Chapter 15: Preliminary Cabinet (@)
I don't know if Allen's shock to Zeno is too profound, or Zeno is too enthusiastic about entering the palace, or maybe he can't bear those thorns anymore. In short, Zeno acted quickly, but in two or three days, he moved the leaders of those schools to come and see Allen.
In fact, in this era of academic decline, although these people are known as university scholars and scholars. But in fact, it played more of a role for the pastime of the aristocracy.
Since they often travel around the mainland, for those otaku nobles who wait to die in their fiefdoms, they are equivalent to mobile radios. From them, the nobles can know the customs and customs of the mainland through a little poor intelligence. However, for their respective learning, political opinions, or something. These nobles had only one idea, and that was to leave it to the king.
The aristocracy was not willing to touch such a thankless task as reform, and was only interested in the occasional ambitious or forced king.
Therefore, many aspiring scholars are depressed. This time, when I heard that a new academy had been built in the kingdom of Ambushi, these people seemed to be staring at the flies of rotten eggs...... No, it's a shark that asks about the smell of blood...... In short, they flocked to see what was going on with the first new college in hundreds of years.
The leader of the Stubin faction, Stubbin, heard the name of the Academy of Athens and ran over to see what it was like.
When he left the Kingdom of Danone, he was not optimistic about the Academy of Athens. The Kingdom of Danone is a kingdom with a very developed economy, thanks to the perennial war-free and domestic tolerance policy, resulting in the living standard and living conditions of the Danone Kingdom are the first on the mainland.
And although the Anmuxi Kingdom is known as the second oldest power in the mainland, in the eyes of the people of the Danone Kingdom, it is just a bandit regime in the poor mountains and bad waters. In fact, the Moslian Empire, the number one power on the mainland, and the Dominiz Kingdom in the north can be looked at by them. One was the empire with the greatest military power, and the other was the place where the church took root.
So Stubbin, an old man in his fifties, had already lost interest in the Academy of Athens before he had passed through other parts of the kingdom of Ammusi to reach Essis. Even Ammuxi City is only a second-tier city in the Danone Kingdom, and Essis City, which is inferior to Ammuxi City, is not much stronger.
But Stubbin, the creator of the idea of happiness, adhered to the principle that it should never be in vain, so he decided to treat it as a tour. It's also good to look at the customs of other countries. So he came to the city of Essis.
The city of Essis may not be as large as other large cities under the management of the Ouranos family, but Essis, who has been immersed in aristocratic culture for hundreds of years, definitely has a unique side to it. This is true for all the citizens of the city of Essis.
You must know that in this era, whether it is the most economically developed Danone Kingdom or the most religiously prosperous Dominic Kingdom, there is basically no difference for ordinary citizens. For all those who are not nobles (and perhaps some country aristocrats), the general perception is that they are dirty and messy. Thieves, robbers and prostitutes are no longer the hallmark of the city, they have become the norm.
And those ordinary people who only make promises, who look like walking property in the eyes of the aristocracy, are even more miserable, only knowing that today does not know tomorrow's pathetic creatures.
However, the impression of these traditions is not visible at all in Escis. In both speech and deed, the citizens of Essis embody a demeanor, a refinement even more pronounced than that of the ordinary country aristocracy. The construction of a city may take several years to complete, but the personality of a city is the precipitation of hundreds of years of culture.
In Stubbin's opinion, the idea of pleasure is definitely not the idea of pleasure. The idea of happiness is combined with virtue. One cannot live happily without living carefully, honorably, and justly, and if one does not live happily, one cannot live prudently, honorably, and justly, which is at the heart of Stubbin's idea of happiness.
When Stubin looked at the citizens of Essis City, although they did not have a rich material living environment, but everyone could maintain basic restraint in life and maintain the most basic morality between people, Essis City was already considered by Steubin to be the ideal town in his heart.
And the moment he saw the Academy of Athens, Stubin was even more shocked by this magnificent academy.
A large stone arch sits at the main entrance of the Academy of Athens, on which are written in the four large characters of the School of Athens in Ammusi. On the left and right sides of the arch, a black double-headed eagle flag on a white background is waving in the wind. The wide marble road under the main entrance can accommodate four horse-drawn carriages running side by side.
So magnificent, so magnificent. Walking under the wide arch tens of meters high, walking on the wide and flat avenue, everyone has a feeling of being very small in the face of this vast world.
Entering the archway, there is an open academy. All kinds of tall stone halls are scattered, and all kinds of people in white robes are shuttling between the halls, either holding pen and paper to record, or holding books and reading. Everyone was engrossed, unconcerned about the passage of Stubin and his disciple's convoy. Occasionally, a few people looked at each other in surprise, but immediately lowered their heads in thought.
Looking at such a picture, Stubin couldn't help but sigh deeply, this is a harbinger of academic prosperity again. Even in the Opal Academy of the Danone Kingdom, some of them are nothing more than the children of nobles who are vassals and elegant and the sloppy scholars who have abandoned their dignity as scholars.
Just as Stubin was sighing, he suddenly found that the convoy had stopped, and then a fierce quarrel came from ahead.
"Bold, you dare to stop the convoy, do you know who is in the car, offended us and told you to walk around without eating. Get out of the way yet!" A disciple's scolding voice came from the front.
Stubin frowned, dissatisfied with his disciple's making such a big disturbance in an academic holy place, and couldn't help but get out of the carriage to check the situation in person.
"Humph! This is the rule of the academy, if you want to enter the academy, you can only walk, and your convoy must stop outside!" Blocking Stubbin's convoy was a group of young men in white robes.
Stubbin's disciple said angrily: "My teacher is a dignified marquis of the Danone Kingdom, even in front of His Majesty the King of the Danone Kingdom, he doesn't have to salute, and he wants to get off the bus when he comes to you?" If you dare to be rude to the teacher, you must be punished. With that, he beckoned a few guards around him to surround the group of young men.
The young man at the head shouted angrily: "You actually want to do it? Do you think we're scared?" The students around him rolled up their sleeves and looked guarded.
Seeing this, Stubin quickly shouted, "Stop! Schitman step aside!"
The Studman student, who was in conflict with the white-robed young man, hurriedly apologized when he saw the teacher coming: "Teacher, these people actually want us to get out of the car and walk." I think we can drive even at Danone Palace, but how can we walk here? How unreasonable!"