By noon, the maid was busy, and Claire had woken up from her nap.

Immediately after going downstairs, Reagan leaned over.

"Young master, no one has come to apply for the paperwork you want to recruit."

"Huh? Isn't the pay enough, isn't it already fifty silver coins? ”

"That's not the case, the reward you gave them is a lot among the nobles, but it is estimated that there are no people in this Nafu City who can read and do arithmetic, otherwise they would have come to apply for the job a long time ago."

Claire pondered for a while, she didn't expect that the basic education here was so backward, and it seemed that the plan to open a primary school in the future would have to be postponed.

"It's okay, it's not in a hurry, if you really can't find it, you can go to other nobles to recruit it."

"Yes."

Following Claire downstairs, Reagan had already instructed the maids to prepare the lunch, and the young master's lunch was all made by him under his guidance, otherwise he wouldn't dare to bring the things made by these newly recruited maids to the young master to see.

Sitting at the table, Claire looked at the large piece of barbecue steak in front of her, her appetite was not so good, but she still cut a bite with a knife and fork and put it in her mouth.

"Well, it tastes good." Claire praised that although it was not as good as the food she had eaten in her previous life, it was indeed better than the previous meal.

Yuna stood up and blushed and bowed her head and shouted, "Thank you, young master!" ”

"Huh?" Claire looked at Yuna, who still had the impression of the black-haired girl who had been hired, "Did you do this?" ”

"It's... I was taught by Butler Reagan. Yuna's voice was like a mosquito.

"Well done." Claire laughed.

However, Reagan straightened his face, frowned and scolded: "Who asked you to disturb the young master when he was eating, let me go down!" ”

Yuna's body trembled like a frightened fawn, and then fled out of the dining room.

Claire smiled bitterly, "Don't be so them. ”

"There is a difference between respect and inferiority, this is the rule."

Claire didn't continue to say anything, this was Reagan's job, and he didn't want to worry about it.

"She cooks good food, let her be in charge of the kitchen in the future."

"I think so too." Reagan bowed and obeyed.

And Yuna, who ran out, gasped, and secretly said in her heart: Reagan's housekeeper is so hateful, this is the seventh time I have been scolded, and I have been scolded for being clumsy when cooking, but the young master is very good, not as difficult as I was during the interview, and even spoke so gently just now.

Thinking like this, Yuna's smile was already on her lips, and she was so happy to be able to work in the Viscount's Palace.

……

"Young master, there is something."

"Say."

"The little nobles and some big merchants in the city are going to give you a welcome dinner tonight."

The small nobles in Nafu City are all nobles who have no territory, and after the original magic mine was discovered, Viscount Griffin at that time gave a large sum of money to those small nobles under his command at once, and took back the land in the entire territory, after all, who knows if the land occupied by those small nobles will have magic mines.

Claire chuckled, "Why didn't we wait until I killed the Captain Knight the night we came back to think of this welcome party." ”

Reagan was also a little indignant, "Then this banquet will not be held!" I'm going to get them out of here. ”

"Nope." Claire waved her hand, "Yes, why not if someone is here to send money." ”

Those nobles and merchants must have seen that they had killed the knight captain, and now remembered that they were trying to curry favor with themselves.

But if you're here for a banquet, don't you have some gifts in your hand?

……

"Welcome Lord Wilbur, his gift to Lord Viscount is the Ice Sword worth five hundred gold coins!"

Reagan stood in the doorway, raised the gift of a large sword, and shouted to the petty nobles outside the door.

The nobles outside were shocked, and hurriedly glanced at the gift they were holding in their hands, it was only nearly a hundred gold coins, and it couldn't be compared to the gift that Lord Wilbur gave him worth five hundred gold coins!

And the butler also shouted loudly, if his gift is lower than this, then how can he hold his head up in front of these nobles in the future.

Not only were they surprised, but even Lord Wilbur, who had just given the gift, was very shocked, he didn't know the value of the sword he had given him, at most it was only fifty or sixty gold coins, and it would be impossible to have more.

The steward of the Viscount's Mansion must have made a mistake.

Baron Eugene, who was in second place at this time, also offered a gift, but his expression did not seem so relaxed.

Reagan chuckled as he took the box, "Welcome to Baron Eugene, his gift to Lord Viscount is a robe with night stripes worth a hundred gold coins and a ruby ring with four hundred and fifty gold coins!" ”

Baron Eugene's expression was a little embarrassed, covering his right thumb as much as possible not to let others see it, the ruby ring was still temporarily taken off by him.

Six or seven nobles and several big merchants from Nafu City came in one after another, and they all offered gifts worth no less than five hundred gold coins. Even the political magistrate, who pretended to be a poor ghost, gave him a bracelet worth more than 700 gold coins.

Lord Wilbur, who was the first to give the gift, was a little frightened at the end, and when the nobles had gone in, he quietly ran to Reagan to make up a gift of more than four hundred gold coins, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

And Reagan accepted the gift, the corners of his mouth were grinning, and he was secretly happy in his heart: "If the young master hadn't taught me this method, it is estimated that the gifts I received would not have exceeded 1,000 gold coins now, and now it adds up to more than 5,000 gold coins!" ”

The banquet was held in the living room, and the table was filled with all kinds of delicacies, which Reagan led the group of maids to make in a hurry.

Although these nobles are not welcome, the face of the Griffin family must be held up.

When the nobles and merchants entered, they saw Claire sitting on the main seat.

"Lord Viscount Gui'an!"

"Lord Viscount Gui'an!"

"You may be seated!" Claire waved her hand, but she didn't even get up.

The faces of those nobles were obviously stiffened, but they were all old fritters for many years, and their faces were also very thick, and after sneering, they found a place to sit up.

Claire didn't speak, but listened to the nobles' greetings to her, and praised her exploits in Nafu, and was very happy that she had returned to Nafu.

Anyone can say anything on the surface, and you can know it with your ass, I'm afraid that among the people who least welcome Claire back to Nafu City, these nobles are the first, as long as Claire hasn't come back, they are the soil emperors in Nafu City.

After some politeness, all the nobles and merchants present looked at each other, then stopped talking and looked at Baron Eugene together.

How could such an obvious action escape Claire's eyes, and after a light laugh in his heart, he said secretly: "This is to force the palace?" ”

"Ahem!" Baron Eugene coughed a few times, then sat up and looked at Claire.

"Lord Viscount, I don't think it's a good thing that you've abolished so many taxes."

You must know that before Claire came back, the extra taxes were divided equally among them, and if they cut those taxes all at once, their annual income would have to be reduced by more than half!

"What does Baron Eugene think? Let's take a look. ”

Baron Eugene thought for a while and replied: "The operation and construction of the city must need taxes, and such a drastic reduction of taxes by Lord Viscount is probably not conducive to the development of the city." ”

Claire almost didn't laugh out loud, just because a few of them were embarrassed to talk about the development of the city, and when she first saw Nafu City, she almost thought it was a city that had been abandoned for decades.

Seeing that Claire didn't react, Eugene tentatively said, "If Lord Viscount maintains the previous taxes, then we are willing to pay some taxes, which can make the taxes reach about four to five times the original amount." ”

The rest of the nobles chimed in, "Yes! Oh, yes! ”

"Baron Eugene has a point."

In their opinion, it is nothing more than one more person to divide the money of those untouchables, and it doesn't matter if they take less, after all, this is a business without capital.

Claire's eyes narrowed, using my money to bribe myself, it's up to you to think of it.

"But the tax reduction was proposed to me by Frank, who has been a political officer here for more than ten years, and I think his words should have some reference value."

Claire squinted at Frank, the magistrate who had been dressed in shabby clothes yesterday but was now dressed in luxury.