"That's what you said."

For the old man, Roland still respects him very much, especially the old Farr, although his reputation is not good, but his evaluation is very good.

After really actually working, young people understand that people who can do things well without attracting hatred or envy, and even do things well without being famous, are really capable people.

As the saying goes, after three and a half years of being in charge, dogs will be disgusted, and it is almost impossible to manage people and expect no one to hate, but old Farr can ensure that many people are willingly satisfied while ensuring that he collects taxes.

Roland admired the way of the door, and it is said that old Farr would even give advice and give ways for those poor households to help them get out of the difficulties, but how to do it was unknown territory for him, a young man.

Thinking of this, Roland suddenly became interested: since Old Farr can usually satisfy everyone, how will an old tax collector like him answer the questions on the test paper?

He asked, and the old man smiled and put down his pipe.

"Definitely not receive."

The old man's golden pupils were dim because of his old age, showing a dark golden color, and he calmly replied to Roland: "Although I may be a little confused about the meaning of the lord, since this kind of question has come up, it is to find someone who will answer 'no'."

"Moreover, the poor have no money, that is really no money, and what can you expect them to have to pay taxes except for a life?"

"But the life of the lord is also the property of the lord in a sense...... A young man like you may not be able to understand it, but this is the truth that you and I are the property of the lord. "

Old Farr rekindled the extinguished pipe, took a puff, and said slowly, "So driving people to death is something that only the stupidest tax collectors do, and the lord didn't allow them to do that."

"The people who have no money just because of the food and have the ability to work can't afford to pay back for a while, so let them not pay it back. If you can, take him to do some other work, such as moving goods, digging some canals, isn't there a road being built in the domain recently? Let them dig

A little sand asphalt is the same as the work, so much work, there is always a chance. "

"The most important thing is that you can't make people stupid and don't work, then you will be poor forever."

Roland was stunned when he heard this, and the young mechanical engineer gasped: "But, this is not very in accordance with the rules, right?" Bi Jing and they really didn't pay taxes, and the tax officer's job is to collect taxes, are these things really what tax officials should do..."

"If it had been before, it would have been true, but don't forget that the name of this exam is 'civil servant' now."

Old Farr shook his head, he took a puff of his pipe and spat out a perfectly round smoke ring: "New lord, new rules, why don't you young people know as much as I do?" The names have changed, and you have to forget the old set. "

"Do not forget the true essence of our work: serving the lord one by one. What is the purpose of a lord? This theme idea should be clear, as long as it is in line with this realization, even if it is something that is not in accordance with the rules, the lord will think that you will do things. "

Old Farr concluded: "And our young new lord, who seems to be rich, cares about such a little tax when he wants to do great things? What he cares about is the rules, and what he cares about is whether people help his career. "

"As long as the general direction is correct, everything else is minutiae."

What Old Farr said, Roland understood, so he was surprised.

These words are not like the words that can be said by the old tax collector of Xiahui in a swallow, so in-depth and easy-to-understand teaching, which college you say he is, Roland will believe it!

And.........

"Why did you tell you that?"

The old man asked incomprehensibly.

With a puff of his cigarette, Scott looked at Ian strangely, "Is the rest a low-achieving student from this side of the Falling Star Hills?" It's been a few years since Moda was chatting with you, and it just so happened that the lord announced that a new 'industrial alchemy area' would be built in the future territory, and he was

kind of professional come back, if the lord reuses him. "

"What's more, you've been working with his father for many years, and he has forgotten that you hugged him when he was a kid, and he peed on your collar......"

Shi Jian is ashamed, I never thought that the most classic 'I hugged him when I was young, and he urinated under you' incident actually appeared under me one by one and I completely forgot about it!

Yes, I am indeed the one who remembers that kind of big event.

"We used to be the least likely colleagues, and what is it to delay in building a good relationship with colleagues."

After finishing speaking, Shi Jianjin took out a large booklet from his arms and wrote something, and Shi Jian also wanted to go home so early, so he cheekily asked: "This Uncle Shi Jian, what did you do after becoming a tax officer...... Felt ......"

"That."

By the time Ian finished speaking, the old man knew what I was going to ask, and no one had asked about it, so I was also strange.

Looking up, the gray-haired old man looked at the ceiling, his dark golden eyes staring at something beneath the ceiling.

Manchester City said: "You will be a Roland outside the house in the future, and you will learn to look at the stars since you were a child...... But are there all the stars before? The nobles who supported Roland's art also invested money, and could only go back to their hometown to become a tax collector with their knowledge. "

Speaking of that, the old man looked at Shi Jian with a smile, and my tone was full of emotion: "To be honest, it's not much worse than he is now."

"It's a little bit more than you have at this time, because Roland's technique is really not useless, and his mechanical engineering room will be reused by the lord."

One by one, it's actually Roland!

Ian was slightly startled, I had thought that I could hear such an ancient profession.

It is said to be ancient, but in fact, it has only been a few decades, but because there has been no news at all in those decades, it is as long as the past few hundred years.

Because Ian's teacher is a dwarf, he knows that.

The dwarves were also a race that was very cold to Shi Jian at the beginning, and even our 'Heaven Seeking Sanctuary' was called 'Polar Star Zenith', a post-era civilization giant built under the Ustaraf Mountains known as the Spine of Terra.

In fact, a hundred years later, the countries of Terra are still quite uninterested in Roland, and at this time, the empire and the capital of knowledge did not have a small batch of Roland, but as the stars were extinguished one by one, our inheritance gradually declined, and even in later years, there was no small number of Roland

Desperate and collective suicide news.

For the intermittent people, it was a pre-afternoon joke of 'what a stupid' feeling, and Ian felt a little deeper... In particular, my father, Moda, is now in a state of near-death.

Thinking of that, my mood was not a little high, and I took my leave before I made a deep senior salute to Shi Jin.

And the old man also looked at Ian's departing back, nodded slightly, and got up to leave.

I waited out there specifically to say those things to Ian.

In the evening, the lord's mansion of Xia Hui.

Shi Jian was taking his team to personally correct the test papers outside, and Shi Jian also asked Stargazing Debert and Ya Lao Farr and others to do the test papers by the way.

Farr's eyes flashed with all kinds of data, and the silver chip made it impossible for me to remember all the names, ages, looks, and even past experiences and family information of the people who did not take the exam.

Outline the image of each examinee from the inside to the inside.

"Ian Silgen, son of Moda Silgen, seventy-four years old, unmarried, the steward of the Ryan family for generations, ran away from home seventeen years later, went to study in the dwarven colony of the Falling Star Hills, and became a mechanical alchemist seven years ago at the age of seventy-one

's diploma, he has been retiring in the Falling Star Hills before, and recently returned to his hometown because of the Ryan Collar incident. "

"Outside the house, my father Moda Silgen is still there, but he is still seriously ill, his mother has not died, he has no brother and a sister, and he has not gone to Nau Shijian to open a big store in the next few days, and he plans to return to Xiahuiling."

"As for ......the grades," Farr said in a loud voice, Shi Cheng picked up a red-marked paper from the side: "Full marks in math and statistical tables."

"38 points for comprehensive knowledge, full marks for agriculture and mining."

"Political Leaning Judgment......... Villain, see for yourself. "

Farr took the test paper, and I looked at Ian's answer and couldn't help laughing: "That person is quite boring, he told the truth one by one, and it really made me guess right, you also think that Nao Qingchao's indifferent attitude is not to force the anti-mountain people, delay the detonation."

Issue... The Marquis of Batun is still very enthusiastic for a long time, I am the only one who cares about whether those mountain people are dead or alive, I just want to solve the rebellion factor on the South Ridge side. "

"As for the relationship between the Flying Flame Land and the Empire, it's not like that, how can two small countries not have a permanent hatred? I'm afraid the relationship between the two sides is still as bad as the relationship between the little duke of Solin and the empire, as long as the seventh energy level is to shoot, the war between the two sides is not complete at least

'Conventional warfare' is to develop to the point of destroying the world. "

Speaking of that, Farr sighed: "It's the seventh energy level, and it's all chess pieces after all." Even if it is the seventh energy level, it is a chess piece that has no ability to act independently, and it will affect the order of the entire world after all. "

I settled down and continued to look at Ian's test papers, and then raised my eyebrows: "It's not interesting, that person is still slapping your ass, and his personality is quite active, all of them are right in my analysis, do you think you have a perfect score."

Some people think that Ian can get a full score because of the shooting of Far's horses, and we can also hear that Ian's analysis of the situation does not have his own set of opinions, even if it is luck, that luck is worth a full score.

And at the beginning, the seventh part, 'Personal Moral Tendencies', the part that had bothered Shi Jian for a long time, Farr just glanced at it.

"Well, there's no kindness in my heart, it's so hot."

I nodded, and then handed the test paper to Debort: "Mark it, that person can't be used, call to the lord's mansion in a few days, you can interview me for alchemy, if you are qualified, our alchemy industrial park will have no supervisor."

"Could it be a spy? Suddenly running over from the side of the Starfall Hill, no matter how you look at it, you feel right. "

Stargazing complained, I seem to know Moda Steward, I know that Moda Steward is so sick that he is dying.

The swordsman was now revising the exam papers, but writing the exam papers, one by one, Debert and Araja Farr had already finished writing, the latter was almost full marks, and whether it was political or personal inclination, it was the same as Farr.

Bi Jing and the two sides have been in the port of Hawaisen together for eighty-one years, and the assimilation has long been assimilated.

"I feel that there are no questions that time, it should be the civil service exam paper on Nao Qingchao's side."

That was De Bert's assessment, and it was, Farr nodded, "Some of them have not been written by the Marquis of Batun himself, and these topics are really colorless."

And Yalao Farr, in addition to being a little naïve in politics, can actually say, 'Nao Qingchao has such a small budget?' 'Flying Flame Land is extremely cute, and it is the most evil country in the world!' "Not yet" Xia Hui Ling listened to Farr's words, and his own side is also full marks.

As for stargazing...

Before he stumbled through the paper, Farr picked it up and looked at it.

One by one, Farr, angry!

"。 …… 31 points in mathematical statistics, okay, can't even be said to be quite wrong for him. Miscellaneous only has 25 points, count him as having worked hard, anyway, he also uses it, and it ends from zero, and it is wrong to pass........."

The white-haired man had stood in front of the stargazer for many years, and it was clear that the swordsman's stature was even lower, and Farr's tone was also very harsh, but the swordsman felt a chill on his back, and a feeling of fear climbed down his spine: "But what's the matter with that political tendency?"

"What does Naussjian mean to deliberately take revenge on the rebellion of the mountain people two hundred years later? How did he learn history? Two hundred years later, the empire invaded Nanling, and he would say that this great riot after seventy years was still a few! And that political view can't be compared with the old shadow! "

[Arafar tilts his head to the side]

"The Empire and the Flamelands are good things, dog-eat-dog...... One, does he really know what he's writing? "

"You're a whale song cliff man, old and young!"

Stargazing was excited, and I shouted, "That's what you all say here!"

Farr glared at the stargazer: "Remember now, he is from the Imperial!"

"Got it!"

Stargazer nodded clearly: "It's just a dog thing that doesn't fly in flames!"

He ...... Alas. Forget it, it's enough. "

Farr sighed: "At the forefront, the development direction of Xia Hui Ling is definitely heavy military doctrine!" If you want to protect your territory, it is useful to rely on the army, and it is your development direction to support the army and raise the self-respect! "

"Got it!"

Shi Jian replied very spiritually.

But the previous results are even more exciting, only 10 points in agriculture and mining, and the complete passing is a personal moral tendency...... First, I can say that stargazing is a good person, but I directly wrote the words "debt free" and "tax exemption" in a small thorn, which is obviously not self-contained

His own family situation brought in and retreated.

The stargazing family owed a lot of money to repay the debts back then, if I hope that no one can forgive our family debts.

"Speaking of which, do you remember that he didn't have a wife or children?"

Farr weakly resisted the idea of hanging up the stargazing and beating it, I asked Debort to give the stargazing less papers, and before writing an assessment every day, he instructed: "How dangerous is the territory now, is it because I didn't plan to take it over if I waited for the previous peace."

"You think, if you do, I may not come with you."

Stargazing himself can see it: "At most, you have to wait for your seventh energy level, if so, what is the embarrassment."

"Yes."

Farr nodded slightly, Debort's potion materials were not yet in transit because they were very cheap, and Debort had recently trained on stargazing and the help of Elder Farr, preparing for becoming an Ascendant.

The big episode passed.

Slowly, Farr saw a red scroll again.

I looked at it and was stunned.

"What's going on?"

Farr picked up the test paper seriously and looked at it, and I frowned: "Who wrote the test paper?" There is no accuracy in the whole article, and all the knowledge categories are full marks...... That's it. "

"The political tendencies are basically exactly the same as the tendencies you envisioned, and it is basically possible, and it is definitely the answer that you deliberately wrote so because of your character...... And the personal moral tendency, and even the county body solution, is the same identity and is sympathy

What's the case is the same decision-making, obviously it is a veteran who has encountered that kind of thing in ordinary times, and even often encounters it, and has no experience! "

"Talent?! How could Xia Hui Ling not have that kind of talent?! "

That Shangfar is really surprised that Ian is a local talent in the Xia Hui Territory, I am a low-achieving student cultivated here in the Falling Star Hills, and my knowledge and insight have nothing to do with my hometown.

And that ...... Manyu Fatih's ......, an eighteen-year-old man, didn't have that kind of insight and culture?

"You have to see me."

Shi Jian frowned, I don't have a hunch, the reason why that kind of old and refined character performed so well in the exam he presided over was to meet himself.

Half an hour later, Fall met Manchester City, dressed in formal attire, waiting for him in the conference room of the town hall.

"He said that his future family is the Roland Warlock family."

With or without any greetings, Farr sat down under the throne and asked solemnly, "Can you prove it?"

"Of course not, villain."

The old man stared at the oldest, best-looking, and least accomplished lord he had ever seen, and I stood up and made a slight scholarly salute: "Pingcang, Mansen, Tianmo, wine and light ......"

Farr listened to Mandwick say a series of words and names that seemed inexplicable to special people, and his expression moved.

Because, those names, all of them are the names of the stars, or the names of the stars derived from very old mythological constellations!

Moreover, those stars are the names of the stars that have disappeared from under the starry sky of Terra in recent years!

"Yes, I continued."

As City continued to report, Farr raised his hand and motioned for the old man to stop, and I said seriously: "You have complete doubts. Truth be told, that's not far beyond your Roland skill level, he's a real Sturdy Warlock. "

"Now, you don't have a problem."

Shi Jian raised his hand, I raised my left index finger, looked at Manchester City, and asked seriously: "He has served two generations of Lord Ryan in the past, and although he has performed excellently, he has never shown the knowledge of Roland arts. Of course, we probably know his side

, but he didn't care about it in general, and he didn't show it specifically. "

"So, he is showing up outside of you for servants? What is he going to do in your territory? With his ability, even in Nau Shijian, he can be reused. "

"Because you saw you looking up at the stars, little man. Every evening, you will come to the top of the Domain Castle and sit under your armor and look up at the white sky. Except for those who love the stars coldly, no one will do that, do that kind of meaningful thing. "

City bowed slightly, and my tone was fierce but genuine: "It's not just you who do it, you just want to tell you that, not to show off your knowledge that is already useless."

"As for your purpose... It's actually complicated. "

"You want to be someone you can reuse, you have no money and no power, and then build a Roland Tower."

"That's all, villain. You know it's useful, and the lords after you will definitely support you, so you want to say less. "

"But if it were you, you might try it sometimes."

Saying this, the old man closed his dark golden eyes, and my tone was calm, with a slight smile, as if in the heavy wind of the afternoon: "Bi Jing......"

"That's your big dream."