Chapter 1704 Awarded

At the end of October 1622, after multiple rounds of selection and fierce competition, the list of winners of this year's "Ebdon Award" was finally announced, which triggered an unprecedented heated discussion since the award was founded.

For the final result of this award, the responses in different circles are also very different.

In fact, long before the list of winners was announced, the authoritative figures in the Austrian law academic circle reached a consensus that the most competitive candidate this year was none other than Joan Vida from Midgard University, and the result was as expected , Dr. Vader won this year's "Alberton Weinstein Foundation Award" with unanimous votes, and pocketed 100,000 Gold Duga bonus.

The academic circle values ​​real materials. Although Dr. Vader is young, his academic achievements are full of weight. He published four first-authored papers in the Austrian Law Journal within a year, including "Petrochemical Effect", "Australian Star Lake Dinosaur Epidemic", "Blood Essence and Soul" and "Self-Clustering and Multi-headed Spellcasting" which received full marks are unconvinced by colleagues in the industry. It cannot be said that there is no controversy at all, but the mainstream view is that Dr. Vader deserves the award return.

Outside the academic circle of Austrian law, those newspapers and magazines facing the general public also reported the news. The public on both sides of the strait equates this with a "genius", although most people don't know and don't care what academic achievements this young genius has made.

Winning the award brought not only bonuses and social reputation to Joan, but also disrupted his rhythm of life and added many troubles.

According to the past practice, the award ceremony will be held on November 7th - which is Mr. Albert Weinstein's birthday - in the holy city of Ashan. main character.

Along with the winning notice, there were four more tickets sent to Joan.

In order to facilitate Joann's travel, the Weinstein Foundation specially reserved four seats for him in the first class cabin of the magical airship "Lucky"—in addition to Joann himself, he can also bring three relatives and friends to participate Awards ceremony.

Of course, the air transport company to which the "Lucky" airship belongs is also an industry owned by the Weinstein family.

When Joan won the "Rising Star Award" last year, he was supposed to go on a lecture tour to famous schools in the summer. He didn't want to show his face, and he had some social barriers, so he turned down all these activities.

A year later, Joan was one year older and more mature, and his rejection of social activities was no longer as strong as before. However, he was still annoyed by such public activities and pushed as much as he could.

Taking an airship across the ocean, going to a strange place thousands of miles away to attend an award ceremony, and expressing his acceptance of the award in front of all the guests, this is simply a disaster worse than war for Joan—if it can be avoided To start this disaster, he is even willing to donate all the 100,000 Gold Duga bonus to charity.

Joan racked his brains and tried to fabricate a reasonable reason to decline the invitation letter from the Weinstein Foundation. However, at this moment, Sir Custis wrote to ask him to meet, saying that he had something very important to discuss.

Qiao An didn't dare to neglect, and hurried to the hermit manor outside the city.

After the meeting, Sir Custis first congratulated him on winning the award, and then he had an insight into his mind.

"Joan, I know you hate awards ceremonies and the like, not to mention public acceptance speeches, but I'm afraid you can't refuse this trip to the holy city."

"Why?" Joan asked in surprise.

"Because important members of the Weinstein family, as well as the first in line to the imperial family, Crown Prince Frank, and Prince Sigmund and his precious daughter, Princess Palatina, will be present at the banquet on the night of the awards ceremony - This is the only chance you'll get to meet these big men!"

"Joan, I know you're not interested in making friends with the imperial powers, but the future of the Midgard colony rests on you. If you refuse to use the opportunity of participating in the awards dinner to speak out for the Asa natives, then their voices will be jeopardized." Without other channels to reach the ears of the high command of the empire, the colonists and the aborigines will inevitably move towards a life-and-death hostile position until one side completely eliminates the other."

Joan was terrified.

"Monseigneur, I do not quite understand what you mean."

"Look at this petition and you'll understand."

Sir Custis opened the drawer with difficulty, took out a sheepskin scroll, and slowly unfolded it in front of Joan.

"This is a petition drafted by Logan on behalf of the Volsung tribe, detailing the difficult survival plight of the natives of Midgard and the promises Governor Nichols made to them before the war."

"The Asa people long for peace and are willing to live in harmony with the colonists as brothers. The land in the New World is vast and rich enough to accommodate the colonists and the aborigines. Why do they fight with each other and greedily plunder the land far beyond their actual needs? ?”

"In order to prove the sincerity of the reconciliation, the Volsong tribe has successively sent more than 2,000 tribesmen to assist the Midgardians in fighting the invaders from the north. Many of the young Asa warriors died on the battlefield. The victory of the war They also have a share of the credit.”

"However, after the war ended, the peace treaty concluded between the imperial authorities and the Fizen Kingdom did not mention the interests of the Asa people, completely excluding them from the peace talks agenda. This is really unfair."

"On the other hand, the promise made by Governor Nichols in order to win the Asa people to join the war has now been overturned by the colonial parliament in the name of 'illegal', and the refusal to fulfill the promise has aroused anger in Shizhu Town and even the entire aboriginal society. intense anger."

Having said that, Sir Custis couldn't help coughing violently, his eyes couldn't hide his worry.

"Joan, the volcano under our feet is about to erupt, but the people in the city turn a blind eye to it. They deceive and fool the aborigines. Instead of feeling ashamed, they are complacent. Newt Purchase', commenting that the Asa people made the same mistakes again and again, shows that their minds are too dull to understand, and they are not worthy of occupying the rich and fertile land of the New World, and they deserve to be enslaved by more resourceful colonizers."

"This is simply confusing right and wrong and turning black and white. I am really ashamed to have such shameless compatriots!"

Joan gritted her teeth and couldn't help but confide the truth in front of Sir Custis.

"My lord, I'm not afraid of your jokes. Sometimes I really feel that I shouldn't be reincarnated as a human being. Then I don't have to try to find my foothold in human society, and I don't care whether I can gain a sense of belonging among the crowd." , when you meet a shameless person, just kill him to your heart’s content—they are not my kind anyway!”

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