as I don't show it, no one will know that I only eat and drink every day! She looked at the people attending the meeting curiously from the corner of her eye. Most of them were graduates of the Imperial City Maid Academy who followed Maine.

Jiang Zhuozhuo was also puzzled at first why such a good school was called a maid school. Maine told her that it was because the nobles needed maids.

——The nobles need maids, so they build maid schools to select people with good character and academic performance to serve the nobles. Isn't this normal?
At that time, Maine's tone was light, and Jiang·the Ninth Princess·the real beneficiary·Zhuozhuo couldn't help but shake his hair when he heard it.

For a moment she felt that Maine hated people like them.

The "maids" present here are actually the few college graduates who have received higher education among the common people. The price of their education is that they have to choose a noble to serve after graduation.

At this time, Maine reported to Jiang Zhuozhuo the recent work results. They had selected a group of young people with relatively high comprehension abilities from the recruited employees and conducted individual training in the auditorium over at the government hall.

At present, these employees have preliminarily completed the learning of the common characters in mainland China and simple arithmetic training courses. Currently, more than 300 people have successfully graduated from the training courses.

Jiang Zhuozhuo was shocked: "So fast?"

In just over a month, the processes of recruitment, selection, training and assessment were completed?

Maine said, "Yes, Your Highness. I thought it would take longer, but they all worked very hard."

Not only did he work very hard during class, but he also worked almost non-stop after returning home.

Each bird slept an average of less than three hours throughout the entire month, working day and night to digest the new content taught in the training class.

You have to know that the ethnic groups living in the Fertile Province are all flawed races.

They have neither evolved a strong physique nor displayed extraordinary intelligence. They are even weak and sickly. Even the most ordinary male birds are stronger than them.

Because of this physical "defect", no wealthy place was willing to accept the migration of their people.

They can only live in such a remote and backward marginal province, allowing the poor material conditions and extremely harsh climate to further weaken their physical constitution.

Before the arrival of Lord Jiang Zhuozhuo, they could not step out of the house at all during the long winter.

They even have to rely on the male bird to go out and support the family.

If this situation were to go outside, people would laugh at you.

What's even sadder is that they have no way to go outside.

This is also the reason why the Woye Province has a relatively high suicide rate. Many people cannot see the future for themselves and their descendants.

Their future is to stay in this desolate and barren land, living a hopeless life day after day relying on a meager income.

Give birth to a few more children who are as mediocre and weak as yourself, watch them grow up, get married, and reproduce.

So when there is such an opportunity in front of them, they can't wait to grab it.

Even though they don’t know what they can do with what they have learned, no one wants to miss this opportunity.

Once you miss it, you may never get it again.

Therefore, among the more than 300 people who participated in the training, no one fell behind.

For the first time, Jiang Zhuozhuo intuitively realized that a casual word from him could actually affect many people.

In comparison, the total amount of taxes collected last month and the commercial center that had already begun construction (which would be populated by merchants sent by Wilde to invest and supply Jiang Zhuozhuo and the locals with some fashionable goods from all over the country) did not have much of an impact on Jiang Zhuozhuo.

Jiang Zhuozhuo couldn't help but sit up straight and listen carefully to Maine's work report.

Seeing Jiang Zhuozhuo's serious attitude, Maine simply explained everything to her in detail, and then told her about the two most important work arrangements.

First of all, the "Lord Mailbox" set up according to Jiang Zhuozhuo's request will be officially open to the public.

Considering that the current literacy rate in Woye Province is not too high, a special reception room is set up next to the "Lord's Mailbox". The reception specialist will be responsible for recording the opinions of the people of the territory on territory management and development.

Maine smiled and said, "Since it is called the Lord's Mailbox, Your Highness needs to set aside some time every day to read these letters. May I ask what time period Your Highness plans to arrange?"

Jiang Zhuozhuo: ?????

Damn it, if she had known she would have named it “Adjutant’s Mailbox”!!!

Jiang Zhuozhuo said: "Then let's do it at eight o'clock every night."

After dinner, you can pay attention to various people's livelihood issues and end a wonderful day!

Maine nodded and motioned for Anna to make a note in her itinerary.

Jiang Zhuozhuo asked curiously: "What is the other key task?"

You don't want her to do it, do you?

Maine said, "It's the bird census that Your Highness mentioned. We now have at least 300 staff members who can carry out the census work separately, so the annual bird census that Your Highness mentioned can officially begin."

Jiang Zhuozhuo's eyes lit up.

Bird population census!

This can be!
Jiang Zhuozhuo said: "I want to go too!"

At that time, she would knock on every door and say, "Open the door quickly, we are checking the bird population!"

Maine asked, "Will this be too hard for Your Highness?"

Ding!
It’s hard work to capture the key words!
Jiang Zhuozhuo said modestly, "It's not hard, it's not hard. I'm serving the people! Doing a little work for the people of the territory is what I, as a lord, should do."

Maine: .

Considering Jiang Zhuozhuo's patience in doing other things, Maine allocated a not-too-large area for her to be responsible for.

It will be easy to replace him with someone else when the time comes.

(End of this chapter)