After Lawrence's oath was read, the emperor replied: "I will also fulfill my obligations as a monarch." Then he withdrew his left hand and took the plate from the chief attendant and handed it to Lawrence.

Lawrence was stunned when he took the plate, because according to common sense, court nobles like him, after receiving the canonization, the plate should be a canonized document with a fire lacquer, and a seal engraved with a private heraldry , A silver head ring inlaid with precious stones and a folded cloak.

But now that the plate in Lawrence's hand is no problem except for the first two things, the two headbands and cloaks at the back are replaced with two silver bowls, one of which is filled with half a bowl of water, and the other is filled with half. Bowl of soil. According to the custom, these two things are only given when the feudal aristocrats are canonized. For example, the feudal aristocrats among the previous aristocrats have these items on their plates.

However, considering that it is impossible to make a mistake on this occasion, some people have also reminded themselves of this problem before entering the door. So Lawrence also took the plate in accordance with etiquette and stepped back.

The following ceremonies were similar, and only a few royal nobles who were vassals of the emperor made their speeches during the oath of canonization. Lawrence, who was loyal to the country and loyal to the emperor, became loyal to the emperor and loyal to the royal family. At the same time, they kissed the ring on the emperor's hand instead of putting the ring on his forehead.

After all the canonization ceremonies were completed, the bishop of the church of the aristocratic goddess next to him opened the magnificent book in his hand and recited the above ordinances. It is about the rules that nobles should abide by, the rights and obligations of nobles, and a series of content. At the same time, following the bishop's speech, the noble goddess also blessed the new nobles present.

After the last sacred ceremony is over, the newly-canonized nobles will line up out of the palace and come to the square. Then the band played a very grand tune to pay tribute to the guards and the audience on the square, and accepted their cheers and salute.

After a series of ceremonies were over, it was two or three in the afternoon. But before he could leave the palace, Lawrence was stopped by the emperor's chief attendant and took him to the Heraldry House to complete certain formalities.

As soon as he got into the carriage, Lawrence had not had time to ask anything. I saw the chief attendant waved his hand to quiet him, and then said: "I think you must have a lot of doubts in your heart now. I can explain to you at this moment."

Lawrence nodded after hearing the words, and then stretched out his hand to signal that the chief attendant could start. The chief attendant nodded when he saw it, and then started talking. Sure enough, what he was talking about was the reason why Lawrence got the silver bowl filled with water and soil inexplicably at today's canonization ceremony.

The reason for this is simple and simple. It was the last moment of the suppression of the rebellion. Before committing suicide, the second prince of the rebellion ordered that only a few dead men left at the time would seize all the cursed mages who had cursed the nobles for him before and which churches they had given to the counter-insurgency.

The reason why he did this instead of letting the mages escape or kill directly was probably because he wanted the nobles who pushed him out to accompany him to death when facing complete failure.

But this way, it helps everyone to understand the causes and consequences of the entire rebellion more easily. After the joint trials of various Orthodox churches and the royal family, the cursed mages who had been caught from the rebellious second prince’s mansion explained their previous control of other nobles.

Lawrence's uncle belonged to one of the first few nobles to be controlled, and his practice of offering land to the emperor was also made under manipulation. The reason why the group of manipulators did this was to convey to the neutral nobles a kind of tension that the emperor even wanted the land of the nobles of these pro-emperors, so no one could be spared. On the other hand, it is to better penetrate the emperor faction to investigate the situation.

The emperor canonized Lawrence as a fief aristocrat this time, in order to show the entire aristocracy that although the emperor wants to reform, it will be a fair and honest reform. It will never take those tricky methods.

After all, as the cornerstone of an empire, it is still the nobles. The emperor can pull one faction and fight another faction, or confiscate those rebellious noble territories. These are all allowed within the scope of the rules. But if territories like this kind of reliance on subordinate methods are used to pretend to be eaten without seeing it after the matter is cleared, it will cause opposition from the entire aristocracy and even everyone.

"In other words, has the Emperor re-appointed Sauer County to our August family?" After listening to the explanation from the chief attendant, Lawrence asked curiously, and at the same time, he thought that he might really need to focus on it in the future. The New World pulled back.

"I'm sorry, it's not like that." The chief attendant said with a sharp bow while sitting there. "After the emperor and the nobles have discussed it, we will reseal the territory for you."

According to the Chief Attendant’s explanation, because Sauer County has a large number of open-pit coal mines that are convenient for mining, the transportation is also very convenient. Therefore, it was soon built into a steel and machinery manufacturing center after it was returned to the country. The emperor also sent a lot of manpower and invested a lot of resources to develop this place, so now this place is returned to August. The family is not suitable.

Of course, this is only a superficial reason. The real reason is that because the emperor is carrying out centralization reforms in the empire, it is impossible to reverse the situation in this regard.

"This is really—" Lawrence showed a bitter face, because traditionally changing a fief is a very bad situation. Especially now he still doesn't know where his fief will be changed.

"Don't worry, sir, this fief is not bad, otherwise, the nobles would not agree." After seeing Lawrence's face, the chief attendant comforted.

But this did not comfort Lawrence. The nobles would indeed die in sorrow, but falling into trouble and selling their comrades were also very skillful things for them. It is quite logical that people like myself who have never been in the aristocratic circle are sold~lightnovelpub.net~ Sure enough, when they entered the Heraldry Academy to handle the handover, that map of the new location Let Lawrence look dumbfounded. Because he found that there was no such place on the map of the empire.

"Can you tell me where this island is?" He tapped on the parchment map on the table. "Why have I never seen an island like this on the map of the empire."

Before coming here, Lawrence had read all the maps of the entire empire. The memory that has been strengthened several times after being awakened by other connections will not be able to remember an island. So after seeing this map, he immediately murmured in his heart.

"This is a colony of the Empire in the New World that has been established for more than 100 years." The staff member said, "and its area is ten times the size of your family's old territory."

"In other words, the island is more than 60,000 square kilometers?" Lawrence was shocked when he heard it, and then the ominous feeling became more obvious. If you think about the value of your family’s old territory, you know that there must be something wrong with this large area of ​​the island, otherwise even compensation won’t be enough to compensate for an island ten times the size of it.

With the further statement of the staff, Lawrence's heart also fell a little bit to the bottom. Because the island granted this time was not only large enough, but the emperor also gave it great convenience.

For example, because the island is not on the mainland, Lawrence has the maximum freedom. In other words, this island is a self-made collar rather than a pure noble fief. In other words, apart from the fact that this new territory does not have independent diplomatic and national defense rights, all the remaining rights can be exercised independently.

This also illustrates one point from the side, that is, this land is likely to be a big pit. However, due to the constant urging of the staff, Lawrence could only quickly sign all the documents and then left the Heraldry Academy.