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IV. [Children who like history]
Among the many trading merchants of the Free Planetary Alliance, Yang Willie's father, Yang Tailong, was famous for his dexterity. Deep in his irresistible smile, he harbored witty business wisdom, starting as a small merchant ship owner and becoming the head of a trading company, constantly accumulating wealth.
"I love money..." When my friend asked him the secret to his success, he always replied. Roll the money with money! Turn copper coins into silver coins, and silver coins into gold coins! That's it! ”
Looking at his serious tone, this seems to be true, and such an answer has also made him crowned as a "celebrity who uses money to roll money". Although the person who made this statement may not have any kind heart, Yang Tailong seems to be very intoxicated by this title.
In addition, Yang Tailong is also a collector of antique art. Paintings, sculptures, ceramics, etc. from the Predate era piled up in his mansion. As soon as he put down his job of commanding the interstellar merchant fleet in his office, he would stay at home, admire or wipe antique works of art, and wander around, busy!
I heard that when he chose the other half of his life, it was like choosing antique art. After divorcing his wasteful first wife, he married a well-known beauty who was the surviving member of a certain soldier. Later, their son, Willy Young, was born.
When it was reported that a baby boy had been born, Yang Tailong was staying in his study to wipe the antique vase, and after he listened, he stopped the work in his hand and seemed to mutter, "After I die, these art works are all from that boy!" ”
Said Bi continued to wipe.
When Yang Willy was five years old, his mother died. Acute heart disease took her life, but she has always been so healthy, so when she died suddenly, even Yang Tailong could not believe it.
At that time, he just happened to be in the study to wipe the antiques, as soon as he heard this bad news, the bronze lion in his hand could not help but lose his hand and fell to the ground, he picked it up while muttering a word, which was later passed on, and the relatives of the wife's side were furious after hearing it, and they were angry and angry - "Fortunately, I did not wipe the fragile antiques..."
After the separation of life and death, and the loss of two wives in succession, Yang Tailong no longer had the idea of getting married again. He gave his son to the maid's belt, but thus took up the maid's rest time and caused the maid's protest, so he simply let Little Yang Willy sit next to him and wipe the antiques together.
When the relatives of his deceased wife came to visit his house, they were shocked to see the father and son sitting in the study without a word wiping the antiques. They agreed that the child should be rescued from the irresponsible father. When they asked him which was important, his son or antiques, he replied, "It costs money to collect fine art!" ”
In other words, the son is actually free!
Hearing these words, the relatives of the deceased wife were furious and threatened to take the matter to court and settle it. Yang Tailong found that the situation was not good, and quickly carried his son alone on the interstellar merchant ship, and disappeared from the capital Heinesen. The relatives of the deceased wife never expected that they would even lose the opportunity to accuse their father of kidnapping their young son. Caught off guard, he had to start tracking the spacecraft again in the endless starry sky. The reason why Yang Tailong will take his son away from home is also helpless, perhaps this move also proves that he is a person with unique insights and opinions...
In this way, by the time Yang Weili was sixteen years old, he had spent most of his life on spaceships.
When Yang Weili first encountered the Wapu jump flight (hyperspace jumping voyage), his body was like a landslide, and he vomited and had a fever; later, after gradually getting used to it, he was very comfortable with his situation. His high interest in machines also gradually shifted to the historical aspect.
The teenager loved watching videotapes, reading new books, listening to stories from the past, and especially interested in Rudolph, the "most vicious usurper in history." When the people of the Free Planetary Alliance talked about Rudolph, they always described him as an "evil dictator", and the teenager listened to him and wondered - if Rudolf was really an unforgivable demon, why would people still support him and give him supreme power?
"Rudolph is a big bad guy!" The people just dare to be angry and dare not speak! ”
"Why do the people dare to be angry and dare not speak out?"
"I told you! Because Rudolph is a big bad guy! ”
This answer could not convince the teenager, but the father's opinion was a little different from that of ordinary people. His answer to his son was: "Because the people are good and bad!" ”
"Good or bad?"
Well, when the average person encounters a problem, he is not willing to solve it with his own energy, and they only expect the appearance of supermen or sages to bear all the pain, difficulties and obligations for them. Rudolf seized on this weakness of human nature and waited for an opportunity to become famous in one fell swoop. Remember: Those who give dictators the opportunity to take advantage of them are more responsible than the dictators themselves! Although the silent bystander did not support him, the silent bystander is actually the same as support... It's just..., you should focus on things that are more worthy of attention than these things..."
"Something to care about?"
"Money and art! Money can enrich materials, and art can beautify the mind! ”
Yang Tailong said that after all, he did not force his son to accept his career and interests, so Yang Willy drilled into the torrent of history step by step.
On the eve of his turn sixteen, his father, Yang Tailong, died in an accident in the spaceship's nuclear fusion furnace. At that time, his father had just promised him to apply for the history department of Heinesen Memorial University.
"Hmmm... All right! So far, there are no people who have made a lot of money from history! ”
In such a relaxed atmosphere, the father asked his son to choose his favorite direction.
"Money can't be ignored! With money, you don't have to whisper to nasty people or bend your back for five buckets of rice! Politicians are the same, as long as they can make good use of money, they can have great power! ”
Yang Tailong ended his career forty-eight years, leaving his son with a trading company and a large number of fine art.
After Yang Willy finished dealing with his father's affairs, inheritance, taxes and other mundane chores followed. And something unexpected happened! - Almost all of the art and antiques that my father painstakingly collected during his lifetime were counterfeit.
Government-sanctioned experts ruthlessly announced that etruscan pots, Rococo-style portraits, or bronze horses of the Han Empire were all worthless products.
Not only that, but all the rights that my father had in the company before his death were also mortgaged to repay debts. In the end, Yang and the mountains of broken copper and iron were discarded on the side of the road.
Like the childhood he was forced to spend on the spaceship, Yang Willie accepted his situation in a bitter smile mixed with sighs. However, he always felt strange that his shrewd and capable father did not even have an eye for his favorite art!
But then again, if my father deliberately collects counterfeits, maybe it's a mile! Anyway, from the beginning, Yang did not have the idea of inheriting his father's career, so although he kicked out his father's company now, he did not care.
And the real difficulties are still to come - Yang can't even pay the tuition fees for senior schools.
The long-term war with the Galactic Empire has put the national budget under the pressure of huge military expenditures, so the related education budgets of the humanities, etc., which have not directly contributed to the war, have been drastically reduced, making it more difficult to obtain scholarships. But Yang thought about it carefully, is there a school for free history? ...... yes! pregnant!
The Department of War History Studies of the National Defense Military School is! Yang rushed to apply before the deadline for registration, and the results of the examination, Yang barely passed with a result that was far from the top of the list.
Followed by Chapter 1 The Eternal Night V.
Dawn chapter