Chapter 116: The Title System
For this reason, Zhao Zifeng gave himself a leave and went to the castle of the Duchy of Most, but was told that the war was over and the duke's family returned to the imperial capital.
The laws of the Rand Empire stipulate that in addition to defending against foreign invasions, all princes can only settle in the imperial capital, and are given a one-month territorial inspection period every year.
This regulation not only limited the control of the princes over their own territory, prevented them from over-managing the territory and supporting their own troops, but also gave them time to consolidate their rule and avoid the possibility of them being treasoned.
For more than 500 years, there has been no betrayal by the prince and the seizure of the territory by his subordinates, and in addition to the influence of the headmaster, it cannot but be said that this law is in play.
There was no mother found in the territory of the principality, Zhao Zifeng decided to take a long vacation, anyway, there are still a few days before the school is officially closed, and he will return to school on September 1st.
With a wave of his hand, he let Spinnet Pavana and Walter White fake, and drove away with a flash of fire from the Mother of the Artifact.
The three guys didn't do anything, and Professor Yasir waved his hand and said two words: "Vacation!"
The foundries cheered, and within ten minutes they were all gone, leaving a pitiful Professor Yasser to clean up the mess.
Don't blame them for not having a sense of belonging, the artifact casting field of the new academy did not cast duel artifacts during this time, all of them were used to cast medium-caliber magic guide cannons, and this technique was not much private use after learning, neither the capital of betrayal, nor the artifact refining method, Yasir followed the teachings of the principal and reality, and left a hand on them.
only told them how to use Ritter's ninth-level mother tripod, and the other qiē operations only told them how to do it, not why they did it, they didn't know why they did it, and people with average casting talent naturally couldn't figure it out, and people with good casting talents, such as Professor Ritter, such as Professor Coaster, are there any of these people?
There must be no, there is an unspoken rule in the Royal Demon Martial Academy, students with good academic performance during the school and better talent will be nominated to stay in the school to teach after graduation, the reason why it is said to be a nomination is because many students have not yet cultivated to the holy level when they graduate, and the academy professors must be at the holy level, they will be put into the imperial experience, until they advance to the holy level, they will be recalled to the academy to teach.
In recent years, there have been many nominations for Potions, Foundry, Therapeutics, and so on, and Spinette Pavana and Walter White are the barely appropriate types, and their talents are similar to those of Professor Yasir.
Hard work, there is hope to become an artifact casting master, but the artifact designer is not to think about it.
Don't work hard, a lifetime of artifact casters.
This is still the result of Zhao Zifeng's teaching, before this, they have heard of the artifact casting process, if they have Ritter Tevez's casting talent, they don't need to be taught at all, they can comprehend the artifact casting technique.
The same is true of Professor Yasir, who witnessed the birth of the artifact mother tripod and watched the artifact casting process, but he didn't know the secret of casting the artifact until Zhao Zifeng and Ritter pierced the layer of window paper at them.
Talent is this thing, mysterious and elusive, speaking of which, in fact, Charles Fenrir is very talented, he can design his own absolute space without casting, if he can cast, he can easily become a master of artifact casting, but it's a pity that his mind is not right, and he ends up in a different place.
To get back to the point, in fact, the reason why the foundries were left with one hand, they couldn't cast the artifact privately, it was not that they were stupid, they didn't think that the magic guide cannon was actually a large artifact, as long as the scale was reduced, it would be an artifact, and the real reason was that they couldn't find a material that could withstand the Extreme Heavenly Fire.
Forget about the artifact, the chicken-egg-and-egg chicken-and-chicken problem.
They didn't have a thorough understanding of the artifact casting process, so they could only copy it and find the mother tripod material that could withstand the extreme heavenly fire, but naturally they couldn't find it, and the meteorites outside the sky had become fragments, and they didn't know how to use them, so they naturally didn't know how to use these fragments.
It's not that they haven't thought of using the mother tripod to cast the mother tripod for refining artifacts, but they don't dare to do that, the academy guards against them, just because they are worried that they will indiscriminately make artifacts after they learn it, throw it indiscriminately, and shake the foundation of the empire.
This is the difference between ordinary people and Zhao Zifeng, if Zhao Zifeng is in charge of the artifact casting field, he will definitely turn his nose up at this kind of secrecy, anyway, the enemy knows the artifact casting process, betrayal is worthless, what does it matter if the citizens of this empire know.
The empire is unstable?
If the citizens of the empire live a good life and live and work in peace and contentment, who wants to rebel if they have too much power? If they want to rebel, they must also weigh whether other nobles are willing or not, and then weigh the energy of the imperial royal family, whether they can win the war.
In Zhao Zifeng's view, the ruler has but the ruler does not, which is of course a deterrent and subduation, but the hidden danger is huge.
Everyone has it, and the ruler is stronger, this is the foundation of a strong empire, an empire with a rich country and weak people is difficult to last long, especially the Rand Empire surrounded by strong enemies.
Facts have also proved this, for example, at the beginning, if Zhao Zifeng and Ritter hid and tucked in, refined the artifact for their own use, did not equip the academy professors, and did not popularize the artifact to the world, not only the fire dragon pass could not be guarded, but also the Western Two Realms pass, the Rand Empire would have been divided up by the Holy See of Light and the Dark Empire Yama
Don't mention these, just say that Zhao Zifeng drove the artifact mother Ding to fly to the imperial capital, and it didn't take more than ten minutes to reach the sky above the empire, this time no one made a move on him, even if he held a grudge against the nobles who wanted to break her body into thousands of pieces, these nobles were not in the minority.
Adding up, accounting for more than two-thirds of the number of nobles in the imperial capital, they were either killed as Bauhinia guards in the imperial palace, or because Zhao Zifeng made a big fuss, causing the eldest prince to lose the right to inherit the throne, so that their early investment was wasted, and the loss was not heavy, the eldest prince lost the right to inherit the throne, but he would not be willing to spit out the benefits of eating in his stomach again, he would still count on these assets to live in the future!
In fact, the life of the prince is very helpless, if he can't become the emperor, after the brother or the ninth sister ascends the throne, he will be divided into princely titles, no territory, only one royal title, even the marquis is not as good, he can only spend money to buy a piece of land with a hundred years of ownership from the royal family or duke like an earl, or live honestly, or do some business.
And his descendants, sons inherit the title of earl, and grandsons can only be viscounts, great-grandson barons, and only one person in each generation can inherit until the great-grandson's generation, the hereditary baronial title retains the dignity of royal blood.
The empire is very strict about the division of dukes and marquis with territories, and the three dukes are basically hereditary, and the thunder cannot be moved, and no one else can even think about it.
However, except for the one with the hereditary duke's title, the rest of the duke's children and grandchildren can only inherit the hereditary baronial title, except for making meritorious contributions or becoming a saint-level powerhouse, don't want to climb up.
The marquis can think about it, but there are only nine places for the imperial marquis, and the earls are flooded, with nine hundred, and it is really a battle for thousands of troops and horses to cross the single-plank bridge.
Fortunately, the marquis is not hereditary, but a meritorious demotion inheritance system, that is, a marquis has no special contribution to the empire in his life, and his son can only inherit the title of earl, and then the grandson is the viscount, until the last baron, and then demoted to knighthood, has been deprived of all power, leaving only one title that represents the once illustrious one.
As soon as the marquis died, the son immediately lost ownership of the territory and automatically inherited the title of earl.
Zhao Zifeng originally secured the title of baron, and after becoming a saint-level powerhouse, he could be promoted to a viscount, according to his contribution to the Royal Demon Martial Academy and the Rand Empire, it is natural to give a count title, that is, to be crowned a marquis, and the credit is enough, his credit is much greater than that of the Marquis of Shenwei Yunlong Li.
But Zhao Zifeng offended the royal family, for his reward, Yunsi VII Yunlu Stuart turned a blind eye and didn't want to give, and the royal family still has a legitimate reason, none of the nine marquis of the empire died, although the Marquis of Shenwei Yunlong Li was promoted to the prince, and his marquis fief can be taken out, but the nobles don't want to offend the empress's husband, and second, you have offended us, and you still want us to fight for your interests!!
Originally, Duke Moster could speak, but Split Cloud Moster really didn't want to see this evil obstacle, "I was a heavy hand on you at the beginning, I wanted to protect you, otherwise Duke Greek would give up, even if Duke Gluck is willing, Duke Paris and the Nine Marquis will not be willing, the following is the most taboo thing for nobles, I admit that I was a little heavier at the beginning, but you can't hate me for the rest of your life, don't give me a chance to reconcile! Let me take the initiative to apologize, I can't afford to lose that person!"
In his mind, his daughter has made great contributions, but no one has nominated for the knighthood, and the daughter will definitely ask for her head in the end, and at that time she can not only reconcile, but also maintain the dignity of being a father, Duke Moster is destined to be sad when he thinks so.
Zhao Zifeng never cared about the title, otherwise he would not have made a big fuss in the imperial palace, forcing Yun Si VI to step down, and finally fell down.
In his opinion, those with titles are all false names, those with wealth are all floating clouds, and those with territory are troubles, but Zhao Zifeng soon realized that wealth is trouble!!