King's Landing in France

Chapter 120 Captain Kano's doubts

In the afternoon of the same day, Lazar Kano was busy compiling the roster of the first coaching team in his office.

These are the available talents he personally selected from the company brought by An Ning and the newly recruited recruits. Lazar Kano is going to go into battle in person and train them into qualified non-commissioned officers in a relatively short period of time.

At this time someone knocked on the door of the room.

"Come in." Lazar Kano looked up at the same time as he answered the door. After realizing that it was not the document he jumped out of, he stopped writing and looked up suspiciously.

In came Sergeant Paul, who was in charge of the conscription.

"Is there something wrong with the conscription?" Kano asked suspiciously.

Sergeant Paul hesitated for a while, and then said to Lazar Kano mysteriously: "You are a person who has read the book. I have a question. Maybe you can help me solve it. It is about Your Excellency the General."

Kano put on a serious expression, inserted the quill pen into the pen holder, clasped his hands together, and looked at Paul intently: "Go ahead."

"Your Excellency the General asked me to pay attention to a few people before. He gave me a list and told me to report to him immediately if I found out that there were people on the list among the applicants."

Paul looked confused: "But this list is very strange. I can understand some people in it. For example, he asked me to pay attention to a student named Davout who graduated from the Auxerre Cavalry Officer School. But I can't understand the other people on the list. I understand why Your Excellency the General is looking for them!

"Including this one I just found out, Jean Lana, a dyer's apprentice who has no military training at all."

Lazar Carnot frowned: "Davout... If he is a cavalry officer, it is not surprising. Your Excellency the General is very eager to have an experienced cavalry officer. Maybe he heard about it when he was teaching at the Military Academy in Paris. The student's name... You should have told me earlier, I can write to ask my classmates who work in the staff department of the Self-Defense Forces Command.

"As for the apprentice of the dyeing workshop... Si..."

Kano frowned, showing a pensive expression, and muttered to himself: "This... I don't know what's going on. That Jean Lana came to apply today? What do you think of him? ?”

Sergeant Paul immediately replied: "I think he is just an ordinary dyer's apprentice, no different from the trousers who make up the main body of our army. Oh yes, he is relatively strong and tall, but the recruits who have been recruited recently are all very tall. .”

Kano: "...Are you sure the general is looking for this person?"

"Yes, Your Excellency the General walked around him a few times, and his expression looked very happy, as if he had dug a golden bump out of the ground."

Lazar Kano frowned: "Maybe...someone recommended it to Your Excellency the General? But who would recommend a dyeing workshop apprentice to Your Excellency the General?"

Just then, someone knocked on the door again.

"Come in!" Kano replied.

Then a tall young man with fluffy brown hair opened the door and came in: "Report! This is Jean Lana, Your Excellency the General asked me to find Captain Lazare Carnot."

The captain stood up: "I am Kano, you...are that Lana?"

Sergeant Paul: "Yeah! That's him! Big tall guy with shaggy hair!"

Kano came to Lana, looked him up and down carefully, turned around him, and then shook his head in confusion: "It looks like an ordinary strong boy. Mr. Lana, are you literate?"

Lana nodded: "I know it. I learned it in the Sunday school run by the priest."

Kano: "Have you received military training?"

Lana shook her head desperately: "I'm just a dyer, a trainee."

Kano scratched his head in doubt, then turned to look at Sergeant Paul.The latter spread his hands.

No way, Kano turned to Lana: "Do you know why Your Excellency the General values ​​you so much?"

Lana: "I don't make it? I mean, I don't know, sorry for the hometown accent."

Lazar Kano was pacing the room, muttering as he walked, "Your Excellency, General, let someone pay special attention to a dyeing workshop apprentice? Dyeing workshop?"

Kano clapped his hands, turned his head and asked Lana, "Did he ask you to be in charge of the production of military uniforms?"

"No, he wants me to learn from you how to form an army and march to fight."

Kano was completely confused: "This... are you sure he said so?"

"I..." Jean Lana himself was not sure, "I guess that's what he said. I don't know why Your Excellency the General thinks so highly of me. I saw him for the first time today."

The three people in the room stared at each other with big eyes and small eyes.

Sergeant Paul suddenly said: "Is it possible that this is the case, Your Excellency has received a revelation from God..."

Carnot: "A person who confiscated the territory and all property of the Pope in the Konta, got the revelation of God?"

Sergeant Paul hesitated, then said, "Probably the Protestant Lord."

After speaking, he immediately turned pale with fright, and repeatedly made the sign of the cross on his chest.

Lana: "Why don't you just ask Your Excellency the General? What's the big deal?"

"Wait a minute!" Kano called to Lana who was about to leave, "Forget it, why did your Excellency notice you, the general, it's not a big deal. Now that the general's order has been issued, you are here, follow me Learn to organize and train armies."

Sergeant Paul: "Then...my question...let's leave it at that?"

"Of course." Kano replied, "The bounden duty of a soldier is to execute orders. Since such an order has been issued, execute it. Don't ask why. Who does the general want you to pay attention to? Write it down and make a list for me."

Sgt. Paul: "Yeah, I'll write that right now."

"Lana...With my authority, I can only give you the rank of first-class private, Lana private first-class, now go to the quartermaster and get a uniform."

"Yes!"

Seeing Lana running out of the room quickly, Kano had a complicated expression. He muttered in a voice only he could hear: "Could it be that our commander can still watch the stars? Analyzing the starry sky mathematically and peeking at fate, that's the only way." can be reasonably explained.”

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On the other hand, the maid Fanny came to a completely different conclusion.

When An Ning was left alone in the study, she quietly said, "First the little boy Napoleon, and then this big and strong boy Lana, don't you just look through the window of the carriage every day on the street?" Are you looking for a man?"

An Ning: "You have a big misunderstanding, I like women!"

"Eh, is that so?" Fanny obviously didn't believe her, "Then why didn't you bring any beautiful young lady home? Besides, you never patted the maid's buttocks when you were at home."

……Um?Wait a minute, can that be photographed?
An Ning: "I'm not busy... No, as a maid, are you taking too much control?"

"As a maid, of course I have to care about what kind of mistress will come to the house. This is a maid's survival instinct. If the future mistress is picky and difficult to serve, it will make my maid career become bleak as a whole. .”

An Ning: "Well, the survival instinct is beyond reproach. But you really misunderstood this matter, there is no such thing."

"You don't have to deny it. In fact, there are quite a lot of such people among the nobles, but they will get married at the right age first."

An Ning: "Are you referring to our locksmith king?"

"For example, His Majesty. You should also get married first, and then engage in your personal hobbies."

An Ning: "Such as fiddling with door locks and guillotines?"

Fanny: "Yes, for example that one."

An Ning shook her head: "Fanny, I should have told you that the future will be a very turbulent era, and this is not a suitable time for romance."

Fanny curled her lips: "Well, I've already worried about your marriage anyway, and I've fulfilled my duties as a maid, so don't blame me if anything happens."

An Ning: "Of course, I don't blame you."

Fanny was silent for a few seconds, then asked again: "So why did you choose that Lana? I don't see why he deserves special attention."

An Ning: "Someone told me that he will become a great general."

Fanny: "A... dyeing workshop apprentice?"

An Ning: "I'm still a cobbler. There is a mysterious technology in the ancient eastern country called physiognomy. I know a thing or two about it. That Lana looks very handsome, so he must be a general!"

Fanny: "You also know the mysterious skills of the ancient oriental country? Where did you learn it?"

"In Brienne..."

"where?"

"I mean, at home in Caen, the priest taught me!"

Fanny spent almost the entire Brienne period with An Ning, and this kind of nonsense did not work well for her.

Fanny curled her lips: "Forget it, it's not the first time you've shown your unusual talent, and I'm used to it. I'm going to prepare dinner."

Saying that, Fanny left the terrace.

An Ning breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the teacup, and took a sip of the coffee.

(End of this chapter)