There is one thing that Apostolos has never told his colleague before, that they are two different men coming from two different world. He, Apostolos, certainly did not come from a noble background with all those resources for him to go around the metropolis to study, he is just a mere son from a big land owner family in that village which under his countless years of efforts, became the landlord and the de facto ruler of that village, until the Caesar came at that point of time and forced him to leave. Thus, unlike Alexios, Apostolos knows what the situation is really like in the rural areas, what are the sufferings of the people and what is the motive behind them asking all these questions, though he often used to think from a land lord's perspective representing the land owner's interest in the government.