Chapter 64: Alternative to Knighthood

The leaders here didn't expect Ma Yinuo to be so direct.

The meal was not even served and they got down to business, which was completely different from the people they had met before.

A bit arrogant.

However, talented people have arrogant capital, not to mention that they do want something, and Ma Yinuo's attitude is already within their expectations.

"Haha, Mr. Ma is really fast-talking. Li Dawei smiled: "Yes, we do have something we want to ask Mr. Ma for help." ”

Ma Yinuo nodded: "Listen up." ”

Li Dawei didn't get down to business immediately, but asked, "Teacher Ma, what do you think of our Jiangnan?"

Ma Yinuo glanced at him and said, "The scenery is picturesque, and the people are outstanding." ”

Then he glanced at Hu Xian'er and said with a smile: "There are many beautiful women, and my wife and sister-in-law are the best proof of this." ”

Everyone looked at Hu Xian'er, and Hu Xian'er suddenly blushed and lowered her head.

"What about me, what about me?" the female reporter stopped: "Teacher Ma, am I not beautiful?"

Without waiting for Ma Yinuo to speak, Li Dawei laughed and said: "Of course, our big reporter is also a beauty, but compared to Hu Xian'er, it is a little worse." ”

Everyone laughed, and the female reporter looked aggrieved, but after glancing at Hu Xian'er, she said disheartenedly: "Hu Xian'er is a first-class beauty in the country, and I don't compare with her." ”

"Hahaha......" the crowd laughed again.

Seeing that Ma Yinuo was also smiling, Li Dawei hit the railway while it was hot: "Mr. Ma is right, our Jiangnan is indeed very good, there are not only picturesque and antique scenery, but also extremely new high-rise buildings, advanced infrastructure, and has developed into a second-tier city." ”

Ma Yinuo nodded, compared with the first-tier cities, except for the scale and some natural disadvantages, Jiangnan is good enough.

"But" Li Dawei said with an unwilling face: "Compared with other cities, we in Jiangnan do not have a good propaganda song that can make people all over the country and even the world think of this city when they hear it." ”

Hearing this, Ma Yinuo understood.

"Mayor Li wants me to write a song about Jiangnan to raise the profile of Jiangnan in the country and even the world?" said Ma Yinuo.

"We won't let Mr. Ma help in vain. Li Dawei said: "As long as Mr. Ma can come up with such a song, our Jiangnan Municipal Government is willing to contribute resources to vigorously promote Mr. Ma on the satellite TV channel and enhance Mr. Ma's popularity." ”

"It doesn't have to be. Ma Yinuo shook his head and said, "For the sake of Mayor Li and the leaders taking care of Xian'er, I am willing to try my best, but the promotion will be exempted." I have to take care of my wife at home for the past two years, and I will not go out to work for the time being. ”

Li Dawei was in awe: "Mr. Ma is really a good man with affection and righteousness. After a pause: "But Hu Xian'er's reward is what she deserves, and it has nothing to do with Teacher Ma." Mr. Ma is willing to contribute to our Jiangnan, and our municipal government will never let your efforts be in vain. ...... like this"

Li Dawei glanced at the secretary, and the secretary immediately took out a letter of intent from his briefcase and said, "Mr. Ma, this is a letter of intent that we have drawn up, if you agree, you can become an honorary citizen of our Jiangnan City after the matter is completed." ”

Honorary Citizen?

Ma Yinuo took the letter of intent unexpectedly, swept his eyes, and automatically generated a hologram in his mind, and all the contents were clearly recorded.

The so-called honorary citizens refer to non-local, foreign compatriots and foreigners who have made positive contributions to the city's economic development, cultural construction, international exchanges and social welfare undertakings.

After becoming an honorary citizen, as long as you live in the local area, you can get special attention from the local government departments, and it is very convenient to do whatever you do.

Of course, this is only a substantial interest, and there is an invisible interest.

That is - honorary citizens, with the qualifications of knighthood.

Datang is different from planting flowers in another time and space, Datang has an emperor, so it preserves some 'feudal dross', such as people are divided into three, six, nine, etc. Ordinary people are commoners, and then there are officials above, and the supreme is of course the imperial power.

And outside the bureaucracy, there is another kind of people, that is, the aristocracy supported by the state.

The so-called aristocracy is a person who has a knighthood.

The title of nobility is divided into five ranks from top to bottom: duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male.

Depending on the title, the nobility could receive different levels of social welfare.

The lowest-ranking baron can receive a welfare payment of 10,000 yuan per month, and can be allocated a 100-square-meter high-end residence in the city, and there are noble channels for medical treatment, ticket purchase, etc., and have priority qualifications.

The viscount benefits are doubled, the earl's benefits are doubled, in short, the higher the title, the higher the benefits.

At the level of a marquis, the state provides private doctors and nutritionists to ensure that the marquis can live a long life.

And the duke is even more incredible, he doesn't need to salute when he sees the emperor, he has great prestige in the entire Tang Dynasty, and can even influence the emperor's decision-making.

Of course, the Tang Dynasty has been established for nearly three hundred years, and the founding princes basically do not exist. There is such a thing as a knighthood, which can be passed on, but every time it is inherited, it will automatically drop by one level. So far, there is not a single duke in the Tang Dynasty, there are only two marquises, there are only more than ten counts, more than 100 viscounts, and the others are all barons.

So can a commoner be knighted? Of course you can, but it's hard, it's hard, it's hard.

Datang Law: Those who have no great merit in the country shall not be knighted.

Even if the country has great merit, he can only be crowned the lowest baron at the beginning. Unless you can continue to make contributions to the country in the future, you can hope to improve your title one by one.

However, in addition to the founding honors, in the 298 years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there have only been more than 1,000 follow-up knights, and only three to four people have been knighted on average a year, which shows the rarity of knighthoods.

The last person to be knighted today is basketball superstar Yao Dazhuang. In recent years, Yao Dazhuang single-handedly brought the Datang men's basketball team, which was only ranked 26th in the world at the time, to the top four in the world, and even led the Datang men's basketball team to the men's basketball finals in the Olympic Games two years ago. Although he lost to the world basketball hegemon US imperialism in the end, the great honor he won for the country cannot be erased.

After more than a year of approvals and notifications, just three months ago, Yao Dazhuang was officially knighted, becoming the third sports superstar to be knighted in the 298 years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

In team sports, the difficulty of single-handedly bringing a team from the middle of the world to become the world's top team, and even reaching the final in the Olympic Games, is equivalent to buying a lottery ticket and winning 200 million lotteries.

Even if Yao Dazhuang made such a great achievement, he was reluctantly knighted after more than a year of approval. It can be seen from this that it is very difficult for commoners to be knighted through sports.

As for Ma Yinuo's current literary circle, I'm sorry that no civilians in the literary and artistic circle have ever received a knighthood since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Even if Datang has produced countless artists who have influenced the world in the past 298 years, at most they have only been nominated and have no chance of being knighted.

This is actually the reason why the entertainment in this world is a little backward.

Desperate work cannot be knighted, which will naturally affect the enthusiasm of the public to devote themselves to it. Fortunately, people in the entertainment industry have a very high income, and their social status has been greatly improved in recent years because of the addition of Princess Allure, otherwise Ma Yinuo would not have abandoned opera and was admitted to Nortel to perform.

Even so, he never considered the question of knighthood. For a commoner, or a young man who wants to devote himself to entertainment, the possibility of knighthood is infinitely close to zero.

But right now, the Jiangnan Municipal Government actually wants to give him the status of an honorary citizen as a candidate for knighthood.

Although there are thousands of candidates in Datang every year, and the probability of being knighted as an honorary citizen is even lower than one in a million, a little hope is better than no hope!

Who knows which cloud will rain, maybe a pie will fall from the sky and just happen to fall on his head!

Faced with the identity of a candidate for knighthood, Ma Yinuo has no reason to give up. What's more, even if you can't be knighted, there are many benefits to doing things in Jiangnan in the future. Why not make a sure profit?

"Thank you, Mayor Lee. Ma Yinuo got up and shook hands with Li Dawei: "I'll do my best." ”

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