Heir to the Title (First Update for Monthly Tickets)

Yun Nvluo smiled and said, "Chief Quan, please wait a moment."

Then she said to Zong Ruoan, "Young Master Zong, please be more understanding of our chief. It's all my fault. I usually take care of these things, but I forgot to bring the chief his usual coffee."

Quan Yuxun smiled and said, "It's not Yun Nvluo's fault. Who knew our pampered Young Master Zong could drink this kind of coffee?"

Yun Nvluo covered her mouth and laughed happily.

After she left, Quan Yuxun dropped his smile and calmly asked Zong Ruoan, "Why didn't you go home for the New Year? Did you run into some trouble?"

Zong Ruoan said lazily, "No, it's just... a little tired. I wanted to find a place where no one knows me and rest for a few days."

Quan Yuxun looked at him and said tactfully, "...Is it because of the Fan Family's matter?"

Zong Ruoan sighed deeply, put the coffee cup on the low redwood coffee table in front of him, and said, "Since you asked, I'll be honest. Yes, it's because of the Fan Family's matter."

He sat up straight, looked at Quan Yuxun's face, and asked seriously, "Yuxun, tell me honestly, do you think the Special Security Bureau, or His Majesty, handled this matter correctly?"

Quan Yuxun looked at him in silence, with no intention of answering.

Zong Ruoan continued, "Of course, I know the Fan Family has become too powerful, and I also know Fan Chengcai is a scoundrel! I wanted to kill him a long time ago! But just because I want to kill him doesn't mean he should be beaten to death directly. He is also a citizen of the Beichen Empire and should be judged by the law! Sanctioned by the law!"

"And the Fan Family Head and Young Master Fan, if they are guilty, they should also be judged and sentenced by the Court, instead of His Majesty stripping them of their titles with a single Imperial Edict!"

Quan Yuxun then said, "Ruoan, if you want to talk about the law, I can say that according to the constitution and laws, the Emperor does have absolute power over titles below the Four Great Dukes."

"The Imperial Edict that Inspector Huo Yushen of the Special Security Bureau produced is absolutely legal."

Zong Ruoan closed his eyes, "That's what I don't quite understand."

"It's legal, but is it right? Yuxun, you are the chief legal advisor of the Senate, and you are also a Gold Medal Lawyer. Haven't we Nobles been trying to limit the power of the Royal Family for so many years? Why can't you support me?"

Quan Yuxun said calmly, "I can support you on other matters. But this matter is absolutely impossible."

"Why?"

"You know why."

"...Because of your cousin?"

"What else could it be?" Quan Yuxun played with the jade-colored coffee cup, and said calmly, "No one can bully a daughter of my Quan Family and get away unscathed."

"Ruoan, I understand your admiration for the law, your maintenance of our noble class, and your vigilance and restriction of the Royal Power. However, we are also human, with our own family, relatives, and friends. Without violating the spirit of the law, I will definitely prioritize my family, relatives, and friends. I believe you are the same."

Zong Ruoan said sternly, "I'm not the same. I only look at legal justice."

Quan Yuxun smiled, "Is that so? Then why do you have to go against Fan Chengcai? Did he offend you? Or did he bully a daughter of your Zong Family?"

Zong Ruoan was speechless.

A big reason why he kept staring at Fan Chengcai was because Fan Chengcai tried to kill Xia Chujian, because he saw with his own eyes how badly Fan Chengcai beat Xia Chujian, because Xia Chujian was someone he knew, his friend.

From this point of view, he was not as fair as he thought.

Zong Ruoan was slightly stunned.

Quan Yuxun smiled slightly, without continuing to press him, and only said, "Since the Constitutional Monarchy, the Senate has been very vigilant about the expansion of the Royal Power. But the Royal Power's absolute power over titles has been in place since the Constitutional Monarchy, after a series of chaotic battles, after millions of deaths, as a result of compromise between all parties. If you want to abolish this, are you prepared to have millions, or even tens of millions, more deaths?"

Zong Ruoan: "..."

He stretched out his legs, leaned on the sofa armrest, supported his head with his hand, and said unwillingly, "...So I'm just an ant trying to stop a chariot?"

"It's not an ant trying to stop a chariot, it's just that the time is not ripe." Quan Yuxun's voice was light, and his gentle baritone carried a soothing slowness.

"Don't pay too much attention to the ownership of a Baron. There shouldn't be noble territories stationed on Guiyuan Star in the first place."

"Take this opportunity to strip the Fan Family of their title, and then grant the new baronial territory to another planet, and it will be a perfect ending."

"To be honest, even our Senate is happy to see this happen."

"You don't know how much power that Fan Family senator had in the Senate back then... It wasn't until the Fan Family was dealt with that his remaining forces truly died down and turned to other factions."

"Although I'm not very familiar with that Inspector Huo, I have to admit that he won this time very beautifully."

Zong Ruoan continued to be silent, and after a long while, he said, "Looking at it this way, my immediate superior really sees things more clearly than I do. He knows too well what His Majesty the Emperor is thinking... His Majesty the Emperor needs a knife, and he handed it over."

Quan Yuxun chuckled, "That's for sure, otherwise, how could he have risen to Marshal within ten years without any background, and also control the Special Security Bureau directly under the Emperor? Do you think controlling the Special Security Bureau can be done with military merits alone?"

"You are also a Director of the Special Security Bureau, a position second only to one. In your opinion, does this Inspector Huo have any illegal or irregular behavior?"

Zong Ruoan tilted his head, thought for a moment, and shook his head, saying, "Really, no. Even someone as critical as me can't think of anything illegal or irregular he's done."

Quan Yuxun said meaningfully, "That's the ability. So, Her Royal Highness the Grand Princess sent you to the Special Security Bureau to gain experience, indeed with good intentions. Ruoan, here, you can learn to be flexible, learn to compromise, learn how to take advantage of situations to accomplish what you want without being constrained."

After Quan Yuxun's enlightenment, Zong Ruoan's mood gradually improved.

Actually, given enough time, he could have figured it out himself.

But with a discerning friend pointing the way, he could get out faster and reduce a lot of unnecessary emotional drain.

He looked at Quan Yuxun, smiled, and said, "No wonder you are the Quan Family's Qilin Child. Although you have almost never left the upper echelons of the empire, it turns out you also understand the lives of ordinary people at the bottom..."

Quan Yuxun also relaxed, crossed his legs, and said casually, "There are so many members of my Quan Family, not everyone is a mega-rich noble."

"That's true, after all, you will be the Quan Family Clan Head in the future." Zong Ruoan raised his coffee cup to him, "Learning from you."

Quan Yuxun didn't take up his words, twirling the jade-colored coffee cup in his hand, and said with a smile that was not quite a smile, "...Aren't you being cultivated according to the standards of the Zong Family Clan Head?"

In order to maintain the family's unified goals and avoid internal friction, the clan heads of the Four Great Noble Families must also be the heirs to the title.

Zong Ruoan smiled wryly, "My Chief Quan Da, don't make fun of me. You know that our Zong Family has the First Branch, and the First Branch has a single son, and he is the eldest grandson of our Zong Family, with the same status as you."

Quan Yuxun smiled, and said meaningfully, "Is that so? But he is a Posthumous Child."

In other words, the eldest son of the Zong Family Clan Head had already passed away, leaving behind only a Posthumous Child, who is the eldest grandson of the Zong Family.

This person's position is actually quite awkward.

Unless this eldest grandson can bypass the second generation and directly inherit the title from their grandfather, otherwise, it's hanging by a thread.

Zong Ruoan was silent.

He is the eldest son of the Zong Family Second Branch, his eldest uncle has passed away, his father is the second son, and he married the empire's Grand Princess.

Within the Zong Family clan, the status of their Second Branch has long surpassed the First Branch in secret.

But Zong Ruoan sincerely doesn't want to inherit the title by surpassing Eldest Cousin's position for this reason.

Quan Yuxun stopped there, changed the subject and asked, "Are you really not considering going home for a few days? It's the New Year, the Zong Family members will also go to your Zong Family Mansion to pay their respects, and Her Royal Highness the Grand Princess..."

Zong Ruoan shook his head, "I'll go home when things here are done. Anyway, there's a New Year every year, it doesn't matter if I miss this one."

"What are you busy with? Do you need my help?" Quan Yuxun asked seemingly casually.

Zong Ruoan was about to speak, but suddenly remembered the Special Security Bureau's confidentiality regulations, and immediately said with an embarrassed smile, "Anyway, it's just those things, not much, just trivial, I'm planning to report to Inspector Huo and ask for more manpower. The people I have now are not enough."

Quan Yuxun nodded, "Okay, if you need help, just ask. Whether it's our friendship since childhood, or the mutual assistance between our two families for ten thousand years, I won't sit idly by."

Speaking of this, Zong Ruoan thought of Fan Chengcai's matter again, and sighed, "So, for both emotional and rational reasons, and the friendship between our two families for so many years, in the end, you still have to stand on the side of His Majesty the Emperor and Inspector Huo... I am sincerely convinced that I lost this battle."

Quan Yuxun knew that Zong Ruoan needed time to resolve the knot in his heart, and didn't continue this topic, casually saying, "How is Mulan City here? I only know that the Exotic Beast Forest on the North Side of Mulan City has Black Truffle Wild Rhino Pig, and Unicorn Cattle specialties, but the winter here is really cold."

Zong Ruoan finished the remaining coffee, and said, "This winter is indeed unusually cold, and because of the trouble and rebellion of the Humanoids Slaves in the Humanoids Plantation at the end of last year, the harvest of the Humanoids Plantation on Guiyuan Star this year will not be very good, it may only be enough for the Royal Family to eat, and even the Nobles may not have a quota."

Among the Beichen Empire's five main planets, although Guiyuan Star is the most remote and backward, the land on Guiyuan Star is also the most primitive and fertile.

The grains and various vegetables cultivated by the Humanoids Slaves on Guiyuan Star are also the best in taste.

Although the nutritional value is not as good as Advanced Nutrient Solution, it is comparable to Mid-Level Nutrient Solution, greatly exceeding the function of Low-Level Nutrient Solution, and ordinary grains are even more out of reach.

Therefore, the noble class of the Beichen Empire has long been accustomed to purchasing the grains they eat daily, especially rice and flour, from the Humanoids Plantation controlled by the Royal Family.

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