The most despised people at the bottom

Since the Crown Prince was not there, the study was naturally off-limits.

Therefore, Flora led the assistant to the conference room.

Sensing that two secret guards were simultaneously lurking nearby, both targeting the assistant, Flora couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief in her heart.

(It seems that His Highness Ryan also finds Mr. Moric suspicious… Fortunately, I did some investigation beforehand.)

Although Flora had previously done some simple investigation and observation of the people in the mansion, the assistant only occasionally came to the mansion.

Her previous status as an ordinary maid also made it difficult for her to deeply inquire about the assistant’s information.

However, after learning that the assistant was coming today, she questioned Heidi and the old butler overnight, and finally obtained a general understanding of the other party’s situation.

Theo Moric, of commoner origin, 23 years old this year, has the common brown hair and brown eyes of commoners, always wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, has a fairly handsome appearance, and is thin, looking like a weak civil official.

Three years ago, he accompanied the Crown Prince as an accountant of a lower-ranking noble to quell the rebel army.

In this process, he made contributions and was promoted all the way to assistant.

He is loyal and is one of the few people besides the old butler that the Crown Prince can trust…

The turning point was a little over a month ago.

Even though the old butler’s words were relatively subtle, Flora, combined with Moric’s position, guessed a general idea—

The person who helped her arrange to enter the Crown Prince’s mansion was using Moric’s connections.

And after she barely proved her innocence, the Crown Prince became suspicious of Moric.

Now, letting her contact Moric was probably also for the purpose of investigation.

After all, her job as a head maid also included the important task of finding the remaining moles and assassins.

Moreover, as far as Flora herself was concerned, she didn’t want to see others encounter unnecessary trouble because of her… of course, provided that Moric was really innocent.

Theo Moric didn’t know all of this.

“Just say what you want, but I’ll say it first, I will reject any unreasonable requests.

Our situation is not as simple as you think. Even servants must be carefully selected before they can be brought in.”

However, compared to the initial plan to see through Flora’s true colors, what he wants to do now is to dissuade Flora, so that the Crown Prince will be disappointed in Flora.

“Before that, I would like to let Mr. Moric understand the reforms I am going to carry out next.”

The blonde girl was prepared and quickly took out a stack of documents.

Looking at the delicate and beautiful handwriting on the documents, the doubts and vigilance that Moric had almost forgotten were rekindled in his heart.

This was obviously the handwriting of a noble lady from a well-educated and wealthy family… and he seemed to have seen similar handwriting somewhere.

But in any case, this was not the level that the daughter of a poor baron who couldn’t make ends meet should have.

As for the reforms that the blonde girl mentioned, Moric didn’t take it to heart.

No matter what the other party planned to do, he would deny it.

If the other party still shamelessly begged him to approve certain requests, it would also mean that there was something fishy about it.

Then it would be his chance to atone for his sins and perform well in front of His Highness Ryan.

However—

(Who is this woman?)

After listening to the blonde girl’s introduction and reading the contents of the documents, Moric was completely stunned.

The new system written on the documents was not difficult to understand.

After the other party’s explanation, it also gave people the illusion that “I can do it too.”

But after doing management work for several years and working in the central departments of the empire for a period of time, Moric was very clear that many principles seemed simple, but as long as no one summarized them and no one brought them up, they were equivalent to non-existent.

Everyone was deliberately turning a blind eye to those principles and was busy making profits for themselves all day long.

Therefore, even if most people knew that summarizing was beneficial to the group, they would not take the initiative to do such a thing.

Even if someone was lucky enough to summarize it, if the implementation plan did not start from reality and was not formulated in combination with the characteristics of the department where he was located, it would only end up being a pie in the sky and difficult to implement.

But the scheduling method and incentive system shown by the blonde girl did not have such shortcomings at all.

Moreover, she also gave the teaching, scheduling, and rotation plan after recruiting people, as well as possible risk predictions and response measures.

What Moric thought of and didn’t think of… she had prepared them all.

Comprehensive.

At this moment, even if Moric was unwilling to admit it, he had already understood one thing.

(This woman can get His Highness Ryan’s approval… is it because of her own ability?)

Honestly, the blonde girl had become even more suspicious at this time, because this was not something that ordinary people could do.

“These… have they all been approved by His Highness?”

But at the same time, Moric was also very clear that the Crown Prince would not care about her suspicious points, but would reuse her!

As long as it was beneficial to him, even an enemy should be used well… this had always been the Crown Prince’s style.

“The new rules and incentive plan have been approved.

I would like to discuss a series of plans after recruiting people with Mr. Moric first, and then let His Highness take a look.”

The blonde girl said frankly.

Moric also understood why his advice was not adopted… his value was completely suppressed by the blonde girl.

Saying it was a discussion, he was actually just here to cooperate with the blonde girl’s work.

He had no right to deny or refuse.

Maybe in a short time, this blonde girl would be the assistant.

(No, I can’t just give up like this.)

Moric thought of the days when he struggled hard at the bottom, and finally managed to get a humble job with a lower-ranking noble.

And his sister who was seriously ill, he only ate one meal a day to barely save enough money to treat her… his eyes gradually became fierce.

“Your plan is very good, and I can’t think of anything to modify at the moment… but to be honest, our current predicament is that we can’t recruit anyone at all.”

Moric took out a stack of lists from his briefcase,

“The ones with crosses on them are the maids who were fired by us, the ones with slashes are the ones who temporarily changed their minds and refused us, and the ones with question marks are the ones who are suspicious and difficult to trust and have temporarily suspended recruitment…”

In fact, there were still some that could be recruited, and the number was just enough to meet the blonde girl’s needs.

But he deliberately didn’t take them out of his briefcase just now.

Anyway, the blonde girl couldn’t possibly know that the list he provided was incomplete.

Of course, he couldn’t stop the new system that had already been seen by His Highness, but he could say to His Highness that the blonde girl’s requirements were too high for not being able to recruit people.

If the blonde girl forcibly recruited suspicious people, then he could advise the Crown Prince to stop on the grounds that it was too dangerous—the Crown Prince now recognized the blonde girl’s ability, but those suspicious applicants who were not even servants were not enough to make the Crown Prince think highly of them.

If the danger was greater than the benefit, the Crown Prince would not allow it.

In this way, the Crown Prince’s evaluation of the blonde girl’s ability would decrease.

Conversely, the Crown Prince’s attention to him would be slightly restored, and his assistant job should not be lost so quickly…

At this time, the blonde girl looked through it for a while and asked blankly,

“Why are there no people of merchant or commoner origin?”

“Huh?”

Moric was stunned for a moment, and then said angrily,

“What are you talking about? This is for recruiting maids for His Highness Ryan, how could we choose women other than nobles!”

Flora looked at the assistant with a confused expression.

“But… Mr. Moric, you are also a commoner, right?”