Struggle in the Steam Age

"What does the Imperial Heraldry Institute do?" Lawrence, who had nothing to do, asked the royal attendant sitting across from him in the carriage heading to the Heraldry Institute. As the name suggests, Lawrence felt that the Arms Institute should be a place similar to an archive, used to record the coats of arms, flags and inquiries about family genealogy of various nobles.

But considering that he heard a lot of untrue royal institutions from the tour guide when he visited the Forbidden City in his previous life, Lawrence had an extra heart to ask the aide in front of him directly about the role of the Academy of Arms.

Sure enough, his worries were not without reason. Under the explanation of the royal attendant, Lawrence discovered that the Heraldry had other functions besides those he thought. For example, the registration of nobles, and the review of the qualifications of nobles to obtain titles or inherit titles. Assist the royal family to hold the canonization ceremony, provide the emperor with a series of functions such as consulting on the content of the noble canonization.

According to the attendant, the Academy of Heraldry actually had greater power in the past. It can even adjudicate disputes between nobles and deal with nobles who broke the law. But later, with the Emperor's reforms, these jurisdictions were transferred to a special court of the nobility. The Academy of Arms resumed its main duties in the past.

Of course, the Academy of Arms is an institution dedicated to serving the nobility. So it's not surprising that Lawrence didn't know anything about this kind of organization before. After all, for ordinary people, they don't need to deal with the Heraldry Institute for a lifetime.

The carriage stopped in front of a small garden, and then Lawrence, accompanied by the royal attendants, came to the shiny bronze gate of a small golden and white three-story building in the garden.

After seeing someone walking up the white marble steps, a guard standing in front of the door, wearing a blue dress with gold trim, stretched out his hand to signal them to stop. However, after the royal attendant took out a scroll marked with wax paint, he checked it carefully and bowed to Lawrence, then turned around and knocked on the door behind him three times.

As soon as the knock on the door fell, the two doors opened inward. Then Lawrence walked into the resplendent hall under the guidance of the royal attendant. But just walking in the middle of the hall, a staff member wearing the same blue uniform with gold trim stepped forward. stopped them.

"Hello!" The staff member bowed to Lawrence first, then straightened up and looked at him and asked. "May I ask what you are here for?"

"Mr. August is here to go through the formalities of being knighted." The royal attendant said and showed the parchment scroll just now again. After seeing it, the staff immediately invited Lawrence and the others to the second floor.

"The first floor is for nobles who cannot be hereditary, as well as low-class or low-level nobles like knights." Watching Lawrence staring at the staff sitting at the table on the first floor, the man in front The staff leading the way explained thoughtfully, "A nobleman like you should handle these things on the second floor."

Sure enough, the first floor on the second floor is completely different. The first floor is just some small cubicles separated by wooden boards. Although the condition is good, it still looks a lot rough compared to the tea room on the second floor, which is covered with luxurious wallpaper and the floor is covered with top-notch imported carpets.

After sitting down and serving drinks and snacks, another staff member came in holding various documents. He first saluted Lawrence, then sat across from him and began to go through Lawrence's formalities.

After reviewing the documents carried by the Royal Attendant and those Mr. Lambert mailed from Sauer, his first question made Lawrence stunned. "Sir, where is your coat of arms?"

"The coat of arms? Isn't this it?" Lawrence pointed to a piece of parchment that looked old in the pile of documents. A blue and white coat of arms was painted on it, similar to the color of the logo of Don't Touch Me in my previous life. It's just that the four colors are all painted with silver patterns.

Among them, the castle represents the history of the feudal nobles, the sword represents the military exploits, the luanwei flower represents the family's marriage with a member of the royal family of the Frans Empire, and the last unicorn points out that the family has recognized royal blood.

"This is your family's coat of arms, sir." The staff member smiled and said. "You also need a private coat of arms for various occasions. This is a rigid rule, for example, you will need this thing at your canonization ceremony three days later."

"Of course, it doesn't matter if you're not prepared." Perhaps because he was personally accompanied by the royal attendant, this staff member also seemed very kind. "We have professional designers here. If necessary, they can help you quickly design a coat of arms that matches your identity."

"I don't need this one, please give me paper, pen and paint. I can draw one soon." Lawrence asked the clerk opposite, and then summoned the book charm.

"If it helps, I think there should be no problem." The staff here are all knowledgeable, so he quickly recognized the book charm and sent over what Lawrence needed. After getting everything ready, Shu Mei only took five minutes to draw Lawrence's private coat of arms.

It's not that Lawrence is so talented in design, but that as a knight heir, he can only design on the family's coat of arms, and doesn't need to start anew. So he just added a red coat of arms in the center of the coat of arms of the family coat of arms, and then drew a blue and white image of Baize on top of it, with the image of Baize in a scroll state floating above his head, and he was done.

"How do you look at this?" After the paint dried, Lawrence handed over the parchment with his coat of arms painted on to the staff and asked. After all, there are many regulations in the design of this heraldry, but he is not clear about all of them, so he is a little worried that this kind of heraldry does not meet the regulations.

"This is no problem." After carefully looking at the heraldic pattern, the clerk nodded to express his approval of the pattern drawn by Lawrence. In his eyes, it is normal for Lawrence, as an extraordinary person, to add a source of extraordinary power to his personal coat of arms, and as a scholar, it is completely in line with the rules of heraldry to add a scroll pattern to his personal articles .

Except for this matter, the rest of the things went very smoothly. After watching the staff member fill out the form in very beautiful cursive characters, the registration work is completely over.

Then the royal attendant returned to the palace to report, while Lawrence and the staff went up to the third floor to deal with the next things.

"The third floor is where we train the nobles who are about to hold the canonization ceremony." The staff explained to Lawrence while leading the way. "Especially for someone like you who has never received similar training before, we must ensure that you will not have any problems during the conferring ceremony, sir."

"Understood, I really troubled you." Lawrence laughed. After all, he himself had only learned part of the etiquette for making up numbers from Safiel before, and he really needed to learn this systematically.

After all, unlike the nobles who learned these things from an early age, Lawrence has always been an ordinary person, so he really doesn't understand these things. You know, those nobles have learned these things since they were young, so they can naturally adopt the most appropriate coping methods on various occasions.

Few of the nobles in this world are complete idiots. Most of them are well-educated and have mastered many skills. After all, as a class that has been the leader of mankind for a long time, there is always something commendable about being able to win a place for mankind in this world where mankind does not have an overall advantage.