"You don't have to be wary of my coming." The Marquis of Stanford knew that his presumptuous visit would cause trouble to the local lord, so he explained everything.
"As an immortal, I have a long life, while human life is short. So if I live in one place for too long, people will notice my identity. They will keep circling around me like bees, making buzzing sounds, begging me to transform them into vampires. But I have no interest in this. This is also the problem of most vampires. My solution is to live in the human circle for a while, then sleep for a while, and then find a new environment to start a new life, so that no one will notice my identity."
"And this time I have chosen your White Eagle Territory. Out of respect for the lord and also because I am worried that it might cause any misunderstanding, I came to visit you."
The Marquis spoke slowly and leisurely, full of elegance and calmness.
And the reason makes sense.
Humans desire to become vampires, but vampires are reluctant to transform into humans.
Hiding and concealing one's identity has become a common tactic used by the vampires.
After that, Marquis Stanford made a small request and bowed to Luther, saying, "I heard that you are building a large number of civilian schools in your territory with the intention of educating civilians. I am very curious about this. I am very knowledgeable, and I hope to be the principal of one of your schools and start a new life."
Luther touched his chin. It turned out that the vampires were all a bunch of boring people.
Their long life allows them to squander their time. Their low desire for sex and fighting makes them indulge in art.
Romantic pursuit of a new and different life.
It seems that the Marquis is very curious about the changes in my territory.
"As the governor of the White Eagle Territory, Lord, I welcome you." Luther bowed slightly to Marquis Stanford.
"I feel honored to be able to live in the White Eagle Territory." Marquis Stanford politely placed his hand on his chest and bent down.
The pleasantries should have ended, and Luther should have taken Mr. Stanford to the Ministry of Education to report and make him the principal of a school.
But Luther had something he needed to ask Mr. Stanford.
"Mr. Marquis, please forgive me for being so presumptuous. I would like to ask you whether the queen of your tribe has ever stayed in Barton Territory?"
Luther took a deep breath and asked seriously.
Miss Ruth. Luther's first love after he came into this world, Luther could never forget this first love.
Marquis Stanford was stunned for a moment, then said, "My clan has twelve kings, three of whom are queens. Which one are you talking about?"
Luther had once asked Miss Jenny about the vampires, but Miss Jenny didn't seem to want to talk about it. The intelligence records Luther had collected from various sources were very different.
Some of the information has been artistically embellished and written like a novel, making it impossible to tell whether it is true or not.
Some records are conflicting.
It is currently recognized that the emergence of the blood clan is closely related to the wizards. There were originally twelve kings in the blood clan. Before that, these twelve kings were powerful and terrifying wizards.
Together they created the vampire race and perfected the Embrace transformation ritual.
And their transformation is also the most successful and perfect, with almost endless lifespan and unparalleled power.
However, there are huge conflicts in all the records regarding the names and genders of these twelve kings.
This book says that the king's name is Odin, while that book may record it as Rudin. This book says that the vampires have five queens, while that book says that the vampires have three queens.
This information becomes garbage.
"I'm not sure. I just guessed that your king took away one of my friends." Luther shook his head and briefly told the story of Miss Ruth.
Marquis Stanford thought for a moment, then said, "Well, let me briefly talk about our blood clan's kingdom. The planet we are on is a very large planet, and our king divided the planet into twelve parts, which are twelve blood clan kingdoms. The descendants of each king generally live within the scope of their own kingdom."
It took Luther a little time to understand these so-called twelve kingdoms.
There is no doubt that humans are the main rulers of this planet now. But the vampires play their own games and they also divide the planet into twelve kingdoms.
Humans command their human subjects, and vampires command their vampire subjects.
In other words, the vampires have the concept of a kingdom, but they do not have a specific territory to rule.
The vampires are a really interesting race.
However, after such a long conversation, Luther had learned a little bit about the vampire race. The information about Miss Ruth was still unclear.
It's useless to ask.
Luther was feeling a little depressed, so he asked Lelouch to take this kind vampire marquis to report to the Ministry of Education.
"Miss Ruth, where are you?" Luther supported his chin with his right hand, thinking a little irritably.
However, this incident happened a long time ago, so Luther quickly adjusted his mood and put all his energy into developing the territory.
The situation in Orange at the moment is very favorable for the White Eagle Territory. The New Party and the Libyan Count and Duke Ferger are living in peace and harmony, without even a small-scale conflict.
It seems as if they are all accumulating strength and preparing for a big wave.
With the financial support of the Pompey family, Luther's plan to establish a large number of schools and recruit a large number of teachers in the White Eagle Territory was fully implemented.
White Eagle Territory has seven cities and an adult population of over two million.
Because no lord had ever cared about the number of underage children in the territory, statistics on minors were generally not kept.
Because of Luther's school plan, the city hall sent someone to do some statistics.
The results show.
The number of minors in the White Eagle Territory, aged between one and seventeen, is 2.3 million, which is more than the number of adults.
The birth rate is frighteningly high.
People between the ages of six and seventeen can go to ordinary schools and learn ordinary knowledge. There are about one and a half million of them.
According to Lelouch's survey, 80% of civilians are interested in attending free schools.
That is to say, there are 1.2 million people who want to go to free schools, and 60% of them want to go to Knight School.
Seven hundred and twenty thousand people.
This means that Luther has to support 720,000 prospective knights at once. After about eight years of training, most of these 720,000 people will become junior knights.
After decades or even hundreds of years, a large number of great knights will emerge from these people and be given the title of knights.
This step is indeed a bit too big.
But after Luther's calculation, aren't we still a little slow? It would be best if we could get a hundred capable knights and ten titled knights within a year.
Why.
(End of this chapter)