Chapter 306: The Dawn Academy's Dilemma

Time flies, it's been ten years. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Lorist strolled through the Dawn Academy, looking at the still familiar scenery, and his heart was full of emotion.

Today, the Earls of Kenmeth, Baron Philim and Baron Saheen each took their ladies to the Boulevard de Triumph, the most famous commercial street in the city of Moronte, to make a big purchase, and the three daughters of Diner followed, and Schward was also given a holiday by Lorist to accompany his little fiancée. Lorist said that he had something to do, sent the guards to the three daughters of Diner, and slipped out alone, preparing to go to the Dawn Academy to visit the old dean of Levins and the great sword master of Cleud.

What makes Lorist strange is that he used to hand over the production process and material formula for the production of green glass and oil glass to Dean Levins and let him take it for auction, and also took the opportunity to provoke the business alliance and the glass war of the Trimber Kingdom. I remember that the newspaper reported that the auction was a success, and the two recipes and production processes were sold for a large price, so the Dawn Academy must have made a lot of money. But why do I still see the campus layout from 10 years ago? There is no new change......

At this time, Lorist found that the bustling and lively academy in his impression was empty, and it was rare to see students wearing college clothes and wearing the academy badge......

The blue-gray tower had also looked a little dilapidated with the passage of time, and although it was still intact, Lorist always felt like it was crumbling.

Dean Levin was very surprised by Lorlist's visit, the seventy-year-old man had age spots on his face, and his body was not good, it was still July, the weather was already very hot, Lorist wore a long-sleeved single shirt, but Dean Levin sat on a chaise longue and wrapped in a blanket woven of fine wool.

"Little Locke, I didn't expect you to come to see me......" Dean Levins pulled a bell rope beside him with difficulty, and it took a long time for a fat maid to come, and Dean Levins told her to boil water, and then go to the Elder Sword Master of Cleud.

"You're welcome, old dean, why are you suddenly so bad, I saw you were still ......in good spirits two years ago," said Lorlist.

"When I get old, I'm useless, and I'm almost going back to the heavenly kingdom of Sigwa. Dean Levins laughed self-deprecatingly: "Little Locke, I didn't expect it, Dawn Academy is also going to close......"

"What did you say?" Lorist was stunned: "Dean, what's going on, is the academy short of money? If that's the reason, I can sponsor the academy to get through the difficult ......"

"Lack of money...... Hehe, Dawn Academy has money, it has never had so many goldfords, and it even fills the underground vaults. The old dean laughed, his laughter was full of remorse and helplessness: "Little Locke, the two glass-producing processes and recipes you gave the college have earned nearly two million goldfords, and the college has even formulated a ten-year development plan, ambitiously wanting to develop Dawn College into one of the top three colleges in the college district of Molent City."

But a glass war, a change in the lordship, brought results that all the houses could not have predicted. The Fort Business Alliance, once a link that traveled through dozens of countries, welcomed visitors from all over the world with an open, free and peaceful embrace, and the Moldant City College District is the land of hope for many students.

Now, a glass war, a change in the lordship, has ruined it all. This is a step backwards in history, against the will of the founder of the commercial alliance, Grand Duke Fude, which once again divides the people of the commercial alliance into three, five or six, and once again allows the business alliance to appear as a class of nobles.

Now that the Merchant Alliance has become the largest country in the country of Gelintya, even surpassing the former Crison Empire, even the people of Moriente City are beginning to be complacent about being the citizens of the first great power. But they don't know what they're missing!

In the past, business alliances were full of friends, trade routes led to the countries of the mainland, and all countries greeted our merchants with smiles and admired our glorious history of fighting against the former Krisson Empire for more than 100 years, but now, we have become the role of the former Krisson Empire, and we have begun to extend our dirty hands to those friends around us who have helped us!

Last month, there was a fool clamoring at the Coalition Parliament to vigorously expand the military power of the Merchant Alliance, and to crush the countries that blocked the trade routes with an invincible and powerful Merchant Alliance army......

This is the consequence of the merchants, who are short-sighted, who have only profit in their eyes and no moral restraint, and even if they put on the gorgeous dress of the nobility, they still exude a rancid vulture in their bones. They only had gold coins shining with golden light in their eyes, and they really thought that the business alliance had become the number one power in the furnace, but they didn't want to think about it, this was a worse world, they just didn't rot so fast!

Cough, cough, cough......" Perhaps because of his excessive emotion, Dean Levins suddenly burst into a violent cough.

Lorist hurriedly stepped forward to help him, and gently patted the old dean's back.

Dean Levins asked Lorist to push him to the window, and reluctantly stood up with his hands on the window railing: "Little Locke, when you were still teaching in the academy, our academy was so lively, full of people and full of vitality and vitality, do you remember how many students there were in our academy at that time?"

Lorist thought for a moment and said, "I remember that Schrader told me that there were more than nine thousand students enrolled in the academy. ”

"Yes, there were so many students at that time, and it was so noisy and noisy all day long, it was a headache, how wonderful it was back then......" Dean Levins closed his eyes, as if reminiscing about the old days.

After a while, Lorist only heard Dean Levins's faint sigh: "Little Locke, do you know that last year, the number of students enrolled in our academy was only more than 1,400, and the number of new students enrolled was only seventy-four......

"What, this can't be!" Lorist blurted out, no matter how you say that Dawn Academy is also one of the top eight famous colleges in Gaylintya, how can it be that only this number of students sign up.

"I forgot to tell you that these seventy-four freshmen are all citizens of the Business Alliance, and most of them are from the city of Morente. Also, the total number of new students enrolled in the top three colleges is 325, and our Dawn Academy has already calculated it. Remember San Marceau's College, where they enrolled eight new students last year......

"What do you mean?" Lorist suddenly understood.

"Last year, four of the twenty-seven colleges in the Moldonte City College District closed, in May this year another eleven were closed, and next year, we at Dawn College will be closed...... Alas......" Dean Levins sighed and sat down again.

"No more life...... Lorist muttered.

"Yes, there are no students, no one comes to school, why are there so many colleges? At this year's House Gathering, there was a proposal to keep only the top three houses and integrate the students of the rest of the houses into these three houses. Therefore, no matter whether our Dawn Academy has money or not, it will definitely close next year, and what is the use of the academy opening without students......" Dean Levins smiled bitterly.

Lorist understands that the reason why the college district of Moldant City is famous for the Gelinthia continent is that there is no class of education, no matter which country, students can enter as long as they meet the admission requirements, and even if there is no tuition, they can work in Moldent City for two years to make up enough tuition fees to continue their studies until graduation. Of the twenty-seven colleges, less than 10 percent of the students belong to the business alliance, and the vast majority of the students are from all countries on the mainland, of course, most of them are the children of the aristocracy and the wealthy class, and there are also a lot of self-motivated freeman students who work and study, and it is their existence that has created the prosperity of the college district of Moldant City and the reputation of a world-famous place for studying.

"A glass war, a change in the lordship, which made the Union of Commerce the number one nation in Gainthea?, all I know is that it ruined the college district, destroyed twenty-four colleges! No one came to study anymore, the trade routes were cut off, the credibility was lost, and no one wanted to come to the city of Morente to study. The students we have educated from all over the world now see business alliances as enemies.

Do you know, little Locke, when the armies of the Confederation of Commerce swept through the seven nations and took possession of their lands, the inhabitants of the city of Morent marched in a joyful parade to celebrate their victory, while the cadets of the seven nations wept bitterly, and more cadets from other nations packed their bags to leave the academy and leave the Confederation......"

"The war was won, all the participants received dividends, the business alliance held a grand triumphal ceremony, and began to divide titles and territories in a big way, no one knew that at this moment the business alliance had stood on the opposite side of the neighboring countries, and no country would treat the business alliance as an ally, they would unite, just as they had to guard against the Krisson Empire,

I have refused the Baronial Seat granted to me by the Council of the Alliance and the territory in the Cristo Hills, and the greatest dream of my life is to carry forward the Dawn Academy and become one of the most famous colleges on the continent. Now that my dreams have been destroyed, what good is it for me to have a title and a territory......" Dean Levins muttered to himself.

"Dean, it's my fault, I shouldn't have handed over those two letters to you for auction, then there wouldn't have been a glass war, and there wouldn't have been such a consequence as now, I hurt Dawn Academy......" Lorist will really feel very guilty, there is nothing more cruel than destroying the dream of an old man who has been fighting for his whole life.

It's just that at that time, he took out the two letters about the process and recipe of glass production and handed them to Dean Levens for auction, just to cause a conflict between the business alliance and the kingdom of Trimber, divert the attention of the business alliance to focus on the territory of the former Cresson Empire, and by the way, also relieve the pressure on his family territory of Shiloas Island. After all, it is much easier to deal with a single Chikde Chamber of Commerce than against an entire business alliance.

I didn't expect that the turmoil caused by those two sheets about the process and recipe of glass production would be so big, leading to a glass war between the Business Alliance and the Kingdom of Trimber, although this was mostly due to the brain-dead level of Trimber VII, expanding a dispute that could be properly resolved through negotiation into a war that wiped out seven countries, but the result was beyond the maximum imagination planned by Lorlist, and the current situation and result of the Dawn Academy were this unplanned accident.

"It's none of your business. Old Dean Levins shook his head: "You are also kind, and you want to get some funds for the development of Dawn Academy." It's just that things have changed beyond our expectations, no one expected that the Kingdom of Trimber would take such drastic measures, resulting in the development of the situation that cannot be controlled by us, plus the business alliance wants to implement the lord system and is suffering from the lack of fiefdoms, so it has caused such a result under the impetus of those who have a heart, this is not your responsibility, you don't have to feel guilty for it. ”

Lorist gently pushed Dean Levens back to his desk, and poured a glass of Michels for the old Dean with boiling water, he still remembered the old Dean's preference, he liked to drink plain flavor, without milk and sugar.

There was a knock on the door, and then Archswordsman Crewe pushed the door in.

"Huh, Locke, when did you come?"

"Just now, I chatted with the dean for a while, and talked about the current situation of Dawn Academy. ”

"You know everything?"

Lorist nodded: "Teach Crude, how many people are there in the academy now, and do you have any plans with Amphiya to teach you?"

Crud sighed deeply, "What can I do, neither Anfiya nor I want to leave the Dawn Academy. The old dean has no children and no daughters, and we have to take good care of him. Even if Dawn Academy closes next year, we will stay here, and maybe in the future, Dawn Academy can be opened again. Now the teaching in the academy is almost gone, and there are only a dozen or so left, and there are two classes that are going to graduate this year, and when they graduate, there will be no student in Dawn Academy. ”

Lorist pondered for a while and looked at Dean Levens: "Dean, have you ever heard of such a saying, that trees move the dead and people live, since the college district of Morent City cannot support the operation of Dawn Academy, why not change places and establish another Dawn Academy in another country?"

Archswordsman Claude laughed: "Locke, it's not that simple, it's not that we haven't thought of this way, none of the countries around us are willing to let our academy in Moldant City go to their school, and the San Marceau Academy grovelled and asked all the countries around, and the answer was a refusal." Opening a college is not just a matter of words, but also requires the allocation of places, buildings, funds, and a large amount of sponsorship every year in the future, which they cannot afford in small countries, and they do not want to carry a burden on their backs. ”

"Then are you willing to go to the Northland? Go to my family territory to run a school, I can move the Dawn Academy as a whole, the land, the building, and the funds are not your responsibility, our Norton family will bear all of them, and we will allocate a sponsorship fund to you every year in the future, so that you can run the school with peace of mind, you only need to provide teachers, and if you are willing to go to the Northland, you will be treated preferentially, we will provide these teachers with a residence and a good living environment, and they will not be wronged." Lorist spoke his mind.

"Hehe, little Locke, it's none of your business, don't take the closure of Dawn Academy to heart, you want to compensate us. Dean Levens shook his head with a smile: "The Northland is remote and sparsely populated, and if you can run a school there, a few people can come, but it will add a burden to your family, so forget it." ”

Lorist laughed, "Dean, you underestimate our Northland and the Norton family too much. The number of people in our family territory alone has reached 1.2 million, and they are all living very well, very wealthy. We already have a Nicol Academy in our family estate, which was run by the daughter of the famous female scholar of the former Krisson Empire, Dame Nicol. However, Nicol College believes in Siminryder, the god of knowledge and wisdom, and they don't recruit many students, and they are very strict, so our family territory still needs a comprehensive college, and if Dawn College is willing to relocate, I believe it will have a great future.

As for the financial problem, you don't need to worry, you should know that last year, our family conquered the Haneyabada Kingdom and destroyed this criminal slave kingdom, so the seizure there is enough for our family territory to develop for more than 20 years, and it is not a problem to allocate a batch of funds to sponsor the academy every year, maybe there are only a few hundred students in the past few years, but I believe that with the passage of time, the Dawn Academy will definitely develop a lot there.

Of course, I don't have any basis for what I say, so let's do it, when I go back, you will send someone to investigate with me, and it will only take more than two months to go back and forth by boat, what do you think?"

Dean Levins and Grand Swordsman Kurud glanced at each other, then nodded: "Little Locke, since you say so, then let us know when you go back, we will send someone to investigate, thank you." ”

"You're welcome, Dean, I've always been a member of Dawn Academy. ”

...... (To be continued.) )