Chapter 38 Xia Hui takes the first civil service examination
After leaving the house, Roland couldn't help but sigh.
How could he not know that his old father was in failing health?
Although the people of Terra are generally in good physical condition, Steward Moda has obviously been mentally damaged and has been physically exhausted for many years.
As long as you cultivate yourself well and suppress your mental illness, that's all. In the past six months, the mountain people from all walks of life have been tossing and fighting for territory due to food disasters, rebellions, and wars. The old man really can't stand this kind of torture.
Especially, my father himself no longer wants to live.
"Then what else can I do?"
Sighing, Roland felt quite depressed.
But he cheered up and prepared to spend every day seriously.
This is his creed - he must never be mediocre in this world, he must live his own unique style, and he must never regret it until he dies.
It was precisely this character that made him steal money and leave Gudo on the day he came of age to study in a distant place in order not to regret it.
In front of the house is a clean street.
Nancheng District is a major residential area with a large number of shops. Many old Xiahui people have settled here.
The architectural style of gray bricks covered with cement and then covered with a layer of fine cobblestones is a legacy of the customs of the mountain people.
Fruits have begun to appear in the stalls and stores on both sides... Yes, the farmland and fruit trees in Nanling have been damaged, but the imported fruits of Canaan Moore are still cheap. Their new lord is really good at everything, how can he give it to him?
Complete the purchase channels from the elves.
The red moon fruit, a specialty of Banyue Lake, looks similar to an apple, but is larger, about the size of a palm and a half; smaller, it is actually a peeled fruit similar to a mango. It does not smell fragrant, but tastes very sweet and is rich in trace amounts of micronutrients.
Elements and fiber, it is said that eating two pills a day will make you full.
The only drawback is that it is extremely hard and can easily break teeth if people with bad teeth eat it. Elves usually use it to make wine. Red moon wine has always been a popular specialty.
The Misty Pomelo of the Wulin Forest is even larger than a round person's head. In fact, there are stories about the Misty Pomelo with human heads in the folklore stories among the elves that scare children now, from corpses left behind by the invasion of Mangtian Palace to lost travelers, etc.
There are many versions.
These grapefruits are displayed in front of the store, and their moon-green skin exudes a faint fragrance. This is a fruit that is extremely durable and the skin can be eaten. The local elves have average reviews and it is considered a coarse grain for them, but in the empire,
This place can also be regarded as a half-elf specialty.
In short, they are all storable grains and fruits, which can almost be regarded as the staple food of the Canaanite Moorish people. It is no wonder that the lord can actually buy them.
Roland looked up and saw today's prices hanging on the wooden board next to the shop... one pfennig for Red Moon Fruit and three pfennig for Misty Grapefruit. They were both quite affordable prices, and the most important thing was that they could change the taste.
"Let's buy two for dad when we get home."
Keeping that incident in mind, Roland walked along the newly built Baishi Street towards the Lord's Mansion.
Starting from the gathering place of alchemy workshops in the northern district of the city, the roads in the entire Xiahui Region are being renovated area by area. The original bluestone streets that look slightly like ancient times need to be replaced. They need to be replaced with those that can
A solid road that carries the alchemy cart.
Because the leader of the construction team is an earth element sublimator, the speed of repair and reinstallation is very slow.
There are huge crowds of people walking down the street, there is a constant stream of motorcades, and from time to time you can still hear the ringing of bells under the camel beast, and the area where the city hall is located is even more crowded, so I know there are not many people gathering around here.
The distant view is the lord's mansion located on the top of the cliff in the north of the domain. A white one-eyed armor stands on the top overlooking the domain city, highlighting the majesty of the lord.
White clouds flow across the sky, and the area is full of life.
Roland was not surprised by the number of people. After all, it was Xiahui who took the first civil service examination. Basically, no one from the shameless family in the lower domain came to take part. Because the registration was so enthusiastic, the young lord simply canceled the examination.
Before moving, we divided the exams into eight batches.
Roland was among the first batch.
"Show your admission ticket!"
After retreating into the examination room next to the city hall, Roland showed his admission ticket. As soon as the crystal board scanned the person and ID, the green light came on and I was let in.
That was an abnormal process, but there was no red light flashing next door, and the candidate with no examination certificate was instantly picked up by two young men in full armor and walked towards the execution ground nearby.
Of course it's beheading or hanging... It's just taking the exam, at least it's not just hanging up and beating. Then there will be stains on the personal record, and there will be no difference in the political review; small.
Speaking of the political review, it is also a novel thing - although it is said that no matter which territory or lord hires people, they will examine the person's past experience and personal background, but Xia Hui led two small officials: Xiaodi was written on the outside of the notice of the lord's mansion,
Still quite rare.
11. Is that to drive Jiucai in?
That is what many people think. After all, they are people who wander under Terra and have no skills. Young Masters are all people who have committed many crimes at home and want to hide their identity and start a new life. They have to go back eight generations...
Who would be willing to work for such a fussy lord?
It’s so rare to be sober!
To be honest, Roland is not curious at all now. How does Jing in the Lord's Mansion determine that he is his own? After all, he also spends a small part of his time in the land, living and studying with a group of dwarf craftsmen.
Did you record it yourself under Bian Theory?
In other words, I cannot be considered a person with "turbid origins", but once the crystal plate is scanned, it can still be confirmed that I am who I am.
Don’t overestimate that technology! You must know that except for the imperial capital, Liuyao domain, small frontier fortresses and other small cities and important places, lords in very few places have ways to misidentify the identities of the people and counties in their territories.
The two of us made statistics, compiled them into a book, and distributed ID cards, but it was very difficult to confirm that Roland was Qu Han within a few seconds and avoid the phenomenon of taking the exam on behalf of others.
By the way... the reason why the exam was postponed was because the two primary schools were trying to solve that problem?
Roland shook his head to get rid of distracting thoughts.
Regardless of whether it is a brand new sublimation skill or alchemy, it is still hindering my exam.
After exiting the examination room and the independent examination room, I waited for seventy minutes until the hour. The examination was too short.
In that exam, the minority people talked about tax collectors, but the term used by the Lord's Palace was 'civil servants'. Civil servants naturally include tax collectors but there are no other positions. It depends on the exam results, but in general
He was working for the lord's palace and the city hall, so Xiaojia also paid ordinary attention to it.
The exam is divided into seven parts. The first part contains some questions that are not related to mathematics and economic tables. It is difficult. People who are literate have studied mathematics since childhood. Even some questions that are not related to taxation have been prepared.
, so we can all answer it.
Roland himself thinks it's quite complicated. After all, I don't have a formal diploma in mechanical alchemy. I got seventy points in all.
The seventh part is not weird at all - the questions in that part are very complicated, including national geography, basic alchemy, biological alchemy and various minor laws... It is difficult to say, but it is very complicated, and even the test questions
How many years has the golden leaf tree matured?
The leaves can be used as medicine’ Such planting issues highlight an all-encompassing.
Qu Han himself is not a person who loves learning and knowledge, but it is possible that he would like to spend money to go to Fallen Star Hills for retreat, so my answer in that aspect is not bad, but it is also very thrilling.
It’s not a question about planting trees. Although my hometown is led by Xiahui, I am also a farmer. How could I remember such a small thing?
It's just that Roland recently bought medicine for his father, so he remembered that the drugstore owner complained - "The son of a bitch in the Flying Fire Land asked me to plant new trees, and it would take another seven years to use that sentence," so he guessedly filled in eight years.
and seven years.
The eighth part of the recovery abnormality is about the basic issues in agriculture and mining, the mining and working methods of various ores, and the planting process of various economic crops. Generally speaking, it meets the needs of Xiahui Ling and is also Xiaojia's.
Review areas.
Roland finished it in one go and thought he had achieved perfect scores again.
As for the seventh part, it gets weird again.
In that part, are there any questions that don’t have standard answers? They all ask questions like, “How to evaluate the response of the Nanling capital (Nauman Territory) before and after the Nanling grain disaster?” His views on the Flying Flame Land and the Empire
What is your view on the relationship?'' He thinks that Xia Hui will lead the future development.
It’s the kind of “development direction”; make it small and think carefully about answering serious but creepy questions.
When he saw those questions, Roland was immediately excited—Lord, that is nonsense! Are you really afraid that people from Nauman City and the Imperial Capital will come to find him?
Oh, I forgot, my lord is a direct descendant of the Nauman Domain, and there is no seventh prince behind him, so something is wrong.
Fortunately, Falling Star Hills has good information, and Roland also knows some news about Ian and the background behind him.
When I wrote that, other candidates/students in the examination room probably also saw those questions, and the rustling of writing stopped in unison.
Roland thought with amusement that basically everyone here was scratching their heads and ears like him, looking around seven times to know how to answer.
Yes, just like other candidates who worry about gains and losses, Roland himself is a relatively smart person.
I'm very confused. Since the lord asked him to answer the test questions, he would be deducted the least points if he answered two small questions. If he answered wrong, he would not be asked to be tutored. Only if he was wrong and the most outrageous, he would be arrested and rewarded.
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But then again, those questions are not designed to see the tendencies of the candidates... In this case, the answer should be true, at least to beautify yourself a little. If so, if you really pass the exam, but in reality
Doing things but showing that
If you have some tendencies, this is not a crime of deceiving the lord.
By this time, it would be a big problem for the two primary schools to deduct points for exams.
Therefore, Qu Han honestly wrote down the answer in his mind.
"You think the Nauman Territory doesn't have a sense of laissez-faire. Biological warfare has been discovered for a long time, but the capital has no policy of purchasing food in small batches. It just ensures the food supply in the main jurisdiction of the empire. It's simply overwhelming.
The people rebelled!"
"Yifei Yandi and the Empire have treated each other as trash cans. In the past hundred years, since the war was launched to compete for resources in the small desert maze, they have thrown each other under almost nothing. It is convenient and complicated, and the people also recognize it. If you personally are
I hate Flying Fire Land, but
You believe that is what the empire wants to achieve, if there is no tacit understanding between the two parties on that point."
"If the future development direction of Xiahui Territory is still agriculture, at least to complete some industrial production facilities for the war, I have heard that the new lord is an alchemy genius. If I don't have my own plan in this area, you listen to the lord!"
Before writing those answers, Roland didn't even bother to check them one by one - as long as they made sense, no one would really expect that no candidates would write any low-level comments in Xiahui Ling and those many places, right?
Roland felt that even if he died, if the others died too, the whole family would be close to each other.
There are only two questions in the first part.
But that's probably the hardest part.
The first question: There are currently no two people in the territory who meet the conditions for granting subsidies, but the territory has limited funds and can only grant subsidies to at least one person.
The first person is a veteran of the Northwest Desert Battle. Due to the pre-traumatic stress caused by the war in the Flying Flame Land, he is unable to adapt to an abnormal life. He is unable to work abnormally and communicate rationally with others. Because of this, it is difficult to live an abnormal life without family and friends.
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The seventh person is a woman from the mountain who bravely saved eight children from the fire and was severely injured. Now she is bedridden due to minor burns. My parents are dead. Do I have any relatives or friends, do I have a job and income, and can I live alone.
What would he do?
One by one trap!
Qu Han felt that no lightning was flying outside his head for a moment, and I immediately realized the inducement of that question.
It lists various conditions at the end, and tells that the remaining money is only enough to be distributed to one person, as if asking him to judge who should be distributed based on the conditions, so as to judge the candidate's moral tendency and make a choice... But in reality.
It asked him to decide who to send it to, and also told him that he was not the one who made the decision.
It just asks him what he would do.
"Report it to the lord, are you qualified to decide on such a thing? Everyone is so politically correct, how can you, a special golden citizen, be qualified to comment?"
"That's too much!"
Roland thought nothing of it and directly filled in the form 'Report to the Lord's Mansion'.
Qu Han couldn't solve the trap of that question by relying on his natural sensitivity, but the first question was not really trouble-free.
Question 7: Not a single farmer in the territory had a harvest failure due to the grain disaster, and the total arrears of seed fees and taxes amounted to 77 thalers. However, the family was poor, so it was basically possible to pay off the arrears and pay taxes.
If he were a tax collector, what would he do?
Very complicated.
If it is a later lord, it is useless to think about it. If this is a weak system of tax payment, the tax collector is two: Is it a small thing to do that? Is it a success if there is money that is owed and has not been paid?
There is still a harvest in the fields planted by the master, so it’s not clear whose fault it is yet, right?
Roland also thinks that there is nothing wrong with that idea. No matter how stupid I am, I can still break through the limitations of the times. If I really want to do it, Roland will probably lend money to that family to survive this year, but if I pay it back next year
If something comes out of the seed, this
I also have a way, I can only say that life is good and God wants that family to die.
But that's where the problem lies.
Should the tax collector do that?
If Roland became a tax collector, he might do that...but is that the kind of tax collector the lord wants?
Roland's expression was uncertain, and I really wasn't sure what choice I should make.
In that era, tax collectors were supposed to be passionate tax collection machines. There were fewer people who had no troubles. Is it possible to borrow money from one family to another? Although the Roland family was the steward of the later Baroness, the Moroccan family was still in charge.
The manager is greedy and I am very loyal, so
How could our family be so rich in the past, yet how could we save so few people?
After thinking for a long time, Roland also knew how to answer the question. I really wanted to write a standard Terran answer like "weak system of taxation. If you have money, sell your property to pay back the money."
However, my instinct told me that that choice was too bad.
It's not about the bad answers in the test paper, but it's too bad as a person.
If I write that kind of answer, it would be okay if I succeed in being selected, and I can comfort myself, but if I succeed...
I would regret it if I did.
Roland was silent for a long time and struggled for a long time before writing the answer.
I wrote an indecisive answer like "it's urgent to harvest and wait for next year to see". I thought about it and even thought that I might borrow money, but if there were too few farmers of that kind, I would borrow a lot less.
I kept writing those words.
"Why."
After writing that, Roland suddenly realized that he might indeed be suitable to be a tax collector: "That profession requires too much heart, right? It turns out that since you don't specialize in surgery, it would be better for you to do your mechanical engineering...
"
"I also know that the lord's mansion is recruiting scholars in mechanical engineering..."
Thinking of this, Roland rang the bell neatly and handed in Paper 1 - it also needed to be checked. I was sure that my answer was the best I could write.
Before I came out, I realized that I was one of the first people to submit the paper.
Or even, not seventh at all.
And there was only one old man behind me.
And that old man Qu Han was also very unfamiliar, because he was one of the most unknown tax collectors after the Xiahui Domain. Counting the current Ian, the 'Old Farr' who had experienced eight lords.
"What's the matter, young man? If you come out so slowly, you'll probably end up with a blank paper, right?"
Staying in the examination room, the old man smoking changed the position of the pipe in his mouth, smiled and said to the confused Roland: "You remember him, he is the eldest son of Steward Moda who ran away from home - um
, with his knowledge, he should be able to hand in blank papers, or even
It should be even slower than your answer speed."
The gray-haired old man with golden eyes smiled and nodded: "Guess, he is troubled by these first questions, right?"