Chapter 14: The Ilibians
Maier went out this time and took all four of his fiancées with him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
Yishan and Euris had to go out with a guard, so their personal guards followed. Although the guards were sufficient, Maier brought a team of his own. After several months of hard work, Tal had gained the approval of his companions, and was appointed captain of the Escort by Maier in early August.
Maier takes three maids with him wherever he goes, and this time is no exception. Since the destination of this trip was the territory of the Ilibi people, He Yan Xin took the initiative to call He Yan Zhiheng and wanted to go with Maier. Maier felt that there were already a lot of entourage, and he didn't miss these two people, so he asked the brothers and sisters of the Yan family to bring an entourage to follow, but this time He Yan Xin still didn't bring an entourage.
It is worth mentioning that Ista is now Alice's head maid. Alice's maids were all found for her by Mel in Byronsburg, and there were only four of them in all. Ista always felt embarrassed to eat and live for nothing here with Alice, and Alice made an idea to let Ista be her head maid in order to reassure Ista.
Although she is the head maid, Ista has never done any serious work except for playing with Alice every day. On this trip, Alice brought all her maids with her, and Ista, the head maid, naturally had to go out with her.
Alice wants to take Lulu with her, and Lulu wants to go out with Mel. However, Lulu's friend Erin has been depressed, and Lulu wants to stay with her.
In fact, in June, Irene's mood had improved. But Beafort's departure took a big hit and made her depressed again. Erin had always wanted to go to the immigration camp to see Beafour, but she knew that Lulu didn't want to leave Byronsburg, because she wouldn't be able to see Mel again, so she had to dismiss the idea.
But Lulu also knows that Erin wants to see Bifuer, so she wants to take Erin to live in the immigration camp for a while while Mel is away from Byronsburg, so that Erin can meet Bifuer. Erin didn't want Lulu to see Mel because of herself, so before Mel left, she approached Alice alone and said that she wanted to go to the immigrant camp alone for a while.
Erin lied and said that she had made an appointment with Beafol, and that Beamore would take care of her when the time came. Alice believed Erin's words and borrowed a team from Maier to send Erin to the immigration camp. Erin's goodbye made Lulu very disappointed, she knew why Erin did this, so she could only accept Alice's invitation to go out with Mel.
The contingent of people who are on a goodwill visit to the Republic of Bukin set out from Byronsburg and marched towards Magnier, the capital of the Republic of Bukin. On 10 September, Meir's party arrived outside Magnich and was warmly welcomed by the Ilibis.
The reason why he was warmly welcomed by the "Ilibians" and not by the "Bukinians" is because Mel saw Ilibians of dozens of nationalities outside the city of Magne. Their short ears vary in shape, as do the color and pattern of their fur and tails.
Mair was dazzled by the various shapes of beast ears and furry tails, and did not know which people's Erie was better to look at first. Since the Ilibi do not age, these Ilibi people standing outside the city look like thirteen or fourteen-year-old children, which is very attractive.
If you want to hug them because they're cute, be prepared to be sieveed by muskets. The Ilibians who greeted Mair outside the city were the heads of the Ilibi League, and the lowest official positions were provincial governors, and even Maier, the son of the "father of modern Ilibi", could not be fumbled.
When he was about to reach the city of Magnier, the Republic of Bujin had already sent someone to contact Maier. They told Maier that the heads of state of the Ilibi League would come to Magnich in September of this year for a meeting of the League, and that they would go out of town to meet Maier. Mair listened to the messenger and learned why the Bukins themselves had come to Magnich in September.
The visit of the son of the father of modern Ilibi to the member countries of the Ilibi League is no small matter. If the Bujin people eat alone, it will definitely make the allies unhappy. Therefore, they could only take advantage of the upcoming meeting of the alliance to send people to contact the member states and inform the allies of the visit of Mair to the Republic of Bujin in September.
So the Ilibi League changed the venue of the League's meeting to Magnier, so that the heads of state could meet the son of the father of modern Ilibi. Maier didn't want to be exhibited like a rare species, but now that the boat was already in place, he had to accept the result.
After the official diplomatic briefing of the Barronsburg envoy to the welcoming procession, Meir walked to the welcoming procession, accompanied by Tal and several escorts.
The Ilibians were monogamous, and the men of the Ilibians could only take one wife. However, the Ilibians restricted only their men from marrying wives, and if the women of the tribe were willing to marry a married man, the Ilibians did not object to such marriages.
Officially, Maier had to follow the customs of the locals and not take his four fiancées to the market, which was undoubtedly disrespectful to the monogamous Ilibians. But at such times, no matter which fiancée he chooses to bring to the scene, at least one of them will be unhappy. For the sake of family harmony, Maier had to go alone to meet with the heads of state of the Ilibi League.
On the side of the Ilibi League, the heads of state brought their wives. As Mel approached the welcoming procession, six Elibi men with orange cat ears on their heads and orange tails with black stripes dangling behind them stepped out of the procession. The man at the front was the chief consul of the Iru Republic, and beside him was his wife. Behind the Chief Archon were four men, three men and one woman, all of whom were sons and daughters of the Chief Archon of the Iru Republic.
Among the heads of the Ilibi League, there were many people like the Chief Consul of the Iru Republic who brought his daughter or son. Everyone wanted their children to get acquainted with each other in front of Myer, and then find an opportunity to shove them into Myer's side. As Gray's son, Maier will one day go home to visit his father, who has gone into seclusion. At that time, their sons and daughters will have the opportunity to meet the father of modern Ilibi, and may have the privilege of asking questions about this father of modern Ilibi.
Everyone wanted their children to come into contact with her earlier, but it was an official occasion, and only the chief consul of the Iru Republic had the right to bring his daughter to meet him. Because the Iru Republic is the current leader of the Ilibi League, only the Chief Consul of the Iru Republic can speak on behalf of the Ilibi League in a formal diplomatic setting.
When the chief consul of the Iru Republic welcomed Mary on behalf of the Ilibi League, and introduced his four sons and daughters, he led Mel to the heads of state, introduced them to Mel in detail, and gave them time to introduce his sons and daughters to him.
Maier had met with hundreds of leaders and their sons and daughters in a row, and the mere mere memorization of names was enough for him to keep himself busy. By the end of the welcome party, his facial muscles had gone numb, and he was still grinning when he returned, not recovering until he entered the city. That night the Ilibians also held a banquet, at which the heads of state wanted to give their sons and daughters to Mel, so that in the evening Mel was again in a big way.
Eventually, the sons and daughters of the heads of state were taken in by Maier. The sons and daughters of the heads of state who were unmarried and did not hold any office in the Republic were very young. The oldest of them was only fifteen years old, and the youngest was only ten years old, but in appearance they were all about the same age, both thirteen or fourteen years old.
Illibians grow faster in their early years, and by the time they are about seven or eight years old, they will look like adults, but their minds and bodies are not yet fully developed. Ilibians do not reach adulthood until they are twelve years old, and only when they reach adulthood can they consider engagement and marriage.
Erie lived longer than the people and did not age, so their reproductive ability was also very strong, but it was still a little worse than that of the ancient people. If it weren't for the fact that they had been fighting civil wars in the first few decades after the formation of the New World, which had caused serious internal strife, the Ilibians would have become the most populous race by now.
In addition to the sons and daughters of the heads of state, the Ilibians also stuffed the sons and daughters of the elites of the nations to Maier. After the banquet, Maier made a rough calculation, and when he returned to Byronsburg this time, he would bring back four or five thousand people from the sons and daughters of the heads of state and the sons and daughters of elites from all walks of life, not counting their entourage.
The Ilibian people were very civic-minded, and there were no slaves in the territory of the Ilibians, except for criminals, and there was no concept of slaves. Ilibian children learn to take care of themselves from an early age, and in the eyes of the Ilibians, this is the basis for survival, so the Ilibians do not need servants to take care of them, regardless of their position.
The retinue of the Ilibi people is not to take care of someone's daily life, but to be followers in the true sense of the word. The people of Erie regard thought as more important than life, and people who are backward in thinking will spontaneously follow those who are progressive, even if they are descendants of those who follow the advanced, they are willing. That's why they desperately sent their children to Mel.
Heads of state and elites from all walks of life want to learn advanced ideas, but they still have responsibilities on their shoulders and cannot follow Meier, so they can only retreat to the next best thing and send their sons and daughters to Meier. As Gray's son, Mel must have learned a lot from his father. Even if their sons and daughters don't see Gray, they can learn advanced ideas from Meyer.
In addition to sending children and daughters at banquets, the topic that Maier hears the most is "thoughts". Military thought, scientific thought, political thought, economic thought, life thought, family thought, personal thought - the Ilibians talk only about this kind of subject in formal settings, because they attach great importance to ideas.
The Ilibians speak of the minds of other races, and they know their opponents well, so they know what to do with them. Because of this, the Ilibi League has grown over the decades to become the most powerful race in the New World.
The Ilibi people are inherently multi-ethnic, and each ethnic group has different living habits and ways of thinking. Therefore, the Ilibi people are very tolerant of different races, as long as they are capable or have advanced ideas, they will make exceptions. In the process of conquest of foreigners, the Ilibians have been trying to integrate the foreigners into the life of the Ilibians while maintaining their independence.
At the same time, the Ilibi people have been trying to break the national restrictions and integrate the Ilibi League into a unified nation, because Gray has said that the united Ilibi is the strongest Ilibi. However, due to the fact that many of the members of the Ilibi League do not share borders with their allies, and the international situation is always unstable, it is difficult to achieve this goal at this time.
At the banquet, Maier also met an acquaintance, General North.
After the end of the war, General North felt that he had called in the army without authorization and should pay for it, so he resigned as a general, which means that he is not a general now, so at the welcome party Salin? North didn't show up. However, the Republic of Bujin did not treat Salin as an ordinary citizen because of this, so they still invited Salin to the banquet tonight.
Salin was surprised to see Mehr, and he recalled the life experience of the so-called "country man" that Mel had told him roughly, only to realize that it was actually Gray's life experience, but he did not find out, which made him laugh and cry.
Out of politeness, Salin went to say hello to Mel. He also wanted to give his own sons and daughters to Mel, but his sons were already in the republic, leaving only twin daughters. The twin daughters were terrified, so Salin did not bring them to the banquet.
Salin introduces Mel to his wife. Salin's wife was his own sister, and the two had been very good since childhood, and after his wife came of age, the two married at the behest of his parents. This is a normal situation among the Ilibians, most of whom prefer to marry the opposite sex with whom they are related by blood, and generally biological siblings or cousins are the best choice.
If you think that the Ilibians have no ethics, you are very wrong. The Ilibians not only have an ethical outlook, but they also elevate it to the legal level. The Ilibians do not allow marriage to people who are not of the same generation but are related by blood, and here are a few simple examples.
It is not okay for a nephew to marry an aunt, and it is not okay for an aunt to be younger than a nephew; It is not okay for an uncle to marry a niece, even if the niece is older than the uncle; It is not okay for grandparents to marry granddaughters, even if the granddaughters are older than grandparents; It is absolutely impossible for a father to be widowed and want to marry a daughter, and it is absolutely impossible for a mother to be widowed and want to marry a son; It is also not possible for the father's brother to marry the daughter of the mother's sister, because the two are weakly related by blood and are not of the same generation.
Illibians who violate the marriage laws will be punished very severely, the most serious of which is the deprivation of citizenship and then the reduction of slavery. Ilibian slaves were run by the government and were often engaged in more dangerous work with a high probability of death or maiming. Moreover, in the eyes of the Ilibians, the slave was not a human being, but a consumable - that is, the slaves of the Ilibians were actually worse than the slaves of the Tuchus. No one cares about the feelings of slaves, and no one cares about the lives of slaves.
No one in Ilibi wanted to be a slave because life after being a slave was like the difference between hell and heaven compared to life when they were citizens. Therefore, the crime rate of the people of Ilibi is surprisingly low, and the social security is also very good.