Struggle in the Steam Age

As a class that has existed since the birth of human beings, the existence of nobles naturally has its rationality. At the same time, most individuals of nobles themselves can be regarded as relatively excellent among human beings. In the darkest age, it was with such a group of talents that led mankind to resist the invasion of other races and develop to today.

But the problem is the development of productivity over time. The traditional power represented by the nobility has gradually become out of date, and even dragged down the development of the entire human race.

Under such circumstances, naturally many nobles chose to follow the trend of the times. Choose to embrace new historical development opportunities and new worlds. And this transformation also allowed them to successfully stand in front of mankind as they did in the past. After all, compared with those ordinary people, these nobles with background will often be at the forefront of the crowd in the new era once they transform.

But not all nobles can make the right choice. For example, the nobles who participated in this rebellion belong to those who do not want to make progress and oppose the progress of the times. They always think about going back to the past, so that they can grab or even monopolize benefits as easily as in the past. Instead of trying to adapt to the development of the times.

"—You must remember that nobility is not just an honor, a title. Likewise, it is also a responsibility." In the Etiquette Training Center on the third floor of the Heraldry Academy, an Etiquette Officer belonging to the royal family stood on the stage Speaking to the quasi-nobles who will participate in the canonization ceremony three days later. And Lawrence listened carefully in the crowd.

"Nobles did not exist in the world at first, but as some people mastered extraordinary power and became the sharpest sword and strongest shield of mankind, nobles also appeared. That is to say, their appearance is partly because of their Strength, on the other hand because of their contribution."

"Like the motto of the Academy of Heraldry, nobles last forever." Speaking of this, the etiquette officer looked seriously at the people listening to his lecture and said word by word. "But the eternal existence of nobles here refers only to nobles, but who is a noble is not a sure thing. Therefore, those who want to rely on their own merits without making progress will soon be eliminated from the ranks of nobles."

Lawrence and the students who were listening to the class all looked serious, straightened their backs like soldiers, put their hands on their knees, and listened to the content of the etiquette officer above. In fact, these things are a kind of ideological education, used to stimulate the nobles' sense of honor and loyalty to the country and the emperor.

I have to say that this ceremonial officer is very eloquent, but it's a pity that the people sitting here are not those newcomers who have just been honored and promoted from commoners to nobles. The people here are either grown up in noble families and have received a lot of this kind of education. Or someone like Lawrence who sees a lot of similar things and doesn't interest him at all.

So even though the etiquette officer above the stage was frothing, the students below shouted slogans from time to time, appearing very excited. But Lawrence could feel that the students next to him were actually very calm all the time. Not as fanatical as it appears.

After completing this routine work is the real etiquette training. However, in view of the fact that other people are of noble origin, they have learned these etiquettes since childhood. So after half an hour of special training. The ceremonial officer began to train Lawrence, the only thorough civilian here, alone. Fortunately, as a Transcendent, Lawrence learned quickly.

Three days later, Lawrence arrived at Schonbrunn Palace early in the morning. As the most important palace of the royal family in the capital, this place itself is the place where government affairs are handled, and some important ceremonies will be held here at the same time.

It may be to save money, or it may be to help the citizens get out of the shadow caused by the last rebellion. Traditionally, the canonization ceremony that only conferred one person at a time in the peaceful era suddenly became a collective canonization.

You must know that this kind of collective canonization is generally only available before the war or after the victory of the war. And this kind of war is often the kind of large-scale war facing the enemy, and counter-insurgency wars like this generally don't count.

But this counter-insurgency is different from the previous ones. It can be said that after the failure of this rebellion, most of the obstacles on the imperial reform route have been successfully removed, and the whole country will soon enter a new era. era. From this perspective, the collective canonization ceremony is not unacceptable.

The canonization ceremony began with these canonized people riding horses through the streets. All of them wore classical aristocratic dresses two or three hundred years ago, and rode horses in ceremonial armor along the street in front of the palace gate all the way to the direction of the palace.

These ceremonial armors looked very similar to the horse armor used by heavy cavalry in the past, but after riding on the horse, Lawrence discovered that these armors were purely made of thin copper skin, with various beautiful decorations carved on them. Embossed patterns, and finally a layer of silver plating on it.

Only in this way, the fancy horses used by the royal guard of honor, other than being good-looking and well-behaved, could not even run fast with people on their backs, could carry it on their backs and move normally.

Because Lawrence's title in today's canonization ceremony was neither high nor low, he was not conspicuous among the crowd at all. In this way, he arrived at the square in front of the palace smoothly.

Much like the Forbidden City in Lawrence's previous life, all of them on horseback had to get off their horses at the square in front of the palace gate, and then walked all the way to the gate of the palace from the road exposed in the middle of the 1,000-strong palace guard queue.

When the first noble to participate in the canonization ceremony came to the front of the queue, all members of the guards stood at attention and raised their guns to salute them. At the same time, a military band lined up at the end of the line began to play a cheerful march.

Lawrence and the others naturally stepped on the rhythm of the march and walked quickly towards the palace. During the march, Lawrence carefully observed the square that was the most intense main battlefield a week ago. It turns out that the place has been completely renovated, and even the nearby building that was blown up because it was used as a rebel artillery position is now blocked by a few large pieces of canvas with patterns drawn to prevent people from seeing it. A scene of embarrassment.

Unlike attending the ball before, this time Lawrence and the others entered from the main entrance of the palace. After following the palace attendant who led the way into the palace, some palace guards who were obviously extraordinary people came to them and asked them to hand over their weapons.

After feeling the aura of these palace guards, Lawrence was surprised to find that the outermost guards were all formal-level Transcendents. You must know that the people in charge of many grassroots religious places are only formal superhumans.

But it's also true to think about it. As the royal family that has controlled this country for hundreds of years, it naturally has enough resources and power to cultivate superhumans and master a powerful superhuman force. Otherwise, it would be impossible to maintain it for hundreds of years under the combined influence of internal and external troubles, and even successfully counterattack decades ago and recover the homeland.

Of course, those who can come here are not fools. Naturally, before coming here, put those things that may be taboo in a place that you can rest assured, or entrust them to some people who you can rest assured. So when the guard asked, everyone indicated that they had nothing on them.

In fact, the guard's questioning was only part of a symbolic ceremony. The real inspection had actually been done before: when entering the door, Lawrence felt several obvious magical powers scan all of them who entered the door. It should be to check the dangerous goods they may be carrying.

But just as they entered the waiting hall, an attendant suddenly walked in from a door next to him and whispered something in the ear of the chief attendant who was leading the way, and then the chief attendant cast his gaze on Lawrence body.