The next day, at the City Lord's Mansion's Conference Hall.
Xu Nan had unusually summoned all the Earth-born classholders for a meeting.
Tang Haibao sat closest to him, making his special status abundantly clear.
Over the past few days, these Thousand Rays Society classholders had made enormous contributions to maintaining order in Wildfire City. Though they were doing it for the rewards from the magic web, Xu Nan was still grateful to them.
There were not many of them. Including Tang Haibao, there were only eleven in total, since most people had chosen to return to their families.
Those who remained mostly had their own stories.
But Xu Nan did not care.
Those who stayed were true brothers, and they were also the talents Xu Nan intended to employ in his coming grand undertaking.
He spent over an hour roughly explaining the situation in the Eastern Kingdom and Wildfire City's direction for development.
Everyone was quite interested. After all, they were all successors of socialism, prepared from childhood to take up the mantle. Now that they finally had a chance to show what they could do, the classholders offered their opinions one after another, and Xu Nan chose to listen widely and adopt what was useful.
He knew full well that everyone who chose to follow him had their own thoughts and objectives.
Xu Nan did not need to know what each of them wanted. He only needed to ensure that their interests did not conflict with his own.
The Emerald Mine was where everyone's interests lay.
Furthermore, these people were all members of the Taotie Divine Church and were more or less bound by the Azure Dreamland's oath. Although their faith in the God of Taotie was rather ordinary, Xu Nan could basically be certain that they would not