Chapter 117 Family Happiness
Constantine nodded with relief: "Yes, listen to me, it won't do you any harm anyway. After you have experienced a lot in the future, you will naturally agree with these words."
Constantine never considered that his son was holding his fart in and was about to meddle in other people's family affairs.
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Soon, the carriage stopped at the gate of the school district. Yes, this area is now called the school district.
This year, Ernst expanded the campus to accept orphans from Paraguay and Germany.
At the beginning, Ernst had never imagined that there were so many orphans in Germany. Now the Hechingen School has become a veritable orphanage.
The total number of orphans in Heixingen was close to 20,000, all of whom were accepted by several schools built by the Heixingen royal family.
You have to know that the entire Hechingen has only a few tens of thousands of residents, and now Hechingen has become the largest orphanage in Germany.
And as the number of orphans in Paraguay increases, Ernst also wants to set up a single school to teach these Paraguayan children German.
As for the Far Eastern orphans at the Hechingen Military Academy, they were actually quite old, many of them were teenagers, and their main purpose was to train translation talents for the colonies.
Of course, there are younger ones, but they do not go to military academies, but ordinary German schools.
At present, there are four schools under construction and expansion in Heixingen, with ten completed buildings, all of which are teaching buildings and dormitories.
Among them, the Hechingen Military Academy is mainly for older orphans, while the other three schools are for younger orphans.
As a crash course school, the Hechingen Military Academy also served as a secondary school, and many students who were not particularly good at studying were sent directly to the East African colonies after graduation.
The first few classes were okay, as they were all kids around 16 or 17 years old. Kids of this age looked relatively mature, so they were not out of place in East Africa and society.
Nowadays, the age of students at the Heixingen Military Academy is getting younger and younger, and many of the graduates are only fifteen or sixteen years old.
The younger they are, the easier it is to reform their thoughts, but the cost of training is also higher. They have to be at least fifteen or sixteen years old before they can graduate. By this calculation, some orphans are only five or six years old, and Ernst will have to raise them for at least ten years.
As for those who were younger, Ernst arranged for some families in the East African colonies to adopt them, and the East African colonial government provided subsidies and provided supervision.
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"Come on, little one, say hello to grandpa and I'll give you candy, okay?"
"Hello, Grandpa!"
"Oh, so good!" Constantine happily held a little baby, peeled off the candy wrapper and put it into the baby's mouth.
The children around showed envy in their eyes, but there was also a hint of worry in their eyes. Some of them were secretly swallowing their saliva, which made Constantine's heart soften instantly.
"Children! As long as you all call me grandpa, I will share all these candies with you, okay?"
However, no one dared to step forward.
Constantine knew that these children were afraid of strangers, so he pulled a little kid over and asked kindly, "Do you like candy, little one?"
The little baby nodded timidly.
"Since you like candy, how about you? Call me grandpa and I'll give you this candy, okay?"
"Okay." The little kid said in a baby voice, "Grandpa."
"Oh, how good!" Then the little baby also got candy. Constantine said to the children around him: "Look, grandpa keeps his word. As long as you call me grandpa, grandpa will give you these candies."
"Grandpa, Grandpa..." The children, who had already been attracted by the candies, could not resist the temptation and started to speak.
Constantine happily handed out candies to the children.
This is the lower grade class of Hexingen School, and the class is full of children around five or six years old.
"Ernst, stop standing there and laughing foolishly. Come over and give me a hand." Constantine said to Ernst.
"Yes, father!" Ernst saluted comically and began giving candies to the children.
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Hechingen Military Academy.
"Hello, Principal!"
Heixingen Military Academy, as a military academy, the students must be quite old, around fifteen or sixteen years old.
Of course, we can’t treat these students the same way we treated the children just now.
"Well, hello, classmates! First of all, I wish you all a happy Christmas. I didn't bring any expensive gifts today, but I prepared some candies. Class monitor, please distribute them to everyone."
"Thank you, Principal!" everyone said. Politeness is a compulsory course at the Heixingen Military Academy, and one should be grateful when accepting gifts from others.
"Yeah." Ernst nodded with satisfaction, left the classroom, and went to the next class.
In fact, Ernst is only one or two years older than these children, but because of his status, Ernst still looks very majestic.
At the beginning, Ernst taught the first batch of Hechingen students. He was not even older than some of them, but in terms of temperament, Ernst, who had experienced two lifetimes and received aristocratic education, looked like an adult in his twenties or thirties in his previous life.
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After delivering the gifts, it was already dark and Constantine and Ernst were about to go back.
As the carriage rolled on the cobblestone road, Constantine said to Ernst, "Seeing these cute children reminds me of when you were little, you were also so small, jumping up and down every day like a little monkey. At that time, I was worried that you would be so impetuous and the Hechingen royal family would fall into ruin in the future. As a result, you have gradually become a little adult, with a calm personality and bold thinking. Now it seems that my worries are unnecessary."
"Father, don't worry. Family interests come first. This is what I abide by all the time. The future of the Hechingen royal family must be bright." Ernst said to Prince Constantine.
"I know this, but you have to fight for your reputation. You and Karina should give me some fat grandchildren. Only when the family is prosperous can the inheritance be prosperous. This is the lesson learned by the Hexingen family. I hope that your generation will not follow the old path. You see, no matter how prominent the families in Europe are, they will disappear in history without successors." Constantine warned sternly.
"I understand this, too. Don't worry, father." Ernst replied seriously.
Seeing that Ernst did not do things perfunctorily, Constantine nodded with satisfaction. In fact, Constantine sometimes also found it incredible.
Ernst's thinking is sometimes not like that of a young person, but just as old-fashioned and traditional as his own. But he was not like this when he was young! It is said that he only gradually became more stable after he reached middle age.
But Ernst is different. Although he would communicate with friends and peers, he was always strictly self-disciplined and had a strong sense of professionalism.
Of course, many people of Ernst's age mostly hang out in military camps, where they are naturally subject to discipline, but their true colors are revealed in society. During holidays, you can see young soldiers hanging out in bartenders and dance halls.
(End of this chapter)
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