Running a detective agency required not only Transcendents to hold the fort, but also shrewd business acumen. Charlotte had few people he could use. He himself lacked that talent, and none of his subordinates possessed the right skills either.
Dorothy, Dobbin, and the others belonged to the City Patrol; they were not Charlotte's men. As for Yellow Bear's lot, if they could have worked as detectives, they would not have joined gangs. Spotted Deer Gwen and Gale Wolf Bancroft had no talent for it either.
As for Anastasia and Belisa...
Charlotte did not know whether they could handle it.
He chose to trust this group of veteran detectives from the Wild Horse Society first. He even deliberately let them select their own detective assistants and apprentice detectives, clearing out the agency's unstable elements. Though this would make the "old hands of the detective agency" more tightly knit, at least there would be no internal strife in the short term.
The detective assistants and apprentice detectives who had been pushed out all had some education, or they could not have entered this line of work. They might have resented the agency's old hands for excluding them, but they did not necessarily hold anything against Charlotte himself. Sent to the City Patrol, those with ability would naturally distinguish themselves; those without ability...
In any case, His Imperial Majesty paid their wages. Charlotte Mecklenburg lost nothing.
Using management concepts from Earth that were centuries ahead of this era, though he had only grasped the bare basics, Charlotte quickly smoothed over the tense atmosphere at the Fiery Steed Detective Agency.
He then announced the second matter: a group meal!
Charlotte paid out of pocket and treated everyone at the Wild Horse Society to a lavish feast.
That single meal earned the new president unanimous