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A weekly salary of two pounds is enough for a family of three to have no worries about food and clothing.

Just the jewelry you brought with you when you go out today is enough for such a family of three to live for more than eight years.

You've had too much and you're about to take more, so I hate you.

Audrey's eyes widened in a daze. When she asked this question, there was more or less an answer in her heart.

It's just that she thinks that the other party will start with the life of the aristocracy and its influence on the country, and that attacking the parliament and the law is one of the best ways to attack the nobility, and she also knows that the "Corn Law" and the "Poor Law", as well as this year's "Air Pollution Remediation Law", have different degrees of exclusion among the common people, and she has heard many similar complaints in the Foundation. In addition to this, there is the private virtue of the aristocracy - on the surface, Rune is a conservative country, but in fact it is only better than Intis in finding a lover and lover in private, and attacking the private virtue of the aristocracy is also a good entry point - and most importantly, Audrey can brew some rebuttal words from both of these entry points.

In the long run, these methods are good for the economy and pollution control...... The corruption of the nobles' private morality can also be understood as individual differences, and there are many people who are loyal to marriage, just like their own fathers......

Audrey thought this in her head for a moment, but Richard didn't say either of those things.

Instead, he chose the most direct, the most disapproving of the aristocracy - money.

The topic was even somewhat foreign to Audrey.

The aristocracy should be lightweight, and do not care about the expenditure of money, because decency and nobility are the best virtues of the nobility.

The nobility of the nobility should be reflected in anything other than money, as Audrey's companion Susie sells for £450, but it is a gift from the Earl of Hall after spending a lot of money at the Hound Training Grounds. Just like Audrey never wears a dress a second time on a formal occasion, like precious food from all over the world at a dinner party, like a million-dollar painting hanging in the hallway that is inadvertently skipped but is made by a master.

If a nobleman spends all day talking about how much he spends on his feasts, how much he spends on food, and how much he spends on making new clothes for his wife and daughter, he will inevitably be spurned by the whole noble group, and people will laugh at him as a miserly nouveau riche.

Even Audrey developed an "occupational disease" because of her work at the Foundation, and to estimate her own expenses for food and clothing - it was something that embarrassed her a little, as if she had become a miserly nouveau riche, with only money in her eyes, but no noble status and decency.

"Ah, this ...... But sir, these riches belong to our family...... It took decades or even centuries to build. ”

Audrey froze, and she tried to refute the other party's words with an "aristocratic" answer.

"My family was given their first knighthood in a war more than two hundred years ago, and before that, the Hall family was just a small knightly family, and we were not born noble, and we were far from reaching the level we are today."

"If everything I enjoy now is the wealth of my family, then why not?"

Richard couldn't hold back a laugh.

She wondered how to end the topic, after all, she had heard too many such words, and I had heard that even the slightly better old days were full of people who thought like this. You tell them about the waste of the means of production, they tell you that I am in charge of my wealth, do you tell them that you earn a penny of this money yourself? Have you not squeezed the surplus value of any worker? Do you have pension allowance and work-related injury allowance for every worker? Even after spending some time popularizing the science of what surplus value is, they still make my own decisions in my wealth.

After all, she shouldn't have talked to these factory owners who had no concept of "people" at all.

After all, the scientific name of the people here is the labor force with two legs, and when these creatures are injured or old, and there is no labor force, they are not considered people, so who cares whether they live or die?

But it is also a waste of resources to dispose of the factory owners directly, and they should be directly turned into food, biscuits, bread, red wine, chickens, ducks, fish, cattle and sheep, so that their lives can be used at the end of some residual heat.

"Earl Hall is in the steel and banking business, so did your parents, parents and brother personally go to the steel processing plant to earn your money?"

Richard looked boredly at the steam train speeding in the distance, and prayed that the West Side would hurry up and ascend to heaven directly: "How much does your family's industry pay its employees?" How much is the subsidy for an employee in case of an accident, and is the employee directly dismissed when he is old, regardless of whether he is alive or dead? ”

After the employees get old? What happens to employees when they get old, as if they really never thought about it. If you can't work, shouldn't you be dismissed? But if you are really old enough to be able to participate in other jobs, is dismissal the same as ...... For a moment Audrey felt her back heat and her face was hot, and she secretly wrote down these words, and said:

"But we paid the cost and we paid the salary. Why can't you have all this money? ”

Richard sighed:

"Have you noticed how much your property earns in a month?"

Audrey shook her head slowly.

This sentence reminded her of the conversation between Earl Hall and Hibbert that day, to treat the workers with restraint, to give up some money appropriately, to make the workers feel that they were treated preferentially, so that more value could be generated...... Audrey didn't dare to agree, but she couldn't refute it either.

Because she's a part of profiting.

"Suppose your family's steel industry nets 100,000 pounds a month on the premise of deducting costs, how much credit do you think your parents and your siblings have to give to these 100,000 pounds?"

Definitely not for me, certainly not for my mom, we never cared about that...... In addition, Dad and Hibbert are usually busy with politics and participating in the affairs of the House, but they are not really involved in the production of the company for a long time, and often just read the report and look at the market investment, and it should be the managers of the company who are in charge...... Audrey frowned lightly and asked tentatively:

"Sorry, I didn't know that, how should I judge?"

If you haven't understood this, you can ask why you hate nobles? I thought you were looking for an answer based on some knowledge of the nobility.

Forget it, forget it, at least the attitude is sincere......

Richard's impatience was suppressed by the other party's sincerity, and she began to show her moderation and patience again:

"The simplest judgment is that out of the benefit of 100,000 pounds, your family has only provided a factory site."

"The company's management keeps it running, the employees work hard, the market digests the product, and it can still generate value even if it doesn't belong to Hall. But the 100,000 pounds created, minus the wages of the employees, and the rest is yours. "You basically didn't do anything, but you took the lion's share, and the employees created a profit of 100,000 pounds for you, but you could only get a monthly salary of five or six pounds, do you still think that your family's money is your family's hard work?" ”

Card rub.

Audrey was stunned.

For a moment, it seemed as if she suddenly understood something, as if she suddenly understood why the nobles were hated, but at the same moment her heart welled up with unprecedented resistance, she understood all the words of the other party, and therefore began to resist such a fact.

"Just providing a venue"?

Yes, the production of the factory does not seem to have anything to do with him, but he still enjoys a monthly income of 100,000 pounds, not tens of hundreds of pounds in rent, yes, the Hall family is not born noble, the Hall family obtained a knighthood in the war...... The private morality of the Hall family is not bad, but people with poor private morality can also become nobles, and morality is not the standard for becoming a nobleman, but a requirement for self-restraint used by nobles. If you are not born noble in this powerful world like the angel family, then where is your nobility as a nobleman?

Is it actually money?

In fact, is it the money that should not be mentioned in aristocratic interactions?

"There are also aristocrats who are not well mixed, but they would rather choose to borrow money to maintain dignity than admit that they are inferior to the average middle class."

"I borrowed money, I don't want to increase the value, but I have to make myself a few new clothes and hire a few servants to maintain my appearance, I actually don't understand this kind of behavior, probably because there is nothing commendable in their lives, only this title is still meaningful."

Richard did not stop talking because Audrey seemed to be deeply affected, but chose to continue to enlighten when he saw that she did not break down or shout:

"It can be seen that your virtues such as 'decency' and 'benevolence' are actually cocooned with yourself, and you first obtained the status of 'nobility' for various reasons, and then you tried to separate yourself from the 'non-aristocracy' by highlighting your own extraordinary, such as these luxurious ornaments that will no longer circulate into the market and lose their value, and show that you are 'naturally superior' through the so-called aristocratic virtues."

"Are you nobles because of your kindness and kindness? Could it be that the most benevolent people in this world are nobles? ”

"Apparently not."

Richard shrugged:

"But the richest people must be the nobility."

"However, your 'don't value money, just be decent' is as ridiculous as a graduate of Capital University saying that he doesn't value his studies. Isn't it interesting to put a shackle on yourself in this way, wasting money when you're rich and embarrassing when you're down? ”

"Decent" is actually a constraint on the aristocracy......?

This sentence turned out to be the most empathetic sentence for Audrey, because it was hard for her to forget the incident that happened to her first meritorious service after becoming an extraordinary person - at Duke Negan's dinner, Zielingers disguised himself as Baron Grammel and was discovered by himself because of some small mistake, and was finally killed by Mr. "Fool".

Poor Baron Grammel was, of course, a victim of this failed operation by Ziringus, and was found dead in his own home. But while comforting the deceased, Audrey had to admit that Baron Grammel was actually a very "non-noble" nobleman.

Baron Grammel was not handsome, and Baron Grammel did not have aristocratic virtues...... He lacks self-confidence, nostrils to the sky for civilians with a lower status than himself, nods to people with higher status, and only dares to glance at the female scrolls with higher status out of the corner of his eye.

Baron Grammier's funerals were very simple, and his relatives had to help pay off his debts, because Baron Grammier's financial situation was also very poor, and he even went into debt for a long time. But he still maintained the style of the nobility, keeping himself a butler, a valet, a maid, a coachman, a horse feeder, a gardener...... Do these configurations make sense for a nobleman who already needs to borrow? Baron Grammel could have borrowed more money to invest and hired fewer people - but Audrey didn't see anything wrong with it at the time, so she finally realized that she seemed, probably, probably accepted the idea of this strong man, and really began to feel that "decency" was not a good thing.

It seems to make a lot of sense.

No, is that right?

The conflict between education and the status quo has always been a conflict, and Audrey has almost given up on thinking.

It was as if she had become two, and there was a heated debate about Baron Grammier, one of whom embraced the new idea, saying, "If Baron Grammel had hired a few fewer men, he might have made some money by investing." The other replied in an "aristocratic" manner, "But that's how aristocrats should be?" We are all like this, Baron Grammel is already very unnoble, if he no longer obeys the rules of the nobility, then why is he still noble? ”

Audrey frowned.

"Audrey, how many more people do you think I can save while you're talking to me?"

But at this moment, Richard suddenly asked such an irrelevant question.

"How many people do you think were attacked in Beckland in those few minutes? How many people could have been lucky enough to meet me, but now they can't? - Of course, this is not entirely your responsibility, after all, I also spoke to you voluntarily. ”

Audrey was stunned, and immediately covered her mouth with her hand.

It was too hard to hear a clear reason for hating the aristocracy, of course she knew that there were many people who had ill will towards the aristocracy just because the nobles were richer, this reason could not convince her, she expected to hear some more real and straightforward reasons, but she was afraid of such conversations.

"It's called a waste of resources, miss."

Richard shrugged:

"Just like the resources that are wasted on you that turn into jewelry, clothes, perfumes, shoes, and handbags, if you keep them with you, then they lose their value, and I don't do anything here, and the people outside are all resigned to their fate."

"I'm sorry, sir, I ......" she tried to end the exchange immediately, but Richard stopped her again.

"It's okay, miss, I don't really care how many people die here."

The temperance angel begins to fully express its virtues of temperance and patience:

"I actually have a lot to tell you, but if I want you to understand it, I'll have to give at least two hours of class, so I don't want to say a word. But I have a relatively simple suggestion, maybe you will quickly realize that your family's wealth has nothing to do with your family, and it has nothing to do with you. I don't know if you'd like to, Miss Audrey, I'll make a double of your puppet for free, and then you and I get out of here. ”

Audrey was a little surprised: "Where to go?" ”

"I'm coming to Beckland on a business trip, and I'm about to go back to the South Continent, are you interested in coming to my institution as a nurse to give some hospice care to patients, or come to the restaurants in the South Continent to serve dishes, sweep the streets and sweep the floor, and the work is very leisurely."

Li looked at her and asked in the same relaxed tone as he had saved her:

"Do you have the guts to try it?"

Going to the Southern Continent?

Audrey is irrepressibly curious about the unknown.

"Southern Continent...... What kind of place is it? Despite all the letters Alfred wrote, Audrey never left Rune during her eighteen years of life, spending most of her time traveling back and forth between the capital and the fiefdom of East Chester County.

"The Southern Continent is a very beautiful and terrifying place."

Richard smiled: "You are now in the Southern Continent, you can see the living corpses driving and skeletons farming, you can see the members of the Rose School going crazy while calculating their own crazy time, you can see war, and you can also see a peaceful world." You can see people who want to live independently and freely, and you can also see people who can get by and only care about their own lives. ”

Audrey was a little moved, although the work of "serving dishes, sweeping the floor, and being a nurse" mentioned by this gentleman made her subconsciously feel some fear and rejection, but she knew that these rejections actually came from her own education - "undecent".

The aristocracy is not supposed to work, it is the people who work.

Even if the aristocracy wants to work, it must be elegant, relaxed, and able to become a social benchmark.

These jobs are undignified, ungraceful, and unfit for a noble lady.

"I ...... I probably can. ”

Audrey knew that the other person was trying to distract herself, and she was happy to take a break from thinking about the unanswered question: "I often give psychotherapy to my friends, I maybe, I may be a good fit...... Listen to the patients......"

If the other party is willing to guarantee the safety of her life, it would be great, even if not, the strength of Sequence 6 plus Susie can barely protect herself in the Southern Continent. If you just work in a hospital, you shouldn't be in too much danger.

"It's not that quiet."

Richard quipped, "I'll pay you if you come, but your salary is definitely not worth the pressure you have seen from everything." Well, after all, the funds of our cult organization are still very tight, our hospitals are quite rudimentary, and there are occasional fights. ”

"It's okay, I'll try to adjust it myself...... "If I can't accept it, I'll change jobs." Audrey thought and said, "I want to see more......"

She was a little excited about the unknown world, but at this moment, a series of hurried footsteps came, accompanied by a feminine crying voice, "Audrey! Audrey emerged from behind, like a powerful hand, pulling her back from the unknown fantasy to reality.

"Ah, Mom......!"

The beautiful countess, wiping her tears with a handkerchief in a dignified manner, came over and gently hugged Audrey, who was gray-faced in comparison. Audrey carefully retracted her foot to prevent her mother from seeing her broken heel.

"My dear, you must be frightened."

With tears in her eyes, Mrs. Caitlyn kissed her little daughter's face and kept comforting each other: "It's okay, it's okay, honey, let's go home, let's not come to such a dangerous place alone." ”

"No, I don't have ......"

Hearing this, Audrey hurriedly resisted, but she was led away by her mother before she could refute. She hurried to look at Richard, only to see a figure quickly come forward, standing between herself and her.

Lady Caitlyn coaxed her as she pulled Audrey, who was trying to speak, to her feet, and led her into the crowd of impenetrable Extraordinaire bodyguards towards the steam train in the distance. Audrey saw Archbishop Anthony standing in the carriage of the train, looking warily behind her.

"This train is just too noisy."

Mrs. Caitlyn whispered to Audrey, "There's little space, and there's no cushion, so you can't sit down at all." ”

"It's a pity that the carriage can't come here, and the roads here are almost completely ruined......"

As she whispered, she took her daughter, who had been looking back, into the steam train and sat not far from Archbishop Anthony.

Richard was not surprised to watch Audrey go away, she looked at the pile of jewelry that Audrey had left on the seat, and then looked at Earl Hall, who had the audacity to come forward for her daughter, and the meaning she wanted to express was self-evident.

"Long time no see, Mr. Ernst, thank you for saving the little girl."

Count Hall was a little nervous, he had just learned that this one was not a saint, but an angel with a strange temper, even Archbishop St. Anthony, who did not dare to approach rashly in this situation, because he was not sure of the other party's position.

"As a token of gratitude...... Look, how many thank-you gifts should I prepare? ”

Richard pouted at Audrey, "How much is she worth?" ”

Earl Hall's breathing paused for a moment, but he also relaxed significantly: "The little girl's worth is four hundred thousand pounds. ”

“…… That's all there is to it. Within a week, it will be made to the bearer account. ”

She yawned: "I saved your daughter for money, but your daughter escaped from there with someone first, and then met me, you should praise her for being able to take others alive until I go to save her." ”

After Richard said this, he bent down to pick up his suitcase, made his way through the crowd, and walked straight away.

Boring. She thought.

Walk out of the subway station and the bombing is over. I saw that above the ruins, the clear blue sky was cloudless.

tbc

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It is worth mentioning that the aristocracy advocates "not working" and looks down on labor work, so the aristocracy should do nothing to accept the offerings and be noble, even if the aristocracy participates in labor, it is to be looked down upon, so I don't understand why the squid will reflect in the article that one of the "high status of female believers in the night" is that aristocratic women can participate in some work.