Lord of Industrialization

"Why did you boil the porridge again?"

After the woman's scream, there was a burst of scolding and the sound of slapping someone with the sole of her shoe.

In the room on the second floor, Frederick stopped writing, stretched his neck and waist, picked up the water glass and took a sip, looking out the window at the blue sky, sea and purple flowers blooming on the beach.

The tip of the pen is beating, spring has arrived.

Frederick lived on the island to write a book, so it was naturally impossible for him to live with Françoise, so he rented a small building by the sea.

This small building is the property of a small aristocratic family. The owner is a lawyer on the island, but he is not good at running the business and living a tight life, so he rents out this small building to tourists with a title. The servant is the family's Letizia His wife and second son Buwanaba.

Buwanaba is nine years old. He was quite diligent and quick in doing housework at first, but after he and Frederick went shopping in the city and bought a math book and an exercise book, he started to mess up things constantly.

It was also at this time that Frederick smelled the smell of paste coming from the kitchen on the first floor. He just shook his head slightly with a smile on his lips.

It was tea time, and the landlady, Mrs. Letizia, came over with tea. When Frederick walked downstairs, she had already set up tea and snacks in the pavilion in the garden.

Frederick walked to the pavilion, and a carriage stopped just in front of the door. Françoise got out of the car and walked to the pavilion with a basket.

After a period of rest and treatment, Françoise's health improved, the color of her face returned, and she no longer had any problems in daily life and walking.

When Françoise came to the pavilion, she saw Bouwanaba standing by the table with his head lowered, Frederick was looking at an exercise book seriously, and Mrs. Letizia was a little uneasy beside her.

Frederick closed his homework, nodded with satisfaction and said, "Yes, everything is right, let's forget about it today."

Buwanaba breathed a sigh of relief, a smile appeared on his face, and then his mother slapped him on the back of his head.

Françoise asked for the homework book, but she couldn't understand the straight lines, circles and triangles in it. She only knew that Frederick had praised the child several times for his talent in mathematics, especially geometry, and that he thought very seriously and had a bright future. Infinite.

She pretended to turn two pages seriously, turned around and said to Buyanaba with a smile: "My brother is currently preparing for a new military school. Are you willing to study there?"

Before Buyanaba could answer, Mrs. Letizia immediately agreed with a smile: "Yes, he is willing to go to Gaul!"

Mrs. Letizia was born into a minor aristocrat in the Principality of Liguria, Kingdom of Sardinia, so she was naturally familiar with things like hugging thighs.

She already knows the identities of these two people. Needless to say, the prestigious Duke of Wesson. The origin of Miss Françoise is not simple. Her brother Armand is now the secretary of His Royal Highness Henry, the Crown Prince of Gaul.

There are rumors that His Majesty King Louis of the Kingdom of Gaul is getting old. This year he began to form a team for His Majesty Louis. Armand is one of the Prince's confidants.

Buwan Naba is still young now, and it is estimated that when the king changes in ten years, he will be at the beginning of his career. Holding the golden thigh and making contributions under the new king will naturally get twice the result with half the effort.

What's more, Lady Letizia has many children.

Buwanaba is just an ordinary child, not a time traveler like Frederick. He behaves as ignorant as a normal child. After hesitating and hesitating, he asked a question in a bit of embarrassment: "The school there won't use it because of me." Are you laughing at me by writing with your left hand?"

He was left-handed, an outlier among children, and naturally became the object of ridicule by other children.

Bullying among children is common these days. The social atmosphere is that children deal with it themselves. If they are bullied, they will fight back. There is no saying that the younger ones bully the older ones.

Buwan Naba only had one eldest brother to help him, so he often lost in battles and had a very unhappy life.

Françoise smiled and said: "No, there are only good students who laugh at those with bad grades."

Buyanaba immediately agreed when he heard that no one would laugh at him, and said confidently: "I guarantee that my results will be the best!"

Frederick looked on with a smile and said nothing.

More than two hundred years later, decades of correspondence between Frederick and Françoise were compiled and published publicly. People saw in Frederick’s last letter to Françoise that he bluntly stated The thing I regret most in my life is that I didn't stop him at this time.

After mother and son leave, Françoise is going for a walk on the beach.

There is a kind of purple-flowered vine growing on the beach here where the tide cannot reach it. People and horses will trip over it if they walk by it. Françoise held up the hem of her skirt in one hand and helped Frederick walk through it. into this dangerous area.

The two walked on the beach for a while, and Françoise said: "I will settle on this island in the future."

"Ah?!" Frederick was stunned, "Something happened at home?"

El Chapo is just the nickname of this island. Its original name is Aralia Island, which belongs to the colony of the Principality of Liguria in the Kingdom of Sardinia. The island is mountainous and has limited arable land. Its main products are olive oil, goat cheese, some flower perfumes and salted fish. Occasionally, lucky fishermen can fish out water magic crystals from the bottom of the sea. The economic conditions are very poor.

Françoise's family belongs to the one who can stand in the front row of the King's meetings. The matter of suddenly opening a branch in a foreign country is very sensitive. Either she smells something and then sneaks into a new place, or the Kingdom of Gaul intends to get involved here. In short, it is not Little things.

In summary, her brother Armand is a member of the core group of the next king, and she has begun to win over the local small nobles. I am afraid that the Kingdom of Gaul has set its sights on the south after suffering a big loss at Lissenburg in the west, including the Kingdom of Sardinia. Arm wrestling at sea.

Frederick thought for a while. His development direction for a long time in the future was to the north. The inland sea was not his core interest. He just had to defend his wife's Citrus Island and Hayreading's maritime advantages on the south coast.

He suddenly thought that the Kingdom of Sardinia had previously sold Citrus Island to his wife for a good price. Did the royal family want a quick sum of money to deal with the Kingdom of Gaul's move south?

The military tradition of the Kingdom of Sardinia is different from that of other countries. The main force of the army is Sardinian mercenaries who are good at defense. Vassals are not required or prohibited from retaining large armies and fulfill their feudal obligations in the form of war taxes.

This makes the strength of the royal family directly proportional to the weight of their purses. The more money, the stronger the strength.

Frederick thought about it for a while and then stopped thinking about it. After returning from this trip, he would focus on things in the north, and just keep paying attention here.

Françoise continued to tell him: "My health is not good now. This disease can easily relapse as soon as it snows. I can only live in the south for a long time."

Frederick nodded and said, "I will push for the construction of a telegraph tower here."

Françoise blushed slightly, thinking in her heart that he spent a huge amount of money to build a telegraph tower here to have more contact with her.

Frederick did not explain much.

Spring is getting stronger and summer is beginning to heat up.

Life on the island was very peaceful. Frederick wrote manuscripts every morning and accompanied the visiting Françoise in the afternoons. From time to time, they went fishing together in a small boat.

While Frederick was busy writing, the Danube River had just thawed in its entire basin, and the first fleet of spring boats sailed upstream to the city of Weissenburg.

The guests from the south came to a strange land full of curiosity, and three of them seemed a little different in temperament.