Prince Boshean called Albert's original words to the original words of FN chief designer Seifer, and when he heard it, he expressed deep surprise. Even in the group of professional designers at FN Company, except for himself and Ernest Fairfield, who were aware of the development prospects of intermediate-power rounds, others expressed scoffence at rifles that used intermediate-power rounds. Unexpectedly, such a forward-looking view of firearms actually came from a prince who had never touched firearms before.

Seifer strongly hoped that Prince Boshean would tell him that he was welcome to the Herstal National Arsenal in the city of Liege, and that he was also very curious about the new firearm that Albert was designing.

At this time, Albert had locked himself in a small black room, and under the guidance of Tianyan, he was concentrating on the design drawings of the two rifles, although the various data given by Tianyan had been imprinted in his mind, but it was really a nightmare for Albert to draw them completely on paper.

At the same time, the article "The Old Man and the Sea" also appeared in the newspaper the next day, and according to the agreement, Tom obtained Hemingway's address through a friend in the industry, and then sent the novel out in an urgent way. However, Tom apparently underestimated the impact of the identity of the owner of the article, and almost on the first day of the newspaper, everyone was talking about what the young man who often became the focus of attention was trying to do this time.

Belgian literary critics have finally found an opportunity to attract the attention of the public, and they have a very poor evaluation of Albert's novel, which has a very poor public reputation, and it is rare for them to be willing to slap their faces in the face. Albert's identity is destined to be much more important than the actual content of his novels.

"It's a mediocre work with no features, no creativity, and I don't know why this playboy lets his women go and runs over to play literature, and oh my God, I think the Belgian literary scene will be stirred up in the future."

"With all due respect, even my three-year-old child can write a work of this calibre, and the famous Belgian prince is ashamed to publish it? I really wonder if the editor of the Belgian daily newspaper is a guy who didn't graduate from elementary school, and that something of this caliber can still be in the newspaper? ”

"I'm really glad I wasn't Albert's literature teacher."

These unbiased comments propelled Albert to the forefront, making him the talk of the town once again. Anyway, everyone thinks that he is a big gentleman, so he should honestly play the protagonist of lace news, and come to make trouble in literature, and people will be sorry for their identity if they don't step on you a few times.

However, the Belgian daily newspapers were a blessing in disguise because of the comments of these well-fed literary critics, and the sales of the newspapers doubled, which made Tom, who was ready to accept the reprimands of the president, unexpectedly sit in the position of entertainment editor. At that time, the editor-in-chief patted him on the shoulder and said, "Actually, you had expected such a situation for a long time, so you dared to take his manuscript, didn't you?" ”

For these people around him who didn't know the truth, Tom had to nod with tears and laughter.

Albert, who was out of the way, still complained about his design drawings in the small room, and had no idea what was going on outside, and even the usual meals were sent directly to the room by the servants, and after putting down the dishes, he let them leave.

"I'm curious why you didn't choose to use the original AKMS fold-down folding bracket and use the triangular hollow-out folding bracket." After looking at Albert's blueprints, it was clear that some of the parts he had drawn were different from those he had provided.

After recording the last parameter, Albert wiped the fine beads of sweat on his forehead, carefully collected the design drawings, and pointed to the scrap of the triangular folding tray with a pencil and said, "When Aka designed it, Soviet soldiers generally reacted that the AKS47's downward folding bracket would have an unstable shaking, so I didn't plan to use this design." The triangular folding stock is slightly better in terms of stability, and the triangular butt is particularly painful to smash, which is why I made this decision. ”

Albert also added a particularly shameless sentence, "Of course, I don't want to plagiarize Kalashnikov's ideas 100 percent, at least a little improvement." ”

Prince Boshean put down the newspaper with a headache, he just thought that Albert would stop for a few days, but he didn't expect to toss something the same thing, fortunately this time it is not a family scandal, and it will not stir up the sensitive nerves of some people. However, it is still a little uncomfortable to watch those literary critics make nonsense, Prince Boshe'an, firstly, his younger brother is finally about to change his ways, but these guys are sneering. Second, they said that the literature teacher who taught Albert I was also the professor they respected the most.

However, at this time, Prince Boshean was more curious about what his younger brother was studying in his room, could it be that he really wanted to make a new rifle as he said? After all, since the death of the gunsmith Browning, the company FN, which represents the highest level of Belgian weapons, has hardly produced excellent new works. This also made Prince Bo Shean distressed for a while.

Albert's father, Leopold III, also knew about his son's good deed that caused a sensation in the literary world, and he only smiled disdainfully at it, and bowed slightly at what the literary critics had said, although he did not know much about fiction, but he knew his son better. A moth who has been eating on royal status for decades can write a good work.

But the truth always moves toward drama, and the writers of the United States of America have just put down their pens of criticism and thought about who to criticize next, and across the Atlantic, the writers of the United States of America have slapped them in the face.

Hemingway received the letter with the manuscript in it, and when he opened the envelope and took out the manuscript, he was quickly attracted by the plot of the story, and when he finished reading "The Old Man and the Sea", his heart could not be at peace for a long time, and the content of this story was similar to the fighting spirit he had been pursuing, and even reached the perfect level in his mind. There is no doubt that this is a novel that the rest of the works cannot match.

Hemingway introduced the novel to his writer friends, and "The Old Man and the Sea" was treated completely differently than Belgium here, almost one-sidedly praised, and soon the novel spread in the American literary circles, and if any writer had not read "The Old Man and the Sea", he would not even have enough confidence to discuss literature with others.

Hemingway even wanted to invite Albert to the United States, and after hearing the ridicule and criticism of the novel by Belgian literary critics, the tough-guy literary representative wrote a strong-word letter to the Belgian literary critics.

Dear Masters of Literature,

Hello, please forgive me, a rude fellow, for writing such a letter to noble you, when in fact I am only upset by what you describe as a "rough, pale, superficial, and almost miserable" novel. In my opinion, "The Old Man and the Sea" is an excellent novel, with a chic and natural tone, no pretentiousness, and a concise, bright and powerful style. I regret and disappoint that no one in the whole of Belgium should consider it a masterpiece, and I am deeply concerned about the development of your literary situation.

When the Belgian daily newspaper, which was not too much of a problem, published this short letter, public opinion was in an uproar, and the literary critics who had begun to criticize the novel had their expressions like flies at this time, and Hemingway's identity was there, even if you wanted to refute it, you had to weigh your own strength. This time, it was the turn of the literary critics to collectively lose their voices, and occasionally a few jumped out and said a few words of unintended compliment.

The crowd was rejoicing, they did not expect such a heavyweight writer to stand up for Albert, and the evaluation of "The Old Man and the Sea" quickly changed from not worth reading to regretting not reading. Once again, Belgian daily newspapers were sold out. The director of the newspaper looked at this considerable sales and almost smiled from ear to ear.

Tom is so busy that the editor-in-chief has left him with all the news about the novel. In his opinion, the prince Albert had already anticipated the current situation, so he was asked to send the manuscript to Hemingway in the first place. But Tom is more curious about why Albert had foreseen why this article would become a hit? Could it be that there was a collusion between him and Hemingway?

However, the next message Tom received made him completely overturn this idea, it turned out that the telegram from Norway said that the article "The Old Man and the Sea" was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and they even invalidated the original list of nominees and added this novel.

Tom couldn't believe the note in front of him that he was chatting with a few words, and after reading it several times, he called his assistant with trembling hands, "Go, remove all the headlines that will be prepared tomorrow and replace them with this message." ”

After giving the order, he picked up his cup and drank a large sip of coffee to refresh himself, and muttered, "Your Royal Highness, how did you do it?" ”

At the same time, Albert, who had been in retreat for almost two weeks, had finally finished his blueprints, and when he came out of the room, he let out a long breath. At this time, he didn't know that there was a lot of noise outside because of him, and he didn't know that his work was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Albert just wanted to get a good night's sleep and then get up tomorrow and visit the gunsmiths of the future heavyweight class at FN.