Steel, Guns, and the Industrial Party that Traveled to Another World

After nearly 10 days of long journey, Hansel and Alda's grain transport team finally arrived at Jingyao, the capital of the king.

He first led the team to the warehouse area that was still under repair, handed over the grain to the management staff, and then arranged food and lodging for the team members before saying goodbye and leaving. The grain transport team will return to the northwest bay on their own after a tour of the capital, while Hansel hurriedly returned to his long-lost home with his servant Tommen.

Although he learned from letters that his family was safe and had returned to the capital from relatives, he missed them very much after being separated for so long.

It was almost evening at this time. After entering the Abbott family's mansion, the servants saw that the second young master had returned and saluted him one after another. After entering the hall, there were already three people waiting for him inside-two middle-aged women and a young girl.

The three women all showed a look of joy, and the young girl said happily: "Brother is back."

He looked at his mother among the three at first sight.

The woman's eyes, which already had crow's feet, were gleaming with crystal tears. After learning about the rebellion of the city guards from her relatives, she lost her appetite and could not sleep every night because of worrying about her son's safety. Later, she finally received a letter of safety, but it said that he was assigned to the Northwest Bay as a royal commissioner.

According to the legend of the Crystal Lady circle, the northwest of the kingdom is a poor place full of unruly people, and the level of civilization is only slightly higher than that of the barbarian tribes in the eastern highlands. Merciful Heavenly Father, how could you let little Hansel go there?

Hansel could not hide his excitement and wanted to say hello to his mother immediately, but before that he had to do another thing. He turned to another woman and saluted, "Mother Mary, long time no see, I hope you are healthy." That was his stepmother, his father's principal wife.

Mrs. Abbott nodded gracefully to Hansel and said with a smile: "Hansel, it's great that you can come back safely. Your mother has lost a lot of weight because she misses you."

Hansel then turned to his biological mother Miranda and said, "Mom, I'm back." Then he was hugged tightly by his excited biological mother. "It's good to be back, it's good to be back..." Miranda hugged her son, and tears flowed down uncontrollably.

After being let go by his mother, Hansel hugged his sister Julie again. This lovely girl was also very happy that her brother came home.

Before dinner, his father, Earl Abbott, who served in the royal government, came back, and his brother, who was born to his stepmother, was unable to go home because he served in the royal guard.

The family had dinner happily, listened to Hansel's stories about the northwest, and enjoyed the joy of family.

After dinner, Earl Abbott took his son to his study and talked to him about his experience in the northwest again, but this time the content mainly revolved around his son's new position as a royal commissioner. Hansel told his father about his experience as a royal commissioner, but of course he concealed the fact that he was scared away by pirates.

When he said that he planned to cooperate with local lords to produce more war materials for the royal family to suppress the rebellion, Earl Abbot shook his head: "It's difficult. The people's livelihood in the northwest is in decline, and there is no money to be made. The lords there are lucky to be able to feed their own people."

Hansel planned to persist: "How do you know if you don't try?"

Earl Abbot thought about it and said to Hansel: "Or... I'll go to the royal family and see if I can transfer you back to Jingyao. There are always more opportunities in the royal capital." He knew that his second son had some ambitions in his heart, but he was bound by the other half of his blood.

Not to mention a month ago, even 10 days ago when Hansel just led the grain transport team from Huxin Town, he would grab it without hesitation when he heard that he had the opportunity to be transferred back to the royal capital. But on the way back to the capital, he thought a lot. Instead of squeezing through a narrow bridge in the capital full of nobles, it is better to go to the vast border of the kingdom to show his strength.

He told his father his thoughts, and the earl stopped talking when he saw that he was so persistent. The father and son continued to talk about the current situation for a while, and Hansel left to find his mother and sister. They also had a lot to say to him.

Count Abbott looked at his son with guilt as he left.

Twenty-eight years ago, he and a group of friends got drunk and stayed in a brothel. A year later, a woman who couldn't even remember her appearance came to his house with a child. Just when he thought she was a blackmail liar and wanted to kick her out, she accurately described some private features of his body.

According to the practice of ordinary nobles, either continue to insist that the other party is a liar and kick him out, or pay a maintenance fee to send people away, but Count Abbott did something that surprised the noble circle in the capital-taking a prostitute as a concubine.

The incident caused a lot of uproar and became a laughing stock for a while. It would have been fine if he had played with a prostitute, but he actually allowed her to enter his house because of a child he didn't even know if he was his own.

The news reached the king's ears. Rodney XVI personally summoned Earl Abbott and severely reprimanded him for losing the face of the kingdom's nobles, and asked him to carefully consider the seriousness of the consequences.

After the king's persuasion failed, a young nobleman who originally had a bright future was kicked out to sit on the bench in a low-income government office like the Heraldry Academy.

Fortunately, the count's well-born wife did not make as much fuss as others had speculated. This kind-hearted lady finally accepted the mother and son after initial anger, confusion and a long cold war with her husband.

There is no doubt that Hansel was often looked at with colored glasses when he was growing up, especially those of his peers who came from high-class families and had pure aristocratic blood. They were "son of a whore", "son of a bitch" and so on. The number is always with him.

Although Earl Abbott finally obtained the title of baron for his son with the help of family shadow and financial offensive, the other half of Hansel's blood still caused him to suffer setbacks in his career. After studying, as the son of an earl, he only served as a small tax officer, and his responsibility was still at the farms in the suburbs of the royal capital.

But precisely because of this, Hansel got along well among the low-level nobles and officials from civilian backgrounds.

There is no mistake. One post, one content, one 6 one, one book, one book, one read!

Earl Abbott could only give so much to his concubine son. As an Earl, while enjoying the power, honor, wealth and other benefits brought by the aristocratic system, he was also firmly bound by this system. Having a prostitute as his sidekick has already made him a target of public criticism. If he continues to break the rules, he will only make the entire Abbott family implicated by him.

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After Hansel said good night to his mother and sister, he returned to his room and carefully considered the task Paul had given him. He took out a piece of paper and filled it with the groups Paul wanted to recruit.

"Only people who can read and do arithmetic, teachers, magicians, and alchemists. This Earl has a really big appetite."

He spread out another piece of paper on his desk and planned to find a suitable candidate among the people he knew. Who should be the first people to look for? He thought for a while, picked up the quill in the ink bottle, and wrote the first name on the paper...

When I first started writing this book, I planned to give Hansel a more tragic family background, such as a cold father, a mean mother, and oppression from his eldest brother. However, I changed my mind temporarily when I was writing this chapter. After all, the novel also has to There is warmth.