Gilbert coughed, and quickly returned to his normal color:

"So, as a rule, as a minor prince, you'll have a dedicated team of teachers to make sure you get something out of grammar, etiquette, and more......"

"One or two attendants......"

"Several Personal Guards ......"

Tails took a sip of tea to pick up his emotions:

"Sounds familiar. ”

Kilbert nodded, and seemed to sigh with emotion:

"Of course, six years ago, we didn't have the best and most appropriate people for you. ”

"And then, the development of events broke our plans, and during your days in the north, it was difficult for us to send you the manpower that Exeter accepted, for which I am deeply sorry......"

Gilbert's words were filled with deep guilt.

"Not really. ”

Tails shook his head and curled his lips unconsciously:

"As a teacher, although Putile has been missing for several years and is still unforgiving, he is really knowledgeable and thoughtful, and he has helped me and taught me a lot along the way. ”

It's hard to imagine that sinister little old man who smokes a pipe in the corner, chokes on you from time to time, and always jumps out when you don't expect it......

He and the dignified, polite, thoughtful and steady Gilbert are actually old friends.

He was also a classmate taught by a tutor.

"As for the attendants, Waiya has been loyal, hardworking, and conscientious for six years, and is a rare prince's attendant. ”

Tails keenly noticed that at the mention of Wya, Gilbert's expression darkened again.

The prince couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

When I met Huaiya six years ago, I thought he was a bit rigid and serious, but now......

Tails glanced covertly at the expressionless Star Lake Guards around him.

He sighed slightly in his heart.

There are some things that are just being blessed in the midst of blessings.

"And then there's the guard, yes, Edda......"

Tails suddenly felt a headache:

"Hmm...... As the prince's bodyguard, she ......"

He sighed and said embarrassedly:

"It's ...... Lively?"

Under the prince's narration, Gilbert also seems to be caught up in memory, his eyes moving slightly.

"Besides," Tails said with a smile as he came back to his senses.

"Didn't you bring me the old crow in the last year?"

At the mention of this nickname, Gilbert's expression lit up and his eyebrows smiled.

"And I hope Mr. Heather will be of help to you. ”

"Phew, of course he has," Tails shrugged, remembering the special teacher, the stubborn veteran in the shield, and even more so of their bond with his mysterious mother:

"And the help he gave me ......"

"You can't imagine. ”

There was silence in the living room for a while, during which neither of them spoke, during which the servants exchanged tea and snacks in the company of the royal guards.

"I assure you, Your Highness. ”

Gilbert looked back at Tails and said softly:

"Now that you have returned to Eternal Star City and become a Duke, you deserve a noble and effective education. ”

"My Majesty and I will do our best to prepare for your studies, starting with the setting of your schedule and planning your daily ......"

Daily living ......

When Tails heard this, he couldn't help but scratch his head:

"Actually, I've been used to self-study for the last six years, you know, Valhalla has a big library......"

But Gilbert shook his finger as if he had been prepared:

"Being forced to study behind closed doors due to constraints and being self-isolated when you don't need resources are two different things. ”

"And," Gilbert said, gravely and earnestly:

"If you know anything about learning, my Highness, then you know. ”

"In addition to effortless rote memorization and knowledge accumulation,"

"Nothing is self-taught. ”

Tails looked at him dumbfounded.

I saw Gilbert snap his fingers and say bitterly:

"You need someone to guide, someone to discuss, someone to consult, someone to supervise, someone to stimulate, someone to encourage, someone to help, someone to respond to your learning results, these are all ...... that cold books can't give you"

"Okay, okay, I see," Tails interrupted him with a headache, and hooked his hand as if to give up on himself:

"Study, course, or something, okay, come on, come on. ”

Forget it.

Besides, isn't it just a class?

Except for ghosts and river crabs, I, Tails, have never been afraid of anything in my life!

Gilbert nodded with a smile.

"Very good, so I'm going to discuss it with you today and sort out your future study schedule......

The cunning fox of the stars raised his glasses again, and at the same time picked up a pen in his right hand and wrote something on the paper in his lap.

Tails, who was fighting for a free rice worm to live, looked at him boredly.

"Well, grammar, etiquette, history, military ......"

Gilbert squinted and looked up:

"What did you learn from each of the four?"

Tails looked up and thought for a moment.

Days in Valhalla, in Selma's study...... Well......

Grammar, etiquette, history, military.

"They don't classify ...... that way"

"But let's skip the grammar and etiquette first," Tails said with a headache:

"First of all, there's history. ”

Tails tapped his fingers and recalled:

"In the past six years, they have changed many history teachers, from scholars and nobles to priests of the Temple Church, and even the Count of Lisbane will teach in his own free time. ”

"Charles Risban, I remember, the Dragon's Eye," Gilbert's eyes focused:

"Eighteen years ago, when the fortress was negotiated, he was a difficult opponent. ”

Thinking of the eyes of the Regent of Lisbane that seemed to be able to read through his thoughts, Tails nodded with trepidation.

"The people of the Northlands, especially the history lessons taught to the aristocracy, are more ...... than history Traditional lessons. ”

Gilbert's eyes moved:

"Tradition?"

Tails jaw head:

"Starting from the kingdoms of the ancient north, from the 'Alliance of Ten Thousand Beasts' of the ancestor Takmu, to the 'last line of defense of mankind' of the Iron Blood King, the Knight Temple was completed, and the kings jointly launched the battle of the saints......"

"And then to the war of the kings, the birth of the heavenly horses, the bloody award, and the conquest of the empire ......"

"And the rebel king against the emperor's first uprising, the independence of the Northland, the duel of the six kings, and the eastward migration of the mountain elves......"

"Then the modern empire collapsed, the orcs in the 'Moonless Winter' went south, the last line of defense was restored, and the thirty-eight lookouts were restored......"

Tails counted one after another, and Gilbert rustled down something on the paper.

The Duke sighed:

"It's almost impossible to say that the entire ancient empire was built on the invincible Northland Knights, and then overthrown by them, and finally relied on them to defend the human world......"

There was helplessness in Tails' tone.

"However, until Necaju reverses the cold wind and the ten knights stand together in Exter, you will find ...... if you listen to it."

The duke's eyes gradually became serious:

"It is not so much that they remember history as they are to remember the unique traditions of the North: survival, iron and blood, co-governance, duels, wars, glory. ”

Gilbert pondered for a moment and then continued:

Or maybe it's their jurisprudence and orthodoxy. ”

Tails narrowed his eyes and nodded.

Or to sum it up in one sentence:

Eat, sleep, fight orcs.

The last item can be replaced with "Empire" or "Star" at any time.

Well, maybe one day it'll be changed to "Tails".

Duke Xinghu swept away unnecessary nonsense and returned to the topic.

"Then, it's the etiquette class in the Northland. ”

"Yes, you heard it right, the nobles of the Northland also have etiquette lessons, how to meet, greet, greet, get along, courtship...... And, of course, how to duel. ”

Tails sighed:

"The Northland Etiquette of the Heavenly Evil...... The higher the status of the nobility, the more so. ”

"Etiquette ......," Gilbert pondered, chewing on the word:

"In any way, the more people who don't like the empire, the more they despise it, the more they look up to the great empires of the past – such as etiquette. ”

Tyers remembered something from the past and sneered:

"Believe it or not, in one version of the story, the tradition of dueling in the Northland originated from an ancient pair of brothers: legend has it that they fell in love with the same woman. ”

Like a lion, in order to fight for the damned ......

Community mating rights.

Tails pouted.

In fact, in the first year of Longxiao City, the ignorant Tails attracted friendly and eager dueling applications from various Exeter nobles.

Fortunately, his status was high enough (prince), and fortunately he was hard enough backstage (the archduchess), and fortunately he was thick-skinned enough that Tails survived his first year and vowed not to walk with Selma in public ("She came first to take my hand!"—in the dead of night, nine-year-old Tails complained aggrievedly against the pillow).

"In addition to this, they also teach religion and beliefs in liturgical classes. ”

Tails recalled:

"From the ancient ancestor worship, to the ancient belief in the mountains, to the Holy Day Church in the modern times, to the bright moon and the sunset today, the throne and the dragon after the end of the war - the Northland rites and beliefs are inseparable. ”

Gilbert took a few notes and nodded:

"I'm afraid this is inseparable from the legacy of the empire. ”

"Hundreds of years ago, when the Holy Day Church was still the state religion of the Empire, almost all the secretaries and scholars of the imperial nobility were born in church schools, and almost every noble family had its own priest, and the belief in the Holy Day was a compulsory subject, second only to loyalty to the throne. In fact, religious etiquette and chivalric etiquette have considerable commonalities. ”

Tails shrugged, not knowing whether to approve or frustrate.

"Outside of history and etiquette, there is the lesson of governance. ”

As the name suggests, it teaches a lord heir how to govern a domain, and of course, only noble families above the earl level will have such a lesson. ”

Tails recalled with a headache:

"Including accounting, farming, commercial affairs, human relations and etiquette, aristocratic marriages, and so on...... It's a lot and it's miscellaneous. ”

Gilbert was thoughtful.

"But do you know what's the funniest part?"

Tails exhaled, half mocking and half disdainful:

"In general, women are not qualified to attend this class, they are only for male heirs. ”

Of course, in the past few hundred years, Exeter has never had a female heir who can put on the table.

That's why he had the privilege of accompanying someone to class — ironically, Tails was more inspiring to mentor the teacher in the class than his lesbian table.

"But in fact, the contents of the Northland Ruling Lesson, whether it was the measurement of income and expenditure and the management of the household, or the figuration of human favors, or the arrangement of marriages according to the rules of etiquette, especially those related to numbers and marriages, were all in charge of the mistress after the marriage—especially among some nobles who could only drink and hunt, but were not very good at arithmetic. ”

Tails tilted his head and thought about it, remembering Nicolais:

"In fact, there are quite a few such Northland men. ”

"Therefore, among the many schoolwork that I have with the female archduke, the inexplicable ruling class is the most uncontroversial existence of the nobles of Longxiao City - because she is a girl anyway, and she has to learn these things when she gets married, and I am a man, so it is useless for me to learn this. ”

The prince said with disdain.

Gilbert smiled at him.

"In the chaotic times of the Kings, wives and daughters were only the bonds that connected families to clans, city-states to city-states, and had no status at all. ”

"It is only since the Empire that the wise woman has her own stage: a good girl can become a virtuous helper to her future husband, sharing the duties of the male master, rather than a beauty who is dull in the portrait. ”

It can be seen from this that the elevation of the status of the nobles and ladies depends on the maturity of the external conditions and environment: only when the war is no longer there, the grain is full, production is restored, the rule is stable, the war horses are useless, the weapons are ownerless, there is less physical work, and there is more work, the physical disadvantages of women will be reduced, and the intellect will have room to play a role. ”

Gilbert added something that seemed to mean something:

"If the world has not yet arrived, then it will only be in vain for you to fight for your classmates in Longxiao City. ”

However, Tails became interested:

"Therefore, if the external conditions are never ripe, such as underdeveloped production, backward economy, unstable times, and frequent wars, if the world never reaches that day, for example, the way people work still depends on physical strength and strength...... Should a woman live like this forever as a vassal?"

Gilbert raised his glasses:

"It's a pity, but it's an obvious objective fact and there's nothing we can do about it. ”

Tails stared at him and suddenly smiled.

"As it is and as it should be. ”

Gilbert was stunned:

"What?"

"You gave me an 'is' answer, Gilbert," the young duke sighed:

"In response to my 'ought' question. ”

"That's not right. ”

Gilbert was stunned at first, then suddenly.

"Looks like we can get a little better in our grammar lessons," the Foreign Secretary smiled mildly.

"Especially the logical part. ”

Tails smiled cooperatively.

"But let's get back to the subject until we solve this age-old conundrum," Gilbert wisely detracted from dwelling on the subject:

"So, apart from history, etiquette, and domination?"

Tails blew hard, but couldn't blow the whistle.

But this does not detract from his mixed feelings about the next answer:

"Finally, and the most northern. ”

"The ...... of the Northlanders"

"Military class. ”