Chapter 276 The Benevolent Tyrant

Faced with Count Melvin's sudden attack, Dmitri was taken aback for a moment.

He was first wary—

Because it's a pointless provocation.

If Earl Melvin didn't share this information, it could be understood that they were collecting population.

The Melvin family does need a large population.

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

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

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

People with this status will definitely not go to work. However, the Melvin family is the third largest family in Winter, and their territories and industries require quite a lot of manpower to manage.

It is definitely not at ease to hand over these important positions to outsiders, but if they are handed over to their own people... there are not so many people. Basically, before the age of thirty, they will be made into skeletons, and the experience of teenagers and young people cannot allow them to take good care of these properties.

So the Melvin family has always been very concerned about the education industry.

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

There is no middle school in the Duchy of Winter—they only have two kinds of education, one is the missionary school responsible for teaching literacy, arithmetic, reading and writing, basic laws, and "rules and traditions"; the other is the real teaching the University.

Missionary schools can be attended at any time, regardless of age. As long as you have your own name, you can enroll at any time from single-digit ages to forties or fifties.

As a rule, 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 finished teaching basic education are about to graduate, the local bishop can come and ask in advance if anyone is willing to work in the church.

If you are interested, you have to pass the exams that churches in different places tend to have.

For example, in Noah, you need to be able to count, laugh, and chat, and 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 selected first by the church, followed by shareholders who invest in the church school. These school managers can also send their own companies to recruit a wave of people.

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

The specific rules of each country are different, but the rule in Bitter Winter is that the sum of the 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 force in investing in church schools.

Two-thirds of the church schools in the Duchy of Winter have more than 5% of the shares of the Melvin family. And among these schools with the name of Melvin among the school directors, nearly half of the shares account for more than 50% of all shareholders—not counting the 50% of the church.

It is generally believed that this is because Melvin went all over the world to find people to marry and sold all his children.

actually not.

Those who were "sold out"... were almost the luckiest batch.

Dmitry realized that what Sumarokov Melvin said was actually a temptation.

He was testing himself... Through this almost provocative way, he was testing whether he knew the truth about the lack of people in the Melvin family.

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

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

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

Dmitry's voice was not loud, and even his tone could be called peaceful.

But his voice rolling deep in his throat made people's hearts buzz. Like a lion awakened, it let out a heart-shattering growl.

Although he is not a transcendent, nor is he a real Grand Duke——but he is a cardinal after all.

Dmitry had a very different air about him.

It was the majesty of a mastery of what he touched and what he was good at—except that Dmitry was good at statecraft and politics.

Even if Sumarokov Melvin was a silver-ranked Transcendent, Dmitri's indifferent glance caused his pupils to tremble.

Sumarokov also became nervous unconsciously.

He was silent for a while, then a smile appeared on his face, as if he took a step back: "Where are you talking...

"Aren't orphans the most troublesome group here? I'm taking the initiative to bear this part of the trouble for you."

Earl Melvin's words were actually true.

In the cold winter, infants and young children are "not counted as people", they can only be counted as cubs, a kind of "beast". They call such children "children". This notion is roughly akin to not counting eggs as chickens.

Children must be able to take care of themselves—specifically, they must be able to stand up straight, talk, eat, dress, and cook by themselves, and will not starve to death even if they are alone at home. Count as "one person".

The time to get a name is usually five or six years old. Sometimes children are enlightened early, and they can be named in advance.

Some uneducated townspeople even think that this tradition is the cause, thinking that "children only have human intelligence after they get a name"; Children will always be beasts.

Because some children come to their senses late, or simply have a bad personality, they 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 they will directly name their children when they are still unable to take care of themselves.

But this kind of child is usually not so sensible-specifically, it is a giant baby. Some old people believe that this is because they interfered with the sacred ritual, like taking a butterfly out of its chrysalis.

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

But in reality, it must be because no one educated them.

But this kind of education can't be wrong... because in fact, it is equivalent to asking every family to cultivate their children patiently before naming them, at least until they can be sensible enough to pass the inspection and be named by the clan elders Degree.

Generally speaking, the time when names are bestowed is on birthdays. Elders in various places, unless they are really unwell, will definitely attend the birthday of the "children".

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

Of course... this kind of rules, in fact, the higher the class and the more cultured, the more enlightened it is.

For example, the name Maria was given by the old grandmother; and Dmitri was given by Ivan—of course, it was also unified by the old grandmother.

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

It was just claimed that Grand Duke Ivan took it for him, and that Ivan should take the blame—after all, in the Duchy of Winter, "Annan" is actually a girl's name. It is pronounced "Anna" and means "mercy".

Today, this Grand Duke named "Benevolence" has been regarded by the nobles of the whole country as the biggest tyrant in the past century because of his previous actions in the Northland.

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