Cosma Empire

"You won..." Barr looked at the chessboard again and again and shook his head with a wry smile, "Can you tell me why I lose every time?"

While fiddling with the chess pieces on the chessboard, Magus said, "Because you always want more, ignoring every small loss, and eventually these losses accumulate and explode, and you will find that you have no possibility gone."

Magus and Barr are good friends. It is not easy for decades of good friends to be so good that they often meet and chat. Even if it is a relative, it is difficult to maintain such a relationship, which shows how strong the friendship between the two is.

"You've been saying this set of rhetoric for decades, haven't I changed at all?" Barr put the pieces together and shook his head after thinking about it for a while, "Anyway, I'm still going to lose, let's call it a day .”

He doesn't care about Barr's abandonment of Magus. As Barr said, such things have happened continuously for decades, and he will never change.

In fact, from the perspective of Magus, Barr is a very remarkable person. He has a longer-term vision than himself, but he is not good enough in handling details. It may be because of Barr's status as a nobleman that he subconsciously Many small details are ignored. Taking these details alone will not cause 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 get further and further away.

"I heard that Durin wants to..." When the two were talking about Durin's question, Magus's wife happened to come in with a small snack. Barr thanked him and then picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth, with a happy expression on his face. With a smile, he couldn't help but praised, "Winika, the dim sum you make is still the same as before, making people feel happy after eating."

The old woman smiled a little, then looked at Magus silently.

Maggs also picked up a piece with some headaches, and took a small sip. The taste was indeed as Baer said, and it was the same as before. He bit the bullet and praised a few words, "Very good. tasty!"

"You're lying, Muggs, the vain tone and the hypocritical expression on your face tell me you're lying!" Barr immediately began to dismantle the situation, and then sighed, "Why didn't you want to marry me back then?" , he looked at Winika and asked a question that had been asked for decades.

Decades ago, these three were very good friends. Barr and Muggs were both pursuing Winica, and finally Winica married Muggs, which made Barr very disgusted and even to hate Magus.

Under the ruthless ripening agent of the years, everyone has become more and 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 Magus, Vinica wanted to marry Magus who was not as good as him.

Winica never gave Barr an answer, which also entangled Barr for a lifetime.

"Maybe it's because you're stupid!" Magus also didn't give Barr any face. Their relationship has gone beyond ordinary friendship, and there are some contradictions. In short, it is very special.

Winika didn't give Barr any answer, and left with a smile. She was in a good mood. There are only two people who can make her happy at her age. One is the lovely boy Doolin. He appreciates her cooking skills very much and will take a lot with her when he leaves. This is the greatest compliment to her.

The other one is to see the mutual slander between Barr and Magus, which can also make her very happy. In a trance, the time seems to be reversed to decades ago under a certain apple tree. Two boys competed for her Favor each other's bruises and swollen faces.

Thinking that the two most respectable figures in the empire have done such stupid things, especially for herself, Winika is very happy, and even her mentality has become much younger.

Yes, the two most honorable figures of the Empire.

Barr is just the nickname Magus gave him,

His name is Kubal, the current leader of the old party....

This seems very unbelievable. The new party and the old party are trying to fight for votes everywhere, but the leaders of the old party often go to the house of the new party leader to eat and drink. By the way, they also want to pry the corner, the world It's just 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 so gracefully that he couldn't even see any broken pieces falling on his clothes.

"Back to our topic just now, I heard that Durin is coming back. Is the engagement ceremony coming soon?" After eating the pancake, Barr tidied up the clothes on his chest, picked up the teacup and took a sip to rinse his mouth Possible food scraps, "He did it 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, Maggs was a little worried, he sighed, and fiddled with the pancakes on the plate twice, "We will eventually grow old and die, you may have also discovered that so far, many of the new generation of nobles in the empire It is rare to see outstanding young people, there are only a few around the old dog, and there are a few around the Holy Maiden, and our side is almost broken."

"The children focus on the vulgar surface of the front line. They only think about more benefits, but they 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 you still don’t see the situation clearly, the current system will become a heavy coffin and bury them all in the end!”

"We need an excellent leader who can suppress others and be responsible for the next 50 to 100 years. If I could choose, I would rather not choose Du Lin, but I don't see much besides him. Excellent character."

"In addition to choosing him, there is no second choice!"

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 what they, the older generation, are most afraid of seeing .

Peace can consume too many families' determination to forge ahead, but this is also the choice of the times.

In the past few years, the nobles have continuously waged wars with 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 the present, the younger generation enjoys peace and joy, among the hundreds of children in a certain old dog's family, only two or three have grown up, and the rest are all bastards who are proficient in eating, drinking and having fun. Peace makes them lose their fighting spirit and makes them mediocre, so mediocre that some people can hardly bear the signboard of "nobility"!

On the contrary, the strength of the civilian class has gradually become prominent. There are a large number of members from the civilian class in both the new party and the old party. For example, the current imperial new party whip Powers, he is a very typical civilian filming Representatives in high positions.

Now Magus and Kubal are still able to suppress these capable, courageous, and daring civilian members, but when their descendants, the current new generation, grow up and they lack the necessary means, they are very capable. It may be overturned to the ground by these forces from the civilian class.

This is the last thing Magus, Kubal, and even the current nobles want to see.

It doesn't make sense that after they struggled for hundreds of years, the power of this country was handed over to civilians, and then they were kicked aside, so that they might have to be liquidated.

The nobles lost their motivation, but the common people did not. The new era gave the common people more upward motivation, because this is an era of miracles. As long as you dare to fight hard, you may not have the opportunity to climb to the top of the tower!

Barr calmed down his slightly frustrated mood, and asked a question, "Are you sure you can completely assimilate Durin and stand on our side? You must know that he is also from the commoner class, and perhaps he has a deeper recognition of the commoner class." !"

Regarding this question, Magus did not hide and evade this time, but expressed his point of view openly, "He has great ambitions, as long as he has ambitions, it will be much easier. I have had enough of those security Young people who are waiting for the process to inherit the family business based on the status quo.”

"During's ambition will turn him and the interest groups around him into a new 'class', just like the first generation of nobles, their desire for power will make them vigilant against all possible subversives. "

"The times are always moving forward. Since we can't stop the big trends in the future, then we will join them!"

"Let more nobles become a new class, then nothing will change. The only thing that changes is that in this new class, there are more new faces and fewer old faces, but more vitality .”

"Doolin is a saury fish. If those children who are born and raised in the greenhouse do not want to be swallowed, the only thing they can do is to stand up and resist."

"Since we have no way to choose the future, let them leave the worst environment, either resist or perish!"

"And that's why we've done so many things over the years, isn't it?"