After returning to his office after the meeting, Edward sat down behind his desk and breathed a sigh of relief.

The tea in the teapot next to the table was already cold, and he opened the lid and bounced a small fireball inside.

It didn't take long for a steaming cup of herbal tea to appear in his hand.

The scent of flowers wafted out of the cup, and his brain, which had been a little excited from arguing for hours on end, slowly calmed down.

After drinking the tea, he began to arrange for his subordinates to count the strongholds.

Now there is still a little time before the end of the work meal, he arranged the personnel before dinner, and he can start work tonight when he works overtime.

There are nearly 10,000 strongholds, and the committee only now has only thirty elves plus a mascot, and each of them has to count more than 300 strongholds on average.

The statistical work is boring and tedious, and you can imagine how busy you will be in the next few days.

In this place, which was requisitioned as a temporary command in the Southern Theater of Operations, overtime at night was commonplace. Everyone works in "999" and only has one day off every nine days.

The information on the distribution and function of the strongholds they are using now was made by the staff group after a collective all-nighter for several days.

Five minutes before the end of the day, there was a knock on the door of Edward's office.

Edward answered and Charles walked in, with a large roll of parchment in his hand.

Charles placed the parchment in front of Edward and said, "This is the statistical table I just made, please see if it is applicable." ”

Edward opened the parchment, the ink on it had just dried up, and he could smell the smell of herbs added to the ink to prevent moths.

On the paper was a table, the first line of which was a series of permutations and combinations of the various requirements of the strongholds—surveillance, defense, food storage, communications, and so on.

Charles found that the elves at the meeting did not grasp the point of the statistical work, so he simply drew an Excel spreadsheet, listed all these requirements, and asked Edward to lead people to count the numbers according to the requirements, and finally fill in the form.

While Edward was working on the form, Charles explained, "I had assisted the staff when they were planning, so I had an idea of what they were looking for. At that time, I proposed that the concept of functional modularization and standardization be adopted in order to facilitate construction when formulating the functional requirements of the site. No one seems to have noticed this at today's meeting, but if you look closely, you can see that there are signs of different requests. ”

Edward, who was studying the form, said after a while: "I see, I thought that the requirements made by the staff committee seemed to be a bit regular. ”

"Hmm. Charles nodded, "At that time, we developed a table, and when the threats to be dealt with and the functions to be undertaken by each stronghold reached a certain level, we chose the corresponding requirements on the table, such as the defense level, and directly applied it. If we don't do this, there will be nearly 10,000 strongholds, and it will be difficult for us to come up with a plan in a short period of time even if we don't sleep. ”

Edward had finished studying the parchment by this time, "This will make our statistical work much easier, and I will arrange for them to organize the plan according to the table tonight." ”

"I found that there was a lack of communication between us and the Staff Committee, and if we had the Staff of Staff in today's meeting, we wouldn't have wasted so much time," Charles said. ”

Edward blushed a little, as he had joined the ranks of wasting time today. He thought for a moment and said, "Then let's invite representatives of the staff committee to participate in future meetings, we have expertise in the construction industry, but we don't know much about military issues." ”

"No problem. Charles said, "I'll mention this to the commander later, so that she can say hello to the staff committee." I think in the future, we will also have to deal with other departments, such as the transportation department, and we will definitely have to contact them regularly. So I'm proposing to set up an outreach office to head this piece. ”

Edward immediately agreed to Charles's suggestion, and one of the main contents of today's meeting was to organize various departments, but the building was somehow crooked at the beginning.

Charles continued: "I'll make a plan for other departments tonight, and I'll take the time to discuss it with you tomorrow, and I'll implement it after I complete the statistical work." ”

He left without waiting for Edward's reply, the horn of leaving work had already sounded.

Only then did Edward realize that their conversation just now was like a conversation between colleagues at work, and the other party did not act like a mascot at all. The most important thing is that the other party quietly took the lead in the committee.

The Wright sisters had returned at dinner, and they had obtained the company's license at a ridiculously fast pace, after all, Elizabeth had asked the city's leader in charge of industry and commerce to take them to the formalities.

Now it's their job, and Charles is now focused on building a stronghold.

Charles returned to his office after the meal, much to the surprise of Edward, who was on the other side, and thought that Charles would rest tonight instead of actually coming to work overtime.

Having made himself a pot of tea, Charles sat down behind his desk and began to write.

He began to set up the bidding office of the committee, set up various functional departments, and formulated the rules and regulations of the bidding department and functional departments, so as to prepare for the next trip to the Forge Holy Land.

In his previous life, he had done so many years of construction work, and he was already very familiar with the matters of bidding, whether it was normal bidding or abnormal bidding.

After more than an hour, he wrote down the organizational structure of the bidding office and the system and matters of the bidding work, and waited for Edward to discuss it with him when he was free. Copying the system of the previous life is a dead end, and he must fully listen to the opinions and suggestions of the old-timers.

Then he drafted the organizational structure of the Engineering Construction Office, the Quality Management Office, the Safety Management Office, the Engineering Materials Office, the Accounting Office, the Material Procurement Office, the Commercial Office, the Chief Engineer's Office, the Outreach Office and the Logistics Office, and clarified the responsibilities and powers of each department and the job descriptions of the heads of each department.

He then wrote to Queen Victoria.

A construction site cannot be without supervision, and the best source of supervision in this world is the temple. So Charles wants to ask Victoria, who is also the Pope of the Temple of Life, to see if the Temple of Life can take over the business.

After writing the letter, he began to draft the management rules and regulations of the construction party, such as the setting of the five major personnel, safety management, civilized construction, management of major hazards, and so on.

Preparing for late at night, Edward had finished his work for the day. Just as he left the office, he found that Charles was still working the opposite side.

Charles was startled by the knock on the door and looked up to see Edward standing in the doorway.

"Is there something wrong?" Charles asked.

Edward said, "Sitting, it's ready for twelve o'clock now. ”

Charles was stunned, he was so focused on the code words just now that he forgot the time.

"Oh, it's time to go rest. Charles put the pen away, and then he beckoned to Edward, "You've come just in time, you have time to look at this thing, see if there are any unrealistic or wrong things, and then revise it later." ”

After he finished speaking, he picked up the stack of documents and responsibilities that he had written at the beginning and handed it to Edward.

Edward took the document and flipped through two pages, then his gaze rested on the department's organizational chart. After looking at it for a while, he said, "With so many departments, we don't have enough manpower, right?"

"It doesn't matter. Charles, who had just finished stretching, said, "You first see if there is anything to be modified, and then calculate how many people are needed, and then I can go to the commander and ask for someone when the results are available." It's a big deal that I asked the queen to come forward and ask the students of Macun University of Technology to be cheap laborers. ”

Edward was stunned for a long time, he never thought that he could call a student like this.

Ignoring him, Charles walked out of the office on his own, and returned to his room.

"Why did you come back so late?" asked Orvie, who was now a little embarrassed.

Charles's eyes widened suddenly, and his breathing became heavy.

Because the scene in front of him at this moment really makes people like this.

The pot on the table was empty, and the two bone saucers next to it were full of shrimp shells, and Wilber was sitting there munching on the last crayfish.