Chapter 470: Aristocratic Tricks (Part 1)

While ordinary American students happily enjoy the ease of leaving school on time at 3:00 p.m., Stephanie is struggling with the hardships of elite education. As the heir of the Malik family, she will naturally receive the best education, but compared to those upstart children, Stephanie is much more low-key and pragmatic, and rarely shows off in school. Even after she was admitted to a prestigious Ivy League school, she didn't dictate to other classmates like those children from upstart families, because she knew that those were not important.

Stephanie had shown Salomon pictures of her in college, and the blonde girl with the glasses and the thick bangs was nothing like the strong woman in the business suit she was now. This hard work has now brought her an indispensable position beside Salomon.

She is the best accountant in the Immortal City, able to independently undertake actuarial work. She was able to accurately classify all the documents and submit them to Salomon at the appropriate time. After the mystic mage made a command, she could feed back the answer. In a sense, Stephanie sorted out the savagely growing political system and administrative structure in the Immortal City, and helped Salomon implement the means to check and balance Wakanda and artificial intelligence, allowing Salomon to take time out of his busy schedule to do his own thing.

With the improvement of the armaments in the Immortal City and the plan to increase production capacity in the future, Stephanie will have an army that can be commanded to a certain extent. Stephanie was unaware of this, but Salomon had hinted at it in conversations with her father. Gideon Malik, who was overjoyed, was already preparing for this part of the source of troops. He planned to find the most elite operatives within Hydra to join the Immortal City.

Of course, the old smuggler had tried to mix sand in these people, it was almost instinctive for him, and Gideon Malik was worried that his daughter would stay by Salomon's side every day.

This kind of behavior is the same as what nobles in the Middle Ages did when they married their daughters far away, and the Malik family has preserved this tradition well. Even though things are different now, Gideon Malik has set things up the way they used to.

Marriage between nobles was quite troublesome. Let me give you an example that was more common at the time.

If the noble family has a son and a daughter, the daughter can marry after confirming that the son is capable of being the heir (or his own). But there must be the most loyal knights among those who follow the daughter to the husband's castle. These armed men only obey the orders of the daughter, and the husband's family has no right to order. The purpose of these knights is to support their daughters and prevent their daughters from being bullied by their husband's family, or the husband's family refuses to consummate the house or give birth to an heir with two bloodlines.

The role of those knights is more than that. They also have another important task, which is to prevent the husband's family from "losing their beloved wife" after the accidental death of their own heir, so that the family territory and titles will fall into the hands of others. Sometimes the reason why the heir of the family dies unexpectedly is because the husband's family has long planned to "lose his beloved wife", so it is very important to protect the only heir.

This usually happens when a superior nobleman marries his daughter to a lower rank or a nobleman of the same rank.

If you are marrying Feng Jun, then it is another way to play.

Generally speaking, it is to wait for the lord and daughter to give birth to a legal heir, and then invite representatives of public opinion, followed by "losing a husband" and electing the child to become the lord. Then it is to use the excuse of "Fengjun is young and temporarily ignore the affairs" to control Fengjun's territory and even Fengjun himself to make profits for his family. The feudal monarch who is in control of politics doesn't even have a trustworthy person around him, whether it's a courtier or a clown, they are all manipulated by his wife's family.

Of course, there are also a series of necessary means, such as exile or assassination of other heirs of the husband's family, and wooing the small lord to annex the big lord. How to do it depends on the situation.

The Malik family is an old aristocrat, and this trick has long been engraved in their DNA. Even if Malik didn't have the idea of ​​infiltrating the Immortal City, it was almost a subconscious instinct.

Salomon has also learned this knowledge, and also used it in a certain map coloring game. He didn't know how others did it, but His Holiness was satisfied with his results and gave him a good beating - because he unified Great Britain only by means of marriage and assassination, which was the most unbearable joke for His Holiness.

Stephanie is the sole heir to the Malik family, and her security has never been rearranged since she was killed by the Sisterhood. Gideon Malik was definitely not at ease with her being around Salomon, not at all without someone of her own. Some of the scientific researchers sent before were also undercover agents, but when those undercover agents found Stephanie, the girl reported the list of undercover agents to Salomon without hesitation.

After reading the list, the mystic master didn't take any action, but locked the list in the cabinet. He didn't know what Gideon Malik was thinking, but he was going to leave that decision to Stephanie.

But it is precisely because of this honesty and outstanding ability that Salomon spends money and time on Stephanie without hesitation every day. Even if it is the most expensive alchemy potion material, Salomon will not be stingy.

Stephanie takes three bottles of potions made by Salomon every day, and she also has a share of the potions of the Umbrella Witches in the sisterhood that improve their physical fitness. Those potions can improve intelligence, perception, charm, and physique respectively, especially the potions of the witch family only work on women. In order to get this potion formula, Salomon tried every means to please the only two witches.

Salomon needs a healthy and intelligent Stephanie, which is important for the Immortal City. When she transformed herself into an important part of the administrative system, Stephanie's weight in Salomon's heart naturally became more important. For Salomon, Stephanie was even more valuable than the Malik family.

What he lacked was not armed men, but administrative staff.

So when Stephanie said that she wanted to have dinner with Salomon, the mystic agreed after calculating the time difference.

"Maybe we can go swimming!"

Rich people are indeed entitled to whim. While it's winter in the northern hemisphere, that's not the case in the southern hemisphere, where you can even sunbathe in a swimsuit. Stephanie said that the Malik family would go to the other side of the world to enjoy life during the hot summer and cold winter, and she even started planning this instant trip.

"You forgot the portal."

Stephanie smiled slyly. "I know," she said cheerfully, "but I just want to fly in a private jet."

"Very good, call me when you arrive, and I will find time to see you." The mystic nodded, stood up from behind his desk and collected the documents on his desk, "By the way, remember to mark your attendance sheet, you have a week's vacation."

"Are you serious?" Stephanie's eyes widened, she couldn't believe the level of EQ that Salomon showed at the moment anyway. After the noble lady secretary reacted, she immediately became furious, "You did it on purpose!"

"I'm busy, Stephanie. I'm not a petit-bourgeois young man in bright sweatpants. I have a lot to do." Salomon blinked. He fully understands Stephanie's little thoughts, but her methods in this regard are far from those of Lorelei, who is currently locked up in the basement and receiving training (meow), let alone a witch.

"The tan in a bikini is very sexy and I wanted it to feel like a surprise."

"Really? Which do you want to see?"

Ask for a ticket!