Black Iron’s Glory

The one hundred and forty-seventh chapter father and son conversation

"Do you understand the intention of doing this?" Mr. Morssan stood in the window of the study on the second floor and looked at the still busy booth downstairs. Now it is the mother who is watching the stall selling things.

After lunch, Mr. Morssan signaled that Claude followed him to the second floor study. It seemed that he wanted to talk to Claude, perhaps to know Claude's thoughts.

The study is not out of Claude's expectation. It is also empty. The things that can be sold are moved downstairs. There is a thick old desk and a very old chair, and an old one. Animal leather sofa. Claude suspected that the chair and sofa would not be too worn and the fur would wear too much, and the father would probably move them down and sell them. As for the desk, it was too heavy, and Mr. Morssan could not move.

Crowder nodded and shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands: "You understand your approach, but I think you are doing too much exaggeration."

Mr. Morsan turned and walked over to the desk, took out the silver cigarette case filled with tobacco from the drawer, and found the black mulberry ivory pipe from the pocket, picking up a small sip from the silver cigarette case. The tobacco is slowly stuffed into the pipe. These two things are his favorite, he is not willing to take it out and sell it.

"You can understand that I am very happy. This shows that your mind is much smarter than your brother, and your eyes are farther away." Mr. Morssan lit the tobacco in the pipe, took a deep breath, and then slowed down. Slowly spit out the smoke from his mouth: "Abel has never understood a fact. Although I was exonerated from crimes and only fired from public office, it does not mean that everything is over. Doom is not far from our home...

The accident of the merchant fleet means that all our investments have been squandered. We only blame us for thinking everything is too good. We only see the golden return, but forget the risks, and we are not at all. Even when my and Thomas's futures were destroyed, we could have gone further. It is not impossible to get a title by the development of new routes. ”

Mr. Morssan’s bitter mouth was smoking a pipe, and he could see that his emotions were a little excited and more regrettable.

Claude didn't know what to say and couldn't figure out how to comfort his father. However, Mr. Morssan quickly took control of his own mood and smiled bitterly: "It is too late to say anything now. There is no regret in this world. But you have to remember my lesson. I can't be too greedy." ”

Crowder nodded, meaning he understood.

Mr. Morssan sat on the dilapidated chair: "Our family is not without money, but the money is taken by me to the investor fleet. An ocean-going merchant ship needs five hundred gold krona for people to bring goods. I At that time, I invested in the savings of 350 Kim Klang, and I borrowed 150 gold kronor from the National Bank. I thought that this ocean-going merchant ship could bring back ten times the income of our family. I didn’t expect it. They were all robbed by the **** pirates."

Claude couldn't help but scream, but I really didn't expect his father, who had been in the town for more than ten years, to accumulate such a huge sum of money. It seems that it is really cheap to be a public official.

Mr. Morssan clearly knew what Crowder was thinking. He shook his head and said, "Claude, your father’s executive for more than a decade has not corrupted a penny in business. These savings are actually those. The dividends of the shares are accumulated every year. I don't deny that I can have those shares because of my position, but this does not mean that I am forced to buy shares. Many people invite me to buy shares just to avoid trouble, and I also take out the shares. Real money and silver."

"Father, I don't think so..." Claude sweats.

Mr. Morsan continued to smoke, and then sighed again: "Albert has always believed that these shares are also one of the properties that he will inherit in the future, but I don't want to think about it. I have lost my public office now, and then I will suffer from these shares. In order to avoid trouble, I have cashed in all the shares in the previous days and changed more than 400 Jin Kelang. On the one hand, it repays the bank's loan, on the other hand, it is to cope with the upcoming trouble."

Crowder suddenly felt strange that these fathers should negotiate with Albert, after all, the king of Ovilas practiced the law of the eldest son. As a second child, it is generally independent from the family to reopen an account in adulthood. In the case where the eldest son still exists, it is a resolution that rarely participates in family events. What does the father and himself say?

Mr. Morsang stood up again, took the pipe and went to the window: "It is mid-February, another week or two weeks, the news of the merchant fleet will actually pass to Bailu Town. At that time, our family will be involved in a big whirlpool. Two or three hundred families have lost their loved ones. For Bailu Town, this is a big bad news.

The Baroness Mariah also said this in her reply. You have also seen it. She said in the letter that once His Majesty has made a choice, there is no need to hide the secret of the new route. If we are not able to cope with it at that time, maybe our family can't stay in Bailu Town anymore, no one can live peacefully in the hatred and resentment of two or three hundred families. Although their loved ones accepted our employment, in the eyes of those family members, we are the chief culprit in the loss of their loved ones..."

Claude said that his father really cares about his family's reputation in the town. I think it can be understood. The Field family has lived in Bailu Town for nearly a hundred years. From the grandfather's generation to the present, most of them rely on it. Father's efforts have such a high reputation in the town. People in this world rarely leave their homes, and the laws of the kingdom do not allow their subjects to move at will, which will cause great trouble for taxation and service.

Sometimes I think about it and I really admire the boss capitalists of my previous life. I don’t say the hatred and resentment of two or three hundred families. Thousands of people hate and hate when they don’t see anything, they still spend their days living their extravagant life. Just like those big Vs on the Internet, the resentment of dozens of nearly a million netizens is a spring breeze, and they laugh and pass, do not think that their views are wrong, but think that the quality of this netizen is not good, the face is thick Nothing.

From this point of view, Claude believes that his current father is still a moral bottom line and has the courage to assume his responsibilities. Even if there is selfishness, it is human nature.

"Hey, your brother, he doesn't know that our family is sitting on the crater. He thinks that even if the news of the merchant fleet is confirmed, it only shows that our investment failed, the fate of those sailors. It doesn't matter to us, because we have paid for it. So we don't have to pay and compensate the families of the sailors and crew. If they go to the door, we can call the police and get those families into the service..."

Mr. Morssan smiled and took off his pipe from his mouth: "Abel thought too simple. He firmly opposed me to cash out those shares for pensions and compensation. But I don't want to think, I have no public office, no longer The town's administrative director, then I can still keep these shares? Now Bailu Town is the home of Robert Baron. He always regards us as a few people. If those family members make troubles, it will be easy for him to find an excuse to intervene.

With the Baron Robert as a person, I know very well that it is impossible to get a layer of skin without falling into his hands. Not only will those shares not be guaranteed, but we will also carry huge amounts of compensation as a pension and compensation for those sailors. Since the result is so, why can't I cash out the shares first, then change the seller's production, and actively take care of the sailors and crew. This not only won the fame, but more importantly, let the mayor of Robert have nowhere to go, not to grasp the handles of us. ”

Claude rushed down the downstairs and was bargaining with a customer to raise his chin: "Is that the seller's production is also a means of self-insurance?"

"Self-protection..." Mr. Morssan pondered the word, and finally nodded bitterly: "Yes, self-protection. You don't know, without public office, I have nothing to say when I say it. Even though those people are still there. Respectfully call me Mr. Morsang, but they actually laugh at me in my heart. If I am still the chief executive, then my shares can at least more than 700 Jin Kelang, instead of more than 400 now, I can cash out Or they look at the past face, there is no embarrassment to me, nor do I say so many good words in front of them in these days.

Next, our family needs to have a hard time. This is not to show others, but to make others think that our family has done everything to help the families of the sailors who lost their loved ones, so that our family is so poor. The point. In this way, the only property that our family has on the bright side is this red-brick house, which depends on the rent of the inheritance that your grandfather left us.

Leaving a good name in the town will make Robert Baron scrupulous, and our family has already fallen so far that he no longer has to find me. Only after waiting for the page of the merchant fleet to turn over can we have room to turn over.

If His Majesty is ready to develop the new route, then we will raise funds again, buy a merchant ship, and re-enter the trade of Nubiansia. Maybe I will also leave with the boat. In the future, I will become the largest ocean trade trader on both continents..."

Crowder laughed. His father didn't lose his fighting spirit. In fact, his biggest worry was that his father felt lost because he was excused from public office, and then became a drunkard and drunk like a grandfather. Now it seems that I don't have to worry about anything at all. My father is very awakened, knows what he should do and what he should not do, plans for the future, and is confident.

"Right, Claude, I told you to come up mainly to talk about your future." Mr. Morsan finally remembered the subject he wanted to talk to Claude.

"I'm sorry, son, it seems that you have to go to Tilsim to take over the military." Silence for a long time, Mr. Morssan only made such a sentence.

Claude breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that what made his father so hesitant, went to the mainland of Nubiania to find his own godfather, who had not met before, and enlisted in the army. Claude has long been in the brain. After that. Since the merchant fleet had an accident, Claude knew that he could not go. The new route had been occupied by pirates. Before the Royal Navy sent a warship to clear the pirate gangs, Claude could not carry the ocean-going merchant ship.

"Nothing, father, I don't care about this. I am very happy at the forest farm and I didn't expect to join the army." Claude said the truth.

Mr. Morsang shook his head: "I don't mean this. You are an adult. You are a civilian in your family. Although you are the head of the Normanley Forest Farm, you can avoid the forced recruitment. But don't forget. You are still the first in the physical school of Bailu Town National High School. The military recruiting order will still be delivered to you. You can't avoid entering the service."

This is true, the physical education students like Claude were originally the best quality soldiers, not to mention the first place in his physical education. In the era when guns were lined up, the physical students like Claude were the best candidates for the most demanding junior officers, and the most lost officers after the war. Even Mrs. Maria May could not shelter Claude from military service.

"Let's talk about it later, no one knows when the conscription will be sent. I believe there will always be a way. Besides, it means that going to military service does not mean going to the battlefield. It means that I will be unlucky on the battlefield..." Lord can only comfort himself and his father.

Mr. Morssan sternly slammed Claude and looked a little angry: "You must have not carefully read Mrs. Maria's reply. Didn't you notice that she mentioned in the letter that King Majesty has not decided which plan to adopt? It is to maintain the original plan, then you will receive a recruitment order in the first half of the year. I hope that His Majesty will prepare to develop a new route, because then the recruitment will be one year later, and you will have one year to prepare for the pharmacist. Then you can avoid becoming a cannon fodder directly on the front line!"

Is this the turn of Claude's turn to smile, a year enough to become a junior pharmacist? He has no confidence in himself. Unless he no longer practices magic, does not do alchemy magic experiments, put all his energy into learning pharmacy knowledge, you need someone to be carefully taught next to you, take out the head cantilever, the spirit of the college entrance examination, perhaps half The possibility of success.

"I understand, father, I will study hard when I go back," Claude said.