Chapter 345: Baptism (Part II)
In front of the portrait of the emperor in the Privy Council Temple, after Le Chen swore allegiance, an old marquis of royal blood baptized Le Chen on behalf of the Privy Council and the royal family, symbolically sprinkled a few drops of holy water on the top of Le Chen's head with jade Ruyi, and then chanted loudly, announcing Le Chen's promotion to a first-class viscount. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Then, as when he came, Le Chen was teleported out of the temple in a daze, and someone led him to the side hall, where the Marquis of Hankda was waiting for him with a smile on his face.
The Marquis of Hankda is a beautiful man with elegant manners, and in the past few days, Le Chen and he have become familiar with him.
Seeing that Le Chen's face was a little uncertain, Han Keda smiled slightly: "Why should young people be in a hurry? he will have the time when Grand Duke Mosuo will personally whip you!" He was actually a little strange in his heart, this young man should not be so uncomposed.
Le Chen was slightly startled in his heart, and said with a smile: "The Prime Minister taught me a lesson." In fact, Hankda misunderstood him, but he naturally wouldn't tell it.
He was torn in his heart because the oath of allegiance in the temple was against his heart, and although for the vast majority of people the oath was a mere formality, as a monk, he did not say what he said, and recited the oath in the middle of the world, so that he had a bond with the object of the oath, and he could not help but take this oath as one thing.
"Brother, next, I'll explain the baptism to you!" Hankda looked at Le Chen with a smile and said, "I guess you don't know much about it?"
In the past few days, Hankda has also vaguely tested whether Le Chen is the agent of any force pushing to the forefront, but Le Chen's performance is not leaky, and it is obvious that Le Chen knows little about the affairs of the upper echelons, which is quite inferior to those well-informed citizens of Marfa Xing, so Hankda seems to have accepted the explanation that Le Chen's rise was due to "luck" and happened to be recognized by the Swamm symbiote, as for what he thought in his heart, Le Chen did not know.
But at the very least, Le Chen felt that Hankda was very sincere in his solicitation, obviously no matter what, as a chess piece, he already had the value of use, and it was worth a lot.
Listening to Hankda's words, Le Chen hurriedly smiled and said, "Please also ask Master Hou to solve your doubts." "I let out a long sigh in my heart, and the matter of taking an oath can only be like this, if I finally go to the home star system for one day, if I can take Murong Xue away safely, then naturally I will not say much, I can't say it, I will also become the help of the Parinard royal family, but if they see themselves as a heretic and threaten to eradicate themselves, it is not that they break their oath, and they can't complain about themselves.
Hankda took a sip of the teacup and said with a smile: "Next, it will be a big test." ā
Le Chen hurriedly threw away the distractions and listened attentively.
But it turns out that the earl title is different from the viscount and baron, if it is not inherited, it cannot be awarded unless there is great merit, and as far as the Marfa system is concerned, there has been no new earl for a long time.
Regardless of inheritance, new promotion, if you want to be promoted to the rank of high nobility of the earl and above, you need to go through an extremely ancient experience, called spiritual baptism, it takes a year to go to a specific poor planet to volunteer, and the identity must not be exposed, which is equivalent to a minor offender going to a social institution to do a service order, and finally the social workers will score and pass, for minor offenders, there is no need to go to prison, and for the children of the nobles who go to the experience, they can inherit or newly promote the title, and if they fail, they will lose the qualification for inheritance and promotion.
This is an extremely ancient aristocratic tradition, which has been passed down for tens of thousands of years, in order to make the nobles in high positions not forget the suffering of the people.
The Marquis of Hankda specifically mentioned that because of the severity of the war and the special situation, the Privy Council voted to shorten Lechen's "social service order" from one year to three months.
Le Chen reported that he had fought for a three-month recuperation period for the fleet under his command, so when he heard this, Le Chen's heart sank.
Marquis Hankda also said that the planet that Le Chen went to this time is in the 0045 star field, adjacent to the Marfa airspace, one of the planets is called Water Tower, and its first generation of immigrants insisted that highly developed technology would destroy the world and destroy the entire universe, so they self-exiled, and then the Water Tower Star Council passed a very harsh bill, prohibiting the technology of the post-warp era from appearing in the Water Tower Star, and now the planet is also in extreme poverty, but because of the religious brainwashing of the first generation of immigrants, therefore, the first generation of immigrants of the Water Tower Star abandoned the development of science and technologyThe Code of Equality is a forbidden area that any Water Tower person dare not touch, and it is also because of poverty, the Water Tower Star is not chaotic, although the 0045 Star Field provides various humanitarian aid to the Water Tower Star, but it has also been criticized by all kinds, most of the time, the rescuers will not allow the landing on the Water Tower Star, according to the laws of the Empire, the Empire has no right to interfere with the decisions formed by the highest council of the planet.
However, there are many charitable organizations and social welfare institutions in various galaxies of the empire, and the 0045 star field is no exception, so as the poorest planet outside of the ignorant civilization that is not forbidden to contact, the Water Tower Star is also active with many volunteers from the 0045 star field, these volunteers follow the local customs, give up all kinds of warp speed era technology, and rely on primitive technology to help the Water Tower people from all aspects, Le Chen, will be sentenced to three months of social service order "minor offenders" , enter the 0045 star field to volunteer with the Child Welfare Bureau, and eventually, will be dispatched to the Water Tower Star.
Listening to the introduction of the Marquis of Hankda, Le Chen was silent, the more advanced science and technology are, the easier it seems that various groups will take the extreme route, on the earth, how can there be no extremist organizations that think that the development of science and technology will destroy the earth? It's just that the first generation of immigrants from the Water Tower can make their own choices and really abandon highly developed science and technology, which is not easy.
From a certain point of view, perhaps, like the cultivators, they firmly believe that the sublimation of the human body's own form is the direction of human development.
"Don't rush, take your time, that's how I came, it's just that I wasn't in the Marfa system back then, but I did much the same thing as you. Hankda looked at Le Chen with a smile.
Le Chen nodded slightly and asked, "I don't know, what kind of work am I going to do?"
"Generally speaking, it's based on your talents, but you can't apply what you've learned! After all, volunteers don't have the position of commander of the army. Hankda smiled as he spoke, took a sip of the teacup again, and pondered: "It depends on how the Welfare Department arranges, what kind of work do you think you can do, and you can talk to them when you get to the Welfare Department, these are not controlled by others, from the moment you enter the Welfare Department, your identity is the offender, and your files seen by the people of the Welfare Department are all forged." ā
Le Chen nodded, in fact, thinking about it, this ancient tradition also has merits, for himself who is entangled in the tragic war, it is also very good to have such a quiet harbor to rest temporarily.