1 – To avoid admission to the academy (1)

“Ciel, you know well… The academy is a place that children of other nobles cannot go even if they want to. It is a place where you have prepared a lot because you also want to go. But why are you suddenly saying you won’t go?”

According to the setting in the novel, the academy has a high status in Korea as high as Seoul National University’s medical school or law school.

So even if you are a commoner, or even the humblest serf, as long as you graduate safely, you can enter the privileged class of society where you are treated as a semi-noble equivalent to an aristocrat.

Considering that among nobles, nobles who graduated from the academy receive preferential treatment if the title is the same, from the baron’s point of view, the decision I made is a crazy one.

“When you go to the academy, aren’t you taught etiquette, dignity, and swordsmanship that you need to learn as a knight? I think that if you are the lord of the Baron Territory, you should learn how to manage the territory better than those things.”

“Certainly, the ability as a knight is different from the knowledge and skills you need to learn as the lord of the barony. But, aren’t you only 15 years old now? First, learn the necessary skills as a knight at the academy for four years, and then learn the knowledge and skills as a lord from me before it’s too late.”

Normally, the son will change his mind after hearing his father say this.

“I was brief. So, first of all, I will go to the academy and study hard, and later I will learn how to govern the territory from my father.”

However, what if you knew that if you bend like this, you will be 100% destroyed?

If you bend over like that, you’re an idiot.

Aside from this, the academy is actually a graduate school combined with an aristocratic, vicious social church.

It’s 100 times better to prove my abilities and not go, than to go into such a place and suffer and be ruined.

“I think I already have all the skills I need to make a living as a knight. However, I think it is a waste of time to go to the academy and learn the dignity and etiquette of a knight again. So, from now on, I want to learn how to govern the territory in order to be of help to my father.”

Hearing that, the baron suppressed his anger, took a deep breath, and spoke.

“Now I know what you are thinking when you say this. However, I’m still only in my mid-40s and I’m in good shape. And I already have capable administrators under me, so don’t worry. So, Ciel, just think about going to the academy in Elysium, the imperial capital, learning hard, meeting many people, and making many good relationships.”

A good relationship is a piece of cake, although I don’t know the story until the end because it’s a novel that only unfolds in the beginning…

If you go in there, you will be beaten for being a baron in a rural area.

And then, from the academy’s lower nobles who are angry at the absurdity of the emperor, they will receive a proposal to raise a rebellion together.

Even if I entered the academy, I would reject all such offers, but even if I did not participate, the children of the lesser nobles of the academy would rebel.

What if the emperor, seeing this, decided to eradicate the seeds of rebellion by eliminating all the lower nobles attending the academy?

There is a high possibility that all students who are mere barons like us will be deprived of the right to inherit the title.

Ah, before that, thanks to the shoveling of the Countess of Nantes, the master of our baronial territory, the territory may disappear.

as set out in the novel.

So, with a sense of desperation, I told my father.

“Think soberly. We, the Kreutel family, are only barons. It is only in the county of Nantes that we are respected by everyone as the baron and his family, but if we go to the ecliptic, where all nobles gather, I am nothing but a baron, the heir to a baron in the countryside. But what kind of good relationship can I make there?”

Hearing this, the baron said in anger.

“So, you Ciel von Kreuttel should go to the academy! As long as your skills are recognized at the academy, our family will no longer be re-evaluated as a family with a qualified successor from a baron family stuck in a corner! After that, shouldn’t I return to the territory and assist the Swaine Youngsik as my successor?”

According to the setting in the novel, Schwein, the future Count of Nantes, was mentioned as a subhuman scum.

After graduating from the academy, there was no way I could rewrite such a person just because I was going to help.

It would be much more realistic to teach monkeys to study and send them to university.

Analyzing my situation so far… It is difficult to persuade the baron in front of me with words.

Now that this has happened, I’ll bring a definite result as the successor to the Baron’s territory, demonstrating my qualifications and ability to rule, so in return, I’ll have to use a method to get a promise that I won’t be sent to the academy.

After making up my mind, taking a deep breath… With a calm voice, he looked straight at the baron and said.

“Excluding our family, there are only six baronial families in Nantes. And I know that the baron, the head of the family, is all as capable as my father. So, that side will assist Youngsik. However, in our territory, except for my father, me, and the knights and administrators who own the territory, the nobles only know about fighting, don’t they?”

That’s why you can’t ask them to study and do administrative work.

This is because the nobles of this era only have the right to govern the rest of the work except for military work, and there are many cases where their practical skills are poor.

When the baron heard that, he let out a hushed voice, then spoke in an angry voice.

“That said, so far this territory has been well governed with just me and the magistrates. It will continue to be so, so hurry up and go to the academy to study!”

“No, as my father’s successor who rules this territory, I can’t just sit idly by. I want to help my father as soon as possible.”

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My thoughts are this.

From now on, I will claim to my father that I already have the ability to rule and revive the territory.

While doing so, he would put in a dill and get a small village.

After that, I have to use the knowledge of history I have to rapidly develop the territory I have been given.

Since I don’t know anything about this place right now, I’m going to wander around Baron Creutel and find out what I need to do to make a noticeable result right away.

“Ciel von Kreuttel, one last warning. Go to your room right away, get some self-restraint, and leave for the academy in two weeks!”

The baron’s anger had already reached the tip of his head, and his face was as red as a boiled octopus.

And he trembled with clenched fists.

So I spoke confidently in the loudest voice I could to show the baron that my will is strong and unchangeable.

“I can already risk everything to prove what I think.”

“Ciel… phone… Creutel… ”

With that said, the baron took the baton on his desk and strode toward me.

Seeing that, I knelt on one knee and bowed my head.

Then the baron stopped trying to hit me with the baton and said:

“You know what it means to get down on one knee and bow your head as a single knight… ?”

In this novel, or just anywhere in Europe, a knight or aristocrat kneeling on one knee and bowing his head is an attitude of swearing allegiance to his master.

Therefore, what I am saying now is not the private words of a son to his father, but a request to the lord at the risk of his own life.

And what this action means…

“Yes, if I am not responsible for my words, do as you wish. I will risk my life and honor.”

I said this, but I can’t kill you because I’m the only son in the baron’s lineage.

However, as a nobleman, if I can’t prove what I said, I will lose my honor.

And the loss of honor of an aristocrat is the same stigma as having a criminal record in our country.

Surprised by my actions, the baron was speechless and stammered while parenting.

“Father, I am serious. Give me a chance.”

Even at the moment I said that, a lot of knowledge that I had researched to publish as a thesis or a book already popped up in my head.

Technology, social systems, education, and culture that have dramatically developed world history, as evidenced by history.

In addition, the reform and training of the military system, which cannot be done without power, and the basis of many war theories proven through history.

If you make use of all these things, you will surely be able to make this estate rich.

The baron thought for a while, then struck me on the shoulder with a baton and said:

“Okay, Ciel. If so, I’ll give you a chance, so show your abilities as the heir to the Baron. And convince me.”

“Yes, Father.”

Now that this has happened, no matter what method is used, the baron will surely produce a surprising result.

By showing my abilities like that, I will survive well in this world.