Godoy Saka: "Hui, are you ready to accept your new life as a noble? Hissiliu."
Yang: "Of course, I have been preparing for this for several years. Hiss."
"Delly went shopping for groceries. Taking advantage of this time, I will teach you some basic etiquette of aristocrats. This is not the rigid teaching of those online videos. Real imperial aristocrats, when watching those Internet celebrity videos, just follow
Like a clown. Hissing."
"However," Yang Luo stopped sucking the sweet, delicious and hot liquid food in the bowl and frowned, "Do all the nobles of the empire eat like this?"
"This is for concealment, do you understand?"
Godoy Sarkar emphasized:
"Listen, my overly wealthy son, we're going to hide it from everyone, and we're going to execute our plan from now on."
"I received your commission. This commission is very important to me. Of course, if the family's reputation can not be ruined in my hands, then I will try my best to pass it on."
You don’t want to be sent to a noble court as a commoner, do you? They may sentence you to decades of imprisonment! We must be cautious and cautious.
"This is the most secluded place. Even if there is some secret service spying on us with remote equipment, this dining table surrounded by a metal structure can block most of the signals."
"I've been thinking about this for a long time. Hiss."
Yang Luo silently took out a badge from his coat pocket and pinned it on Viscount Saka's chest. Godoy was stunned for a moment, and then he saw himself and the young man in front of him being enveloped in a faint light at the same time.
"It's something special for business negotiations," Yang Luo said calmly, "I've already made preparations for it."
The two people squatting under the table calmly climbed out and took a sip of the nutritious porridge carefully cooked by Mrs. Delly.
Yang Luo has little need for delicious food, but he has already received the satisfaction brought by delicious food in less than a full day here.
"It's strange," Viscount Saka said, "You obviously already have so much money, material things, and the respect of others. I mean, why does your little secretary still want to get such a useless reputation?"
Yang Luo smiled and said, "What do I lack now?"
"Title?"
"Human desires are very strange. The more you lack something, the more you want to get it," Yang Luo said slowly, "I want to have new pursuits in life."
"Okay, then I'll start teaching you some details."
Viscount Saka pointed to his head:
"First of all, you need to change your hairstyle, to a more aggressive hairstyle, to make people feel that you are not adaptable to your new identity and feel awkward. You are acting too calm now, and you don't look like someone who has just entered the aristocracy from a poor environment.
Family boy.”
"If your own acting skills are not up to par, it will be a disaster for both of us."
"I understand, let me feel it."
Yang Luo thought carefully, and his eyes soon changed. He became eager to try but fully restrained, with a rare sense of disguised maturity.
"Yes, that's it. Your acting skills are great."
"Essential skills for business activities," Yang Luo quickly adjusted.
Viscount Saka drank up the food in the bowl and smacked his lips with unfinished content: "The greatest achievement of my life is marrying my wife. She is very nice, right?"
"A gentle and intellectual woman," Yang Luo responded warmly.
"This is what I plan to do next."
Viscount Saka said slowly:
"First of all, we must get along like this for one to two months to fully cover up the situation."
"We are going to have some family conflicts. The arrival of an illegitimate child will definitely have a huge impact on the original family relationship. We will start to declare to the outside world that you are my wife's distant nephew. I will take you to attend the Saka held twice a month and a half.
Star Nobles Dinner, this is the process of letting the nobility on this planet get to know you."
"Don't be too hasty. We must deny this relationship first and let those boring guys think about it on their own."
"Based on my understanding of them, if I openly say that you are my illegitimate son, then they will definitely suspect that I am reselling the title for a price."
//But if I try my best to deny that you are my illegitimate son, they will point fingers behind my back and say that I, a down-and-out viscount from a down-to-earth family, can actually afford to raise one more son.
"A little detour."
Yang gave a thumbs up: "I completely agree."
"And I'm going to wrong you a little bit later."
Viscount Saka smiled and said:
"Many nobles know my predicament. I will give you my most decent coat, and I will seriously recommend you to several uncles, hoping to arrange a decent job for you."
"There is a high probability that you can get this job. My ancestors also had great success."
"After the two gatherings, we will spread some rumors about family discord to the outside world. I will find an opportunity to take you to the Noble Council on this planet. The chairman on duty of the Council is my uncle. You don't have to worry. As long as
We do it seamlessly and everything will go smoothly.”
Yang Luo nodded.
He could feel that the old man with white temples in front of him really wanted to facilitate this transaction.
"I obey your arrangements in everything."
Viscount Sacca went to the built-in refrigerator with a smile and took two bottles of beer.
"Come on, I'll take you to a good place, come this way."
A few minutes later.
The two of them appeared on the terrace of the manor villa, looking at the gloomy and gloomy city ahead.
This is like a steel jungle, with not much light visible. At a glance, you can only see a few buildings with more than half of the windows lit up, and most of the rest of the buildings only have a few solitary lights.
Under the light red sky, densely packed high-rise buildings can be vaguely seen.
The flashing lights on the top of the tall building formed a red light curtain, making the already gloomy sky even more starless.
The two satellites of this planet are smaller in size and farther apart. Only two inconspicuous and dim stars can be seen. They are dim, just like the bodies of those tall buildings.
Viscount Saka introduced the history of the city and told the rise and fall of a family.
Yang Luo and Viscount Saka were sitting on the steps at the edge, their four legs swinging back and forth. The two bottles of alcoholic beverages soon had only their bottom caps left, and they were holding them in their hands. It seemed that no one was too lazy to go down and get two more bottles.
"This planet is called Saka because of it before?" Yang Luo asked curiously.
"This used to be the fiefdom of my ancestors," Viscount Saka said with a smile. "About two hundred years ago, this was the industrial base that ranked 25th in the empire in terms of industrial index. It had developed heavy industry and ranked 13th in the empire.
A very large shipyard, and my great-grandfather was the local earl.”
Yang Luo didn't intend to pursue the question any further.
From a hereditary earl with a fiefdom to a down-and-out viscount with an abandoned manor, the gap is really too big.
But the viscount next to him started talking, sighed softly, and said slowly:
"Everything stems from the fact that my great-grandfather was unwilling to let this planet decline."
"Actually, this planet is just an ordinary planet, otherwise it would be unlikely to be designated as the territory of counts. Although there are not many hereditary counts in the empire, there are still many powerful factions."
"In order to maintain the economic prosperity of this planet, for those beautiful data, and for the flattery of others at the gathering of the great nobles every year, he desperately accelerated the development of this planet's resources."
"However, due to continuous excavation over the past thousand years, the resources of this planet and several resource planets near this planet have been rapidly approaching exhaustion, and the environment has gradually deteriorated irreparably."
"Capital began to flee, and the shipyards planned to relocate. My great-grandfather tried his best to save all this, to make this planet continue to prosper, and he gambled everything in our family to transform the economy. However, after ten years of hard work,
Years later, it is still devastated.”
"The planet fell into ruin almost overnight."
High-quality assets have fled, brainpower has been lost rapidly, and the value of fixed assets has plummeted. The value of this planet is only 4% or 5% of its peak.
"The most ridiculous thing is that according to the aristocratic laws of the empire, when we work hard to manage this planet, the empire will not increase your fiefdom or upgrade your title. But when you do not manage well and cause public dissatisfaction, the empire will
Take back your fiefdom and deregister your family title."
"My grandfather was the worst. He was one of the few counts in the history of the empire who lost his title and fief. He suffered countless looks and ridicules."
"My generation has actually come out of that shadow. It's nothing, right? It's just a different life path."
Yang Luo sighed: "Let's talk about my younger brothers and sisters."
One of them is eleven and the other is thirteen, which is the age when they are rebellious." Viscount Saka shrugged, "I know that in their eyes, I am a useless aristocratic father, but I have given them what I can.
The best thing I gave you.”
Yang asked: "Can't nobles engage in high-paying jobs?"
"Of course not," said Viscount Saka, "but the empire has developed to this day and has formed many agreed-upon rules. The aristocracy and the civilian class are clearly distinguished. And as the empire continues to tighten the promotion channels for the aristocracy, the lives of civilians have also changed.
It’s also becoming more stable.”
The viscount was obviously helpless:
My father once ran a large enterprise, but due to poor management, he fell into the trap of other nobles.
"I used to work hard to learn hull design and shipbuilding technology, and wanted to be a senior engineer, but the companies I applied for didn't want to recruit a nobleman who needed to be supported."
"I tried to get a loan from a bank, but the bank is a place that doesn't look at your noble title or connections. They will only review the value of your assets, and then huh."
"If I hadn't been able to pick up some design outsourcing jobs through the Internet, and Delly would have been working a clerical job incognito, my family wouldn't be able to function."
//Look, there are more than twenty rooms in this building. We only light up five rooms all year round. Fortunately, the aristocratic boarding schools are free and only accept anonymous donations. Otherwise, I might not have any children.
Appropriate school learning knowledge.
"The best thing is that this manor is my private domain, and I don't need to pay property fees or land management fees."
"In the past twenty years, my family has been like a fallen leaf floating on the water. As long as it encounters a little extra weight, the fallen leaf will sink to the bottom."
"well."
Yang Luo sighed softly: "Our empire is so powerful that the imperial aristocracy is called the galactic aristocracy. I didn't expect it."
Viscount Saka smiled and said: "Actually, many ancient families have disappeared. Today, 6% of the civilians in the empire have received titles for their ancestors. According to the policy of the empire, if I give up the title of viscount, my family can get it."
A large sum of appeasement money, about three million imperial coins, is my last resort."
Outside the manor, Mrs. Delly was wearing a windbreaker, carrying two bags of rich ingredients, and walked towards the gate of the manor.
Viscount Saka quickly turned around and hid in the blind spot below.
Yang Luo smiled and said, "What's wrong?"
"She will misunderstand that I want to jump off the building," Viscount Saka muttered, "Well, you come here too, and I also want to tell you about the gathering of nobles. It is said to be a gathering of nobles, but in fact they are all relatives of our family. Most of them are
They are barons, there are also two old viscounts with high moral character, and occasionally there are a few nobles from other families, but most of them are here to show off their power."
Yang Luo blinked.
Why do I have the feeling that some bloody scenes are going to happen soon?
For example: Hey, isn't this Godoy? We haven't seen each other for several years, why are we getting more and more lazy?'
Or: 'Godoy, your nephew looks so ordinary. This is a gathering of nobles. Is he qualified to participate?'
etc.
If this was the only way for him to take a shortcut to get a title, Yang Luo would hold his nose and go ahead.
However, no one paid any attention to them.
Seven galactic days later.
Viscount Saka took Yang Luo to a noble gathering for the first time.
Nothing happened in the first half of the reception.
Yang Luo even felt the care and love of several grandparents aged 130 or 40, who gave him some commemorative gifts.
Apart from that, Yang Luo and Godoy were sitting in the corner of the hotel lobby, eating a delicious buffet and watching several proud nobles socializing everywhere.
Many young girls accompany middle-aged uncles;
Many handsome young men will also look tenderly at those jeweled old babies.
There is the corruption of the nobility here, as well as various rules in social circles. Yang Luo even saw the situation of exchanging female partners to dance together, and there was more than one case.
"Don't be discouraged," Viscount Godoy Sacca smiled. "Although no one paid attention to us today, it may be because we were not dressed decently. If we make more preparations next time, you will definitely be able to integrate into this circle."
Yang Luo: I don’t really want to hang out with these guys.
The main reason is that the quality of their female companions is not very high.
Yang Luo said softly: "They are discussing us."
"You act a little more cramped, yes, a little more cramped."
Yang Luo's eyes began to wander around.
/We will do this today," Godoy Saka picked up the fruit juice in front of him and took a sip of it. "When the nobles start to leave, we will leave with them, and maybe we can still enjoy it.
An acquaintance’s car.”
Only then did Yang Luo remember that they came here by intercity express.
Although 026 has been following nearby.
Um?
The tip of Yang Luo's nose twitched slightly, and he suddenly smelled a familiar smell.
Above the lobby, in the left corridor on the second floor of the hotel, there is the subtle smell produced when a large amount of human blood is spread.
"Uncle, let's leave first," Yang Luo said softly.
Godoy Saka said: "This is not good. Let's wait until someone leaves before leaving."
I was a little sleepy, "Yang Luo yawned."
He didn't want to get involved in weird things at this juncture, which would only increase the risk of exposure for himself.
But just as Godoy hesitated, before he could nod, a piercing scream suddenly came from above, followed by the sound of glass bottles being broken.