Governor's Residence, Evernight Harbor. Governor Yahui was reviewing documents as usual.
Just then, a light knock suddenly came from the door.
Hearing that knock, Yahui's heart sank slightly.
Only two hours earlier, he had instructed his secretary to turn down all meeting requests during working hours that had not been scheduled in advance, yet the knock still came.
It seemed that whoever stood outside was someone neither he nor his secretary could refuse...
"Come in."
Almost the instant the words left his mouth, the person outside pushed open the door and walked in.
"Long time no see, Governor."
Seeing the man in military uniform at the door, Yahui put on a warm smile as well.
"Long time no see... Mr. Peter. What brings you here?"
Although the man before him, Peter, was merely a centurion, Yahui, a ten-thousand commander himself, did not dare slight him in the least.
The reason was simple.
This man was the secretary of Ten-Thousand Commander Dickens, chief of general affairs for the Boluo Province Theater of the Southern Legion.
That was no minor position.
Although Yahui was also a ten-thousand commander—and a two-star one at that—in the Legion's system, which emphasized military merit, officials in the administrative system were inherently ranked a level below officers in the military system, with further distinctions within the military itself.
The theater's general affairs department might not have been a combat unit, but it was still part of the military system, and it served a frontline theater. Its status far surpassed that of a colonial governor like him.
More importantly, Evernight Harbor happened to lie along the frontline theater's supply route. As colonial governor, he was obligated to cooperate with all of their supply requisitions.
Even though they were not in a superior-subordinate relationship, he still had to lower