320 Storm Education
In addition to Galileo as the principal, the civil affairs officer Bashir also recommended an old man named Stanford to serve as the education officer of Stormcastle.
This old man named Stanford was originally a professor at the University of Tandom, the capital of the most powerful Byzantine Empire in the east of the Europa continent, but as Tancienburg was contributed by the Ottoman Empire, Stanford also fled the capital Tancienburg with the displaced people, and arrived at Stormburg by chance and became the principal of Stormburg Junior College.
Originally, according to the conditions of Storm Castle, it was basically impossible to retain such a famous professor, but just like Dr. Galileo, Stanford was very indignant at the Holy City of the Holy See when he sat back and watched Tandom fall to the Ottoman Empire, because the reason for all the weakness of Tancienburg was because the former Papal Army captured Tancienburg once with the slogan of hunting down heretics, and looted Tancienburg's financial resources, which greatly reduced the strength of the entire Byzantine Empire.
As a high-ranking intellectual in Tancienburg, Stanford certainly understands how hypocritical the so-called search for alien ports is. It is nothing more than the fact that the Holy See saw that the Byzantine Empire was too powerful and even threatened the rule of their Holy See, so it found such an excuse to plunder the capital of the Byzantine Empire, and finally reached the fact of weakening Byzantium.
Even the Ottoman Empire took the opportunity to attack Tancienburg, and there was also the shadow and support of the Holy See behind it. With the fortified city of Tancienburg, it was very difficult for the Ottoman Empire to contribute, but the Ottoman Empire suddenly appeared a group of very sophisticated siege equipment and a large number of mage teams, giving the Byzantine Empire the final blow, and finally the capital fell and fell to the brink of destruction.
At this time, the Holy See once again played his hypocritical face, and came out to mediate when the Byzantine Empire was about to fall, and stopped the attack of the Ottoman Empire.
All this made Stanford feel a deep disgust, he missed the prosperity and prosperity of the Byzantine Empire when it was strong, and also saw how many Byzantine people were ruined by the two successive breaches of the capital. And the fuse of all this was created by the Holy See, which is known as light and justice.
Stanford wants to tell the world about the hypocrisy of the Holy See, and he uses his power to proclaim the truth behind this war. Then in the face of the strength of the Holy See, Stanford's actions were meaningless, but because he angered the Holy See, Stanford was judged a heretic by the Inquisition.
However, just before he was about to go to the gallows, the Byzantine royal family made its last effort, secretly sent a royal guard to rescue Stanford, and then secretly left the territory of the Byzantine Empire with him.
The Holy See later verified all this, but they had already taught the Byzantine royal family a big lesson, and the Ottoman Empire's strength expanded rapidly after the capture of Tandom, and they also needed an opponent to restrain them.
And this opponent, the Byzantine Empire, could not be more suitable, as long as the capital remained in the Ottoman Empire, they would be destined to be enemies forever. I have to say that the Holy See is very skillful in this method of suppressing and balancing each other, except for the Byzantine royal family and some high-level officials, all the people are pinning their hatred on the Ottoman Empire, and even many people are grateful to the Holy See.
After all, it was the Holy See that mediated the war at the height of the Byzantine Empire's crisis, allowing them to breathe a sigh of relief and avoid the fall of the entire empire.
After escaping from the Byzantine Empire, Stanford traveled through many cities, becoming more and more remote, and finally came to Stormfort. Originally, he planned to live incognito for the rest of his life, and the Holy See was not an existence he could confront against. As a result, I didn't expect Storm Castle to change to a lord named Duke, and what he did was even more heretical than heresy.
Duke's appearance ignited Stanford's hope of rebelling against the Holy See, and at the same time, as a high-level intellectual, he was also keenly aware that Duke did not like the Holy See, and even hated it. This led Stanford to work with Duke and get involved in Stormcastle's education.
Duke is also very satisfied with the addition of Stanford. Controlling education is almost equivalent to controlling thoughts, and the hatred between Stanford and the Holy See allows him to spread his teaching philosophy without favoring the side of the Holy See.
Duke's biggest fear before was to choose an educator himself, and as a result, it would be very troublesome to teach students to believe in and worship the Cult of the Illuminati.
After taking care of the affairs of the Storm Castle Pharmaceutical Factory and the education officer, Duke gritted his teeth and squeezed out some of the funds to subsidize school-age children who were willing to go to school, stimulate their motivation to go to school, and get enough students.
Stanford is also full of praise for Duke's move, education is the foundation of a country and territory, and Duke's willingness to do this means that he has a very long-term vision, that is, a lord worth following. Intellectuals like Stanford are not as foolish as the Hammer and other martial artists, and it takes a while to make him die.
After such a thing, Duke's finances fell into a state of collapse again, even worse than before, and the empty treasury could be said to be in a state of eating the last meal without the next meal.
Faced with such a situation, Duke thought about it, and the only way to alleviate Stormfort's financial crisis was only one way, and that was to borrow money!
Borrowing money is naturally to find creditors, and generally things like Storm Castle happen in the territory, and they are all borrowing money or grants from the central government of the Fran Empire. Because Storm Castle also bears the heavy burden of defending against the Ice Demon figures, the central treasury of the French Empire allocates funds every year to support it.
But now that the Fran Empire has abandoned Storm Castle, it's basically not about allocating money. Moreover, the battle between the French Empire and the Milan Empire last year also greatly damaged the vitality of the French Empire, and now the Northern Army is still in a stage of heavy defense, and the financial pressure is very great, and there is no hope of borrowing money.
The only other thing to do is to open his mouth to the Prince of Andorra, but with the fat man of Andorra, it would be good if he didn't pluck the goose from the Storm Castle, and he basically didn't want to get money from him.
Of course, Duke has one last option, which is to issue Storm Fort bonds and borrow money directly from here in Storm!
The issuance of treasury bonds is actually a method commonly used in later generations, especially in places like Fort Storm, which is almost a typical example of the people being rich and the country being poor. Because all the money Duke earned, in fact, was paid to the people of Stormcastle, and they all have a little money to spare now.
It's just that the world has never had the concept of issuing treasury bonds, and can you succeed in borrowing money from these lords?