Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 46—Selection about the Future of Life

"This, is this a gift for me?" Crowder reached out and grabbed the black rifle on the straw and took it out slowly.

This is a huge surprise, and a gift that Crowder never imagined. He told his father that he wanted to have a arquebus. It was just a talk. In his heart, he never thought that Mr. Morssan would allow him to buy a musket, even if he used his own money to borrow his father’s name. No. In memory, Mr. Morssan has never liked weapons very much. He believes that a smart mind is more important than a powerful weapon...

Why did my father buy me a musket as a gift? While I couldn't help but look at the arquebus in my hand, Claude thought nervously in his heart: Is this a compensation for me? If I had a gift for Albert, then I had already beaten him. Will it be that the parents had to shut up the ten jinklang in order to settle the goods, so that for the sake of fairness, I said that I had bought this arquebus as a gift for the two sons, so that I no longer have opinions on the goods?

At this moment, Claude made another suspicious problem. The black arquebus in his hand is not a second-hand goods. Look at the packaging and the gun oil coated on it. It is clearly a new product that has just been manufactured. It is worth at least five or six. Kim Klang. Why did the father who has always been stingy spend such a big price to buy a arquebus gun to give himself a gift? Does he have any ulterior motives?

If Mr. Morsang knows what Crowder would think in his heart, maybe he would be too angry to put the newly bought gun into the furnace and destroy it.

In fact, Mr. Morsan's meaning is very simple. He said that Claude is also his second son. His blood is thicker than water. Of course, he does not know that the body of this second child hides the soul of a cross from another world. He arranged two life paths for the eldest son Albert and the second son Claude. Albert walked the civil servant, and Claude was enlisted in the army.

Mr. Morsan also knows that the road to enlisting in the army is not good. The lucky ones who have not been caught in any war for fifteen years like the father of Verikoro are a minority. As long as they are on the battlefield, they will be born and killed. It's hard to say.

Out of a father's love, Mr. Morsan certainly hopes that Claude will live as long as possible, so he only thought that when he graduated from Crowe, he would send him to the mainland of Nubsia, where Tilsim The regional governor is the nominal godfather of Claude, and it is always safer to be enlisted in him than the random allocation of passive conscription.

When Claude said that he wanted to have a musket, Mr. Morsan thought of his enlistment in the future. He felt that it is not a bad thing to familiarize Claude with the musket now, maybe in the future. Familiar with musket shooting accuracy and more security. This is why Mr. Morssan made up his mind to spend money on Claude to buy this brand new arquebus.

Mr. Morssan smiled at Mimi's cigarette from his cigarette bag and stuffed it into his beloved pipe. After igniting with the match, he took a deep breath. These expensive tobacco are from the mainland of Nubbia and are also the specialty of the Kingdom's overseas direct jurisdiction.

Smoking is Mr. Morsan's only hobby. Even if the price of tobacco is high, Mr. Morssan has never been stingy on his own luxury hobby. He thinks smoking is in line with his own executive status, and smoking can Keeping your mind awake, when talking to people, he can use smoke to cover his expression and carefully observe each other. It is very important for him to use the short time of the match to judge the other party's intention.

“Do you like this gift?” Mr. Morssan was very pleased to see his second son’s love for this musket.

"Yes, I like it very much, and I am very happy, thank you father." Claude is very cooperative and reveals a look that can't help but feels awkward in the expression of surprise: "Just, just I don't understand." Why is your father willing to buy such a new arquebus for me? I remember you didn't say hate weapons?"

Mr. Morssan was just looking. He didn’t expect Crowder to ask: “Yes, I hate weapons very much. Your brother is the same. This is because we are civil servants. We are used to administrative and intelligent. The mind solves the problem, not like a coward holding a weapon to threaten the safety of others.

But you are different, you are a physical student, and you will be seventeen years old after you graduate from the middle school next year. Regardless of whether you are willing or not, you must make a choice for your future before the age of 18, as required by the Kingdom (the Four People's Rights Act). Is it just a job in the town to find a job as a civilian to spend this life, or to fight for national identity?

In Bailu Town, you don’t have to think about making a civil servant. Unless you can become the first in the school, the test scores exceed all the liberal arts students, so that you can get the official recommendation from the state to enter the town hall. To see your luck, is there a shortage of civil servants in the town office?

The other way is to join the army and join the army to build merits on the battlefield. Another option is to become a sailor and enter the kingdom's sea fleet. However, from the perspective of safety, I do not recommend taking this road. The risk at sea is even greater. The loss of a unit on the battlefield is no longer heavy and there are lucky people. When a war breaks out at sea, the loss is often calculated by how many ships.

You are already sixteen years old this year. You and your partners even hunted such a big python a few days ago, so that the whole town is amazed by your courage. I think, maybe your future is really on the road to enlisting in the army, and you still want to have your own musket, so now you are two years away from 18 years old, let you familiarize yourself with the musket, I believe This will be very helpful for your future..."

Claude was a bit dumbfounded. He didn't expect his father to talk to him about the future of his future.

As a traverser, what he is ignoring (the Four People's Rights and Interests Act) is simply dismissive. The national identity of the civilian status is no different in his eyes. It is nothing more than a tax-poor problem and the possibility of legal possession of firearms. Even the kingdom of Ovilas, where he is, has no sense of belonging to him.

As a traverser, he believes that he knows what true freedom is. As a free traverser, in the future, naturally, there is no lord here. If you have a grandfather, you can’t make a pat on your ass. Never before has the kingdom's laws been put in the eye, and the classification of the four major classes of the civilians and the national aristocrats seems so ridiculous in the eyes of the passers-by, and he will not be bound by these boring legal provisions.

Just like the ambition he and his three friends said, he hopes that he will become an explorer in the future, to explore the mysteries of this different world, to travel through this magical world, to see the strange local customs. Human feelings, this is the meaning of crossing into this world. Of course, if you can learn magic, that's a good thing.

But now the father has to talk to him about the serious choice of life. For a moment, he doesn’t know how to answer: "This, this father, if you don’t join the army, you can leave the town of Bailu if you are a civilian. ?"

The fool will leave Bailu Town before he grows up. Then the father is also the administrative director of the town. He said that the ugly point is the existence of the local snake, and it is not the underground snake like the underground, but the body is draped. The kind of tiger sitting in the official skin. Claude believes that even if he chooses to be a civilian, he will live in Bailu Town as well as the average national. Anyone should look at his father's face and let himself be three points.

Labor and capital did not want to go to the Ouvilas Kingdom of this Rush as a cannon fodder to fight the battlefield. The existence of this **** kingdom is not my fault. This is the real idea of ​​the passer.

"Oh..." Mr. Morssan shook his head. "I have to tell you a fact, Claude, you are a physical student. In a sense, every physical student is a reserve soldier of the kingdom. Even if you choose to be a civilian, as long as the kingdom has a war, then you are the first person to be forced to join the army. This is not a question you are willing to do. Therefore, it is better to be forced to join the army than to be forced in wartime. Enlisted, after all, even if you become a junior officer in the military, the survival rate on the battlefield is much higher than that of the soldiers who become cannon fodder..."

Hey... The physical students were originally the reserve soldiers of the kingdom... Claude suddenly realized that the courses in the physical sciences were fencing, wrestling, boxing, long-distance running, iron throwing and long sticks, right, There is also equestrian training, and the third grade will start training on firearms. No wonder I thought I entered a boot camp...

This is too much, too shameless. The traversing person thinks that the education of the **** kingdom is good, and the students choose the road of civil and military. They did not expect the students to pay tuition, but they cultivated themselves into the kingdom’s reserve soldiers. The cost of recruit training has been saved...

"In fact, the enlistment of the army is not as terrible as you think." Mr. Morssan took a sip of smoke and said: "Claude, you are already sixteen years old. You have a lot of sensibility after the serious illness at the end of last year. You will love at home. Your sister and younger brother will help your mother to work, improve your academic performance, and enjoy reading. These changes are all in my eyes. I am very happy as a father, although your relationship with your older brother is not good... ”

Speaking of Mr. Morssan’s sudden pause, it is probably related to the scene where Claude screamed Albert on the day: “So today I want to talk to you seriously about your future. As a parent, of course we I don't want your children to leave us in adulthood. Even if you are married in the future, we also hope that the family can live with you and never separate...

However, as a father, I must consider your future. In any case, I hope that you can earn a national identity for yourself. If it is peacetime, then I can shelter you in Bailu Town, even if you are a civilian. But now the situation of the kingdom is not very good. The Nasri Kingdom in the eastern part of the mainland has joined the four principalities to establish the anti-Austrian alliance once again. I judge that in a few years, our kingdom will be in the anti-Austrian alliance. An outbreak of war.

If you were still a civilian at that time, you would soon be forced into the battlefield and I would have no choice. So I decided to let you join the army early after graduation, and I sent you to the mainland of Nubsia, where the Governor of the Tilsim area, Jerry Hausen, is the godfather of your godfather, in his By the side, I believe that your safety will be guaranteed, and you will soon get the merits. ”

It turned out that his father had already made arrangements, and Claude sighed. The father’s judgment over the past few years and the anti-Olympic alliance’s outbreak of great warfare is very much Claude’s approval. During this time, the White Hare Morning News reprinted the current affairs from the County Daily and the Kingdom’s news report. It has already revealed such a sign, for example, in the honeymoon period after the peace agreement with the Nasri Kingdom, the kingdom newspaper will never mention the grievances of several wars between the two countries.

But Crowder was very curious about the godfather who fell from the sky. He never knew that he had a godfather, and he seemed to be unable to get along with this Jerryhausen, Fan Cruise. Ah, that is the Viscount, which is one level higher than the Baron, and is also the governor of an overseas direct jurisdiction.

Mr. Morssan seems to know what Claude is thinking. He said in a memory: "I was still very young at that time. I didn't get a national identity. It was just an ordinary administrative document of the town office, but then I was because An administrative proposal received the fourth administrative award, and the reward for coming to me was the Viscount Jerry Hausen.

When he arrived in Bailu Town that day, it happened that you were born. The Viscount is very happy to promise you the name. Your name of Claude is also his friend who commemorated the battlefield, so he became you. Godfather. When he was in the three southwestern counties, he often came to see you, but when you were still small, you didn't remember anything. Later he went to the mainland of Nubiansia, and the contact was less. But every year we still have a few letters..."

So, Claude thought, maybe going to the mainland of Nubiansia would be a good choice.