Lady of the Lord From the East

There were three exams a day, with the replacement and lunch break arranged in the middle, and the last one ended on time at 3:00 pm.

There are more than 10,000 papers, and the amount of correction is huge. Felix arranged for nearly 100 people to mark the exam papers. Those questions with standard answers can be corrected as long as they can read and write. Although Wei Wei also prepared standard answers for the remaining big questions, but And this is not the only answer. If someone can answer their own opinions, or even a better way, then the score is not low, but this kind of answer is not something that ordinary people can judge the result, so these papers are in the hands of others. After going through it once, in the end, what they think is good must be sent to Wei Wei and Felix so that they can look at it again.

This is also something that can't be helped. Sardinson lacks professional management and political talents, and there was no such test before. Everyone is a novice and can only slowly explore.

Two days later, more than 10,000 test papers were preliminarily corrected, and those who answered indiscriminately were eliminated; there were problems with spelling of words, and a paragraph of nonsense was written in a nonsense; The relatively good test papers were sent to them after the results were approved.

Wei Wei flipped through the stack of test papers in front of her. In addition to the name of the test taker and the number of the test taker when you signed up, at the beginning of the paper, there were also detailed home addresses and dates of birth. This was also because people with the same name were too old. Many, it is impossible to determine who is who just by looking at the name.

"How many of these are there?"

"It's almost five thousand." The servant who brought the test papers replied, "The other papers' grades are too bad. They said there is no need to show them to adults and madams."

Great, at least half the work.

"Okay, let me see what they've written."

Wei Wei flipped through it a bit, and after confirming that the previous multiple-choice questions were correct, she calmed down, picked up the top one, and began to read the big questions.

As a question maker, she chooses big questions that she has a certain degree of confidence and understanding, so whether the answerer's answer is rhetorical or has some content, she can have a few words after reading a few words. A rough judgment, the rest only depends on how to score.

The 5,000 exam papers, if you really read them carefully one by one, don't even think about reading them every one or two months. Fortunately, Wei Wei only needs to read those big questions, and the time is much shorter.

Moreover, the people who come to sit for the Sardinson County exam are not good at speaking, their foundation is very weak, and most of them have no relevant work experience. It's not very good to watch. Basically, it's basically the level of reluctance to give a basic score after reading it. Wei Wei is really satisfied, very few.

That's why Wei Wei changed the volume very quickly. He could get a copy in about a minute. When he found something that was better written, he would take it out and put it on the other side. After Felix came over, the two discussed it.

Recently, after the news of Wei Wei's pregnancy came out, the surrounding nobles sent people to send gifts one after another, and some even came over to congratulate him. Now Felix is ​​seeing one of the nobles who sent a servant to give gifts. , The basic greetings and return gifts are indispensable for this kind of thing. Wei Wei should have been there too, but since she is pregnant and busy with other things, the other party is just a housekeeper, so it doesn't matter if you see it or not.

When Felix sent the other party away and came to Wei Wei, she had already approved a small number of papers, but compared to the stack next to her, it was still a drop in the bucket.

Felix also looked at it with a big head: "When will this be approved."

"Even if it is approved for a month, it has to be approved." She pointed to the stack on the side: "That's what I wrote after reading the content. Look at it, if you think it's suitable, just rate it according to me, if it's not suitable discuss."

Felix wants to say that he doesn't know how to do these questions, how can he understand the answers, but Wei Wei said so, can he still not read it?

So he picked up the paper and sat beside Wei Wei and looked at it.

This change is about half a month.

The results of the first written test were finally freshly released, and the list of the top 1,000 qualifiers was posted on the square in Dingle, next to them being notified of when and how to participate in the second interview.

Each candidate needs to prepare a resume, and have five minutes to introduce themselves during the interview, explain their strengths and positions of interest, and then answer the examiner's questions.

Although Wei Wei hadn't officially joined the job before she came here, she had also found a part-time job when she was in college, and she had gone through the basic process.

As the first official civil service exam in Sardinson County, the results of this exam are very unsatisfactory. Half of the 1,000 people who passed the test had just passed the pass line. After that, the scores were even lower, almost making Wei Wei give up the idea of ​​keeping all the 1,000 people.

But it hasn't changed in the end. In fact, when I think about it carefully, these people have high scores on other basic questions, but they have no experience in the final big question, which ultimately lowered the score.

"Let's watch the interview." Wei Wei was eating the orange that Felix helped her peel.

Now this result is second, the character and character of the candidates are the key points. After all, knowledge can be improved, but character is already fixed and cannot be changed.

The interview of 1,000 people was better arranged than the previous written test, but the exam took longer. This interview was arranged from mid-October to early November. The winter wheat was planted in the field, the temperature dropped, and the cold winter came , is completely over.

The list of those who were admitted was officially released, but it was not the top 100 in the last written test. Some curious people compared the scores of the last time and found that some of these people belonged to the bottom of the written test. This is very impressive. Surprisingly, they thought that the latter were the ones who accompany them in the list. Although the second game was arranged, shouldn't it be just a passing game?

But the reality is that no one in the previous top ten was even on the admissions list!

Naturally, many people are satisfied with such a result. Among them, the most opinionated are those who originally ranked high and thought they would definitely be admitted.

The dissatisfied candidates want to make trouble, and other candidates who have not been admitted are also happy to take part. Maybe they make trouble, Lord Earl is willing to give them another chance?

They gathered together and did not dare to go to the castle, so they protested directly around the mayor's house in Dingle Town, saying that there must be something wrong with the admission list this time, they demanded fairness and justice, and would not accept this obviously wrong result ——It's almost as if someone cheated.

"Demonstration?" Wei Wei was surprised. She thought that few people dared to confront the nobles at this time. After all, if they were not good, they would be arrested and jailed and beheaded. This is not a posterity that advertises democracy.

"Because the person who takes the lead is also considered a nobleman, of course he is not afraid." Felix was a little angry, and his brows were furrowed together.

In fact, in this exam, it can be said that most of the people with good grades are not ordinary civilians. This is actually quite normal. After all, this is an era when family conditions are good to study. People who come from noble families are themselves starting from ordinary people. Higher, and compared to ordinary people, the former has some rare experience in management.

For example, a young nobleman who wants to be a tax officer is different from ordinary people who only know that the tax officer collects taxes for the lord. He knows the whole process of the tax officer's work, and those who have seen the big scene will not be interviewing. When I was so nervous that I couldn't speak, I was very confident and persuasive when I talked freely.

But he still didn't get accepted.

Because the interviewer asked him: "If your lord wants to increase the tax, but the lords can't afford it, the tax increase may make them starve to death in winter, what would you do?"

The young nobleman replied: "Follow the lord's order." Then he said that in the case of Sardinson County, even if the tax was increased, no one could starve to death, and he even said how much more tax would be more appropriate.

Raising taxes in a harvest year is something that many aristocratic lords will do. This is the most common thing for aristocratic young people. He does not take the lives of ordinary people in his eyes at all. Whether it is his tone or demeanor, he reveals a kind of Disdain and contempt for the commoners, it is a very natural thing to feel that commoners are exploited by nobles.

So he lost the election.

"Whether he wants to please you or really thinks so, obviously we don't need such talent."

What they are looking for is grass-roots officials. These officials usually deal with ordinary civilians. If it is his attitude, something will happen sooner or later.

The idea of ​​this aristocratic young man is not uncommon. It can even be said to be very common. Almost all people born in aristocracy have a natural sense of superiority when facing ordinary people. The latter are dismissive, even if they are actually fed by these people.

They may also despise the positions they want to apply for. More people just use this as a springboard on the spot, and no one really wants to serve the civilians.

And these people are not suitable to become grass-roots officials, even if they do have some real talents and practical learning, they still lose the election.

Obviously, the troublemakers still haven't figured out where they are wrong. They only dare to make trouble because they feel that Felix doesn't dare to touch them.

Of course Felix wouldn't let them continue to make trouble, but he didn't mean to come forward, so he ordered someone and asked him to bring a team of cavalry to Dingle Town.

"Don't hurt people, have a good talk with them, and if you don't listen after talking, then arrest them for a few days."

Anyway, the castle prison has been empty recently, and there are places for people to live in.

As soon as Wei Wei heard his words, she knew that some people were afraid of bad things.

But yes, Felix usually has a good temper, but when outsiders make trouble on his own territory, it is strange that he can endure it. This is when he was a knight, and he was afraid that he was going to invite someone to a duel.

The knight took a group of cavalry and went to Dingle. They were all on horseback. The road was very fast. When they arrived at the place, those people were still surrounding the mayor's house. Sen give an explanation.

From a distance, when they heard their shouts, the knight who was ordered to do this pouted on the ground.

"A bunch of cowards."

His knight attendants also followed suit: "That's right, what does this have to do with the mayor? They are making trouble here, aren't they just afraid that the count will get angry? If you really want the courage to go to the castle to make trouble, I have to admire them. ."

The mayor of Dingle is also pitiful, obviously it has nothing to do with him, just because the earl said that the first batch of passers will do pilot work in Dingle, these people found him, and they were completely bullying.

The group of cavalry was very conspicuous, and they were spotted almost as soon as they arrived. Those who were originally watching the lively saw something wrong and immediately stayed away from the group of demonstrators, but their heart to watch the lively still made them stay and did not leave.

The people in the middle who were making a fuss just turned their backs to the cavalry, so no one found them, but the mayor, who was hiding at home and did not dare to go out, saw it from a distance, and was standing at the window on the second floor, looking eagerly at the knight and the man behind him. Soldiers.

The leading knight reined in the reins, and the neatly draped horses slowed down. He looked at those people arrogantly, but did not speak, just to see when they would notice them.

The group of cavalry behind him remained silent. It was clearly a large team of dozens of people, and they were riding on horses, but there was not much sound.

A chilling silence emanated from them, and the atmosphere of those onlookers did not dare to spread, and the atmosphere became more and more solidified.

Gradually, the rioting crowd finally felt the strangeness behind them. When they looked back one by one, they saw the heavily armed cavalry team behind them.

The leading knight was wearing bright silver armor, with his helmet pulled down, revealing only a pair of sharp eyes, staring at them coldly. Behind him, the cavalry also wearing armor held bows and arrows in their hands, half on the arrows on the bows. There was a cold light, facing them intentionally or unintentionally.

Looking at those eyes, the person who was still shouting was suddenly as quiet as a chicken, and could no longer make a sound.

More and more people became silent, setting off the people who took the lead in making troubles in the crowd like harlequins in a farce, and their shouting became comical and powerless.

Soon, these people also noticed the change in the surrounding atmosphere, they closed their mouths, and finally saw the group of cavalry behind them.

The knight rode his horse slowly through the crowd, and wherever he passed, everyone automatically gave way.

He stopped at the gate of the town mayor's house, looked down at the group of people from the horse, fixed his eyes on the first few people, lifted the mask of his helmet, revealing a fairly handsome face: "Why don't you make trouble, continue what."

Anyone who took the second written test recognized him, Knight Kingsley, one of the interviewers for this interview.

Seeing that no one spoke, Kingsley said to himself: "Lord Earl heard that you are making trouble here, so he sent me here. In fact, I am very curious. Since you are not satisfied with the result, why don't you just ask for help? What does the Count say? What are you doing here to embarrass the mayor? Does he have anything to do with this?"

After seeing Kingsley's cavalry, the mayor ran downstairs and opened the door to Kingsley's side.

He had been frightened before, but now that the person in charge came, he immediately gained confidence, and then the knight said: "The knight is right, if you have any opinions on the examination held by the earl, go to the castle, what are you doing in my house? Can I still be in charge?"

The people who took the lead in the trouble naturally knew that it had nothing to do with him, but they didn't dare to go to the castle to make trouble, so they choked their necks and said, "Why doesn't it matter, won't those people all work under you in the future?"

The mayor said bitterly: "What is working under me, I said before, they will indeed work well in Dingle in the future, but they are not under my control at all. You don't listen, and you have to make trouble."

The others stopped talking. They actually knew it, but they just pretended not to hear it. Now that the cavalry team arrived, no one dared to mess around.

Kingsley: "So, are you really dissatisfied with the results of this exam?"

At this time, most people didn't dare to speak. They were afraid that they were dissatisfied, and they were taken away by this group of cavalry. They looked really bad.

But some people were unwilling to give up like this, and they heard a voice from a group of people: "Of course we are not satisfied, obviously our exam results are better, why did we fail in the end."

Kingsley glanced in the direction of the voice, but after the other party finished speaking, he chopped up, and he didn't find out who was speaking.

The people who watched the lively before also began to talk about it. After listening to their troubles, many onlookers did not really accept the result. After all, they have all seen the list. The test results were really unsatisfactory, and it was said that the final score was based on the combined scores of the two tests, but the scores of the second written test were not announced, and only an admissions list was made.

Kingsley was also the interviewer at that time. Although he was basically drawn to make up the number, he still knew why many people were not selected.

"Do you have no idea about this problem?" Kingsley looked around and raised his voice: "The Earl chose people who can do things, people who can communicate with the common people and will not cause trouble, a group of people who want to raise taxes , Shut up, a humble person can do this job? If you want to put on the spectrum of aristocrats, you have to see if you are that identity."

Kingsley's own goal is to become an aristocrat. The privileges of the aristocracy are what he yearns for, but the knight's code of conduct still constrains him, so that he will not regard the commoners as slaves. He doesn't like candidates who are arrogant and arrogant.

In particular, their Count obviously doesn't like them either. Naturally, their subordinates have to act according to the Count's preferences.

If the onlookers who didn't know the situation before were incited by the troublemakers' words and felt that there might be some insider behind the results this time, then as soon as Kingsley's words came out, everyone immediately changed their original attitude. , glared at the group of troublemakers.

Hear what he said? Are these people saying they want to raise taxes?

God, how are they so vicious? ! ! !

When it comes to the last thing non-nobles want to hear, tax increases are definitely the number one thing.

They have only had a good time for a few days, and even the earl even exempted them from the poll tax not long ago. Now these people actually want to increase the tax? What are they at ease?

If the Count was really persuaded, how could they have a good life?

The thought of these people wanting the earl to increase taxes and take their grain from their granary, they can't wait to rush to kill these people!

Not only ordinary citizens, but even the outsiders' faces turned ugly. Freedmen also need to pay some taxes to work in Sardinson, and businessmen are more concerned about changes in taxes. Who knows if these people are encouraging them? Lord Earl increased the business tax?

It was found that the expressions of the people around him had changed, and the troublemakers also began to panic.

"You are talking nonsense, we didn't incite the earl to raise taxes, he asked us that!"

"Yes, Lord Earl asked you, what would you do if he wanted to increase the tax." Kingsley said lightly: "Then you all agreed to increase the tax, so you lost the election, and those who were admitted, if you have advanced If you ask them, you will find that they were admitted because they, without exception, persuaded him not to raise taxes arbitrarily in front of the count."

"This is the answer that the Count wants, and you obviously did not satisfy him."

Kingsley's words were clear, and he raised Felix's posture again in front of everyone to let everyone know that this is a good lord who thinks about his people.

"If you are not satisfied, why don't you go back to the castle with me and make it clear in front of the count."

When these words were released, the people who had taken the lead in making trouble did not dare to make trouble anymore. They knew very well that the situation was different now. Those who were instigated to make trouble together had already carefully left the troubled crowd when they saw the cavalry arriving. Kingsley's words changed everyone's attitude. They turned from sympathizers to hated targets. Even if Kingsley didn't let the cavalry capture them afterwards, they couldn't stay in Sardinson anymore. The hotel was unwilling to continue to receive them, and the merchants did not want to do business with them, and even on the road, a stone that was thrown out of nowhere almost hit them.

In the face of everyone's hatred, these people couldn't stay any longer. They packed up their luggage and left Sardinson in a daze, and probably won't have the chance to come again in the future.

And with their departure, Sardinson regained his composure.

It's getting colder in Sardinson in November, people have changed into heavy winter clothes, knitted woolen jackets and woolen trousers are a hot commodity again, and merchants don't leave here because of winter, on the contrary, because of Sardinson Beet sugar began to be boiled again, and a large number of sugar cubes attracted more buyers. Under the influence of Sardinson, the pier in Princia did not shut down in winter this year, and the fleet of ships was still flowing. , even more lively because of the snow on the land.

This year, they did not go to the capital in winter, but the birthday present for the queen was still delivered to the capital by boat. This time the gift was similar to the previous one, except that there was a new blend of fragrances and more lipsticks. Several new colors, and the skin care products have also been replaced with newly developed whitening and anti-wrinkle models, all of which Wei Wei plans to launch next year, and send them to the queen for her to advertise.

I have to say that although she also knows that the queen is not very friendly to herself, there is really no living sign more suitable than her.

And after the gifts were delivered, there was something else to do in Sardinson County.

Because the castle is about to start harvesting pigs.