Chapter 2735: The Artificer's Greatest Masterpiece
Seeing the two out the door, Mr. Dong returned to the second-floor study. "Do you need me to provide you with reasonable suggestions?"
Xu Huo looked at the information on the terminal. "Can you handle it all yourself?"
The corners of Mr. Dong's mouth turned down slightly. "No one, no matter how capable, can manage everything everywhere. You're making things difficult for me, sir."
Xu Huo set the information aside. "Let's hear your advice."
"In noble family businesses, key positions are basically held by people with the same surname. Apart from ensuring no outsiders can falsify things, it's more important that family members can communicate at any time without much information error. The Tal and Miler families are good choices, but they shouldn't be involved in too many important positions, otherwise it won't be them managing your assets for you, but you giving them your family fortune."
After giving this advice, Mr. Dong added, "Of course, if they do that, you can kill them. But I don't think it's necessary."
"Not to mention the Miler family, the Tal family has some foundation. They're not on good terms with the Werner family. Besides the profits, what they care about more is having a backer for the family." Xu Huo said, "Clemens thinks differently. They feel it's hard to stand out in the main district, so they focus on external channels. Besides making money, what's more important is being irreplaceable."
"But there are already enough nobles in District 011. We have to give others a chance too."
He flipped through the resumes that had been sent in. Besides those who came in person, there were also people who couldn't even get a turn to submit a visiting card. Even though Mr. Dong had already screened them once, there were still too many.
It took him two days to pick out some people. Lady Lily and Roy had also made their decisions.
People from the Tal and Miler families could help manage a few mines, but for each mine, besides arranging their people, there were also three talents recruited by Xu Huo. The Tal and Miler family members could serve as overall directors, but the public accounts still had to go through these people's hands. Of course, the two families could also bring their own financial staff.
Roy also got the berth in the Third District, but he had a probation period. In addition, the people Xu Huo recruited would also go to work in the Third District.
As for the remaining vacant positions, Xu Huo gave half to the nobles and half to the settled residents of District 011. Among both groups were players who had already stopped playing and ordinary people. What they looked at was their ability in business. For the laboratory side, he picked some people with professional knowledge. He also hired a professional manager named Helena Connor, mainly to maintain the normal operation of the laboratory, approve funds, purchase equipment, handle patent applications, and so on.
Among these, some secret laboratories were handed over to Dr. Deng after inspection. The investment and output of these laboratories were directly coordinated with Mr. Dong.
Of course, the general accounts of all industries had to be submitted to Mr. Dong.
After handling the major money-making parts, there were still some other scattered assets, which were more complicated. For example, Angel, who once served at Rose Castle, and the ladies who often attended charity galas, got opportunities to showcase their talents.
Xu Huo didn't bother to find out how the Herta family was ultimately dealt with. After finishing these matters, he still had to receive guests from Werner and some heavyweight nobles of District 011.
Werner's people had come to apologize many times, bringing gifts each time, but they couldn't see him every time. After keeping them waiting for a while, it was about time.
The Werner family had an extraordinary status and many talented members. They wouldn't normally be so humble, but after Huahan went back once, the family finally sent a heavyweight figure—Ashis Werner's father, also the patriarch of the Werner family, Quintus Werner.
He was originally a player too, but not particularly talented, so he later quit the game to focus on managing family affairs. The talented players of the Werner family maintained their player status and rarely showed up.
Quintus Werner also kept a low posture. First, he apologized for the Werner family's shortsightedness, then apologized for his youngest son, and stated that if Xu Huo agreed, Ashis could come bearing a thorny branch to beg for forgiveness, only seeking to eliminate the misunderstanding between the two families.
Just eliminate the misunderstanding, write off the past, not involving future interactions, and not mentioning marriage again.
The Werner family had quite a few players, so they didn't actually need to be so humble. Xu Huo clearly wouldn't be a second Huahan Werner. Given their family power, even if they were in decline, they wouldn't have to bow to Xu Huo now. After all, Xu Huo wasn't crazy—would he massacre their entire clan over a disagreement in the future?
If he really dared to do that, it would be no different from cutting ties with District 011. A super player and a district complemented each other.
Xu Huo knew that Huahan had forced them to bow their heads. Although the two didn't have a formal master-disciple title, they had the substance of one. Of course, he wouldn't refuse to take this step down.
Once the old scores were settled, the Werner family people could leave.
The other heavyweight noble members were just there to build connections, very restrained, not in a hurry.
After these days, the trivial matters that needed handling were basically completed. In the remaining time, besides occasionally receiving and checking his personal assets that had arrived, he spent the rest training to control time power.
He could already successfully introduce time power, so what Huahan taught was mainly fine control—that is, how to control the coverage range of time power and reasonably shorten the distance to time power. After all, not all enemies could be killed from a distance.
After studying for a while, Xu Huo had some achievements. He could now control time power within about one meter around his body. At this distance, even stretching his legs a bit might be affected, so the scale of time power had to be very precise. Of course, this was also the key to being able to walk within time power when it was triggered on a large scale. According to Huahan, wouldn't it be a joke if a safe zone formed around oneself?
At the same time, he also told Xu Huo an important fact: once penetrated by time power, especially high-speed time flow, it wasn't just time accelerating on the person. The moment time power pierced through, the person themselves no longer had initiative, becoming just a grain of sand carried by the time power. This was similar to being controlled by mental power or forcibly controlled by space power. Theoretically, different time powers appearing in the same space itself transcended the dimensions of current human existence.
There was still no new news from the Box Carrier side, so he could free up time to organize the items he had just obtained.
What he was most looking forward to was naturally the A-grade space-type attack item created by Master Xi.
[Time-Space Hand: A top-tier A-grade item born from two outstanding artisans and a stroke of luck, possessing both space power and time power, the artificer's nearly perfect greatest masterpiece.]