Chapter 28 The First Meeting
After Armand was shopping in a certain jewelry store, a certain clothing store, and a certain glass product store, he suddenly realized that if he didn’t complete this trip quickly, he would have to hunt Warcraft all the way. I earned my travel expenses and returned home, so I immediately went to visit Frederick.
“We admire the bravery, fearlessness, and loyalty of Count Henry Wesson.” Armand said to Frederick in proficient Rhineland. “I have recently heard about the unjust acts of King William of your country. We are extremely indignant and hereby entrust me as a representative to help Count Wesson's family overcome this difficulty."
Frederick has often heard that the Kingdom of Gaul is free and romantic and advocates all virtues.
In the past, what I heard was false and I didn’t care. But now what I saw is true, and I was shocked.
On the coffee table between the two of them was a money bag made of purple silk, filled with gold coins.
Frederick did not look at the money bag in front of him and replied sincerely: "I would like to thank His Excellency Armand and all the Gallic friends for their concern. The Weisen Territory is indeed facing some difficulties at present, but I believe that with the efforts of everyone in the territory, we will successfully overcome this difficulty."
Armand carefully observed every move of Frederick, trying to see through this child, who was not much older than himself.
The news he heard when he came to Wesson Territory was very different from what he saw and heard after arriving here. The people here did not panic and turmoil because the lord was young and there was a conspiracy outside. Instead, they live and work in peace and contentment, are full of hope for the future, and there are even endless ways to make money in a reasonable way.
As a pillar of the younger generation of the family and a favorite of the king, Armand received educational resources that were unmatched by ordinary people. A prosperous town was his classroom.
It was precisely because of his experience in governing a place that he could understand the difficulty of governing Wesen Territory after calming down.
In terms of calming people's hearts, he doesn't think that he can do it with just a few songs. There must be something behind it that he doesn't know.
However, for a while, he only saw that Frederick's clothes were... low-key and simple, but he looked quite energetic.
"Baron Wesson is not very old. This is his advantage. He has not been baptized by luxury life. He can withstand a simple life and save a lot of expenses."
Al Mang concluded the first one in his mind.
Meanwhile, Frederick was smiling and murmuring in his mind.
He couldn’t understand what the Kingdom of Gaul was doing. His father’s fans sent him hundreds of gold coins?
The reason for giving money is that you are being cheated by your own king?
What does this make other people think and what does the king think? Is it true that the Wesson family is collaborating with the enemy?
The meowing sound is probably a plot to divorce, right?
He suddenly found that he really couldn't understand such creatures as "fans", no matter which world they were from.
However, this is almost two kilograms of gold coins. You can’t let people take them back, all the way.
With the help of polite words, Frederick made a decision.
Anyway, the king has already broken up with him, so just accept the money.
As for other things, as long as the publicity is in place, even if they say it is a bribe or something, people will only think that they were forced by the situation to lie.
Moreover, Armand has not said his last name yet, and he did not say his last name when reporting his name as a "fan". He obviously regarded this as a personal behavior.
After the polite words between the two ended, Armand asked: "I have a question, and I wonder if your Excellency can answer it for me?"
Frederick nodded slightly and replied: "Your Excellency, please "Said."
Armand asked: "How did you unite the people in the Weisen Territory when it faced a huge crisis?" Frederick was startled, and he did not expect this question. .
"It's very simple." He replied, "Satisfy their needs."
Armand said in surprise: "But people's desires are endless. To satisfy everyone's needs is tantamount to Fill up the sea.”
Frederick didn’t refute, just smiled and said “Yes” without further explanation, and couldn’t explain it.
At present, psychology is only a branch of philosophy, with various theories. Since statistics is not introduced, many studies treat individual examples as generalizations, so there is no mainstream thought.
You propose a humanism, and the opponents can bring a dozen or twenty negative examples in front of you to debate with you, and then ask you whether this is objective enough, and it is not enough to pull two carriages of people over.
It is very difficult to explain Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to people here, let alone using psychology to guide the development of the field.
At the same time, in order to absorb the incoming disaster victims, Frederick began to try to break the regional ethnic concepts attached to the feudal system and build a more trendy thing like nationalism.
He is now relying on the recently emerging maltose and steel trade to back up the promise that the canal will be able to meet everyone's money needs after its opening. Uniting internally and all those who can be united has made the morale within the Wesen Territory continue to rise.
Armand was thinking in his heart that these things were not something that a child like Frederick could think of, so he just made an excuse without knowing the details. After being exposed, he couldn't continue talking.
In Wesenberg, if the Sword Master Richard Nar had this political knowledge in his mind, he would have become a Duke long ago, so there must be an expert behind Baron Wessen.
It’s just that we don’t know who this expert is. He is most likely one of the scholars from Constantbul.
When there was civil strife in Constantinople, many people fled, including many famous scholars and consultants unknown to outsiders. Each of these people was talented, spoke with reason, and could speak wherever they went. Reuse.
Armand felt a little itchy for a while, it would be great if he could invite such a person back.
In order to meet this master, he stayed here for three days. As a result, he saw no one else beside Frederick except a senior gang leader from the south of the Kingdom of Sardinia. .
The day before Armand left, Frederick gave him a gift.
"What is this?" Armand looked at the things in front of him curiously.
It was a regular hexagonal wooden box made of expensive wood and beautifully decorated. There were glass flower patterns in six different colors on the lid.
Open the lid and you will see a pair of glass checkers. The board and chess pieces are made of colored glass. Different colors of chess pieces correspond to different flowers.
With a formulaic smile on his face, Frederick said: "This is checkers, a small game that can be played by yourself or six people. I gave it to Françoise. ”
Armand was well-informed, and Frederick asked him to talk about the outside world when he was free these days.
As he talked, he talked about his sister Françoise, a little girl three years older than Frederick.
Frederick was preparing to take the initiative to greet the victims, which required him to establish a good relationship with the local lords, for which he prepared many small and polite gifts.
Because two lords had children around the same age as themselves, the gift included two pairs of newly invented checkers.
It would not be appropriate for Armand to come all the way here and let him go back empty-handed, but Frederick didn’t have many gifts to offer, so he gave this beautiful and interesting glass checkers as a gift. For his sister, he is decent both inside and outside.
It turns out that in this era of lack of money for entertainment, a little mental game like checkers is quite popular. After Armand learned the rules, he played with his left hand against his right hand all night long.
(End of this chapter)