Subordinates are not allowed to kiss their superiors

Assistant Moric left the mansion before noon.

In the afternoon, as soon as the Crown Prince returned, he went directly to the restaurant.

“Your Highness Ryan, what do you think of today’s dinner?

Every compliment and recognition from you is the motivation for the kitchen to work harder!”

After the meal, Flora handed the evaluation form to the other party.

But this time, the Crown Prince didn’t take it.

“Come to the study with me.”

Flora had no choice but to hand over the cleaning work to the old butler and went to the study with the Crown Prince alone.

Okay, saying “alone” is not quite right, there were also two secret guards accompanying them.

Flora had now figured out that there were a total of eight secret guards, implementing a shift system.

Two were responsible for protecting the Crown Prince, four were watching in the mansion, one was fixed in the kitchen, and the other three were watching the situation.

The two who were not there should be resting.

Every day before the Crown Prince returned in the afternoon, one of the secret guards in the mansion would leave first, most likely to report the situation.

After the Crown Prince returned, another person would go to rest depending on the situation, but there would always be two people around him until he entered the bedroom.

Therefore, it was very rare for two secret guards to be dispatched to monitor one person, indirectly indicating that the Crown Prince attached great importance to the target—

“How did the discussion with Moric go?”

After sitting down, the Crown Prince asked knowingly.

“There is no problem with the new rules and reward and punishment system, but I want to modify the recruitment of new people slightly.”

“Modify what?”

The Crown Prince was still pretending not to know.

But Flora didn’t want to drag it on any longer.

“Your Highness Ryan, please tell me about Mr. Moric’s information, especially the difficulties he is currently encountering.”

“I’m asking you questions.” The Crown Prince was a little displeased.

“I know, but that’s not the point…”

“I don’t think so.” The Crown Prince interrupted her coldly, “Do you also think that I shouldn’t reuse non-noble personnel?”

Flora was slightly stunned, quickly calmed her urgent mood, and carefully observed the seemingly cold black-haired boy in front of her.

Then she saw in the other party’s scarlet eyes—

Insecurity.

Lack of confidence.

Self-doubt.

(Really, what am I doing?)

Flora couldn’t help but blame herself.

Before, she had advised the old butler not to forget that the Crown Prince was just a child whose mind was not yet mature.

She didn’t expect that she would forget this so quickly.

After hearing the trusted subordinate question his employment strategy in this way, any normal person… no.

Most nobles would become angry and embarrassed.

The better ones would put on a straight face, silently remember this sense of humiliation, and use this subordinate less or not reuse them in the future.

But the black-haired boy silently began to reflect in his heart.

Doubting whether he had done something wrong.

Worrying that his mistakes would bring more trouble to his subordinates.

Fearing that his other decisions also had such problems.

This was indeed a very serious situation. If it was not handled well, the black-haired boy might give up on himself and embark on two divergent paths of being dictatorial or indecisive.

“Of course not.”

Flora noticed that the black-haired boy’s eyes became listless.

Probably feeling that she had chosen words of comfort or flattery, so he suddenly felt bored.

But she would say this just to find out whether the black-haired boy was worthy of her saying the next sentence.

“But His Highness Ryan’s current approach is wrong.”

“How dare you, you dare to question my approach?” The Crown Prince said sternly.

What the hell, he was obviously looking forward to it, and deliberately said this kind of thing to scare people…

Looking at the black-haired boy’s eyes, Flora couldn’t help but complain in her heart.

On the surface, Flora was fearless and said with a determined expression:

“Please forgive me for speaking bluntly, Your Highness’s mistake is that you are the only one who promotes non-noble talents.”

Now that things have come to this, the black-haired boy didn’t pretend anymore, but quickly fell into deep thought.

Considering that there were still suggestions to be made, Flora didn’t waste any time and immediately explained:

“All the talents of commoner origin that Your Highness promotes are judged by you.

If you change your mind one day, everything will return to its original state… Because in addition to your temporary whim, ordinary people have no stable and reliable promotion channels at all.”

The black-haired boy’s eyes widened slightly.

Obviously, he also realized his negligence.

“So my suggestion is to establish a fixed and stable recruitment system for the general public, and then establish a public, fair, and just reward and punishment mechanism, and include talents from ordinary people and talents from noble backgrounds in the assessment, so that they also have room for promotion within them.”

“Of course, noble talents’ resources and their own knowledge are definitely better than ordinary talents, so when recruiting and assessing middle and low-level officials, they can be given appropriate preferential treatment.

The recruitment system mentioned earlier can also be open to noble talents, but pay attention to recruiting separately from ordinary people, and the difficulty should also be different.”

“In addition, we must look to the future, provide opportunities for ordinary people to learn to read as much as possible, and conduct a series of selections for them from childhood, and give a series of subsidies and support to the potential seedlings among them, so as to avoid the talent of families in difficult circumstances being buried.”

“In general, selecting talents who can do better under the same conditions is the core concept of this policy.”

“However, in order to prevent this policy from becoming a rootless duckweed, I think Your Highness should promote more people to become new nobles, and at the same time let the selected second-class talents become their or friendly nobles’ retainers… firmly tying their interests to this policy, so that they can better survive the difficult initial period.”

Flora stopped.

“Is there anything else?”

The black-haired boy asked with lingering interest.

“Your Highness, please rest assured, I will organize a more detailed plan later.”

“Okay.”

The black-haired boy said expressionlessly.

But recently Flora had understood a little that if he didn’t particularly hate it, it meant that the Crown Prince was already very satisfied.

Therefore, she quickly turned the topic back—

“So, I hope that Your Highness Ryan can give Mr. Moric more support and help.”

The black-haired boy’s face quickly became cold.

“Why should I care about that traitor?”

Flora carefully observed the black-haired boy, and soon showed an angry expression:

“Your Highness Ryan, please don’t act impulsively, and please don’t throw a tantrum like a child. You actually want to help Mr. Moric, right!”

Hearing this, the two secret guards hidden in the dark couldn’t help but gasp, almost completely exposing their whereabouts.

Bang!

Ryan was so angry that he slammed the table and stood up.

He admitted that this blonde girl had indeed put forward many very useful suggestions.

But this didn’t mean that she could speak without restraint!

However, before Ryan could get angry, he was attracted by the blonde girl’s sky-blue eyes.

But not because she was beautiful, nor because he liked this color.

But because he saw sadness… and heartache in them.

That was a look that he had long forgotten, and thought he would never see again in his life.

Ryan suppressed the anger that was about to erupt and said calmly:

“Speak, what do you want to do?”