"What is this?"
"Corn."
"What sprite is in corn?"
"Mickey."
On the stones used to divide the fields, a group of serfs in patched clothes gathered together, drinking water, eating bread, and dipping in peanut butter.
Mark, a clerk without patches, was holding a stick, pointing to the corn seeds on the ground and asking the group of serfs.
It was field teaching time.
Since most of the new serfs came from the Eagle Kingdom, they could only speak Wind and not Serpentine. In order to increase the sense of belonging and ease of communication, the Lord stipulated that the official language of the territory was Serpentine. Everyone must learn Serpentine for daily communication – only the Knight class needed to learn Serpentine and Wind at the same time.
Mark's Wind was not good, he only knew a few words and learned them from Monsieur Grandet.
In fact, his Serpentine was not very good, he could only read and speak, not write. However, he only needed to teach the serfs daily language, and his level was barely enough.
It was spring ploughing season.
The serfs could not have a fixed time to learn Serpentine, so Monsieur Grandet proposed to the Lord to use the serfs' rest time to arrange reasonable teaching. The Lord agreed, and the clerks in charge of teaching needed to rush to the fields every day and go to the fields with the serfs.
Many clerks sighed. It was not easy to get into the administrative office, but they still could not leave the mud.
But Mark did not complain.
Because he was ambitious.
"You have to remember, Mickey, this is the Lord's third sprite, the corn sprite!" Mark shouted loudly, otherwise the serfs would not pay attention and listen to what he was saying. "Now tell me, what is the Lord's name!"
"Tulip!"
"Black Horse Island!"
"Sky Knight!"
"The son of the great Tulip family, the viscount of Black Horse Island who rules everything, Sky Knight Liszt Tulip!" The serfs skillfully shouted the standard Serpentine.
This was the Serpentine they were taught when they first came to Black Horse Island.
At that time, there was no "Sky Knight". Later, after learning that Liszt was promoted, the officials immediately added the title to the Lord's name.
Without a doubt, this kind of teaching method was crude, inferior, simple, and lousy brainwashing. Every day, the serfs would be taught these slogans by the clerks. Repeating it once or twice might not have any effect and might even arouse disgust.
But after thousands of times, these contents would be deeply engraved in everyone's mind, leaving no room for doubt.
In fact, Liszt wasn't very keen on this kind of advertising method. He knew that strength was the most important factor in ensuring the territory's loyalty. However, if the officials were willing to use this kind of method to curry favor and brainwash the people, he had no reason to stop them. After all, he couldn't shake his own rule.
As a modern person, he was well aware of the importance of public opinion — commonly known as the construction of spiritual civilization.
Seeing the serfs shouting in unison, Mark was very satisfied. This was the result of his teaching during this time. He was assigned to a farmland area in Grain Town and was responsible for teaching the serfs who farmed in this farmland. Compared to the other clerks who played tricks, he treated every teaching time seriously.
He didn't even let go of mealtime.
At this time, he saw that the serfs he was teaching were obviously better than the serfs taught by others. Their Snake pronunciation was more standard and they had more Snake vocabulary.
He was looking forward to it. "The Lord will commend the officials who work hard during the spring ploughing … I will definitely be rewarded for my hard work. After the spring ploughing, I will definitely be promoted from an ordinary clerk to a cultural clerk … Maybe I will be valued by a supervisor and be directly chosen as an assistant!"
The official system of Black Horse Island was a new system after Liszt's reform. It generally followed the previous administrative system, but it was more subdivided and clear.
Compared to the past, there were only a few supervisors, plus a group of clerks, and a chaotic and crude system.
The current official system was very clear.
Take the town's administrative office as an example. The lowest level was similar to the "clerks" in the establishment, responsible for all kinds of errands and miscellaneous work. The next level was the "department clerk" with a formal establishment, mainly responsible for the specific affairs of the various departments. The next level was equivalent to the "assistant in charge" of the official.
These three levels all belonged to the "official" class.
The real "official" was the town's "department head", also known as the "administrative officer". According to the different development directions of each town, the number and functions of administrative officers were also different.
Administrative officers roughly included administrative officers, financial officers, defense officers, legal officers, cultural officers, and diplomats. These were the permanent administrative officers of other lords' territories.
On Black Horse Island, there were additional administrative officers such as insect officers, maritime officers, traffic officers, construction officers, and fishing officers.
All administrative officers were responsible to the town's adviser.
However, after the port town was upgraded to a port city in the future, a set of city officials would be formed to manage all the towns. The city's administrative officer and the town's adviser would be the dual leader of the town's administrative officer. To avoid the formation of an adviser's word and balance the power of officials.
Mark did not dare to expect to become an administrative officer. After all, the requirement for an administrative officer was to be a trainee Knight. He was just a civilian who had not practiced qi.
His greatest wish was to become an administrative officer's assistant and then marry a beautiful wife.
Just as he was fantasizing about his success and fame while teaching Snake Language, a group of people suddenly came on a field path in the distance, riding horses. When he got closer, Mark suddenly discovered that it was Mr. Grandet, the port town's cultural officer who was deeply valued by the lord and led the teaching of Snake Language and Wind Language in the territory.
He hurriedly stepped forward and saluted. "Clerk Mark greets Sir Cultural Officer!"
"Mark, I remember you. You were very serious in my classes." Grandet dismounted from his horse and looked carefully, seemingly recognizing Mark.
Mark suddenly trembled with excitement. "It is an honor to be remembered by Sir Cultural Officer!"
Grandet nodded. In fact, he didn't remember who Mark was. When Black Horse Island was built, the administrative office urgently recruited a large number of clerks for pre-job training. There were hundreds of them. "I am here to check the progress of your clerks' teaching. Mark, get all the civilians ready."
"Yes, Sir Cultural Officer!"
… …
Spring plowing work was arranged.
Liszt didn't pay much attention to it.
He rushed back to Flower Town the next day. Since all the potions had been eaten up by Charmander, he had to use the Tulip Castle channel to buy a batch again.
This would cost him thousands of gold coins.
What was even more depressing was that Charmander obviously would not be sent away so easily. It woke up on his chest and howled for food and drink. If it wants to grow, it has to consume more resources. Potions are just one of them. Even if it costs thousands of gold coins a month for potions, it would not be enough.
Moreover, as a Sky Knight, Liszt took potions and ate meat every day for a lot of money.
"It is too difficult to rely solely on the output of Black Horse Island. If it weren't for the huge profits of liquor and glass, I might not even be able to support my own cultivation … I really hope that the development order will come earlier. I want to make achievements as soon as possible and plunder more spoils to subsidize consumption."
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