The Defeated Dragon

“What is this? ”

“Corn. ”

“What elf does corn have? ”

“Mickey. ”

On the stones used to divide the farmlands, a group of serfs dressed in patches gathered to drink water, eat bread and dip in peanut butter.

The paperwork with no patches on it, Mark, was holding a stick, pointing to the grain corn seeds on the ground, and questioning the serfs.

This is field time.

Since most of the new serfs come from the kingdom of the eagle, they only speak fluently and do not speak serpentine. In order to increase the sense of belonging and ease of communication, the Lord has designated the official language of the territory as Serpentine, and all must learn the serpentine of daily communication - only the knightly class needs to learn both Serpentine and Mandarin.

Mark's style is not good, he only knows a few words, or he learns from Mr. Grande.

In fact, his serpentine is not very good, he can only read and speak, he can't write. But just to teach the serf the everyday language, his level is barely enough.

It's spring farming season.

The serpent could not have a fixed time to learn Snake Language, so Mr. Grande proposed to the Lord that he use the time of the serpent's rest to rationalize teaching. The Lord agreed that the clerks responsible for teaching needed to travel to the fields every day and descend with the serfs.

Many of the papermen groaned and did not easily mix up the work of the Agency, which turned out to be inseparable from the mud.

But Mark didn't complain.

Because he's ambitious.

“Remember, Mickey, the Lord's third Pokémon, the Corn Pokémon!” Mark shouted out loud, otherwise the serfs would not have focused on what he was saying, "Now you tell me what the Lord's fame is! ”

“Tulip! ”

“Black Horse Island! ”

“Sky Knight! ”

“The great Tulip family heir, Viscount of Black Horse Island, Sky Knight Lister Tulip!” The serfs skillfully shout out standard serpents.

This is the serpentine they were taught when they first arrived on Black Horse Island.

As soon as it became known that Lester had been promoted to the rank of "Sky Knight”, officials added the title to the lord's name.

There is no doubt that this method of teaching is crude, inferior, simple and lame brainwashing. Every day serfs are taught paperwork and repeatedly mention these slogans. Over and over again, it may not do much or even be repulsive.

But a thousand times later, in the minds of all of us, these elements will be deeply imprinted, no doubt.

In fact, Lester was not very enthusiastic about this form of propaganda, and he knew that strength was the first condition for territorial loyalty. But officials were willing to kiss their asses and brainwash their inhabitants in that way, and he had no reason to stop them, and he could not shake his own rule.

As a modern man, he was well aware of the importance of public opinion.

Mark was very satisfied with the slogan of the serfs, which was the result of his teaching over time. He was assigned to a plot of agricultural land in Grain Town to teach serpentine literature to the serfs cultivated on this plot. He takes every teaching hour more seriously than any other clerk who sneaks around.

Even the time to eat is not spared.

At this time, we see that the serfs we teach clearly have more vocabulary than the serpents we teach, the serpent pronunciation standard, and the serpent vocabulary.

He looked forward to it: "Lord will recognize the officials who worked hard during spring farming... I will definitely be rewarded for my efforts. After spring farming, I will definitely be promoted, from ordinary clerk, to cultural clerk... I may be valued by some supervisor and directly chosen as my assistant! ”

Black Horse Island's official system is a new system, reformed by Lester, which largely follows the administrative system of the past, but is more segmented and clear.

Compared to the past, there were only a few supervisors, plus a group of clerical clerks, a chaotic and crude system.

The current system of officials is very clear.

In the case of the Small Town Administration, for example, the lowest level is the "clerk" prepared by similar undertakings, responsible for all kinds of running errands and miscellaneous work; the upgrade level is the formal "department clerk”, mainly responsible for the specific affairs of each department; and the upgrade level is the equivalent of the "supervising assistant” chosen by the official.

All three ranks belong to the "bailiff” class.

The real “officer” is the town's “head of department”, also known as the "clerk”. Depending on the direction of development of each town, the number and functions of clerks vary.

The clerks roughly include the clerks, treasurers, defence officers, magistrates, cultural officers, diplomats, who are permanent officers of other sovereign territories.

In Black Horse Island, there are additional Bug Officers, Maritime Officers, Traffic Officers, Construction Officers, Fishing Officers, etc.

All clerks are accountable to town counsellors.

However, when future port towns are upgraded to port towns, a set of city officials will be formed to manage all small towns. Municipal affairs officer, adviser to the town, double head of the town affairs officer. to avoid creating a monopoly of advisers and balancing the powers of officials.

Mark didn't dare expect himself to be a clerk. After all, the clerk asked for an apprenticeship knight, who was just a civilian who hadn't trained in fighting.

His greatest wish was to become an assistant to the clerk and then marry a beautiful wife.

Just as he fantasized about his success, teaching Snake Language, there was suddenly a line of people in the distance on a field path, riding over. It wasn't until recently that Mark inevitably discovered that it was Mr. Grande Tai, the harbour town cultural officer who was heavily regarded by the lords and dominated the teaching of all the serpents and customs in the territory.

He hurried forward to salute: "Mark the Little Clerk, I've met the Minister of Culture! ”

“Mark, I remember you, you were serious when I was in class.” Grandstand came down from the horse, carefully identified, seemed to recognize Mark.

Markton trembles with excitement: "Mark is honored to be remembered by the Minister of Culture! ”

Grandstand nodded, and he didn't even remember who Mark was. When the Black Horse Island was first built, the Department rushed to recruit a large number of clerks for pre-service training, and there had to be hundreds of people: “I'm here to test the progress of your clerks' teaching, Mark, to get all the civilians ready. ”

“Yes, Minister of Culture! ”

……

Spring farming, arrange it.

Lester didn't pay much attention.

He rushed back to Flower Town the next day and had to resort to Tulip Chamberlain again to buy a batch because the potion had been eaten up by little firecrackers.

It costs thousands more gold coins.

And what's even more depressing is that the little dragon obviously won't just blow it off and wake up from the chest screaming for something to eat and drink. It needs to consume more resources if it wants to grow, and magic is just one of them. Thousands of gold coins a month of magic money, I'm afraid I can't stop it.

And Lester, as a Sky Knight, is not one of the few people who takes drugs and eats meat every day.

“It's too hard to rely solely on the output of Black Horse Island. If it weren't for white wine and glass, I might not even be able to support my own cultivation... I wish Pioneering had come sooner, I would start fighting as soon as possible, plunder more spoils and subsidize consumption. ”

At this stage, you can only search through the days.