Xia Hong stepped into the hall and directly took the main seat. After gesturing for Xia Chuan and the six others to sit down, he smiled and said, "During my closed-door training over the past three years, I've barely come out, and haven't had a detailed understanding of the situation in Xia City. Now that you are all here, there must have been considerable changes over these three years, right?"
In the first three years, Xia Hong didn't come out except for that one time last September when the rituals for the founding of Great Xia were formally established. Otherwise, he had barely emerged, so his overall impression of Xia City was indeed still stuck in the fourth year of Great Xia.
Xia Chuan naturally understood this point, and he also knew what Xia Hong wanted to understand the most, so he stood up and began to speak:
