When the Kugit mission arrived in Suno, the goblins were invited by the government to take charge of hospitality for a week at a very high salary of 25 dinars a day, as they had learned the Kugit language and etiquette at the academy. The goblins happily agreed, and Sabel said that the Kujit were coming, and he wanted to see the stranger too. He wanted to see what the people of this nation looked like, apart from the two Kujits. The goblin agreed, but he was overwhelmed by the weather forecast, if he didn't continue to do it. The citizens around him would no longer pay him one dinar a year, which would cut him off. Sabel said it was okay, then picked up the pen and wrote seven cloudy days in a row and went downstairs with his bag on his back to sign a sign, and the goblin burst into tears.

In the past few days, Goblin has followed the procurement officer of a mission to purchase a large number of instruments, including a measuring disc that can measure the height of buildings in the distance, a stargazer that can observe his position, countless iron bearings, and even 20,000 large iron nails, as well as some mechanical drawings that have lifted the ban. Goblins are strange, these things are not at all things that are used to develop agriculture and crafts------ as the purchasing officer explains. Some products are too expensive to be used for mass adoption. The goblin told Sabel about his doubts in the evening, and Sabel said that he also felt that something was wrong, and that the mission seemed to have taken many of the students who were studying along the way to prepare for their return home. These people did not complete their coursework, but they have a special feature that they have all completed certain subjects, such as advanced blacksmithing, optical instrument manufacturing, or applied chemistry and applied physics. Other subjects such as literature, history, philosophy, etc., have barely made any progress.

The goblin asks Sabel what this is all about. Sabel said: "Maybe Kugit has made big moves in the past two years, and it may even be a war. ”

Goblin was taken aback: "It's impossible to put it, it's been peaceful for so long." With free trade benefiting both countries, how dare Kugit start the war? ”

"The icy winters may not have much of an impact on advanced farming countries like Swadia and Rhodoko, or even help," Sabel said. But for Kujitte, it's a nightmare. I have vaguely heard the story of Little Rhine, which is a true portrayal of the life of a Kugit man. The Kugit are willing to do so when peace becomes a disguise for recuperation, but when peace has become a burden for the Kujits, it is impossible for the Kujits to remain inactive. ”

"It would be terrible if there was a war."

"Yes, unless the weather improves. But remember the comet, which I think could bring an even more terrible winter. I've looked through the notes of my predecessors, and whenever a comet passes by, it usually brings a cold winter, from a few years to a dozen years. And Svadia will not be spared. This year's eerie grain harvest won't be around again for a long time to come. Sabel said. The light of the fire in the hearth danced, reflected on the faces of the two men, their expressions light and dark were not clear. Only the firewood beeped and exploded in the flames.

The flames danced gently.

The flames rose into the air.

Father and Wright stood together, torches in their hands. Watching the flames lick Rhine, who was lying quietly on the pyre. The light of the fire at night was so bright that after looking at it for a long time he felt blind, and his father's face felt the heat of the fire, and at the same time, he smelled a terrible smell of burning. He involuntarily retreated, as if unwilling to imagine what little Rhine would feel like in the flames. Wright stared at the fire, thoughtful. At dawn, Father and Wright put Rhine's ashes into a porcelain vase. Now the porcelain vase and the dombra are the only things that commemorate the lives of Rhine and Kazak.

Wright asked his father what he was going to do next, and he told him to think about it. The purpose of his trip was to free Rhine, and now that Rhine is dead, he seems to have nothing to worry about.

Dimitri came over at this time, comforted my father and Wright, and then asked if my father was going to leave with Ruda, who was going to leave for Sunoh this afternoon.

Wright keenly sensed Dimitri's joy at Ruda's departure.

My father pondered for a long time and said, "I'm in a mess now, can I give you an answer at noon?" ”

Dimitri said that he was going to the workshop at noon to count the remaining raw materials, and that he might not be able to come back, so that my father could go directly to the housekeeper if he had something.

Father returned to the guest room and began to pack his things. When he saw the new clothes he had bought for Rhine, he couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness.

Wright understood how he felt, and he was like that when the veteran died, and from that day on, the veteran became a perfect man in his heart, and he fully accepted his teachings and was determined to make them his own standard of conduct. But no sooner had he traveled than he had been tortured for his adherence to the path of justice, and he optimistically told himself that this was exactly what the veteran had told him to "temper the necessary training." Although, the horror of this training made Wright unable to let go, and the intense desire for revenge that kept pouring out almost drove Wright crazy. He hopes for revenge, and then goes to Rhodoc to find his father's grave and fulfill his mother's request.

My father kept throwing all sorts of things into the shriveled leather bag, and suddenly a note fell out and floated to the ground. When my father picked it up, it was a check for a thousand dinars.

Memories are revived: in the moonlight, Kazak, entrusted?????

Father is in a trance, does he need to help Kazak? A thousand dinars is not a small amount of money for a young man, and he has heard his uncle say that when he was young, he could not save so much money in a year when he was shaving food and shelter. He hesitated.

At this time, the old man who was leading the horse walked in and said that he had come to take care of it on the order of the second master, and asked if there was anything he needed to help with.

The father groaned for a moment, looked up and asked, "Do you have a young man named Sagron here?" ”

A delegation of 60 people from the Kugi delegation to Suno stayed in a cheap hotel in the new district of Sunuo. Three days before the arrival of the Kugit mission, the people who arrived in advance had already chartered the hotel and informed the Kugit permanent envoys and students in the city of Suno of the arrival of the Kugit mission. When the Kugi delegation arrived, the head of the delegation counted the students who had arrived against the list, and when he confirmed that all the students had arrived, the head of the delegation announced to them a decision: "Pack up and prepare to return home in a week." ”

These international students were puzzled and explained that their studies were not over and that they could not leave at will. The regimental commander interrupted them and told them to obey the orders of their fathers. When the international students asked the reason, the head of the group simply said: "The motherland needs you." ”

When the head of the delegation asked the international students if they had any objections, the unwilling international students were silent. The head of the group announced the dissolution, and the Kugit students gradually left the simple room. Only the last international student remained.

The regiment commander looked at him with a complicated expression, when he called the name just now, the regiment commander had hesitated for a moment, and now, he muttered: "Ukhru ???" (FC1911 debut)

"Father."

The head of the regiment walked over, wanting to show a little affection to this son, who had become a little strange, and he stiffly hugged his son's shoulder, but he felt awkward.

"You??? Grew taller again. ”

"Actually, nothing has changed. It's still 7 feet 6 inches. ”

"Oh???"

"Why do you want us to go back?"

"You know, we have a lot of new farms and factories in the South Prairie, and we need international students to go back to China to work. The motherland has cultivated you, and now is the time for you to serve the motherland. ”

"Father! Don't use these diplomatic rhetoric. I have read your purchase orders and considered the purpose of your trip. Do you think I would believe that the Khan King bought 3,000 winches for grinding flour? Were those hundreds of iron bearings used to make windmills? Are the countless medicines used to treat the herders' neck disease? Although I studied theology, I knew that a winch could be attached to a siege crossbow, and an iron rod could be nailed into the city wall! The bearings can be used as a stone thrower to throw stones the size of a millstone into the enemy's camp! Medicines can help fighters get back to fighting quickly! Are we, the international students who have spent a lot of money in our motherland, really going back to work as technicians to improve agricultural technology? ”

The head of the regiment looked around in embarrassment, glad that he had already arranged to charter the hotel, otherwise the idlers and others would definitely be interested in this strange remark. At the same time, he also lamented that his son really has a unique vision, and he is still as impulsive as when he left Tulga a few years ago.

"Father. What the hell is going on?! ”

“??? The great time is coming. ”

"Is the Khan King crazy?! If the risk is taken, the khanate will be defeated. ”

"Young man, a few years of elegant life have made you depressed. Even an old man like me has a higher spirit than you. ”

"Father. Am I that kind of bastard? When I was studying at Uxhall, I was not afraid of a Swadia, and my nose was crooked several times. But I've never been afraid. Over the years I have traveled around the southern plains of Swadia, and I have disguised myself as a merchant and posed as a nobleman. I know deep down that the most terrifying thing about Swadia is not his formidable sergeants and well-equipped fleet. It's his civilization. This power is the essence of history that has been precipitated over thousands of years, and it is the concentrated expression of human wisdom. To take the simplest example, a Kugit bow-maker who has been making bows all his life may be able to make bows very quickly when he is at his most skilled. But his craft cannot be repeated. However, the Swadias quickly cracked the core behind each new technology when it appeared, and transformed the doorways obtained by the bow-makers through experience into graspable and repeatable data, which were expressed in mathematical and physical methods. I saw with my own eyes that in Uxhall, a child who had been trained for half a year looked at the drawings and built a crossbow machine, no different from an old craftsman who had been making crossbows all his life. That's where Svadia scares. ”

"Kid, you're blinded. Civilization looks sophisticated and strong, but it is fragile. You see, we used only the simplest tactics to follow the leader and almost double our territory in a few years. This is not something that a group of skilled workers can do. Go ahead, I have something to tell the ambassador. ”

"Father!"

"Go ahead. Our mission will be to Sunuo. Get ready and go back home next week. ”

Ukhru walked out of the hotel. Thinking that a few years ago, because of the discord with his stepmother and the conflict with his father, he felt that he couldn't stay at home anymore, so he moved to the countryside to be clean and clean. When his father wrote to him that the Khanate was selecting outstanding noble children to study in Svadia, he asked if he would like to go. Ukhru immediately agreed.

Uhru was born into a diplomatic family, and his father was ordered to go to the swamps to find the future king of Nord when the Nords raised troops in the North Sea, and in the swamp he recognized the king of Nord in the name of the Great Khan, and left 40 skilled guards for the Nord king, while he himself stayed as a military adviser to Kugit, and relayed the experience of Kugit and Swadia to the Nord king after many years of fighting. These 40 guards for many years and the dedicated service of Uhru's father filled the Nord king with a good impression of the Ukhru family, and the Nord king promised: "The North Sea will always have your family's fiefdom." ”

While Uhru's father was wandering through the swamps of the North Sea, Uhru grew up with his father away and his mother weak, becoming more and more rebellious. When Uhru's father finally returned home, he found that he could barely talk to the little creature who was full of mischievous spirit. Uhru's mother tried to reconcile the father and son, but it was not always effective.

When Ukhru was ten years old, Uhru's mother died of cholera.

This brought Uhru's relationship with his father to a halt in an unfamiliar situation, preventing him from further. Ukhru's mother came from a down-and-out family of small lords, and after her death, Uhru's father's family actively sought out a new family for him. Uhru's father naturally accepted the family's arrangement. The new woman was born into a large family and did not like a rude little bastard like Ukhru, as was the case in many cases, and Uhru's presence became an obstacle to the complete integration of the two families. When Uhru's half-brother was finally born, Uhru, who felt depressed, offered to live in his mother's hometown, and Uhru's father reluctantly agreed.

But when the opportunity arose for his son to study abroad, he sent Ukhru to Swadia for fear that his son's morale would be lost in the isolated countryside.

Born into a family, Ukhru was full of disdain for Swadia. But after a few years of studying. The advanced civilization of Svadia washed the prejudices of Ukhru in every way, and the admiration for the strong was as hot as the love for his homeland. This attitude of double recognition and double allegiance weighed down Ukhru's breath. He aspired to be the father of Kugit's reforms and to lead his people into the world of civilization. The spirit of the grassland is precious, but survival is more important. Ukhru's determination to turn Kugit into a stronger Swadia and to "Swadia" the country is not the success of Swadia's policy of softness, but the self-choice of young people.

Uhru returned to his place where he was staying, and was greeted by a grinning young man, Spencer (welcome ACE_ Arvin), the most clever of the servants his father had chosen for him when Uhru came to study. At home, they were master and servant, but after leaving the country, Uhru had nothing to do with Spencer and became best friends. They were regular participants in street fights, often back-to-back against beatings by Swadia students who were several times their size. These years of travels have made Spencer very different from the children of his servants of the same age, who only hope to inherit their father's work when they grow up and live honestly for the rest of their lives. Spencer revealed to Uhru more than once that he hoped to travel the entire continent, and Uhru promised Spencer that when the time was right, he would relieve Spencer of his obligations to him and let him wander.

Spencer said he heard a message and asked Uhru if he wanted to hear it. Ukhru was not very interested. Since he didn't know that he was going to return to China beforehand, his luggage was still in Uxhall, which made his head heavy.

"What's the matter?" Ukhru said listlessly.

"Oh, your father led the group to buy a lot of things this time, but some of them needed the help of local merchants to 'open the joints' to get them out, you know, some things violated the embargo. So there is a ball tonight for local businessmen and mission personnel to meet. I got this news from your father's assistant. We can go check it out. ”

"A bunch of businessmen, what's there to see. Help me to inquire about how I can get my luggage in Uxhall, and I will be returning home next week, and it seems that I will have to entrust someone else to help transport it back to the Khanate after we are gone. ”

"Oh, that's why I wanted to go to the ball together, there's a merchant named Hal who specializes in transports."

"Give him a sum of money, and then I write him a manifest of goods and a letter of guarantee. Wouldn't it be okay to let him transport it on his behalf, I still need to run it myself. ”

"Oh, his car dealership isn't the point."

"What's that?"

"It is said that he has a daughter who is as beautiful as the moon, and he will bring them to the ball. Let's take a look. ”