The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 276: The benevolent tyrant

Faced with Count Melvin's sudden attack, Demetri was stunned for a moment.

He first felt wary——

Because this is a meaningless provocation.

If Earl Melvin does not tell this information, it can be understood that they are collecting people.

The Melvin family does need a large population.

Because there are not many living people left in their family...

According to the information provided by Annan, the Melvin family has actually been secretly using the child to create "living corpses".

In their family, those who can survive will eventually become "elders" - just like Sumarokov Melvin.

A person with this status will definitely not work part-time. However, the Melvin family is the third largest family in Winter, and their territory and industry require a lot of manpower to take care of.

It would be unsafe to leave these important positions to outsiders, but if it were left to our own people... there wouldn't be that many people. Basically, before the age of thirty, they will be made into living corpses, and the experience of teenagers and young people cannot allow them to take care of these industries.

So the Melvin family has always been interested in the education industry.

There are at least eight universities in Winter, all invested by the Melvin family. In terms of basic education, more than two-thirds of church schools have investment from the Melvin family.

There are no middle schools in the Principality of Winter - they only have two types of education. One is a church school responsible for teaching literacy, arithmetic, reading and writing, basic laws, and "rules and traditions"; the other is a real University of teaching.

You can go to church schools at any time regardless of age. As long as you have your own name, you can enroll at any time from single-digit age to forty or fifty years old.

According to the rules, church schools usually do not charge fees. Generally, the local Orthodox Church is responsible for providing the bulk of the funds.

And the church will also enjoy benefits - when these students who have taught basic education are about to graduate, the local bishop can come and ask in advance whether anyone is willing to work in the church.

If you are interested, you must pass the exams that vary from church to church.

For example, in Noah you need to be able to count, laugh, and chat; in the United Kingdom you need to be talented in art... and in Winter, you need to be talented in the law and have the ability to mediate.

The best graduates are first selected by the church, followed by shareholders who invest in church schools. These school directors can also send their own companies to recruit a group of people.

Usually these companies and churches are in short supply, so they can raise the assessment standards and take away the best students.

The specific rules vary from country to country, but the rule in Winter is that the total number of graduates collected by other shareholders can only be the same as the number of talents collected by the church. It can also be considered that the church always accounts for 51% of the shares of all church schools, and the rest is divided according to their shareholding ratio.

The Melvin family has always been the main investor in church schools.

Two-thirds of the church schools in the Principality of Winter have more than 5% of the shares of the Melvin family. Nearly half of these schools with Melvin's name on the board of directors account for more than 50% of all shareholders - not counting the church's 50%.

People usually think that this is because Melvin searched for marriage partners all over the world and sold all his children.

That's not the case.

Those who were "sold"... are almost the luckiest ones.

Dmitri realized that Sumarokov Melvin’s words were actually a kind of temptation.

He is testing himself... using this almost provocative method to test whether he knows the truth about the few members of the Melvin family.

So Dmitri raised his head and looked deeply at Sumarokov Melvin.

"Earl Melvin, please allow me to confirm..."

The man with waist-length black hair and a brow that seemed to be frowning deeply all the time, made a low, rumbling voice: "Do you really know what you are talking about?"

Dmitri's voice was not loud, and his tone could even be called calm.

But his voice rolling deep in his throat made people's hearts buzz. As if a lion was awakened, it let out a heart-shaking roar.

Although he is not an extraordinary person, nor is he a real archduke - he is a cardinal after all.

Dmitri has a completely different temperament.

That is the sense of majesty that comes from knowing everything about the fields that he touches and is good at - but what Dmitri is good at is governing the country and politics.

Even if Sumarokov Melvin was a Silver-level transcendent, his pupils trembled due to Dmitri’s neither light nor serious look.

Sumarokov also became nervous unconsciously.

He was silent for a while, then a smile appeared on his face and he seemed to take a step back: "What are you talking about...

"Aren't orphans the most troublesome group in our area? I am taking the initiative to bear this part of the trouble for you."

What Earl Melvin said is actually true.

In the dead of winter, infants and young children are "not counted as human beings" and can only be counted as cubs and a kind of "beast". They call such children "childish". This concept is roughly similar to not counting eggs as chickens.

Children must be able to take care of themselves - specifically, they must be able to stand up straight, speak, eat by themselves, dress by themselves, cook by themselves, and not starve to death even if they are alone at home. Only then can one be considered "a person".

The time when a child usually gets a name is five or six years old. Sometimes the child wakes up early and can be named in advance.

Some uneducated township people even regard this tradition as a cause and effect, thinking that "children only have human intelligence after they get a name"; and if they are not under the ceremony, they will be given to children who meet the standards. Granted a name, the child remains a beast.

Because some children wake up late, or simply have bad personalities, they still don’t get their own names until they are seven or eight years old, or even eight or nine years old. Sometimes parents are soft-hearted and will directly name their children before they can take care of themselves.

But such children are usually not so sensible - specifically, giant babies. Some elderly people believe that this is because of interference with sacred rituals, like taking a butterfly directly from its chrysalis.

They believe that the reason why those orphans do not understand etiquette, do not understand rules, and are as cruel as wild beasts is because they have no elders to give them names.

But in fact ~IndoMTL.com~ it must be because no one educates them.

However, this kind of education cannot be miscalculated... because in fact, it is equivalent to asking every family to patiently cultivate their children before naming them, at least until they are sensible enough to pass the inspection and be adopted by the clan. The old conferred the name to the degree.

Generally speaking, the time for conferring a name is the birthday. Clan elders in various places will definitely attend the "childish" birthday unless they are really unwell.

If you behave well on your birthday and look wise and sensible, you will be given a name by the clan elders. From this day on, they can be considered one person.

Of course... this kind of rule, in fact, the more upper-class and educated you are, the more enlightened you are.

For example, the name Maria was given by the old grandmother; while Dmitry was given by Ivan - of course, it was also unified by the old grandmother.

Annan is even more powerful... he actually chose his name by himself.

He just claimed that Grand Duke Ivan named it to him, and wanted Ivan to take the blame - after all, in the Principality of Winter, "Annan" was actually a girl's name. It is pronounced "Anna" and means "mercy."

Nowadays, the Grand Duke named "Mercy" has been regarded by the nobles of the country as the biggest tyrant in the past century because of his previous actions in the North.

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