Struggle in the Steam Age

Lawrence asked the butler about family affairs because his adoptive father had never introduced him to the background of the family, so he knew nothing about these things. So Lawrence felt that it was a good time to take this opportunity to ask the butler what was going on at home.

After all, in this situation, they were likely to go to the Old Continent to attend his uncle's funeral, and thinking about the funeral of an aristocrat, one knew that there would be a large number of guests who seemed to express their condolences. In this case, it would be too impolite for the close relatives of the deceased to have little knowledge of the family situation.

"Master, didn't you tell the young master the history and glory of our family?" After listening to Lawrence's words, Butler Bayer turned his neck quickly and looked at Mr. Lambert with an agility that did not match his age. "Why don't you tell the young master these things?"

"After all, when I chose to leave home, I chose to treat myself as an ordinary person." At this point, Mr. Lambert patted Lawrence on the shoulder lightly and looked at Butler Bayer and said. "In this way, my son is naturally an ordinary person. There is no need to know these things to cause trouble. Besides, my son is doing very well by himself now, without any help from the family."

"You are right, the young master is indeed very powerful now, even I think he is one of the best in our family. At least no one in the family can achieve such an achievement at such a young age except for the first Earl Sauer " After listening to Mr. Lambert's words, Butler Bayer also showed pride and pride from the bottom of his heart. For this housekeeper who has worked in the family for several generations, it is a very happy thing for him to see outstanding family members.

But soon he regained his serious expression and looked at Mr. Lambert and said: "But I think you still need to tell your children about the glorious tradition of the family. This is the glory of the August family. I think it should be let He passed it on."

"Well, I will tell my son about these things sometime." Mr. Lambert spread his hands and shrugged, then looked at Butler Bayer and asked. "But now, can you tell me the reason why you came here in person this time? I believe that if it was only my brother who passed away, you shouldn't be asked to take the transoceanic space teleportation array to inform me of the news."

"Because the family now needs you, young master, to sit in town in person." Butler Baier showed a very serious expression. "Now the Earl's Mansion is in a mess because of the death of the Earl. Madam is too sad to manage the family affairs. It is very necessary for someone to take over the responsibility of presiding over the affairs of the Earl's Mansion, and you are the most suitable one."

"Why not let my two nephews go to receive them? After all, they are my brother's first and second heirs." Mr. Lambert suddenly felt wrong, because in this case, they are often the next Earl Come to preside over the affairs of the family, basically there will be no chaos.

"Because His Excellency Conrad's two young masters are missing—" Butler Bayer was interrupted by Mr. Lambert before he could finish speaking, and Mr. Lambert said impatiently, "Okay, put all Let’s talk about all the things that are wrong in detail, starting with my brother’s death.”

Before, Mr. Lambert obviously saw that the cause of his brother's death was a bit strange, but as the third member in line of succession to the title, according to the custom, he should not intervene in this matter before his brother's two sons sent an invitation. But now after learning that his two nephews were missing, he immediately became nervous.

In this world, the companions of extraordinary people and nobles are not limited to one person, but Earl Sauer has only one wife and two legal sons, and the two sons have no legal children because they are not married. Therefore, with his two sons now missing, Mr. Lambert, as the third heir, should assume the responsibility of the family. This is also the reason why Butler Bayer traveled all the way to the New World.

"Master, the situation is like this." Because he wanted to find Mr. Lambert to solve the family problems, so after Lawrence's adoptive father asked, Butler Bayer told him what he had encountered before like pouring beans into a bamboo tube.

According to the butler, after Earl Sauer's sudden death, the transcendent who was present immediately checked the body, but found nothing abnormal. At the same time, they also sent someone to inform the earl's two sons, but it was strange that the informer only learned that the earl's two sons had gone hunting after entering the earl's mansion in the capital, but they found nothing after searching the hunting ground .

"I think it's very likely that someone is targeting our August family." Butler Bayer expressed his conjecture after talking about what happened in the previous family. As a professional butler of a noble family, he has seen many Less conspiracies and tricks, so naturally think in this direction when something happens.

"What you said is very reasonable, Grandpa Bayer." Lawrence answered immediately after talking about his thoughts at Bayer's house, and then talked in detail about the attack he encountered on the way back here. Thinking about it now, that group of people was obviously aiming to kill Lawrence and his companions, but because they probably seriously underestimated the fighting power of Lawrence and Safir due to incomplete information collection, they ended up giving away their heads.

"You mean that those killers were probably former professional soldiers?" Butler Bayer frowned after hearing Lawrence's analysis, "Although the Earl is currently serving in the court, he also serves as the vice president of the House of Nobles. .But in fact, it is only dealing with some miscellaneous affairs, and has not obviously offended anyone or any group!"

"The most important thing is that our August family is descended from the illegitimate son of an emperor of the Holy Visby Empire, so we naturally belong to the emperor's faction. Therefore, after receiving the hint that the emperor wanted to centralize power in the first half of last year, we simply put ourselves After handing over his territory, he went to the capital to become a court noble. And a court noble without a territory will generally not be watched by anyone."

With the continuous development of science and technology, the original layers of aristocratic feudal control began to gradually become unsuitable for the rapid development of productivity, and even the differences between different noble territories had a negative effect on the development of productivity. Therefore, any ruler with a little idea will choose to gradually centralize power to promote the development of the country.

At this time, the August family, as the emperor's faction, naturally chose to respect the emperor's ideas. In addition, the current Earl Sauer himself is not a person who loves power very much. So two years ago, the current Earl Sauer chose to hand over his territory to the country, retaining only the title of nobility and the family property.

After learning that his uncle gave up the territory and handed it over to the country, Lawrence thought of a possibility. So he asked his father and the housekeeper of the family. "Do you think the recent series of incidents are caused by those nobles who want to keep their rights? After all, my uncle's actions are really unfriendly to those nobles who hold real power and don't want to give up their independent status. .”

"Your thinking is actually because you are not a nobleman, so you don't understand what's going on here." Butler Bayer shook his head and said. "Our family has always been regarded as a sub-family of the royal family, which belongs to the vassals of the emperor. Therefore, the emperor's order for us to execute is completely in line with the principle of the noble's internal hierarchy. Therefore, it is impossible for those nobles to reject us because of this."

"Or to be more precise, our family has not been on good terms with the group of nobles from the noble faction because we belong to the emperor's faction, but they also recognize that we, as the emperor's direct vassals, obey the emperor's orders, which is in line with the rules of the nobles. Therefore, A group of nobles may hate the Earl because of this matter, but they will definitely not cause such a thing.”

Butler Bayer's words made things even more confusing. He had to admit that Butler Bayer was right. The aristocratic system was based on a strict feudal relationship between upper and lower classes, so even if they didn't like the nobles sent by the emperor very much, But it is also necessary to agree with the loyal attitude of these nobles to the superior nobles or the emperor. Because doing so is also maintaining the existence and contact of the entire noble class.

But what makes Lawrence feel a little confused is that other than this reason, he really doesn't know who has the motive behind the scenes to make the whole family of the Earl's family suddenly become what it is now.