Realm of Power

“What a great literary talent.”

Luandria's eyes fell on the document, shining with unfinished meaning. She licked her dry lips and exclaimed that this document, written by Duke Geng Di, the leader of the great aristocracy, embodies the grammar of the entire Feizer class. It is definitely Feize's masterpiece. It is a rare good article by Fezer in the past century. For a person who has studied Fezer's grammar for more than 30 years, A scholar, seeing such a perfect official document, even one punctuation is full of skill, the feeling of discovery is definitely not inferior to the refreshing feeling of eating a big meal, until the emperor became a little impatient, Lu An Delia carefully placed the translated documents on the fat man's desk again.

"It's just an agreement, why make it so complicated!" The fat man has never been an elegant person. He curled his lips disdainfully. Negotiating an agreement is like a transaction between businessmen. Everyone puts out the price and does it. It’s too complicated and it’s a waste of time and energy.”

"These Feize nobles have only met the king before. Now they have to negotiate with His Majesty the Northern Emperor. Naturally, they dare not be careless in the slightest!" Lu Andria's wrinkled old face smiled. Although he is a scholar, He is also a high-level slave of a noble family. He has been exposed to it for decades and has become very good at this subtle method of flattering.

There was still a hint of pride on the young emperor's face. He flipped the document in his hand gracelessly, casually read a few key contents and then put it down. His face turned cold again. In the document, the Feize nobles requested that the empire open up the west coast region to provide They asked the empire to send a navy to escort them back to the north. After returning to the north, the Feize nobles were willing to pay one million gold coins in return for this rescue!

"Write a reply for me and tell noble Feize that if this is the only condition, the empire believes that taking the heads of these nobles directly to their families in exchange for ransom will be far greater than the so-called "remuneration" to the emperor. He waved his hands with a stern expression and looked out the window at the withered yellow streets in winter.

"Yes, I understand!"

Luandria's face turned slightly pale. He nodded quickly, sat down at his desk, picked up the quill on the table, and started drafting this reply. There are two desks in the office, one for the emperor and one for Luanderia. This is to facilitate the conversion of the emperor's notification documents into Fezer language and distribute them at any time. In fact, when translating the document just now, Luandria knew that the nobles' proposal would definitely anger the emperor.

In the past two months, what Luanderia saw and heard in the emperor's office had already surpassed the scholar's eyes that were only limited to Feize. The power and richness of the empire made Luanderia He was completely shocked beyond measure. Just to appease the millions of slaves on the west coast, the emperor mobilized various supplies and funds from the north, which totaled more than 10 million. Compared to the one million gold coins proposed by the nobles, even a kind person like Luandria felt despised by these stingy nobles.

For other countries, one million gold coins may be a considerable amount of wealth, but for the empire of the northern hero, one million gold coins is a naked humiliation to the empire, and is just what it asks for. Not even a fraction is enough. According to Luandria's idea, if these nobles are willing to become vassals of the empire, and in addition to the tribute of the property looted in the royal capital area, there is still some possibility for this negotiation to continue. If it's just a million gold coins, is it worth an imperial emperor's attention?

Luandria had already prepared a manuscript in her heart, and Luandria wrote quickly. In the palindrome, even Luandria's loyal scholars wrote the emperor's words very rudely: "The empire believes that you can go directly with your heads." The income each family received from the ransom is far greater than the so-called "remuneration"

Putting down his pen, Luandria respectfully handed the draft of the palindrome to the emperor.

"That's it. This kind of straighter version is easier for people to understand." The emperor took the draft of the reply and looked at it, nodding with satisfaction. These Feize nobles were in such a situation, and they still kept thinking about some benefits. , If you don’t get slapped hard in the face, you won’t understand the truth that no matter how much money you keep, it’s useless after you die.

"Your Majesty, does the empire really want to accept these nobles? You must know that the impact of the Nulon Massacre will have a negative impact on the empire." After hesitating, Luandria asked cautiously

"Accept? Why would the empire accept a bunch of street rats that everyone yells at to beat?"

There was a frightening smile on the corner of the young emperor's mouth, "There are just some things that the empire can't do, so we have to let them do it. I'm not afraid to tell you that soon news will come that will shock Feize even more. King Feize The dream of unifying the royal power will soon turn into a vain dream. I just don’t know whether the old king who has exhausted all his institutions can hold on in the end!" The emperor said something unclear! So if

"More shocking!"

Luandria looked confused, but soon calmed down. She followed the emperor and was shocked by what she saw and heard. During the time she spent with the emperor, the Luandrian scholar had already figured out A bit like the temper of this emperor who is rumored to be the supreme and murderous emperor. The emperor here is definitely a very nice person who is very easy to get along with. He treats nobles and slaves equally without any sense of majesty or oppression. Instead, he sometimes puts his legs up on his desk and takes a nap, which is more like A young man who will definitely be lazy if he can find an opportunity to be lazy!

But it was this young man who rose up on the west coast of northern Europe in a few years, swept across the Gallic Empire that had been entrenched in the north for more than two hundred years, engulfed the Central African Empire, killed the 300,000-strong army of Feishan, a powerful country in the central region, and even more so in Iraq. In the Battle of Stan, the Confederate Army was severely damaged for 70 years. Thousands of people were killed, and everyone in the south was on tenterhooks. Now in the entire Oubaluo continent, everyone is looking up at his figure, and people are panicking. He even stepped on the west coast of Feize, leveraging the accumulation of more than a hundred years to explode. The trigger for the battle between royal power and military power!

At this moment, an imperial guard came in from the door, holding a report in his hand: "Your Majesty, the Fifth Army and the Twelfth Army of King Fezer's Army have begun to move westward, and there are also nobles who were originally under surveillance. The Fourth Army and the Seventh Army, which are directly under the royal family of the Army, also entered the Blue Rain Valley this morning."

"Well, let's go down first!"

The emperor took the report, waved his hand to the guards, glanced at the report, and said with a smile, "It seems that King Feize's army is about to take action. It's a God-given opportunity. It's a pity that the tens of thousands of southern vassal troops originally hoped that they would take action." It can be contained for a period of time. Unexpectedly, King Feize was so impatient that he had just killed Fei Lie and immediately attacked his allies. Now he was not even willing to wait to gather his troops. To attack the noble army, you must have heard some rumors."

"Wind? How could it be!" Lu Andria looked dumb.

"It's normal. Someone within the empire sold this information to the Fezer royal family at a high price." The emperor placed the report on the table without taking it seriously, and tapped the desk with his fingers thoughtfully.

"Inside people, Your Majesty. I...I definitely don't." Lu Andria's face suddenly turned a little pale. Only a few people besides the emperor knew about such a confidential matter. If there is an insider, how would you look at it? , I am as dazzling as if I had a label attached! A Feize man works in the most confidential emperor's office, and is often exposed to the empire's top secrets. Even Lu Andrea himself doesn't believe that this mole is not him! It's hard to live a good life. Is this the end? But I’m really not a mole. LuAndria’s legs are trembling.

"I know it's not you, because I was the one who sold this news! It's a full 20,000 gold coins, and it makes the Fezer royal family think they have bribed informants within the empire and think they have control of the overall situation. Such a good thing , everyone is happy!" The young emperor grinned, showing his white teeth, which almost scared Lu Andria to the point of falling down.

The emperor turned away. Touching his chin and saying to himself, "It's a pity that the southern vassal army died too cleanly. It would be even better if there were one or two who survived! The royal family betrayed their trust. They massacred their allies with despicable means and oppressed the kingdom's nobles cruelly and bloodyly. With these two things in mind, the establishment of a new king can be said to be a just act to rectify the royal family! "

"Promote a new king!"

Hearing the words revealed by the emperor, Luandria's old body couldn't help but tremble. The emperor was actually preparing to establish a new King Feize. What a generous move. The emperor has no intention of accepting the Feize nobles, at least not all of them. It is sad that those nobles are still exaggerating, thinking that the empire will protect them for a mere million gold coins. The so-called enemy of the enemy is a friend. But in the emperor's plan, this option obviously didn't work. These nobles didn't take the opportunity to rob After spitting out all the things that came, don’t expect to cross the west coast to seek refuge. Without the death of a group of nobles, the crime of cruel and bloody oppression of the nobles would be out of the question. With this realization, Luandria felt sorry for those Feize in her heart. The nobles felt pitiful and pitiful. Did they know that the emperor sent someone to sell it directly to the Feize royal family based on the news of the negotiations?

"Your Majesty, in fact not all the southern vassal troops are dead. When I came down, I happened to meet one outside the city." After hesitating, Luandria told the emperor the news that Lytle was not dead, and also told him that he was not dead. The relationship with Lytle explains "My encounter with the Callisuo, if it hadn't been for General Lytle, I would have been gone by now."

"Lytel? That legendary general from the southern Kingdom of Calisu"

After hearing Lu Andria's introduction to Lytle, the fat man's eyes suddenly shone and he rubbed his hands excitedly. If he really wanted to sleep, someone would give him a pillow. He secretly sent people to sneak into the royal capital area to search for survivors. So far, there is no one. But I picked one up casually on the road to Luandria, and he was one of the top leaders of the southern vassal army with an unusual status. He really lived up to his character accumulated by saving millions of slaves! The entire southern vassal army was killed in one night. It is said that Feize's army cut off the heads of all the southern army corpses in order to leave no one alive. Unexpectedly, such a big fish escaped!

"Your Majesty, what should be done with this person?"

Luandria asked cautiously. He didn't dare to guess the emperor's thoughts any more. He would negotiate on one side and sell out the noble army on the other. He might also immediately order an order to sell out the noble army. Lytle was captured and handed over to the Fezer royal family to complete a certain plan. Luandria was also beating a drum in her heart. If the emperor really ordered Lytle to be captured, what should she do? "I will place him at your place first. No one can know he is alive yet."

The emperor hesitated for a moment, "Although the emperor's control is tight enough, a large number of slaves fleeing from the royal capital area are pouring in every day. There is a mixed flow of people in the city, and there will definitely be no shortage of spies from the Feize royal family. Just like the empire Always pay attention to every move of the Feize royal family Just like the other movements, the Feize royal family is also always keeping an eye on the empire's actions. This time, they deliberately let out rumors of secret negotiations with the noble army. In addition to using the royal family to force the noble army to submit, it also has another purpose, which is to take the opportunity to find out how Feize is. The Ze royal family’s intelligence network in the city”

"Intelligence networks seem mysterious, but they are actually not difficult to find."

The emperor paused and said in a concentrated voice, "There are many slaves who run to the west coast from the direction of the royal capital every day, but there are very few who run back from the west coast to the direction of the royal capital. Now that the border line is deliberately relaxed, the other side is even more unscrupulous. As long as If you check the people who left Rovka for the royal capital in the past two days, you can roughly find them. The Intelligence Department has already found out part of the network. It is not yet time to close the network. The other party will not think that from the moment they got that information, the thread is already in the hands of the empire. If it is not easy to confirm once, then two Three times, three times, the other party thought they had everything under control, and that was just the part I wanted them to have control over.”

"Yes, I understand." Luandria heard a wave of cold air coming from her back to the top of her head, and she was trembling with fear. At the door, Luandria opened the door of a black carriage parked there and walked towards her. The Lytles and their daughter, who had been waiting for more than half an hour, said, "Get in the car first. My master said you should not show up now. Go to my place to settle down first. If he has time, he will come in person!"

"What a big arrogance. After all, we are also from the Carisu Kingdom..."

Hearing that she dismissed him without even showing her face, the arrogant Nalin couldn't help but cursed, but before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Lytle, "I think your master said You're right, it's really not appropriate for me to show up. The city is full of people who have escaped from the royal capital, just like Teacher. Maybe one or two of them know me, and that would be terrible!"

Standing in front of the office window, looking from top to bottom, watching the black carriage leave from the door, the fat man turned around and his eyes fell on the report on the movements of the Wang Army. Judging from the time, that incident should It's almost done. If the noble army is wiped out by the royal army before then, it will only be the unlucky ones of those stupid nobles themselves!

(To be continued.)