Outside the city walls of the West, the fugitives under the guidance of the First Army soldiers, under the guidance of the soldiers of the First Army, were subject to an unprecedented identity check.

Barov naturally knew that population was the wealth that His Highness Roland valued the most. In order to bring these people back to the border town, His Highness spent a lot of golden dragons and even sent the First Army to expedition the capital. When the bill of the Margaret Chamber of Commerce was placed in front of Barov, he almost shocked his chin.

In most of the month, the caravan's charter, transportation fee, grain supply fee, etc. added up to the caravan, which actually cost more than 2,000 Golden Dragons, which is equivalent to the price of four steam engines. If it weren't for the renovation deposit for the two sailboats last month, the financial statements would probably have a deficit this time.

After the fugitives were brought back, the cumbersome and huge statistical work fell on him. Almost all the city hall officials and apprentices were dispatched, building wooden sheds and passages at the foot of the city walls, sorting and counting these people and entering files. Looking at the fugitives who lined up in more than ten teams slowly passing through the inspection ports, Barov seemed to see a group of moving coins.

Compared with the ordinary civilian registration offices that line up in long queues, the professional talent channel he personally was responsible for was much deserted. So far, only fifty or sixty people have passed.

"I am... a carpenter," at this time, a middle-aged man walked over carefully, "I heard that any craftsman can obtain a residence?"

"Yes," asked Seni Dali, "what is your name? Are you literate?"

The former knight of the Benlang family was very skilled in the Ministry of Agriculture. At least he had no mistakes so far. Barov was very satisfied with his vision of people. Although this time it was a demographic, there were only so many people who could read in the city hall, so he had to bring people from other departments over.

"Uh... Sir, my name is Marthel." The other party paused, "I don't know the words."

“You can’t read or write?”

"Yes." The middle-aged man lowered his head.

"Well, the carpenter's words..." Seni searched for the form marked with the word carpenter in a stack of inquiry forms, "Ah, found it. Let me ask you a few questions."

This initial review method was thought out by His Highness the Prince. He gathered craftsmen from various industries to ask them some professional knowledge and corresponding solutions, and recorded the answers to form a set of inquiry forms. In this way, as long as you ask a few questions in the form during the review, you can immediately know whether the other party is lying. When you first saw this lie detection method, Barov couldn't help but want to applaud the devil's little thoughts. If you don't work in the industry, most civilians would not understand these things. If a person wants to pretend, he would be choked and unable to speak in just two or three questions.

“What are the tools used to flatten the surface of wood?”

"It's...Pull push the paddle, sir."

“What are the common saws?”

"Frame saws and tug-of-warp saws, hand saws are occasionally used when cutting small pieces."

After asking several questions, Mathel could almost answer them, and his tone gradually became smoother when he spoke.

"Well, it seems you are a carpenter," Barov stopped him when Seni was about to write down the person's name on his identity registration form.

"grown ups?"

"Don't make judgments so quickly, you look at his hands first." He looked at Muthel, "Put your hands out."

When Mather heard this, he was stunned and spread his hands with confusion. The skin in his palm was extremely rough, the cracked lines were mixed with many soil particles, and there were thick calluses under each finger, which looked weathered.

"If he was a carpenter, his palms should not be so rough, especially when the two meat pads under the palms would often rub against the wood and become smooth and hard. In addition, carpenters often need to use black paint to draw outlines, so their palms would be covered with a lot of hard-to-wash black ink and turn black instead of yellow." Barov said calmly, "There is another point that he always looks away when answering - many people will inadvertently show similar expressions when recalling those uncommon memories in the past. If he was a carpenter, he should be very natural when answering."

"Is that...is it?" Seni's eyes widened.

Barov looked at Mathel with a surprised face and said in a deep voice, "You should have heard the warning when the First Army soldiers summoned you. Any acts of impersonation, deception and refusal to register will be severely punished. Either be assigned to a mine or expelled from the Western Frontier. Now, do you still think you are a carpenter?"

"No, sir, I was wrong!" Mather couldn't help but kneel down on the ground, "The carpenter is my neighbor, I just often watch him work!"

"Go and queue up there."

Seeing the other party running away in panic, Seni said astonished, "Sir, how did you know these things?"

"In the Demon Moon, I had conducted a census for Your Highness. I had dealt with every carpenter in the town, and I wrote it down by the way," Barov replied in a casual manner. Seeing the expression of shock and admiration on the face of the knight, a feeling of pride suddenly appeared in his heart.

Although the devil's method is clever, it will eventually be deceived by some people. Only people like themselves can make up for His Highness's void.

Moreover, influenced by His Highness, his recent way of dealing with problems has become different from before... Barov couldn't help but sigh that civilians like this must have been punished with thunder in the past to shock those who are ready to move. Now he is letting him go directly, probably to save some golden dragons for His Highness the Prince - after all, every escaped person is valuable. If he doesn't do more than ten years of work for the border town, it will not be as expensive as transporting them from thousands of miles away.

When the next escaped man passed professional inquiry, Seni did not register immediately, but instead turned his attention to Barov.

He looked at the trial several times and nodded, "You record it, I'll take him to His Highness to see."

After passing through the entrance of the city wall, on the other side is the shed set up by Roland Wimbledon, which is also the last review level.

Here, they will accept His Highness’s personal inquiry. If it is proven that there is no problem, they can obtain a "resident ID card" and become a formal resident of the border town. At present, the town is in short supply and can only be given priority for craftsmen to live in. As for the escaped people who do not have a skill, they have to wait outside the city wall for another two or three months.

Barov also had an ID card - it was a piece of paper with color, about the size of a palm, with his avatar painted in the upper left corner, which looked like a real person, with his name, address and number written in the middle. The back of the paper was printed with the emblem of the double gun of the Gray Castle and the signature seal of His Highness. Whether it was the paper itself and the film wrapped on the outside, the material was very strange. Whether it was soaked in water or baked on fire, it could not damage the ID card at all.

There is no doubt that this thing must have been made by the witch named Soloya. His Highness Roland seemed to plan to promote his ID card to the whole town, and in the future, whether it is to buy food or pay, he would have to receive it with a certificate.

Since commending medals to the eldest daughter of the Pine family at the medal ceremony, His Highness obviously no longer intends to hide the existence of the witch, and Barov no longer wants to pay attention to who is right and wrong from the devil or the church, and even... He began to vaguely hope that His Highness Roland could defeat the church and completely unify the Gray Castle.

There is no doubt that the higher the position His Highness stands, the more rewards he can get.

Of course, there is still a long way to go before we can consider it later. Now the population of the town has exceeded that of Changge Fortress, and His Highness also revealed to him the city building plan for the next year - once it is connected to the fortress, it will turn most of the Western Frontier into a whole, and its scale will undoubtedly become the most magnificent city of the Gray Castle. As the head of the city hall, what kind of promotion will he get?
Chapter completed!