Minors as young as 10 years old need at least nine hours of sleep a day in order to ensure normal growth. And you have to go to bed early every day so that you can have better growing conditions.

However, Dussander felt that he probably wouldn't grow too tall in his life — and that he could go bald at an early age or die suddenly.

After getting out of bed at six o'clock in the morning, Dussander looked out the window at the forest where the leaves were gradually falling, and his heart was full of remorse and grief.

Why...... Why doesn't this empire, built on steampunk technology, even have a weekend?

Not to mention weekends, the empire does not even have the concept of "rest days" at all. Only those who have entered the Privy Council or other imperial departments can enjoy about two weeks of paid leave each year.

I'm so tired, so sleepy, I want to sleep...... Dussaint staggered to his feet, then began to change his clothes.

The maids usually go into the room at this time and pour hot water into the washbasin for the master to wash. And this habit has been changed by Dussander in the last week.

"It's good to pour ice water in the basin in the morning, preferably the one with ice cubes in it." In order to wake up a little more awake in the morning, Dusand made a decision that would be very painful for him. "Also, just replace the soft towel and use a thicker coarse cloth."

When it's still dark outside, it's already painful to leave the warm duvet nest. And then there was even ice in the washwater, and the pain of leaving the bed was even more unacceptable.

But Dussander couldn't think of any other way to wake himself up at six in the morning. The empire was not in the habit of drinking coffee or similar products, and tea was so expensive that even the nobles could not drink it every morning.

According to Polina, the civilians of Orin would drink special drinks in the morning to refresh themselves. Mix a cup of hot milk with half a cup of sugar, mix with hot, smoking hot milk and rum, stir well, and swallow in one gulp.

But Newsal doesn't produce cheap rum, so they switch to a mixed milk tea with milk, cream, a lot of sugar, and a surrogate tea.

Surrogate tea is a specialty of Newsal, which is a product of sun-dried leaves from native shrubs. Unlike the taste of tea leaves from Olin, the taste of surrogate tea is more volatile. It tastes a little fluttery, and it's easy to get mixed with all kinds of strange flavors. But the good thing is that this is a local specialty of Newsal, and the price is cheap.

And the refreshing effect is particularly good.

After washing his face with water that was so cold that it soaked through his bones, Dussaint wrung out the coarse cloth towel with all his might. A coarse cloth towel with a little moisture is applied to your face and begins to rub it up and down quickly. When his face felt hot, he stopped what he was doing.

A pair of frozen red hands wiped on the towel, and Lord Dussaint pushed open his room in good spirits.

"Tell the housekeeper to get me some surrogate tea this afternoon." After seeing the maid, Dussander immediately made his request, "Also, tomorrow the washing water will be changed to hot water." ”

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Because Dusand couldn't bear it by himself, the content of his and Lorraine's "teaching" today was deliberately changed to "physical education class" by Dussand. And he did it for a good reason.

"If you squat in the room every day and don't go out, your physical fitness will decline." He said to Lorraine, "For the sake of your health, I have decided to take you out for a walk every three days starting today. ”

Twenty minutes later, Dussander was panting and crumbling to the tree. He looked up at Lorraine in the distance who was running and spinning in circles and laughing like silver bells, gritting his teeth but helpless.

"It feels good not to have to wear a corset." Lorraine saw that Dussander couldn't run, so she deliberately ran back to him from dozens of meters away. "I usually wear a corset, and I feel out of breath when I run a little. Now with the corset removed, I feel like I can run all day! ”

Feelings, do you usually wear a corset and count it as weight-bearing training? Dussaint gasped, then ran again, unconvinced. What are you kidding, men can still not have as much athleticism and endurance as women?

There's a process to running. At least Dussander experienced the "process" when he was forced to run every morning in college ten years ago. Everyone is in good shape at the beginning, but as the running continues, the physical strength of the person will start to decline rapidly.

Most people will choose to slow down or stop after the decline, but Dusson knows that as long as he grits his teeth and survives this "rapid decline" stage, his bottoming out stamina can start to recover, and then let him continue to hold on in a fairly good state.

Merely...... This state does not seem to manifest itself in a ten-year-old boy. Dusander, who almost gritted his teeth, finally completed the "Round the Lake Race" event with a sad time of nearly 200 yols behind Lorraine.

"I find ......," a panting Dussaint grumbled to himself, "...... I seem to have been getting myself in trouble lately. ”

"You think it's a hassle to teach me?" Lorraine keenly caught the strange signs in Dussand's words and began to attack, "You promised to teach me a lesson." ”

"You know, I'm only ten years old." Dussander didn't care whether there was a pile of soot or dust in the fallen leaves on the ground, and he just lay in the shape of a "big" in the pile of golden fallen leaves. "In order to make sure that everything I teach you is correct, I have to get up at 6 a.m. every morning to start reviewing!"

"The ladies wake up at five o'clock every morning and start putting on makeup and hairstyling." Lorraine glanced at Dussand, and then said, "Then it will take us at least an hour to put on layer upon layer of petticoat, and the maids will spend three quarters of an hour wrestling with the ladies with bristle combs......"

Dussaint was dumbfounded, not even knowing what to say.

"What is taught to me every day, if you don't understand it...... You can come with me to Polina. As if she felt that what she said was a little inappropriate, Lorraine suddenly changed the subject, "Isn't it good to go to class together?" ”

"The real problem isn't that I won't." Dussart came back to his senses and began to complain, "Do you know how outrageous the history of the empire is......

It took Dussart a full quarter of an hour to explain the outrageousness of "Seraphim descending on the stables with steam, and the first emperor possessed unparalleled personal force at the age of three," and then complained, "If I want to teach you knowledge, I must ensure that the knowledge itself is correct—at least the closest to it." That's the value of teaching! ”

"Women don't need knowledge." Lorraine turned her head to look at Dusand and said, "Actually, you don't have to work so hard, as long as it's about the same." ”

"How's that going to work!" Dussander jumped up from the pile of fallen leaves, waved his hands and shouted at Lorraine, "I have to spend time and energy preparing for class, and you have to spend time and energy studying." How can something so important be 'pretty much it'?! It's just that I'm responsible for your time and energy! ”

Lorraine's eyes lit up suddenly.

"So, take a break every two days from now on?" Lorraine carefully lifted the hem of her skirt and took a step closer to Dussand, proposing, "That way I can sleep until six o'clock once in a while." ”

Dussand's heart suddenly swelled up with a sense of sacred mission.

Anyway, it seems that my mother, the councilor, must be appropriate, so it is better to take the opportunity to do something beneficial to the people.

Like what...... At the very least, children should get more than eight hours of sleep a day, right?

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"Assembly starts this afternoon." In the workshop, Polina, who hadn't had much rest for almost a week, was wearing a one-piece overalls, with traces of engine oil on her face and hands. After Dusand entered the workshop, Polina was very excited to explain the current progress of the work to her students and investors.

Polina is only able to show maturity and stability in mechanical engineering in line with the identity of a "great technician". Anyway, Dussaint was pretty sure that his teacher had probably forgotten that the 500 gold pounds were bought for her patent.

After the 500 gold pound bill pledged 450 gold pounds in cash, he first bought a steam machine tool, and then bought a bunch of metal ingots for processing. According to Dusander's estimates, Polina probably has more than two hundred gold pounds left now, which is not bad.

Strictly speaking, the money was Polina's personal property. The results are now ...... I've already used more than half of it.

Forget it, it's good for her to be happy.

"By the way, there's one more thing." Dusand was comforting his inner sense of morality, when Polina suddenly wiped her hands and handed Dusand a letter, "This is what Rosento asked me to give you. ”

Rosen? Dussaint took the letter with some hesitation. He remembered that Rosen had never been to school, and he ...... Can write?

"He said he had the letter written by the company's accountant." "The company is doing well and now has more than a dozen employees. ”

Dussand's mouth opened wide.

Feelings, this illiterate brother who is about the same age as himself, is already far ahead on the road to opening a company?

The handwriting in the letter was not very neat, and there were quite a few spelling mistakes. But at least you can read the content, and this content ...... It's also very shocking.

The letter begins with a warm and even somewhat flattering greeting to Dussand, and then begins to mention something that Dussaint did not expect.

Rosen founded the company, officially known as "In the Name of His Majesty the Emperor, Rosen Metal Industries and Integrated Security Company" and currently employs a total of 17 employees. Except for the old accountant who wrote the letter and Rosen himself, the remaining fifteen were all good boys in their early twenties.

Lawson now has two main businesses. Receiving orders and casting – this part of the business is currently filled with orders from Polina. The other is to provide "security protection" for many individuals and companies in industrial zones that have purchased security services.

Fifteen young men armed with hardwood sticks and dressed in trench coats roam the streets of the industrial zone every day to drive away beggars and thieves.

Dussander put down the letter and was silent for a while, then asked Polina, "In the laws of the Empire...... Are there any relevant regulations for cracking down on criminal syndicates? ”