Of course, Valen was not the only one who received Zhang Feng’s small gift.

There are a total of 13 businessmen remaining in Hongye City, regardless of their strength, and Zhang Feng gave them all his small gifts.

The people who sent the gifts were naturally the male slaves who had just been trained for less than a day. Zhang Feng had few male slaves under his command, less than thirty people. Although the training time was short, they were still capable of doing tasks such as running errands, which were not difficult.

Similar to Valen, the other merchants were shocked and excited when they saw the small spoonful of snow-white salt that Zhang Feng sent.

Although they did not do salt business before, now that there is such an obvious business opportunity in front of them, how can they not give it a try.

At the same time, Zhang Feng also received feedback from the male slaves. These merchants said that they would definitely arrive tomorrow afternoon.

No matter what, Zhang Feng is also the mayor of Hongye City. These merchants will definitely honor his request. Besides, no one can refuse just a small spoonful of salt.

Since we are going to hold a small auction, the preparations must be done in advance.

Although Zhang Feng has no experience in this area, he can roughly guess based on his years of reading novels and watching TV dramas. It is nothing more than venue construction, catalog production, pre-auction publicity and preheating, related manpower, monitoring and security, etc.

However, Zhang Feng was only holding a small auction, and it was rather rushed, with only one day to prepare, so many things were unnecessary.

Now all we need is a venue, the items to be auctioned and the relevant personnel.

Zhang Feng directly chose the City Hall as the venue.

The City Hall is the place where all administrative work of Hongye City is carried out, including industry, commerce, transportation, environment, infrastructure, etc., which are all under the jurisdiction of the City Hall. Its functions overlap with those of the City Lord's Mansion, which is the castle. However, the City Hall of Hongye City can only manage matters within Hongye City, while the City Lord's Mansion governs the entire barony.

Now that almost all the officials in the city hall have left, only Blanche is left, and she is too busy to handle many things, so Zhang Feng can only ask Caroline, Marlowe, or even do some orders himself.

For example, the notices on the bulletin board were all written by Zhang Feng himself. After all, there are too few management personnel in Hongye City and no one is available.

The Town Hall is a two-story building. The second floor is the residence of the alderman, and the first floor is where the alderman works.

In Zhang Feng's opinion, this layout is not reasonable at all. Eating, living and working are all in the same place, which is too awkward and too disrespectful. Moreover, although it is called working place, there is not even a hall.

Just like now, there are many people coming to apply for the job, and they are queuing up outside.

When Zhang Feng and Caroline arrived together, there were naturally soldiers leading the way, and soon he saw Blanche who was busy as a dog.

"Lord City Lord! Madam City Lord!"

Seeing Zhang Feng and Caroline arriving, Blanche quickly stood up and greeted Zhang Feng and Caroline respectfully.

When Caroline heard Blanche calling her the mayor's wife, her ears felt hot.

Zhang Feng didn't pay much attention to it, but asked kindly: "Well, how is work going? Are you busy enough?"

Looking at the long line in front of her, Blanche gritted her teeth and replied:

"……fine."

“…”

Zhang Feng also found that the questions he asked were a bit stupid. After all, it was his first time as a leader and he had little experience.

Caroline saw the two people being embarrassed with each other and laughed secretly.

"Ahem, well, prepare a bigger room for me. I'm going to hold a small auction tomorrow."

"Yes, Lord City Lord."

Blanche quickly put down the interview work in her hands and prepared for Zhang Feng first.

Zhang Feng was a little embarrassed, after all, Blanche was very busy now. But she was the only one left as the municipal official, and she was definitely the one who knew more about some municipal affairs, so she had to test others. After the test was completed in two days, Zhang Feng would have more people available.

The venue problem has been solved, the items for auction are ready, and the only thing left is personnel.

The personnel are easy to deal with, after all, they are not high-level technical talents. The female slaves from yesterday can almost be put to use. They don't need to do anything, just serve tea and pour water.

When leaving the somewhat messy city hall and seeing these female slaves again, Zhang Feng was very satisfied with Erica.

Although it only took one day, if you didn't tell you, you would never have thought that these were a group of slaves.

They were all very young, wearing neat coarse linen clothes, clean and without any odor. Apart from being thinner, they were no different from ordinary people.

Erica only taught them aristocratic etiquette for one day. Although there were no obvious results, their spirit and energy were completely different from yesterday. To put it simply, they were no longer timid and had a little more confidence.

Of course, when Zhang Feng arrived, these slaves immediately knelt on the ground to express their respect to Zhang Feng.

Erica was also kneeling on the ground. No matter what her previous identity was, she was now just Zhang Feng's slave and the rules could not be forgotten.

"Get up."

Zhang Feng personally lifted Erica up, which made her feel flattered.

"Well done. If you can train them to have 50% of the temperament of noble ladies, I will free you from slavery."

Erica's eyes lit up when she heard Zhang Feng's words.

If there is a chance to escape from slavery and become a free person, she will definitely not let it go. It seems that she needs to work harder in the future! "Choose ten women who look more elegant. I can use them."

Erica selected ten female slaves from the more than one hundred people. They were probably in their teens or twenties, tall and good-looking. Zhang Feng was very satisfied with them.

Then he took the ten female slaves to a room alone and taught them something different.

For example, when you meet someone, say welcome with a smile. It is best to be respectful to others without being flattering.

Then there is the issue of standing posture, such as keeping your head straight, neck upright, shoulders down, abdomen tucked in, waist upright, and hips lifted.

When it comes to etiquette, Zhang Feng actually knows quite a bit. When he was in college, due to his outstanding looks, he was persuaded by a senior schoolmate to join the etiquette department. He trained with a group of young ladies every day and learned a lot from them.

After hearing Zhang Feng’s explanation, the faces of the ten slaves, including Erica and Caroline, turned red.

After all, people in this world are relatively conservative, and it is somewhat embarrassing for Zhang Feng to say it so bluntly.

However, they gradually discovered that what Zhang Feng said made sense. According to Zhang Feng, the slaves standing there looked quite realistic.

Although these ten people do not have Erica's aristocratic temperament, they are much better than ordinary people.

“Yeah, not bad!”

Looking at these ten beautiful women standing straight in front of him, Zhang Feng nodded. After all, it was just a temporary experiment. It was fine, but Zhang Feng always felt that something was missing.

"By the way, Caroline, who is responsible for the clothes in our City Lord's Mansion?"

Zhang Feng knew what was missing: a suitable piece of clothing.