Since the decision has already been made, proceeding with it becos swift.
As the Lord of the North, Perfikot could easily draft several pioneer docunts.
However, considering this ti it’s for those major rchants, to extract money from them, Perfikot thoughtfully switched the docunt paper to alchemy-produced special paper, which doesn’t tear, burn, or soak, ensuring it’s immutable.
For those rchants, you have to gauge their ntality: soone willing to spend fifty thousand pounds for a pioneer docunt wouldn’t mind spending another thirty thousand for a deluxe version, or even five more for a supre deluxe version.
People have a competitive nature: if both of us are Pioneer Knights, and your docunt is written on a casual piece of parchnt while mine is on genuine alchemy paper, it implicitly puts a notch above you.
This is why so people only buy the most expensive, not necessarily the right choice, only pursuing the priciest, not the best.
Most of those newly wealthy rchants lack accumulation, many of them only getting wealthy in their current generation, therefore lacking enough accumulation in their behavior and lavish indulgences.
In fact, not only them, even the nobility lacks what is called accumulation.
The reason is quite simple: everyone truly beca wealthy only after the industrial revolution; before that, rich?
The King had to wait for local tributes to eat fish; in history, there’s a king who died from eating too many delicious lampreys.
If even the King was like this, one can imagine the ordinary nobility.
Precisely because of this, everyone is essentially a nouveau riche, except that the nobility had several generations of wealth plus the constraints of noble etiquette, making them less pretentious than re landed gentry.
But this is only for now; without the doomsday winter, after a few more decades when the first industrial revolution is complete, and the first generation of capitalists has accumulated their wealth, country nobility like the Brandelis Clan of the past will truly beco ostentatious, and conversely, these big rchants will gradually beco representatives of wealth and fashion.
Only the truly top-tier nobility can have enough wealth accumulation to let their lifestyle rise with their fortunes.
But now, everyone is still desperately gilding their faces, trying to appear more affluent than others.
It’s just that the nobility already had so gold dust on their faces, so it’s easier to stick more on, while the rchants don’t have that convenience, and it’s not wrong to say they lack deep roots.
This is why in the original world, even into the third industrial revolution, the so-called fashion trends and top luxury experiences remained in the hands of the so-called nobility, and the so-called noble deanor continued to be pursued.
Perfikot has no interest in criticizing or evaluating this phenonon; she only cares about how much profit it can bring her and how much it can aid the Northern expansion.
To amplify the influence of this affair, she also intentionally had the old steward release the news, stating that to celebrate the opening of the comrcial Flying Airship route between the Northern Territory and the Empire’s mainland, the Lord of the North specially prepared five Pioneer Knight commissioning docunts to be auctioned during the maiden voyage celebration.
This news quickly made its way back to Langton and also to the New Continent.
While it might not be a whirlwind, it certainly stirred up a storm of interest.
For so, the nobility status isn’t important, after all, they are all nobles; so just have higher titles while others lower, but ultimately, they are all part of the sa circle.
But for those who don’t have it, even the lowest-ranking knight title is a stepping stone to the nobility; obtaining it ans entering that upper circle, from then on being a cut above the rest.
This is not rely imitating noble lifestyles and imagining oneself a noble but actually entering the noble circle in earnest.
For the nobility, having a title or not is entirely different, even as an heir.
So faced with the Northern Count’s offering of five titles, countless people flock to seize them.
But evidently, this is not an opportunity for everyone.
The reason is simple: Perfikot said the five Pioneer Knight docunts would be auctioned during the Flying Airship route’s maiden voyage celebration; hence, if you want to purchase one, you must at least appear at the celebration, right? At the very least, you need to send soone to bid for you, don’t you?
If you can’t even do that, how will you buy it? It’s not like you can wait for soone else to buy it on site, and then you buy it from them, right?
Everyone knows the benefits of a title; who would spend a hefty sum to get a title only to sell it later?
This silently rules out a large number of people who can’t make it to the North or send soone there on the day.
Those who can actually show up on such occasions are either catching the first Flying Airship maiden voyage or the major rchants and capitalists sending soone to the North.
They are all individuals with vast resources at their disposal, naturally pulling out all the stops at such tis.
The Flying Airship is equipped with a radio station, originally prepared for convenient communication, though typically, passengers cannot use it at will, but often the rules yield to money.
Therefore, representatives originally sent to execute survey tasks aboard the Flying Airship naturally received new instructions, and each party received a rough budget and a permissible overspend amount.
After all, Perfikot stated it would be an auction, so it beca necessary to prepare more funds or convertible resources in advance to win the bid.
However, those who can genuinely muster vast resources are not these capitalists and factory owners but the truly grand nobility.
They can also mobilize resources and send people to the North, yet they didn’t do so; instead, they directly sent telegrams to Perfikot.
Nobles from the Royal Capital implored Perfikot, attempting to secure a plausible title for their second or illegitimate sons.
After all, there’s only one title in the family, hereditary and can only be passed to the legitimate heir; the remaining sons or illegitimate ones can only get a sum of money and fend for themselves.
Now there’s an opportunity to acquire a title, how could they just watch?
Spending money directly is of course simple and convenient, but competing with rchants financially may be challenging, and there are only five titles. Who gets one and who doesn’t could hurt feelings and is not dignified.
Privately approaching Perfikot is different: since the Lord of the North can offer five knight titles for sale, it ans they can find a way through Perfikot, as long as there’s a price, it’s rely a matter of exchanging benefits, a ga the nobility is well-versed in.
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