Rome must fall.

Chapter 336 The Young Generation

Minus was talking when he suddenly realized something and stopped talking. He looked at the two and said, "Don't just focus on eating. Tell me about your stories."

Cassius grabbed a handful of beans, put them in his mouth, and said vaguely, "Wait until I finish this, these beans are well made!"

"I remember my teacher asked my mother to make it once before. It looked like this and tasted similar." Nasuya picked up a bean and looked at it carefully.

"Yes, I made it. You were all busy eating, but I was the only one who was careful. When I was helping Aunt Akonis clean the kitchen, I begged her for the recipe of this bean.

After I started working, I saved up a few months’ salary and went to the market to exchange wheat for some lard and broad beans. Then I ground some flour, mixed it with water, kneaded it into a paste, spread it on the washed broad beans, and fried it in boiling lard…”

Minas said complacently, "Look at how much effort I put into making such a good thing. I specially came here to entertain you. Aren't you two touched?"

Cassius grabbed a few more beans and stuffed them into his mouth, then said slowly, "I think you, Minus, must have made these fried broad beans for yourself, but there were some left, and we happened to be here, so you took them out to treat us."

"Hehe, based on my understanding of Minas, this should be the case." Nasuya said with a giggle.

"You two guys really let me down!" Minus looked angry, but in fact they were right.

After a while of joking, Minas stopped smiling and said seriously, "Seriously, has anything important happened at home while I was away?"

The "home" that Minas refers to is the main house of the tribe where Chief Maximus lives, which is also where they used to live and work.

"The teacher's wife, Mrs. Floreslyusia, is pregnant. Is this an important matter?" Cassius said.

"Of course it counts, but everyone should know about this now. I heard that on the night the news came out, many villagers in Snowtia and Westney villages lit bonfires in their own yards and cheered... I'm so happy for the teacher!" Minus said sincerely.

Cassius and Nasuya also nodded.

"I heard..." Minas suddenly lowered his voice and asked mysteriously, "I heard that the teacher's other wife, Gnian Dafla, was beaten by the teacher's wife. What happened?"

"Minas, when you left the main house, the housekeeper warned you not to spread the chief's family affairs to outsiders!" Cassius asked seriously, "Tell me where you learned this from?"

"I didn't spread it, I just chatted quietly among us..." Facing Cassius's sharp gaze, Minas hesitated for a long time before saying, "...It was our department's chief officer, Pigris. The day before yesterday, he came to ask me to make good preparations to receive the tribe members who moved here. He mentioned it casually during the conversation. I guess it was Lady Gnian Davra who complained to him when she went to the Aldei tribe with Pigris."

"Really?"

"I'm not lying to you!"

Cassius fell silent.

Minas started to complain: "Cassius, it's really boring to stay with you. You treat your own brother as a criminal. I've been busy all day and I'm still thinking of ways to entertain you! Come on, I'll stay away from you in the future! -"

"Minus, do you know Doreen?" Nasuya quickly came out to smooth things over.

"Of course I know, the woman who doesn't like studying and only likes fighting!" When mentioning Doreen, Minus felt a little annoyed. He had been beaten by her during military training before: "She kept shouting that she wanted to join the army, but the teacher didn't agree and asked her to help you manage documents. I heard that she was still restless after managing the documents. Whenever she had a chance, she would find the teacher and say that she wanted to join the Ministry of War, right?"

Nasuya smiled slightly and said, "A few days ago, the teacher agreed that Doreen could join the army."

"Really?!" Minus was surprised. "Dorin is a girl. She is far inferior to boys in strength and speed. She will become a burden once she goes to the battlefield!"

"Dolin doesn't need to fight the enemy, she just needs to string the crossbow easily." "You mean the teacher asked her to join the crossbow team?"

"Yes." Nasuya still had a smile on her face, but her words were meant to encourage her sister: "Although the crossbow team is a newly established team of the tribe, it played an important role in the two battles against the Pannoni coalition. In the past, although Doreen was not good at literacy and arithmetic, she was very good at military training and had a cool head when fighting. At that time, the instructor always said regretfully, 'If she was not a woman, she would definitely become an excellent soldier.'

Now that she has joined the crossbow team, she can finally bring her strengths into play. I believe she will be able to make great contributions to the tribe on the battlefield in the future!"

"I also hope that everything goes well for Dorin in the Crossbow Corps!" Mainas teased, "At least she is doing better than Akeguo. Akeguo boasted to us before that he would kill the enemy and get the tribe's commendation and promotion earlier than us, but now he is still in the military department responsible for running errands and delivering orders, haha."

"There is another good news." Cassius spoke again: "After the center of the tribe moves to Ophidalia this time, the leader plans to designate us students who have been dispersed to various departments and started to work for the tribe as official tribesmen and start allocating land... This proposal has been approved by the Political Affairs Hall and I believe it will be implemented soon."

"Really?!" Minas was surprised. "But according to tribal laws, we have to become adults to become official members of the tribe and get land (Nikus tribe stipulates that women are considered adults at the age of 16 and men are 18. Akeguo, Cassius and other young servants are basically 16 or 17 years old now)!"

"I heard from the chief that the situation is special now. The tribe has occupied the territory of Segestica and urgently needs many people who can write and count to manage the newly added land and population for the tribe. Therefore, they have to recruit many students from schools to become employees of various departments. Since they work hard for the tribe like other officials, they should be considered adults. The tribe should recognize their status as formal members, give them corresponding salaries, and allocate land to them. This is fair."

"Oh, we still take advantage of our younger brothers!" Mainers joked. As the first batch of students to leave school to work, they sometimes like to call the children who came to school later "brothers and sisters".

Although Minas was excited, he was also a little worried: "This is indeed a great thing! But... 50 acres of land is not so easy for us to cultivate, especially for someone like me who has to look after it every day and can't take good care of the fields. If the harvest is not good and we can't pay the taxes, I'm afraid we will be punished by the tribe!"

Cassius comforted her, "Don't worry about this. There are foreign assistants who can help you farm. But you have to apply to the Ministry of Agriculture first. If you leave it all alone and let the foreign assistants manage the fields for you, you will have to hand over 50% to 60% of the harvest to the tribe."

"Yes, the tribe set up foreign assistants to work for us. I almost forgot about this!" Minas touched his head, laughed a few times, and then said indifferently: "I am alone. A harvest of 50% to % from acres of land is enough (minus % tax), and the tribe will pay me a salary every month. I can definitely buy a chicken every month."

"You only know how to eat." Nasuya scolded in a low voice.

Minas laughed and asked, "Naisuya, will the tribe also give you land?"

"Minas, haven't you studied the tribal laws well? Although I am a woman, I am also one of the old tribesmen, and now I work for the tribe like my mother and Aunt Karina. Logically, the tribe should give me land." Nasuya said confidently: "But according to the law, the tribe actually divides land by household. My mother and I are considered one household. She doesn't plan to get married, and I won't have any brothers or sisters in the future, so the land she owns will be inherited by me in the future, and the tribe will certainly not give me any more land. But if I get a higher title than my mother in the future, the tribe will still increase my family's fiefdom."

Minas immediately responded, "You want to surpass Aunt Akonis in rank? Haha, that's totally impossible!"

"Shut up, you annoying bastard!" Nasuya was so angry that she threw a fried bean at Minus.

Minus opened his mouth to catch it, chewed it for a few times, and laughed exaggeratedly: "Mm, it tastes good, thank you!"

Then he looked at Cassius and asked, "Where will our fields be divided?"

Cassius replied: "Of course it will be near Ophidalia. Even our houses will be allocated in the Ophidalia fortress or in the neighboring villages."

“That’s really good!”

"It's good for us, but Minas, you don't know how long you will stay here. Even if you have a home, you can't go back." Nasuya took the opportunity to say a few words to him.

"That's nothing." Minas said disapprovingly, "We in the Ministry of Commerce should not think about our families and often have to deal with surrounding tribes and forces. When our Nix territory grows bigger in the future, maybe I will be sent as an envoy to Rome!"

"You're just dreaming." Nasuya rolled her eyes at him.

"The teacher once told us that he wanted to build our tribe as powerful as Rome, so that the tribesmen would no longer have to worry about being bullied by other forces!..." Cassius encouraged in a deep voice: "Let's all work hard and help the teacher fulfill his promise. Then, we can really let Minas go to Rome as an envoy!"

(End of this chapter)