Arcane Linguist

Chapter 195 Good old man, choose him!
"Mr. Roland, this is your territory, Blue Agate Port."

In the aristocratic circle of the royal capital, when everyone was talking about the scandal between Roland and Princess Rosa, Roland had already arrived more than 200 kilometers away.

What appeared in front of him was a small port town with a rather exotic style. Next to the excellent deep-water port near the sea, there are many buildings, sailboats are docked, and all kinds of catches and commodities come in and out in an endless stream.

This is exactly the blue agate port that has recently been attributed to him.

"It is said that a hundred years ago, this place was just a small fishing village, but after being explored and excavated by the people of Arterine, it was gradually built up and developed into an important commercial town today."

Roland stood on the high slope of the intersection and looked far ahead. He found that most of the buildings here were 2-3 storey masonry structures. Mills could be seen faintly, and factories were distributed around the town. The overall level was at the level of the late Middle Ages.

However, after the arrival of the Alterian people, many changes were brought to this place, and some Aterinian-style buildings were also located in it, which were properties purchased by local chambers of commerce and merchants.

Under the joint action of all forces, it is glowing with vigorous vitality, and it is even very likely to obtain a new round of development in the future business trend.

I have to say that the Cowrens family really gave me a generous gift!

Roland sighed.

When the local magistrate and tax officer learned that the lord was coming, they had already brought all their troops and horses to welcome them, accompanied by those Atlantes who were mainly merchants.

"See Lord Lord, it is a great honor for us to come..."

Roland looked at those people who specially changed into Arteine ​​costumes, and said with a smile: "I am also very happy to meet you."

Then he turned to the sheriffs and tax collectors.

These people are all Lena people, born in the country gentry class, but they are not the landlords and gentry in the oriental sense, but the roles of housekeepers or professional managers who have served the nobles for generations.

As early as many years ago, the original lord of Blue Agate Port moved to the capital to start an apartment, and most of the chores were done by the housekeeper.

Recently, Roland happened to do some homework on the various social classes of the Kingdom of Leiner, and learned that most of the local affairs are self-government by the people.

But this is not an advanced thing, in essence, it is inconvenient to communicate and implement a very extensive stocking model.

Usually it is the lord who stipulates some laws, and the magistrates and tax officials go to the countryside to represent them.

The lords only care about how much tax they can collect and how much labor they can collect. They don't worry about specific things, and they have no way to worry about them.

"You have a country house for vacation in this place, and you have sent someone to clean it up a few days ago..."

The succubus partner, Al, explained to Roland that she was personally responsible for the follow-up matters and handled them properly.

So, not long after, Roland and his party arrived at the so-called country house, which was a three-story old stone house that looked like a small castle.

This house has been around for some years, the exterior looks old and mottled, and the interior is a bit dark and cramped.

However, against the background of a large area of ​​simple houses built of ordinary bricks, stones, even wood, and mud, it can already be called a super luxury house.

A large piece of land was surrounded by walls around this small castle, with its own private garden and swimming pool, as well as an artificially dug lake and a large open space.

With a little tidying up, it would be a good place for vacation and leisure.

……

"Good day, my lord!" (Rainer)
"Good day, my lord." (Rainer)
The next day, in the garden of the country house, Roland took the two cat-eared girls for a leisurely stroll.

There were some local residents serving here, who were responsible for pruning flowers and taking care of the house. After Roland arrived, he continued to serve them.

At this time, the title of feudal nobility in the context of Reiner played a crucial role.

He was conferred here through a formal official procedure, and there was nothing wrong with it in terms of legal principles. Naturally, the acceptance rate was also very high.

These residents were not nationalists, and did not realize that these new foreign lords were different from the original domestic lords.

They don't even know a single word, so how can they care so much?
Just go with the flow.

After hearing these people's salutations and greetings, Roland pondered for a while, but secretly cast the magic of Atrein.

"Smart Words"!
This 3rd-level spell grants the ability to understand and speak the language of intelligent beings.

Therefore, the incomparably standard Lena language came out of Roland's mouth: "Good day, everyone."

The local natives were stunned, and they all asked in surprise: "My lord, can you speak Lena language?"

"I love Lehner, I admire Lehner people, I love Lehner's food...

Of course I can also speak Lena..."

Roland understands traffic codes, and his compatriots in the motherland were fooled in this way.

This is not shameful, realized, learn from, absorb the good, discard the bad, is the right way.

This set can be quickly integrated into some low-magic areas and won the love of the locals.

It has to be mentioned that the traffic password is indeed worthy of the traffic password, and all the master mages from Arterine said so, which made the gardeners and handymen working here overjoyed, and their national pride was immediately greatly satisfied.

"But I only know a little of Lena. I hope you can chat with me and tell me something new here."

"Of course, I'm very happy! But what do you want to hear? In our rural area, there is nothing new except for your coming here." After all, it is a port city, and the residents are well-informed, and they can respond appropriately to Roland's request.

Roland smiled: "Anything is fine, what you find interesting and interesting, for example, those businessmen..."

……

"Good day, my lord!" (Rainer)
"Good day, my lord." (Rainer)
In just a few days, Roland walked the streets of Blue Agate Harbor and became a local star.

With a faint smile on his face, he waved his hands all the way, and the oncoming local residents greeted him with respect and love.

"Hi everyone..."

Roland replied in his half-baked Lena language.

In just a few days, he has already learned some basic local language.

"You really can chat with these civilians!"

Trina, who went shopping with him, couldn't help but rolled her eyes and said in disbelief.

Roland said: "Of course, let's have fun with the people."

"Then why did you invite me to join you?" Trina pointed out his hypocrisy, "In the house, the cat is always with you, so call me together when you come out...

You really have fun with the people, don't take me!
In the final analysis, it was not because they were afraid that there might be Tinyalas or Dalai Lamas hiding among these people. "

"A gentleman doesn't stand under a dangerous wall. What's wrong with that?" Roland laughed dryly and said, "And I really enjoy Cuihua, you can accompany me to go around, otherwise, you'll be bored all day long, right?"

"That's not necessarily true. I'm a member of the giant dragon family. I can eat a cow for a meal and sleep for months without any problems!" Trina said proudly with her head held high.

She dismissed Roland's sweet talk about enjoying company.

Among the racial talents of the green dragon, they also used sweet words and other things, but they were not so easily moved.

"Don't say that, you see, if you have been hiding in the country house all the time, and you see only the country gentry and local tyrants, it is impossible to truly understand the local customs and know their joys, sorrows and joys.

For some things, no matter how much information you read or how many reports you read, it is useless.

Because people are real people, their emotions and preferences can only be known through face-to-face communication..."

"I don't need to know them, it's none of my business?" Trina spat.

Roland didn't care, and continued to enjoy the scene of walking in the streets.

Some daring local children gathered around, watching this gorgeously dressed foreign mage curiously.

Roland smiled, took out some change and candies from his pocket, and gave them a big Payrese.

"Look, what a caring adult."

"The lord is a very good and kind man!"

"He is also generous."

The locals watched from afar, pointing and pointing.

This is their first impression.

Roland didn't care about the whispers, and he took the children to chat about the daily life as if there was no one else around, and even followed one of the older children who was more social to visit his house, so as to carry out the image of being close to the people to the end.

Just at this time, he accidentally learned that such a thing as Chu Yequan still exists in this territory.

This is a kind of feudal lord's privilege in Leiner's native land. Of course, after years of development, it has gradually evolved into a tax with a clever name.

The lords performed this power flawlessly in person, enjoyed the young brides of the people in the fief, simply discounted it, and collected a tax when the new people got married.

The money is about 2.5 gold coins per couple, which is equivalent to 50000 riels. For local families with low income, it is already a heavy burden.

"It's too barbaric, it's too backward! High-magic civilization doesn't allow such things to exist!"

Roland immediately summoned the tax officer: "From now on, this tax can only be abolished."

"Ah, this..." The tax official was stunned.

Lord lord, is it really good for you to make a decision with a slap on the head? Don't you need to call experts, scholars or retainers to discuss it?
What he didn't know was that Roland didn't have any retainers or elders under his command, nor did he have too many entanglements with local nobles.

What he saw was that the Reiner world was about to usher in a new wave of opening up in the post-colonial era, and some outdated customs and laws and regulations would definitely be changed.

Moreover, his new lord wants to win the support of the local residents, so the new official must take office three times and do something pleasing.

Nothing is more popular than repealing a small but humiliating tax.

Sure enough, the local residents cheered on the spot when they learned that there was such a good thing.

This new lord is a good man!
They are absolutely sure.

"Okay, obey, I understand..."

Seeing the turbulent public sentiment, the tax official dared not say any more objections.

He finally understood that if the lord became a good person, he could easily become a bad person himself!
……

After announcing this favorite tax reduction policy, Roland met with some local old people again. Through the different oral habits and language styles of children, young adults, and old people, he learned the subtle differences that are not easy to detect in paper reports.

"The cultural genes of this place are changing, and the language is evolving!"

This phenomenon is exactly the phenomenon of "language contact" in linguistics.

This is generally related to exchanges such as wars, commerce, etc. The communication between different civilizations in ancient times and the contact between languages ​​began with translation.

During this period, it is often easy to produce some "interlanguage".

And the new stage is the language borrowing and mutual influence, the boundary of the interlanguage is gradually blurred, and there are some shadows of each other between the two.

Loanwords, morphology, and grammar gradually developed to national integration, and even a new type of dialect was born.

It is generally believed that such an evolution occurs only when the same language is separated into two places.

But the language brought by the merchants in Alteraine is too strong, forcibly creating a "foreign" atmosphere in other people's hometowns.

This is another phenomenon of anti-customer-oriented.

Roland hasn't researched the situation in other areas yet, but he learned from the information that Alteraine has been colonizing here for more than a hundred years, and has continued to expand outward through multiple landing sites. Even this town has a small number of people who have moved here and settled there for a long time.

Wave after wave of impact, the mutual influence of new and old immigrants, is like overlapping waves...

This is injecting new cultural genes into the Reiner world.

And this cultural gene is the key to the birth of a new dialect.

This is still in a port city with relatively convenient transportation. If it is replaced by an inland area, the formation of new dialects may occur earlier.

However, writing has been less impacted in this respect, and the writing of a country and nation is not so easy to perish.

Thinking of this, Roland sighed softly.

By mastering this law, we can carry out an extermination strike against the culture of the Lena people in a targeted manner.

For example, official documents and various notices, etc., all of which have been changed to bribe a small number of cultural classes.

Within a few decades, their writing can be rooted out and turned into something that only a few experts and scholars can understand.

……

At this time, several young people gathered in a manor in the western suburbs of the capital of Lena, and there were new newspapers on the table.

Those boring literati have already started advocating the great transnational romance between Roland and Princess Rosa.

One of the handsome youths had a distorted expression, and with incomparable shame and anger, he punched the table heavily.

"That Roland... is simply abominable! How could the roses of our Reiner Kingdom fall into the hands of foreigners!"

"Just in time to organize an assassination plan to plan a resolute counterattack recently, and his weight is enough, so we should just choose him!"

The others whispered and quickly made up their minds.

(End of this chapter)