Chapter 154.

Chapter 154 – Guardian School 2
Paul nudged towards the inside of the classroom and asked, “How did ‘they’ do?”

Erin asked curiously, “Who?”

“The women who were rescued from the pirates.”

“Oh, you mean them.”

Speaking of which, the female counselor was furious.

“That bunch of scum and scum is just too abominable, do you know that, Earl? Some of them were even taken captive to the island when they were still underage, and then they were forced to do that kind of disgusting things. You should hang that gang of pirates through and through, there is not a single innocent among them.”

She took a breath and changed to a very worried tone, “As for the performance of these poor people, to be honest, it’s not good, due to the lack of all kinds of ordinary people’s life skills due to their long term captivity, those who were robbed as children even have difficulties in daily speech and communication.”

Paul was a bit headstrong when he heard that, “Is it that serious? Really, when can I start working if this is like this? Won’t I have to raise them for a long time for nothing before then?”

Irene exploded at the sound of that, “Paul Graiman, do you have any humanity left? They’ve been reduced to this state and you’re still thinking about how to squeeze them.”

Then she suddenly remembered that the person in front of her was her employer, and it was really inappropriate to say it in front of him like that, but the words had already been exported, and she didn’t intend to take them back, so she glared at Paul with a puff of air.

Paul was speechless, really an uninitiated noble lady, although her angry look was quite cute.

He knows, those affluent areas of the aristocrats are keen to engage in charity to help the poor, especially those who have nothing to do all day long wife of the ladies, like to use this way to satisfy the so-called “moral superiority” to kill their own boredom, but they do not know that the family’s money is exploited from these poor people, as if their own But they don’t even realize that their family’s money is exploited from the poor, as if it is only right that they can squander their money as they please.

I wanted to dislike her with hard words such as “I don’t have extra money for charity” or “Those who don’t work don’t eat”, but after thinking about it, I decided not to bother with her.

Paul spread his hands and said, “The way I expressed myself just now may be ambiguous. But that doesn’t change the reality, Ms. Diaz, perhaps for the family you came from, spending a little ‘small money’ to raise a few idlers is a matter of indifference. But for Alda nowadays, every single one of our expenditures is carefully calculated.”

Irene didn’t retort this time, because she had never seen such a “poor” nobleman as Paul, of course this “poor” refers to the personal life.

Although in the past half year, both the official and civil society opened many “factories”, greatly increasing the financial income of the territory, but after working beside Paul for such a long time, Irene could more or less understand that the army under Paul is a gold swallowing beast, whether it’s the army or the navy, all of them need to be maintained by large sums of money, and this eccentric lord, for his soldiers, is a “poor” nobleman. Lord, for his soldiers, that is really spend money ah.

Recently, the State Council’s Minister of Agriculture Hansel went south to the royal capital, gathering stragglers along the way, these people want to eat and drink, along the way, the Lords will not help, can only rely on the State Council to send people south to send money, and wait until the arrival of stragglers, resettling them is a huge expense.

“But you can’t just kick them out! Without a skill they can only ……”

Irene couldn’t bear to say the next words.

Paul suddenly thought of a good idea: “Look how about this, most of my soldiers are single, how about dividing them up among the soldiers as wives? You can also enjoy the treatment of military families.”

In his complacency, but did not realize that this “good idea” deeply stung Irene, you know that she was against her father’s forced arrangements for their own marriages to run out.

Ah! The world is so unfair to women.

“Count Greiman!”

Miss Counselor’s face quickly went cold.

“Even if you’re a lord you’ve gone too far, don’t forget that you said before that you wouldn’t treat people rescued from pirates as slaves.”

Then she raised one hand with incomparable solemnity and said, “I Ai …… Betty Diaz swear to the Father in heaven that I will make sure that they will memorize all of the knowledge in the Manual and be able to recognize the words on it, and become a qualified what you call a ‘healer’ in your mouth .” Paul wondered, really, what was she doing getting so serious when it was just in terms of saying an idea.

But it was a good thing that she was suddenly so energized.

“Then I’ll trouble you, Ms. Diaz.”

But she heard the female counselor continue, “More than what was said earlier, there is another problem that needs to be solved.”

“Oh? What problem?”

“Discrimination! Ubiquitous discrimination! Given their previous experiences, many people are pointing fingers at them behind their backs, even adding fuel to the fire, describing them as if they were degenerate prostitutes.”

Paul shrugged, “It seems that this problem can only be solved slowly with time.”

Seeing his less-than-enthusiastic look, Irene was quite dissatisfied, “No, there are more effective ways, as a lord you can issue a decree to ban these gossips and heavily penalize those who like to chew the cud.”

“Oh …… Betty, you’re so naive.”

Before Irene could finish her sentence, Paul covered his head and shook his head repeatedly.

“It’s only going to be counterproductive, deliberately trying to bridge the gap will only create a bigger gap, and once the decree you’re talking about is in place, it’s going to be even harder for them. If they can’t display the behavior expected of normal people, if they can’t bring out the value expected of normal people, people will always look at them through colored glasses, and the prejudice and suspicion will only get worse.”

Irene was speechless, the earl seemed to have a point, she had to ask, “So you just watch and don’t care?”

Paul pondered for a while and said, “The army needs its own independent health system, when they finish their studies, I will place them in the barracks and set up a separate establishment, where it’s a closed management, which will reduce the contact with the ordinary residents, and the rest will just depend on time.”

Erin was instantly alert: “You don’t want to continue to implement that ‘good idea’ you just thought of, do you? Besides, with a bunch of big men in the barracks, aren’t you afraid of what might happen? Or is that something you’d be happy to see happen?”

Paul didn’t have the heart to say, “The soldiers under me aren’t as bad as you think, they’re not the same as the *** you used to know, the army is especially strict about this, they wouldn’t dare risk losing their heads by messing around.”

In Arda’s military, rape was a very serious offense, with punishments up to the death penalty. In fact, the armies of all countries explicitly prohibited this crime, it was just a matter of whether the enforcement was strict or not, and the Alda army, must be the most strictly enforced army in the world.

Of course, the physiological needs of single soldiers also need to be taken care of, and Paul also does not have the ability to make them do as puritanical, so the soldiers in the leave period to visit the kiln and so on is also not prohibited.

Erin grunted and said, “I hope so.”

Then she turned and headed back into the classroom.

Paul lamented to Cecil, who stood next to him and kept his eyes and nose to the ground, saying nothing, “Women are really hard to deal with.”

Only then did the intelligence chief say heartily, “They always have privileges, especially women as beautiful as Ms. Diaz.”

“You’re right, let’s go find Morrison.”

(End of chapter)