Chapter 1380: The Threat of Dragon Island
Because you are a child, everything you do can be forgiven?
Leaving aside the pre-transition society for the time being, the law stipulates that adults and civil rights must not be considered to have full capacity and responsibilities until they reach the age of 18 or 20. How was adult defined in ancient times?
In their hometowns, both Chinese and foreign, adults in ancient times were counted only after the coming-of-age ceremony was held. The coming-of-age ceremony is generally held between the ages of twelve and fifteen, depending on the situation. As long as the coming-of-age ceremony is held, it means that you can get married.
As for why it is so defined, the reason is actually very simple. Boys at this age will reach sexual maturity, and girls will begin to menstruate; To put it simply, it's time to have children.
In an era when life expectancy is relatively low and the medical and sanitary environment is poor, women are required to wait until they are about 30 years old to have a stable career and mature body before becoming pregnant and giving birth. Isn't that a joke? In an era when manpower equals productivity, this kind of 'advanced' behavior is no different from ethnic suicide.
Although the body is not yet fully mature, there is a risk in production. The solution of the ancients was to have many children and grandchildren, using a cruel natural elimination method to select relatively strong individuals to reproduce many offspring. Those who are unhealthy and weak will die from various diseases in the process of growing up, or the danger of pregnancy and childbirth, and most of them will not be able to give birth to offspring.
As for the question of whether there is judgment or not, and the mind is immature. Even in the pre-time-traveling modern world, young people in their twenties are still considered to be impulsive. Are these people really different from teenagers?
In the eyes of the travelers of the original fat house, innocence and ignorance should not be the umbrella of minors, and that age regulation is only a boundary of whether guardians should be jointly and severally liable. The innocence of those who do not know has never been the view that a society should uphold.
What's more, how can it be proved that a certain offender really 'didn't know' that his actions had violated the law at the moment of committing the crime? Zhuangzi's argument that 'Zi is not a fish' is a good illustration that this kind of thing is simply difficult to prove.
Therefore, for the old noble deacon who left, he kept emphasizing that the notorious prince was just a 'child', and this kind of words only made Lin feel disgusted. Because there is no one to teach and you are young, you can do evil?
However, speaking of that prince, to be honest, Lin was also a little uncertain.
Standard little child temperament. Seeing the same, loving the same, seeing good things and wanting to hold them in your hands. However, the speed of liking the new and hating the old is fast, and it is a bit flattering to say that it is hot for three minutes. But the horror is that this 'child' wields great power enough to reward life and death.
But that prince will not be like a child, when something does not go his way, he will fall to the ground and lie on his skin, stalking him, and he will not stop until things are done according to his own ideas. When it was time to go, he walked neatly, and he didn't look like a child at all.
So the little ghost is shrewd, just using the appearance of a child as a cover; Or is it just a coincidence, and then you think too much about it. Lin couldn't say for sure. Unless you put the box on the door of his head, read the mind directly.
Aristocracy has this disadvantage, and their elite education and etiquette training are the best disguise. If you are not in that circle, it is difficult to know what that circle is doing behind your back.
Forget it, take the matter of that prince out of your mind for the time being. Anyway, his destructive power is not up to the level of damaging his own big things, at best it is a bit of an eyesore, and he just runs out from time to time to disgust people. Ignoring this kind of person is the best option. Dance with each other and simply waste your own time. In those times, it's better to be in a daze than to be angry with the other party.
The construction of the bank in the port of the Azores is fast. In fact, in this era of low productivity, as long as it is not a miracle building of the level of the Grand Temple of Guypadne, it is still very simple to build an ordinary house.
Lin's plans and requirements for banks can't even be compared to the level of a wealthy businessman's mansion. As long as you kick the wall, the wall will not fall; Shake the pillars, and the roof won't collapse to the extent that it is good.
The only thing that can be called a work of art is the emblem of the goddess of gold coins. In order for the emblem to work, certain norms must be followed, and nothing can be sloppy. It's like a magic circle, of course it's useless to scribble.
On the other hand, if the bank is built too luxuriously, it will scare off the vast majority of ordinary people, so that they do not dare to enter the bank to do business. It is quite difficult to focus on high-end users from the beginning, and then make it acceptable to ordinary people.
After all, it is a society with a fixed class. People at the lower levels want to go to the upper levels, and if they are not careful, they will not only get humiliation, but also lose their lives. This is completely different from the harmonious rule of law society in my hometown.
But if you take the civilian route from the beginning, in order to take care of those who are superior, so you open up some luxurious reception areas, this approach is easy for everyone to accept.
For the banks had enough interest to induce them to use the vast assets of the aristocracy, and the appearance of luxury or modest was a trivial matter. But for civilians, those benefits or fees are negligible decimal points. If you make them afraid to use it, then it will be even more difficult to lure them into the bank again.
I have been in the port of the Azores for almost half a month, and the main building of the bank is almost completed. The furnishings and decorations are also synchronized. When everything was done, Lin consecrated the emblem in the bank, and the bank in the port city could be handed over to Sir Geb, who managed the local area for the empress.
In the early days, the problem of bank management manpower can be transferred to a wizard. The rest are recruited from the local area, and they are doing the work of security anyway. It is enough to bring the bank clerk to the entrance, and the bank users will use it in the future, or communicate directly with the goddess through the Great Sage Emblem, without using anyone as a medium. So there really aren't too many people who know how to do it.
However, the employees of the Whale Bone Tavern were as wary of seeing a certain magician as they were of a flood beast. It's not that this magician will threaten their lives, but that the people who come after this magician, just the possibility of accidental injury is a great threat to them.
This feeling of worrying about being implicated is not very good.
Of course, Lin could read the eyes of those people, and even the orc chick, who had always been loud, became slightly cautious. In this regard, Lin did not plan to make up for it, or to do something more intimate.
He came to the tavern to drink, and it was just a deal. I chose the Whale Bone Tavern, also because it has the background of the Adventurer's Guild, so it naturally avoids a lot of small troubles. That's why the tavern employees have to hide whenever trouble comes to the door. Those little troubles, it simply can't happen here.
If Lin behaves more intimately with a particular person, will he make the other person a target for his potential enemies? Lin didn't want to bet on this kind of thing at all. Besides, my age is not the kind of age when I can't sleep alone, so I don't have to sleep with a stove in my arms.
With these realizations, and a few days left, I will be able to complete my work in the port of the Azores. Lin was cheeky and continued to cause trouble for the people in the tavern. Hiding inside the Azorean castle on a cliff is also a way to do it, but who says beer is only available in the Whalebone Tavern, and not anywhere else.
Someone is currently having a severe concussion with the Cutters. In this extremely mentally draining situation, the best drink is coffee. It's a pity that there is no qualified coffee here in the port of the Azores, and you may have to go back to the empress's summer palace to drink it.
Then beer with a low alcohol content becomes the second best refreshing drink, but it has the side effect of drunkenness. If you have other spirits with a higher degree and you get dizzy after drinking it, you don't need to do research, just get drunk.
Although someone has a very valid reason. But in fact, in the eyes of outsiders, he is a bastard who reports to the tavern every day, and then asks for a few glasses of wine and spends all day in a daze. If it weren't for the black robe, a golden spike thread in front of the magician's small shawl, and a few dollars in his pocket, I am afraid that he would have been regarded as a vagabond.
It's just that unlike someone's desire to spend the remaining few days safely, in the midst of a whirlpool of trouble, don't want to get out easily. What's more, he is still in great trouble, and the pressure from Dragon Island is expanding silently.
However, after experiencing the two farces of the Barbarian King and the Prince of Behar, no one came to the door with no heads, thinking that he could get the rich reward promised by Dragon Island. There is such a thing as taking money with a life and spending money without a life, even if the people of the land are reckless, they will not do it.
But even if you don't force it, there is still a way to achieve it in a roundabout way. For example, an unexpected figure stood in front of Lin, it was a white sword saint William in flowing white clothes? Greco.
William wasn't here to find trouble. Although some members of the Greco family proposed so, they even tried to use the family's authority to oppress the famous sword master, who came forward to challenge the mage and sell it to Dragon Island. But William didn't compromise, or rather, he didn't dump the group at all.
Instead of a bank uniform, a suit that wasn't white, William put on his favorite white again. He doesn't really care much about the style and shape of the clothes, he just likes to be snow-white and spotless.
Don't think about daily activities, how can you keep your white clothes unstained all the time. But William just got it. Lin even wondered if this skillful ability to avoid evil was accumulated by this kind of daily effort to keep the white clothes clean.
If even such a thing as inadvertently getting dirty can be avoided subconsciously, then it doesn't seem to be Doshihan's behavior to be unconsciously avoided by him for more dangerous things. For William's instinct that seems to have brought his own luck, sometimes even a calculating person like Lin feels powerless.
And the Sword Master, who reappeared in front of someone, had his butt slightly touched the wooden chair, and he asked, "You offended Dragon Island?" ”
"Slaughtered two dragons before." Lin replied simply. He didn't even think about whether the Sword Master in front of him was here to stand out for Dragon Island. As far as he knew about this man, William was a man who was even more afraid of trouble than he was, and would avoid it.
Even as a member of the Ikaruga Alliance, William actually made a handful of shots, and every time he had a reason to do it. Obviously, Ryushima's bounty and family pressure were not enough to justify him turning against someone.