Chapter 127: Load, Continue to Pack (The second is asking for a monthly pass!) )
「…… Mulan City is hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, but it's a pity that this winter, Mulan City is unusually cold, and it's not worth going now. It's better to wait until next summer, and if you want to go, you can go with Sister Hui." Fan Chengcai explained that he did not blindly follow Quan Caiwei.
Quan Caiwei feels good about Fan Chengcai's attitude.
This kind of equal but polite gesture is what she admires the most.
She didn't like to be with those who offered her up, and certainly not with those who hated her.
So she rarely socializes with people outside her circle.
Because only in their circle are they truly equal, no one has to accommodate anyone, and no one wants to take advantage of others or be taken advantage of by others.
Now Fan Chengcai is a person who gives her almost the same feeling, making her feel at ease.
She thinks this trip is quite good.
Just as they were drinking tea and listening to music, Xia Chu saw their team and received a second itinerary.
It's after five o'clock, Quan Caiwei's schedule.
They would go from the Fog Pavilion to the nearby restaurant Yisaka for dinner.
From now on, they have to go to the Yishaka restaurant for martial law.
Team Members: "......"
Although they knew yesterday that this tulip lady would come to Yishaka for dinner, but now looking at this battle, they really think that even if the princess comes, it will probably be such a pomp.
Maybe it's not even as good as.
Li Jian started the aircraft and flew to the tarmac of Yi Shaka, gossiping and saying, "In fact, the children of the four noble lords are really not much worse than the children of the royal family. And it's definitely much better than the children of the clan."
Xia Chujian heard a circle in his eyes.
"Lord Binding, what is the relationship between the royal family and the clan? Isn't the clan royal?" She asked curiously.
"The clan is a member of the royal family, but not the royal family. The royal family, specifically refers to the branch of the clan that ascends to the throne of God. Those members of the royal family who did not become emperors could only become ordinary clansmen. They do not have a noble title, only a clan status, but this status is still equivalent to nobility. It's just not as good as the four nobles."
Ping Qiong snapped his fingers and said, "So the Su family, the Zong family, the Quan family, and the Li family, these four nobles, their titles are hereditary?"
Li Jian said, "Well, not only is it hereditary, but it will never take the title, otherwise how can it be called the four nobles?"
"Whatever they do, will they go unpunished? Even treason? Or rebellion?" Xia Chujian asked curiously.
Li Jian said: "Of course they will be punished, whoever commits a crime will be punished, and they will be killed if they should be killed, but they will not be linked, so the titles of the four nobles have always been stable and passed down within the family." ap.
Xia Hatsumi continued to ask, "What about the other nobles?"
Li Jian said: "Other nobles have also been passed down from the founding of the country, but although their titles can be inherited, they can also be taken away, not as safe as the four nobles. When they have sinned, they will be co-ordinated."
Xia Chumi thought thoughtfully: "Will there be a new nobleman then? Ascended from the commoners?"
Xia's words of first meeting made Li Jian silent for a while before he said, "Of course there is, but the conditions are very harsh."
"Why?"
"Because the number of titles in the Beichen Empire is fixed, it has been set since the beginning of the country, and there are only three thousand one hundred and eighty-four in total."
"The four dukes are the four nobles."
"Thirty marquises, sixty counts, ninety viscounts, and three thousand barons."
"Except for the hereditary replacement of the four nobles, even if they rebel, they can't take the title. Other titles, for more than 10,000 years, have gone up and down."
"If you want to be knighted from a citizen, in addition to meeting various standards, you must wait for a vacancy in the title before you have the opportunity to be knighted."
Xia Chujian was fascinated by what he heard, and continued to ask, "Then under what circumstances will the title be vacant?"
Li Lian said expressionlessly, "There are three situations in which the title will be vacant."
"One, if you commit one of the three major sins, you will be punished by the emperor
Knighthood. These three crimes are treason, treason, and rebellion, with the exception of the four nobles, of course."
"Second, the whole family is no heir, and the title will be automatically recovered. The four nobles are also excluded, and both men and women can inherit the title anyway."
"Third, if you commit a serious criminal offense, kill a nobleman, a cabinet or senate, and a high-ranking member of the military, in addition to the culprit will be sentenced to death, the family will also be implicated, deprived of the title, or even reduced to a commoner. And even if you make meritorious service in the future, you will never be able to be knighted and promoted to nobility again."
The corners of Xia Chujian's mouth twitched: "Actually, it's quite good for the nobles, right?" No nobleman would have enough to do such a thing, would he?"
"It's hard to say, the forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds." Li Jian scoffed.
Xia Chujian didn't care about these details, but sighed: "If that's the case, then there is still hope for the situation of citizens or commoners being knighted, right?"
Li Jian said, "Well, as long as there is a vacancy for the title, and there are two conditions for the Beichen Empire to be knighted, one can be met."
"Oh?"
"Either you have enough military merit or you are elected to the Senate."
"Who's going to decide?"
"It is absolutely the right of the emperor to be knighted, whether it is the senate, the cabinet, or the military, they cannot interfere."
Xia Chujian sneered: "This Beichen Emperor is quite smart, although it is a so-called constitutional monarchy, he still uses a title to firmly hold the backbone of his subordinates."
Because even if a constitutional monarchy was reached, the privileges of the nobility were still written into the constitution.
If the emperor has exclusive monopoly over the title, then the emperor still has a large part of the power in the regime.
It is not so easy to use a constitution to make the emperor completely cede the power of the monarchy.
Li Bin: "......"
Sounds like that.
They talked and talked, and soon stopped in the tarmac of the Yisha Ka restaurant.
Xia Chujian, Li Lian, and Pingqiong also wore that kind of human face hood, and they looked completely different from their own appearance.
The three of them changed into the uniform of the Kwon security guard, got down from the aircraft with submachine guns on their backs, joined up with other security personnel, and began to guard the outside.
Inside the restaurant, the core personnel of the security department are in charge.
Xia Chu saw that Pingqiong turned around, and found nothing suspicious, so he sat side by side on the big tree branch in the courtyard outside the Yishaka restaurant, and looked inside the restaurant with a telescope.
Xia Chujian said, "The diners inside are all disguised by Quan's security personnel, right?"
Ping Qiong was also looking inside the restaurant with a telescope, and when she heard this, she said, "It must be, I saw the death money, and he is actually eating delicious food again!"
Xia Chujian silently took out a tube of low-grade nutrient solution from his arms, and drank it all in one gulp with the food he saw in the telescope.
This meal, they were well guarded and there were no problems.
Kwon Caiwei also ate happily.
It's not that she hasn't eaten Guiyuanxing's specialty unicorn beef, but this time the taste is especially different, because this time it is relatively fresh unicorn beef, and the ones she has eaten before are frozen for a long time before thawing.
No way, this kind of unicorn beef is a specialty of Guiyuanxing.
If you want to transport it to the Zangge Star where the Quan clan is located, or the Beichen Star where the imperial capital is located, you need to freeze it first, otherwise it will deteriorate.
Of course, it can also be transported by an interstellar spaceship that can jump in space, but in that case, the price of unicorn beef will be so high that even a few nobles can afford to eat it, which is obviously not cost-effective, and no one will do it.
Kwon Chae-wei was full of praise and said, "Sure enough, the freshness of the ingredients is very important, and I should come to Guiyuanxing every year to eat unicorn beef in the future."
Fan Chengcai made a casual appearance and said, "Actually, unicorn beef is not the most delicious specialty of our Guiyuanxing."
"Oh? I don't believe there's anything more delicious than unicorn beef." Quan Caiwei asked curiously.
Fan Chengcai said, "You've heard of the black truffle wild rhino, right?"
「…… I've heard of it, but I haven't eaten it." Kwon Chaewei shrugged, "I heard it's very difficult to catch?"
"A real black truffle wild rhinoceros is a must!" Fan Chengcai's eyebrows fluttered, "Cai Wei, you really should come again next year, I'll be the east, and take you to Mulan City to eat delicious food!" It's the closest to the Alien Beast Forest."
"Alien Beast Forest?" Quan Caiwei's eyes flickered, "I've heard many people talk about it, is it really dangerous there?"
"It's very dangerous. It can be said that every year, 100,000 bounty hunters go to the Alien Beast Forest, and less than 10,000 people can come back alive." Fan Chengcai sighed and said, "For every black truffle wild rhinoceros meat, there are countless bounty hunters' lives trapped in it."
Quan Caiwei was slightly stunned, shook her head, and said, "Since this is the case, don't eat it. If so many people use their lives to catch it, I won't eat it, no matter how delicious it is."
Fan Chengcai: "......"
He knew that he had exerted too much force, so he hurriedly coughed softly and looked at his eldest brother Fan Chengqi.
Fan Chengqi smiled and diverted the topic and said, "Chengcai just likes to exaggerate, but in fact, black truffle wild rhinoceros is not so difficult to catch. There is a restaurant in Mulan City that specializes in this dish, and if you have time to go and see it, you don't have time to forget it, the food is also about fate."
Quan Caiwei nodded in agreement and said, "Fan Dashao is right, food does talk about fate."
She turned the subject back to the subject, "But since the Alien Beast Forest is so dangerous, shouldn't we suggest to the Cabinet that we close the Alien Beast Forest and stop letting the bounty hunters make unnecessary sacrifices?"
Fan Chengcai showed a look of disapproval, and said with a straight face, "Cai Wei, I know you are kind, but for thousands of bounty hunters, you are cutting off their lives."
Quan Caiwei was puzzled: "Why did I cut off their way of life? Isn't it good to let them live?"
Fan Chengcai said solemnly, "Cai Wei, you really don't understand the lives of ordinary people at the bottom. Although going to the Alien Beast Forest is in danger of dying, it is also their only chance to make a lot of money."
"Where can you make money without risk?"
"They have a home to raise, and they want to climb up by their own efforts, if you don't let them into the alien beast forest, you will not only cut off their way of life, but also cut off their way up. - Do you say, do you lose more than you gain?"
Quan Caiwei smiled slightly: "It's me who didn't think it through, Fan Ershao is right. Come, I'll toast you."
Fan Chengcai naturally took the wine glass from her hand and said, "You drink juice, I drink."
As he spoke, he poured a glass of green fruit juice for Quan Caiwei, and he was a glass of red wine.
The two toasted to each other: "Toast the food."
The people at the table applauded, and the atmosphere was very warm.
Xia Chujian watched all this with a telescope, and his heart gradually became uneasy.
That Fan Chengcai, pretending to be a dog, actually seemed to really make this tulip lady look at her differently.
Pingqiong also sees everything in his eyes.
She comforted Xia Chujian: "Don't be discouraged, the posture you pretend to be always fake. Fan Chengcai's kind of person, I don't believe he can keep pretending."
「…… What if he could fill it for six days?" Xia Chu asked.
Pingqiong: "......."
She didn't know how to answer, and she knew in her heart that judging from the current situation, the possibility of Fan Chengcai filling six days was very great.