Reckless Through The New World

Liv Talahan is the grandson of the famous "Wise Marquis" Doron Talahan. His father, Alex Talahan, is quite mediocre. After inheriting the title from his father, within ten years Basically nothing special worth mentioning.

To put it nicely, this former Count of Tarakhan can be regarded as a model of "governance by inaction". His entire policy can be roughly summed up in two sentences.

The first sentence: Have a good relationship with the alien group.

The second sentence: For important matters, please consult the great magician Aunt Anna and the sage Uncle Eric for reference and decision.

Alex Tarahan is the only son of Doron Tarahan. Because of his father's longevity, he was almost fifty years old when he inherited the title. When people reach this age, naturally they will no longer have any spirit. He did things smoothly, and all he wanted was to hand over the territory to the next generation in a safe and secure manner.

And he did accomplish that.

Five years ago, the former earl fell seriously ill with a cold in the winter. After recovering from the illness, he felt very weak - after all, he was in his sixties. So he pushed the boat along the way, passed the title and territory to his eldest son, Lifu, and retired to the countryside to live a stable retirement life.

Lev Talahan is thirty-five years old, and is in his prime. Although he has less white hair, anyone who mistakenly thinks that he is a middle-aged man with no energy because of his gray hair is a big mistake.

How could a person who dared to declare to the world that "Tara Khan has no illiterate" within a year of taking the throne?

This earl has already done his best to make some big news during his years as an earl, preferably the type that can be famous in history and allow later historians to take him as a research topic.

Of course, it has to be a good thing.

He pondered for several years, and after some scrutiny and research, he finally decided to take the imperial examination system as the first major event in his administration.

The source of the idea of ​​the imperial examination system was a book borrowed from the sage grandpa.

Liv has been curious about knowledge since he was a child. In his childhood, in addition to the martial arts training required by noble children, he spent almost all his free time in the study of Anna Magic Tower and Eric Sage, where he read a lot. many books.

The relationship between the two most intelligent people of Tarakhan is not good, almost to the point of not seeing each other in business, but they are very friendly to Liv, not only welcome this little guy to read books, but also basically ask questions. Must answer.

It is a pity that Liv has no talent in learning magic. Although he has two legendary mages as teachers, he himself only has the strength of an intermediate mages.

However, the effort will not be in vain. Liv not only mastered a lot of knowledge through reading and learning, but also met many interesting friends.

For example, Uncle Cameron, who never seemed to grow up and was always criticized by Grandpa Eric as "Bear Boy".

Liv has always had some doubts about the identity of Uncle Cameron - he once heard some old people in the Earl's House say that Grandpa Doron loved Uncle Cameron so much that many people suspected that Cameron was his. illegitimate child.

It's just that Doron Tarahan is an ordinary person, he is normal old and dead, but Cameron Anthony Aleksayev is definitely not an ordinary person - an ordinary person may live a happy life Sixty years old, still looks only twelve or thirteen years old, does it look like a little bear child?

Let’s do a simple math problem. Assuming that a normal person can live to be around sixty years old, how long can a person who looks like twelve or thirteen years old live to be sixty years old?

Even children can count them as about 300 years old.

Grandpa Doron would never give birth to a son who could live to be three hundred years old, unless he hooked up with a giant dragon that turned into a human.

In today's world, there are really two giant dragons in the world. But... wait, one of the dragons is indeed female...

In his youth, Liv took a lot of risk in order to verify this matter, and was even caught by the black dragon who called himself a "beautiful young girl" and flew to the sky, then threw it down, caught it when he was about to land, and then flew again. up and down...

In the end he was sure that Uncle Cameron really wasn't a dragon.

Because one time, by accident, he saw Uncle Cameron spread his wings and halo, and save the dead in the cemetery.

huh? My grandpa's illegitimate son is an angel? So who is the mistress? Can a human marry a black dragon and give birth to an angel son?

Liv had a black question mark on his face at the time, so he even risked being eaten to visit the legendary Demon Lord Dracula and ask the great Demon Lord for advice.

"Cameron can indeed be regarded as your grandfather's son, but... he is not related to you by blood." The demon king who did not know how many years he had lived but was still young and handsome replied.

This is the answer to the question in Liv's heart.

Well, Cameron is probably grandpa's adopted son.

Just, why did the adopted son of Count Tarahan have the strange surname "Aleksayev"? What does the middle name "Anthony" mean?

Liv never understood.

It's a pity that Grandpa has been dead for many years, and he wants to verify it, but it is impossible.

As Liv grows older, in the entire high-level Tara Khan, the closest relationship with him is only Uncle Cameron.

Because only this uncle who is not grown up will be completely unintentional, and his actions will not involve political interests at all. Others...even the two elders who educated him since childhood, have gradually become distant.

Now, he is an earl. In the face of the sages of the north and the most powerful legendary magician of the Tarakhan family, he must carefully weigh what he should say and do, and must consider how to obtain benefits and how to protect them.

This is the inevitable growth, people always have to grow up, always have to no longer be naive.

Unless he is a little angel.

Only when he gets along with Uncle Cameron can Liv let go of all the calculations and thoughts in his heart and return to his carefree boyhood.

In front of Uncle Cameron, he can say what he wants without caring.

For example, complaining about those noble friends who, although well-intentioned, are really inexperienced.

"Mortals are like that, short-sighted," Cameron said nonchalantly. "You have to understand their narrowness and be tolerant of it. If a person is too strict, he will have no friends."

Liv nodded with a smile: "You are right. But... Do you think they will imitate my approach after seeing the effect?"

"Just imitate, what's wrong with that?" Cameron asked rhetorically.

"In that case, the strength of their territory will increase..."

"Isn't it better to enhance it?"

"The strength of their territory has increased, and the benefits Tara Khan will receive may decline..."

Cameron shook his head and said: "Tara Khan has already gained such a great benefit, and it will always decline. Do you really expect to rely on a county to supply a quarter of the light industrial products of the entire Western Continent... This is Can this kind of thing last for a long time?"

Liv thought for a while, then laughed dumbly.

Indeed, if those nobles imitated Tarakhan's approach, they would definitely make their territories develop and prosper, and would harm Tarakhan's interests. However, as Uncle Cameron said, the profit situation of Tara Khan now is obviously abnormal.

If this continues for a long time, Tara Khan will accumulate too much wealth.

Accumulating wealth is a good thing, but accumulating too much wealth is a bad thing. Even if Tara Khan has a good relationship with the alien group, he doesn't have to worry about others robbing him, and he has huge wealth, which will hinder the relationship between Tara Khan and other territories.

He once saw a saying in Grandpa Eric that the value of wealth lies in the flow, not in the accumulation.

He didn't understand this statement when he was a child, but he gradually understood it later. The continuous flow of wealth can promote social development. Farmers have to farm, workers have to work, and all walks of life have to work... Everyone needs to make money, and they all need to spend money. Money keeps flowing, and everyone keeps getting and spending, so life gets better and better.

If everyone is desperate to make money without spending money, wealth will lose its liquidity, there will be fewer and fewer goods in society, and fewer people will provide services, and the entire society will stagnate or even go backwards.

As a ruler, Liv is not willing to force people to flow wealth into the market by means of violence, so he can only use his power and status to promote the development and popularity of this trend.

Then, the first thing he has to do is to prevent Tara Khan from accumulating wealth blindly, thus creating fierce conflicts with other territories.

Not only that, but if other territories also developed, then they would be able to produce more wealth. This will allow more and more wealth to flow in the market and a more prosperous society.

"You're right! I should really expect them to develop!"

After solving a problem in his heart, Liv smiled happily.

After laughing, he asked, "What do you think about this imperial examination?"

"I don't like exams," Cameron said dully. "Uncle Bear always drags me to take exams. It's abominable! Why do I have to recite so many books!"

Liv laughed dumbly.

Uncle Cameron is a man who can't hide his words in his heart and puts his joys, sorrows and sorrows on his face. As an angel, he is a divine being, naturally inclined towards goodness. Probably to strengthen his education, the most powerful priest in the world, one of the representatives of the Inhuman Group, "Dragon Slayer" Panda often drags him to study, explaining to him a lot of knowledge that angels should know and know. .

This kind of education is obviously beneficial, but Panda is definitely not a good teacher.

Leif has also taken Panda's class. This great paladin is indeed very strong, but his lectures are really boring, either rigid dogmatic knowledge, or dizzyingly advanced and bizarre mathematics. Even as eager to learn as Lifu, after four or five lessons, he had to give up and shy away from this paladin's cultural course.

What's interesting is that Panda's martial arts class is very well taught. It explains the profound things in simple language and understands it in detail. It is completely different from his culture class.

Uncle Cameron was one of the few unlucky people who was forced to take Panda's culture class. Obviously, the dull culture class of the paladin caused indelible wounds in his young mind.

The most frightening thing is that Panda not only has a low level of lectures, he also likes exams.

He often talked for a while, and then said: "It's still early, let's do a test paper."

What should I say about his exam papers... Anyway, Liv, who had done it once, felt that if he caught all the bad guys from all over the world, let the Panda Paladins teach them a culture class, and then did the exam papers, at most one or two years, they would be Will cry and shout to reform, and no longer be a bad person.

... Of course, the premise is that they can survive, and don't just die like that.

"I won't give out the test paper like Mr. Panda." Liv immediately defended himself, "I will only prepare the test paper according to the actual situation of Tara Khan."

"So what are you going to take? Calculus? Complex functions? Logic? Sets?" Cameron asked. "I think everything sucks, and it's better not to take it."

"...I'm going to take the test in three areas. The first is social common sense, to test their understanding of various basic situations of society; the second is to read and write official documents, to test their ability to engage in administrative documents; the third is to test their ability to do administrative documents. According to their analysis and answers to actual cases, look at their tendencies and abilities in work.”

Cameron blinked, looking suspiciously at his old friend.

"If you take these words apart, I can understand them all; but together, I don't understand them."

Liv laughed: "All in all, I'm looking for people who are well-informed, who can understand what other people mean, who can tell others exactly what they mean, and who can come up with reliable solutions when faced with various problems. way of man."

"There aren't many such people, right?"

"Of course not a lot, so I don't ask a person to be proficient in everything." Liv said, "I just have a lot of knowledge and can be a staff officer; can understand other people's meaning, can accurately express my own meaning, can be a Documents; able to analyze and solve problems, come up with reliable solutions, and be a political officer... Tara Khan is very big, and needs a lot of talents, and needs talents in various aspects. As long as a person has a skill, I will not Keep him out."

"...I can eat very well, is it a skill?" Cameron asked?

Liv thought for a moment and replied: "If he can tell whether the food he eats is delicious or not, and where it is delicious, I think he can go to a food processing factory and be a taster."

"I love this job!" Cameron jumped up excitedly, "Let me be the taster!"

Seeing Uncle Cameron's cheerful appearance, Liv shook his head hurriedly.

"why?"

"Although you can eat very well, you are impatient." Liv sighed, "The taster has to face dozens of foods that are not very different, carefully distinguish their subtle differences, and constantly try to eat these almost The exact same food, figuring out the best recipe...it's too boring, you can't do it."

"Then what can I do?" Cameron asked unhappily.

Liv looked at him for a while, and sighed deeply in his heart.

(I'm afraid...you can't do anything other than look at the cemetery...)