Alien Knights

Sitting at the table, Todd bit the penholder, staring blankly at the white paper.

The first batch of officials in the Kingdom to be recruited by examinations were finally identified as "Royal Business Advisors". Job responsibilities include auxiliary management in commercial fields such as maritime trade, kingdom market, merchant union, etc.

A total of 9 people were admitted, including 1 general consultant, 2 auxiliary consultants, and 6 assistants.

Todd originally thought that based on his own experience, it was just an easy task to produce this test paper.

But when he actually wrote, he realized that he thought things too simply.

To judge whether a business consultant is qualified, the field of knowledge that needs to be involved is too broad. Roughly speaking, it includes maritime affairs, taxation, law, economics, overall planning and other disciplines.

However, since he had boasted so much, Todd had no choice but to bite the bullet.

After reading many books and consulting several scholars, Todd completed the test paper with great effort.

While he was "working hard" here, there was an uproar in Muxi City.

The king posted a notice. Unlike the previous "fiction contest" which was obviously entertaining, Todd publicly announced that he hoped to recruit nine business officials.

People checked the content of the notice and were surprised to find that the target of this recruitment was actually all the residents of Muxi City. No matter if you were a street vendor or a farmer, as long as you could read and write, you could take the exam for official recruitment.

Specifically:

1. The form of the test is to use paper test papers to answer questions, which are divided into three types: multiple-choice questions, true-false questions and question-and-answer questions.

2. The examination room is arranged in the auditorium of the Knights Headquarters. When taking the exam, you are not allowed to carry any materials, you are not allowed to leave or talk during the exam, and you are not allowed to use any supernatural powers to cheat. The examination room will arrange for the "Successor of the Investigation Department" to supervise. If you find any misbehavior, you will be fined and given ten lashes.

3. In order to ensure the fairness of the examination paper review process, the names of the test takers are all sealed and pasted. The multiple choice questions and true or false questions are reviewed by the Privy Council, and the subjective questions and answers are reviewed by the king himself.

4. On the third day after the exam, the top 30 candidates with scores and correct answers will be announced in the church square. At the same time, the second round of interviews will be arranged, and King will be responsible for the review as the chief interviewer.

5. Those who are admitted will become official officials of the Muxi Kingdom, who will be granted the seal by the king and will be paid weekly. At the same time, a specific office location will be arranged.

6. Those who take the exam need to pay three bronze stars. The place of registration is the secretary's office of the headquarters of the Knights Order. The deadline is within seven days of the announcement date.

When this notice first appeared, almost everyone couldn't believe their eyes.

The king actually wants to use a piece of paper to decide the officials of the kingdom.

But if you read it several times carefully, you will find a lot of different information.

First of all, Muxi Kingdom has no aristocratic class, nor is it appointed by the church. The king has absolute power. Todd's recruitment of officials this time actually sent out a signal-aside from status and wealth and honor, he is willing to decentralize power in a more equitable way and give everyone a path to promotion.

Secondly, the exam is as fair, just and open as possible. Measures such as anonymous review, king's personal trial, prohibition of cheating, publication of the list and answers, etc., all prove this point.

Finally, the way of selecting officials through examinations has created a group of professional government officials to a certain extent. They will not consider the noble family background, nor will they care about the interests of the fief, and will only handle the affairs of the kingdom from a professional perspective. Most importantly, these people will only be loyal to the king.

In the seven days after the notice was issued, the secretary's office at the headquarters of the knight order was trampled to pieces by the crowd.

The number of people in charge of registration has increased repeatedly, the number of reception windows has increased from two to five, and from five to ten, and the working hours have been busy from early morning to night, and there is still no way to deal with the enthusiastic people.

Old Aiden brought his dozen or so apprentices, and under the king's instruction, they temporarily moved into the headquarters of the Knights Order, and lived an isolated life. They had three meals a day, were picked up, and were supervised when they ate, drank, and ate. There was only one thing they needed to do—printing examination papers.

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Different from the enthusiasm of the outside world, Todd, who finished the exam papers, finally got a few days of rest. He stayed in the room all day, and there was only one thing he did, sorting out Clarence's memory with Mary in the soul space.

"Is there no such thing as coffee in the real world?"

Todd heard Mary's question, looked back at her empty mug, shook his head and said, "As far as I know, there shouldn't be any."

Mary rested her head on her arms, lying on the table and gently drawing circles along the mouth of the cup with her fingers: "It's a pity, although you can drink it here, but when you look back after going out, it always feels like a dream."

Todd smiled helplessly. The things and objects in the soul space could have been regarded as dreams, but they were more like extremely real illusions.

"Why do I feel that this place is bigger than before?"

Todd glanced at Mary, stood up and walked towards the door, beckoning her to follow him.

The woman walked towards the door according to her words.

Todd pushed open the door of the Virtual Institute, and the sight in front of him made Mary let out a scream.

When I came here a few times before, this research institute in the soul world was the only building, and when I walked out of the gate, there was thick fog and black nothingness.

But now, hundreds of square meters of grass appeared outside the gate of the research institute, dotted with unknown small flowers and low shrubs, tender green shoots sprouted from the ground at a speed visible to the naked eye, and white clouds and brilliant rainbows appeared in the sky, bit by bit occupying the mist and driving away nothingness.

Todd picked up a stone from the entrance of the research institute, observed its edges and corners repeatedly, and said to himself: "The ability of 'soul link' is really strange. I thought it could only create fictional things in a limited area. But the fact is that the soul world can continue to expand. Compared with the beginning, this fictional world has expanded by a factor of 1.5. I didn't imagine these trees, flowers, and sky, and they just appeared out of thin air."

Todd's voice became lower and lower, and Mary didn't care about what he said later.

The woman stepped on the ground carefully, squatted down, picked up a small light blue flower, brought it to Todd happily, and said to him: "Your Majesty! Look, this is "Liliel"! I didn't expect to see it here!"

Todd took the flowers and looked at them carefully. He was not familiar with flower species, and looked at Mary suspiciously.

"This is a very rare flower that only grows on the cliffs of the Holy Acropolis. I haven't seen it since I got married..."

Mary's words came to his ear, and Todd looked at the little flower in his hand, thinking of something vaguely in his mind, but he couldn't figure it out for a while.

"I thought of it!"

Mary's sudden cry startled Todd.

The latter looked at the woman and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I think about how the remaining memory fragments should be arranged. The clue is the flowers!" Mary took Todd's hand and ran to the gate of the institute.

The "Liliel" in Todd's hand fell to the ground and disappeared without a trace in an instant.