Seeing that Jacob, who had always taken good care of him, was standing behind him, Su Cheng quickly turned around and saluted Jacob.

Jacob still had that warm smile on his face and waved his hand, indicating that Su Cheng did not need to salute.

"Mr. Cheng." Jacob smiled and said, "This is your first time at the year-end dinner, so there are some rules for the year-end dinner. You may not know that there is a very important rule for the year-end dinner, which is that when you enter the venue

After that, no matter who you meet, even if you meet His Majesty the Emperor, you do not need to salute him."

Having said this, Jacob paused for a moment, and then continued in a joking tone: "Otherwise, there are so many dignitaries at the year-end dinner, and if everyone bows to them one by one, there is no need to hold this dinner."

After listening to Jacob's words, Su Cheng laughed twice.

What Jacob said made sense. There were so many dignitaries at this dinner party. If everyone bowed to those with higher status than him, then there would be no need to hold this dinner party.

Jacob walked to the table where juice and wine were placed, poured two glasses of wine, and then handed one of them to Su Cheng.

"Let's have a drink together, Mr. Cheng."

"Ah, ah, okay, Mr. Jacob."

After Su Cheng respectfully took the wine glass handed over by Jacob, Jacob smiled and slightly raised the wine glass in his hand.

Su Cheng, who knew what Jacob meant, quickly raised his wine glass slightly.

Ding.

After the two wine glasses touched each other gently, they both pulled the wine glasses in their hands back to their lips and drank all the wine in one breath.

After drinking all the wine in the cup, Jacob sighed, and then sighed:

"Time flies really fast. It's a new year so quickly. It feels like yesterday I was still celebrating the year-end dinner of 288, but today I'm having the year-end dinner of 289. How fast time passes.

,Really are……"

After saying that, Jacob smiled bitterly and shook his head slightly.

"Yes, time really flies by."

Su Cheng also agreed that time flies very quickly. Like Jacob, he felt that many things just happened yesterday.

"It's not just that the year-end dinner in 288 just happened yesterday." Jacob continued to smile, "Even a few months ago, I asked Mr. Cheng to become a knight and help me change Britannia from the present.

Rescued from a critical situation, the scenes of that day were as clear as what happened just this morning."

"Mr. Cheng, from the time you became a knight to now, you have told me with your actions that my decision to ask you to become a knight and to help Britannia was the right one! I, Jacob, really did not misjudge the person.

"

"Although you only became a knight in the second half of this year, Mr. Cheng must be very tired from what happened in the past six months. Just think about the difficulty and fatigue of commanding and winning the rescue battle in the Kingdom of Lunde.

That’s enough.”

After saying that, Jacob bowed to Su Cheng.

"Mr. Cheng, you have really worked hard these past six months. Let me say thank you to you on behalf of all the subjects of Britannia."

After seeing Jacob salute him, Su Cheng was slightly startled, but he quickly reacted and returned the salute to Jacob.

"Mr. Jacob! You are serious! After I chose to become a knight, I just did what I should do as an imperial knight, so there is no need to thank me!"

"Furthermore, if we talk about the level of hard work, I am definitely not as good as you! Mr. Jacob, you are the palace minister of the empire, and you have to assist His Majesty in handling government affairs every day! If we talk about the level of hard work, I am afraid that there are not many in the entire empire.

No one can compare with you! I want to express my gratitude to you! Thank you for your contribution to Britannia this year!"

After listening to Su Cheng's words, Jacob smiled bitterly, and then said in a joking tone:

"'There are not many people in the whole of Your Excellency who can compare with Your Excellency'... That's right. If I want to compete with my daily hard work, I am very confident that I can become the champion of the entire empire."

After listening to Jacob's joke, Su Cheng couldn't help but smile, and then said to Jacob in a tone full of admiration:

"I, Su Cheng, am just a small person. I cannot thank you on behalf of the subjects of Britannia, but I still want to say something solemn to Mr. Jacob: Mr. Jacob, you have always been a great person."

Thanks for your hard work."

Although what Jacob just said was in a joking tone, Su Cheng knew that what Jacob said was the truth.

The Prime Minister of the Britannian Empire is the highest official position that a civil servant can obtain. In terms of status, it is the same as the status of the United Knights among knights.

The task of the Prime Minister is to help His Majesty the Emperor handle government affairs. There is a steady stream of various government affairs coming in every day.

Of course, if the palace minister is an irresponsible person, then he can just ignore these government affairs and only focus on his own enjoyment.

In the history of the Britannia Empire, there were several such mediocre palace ministers.

Su Cheng, who is very interested in and researches history, naturally knows the history of the Britannia Empire well.

The Britannia Empire was previously the most powerful country in the world, its national power completely surpassed the other three empires, and it was a veritable superpower.

However, not long after it was revered as a "superpower" by people all over the world, the Britannia Empire produced several mediocre palace ministers.

Unfortunately, during this period, not only did there appear several incompetent palace ministers, but also several incompetent emperors.

A fatuous emperor is matched with a fatuous palace prime minister.

This combination is finished.

Under the "joint efforts" of these mediocre emperors and palace ministers, the national power of the Britannia Empire declined step by step, and the two titles of "superpower" and "the world's largest country" were also replaced by the Holy Shiran Empire.

Taken away, until now.

However, it seems that God has not given up on Britannia. When Britannia's national power continues to decline, and the people are gradually disappointed and despairing, the kings and ministers of Gozevin and Jacob finally appear.

Although Go Zewen was a somewhat fatuous and incompetent emperor who would come up with ridiculous strategies from time to time, he was still much better than his previous emperors.

And Jacob can simply use his deeds as a model for all ministers in the world.

Jacob was a well-known workaholic. When Su Cheng was still living in Falk's mansion, he had heard about Jacob's deeds.

Out of 360 days in a year, Jacob only had one day off from work, which was his birthday. The other 359 days, he worked with high intensity. This kind of life has lasted for decades until now.

The greatest characteristic of Jacob's governance was his courage to use talents boldly.

As long as he thinks it is worthy of being activated, he will boldly activate it regardless of the person's age or qualifications, even if he will encounter opposition and disgust from many people.

The most typical and ready example is probably when Jacob asked Su Cheng to become a knight a few months ago to help him and Britannia.

The reason why the current national strength of the Britannia Empire has stopped declining and has begun to recover slightly is basically due to Jacob's efforts and ability.

Therefore, what Su Cheng just said to express his gratitude to Jacob was sincere.

Su Cheng admired Jacob from the bottom of his heart, and admired this old man who had been silently contributing to his country.

After hearing Su Cheng's thanks, Jacob showed a happy smile.

"Thanks."

Then, Jacob withdrew his gratified smile and continued to say in a joking tone:

"Tonight's feast is a carnival that only occurs once a year. It may be the only night in a year that I can relax so much, so at this time of year, I will leave all the government affairs behind!

Let yourself go to your heart’s content! I’m ready to enjoy tonight’s carnival! So, Mr. Cheng, please relax and enjoy yourself tonight! If you miss tonight’s feast, you won’t know if you can still receive the invitation next year.

Letter! Hahahahaha!"

After listening to Jacob's wise words, Su Cheng chuckled a few times, and then said:

"Mr. Jacob, don't worry, I will do it. In order to enjoy more of tonight's food, I specially ate less at noon..."

Speaking of this, Su Cheng suddenly remembered something and paused, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared.

"...Mr. Jacob, it may be a bit embarrassing to talk about this kind of thing at a dinner party, but...this matter is really important, so I can't do it if I don't say it."

After that, before Jacob could answer, Su Cheng said in a deep voice:

"...Mr. Jacob, why do you want to recruit Alan Jones?"

As soon as Su Cheng finished speaking, Jacob's hand that was bringing the wine glass to his lips stopped in mid-air.
Chapter completed!