Chapter 71: Life 2

Speaking of coming to this world, what makes Geer most satisfied is the problem of diet.

Although it has always been rumored that Konatas's food culture is not even qualified to carry shoes for each other compared to the Gantt Empire, compared to the past, he can only eat a bland and tasteless nutritious meal like a liquid food, Gehr is already very satisfied.

After dinner, Gel and Sophia took their younger siblings upstairs.

For the nobility of the old system, there were two most critical elements to ensure family inheritance, one was land, and the other was knowledge.

Land represents materials, manpower, and the power derived from it, and with food and soldiers, this is the basis for the old aristocracy to become a prince.

Then there is the monopoly of knowledge. Before the royal family forced the academy system in San Rotalo, knowledge was an incomparably precious treasure, and its dissemination was entirely in the hands of the nobility, and only the nobility could impart learning, and if the commoners wanted to learn, they either had to pay the price of a lifetime of service to that noble family in exchange for knowledge, or join the church and become a priest, dedicating their lives and souls to ethereal gods.

Therefore, in the past, if you wanted to judge whether a noble family was strong, you didn't need to calculate its land output, population base, number of soldiers, training equipment and other things that were difficult to calculate accurately.

It was by virtue of the land and knowledge that the old-fashioned aristocracy was able to firmly grasp the bodies and beliefs of the people in their territories, which was why they were able to compete with the royal family, who were nominally the masters of the country.

In the past, the royal family had no choice, and it was just the largest aristocracy in the country, and it was very unrealistic to suppress the old-style aristocracy in the country, and there was a behemoth like the church on the head, and the royal family had to consider whether their seats were stable or not.

However, taking advantage of the Thirty Years' War and the great development of the Industrial Revolution, under the efforts of the Prime Minister Count James, the dissemination of knowledge was rapidly expanded, not only with the emergence of aristocratic colleges to win over the nobles who were inclined to the royal family, but also a large number of technical academies to teach basic knowledge to the common people.

After more than ten years of continuous implementation of the new education policy, it is becoming more and more difficult for the old aristocracy to control the minds of the people as before, Konatas is developing towards a real sovereign state, in the past ten years, the newly canonized nobles of the royal family are all fictitious nobles with high annuities, none of them are old-fashioned nobles, for the royal family, you can tolerate you becoming a big landlord, a big capitalist, but it is absolutely not allowed to become a small prince, even if the prime minister Zhan Jieshi, who was named an earl, is the same, otherwise he will never get the unconditional support of the royal family.

After sharing the ecclesiastical inheritance that occupies at least half of the country's wealth with the royal family, the nobles have been in the satisfaction of digestion because they have eaten a lot of oil, resulting in a much slower reaction, and it is only at this time that they realize that the royal family is going to dig up their roots, so the contradictions between the two sides have rapidly intensified in recent years.

Now the royal family's willingness to retract the rights of the lord has become extremely firm with the support of the actual conditions, and the smooth development of the current situation has strengthened the confidence of the royal family, so no matter who is replaced on the throne, this fundamental policy will never change.

This was revealed by Prince Philip and Gehr when they discussed the transaction of the original Colbenson territory, so Gehr chose the former between coming to San Rotaro and standing firmly on the side of the royal family or defending the territory that could be destroyed at any time in the misty weather.

After arriving in this royal capital, the greatest benefit for the Colbenson family was that the originally shriveled library was quickly enriched, and although the importance of this method of storing knowledge has been greatly reduced, it can still be regarded as one of the most valuable assets of a noble family.

The library was on the top floor of the main building where Gehr lived, so Gehr's younger siblings had to go to the library in the main building if they wanted to study.

When they came to the door of the library, the two maids waiting at the door of the library hurriedly saluted and helped push the door open, and the soft yellow light inside the door spilled out. There are special maids to clean and manage it, and it is usually open to family members, so the inside looks very tidy.

The room was lit by pale yellow lights, and a total of three large bookshelves leaned against three walls, on which were hung wooden plaques corresponding to the types of books on the shelves, which were martial arts, mathematics, physics and chemistry, and miscellaneous items such as philosophy, literature and art, and biographies.

In the center of the room lay two couches, lined up on either side of a long black wooden table with books piled on top of it.

Gehr walked familiarly to the third shelf, took out a biography from it, and returned to the door.

Asked Sophia to take the children to find books of interest, Gehr left the library and walked straight down the hallway, past his bedroom, and stopped in front of another locked door.

He took out the key that only he had and opened the lock, and when he opened the door, it was pitch black and there was no light.

The room lit up with the wall lamp at the doorway.

It was a small room about a third the size of a library, with only a single sofa and corresponding small desk, and the bookshelves leaning against the innermost wall were empty, with only a few books sitting alone.

Gell carefully closed the door and locked it.

Walking to the bookshelf and taking out a thick book with a cowhide cover, Gehr opened it casually, and a label made of leaves was exposed, with the label as the dividing line, the left half of the book had words, and the right half was blank, and the handwriting was still very new, obviously it had not been written much time.

Gehr sat down at his desk, put the book down, opened the biography he had brought, flipped through it for a while and found the part he was looking for, then looked at it for a while, picked up the pen and wrote and drew on the book.

I don't know how long it took, but when the oil lamp began to dim a little, Gehr finally stopped.

"It should be fine. ”

Gehr looked at it and felt that there was no problem, so he closed the book and wrote the words "Konatas Military Swordsmanship (Refining)" on the cover.

Just as he was about to put the book back with his finished writing, Gehr suddenly paused, thought for a moment, and took out a badge from his pocket. It wasn't the Colburnson family crest or the Brotherhood of Steel mark, but Gel had retrieved Hagrid's corpse, and although he respected the rival, the necessary search still had to be done.

Gehr carefully compared the pattern on the coat of arms and copied it on the cover of the book, and finally, at the end of the day, wrote a few words below the cover image - Hagrid Otadisio, knight, dead.

Looking at his work with satisfaction, Gehr closed the book and put it back on the shelf.

Because of the shelves and the open space, Georg put the books up, and as soon as he didn't pay attention, a few books leaned down.

"It's still too little. Gehr sighed, and put the books up again, and the words on the covers of the books suddenly appeared.

"Liverani sword skills, Naxi, knight rank, death. ”

"Philippe's military sword technique (doubtful), Blide, knight's rank, dead. ”

"Colbenson's family sword skills, Carlos Wolfgang Colbenson, died. ”

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Under the scorching sun, in an empty wilderness, a red-black train was rumbling along the tracks on the ground.

It was already afternoon, and the dazzling sunlight gradually tilted, and finally successfully penetrated the car window, reflecting on the face of the young man who was leaning against the inner wall of the car window and closing his eyes.

The windows were opened, and as the train moved at high speed, the wind with heat continued to pour into the carriage, and then through the window on the other side, so that the irritability that had been accumulating in the carriage was alleviated a lot.

Gehr was awakened by the deepening heat on his face, squinted at the intensity of the sun, thought for a moment or gave up the intention of drawing the curtains, took out a cool hat from the salute and brought it up, and used the brim of the hat to firmly separate the gaze that was still attached to his face.

Unlike the other carriages, Gehr's carriage was quiet, almost dreary, with little sound other than the constant clanging of train wheels and rails and the occasional whistle. The hundred or so people crowded in the carriage did not look like passengers going out at all, but as if they were sent to death, and the air in the carriage seemed to be about to freeze.

But this time it's really similar to going to die, these are the members who were selected to complete the national mission in Amrock, which is recognized as the most dangerous area, according to the usual probability, it would be very good for these 100 people to go back to ten, and there have been a few cases of total annihilation.

In the face of such a dangerous task, it is strange that these people can be happy.

The personnel gathered for this kind of task are generally based on each stronghold or sub-division, and the gathered personnel are led by the leader to the large stronghold near the mission to meet, and handed over to the leader who arrives in advance, and then the team leader promulgates the specific task content.

However, due to the dense stronghold of the Brotherhood of Steel in San Rotaro, the people who carry out the same mission in several districts of the capital are gathered together first, and then the leader leads the team to the mission meeting point together, so compared to the team of ten or twenty people from other strongholds or divisions, the direct number of people in the team from San Rotaro exceeds one hundred.

And Gehr is the leader of this mission.

Because the leader does not need to participate in the task, as long as he brings the person to the meeting point to hand over the task, the task is completed, so it can be regarded as a very comfortable position.

Of course, sitting in this position, then those mission personnel who are equivalent to being escorted will not give him a good look, on the one hand, the casualty rate is so high that it is chilling, and on the other hand, it is a comfortable and relaxed travel, which is difficult to balance psychologically when you think about it.

Generally speaking, anyone who succeeds and participates will survive, provided that they don't die during the mission, but if the mission fails, even if they survive the mission, the rest of the day will not be easy.

Of course, it's not that no one has thought about escaping, but the people who can get here have a handle in the hands of the organization, and those who can't control it will either die in prison early or be sent to the border army as a death squad, so so far, almost no one will choose to escape this option, and the few guys who have successfully escaped have their heads hung on stakes and dried their heads.