Chapter 856: Section 568: A Corner of History (Part 1)
After spending a week reviewing all the ledgers, Malin felt elevated—there were no errors in the books, every entry matched perfectly with the numbers in his mind, the so-called potential errors, or rats that might have crept in betraying the ladies, were nowhere to be found.
They were all nonexistent, all illusory, all empty talk.
What have I been doing this week, this was the question Malin was recently most adept at asking himself.
And he always failed to find an answer, how could he possibly find one? He had issued bonuses equivalent to half a year’s salary to the loyal old stewards, but these elders did not accept the bonuses, instead, they requested Mr. Malin to select some children of suitable age from his grandchildren to join the preparatory military academy.
This was a new benefit obtained by Malin from his father-in-law, His Majesty Goethe of Regensburg—establishing a preparatory military academy in Carterburg, entirely funded by Malin, to recruit children aged 4 to 8 for full-time military training.
That’s nonsense.
This is not the Royal Military Academy of Regensburg, that’s where military talents are truly nurtured; here at Malin’s, all students will join Malin’s troops after completing 8 years of education and undergo a major reorganization of his troops over the next twenty years, where young soldiers will be armed with the ideology of civilization—meaning, they are committed to protecting civilization, regardless of race or gender, sharing the same values that protect this planet under their feet.
Of course, they are also fighting for their families, each one having their own real faith.
They would be the guardians of the planet beneath them, warriors who would not retreat in battle for their families, and become good fathers, good mothers; their children, and their children’s children, will inherit everything they learned at that academy.
Perhaps such a future requires Malin’s generation to dedicate their entire lives to achieve or to contribute progressively towards such a splendid future.
Perhaps the future might not be as Malin imagines, because people change, everyone will experience different changes at different stages of their lives due to different things.