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Chapter 194 Wang Qi's Work

When Heidenholm was the King Qi, Isaac was still the image of a stable uncle. His appearance was neat, his beard was trimmed clean, and his clothes fit him well. No matter from any angle, he was a strong and reliable mature man model. Cecil immediately changed into comfortable and loose clothes, because he was afraid of the cold and wrapped several layers. In his words, "the old wounds can't stand it in this weather", and he didn't shave his beard. The regiment, it was too exaggerated, so I cut it casually with the dagger distributed by the Gay Knights, without looking in the mirror.

Cecil was also worried about whether he would be recognized if he met the king he originally served. Now it seems that it is unnecessary. It is impossible to recognize Isaac if he is not a close person. Besides, the name is different.

"All Wang Qi used aliases. My real name is Jory Green." Jory said nonchalantly, "Wang Qi's identities and backgrounds are all fake, and it's impossible to use the real one."

Having said that, Cecil suddenly felt extremely at ease. After all, Langdon used his real identity with him, and this has been widely verified.

"However, you don't have to make such a change to conceal your identity, do you?" Cecil still felt a little pity. After all, the original Isaac was definitely handsome, and the temperament that had been tested and precipitated over the years was great. It's sad to become a greasy uncle, "How long has it been since you took a shower?"

"Baths are annoying, and that's how I like them," sighed Jory. "I'll take a bath if you ask me to."

If it was Cecil in the past, he might have expressed embarrassingly "you are happy", but now he said calmly: "It would be best if you can keep it from affecting other people. It is very comfortable to take a bath. You will like it." of."

Jory stared at Cecil for several minutes and finally lost the battle. He stuffed a sandwich into his mouth and babbled: "Don't they all say that you are a tolerant king? You have to nag about such a small thing."

Baker was more annoying than Jory's sluggishness.

When Cecil was staring at the piles of documents and thinking about how to confuse today's government affairs, a hand suddenly stretched out from behind and pressed it on the table, rubbing his ear, and then pressed his warm voice against his It sounded in my ears: "This is the document that must be read today, my dear majesty."

Cecil froze for a moment, and immediately looked at Langdon who was sitting beside him calmly. The big cat who was writing quickly just happened to raise his head and gave him a 999 sweet smile.

"Uh, leave it alone, I'll watch."

"This is impossible, my dear majesty." Baker's mouth was almost pressed against Cecil's ear, "Today's business must be done today."

Cecil arched his back unconsciously, trying to minimize his sense of existence.

Fuck, Langdon, say something!

Langdon said nothing, looking down at the file intently.

Cecil turned his head slightly with a smile, and said, "Then what... I am also from the Gay Knights."

"So you're saying don't do this to you?" Baker said with a smile, "But this is how Wang Qi gets along with him."

"It's different." Cecil felt that there should be a clear statement, "I and Langdon are a pair, not a king and a king, but lovers, just like lovers, understand?"

Baker raised his upper body slightly, stared at it for a moment, and said, "Are you going to give up the power of the king?"

"I haven't given up any power. In other words, the king I want to be is different from the king you imagined." Cecil said more and more smoothly, "Don't expect to control me, Baker."

Baker straightened up and smiled, "My name is Tifa."

Cecil let out a breath, and before he could speak, Langdon said slowly, "Gaining trust is the basic skill of Wang Qi, and telling you your real name is the first step."

Baker, or Tifa showed a helpless expression: "Did you not let others take advantage of it?"

"Because he belongs to me." Langdon said with a smile, "Don't bring the knight order here, work hard, find someone you love, and live your own life."

Cecil had to admit that Langdon was very handsome at this time.

Tifa sighed, sat down directly on the chair, raised her long legs to the table, picked up a document and read it.Cecil took a few glances and found that this guy is not dressed so neutrally today. He can recognize the gender at a glance, and the clothes are more masculine and stronger. The most important face is different. How should I put it, it is a bit like adding makeup. The difference between the filter and plain makeup plus Apple's front camera, of course, handsome is still handsome, but it doesn't feel so thrilling.

"If you keep peeking at me like this, I might mistakenly think you like me." Tifa said without looking up, "It means I'm dressed right today."

Cecil blurted out: "How do you know I'm looking at you?"

"All royal knights have had relevant training." Tifa raised her head, "After all, no one can look directly at the king in public, that's very impolite, so how do you know that the king is looking at you?"

"How do you know?" Cecil asked curiously.

"Look at the shadow." Langdon said. Generally speaking, he seldom speaks when approving documents. He always focuses on finishing the work. Today, it is rare to hear all directions. "If there is no shadow, put a spell on your body. A patch of skin gets hot."

Cecil listened with great interest, and Langdon seldom said anything about it: "Are these all trained in a unified way?"

"The King's Knight is the signature of the Gay Knights." Tifa said, "If there is a problem with the King's Knight, it will be blamed on the Gay Knights, so when you become a Templar, you must receive relevant training. It doesn't matter if you plan to be a king cavalry or not in the future."

"Is there no one who is not a Templar knight to become a king knight?"

"No one below the Templars can touch the king, and the Gay Knights don't allow it," Langdon said.

"Is there no private contact, such as meeting something in the garden?"

"Do you often listen to bards tell stories?" Tifa laughed, "Supposing the situation you mentioned really happened, the gay knights would ask the king to change someone. If the king insists, then, gay The Knights will directly expel this knight, and after that, he can follow the king as he wants, but not as a king's cavalry."

This development was a bit unexpected, Cecil said puzzledly: "Why not train him temporarily?"

"Templars are not just training skills, but more about a clear understanding of the future and understanding of one's own position." Tifa said lightly, "It is impossible for a person who vacillates to be a Templar, let alone Possibly become a king cavalry."

Cecil was silent for a while, and revealed the truth: "It is impossible for a person who might betray the Gay Knights to be sent out as a spy."

Tifa raised her right hand, put her thumb and ring finger together in a strange pose: "Wow, you're so smart, Your Majesty the King."

"There was a situation where he was favored by the king temporarily." Langdon interjected, "The man followed the king after he was expelled, and died in the palace five months later. I don't know if it was the king or the queen. The reason is a magical accident."

Cecil raised his eyebrows: "A magical accident is really a good excuse."

Langdon and Tifa laughed simultaneously.

"What if you run into Alexander again?" Cecil looked at Tifa for a moment and asked, "Won't you be recognized?"

Tifa put one arm on the table and said with great interest, "Then do you think I look like me?"

Cecil stared carefully for a long time, and the more he looked, the more he felt that something was wrong: "Uh... how should I put it, it's that kind of possibility, maybe, but not sure."

"That's enough." Tifa smiled slightly, and that provocative temperament returned, quite similar to Langdon!

Damn, it's really unified training!

In any case, it is a fact that there are too many people. Cecil directly arranged for Tifa to manage the political and legal system. He felt that this guy could definitely handle this kind of messy situation.Jory was sent to the newly formed army. When he got the news, he was very surprised: "I am Wang Qi."

"What happened to Wang Qi?" Cecil asked in confusion.

"Wang Qi should come up with an idea, just think about it." Jory looked disbelieving, "You asked me to train the army?"

"I can give you some solutions, just follow them." Cecil said, "It's not too difficult."

"...can I get some knight squires to help me?" Jory said hopefully.

"Don't try to sit at home and give orders." Langdon threw a pile of documents in front of Jolly, "Also, if you let me see that your abs are gone, when will they grow back and when will you get your salary, whether it's the Knights or King's."

Jory opened his mouth in surprise, and his sandwich-crumbed beard seemed to droop.

Well, these two are also masters with personalities, but it is good to be talented, like the computing experts introduced by Richard.

"My magic specialty is calculation and mathematics. Your Majesty the Central King." Fred said respectfully, with his head lowered and his hands on his waist, in a standard posture. "Thank you very much for taking the time to meet me."

"Don't be polite to me, just tell me what you have to say." Cecil is very used to such instructions, "Are you from Tambunita?"

"Yes, but this will not affect my service to you..." Fred hurriedly said.

"Aren't you going back?" Cecil didn't want gunpowder to fall into the hands of others, no matter how stupid he was or how proud the mages were, they wouldn't fail to understand the effects of gunpowder, "I mean, you Don't have any relatives in Tambunita?"

Fred holds a temporary ID card, which will only log in some information that the holder self-reports, and will not verify the authenticity. If it is a formal ID card, he will participate in the magic polygraph when registering information, which cannot be faked or Only a very advanced mage can do it.

"My relatives...are all dead." Fred lied subconsciously, after all, having a son who worked in Tambunita's official business was not a favorable condition.

"You're lying," Tifa said immediately. "What's your purpose?"

"I...I didn't!" Fred said almost reflexively. He was so frightened that he couldn't stand at the thought of the consequences of lying to a king. Yes, all my relatives..."

"Do you think there are no mages in the Middle Kingdom?" Tifa said in a serious tone, "Or do you think the king's cavalry can allow you to lie in front of a king?!"

"No, no, I...I..." Fred knelt down on the ground with his knees limp, his hands raised above his head and pressed against the ground, "Please, please forgive me! Please forgive me! I have no malice! I did not ! Your Majesty! Your Majesty, I did not intend to harm you! I have no malicious intentions!"

Cecil is a little sensitive to this situation now, but he doesn't want to be alarmed: "Why lie?"

"Because...because my son...is still in Tambunita, I only have him as a relative." Fred told his experience again while crying. "I don't mean to lie, but if I did, it would appear..."

"It seems that you have ulterior motives?" Cecil was not too surprised by this situation. After all, people in the Middle Kingdom strictly say that the kings belong to "other countries". "Actually, I have a question, why did you come to me to do this job?" Woolen cloth?"

"……I have no idea."

Cecil looked at Tifa and got a slight nod.

"Since you have abandoned your past life, do you want a new future?" Cecil asked tentatively, "What kind of future do you want?"

Fred stopped crying, and after a moment he looked up blankly and said, "I don't know."

"You can take a stroll in Moon City, think carefully, and come to me after you think about it, the guards will remember your face, you can come directly." It is rare to have talents in calculation, Cecil does not want to let it go, "You You can think about it slowly, when we meet again, I hope you will give me an answer, remember, it is not the answer I want but what you want, I can tell the difference."

Fred bowed to the ground again and left.

Only then did Cecil turn his head around, frowned and said, "Why are you here, Langdon?"

"Your kitty is busy helping me elect people in the political and legal system." Tifa blinked one eye.

"Isn't this your job?" Cecil asked puzzled.

"Obviously your cat doesn't trust me to do this." Tifa leaned on the chair with one hand and whispered close to Cecil, "It's not a good thing for a new king to ride in your kingdom and randomly install important people. .”

"Is it because he doesn't know anything about Moon City, so he chose someone for you with a black eye?" Langdon's voice gradually approached, and a large stack of texts was thrown on the table, and he said to Tifa, "First Choose your resume, go pick it."

It was only then that Cecil realized that Tifa didn't know many people at all when she first came to Moon City. Apart from the identity system, the Middle Kingdom didn't have any personal resume records. Being able to rely on referees is the so-called "relationship".

Langdon has a great memory and is in charge of personnel affairs, so he can only be handed over to Tifa after the primary election.

"You really have nothing to worry about all day long." Langdon said angrily, "Go to work and stop making trouble."

"Hey, boring." Tifa raised her finger, and the stack of documents automatically floated up and followed.

To be honest, Cecil was relieved when Tifa left. Somehow, this guy gave him an invisible pressure. No matter how he reprimanded him, the ambiguity seemed to go deep into Tifa's bones, making him unavoidable. Not to mention Langdon's thoughts.

"Then what..." Cecil tried to explain, but felt that there was no way to explain the words, after all, Tifa didn't do anything substantive.

"There's no need to explain, I understand." Langdon said helplessly, "It's better to say that the more you explain, the more troublesome it will be. What he wants is this effect. Let us get into this kind of entanglement, consider each other carefully, and take care of each other over time. We will all be tired and start to suspect, if we are no longer comfortable with each other, the relationship will naturally not be good."

Cecil thought for a while, and had to admit that Langdon was right, but he still didn't understand: "Doesn't Tifa understand what it's like to be a normal lover?"

Langdon leaned closer and said, "Of course he understands, what he wants is the feeling of digging a corner."

"Does he think that he can take the position by poaching you?" Cecil said, "I don't want to talk about whether he has such a habit. What's the advantage of being in the position? I'm not Alexander, what I need is help And support, but there is no way to do him any good."

"You have indeed brought benefits to the Gay Knights." Langdon said, "Heihai asked for the king's cavalry on his own initiative, which has been rare in recent years."

"But this kind of benefit is brought by you. Many of my miracles, such as magic, are brought by you, not me." Cecil said.

Langdon sighed, and leaned over to give Cecil a long kiss, which was intimate yet relaxed, and then said, "I'm going to the Magic Association to get my accreditation right away, and I'm really worried about leaving you alone. here."

"Then take me with you." Cecil said enthusiastically, "I'm curious too."

"Are you kidding?" Langdon said after a moment of silence, "Also, has anyone been buying Ebo's agricultural land recently?"

This was new news that Cecil hadn't heard, and he immediately became alert: "Legal business?"

"That's right." Langdon said, "At first I thought it was a piecemeal purchase, but later I found out that after a round of buying and selling, these lands were all transferred to several people, and these people were also running businesses or applying for business licenses at the same time. .”

After hearing this, the first word that popped up in Cecil's mind was "enclosure movement".

Although vigorously advocating the commercial and industrial revolution, Cecil still insists on the red line of agricultural land, and absolutely does not allow anyone to shake it. Gold coins cannot fill the stomach, and food cannot grow overnight.

The original arable land was in Ebo, mainly Ebo already had agricultural land and water storage conditions. Later, with the emergence of tunnel planning, Ebo, which was about to become a traffic fortress, was obviously not suitable for an agricultural city anymore. At that time, Cecil I thought about setting up farmland along the Yuetuo Expressway, but I was afraid that if something happened, such as a war, it would be too easy to be attacked by people.

"Where do you think is not easy to be attacked?" Langdon asked.

"In the city?" Cecil said hesitantly, "or a place without roads."

"Forget it in the city, how do you get people to farm where there are no roads?" Langdon said amusedly, "Could it be possible to build a separate city? How is this different from before?"

Cecil thought about it, and finally planned the agricultural area on both sides of the highway, set up the land, built a low stone wall to stop wild animals, and at the same time had enough convenient transportation, farmers can expand the "power of the country" along the highway, Improve accommodations, so far working well.

Today, the main food in the Middle Kingdom is potatoes and wheat. Soybeans are also a necessary cash crop. After five years of special cultivation, all the seeds have been greatly improved. Cecil also built a granary storage warehouse on the basis of the annual harvest. Strict supervision, if you dare to make a mistake in this matter, you will be dragged out and hacked. No one will be able to plead for mercy. This move has won the support of everyone. Fortunately, no similar incidents have occurred so far.

In Ebo, more cash crops are planted. High value-added prickly ash, pepper, pepper, garlic, onion, etc., various vegetables, and various things that can improve people's rations are grown here in large areas.

Cecil "sold" a lot of land for tax purposes, and many farmers became small or large landowners. Of course, these lands ultimately belonged to "His Majesty the King", but Cecil promised that as long as the lessee did not change the land use Continue to lease, at present, these lands are more and more concentrated in the hands of a few people, which is not a good sign.

Langdon also frowned after listening to Cecil's explanation of the enclosure movement: "You think they want to be big landlords?"

"I think they're probably going to destroy the farmland for sheep," grumbled Cecil. "You know the textile business has orders until the end of next year?"

"I know, why?"

"The textile industry is almost 500% profitable," Cecil sighed. "Cotton needs land, sheep needs land, and not only land but also another thing."

Langdon asked thoughtfully, "You mean people?"

"Farmers who have lost their land feel that going to work in cities makes more money than farming, and it's easier." Cecil said, "That's just under the current conditions. Next year, other countries that see these profits will take action and raise sheep. Cotton, as profits fall, the merchant houses will lay off workers, and the out-of-work farmers will have no money to buy back the land, and then they will have to accept lower wages and worse working conditions.”

"However, all land transactions are legal. Our original commitment is three years for each transaction." Langdon said, "Recall the transaction?"

"It has an impact on the integrity of the country." Cecil said.

"If it really happens, we can release stored grain to stabilize prices and stabilize the environment. As long as there is still food to eat, we will not be the bottom line." Langdon said.

"There is also a house. When it is cold, you need to add clothes and keep warm. In fact, these things are not all bad. Farmers who have a large amount of land will invest more money to make the land more productive. Large-scale farming and breeding can Increase production, increase the working population, simply put it into the capitalist stage, promote a deeper and more refined industrial revolution, and accumulate primitive wealth for the big capitalists.” Cecil said, “The problem is that this is a practice that does not care about the life and death of civilians. spark social unrest."

"Is there a solution?" Langdon asked.

"It's possible to colonize, but it's obviously not suitable for us." Cecil said, "In fact, we don't lack land, but the land around here is enough to expand the city. The most important thing is the lack of people." He sighed for the first time, "Saint Benzie should perish quickly, besides, we also need some good news."

Langdon: "What?"

"Innovation."

Fortunately, the good news Cecil was looking forward to came before winter came.

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