Chapter 352, Commoners and Nobles

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In late autumn, the first snow is flying, and there is joy in the tower.

Ryan, Suria, and the Fairy of the Lake sat on the ground around a small table. A hot pot was lit in the middle of the small table. The newlyweds sat on one side. The Fairy of the Lake did not sit opposite them, but sat on Ryan's left. .

"It's not as simple as imagined?" Ryan asked suspiciously with Suria in his arms. He has not been in Brittany for a long time, and he actually doesn't know much about some rules.

"Lian, you are from Nord. In Nord or the Empire, serfs want to become nobles. What should I do?" The fairy in the lake had a beautiful face with a smile on her face. She put beef, prawns, chicken Cut it into pieces, dip it in the sauce, and put it in the hot pot. The goddess actually doesn't need to eat much. She doesn't eat meat, she just eats some fruits, wine and wine.

The goddess does this, just to show her closeness.

"Three channels, the same as the empire." Ryan stretched out three fingers.

"The first is to enter a school or church as an apprentice (penance). The nobles of the empire will regularly go to various colleges and churches to find excellent attendants and courtiers. Although the school always uses piety and loyalty as the recommended standard, it is still Many apprentices with excellent grades were chosen by the nobles to become their attendants and gradually promoted to stewards or even courtiers. When a courtier accumulated enough qualifications or merits, some nobles would choose to give them a noble status. However, the cost of this method is very high, and among the common people, only owner farmers or even rich peasants, and those merchants and shopkeepers can afford the high tuition fees."

"The second is to join the army." Ryan stretched out his second finger: "The lords will always need an excellent army to defend their territory. Civilians can join the army every year. The first thing to do is to receive recruit training and survive. Those who have been recruited can become reserve soldiers, and the reserve soldiers wait for the opportunity to be recruited to become urban garrisons, and then continue to wait for the opportunity to become formal soldiers."

"Official soldiers will be organized into swordsman regiments, crossbowmen regiments, spear or halberd regiments. They need to continue to fight bloody battles until they accumulate credit and strength and become great swordsmen. Great swordsmen can enjoy double salary And a military camp with a good environment as a place of residence, the best of the great swordsmen will be promoted by the nobles to become army officers or knights, which means entering the aristocratic class, and some army officers may even have the opportunity to be knighted and become imperial generals .”

"The third way is to find a way to become a knight's apprentice. The knight apprentice will learn from the knight and take care of their daily life. After a few years, the outstanding knight apprentice will be promoted to the knight's retinue. The retinue will start With a certain status, you can follow the knights to the battlefield and make military exploits, and the outstanding knights will have the opportunity to become apprentice knights, fight on horseback and wait for the canonization of nobles with titles, become knight errants, and start to enter the noble class."

"So it's like this!" Su Liya's eyes lit up, and she looked at her husband adoringly: "Then Ryan, you must be the third way?"

"Ahem, I'm not. I'm the adopted son of the White Wolf Knight. I was born with the qualifications of an apprentice knight. After I made my achievements in the Battle of Lapland, I will directly become a Ranger Knight." Ryan said with some embarrassment.

This is the back door that the nobles of the empire left for their children. The children of the nobles took a different path. They were better trained since childhood. After graduating from court courses or school courses, the children of the nobles may become apprentices. Knight, or become a pistol cavalry (also considered a type of cavalier novice).

"Lian, my champion, assuming I didn't help you, you should be the company commander of the White Wolf Knights now, living in White Wolf City, waiting for the order of White Wolf Urik, and the long-term and Drakwald Forest Are the Beastman tribe fighting against the Chaos Warband in the Brass Mountains?" The fairy in the lake said with a smile, her little hands covered with jewels intertwined,

Put it on the table.

"Nine times out of ten, I need to fight for another ten years to accumulate military exploits, see if Elector Boris is willing to make me a baron, and then accumulate thirty to fifty years of military exploits... Maybe eighty Let’s see if I can be promoted to Earl.” Ryan complained helplessly: “It should be like this, or longer, my lady, Suria, you all know how many people in the empire are ranking seniority, I have no qualifications, even if I immediately I have made great contributions, and there are very few rewards left in the end."

This is how the empire's ascending system is. Although it is almost impossible for serfs to become nobles like Brittania, the efforts of the commoners of the empire to become nobles are often not enough for one generation, at least three generations.

"Few left?" Surya leaned sweetly on her husband's chest, thinking that her luck was really good.

Seeing the happy appearance of the female knight, the fairy in the lake felt uncomfortable. She hummed softly, and the pair of beautiful black silk legs under the table moved uneasily, and changed her sitting position.

"The credit of the subordinate is the credit of the boss, and the fault of the boss is the responsibility of the subordinate." Ryan said calmly: "Empire and Nord do not have the teachings of chivalry and ladies. I have made countless military exploits since I was eighteen years old, and finally It's just a promotion from a ranger knight to a kingdom knight, and this is the result of the White Wolf Knights being relatively fair and only focusing on martial prowess."

Suria understood what Ryan meant. In the empire, there was no such thing as chivalry.

"This is the empire." The fairy in the lake had a smug expression on her face: "My champion, you did not choose the wrong one."

"Yes, I don't think I made the wrong choice." Ryan lowered his head. Although the Fairy of the Lake had many ideas and purposes for him, he always believed that the alliance between him and the Fairy of the Lake was a win-win situation after all.

Only after truly experiencing this strict system, did Ryan understand how difficult it is for commoners in the Empire or Nord to become nobles. Basically, if you start as a lowly tenant farmer (a knife and a dog), it is almost impossible to become a noble in one generation. It is possible, which often requires the accumulation of three generations.

For example, if the first generation of peasants joined the army and became a swordsman, they were wounded in battle and retired honorably with a large pension. Then his son can relatively receive a certain degree of military education and rely on his father Springboard, directly enter the army to serve.

The child of the second generation started as a soldier, won recognition and military merits in some major battles, became a great swordsman, enjoyed double salary and lived in a better environment in the barracks, of course, he is already qualified to send his child Sent to the military academy to study and conduct military training (in Britannia, it is a sergeant).

The third generation finally came to fruition. Relying on his father's status and income as a great swordsman, he could become a knight retinue, buy knight equipment, or inherit his father's position as a great swordsman. Level 1 - Knight (in Britannia, if you want to become a knight and get rid of serf status, you need the order of the king + the order of the lake god and witch).

Of course, there are always some "special cases" in the world, here is the normal situation, just like Hua Meisi, there will be people who are favored by gods or extremely powerful people who will triple jump in a row. There are never many such people, but cannot be regarded as normal.

So the other way around, what about a kingdom knight like Ryan?

It is even more difficult to climb the knighthood of the empire. It is basically impossible to go from a knight of the kingdom to a baron in one generation. Ryan is very good at playing, and this process should be relatively short, but as Ryan complained, the accumulation of thirty years is the least.

Don't even think about Nord, the lord will be the lord all his life, and it's good to keep his own territory.

"By the way, Suria, you still haven't told me why the Duchess of Huameisi can't inherit the title of duke even if she has a child?" Ryan thought that the topic was far away, and he hugged the plump female knight in his arms. She smiled and asked, "Isn't Hua Meisi's husband a nobleman?"

Ryan thought of the famous "One Drop of Blood Principle". In the United States, as long as a drop of blood is black, he is considered a black person and will still be discriminated against. This is also true for the nobles in this world. The children of nobles will be nobles.

"No, first of all Hua Meisi has never married, and even if her husband is a nobleman, her child is still a serf and cannot inherit the title." Suria still shook her head: "The title of Duke of Lyonnaise is destined not to be passed on. "

"Why?!" Ryan was surprised now. Hua Meisi was already a nobleman, so she couldn't find a noble husband?

"Hehe, you don't know anything about this, Ryan." The fairy in the lake smiled: "In Britannia, whether a person is a noble depends on him and his family's genealogy."

"The family tree?"

"Ma'am, you are right. From this person to the entire family tree, five generations, if all his relatives within five generations are nobles, then he is a nobleman, otherwise he is a serf." Suria used a spoon to scoop Picked up a piece of beef and put it in Ryan's bowl: "The Duchess of Huameisi is a lady and a nobleman specially appointed by the king, but her father is a small tax collector, and her mother is a shepherdess. She has and only she is a nobleman. , her children are still serfs, the lady's favor is only limited to herself, and has nothing to do with her descendants."

"Hahahaha~" Ryan covered his face with his hands and smiled wryly: "Ma'am, your rules are really strict."

"This is not a rule I made, but a rule made by Arthur and his son Lewis." The fairy in the lake was afraid that Ryan would misunderstand, so she shook her head again and again: "This is not in the scope of my business, gods belong to gods, mortals belong to mortal."

Ryan expressed his understanding that the five serfs who were promoted to nobles in the history of Brittany all alarmed the fairy in the lake to some extent. Facing the oracle of the goddess, the knights could not object.

"Well... Then I should be considered a nobleman. My adoptive father is a nobleman, and my godfather is a great nobleman. My father... may be the most noble nobleman." Ryan suddenly remembered something, and he said to the fairy in the lake : "My lady, if I plan to give a small number of serfs a chance to be promoted to nobility, are you willing to help me?"

"You want to start with this?" The fairy in the lake narrowed her eyes, and there was still a slight smile on her beautiful face: "This example is not easy to start."

"Lian, I've discussed it with my father, and my father and I will support you on this point!" Suria first expressed her attitude.

"The whole kingdom, no more than three places a year, how about awarding those outstanding serf soldiers, especially outstanding ones?" Ryan finally revealed his ambition, in front of his wife and the fairy in the lake: "I want to mobilize The enthusiasm of the serfs should always give them some expectations, and in the end it will be up to you, Ma'am, to check."

"Hmm~" The Fairy in the Lake deliberately put on a trick, and then said: "My champion, do we still need to divide each other? Since you think it's okay, then let's do it, and I will support you."

Seeing the fairy in the lake let go, Ryan felt relieved.

The insurmountable gulf between nobles and serfs must be broken.

This is the most important step in bringing this kingdom to life!