"Your Highness, what you said is so good, I really hope that an old fellow like me can live until the day when your dream becomes a reality." The old mage held Roland's hand tightly, and couldn't help but reveal his true feelings.

"It is necessary to establish a civil service examination system, but His Highness should also pay attention to one problem - if you want to select truly useful talents through examinations, the key lies in 'what to test' and 'how to test'." Boris calmly reminded Roland.

"Mr. Boris, it is true that as you said, the subjects of the examination should be based on the principle of practicality, and we do not need the junior civil servants to be familiar with horse racing and famous wine, and we do not need to examine whether they can dance at banquets, and as for those who talk about genealogy and heraldry, most of them are of no use to our public service."

Roland's words are also sensitive, as Pastor Boris pointed out, the test itself is not the key, the key is "what to test" and "how to test".

"What to test" determines the criteria and direction for selecting talents. The "imperial examination system" in ancient China on the earth was to use the method of examination to select officials, and this system itself was good, but it was a pity that it failed to keep up with the pace of development of the times on the issue of "what to test", and stubbornly adhered to the Four Books and Five Classics and Eight Articles, and regarded science and technology that were truly beneficial to the national economy and people's livelihood as a strange skill that did not reach the elegant hall, and as a result, not only could it not select talents who led the trend of the times, but the imperial examination system itself also became a shackle that hindered social progress.

"How to test" is related to whether the way of selecting talents is fair and reasonable, and whether there is an open or potential cheating problem. For example, the weight of the score in the interview is much higher than that of the written test, such as the requirement for candidates to provide letters of recommendation from celebrities, and the most simple and crude method - requiring candidates to pay a high registration fee, all weaken the fairness of the test to varying degrees. If we do not take vigilance against this phenomenon, the examination will become a formality, and the expectation of "eclectic selection of talents" through the examination is bound to become a disappointment.

The advantage of understanding history is to be able to reflect on the reality, learn from the wisdom of the ancients, and avoid repeating the mistakes of the ancients. Based on his own experience of living and studying on Earth, Roland proposed the creation of a civil service examination system, a policy aimed at selecting talents for all levels of government and departments in the country, which of course was to be carried out by the Minister of Education, Merlin.

The old mage took over the errand and talked about the question of finance, until Roland promised his full support and left satisfied.

Seeing off Boris and Merlin, Roland had just sat down two minutes before another visitor arrived.

The visitor was Anthony Fogel. Soon after secretly participating in the underwriting syndicate of Far Eastern government bonds on behalf of the Fogel Bank, the boy hurried back to the holy city of Assan, and handed over to his father, and only returned to Krasbourg today.

"What the hell is the weather!" As soon as Young Master Fogel entered the door, he was full of complaints, "The Holy City of Yashan is a good time for autumn feasts, but it is already snowing heavily in Krasbourg, but it is still poor that I am still wearing single clothes, and as soon as I am teleported back, I am almost frozen to death in the streets. In just a few words, he was interrupted three times by sneezing, and he shivered and took out a handkerchief to wipe his nose, which was obviously a symptom of a cold and flu.

Seeing his embarrassed appearance, Roland was both pitiful and amused, raised his hand to release the paladin's supernatural ability to "cure diseases" to dispel the cold virus lurking in his body, and handed him a cup of hot vodka.

Pouring a glass of hot liquor, Anthony's face was much better.

"Winter in Krasbourg is very unfriendly to outsiders, and you don't have anything important to deal with here, so why rush back, wouldn't it be more comfortable to spend the winter in the Holy City." Roland asked him with a smile.

"It is true that the weather in the Holy City is milder and there is more fun to be found, but the whole city is immersed in an atmosphere of pleasure, which is a poison to aspiring young people like me, and once they get used to such a comfortable and depraved environment, it is difficult for young people to muster the courage to start a positive and pioneering career." Anthony defended himself by saying that "the winter in the Far East is cold and harsh, but the howling north wind tempers the manly mind more than flowers, perfumes, and flirting on the spot, and once you get used to the fast-paced lifestyle of Colasburg, you will feel like you are wasting your life when you return to the Holy City." ”

"I am deeply honored by your appreciation of Krasbourg, but the way of life of the Far Easterners is inevitably influenced by their Western neighbors, and tell me what has been new in the Holy City lately."

"You want to ask if the Imperial Cabinet has already made a decision on sending troops to the Far East?" Anthony smiled sarcastically, "The answer is no, not only the old men in the cabinet can't make up their minds, but the generals of the military who are used to pampering themselves don't want to give up the New Year's holiday, and they come all the way to the Far East to blow the wind and be cold, and I want to say that the most deterrent resistance to the empire in the Far East is not the army, but the long winter given to this land by nature, and any imperial soldier with a normal brain does not want to embark on the journey of the Eastern Crusade in winter." ”

"This is good news, let's toast to the bitter winter in the Far East." Roland smiled and raised his glass to Anthony, feeling a little relieved. At the very least, the first winter in the history of the Kingdom of Kolas is safe, and with the procrastinating administrative style of the Imperial authorities, it will not be possible to launch the Eastern Crusade until next summer at the earliest, and by then the foundation of the Kolas regime will be more solid than it is now, and the various policies formulated will also begin to bear fruit, and it will be more confident to deal with the Imperial Expeditionary Force.

"The cabinet and the governments of the empire are on their usual holiday for a month around the New Year, and there is no way to make any big moves during this period, and the newspapers are full of lavish parties of famous and noble families, tracking and reporting on the extramarital affairs of actresses and married men, and there are advertisements for opera and circus tours, and you may be a little interested in the stock quotes, securities prices, and futures prices announced on the exchange, but I don't have the heart to pay attention to those boring data, these days back in the Holy City, Breakfast was delivered to me with the newspaper of the Krasbourg circulation. Anthony shook the glass, drank the hot vodka, then straightened up and approached Roland, and said eagerly: "The newspaper said that you have severely rectified seventy-two commercial banks that are disobedient to discipline and forced them to surrender to the central bank. In particular, your strategy of attacking opponents, manipulating interest rates to create arbitrage space, and encouraging people to exchange new currencies are so insidious and vicious that even my father was amazed when he heard about it, and this is the first time I have heard his old man praise a young colleague, and to be honest, I can't help but feel a little jealous. ”

Roland looked at him strangely: "Fogel Bank is also a private bank, it stands to reason that your father should be more sympathetic to those peers who dare to challenge the central bank, how can he say good things about me?" ”