C3018 You are nobles (2/2)
”What?” The people want to pay their respects to their lord? Don't … We are all equal, I bow to you first... Hahaha … ”Cough, cough, cough …”
Wang Huaiyuan sarcastically said a few words, making Ba Zan and the other three generals' faces darken immediately!
Xiang Ying was even more clever, not only did he manage to translate it in time, he even added fuel to the fire. That's called nationalism... Equality for All... ”Becoming a noble with the emperor is already something that I'm unwilling to do …”
”It's better now. It's China again. How happy is it!”
Xiao Letian coldly snorted. So happy! ”I don't know. Have you guys washed off the blood you suppressed all those years ago?”
”Do you really think that the Republic does not know how to liquidate? A blood debt must be repaid with blood! Montauban has fled to the Belgium to live in seclusion, and the Queen did not dare to stay in Paris for even a day, but fled to England under cover of the heavens and the seas … ”
”You want to have a patriotic dream! ”You're a patriot, who loves you …”
His words were like a bolt of lightning, the faces of Ba Zan and the others paled. The four of them took a few deep breaths, and under Ba Zan's instructions, they walked out of the barn with a dark expression, ”What are you guys planning to do? Step back, put the gun down... As long as there are no more shots, you don't have to worry about our lives! ”
The tense atmosphere outside the barn eased quite a bit, but the atmosphere inside the barn turned strange.
The mockery of Director Wang and Xiang Ying, in the end, combined with Xiao Letian's blade technique, directly stabbed into the hearts of these people's weak points, which was also the point they were the most worried about.
What kind of joke was this? The noble held it in front of everyone's eyes and was stripped naked? What was this feeling?
What is a noble? That was the dream of many people!
What exactly are the privileges in the European aristocracy? Each country was different, but in the end, there were countless benefits from being a noble!
Firstly, according to their rank, the nobles could receive a different amount of salary. This was a huge benefit, and the benefit was mainly from the Emperor's personal treasury. In other words, it had nothing to do with the France's national treasury.
Other than the allocations from the national finances, the emperor's main income was the income from the colony as well as from business. The total salary of a baron like Ba Zan, in total, was around 500,000 francs per year.
Afterwards, the nobles still had their own fiefdom. When the king and emperor conferred the title of a noble, they would give them their own fiefdom. This kind of land would, of course, be permanently owned by the nobles.
In fact, in the 21st century, many of Europe's beautiful castles and surrounding lands were still of aristocratic descendants, private property recognized by the state.
Every year, the light castle had a scary amount of tourism income. Although the output of the surrounding farmland wasn't big, the value of the land was also terrifying.
Wealth and feudal fiefdom, in the end, political privilege!
Many schools required Nobility s to attend, or in other words, those institutions of higher learning would only give very few spots to the children of ordinary families.
This was especially true for some of the higher level military academies. Nobility students were given priority, and this ensured that the aristocratic families' influence in the army wouldn't be diluted.
As nobles, their children and grandchildren didn't have to worry about food and clothing. Since birth, their children didn't have to worry about survival. They could diligently study art, music, science, military, philosophy, politics … Such professional talent would monopolize the country's superstructure even more.