Chapter 221: The Noble Tower (Part II)

Layers of fungus umbrellas with their beautiful folds, like solidified white sè waves in the middle of the fungus tree forest piled up a grand spectacle, and a black and shiny spiral tower like a straight antelope horn, from the "white waves, rising from the ground, straight into the sky."

, "This is the Marquis Tower"

Perched below the tower, Robin tilted his head as best he could, trying to visualize the approximate height of the tower.

Unfortunately, his efforts were in vain, and his gaze was only blocked by the low-altitude clouds, and he could not see the highest part of the tower at all.

"The Marquis of Timos's Marquis Tower is seven hundred and ninety-nine meters high, and the base of the tower is made of a large amount of Mycenae metal, which is very strong, and it is the tallest tower in the entire Brady system."

ao95 took a step behind Robin and explained in a low voice.

"I remember that only nobles in the Empire are qualified to live in the Tower, right?"

Robin glanced back at Sigu and asked thoughtfully.

"Yes, the tower is the preserve of the nobility. According to the Imperial Constitution, the height of the ground structure of the Lord and the Commoners of the Empire should not exceed 100 meters, and the use of tall towers is prohibited. And the Baron's Tower cannot exceed 381 meters, the Viscount Tower cannot exceed 500 meters, the Earl's Tower cannot exceed 685 meters, the Marquis' Tower cannot exceed 800 meters, and the Duke's Tower cannot exceed 1000 meters" ao95 read this data very familiar to any citizen of the Empire.

"Three hundred and eighty-one meters, I remember this is the height of the Empire State Building in the old days. Seemingly...... In the eyes of the Emperor, only the nobles with the title of baron and above were the real subjects of the empire in his eyes. Robin stared at the spectacular architectural marvel and muttered to himself.

Hearing Robin's words, ao95 laughed bitterly at himself: "I think in the eyes of that emperor" he really should think so. ”

"And what about six hundred and eighty-five meters?" The height of the towers of viscounts, marquises, and dukes is an integer, why is the height of the count's tower limited to the number of six hundred and eighty-five meters? Is there any origin to this number? ”

"At the beginning of Brady's planet, the Galaxy Science and Technology Building where the Academy of Sciences was located was the first building height in the Brady Galaxy, and at that time, the height of the Galaxy Science and Technology Building was 685 meters, and the architectural style used was the style of the Maxia Hevi ship in the first expedition fleet" The appearance is almost a copy of the appearance of that starship. In addition, after the emperor proclaimed the founding of the country, a large number of scholars were promoted to the Royal Academy of Sciences and awarded them the title of earl. In honor of the "father of wormholes, Martin Hervey, and in recognition of his contributions to the field of science, the Emperor declared that the height of the Earl's Tower should not exceed 685 meters, and that the highest title of scholar should be the earl." Unless a scholar can surpass Martin in the academic field, Hervey's contributions can break this iron rule.

But so far, "no scholar has been able to climb higher heights in the academic field than Martin and Hervey", and the only person who can come close to Martin and Hervey in terms of academic achievement is the Emperor himself. AO95 used a nostalgic tone to tell such a secret story that few people in the empire knew: "Hoffmann the Great was also a scholar? Robin keenly grasped this crucial message, and was shocked.

Behind him, 1ì Ona stared blankly at the tower, as if trying to imagine her father's former glory.

"Yes, Hoffmann the Great is the most outstanding biologist of all time, and all the current research on the basic treatment of genetic diseases and genetic evolution has come from his hand." The father of wormholes, Martin Hervey, took humans out of the earth and into the universe" while Albert Hoffman found the way for human beings to survive in the universe. In the academic field, he and Martin and Hervey are two of the brightest stars. ”

"Albert Hoffmann......"

Reading the name silently, Robin felt like he had found the key to open the mí group.

In the early days of the Great Voyage preserved by Gaia, the Brady system, which is a human colony, had a violent political conflict. At that time, a clique of politicians and academics even led to a large-scale bloody conflict over the authority of the Brady system.

In the end, "the group of scholars supported by the military won a complete political victory, bloodied the entire group of politicians, and finally moved from the "democratic" politics to the current monarchy.

At one point while reading this material, Robin was puzzled by the fact that he never thought that academics had any chance of winning a political battle. After all, politicians who advocate profit are better at surviving in such an environment of struggle than idealists such as scholars, and it is easier for them to win political battles. But in the political battle in Brady's system, the politicians lost across the board, and instead the group of scholars, who had no chance of winning, won.

Robin has analyzed that there must be some unknown external environment that has led to this result, and that the army's last-minute betrayal of politicians and academics must also be related to the external environment that has been concealed.

"Is this the reason why Albert Hoffman led humanity to find a way to survive in the universe—"

Analyzing the background of the times at that time, the first explorers who had just stepped out of the earth did not have the strong survivability possessed by the current new humans, and the survival facilities they used must not be comparable to those of today.

Therefore, there must have been a large-scale explosion of space diseases and genetic diseases at some point, so that all the colonists were shrouded in the shadow of death. Then, in such an environmental context, Albert Hoffmann, who developed a treatment plan for genetic diseases, has undoubtedly become a savior-like existence.

If he uses this genetic disease treatment as a threat, he can easily get the full support of the military, after all, in the shadow of an existential crisis, it is not a big deal for the military to betray the loyal politicians who use money to win over them in order to survive.

And the next thing should be much simpler, there is a gene disease treatment plan in hand, Albert,

Hoffman could easily gain popular support, and with the army as a guarantee, the politicians who had lost everything were simply not able to fight against him again, and total defeat was inevitable.

On the other hand, after saving the entire group of scholars, Albert Hoffman's voice in the field of academics will inevitably overshadow the leaders of the academic community at that time, Martin Hervey. It is only reasonable that this breeds great ambitions, and it is inevitable that the idealistic scholars like Hervey would be eliminated from Martin.

With all of these factors combined, Robin began to understand why the Hoffman Empire had such a hierarchical feudal monarchy.

The empire was founded by both military and scholars, and the interests of the two were closely related, so there was no reason why the rulers of the empire, Eparter, Hoffmann, who had ascended to the throne, should not support these two important groups that were directly linked to the interests of the state. The establishment of political power through the ancient and backward system of feudal monarchy would completely eliminate the existence of politicians, allowing soldiers and scholars to rise to the top by virtue of their personal abilities, while politicians would have nowhere to stay in the empire because they had lost their soil for survival.

In the past, Robin really couldn't understand that the monarchy of the empire still had the soil to survive in the current interstellar era. But now, after carefully analyzing the changes of the times in the Hoffman Empire in recent decades, Robin began to understand that it was countless external factors that contributed to the establishment of the empire, and vaguely acquiesced to the personal authority of Albert and Hoffman in the absolute sense, so that he could stand like a human savior, standing in the hands of God. [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ]