After Becoming The Tyrant

The black iron gate was slowly closed, and the alchemists who turned into skeletons continued to sleep in the darkness.

"I thought you would wake them up?" The devil looked at the king's order to seal the basement of the tower tightly, and asked curiously, "After all, the Holy Court has already begun to establish the Kingdom of God."

"No, not yet."

the king answered calmly.

That army sleeping underground is a powerful sword hidden by mortals, it will be a cavalry, a sharp dagger that stabs at the holy court and at the gods.Only when it is secret enough and unexpected enough can it play an important role at the most appropriate and critical moment.

When to use it, the king already had a rough judgment in his mind.

but not now.

After the devil took his leave, the king did not leave the tower directly.

He walked up the black stone steps step by step, the windows of the tower opened, and the wind poured in, bringing the low and wide sound of the evening bell, which touched people's eardrums.The king climbed to the top of the tower, and from the highest point of the castle looked down on the city that belonged to him.

The devil also told him another thing.

Among the castles of the Qiangwei family, some castles were actually designed by alchemists, and Bomari Castle is one of them. After the talented alchemists formed an alliance with the Dragon Slayer, they built a lot of castles in their castles. Less effort.

The castle itself is a huge formation.

The spiers that the king saw were some important nodes in this formation.At this time, the king looked down from the highest point, and found that the streets of the entire castle followed a strange rule. The streets, large and small, were laid on the same surface, which was a magnificent picture full of geometric figures.

That is why the devil advises the king that it is better not to destroy the castle itself if he can.

However, after the Battle of God's Punishment, the Qiangwei family lost the Beaumari Castle in the nearly collapsed disintegration, and the rebels who later occupied it obviously didn't know this.

They self-righteously made quite a few changes to the castle in an attempt to make it more powerful.

In order for Beaumari Castle to exert its due strength, it needs to make a series of repairs and restorations.In this regard, the king has a good candidate-Mr. James, who has become a military madman.

The end of the evening bell gradually disappeared among the mountains, and the king returned to the castle's council hall.

General Sheen had been waiting for a while.

After a whole day of cleaning, Legrand has completely taken control of Beaumarie Castle.

The reckoning has begun.

A few days later, two messengers arrived at Beaumari Castle.

The courier is from Balbo State.

They brought news that the king wanted.

After the fall of Balbo Castle, General Edmund of the Angor State faithfully carried out the king's order, and the brave Angor army thoroughly cleaned the royal family of the Balbo State to ensure that no Balbo State was left behind. Member of the royal family of Bourbon.On that day, blood stained the stone slabs of the Balbo Palace.

The royal family of Newcana was treated in the same way as the royal family of Balboa.

The rebels tasted the bitter fruit of defeat.

The purge of the royal families of the two states brought a little controversy to the king-because the members of the royal family of Balbobang who died at the sword of the Ingres cavalry were male, female, and young.

The king's orders were extraordinarily cruel and without mercy.

"Our critics are at liberty again."

Before giving the order, the king had said to General Sheen with such a smile.

"I hope they can quell this war by themselves." General Sean replied angrily.

The king shook his head without comment.

What will happen next in the Northland will be an unprecedented liquidation. Balbo and Newcana have lived under the rule of their respective states for too long. If they want to rebuild a new order here, then the king must Guaranteed that no rebellious royal blood remains in the world.

Slaughter is only the first step in cleansing.

When people in the Northland were arguing about the killing of all the royal families of the two states, the king's officials listed everything that the two royal families of the Balbo State and Newcana State had done to the exploitation and oppression of the people of the Northland over the years. Come out, organize it into the "Punishment Book", and send a large number of people to spread it all over the Northland.

In the "Punishment Book", the officials of the king's treasury conducted a rigorous argument, refuting the previous remarks used by the rebel alliance to encourage the rebellion:

——It was not Legrand that really led to the poverty of Balbo State and New Cana State, but the greed of the royal family.When the people of the Northland were suffering from hunger and cold, such as the king of Newcana, Lantoft the Red Beard, his palace was resplendent and magnificent, and his personal property was equivalent to the tax revenue of the entire state for three years.

It has to be said that after the king's officials have been tortured by the king several times, their ability to debate has soared, and they are impeccable.

The officials wrapped in black cloaks spoke impassionedly, as if they had become part of the Northlanders, and tearfully complained about the exploitation and oppression of Lantoft and others.

But this part of the accusation is indeed not false.

Take Newark, for example.

After the king recaptured Bomari Castle, he immediately organized personnel to review the Newcana financial files kept in Bomari Castle.The poverty and backwardness of the Northland are inseparable from the rule of Newcana State.

The economic system of Newcana State under the rule of the Lantoft family is dominated by the ancient manor system.The land area under the manor system varies from small to small. Some large manors have an area of ​​several thousand mu, while small manors only have hundreds or even tens of mu.Among the manors registered in the "Baihu District Case File" of the New Canaan state, almost all the large manors with more than [-] mu belonged to the Lantoft family and their loyalists.

While the fixed land rent and land rent in kind have been generally implemented in Legrand, the state of Newcana is still implementing the labor rent of the last century.In the state under labor rent, only peasants are nominally holders of public books, but in fact there is no big boundary with serfs.

The manor has its own independent judicial courtyard, and even because it is an independent state, it is difficult for people controlled by the manor to directly cross the state to request the ruling of the Legrand royal court.

Harsh climate, ancient institutions... The Northland indeed has a barbaric and poor atmosphere.

The king found what he wanted from the thick files:

——He sorted out the system implemented when the Qiangwei family ruled the North.

Victory in the war is only the first step in recovery. After the military victory, the king must also awaken the hearts of the people to return.

This is also an invisible war.

After the "Punishment Book" spread, the king's officials stood ready and started a second propaganda offensive.

In this propaganda offensive, bards played an important role.

A bard is received by the king.

At the investiture ceremony before the king's battle with Cullendia, the bard plucked the strings of his harp in the square and sang the ancient ballads of Legrand.The king sent someone to pick him up from Benz City.No one is more familiar with the great legends and the ancient epics than the bards.

That is an ancient memory passed down in the strings.

"I hope you can re-sing the former tranquility, peace and beauty of the Northland." In the fire-lit hall, the king said to the bard, "Is there such a song?"

"Yes, Your Majesty." The bard had gray temples, and he was wearing a pair of long leather shoes that were worn out from walking too much, and his face was wrinkled.But he has bright green eyes, "I'd love to sing those ballads..."

As he spoke, he plucked the strings, looking for the tune in his memory.

The melody is melodious, like a piece of snow drifting down.

"What do you need?" the king asked gently, listening to the melody that reminded people of snow, hearth fire and deer hunting.

"I don't need anything, Your Majesty." The bard looked at the king with his bright green eyes. "In fact, I have a song I wrote myself, and I would like you to listen to it. If you can, it is for me." The greatest reward!"

"Please."

The bard carefully tuned the strings, his expression became extremely focused and pious, and he hummed in a low voice.

"Tell me, tell me, Koya people

who took you up the hill

who took you to pick up the guns

—the young queen with the black hair

......"

The melody is low, and the bard's voice is slightly hoarse.This is the song he is most familiar with. He sang it from the mountains in the south of Legrand to the snow-capped mountains in the north. Wherever he went, he spread this song that people don't know. The melody is melodious and sad.

He sang of a young queen.

A young queen with black and green eyes, she picked up the spear from the blood and led the people to defeat the invading enemies, so people wove thorns into a crown and put it on her head.

The young queen met the young monarch at the age of 17.They met in the mountains with flaming maple leaves in Keya, and they fell in love in blood and fire. In the end, the young king broke through the seven barriers set by the Keya for his queen, just like all the knights in fairy tales who want to pursue their sweetheart.So the Koyas joyfully delivered their queen into the hands of the man.

They played a brisk melody and sang cheerful songs for the queen.

Those songs are still passed down from generation to generation in the Kriya city-state.

In the melody of the harp, the fire swayed, and there seemed to be red mountains around. Under the maple leaf forest, the young monarch plucked the strings, and the young queen's dress was blazing.

The bard finished singing and stopped plucking the strings, but the blurry figure still loomed before the king's eyes.

The king looked at their blurred faces, and heard the faint melody of a lullaby in a trance.

It was as if there had been hands gently stroking his cheeks, as if someone had hugged him who was still a baby, sat by the bright fire, patted his back gently, and softly coaxed him to sleep...then Tender, so warm, he is surrounded by love.

"who is she?"

the king asked in a low voice.

"Queen Eleanor, our queen forever."

The bard saluted the king, and he had the green eyes that are characteristic of the Khoya.

Queen Eleanor.

The name touched a chord in the king's heart.

That is……

his mother.

"She..." The king's voice was very low, he stared at the ground, "What kind of person is she?"

"She is the best queen in Keya." The bard looked at the young king, and found the shadow of their beloved queen on the king's face, "If you go to Keya, you can see her statue, The best bard in the world comes from Keya, and people in Keya love her very much."