When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

#590 - El Scholar runs fast

The moment Lufiel's leather boots touched the stone floor of Feiliu Fortress, a sudden gust of hot wind stirred up dust.

Lufiel quickly pressed down on her gold-tasseled beret to prevent it from being blown away.

Behind her, two young men, also wearing berets and carrying shoulder bags, jumped out of the carriage into the wind, standing on either side of Lufiel.

The surrounding passersby turned their gazes to these three travelers from out of town, especially the black-haired girl with shoulder-length hair in the middle.

In this era, a woman daring to wear men's clothing and let her hair down was quite shocking to social customs and etiquette.

However, upon seeing the dark purple feather on her beret, they quickly retracted their gazes.

That was the symbol of the Elves and the Salin Scholars Association.

The reason for this was that even if one was not an Elf, they would be granted the title of "Honorary Elf" upon joining the Salin Scholars Association.

Especially the scholar's robe on the girl, which further proved that she was a college graduate.

Elves and college students were the two groups who liked to be unconventional the most, so it was understandable that this female scholar dressed this way.

While the passersby were looking at Lufiel, Lufiel was also looking at them.

As the weather gradually became hotter, the people on the streets of Feiliu Fortress took off their woolen jackets and animal skin vests, and put on long gowns and linen shirts.

Black wooden barges and white sailboats floated on the azure Nauan River, laborers carrying goods bent over and carried sacks back and forth on the docks, and straw-hatted farmers sweating profusely dragged large carts of fruits and vegetables towards the market.

Although it was not her first time here, Lufiel's eyes held much more anticipation, and she had heard too many stories about the "Sacred Charter" along the way.

It must be said that compared to the Holy Elven Empire's rotten unwritten law and local customary law composed of precedents, this "Sacred Charter" was more in line with the ancient Elven "spirit of the law".

Her cousin Catherine praised it so much in her letter, almost exaggerating it into an experimental field for the Elves' ideal society, which attracted Lufiel, who should have been going to study in the Scholars' Tower.

With the convening of the Constitutional Assembly, the content of the "Sacred Charter" began to spread throughout the Qianhe Valley piece by piece.

Varying degrees of riots broke out in various places, so that the Salvation Army and the Duke's Army stationed near Feiliu Fortress and Jiliu City had to disperse to suppress them.

No matter how the local priests and nobles wailed, they were powerless to resist the power of the two Protectors of the People.

Moriah's iron fist and Horne's radical policies were the biggest reasons why they supported Prince Condé in the first place.

But since Prince Condé and they had already lost, they could only accept their fate.

Learning to be as docile as the peasants became their ultimate destiny.

With the gradual resumption of foreign trade, the content of the "Sacred Charter" not only spread within the Qianhe Valley, but even began to spread to neighboring areas.

Most nobles scoffed at this, or smiled wryly:

"Naive, I think the Qianhe Valley is going to be finished sooner or later."

However, the Elves, who have always had a tradition of parliament, were overjoyed.

Although the Salin Scholars Association reprimanded the Qianhe Valley for expelling the lords for the sake of the Empire's nobles' sponsorship, there were still many young Elven scholars who were full of curiosity about this newly born country on the border of the Empire.

Lufiel was one of them, and the two people behind her were both her classmates in college and the "bodyguards" her father sent to "guard" her.

"Doesn't look like much," one of the red-haired youths frowned, showing a look of disgust as he looked at the low houses and scattered crowds.

The other youth was much more honest and wooden, and only persuaded, "Miss Lufiel, we didn't bring many guards, your identity is noble, you should cover your face."

But Lufiel didn't listen to them, she just kept looking around in the crowd, and finally stopped on a carriage that was slowly driving over.

A little maid was standing on the edge of the carriage, waving at Lufiel.

The door opened, and Catherine, wearing a black silk dress with a lace veil covering her face, was looking at her with a smile.

"Cousin Catherine!" Lufiel picked up her skirt and ran towards the luxurious carriage, throwing herself into Catherine's arms.

Catherine smiled and stroked her smooth long hair: "You've grown much taller than before."

"When did you start paying attention to my height," Lufiel smiled and raised her head, "I thought you would praise my hair for being beautiful as before."

At this time, the two Elven youths following behind Lufiel came over, they were obviously afraid of Catherine's witch identity and dared not get too close.

Lufiel immediately gave them a white eye: "Venice, Abaz, you two are really cowards."

The two youths smiled embarrassedly, Lufiel had a sanctified great blessing that cost nearly a thousand gold pounds, and she was not afraid of any witch disease at all.

The two of them had nothing, even if Catherine was wrapped tightly, they were still afraid and dared not come forward.

The three got into the carriage, and because the space inside the carriage was small, the two of them sat on both sides of the coachman with considerable chivalry.

Inside the carriage, Lufiel naturally did not mention the witch and Catherine being removed from the Elven families, but took the initiative to bring up the topic of Qianhe Valley: "Has the Constitutional Assembly ended?"

"Not yet," Catherine smiled and straightened Lufiel's hat, "After sending you to the hotel, I have to attend the Constitutional Assembly."

"Can I go?" Lufiel's eyes lit up immediately, "Please, aren't you on good terms with that Despot Duke and Patriarch?"

"The Constitutional Assembly is, after all, a serious place, it doesn't seem very good to bring you in."

"I promise not to speak," Lufiel thought for a while, "Or I can buy a seat, is 1000 gold pounds enough? I only brought that much, do you have a Holy See bank here?"

As the only daughter of Yuleri Larkin, a great Elven noble of the Kingdom of Fran, Lufiel certainly had the confidence to spend nearly a thousand gold pounds.

Before Lorenzo came to power, the Larkin family had been the Minister before the King of Fran for four generations, serving as Minister of Navigation, Minister of Finance, and Minister of the Court.

Although Lufiel's grandfather was later driven out of office by Lorenzo in the political struggle for the Minister of Foreign Affairs (i.e. Prime Minister).

Even a lean camel is bigger than a horse, Lufiel's own savings are nearly ten thousand gold pounds, not to mention her dowry of up to twenty-five thousand gold pounds.

Two noble youths have been guarding her, which is also one of the important reasons.

"Don't," Catherine quickly stopped her, "The representatives of the Council of State are all appointed by the Despot Duke and the Great Patriarch, how do you want to buy it? If you really want to participate, I can arrange an audience seat for you, but you have to write a letter to get some of your classmates to come."

"My classmates? Do you need scholars?" Lufiel asked in confusion, "Do you have so many positions for them?"

"Yesterday afternoon, we just passed Article 3 of the 'Sacred Charter' and established the Qianhe Valley government, which adheres to the policy of 'County Governor administration, Priest supervision of politics'.

Except for the special districts of Hotam County and Langsand County, the remaining areas must appoint County Governors.

Each County Governor must bring at least two or three judges, as well as scribes and accountants, as well as elementary school teachers and water conservancy engineers.

We don't need any bachelors or masters, even students who graduated from art school are fine."

This was also the result of a compromise between the Salvation Army and the Duke's side.

When Moriah proposed the idea of County Governors, Horne had expressed opposition, because the combination of military and political power of the County Governors could easily breed rebellion.

But Moriah believed that this method could quickly gather strength and effectively reduce losses.

With her prestige, it was enough to suppress these County Governors, and then think about suppressing rebellion and weakening power after defeating the Leia Kingdom.

After five days of negotiations and debates, the final result reached by both parties was that the County Governor would have military, judicial, and personnel power, but the basic administrative power would be in the hands of the Priesthood appointed by Horne, and the Priest could supervise and impeach the County Governor.

Of course, Langsand County is an exception as a special papal district.

"Replacing priests with secular scholars, this is something that even the Kingdom of Fran didn't do back then," Lufiel couldn't help but sigh, "As expected, it's easy to draw on a blank sheet of paper... I will write a letter about the college students, there are a lot of unemployed college students, they will definitely be willing to come."

"That's great," Catherine knocked on the carriage wall, "No need to go to the hotel, let's go to the Central Palace directly."