Chapter 420

Snowflake's longing for a raise had clearly not begun just a day or two ago.

It was simply that she had some pride and did not want to bring it up in public. Nor was she Sui Xiong's believer, so she could not contact him through a channel of faith. As for magical contact... she truly did not know any magic powerful enough to reach a divine kingdom from the mortal world.

Thus, the matter had dragged on for many years. Only today had she found an opportunity to bring it up.

Sui Xiong was not stingy. After hearing her explanation and considering it, he felt that her salary really was a little low, unworthy of her contributions to the Northwest Republic—Snowflake was currently one of the Northwest Republic's governors. If she were not somewhat lazy and unwilling to take on more work, she could even have ranked among the High Governors.

At first, the Northwest Republic had planned to establish only one High Governor. Later, they discovered that this was utterly impractical; one person simply was not enough—unless he intended to emulate Mister Zhuge, exhausting himself in service until death. Left with no choice, they simply made "High Governor" the highest rank of civil servant, roughly equivalent to a certain sort of high-ranking figure from the country Sui Xiong had come from on Earth, whose title would turn into a censored term if written in a novel.

Of course... even all the big shots with censored titles in that country put together would not be enough to fight any single High Governor of the Northwest Republic. Yet all the High Governors in the entire Northwest Republic combined did not have as much administrative work as even the idlest one among those censored-title big shots.

After all, the inhabited land