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Chapter 671 Conservative Aristocrats

"My Lord, welcome! It's an honor to have you here!" A nobleman dressed in traditional clothes stood in front of Perfecto and welcomed her.

Behind this nobleman is a factory waiting for the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

This is the first factory to be put into production for the flying battleship project and also the first project to be completed in the five-year economic development plan. Naturally, Perfect will attend its ribbon-cutting ceremony in person.

Because of Perfectcot’s visit, the factory’s behind-the-scenes supporters came to the scene in person to greet Perfectcot and express their importance to the project.

For a more traditional 'respectable man' like him, it was not a common custom to personally attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the factory.

Normally, he would send his steward or his sons to the ribbon-cutting ceremony of his business. As for himself, he would think it was disgraceful.

This cannot be said to be a bad habit of the old aristocracy. After all, this nobleman is also a powerful fiefdom noble with the title of baron, even though his fiefdom is far away in the mainland of the empire.

Baron is already a high title for Victoria. Although it is at the bottom of the five ranks of nobility in Victoria, in the era when Victoria was still called a kingdom, baron was already the most important aristocratic class in the entire Victoria.

At that time, there were only a handful of earls in the entire kingdom, and most of the nobles loyal to the king were barons.

Below the Baron are the Knights who form the bulk of the Empire's military force, and who usually pledge their allegiance directly to the Baron rather than to the King himself.

Because of this, barons usually have quite good armed forces. Depending on the size of his territory, the gap between rich and poor, and other factors, a baron usually has anywhere from a dozen to more than twenty knights.

It is also for this reason that, in an era when titles were linked to military force, the captains of the Knights Templar were usually barons, and the Knights Templar were usually an armed force and political group composed of several barons from the same region.

Generally speaking, the leader of the Knights Templar is the most respected baron in the area, or if there is an earl in the area, the earl can serve as the leader.

But it was very rare for a count to serve as the head of a knightly order in Victoria at that time.

The fact that the barons directly controlled the kingdom's most vital military force inevitably gave rise to power struggles and political conflicts between the aristocracy and the king.

The two Baron Wars in Victoria's history laid the foundation and legal basis for the Parliament of Nobles, which has now been reorganized into the National Assembly.

The barons at that time were dissatisfied with the king, so they formed a military alliance and defeated the king's army. While abolishing the king and establishing a new king, they also passed a Magna Carta, announcing the establishment of a parliament composed of several barons with the right to seize the rule of the kingdom from the king.

Simply put, the nobles have the right to depose the king.

Therefore, for the old nobles of Victoria, Baron is indeed a very important title, especially the fiefdom barons. Some of them even have families that have existed for hundreds of years. They are the kind of nobles who have truly participated in the Baron's War and abolished the king.

For them, it is really hard for them to feel that the commissioning of a factory is something very important.

Of course, after the Kingdom of Victoria became an empire and the king became an emperor, the barons' power was no longer what it used to be.

Especially with the development of the Industrial Revolution, the military of the Empire has long since evolved from the knights and retainers under the feudal lords to today's professional army, and they have lost the capital that once allowed them to challenge the king. The power of the barons was gradually taken back by the Empire after the Industrial Revolution, and most of them were left with only empty titles and territories "trusted" by the Empire.

This was the case with the Brandelis family in the past, with only a baronial title and a territory from which they could only enjoy the profits.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the fact that the Brandelis family obtained the title of baron in the generation of Perficot's grandfather. Some baron families with accumulated wealth are not comparable to the "nouveau riche" like the Brandelis family.

Some of them own several castles, and their families have established an intricate network of relationships through a series of political means such as marriage over hundreds of years.

He may appear to be just a baron, but if his network is expanded and seven or eight barons around him are related to him, the influence and power he can mobilize may be even greater than that of an earl. This is common in the aristocratic circles of Victoria.

Baron Adams, who stood before Perfect, was such a baron.

The Adams family was a baron family when the Kingdom of Victoria was first established. They had a very long history and had intermarriages with many aristocratic families in the empire. They were considered the backbone of the empire's aristocratic community.

However, the Adams family did not make much of a political contribution, and did not even seek a seat in the House of Lords.

Most of the bloodlines in the family lived a rather traditional aristocratic life in the family territory and did not embrace the so-called "modern civilization" after industrialization.

There are even rumors that the descendants of their family are still living the same lifestyle as two hundred years ago, claiming that this is to strengthen their will and train as knights' squires.

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Perfect didn't know how effective this so-called "training" was, but the Adams family did have a lot of knights.

It is also because of this that the Adams family still has a certain influence in the military.

After moving to the North, the Adams family used their influence to become a member of the Royalist Party and finally entered politics.

This is also one of the reasons why they were able to get the factory project in front of them. After all, their family is now the backbone of the royalist party, and some benefits must be given to the royalist party.

However, Baron Adams himself had no ill feelings or opposing emotions or thoughts towards Perfect. On the contrary, he admired and respected Perfect very much.

The reason for this is that Baron Adams believes that what Perfectoct did was exactly what a traditional Victorian noble would do.

They were merely vassals of their lord, not subjects under the emperor's rule.

The nobles should enjoy sufficient autonomy in their own territories, and this right should be sacred and inviolable, and the nobles should have the military force to protect this right.

Perfect didn't know this at first, but after learning about the Adams family's political inclinations, Perfect could only say that their family was a little too conservative.

(End of this chapter)