Chapter 152: The Logic of the Dead
"It's unreasonable, but trust his judgment."
"The stability of a moment is not as stable as the stability of a lifetime. If this kid can't make an independent judgment of progress, then the Elta people can only be like this. The eldest of the two picked up the folder on his desk and flipped through it, and photographs and documents of Pippons and his colleagues flew around in his hands.
"Whether the central government has a plan to retain direct rule, that is not something you and I can discuss, this is naturally true. But let me make a personal guess, I think there must be a plan...... Especially after listening to your opinions and decisions today, I feel that this is the case. ”
"Direct rule, that must be there. I'll tell you that explicitly. But as a staunch opponent of the colonialists, I also want to tell you that no matter how Elta changes, there is only one indicator that will affect our colonization of another world, and that is the stability of the Earth's plane - as for the rest, it is all false and frivolous speculation. ”
Pippons would never have imagined that the Chinese had left such a backhand. But he's now close to that goal, and he's eight or nine points.
It doesn't rely on anything, it just relies on intuition and hunch.
"It is estimated that this accident responsibility determination will be ...... tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."
"Afternoon." Pippons glared at the traffic police who came to report like a tiger, "Before I get off work in the afternoon, I will see the accident responsibility certificate on my desk, understand?" ”
According to the regulations, as long as the traffic police issue the corresponding certificate within 10 days, it is considered "timely". But now Pippons did not have time to wait for the expedited "tomorrow and the day after tomorrow", let alone ten days later, for fear that the nobles would use this as an excuse to make a fuss about him.
"Ming...... Got it. The little traffic policeman turned his head away tremblingly, and the walkie-talkie that Pippons had pressed on the table suddenly rang again.
"This is the second house, can you hear me?"
"This is the archives, please talk about it." Pippons rubbed his aching temples and pressed the anger that was about to rise in his heart—"Is there anything new?" ”
"Hmm...... It's not that big. "The sound coming from the walkie-talkie makes people feel that there is something that can't laugh or cry in it." The family of the Marquis of Joronaco now insists on taking the body and holding a funeral for him. Ahem...... In other words, their family now wants to be buried. ”
Elta's change of burial to burial resistance was not as great as that of old China, which was so reluctant to cremation mainly due to the traditional superstitious concept that had been inherited in the same vein. When Elta's poor man dies, it is already a luxury to have a place to stand and insert a tombstone, who cares if it is an urn buried in the ground or a coffin board?
But on the side of the aristocracy, the problem is very different. The tombs and cemeteries of the nobles are all set of ISO standards, and no matter how big the style is, no matter how high or low.
It's low. The faces of the nobles could not be hung up. You say that the actual standard of you, an earl, is like that of a baron, should you lower the hat on your head? It's too high, the earl uses the standard of the marquis, and the marquis have said: This is not good!
Of course, this is not a big deal. The cemetery is a solemn and solemn cemetery, with various stone carvings, faces, and stone tablets, neatly arranged as a family history museum.
But what...... This is also a kind of "bad rule" after all. Even if the aristocracy built the "superstructure" at their own expense, the land under this "superstructure", that is, the "economic base" of the cemetery, was indeed allocated by the state in accordance with the privileges of the nobility.
It's embarrassing...... At a time when the urban poor are crowded with others in three-dimensional and abstract slums, when the thatched mud houses of the rural poor cannot withstand the wind and rain, and when it rains heavily outside, the area is pitifully small, but the cemeteries of the nobles are large and magnificent.
Therefore, it is inevitable that these cemeteries have become targets for civilians. They fervently hope that these "feng shui treasures" that dot the "feng shui treasures" scattered throughout Elta will be uprooted and razed. Of course, outside of Cierta, there have been many aristocratic cemeteries that have been damaged to varying degrees.
The pre-Elta historians who had built a modern standard history for Elta could only sigh when they encountered these situations. These inscriptions are all yin, and the only way to reproduce them is to use costly copying magic or fine clay topping. Therefore, these historians recorded the family history and personal experiences of the nobles, and they used retelling and handcopying. As for the craftsmanship of the sculptor, as well as the decoration of the inscription, the decoration technique, and the specific format, the historians can only reproduce two or three out of ten.
As for the arches, columns and other carved buildings in the cemetery, most of them can only be described in words. Only the great nobles and royalty would be in the mood to hire painters to leave little traces on the paper against these magnificent buildings.
It's rare to have a camera that makes the perfect way to record them, just point the viewfinder at these artifacts and press the shutter – not even these movements, and the accompanying Chinese archaeologists will always print countless photographs for them.
More advancedly, a film crew was able to take pictures of the entire complex, depicting it in its entirety. Compared with scattered photos, this is more intuitive and realistic, and future generations of researchers will not regret these video materials.
However, with the rapid development of recording methods, the result in front of them is the destruction and loss of a large number of cultural relics. Because the Elta civilization is similar to the civilization of the late Middle Ages and the pre-Renaissance civilization in Europe in some places, the Chinese and Egyptian experts who came to inspect the ruins can only express their sadness. Don't talk about photography, videography, at this level, it's very difficult to even measure key data.
The old one is gone, and that's no problem. But what about the new one? Don't have any more. The former was considered a crime left by the commoners, and the Chinese had to pull the front of the car to the left to the right, so that the nobles' relatively intact cemetery could be preserved. After that, we can continue to move straight ahead.
Now even the martyrs who died in the Elta Liberation War have been turned into a small urn, as well as a surname pillar in the hilltop cemetery; So how can these nobles expand their own cemeteries and put coffins in them?
"You tell them that there is no second plot of land to choose from other than the cemetery." Pippons crooked his mouth, so angry that he couldn't do anything. "If they want to expand their family's cemetery, they must not even think about it, it is already a cultural relics protection unit!"
The name of this cultural relics protection unit is not small. The castle dismantled from the Shield City was rebuilt on the outskirts of the city and rebuilt in the Elta Imperial Castle Museum, which is a heritage site. Of course, the ownership of the cemetery is still owned by the Joronaco family, but the Joronaco family has lost the right to modify it.
In other words, whether the tomb has been set up or not, the coffin board containing the Marquis of Joronaco can only be parked outside the cemetery. Want to put it in? No way! Want to put it in and cover it with a stone cover? There are no windows! Want to put a tombstone on it at the end? Sorry, the sewers are clogged too.
"No, no, no......" The call from the other side of the walkie-talkie not only carried the sound of electricity, but also carried a noisy sound that could not be eliminated even if the hand was covered. I've already explained this myself, but what is the problem...... Well, they say that the cemetery is found by itself, not for the country, not for the emperor......"
"They think it's politically conscious?" Hearing that the other party began to use the new words in the newspaper to prevaricate the police, Pippons really couldn't help but laugh. "Tell them that if they can find even one word related to funeral from the land use, I'll help them with the formalities!"
I'm sorry, but Elta's cemetery is under the name "urban public construction land", and the new Elta Empire doesn't have a single line of standards for funeral land. Pippons had mastered these lessons when dealing with the Bowwitt case, and now he took them out and used them as pure fried cold rice.
"But it's a lot of fun now, those bastard nobles. Not only did they not want to pay for the cremation and receive funeral compensation, but they also blocked the door of the morgue......"
"Hey, I'll ask." Pippons suddenly looked up as if he had thought of something. "What about the coachman's family? Have you been here? ”
"They happily accepted the compensation for the funeral money, and now they have already taken the autopsied body to the crematorium."
"Anyway, whether you receive compensation or not, the corpses will be cremated." Pippons had long since become accustomed to the wrist of modern power traps, but it was clear that the one across the walkie-talkie hadn't yet. "Don't pay for the funeral, I'll call the Shield City Crematorium later, and you can pull the body of Marquis Joronaco over and burn it for me. Then push the box into the hands of those bastards, it's as simple as that. As for whether they want to go to the cemetery with the compensation money left after deducting the funeral expenses, that is their own business. ”
In order to promote cremation on a small area, the Elta Civil Affairs Bureau, like the early practice of the Chinese Civil Affairs Bureau on this plane, will give some compensation to the cremators. For the average Elta, this money is enough to pay for cremation, as well as the most ordinary cemetery costs.
"Huh? This...... Not quite right? The family hasn't signed yet......"
"You ask them if they sign or not, and if they don't, push the cart out and leave them alone." Pippons grinned and had a poisonous plan. "Presumably they will come up and take away the cart when the time comes, so what are you going to do?"
"It's all obstruction of official business, sir, I see."
"It's good to understand—" Pippens let out a long breath as he leaned back in his chair. "These aristocrats are really good at making trouble. Honestly like a normal person, isn't it? ”