Chapter 410 Expectation

The water vapor condenses on the window glass to form a uniform layer of white mist, like a thin gauze curtain. The banging sound of the cold wind beating against the windows from time to time was in sharp contrast to the quiet fire burning indoors.

Shu Juan was sitting at the long table in the city hall office, flipping through volumes of thick documents.

The content of the document has nothing to do with education, but the statistics reported by various departments. She will write these things down whenever she has time, so that everyone can refer to them. This is also one of her main tasks recently. The Ministry of Education does not have much to do. deal with. After all, the second round of assessment has just ended, and the next round will probably not be implemented until next summer.

After working for His Highness Roland for half a year, she discovered that His Highness has an extra fondness for data. He likes to describe everything into a long list of precise numbers. Horizontal ratio, year-on-year ratio, and month-on-month ratio are all nouns that are often mentioned. , and now, all members of the city hall have also been infected with this trend.

As the town's population increased, the relevant statistics also increased dramatically. His Highness entrusted this task to himself, and even joked that he was the database of Border Town. Although it sounds like something like a warehouse, His Highness described it as extremely important, saying that with the database, it can be used to predict the development of the next year and formulate economic and military plans. Even all future strategies in the territory will be based on data analysis.

"Master Shujuan," the wooden door of the office was suddenly pushed open, and a woman dressed as an apprentice walked in. She saluted and handed an application form to Shujuan, "Hello, I am Fuya, Lord Carter from the Ministry of Justice. I hope to obtain information about the refugees who passed the residence review last week, and your Excellency the General Manager has approved this application."

Due to the limited number of uses of the branch capability, His Highness stipulated that when querying complex data, Barov's consent must be obtained first. As for individual data, you can ask her for advice at any time.

"Wait a moment," Shujuan glanced at the signature on the list, then summoned the magic book and displayed the corresponding content on the page, "Okay, give this to Mr. Carter."

"Thank you, thank you." She carefully held up the golden book that appeared out of thin air, as if she was hugging an evil beast.

"Don't worry, it won't hurt you." Shujuan couldn't help but laugh. Most people would have this expression when they first came into contact with the book of magic. "You don't need to return the book to me, after two hours." It will disappear automatically, but according to the confidentiality regulations, you are not allowed to give it to anyone other than Carter."

"Yes... sir."

The moment the other party bowed and left, and opened the door, Shujuan could see the crowds of people in the hall. Noisy voices poured into the room instantly, and soon became quiet as the door closed.

Today is the weekend, which is supposed to be a day of rest, but the city hall is still as busy as ever. Everyone already knows the news that Border Town is about to be built, and they work particularly hard. In addition to the overtime pay reward proposed by His Highness the Prince, no one is willing to stay at home at this time.

Shujuan didn't quite understand His Highness's approach. In her opinion, the work of the city hall was not that onerous. Compared with miners and kiln workers who were physically demanding, writing documents, statistics, and making reports were not. How much effort is required and this is the main job of the city hall. As long as His Highness gives orders, everyone will happily obey them, and there is no need to increase their salary in this regard. For most nobles, his approach was too lenient.

His Highness Roland does not look like a real lord, this is Shujuan's opinion from the bottom of his heart, but it has to be said that it is a miracle that such a person has led everyone to where they are today.

She didn't think so out of her own respect and trust, but the data clearly explained all this: compared to a year ago, only miners in Border Town could earn stable income, and now the lowest-paid miners, kiln workers and handymen are paid have been twice as much as before, and some new occupations, such as steam plant assemblers and acid plant operators, have paid eight times as much, and their numbers are still growing.

Not to mention the changes in the town itself. If you haven't been living here, it would be difficult for anyone to believe that the town is the same place as it was a year ago.

Scrubbing the handwriting on the document, she could not imagine what the territory under His Highness' charge would look like in the future, but she believed that it would be a road full of hope and surprises.

"Ms. Shujuan," the wooden door was pushed open again, and this time His Highness Roland's bodyguard came in, "His Highness has something to see you for."

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Returning to the third floor of the castle, Shujuan saw His Highness the Prince sorting out the manuscript papers in his hands.

"Do you need me to record these things?" She took up her black hair that was blown by the cold wind, tied it back behind her head, and asked proactively.

"That's right, in order to write this book, I lost at least half of my brain cells." The prince rubbed his neck and muttered some words that were difficult for him to understand. "Even with the knowledge commonly used at that time, I could only I have to make up a rough idea, and I have to derive some formulas myself.”

She had long been accustomed to this in the book. She ignored the strange words and picked up the manuscript curiously. She saw that the words on the cover were an unprecedented orange color. They were also composed of a string of made-up words, which together meant calculus.

After flipping through two pages, she gave up trying to figure out the meaning of the title and concentrated on memorizing the contents. Compared with the equations she had learned before, she found that the formulas above did not even have numbers, and were all weird. Symbols are like a new set of words. I'm afraid only Anna and Tilly are interested in thinking about this kind of thing.

"By the way," Roland asked, "What is the current per capita income of residents?"

"The lowest is ten silver wolves per month, and the highest is forty silver wolves," Shujuan replied while memorizing calculus, "But calculating the average requires the use of the magic book. I have already used this ability today."

"It doesn't matter, just give me the results the day after tomorrow." Roland waved his hand, "I need to use this value to determine the cost of residential water supply and heating. The collective heating project will officially start in a week. When it is completed, no matter how long it takes, In winter, it will be as warm as spring here.”

A city without winter that is not afraid of severe cold is also part of the miracle. She thought, "If there are no other tasks, I can give it to you tomorrow."

"Tomorrow... I hope you can turn the book of magic into a storybook," Roland smiled and shook his head, "As long as it's one that Anna hasn't read."

"Story book?" Shujuan was startled for a moment, and then he immediately understood, "Tomorrow is Miss Anna's..."

"Awakening day." The prince nodded.

(To be continued.)