A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

The sun shines through the open windows into the room, brightening this spacious bedroom.

The blond little prince sat on the bed, obediently stretched out his hand, and showed it to the doctor sitting by the bed.The elderly doctor whose hair was already graying held the prince's hand and carefully looked at the scar on his wrist.Then, he turned his head again, looked seriously at the prince's ankle, and nodded slightly.

As soon as he looked up, he saw the little prince sitting on the bed, looking at him eagerly with big golden eyes, eyes full of expectation.

The old doctor couldn't help but laugh at that cute little appearance. If the other party wasn't a noble prince, he couldn't help but pat the child's head.

He likes this little prince from the bottom of his heart, he is cute, obedient, and sensible.

He is the best doctor in the city of Vinal. The children of the noble officials always come to him when they are sick. The children are afraid of taking medicine, and they will make a lot of noise when they see him. It took a lot of effort to finish the tossing every time, and some were even spoiled and pointed at him and yelled at him to beat him to death.

When he rushed over that day and was secretly reminded that this was the prince of Aaron Landis, he sighed and thought that he would suffer again.The prince is much more honorable than those noble children. If he accidentally hurt him, he might be dragged down and put in jail. How can he stand it with his old arms and legs.

However, as soon as he entered the door, the old doctor was taken aback. The child's injuries were not serious. The cuts on his hands and feet were very deep, and the bleeding would not stop if he was not careful, especially the shallow one on his neck.

I don't know who is so cruel and cruel to such a small child.

Seeing such a serious injury, the heart of a doctor came to him, and he didn't care about it. He hurriedly cleaned the wound, disinfected it, tried to stop the bleeding, and tied the bandage.

After waiting for the whole circle to finish, he wiped off his sweat, only to realize that after he had tossed for so long, especially when cleaning and disinfecting, such a deep wound would make people feel very painful, and I am afraid that even an adult can't bear it live.But let alone the little prince making a scene, it seems that he just couldn't help but hum a few times in pain?

As soon as he raised his head, he saw the pale face of the little prince, with cold sweat oozing from his forehead. It was obvious that he was in severe pain, but he still sat obediently and did not shrink the hand that was stretched out in front of him. You can see the teeth marks on the soft lips that he bit out in pain.

There was still a bit of mist in the big golden eyes, and the look made the old doctor feel so soft-hearted.

At that time, there was a tall man with brown hair who was spinning around in a hurry, getting in the way, and was scolded by the old doctor and kicked out, so he could only wait obediently at the door.The other boy was also staring at the little prince without blinking, but he had been standing quietly by the side, helping the old doctor with things and helping him from time to time, so the old doctor didn't drive him out.

Thinking of this, the old doctor looked at the child whose face had turned back to a healthy rosy color, and smiled gently.

"Prince, your injury is much better."

Facing the expectant look in Garlan's eyes, he purposely paused to whet Garlan's appetite before continuing.

"You can get out of bed for a little exercise... But, it can't be too violent, you understand?"

As soon as the old doctor finished speaking, Garlan's eyes lit up.

He hummed happily and couldn't wait to get out of bed.

God knows, he just lay on the bed for a few days after returning to Vinal City. Although he could stay in the sun without getting moldy, he felt that if he continued to lie down, his limbs would be paralyzed.

He got out of bed and happily walked up and down the room a few times, like a lively little squirrel that just woke up from hibernation and started to walk back and forth.

The old doctor looked at him with a smile on his side, and was led away from here.

Not long after, an attendant came and bowed his head to Garlan as he entered the door.

He said: "Your Highness Garlan, the king asked me to take you to see him."

"Brother Wang? I see."

Under the leadership of the young attendant, Garlan walked through the long corridor. There was a suspended stone bridge between the tall building in the center of the government affairs hall and the tall buildings on the side.

When walking across the suspended stone bridge, Garlan looked down, just in time to see the pile of corpses on the side of the Vinal River outside the city, and his heart skipped a beat.

Almost forgot!

I originally planned to tell Brother Wang as soon as possible, but I was interrupted by the incident of the refugee riot, and I didn't think about it for a while.

No, he has to find a way to solve this matter, otherwise, if this continues, a plague will soon appear in the city.

However, what reason should I use to convince Brother Wang?

The current level of medicine in this world is far from being able to understand such things as bacterial infections.

While pondering, Garlan followed the attendants, and soon arrived at the government office where King Kamos was staying.

There were several knights standing beside King Kamos. All of these men had a two-finger-wide lion badge on their chests, with a simple luster of brass, symbolizing their status as commanders of thousands of cavalry who commanded thousands of cavalry.In Aaron Landis, those who can become the commander of a thousand cavalry are all knights who are unique in thousands.

Seeing Garlan coming in, the three knight commanders bowed their heads to salute him.

If it was said that before they came to Vinal City, their respect for Garlan was purely the respect they had for the royal family and King Kamos, then at this time, their salute was a little more sincere.

Although the little prince looks weak, he possesses the courage they all agree with and the caring heart for his subordinates.

And they also felt that even if he is a little weaker now, the prince is still young, as long as he works harder in the future, maybe he can become as strong as King Kamos when he grows up?

King Kamos didn't care about the presence of the knight commanders, he strode over, laughed and picked up little Garlan.

He himself felt that, in front of other people, it was already very restrained for him not to kiss his cute little brother.

"Garlan, you did a great job this time."

He praised his brother without hesitation.

"Taking personal risks to rescue the young people of Aaron Landis, and then successfully stopping the rioting refugees, no one can do better than you. This time, the feat of the city of Vinal, You are at least half."

He said, "So, I will reward you, tell me, Garlan, what do you want?"

Garlan's eyes lit up when he heard what King Kamos said, who was still worried.

Isn't that just right?

Thinking happily, he grabbed Brother Wang's head and turned half a circle, pointing ahead to let King Kamos walk through the window.

The knight commanders next to him all stood aside calmly.

If other people dared to break ground on the head of their great King Kamos like this, they would have angrily reprimanded and even started.

But for this little prince who was spoiled by King Kamos to the sky, from time to time, they scratched their king's head, pulled his hair, and even slapped his cheek. They were so used to it that they became numb.

Anyway, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer. Haven't you seen their king's cheerful appearance?

If they really stepped forward to stop the little prince's offensive behavior, they would be beaten by King Kamos himself if they said no.

Unaware of the mutterings of the knight commanders behind him, Garlan signaled his brother Wang to go to the window, and then pointed in a direction outside the window.

"Brother Wang, look over there."

Looking in the direction Garlan pointed at, Kamos subconsciously frowned.

Because he saw a mountain of corpses piled up beside the Vinal River outside the city. Most of the buried ones were drowned when the river flooded, and the outermost layer was almost all the corpses of people who died of illness recently. From afar, one could see countless flies flying on those carrion corpses, lingering.

"Those people are so pitiful."

Garlan tried to show a child's sympathy for the uncollected dead.

"Brother Wang, tell someone to bury them in the mountains, okay?"

In fact, Garlan would like to directly say that it was burned. Cremation is the best way for this kind of pathogen, but the customs on the earth are very old now. People here believe that people have souls. Even if they die, the body and soul are deeply connected. contact.If you get the blessing of the gods, the dead soul may return to the body and be resurrected.Therefore, they attach great importance to the integrity of the corpse, and have always respected burial. Some special ethnic groups will bury the corpse in the sky or in water, but there is absolutely no such practice as cremation.

For them, the so-called cremation is the destruction of bones and ashes, and even the ashes of their souls. Unless they have a deep hatred with the other party, no one will do such a 'vicious' thing.

So Garlan had no choice but to take a step back and let people drag these corpses into the deep mountains to bury them.

"Garlan." Kamos smiled at him, and said, "I know you are soft-hearted, but everyone is busy now, and the river is in danger of flooding, so everyone went there."

Recently, the Vinal River seemed to be on the rise again, and most of the city guards who maintained the order of the city went to the embankment to urgently repair the embankment.The rest of the city guards were already struggling to maintain order in the city and resettle refugees, and it was impossible to allocate more people to do something purely to make the little prince happy.

And his guards...King Kamos didn't even think about it. After all, the knights under his command were all of noble origin, and it was absolutely impossible to carry the corpses of civilians and slaves.

He coaxed the little brother in his arms, and said: "But our Garlan is kind, so wait a little longer, and when the flood season of the Vinar River is over, I will ask them to bury those corpses, okay?" good?"

Garlan was in a hurry.

Wait a while?Is it ten days or half a month?I'm afraid that at that time, the plague in the entire city of Vinal had already broken out.

He struggled to come up with the right words to describe the contamination of water sources with germs.

"But Brother Wang, look, many of those people died of illness. They got sick, and now they are soaked in the water, and the disease on their bodies may be melted into the water, and the people in the city need to drink water. You will get the same disease as them!"

That kind of child's words made King Kamos laugh for a while, only thinking that his little prince's words are so cute.

Not only him, but several knight commanders beside him also laughed softly.

Although the prince has done great things, he is still a child after all, so whimsical.

They all think so.

King Kamos smiled and rubbed the anxious Garlan's head.

"Little guy, have you lost your head from sleep? How can a person's illness melt into the water?"

Seeing that King Kamos and the knight commanders were all laughing, paying no attention to what he said, Garlan opened his mouth to say something, but he didn't say it after all.

Everyone thought that he said such childish words just out of sympathy and wanted to bury the poor refugees whose bodies had not been collected, but no one took his words seriously.

Due to the limitations of this era, even if doctors were called, those doctors would not agree with his words.

It's impossible to act like a spoiled child... Garlan is well aware of Brother Kamos' temper. Although Brother King dotes on him and spoils him, he will never change his mind on business matters just to make him happy.

After coaxing his little brother, King Kamos continued to stand in front of a square table with a map with his knight commanders, discussing how to prevent the Venar River from flooding again.

And Garlan was placed on a soft soft chair, with a plate of fragrant milk cakes and a glass of sweet fruit juice in front of him, but Garlan pursed his lips, obviously not in the mood to eat it.

He bent his knees and nestled in the soft chair, blinking, his mind spinning rapidly.

While thinking hard, he unconsciously swept his gaze across the few people opposite him.

A golden light flashed in his eyes, and he took a closer look, and saw a four-finger-wide pure gold armband on the upper arm of King Kamos.

In an instant, his eyes lit up.

The little prince jumped off the chair all at once, ran to King Kamos's side, stretched out his little hand and tugged at the corner of King Kamos's clothes.

"Brother Wang~~~"

he cried, and tugged again.

As soon as Kamos lowered his head, he saw the child looking up at him with his small face up, and his golden eyes stared at him brightly.

He couldn't help laughing, lifted Garlan up and put him on the table.

"What? Have you figured out what reward you want?"

"Ok!"

Bai Bai's little hand reached out to King Kamos, and Garlan looked at Kamos with bright eyes.

"Brother Wang, give me gold coins, Aaron gold coins."

"what?"

King Kamos was taken aback.

He didn't expect that Garlan wanted gold coins after thinking for a long time.

Is his little brother short of money?

He thought, he has never treated this child badly materially, has he?

Garlan's words made the faces of the knight commanders next to him change slightly. For them, it was not a good thing for the heir to the throne to love money.

"Brother Wang~~"

Garlan yelled again, the child's voice was still a child's voice, soft and sweet, like a sweet little milk cake, his big golden eyes were shining brightly at him.

All of a sudden, King Kamos, who was hesitating, softened his heart.

"Yes, yes...but you have to tell Brother Wang, what do you want gold coins for?"

"Go hire someone."

"what?"

"Didn't Brother Wang say that there is a shortage of manpower? But I think those refugees have nothing to do now, so I will give them money to hire them and ask them to help me bury those corpses. Isn't that all right?"

"Uh...that's a way."

King Kamos thought about it, and felt that this idea was indeed good.

Although those refugees have been properly resettled, it is easy to cause riots if they stay and do nothing, so it is better to give them something to do.Although he felt that what Garlan wanted to do was not necessary, but as the king of Aaron Landis, he was not short of wealth, and it was no big deal to spend some gold coins to make his little prince happy.

After thinking this way, he smiled and patted Garlan's head, praising him.

"Yes, this is very good, Garlan is really smart."

Several knight commanders looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, the little prince does not seem to be the kind of person who is greedy for money.

Just when King Kamos was satisfied, the knight commanders heaved a sigh of relief, Garlan was also happy that he had achieved his goal, and everyone was happy, a cold voice suddenly broke in.

"King Kamos, you dote on Prince Garlan too much."

Priest Shamash, who walked into the government affairs room, said so expressionlessly, and glanced at Garlan who was sitting on the table.

"You shouldn't let him do such meaningless things like this."

Camos scratched his head.

"I've already promised him."

"So please pay attention next time."

Ximuer said, walked to the table, looked down at the map on the table.

Then, he frowned.

"The rise of the Vinal River is getting stronger and stronger?"

A knight commander replied: "Yes, the silt has accumulated very badly, and the river bed is very high. I don't know if I can survive this time, but I have seen the river embankment. Hard to hold on."

He pointed to the location of the city of Vinal on the map, as well as the nearby stretch of the Vinal River.

"Here, and here, the riverbed is already more than one meter above the ground." He frowned and said, "Even if we arrange people to clean up the silt in the dry season, when the water comes out again, the riverbed that was so hard dug down will be gone again." It will be filled with the silt that is brought in."

"Now we can only find a way to raise the embankment again, but the problem is that with our technology, the height of the embankment is almost reaching its limit, and it will be difficult to ensure the stability of the embankment if it is raised again."

Shemuer looked at the map carefully, then reached out and clicked nearby.

"There's a valley here," he said, "and a dry river."

"If we can't continue to raise the embankment, we can only find a way to dredge the water to other places. It is best to connect the Vinal River with this dry river."

"You mean, build a channel between here? The distance is a bit far, and I'm afraid it will take a long time..."

"Yes, that's something to do later. At present, we need to build a temporary channel to divert the water from the Vinal River to this nearby valley, where the terrain is low."

"However, to dig a channel in such a short period of time, we need a lot of manpower to rush the work, and it is too late to transfer from nearby cities..."

King Kamos rubbed his chin in thought, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

Almost at the same time, Shemuer also raised his head.

The two looked at Garlan who was sitting on the table with his head bowed and wondering how much he should pay for moving a dead body.

"Those refugees."

Ximuer said that with concise and concise words, others will understand in an instant.

That's right, they can follow Prince Garlan's practice and use money to hire those refugees to dig channels.

Not only can it prevent the river from breaking down the embankment again, but it can also find long-term jobs for those refugees, so that the poor can earn money, and those refugees will no longer have the intention to cause trouble after exhausting their energy in this kind of high-intensity physical work. Things like rebellion.

Three birds with one stone.

King Kamos hugged his little brother and kissed him hard.

"Garlan, you are my god of luck!"

After the kiss, he rushed out the door in a hurry, and asked people to prepare for the recruitment of refugees.

The little prince, who was still thinking about the money distribution, was suddenly kissed hard, and was a little dazed for a while.

As soon as he looked up, he saw King Kamos leaving in a hurry. He was inexplicably confused. When he turned his head, he saw Shemuer standing beside him, staring at him quietly.

No matter how he looks at that look, it makes him a little hairy.

...has a bad feeling.

"Your Highness Garlan, your injury seems to have healed."

The priest of Shamash said the tone was undeniable.

"Then, starting tomorrow, you will study with me for two hours every day."

Gallan: "!!!"

Wait, did I do something? !