"You win......", Barr looked at the board again and again and shook his head with a wry smile, "Can you tell me why I lose every time?"

"Because you always want more, you ignore every small loss, and eventually those losses accumulate and explode, and you realize that you are no longer possible." ”

Maggs and Barr are good friends, and it's not easy to be good friends for decades to meet and chat often. Even if it is a relative, it is difficult to maintain such a relationship, which shows how strong the friendship between the two is.

"You've been talking about this rhetoric for decades, haven't I changed it at all?", Barr put the chess pieces away, and after thinking about it for a moment, he shook his head, "I'm still going to lose anyway, so let's stop for today." ”

He didn't care about Barr's abandonment of Maggs, as Barr said, this kind of thing has been happening for decades in a row, and he will definitely not change.

In fact, in Mags's view, Barr is a very remarkable person, he has a longer vision than himself, but he does not do a good job of dealing with details, probably because of Barr's status as a nobleman, so that he subconsciously ignores many subtle details. Individually, these details are not a problem, but when all the details are put together, it is predictable that a straight line will continue to deviate from the slightest angle for some reason, and then drift further and further away.

"I heard that Durin is going to ......", when the two talked about Durin's question, Mags's wife happened to come in with a small snack, and after Bal thanked him, he picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth, with a happy smile on his face, and couldn't help but praise, "Vinica, the snacks you make are still the same as before, which makes people feel happy when they eat it." ”

The old woman smiled slightly, and then looked at Maggs silently.

Maggs also picked up a piece with a little headache, asked for a small bite, and licked until the greasy taste was indeed as Barr said, and there was no change from before, and he praised a few words, "Very delicious!"

"You're lying, Magus, the vain tone and the hypocritical look on your face tell me you're lying!", Barr immediately began to dismantle the stage, and then sighed, "Why didn't you want to marry me in the first place?", he looked at Vinica and asked a question that had been asked for decades.

Decades ago, all three of them were very good friends, and both Barr and Maggs pursued Vinica, and finally Vinica married Magus, which made Barr very disgusted and even hated Maggs for a while.

Under the relentless ripening agent of the years, everyone became more and more mature, and Barr gradually let go of the resentment in his heart, and everyone often got together again. He always had a knot in his heart, why at that time, even though he was better than Mags, Venica had to marry Mags, who was not as good as himself.

Vinica never gave Baal an answer, which also made Baal struggle for the rest of his life.

"Maybe it's because you're stupid!", Maggs also didn't give Barr any face, their relationship has gone beyond ordinary friendships, and there are a little contradictions, in short, very special.

Vinica didn't give Barr any answer, and left smiling, she was in a good mood. There are only two people who can make her happy at her age, and one is the lovely young man from Doolin, who admires his cooking skills so much that he takes a lot with him when he leaves, which is the greatest compliment to her.

The other is to see Barr and Maggs slandering each other, which can also make her very happy, and in a trance it seems that time has been turned back to decades ago, under a certain apple tree, two boys beat each other for her favor.

The thought that the two most noble people in the empire had done such a stupid thing, especially for herself, Vinica was very happy, and even her mentality became much younger.

Yes, two of the most honorable big men of the Empire.

Barr was just a affectionate nickname given to him by Maggs, his name was Kubal, and he was currently the leader of the old party .......

It seems very strange that the new party and the old party are about to fight for voters everywhere, but the leaders of the old party often go to the house of the new party leader to eat and drink and try to pry the corner, the world is so magical, especially in places where people can't see.

After the old woman left, Barr picked up another piece of pancake and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it so gracefully that he couldn't even see the crumbling pieces falling on his clothes.

"Back to what we just said, I heard that Doolin is coming back, isn't the engagement coming?", Baal straightened his chest after eating the crepes, took a sip of the teacup and washed away the food residues that might remain in his mouth, "He did a very beautiful job in the West, did you teach him?"

"Me?", Maggs scoffed, "what can I teach him? I didn't expect him to do so well, which just proves that we need to assimilate him as soon as possible." ”

Speaking of this, Magus was a little worried, he sighed, and fiddled with the pancakes on the plate twice, "We will eventually grow old and die, as you may have noticed, so far there are very few outstanding young people among the new generation of nobles in the empire, only a few are around the old dog, and there are a few around His Excellency the Holy Maiden, and our side is almost broken." ”

"The children are all looking at the crude surface of the front, thinking only of more good, forgetting that empire and power are the foundation of their decency. Now the international situation is changing too fast, and there are many internal contradictions, if we still can't see the situation clearly, the current system will become a heavy coffin board, and finally bury them all!"

"We need a good leader who can suppress other people to be responsible for the next 50 to 100 years, and if I had to choose, I would rather not choose Durin, but I don't see many good characters other than him. ”

"There is no second choice but to choose him!"

Barr also sighed, since the New Party overthrew the feudal rule, more than 20 years and almost 30 years of peaceful development have made many young nobles become mediocre, which is what these older generations are most afraid of seeing.

Peace can kill too many families, but it is also the choice of the times.

In the past few years, the nobles have been constantly waging wars against each other, and it is precisely this seemingly chaotic attack on each other that has allowed each family and each generation to have a good enough successor. Because they must be excellent, once they have a mediocre successor, other nobles will spy on their territory, spy on their wealth, and even want to take away their titles and powers. Under such tremendous internal and external pressure, everyone went crazy to make themselves as good as possible.

But look at the present, the younger generation is in peace and pleasure, and there are only two or three of the hundreds of children in a certain old dog's family, and the others are bastards who are proficient in eating, drinking, and having fun. Peace makes them lose their fighting spirit, makes them mediocre, so mediocre that some people are about to lose the sign of "aristocracy"!

On the contrary, the power of the plebeian class began to gradually become prominent, and there were a large number of members from the plebeian class within both the new party and the old party, such as Boworths, the current whip of the Imperial New Party, who is a very typical representative of the high position of civilian filming.

Now Mags and Kubal are still able to suppress these capable, courageous, and courageous civilian members, but when their descendants, the current new generation, grow up, they lack the necessary means, and they are very likely to be overthrown by these forces from the civilian class.

This was the last thing Magus and Kubal wanted, and even the current aristocracy wanted.

It makes no sense that after hundreds of years of struggle, the power of this country should be handed over to the civilians, and then they will be kicked aside, so that it is possible that they will have to be liquidated.

The nobles lost their motivation, but the commoners did not, and the new era gave the commoners more upward motivation, because this is an era of miracles, as long as they dare to fight, they may not have a chance to climb to the top of the tower!

Baal cleaned up his slightly frustrated mood and asked a question, "Are you sure you can completely assimilate Durin to our side?

For this question, Maggs did not hide this time, but generously stated his opinion, "He has great ambitions, as long as he has ambitions, then it will be much easier, I have had enough of those young people who are content with the status quo and waiting to go through the process to inherit the family business." ”

"Durin's ambitions will turn him and the interest groups around him into a new 'class', like the first generation of aristocrats, whose thirst for power will warn them of all possible subversives. ”

"The times are always moving forward, and since we can't stop the big trend of the future, then let's join them!"

"Let more nobles become a new class, then nothing will change, the only thing that will change is that in this new class, there are more new faces, less old faces, but more vitality. ”

"Durin is a knifefish, and the only thing children born and raised in greenhouses can do if they don't want to be swallowed is to fight back. ”

"Since we have no way to choose the future, then leave them with the worst environment, either resist or perish!"

"And that's why we've done so much over the years, isn't it?"