Chapter 240: The Contempt Chain of the Aristocratic Circle
Mo Cheng didn't know much about doing business. Although Helena offered very generous conditions, he still didn't make a decision on the spot. Instead, he made the excuse that he needed a few days to think about it.
After all, the product of Shimmer Ointment has begun to attract people's attention because of him . I believe that soon there will be people who know the product and see the profits it contains.
Mo Cheng doesn't care too much about money, because his becoming stronger has nothing to do with money, transactions, or currency circulation. He just finds dungeons to kill monsters, or kills strong enough people.
This is his path to advancement.
Thinking of this, Mo Cheng looked at his system panel, on which there was a progress bar running slowly.
After killing Ichikiel, Mo Cheng's system panel became like this, as if the system was updated.
All functions of the system are available. The only thing missing is the reward for killing Ichikiel. Mo Cheng feels that this reward may need to be updated after the system is updated before he can see what it is.
"But the system will actually be upgraded..."
Mo Cheng touched his chin. He was quite interested in what new features would appear after the system upgrade. "I hope there will be a function to obtain a certain skill at a fixed point. It depends too much on luck to do it randomly."
Skills need to be combined to be strong enough to unleash a power of 1+1>2, but if you want to accurately find a specific skill in the vast skill pool, the luck factor required is too high.
And Mo Cheng's luck...
Ever since he defeated the lich Dom with a five-hit combo of [Time Lock] last time, his luck has not been very good.
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"You mean Baroness Seranis?"
After Mo Cheng finished his daily treatment of the wounded in the law enforcement team, he found some time to ask Margaret about Baron Serannis.
Obviously, Margaret, as the head of the law enforcement team, knows much more about the nobles than himself, a glorious priest who knows almost nothing about them. Not to mention that the Laurenfrost family itself is a family with a high status among the nobles.
"Recently, the baroness approached me, intending to buy shares in the company to mass-produce and sell the Glimmering Ointment, so I wanted to find out about the baroness's reputation. After all, I don't know much about business, and it would be bad if I was cheated by her."
Margaret looked at Mo Cheng in confusion, "Are you short of money recently?"
Based on Margaret's understanding of Mo Cheng, his consumption has always been at a relatively low level. To be frank, the most expensive thing on Mo Cheng is probably the priest uniform he wears, which is enchanted with [Repair Technique] and looks more gorgeous than that of ordinary glorious priests.
As for the props and equipment on his body, it can be said that he has none of them.
With Mo Cheng's powerful strength, this level of spending could be allocated to the level of [Poverty] even among ordinary people, let alone nobles.
"There's something I really want, and Baron Serannis happens to have it."
During the conversation, Baroness Serannis gave Mo Cheng a rough plan for expanding the production line, among which the alternative areas for setting up the production line caught Mo Cheng's attention.
In the hands of Baroness Serannis, there is a piece of land that she wants to use as a production line factory, and one of the pieces of land is exactly the area where Mo Cheng has always wanted the castle.
The ownership of this land and the castle lies in the hands of Baroness Serannis.
Because of the ancient castle, Mo Cheng chose to talk to the other party, and also asked Margaret about the other party's background and reputation.
Everyone wants their business partner to be a good person, and Mo Cheng is no exception.
"What Seranis said..." Margaret lowered her head and thought for a moment, then slowly told Mo Cheng the information she knew.
The predecessor of the Seranis family was a family-style business alliance. Under the influence of Queen Aundair's new policies, it obtained the title of [Baron].
Baroness Helena Thelanis controls the business operations of the Thelanis family in Aundair, Snagu, and the Orion Fields. After being granted the title, the headquarters moved to Fairhaven, the capital of Aundair.
It is worth mentioning that because Queen Aundair granted titles to businessmen, artists, civilians and other people with outstanding achievements, and most of them were barons, in the eyes of Aundair's aristocratic circles, the title of baron has lost its former glory.
Although barons are officially nobles, among those families with ancient heritage, only [Viscounts] can be considered to have entered the aristocratic circle.
Baron? That's just a joke made by Her Majesty the Queen because of her insanity, unless the title is preceded by "hereditary".
The same title has different value. The meaning of a title with the prefix "hereditary" or without it is very different.
Non-hereditary nobility is usually owned only by the title holder himself. Once the title holder dies, the title will be taken back.
But usually the royal family would not be so ruthless, but would ease the reduction of titles by using the system of decreasing titles, that is, the direct descendants of the title holder would inherit a lower title until they lost the title, unless their descendants were promoted in the process of holding the title, otherwise the title would eventually be taken back by the royal family.
Hereditary nobles can pass down their titles from generation to generation. Unless the country is destroyed and their descendants are extinct, or they commit a serious crime and are stripped of their titles, the title will be passed down forever, which is also the origin of the inheritance of a thousand-year-old family.
At the same time, for nobles, whether they have a territory, the size of the territory, and the location of the territory are also key points in judging the value of the title. For some "nominal nobles" who only have titles but no territories, the royal family only gives them a monthly salary or living expenses.
For example, Margaret's Laurenfrost family, whose territory is Queenie County in the north of Andair, spanning several large cities. The Northern Wolf Legion guards the defense line. Even though the title is only a [Marquis], no marquis or noble with a higher title has expressed contempt for the Laurenfrost family.
Because of the value of the name "Lauren Frost", it is already at the top of the Aundair noble pyramid.
The [Selanis] were newly promoted nobles due to Queen Aundair's new policies. They were [nobles with nominal titles] without territory or real power. In the eyes of some old nobles, they were all mud-legged inferiors with mud on their trouser legs.
These [honorary nobles] are at the bottom of the contempt chain in the aristocratic circle of Aundair.
"The main business of the Seranis family is fleet shipping, but as far as I know, the Seranis family's fleet suffered a disaster last month, and two-thirds of the fleet sank at sea."
"This is already a heavy blow to the Seranis family, and it seems that other nobles invested in that voyage. The Seranis family must be troubled by the huge amount of compensation recently. They want to cooperate with you, but I suggest you be cautious."
