Constantin nodded in satisfaction. "Good. Listen to me. It won't do you any harm anyway. After you've lived through enough, you'll naturally come to agree with these words."
Constantin had no idea that his son was harboring no good intentions and preparing to meddle in someone else's family affairs.
Before long, the carriage stopped at the entrance to the school district. That was right—this area was now known as the school district.
This year, Ernst had expanded the campus again to take in orphans from Paraguay and the German territories.
Back then, Ernst had never imagined that there would be so many orphans in Germany. By now, Hechingen School had become an orphanage in every sense of the word.
The total number of orphans across Hechingen was close to twenty thousand, all of them taken in by several schools built by the Hechingen Royal Family.
One had to know that Hechingen itself only had several tens of thousands of residents. Now, Hechingen had become the largest orphanage in all of Germany.
Moreover, as the number of Paraguayan orphans increased, Ernst had to establish separate schools to teach those Paraguayan children German.
As for the Far Eastern orphans at Hechingen Military Academy, they were actually rather old. Many were teenagers, primarily being trained as translators for the colonies.
Of course, there were younger ones as well, but they did not attend the military academy. Instead, they went to ordinary German-language schools.
At present, Hechingen had four schools under construction or expansion, with ten completed buildings, all of them teaching buildings and dormitories.
Among them, Hechingen Military Academy was mainly for the older orphans, while the other three schools were for younger ones.
As an accelerated school, Hechingen Military Academy fulfilled the role of a secondary school. Many students who were