Chapter 471 The opportunity to play the role of 'The Fallen Earl'
After gaining an in-depth understanding of Ma Xi's political structure and specific operations, Rawls subconsciously came up with the idea that a country operating in the current way has not yet produced oligarchs or academic tyrants.
Someone is a top figure in a certain field, and at the same time has the highest say in this field, and can mobilize a large amount of resources. Unlike the previous generations of Han and Tang dynasties, it took several generations to work hard, and one generation can be transformed from top to bottom in ten years.
, place your own people in all key links in the field, and control the rise and fall of an industry.
This way of operating in the academic field is even more dangerous. For example, if there is an error in the research of this top scholar in his own field, but no one can point it out or realize it, then a large amount of resources will be mobilized and invested without realizing it.
It is possible that there will be a big hole at the bottom, thus affecting the development of this field for years or even decades.
But when Rawls secretly discussed possible problems in this area with his grandfather, King Orff, he realized that he had thought too much.
First of all, as a small country, Maxi is not even as large as a county in Loen. Its own size is just there. There are nearly 200 members of the House of Commons, and the resources that each member can mobilize are not many.
Second, today's technology is far less detailed and in-depth than Rawls's previous life. Even with the protection of patent law, it is almost impossible to monopolize a certain field after researching something. Moreover, in
Under the interference of theology, many fields are blank or can only be preliminary researched, such as biology and medicine... Only extraordinary people like Dorothy Lovelace dare to do in-depth research.
The last one that guarantees these is the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom. The "Reader" path is the highest way to improve wisdom. Even a Sequence 9 "Reader" potion can make an ordinary person qualified to become a expert in a certain field.
Outstanding people, let alone those who are university students or talented people.
According to King Orff, for example, a certain great scientist has developed a special metal that has various advantages. But for Countess Lovelace, she only needs a week at most to formulate it.
The proportions have been studied, but her interest is not in this aspect.
In addition, many bishops and archbishops also have such abilities, and their research and development capabilities are even higher than those of top scholars. But they are either like Dorothy, not interested in this aspect, or they disdain secular influence.
Even those who yearn for worldly power and influence are still nothing compared to the behemoth of the Church of Knowledge.
What's more, compared with these, what is more important than the strength of the Extraordinary One? The more you improve your rank, the faster your ability to make money will be, and the easier it will be to gain power.
Faced with such Ma Xi, it is no wonder that Rawls's grandfather, King Orff, was hostile to the Church of Knowledge when he was young.
In addition to the members of the House of Commons who have high status and power in Ma Xi, the composition of the House of Lords is the nobility and the archbishops and some bishops of the Church of Knowledge. Among them, the nobility occupies the majority of seats, with nearly a hundred people, and the Church of Knowledge
There are nearly thirty clergy members such as archbishops and bishops.
It's just that most of the clergy members are busy with religious affairs and extraordinary affairs, and rarely come to participate in the parliament, even the annual Grand Council at the beginning of the year. The only person who attends the parliament all year round is the Archbishop of Winston Diocese, Bernhard.
and four bishops from nearby dioceses, who will be responsible for relaying reports from other clergy members.
In terms of nobles, Ma Xi is different from Luen. He has always been extremely cautious in canonizing nobles. On the one hand, his land area is small and he cannot grant too many fiefs. On the other hand, the Gonzalez family is the one who split Fenebaud.
land and established the Kingdom of Ma Xi.
Although Ma Xi is located in the center of the Northern Continent, in the past two to three hundred years, the four countries of the Northern Continent have mainly focused on exploring the ocean. There have not been many land wars, and even if they did, they would not have been greatly affected. Therefore, in the past two to three hundred years, the four countries of the Northern Continent have been canonized.
There are no more than twenty nobles.
Most of the nobles came from the "Oath-Breaking War" six hundred years ago and established Ma Xi together with the Gonzalez family. During these six hundred years, they were married to each other and continue to this day.
In other words, most of these nobles are related to Rawls, but the distance is different.
The parliamentarians did not have a clear attitude towards Rawls, the new crown prince, while the nobles had different attitudes, ranging from support to indifference, and there were also some who were hostile, such as the Highfield family.
Before Rawls arrived, his aunt Desiree was the first heir, and his cousin Karl was the second heir. This was crucial to the Highfield family who married Desiree.
, the reason also comes from the special status of the nobles of the Maxi Kingdom.
Nobles are not easily canonized, so there is only one heir to the title, and only one person controls the family. The nobles of Loen, especially the big nobles, often have multiple titles, and they can choose to inherit only one of them.
, give the remaining titles to another heir.
The nobles of Ma Xi will not have such a good thing, because they have few titles and many heirs. And they cannot guarantee that every heir is on the passing line, so it is inevitable that they will decline over time.
In front of the Church of Knowledge, the power of the nobles has been greatly restricted. It is difficult to obtain sufficient resources and benefits by relying on their special status. Therefore, every marriage must be paid attention to by these nobles, which can provide
The family brings enough benefits.
In this case, marriage with the royal family is naturally the most profitable, especially under the premise that King Orf only has a daughter. This means that the future King Ma Xi will trust his relatives more in terms of blood relationship.
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But again, the power of choice will only lie with King Orff and Desiree, and the latter chose Kaz Highfield, the second son of the Highfield family.
But now, the emergence of Rawls has made the future of the Highfield family unknown.
The reason for their hostility to Rawls was not only the loss of King Maxi, who had the blood of the Highfield family, but also the uncertainty of whether the current crown prince and the future king would take the opportunity to retaliate against them.
But this situation is much better than Rawls expected. After separating the identities of Viscount Derian and Crown Prince Maxi, nobles have begun to support him. He believes that if he had not married Luen, he would
There may be more support.
And the Highfield family alone is nothing to Rawls. Especially after Kaz Highfield, Desiree's husband, and Carl Gonzalez showed goodwill to him.
.Although my aunt Daisy Lei showed hostility in words and attitude, from her perspective, no one would be in a good mood.
All in all, during the week in Winston, the harvest was still great. Especially regarding the progress of digesting the "Fallen Earl" potion, because there has been no opportunity to play it for a long time, there has not been enough progress. And Crown Prince Ma Xi's
With his title, Duke Winston finally made progress in digesting the potion.
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Backlund, a suburb of Queens.
There are a large number of noble manors here, including many members of the royal family and top nobles, and the headquarters of MI9 is located underground in an inconspicuous noble manor.
Figures shuttled back and forth in the underground passage. They all wore almost uniform clothes, had serious expressions, and rarely talked to each other.
Hugh Dilcha, who can barely be regarded as a small leader and can lead a team, also has her own independent office here, and because her job is mainly to cooperate with the three major church professional teams, the office is in the outer area and belongs to
It's a department that's not taken seriously, but that doesn't mean Xio doesn't have a lot of power.
Once certain actions of the three major churches require the cooperation of MI9, they generally require the large participation of soldiers and weapons. Especially the latter, such as high-pressure steam rifles, small artillery, airships, steam chariots, etc.
With Xiu's power, she can mobilize fifty soldiers, up to five high-pressure steam rifles and six-barreled machine guns. As for small artillery, airships and steam chariots are beyond her control.
After pushing the door open and entering his office, Xio skillfully locked the door, hurried to the corner, rolled up his sleeves, revealing a bright red area. He took out a tube of blood from his pocket, unscrewed the cap, and smeared the blood on it.
Go to that bright red area.
The bright red area seemed to be swollen after being smeared with blood. Xiu gently peeled it off at the edge, turning it into a shrunk piece of human skin.
At the same time, her mature face became childish and green, and her height of 1.6 meters gradually became shorter, and she soon returned to her own appearance. After that, she put the human skin on the top of her left arm, and her body
The appearance once again changed back to its original appearance.
Just then, there was a knock on her office door.
Xio frowned, showing a vigilant look. After confirming that there was nothing wrong with her from the small mirror on the table next to her, she took a few deep breaths, walked to the door in a few steps, opened the door and looked at her subordinate who was more than two heads taller than her.
, the voice is majestic:
"What's up?"
"Meeting." The young subordinate lowered his head and replied.
"I see."
Xio breathed a sigh of relief, but still looked calm on the surface.
…
A few minutes later, Xio and his colleagues walked into the conference room and saw his boss, Colonel Jordi, the leader of the "Church Comprehensive Affairs Processing Group". He was already sitting in the conference room, but he was just sitting with him.
Sitting at the head of the long table is a man wearing a straight dress, black hair and golden eyes, exuding a mature and elegant temperament.
Director of MI9, Admiral Selt, Sequence 4 "Law Mage".
After seeing his arrival, Xio and his colleagues all realized something was wrong and quickly sat down on both sides of the long table in the conference room with their heads lowered.
"Now that everyone is here, let me briefly talk about the key points of this meeting. But it is more of a notice than a meeting..."
Jordi, the leader of the "Church Comprehensive Affairs Processing Group", is a man with thin lips and thin hair. He carries a cup of coffee all year round. He has deep dark circles under his eyes and his voice is slightly low and hoarse.
"In the future, when dealing with extraordinary affairs with the church, you should pay more attention to the movements of the vampires. You can also ask your friends in the 'Punisher', 'Heart of Machinery', and 'Nighthawk' to see if there have been any changes in the vampires recently.
If there is any, report it immediately.
In addition, you should also pay attention during your daily work. Among them, the West District, Jowood District, and Bridge South District are all key areas where the vampires are active, and you need to focus on them."
In addition to cooperating with the three major churches in handling extraordinary affairs, Xio's group also provides early warning of extraordinary affairs in various areas of Backlund. After discovering problems, they are handed over to the church's extraordinary team for handling. According to a certain team leader in the group,
Their group can almost be regarded as a peripheral organization of the three major churches.
After Jordi finished speaking, he held the coffee cup in front of him with both hands. While holding it, the serious and cold expression on his face softened.
"Okay, let's break up the meeting!"
Is this the end?
This was the first thought of Xio and his colleagues. They all looked at Selt who was sitting in the main seat. Seeing that the other party had no intention of speaking, they looked at each other and immediately took the notebooks and pens in front of them and started writing.
He left the meeting room as quickly as possible.
When there were only Selt and Jordi in the conference room, the former knocked on the cup of coffee and said in a tone of half admonishment and half persuasion:
"You can definitely choose another sealed object with less negative effects. Why bother holding on to it like this?"
Jordi has a sealed object in his hand, which corresponds to the "Necromancer" in sequence 6. It has a relatively large negative effect, making it difficult to fall asleep and making the body cold.
"I'm used to it." Jordi held up the coffee cup in front of him nonchalantly and drank half of the cup in one gulp. "Tell me, which big shot gave you the order this time."
MI9 seems to have a high position, but it is of no use to some members of Augustus. Some people's orders require even Celt to go there in person.
"can not say."
"Yeah, I can think of it."
The Vampires have always been given preferential treatment by the Church of the Night, and there is an agreement in advance to allow MI9 to investigate them. They are definitely not ordinary big shots. But what Jordi can't understand is that there should be many ways for such people to get rid of the trouble of lifespan.
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"Ofton has done a great job in Zhongsonia, you don't want to..."
"It's not that easy!" Jordi looked serious and interrupted Selter, "We all know what you think, but you have to understand that it is unrealistic to change it from within."
Selt was silent for a while, then nodded.
"You don't want to bring in external forces. It's not clear how Edsac died. Charlie died again. Backlund seems quiet now, but is actually very chaotic..." Jordi rubbed the coffee cup,
"Besides, even the king may not be able to change MI9, otherwise you wouldn't have to make this trip."
Note: I plan to speed up the progress and skip the stage of Sequence 4 directly. It is a bit difficult to play the "Fallen Earl", and I am not confident in describing a country.