Chief Eunuch

Thinking of this, Cheng Shuili couldn't help but frown again. What exactly was the situation in the other grand regions? They actually still had the energy to come and assassinate her.

No, Cheng Shuili realized quickly that it was absolutely problematic to use the status of the official organization in their own partition to gauge the status of all other official organizations.

Not to mention other grand regions, their own grand region certainly had official organizations developing as well.

Cheng Shuili shook her head, stopping herself from thinking about these far-off matters.

After chatting for a couple more lines in the territory channel, Cheng Shuili let out a long sigh.

Su Rui was still sitting nearby, quietly drinking tea, seemingly with no intention of leaving.

"What's wrong?" Cheng Shuili looked at her. "Drinking tea in the middle of the night, not going to sleep?"

Su Rui put down her teacup and sighed. "You looked pretty tired, so I wanted to offer a few words of comfort."

This was quite rare.

Cheng Shuili accepted it completely, pulling at the corner of her mouth as she self-deprecatingly remarked, "Yeah, there's always a gap between dreams and reality. I thought being an emperor meant reviewing memorials and pointing out the path for the country, but it turns out to be worrying about firewood, rice, oil, salt, and trivial matters."

"Being an emperor?" Su Rui repeated, then said, "If you really were an emperor, wouldn't I have become the chief eunuch?"

Cheng Shuili paused for a moment, then smiled.

She stood up, lay back down on her own bed, and didn't forget to retort, "Stop trying to flatter yourself."

"Just stating the facts," Su Rui stood up as well. "Sleeping now, we'll talk tomorrow."

Then we'll talk tomorrow.

The seventh day of the acid rain was also the final day of this disaster.

Cheng Shuili walked to the bathroom with her eyes closed, habitually opening the regional channel while washing up.

Checking for new messages was one thing, and waking herself up was another.

There were no new messages in the regional channel, but there were quite a few in the territory channel.

Glory and Xinxue had discussed things until two in the morning yesterday, but judging by the chat logs, the two of them had achieved remarkable results!

Cheng Shuili scrolled through the messages one by one. Xinxue had initially been blind to everything, and while Glory did have experience, it wasn't much.

After all, the previous organization was just a name; the recruitment standards were just for show, and as long as one was willing to pay supplies, they would pull people into the group.

The two of them discussed it for a long time and finally decided to return to the most essential things.

【Glory Shines on Blue Star】: I think that at the current stage, we don't need too many flashy standards. The core is just two points: First, strength must meet the standard, at least capable of independently handling an elite-level dungeon! Second, having irreplaceable expertise in a certain field! But these two things can only screen for ability, not for character.

【New Snow Clearing】: I agree with the two points you mentioned. But the significance of screening for character is actually not very great; the fundamental reason these people join a faction is because there is profit to be made.

She negated Glory's point and immediately provided a plan.

【New Snow Clearing】: If we want the faction to develop well, we only need to judge whether the newly joined players have a spirit of dedication. We can set a basic contribution threshold, requiring applicants to first submit supplies of a certain value. This is not just for resources, but more importantly, to screen their attitude. After all, if they aren't even willing to invest this much, how can we talk about braving difficulties together? We can discuss the specific value of this threshold, but the threshold must exist!

This method was simply brilliant!

As long as there was a threshold for something, it could keep out eighty percent of the riffraff. Adding on the basic standards specified by Glory, those who could enter Black Feather would definitely be decent people!

Cheng Shuili was already very satisfied by this point, but she hadn't finished reading the messages.

【New Snow Clearing】: How should the announcement be written? Should we list the conditions directly? Would that seem too cold and hard? Should we add something attractive, like mentioning the boss's name, or the cohesion aura of our faction?

【Glory Shines on Blue Star】: Just be honest. Right now, we are the ones picking people, not the other way around. Sincerity is actually better at attracting people who truly want to stay. The aura effect can be mentioned, but there is no need to overemphasize it; this should be something all factions have.

Cheng Shuili nodded in satisfaction.

Glory's steadiness and Xinxue's flexibility complemented each other quite well.

She rinsed her mouth, wiped her face clean, and replied in the channel:

【Angry Crow Takes Flight】: The plan is acceptable. The basic contribution threshold is tentatively set at 500 units of basic materials or other supplies of equivalent value. The strength requirement follows what Glory said. The announcement will be written by Glory, with additions by Xinxue. Send it to me to look over once it's done; if there are no issues, it will be posted to the regional channel, and I will be the one to post it.

【Angry Crow Takes Flight】: There is no rush for this; you two should rest first and talk when you wake up.

Cheng Shuili walked out of the bathroom and found that Su Rui had already gotten up and was leaning against the door frame, watching her.

"The chief eunuch is up quite early."

Cheng Shuili raised an eyebrow, habitually teasing.

"Preparing breakfast for the Emperor."

Su Rui retorted expressionlessly, handing over a box of prepared noodles. "Make do with this; your royal chef said she isn't coming to work this morning."

Cheng Shuili: "???"

Cheng Shuili certainly had no objections to Qi Wanyi resting, but... how come she didn't know about this?

"When did she say that?"

"Yesterday, when we were at the territory."

Cheng Shuili paused, remembering that Qi Wanyi had indeed come to find her before the meeting started, but she had been busy organizing her thoughts and was a bit nervous, so she really hadn't paid attention to what Qi Wanyi had said.

Her mistake.

Cheng Shuili took the noodles and asked again, "Does everyone else know?"

"Everyone was there at the time, so of course everyone knows."

Cheng Shuili: "......"

Fine.

She had to thank Su Rui for preparing the noodles, otherwise she really would have been sitting there stupidly waiting for a breakfast that didn't exist.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Cheng Shuili received another message.

【Glory Shines on Blue Star】: It's written, Boss, take a look.

Eh? So early?

Cheng Shuili had actually been prepared to only receive the message by noon.

Before, Xinxue would only wake up at noon after pulling an all-nighter.

As Cheng Shuili read the message sent by Glory, she lamented, "The workhorses from those kinds of professional places are just different."

Just as she finished lamenting, she received a message from Xinxue.

【New Snow Clearing】: Boss, the warehouse matters are done, and all the supplies I had on hand have been set up. The points required for purchasing the same item are 2% higher than what is earned from contributions, which counts as a service fee, so we definitely won't lose money.

Cheng Shuili had just finished reading this one when the next one came in.

【New Snow Clearing】: But there are definitely still supplies I don't have on hand; this type of thing is harder to handle, and I think we should arrange a warehouse manager to be specifically responsible for this.

A warehouse manager was a minor problem; there were over 50 servants in the territory, all of whom had received compulsory education, so doing this kind of work wouldn't be a problem at all.

The big problem was...

These two people hadn't slept at all last night!

Moved! Too moved!

But Cheng Shuili didn't want the veteran who had been with her for a month to die of sudden cardiac arrest from working overtime on the very first day the faction was established.