"The great and holy Emperor of the Visby Empire hereby extends a sincere invitation to Lawrence August to hold a private dance at Schönbrunn Palace at 5 pm on October 7, 863, Civilization Calendar. We look forward to your visit."
After reading the contents of the letter, Lawrence discovered that the letter should be an invitation from the royal family to invite him to a ball tomorrow night. In addition to the time and place, the specific location and location of Schönbrunn Palace were also written in the corners on both sides of the letter.
Dress requirements. Perhaps because this dance is private but is an invitation from the royal family, the dress must be formal.
"Fortunately, I got a nice dress after the last game, so I won't be rude when I wear it this time. Otherwise, I would have to look for dresses everywhere now." Lawrence thought. "But why would you send me an invitation to the ball at this time?
ah?"
It is not strange to have dances at this time. After all, dances, hunting and banquets are an essential part of the social life of the nobles. Therefore, the more complicated the situation is now, the more the royal family needs to hold various dances to take advantage of the opportunity.
All kinds of things. But he couldn't figure out what he was doing at such a private royal dance.
"After all, the hasty outbreak of the second prince's rebellion was closely related to you, and you made an important contribution in countering the rebellion. So it is not too strange that the emperor wants to see you. Besides, besides you, who played a key role in the entire rebellion,
In addition to your contributions, you are also a famous scholar, so in terms of status, it is appropriate to invite you to this kind of dance."
After sensing Lawrence's inner doubts, Nora looked at him and explained: "According to tradition, this kind of aristocratic private dance will only invite those with equal status. And powerful extraordinary beings, wise scholars and outstanding artists will be invited."
They are considered equal to nobles."
"It's really troublesome." Lawrence shook his head slightly. Whether in his previous life or in this life, Lawrence had always lived in a country without nobles. Therefore, he was naturally not interested in the rules among nobles.
"It is indeed troublesome, but what benefits you can get this time depends entirely on what our great emperor thinks." Nora's slightly teasing voice sounded in Lawrence's mind. As a person who inherited Lawrence's three views,
Oddly, Nora would naturally attach great importance to the status of a noble. "And no matter what, the Emperor Joseph I who wrote the invitation to you is worthy of respect even if his status as emperor is removed."
"Yes, at least this emperor can be regarded as a thorn in the road, so as to open up the mountains and forests." Although Lawrence had a general feeling about nobles, he still had full respect for Emperor Joseph I. Because of what this emperor had done before
Everything is one of the greatest victories achieved by intelligent races and the civilized world over the forces of wilderness in half a century.
After hastily finishing breakfast, Lawrence returned to his room and discussed with Nora the possible reasons why he would be invited to the ball. After all, this was his first time to participate in such an occasion where nobles were fighting each other, so he was naturally a little uneasy.
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"There must be a lot of things to discuss at the ball, because at least fifteen or six noble families were completely exonerated during this rebellion. In addition, the current title holders of more than 40 noble families were ordered to commit suicide and pass the titles to their heirs." Nora
In the past few days, when Lawrence was studying magic, she met a lot of people in and around the tribunal due to her cute appearance, and she also found out a lot of things.
"So many nobles were dealt with at once!" Lawrence had only seen scattered stories about certain nobles being dealt with in the newspapers in the past two days, but he didn't expect that so many people were dealt with in total. You have to know that this kind of empire
The cornerstone is nobility.
"Not only that, more nobles were ordered to hand over their territories." Nora glanced at Lawrence and said. "Those palace nobles who did not have territories were also ordered to hand over the wealth they controlled to atone for their sins. In this case, there are
Vast amounts of land and wealth await distribution."
"In addition, there are some nobles who have temporarily succeeded to the throne and need guardians for various reasons. Because of this, the members of the Imperial Council and the nobles outside have been quarreling recently."
According to the traditional aristocratic inheritance law in the western part of the Old World, the heir to a title is usually required to be the eldest son of the previous generation of noble title holder who is over 18 years old and has normal intelligence. Before reaching the age of 18, the territories of those territorial nobles are controlled by the empire.
The House of Arms, the Church and the noble lord jointly held the trust.
However, this does not include extraordinary people. If the heir is an extraordinary person, he can directly have the right to rule the territory no matter how old he is. If there is no eldest son, then the inheritance rights will be passed from youngest to oldest according to the age of the legitimate son.
If there is no son, a daughter can also be used. But it must be an unmarried daughter. A married daughter will have very low inheritance rights. At the same time, after inheriting the title, unless the daughter is a transcendent or pays a large amount of marriage autonomy fees, otherwise,
The marriage will be appointed by the noble's immediate superior.
Of course, if there are no children, the inheritance rights will generally be transferred between brothers, cousins, etc. based on blood relationship. However, this time due to the rebellion, those families whose nobles were previously ordered to commit suicide will have their heirs designated by the emperor and the Imperial Council. Of course,
This is also in compliance with the internal rules of the nobility. At most, the eldest son who has reached adulthood is skipped and the second son who is underage inherits.
This time there are problems with so many nobles, so it will be a feast for others. Although those who have the right to get a share of the pie will fight, all kinds of quarrels, snatching and private transactions are absolutely inevitable
of.
However, according to the information Nora inquired about, the royal family succeeded in taking the biggest piece this time. However, due to collective opposition from the neutral and emperor faction nobles, the royal family could only take one count and two of the recovered noble territories.
The viscounty territory was merged into the territory directly under the royal family, while other territories were directly under the national territory and under the rule of the Imperial Parliament. In addition, a part of the territory must be allocated to the nobles.
This is also thanks to the great achievements of Joseph I's reforms in the past few decades, which turned the entire country into a relatively modern country. Otherwise, according to the virtues of the nobles in the feudal aristocratic country half a century ago, the emperor would be 100%
Nothing can be done.
But this does not mean that the nobles have completely lost their rights in the empire. They still hold a lot of power in the country. That is why they were able to force the emperor to make concessions in this incident, so that the final settlement of the entire incident was not uneven.
Instead of depriving all the nobles who participated in the rebellion of their titles as the emperor wanted, he only deprived a few nobles who were too deeply involved in this matter of their titles and allowed other nobles to use other methods to atone for their sins.
The reason why the emperor invited Lawrence to the ball now is probably related to this incident. After all, the Augustus family he represents behind him suffered heavy losses in this rebellion. And he himself played a very important role in putting down this rebellion.
important role.
Lawrence had a vague hunch that his invitation to the ball this time might be involved in a complex political whirlpool. But he could only guess what the specific matter was.
After all, he knew only a few people in this city, and none of them were nobles. Naturally, it was impossible for them to understand what the dance represented. Therefore, for many things, Lawrence could only rely on the very small amount of information in his hands.
Just making inferences.
Fortunately, the results of divination using bloodline power showed that attending the dance was a good thing for him, which made Lawrence feel a lot more relaxed.
"I hope things here can be dealt with quickly, and then I can go home and farm quietly in the astral plane." After the divination, Lawrence thought. "I just don't know what those jackals are building now.