Falsifying history is good business

Chapter 8 The Rise of the Forrest Family
Generally speaking, social conversations don't contain any surprises or even any substantive content.

It wasn't the first time that these big families in the magic world knew Lin You. In the past year of trade cooperation, the relevant people clearly realized that the Forester family had not fallen into chaos due to the death of the patriarch, and they were still able to fully perform their duties and thus safeguard the interests of all parties.

Although it feels incredible, who wouldn’t be happy to continue to make stable profits?
With common interests as the premise, this social conversation naturally went on harmoniously. They occasionally talked about the shortage of certain goods and the surplus of certain goods, agreed to make some targeted improvements in the future, and then quickly changed the topic to pure small talk.

The news of "The Boy Who Lived Entered Hogwarts" also became a topic of conversation among them, and then they inevitably talked about Lucius' son who was also enrolled this year; finally, they naturally transitioned from praising the Malfoy's son to praising the new owner of the Forrester family.

Although Mr. Malfoy was not happy about his son being used as a stepping stone to set off others, he still maintained his composure for the sake of trade benefits. He even took the initiative to belittle his son: "Little Draco is spoiled by his mother. He is two or three years older than Mr. Forrester. If he had half of your talent, I don't know how happy I would be."

The smiling expression on his face did not show any insincerity at all, which was considered to be giving Jin Galleon enough face.

Thus, both parties completed their respective social obligations in a friendly atmosphere.

The ceremony gradually became lively. The current British Prime Minister was the last guest to arrive at the ceremony. Soon after he arrived, the ceremony was officially started. In the eyes of the Prime Minister, today's ceremony was full of strange styles.

What attracted the Prime Minister's attention the most was a group of people with strange manners and clothes. They stood at the end of the team and avoided the gazes of others intentionally or unintentionally, with expectations and eagerness on their faces, as if they were eager to complete the ceremony as soon as possible so that they could go home.

What a bunch of weirdos! Most of them, both men and women, were wearing long robes that almost reached the ground, as if they were about to perform a medieval drama on stage.

On the contrary, a fat man in a suit and a cape who sneaked in looked quite pleasing to the eye, although the heavy cape was also inappropriate. The fat man was about fifty years old, with a big belly and a sweet smile. Politicians with similar appearances can often be seen in the British House of Lords and the House of Commons.

But even such a typical parliamentary politician does not feel out of place when he is with a group of weird people in strange costumes.

The Prime Minister thought he had returned to the golden age of Victoria in the last century. At that time, the politicians of the British Empire were just like the fat man, wearing suits and ties that symbolized civilization, but they were able to maneuver easily among the "barbarian elites" in strange costumes in various colonies.

The Prime Minister's doubts would not delay the progress of the ceremony. As the waiter announced loudly, the protagonist of today's coronation ceremony appeared.

The door opened, and a short figure walked straight towards the queen along the carpet; judging from his body shape, the figure was in line with everyone's impression of his age, but the boy's neither humble nor arrogant demeanor was amazing.

An eight-year-old child, surrounded by a group of adults in high positions, walked calmly to the Queen, bowed slightly and half-knelt.

The ceremonial officer began to sing the ceremony, reciting loudly the many titles of the Forrest family, such as "Friend of Windsor", "Blood of Bourbon", "Protector of Gough Island", etc. Each title represents a part of the family's glorious history.

The ancestor of the Forrest Family came from a branch of the Lin family in southeastern China. When he was young, because he had a family heirloom "spell" - which was actually magic, he was unwilling to live a dull life and always wanted to go out and make a living.

During the reign of Emperor Qianlong, King Louis XV of France sent a missionary as an envoy to visit the Qing Dynasty. Later, the envoy returned to Europe, and this ancestor of the Lin family somehow became friends with the envoy and boarded a ship to Europe without telling his parents.

Over the next twenty years, this restless traveler visited India, Arabia, and black Africa; after arriving in Europe, he visited France, Italy, and German city-states. Not only did he broaden his horizons, he also married a French witch and had children.

When he had enough fun and was preparing to take his wife and children back home to meet his parents, he encountered the vigorous French Revolution.

Influenced by traditional ideas of loyalty to the monarch, he was not fond of the revolution. However, since he had been sponsored by Louis XV and Louis XVI during his life in Europe, he risked violating the Statute of Secrecy by rescuing the young Louis XVII with the mentality of repaying a favor.

History quietly turned a corner here. Louis XVII was successfully rescued and fled from Paris. He was no longer the "uncrowned king" in the real dimension, but became the King of France during the restoration period. Because of this merit, the ancestors of the Lin family were awarded the title of earl and settled in France when the Bourbon dynasty was briefly restored. However, the historical trend was mighty. The July Revolution broke out as expected only ten years after the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty. The second generation of the Lin family married Louis XVII's sister, so they became the representative of the remnants of the dynasty and had to follow the abdicated Louis XVII to move to London to avoid disaster.

When things developed to this point, the phoenix with its feathers plucked should have been no better than a chicken, and the nobles who had lost their country should have been reduced to destitute dogs. However, unexpectedly, the second-generation patriarch was involved in the dispute over the succession to the throne of King William IV of England.

At that time, William IV had no children and had decided to make his niece, the future Queen Victoria, the heir to the throne. Victoria was not yet an adult at the time, and according to British law and political tradition, if she succeeded to the throne, she would have to hand over some of her power to her widowed mother.

However, William IV had a deep grudge against Victoria's mother, and he did not want to see her mother rise to prominence after Victoria ascended the throne.

So much so that at the ceremony of enthroning Victoria as Crown Princess, William IV, who was already seriously ill and had not much time left, openly said to his niece: "I will try to live another nine months, and then you will be able to inherit the throne as an adult."

The implication, of course, is to cut off the opportunity for widowed brothers and sisters to gain status by relying on their daughters.

Lin You's second-generation ancestor used traditional Chinese medicine and secret healing magic to help William IV survive thirteen months.

William IV was overjoyed and publicly announced at the birthday party celebrating his niece's coming of age: he not only recognized the earldom title obtained by the Forrest family in France, but also granted Gough Island as a hereditary fiefdom of the family.

As a result, the Forrest Family became a great noble family recognized by both Britain and France.

Well... the above long passages of family history, like "Aesop's Magic Experiment" and "The Magic of Returning Beasts to Their Souls", were all "written" into the history of the world by Lin You himself using a quill pen and golden ink.

With just a pen, Lin You created for himself an "ancestor" that lasted for two hundred years and was passed down in an orderly manner for six generations; as for himself, it was the seventh generation.

However, his actions were still far behind those of the emperors in history who often traced their lineage back to Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang.

Not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning!

Like many "histories" written by Lin You, as long as the content is written with golden ink - the "truth factor" in God's mouth - it will be recognized by the world and become "real history"; also recognized are a series of detailed changes that were not written with the quill pen but were derived from "historical changes."

For example, the Forrest family was deeply involved in, and to some extent changed, the history of England and France from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century; and they still maintain close ties with many long-standing families.

For example, with the rise of various equal rights movements in the following century, although the aristocratic status of Forest continued to decline and his hereditary fiefdom was forcibly taken back by the elected government, the wealth of the great nobles remained substantial.

After a century of accumulation, when it was passed down to Lin You, he was still able to inherit abundant tangible and intangible wealth.

All we can say is that in this special world, the history tampered with by quill pen and golden ink is the "real history".

As the ceremonial officer finished his "long recitation", the enthronement ceremony entered its main part.

The new Earl of Goff was officially born.

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