Struggle in the Steam Age

After standing blankly in front of the tombstone for five or six minutes, Lawrence asked his adoptive father a little puzzled. "Didn't you just say that my grandfather died in an honorable battle to attract that dracolich? Such a person sounds like a hero, how could he treat you—"

"You mean my father is a hero, so my marriage shouldn't be like it is now, right?" After hearing Lawrence's question, Mr. Lambert smiled briefly and said, "But What I want to say is that if your grandfather is still alive, you will not like him, because he is a standard nobleman."

Seeing that Lawrence was a little confused, Mr. Lambert simply sat down cross-legged on the open space in front of his wife's tombstone. Then he motioned Lawrence to sit down too, and told him something about the nobles that would not be recorded on paper. It's just the knowledge that will be passed on by word of mouth.

For nobles, the conclusion of a marriage mainly considers the interests of the family, and whether there is love between the two parties in the marriage is a matter that can basically be ignored. Among them, the marriage of the eldest son as the direct heir is the most concerned, especially the family status of the other party. Because this is related to the most important inheritance of the family, other sons will have a wider range of choices in marriage partners.

However, considering that other sons are only civilians, they tend to pay more attention to economic factors rather than political factors when choosing a marriage partner. For example, the marriage of Mr. Lambert was based on economic factors. After all, for a commoner, economic issues are very important.

When choosing a spouse, the daughters of noble families usually choose an heir with a higher title than their own family as the best marriage partner, or the heirs of various families or even the patriarch himself. However, sometimes they will also marry some outstanding civilians to inject fresh blood into the family.

Therefore, it is not purely fabricated that the brave men in popular novels won the favor of the princess after defeating the dragon. It is indeed possible for the daughters of noble families to marry non-noble men. But the prerequisite is that these ordinary men are good enough.

In the last decade or so, there has been another trend, that is, some aristocrats who have begun to decline have begun to choose the children of rich people to marry for their descendants, especially the wealthy families from the White Eagle Federation. This is actually a "fame and fortune" transaction, because both parties have exactly what the other party desperately needs.

With the rapid improvement of productivity brought about by the progress of industrial level and the impact of a large amount of food from overseas and the development of more astral planes belonging to the country, many people used to use the agricultural output on the land as their source of income. As a result, the wealth foundation of the nobles was in shambles.

But correspondingly, a group of industrial tycoons who have grown up through technological progress in various places have become very rich. For example, Mr. Bass, who helped Safir to catch the rape, saw a luxury residence worth 3 million yuan on a small island in the outskirts of Eagle Fort. It looked more like a small palace than an ordinary mansion. .

According to Safir, the mansion was covered with marble and expensive tapestries, and any metal was plated with gold and silver as much as possible, and the inside looked very luxurious. On the whole, except for the lack of historical precipitation, it is no less than the Coburg family palace she saw when she came to study in the New World last time.

Under such circumstances, those nobles still need to maintain a luxurious lifestyle, and at the same time spend a lot of money to repair their castles to maintain their face as nobles, which is a symbol of status. Therefore, it appears to be quite stretched economically.

Also, those rich people have enough money though. But he was regarded as a nouveau riche and excluded from the circle of the upper class. At the same time, they also lack the extraordinary inheritance that those nobles have.

Therefore, in such a situation where it can be said that the concubine had intentions, the emerging rich people easily reached a marriage with these declining nobles, and each got what he needed.

And Mr. Lambert's father is such a nobleman, because as a nobleman sent by the emperor, there are some emerging taxes that cannot be collected. So just relying on the traditional land and a part of the basic business tax cannot maintain the operation of the entire family, which is why he was so eager to find another wife for Mr. Lambert.

At the same time, Mr. Lambert also told Lawrence that his father was such a nobleman. Although he died to save the people in the end, it was definitely not because he actually believed that the innocent should be protected. It's because he believes that as a noble lord, since he has received offerings from the people, he must provide sufficient protection, otherwise he can't be regarded as a real noble.

"That is to say, if this attack occurs elsewhere, my father will definitely be the first to run away. Because he thinks it is more important to protect himself as long as it is not his duty." Lambert said here Shrugged, then showed a sarcastic expression.

"So a standard aristocrat like my father will definitely not care about the love of his youngest son who has no inheritance rights for his wife. He only wants to let his son get married again to gain more benefits for the family."

"Because of this, my father and I fell apart. So I exchanged the manor that should belong to me that originally belonged to your mother in exchange for my freedom. Then I left the old continent to start a new life in the new continent." Speaking of this, Lambert patted Lawrence on the shoulder, "But I am no longer sad, because I know that after I die, I will definitely meet your mother in the kingdom of God of my lord."

"Yes, it will." Lawrence nodded and said. "But can you tell me why I have never heard of my mother you introduced before, especially your mother who loves me so much."

"Because that kind of selfless aristocratic life is too bad, so I hope you will not be like me. So I hid all the information related to my previous life from you before you became an adult." Mr. Lambert paused After a moment, he looked into Lawrence's eyes and said.

"As for the love for your mother, I really love your mother very much. I even think of him every day. But I think that the deceased spouse should be cherished in the heart, not like my father's nobleman. Talk about sad things to everyone, and use everything as a bargaining chip for profit."

"You're right, I think so too." Lawrence thought for a while and stretched his hand into the interspatial bag as a cover, then took out a bunch of white chrysanthemums from the astral plane and placed them on the person who had never seen before. mother's tombstone. Lambert saw something in Lawrence's movement to fetch something, but he didn't say anything.

After paying tribute to the deceased, Lawrence and Mr. Lambert left the family cemetery and returned to the Earl's Mansion in the carriage they had arrived in. But unexpectedly, when they returned to the Earl's Mansion, they found a black carriage appeared at the gate of the Earl's Mansion.

"What's going on here?" Lawrence felt a little strange looking at the golden skull with a circle of olive leaves drawn on the black carriage of the carriage, because this was the logo of the Western Inquisition of the Old World.

The Tribunal here is actually a cross-border organization like the New World Inquisition, and it was also established to eradicate any threat to the civilized world. Seeing them appear at the door of the earl's house, Lawrence felt that the earl's accidental death represented more trouble than he had imagined before.

"You're finally back." Butler Bayer stood impatiently at the door as if waiting for someone, and said eagerly after he spotted Lawrence and the others. "Two judges from Wendobona have just come over, hoping to talk to the current manager of the Earl's Mansion—"