Chapter 231: Young (X) and Young (√) Administrative System

After several days of communication among the three spellcasters, Roland finally finalized the preliminary draft of the political reform.

After confirming the reform plan, the next step is to implement the reform.

According to the current administrative system of Roland Territory, the governors of the three old cities and three new cities, a total of six cities, are undoubtedly the highest administrative officials in the entire administrative system.

Due to the barbaric exaggeration of the administrative system, the six consuls divided Roland's territory into six major administrative districts, mainly six cities.

Although Julius, as the consul of the old Qi Dynasty, still maintained a certain control over the other five administrative districts with the previous defensive measures, if he wanted to implement reforms, he also needed the support of the other five consuls. Otherwise, even with Roland's support, it would be a bit troublesome to quickly push through administrative reforms.

Therefore, after formulating the reform plan, Roland issued an order in his own name, requiring the governors of the other five administrative districts to come to the old Qi.

At the same time, Roland also mobilized the army. Under Roland's orders, the legionnaires stationed thousands of troops in towns all over the place, on the pretext of guarding the border, strengthening city defenses, and recruiting new soldiers. In addition to towns, Roland did not leave some large villages unattended, and deployed some soldiers there.

Their main goal is to immediately suppress any local unrest caused by administrative reforms, forcibly impose martial law, and avoid causing greater chaos and impact.

Although based on Roland's inspection results, this reform should not cause too many problems, but necessary insurance is still necessary.

Moreover, even if all goes well and the legionnaires are not effective, they can be allowed to recruit and train new soldiers on the spot when the reform is over.

After all, once Roland completes administrative reforms, his next step will be to expand the military.

The territory is developing so well. If we don’t expand the army to fight against the green tide, do we have to wait until it is burned by the greenskin warlords in the future?

Following Roland's order, the administrators and the army also took action.

However, due to large-scale infrastructure, the influx of refugees, and the coming and going of caravans, the territory usually has a high flow of people, so the small-scale dispersed transfer of administrators and troops did not cause any major waves.

However, while waiting for the administrator to come, because of Julius, Roland also began to understand the ages of his officials.

Before, Roland mainly learned about the situation through data reports, visits to the public, field investigations, and various feedbacks. He had rarely met with middle and senior officials.

It would have been fine if he hadn't looked at it, but when he did, Roland was shocked.

The administrative bureaucrats under Roland were either in their forties or fifties, which would be considered very old compared to ordinary people in this world, or very young, only in their teens, with many even being only eight or nine years old.

As Roland had expected, young people in their twenties were the least numerous.

Moreover, the middle and senior officials in the administrative system are all occupied by these officials who are probably less than thirteen years old on average. Most of the elderly in their forties and fifties can only occupy the positions of middle-level officials, while most of the young people in their twenties are still grassroots officials.

Roland was mentally prepared for the fact that his administrative system was very young, but this was too young, even childish.

So Roland began to examine why this was happening.

Roland soon found out the reason; the problem was with him.

When Roland first took control of Jiuqi, because of the policy of work-for-relief, most of the able-bodied labor force was stuffed into the construction sites of various projects, so these children were recruited to be messengers to convey government orders.

This was just an unintentional move by Roland. There was nothing wrong with it. After all, their daily work was just a few people taking turns running back and forth in a short distance. The work intensity was not high, just like picking up garbage. However, as Roland began to recruit soldiers, some grassroots officials who did not like civilian work or had a blood feud with the Green Tide chose to join the army. Because of Roland's military-first policy, as long as they passed the review, they could give up their civilian work and join the army directly.

This frees up their position.

Although they were only messengers, these children were still regarded as part of the new administrative system, so some children with outstanding performance automatically filled the vacancies.

After all, Roland thought they were children, but the people of Donnar didn't think so. They were so old and should have gone out to work long ago.

Moreover, Roland was focused on the military at the time, and it was Hela who supervised everything. Hela naturally thought there was no problem, so they took office in this way.

After that, as Roland won the civil war in the rear and annexed another local power, the administrative system of Jiuqi expanded rapidly due to the expansion of the territory. These children became the elders of the administrative system, and as long as they were capable enough, they would be given priority for promotion.

In order to relieve the pressure on the children, Roland crammed dozens of children into a short distance and had them take turns running. As a result, he recruited many, many children, and they all became old people.

In addition, the administrative ability requirements for grassroots officials are really not high. Roland also used magic to solve this problem. As long as they get promoted, someone will use the magic props given by Roland to print thousands of commonly used characters into their minds, and they will be able to read and write simply on the spot. It is still easy to be a grassroots official.

Therefore, even though they are all illiterate, these smart children are no less competitive than others in their job positions.

In particular, with Roland's second wave of military expansion, when the number of legion soldiers expanded to 50,000, knowing that Roland was going to the front line to kill green-skinned orcs, almost all the strong men in the administrative system joined the army, leaving only children, the elderly and the disabled who were rejected due to age and physical reasons.

As a result, children who did not reach the minimum age of fifteen to join the army became the mainstream of the administrative system.

In subsequent developments, although young people in their twenties often joined the administrative system, once there was a need to expand the military, they would immediately give up their official positions and choose to join the army.

After several incidents of vacancies caused by officials joining the army and problems in the administrative system, the system is no longer so welcoming to recruiting people over the age of fifteen. Even if they are accepted, unless they swear not to join the army, they can only work at the grassroots level.

This has gradually become a norm: those who want to join official institutions, those over fifteen years old, can join the army, and those under fifteen years old can participate in politics.

Although there are no strict regulations, this default rule was born inexplicably.

As for why Roland hadn't noticed it before, it was because of the breathing method Roland taught them, and the free food provided by the officials, their bodies developed faster, so that when Roland shifted his gaze from the barracks to them, he didn't find anything wrong.

As for the few who practiced meditation like Julius, they were only grassroots officials at the time. Roland thought they were just messengers and did not pay much attention to them at the time.

If Julius had not climbed up step by step to the position of Archon of the Old Qi, giving Roland a little shock, he might not have discovered it until now.

He thought Julius was a special case, but now it seems that Julius's situation is the norm.

　No, why do some people say that young girls have a copper smelting habit?

　　I think that when the male protagonist grew up, he didn’t have any intimate interactions with any little girls.

　　The only one I’m close to is Hela, but Hela has grown up now.

　　Even if Hela was a little girl in the early stage, the male protagonist was also a little boy at that time. How can this be called copper smelting?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)