"I'm still young and I'm not in a hurry to get married. As soon as Durin opened his mouth, he rejected Maggs's kindness, which surprised Mags a little. He believed that Dührin could taste the truth of his last sentence, and that was indeed the case. When Mags says he wants to introduce better girls, Doolin immediately realizes that Maggs wants to "kidnap" him. This was not from Maggs's kindness, but a trap that Maggs had set for him.

Finally...... Are you going to start fighting, or is it just a temptation?

Durin's brain formed a vortex in his head, stirring and spinning wildly, and every brain cell was spinning to analyze why Mags did what he did, and what he really wanted to do.

People are old and don't die because of demons, Mags is not too young, he has lived for so many years and overthrew the rule of the royal family, even if he is not "old" enough, but he is definitely enough "demon", and he is still that kind of big demon. Fortunately, Durin also has his own advantages, he has witnessed the life of the big man in another world for a lifetime, and he has learned different things from the books that the big guy has read and read. It can be said that he is the second human being, and his age is not just as young as he appears.

While he rejected Mags, he also understood that Mags's purpose in doing this was not completely malicious, but it was definitely not benevolent.

Durin's biggest shortcoming now is his background, yes, with the efforts of Mags and the New Party, the Bright Star Empire has entered a new era for more than 20 years, and a lot of changes have taken place in these 20 years, and people's concepts have changed. For example, the royal family that once ruled the empire has become a mascot, and the word nobility has gradually faded from people's memories, but in the middle and upper levels of society, people can still feel the dominance of the old aristocracy and the new aristocracy over the empire.

The nobles changed their names, put on a new coat, and reappeared in front of the people. But whether it is the old aristocracy or the new aristocracy in the new era, most of them have the same characteristic - extraordinary origin!

Almost all of the new consortia led by the northern aristocracy are from aristocratic backgrounds, and they are all old nobles in the new era, and their illustrious origins and the wealth accumulated by their families over the generations have made them more than ninety-five percent of the people in this society without even working hard, and they are born "nobles" in the new era, which is no different from the past.

After more than 20 years of exploration and evolution, the new aristocracy led by the southern aristocracy and capital forces has found a broad road to the top of the tower, and it seems that not everyone has a prominent status, but in fact, these people have a fairly high social status in the past, before the new era has arrived. They were all merchants, and the status of merchants in the old society was not high, this is what the books say, but what about the actual situation?

The status of merchants was indeed not high compared to the elite aristocracy of the society at that time, but they were many times higher than those ordinary people, they not only had huge wealth, a certain degree of personal arming, and they also had a very close relationship with the aristocracy. The aristocracy thought that the merchants were their own dogs, but this was also for the nobles. Compare these dogs with ordinary people, they are noble dogs, but people have become lowly.

Can the prime minister's dog have the same status as an ordinary person?

Obviously it's different!

So even after entering a new era, a new society, the top of the empire has been promoting the great imperial dream, and there are not many real ordinary people who have vested interests in this era. Their extraordinary background allowed them to obtain the initial stage of accumulation faster, or even skip this stage, and those who are truly ordinary people can do this step very rarely.

It's like a railroad tycoon, people have been building railroads since the old society, and an ordinary businessman can build railroads in the old society where the aristocracy ruled the world?

The railroad repairs him almost the same!

Durin continues to snowball his power, but it is unlikely that he will soon form a consortium with him as the industry tycoon, and everyone is willing to pay for him, because his background is too low.

Farmer background...... This prerequisite allows him and those people to be a cooperative relationship, an ordinary interest group, not a group with a common destiny.

If Durin agrees to Mags's request and thus gets to know a young lady from a noble family, old and new, he will enter a period of rapid development. Marrying a nobleman will fill in his last shortcoming, even if it will make his marriage a little awkward and make people think that he has taken advantage of the woman's advantage to stand up. With such a background, it would not have been difficult for him to find the real elite, who were happy to work for a boss with aristocratic status, and to advise them.

This is inevitably the envy of the environment in the Federation, which is why the Federation is called a "country of opportunity" by many people. Everyone is the mud dog leg in the past, no one looks down on the factor of who is born and status, everyone is looking at money. If you have money, you are a nobleman, you are a grandfather, and you are everything in society. Without money, naturally there is nothing.

But if Dühring agrees to Mags's "goodwill", there will also be a huge pitfall, or drawback.

He would be tied to death in a carriage called "noble", and he would become a covenant he needed to look up to in the past...... No, it's a big guy to look up to, and his interests will also be tied to these people. Whenever he does something, he needs to consider what I will do to myself, what benefits it will bring to my fellow people, and whether it will hurt our relationship and friendship with each other. Because it's a very important thing, once he does something to harm those at the top of the tower, he becomes a "special" person, someone who is different from the others.

We all know that when an alien appears in a group, people will not turn him into a class higher than themselves, but will only find a way to eliminate this alien.

As soon as Durin did anything that harmed the estate, or people thought he had harmed the estate, people would start to reject him, regard him as an enemy, and want to send him to the gods.

At that time, one wrong step, and the upper class of the entire society will form a torrent to drown him.

His enemies will swell from a few people, a certain family or a certain consortium to all those with vested interests, and he will become a public enemy!

This is the trap set by Maggs, once he steps into it, he does not want to be a public enemy, and he is the public enemy of these people at the top of the tower, he must restrain his desires, hide his minions, and follow the rules of the game to follow an invisible whole will, and survive in this society.

Maybe he has a chance to win the scepter of imperial power, but it's more likely that many years later, he will become a sponsor, political benefactor or something like the one who wields the scepter, which is not what he wants!

He had to turn back to Mags, without a moment of hesitation and excitement, it was a trap, a delicious trap.

Dühring's rejection was so decisive that Maggs was confused as to whether Durin had discovered his purpose, or was he really not going to have a girlfriend?

Maggs laughed, "I've heard a rumor ...... before," his eyes were a little strange, making Durin feel his scalp tingle a little, "They, those newspapers and public opinion, say you like men?"

After listening to this, Durin smiled quietly, "This is nonsense, you should understand that this is a sick society, and people will not allow too perfect things to appear in this world. Perfect things make them feel ugly and crippled, so they have to add something imperfect to the people or things they see that are at least perfect than themselves, at least to make them feel better about themselves. ”

"I'm not arrogant to think I'm perfect, but it's a slander, I've never been interested in men, and I like women like most people. ”

In the past few years, Durin has lived in seclusion in Ilian, and there has been no female character around him for a long time, and Buddha has always accompanied him. After a long time, it is natural that there will be a not very friendly remark that he likes men. He can see clearly why this rumor is breeding, and not everyone is willing to admit something better, as people often say, "It's not that he's smart, it's just that I'm stupid" or "She looks beautiful when she's with me, and she's ugly when she's with whomever she is."

This kind of pathological thinking that is willing to belittle oneself and is unwilling to admit the excellence of others has always occupied the mainstream of social thought, and not recognizing the excellence of others can only be reflected by these people, that they are not too far behind others, and they will not be worse than others. To be more extreme, it is to exalt oneself by slandering others to demonstrate the value of one's own existence in society.

Such people are often the weak in society, and the weak in this society are the majority after all, relatively speaking.

So it's not particularly strange to have such remarks, the reason why Maggs asked this is to hide his eagerness just now, he pretended that Durin didn't know, and Durin also pretended that he really didn't see it.

After the two laughed and talked for a few words, Maggs changed his tone and began to talk about things in the west, "Recently, I have been discussing one thing with the cabinet, and there is something about immigration. There were now two voices in the Cabinet, one that believed that all immigrants should be admitted without restrictions, and the other that there should be a selective inclusion of the better in the Empire's civil service. You've been in the west all this time, and you've had your own business in various parts of the empire, which one do you think is better?"