Given Xia Hong's current status, getting an audience with him really isn't easy.
It's not that the people below are acting on their own initiative; the key thing is that, as Lord, he simply has far too much to deal with. Especially right after a large-scale campaign like this ends, the people who want to see him come one wave after another.
Yuwen Dao needs to report last night's battle results to him, and while he's at it the two of them have to sit down and review the gains and losses from the Great Xia Army's great battle;
Yuan Cheng has brought Xia Chuan's verbal message, to brief him on the overall situation in the entire Five Towns of South Ridge, and to discuss how to handle the Five Towns next;
Qiu Peng has drawn up a full inventory of the materials in the Five Towns Treasury—what needs to be transported back to Xia City, what should be left in the Town as reserve—he has gone through all of it with him one by one;
