On April 7, the 591st year of the Holy Light Calendar, Blovik returned to the Veblen Manor in Lanhu Town.
What gives Claude a headache is that his younger brother Brovik is not coming back with the original team. He has brought back nearly sixty boys and girls. It sounds nice to say boys and girls, but in fact these more than sixty underage people
The children are all street children, the oldest is sixteen years old, the youngest is only seven years old, and five or six of them are disabled children...
Claude's mother and Kaifuni were both stunned. They didn't know what to do when they saw the large group of street children in front of them. Butler Alrick and his two servants could only smile bitterly. They originally returned to the kingdom to deal with the family property.
A journey was abruptly turned into a journey to take in homeless children by Master Blovik. As a servant, he had no way to object and could only do his best to help these homeless children return to the manor smoothly.
However, Blovik didn't care about other people's faces at all. After returning to the manor with this large group of street children, he ordered the servants to boil water for everyone to take a bath, go to the clothing store to buy clothes, have the kitchen prepare food, and also provide food for everyone.
All the homeless children prepared bedrooms for them to have a good rest, which kept the servants in the entire manor very busy.
By the time Claude returned to the manor, these street children had already had dinner, bathed and put on new clothes. Many children were playing in the open space of the manor. People who didn't know better thought they had entered a certain campus.
.Even the big man, Germi, was stunned for a long time. He looked around carefully and confirmed that this was the Veblen Manor before escorting the carriage into the gate.
Soon the two brothers met in the study, but Blovik was accompanied by a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old.
"Second brother, she is Old Soft's daughter Adele..." Blovik introduced the girl next to him to Claude.
Old Soft, Claude knew, was a well-known old master sergeant of the Thunder Division who also transferred to the Thunder Division from the Ranger Division. He had been in the army for nearly 20 years. If he could read, he would not be able to read.
He would always be a sergeant major, maybe already with the rank of lieutenant. But in the Third Colonial War, Old Soft died on the battlefield to cover Blovik after sneaking into the enemy camp, and Blovik this time
Half of the reason for returning to the kingdom was to deal with the family business in White Deer City, and the other half was to find the wife and children that Old Soft had left behind in his hometown.
Soon Claude found out why his younger brother Blovik brought back so many street children. It turned out that Blovik went to Old Soft's hometown and discovered that things have changed. Six years ago, Old Soft
After Soft followed the Rangers to the Overseas Territory of Nubisia Continent, he left behind his wife and three children, a daughter and two sons, in his hometown. The money he left to his family was enough to support his wife and children.
passable...
However, something unexpected happened. In the third year, Old Soft's youngest child became seriously ill. His wife went to seek medical treatment for her youngest son's illness. Unfortunately, she found a liar pharmacist and spent a lot of money, but her condition worsened.
It got worse and worse, and finally the younger son died of the illness, and the liar pharmacist also ran away. His wife couldn't bear the blow and lay down. The family had no backbone, and the only choice was thirteen-year-old Adele.
At this time, a relative of Old Soft took an interest in their house, and started lending money to them at high interest rates on the pretext of helping them treat his wife's illness. When the debt finally reached a high level, he tore off the mask of hypocrisy and used
Their house was in debt and they were driven out. Old Soft's wife was so angry and regretful that she died without a breath.
Adele, who was only fourteen years old, became a homeless wanderer, dependent on her only brother, and fought with other street children in order to snatch the discarded food in the garbage dump. By this time, Blovik
When they went to find the two siblings, Adele had already become the eldest sister of nearly twenty street children in their hometown town...
Blovik told Adele about the death of her father, Soft. Adele was indifferent and did not shed a single tear. She said that if Soft had passed away and there had been no news for so many years, she would have regarded him as dead.
After he died, she had no father for a long time, and her life is very good now...
Blovik couldn't stand it. Old Soft died to protect him. He wanted to give Adele and her siblings a new life, without having to wander around the city and look for food in garbage dumps. But Adele
Otherwise, she didn't want to go back to the mainland of Nubisia with Brovik. In the end, Brovik pestered her for several days and finally convinced her by asking her brother to have a happy tomorrow.
It was only because Adele made a request that Blovik should take in the twenty or so street children who were following her, that she and her brother would follow Blovik. Blovik didn't even frown.
He agreed. However, Adele was not that worry-free. Perhaps she deliberately tested Blovik. She would take in the homeless children whenever she saw them on the way back. As a result, when they were about to board the ship in White Deer City,
, the number of street children following Blovik actually reached more than 60 people...
Claude was very surprised. When did the kingdom have so many wandering children? Blovik explained that he had already conducted an inventory when he was on the ship. Most of these wandering children were casualties of the five-year war in the eastern region.
Among the orphans of soldiers, a few were disabled because they were abandoned by their families, while the rest had their fathers killed in battle, their mothers remarried or died of illness, etc. In the end, they either ran away from home or were homeless and wandering around.
Blovik decided to adopt these street children, most of whom were twelve or thirteen years old. He wanted them to go to school and find a way out in the future. As for the cost, he felt that he had gained from the Hicks Kingdom that he had stashed away.
The proceeds from military expenditures are enough to nurture these children into adulthood. From this point of view, although Blovik's temper is sometimes irritable and unreasonable, his heart is very good, which makes Claude very happy.
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Claude waved his hand and asked Brovik to take the girl Adele out first, and then think about how to deal with these street children. There is no big problem for the Adele siblings. Her father is Old Soft, Thunder
The sergeant major of the legion, not to mention anything else, just the immigration admission qualification and personal property land exchange can allow their brothers and sisters to obtain fifty acres of fertile land, enough to build a small farm. And Claude will repay Old Sauv.
Thanks to the life-saving grace given to his younger brother Blovik, there was no problem in building a 100-acre farm.
But the remaining sixty or so street children are difficult to deal with. First of all, they are not the orphans of the Thunder Legion or the Rock Legion soldiers. This immigration treatment cannot take care of them. Secondly, Claude will never allow his younger brother Blovik to adopt them.
They, because the younger brother has not yet married, he is still single. If he adopts so many street children, it will probably have a great impact on his future marriage. This is not a question of whether there is money to cultivate them, but whether there is any money to cultivate them.
The unmarried young lady would be willing to be the godmother of so many street children.
Claude pulled the bell rope to summon the housekeeper Yarik into the study. What he wanted to know was why the housekeeper Yaric didn't stop his brother Blovik from taking in so many street children.
But Claude didn't expect Butler Alrick to give an unexpected answer. Butler Alrick said that Master Blovik seemed to have special feelings for Miss Adele, and he indulged Miss Adele.
She did everything she wanted to do, even if she was pranked, she didn't care, just like a brother pampering his sister, so he maintained a tacit attitude towards her taking in street children all the way.
As the butler of the Field family, Butler Alec should have stood up to stop Miss Adele's misbehavior. However, considering the lack of manpower in the Field family, Butler Alec decided to agree with Master Blovik's approach of taking in these street children.
.Many old aristocratic families have sufficient talent preparation in all aspects. They mainly select their children from the servants of the family for generations to train and leave them to their children and grandchildren in the future.
The Field family only prospered in Claude's generation. The family lacked capable manpower and confidants. Now the servants are all hired from outside, and it is difficult to guarantee their loyalty. Therefore, Butler Yarick believes that Master Blovik
These homeless children taken in are not an opportunity. If they can be trained into talents, it will naturally be more suitable than hiring people from outside.
These street children are already suffering from lack of food and clothing at such a young age. If Claude is willing to spend money to train them, I believe they will be full of gratitude to Claude and the Field family. Then it will only take five or six years.
Then you can have a group of capable people who are loyal to the Field family. Even if they are not talented, they are still capable of serving as the family's servants and attendants.
Claude nodded. Butler Alrick's words were the words of a mature man seeking a country. Maybe he was just persuading himself based on the practices of those old noble families, but this was not a good way to strengthen the strength of the Field family.
It's funny to say that Claude has never thought of doing this before. Just like in the army, he has climbed through life and death to get to where he is now. As a lieutenant general of the kingdom and the commander of the Thunder Legion, but in the army, his true confidant
That's just Mike Jack, the big man Germi, his younger brother Blovik, as well as Belklin, Murray Ed, and Diavid. Although their status is getting higher and higher, sometimes they feel that no one is available.
,The main reason is the issue of mutual trust...
Asking Butler Yaric to recruit his younger brother Blovik, Claude told him his decision. The family would adopt these street children, but they would not be allowed to stay at Veblen Manor, but would be sent to his sister Anna.
We hire various teachers to teach them how to read, write, and exercise on the ranch, just like our family runs a national primary school and middle school on the ranch.
In addition, Claude asked Brovik to take these children to Anna's Ranch tomorrow and secretly test their magic talents. If they have any, they will be selected for magician training. The Field family needs to master a magic power.
Even if you can't be trained into a battle mage, it would be good to find some magic assistants for your sister Anna and Lady Sonia...
In addition, in view of what happened to Adele and his brother, Claude ordered Blovik to settle the street children in the ranch, and then work with Michael to make arrangements for the families of all the soldiers of the Thunder Division who died in the colonial war.
During a return visit, if any orphans are found, they will be brought to the ranch and the Field family will raise them into adults.
Blovik happily accepted the task given to him by Claude, and went out to put the wandering children to bed, preparing to set off to the ranch after breakfast tomorrow morning. Claude promised to adopt these wandering children in the name of the family.
It made him relieved, otherwise, it would be a headache for Blovik to discipline so many street children every day...
The next day, Claude, his brother Blovik, and Butler Yaric brought these wandering children to Anna's ranch. From now on, these wandering children will live here. Their study and life will naturally be controlled by Yaric.
Butler Rick came to make arrangements. What Butler Alrick said last night made Claude include him in the list of trustworthy confidants. This was very good news for Butler Alrick. He finally
Let Claude trust himself.
Both McJack and his younger brother Blovik were sent to complete the task of paying a return visit to the relatives of the fallen soldiers. They only needed to go to the logistics department to check the list of the victims. Then they would arrange personnel according to the address to pay a return visit and notify their immediate family members.
Immigrate to overseas territorial war zones to receive the victim's immigration admission qualifications and personal property land exchange. If there are no immediate relatives, you must also find a way to bring the victim's orphans back to Claude. The Field family will take care of these orphans.
Raised.
Originally, General Skerry proposed to give the same immigration admission qualifications and personal property land exchange to the family members of all soldiers who died in the colonial war, which was approved by all the generals in the theater command. However, the Logistics Department's approach only gave those soldiers who died in the colonial war the same immigration qualifications and land exchange for personal property.
The family members sent a military mail to inform them of this incident.
But Claude suddenly realized that there was something very wrong with this approach. If a tragedy like Adele's sister and brother happened to the family members of the soldiers who died, not only would they not receive the letter, but there might also be someone else
Pretending to be family members of fallen soldiers came to claim the immigration qualifications and personal property land replacement.
Claude then arranged for Michael Jack and his younger brother Browett to deal with matters related to the fallen soldiers of the Thunder Legion. It happened that the Legion was implementing the rotation of family leave for junior officers, which allowed these junior officers to personally visit and notify the homes of the fallen soldiers.
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General Skerry and General Bolognik must be informed about this matter. Claude can make decisions regarding the Thunder Legion, but it is difficult for Claude to intervene in the Rock Legion. In addition, General Skerry must strictly implement the last inquiry.
pass to prevent people from pretending to be family members of fallen soldiers and taking advantage of them.
After arranging these things, Claude then discussed the development of this long rifle with his sister Anna and Mrs. Sonia. Thanks to the standardized production of copper-cased bullets, Mrs. Sonia can make various barrels as much as she likes.
Structural firing test, the development of long rifles has made great progress. Now the long rifle with the lever structure closest to what Claude mentioned has been formed, but the gun body is still very bloated and heavy, and it takes time to complete.
Trim it slowly.
What pained Claude was that Master Bird completely ignored the development of this long rifle. The old man was completely obsessed with the firepower machine and had a great time staying in the iron ore workshop every day. Claude had
The old man once told him the difference between a thermal engine that relies on hot air expansion to push the connecting rod to operate and a steam engine that relies on steam to push the connecting rod to operate. Then the old man has been thinking about making a steam engine. Because the thermal engine made by the iron ore workshop has
The thermal efficiency utilization rate is very low, and it takes a long time to burn the fire to make the thermal machine run...
After returning to Veblen Manor in the evening, I found that Mr. Veblen had arrived and brought Claude the latest news about the royal capital. Of course, this latest news refers to what happened more than twenty days ago.
Lin Shishi has been buried in the royal cemetery. The remaining major event in the kingdom is the enthronement ceremony of Prince Widlek. However, this enthronement ceremony has been postponed repeatedly. The main reason is that the big guys in the royal capital are worried about Widlek here.
As soon as the prince ascended the throne, Prince Hansback declared himself king and started a rebellion...
It is worth noting that mutinies occurred almost at the same time in the two new standing corps stationed in the three southern counties of the former Eskiline Principality and in the original Limodra Principality. Just like the Blue Feather Legion, the soldiers and grassroots officers expelled
The senior officers of the two legions announced that they would obey the orders of Prince Hansback. As a result, the prince already had nearly 200,000 troops in three legions in his hands...