Chapter 586 El Scholar Runs Fast
Ruffel’s leather boots had just stepped on the stone floor tiles of Feiliu Castle when a sudden hot wind stirred up dust.
Lu Feier quickly held down the gold fringed beret on her head to prevent it from being blown away.
Behind her, two young men also wearing berets, each carrying a shoulder bag, jumped out of the carriage in the wind and stood on both sides of Lufei.
The surrounding passers-by turned their attention to these three travelers from out of town, especially the girl with shoulder-length black hair in the middle.
In this era, it was quite a shock to the world and etiquette for a woman to dare to wear men's clothes and let her hair down.
But when they saw the purple feathers on her beret, they all withdrew their gaze.
That is the symbol of the Aiel and the Sarin Scholars.
The reason why I say this is because even if you are not an Aiel, you will be awarded the title of "Honorary Aiel" after joining the Salin Scholars.
Especially the bachelor's robe on the girl proves that she is a college graduate.
People from Ayr and college students are the two groups that like to be unconventional, so it makes sense that this female scholar would dress like this.
While passers-by were looking at Lufei, Lufei was also looking at them.
As the weather gets hotter, people on Feiliubao Street take off their woolen jackets and animal skin waistcoats, and put on long robes and linen shirts.
Black wooden barges and white sailing boats floated on the blue Naoan River. Workers carrying goods bent over and carried sacks back and forth on the dock. Farmers in straw hats, sweating profusely, dragged a large cart of fruits and vegetables to the market. The city moves forward.
Although it was not her first time here, Lu Feier had a lot of expectations in her eyes. Along the way, she heard too many stories about the "Holy Charter".
It has to be said that this "Holy Charter" is more in line with the "spirit of law" of Ancient El compared to the unwritten laws and local customary laws that are composed of precedents in the Holy El Empire.
Cousin Catherine praised it all in the letter, almost praising it as a testing ground for the Aiel people's ideal society. This attracted Lufell, who was supposed to enter the Scholar's Tower for further study.
With the convening of the Constituent Assembly, the contents of the "Holy Charter" began to spread one by one in the Thousand River Valley.
Riots of varying degrees broke out in various places, so much so that the Salvation Army and the Duke's Army stationed near Flying Castle and Rapid City had to disperse to suppress them.
No matter how the local priests and nobles lamented, they were unable to resist the power of the two tribunes.
Meliati's iron-blooded tactics and Horn's radical policies were the biggest reasons why they supported Prince Condai in the first place.
But since Prince Condai and them have lost, they can only accept defeat.
Learning to be submissive like farmers is their ultimate destiny.
As the external private trade gradually resumed, the contents of the "Holy Charter" were not only spread within the Qianhe River Valley, but even began to spread to adjacent areas.
Most of the nobles sneered at this, or smiled:
"Childish, I see, this Thousand River Valley will end sooner or later."
However, the Ayr people who have always had a parliamentary tradition are happy.
Although the Salin Scholars Association reprimanded the Qianhe River Valley for expelling the lords for the sponsorship of the imperial nobles, there are still many young El scholars who are full of curiosity about this new country on the border of the empire.
Lu Feier is one of them. As for the two people behind her, they are both her classmates in college and the "Ai guards" sent by her father to "guard" her.
“It doesn’t look like much.” Looking at the low houses and scattered crowds, a red-haired young man lowered his eyebrows with an expression of disgust.
The other young man was much more honest and dull, and just tried to persuade: "Miss Lufeil, we don't have many guards. You have a noble status, so you should cover your face."
But Lufeier couldn't hear them. As he spoke, his eyes kept wandering among the crowd, and finally stopped on a slowly approaching carriage.
A little maid stood on the edge of the carriage, waving to Rufei.
The car door opened, and Catherine, whose face was covered with lace gauze, was wearing a black silk dress and looked at her with a smile.
"Cousin Catherine!" Lu Feier held up her skirt, ran towards the luxurious carriage, and threw herself into Catherine's arms.
Catherine smiled and stroked her long, smooth hair: "You are much taller than before." "When did you pay attention to my height?" Lu Feier smiled and raised her head, "I thought you You will praise my beautiful hair just like before.”
At this time, two Al young men following Rufei followed, and they obviously cared about Catherine. As a witch, I dare not get too close.
Rufeil immediately rolled his eyes at them: "Venise, Abaz, you two are really cowards."
The two young men smiled coquettishly, Lufeil Once I spent nearly a thousand gold pounds on a consecration-level blessing and protection, and I was not afraid of any witch disease at all.
Both of them had nothing to lose. Even though Catherine was tightly wrapped, they were still too scared to step forward.
The three of them got into the carriage. Due to the small space inside the carriage, the two of them sat on both sides of the carriage driver in a very chivalrous manner.
In the carriage, Rufei naturally did not mention the removal of the witch and Catherine from the El family, but took the initiative to bring up the topic of Qianhe Valley: "Is the Constituent Assembly over?"
"Not yet." Catherine smiled as Rufei He straightened his hat and said, "Send you to the hotel, then I have to attend the Constituent Assembly."
"Can I go?" Lu Feier's eyes immediately lit up, "Please, you and Isn’t the relationship between the despot and the patriarch very good?”
"The Constituent Assembly is a serious place after all. It doesn't seem right for me to bring you in."
"I promise not to speak." Lu Feier thought for a moment, "Or I can buy a seat. Is 1,000 gold pounds enough? I only brought this much. Do you have a Holy See Bank?”
As the only daughter of Uleri Larkin, a great nobleman of the Kingdom of France, of course Rufiel I have the confidence to wave nearly a thousand gold pounds.
Before Lorenzo came to power, the Larkin family had been the royal ministers of the Kingdom of France for four consecutive generations, serving as minister of navigation, minister of finance, and minister of the palace.
Although Lufeier's grandfather was later ousted by Lorenzo in the political battle for the position of Foreign Minister (i.e. prime minister).
A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Lufei's own savings are only ten thousand gold pounds, not to mention her dowry which is as high as twenty-five thousand gold pounds.
Two noble young men have been guarding her, which is one of the important reasons.
“No.” Catherine quickly stopped her, “The representatives of the Council are all appointed by the Despot and the Patriarch. How do you want to buy it? If you really want to participate, I can arrange it for you. An auditorium, but you have to write a letter to get some of your classmates to come for us.”
“ My classmates? "You need scholars?" Lu Feier asked, "Do you have so many positions for them?"
"Yesterday afternoon, we just passed Article 3 of the "Holy Charter" and established The Qianhe River Valley government pursues the policy of "chief administration and priest supervision"
Except for the special districts of Hotam County and Longsound County, all other areas must appoint county commissioners.
Each county chief must bring at least two or three judges, as well as clerks and accountants, as well as primary school teachers and water conservancy engineers.
We don’t need a bachelor’s or master’s degree, even a student with an art degree is fine. ”
This is also the result of a compromise between the Salvation Army and the Duke.
When Meliaty proposed the idea of the county chiefs, Horn had expressed opposition because of the county chiefs’ ideas. The integration of military and political affairs can easily breed rebellion.
But Meliati believes that this method can quickly gather strength and effectively reduce losses.
Her prestige is enough to suppress these county chiefs. After defeating the Kingdom of Leia, she will try to suppress the issues of rebellion and power reduction.
After five days of negotiations and debate, the final result reached by both parties was that the county chief had military, judicial, and personnel powers, but the grassroots administrative power was in the hands of the priests appointed by Horn, and the chief priest Sheriffs can be overseen and impeached.
Of course, except Langsand County as a papal district.
"Replacing priests with secular scholars is something that even the Kingdom of France did not do at that time." Rufei couldn't help but sigh, "It's really easy to draw on blank paper... It's something for college students. , I will write a letter, there are a lot of college students who can’t find a job, they will definitely be willing to come.”
"That's great." Catherine knocked on the wall of the carriage, "No need to go to the hotel, we will go directly to the Central Palace."
(End of this chapter)