111 – Conflict of Interest (3)
The atmosphere at universities these days cannot be said to be good.
Of course, there were many aristocrats who entered the university half-forced, so departments with a lot of aristocrats never had a good atmosphere, but the bad atmosphere now isn’t caused by low academic zeal as it was back then, but rather by keeping each other in check.
In a word, it has changed from a promiscuous atmosphere to an atmosphere like walking on thin ice. The sharp wind that rushes at those walking on it is a bonus.
“Hey, I heard your family is famous for fish. Have you tried a lot? It smells fishy, so it’s hard to eat.”
“…Yes, of course. It’s perishable, so we can’t bring it all the way here to Dijon, but at our home, we can enjoy freshly caught fish and eat it deliciously. What about there… Because the land is barren, there are cattle and Did I mention that they nomadicly herd sheep? Hey, it must be convenient because you can move while still alive. I want to taste fresh meat, so please bring it with you when you come to our estate to learn.”
“…You’re the new guy—”
When a mountain noble insults a coastal noble by saying [Fishy fishing village clowns], The coastal noble returns the insult by saying [Poor shepherd butcher] To the mountain noble in return, such a scene has become very common in college.
The fight between the nobles to get even a little more rice bowl had a big impact on those children who went to college, and this is the result.
Since the children of the aristocrats at the university rarely get together with peers of the same status, they are unable to control the level of their remarks when attacking the other person. If it were their parents, trouble might happen, so if they weren’t scolding opponents, they would adjust it, but unfortunately, young nobles don’t know how to do that.
A socialite? Such a concept has never been created. Territorial aristocrats who just shut themselves up in the manor and live a life without paying attention to other things account for more than 90% of the aristocrats. If you need to interact, you just contact that person separately.
“Let’s go… There are many eyes to see and ears to hear, both calm down.”
“ㅡQuit… Yes, I understand.”
The commoners cannot intervene in the fights of the nobles, so instead the bystander nobles stop those who fight.
Thanks to them, this shoddy war of nerves didn’t lead to a major bloodshed, but that’s slowly reaching its limit. I can’t stand it any longer when I see a case where nobles who can’t stand insults from yesterday see blood in a duel.
“That… There… I have to pass…”
“Who the hell dares that?!”
At that time, a woman timidly tried to break into a group of aristocrats blocking the road to Eoyeongbuyeong. Will close
Because the person who pushed him was Ellen, who could be considered the most famous person in the university, who was given a surname by the king and who relayed the king’s intentions on behalf of the university.
“Ah… Thank you.”
The nobles who confirmed Ellen’s face hardened her face and moved to the wall as if her Moses opened the sea and opened the way in an instant. It’s been several months since she received the last name from His Majesty, but she still can’t get used to this treatment.
“Okay… That’s it.”
“ㅡ?”
After breaking through the divided crowd, Ellen stands tall in front of her bulletin board, unwraps the scroll she is holding in her arms, and she sticks it on the bulletin board.
Aristocrats who thought Ellen would just pass by look at the poster Ellen attached to her with puzzled expressions.
“…Sigh.”
“What? A duel?”
And the aristocrats who read the poster are astonished.
That’s right. The poster Ellen put up had the seal of the royal family on it, and it said that she forbade further private duels.
Forbid private duels in Dijon, disband all factions except those formed for the purpose of friendship. All sorts of theories are written on the poster, such as that everyone here is a student and only concentrate on their studies, but the nobles who see them don’t think so.
In this age of injustice, where it is natural to make a decision through a duel, it is impossible to ban duels. It is a tradition of noble blood that has been passed down for more than hundreds of years, how can we get rid of it?
Not only that. Dissolving the faction, a duel, there is a justification to prevent bloodshed, but isn’t this an order without any justification? No matter how high the authority of the king, such an order is tyranny.
“Ahahahaha…Then let’s go…”
“…”
If the person pasting that poster had been an ordinary attendant, he would have quickly had to plead not knowing all sorts of questions, surrounded by aristocrats.
However, Ellen, who was given her last name by the king, put up a poster, and the nobles, who knew the meaning of it, couldn’t approach Ellen in a hurry.
…………
[Yes, yes, yes… I’ll go and paste it right now…!]
[No, it’s late now. Go do it tomorrow.]
Oh… The more I think about it, the more interesting she is.
I don’t think Leclerc was asked to do something as simple as putting up a poster, but it was too serious to leave it to an ordinary attendant, so I asked Ellen, who was staying at the dormitory in the palace.
However, seeing them scurrying about to attach them right now, even though it was late, was like watching a dog enter the river after a disk thrown by its owner fell into the river. Hi and…
“Thanks to that, I can make things work for me.”
It’s easy to read emotions, and he immediately follows my orders without any thoughts. Of course, you can’t make him do complicated things, but he’s easier to handle than Leclerc when it comes to simple things.
…At first, I was going to use Ellen as a professor, but as time went by, she started using her as my attendant. Well, it’s really okay since I’m entrusted with only a little bit about the university, not taking care of my various affairs like a servant.
“Hmm… Faction bans except for dueling and social purposes… That must be a lot of noise.”
“It’s alright, don’t bother with the guys in college.”
“…Yes, it is.”
Leclerc, who only met with the work today, expresses a little dissatisfaction with me and a little concern at the same time, but nods at my firm answer.
There are no nobles among the guys at the university. I don’t know what this means, but the nobility law of the Principality of Burgon calls those who have titles a nobleman, and the Kingdom of Rotaring, which inherited the Principality of Burgon, inherited the nobility law intact.
In other words, even if your parents or grandparents are aristocrats, if you don’t have a title, strictly speaking, you are no different from a commoner. Of course, as much as there is a family, it is different in reality.
Anyway, what this means is that you don’t have to care about how people in college feel when you’re making or enforcing policies. You just have to negotiate with their guardians.
“I’ve sent a letter to the guardians of the students, there’s no way they’ll reject my decision anyway. It’s crazy that they’re complaining that they can’t manage and they’ll take care of the sparks flying here.”
“Hmm… I didn’t get it…”
“Isn’t that because you can communicate with me directly? Why do you insist on writing a letter instead of just talking face-to-face?”
“hahahahaha, that’s right.”
As Leclerc also sent his grandchildren to college, he was very anxious about the recent series of events.
In reality, Leclerc, who believed that his son was given a fiefdom, and that he would take care of his family as he was the king’s closest aide, had no desire to get involved in other nobles’ fight over rice bowls. It is said that the cliques kept flirting with him in an attempt to lure him into their clique.
Continuing refusal is noticable, and it could have made the other person feel bad, so of course this kind of atmosphere was not good at all.
“Kuhmm… Your Majesty Haona, their guardians will have no choice but to face reality, so they will follow your Majesty’s will, but it’s a little hard to imagine that their children will do the same.”
Leclerc, who was laughing and exchanging words with Claude happily, coughed slightly with a slight embarrassment at his actions, and then returned to his work mode in an instant and pointed out the problems with duels and faction bans.
If the authors had noticed this edict in the first place, would they have spilled blood at the university?
“It doesn’t matter. If you break my edict, won’t a justification roll in to put pressure on their protector?”
That’s what I was aiming for in the first place when I announced this edict.
Either you appeal to me for your competence, or I will calmly accept and eat whatever you give me. At the very least, you should be assured that you will never engage in such a thing again.
If there is an author who is still going crazy and wants to act more radically… Hmmm, let’s think about that then.