Chapter 663 Taking the Initiative
There will always be people who are dissatisfied with the status quo and feel that what they get is not worthy of what they have paid.
They are like devils who will never be satisfied, looking for every opportunity.
The appearance of Lister is like a perfect bait, which makes people stick to him.
After sending Richard away, five nobles stayed.
Most of them are ambitious people such as barons, lords, and knights. They looked at each other and understood everyone's thoughts.
The only heir to the viscount is Sir Duster of the Jide family.
Of course, they will not talk about what to do publicly, even when facing Lister.
Ambition does not mean stupidity. On the contrary, they are more cautious than ordinary people.
Duster is like this. He remembers that he has the whole family behind him. He can intervene in Lister's network appropriately, but he will never devote himself to it.
The Jide family has capital from many parties, so they will not tie themselves to Lister's chariot.
Lister sent the others away, came back again, looked at these nobles, and smiled.
After fishing for so many days, it can be considered a harvest.
These nobles in the country are as smart as monkeys. Obviously, many of them have ideas, but they just don't move.
Fortunately, greed can make people lose their minds, and finally someone was fooled.
From the moment they stayed, they were already on the Empire's attention list, and they would never succeed in doing things privately in this life.
Of course, Lister was not prepared to catch these guys directly. Without complete evidence, it would not be convincing, and it would be too wasteful.
These guys lack loyalty to the Empire, but they do not lack ability.
Lister raised his glass and signaled to Dust and others: "Long live the Empire, everyone... Let's have a drink together!"
Everyone raised their glasses together, with ambition flashing in their eyes. They were all looking at their companions around them, wondering if these people were reliable.
"I hope to do something and make a little contribution to the great empire. Are you willing to help me?" Lister asked.
Dust responded without hesitation: "Baron, I am willing to run for you."
He emphasized the pronunciation of his words, indicating that this was a personal gamble.
If this is a trap, then it will be meaningless. Killing Dust will get nothing except hatred.
"Okay, Sir Dust, I just need the help of a noble like you."
Liszt was also very straightforward and asked the viscount heir to manage part of his industry for him.
They did not have any extra exchanges, as if it was just an ordinary lower-level noble's surrender.
Similar things are not uncommon, but Dust, as the viscount heir, surrendered to outsiders.
But considering Liszt's hidden identity, this surrender is very reasonable.
Liszt arranged work for these noble descendants one by one. He did not rush to show his cards, but asked them to take the initiative to find problems and then join in.
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Dust returned home and communicated with his father. He did not find any danger for the time being.
They are not afraid that this is a trap. The investment of the Jide family is limited. Dust can withdraw at any time, and even took the initiative to report Liszt, the illegitimate son.
They have been able to inherit for so many years, and it is obviously not luck.
No matter how declining these years, compared with those noble families that have disappeared, the Jide family is already successful.
Then, Dast really participated in Lister's industry.
As a baron, Lister's industry seemed to be a bit large.
It was so large that the Palmer family did not dare to participate, and he had to recruit talents from outside to participate in management.
Dast had just joined Lister, so he naturally did not know all the industries under his command.
But just a part of it was allocated to him, which made Dast very envious.
Lister showed great trust and was not afraid that Dast, who had a big family and a big business, would run away.
He handed over several parts of the logistics industry to Dast.
Because there has been no unified personnel management, this part of the business is completely independent, and the chaos is so chaotic that Dast can't bear to look directly.
After a simple handover, he found seven transport fleets under Lister's name, two fleets, a railway transport fleet, and some scattered micro-transportation teams in the city, with thousands of people working for Lister.
However, this part of the business did not have a unified dispatch, and it was completely independent.
Relying on their own inexplicable orders, they lived well.
Dast saw at a glance that many orders were not right.
For example, some government orders and the army's feeding operations were special care.
This kind of thing is not something that outsiders can envy. If you are born with a good family, you will also have such treatment.
However, Dast could not let such things continue. He directly integrated all the transportation teams, divided the business scope, and adjusted the executors of the orders.
Anyway, it was an order for feeding, so there was no need to worry about the other party's regret.
Through unified scheduling, it is easy to streamline the structure and reduce meaningless consumption.
Then take the initiative to take some normal orders from society and act with purpose, instead of fighting alone.
After all, this is Baron Lister's industry. It's good that he doesn't force a circle to occupy it. No one dares to play dirty tricks with him.
After two months of tossing like this, Dast's report suddenly looked good, and the profit soared by 50% every month.
Lister had dinner with him several times to express his appreciation.
However, in the past two months, Dast did not find anything wrong. Lister was just like a normal nobleman, honest and unbelievable.
He guessed that this might be because Lister was still observing him. If he really wanted to do something, he would be cautious and cautious.
Only with such a style of doing things can he succeed.
He decided to do things honestly while taking the initiative to show his value.
Dast still remembered Benjamin, and it happened that some of Baron Lister's business overlapped with Benjamin.
Before, he had always pretended not to notice this relationship and just treated it as ordinary business.
After all, he was just a manager hired by Lister, and many of the people who did the actual work under him were old people under Lister, and they would definitely not be on his side.
Therefore, Dast took Benjamin as a breakthrough point and looked through the business records of the past year.
He soon discovered that there was something wrong with the business of this factory.
The volume of transportation did not match the scale of the factory.
In addition, in addition to the normal transportation business, an abnormal transportation service was provided to Benjamin's factory every month.
