Little Lord

Something that I have persisted on for so many years cannot be shaken by a few words from others.

Unless there is already some looseness.

After the door lock of the stronghold was repaired, the Crow Clan held a small meeting behind closed doors.

Crows love to live in groups, but there are also different groups.

In the "Sun Weekly", the crow tribe led by Lightning is generally called the "Northern Crows", while the other tribe is the "Southern Crows".

Compared to the Northern Crows, the Southern Crows are more unscrupulous. Many scandals of the nobility were discovered (or fabricated) by the Southern Crows.

If Lightning had tried to lead his people into the circle, then Southern Raven was truly hiding in the darkness.

No one knows how many of them there are, nor where they usually hide.

Only the president can contact them.

The Northern and Southern Crow Tribes are the biggest supporters of The Sun Weekly. They are huge in number, low in salary, and never go on strike, which is enough to make the news network of The Sun Weekly spread out widely.

The Crow Tribe are both vindictive and united. After the president had called them together for reading sessions month after month over the years, they remembered almost every word of disparagement and ridicule directed at the Crow Tribe, and they felt that everyone looked down on them.

Every tracking and spying on the nobles seemed like revenge to them.

When it comes to revenge, why should we consider compensation?
Even if no one pays them, they can call on a large number of tribesmen to take turns to keep an eye on them.

This kind of life could have continued forever.

However, during a series of reports targeting Miss Lola, a conflict arose within the Northern Crows.

The crow who was saved by Miss Lola decided to leave the tribe and go out on his own with a group of friendly tribe members.

They remember grudges, but also remember favors.

Lightning knew that once the tribe grew larger, this kind of situation would inevitably occur. She tried to persuade them several times, but seeing that they were unwilling to change their minds, she simply agreed to their request.

It would be nice to interact with each other occasionally in the future as related ethnic groups.

After this incident, even though the remaining tribesmen still recognized themselves as the chief, Lightning could still sense the changes in the tribe: everyone's hearts were finally scattered.

After all, she, the chief, was the only one who stubbornly believed that the Crow Clan was on a very great path.

The young Crows had not experienced so much, so it was difficult for them to understand her feelings.

If someone wants to stay after this "private job" is over, she will not stop them.

"Since everyone wants to take the Ninth Princess' job, then take it."

Lightning sighed.

……

On the other side, Horweiler was talking to Jiang Zhuozhuo about "The Sun Weekly".

This newspaper controls two large crow colonies, which is equivalent to holding a huge intelligence network, and the Royal Knights will also pay some attention to it.

This newspaper possesses a large amount of private information about the nobles, but what it releases are always just insignificant gossip or jokes.

Someone in the Sage's Court once expressed concern that the other party might secretly cause trouble.

It’s just that The Sun Weekly has always been aiming to increase sales and has never taken any other action, so there is naturally no reason for the higher-ups to investigate it.

Now all forces in the imperial capital are ready to make a move. Anyone who dares to do something that is not in compliance with the laws and regulations will be criticized.

I won't stop until I bite off a piece of your flesh.

The atmosphere in the imperial capital is so tense that even the president of the Sun Weekly, who was not taken seriously before, is now a guest of honor for many people.

Although it likes to make up stories, it has a high market share and ordinary people love to read it.

It may not be easy to win public support with it, but if you don't stabilize it, and it exposes a bunch of scandals to you, you'll be finished.

So no one would be so desperate as to touch the Sun Weekly.

Jiang Zhuozhuo also knew the current situation of the imperial capital, and thought that this was the bad thing about having a throne to inherit in his family -

You are just old, not dead, so the people under you start to consider who should take your place.

If it were an ordinary old lady or old man, he would move a stool and curse at the door for a year or two, until all the neighbors knew about it: these unfilial sons and daughters, they are thinking about dividing the family property before I die!
It’s different if you have a throne to inherit. Even you have to consider which child should succeed to ensure the stability of the empire.

Arrangements had to be made for the other children.

These things seem easy, but in fact, just admitting that you are getting old and preparing for your own death is not easy!

Jiang Zhuozhuo sighed in his heart for a while before saying, "Fortunately, we are not in the imperial capital and will not be involved in these things."

Howell looked at her with complicated eyes.

Jiang Zhuozhuo was alert: "What's that look in your eyes? Am I wrong?"

Hovel pointed out the fact: "You just poached people from the Sun Weekly."

This means that she stepped into the minefield that others were avoiding.

Jiang Zhuozhuo:?

Jiang Zhuozhuo firmly denied: "I didn't, I just asked them to run a few short-term training courses."

It's just letting the Crow Clan take on some private work, it can't be considered as poaching!

If this is taken into account, how loose is the foundation of The Sun Weekly?
Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Hoville said: "Do you know how the Crows are treated in the Sun Weekly?"

Jiang Zhuozhuo shook the bird's head like a rattle.

If she knew, why did she need to ask Lightning just now?
Hoveler said: "The Sun Weekly pays the Crow Clan a fixed amount of money every year, and their clan leader is responsible for distributing it. The adult crows work all year round and have little to spend money on. She invests most of the money in... the education of the young crows."

It can be said that the education of the young Crows over the years has been self-funded, but the younger generation of Crows will still work in newspapers after receiving that kind of education.

The reputation of their Crow Clan is so bad that they can't find any other jobs outside.

The Crow Tribe has a bad reputation, on the one hand because there is indeed a problem of discrimination, and on the other hand because of what they did after being hired by The Sun Weekly.

It's not that the Crow Tribe couldn't find other jobs at first, but they were once sent undercover to accumulate news materials. As a result, the news materials they handed in were suppressed and not sent out, while their undercover activities became known to everyone.

Jiang Zhuozhuo listened to Huo Weiler slowly telling him the inside story, his eyes widened. It seemed that this president was not a good person.

This is cutting off all the escape routes for others, and then making a gesture of "only we are willing to accept you" and "we want to create a better future together".

Anyone who is in the situation would probably be grateful to him and think he is the best person in the world!
Therefore, the editor-in-chief of "Sun Weekly" only needs to pay a small amount of money every year to gain a steady stream of loyal workers!
Hiss, the power of ideals is really great.

Jiang Zhuozhuo muttered softly: "I need to think about what kind of ideals I still have."

As a lord, you must establish diverse ideals so as to attract more birds to work!

Huo Weiler felt a sense of powerlessness coming over him, and could only say: "...Your Highness, don't learn everything."

Jiang Zhuozhuo said, "I'm not as bad as them. I'm strengthening the spiritual civilization of the territory!" She shook her bird claws towards Huo Weiler and said, "We must strengthen both material and spiritual civilization!"

HOWILLER: .

Sorry, I don't see where the claws are so hard.

Jiang Zhuozhuo said in a serious tone: "We will also have to carry out anti-fraud publicity later, so that the birds in our territory won't be cheated!"

……

Howiller reminded him on the way, and Jiang Zhuozhuo flew to find Maine after returning to the castle.

Maine is in charge of all the affairs of the territory, so I have to talk to her about this matter.

"That's just the way it is."

Jiang Zhuozhuo told Maine the whole story of how he found the Crow Clan's base (only omitting the part about Chuan Chuan Xiang).

She thought the Sun Weekly was a pyramid scheme.

We have to tell the little birds to stay away from it when they go out to look for jobs!

Maine has a headache.

Jiang Zhuozhuo asked nervously: "Will it be troublesome?"

Maine thought about it, shook his head and said, "It's not particularly troublesome. After all, we are not in the imperial capital."

In a marginal province like theirs, even if someone wanted to stir up trouble, they wouldn't be able to cause any big trouble.

"When the time comes, you can ask them to go to the government hall to make contact and treat them as normal short-term employment. But your anti-fraud propaganda should not be used now," Maine said, "If you have any ideas, you can write them down first and arrange them when needed in the future."

Jiang Zhuozhuo nodded.

At present, there are no scammers in Woye Province, and compulsory education has not been officially launched. In the short term, there is no need to worry that your birds will run away and be cheated.

They are not worth being fooled yet!
……

The next day, Lightning, the clan leader who was very worth fooling, came to the government hall as the representative of the Crow Clan.

Main received her personally.

I don't know what the two sides talked about, but more than twenty Crows were quickly assigned to teach five classes, giving them enough time to take turns to do their jobs.

Maine also said that they could meet with the students tomorrow if it was convenient for them.

lightning:?
Why does it feel like we've been prepared for this?
Maine saw her confusion and said with a smile, "There are so many people waiting for our class. We are never short of students, but we are short of teachers."

Lightning nodded.

The same was true for their Crow Clan. Before the president hired a teacher for them, no one was willing to teach them.

Maine said: "The textbooks for compulsory education have not been officially compiled yet. We only have some enlightenment textbooks that we usually use for training classes. Do you think it's okay?"

“There is also a professional training class, which is filled with students who have completed primary training.”

"These students need you to teach them some writing skills and typesetting techniques. They haven't read many newspapers before, so you may need to teach them from the most basic things."

"If you think professional training classes are too troublesome, you can just open elementary training classes."

Lightning asked: "Will all these people participate in newspaper-related work in the future?"

Maine said: "Not necessarily. It depends on their own wishes. Students who sign up for professional classes all have this idea."

"Students graduating from the primary training courses should be employed in simple clerical jobs or take part in further studies and later be selected as compulsory education teaching staff."

Lightning asked: "What does compulsory education... mean?"

Maine smiled and said, "This is a policy that Your Highness will soon implement."

"Once we have trained enough teachers and staff, we will provide basic education to children aged six to fifteen in the territory, ensuring that every bird can master the skills to survive independently before they grow up."

Lightning froze.

After a long while, she asked, "Why did His Highness the Ninth Prince... do this?"

The Ninth Princess is not a commoner and has no chance of competing for the throne, so why would she do these things for the common birds in her territory?

A princess of the royal family has fallen to a place like this and become a small lord. Shouldn't she be levying heavy taxes and levying heavy taxes in the territory to satisfy her own desires?
This was completely different from the nobility she knew.

Will the educational opportunity that they have earned by working hard for the president for decades be available to everyone here?

Maine was stunned for a moment after hearing Lightning's question, and said something that was not in line with her style: "I don't know either."

She didn't know why their highness did this.

Just like she didn't know why their princes would care about how much sugar was in a drink, why they would care when a roadside flower would bloom, or why they would care whether the moon was round or crescent every day.

Jiang Zhuozhuo always does things that she can't understand.

But as time went on like this, she gradually forgot what kind of life she had once lived.

He forgot that he was once like the Crows, fighting to the point of exhaustion and bleeding in order to seize the smallest chance.

"We will do our best to accomplish whatever Your Highness wants to do."

Maine said with a smile.

——As long as life can continue to be this good, they are willing to give up everything.

(End of this chapter)