Chapter 42: Seven Years

North Sea. ()

It's been seven years.

Jill has grown a beard, and he is cleanly trimmed. The dull life gives people the illusion that this kind of life will last forever.

But Jill knew it wouldn't be like this, and he kept an eye on everything in the Southland. When the Kugit had been utterly routed a few years earlier, Gil had a sense of urgency that peace in the North Sea would soon be shattered. Jill had never felt that he had not prepared well enough, that the delay of the war by a year, a month, or even a day was precious to Jill--- and he had too much to do.

His adopted son, Renault, is 12 years old, and on Renault's birthday last month, which is the youth ceremony, Gil gave Renault a horse.

However, Renault is not very happy after all, because not long ago Jona married Andrei in the swamp. Although the man was indeed very good, Renaud knew that Jona did not love him. Jona's own proposal to marry Andre is also a sacrifice made after seeing Jill's efforts to win over Andre all along. After Jona left, Jill locked herself in the house for several days, and when she came out again, she lost a lot of weight, and Renaud felt uncomfortable when she saw it, but she still blamed Jill for not keeping Ruona.

For the youth ceremony of Gil's adopted son, Andre and his wife sent someone over to congratulate them. Renaud's father had already proven to be a Zenda soldier, and more importantly, in his contact with Jill, André felt that he would have to seek cooperation with Gil if he wanted to get out of the swamp one day. Now, André's alliance with Gil is even closer.

Jill has been preparing André for seven years. This prolonged tension has forced André to admire Jill at times, and even when the situation seems extremely optimistic, Jill is steadfast in his eyes on the hidden dangers.

This danger Gil has been watching for far too long: a victorious and powerful Swadia, a group of confident generals, and two old neighbors who are beginning to get richer, and all the contradictions that herald the end of peace.

It has been seven years since the establishment of Dongquan University.

During these seven years, Jill has devoted herself to the development of the school under a high load of work.

The students who are willing to come to Winterspring are generally Nords and Wikis, and in other countries, Salander has pride in pride in preachers and scholars, and their scientific systems are different from others, and they have nothing to ask for from others;

Svadia and Rhodok shared their educational system, their historic academies and libraries that made them enough to ignore the barbarian schools;

The Kugit were at war, and the young nobles had to stay in their fiefdoms or tribes, and no one knew when the family would need them.

So although the teachers who taught at Dongquan University were either the elite of the Karad country or the scholars left behind by Zenda, it was not very well-known.

However, during these years, Sabel has been mindful of the desire of the two North Sea countries to innovate, and in a letter to the goblins, he declared:

"Now there are a lot of new colleges in the two countries, and their teaching methods are all copied from the models of Swadia and Rhodok, and I suspect that this is due to those international students back then. But there's one university that I don't know if you noticed, there's one university in Nord that doesn't stick to the Swadia model. I studied the records written by their scholars and some of the books they had published, and I found that what they were doing was very similar to that of the vanished Chanda Academy. ”

"Have you paid attention? Don't tell me you're writing a script again, I've seen through your script mode, and the goblins won't die anyway, and if you want to die, you'll have to use Sabel as a backdrop. I said, although people like to hear that you write like this, but it is debatable in art. Tragedy is memorable, isn't it? I support you in writing that the goblin was defeated by Sabel, and the heroine was snatched by Sabel, which should be very artistic, and I look forward to your successful transformation. Eh, I seem to be off topic, and I would like to say that the college is really unusual. ”

"First of all, they have wisely used the textbooks of scholars from all over the world. For example, the reference book of one of its subordinate schools of mathematics is exactly the same as the textbook we chose when we taught at Rhodock. However, the fly in the ointment is that they chose your book "Economics in Astronomy", which made me doubt their philosophy for a while, but fortunately they were able to choose my book "On the Absurdity of Economics in Astronomy", which made me think they still have a little merit. ”

"You know what, it's not just one or two places. They seem willing to embrace all thoughts, as if they were completely unaware of the consequences of those thoughts. If the supporter behind them is King Nord, then we must admit that this king is very good at education, at least much better than our emperor. I saw a file from a traveling scholar who had reinstated the debate system, telling students directly in our classes, and they would often let the students decide for or against it after the announcement, and then debate their own opinions, with their neutral classmates and teachers on the sidelines. This is completely Chanda's free academy, and this model has been extended to the municipal government, that is, the Council of 100 deliberates on government affairs. Could it be that King Nord was a supporter of the Chanda Republic? I'm going to definitely find a chance to check out this Winter Springs University. ”

"This school is so young, you know, the university was only established a year before our student Arcadio got married. But the imposing and conceptual nature of this school is impressive, and if the people of the North Sea have this kind of thinking, I think one thing Swadia has to consider is that if it continues to be as indifferent to the changes in the outside world as it is now, it will not be many years before it will be regarded as barbaric by advanced civilizations. ”

"And I heard that you are preaching the spirit of the classical era in Suno? Come on, I know you're speaking for the pioneers. I support you in this matter, but be sure to pay attention to the changes around you, young people are most interested in this kind of thing that seems to save the world and change their fate. They must be guided to become mature change-makers, otherwise they are likely to take their lives--- this is not the era of Callad, the sentiments of the classical era have been forgotten and clean, so be careful. ”

"One last point, I would say that now Svadia looks restless and feels like she can't be beaten. Do you remember the era of the Southern Expedition many years ago? The empire was defeated, and now the empire is naturally not comparable to what it used to be, but what we have to see is that when the empire changes, which of the surrounding kingdoms is not changing with it? But fortunately, the Kugit people easily buried the fruits of their more than 20 years of reform this time, and the Salanders were also tossed enough by themselves, and the Rhodok people have already cast their eyes overseas. So now the two countries that are most likely to be targeted by the Empire are the two countries in the North Sea. At present, it seems that the situation is irreversible. ”

"Between the Zhivading plain of Vecchia and the Rudaburg of Nord, the manors are dense and the waters are rich, and the wheat and oats produced in the black earth there spread out on the road to reach the feet and necks of people, the miners of the Vicchian people dig up hundreds of boxes and boxes of the wealth of the earth like magic, and the Ale and wine produced by the Nords in a year are poured into the sea to get drunk with ten million fish. I'm really worried about what the Empire's soldiers who are struggling with the military will do in the face of this temptation. ”

"Okay, that's all I have to say. Remember, art can't always be the myth of the protagonist, and it's good to make your rivals gods a god.

Peace, Sabel. ”

Sabel's lengthy letter confirms the goblin's determination to continue demonizing Sabel.

However, the two main things mentioned in Sabel's letter are that Goblins have always paid attention to, the first is this Winterspring University, Goblin has a glimpse of the strength of Winterspring University from the "Astral Codex" of a book by a scholar of Winterspring University that circulates among astronomers. The book surprises the goblins by its unequivocal support for the Sun as the center of the universe and its belief that celestial bodies are close to perfectly spherical but not so perfect. In the book, it also proposes a series of models of galaxies, and in the equations for calculating the motion of galaxies, Goblin sees some new algorithms that he has never been exposed to, and these algorithms for describing the motion of celestial bodies have expanded the mathematical world in Goblin's mind a lot, in Goblin's original words, "as if everything can be described mathematically".

As for the prophecy that war will break out in Svadia later, the goblins know a lot. Because in the place of Su Nuo, a lot of news spreads no slower than in the capital, and there is also a Su Ge'er by his side. Su Ge'er always gave the goblin some information he wanted, and it was so accurate and timely that the goblin always wanted to know where Su Ge'er got the news.

"See with your eyes, hear with your ears, think with your heart, exchange your dinars. Then everybody is your eyeliner, darling. "Su Ge'er perfunctory goblins like this every time. Later, the goblin gradually stopped asking, he was not a sensitive and easy-to-think person in the first place.

The goblin vaguely knew that there was a family behind Su Ge'er, and this family was not the one she fell to when she was in Vikya, but an organization that Su Ge'er recruited her to join when she was down. Su Ge'er became Su Nuo's most popular singer with the help of that family--- this is only on the surface. That guild knew all kinds of information, because it had countless sources, and Su Ge'er was one of them, and she had to give feedback on what she had learned, and in return, she could know the information that others had gotten.

This time, the news that Su Ge'er brought back made the goblin feel like he was sinking a little bit.

"The Paraven Horse Farm received an order to send one hundred horses and two hundred pack horses to the Dehrim region every month; Farmers in the Suno region transported the wheat, oats, soybeans, and flax they produced directly to the Great Road, and then delivered them to the imperial convoys to transport eastward; Displaced people have emerged in the southwest, which was devastated last year, and 2,400 of them have been recruited to reach Uxhall via the South Suno Avenue and the Blue Water River, where they will be simply armed and trained to travel north to Deherim. ”

All the news told the goblins that the Empire was sending untold amounts of human and material resources to Dehrim. The newly recruited soldiers chose to make a detour from the south to the north, probably to reduce outside attention. But all this is clearly known to the goblins.

With the addition of the Eastern Army in Decherim and the armies of various Imperial Divisions, the army in Decherim now exceeds 10,000 men, and there are many more soldiers stationed outside the city. At the same time, a steady stream of newly armed soldiers from all over the country is being brought in.

What does the empire want to do? Goblins couldn't help but think that the empire had lost the entire south because of an expeditionary force of 10,000. Now that the war is settled, the empire has no intention of disbanding the army and returning to the fields for production, but continues to increase the number of troops in Decheng, has the empire really forgotten the twenty years of embarrassment?

Goblins and the other Frontiers have also discussed this, and the Pioneers and Goblins have a similar meaning. They felt that the best choice for Swadia was to cultivate for more than ten years, and transform the enthusiasm condensed by the war into the action of building a country, Svadia was originally the richest country, and after years of development, the whole country would become something that people could never imagine, and people looked forward to that rich new world.

On the other hand, there was a secret excitement among the pure pioneers, who felt that the war in Swadia would exacerbate poverty and shake trust in traditional powers. If it can make people's beliefs ripple, then it is even better for pioneers. Pioneers need people to be confused, and only those who are confused will try to find new spiritual sustenance.

Those people were still different from the goblin, who was a Swadian, though he loved the ideals of the Pioneers immensely. But if this ideal were to be fed with the blood of the Swadians, the goblins would not hesitate to reject and resist.

Goblin couldn't help but think that his student Arcadio II was about to go to war again.

In his early years in the Southlands, even the goblins felt that Arcadio II had done something inconsiderately, and hoped that he would be better off now. It was the Goblins who brought Arcadio II into the small inn where the pioneers were gathering, and Goblin remembered that Arcadio II had been listening silently for most of the year before giving his first opinion, and these new knowledge and ideas covered all aspects: from religious beliefs to artistic creation, from political life to who soldiers should fight for.

Now that I think about it, the goblins even have some fears, wondering if these thoughts will make their students do anything.

As far as Goblins know, many of the sons of nobles and descendants of chaebol families are enthusiastic about the pioneer cause. Including Dimitri, who went to the Eastern Front this time, was the one who accepted the pioneer idea like Arcadio.

There are many such young soldiers, and many more will be absorbed into the ranks of pioneers in the near future.

"Building a New World"

The slogan of the pioneers is more than just a geographical statement.

Beihai, suddenly seven years.

Jill has spent most of the past seven years in his office doing business, both at school, on the docks, and occasionally in the swamp.

These days, Jill has always felt a little trance and restlessness, as if she is about to change the feeling she had before the day.

In the morning, Renault sent a text message to Gill, sent back from the south a month earlier, the letter was more than ten days late and may have been blocked on the road. Martin seems to feel that the situation is inevitable, so he asked Jill to prepare as soon as possible and withdraw some industries in the south to the north as soon as possible.

At this moment, there was a knock at the door, and Jill put down the letter in his hand and cleared his throat: "Come in."

Ivan walked in, "Mr. Headmaster"

"Yes." Jill nodded, motioning for Ivan to continue.

"New news, bad news" Ivan's sweat ran down his forehead and gathered into droplets on the tip of his nose. He pinched a courier in his hand, and it made a loud noise.

"The Southern Thief Goes North"