Cosma Empire

"I'm still young, and I'm not in a hurry to get married." Du Lin rejected Magus's kindness as soon as he opened his mouth, which surprised Magus. He believed that Du Lin could taste the true content of his last sentence, and it was indeed the case. When Muggs said that he would introduce better girls, Doolin immediately realized that Muggs wanted to "kidnap" him. This is not from the kindness of Magus, but a trap specially arranged by Magus for him.

Finally... Is the battle about to start, or is it just a test?

Du Lin's brain formed a vortex in his head, stirring and spinning crazily, and every brain cell was spinning to analyze the reason why Magus did this and his real purpose.

People don't die because of demons. Magus is not too young. He has lived for so many years and overthrew the rule of the royal family. Even if he is not "old" enough, he is definitely "monster" enough. Fortunately, Du Lin also has his own advantages. He has witnessed the whole life of a boss in another world, and he has learned something different from the boss's perception from the books that many bosses have read. It can be said that he is a man of the second generation, and his age is not just as young as he has shown.

While he flatly rejected Magus, he also understood that Magus' purpose for doing so was not completely malicious, but definitely not well-intentioned.

Du Lin's biggest shortcoming now is his background. Yes, under the efforts of Magus and the New Party, the Yaoxing Empire has entered a new era for more than 20 years. During these 20 years, many changes have taken place. People conceptual change. For example, the royal family that once ruled the empire has become a mascot, and the word aristocrats has gradually faded from people's memory, but in the middle and high levels of society, people can still feel the old and new aristocrats' respect for the empire. dominance.

Those nobles changed their titles, put on a new coat, and appeared in front of people again. But no matter the old aristocrats or the new aristocrats in the new era, most of them have the same characteristic-extraordinary background!

The new consortium headed by the northern nobles is almost all of noble origin. They are all old nobles in the new era. Their prominent backgrounds and the wealth accumulated by the family through the ages allow them to surpass hundreds of people in this society even without hard work. Ninety-five out of 10 people, in the new era, they are born as "nobles", which is no different from the past.

After more than 20 years of exploration and evolution, the new nobles headed by the southern nobles and capital forces have found a broad road leading to the top of the tower. It seems that not everyone has a prominent status, but in fact these people are in the In the past, before the arrival of the new era, there was already a fairly high social status. They are all merchants. In the old society, the status of merchants was not high. This is what is said in books, but what is the actual situation?

The status of merchants is indeed not high compared to the elite class nobles in the society at that time, but they are many times higher than those ordinary people. They not only have huge wealth, but also have a certain degree of private arms. The relationship is also very close.

The nobles think that businessmen are their own dogs, but this is also for the nobles. Comparing these dogs with ordinary people, they are noble dogs, but people become inferior.

Can the prime minister's dog have the same status as an ordinary person?

Obviously it's different!

So even after entering a new era and a new society, the high-level empire has been promoting the great imperial dream. There are not many real ordinary people who really have vested interests in this era. Their extraordinary background allowed them to obtain the accumulation of the initial stage faster, or even skip this stage. Those who are truly ordinary people can do this step very few.

This is like a railway tycoon, who has been building railways since the old society. Can an ordinary businessman build railways in the old society where nobles ruled the world?

It's almost the same for the railway to repair him!

Du Lin's continuous snowballing has expanded his power, but he is unlikely to quickly form a consortium with him as the core and everyone is willing to pay for him like those industry tycoons, because his background is too humble.

Being a farmer... This prerequisite means that he and those people can only be in a cooperative relationship, an ordinary interest group, not a group with a shared destiny.

If Du Lin agreed to Magus's request and got to know a lady from a certain noble family, whether old or new, he would enter a period of rapid development. Marriage to the nobles will fill his last shortcoming, even if it will make his marriage a little awkward, and make people think that he stood up with the advantage of the woman. With such a background, it will not be difficult for him to search for real elites. The elites in the upper class of society are willing to work for a boss with aristocratic status and advise them.

This inevitably makes people envious of the environment in the Federation, which is why the Federation is called "a country full of opportunities" among many people. Everyone is a mud dog from the past, and no one looks down on the factors of family background and status. Everyone looks at money. To be rich is to be noble, to be a grandpa, and to be everything in society. Without money, of course there is nothing.

But if Durin agreed to Magus's "goodwill", there would also be a huge trap, or disadvantage.

He will be tied to death on a carriage known as a "nobility", and he will become someone he needs to look up to in the past... no, it is a big man who needs to look up to, and his interests will also be tied to these people. Every time he does something, he needs to consider what benefits I will bring to myself, what benefits will it bring to my peers, and whether it will harm our relationship and friendship with each other. Because this is a very important thing, once he has done harm to the interests of those at the top of the tower, he will become a "special" person, a person who is different from others.

We all know that when a heterogeneity appears in a group, people will not turn him into a class higher than their own, but will only find ways to eliminate the heterogeneity.

As long as Durin does anything that harms this class, or people think that he has harmed this class, everyone will start to reject him, regard him as an enemy, and want to send him to the gods.

At that time, if one step is wrong, the upper class of the whole society will form a torrent to drown him.

His enemies will expand from a few people, a certain family or a certain consortium to all vested interests, and he will become a public enemy!

This is the trap that Magus set up. Once he steps into it, he doesn't want to be a public enemy, and he is the public enemy of these people on the top of the tower. He must curb his desires, hide his minions, and obey the rules of the game. An invisible overall will exists in this society.

Maybe he has the opportunity to aspire to the scepter of imperial power, but it is more likely that he will become a sponsor, political sponsor and other roles behind the power man holding the scepter many years later, which is not what he wants!

He must reject Magus without a moment's hesitation or heartbeat. This is a trap, a delicious trap.

Du Lin's refusal was so decisive that Magus was confused. Did Du Lin discover his purpose, or did he really not plan to have a girlfriend? His answer is too fast to give people a kind of "this is his most primitive, undisguised heart".

Maggs laughed, "I've heard a rumor before..." His eyes were a little strange, which made Du Lin feel his scalp tingle, "They, that is, those newspapers and public opinion said, you like men? "

After hearing this, Du Lin smiled calmly, "This is nonsense, you should understand that this is a sick society, and people will not allow too perfect things to appear in this world. Perfect things will make They feel that they are ugly and incomplete, so they have to add some imperfect things to the people or things they see are at least more perfect than themselves, at least to make them feel better."

"I'm not arrogantly thinking that I'm perfect, but it's a stigma. I've never been interested in men. I like women like most people."

A few years ago, Du Lin lived in seclusion in Illian, and he didn't have any female characters around him for a long time, and they always accompanied him. After a long time, there will naturally be a kind of unfriendly remarks, saying that he likes men. He can clearly see the reason for this kind of rumor, not everyone is willing to admit a better thing, like people often say "It's not that he's smart, it's just that I'm too stupid" or "She's with me too She looks pretty when she's alone, but she's ugly when she's with so-and-so."

This kind of pathological thinking that is willing to belittle oneself and not willing to admit the excellence of others has always occupied the mainstream thinking of society. Only by not acknowledging the excellence of others can these people show that they are not far behind others and will not be worse than others. A little more extreme is to show the value of one's existence in society by slandering others and exalting oneself.

Such people are often the weak in society, and the weak in this society are the majority after all, relatively speaking.

So it is not particularly strange to have such remarks. The reason why Magus asked this was to cover up his eagerness just now. He pretended that Du Lin didn't know, and Du Lin also pretended that he really didn't see it.

After the two laughed and chatted for a while, Magus changed the subject and began to talk about things in the west, "Recently, the cabinet and I were discussing something about immigration. Now there are two voices in the cabinet, one thinks All immigrants should be accepted without restriction, a kind of thinking that better people should be selectively included in the scope of citizens of the empire. You have been in the west during this time, and you have your own business in various places throughout the empire. What do you think? Which way is better?"