Chapter 109: An Audience with the King
Although I was prepared, when I went downstairs, I was still startled by what I saw. I saw that the hall on the first floor of the Fugui Hotel was already full of people, all of whom were nobles of the empire, well-dressed and well-dressed, and were standing in groups of three or five in the hall and chatting. Judging from the insignia they wore on their chests, a large part of them were barons and viscounts, and a small part of the rest were counts, and occasionally a few marquis could be seen mixed in, and people who didn't know came here and thought that the nobles were holding a banquet at the Nirvana Hotel. The moment I appeared at the top of the stairs in the hall on the first floor, the aristocrats who were talking about me looked at me one after another, and then showed fiery eyes.
I was a little hairy by the eyes of the nobles in front of me, smiled at them dryly, and said, "Hello everyone. "I'm so scared, these guys look at me so scary. Fortunately, despite their blazing eyes, they did not rush over as I had imagined, but walked towards me with a noble demeanor and a smile on their faces.
"This must be Mr. Li Jun who opened up territory for the empire in the Warcraft Forest, and he is really young and promising, and his temperament is extraordinary." A middle-aged man with a marquis' badge on his chest smiled and held out his hand to me and said, "I'm Lemet Bignell, the father of Cherno Bignell, and it's an honor to know you." "Oh, it turns out that this guy is the father of the cowardly guy yesterday, no wonder I always look a little familiar, it seems that the cowardly guy is indeed his own.
"I'm honored to know you, too, Mr. Bignell." I stretched out my hand and shook Lemmit, and was about to ask them why they had come to look for me, when suddenly a figure staggered up to me as if he had been kicked from behind, and looked at it, wasn't this guy Jody who had left the city gate first yesterday?
"Mr. Li Jun, I am really sorry that my unruly son offended you yesterday, and I will bring him to apologize to you as soon as I know about this incident." Jodi's father raised his hand and smacked the back of his son's head fiercely, and said viciously: "Don't apologize to others soon!" I watched with interest the father-son pair in front of me, and watched Jody's reaction without saying a word.
Jody looked at me unwillingly, especially when he saw my eyes, his face showed a humiliated expression, and after being hit by his father in the back of the head, he reluctantly bowed to me and said, "Mr. Li, I'm sorry for offending me yesterday." After finishing speaking, he stood there motionless, not daring to raise his head, and today he was considered to have lost face.
"Okay, okay, Mr. Li won't worry about such a trivial matter, let's talk about business first." Lemet opened his mouth and said, "Mr. Li's territory should still be under construction, right?" If there is anything you need help with, just say it, we are all friends, don't be polite to us. After Lemet finished speaking, the nobles behind him also chimed in. Who's friends with you, we've just met, okay? These people are also too thick-skinned.
"Thank you for your kindness, but I still have to report to the Empire's Pioneer Division today, can you wait for me to come back and talk about something?" It's better to get down to business first, continue to talk to this group of nobles here, and I don't plan to go out today.
"Mr. Li is polite, the empire has not had a new territory for a long time, of course we have to go with you for such a big matter, and if there is anything at that time, we can also help." As Anne had guessed, this group of nobles who were eating and waiting to die in the imperial capital were really very concerned about my application for a territory. In the end, our group of nobles came to the outside of the hotel, the waiter of the hotel had prepared a carriage for us, rewarded the waiter with a silver coin, and took Anne and Trixis into the carriage, Xiao Dai and Lao Pu consciously sat in the coachman's position.
Walking all the way to the Pioneer Division, the nobles who got the news on the road also joined the team, and when Xiao Dai drove the carriage to the Pioneer Division, the noble team behind the carriage expanded a lot. As soon as I got out of the carriage, the nobles, led by Lemet and several other marquises, also got out of the carriage and followed me towards the Pioneer Division. The pioneer division also seemed to have received the news, and after seeing me, the staff enthusiastically led me inside. I came to the Pioneer Division today mainly to report first, and after the report is completed, the Pioneer Division will send officials to inspect the new territory I have opened up in the Warcraft Forest, and after the inspection is completed, it will be included in the empire's territory after confirming that I have the right to rule the new territory, and give me the corresponding title. Of course, after the territory is included in the empire, it also means that I will start paying taxes on the income of the territory in the future, and the empire will send tax officials to my territory to collect the annual taxes.
The process went very smoothly, and there was no difficulty, and the nobles who came with me were of no use at all. It's good that I didn't agree to accept their help at the beginning, otherwise I wouldn't have owed a favor in vain? The inspectors of the Pioneer Division will ride the flying beast under the protection of the Imperial Air Cavalry tomorrow to the new territory in question, and the whole process will take about two months, just as Anne predicted. When the inspecting officials return, I can go to the palace to receive the canonization of the king of the empire and officially become the lord of the Bright Empire.
When I came out of the pioneer division, the nobles who were waiting outside came up to me, saying congratulations and saying that if there was anything in need of help in the new territory, they would come to them and they would definitely help me.
"Thank you, I will definitely ask you for help when the time comes, and then I will go to the Imperial Capital Academy to register, so I will go first." While dealing with these nobles, I walked towards the carriage, the Imperial Capital Academy happened to be recruiting students these days, and I was able to register now.
Located in the northeast corner of King's Landing, the Imperial Capital Academy covers an area of about four square kilometers and has cultivated countless outstanding talents for the Bright Empire. Now is the time when Imperial Capital College accepts new students to apply every year, and there are a lot of people outside the college, full of students who come to sign up and their parents who accompany them. I asked Anne and Triness to wait for me in the carriage, and took Dai and Pu to the registration office to sign up, which reminded me of what it was like to sign up at Earth University, except that I was alone at the time, and now I have two Dota Heroes with me to sign up. When I came to the Military Command Department of the Imperial Capital Academy, after paying a high tuition fee of one hundred gold coins, I was considered an auditor of the Military Command of the Imperial Capital Academy.
I spent the rest of my time waiting for the notification at the Military Academy, sending an infantryman back and telling him to inform Chen and Luna to be careful not to let the inspectors of the Pioneer Division know the grain production data on the farm. Since the college did not arrange dormitories for auditors, I had to stay temporarily in a hotel outside the college. Several heroes took the system warriors to the mercenary union in the imperial capital to pick up tasks within two months of the mission cycle, and Krabel followed Xiao Dai as always. Annie and the others retired from the room of the Fugui Hotel and came to the hotel of the Imperial Capital Academy to accompany me, and Elle was dragged by Xiao Dai and Lao Pu to participate in the mercenary mission in the name of exercise. I now go back and forth between the hotel and the academy at two o'clock every day, taking notes carefully during class, and then concentrating on revision when I return to the hotel, and I refuse all the nobles' invitations to banquets. Sometimes I feel like I'm back in school, and I don't have time to make out with Anne.
After two months, the officials of the Pioneer Division finally returned from the inspection of the territory I had applied for, and informed me to wait for the Emperor's summons at the Imperial Palace tomorrow morning. It seems that the application for the territory has been approved, and I can already foresee what the attitude of those nobles who were in the Nirvana Hotel last time will be after going to the palace tomorrow morning to receive the canonization, and tomorrow will be busy.
After sorting out the notes he had taken in the past two months in the hotel next to the college, he returned the hotel room, and then took his three wives to the hotel where Xiao Dai and the others lived to meet them. I haven't seen Elle in two months, and I don't know if this girl misses me, but I'm not worried about whether she got hurt when she was on a mercenary mission. It's just a mission near the imperial capital, and it's under the protection of a few heroes, if this still hurts Ellie, I'll have to talk to them. It's not that I'm too doting on Ellie, but I've always felt that what children should do is to play well, spend their childhood happily, and leave no regrets, and just learn some basic things. If it weren't for Ellie's own request, I wouldn't have agreed to let her start learning from Lao Yi and them at such a young age.
I had a good night's rest in the hotel, and the next day before dawn I got up from my bed, dressed neatly under the service of Dale, and got into the carriage early and headed for the palace. The Empire of Light also has the rule of the Early Dynasty, the Early Dynasty starts at seven o'clock in the morning, and rests every nine days, and today I will accept the canonization during the Early Dynasty, and I am a little excited to think about it. However, I was a little depressed at the thought that I would have to kneel before the emperor of the empire when I accepted the canonization, and I had only kneeling on the birthday of the dean's grandfather since I was a child. After arriving at the palace, I waited outside for a while, and the palace attendants came to lead me in, and along the way taught me the basic etiquette to pay attention to when meeting the emperor and receiving the canonization.