People in Teyvat, starting from saving the grass god

Even his veiled words had no effect on Rhode.

Not only did it not work, Rhode said smugly, "Of course, my cooking skills are recognized. You haven't eaten it for a long time, right? When I'm done with this busy period, I'll let you recall my cooking skills."

The atmosphere suddenly became cheerful.

However, after they briefly chatted about their recent situations, they started talking about business.

"I received the news that Rahman will arrive in a few days."

"Come back with Tadella and the others."

"Can you really convince him?"

News from the mercenary circle, the first-hand and fastest intelligence obtained by Dixia.

"It shouldn't be a problem to convince him."

Rhodes was very confident about this.

Rahman’s response was much later than expected.

When Dixia went to integrate the mercenary group, she had originally planned to find the administrator of Hope City appointed by Rhodes after destroying the Relics of the God-King.

But later, Rhodes discovered that his reputation in the desert was problematic, so he stopped the plan.

this time.

After Tadla and his men wiped out the tribes that had tarnished Rhodes' reputation, and with the construction of Hope City, Rhodes' reputation in the desert improved significantly.

At least.

Finally someone said that he was the true messenger of the Red King, and that he submitted to the God of Grass only in order to allow the people of the Red King to live a better life.

Some of these rumors about him are true, while others are exaggerated and packaged.

Rhodes didn't care much about these things and let the rumors spread.

The power of gossip.

He had experienced it in Mondstadt and Xumi.

Negative rumors can greatly damage your image, but positive rumors can also make a stranger feel good about you.

The previous image was bad enough.

It is a good thing that some people are now taking the initiative to spread a good reputation for themselves.

That’s all there is to say about mercenaries.

After talking about Rahman, Candice then turned to the topic of the Red King believers in Aru Village.

"There was another conflict between radical Red King followers and tribal people in the past two days."

Candice felt helpless when she said this.

This is a contradiction that is difficult to reconcile.

Rhodes had told Nashida before that they could only rely on time to improve themselves.

All they can do now is to use the laws of Xumi and the rules of Hope City to allow the two religious factions to barely maintain peace and avoid conflict.

"I saw."

There is no need to explain this, Rhodes saw it as soon as he entered the city.

Now the Red King believers and the tribesmen live and work separately, and they all have an attitude of never interacting with each other. Anyway, you build your things and I build mine.

For example, the tribesmen are now actively participating in building settlements, reclaiming wasteland, building farms, and building sand-proof forests. The moderate believers of the Red King are doing similarly. On the other hand, the radicals, the first thing they did was to spend their limited resources to build a statue of the Red King, and they provocatively placed the statue facing the direction of the Jingshan Palace.

“I’m still too full.”

This is Rod's comment on it.

Compared with the penniless tribesmen who came to Hope City in search of hope for survival, the Red King believers who followed Candice to Hope City all had some savings.

They also paid for the construction of the Red King statue themselves.

This was something Rhode had promised them before, so no one raised any objections on this matter. Even though they provoked Nashida in this way, no one blamed them.

But what a waste of precious manpower and resources on a stone statue.

This caused the radicals to lag far behind others in the initial allocation of resources. Not only was the land allocation far less than that of the tribal people and the moderates, but they also had far fewer jobs.

In Hope City, where the average person is exhausted, there is no job.

This is also ironic.

But the radicals did not blame themselves for the problem. Instead, they attributed it to Rhodes's partiality and the ignorant tribesmen.

Although they didn't dare to fight again after the lesson, secret tripping and quarreling were still inevitable.

This also caused a lot of trouble for Sino's fan pipe team and the thirty-man team responsible for city defense.

“The makeshift prisons are almost full.”

Seno complained and swallowed a big mouthful of rice.

He boasted that he had a terrible reputation among the desert people, and ordinary desert people would try to avoid him when they saw him.

Unexpectedly, this bad reputation has no effect now.

This group of radicals really ignored him, and what's worse, they even dared to scold him in public.

"It can't be helped."

In response to Seno's distress, Rhodes could only shrug and say, "After all, this is a society that practices the rule of law. Violent law enforcement will not work."

"Ugh."

Senuo was a little depressed, and the food on the plate didn't smell good anymore. He simply put down the spoon and complained, "I'm so tired, even more tired than chasing a fugitive in the desert. I shouldn't have listened to the teacher and come to help you if I had known."

"You would have come to help me even if the teacher hadn't told you."

Rhodes chuckled and said, "I have thought of a good way to quickly solve this problem these two days. Do you want to try it?"

"Oh?"

As soon as these words came out, the three of them immediately perked up and leaned forward to listen to Rhodes' words carefully.

About how to resolve the conflict between these two factions.

Rhodes' method was simple.

That is to incorporate the tribesmen and the Red King's believers into the management system of Hope City.

A very simple and easy to operate method.

But it made everyone present frown.

"Can they do it?"

All three of them have a say in this matter.

Dishia has traveled a lot in the desert and has seen the ignorance and backwardness of the tribesmen. Even if they were knowledgeable, they would find it difficult to take on the responsibility of city management.

Especially now, the tribesmen who have come to Hope City to make a living are mainly from small tribes, and more than 99% of them cannot even read.

Putting them in management positions would not only make things difficult for them, but would simply cause more trouble.

These Red King believers from Aru Village are fine. At least they are educated. Some of them already have some power in the village and work in not-too-important positions, so there is no problem with that.

Sino’s entry point is somewhat different.

He was not worried about whether the two groups were capable of managing their respective regions. He was worried that if the two groups became colleagues, they would trip each other up, squeeze each other, and ultimately delay important matters.

For their own concerns.

Rhodes smiled and said, "What I mean is, let the tribesmen manage the Red King's followers, and the Red King's followers manage the tribesmen."

"what?"

This sounded incredible at first, but soon, Dixia and the other three understood what Rhodes meant.

“Should we also add performance appraisal?”

Candice thought of the management plan that Rhodes had come up with in Aru Village before.

This was a plan that impressed Candice deeply.

At that time, it was this method of zoning and assessing performance within a specified time that reduced a lot of the burden of managing the village for Candice and Uncle Amp.

"Ah."

"Divide the settlements of both sides into districts, and let the tribesmen and the Red King believers manage their own communities. The divisions should be based on whether there are hospitals, schools, security departments and other infrastructure. Don't divide the communities into squares like drawing a map. You must divide them according to the standard of suitability for living."

“The person in charge of community management must be from a different ethnic group than the settlement.”

“The time limit is three months, and the assessment criteria are based on livelihood surveys and income levels.”

"We must establish a reward mechanism that is generous enough to benefit the entire community, such as funding allocations, or bonuses for the efforts of the entire community to make progress."

Rhodes expressed his thoughts word by word, and the three of them fell into deep thought.

Hope City is designed to be a very large city.

Compared to huge cities.

There are actually not many people living here, and their main income comes from the labor wages paid by the Ordinance House. As for other means of creating wealth, they are limited to opening a restaurant or a blacksmith shop.

If we follow Rhodes' distribution plan, it will be a great test of the community leader's ability to create wealth and drive community members to make money.

“That’s not fair.”

Thinking of this, Dixia shook her head and said, "The desert people are not as experienced as the old hands in Aru Village in making money."

Rhode asked in return: "Is experience useful?"

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then.

As Dixia and the others looked thoughtful, Rhode said, "If it were somewhere else, I would definitely not allocate it this way, but in Hope City, in this newly started city, everyone has unlimited and equal opportunities."

"Yes, the people of Aru Village are more experienced in making money."

"and then?"

"Can they continue to make money by hunting, doing business, and farming as they did in Aru Village?"

"So."

"Don't worry about who has more experience than who. Here, everyone has the same opportunities."

Rhode laughed and ended with a real-life example: "A mercenary who can only use brute force and can't read can think of a way to make money after eating a meal. He has become an important new star in the catering industry from a small mercenary. Who can say that the uneducated desert people are worse than others in making money?"

Say it.

A silence.

Candice, Dixia, and Seno all stared at the dishes in their hands, pondering the amount of information in Rhode's words.

(End of this chapter)

214. Chapter 204 An irresistible temptation

Chapter 204 An irresistible temptation

Let’s talk about it.

The implementation of community management requires careful calculation and division of labor. The community managers mentioned by Rod must also receive certain training before they can take up their posts, otherwise they will only cause trouble.

The tedious tasks involved cannot be accomplished by just Candice and her friends.

But it would be nice to have a strategy that corresponds to the current situation.

The people who implement these policies are the ordinariates assigned here by the Ordinariate.

Rod also gave Candice a suggestion.

"Hope City is not Aru Village. The situation here cannot be stabilized by one or two people working day and night."

I'm used to taking on too much.

Candice, who was unable to change her habits after arriving in Hope City, inevitably showed fatigue occasionally when talking to Rhodes about the current situation.

Rhodes noticed all these small details.