"There are actually so many nobles willing to attend your banquet." Saphiel looked a little surprised and said as he looked at the nobles who came from various residences in the city to attend the banquet.
"I remember you told me that you held a similar banquet in the Holy Visby Empire, but basically few nobles were willing to participate."
"This obviously depends on the country." Lawrence shrugged.
"You know, the nobles of the Holy Visby Empire have pure blood, orderly inheritance of titles, and a long history, so they take the rules within those nobles very seriously."
"For example, they very much pursue the purity of noble blood and the orderly transmission of titles within the family. They collectively despise those beings who do not meet their feelings in this regard."
"They naturally look down on us like me, who is the head of a side branch of the family and is an adoptee. In their eyes, I am no better than the nouveau riche who spend money to buy titles in some countries."
A little bit of it.”
"So I think it would be quite difficult for your Majesty the Emperor to reform." After hearing what Lawrence said, Saphiel shrugged.
"It is undeniable that the quality of nobles and their descendants in this era is indeed significantly higher than that of ordinary people, but for a country it is obviously not enough to rely solely on nobles."
"In fact, you can just rely on nobles, otherwise those old empires or kingdoms would not be as powerful as they are now." Lawrence, who has studied this aspect, explained to his fiancée.
"It's just that the atmosphere like the Holy Visby Empire where nobles can only be monopolized by their descendants is obviously not acceptable, because it will seriously affect the atmosphere of the entire society."
"Obviously, the Emperor of the Holy Visby Empire also realized this, so he initiated reforms. Whether it was the last rebellion or the subsequent canonization of me, it is clear that His Majesty the Emperor is determined to reform."
"So at this point, I prefer the Britons." Saphiel said, looking at the Britons who came to attend the banquet.
"Although some old nobles always feel that the new nobles of Briton lack inheritance, they even regard it as a laughing stock that the nobles directly use the country's extraordinary inheritance and slightly modify it as their own inheritance."
"But this practice of promoting the best among ordinary people to nobles is obviously more beneficial to the development of the country, because it can ensure class mobility within the country and bring vitality to the entire country."
As Saphiel said, unlike those old nobles from the Holy Visby Empire, these nobles from Litun will not look down on Lawrence because he is only an adopted son and he is not a direct descendant.
At least during the time when he was welcoming guests, Lawrence could feel that these pioneering nobles who belonged to Briton basically came here with goodwill towards him in their hearts.
Of course, a large part of these good intentions are because the trade that Lawrence proposed before is something that can bring benefits to everyone present, and no one wants to have trouble with money.
But in addition to this, another very important reason is that the Briton nobles themselves pay more attention to matters related to reality, rather than just focusing on a person's origin and bloodline.
In the eyes of the group of Briton nobles who came here today, one of the important features that attracts them is that Lawrence has secured his current position as a direct descendant and an adopted son.
.More importantly, after obtaining this title, he was able to develop a desolate territory to its current level in a short period of time.
Although Britton's special aristocratic policy did allow some outstanding people from ordinary people to appear among their nobles, these nobles had never seen such young and capable nobles even in their own country.
To be honest, if Lawrence hadn't brought Saphire with him and clearly said that she was his fiancée, maybe this group of people would have started testing Lawrence for possible marriage.
"I'm glad that everyone can visit this party." After the scheduled opening time, Lawrence, wearing a formal dress, stood on the stage of the auditorium and said to the guests below.
"The main reason for this gathering is that I feel that we are all lords on this island, but we have rarely met each other before. So I think that since everyone is here now, we should take this opportunity to get together."
"That's right." "That's right." "My neighbor and I are only 50km apart, but we haven't seen each other for three years..." After hearing what Lawrence said, the nobles immediately talked to each other.
started talking.
Regardless of the fact that everyone is a Briton noble and lives on the same island. However, due to the extremely poor local traffic and the sparse number of monsters, everyone has more communication with the local area than with their neighbors.
many.
"That's right, so today's gathering is another time for everyone to have a good communication together." Lawrence said loudly with a smile.
"In addition to sharing with you some of the specialties from the tropics, I also hope to share with you some information related to this island that I have collected here before -"
After hearing what Lawrence said, everyone cheered up. Then everyone stared seriously at Lawrence standing in the center of the stage. Some even took out notebooks and pens to record what Lawrence would say later.
thing.
After all, they also learned through their own channels during this time that Lawrence was not only a noble and lord, but also a scholar. Therefore, they all wanted to hear what Lawrence had discovered in this place that he could call important.
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"Okay, okay, everyone doesn't need to be so nervous." Looking at the serious expressions on the faces of the nobles below, Lawrence lowered his hands and made a gesture to let everyone relax.
"In today's gathering, I just want to chat with you and talk about some interesting things I saw on the island as a foreigner, so there is really no need for you to be so formal."
"Of course, as I said, I am just a foreigner, so my understanding of many things may not be correct. Therefore, if there are any mistakes in the conclusions I will draw in a moment, please forgive me."
After saying these things, Lawrence took out a table on the production of each field that he had obtained after conducting statistics on various territories a few days ago and started reading it.
At the beginning, many of the nobles below felt that these things were all public and trivial data and looked disapproving. However, as time went by, the faces of those present slowly showed expressions of surprise.
Because Lawrence's table does not simply record the products of each territory on the island, but also provides a simple summary of the data in addition to these simple records of data.
And through these summaries, those lords suddenly realized a fact that they might have had a vague feeling before, but had always ignored it for one reason or another.
After hundreds of years of development, although this island in the cold polar regions still looks as desolate as it did hundreds of years ago, it has actually become much richer than in the past.
To take the simplest example, just a simple fishery catch is now more than thirty times what it was a hundred years ago. Not to mention that the total population has also increased dozens of times compared to the past.
In other words, the important reason why the current output is so low is that a large number of new people have appeared on the island, and these new people have consumed those new items.
Therefore, what each lord perceives is naturally only the seemingly insignificant increases every year. This range is so small that everyone subconsciously ignores them.