Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 294: Training and ceremony

As a class that has existed since the birth of mankind, the existence of nobility naturally has its rationality. At the same time, most individuals of the nobles themselves can be regarded as relatively excellent among humans. In the darkest era, it was with such a group of talents who led human beings to resist the invasion of other races and developed to this day.

But the problem lies in the development of productivity over time. The traditional power represented by the nobility has gradually become out of place, and even dragged down the development of the entire human race.

In this case, many nobles naturally choose to follow the trend of the times. Choose to embrace new historical development opportunities and a new world. And this transformation also allowed them to successfully stand in front of mankind as they did in the past. After all, compared with ordinary people, these aristocrats who have the foundation will often be at the forefront of the crowd in the new era once they are transformed.

But not all nobles can make the right choice. For example, the nobles who participated in this rebellion belonged to those who were not enterprising but opposed the progress of the times. They always think about going back to the past, so that they can grab and even monopolize the benefits as easily as in the past. And do not want to conform to the development of the times.

"——You must remember that nobility is not only a kind of honor, but also a kind of title. Likewise, it is also a kind of responsibility." On the third floor of the Ceremony Training Center of the Heraldry Academy, a courtesy officer belonging to the royal family stood on the stage. Said to the quasi-nobles who will participate in the canonization ceremony in three days. And Lawrence listened carefully in the crowd.

"The nobles did not exist in the earliest world, but as some people mastered extraordinary powers and became the sharpest swords and strongest shields of mankind, nobles also appeared. In other words, they appeared because of their Strength, on the other hand, is because of their contribution."

"Just like the motto of the Heraldry Academy, nobles live forever." At this point, the ceremonial officer looked at the people listening to his lecture seriously and said word by word. "But the aristocracy here refers only to aristocratic people, but who is the aristocrat is not certain. Therefore, those who want to rely on their own merits but not enterprising will soon be eliminated from the ranks of aristocrats."

Lawrence and the classmates who were attending the class all looked serious, straightened up like a soldier, with their hands on their laps listening to what the courtesy officer said. In fact, these things are a kind of ideological education, used to stimulate the honor of those nobles and their loyalty to the country and the emperor.

I have to say that this ceremonial official is very eloquent, but it is a pity that those sitting here are not those who have just gained glory and promoted from civilians to nobles. The people here are either grown up in aristocratic families and have received a lot of this kind of education. Or someone who sees too many similar things like Lawrence and can't be interested at all.

Therefore, even though the ceremonial official on the upper stage of the children's platform was frantic, the students below also chanted slogans from time to time, appearing very excited. But Lawrence could feel that the students next to him were actually very calm inside. It's not as fanatical as it appears.

The real etiquette training is only after finishing this routine work. However, since other people are of noble origin, they have learned these etiquettes since childhood. So after half an hour of special training. The ceremonial officer began to train alone Lawrence, the only thorough civilian in it. Fortunately, as an extraordinary person, Lawrence learns quickly.

Three days later, Lawrence arrived at Schönbrunn Palace early in the morning. As the most important palace of the royal family in the capital, this place itself is the place where government affairs are handled, and some important ceremonies will be held here.

It may be to save money, or it may be to help citizens get out of the shadow caused by the last rebellion. Traditionally, the canonization ceremony in which only one person can be canonized at a time in the peace era suddenly became a collective canonization.

You should know that this kind of collective canonization is generally only available before or after the war. And this kind of war is often the kind of large-scale war against the enemy, and this kind of counter-insurgency war generally does not count.

However, this counter-insurgency is different from the previous ones. It can be said that after the failure of this rebellion, most of the obstacles that were previously on the route of imperial reform have been successfully removed, and the entire country will soon enter a brand new one. Era. From this perspective, the collective canonization ceremony is nothing unacceptable.

The canonization ceremony began with these canonized people riding a horse parade. All of them wore classical noble dresses two or three hundred years ago, and rode horses in ceremonial armor along the street in front of the palace and marched towards the palace.

These ceremonial armors looked a lot like the horse armors used by heavy cavalry in the past, but after riding on the horse, Lawrence discovered that these armors were purely made of thin copper, and they were carved with various beautiful decorations. The embossed pattern is finally plated with a layer of silver.

And only in this way, those flowery horses used by royal honor guards that can't even run fast on their backs besides being good-looking and well-behaved can move normally with them on their backs.

Because the title of Lawrence in today's canonization ceremony was neither high nor low, he was not conspicuous in the crowd. In this way, he went all the way to the square in front of the palace smoothly.

Much like the Forbidden City in Lawrence's previous life, all of them on horseback had to get on and off at the square in front of the palace, and then from the road exposed in the center of the palace guard queue of more than 1,000 people to the palace gate.

When the first nobleman to participate in the canonization ceremony came to the front of the queue, all of these guards stood at attention and raised their guns to salute them. At the same time, a military band at the end of the line began to play a cheerful march.

Lawrence and the others naturally stepped on the rhythm of the march and quickly walked towards the palace. During the march, Lawrence carefully observed the square that was the most intense main battlefield a week ago. It turns out that it has been completely renovated. Even the nearby building that was bombed out because it was used as an artillery position for the rebels is now blocked by a few large canvases with patterns to avoid being seen. It looked embarrassing.

Unlike the previous dance, Lawrence and the others entered from the front entrance of the palace. After the chief attendant of the palace who led the way into the palace, some palace guards who were obviously extraordinary people came to them and demanded that they surrender their weapons.

After feeling the breath of these palace guards~lightnovelpub.net~ Lawrence was surprised to find that these outermost guards were all official-level extraordinary. It is important to know that the people in charge in many grassroots religious sites are just formal-level transcendents.

But it is right to think about it. As the royal family who has mastered this country for hundreds of years, naturally there are enough resources and powers to cultivate extraordinary people and master a powerful extraordinary power. Otherwise, it will not be possible to maintain for hundreds of years under the combined effects of internal and external troubles, and even successfully counterattack decades ago and restore the homeland.

Of course, those who can come here are not fools. Naturally, they will put those things that may be taboos in a safe place before they come, or entrust them to some people who are safe. So when the guard asked, everyone indicated that there was nothing on them.

In fact, the guard's inquiry is only part of a symbolic ceremony. The actual inspection had actually been done before: when he entered the door, Lawrence felt that several obvious magical powers scanned them all. It should be to check the dangerous goods they may carry.

But just as they entered the waiting hall, an attendant suddenly walked in from a nearby door and whispered a few words in the ear of the leading attendant, and then the attendant cast his eyes on Lawrence. Body.