The curtains on the round window were closed tightly, and finally opened after nearly two weeks. Slender fingers pulled apart the light-colored curtains on both sides and pushed open the window, letting the wind flow into the room, swirling and playing inside, bringing the freshness of early autumn.
of air.
Lorraine Hill put on a light white suit, with blue accents on the collar and corners, and a tight-fitting corset around the waist, outlining her beautiful figure.
Wiping the water droplets on her cheeks with a towel, the silver-haired girl combed her hair in front of the bronze mirror, then tied it with a light blue hairband. After turning it left and right for a moment, she picked up the butterfly hairpin again.
, fixed on the hair behind the ear. This way it doesn’t look too monotonous.
After simply packing up, Lorraine Hill opened the door and prepared to go out for a walk.
At this time, there was a sound of flapping wings behind her, and then the girl felt her right shoulder sink slightly, and a fat bird with an orange crown and feathers landed beside her.
"Do you want to go out too?" Lorraine Hill touched the feathers of the chrysanthemum-wearing bird with his hand.
"Tweet~" (I want to eat something delicious)
It seems that he has been starving recently. Lorraine Hill turned around again and looked at the blue jay that had not moved in the room.
"And you, you must have been hungry recently." The two little guys seemed to have been sleeping for a while, and I don't know if they were able to bear the hunger.
The dark-capped blue jay chirped, indicating that it did not want to go out for the time being, but also expressed its hope that the girl would bring some delicious food back.
"Yes, I will remember." Lorraine Hill nodded slightly, and then walked downstairs with Dai Ju beside him.
The buildings in the Academy are similar to a U-shaped building, with a courtyard in the middle, a pool and rockery, and seven-story pavilions around it, which are all rooms for students to live in. They are generally used to house students from all over the dynasty.
Unlike the West, the Eastern dynasties did not adopt the method of enfeoffing lords, but adopted a highly centralized model. It is said that their administrative model was first learned from the Mercury Dynasty.
The Mercury Dynasty is quite special. It adopts a multi-consul joint governance model. The highest-ranking consul even has the title of king. These consuls rely on the tacit understanding of fighting together for many years to form a mechanism similar to a parliament or a cabinet.
Negotiate and decide on major national affairs together, and formulate unified laws and policies.
However, what is different from the Western model in the girl's memory is that these consuls are not born by election, but ascend to this position purely by strength or merit.
As for the criteria for judging strength and merit, it is actually very crude and simple, that is, under your leadership, how many people can survive and how many enemies can be killed.
If we use an ancient creature to compare the Mercury Dynasty, it would be the many-headed giant. Each consul has a complete system. Even if the Mercury Dynasty suffers a great defeat and a certain consul dies, there are still multiple consuls in the dynasty.
Even if there are officials, they can still attack. Moreover, every consul is the orthodoxy of the dynasty, and there is no such thing as people's hearts changing after one of them dies.
They use a highly unified combat manual and command system. Even if the upper-level officers and necromancers are defeated, other officers and necromancers will take over the defeated army and be able to unify the army in a short time.
The succeeding Archon will quickly absorb the dead Archon's army and then integrate it to fight again, burning like wildfire.
Although the elven kingdom and the orcs defeated the mercury dynasty's armies time and time again, killing consuls one after another, there would always be new consuls behind to take over the flag and authority, and then continue to lead the battle.
At the height of the War of the Mercury Dynasty, 7 high-ranking archons simultaneously fought against the three elven kingdoms, 4 high-ranking archons blocked the orc empire, and 2 high-ranking archons strangled the remnants of the ogre kingdom.
Most of these high-ranking archons are the existence of the Necromancer Series 9, or simply witches. They have lived for a long time, dealt with the common enemy, and have extremely deep friendships with each other. They gather every few years.
Together they discuss the dynasty's next move and share the latest technological achievements. Therefore, although the Mercury Dynasty has been fighting for years, it is also rapidly progressing and iterating in terms of technology and system.
This goes on year after year, year after year, until finally the deep-rooted orc and elven kingdoms are uprooted and driven out of the center of the continent, leaving them to hide in the corners and linger.
However, such a magnificent and passionate era has finally passed.
When the Mercury Dynasty no longer had any opponents, the internal arguments among different voices became increasingly fierce, until it completely fell apart.
The Plantagenet Dynasty was supported by Red Phoenix, who himself experienced the glorious era of the Mercury Dynasty with Dorothy, so when establishing the Plantagenet Dynasty, he also absorbed and adopted many systems of the Mercury Dynasty.
That is to set up various professional institutions to deal with various problems. However, when it comes to selecting the top rulers, Chifeng adopts a more conservative bloodline inheritance instead of putting strength first.
This is actually easy to understand, that is, the person who is the best at killing and fighting is not necessarily suitable to be a ruler. Moreover, there are many legal problems. Could it be that just because he is stronger personally, the whole world must listen to him?
?. If a tournament is held every day, does that mean the ruler has to be changed every day?
Considering that the environment and scenes faced by the Mercury Dynasty in the past could not be replicated, Chifeng finally adopted the ancient blood inheritance. This would at least stabilize the entire social system in the peaceful and prosperous times, and there would be no major chaos. But in many institutions that enforce rights
On the other hand, the talent selection and assessment mechanism is launched and a large number of screenings are carried out.
Of course, in order to ensure that the successor ruler would not be too bad, Chifeng would sometimes teach him personally and observe his behavior.
Walking among the tall pavilions in the Academy, Lorraine Hill recalled the books on Eastern knowledge that he had read in Emenas. Most of them described the huge Eastern dynasty in an admiring tone, and envied such a vast dynasty.
Land, people and environment.
In fact, the Plantagenet dynasty in the East was indeed very powerful, and many of its skills were slightly better than those in the West. You can feel an open and proud temperament when walking on the streets of Luojing.
Central Street is paved with light gray and bluish stone slabs, which can accommodate about eight carriages at the same time. There should have been some carvings on the stone slabs, but after years of trampling and rain erosion, they have become rounded and smooth, and there are still some residues on them.
There are many small potholes, which are the traces left after being crushed by horses' hooves and wheels.
Shops of different heights and shapes and styles are opened on both sides of the street, with a dazzling array of things to see.
Some of them come from the Sixteen Continents in the Southwest, with ancient vines and purple flowers on both sides of the store door. There are a lot of brown, red, and deep purple lacquerware inside. Some of them come from the distant Western Continent, with light red and white stone bricks interlaced, and there are different things inside.
There are few sculptures, oil paintings, poetry collections and the like. Some of them look straight out of the green, with red and green rose vines twining around them. There are many complicated and exquisite dresses inside, and some oriental girls will go in to try them on.
Others include ice wall sculptures, ice elf shops decorated with crystal pendants, lily spider plants, and forest elf shops selling fragrant fruit wine and accessories. Many people in the distant Youngberry Islands also open shops here, selling all kinds of colorful and bright shells.
Goldfish, glassware, etc.
Walking on the main street of Luojing was like visiting the World Expo. Lorraine Hill looked at the surrounding buildings with curiosity and surprise. He originally thought that there were fewer foreigners everywhere in Luojing, among them wearing formal clothes and mage robes.
, leaving aside the people from the Western Continent wearing Western-style skirts, she also met several forest elves and ice elves that were hard to see.
Judging from the reactions of the people around me, it seems that they are already used to it, so they won’t be too surprised.
"Welcome~ What do you need?"
Pushing open the door made of cyan glass and yellow wood, Lorraine Hill walked into a bookstore, and the clerk in the store walked quickly.
She was wearing an oriental-style frost-white cross-collar skirt, with blue prints on the collar and sleeves. However, her light red eyes and golden hair showed that she should be from the Western Continent, or perhaps from the Western Continent.
From the green territory.
"I want to find some books to read." Lorraine Hill looked around the store. There were already a few customers here, but everyone was relatively quiet.
"Okay, if you want to find what type of book, you can ask me." Seeing Lorraine Hill speak, the clerk smiled and nodded, and then did not continue to follow, but let him explore on his own.
"Chirp." (I'm hungry)
Dai Ju expressed dissatisfaction with the silver-haired girl's behavior of not going to eat first but visiting the bookstore. It squatted on Lorraine Hill's shoulder and chirped a few times, attracting some people's attention.
"So cute~" A young girl seemed to like such a fluffy bird.
"It looks powerful?" The older man next to him nodded slightly, seeming to realize that this bird had Sequence 4 strength.
"It must be very expensive. I don't know where to buy it. How come I haven't heard of it before?" muttered a nobleman wearing blue and gold embroidered clothes. He seemed to be someone who often visited flower and bird shops.
Walking between the layers of bookcases, Lorraine Hill scanned them one by one, then stopped in front of a bookshelf, bent down and took out a thick-shell book.
Open the thick book, flip through it gently, touch the clear and settled handwriting on it, and feel the delicate touch of the paper pages from your fingertips.
"The blue bird holds a branch, falls and is born in the country"
This book tells the history of the rise and fall of five countries in the Wulian Mountains. Among them, Qingniao refers to Qingluan, the Phoenix of Five Virtues. During the birth process, these five countries were more or less influenced by the Qingniao lineage.
, their customs, culture, and practice methods are quite similar.
Under the influence of the phoenix witch, the Eastern Continent gradually changed from barbarism to civilization, and the five witches she raised, the Phoenix of Five Virtues, also deeply influenced the establishment of these countries on the continent.
After reading for a while, Lorraine Hill temporarily closed the book, held it in front of him, and continued walking.
She might not be able to finish the books in a while, so she might as well pick out a few and buy them first, and then study them carefully when she gets back. Moreover, she also noticed that the Dai Ju on her shoulder was a little unable to sit still, and was walking around with two feet, always reminding her.
With the girl, it's time to go to dinner.
"How much do these books cost approximately?"
After a rough walk around, Lorraine Hill picked out 4 books and placed them in front of the counter to ask.
"Wait a moment, let me take a look." The clerk who greeted just now was standing at the counter, writing down the title of the book, and then flipping through the booklet on the side to look for the price recorded in it.
"A total of 4 gold dishes and 62 silver rings."
The price is high, Lorraine Hill thought to himself, and then took out five golden golden bird and dragon dishes from the small cloth bag at his waist and placed them on the table.
"Okay, I'll give you some change." This girl also seemed to have the strength of Natural Sequence 3. After quickly checking the gold plate, a slight smile appeared on her face, then she opened the drawer and took out the 38 silver rings in change.
In front of the girl.
Then she put the silver rings in a small gray velvet bag and handed them to Lorraine Hill together with the book.
“Welcome again~”
"Hmm. Can I ask why the price is so expensive? It's my first time here."
"It's true that I am surprised when I first come here, but many things are more expensive in Luojing. In addition, the price of these books is not only the manufacturing cost, but also the remuneration cost of our bookstore to the writers."
"Although the books are very good, not many people buy each type. If the price is lower, the income of the person who writes the book will be very small. Over time, it will be difficult to come across good books.
Got it." The clerk briefly explained the reason.
"No wonder..." Lorraine Hill expressed understanding.
Seeing that the silver-haired girl was so reasonable, the clerk seemed to be very happy, and then talked about other things.
"Actually, the price of some books related to cultivation will be cheaper, because more people will buy them, so the cost can be shared. But for some books that have nothing to do with cultivation, fewer people will buy them. Even though the author has put in the effort, he still makes a lot of money.
It doesn’t cost much, and in order to maintain it, we have to raise the price.”
"In fact, our Golden Leaf Bookstore only has branches in a few big cities. It is difficult to open in other small cities for this reason." The blond girl touched her chin with her finger, thinking about the situation encountered by the bookstore.
....
"Perhaps one day everyone will no longer have to worry about cultivation, can have enough food and clothing, and have leisure time to read these 'useless' books, so that the prices will gradually become cheaper."
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"You said that such a scene is a peaceful and prosperous age. It seems to be true. But there is nothing we can do now. Many places in the world are still suffering from disasters. Many people can't even eat enough to eat, so naturally they have no intention to read.
"
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"Are you asking me? My parents used to be from the Green Empire, but I grew up in the East, so I am more familiar with this place. I studied at Dongchan Academy, and now I am a student of Qingxiu. If I want to work in the North Korean institution in the future
If you want to hold a position, you must at least pass the Silver Embroidery Examination, which is still far behind, and there are still Blue Embroidery and Purple Embroidery above."
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"Gee, thank you for your encouragement. But Jin Xiu is still too far away from me. With that kind of ability, I guess it won't be a problem to join a big sect, and it will be more free than a public official."
In this way, Lorraine Hill did not leave immediately. Instead, he communicated with this girl who grew up near Luojing for a long time and learned a lot about the Plantagenet Dynasty.