"Mr. Roland, you're back. Mr. Leon asked me to pass on his regards. Did today's inspection go well?"
Outside the manor serving as his temporary residence, a middle-aged man who looked like a steward, sent by the Corlens Family, stood waiting and greeted Roland politely.
Roland smiled at him. "Not bad. Having looked around, I'm no longer as completely in the dark as I was before."
Moments later, he shut himself in his study and started writing, without even stopping for a meal.
"Master, why are you getting straight back to work? It's time to eat..."
Night fell, and Aier came to remind Roland, only to find several sheets of paper scattered beside his desk, teetering on the edge.
Roland remained utterly absorbed, pen in hand, scratching away at something. He did not hear her call at all.
Aier stepped forward curiously and picked up a sheet that was about to fall. "The commandery-county system and Family, State, All Under Heaven-an analysis of the feasibility of centralized government in the feudal era..."
An analysis, his ass.
Others thought Roland was creating something from nothing, but he was actually importing the Qin System, borrowing the wisdom of the ancients outright.
Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng had dreamed that the Qin State would endure for ten thousand generations: Qin Shi Huang, the Second Emperor of Qin, the Third Emperor of Qin, on and on.
Everyone knew how that had ended. A complete failure.
In a certain sense, however, his dream had come true.
Because every subsequent generation of Seris had followed the Qin System.
This system had extraordinary staying power.
It might not necessarily be possible to transplant it wholesale into the Lainer Kingdom, but in East Lainer, at least, there was an excellent chance of making it work through Atrelin's forcible