He is the prince charming in the eyes of all unmarried girls in Poitou, and the best son-in-law in the eyes of all the parents of girls who are still waiting to be married.
He is young, handsome, dashing, artistically accomplished, and clean, with no bad rumors, and more importantly, he is very wealthy, and the Lincoln family is also one of the big landowners in Poitou.
It is said that once Viscount Lincoln went to the opera and his box was overcrowded by the girls who came after hearing the news.
This makes men of the same age uneasy, such as Percy Robinson. It seems that all the advantages in the world have been taken advantage of by Bieber Lincoln.
Relatively speaking, Percy is much more cynical:
"Look, that playboy is here too. I have something to do, so I won't be with you for now."
Jealousy, this is definitely jealousy.
"Sean, it's nice to see you. Well, your outfit is very chic!" Lincoln said with a smile.
"Bieber, nice to meet you too. How are you doing?" Sean greeted.
"Like you, I have been busy relieving the victims, and now I can finally breathe a sigh of relief." Lincoln said, "I can't imagine. I heard that there are 40,000 victims in West Poitou. How did you do it?"
"As long as we can raise food, anything can be done." Sean said, "The Robinson family supported some at a low price, and the Governor also transferred some. For the rest, I asked a captain friend to purchase some from the north. There is no
The middlemen make the difference and can finally wait until the summer harvest."
"Sean, you are such a kind lord." Lincoln praised.
"No, no, Bieber, there is no lord now, everything belongs to God and the Emperor. You and I are just ordinary people with a little ability. But with great power comes great responsibility."
After hearing this, Lincoln blinked subconsciously, as if he was being kind, which made Sean's hair stand up. Does this guy also discharge his energy towards men?
"So Sean, do you also support the governor's imposition of a 'security tax' on the rich?" Lincoln asked.
"It seems that everyone knows the purpose of coming." Sean did not answer directly.
"The only purpose of the existence of the Estates-General is to collect taxes." Lincoln shrugged, "I heard that a werewolf's corpse was transported. You will see it later and it will definitely scare you."
Lincoln whispered with a mysterious expression. The werewolf's corpse was a bombshell and would become the Governor's secret weapon.
This is still a secret. How Viscount Lincoln knew it is not Sean's concern. Sean is just a lucky guy. He is far less knowledgeable than these established families. They can always get the news as soon as possible.
"What's going on on the other side of Otter Mountain now?" Sean asked, "I don't want chaos in Genoa too. We can't afford to bother. Last time the True God Party openly robbed prisoners in front of us, this time
What? It won’t happen again, will it?”
Sean's words were a bit frivolous and gloating. Lincoln said:
"Probably not. The secret police have given the True God Party a taste of its power. In the past few months, they have arrested more than 20 members of the True God Party. I even heard that some people bit their tongues and committed suicide because they couldn't bear the torture."
"Oh, that's terrible." Sean nodded.
Seeing that Sean didn't care about this topic, Lincoln added: "I heard that the Pope of the True God Religion will send people to preach in our south."
"Didn't His Majesty the Emperor declare the True God Religion to be an illegal religion?" Sean was surprised when he heard the news.
"Sean, it seems that your information is not very good. Your Majesty wants to ban the True God Religion, which is simply impossible, because the True God Religion has a strong foundation among the people. As soon as the ban was issued, even the Gyeonggi Province showed bad signs.
.So His Majesty withdrew his order and allowed the True God Religion to continue to preach, but was not allowed to establish churches. Neither churches nor priests of the True God Religion were allowed to own property."
"Why?" Sean really didn't understand.
"Because the True God Religion originally advocates asceticism and does not even allow priests to own any property. They need to ask for food from the believers, and they must feed the believers in return and oppose asking for it. Your Majesty seized on this and asked the Pope of the True God Religion to make a compromise
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In the face of power, the True God Religion surrendered, but it also won the space to survive. It did not set up a church, was not allowed to own property, and was allowed to eat wind and drink, which tested the piety of the priests.
Sometimes Sean thought maliciously, if he didn't have enough food to eat, would the priest of Sawyer Church, Xia Keli, still claim to be a loyal servant of God?
At this time, Lincoln said: "Sean, today the nobles from all over the province are gathered here. Everyone wants to get to know you. Please allow me to introduce you to your Lordships."
"It's my honor, thank you!" Sean nodded and put aside matters related to the True God Religion.
As mentioned earlier, Sean is very famous recently.
People were waiting to see the joke of this country noble, especially when they heard that he had accepted tens of thousands of disaster victims, but they were disappointed.
They don't care about how Sean manages and takes care of the tens of thousands of victims. How many people die or survive is not the point. What they care about is how much money Sean has.
Considering that there is also a 200 kilogram gold statue in the rose garden, this amount should be considerable.
Sean is still unmarried, and some people are thinking about whether there is an unmarried girl of the right age in their family, and whether there is a possibility of becoming a viscountess.
Nobles are respectable, and rich nobles are more approachable. Other things such as etiquette, dressing up and dancing are no longer a problem - I heard that Viscount Connery can't dance - this is really a funny topic.
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Sean got to know a group of nobles, including Edward Davis, and then Lincoln introduced him to the Third Estate.
In addition to the scholars, lawyers, doctors and local court judges, the rest were basically the richest people in Genoa.
Some people were dissatisfied with Sean, such as grain merchants and speculators. Sean bypassed them and purchased grain directly from the north, causing them to make a lot less money. Businessmen with interests in the port of Poitou were dissatisfied with Sean.
There is some caution in establishing another port in the town of Vichy.
The bankers were very interested in Sean and asked if they needed loans for the port and road construction in Vichy town, because a nobleman with a 200 kilogram gold statue was obviously a potential high-quality customer.
As for President Roland Meunier of the University of Powape, he was extremely enthusiastic and complimentary to Sean:
"The noble Viscount of Rocky Mountain, distinguished member of the Royal Scientific Society, it is an honor for me to know such a distinguished person as you."
Mounier's performance was almost fawning, which was not commensurate with his noble status as a scholar.
As a university with a long history, the University of Poitou is not having a good time now because it relies on funding from the city of Poitou. This year, the situation is even worse. The buildings of the school that collapsed in the earthquake have not yet been repaired.
Without money in hand, he cannot retain some well-known scholars, and without well-known scholars, he cannot recruit more students.
The principal had long wanted to visit Sean, but the earthquake and subsequent disaster relief efforts interrupted his plan.
The president directly proposed that Sean serve as the honorary president of the University of Poitou, hoping to use Sean's influence to influence Mayor Stanley's funding.
There were no businessmen who wanted to donate money in the past, but the president refused. He believed that the position of the university was sacred and noble, and should never be tainted with the smell of copper. But Sean was different. The name of a member of the Royal Scientific Society was only a mere mention in the entire empire.
There are only 200 people, and it is just enough to serve as the honorary president of the university.
"The genius' retort experiment has become an indispensable teaching experiment in the university, and the Kang's sterilization method is exerting huge economic benefits. If you can hold this honorary position, the University of Poitou will be richer because of it."
, the foundation of wisdom." The principal said.
Viscount Lincoln standing next to him said:
"There is also the sensational blood type research. It is really unimaginable, because looking back, the principle is very simple, that is, no one thought of this. Sean, you made history, you saved many people who would have died of blood loss."
"No, no, I just talk but don't do anything." Sean said. He didn't want to get entangled in this aspect, and he didn't want the principal in front of him to get involved with him. "Principal Mounier, I actually understand your purpose. But.
, there is clearly a way in front of you, but you turn a blind eye."
"What?" The principal didn't understand.
"In the third level, I met many judges, lawyers, and doctors. Depending on the age of some of them, they may be your students. Even if not, most of them are graduates of the University of Poitou, right?" Sean asked
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Viscount Lincoln smiled and said: "Me too!"
"So, Mr. Principal!" Sean gave Mounier a very meaningful look, "Why are you here? Are you just here to attend the meeting as a representative?"
After Sean finished speaking, he walked away, while Viscount Lincoln thought for a while and then suddenly realized.
As for Principal Mounier, it was only then that he reacted.
What you are here for, of course, is to discuss and vote on a new tax. The Governor is determined to win this vote, but he will inevitably encounter strong resistance.
Although he is just a poor principal, he has many students. No matter what kind of family education they have received, most of those nobles have gone to university for further studies.
A considerable number of senior clergymen also studied in the theology department of the University of Poitou. As for those judges, lawyers and doctors, at least 80% graduated from the law and medicine departments of the local University of Poitou.
After understanding this, Principal Mounier immediately took action. He made some statistics and shocked himself:
Of the total 109 representatives, 70 graduated from the University of Poitou, especially among the third class, and there must be some missing.
So someone saw Principal Mounier being personally invited to the Governor's office by Mayor Stanley.
He stayed in the governor's office for more than an hour, so that the meeting of the Estates-General had to be convened later than expected, and the delicious food sent from the Poitou Harbor Hotel could not dampen the anger of the delegates.
Governor Byrne was charged with deliberately showing disrespect to distinguished guests.
Some people were gearing up to give him some color at the afternoon meeting and let the foreign governor feel isolated.