Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 281 Innovation and Conservatism

Shay was promoted by Purficott and became the first honorary knight of the White Bear Knights.

After the formal allegiance ceremony and canonization, Shay wore a wolfskin cloak, just like the official White Bear Knight.

However, he is only an honorary knight, so he cannot enjoy the treatment of a formal member of the White Bear Knights, such as strengthening rituals and steam knight armor.

According to the rules of the White Bear Knights, the Grand Knight can obtain a set of Steam Knight Armor as a weapon, but the Honorary Knight does not have this treatment. Shay only received a suit of well-made chain mail.

If it were in the past, a fine chainmail would have been a very luxury item for a great knight like Shay.

After all, although the empire's chivalry system has been reformed, it is a tradition that knights bring their own weapons and equipment.

Although the Knights will receive corresponding subsidies, and the Knights will also have blacksmiths responsible for forging and maintenance, and internal members can purchase and repair their own equipment at preferential prices, this is still a large expense.

Therefore, many knights often can only buy cheap standard equipment, which makes many knights in the empire look like uniformly distributed equipment.

But in fact, for any knight, they want to have well-made equipment.

At least Shay knew that some long-established knights in Langton had spent a lot of money to have their original armor transformed into steam knight armor, in order to keep up with the "trend."

Your water-forged plate armor costs 200 gold pounds, and my enchanted breastplate costs 700 gold pounds. Naturally, mine is more expensive. This effect is naturally obvious, and at the same time, it can avoid unnecessary display of wealth.

In any case, knights are an armed force. Wen Tian and martial arts are one thing, but arrogance and debauchery are another.

As a knight, it is his duty to buy weapons and equipment. No matter how much money he spends in this regard, he will not be judged by others.

But wealth is not so easy to quantify, or it’s not easy to show off your wealth directly.

Martial arts is even simpler. The only thing a knight needs to survive is to draw his sword and strike. If you have real skills, you will win.

After all, everyone is a knight. Although chivalry is rarely mentioned nowadays, and many knights no longer abide by the traditional constraints of chivalry, there are still some basic rules that should be followed.

Therefore, when a knight shows off his wealth, he cannot say that he bought a very expensive piece of clothing today or had a very luxurious meal tomorrow. After all, everyone earns a living by sword, so it is not like that for you to show off your wealth.

Everything else is easy to talk about. After all, they are all quantifiable things, and it is not too harmonious to compare with these. As long as it is shown, everyone will naturally be able to judge who has a high status, who has an extraordinary background, and whose reputation is more famous.

After all, knights also have a desire to compete with each other. Apart from status and family background, the only things that can be compared are martial arts, fame and wealth.

So how should the knight show off his wealth? The answer lies in those weapons and equipment.

Of course, the most important thing is to ensure that you will not be eliminated by the empire.

With the popularity of steam knight armor, the empire has set new standards for the division of knights' combat power. With steam knight armor, even great knights like Shay can defeat traditional knights of honor.

One can imagine how such a huge gap in combat power would be a shock to the veteran knights of the empire.

In order to maintain the status of traditional knights, the Knights Association tried to prevent the promotion of steam knight armor, and even publicly announced that the Knights Association refused to recognize steam knights as members of the knights association. Anyone who became a steam knight would be expelled from the knights association. However, it is obviously impossible for the empire to give up this kind of cross-era equipment that can increase a knight's combat effectiveness several times or even ten times.

So after seven decorated knights equipped with steam knight armor blocked the door and beat up the top brass of the Knights Association for three days, the Knights Association had to give in.

There's nothing you can do if you don't accept it. If you accept it, you'll just lose some face. It's not without benefits for a steam knight to join the association.

But not convinced? Now it's just the "spontaneous behavior" of the Knights of the Order, and things have really gotten out of hand... It's not like no one in the empire is dissatisfied with the Knights Association.

Shay had the chance to become a steam knight, so he was naturally on the side of innovation.

But now that he lacks the opportunity to become a steam knight, he can only comfort himself with the "old-fashioned" traditional knight weapons.

Fortunately, he didn't have much time to worry about Qiu Nostalgia on this matter. He led 300 people to leave the second landing point that had been named Belloberg by Purficott. Xie was about to start his own pioneering journey. What Yi needs to do now is to go all out to build his own pioneering stronghold and complete the tasks assigned to him by Purficott.

Only by doing this well can he gain a firm foothold in the north and be reused by Perfectcott.

Until then, want a set of Steam Knight armor? You can spend money to buy it, so why covet other people’s.

So Shay is very serious about his mission or task.

He had read the drawings given to him by Purficott no less than three times, and had studied almost every detail thoroughly. At the same time, he also silently simulated the construction process in his mind, sorted out all the engineering sequences, and carefully He had made plans for every possibility he could think of.

For this reason, just by reminding himself of various notes, Shay filled up a thick book, and the two pencils had only written down to the size of his thumb.

And this thick notebook is the confidence that Shay feels that he is qualified for the job of the Blazers.

Although he had never done such work, when he was stationed in the colony, he also presided over the construction of some small projects and accumulated some experience.

But Shay hopes to get help from his eldest brother more than himself, because he studied civil engineering in college and is currently working in the municipal department of Longton.

If he could ask his eldest brother to help, Shay felt that the Cormac family could really make a difference in the north.

It's just that although his brother is not doing well in life, because of his noble title, he is now the head of his department. How can Shay convince his eldest brother to come to the north?

Shay scratched his head a little, he didn't want to trick his eldest brother into coming to the north.

After all, when he got into trouble, it was his elder brother who asked someone to help him get out of trouble, and then sent him to the north, while he stayed in Longton and continued to wipe his own ass.

This made Xie Yi realize that he owed his eldest brother a lot, so he hoped that his eldest brother would take the initiative to come to the north instead of tricking him into coming.

"Forget it, let's write to eldest brother first!" Shay finally decided to write a letter to test it first: "Dear brother, when you read this letter, I will have already arrived in the North..."

(End of this chapter)