416. Majority vs. Minority
On the afternoon of the 33rd, the teachers of the Blue Dragon School all came over, and more than a dozen children who chased Gurea to school came over together. The most important guests of tomorrow's ball are also arriving for tonight's reception.
Baron Jacob Elk, the eldest son of the Southern Marquis of the Kingdom, came over to coordinate with Rand on food matters: "Viscount Rand, the Southern Marquis has received the approval of the Imperial Department of Agriculture, and the first batch of 100,000 tons of old grain will arrive next month, and at least this amount will be delivered every quarter in the future."
"Thank you so much, please rest assured that our territory will deliver livestock and war horses on schedule" Rand attached great importance to Jacob's personal arrival this time, he was the only heir to the lord who came in person in the alliance composed of the Eastern Marquis, the Southern Marquis and the Southwest Earl, and the remaining two families only sent their fourth son or royal capital agent to clean up their own property.
"My lord, I'm actually curious to know, why don't you, a newborn territory, apply to the empire for a subsidy for poor areas?" Jacob asked, "I've heard that the poor territories of the Galloping Horse in other places can also receive additional mineral and agricultural subsidies from the Galloping Fund!"
As soon as the subsidy was mentioned, Rand began to vent his bitterness: "I asked before, but the subsidy alone requires a credit deposit of nearly 200,000 gold coins, and the paper materials that need to be prepared are calculated by tons. Even if it is a small viscounty, there are more than 300 indicators that need to be calculated; If we count according to the marquisdom, there must be more than 5,000 of them, and there are really not so many people who can write."
"You're right, you don't have a civil service of 2,000 people, and you can't even write down an application and a comparison chart of indicators," the baron nodded.
In order to prevent the nobles from taking advantage of the empire, the bureaucracy of the imperial capital set up a very strict subsidy application and assessment mechanism.
Therefore, a business was specially derived, that is, the rich territory and the poor territory partnered to apply for subsidies, and the money was divided in half. In fact, Jacob's heart really wanted to persuade Rand to pack up and apply with their Elk Marquis Order, so that they would write and Rand would be famous.
However, as soon as he entered the Padmira Palace, he put aside the matter of the joint application, such a luxurious palace is obviously not what a poor territory should have, not to mention that the Night Qicheng Consulate also nominally owns the Galloping Horse Fund, although it may not be able to get the money.
At night, in the palace galloping hall, Grua looked at the huge space and whispered to Rand, "Tomorrow you want to dance here?"
"Yes, the first dance," Rand pointed to a circle around him, "see those?" When we jump, there will be a weak wind that will not hit the surrounding walls."
"Hit the wall?" The dragon girl was a little puzzled, "Aren't you afraid of hitting people?"
"No one, just the two of us in the first dance," Rand said with a smile.
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In the Galloping Horse Academy, a large number of students have gathered, and the magicians follow the barbarians and the demonsless to the palace, and there are many magic devices and magic circles for them to ensure the operation of the banquet, and the mage apprentices and ordinary demon supporters have to serve as waiters to deal with all kinds of banquets tomorrow from morning to night.
The knights were a little more relaxed, all of them were issued with cadet armor, mounted their horses, and did a good job of defending them with the galloping knights.
"Uffy, you have to be careful, I think there are too many orcs in the city lately, I wish there were three or five a week, I haven't heard of so many orc assassins in the royal capital before" Daqira shook Uffy's hand, "If you can't do it, you just follow the Tooth Knight, there's no need to rush forward for everything!"
"Look at what you said, if there weren't so many assassins, where would we knight students get the points," Uffy said with a smile, "I really hope to be able to get points consistently, but I don't know if there are any more in the city."
"Uffie, you help me look at my brother" Brittle Landarin on the side found Uffy, and stuffed her with some magic scrolls, asking her to help her brother Fredek more.
The last time Uffy was on patrol with Fredek Lanyuan, if it weren't for her quick eyesight, Fredke would have had to recuperate for at least a few months.
"Britt, you're so polite, if it weren't for him that time, I guess I would have been cut down by the boar man" Although Uffy noticed the boar man's anomaly, it was Fredek who thwarted his counterattack and gave the most damage.
"Then you can watch him for me, too!" Britt pursed her lips and shoved a few scrolls into her.
The mages left in a big way, and Britt and Daquira waved to Uffy as they left, although Uffy and the two girls were far from each other in the family, and they were now very good friends. Uffi herself understands that only in the Night Qi City can she continue on the path of knighthood, and not marry into a big family.
While Uffy was still looking at the mages, a girl about her height walked by.
"Knight Uffi, I've been hearing your name in the academy today," the girl had blonde hair, and her smile was both bewitching and cold, "Let me introduce myself, my name is Dandilian, and I just came from the royal capital today to follow Gurea Sensei, I hope we can become friends in the future."
"Of course," Uffy smiled kindly, "we are in the same house, so we can naturally become friends."
"Oh?" Dandilian pretended to be surprised, "But I heard that Teacher Wendy once had some aristocratic friends in the Blue Dragon School, but then she was forced to come to the Plains of the Galloping Horse, and Lili, Sophia, Jonny, and Firefly were also like this."
"Huh?" Of course, Uffy knew about Wendy and the others, but she didn't understand why the girl in front of her brought it up here.
"Uffy, don't you realize it yet? The children of those great nobles will not give us the children of the common people the right to choose freely," Dandilian glanced at the mages who had already walked away, "Don't believe you, aren't those mages all the children of the great nobles?" The descendants of our commoner families have no magical inheritance, even if they barely stimulate their bloodline and reach the rank of junior knights, they will either become vassals of the great nobles, or they will be sent to the wilderness."
"Knight Dandilian, in Lord Rand's territory, every demon bearer can study in the Galloping Horse Academy, and now almost all the most important mages in the lord's territory are from civilians." Uffi sensed that something was wrong with Dandilian, but she also knew about the oppression of civilians by her large family as she lived in the iron mines.
"Yes, so we should cherish the current environment of the Galloping Horse Academy, and we, the children of the common people, should unite and fight for more resources from those big families" The girl held out her hand, "Let them know that this academy belongs to more people!"
[In view of the general environment,
"This academy belongs to Lord Rand Galloping Horse, and this is an academy run by the Barbarian Galloping Horse Tribe" Looking at Dandilian's somewhat stiff expression, Uffy said solemnly, "In addition, as Lord Rand's direct domain, and a member of the Galloping Horse Tribe, I must remind you that the Barbarians are the majority of the people here!"