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A weekly salary of two pounds is enough for a family of three to have enough food and clothing.

Just the jewelry you take with you when you go out today is enough for a family of three to live for more than eight years.

You have taken too much and are about to take more, so I hate you.

Audrey stared blankly with her eyes wide open. When she asked this question, she had an answer in her mind.

It’s just that she thought that the other party would start with the life of the nobles and their impact on the country. One of the best ways to attack the nobles was to attack Parliament and bills. She also knew about the Corn Laws, the Poor Law, and this year’s Air Pollution

"Remediation Act" has varying degrees of rejection among civilians. She has heard many similar stories in the foundation.

Complaints. In addition, it is the private ethics of the nobles - on the surface, Loen is a conservative country, but in fact, it is only better than Intis in finding lovers and lovers in private. It is also the same to criticize the private ethics of the nobles.

A good entry point - the most important thing is that through these two entry points, Audrey can prepare some rebuttals.

In the long run, these bills will be beneficial to the economy and pollution control... The corruption of personal ethics of the aristocracy can also be understood as individual differences. There are many people who are loyal to marriage, just like my father...

Audrey thought about this in her mind for a while, but Richard did not mention these two points.

Instead, he chose the most direct thing and the thing that the nobles disapproved of the most - money.

This topic is even somewhat unfamiliar to Audrey.

Aristocrats should be light-hearted and indifferent to the cost of money, because dignity and nobility are the best virtues of aristocrats.

The nobility of a noble should be reflected in any aspect other than money. Just like Audrey's partner Susie, whose market price is 450 pounds, but it was a gift obtained by Earl Hall after he spent a lot of money on a hunting dog training ground. Just like Audrey in

Never wear a dress a second time on a formal occasion, just like precious food from all over the world at a dinner party, or like a painting hanging in the corridor that may be passed over inadvertently, but is worth millions by a master.

If a nobleman talks all day long about how much he spent on banquets, how much he spent on food, and how much he spent on making new clothes for his wife and daughter, then he will inevitably be spurned by the entire aristocratic group, and people will laugh at him like a stingy outburst.

household.

Even Audrey developed an "occupational disease" because of her work at the foundation, and it was a somewhat embarrassing thing for her to estimate her own food and clothing expenses. It was as if she had become a stingy nouveau riche.

, only has money in his eyes, but no noble status and dignity.

"Ah, this... but sir, this wealth was accumulated by our family... over decades or even hundreds of years."

Audrey composed herself and tried to refute the other party's words with an "aristocratic" answer.

"My family won its first title in a war more than two hundred years ago, and then gradually became rich. Before that, the Hall family was just a small knight family. We are not born noble, nor are we born noble.

It is far from reaching today’s level.”

"If everything I enjoy now is the wealth accumulated by my family, then what's wrong?"

Richard couldn't help but laugh.

He was thinking about how to end this topic. After all, he had heard this kind of talk too much. He heard that even in the slightly better old times, there were many people who thought like this. If you tell them about the waste of production materials, they will

I tell you about my wealth and I make the decision, you tell him

Did you earn a penny of this money yourself? Did you not squeeze out the surplus value of any worker? Did you provide every worker with pension subsidies and work-related injury subsidies? Even after spending some time to popularize what surplus value is,

They still have control over my wealth.

After all, He shouldn't be talking to these factory owners who have no concept of "people" at all.

After all, the scientific name for people here is labor force with two legs. When these creatures are injured or old and have no labor force, they are no longer human. Then who cares about their life and death?

But directly disposing of all factory owners is also a waste of resources. They should be directly turned into food, into biscuits, bread, red wine, chickens, ducks, fish, cattle and sheep, so that their lives can use some residual heat when they end.

"Earl Hall is in the steel and banking business, so your family's money was earned by your parents and brothers personally going to the steel processing factory?"

Richard looked boredly at the steam train passing by in the distance, and prayed that the West District would go straight to heaven: "How much salary does your family's industry give to employees? How much is the subsidy for employees in case of accidents? Will employees be directly affected when they get old?

What if you quit and don’t care about life or death?”

What will happen to employees when they get old? It seems that I have almost never thought about it. If I can’t work or work, shouldn’t I be fired? But if I really reach that age, I can’t participate in other activities.

Are you working now? Is dismissal the same as... Audrey felt her back and face burning for a moment. She secretly wrote down these words and said:

"But we paid the costs and paid the wages. Why can't we have the money?"

Richard sighed:

"How much income does your property earn in a month? Have you ever noticed it?"

Audrey slowly shook her head.

This sentence suddenly reminded her of the conversation between Earl Hall and Hibbert that day. Workers should be treated with restraint, some money should be given up appropriately, and workers should feel that they are being treated favorably, so that more value can be generated...

...Audrey didn't dare to agree, but she couldn't refute it either.

Because she was part of it.

"Suppose, after excluding costs, your family's steel industry makes a net profit of one hundred thousand pounds a month. How much contribution do you think your parents and your siblings have in this one hundred thousand pounds?"

I definitely didn't, and neither did my mother. We never cared about this... In addition, my father and Hibbert were usually busy with politics and participating in the affairs of the House of Representatives. In fact, they didn't really participate in production in the company for a long time. They often

Just looking at the report and market investment, the company's managers should be in charge... Audrey frowned lightly and asked tentatively:

"Sorry, I haven't understood this. How should I judge?"

If you don't understand this, why do you hate nobles? I thought you were looking for an answer based on a certain understanding of nobles.

Forget it, forget it, at least the attitude is very sincere...

Richard's impatience was suppressed by the other party's bit of sincerity, and he began to show his moderation and patience again:

"The simplest judgment is that out of the one hundred thousand pounds of profit, your family only provided a factory site."

"The company's management keeps it running, the employees work hard, and the market digests these products. Even if it does not belong to Hall, it can still generate value. But the 100,000 pounds created, after deducting the employees' wages, what is left

Everything belongs to you." The manager looked at her, "You basically didn't do anything, but you took the lion's share. The employees created a profit of 100,000 pounds for you, but you can only get a monthly salary of five or six pounds.

Do you still feel that your family’s money is the result of your family’s serious work?”

Click.

Audrey was stunned.

She seemed to suddenly understand something for a moment, as if she suddenly understood why nobles were hated, but at the same moment, an unprecedented resistance surged in her heart. She understood all the words of the other party, so she began to resist such a fact.

"Just providing a venue"?

Yes, the factory's production seems to have nothing to do with him, but he still enjoys a monthly income of one hundred thousand pounds, instead of tens or hundreds of pounds in rent. Yes, the Hall family is not a natural aristocrat. The Hall family

He obtained the title in the war... The personal ethics of the Hall family are not bad, but people with poor personal ethics can also become nobles. Morality is not the standard for becoming a noble, but a requirement for self-restraint by nobles. If it is not like the Angel family

If you are born noble in this powerful world, then as a noble, what is your real nobility?

Is it actually money?

Is money actually the last thing that should be mentioned in aristocratic interactions?

"There are also some aristocrats who are not doing well, but they would rather borrow money to maintain their dignity than admit that they are no longer as good as the average middle class."

"They borrowed money and didn't think about adding value, but they had to make themselves a few new clothes and hire a few servants to keep up appearances. I actually don't understand this kind of behavior. It's probably because they don't have anything worthy of praise in their lives.

I guess this title still has some meaning."

Richard did not stop talking because Audrey looked deeply affected. Instead, seeing that she did not collapse or yell, he chose to continue to enlighten:

"It can be seen that your virtues such as 'decency' and 'kindness' are actually self-defeating. You first obtained the status of 'noble' through various reasons, and then you tried to compete with others by highlighting your own extraordinaryness.

'Non-aristocratic' separatists, such as these luxurious jewelry that will no longer circulate into the market and thus lose their value, use the so-called aristocratic virtues to show that they are 'naturally superior' to others."

"Are you all nobles because you are kind and kind? Are the most kind people in the world a noble?"

"Obviously not."

Richard shrugged:

"But the richest people must be the nobles."

"However, your statement of 'not paying attention to money, only respectability' is as ridiculous as a student who graduated from Capital University saying that he does not pay attention to academics. In this way, you put shackles on yourself, wasting money when you are rich, and embarrassing yourself when you are in poverty.

, isn’t it interesting?”

"Respectability" is actually a restraint on the nobility...?

This sentence turned out to be the sentence that Audrey could relate to the most, because it was difficult for her to forget the incident she encountered during her first meritorious service after becoming an Extraordinary - at Duke Negan's dinner party, Qi Lin

Gus pretended to be Baron Gramir and sneaked in, but was discovered by himself due to some minor mistakes, and was eventually killed by Mr. Fool's followers.

The poor Baron Gramiel was of course the victim of Zillinges' failed operation and was found dead in his home. But while giving comfort to the deceased, Audrey had to admit that Baron Gramiel was actually

A very "un-aristocratic" aristocrat.

Baron Gramiel is not handsome, and Baron Gramiel does not have aristocratic virtues... He lacks self-confidence. He turns his nostrils upward to civilians with lower status than himself, nods and bows to those with higher status, and only dares to glance at his identity with the corner of his eye.

Higher female relatives.

Baron Gramil's funeral was very simple, and his relatives had to help pay off his debts, because Baron Gramil's financial situation was also very bad, and he even borrowed money to survive for a long time. But he still maintained the aristocratic style and kept himself a butler and personal bodyguard.

The configuration of servants such as valet, maid, coachman, horse feeder, gardener... these configurations are very important for a person.

Does it make sense for nobles who already need to borrow money? Baron Gramiel could borrow more money to invest and hire fewer people - but Audrey didn't think there was any problem at the time, so she finally realized that she seemed,

Probably, maybe because I accepted this strong man's idea, I really started to feel that "respectability" was not a good thing.
To be continued...