"You won..." after examining the chessboard again and again, Barr shook his head with a bitter smile. "Can you tell me why I lose every time?"


    Margus said while fiddling with the pieces on the chessboard, "because you always want more and ignore every small loss. Finally, these losses accumulate and burst out, and you will find that you are impossible."


    Margus and Barr are good friends. It''s not easy to meet and chat with good friends for decades. Even relatives, it is difficult to maintain such a relationship, which shows how strong the friendship between the two people is.


    "You''ve been saying this for decades. Haven''t I changed at all?", Barr closed the pieces and shook his head after thinking about it for a moment. "Anyway, I''ll still lose. Let''s call it a day."


    Margus doesn''t care about Barr''s giving up. As Barr said, such things have happened for decades, and he will never change.


    In fact, from the perspective of margus, Barr is a very great man. He has a longer-term vision than himself, but he is not good enough in dealing with details. It may be because Barr''s identity as a great aristocrat makes him subconsciously ignore many subtle details. These details alone will not become any problem, but when all the details are put together, it can be predicted that a straight line will constantly deviate from the angle of the slightest bit for some reasons, and then go farther and farther.


    "I heard that Du Lin wanted to..." when they talked about Du Lin''s problem, margus''s wife happened to come in with a small snack. After Barr thanked, he picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth, with a happy smile on his face. He couldn''t help praising, "Vinica, the snack you made is as happy as before."


    The old woman smiled a little and looked at MARGES silently.


    Margus, who had a headache, also picked up a piece and asked for a small mouthful. He licked it to the disgusting taste. It was really like what Barr said. There was no change from before. He hardened his head and praised it, "it''s very delicious!"


    "You''re lying, margus. The hypocritical tone and the hypocritical expression on your face tell me you''re lying!" Barr immediately began to dismantle the stage, and then sighed, "why didn''t you want to marry me?" he looked at Vinica and asked a question he had asked for decades.


    Decades ago, these three people were very good friends. Barr and margus were both pursuing Vinica. Finally, Vinica married margus, which made Barr hate and even hate margus for a period of time.


    Under the merciless ripening agent of years, everyone became more and more mature, Barr gradually relieved his resentment, and we often got together again. He always has a knot in his heart. Why did venika marry MARGES who was not as good as herself when she was better than MARGES at that time.


    Vinica never gave Barr an answer, which also made Barr tangle all his life.


    "Maybe it''s because you''re stupid!" margus also didn''t give Barr any face. Their relationship has gone beyond the ordinary friendship, and there is a little contradiction. In short, it''s very special.


    Vinica didn''t give Barr any answer. She left with a smile. She was in a good mood. At her age, there are only two people who can make her happy. One is the lovely young man Dooling. He appreciates his cooking skills very much and will take many when he leaves. This is the greatest compliment to her.


    Another is to see the mutual slander between Barr and Maggs, which can also make her very happy. In a trance, the time seems to go back to decades ago. Under an apple tree, two boys fought each other for her favor.


    At the thought that the two most distinguished figures in the Empire have done such stupid things, especially for themselves, venika is very happy and even has become much younger.


    Yes, the two most distinguished figures in the Empire.


    Barr is just a kind nickname given to him by MARGES. His name is kubar. At present, the leader of the old party.


    It seems very incredible. The new party and the old party are about to play a dog brain in competing for voters'' votes everywhere, but the leaders of the old party often go to the new party leader''s house to eat and drink. By the way, they also want to pry the corner of the wall. The world is so magical, especially where people can''t see it.


    After the old woman left, Barr picked up a pancake and stuffed it into his mouth. He chewed it very gracefully. He couldn''t even see any broken pieces falling on his clothes.


    "Back to the topic we just talked about, I heard that Dooling was coming back. Is the engagement ceremony coming soon?" Barr cleaned up his clothes on his chest after eating the pancakes, took a sip from his tea cup and washed the possible food residues in his mouth. "He did a very beautiful job in the West. Did you teach him?"


    "Me?" giggled margus. "What can I teach him? I didn''t expect him to do so well, which just proves that we need to assimilate him as soon as possible."


    At this point, margus was worried. He sighed and fiddled with the pancakes in the plate twice, "We will eventually grow old and die. You may also find that so far, few of the new generation of nobles in the empire can see excellent young people, only a few around the old dog and a few around the saint. We are almost dating."


    "The children all focus on the crude surface of the front line. They only think about more benefits, but forget that empire and power are the foundation of their dignity. Now the international situation is changing too fast and there are many contradictions inside. If we still can''t see the situation clearly, the current system will become a heavy coffin and bury them at last!"


    "We need an excellent leader who can suppress others and be responsible for the next 50 to 100 years. If I can choose, I''d rather not choose Dooling, but I can''t see many excellent roles except him."


    "There is no second choice but to choose him!"


    Barr also sighed. Since the new party overthrew the feudal rule, the peaceful development of more than 20 years and nearly 30 years has made many young nobles mediocre, which is what the older generation is most afraid to see.


    Peace can kill the determination and progress of too many families, but it is also the choice of the times.


    In the past years, nobles have been waging wars with each other. It is precisely this seemingly chaotic attack on each other, so that each family and each generation can have enough excellent successors. Because they must be excellent. Once they have a mediocre successor, other nobles will peep at their territory, their wealth, and even want to take away their titles and power. Under such great internal and external pressure, everyone is crazy to make themselves better as much as possible.


    But now, the young generation is safe and happy. Only two or three of the hundreds of children in an old dog''s family have become talents. The others are bastards who are proficient in eating, drinking and playing. Peace makes them lose their fighting spirit and make them mediocre, so mediocre that some people are almost unable to support the signboard of "aristocracy"!


    On the contrary, the power of the civilian class began to emerge gradually. There were a large number of members from the civilian class in both the new party and the old party. For example, poworth, the party whip of the new imperial party, was a very typical representative of civilian filming in a high position.


    Now magus and kubar can suppress these capable, courageous and brave civilian members, but when their descendants, the current new generation, grow up and lack the necessary means, they are very likely to be overturned by these forces from the civilian class.


    This is the last thing that mags, kubar and even the nobles want to see.


    It makes no sense that after hundreds of years of struggle, the power of the country was handed over to the civilians, and then they were kicked aside, so that they might have to be liquidated.


    Nobles lost their motivation, but civilians did not. The new era gave civilians more upward motivation, because this is a miracle era. As long as they dare to fight and fight, they may not have no chance to climb to the top of the tower!


    Barr cleaned up his slightly depressed mood and asked a question, "are you sure you can completely assimilate Dooling and stand on our side? You know, he is also from the civilian class. Maybe he has a deeper recognition of the civilian class!"


    For this problem, MARGES didn''t hide and avoid this time. Instead, he said his point of view, "he has great ambition. As long as he has ambition, it''s much easier to do. I''ve had enough of those young people who are content with the status quo and waiting to follow the process to inherit their family business."


    "Turin''s ambition will turn him and the interest groups around him into a new ''class''. They are like the first generation of nobles. Their desire for power will make them alert to all possible subversives."


    "The times are always moving forward. Since we can''t stop the general trend in the future, we will join them!"


    "Let more nobles become a new class, then nothing will change. The only change is that in this new class, there are more new faces, fewer old faces, but more vitality."


    "Durin is a knife fish. If the children born and raised in the greenhouse don''t want to be swallowed, the only thing they can do is to fight."


    "Since we have no way to choose the future, we will leave them the worst environment, either resist or perish!"


    "And that''s why we''ve done so much over the years, isn''t it?"