Chapter Eighty-One, Earl Liv and Uncle Cameron
Liif Tara Khan is the grandson of the famous "virtuous marquis" Doron Tara Khan, and his father Alex Tara Khan is a fairly mediocre man, and after inheriting the title from his father's side, there are basically no major events worth mentioning for more than ten years.
To put it mildly, the previous Earl of Tara Khan can be regarded as a model of "rule by inaction". His entire policy can be roughly summed up in two sentences.
Sentence 1: Establish a good relationship with the Inhuman Group.
Sentence 2: For important matters, please ask Aunt Anna, the Great Magician, and Uncle Eric the Sage to help you make a decision.
Alex Tara Khan was the only son of Doren Tara Khan, and because of his father's longevity, he was almost fifty years old when he inherited the title. When people reach this age, they will naturally no longer have any sharpness. He is also doing things steadily, and all his thoughts are to hand over the territory to the next generation in peace.
And he did.
Five years ago, the former earl fell seriously ill from a winter cold, and after recovering from the illness, he felt poor - after all, he was also in his sixties. So he pushed the boat down the river, passed the title and territory to his eldest son Liv, and retired to the countryside himself, living a stable retirement.
Leif Tara Khan is Chinese New Year's Eve and is in the prime of life. Although there is a little little white head, if anyone mistakenly thinks that he is a middle-aged man with no motivation because his hair is a little gray, it is a big mistake.
How can a man who has been on the throne for a year dare to declare to the whole world that "there are no illiterate people in Tara Khan" is not motivated?
The earl had already made every effort to make some big news during his years as an earl, preferably the kind that would go down in history and make future generations of historians take it as a subject of study.
Of course, it has to be a good thing.
He pondered for several years, and after some deliberation and research, he finally decided to grasp the imperial examination system as the first major task in his administration.
The source of the idea of the imperial examination system was a book borrowed from the sage grandfather.
Leaf was curious about knowledge from an early age, and in his childhood, in addition to the martial arts necessary for the children of the nobility, he spent almost all of his free time in Anna's Magic Tower and Eric's Sage's study, where he read many books.
The relationship between the two wisest men of Tara Khan was not good, almost to the point of not seeing each other, but they were very friendly towards Lief, and not only welcomed the little fellow to read the book, but also basically answered all questions.
Unfortunately, Leaf has no talent for learning magic, and despite having two legendary mages as his teachers, he is only a mid-level mage himself.
However, the effort will not be in vain. Not only did Liv acquire a lot of knowledge through reading and studying, but he also made a lot of interesting friends.
For example, Uncle Cameron, who never seems to grow up and will always be criticized by Grandpa Eric as a "bear child".
Leaf had always been a little suspicious of Uncle Cameron's identity - he had heard some old people in Earl's Court say that Grandpa Doren was so fond of Uncle Cameron that many people suspected that Cameron was his illegitimate son.
It's just that Doron Tara Khan is an ordinary person, he is normally old and dead, but Cameron Anthony Aleksayev is definitely not an ordinary person - is it possible for ordinary people to live to be almost sixty years old, and still look like a bear child?
Let's do a simple math problem, assuming that a normal person can live to be about sixty years old, then how old can a person who lives sixty years old and looks like twelve or thirteen years old?
Children can be counted as about 300 years old.
Grandpa Duolun would never have had a son who would live to be three hundred years old, unless he hooked up with a dragon that had taken on the form of a human.
In today's world, there are really two dragons moving in the world. However...... Wait, one of the dragons is indeed female......
When he was a teenager, Liv took a big risk in order to verify this matter, and was even caught by the black dragon who called himself "Young Beautiful Girl" and flew into the sky and threw it down, grabbed it when it was about to land, and then flew up and threw it down......
Eventually, he determined that Uncle Cameron was really not a dragon.
Because one time, by chance, he saw Uncle Cameron spread his wings and halo and spend his soul in the cemetery.
My grandfather's illegitimate son is an angel? So who is the mistress? Can a human marry a black dragon and give birth to an angel son?
Leaf had a black question mark on his face at the time, so he even risked being eaten to visit the legendary Demon King Dracula and ask for advice from the Great Demon King.
"Cameron can be considered your grandfather's son, but ...... He's not related to you. I don't know how many years I have lived, but I am still young and handsome, so the demon king replied.
The question in Leaf's heart can be regarded as the answer.
Well, Cameron is probably grandpa's adopted son.
Only, why did the adopted son of Count Tarakhan take the strange name "Aleksayev", and what did the middle name "Anthony" mean?
Leaf never understood.
Unfortunately, Grandpa has been dead for several years, and if he wants to find out, it is impossible.
As Leef grew older, the only person closest to him in the entire Tara Khan's hierarchy was Uncle Cameron.
Because only this uncle, who is not big-grown, will be completely scheming, and his work will not involve political interests at all. Someone else...... Even the two elders who have taught him since childhood have gradually become more and more distant.
Now, he is an earl, and he must weigh what he should say and do in the face of the sages of the North and the strongest legendary archmage of the Tarahan clan, and he must consider how to obtain and protect his interests.
This is the inevitability of growth, people always have to grow up, and they always have to stop being naΓ―ve.
Unless he's an angel who doesn't grow up.
Only when he gets along with Uncle Cameron can Lief let go of all the calculations and thoughts in his heart and return to his carefree youth.
In front of Uncle Cameron, he can just say what he wants, he doesn't care about anything.
For example, complaining about those aristocratic friends who are well-intentioned, but are really ill-informed.
"Mortals are like that, short-sighted. Cameron said nonchalantly, "You have to understand their narrow-mindedness, and you have to be tolerant of it." If a person is too strict, he will have no friends. β
Leaf smiled and nodded, "You're right. But...... Do you think they'll follow my example when they see the results?"
"Imitate it, imitate it, what's so bad?" Cameron asked rhetorically.
"In that case, the strength of their territory will increase......"
"Isn't it good to augment?"
"The strength of their territory increases, and the benefits of Tara Khan may decrease......"
Cameron shook his head and said, "Tara Khan has gained so much that it always has to go down a little. Do you really expect a single county to supply a quarter of the light industry of the entire Western Continent...... Can this kind of thing last long?"
Leaf thought for a moment, then smiled dumbly.
Indeed, if those nobles imitated Tara Khan's practices, they would definitely let their territory develop and prosper, and Tara Khan's interests would be harmed. But, as Uncle Cameron said, the current profit situation of Tara Khan is clearly abnormal.
If this situation continues for a long time, then Tara Khan will accumulate too much wealth.
Accumulating wealth is a good thing, but accumulating too much wealth is a bad thing. Even if Tara Khan has a good relationship with the Inhuman Clan, he doesn't have to worry about others coming to rob him, and he has a huge amount of wealth, which will hinder Tara Khan's relationship with other territories.
He once saw a saying in Grandpa Eric that the value of wealth lies in flow, not in accumulation.
When he was a child, he didn't understand this statement, but only later did he gradually understand it. The continuous flow of wealth is the only way to promote social development. Farmers have to farm, workers have to work, and all walks of life have to work...... Everyone needs to make money, and they all need to spend money, and money is constantly flowing, and everyone is constantly getting and spending, so life is getting better and better.
If everyone is desperately trying to make money and not spend money, wealth will lose its liquidity, there will be fewer and fewer goods in society, fewer and fewer people will provide services, and the whole society will fall into stagnation or even regression.
As a ruler, Leaf is unwilling to force people to transfer their wealth to the market by violent means, so he can only use his power and position to promote this trend and become popular.
Then, the first thing he had to do was to make it impossible for Tara Khan to blindly accumulate wealth, so as to have fierce conflicts with other territories.
Not only that, but if other realms were developed, then they would be able to produce more wealth. This will lead to more and more wealth flowing in the market and more and more prosperous society.
"You've got a point! I really should expect them to develop!"
Having solved a difficult problem in his mind, Leaf smiled happily.
After laughing, he asked, "What do you think of this imperial examination?"
"I don't like exams. Cameron said sullenly, "Uncle Xiong always pulls me to take me to the exam, it's so hateful!
Leaf laughed dumbly.
Uncle Cameron is a man who can't hide his words in his heart, and puts his joys, angers, sorrows and sorrows on his face. As an angel, he is a divine being who is naturally inclined to goodness. Probably to strengthen his education, the most powerful priest in the world, one of the representatives of the Inhuman group, the "Dragon Slayer" Panda often dragged him to study, explaining to him a lot of knowledge that angels should know.
This kind of education is obviously advantageous, but Panda is definitely not a good teacher.
Leaf had also rubbed Panda's class, the great paladin was indeed very strong, but his lectures were really boring, either rigid dogmatic knowledge or dizzying and eerie mathematics. Even if he was as studious as Lief, after four or five lessons, he had to give up, and he avoided the cultural lessons of this holy warrior.
Interestingly, Panda's martial arts classes are very well taught, simple and detailed, and completely different styles from his cultural classes.
Uncle Cameron was one of the few unlucky people who was forced to take Panda's culture class, and it was clear that the Paladin's boring culture class had caused indelible scars in his young mind.
The scariest thing is that Panda not only has a low level of lecturing, he also loves exams.
He often spoke for a while, and then said, "It's still early, let's do a test paper." β
What do you say about his test papers...... Anyway, Leaf, who had done it once, felt that if all the bad guys in the world were arrested, and the Panda Holy Warriors were asked to give them cultural lessons, and then do test papers, at most for a year or two, they would cry and shout to change their ways and never be bad guys again.
...... Of course, the premise is that they can survive and don't just die.
"I'm not going to be like Mr. Panda did. Lief immediately defended himself, "I will only prepare the test paper according to the actual situation of the Tara Khan Territory. β
"And what are you going to take the calculus?complex functions?logic theory?sets?" Cameron asked, "I think everything is terrible, and it's better not to take it." β
β...... I plan to test three aspects: the first is social knowledge, which tests their understanding of various basic situations in society, the second is the reading and writing of official documents, which tests their ability to engage in administrative documents, and the third is the practical answers, which are based on their analysis and answers of practical cases to see their tendencies and abilities in their work. β
Cameron blinked, looking at his old friend suspiciously.
"I can understand all of your words, but when they are taken together, I don't understand. β
Leaf laughed: "All in all, I'm looking for people who are well-informed, can understand what others are saying, can tell others exactly what they mean, and can come up with reliable solutions when facing various problems." β
"There aren't many people like that, right?"
"Of course there aren't many, so I don't ask anyone to be proficient in everything. "Leaf said, "You can be a staff officer just by being well-informed, you can understand what others are saying, you can express your own meaning accurately, you can be a clerk, you can analyze and solve problems, you can come up with reliable solutions, you can be a political officer...... Tara Khan is big, it needs many, many talents, and it needs people in all kinds of ways. As long as a person has a skill, I will not turn him away. β
β...... Can you eat very well, is it considered a skill?" Cameron asked.
Leaf thought for a moment and replied, "If he can tell if what he eats is good or not, and where it is good or not, I think I can let him go to a food processing factory and become a taster." β
"I love this job!" Cameron jumped excitedly, "just let me be this taster!"
Looking at Uncle Cameron's elated appearance, Leaf hurriedly shook his head.
"Why?"
"You can eat well, but you're impatient. "Tasters have to deal with dozens of foods that don't really differ, carefully discern their subtle differences, and try almost the same foods over and over again to find the best recipe...... It's too boring for you to do. β
"So what can I do?" Cameron asked unhappily.
Leaf looked at him for a moment and sighed deeply in his heart.
(I'm afraid...... You can't do anything other than look at the cemetery...... οΌ
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