Ryan is bored.

This is an independent office, different from the floor tiles in the corridor, the floor is covered with yellow wooden floors, and there are fine patterns carved on it, because it is very clean, like a mirror, the sunlight falls on it, and even glows, but the reflected light is not dazzling, but with a hint of warmth, to some extent, this room is designed by a well-known master It does not seem to be a rumor.

To the left of the entrance was a standing hanger with Ryan's tweed coat and top hat, and on the opposite wall was a row of large bookcases with rows of books and knick-knacks.

Ryan's desk was at the innermost, facing the open door, and behind the desk, there was an open window, the purple curtains were drawn to both sides, and the sunlight fell through the window, casting his shadow on the desk, continuing forward, sliding down on the floor in front of him.

Ryan sat in a wooden chair.

It's an old-fashioned wooden chair, very old-fashioned and square.

In the past, aristocrats had rules for everything they said and did, and the same was true for their posture of sitting and walking, and they had to meet certain norms in order to be able to show their status.

You can't be as unruly as those untouchables at the bottom.

So, even the wooden chair is square, you can come as much as you want, and when you sit on it, you have to sit upright, with your back straight, like the aspen of the Northland.

Just over 100 years ago, the architectural style and furniture have all changed.

Now, if you still abide by the rules of the past and strictly demand yourself, this kind of aristocrat will no longer be respected, but will be secretly ridiculed as old-fashioned, after all, people who cannot keep pace with the times can only be abandoned by the rapidly changing world.

The wooden chair under Ryan should be considered an antique, just like the desk that goes with it, it is at least one or two hundred years old, of course, there are a lot of similar furniture, so it is not very valuable.

At that time, most of the furniture was made by hand, and even if there was a furniture factory, it was only a handicraft workshop, where one or several masters set up a factory with a few or dozens of apprentices to serve the wealthy.

At that time, a seat like Ryan's underneath was only available to aristocratic families.

Ryan also found a family crest on the back of the chair, a family crest that had become very blurred, with two capital letters on it, D· C, it seems, should be a family with surnames starting with D and C.

Most of that family has declined, and has not been able to adapt to the great changes that took place one or two hundred years ago, and has gradually fallen behind and been eliminated by the times, so the furniture representing the family has also been lost to the outside and has become the office utensils of the sixteen district governments.

Ryan looked out the window.

His office is at the end of the corridor on the first floor, outside the window is the backyard, there is also a courtyard wall, next to the courtyard wall planted a row of ginkgo trees, this season, it is the season of yellow leaves, ginkgo biloba leaves in the sunlight yellow brilliant, rustling in the sea breeze, from time to time there are leaves falling from the treetops, circling and falling in the wind, it is beautiful.

Occasionally, fallen leaves fly in the wind through the half-open windows.

Ryan stared at the flying leaves, he was bored.

Speaking of which, this is the fifteenth day of his new job, and it has been a while since he became the deputy head of the 16th district, and this time is a period of idleness, and the door of his office has hardly been knocked on.

Although the French Empire is a unified central empire, focusing on centralized power, however, the local administrative organs also have very strong powers, as long as they do not violate the constitution, local councils can also enact local laws, and the mayors sent by the central government can only hold the executive power, and cannot interfere in the formulation of laws and regulations, and the two levels of parliament representing the local can even impeach each other if they are dissatisfied with the mayor.

Of course, this is a double-edged sword.

The number of impeachments is too much, causing dissatisfaction with the central government, and it is inevitable that they will be suppressed, in which case, the gains will outweigh the losses, so as long as these mayors from the central government are not excessive, the local governments will not rebound.

For example, Reims City has 16 districts, and the mayors and deputy mayors of each region are held by executive orders issued by the mayor's office.

For example, the district chief is a fifth-level civil servant, and Ryan is a sixth-level civil servant, as for those clerks below, as long as they have an administrative establishment, they are not temporary workers or the like, that is, the lowest level, seventh-level civil servants.

As a district officer, he is responsible not only to the mayor's office, but also to the district council.

Every year, I have to report on my duties in the House of Representatives, accept the questioning and accountability of those members, and if I behave very badly, I will not leave a good impression and sit in a position under my ass.

This system is somewhat similar to that of some Western countries on Aqua Blue.

This is because both have the same soil.

Therefore, it is not a good thing to be a minister in the French Empire, basically, you can only grovel to the upper class, after all, those guys are from big families, even if they are not parliamentarians, there are three or five relatives and friends who are parliamentarians, if you accidentally provoke a big person who can't be offended, you have to be careful of being put in small shoes, and at worst, you will be dismissed, and if you are a little better, you will be exiled to a remote area to see the pond.

However, for those ordinary people who have no background, these guys are high-ranking big people, they can decide the fate of the people with a word, and they control the life and death of the people.

Now, Ryan has become such a big man.

When he was an apprentice in a trading company, even though the young Ryan at that time had a dream, he didn't believe that he would always be at the bottom, and he believed that he would be able to change his fate through his own efforts, but at that time, he didn't believe that he could become a master.

Yes, in the eyes of the people at the bottom at that time, the officials who came in and out of this compound were all masters.

The officials are the lords, the nobles are the big lords, this is what the people at the bottom think of these guys.

At that time, Ryan only wanted to be the manager of a trading company, with a high salary like Mr. Devon, and wanted to own a house of his own, like the small building that originally belonged to him but was taken away by his uncle.

That was Ryan's dream at that time.

Speaking of which, I can be regarded as having fulfilled my childhood dream, right?

Ryan grinned.

His cheap cousin, Lonzo Bell, is also one of the old men, but he is still a low-level clerk, but a seventh-level civil servant, and he can be said to rack his brains in order to climb up.

If it is said that as long as you lick the chrysanthemums of those big people, you can become a sixth-level civil servant, his big cousin will definitely not have the slightest hesitation, and will definitely lick it with the most humble posture and the happiest smile.

Speaking of which, Ryan hadn't been to his uncle for a long time.

His second cousin, James Bell, wanted to kill him because he colluded with outsiders, but he was killed by Ryan, and his body was thrown into the sea of stars. That guy is a prodigal, because he doesn't want to be nagged by his parents every day, he has moved out to live, he moved out a long time ago, and the other party has a record of not going home to visit his parents for half a year, so, for the time being, my uncle's family should not know about it now.

With a blink, Ryan stood up.

The sixteenth district, one district head, but has seven deputy district heads, is the district with the most deputy mayors in the entire Reims City, this is because the sixteenth district has a port, and half of the area is a slum, the environment is very complicated, and the affairs are busy, so not only the deputy district head has the most, but even the clerks are the most in all the districts, and even, the number of clerks in two or three districts combined.

Ryan is bored because he is responsible for something extraordinary.

He is in charge of all the secrets and the extraordinary, and his department is directly connected to the iris and the Sanctuary, and once there is an extraordinary and mysterious incident in this area, he must come forward to communicate with those departments and be responsible for the logistics and auxiliary work.

Redbeard's stronghold is in District 16, which is also an extraordinary event.

However, that was what happened before Ryan took office, when the mayor's office sent someone directly, and the civil servants of the 16th District could only be responsible for liaison, and now, that person has been transferred out of his job.

The successor is Ryan.

Speaking of which, this is no different from his work at Iris, where he can also access secret files, and he can also absorb self-evolution, and when he arrives here, he becomes idle.

Mysterious and otherworldly events don't happen all the time.

He became a civil servant, arranged by the Leslie family, and it was a trial.

During the trial, the family was not allowed to interfere, so Ryan was sent to District 16, where the Leslie family was also influential, but it was not a member of Ron Leslie's faction.

Of course, if Ron ends up in person, it will naturally be unstoppable.

The problem is that it breaks the rules by doing so.

Family inheritance, rules are still required.

Otherwise, there will be no foundation for inheritance.

Ryan can become the deputy mayor as long as he is appointed by the city hall, but what work he is responsible for in this district is arranged by the district chief and cannot be directly assigned by the above.

The district chief also arranged for Ryan to be in charge of the mysterious and transcendent affairs.

It is equivalent to offering him as a big Buddha.

In this matter, it is difficult to establish any merits, but it is often them who are behind them, so Ryan's predecessor willingly accepted the appointment with the mood of the clouds and fog.

Half!

Ryan only has half a year!

If there is nothing to do in these six months, there is no way to obtain enough merits for promotion, which means that he has failed the trial, that is, not only can he not become the next Grand Duke of Swanstein Castle, but he is not even qualified to add the word Leslie to the middle of his surname.

That's not what Ryan wants!