Chapter 609 Idealists
Human beings are the sum of social relations.
The higher the social structure, the more complex the human relations, the more intense the competition, and the more prominent and acute the contradictions.
The Masonry is the product of human society's development to a fairly high level of civilization. It relies on interests to gather a large number of people with high income, high IQ and high social status. Similarly, fierce competition and irreconcilable contradictions will also occur.
The Masonry has lasted for hundreds of years.
When it was first founded, most people joined the Masonry just to plunder more wealth.
But there are also some people who joined the Masonry with beautiful dreams. They believe that most human beings are dull and selfish. If human beings are allowed to develop freely, the earth will be in chaos, and all human beings will suffer in the end.
They have beautiful ambitions: they hope that human beings can live better from generation to generation.
However, when power and money are in hand, how many people can stick to their original dreams?
Few.
But it does not mean that there are none.
Lucien McDonnell is such a person. He is a conservative idealist (there are many factions among the members of the Masons, including profiteering, war, technology-changing futurism, idealists, radicals...)
After dozens of changes, the current version of the Masonic oath was written by Lucian:
"As a member of the human race, we will adhere to the principles of morality and ethics, uphold integrity and honesty, and work for the happiness of mankind..."
"We will be guided by kindness and justice and strive to pursue a bright and progressive path..."
"We respect and protect the diversity of species..."
Lucian believes that the progress of the world depends on those who have ideals and abilities. The Masons want to find these people and then use the power and money at hand to transform the world together--
However, the idealists are more gentle and naturally cannot compete with those selfish and radical people.
In a fierce internal conflict, someone injured Lucian's leg.
Since then, there have been fewer and fewer conservative idealists, and Lucian, the former big boss, has slowly retreated to the second line.
People say that Lucian was defeated and retreated.
But some people say that Lucian was just lying in wait, waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.
Cheng Ling and Jiang Qilan believe that this person is one of the key figures in destroying the conspiracy of the Masons against the Chinese.
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The two of them were busy.
Jiang Qilan prepared for Lucian's arrival - this is a distinguished guest, and he must be polite and not be neglected.
Cheng Ling is not qualified to see such a guest.
So, after washing up, she picked a set of casual clothes from the spoils of yesterday's shopping and went to the kitchen.
Cheng Ling looked energetic today - it is good to sleep in occasionally.
Cheng Ling was calculating the types of breakfast in her mind. When she arrived at the kitchen door, she was shocked:
There were seven people standing neatly at the kitchen counter.
Two of them were wearing white chef uniforms and exaggerated chef hats. The other servants who did odd jobs were also wearing white aprons and gloves.
As soon as they saw Cheng Ling, everyone immediately bowed and greeted: "Miss Cheng, good morning--"
"What are you doing?" Cheng Ling asked outside the kitchen without entering the door.
The head chef took a step forward and answered Cheng Ling respectfully: "Miss Cheng, we are here to help Miss Cheng deal with the ingredients."
Cheng Ling smiled, and then said: "I can do it alone. You can go."
Everyone looked at each other.
Everyone stood still.
——The fact that this woman almost fired the housekeeper with a few words last night spread throughout the manor overnight.
They understood a truth, even if the master was just playing with this woman, this woman had the ability to make the master fire any employee in the manor-you know, among the employees of the manor, the housekeeper is the most important.
Time was very tight, and Cheng Ling had no time to talk nonsense with them.
So she raised her eyebrows and asked: "Do you want to steal my skills here, so that you can please your master in the future?"