"You won..." Barr looked over the chessboard again and again and shook his head with a wry smile, "Can you tell me why I lose every time?"
Mags said while playing with the chess pieces on the chessboard, "Because you always want more and ignore every small loss. In the end, these losses accumulate and explode, and you will find that you have no possibility." ”
Mags and Barr are good friends. It is not easy for them to be good friends for decades and still meet and chat frequently. Even if they are relatives, it is difficult to maintain such a relationship, which shows how strong the friendship between the two is.
"You've been saying this for decades, haven't I changed at all?" Barr put the chess pieces away, and after thinking about it for a moment, he shook his head, "I will still lose anyway, so that's the end of it for today. "
He doesn't care about Barr giving up Magus. Just as Barr said, this kind of thing has been happening for decades and he will never change.
In fact, from Mags' point of view, Barr is a very remarkable person. He has a longer-term vision than himself, but he is not good enough at handling details. It may be because of Barr's status as a great nobleman that he subconsciously Many tiny details are ignored. Taking these details individually does not pose any problems, but when all the details are put together, it can be predicted that a straight line will continue to deviate from the slightest angle for some reason, and then deviate further and further.
"I heard that Dulin is going to..." When the two were talking about Dulin's question, Magus's wife happened to come in with a snack. After thanking Bald, he picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth, with a happy smile on his face. , couldn't help but praise, "Winika, the snacks you made still make people feel happy after eating them as before."
The old woman smiled slightly, and then looked at Mags silently.
Mags, who had a headache, also picked up a piece and took a small sip. The greasy taste was indeed as Barr said, and there was no change from before. He bit the bullet and praised it a few times, "It's very good." tasty!"
"You're lying, Mags. The vain tone of voice and the hypocritical expression on your face tell me you're lying!" Barr immediately began to dismantle the situation, and then sighed, "Why were you unwilling to marry me in the first place?" , he looked at Winica and asked a question that had been asked for decades.
Decades ago, these three people were very good friends. Both Barr and Mags were pursuing Winica. In the end, Winica married Mags, which made Barr very disgusted and even disgusted for a period of time. Yu hates Mags.
Under the ruthless ripening agent of time, everyone has become more mature, Barr has gradually let go of the resentment in his heart, and everyone often gets together again. He always had a knot in his heart, why at that time, even though he was better than Mags, Vinica wanted to marry Mags, who was not as good as him.
Winica never gave Barr an answer, which troubled Barr for a lifetime.
"Maybe it's because you're stupid!" Mags also didn't give Barr any face. Their relationship has transcended the relationship of ordinary friends, and there are some contradictions. In short, it is very special.
Winica didn't give Barr any answer and left with a smile. She was in a good mood. There are only two people at her age who can still make her happy. One is the cute young man Dulin. He appreciates her cooking skills very much and will take a lot of them with him when he leaves. This is the greatest compliment to her.
Another one was seeing Barr and Mags slandering each other, which also made her very happy. In a trance, time seemed to flow back to decades ago under an apple tree, when two boys were fighting for her. Favoring each other's noses and faces.
When she thought that the two most distinguished figures in the empire had done such stupid things, especially for themselves, Winica felt very happy, and her mentality became much younger.
Yes, the two most noble figures in the empire.
Bal is just Magus' affectionate nickname for him. His name is Kubal, the current leader of the old party...
This seems very unbelievable. The new party and the old party are fighting for voters' votes everywhere, but the leader of the old party often goes to the house of the leader of the new party to eat and drink while thinking of trying to gain leverage. The world It's so magical, especially where people can't see it.
After the old woman left, Baal picked up another piece of pancake and stuffed it into his mouth. He chewed it very gracefully, and he couldn't even see the broken pieces falling on his clothes.
"Back to our previous topic, I heard that Du Lin is coming back. Is the engagement ceremony coming soon?" After eating the pancake, Barr adjusted his clothes on his chest, picked up the tea cup and took a sip to rinse his mouth. Possible leftover food scraps, "He did very beautifully in the West. Did you teach him?"
"Me?" Magus sneered, "What can I teach him? I didn't expect him to do so well. This just proves that we need to assimilate him as soon as possible."
Speaking of this, Magus was a little worried. He sighed and fiddled with the pancakes on the plate twice, "We will eventually grow old and die. You may also have discovered that so far, many of the new generation of nobles in the empire have It’s rare to see outstanding young people. Only a few are around the old dog, and there are a few around the Holy Lady. We are almost extinct here. "
"The children have all focused on the vulgar surface of the front line. They only think about more benefits, but forget that empire and power are the foundation of their dignity. Now the international situation is changing too fast, and there are many internal contradictions , if the situation is still unclear, the current system will become a heavy coffin board and bury them all in the end!”
"We need an excellent leader who can suppress others and be responsible for the next fifty to one hundred years. If I could choose, I would rather not choose Dulin, but I don't see much other than him. Excellent role.”
"There is no other choice except choosing him!"
Barr also sighed. Since the New Party overthrew the feudal rule, the peaceful development of more than 20 years and almost 30 years has made many young nobles become mediocre. This is also what the older generation are most afraid of seeing. .
Peace can kill the enterprising spirit of too many families, but it is also the choice of the times.
In the past few years, nobles have continuously waged wars against each other. It is precisely this seemingly chaotic attack on each other that allows each family to have a good enough successor in each generation. Because they must be excellent. Once there is a mediocre successor, other nobles will peek at their territory, peek at their wealth, and even want to take away their title and power. Under such huge internal and external pressure, everyone went crazy to make themselves as good as possible.
But look at it now, the younger generation is content and happy. Among the hundreds of children in a certain old dog's family, only two or three have become talented, and the rest are just bastards who are good at eating, drinking and having fun. Peace has made them lose their fighting spirit and made them mediocre, so mediocre that some people can hardly afford to hold up the "noble" sign!
On the contrary, the power of the civilian class began to gradually come to the fore. There are a large number of members from the civilian class in both the new party and the old party. For example, Powers, the current whip of the New Empire Party, is a very typical civilian filming A representative in a high position.
Now Mags and Kubal can still suppress these civilian members who are capable, courageous, and dare to fight, but when their descendants, the current new generation, grow up and they lack the necessary means, they are very capable. They may be knocked to the ground by these forces from the civilian class.
This is the last thing that Mags, Kubal and even the current nobles want to see.
It makes no sense that after hundreds of years of struggle, the power of this country should be handed over to civilians, and then kicked aside, so that there may be a liquidation of them.
The nobles have lost motivation, but the common people have not. The new era has given the common people more upward motivation, because this is an era of miracles. As long as you dare to fight and fight hard, you may not have a chance to climb to the top of the tower!
Barr calmed down his slightly depressed mood and asked a question, "Are you sure you can completely assimilate Dulin and stand on our side? You must know that he is also from the civilian class, and perhaps he has a deeper recognition of the civilian class. !”
Magers did not hide and evade this issue this time. Instead, he openly expressed his opinion, "He has great ambitions. As long as he has ambitions, it will be much easier to handle. I have had enough of those who have arranged for him to do so." The current situation is waiting for young people to go through the process of inheriting the family business.”
"Dulin's ambition will turn him and the interest groups around him into a new 'class'. They are like the first generation of nobles, and their desire for power will make them wary of all possible subversives. "
"The times are always moving forward. Since we cannot stop the big trends of the future, then we will join them!"
"If more nobles become a new class, nothing will change. The only thing that will change is that in this new class, there will be more new faces and less old faces, but more vitality. "
"Dulin is a swordfish. If those children born and raised in the greenhouse don't want to be swallowed, the only thing they can do is to fight back."
"Since we have no way to choose the future, we will leave them with the worst possible environment. They must either resist or perish!"
"And this is why we have done so many things over the years, isn't it?"
(End of chapter)