Chapter 210 Azar: Where are my confidants?
Regarding the desert, Azar read the report twice carefully. At the end of the report, the disciplinary officer who took over the matter said:
The desert people involved all insisted that these books were part of their tribe's collection and were not obtained through theft, robbery, smuggling, or other illegal channels.
"...their explanation was highly credible. These desert people were poorly dressed and had no additional weapons or property.
They were of low status in their tribe, and the money they spent on food, clothing, housing and transportation during their journey was less than 2,000 molas a day.
According to the price in Xumi City, the books in their hands are worth at least 100,000 Mora. Considering their identity as desert people, the price of the books needs to be tripled.
They probably don’t have the channels or money to buy such valuable paper books with rich content...”
Azar read the disciplinary officer's report, sneered, and then said to Setale beside him: "Do you think they are right?"
"I'm sorry, Great Sage, I don't know how to answer your question. I didn't get permission to look through these documents beforehand."
Setale paused, turned her eyes slightly, as if observing Azar's expression, and then said, "Do you want me to read this document now?"
Azar's mood improved slightly because of Setale's embarrassment and caution. He said "hmm" without changing his expression and handed over the documents in his hand.
Setale had just secretly read the document, but she still read it from the beginning as if she had no idea what was on the paper. She frowned a little while reading, and occasionally showed a slightly surprised look.
"I have finished reading it, Great Sage." Half a minute later, Setare dropped her hands holding the document to her waist, still bowing her head respectfully, and said, "Do you want me to express my opinion now?"
Azar: “Tell me about it.”
After receiving this answer, Setale hesitated for two seconds before speaking carefully under Azar's sharp gaze:
"...The disciplinary officer who submitted this investigation report is trying to exonerate the desert people involved. I think it is necessary to transfer the investigation to the disciplinary officer in the current Fatwa Court."
Well, good, just as I thought.
Hazard nodded in his heart, very satisfied with the answer.
The rainforest area has always been facing a shortage of security personnel. Disciplinary officers are selected from scholars who graduated from the Academy of Discipline, and most of them have only barely reached the qualified level of combat power.
Although the members of the Thirty-Man Group have been practicing martial arts since childhood and their average martial arts strength is much higher than that of the Discipline Officer, they are all descendants of the Desert People.
Even though they have lived in the rain forest for generations, some of them are always not so clear about their stance when facing the desert people.
In areas outside Xumi City, because the influence of the Church Order was weak, he had to issue an order to recruit a large number of mercenaries to assist the Disciplinary Officers and the Thirty-Man Group to maintain local law and order.
These discipline officers and members of the Thirty-Man Group mingled with the mercenaries all day long, and their thoughts were gradually led astray by those evil-minded desert people.
From the reports submitted by the discipline officers in recent years, it is clear that many discipline officers from other places have developed a favorable impression of the desert people.
Even if these people break the law, they will describe in detail how difficult the situation of the desert people is.
In addition to asking the wise man to be lenient with his sentence, the words in the submitted document seemed to contain some hints, just short of pointing at his nose and saying "these laws against desert people are totally unreasonable!"
In the entire Xumi, only the discipline officer of Xumi City is relatively obedient. He knows that desert people are desert people and rainforest people are rainforest people.
However, there are also many rebels in Xumi City. A month ago, theaters in Xumi City suddenly competed to perform desert-style operas.
Now, a book was found on the mercenary. A textbook! A textbook that teaches the desert people to learn the common language of Xumi!
Could those uncivilized desert people do these things? Impossible, there must be someone or a force behind them making all this happen.
The cause of these incidents is that the security forces in the rainforest area are too loose. Scholars and businessmen in the rainforest have to rely on the power of mercenaries in their daily lives.
This is also the reason why the House of Lords tacitly allowed mercenaries to cross the sand barrier and come to the rainforest to find work.
When the plan to create a god succeeds, we can rely on the power of the gods to maintain the public security of Xumi. At that time, we will expel all the desert people and strengthen the anti-sand walls. We can no longer allow these people to stay in the rain forest and affect the people of the Great Compassion Tree King.
Azar threw aside the half-read textbook handed to him by the discipline officer and said to Setale:
"Transfer this case to the discipline officer of Xumi City and have them issue a search warrant to search all the mercenary residences in Xumi City."
Setale was shocked again, but she kept a straight face and replied calmly, "Okay, I'll do it right away."
Then she bowed slightly to Azar and quickly left the Sage's office.
After Setale left, Azar leaned back in his chair, once again feeling the helplessness of having no one to turn to. The Disciplinary Officer and the Thirty-Man Group sided with the desert, and the Biologist sages within the Institute of the Decrees were still against him.
Ever since the foreign scholar named Harold submitted his paper on "cells" last year, they have been bringing up the issue of adding comprehensive disciplines at the Sages' Conference every now and then, as if they had taken the wrong medicine.
Disciplinary officers and religious officers are selected from the scholars who have graduated. Under the review system of the religious court, most of these scholars are over 30 years old when they graduate.
Add more comprehensive subjects? Are they going to rely on a bunch of old men and women to maintain the law and order of Xumi? !
Why has the Academy of Teachings lowered the graduation standards over the years? Because what Xumi lacks now is not scholars!
The positions available for ordinary scholars are already saturated, and there are too few true geniuses. What's the point of letting everyone learn knowledge that will never be used in the future?
It would make sense if the sages of each academy put aside their other work, personally selected talented scholars for training, and increased the difficulty of their studies. But do the sages have the time?
Azar rubbed his forehead and felt a headache when he thought of Nafis. Compared with Nafis, Setare, whom he promoted and trained, looked so handsome.
Smart and obedient, she knows what to do with just a glance, and most importantly, she is loyal and always stands by his side.
Although she is a desert person, she will consciously protect the interests of the rainforest people and the great sage.
Thinking of the awe-filled look in the other person's eyes when he looked at him, Hazard nodded slightly, thinking that this was the confidant he wanted.