Chapter 119.1
Conspiracy of the Noble Faction (5)
“El-sama, look at that, the mountains look so far away!”
A young girl riding the carriage where the Crown Prince Ervan, who was assigned to supervise the new students, looked back with a big smile on her face as the new students of the Magic Academy to observe the Training of the Knights.
“Well, yes…”
Ervan’s face was also slightly twitching in response to the girl’s words and actions, who had been peering into the window while talking incoherently with her knees on the cushioned seat as if she were a toddler.
The tour of state facilities by new students was held every year, and the reason why nobles of middle class and above, excluding lower-class nobles, were eligible to participate was to let the students, who would become the next generation of noble heads with estates and their wives, know the importance of what goes into running the state and how taxes that were used for that purpose.
There were more than 6,000 noble families in the Kingdom of Cleydale, including knights and other aristocratic figures, 589 middle-class noble families, and 35 upper-class noble families, which means that the number of students from middle-class noble families and above alone exceeded 60 in a single school year.
It would have been a huge undertaking just to move that many children of noble families, and for that reason, the second-year Crown Prince was assigned to supervise the event, but when the doors were opened, only about 60% of the participants were present.
In the case of an ordinary visit to an important facility in the capital, female students who were not interested in territorial management would tend to avoid participating in such an occasion, and only five female students actually participated in the tour.
In the case of a trip such as this, which would take three days by carriage, the students would be grouped together to some degree.
The majority of the students would travel together with other upper-class nobles, but in a case like this where there were only a few female students, it was accepted that the daughters of upper-class noble families, who could bring attendants with them, even if it was only one, would bring their own middle-class noble ladies in their own carriage, regardless of the region.
However, the only ladies of higher nobility participating this time were Princess Elena and Countess Carla, none of who were willing to travel with Carla, and two of the remaining three middle-class noble ladies were riding in the princess’s carriage.