"Teach everyone how to be a noble."
Almost all the students in the room curled their lips in disdain. Many of them had mocking looks on their faces.
Even Tang Mi was the same. Zhou Qianlin had a half-smile on her face.
"Qian Lin, is this what you want to hear?
Teaching us to be nobles? What a joke. "Tang Mi whispered in Zhou Qianlin's ear.
"But this teacher is quite handsome. I'm afraid he's just a spear made of wax. Good for the eyes, but useless."
"What are you talking about?" Zhou Qianlin blushed. Her mind replayed the scene from that day.
Lan Jue turned to the blackboard, and began to write on it. With his hearing, Tang Mi's voice was low, but he was able to catch every word she said.
When he heard the words' good for the eyes, but useless', his chalk froze. He almost broke it.
After taking a deep breath, he finally finished writing those words.
It was a beautiful regular script. The strokes were powerful and full of vigor.
Director Wu's eyes lit up when he saw the four words. It was the age of high technology. People with beautiful handwriting were getting rarer and rarer.
"What is a noble?" Those were the words Lan Jue wrote on the blackboard.
"Who can tell me what a noble is?" Lan Jue put down the chalk and turned to look at the students.
"Isn't it just driving a flying car, living in a mansion, bringing a bunch of bodyguards, and hugging a different girl every day?
Isn't that what you guys think? "A girl wearing a pair of large earrings said mockingly.
"Nonsense. Bodyguards are nothing. At least bring a mecha team. That's cool."
Jin Tao immediately retorted. "How is one woman enough? If I was a noble, I'd choose beautiful women for my mecha pilots. Every one of them has to have a hot body. You don't have breasts, you don't have a butt. You won't make it into my beauty squad."
"Jin Er Gou, are you courting death?"
The blonde woman slammed the table and stood up. At this moment, she had clearly forgotten about Director Wu.
Jin Tao stuck out his pinky and pointed downwards. "Come on."
"Silence!"
Wu Chun-yi shouted in a low voice, instantly suppressing the chaos that was about to erupt in the classroom.
Director Wu hadn't planned to say anything, but Lan Jue's look of surprise and astonishment was directed his way, as though he were questioning the quality of the school's teaching. Director Wu couldn't help but rebuke Lan Jue.
The golden-haired girl pointed at Jin Tao. Her fierce eyes seemed to want to pierce through his body.
"You're wrong. You're not talking about nobles. They're just nouveau riche," Lan Jue said indifferently.
"Tsk — —" A few students sitting in front couldn't help but say at the same time.
Lan Jue acted as if she hadn't heard them. "Today, in this first lesson, I will explain to you what it means to be a noble."
"In many people's minds, a noble school should enjoy the same conditions and lifestyle as a noble.
Therefore, many rich people send their children to the Western League's noble schools, hoping that they would become nobles after they graduate. But when they find out that even the best schools in the Western League, the Western League's public schools, have to sleep in hard beds, eat plain food, and undergo rigorous training every day, even more than the students in the commoner's schools, they don't understand how the ascetic lifestyle has anything to do with the noble spirit. "
"Actually, this is not surprising. The noble spirit is not the nouveau riche spirit. It's the opposite of the commoner's spirit, and it doesn't mean living a comfortable, luxurious life.
It's a pioneer spirit that revolves around honor, responsibility, courage, self-discipline, and a series of other values. "
After listening to Lan Jue, although the students didn't change much, Wu Chun-yi's eyes lit up as he nodded in agreement.
"The famous noble schools in the Western League carry out such strict and arduous military training to cultivate the students' sense of cooperation and self-discipline.
A true noble must have strong self-discipline and strong mental strength, and this kind of mental strength must be cultivated from a young age.
The Western League's public schools used this method to cultivate many outstanding people. For example, General Wellings who defeated the Northern Alliance's Tiger, General Naton, was a top student from the Western League's public school.
Wellings was a very famous figure in the military history of the three Major League's. When he fought against General Naton, he left a very famous sentence.
At that time, he braved the gunfire of the mech to observe the enemy's situation at the frontline. His staff advised him many times to retreat because the frontline was too dangerous, but Wellings refused to move. The staff could only ask him, 'What are your last words if you die?'
Without turning his head, Wellings said, 'Tell them, my last words are to stand here like me.' "
Lan Jue's voice was calm throughout, but when he finished telling the story of General Wellings, the classroom had quietened down.
The sneer on Tang Mi's face had disappeared, and Zhou Qianlin listened attentively.
Wu Chun-yi was still serious, but Jin Yan's eyes were shining.
"Wealth is material, and nobility is spiritual.
The spirit of nobility meant that a person had to have self-control, self-restraint, dedication, and service to the common people.
For example, Prince William and Prince Harry from the Western League's ancient royal family. The Western League's royal family sent them to the Western League's Army Mech Officer Academy to learn. After graduation, Prince Harry was sent to the frontline of the Western League and the Northern Alliance to be a normal mech pilot.
The Western League's ancient royal family knew about Prince Harry's noble status and the purity of his royal bloodline. They also knew about the dangers at the frontline.
But they acknowledged that dedication and taking risks were the duties of nobles. It was their duty, and it was natural.
During the first all-out war between the Eastern Alliance and the Western League, there was a photo that was widely circulated. At that time, the commander-in-chief of the three armies of the Eastern Alliance, Marshal Qi Mu, was inspecting the slums at the frontline. He stood in front of the door of a collapsed house and said to the poor old lady inside, 'May I come in?' This shows respect for the people at the bottom of the social ladder, and true nobles know how to respect others. "
"On the 28th of October, 1910, an 83-years-old man, in order to save a soul that had been tortured his whole life, decided to give all his property to the poor. Then, he left his vast estate and died like a vagabond in a small deserted station … He was the great Russian writer of the First Era, Tolstoy.
Many years later, another famous writer of the First Era, Zweig, commented on Tolstoy and said, 'Such a dishonorable and lowly fate does not detract from his greatness.
If he did not suffer for us, then Leo Tolstoy would not be able to belong to all of mankind as he is today … '"
At this point, Lan Jue's eyes swept across the entire classroom. Her voice suddenly became strong, and she said in a powerful voice, "This, is nobility."
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