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Chapter 501 The Slave Who Puts the Kingdom in Danger (Gageng)
The words of the wishing sage before his departure left a deep impression on Maxwell, and the Earl, who was dedicated to guarding the frontier, decided to try to focus on their neighbors.

Limited by poor traffic and information, Maxwell didn't pay much attention to the steam technology mastered by the dwarves before he was reminded. He is a human being after all. From a human point of view, a dwarf is a machine that loves to toss race, no matter how novel machinery they come up with, it doesn't deserve too much attention.

What's more, despite the friction between the Golan Kingdom and Karl Lund, they have always communicated with each other, and the trade is stable. The ore, machinery, and steel were brought to Golan, and the two countries lived in peace for a hundred years. Almost everyone felt that the peace would last forever.

Because of this, even the battle-tested Maxwell wasn't very wary of Karl Londe.

But the words of the wishing sage cannot be underestimated. After pondering, Maxwell sent some trusted soldiers to go deep into Karl Lond for a two-month investigation.

The earl sent a total of six soldiers across the border to Karlrond. One of them died on the road due to an accident. Two of them inspected the border of Karlrond. Later, they brought news that surprised Maxwell.

"Steam trains? Steam hydraulic forging machines? And ships with furnaces? What are those?!"

When Maxwell first heard about the steam machine, he was just surprised and didn’t feel any sense of crisis. After all, he had never seen a steam machine, and he had never lived in Calrond, but a soldier who investigated the border brought him The news back shows that the coal produced by Karl Lund's coal mine has increased significantly.

Yes, Maxwell doesn’t understand steam engines, but he knows the importance of coal. Having been on the battlefield, he knows how many weapons a ton of good coal can forge. He saw from the news brought by the soldiers that the dwarves have already Earth-shaking changes began to take place, and some unprecedented huge machines began to appear, and gradually replaced the manpower of dwarf craftsmen.

Maxwell was very worried about this. Although he felt that the possibility of the dwarves going to war against Golan was not high, it was by no means impossible. Even if the dwarves of Calrond would not invade the Helong Mountains, who would want the kingdom to fight? What about a powerful neighbor emerging nearby?
The earl dutifully wrote a serious letter and sent it to the royal city, and convened the nobles and gentry under his command in the capital of the territory to discuss countermeasures.

It’s just that the development of things often backfired. The letter Maxwell sent to the king’s city seemed to sink into the sea. The king didn’t even reply to the letter in person. He didn’t receive a reply letter written by the Minister of the Seal three months later. , and the nobles and gentry in the territory are not interested in strengthening border defenses, training militias, etc. In their view, the two countries have lived in peace for a long time, and those military actions are not only a waste of manpower and material resources, but may also stimulate Arriving at Karl Londe, affecting the trade between each other, even if Maxwell made a strong request, those nobles and gentry would obey and obey.

"Lord Earl, these worries are unnecessary. We feel that the best way to maintain peace is to pray to the patron saint of merchants to ensure that all trade transactions go smoothly."

At the meeting, a baron said politely.

Maxwell was furious, but it was hard to get angry. He understood that for the nobles and gentry who were used to peace, his worries were unnecessary. In the eyes of the nobles and squires, this old general was too surprised. At first glance, he doesn't look like an earl, but rather a rough man who is keen on war.

The indifference of the princes and the opposition of the nobles and squires were enough to upset Maxwell, what made him even more unacceptable was the complaints from his wife and children.

"Look, how many bards did you send away last month? Nearly half! Just to save money and recruit soldiers!

You don't know how bored I am without these poets, especially the poet of Farus, who sang so sweetly about the goddess of the dawn, you drove him away before he finished, and now I I'm bored here and panicking, I'm about to get moldy! "

The wife’s accusations are more annoying than mosquito bites. Even though Maxwell reiterated over and over again how important it is to save money to maintain armaments, the latter is still unyielding, and finally even accused his lover in front of the children. No doubt Maxwell was furious.

So, Maxwell, who was in his 50s, had a big fight with his wife, who was in her 30s. When the old earl was in a hurry, he broke his wife's favorite vase, and the next day, his wife packed her luggage. , led a few underage children back to the fiefdom of their hometown.

Maxwell suffered more setbacks in this year than in the previous ten years combined. Apart from praying to Skadi and other gods, the distressed old earl went to his lover for comfort.

"You are too old and pedantic... How can the gods, especially Lorest, the protector of merchants, sit back and watch the war happen here?"

Maxwell's lover didn't understand him either,

"You are nearly sixty years old, it's time to calm down."

He was nearly sixty years old, which was old enough for a human being. Maybe in a few years, Maxwell would die and go to the underworld to be judged.

"I can't just sit back and watch Golan be in danger. If I do that, I will be an earl, and I will fail the king."

Maxwell said softly,

"Speaking of which, do you know the origin of the name Golan?"

The lover said slowly:
"Gran, means 'glory from the gods,' doesn't it?"

Maxwell sneered,
"I thought so when I was younger, until my grandpa told me it was all bullshit."

His lover who was 26 years younger than him looked at him curiously, and then said:
"That's amazing, so what's the truth?"

Maxwell lowered his voice and said:
"In the name of the Goddess of Winter, let me tell you that the Golan Kingdom...was a tribe a long time ago, and it was called the Huoan'a tribe at that time. Later, this tribe was conquered by a big country. The people of that great country call it Golan, which means 'slave who puts the kingdom in danger'.

Later, that great country was at war with a great country that worshiped Skadi, the former was conquered by the latter, and the latter liberated our ancestors by the way, and our ancestors were founded from this, and at that time, the name 'Hoana' was already No one uses it anymore, and instead it is known as 'Gran'. "

"So... the meaning of Golan is not glory, which is attached to by later generations, but slaves, slaves who put the kingdom in danger."

(End of this chapter)