When night was about to fall, Wu Qingchen sat in the castle restaurant.

The dinner is about to begin.

Whether it is the feudal society of the earth or the medieval world, banquets are undoubtedly occasions that pay considerable attention to etiquette.

An important form of etiquette is hierarchical treatment.

For example, when Wu Qing had a meal during his trip in the morning:

The attachés had bowls, the captives did not;

The attachés could gather around the dinner table, and the captives had to stand far away;

The serfs had two bowls and ate standing up;

The police officer, the messenger, and the cowherd helper have three bowls, which they eat while squatting;

Grace, who had four bowls, sat on a stone that he had brought casually and ate them;

Wu Qingchen had five bowls and sat on the flattest stone to eat.

There are bowls without bowls, and if there are bowls, there are several bowls; There is no place, and if there is a place, where to sit; Do you want to carry things, and if you want to carry them, how much do you want to carry...... Bit by bit, the differential treatment, brought together, fully shows the status of the person in the organization.

The arrangement of positions in the castle restaurant is undoubtedly the same idea:

His Excellency Baron Akford undoubtedly occupies the front of the table.

On his left and right sides sat the Baroness and the Baron's eldest son.

Next are the two chiefs of civil and military affairs, the Captain of the Arkford Guard and the Captain of the Lockford Guard.

Next, it was the turn of the heads of the three core areas of agricultural officers, forestry officers, and horse affairs officers.

Then there were the second-tier ministers such as the head of the chamberlain, the head of the great village, and the herald, as well as the second and third sons of the baron.

Further back, near the end, low-ranking ministers such as Garucha, Basser, Makul, and the Dog Officer were huddled together.

As for low-level attendants like Hilbert, Herald, and Xiao Zhuangtou, there is no place for them at all, so they can only stand at the table and serve as a background.

They are not yet the lowest rating in the restaurant.

At the edge of the dining room, farthest from Baron Akford, five inferior men knelt in a row against the wall.

They are the cowherds that the farmer and forester brought back when they were called back to the castle by the heralds, the eldest son of the cowherd, and the three fathers and sons who had worked hard to get the job of "trying to move the honeycomb" and were striving for this once-in-a-lifetime craftsman quota.

Wu Qingchen's position was in the third sequence, close to the agricultural officer, the forestry officer, and the horse officer.

Obviously, Wu Qingchen's position is quite high. - Looking forward, he is second only to the chief of civil and military affairs such as the chief steward and the captain of the guard, and looking backwards, he is even more superior than the second and third sons of the baron.

Theoretically, Wu Qingchen's current position was a slight exceedance—a perfect match for Pastor Praia—but none of the twenty or so people present expressed dissatisfaction.

For one thing, it was the seat appointed by His Excellency the Baron himself, and no fool would want to touch His Excellency's head for such a trivial matter.

Second, Wu Qingchen is not a permanent resident of Fort Akford, and he also serves as a "beekeeper" and a "priest", straddles the two major systems of territory and church, which is a little out of line, which is not too much.

Third, even if you ignore the above two points, with the good news that Wu Qingchen/Los just sent over, treating ploughing cattle, moving honeycombs, and intervening in herds, as long as there are half of the effects described in the letter, the entire Akford Territory can increase production by at least two percent!

Increase production by 20%! If even Wu Qingchen/Luos didn't deserve his current seat, wouldn't the other ministers present all roll to the wall and kneel in a row with those five inferior people?

After taking his seat, before the meal, Baron Akford first briefly introduced his wife, eldest son, and the chief steward and chief guard to Wu Qingchen.

Wu Qingchen stood up and bowed one by one.

Next, the agricultural officer, who had contact with Wu Qingchen, began to introduce other ministers to Wu Qingchen.

According to Pastor Praia's teachings, when the forest officer and the horse officer were introduced, Wu Qingchen stood up again and nodded to each other with the heads of the two core departments.

Next, Wu Qingchen sat back in his seat and began to accept the bows of other ministers, including the second and third sons of the baron.

At this moment, nominally speaking, the entire Akford Territory, regardless of the relatively independent and few knights who came, Wu Qingchen's status has been ranked tied for sixth place with the agricultural officer, the forestry officer, the horse officer and others.

The ministers ranked below Wu Qingchen didn't mind.

Even, every minister is very sincere when he bows, and he is very enthusiastic when he talks, who can sit here, who doesn't have a few ploughing cattle that need medical insurance, and who doesn't need a few pieces of honeycomb production?

- Even if their cattle were healthy and their land yields were high, as the attendant said to the messengers, who had few poor relatives?

With such a mind, the topics of conversation among the people naturally revolve around farming, honeycombing, and grouping.

Of course, there is the more important "turning taxes into fees".

Agriculture, forestry, horses, water, guards, attendants, village heads......

With nearly ten positions, and even the "dogs" have a dedicated person in charge, the management of Fort Akford seems to have been set up quite well in the feudal manor economy with agriculture as the core, but compared with the really stable and mature regime, Fort Akford lacks a crucial position: the tax collector.

The position of tax collector is so important that it is related to all the connections between the upper and lower classes, and to the balance of all income and expenses.

Because this position is so important, Akford Leader does not dare to hand over such a lifeline to a single subordinate.

Instead, he chose to give his duties to all the ministers present.

As the ruling core of the 13 villages, all the ministers here are the busiest and most important work of the year is to collect taxes, and when it comes to the time of taxation, no matter what they are usually responsible for, they must all be put down and rush to the villages assigned by His Excellency the Baron, and do their best to complete the collection of taxes.

When it comes to the troubles, difficulties, pains, and dangers encountered in collecting taxes, anyone in this room can talk about it for a day and a night.

Because of this, as soon as they heard the idea of "turning taxes into fees" mentioned by Wu Qingchen/Los Rose, the ministers present who had already been tortured immediately realized the great significance of this idea.

"No more catching those damn rats in the middle of the night!"

"Give me the wheat or not, let those bastards decide for themselves, no one will stab me with a dung fork, right?"

"Allow the part to be owed for the next year? Not...... Your teacher is indeed merciful...... Well, Your Excellency, I think we can try this one too. ”

"And the ...... who really can't hand over the honeycomb microphone"

“……”

It can be seen from the enthusiastic discussion and extremely excited expressions of the crowd that the idea of "turning taxes into fees" has undoubtedly won the great favor of almost all the ministers present.

While talking eagerly with everyone, Wu Qingchen discovered the true benefits of the position he was sitting in, in addition to accepting a bow.

The light is getting dimmer.

Around the rather open dining room, there were more than a dozen lampstands, and several low-level attendants came over and put beeswax into several lampstands near the baron's seat and lit them, and the gradually darkening dining room became bright again.

The position of the baron, the baroness, the chief steward, and the eldest son is clearly illuminated, and Wu Qingchen's position is still in a relatively bright state, so that others can see the expression on his face.

A little farther away, only a dark shadow could be seen.

Of course, the so-called welfare does not mean this little bit of light.

After answering another minister's divergent thinking about "turning taxes into fees", a certain attendant standing at the door of the restaurant opened the wooden door, and a long row of grandmothers and aunts, carrying clay pots, silver plates, wooden barrels, baskets and other containers, walked into the restaurant one after another.

"Oh? So...... Cough...... So hearty. ”

Looking at the number of aunts and grandmothers who walked into the dining room, and the size of the container in their hands, Baron Akford was visibly surprised.

"That's ...... Well, that's fine. ”

After being stunned for a full two seconds, Akford nodded approvingly to the attendant who led the way into the restaurant: "Norton, you have a heart, you are well prepared." ”

"Your will."

The attendant bent slightly, bowed in response to the baron's appreciation, and then gestured in the direction of Wu Qingchen: "I hope our guest, Your Excellency Rose/Mohr will like it." ”

Yes...... Can you like it?

I like you to be paralyzed!

Looking at the delivery group of Mama who was still entering the restaurant continuously, Wu Qingchen squeezed his fist fiercely.

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After a delay of about two minutes.

Earth.

"I like your sister! you're paralyzed! ”

"Who is this eunuch-looking slut?"

"! No matter how complete the plan is, it can't cover the brains! ”

As Mama delivered the food group in, several low-level attendants quickly opened the wooden box next to the restaurant, turned out a large number of plates, plates, knives, forks, and spoons from it, and began to distribute cutlery to everyone.

There is etiquette in assigning seats, and of course there is etiquette in distributing cutlery:

As the sixth-ranked senior official in Akford, Wu Qingchen's treatment is certainly quite good.

A silver fork, a silver spoon, a sharp knife. ——Compared with the next level of iron tableware, and the next level of wooden tableware, the grade is full.

Five bowls, eight plates. - Compared to the next level of four bowls and six plates, and the next level of two bowls and three plates, the portion is full.

The portion is full......

It's a lot of portions!

"Sure enough!" "Daddy!" "I'll give you a lung!"

Looking at the tableware that was almost covered in front of Wu Qingchen, countless earthlings roared.

For no other reason, every earthling who watches the video at this moment can see it in the loop of the close-up screenshot in the upper right corner:

When Mama delivered the meal group to the stage, Wu Qingchen's face flashed, which lasted for about half a second, mixed with a stunned, sluggish, constipated expression, and a small movement that couldn't help touching the lower left corner of the robe.

In that position, between Wu Qingchen's outer robe and inner robe, a special magic bag was sewn.

This magic bag is designed to hide the food of the banquet, and can hold about four plates of food.

Even in the extreme state, it is absolutely impossible to hide so much weight at the moment.

When Wu Qingchen was stunned, the low-level attendants had already finished distributing the tableware, and the grandmothers began to divide the meal.

This step is not the same as the etiquette of dividing meals when Wu Qingchen was eating on the road, when the superior and inferior people were mixed together.

Although the identities are different, the tables are full of gentlemen, and it would be too embarrassing if the top ministers started to eat and the bottom ministers had empty plates in front of them.

Therefore, when the grandmothers divide the meal, they start with the food that everyone has a share.

The first is the fruits: apples and pears that are still steaming slightly.

"It's cooked, it's cooked! This can be eaten, so hurry up and reduce the burden! ”

"I used to think that it was stupid for the medieval world to cook fruit, but I was wrong, the fruit should be fucking cooked and eaten!"

"There's no heat anymore, blow two bites and eat quickly, look at the next plate......"

Looking at the first course of food, countless people on the earth breathed a sigh of relief.

The video continues to play.

Baron, Baroness, eldest son of the Baron, Steward, Captain of the Guard, Farmer......

The meal sharing mother came all the way, and the basket containing the ripe fruit quickly moved to Wu Qingchen's side.

Wu Qingchen picked up a silver saucer and held it to the basket.

The meal sharing mother raised the spoon and was about to pick out the fruit, when a big hand suddenly came out of the side, stretched directly into the basket, and pulled left and right for a while, and finally picked out the two largest apples and the two largest pears.

Every time he grabbed a piece of fruit, the farmer put it in front of his eyes to take a closer look, blew lightly, and then put it full into the silver plate that Wu Qingchen held up in the air.

"It's hard to come once, I'll help you pick ......"

After putting the last piece of fruit, the agricultural officer kindly patted Wu Qingchen's shoulder—by the way, rubbing off the black mud from the afternoon tossing the ploughing cattle—"Last time, thanks to your help, I was not scolded by His Excellency the Baron...... By the way, my portion of the fruit is also given to you, so you're welcome, just eat it. ”