The Sun King's Evidence

Imperial Calendar Year 2520, mid-October, Mousilon, the Knights Kingdom of the Old World, Palace of Fontainebleau.

Although the Sun King returned with a great victory and once again created an unparalleled military miracle, there was no joy or cheerful atmosphere in the entire Duke's Castle at this time. On the contrary, there were guards and troops everywhere.

Because when Ryan had just returned to Britannia, when the triumphal ceremony was held in the capital Curona, when the knights were proudly showing off their trophies to everyone, when the old guards were surrounding the King of Knights, When appearing on the Avenue of Triumph.

A carefully planned assassination occurred.

The famous Tzeentch sect has been planning this for nearly a year.

The first thing that appeared were dozens of carts on both sides of the street. On the carts were placed kerosene obtained from unknown sources and large iron barrels with bonfires lit inside. They rushed towards the queue.

Then on the second floors of the street buildings on both sides, a dozen musketeers opened fire at the same time.

Then dozens of swordsmen fell from the upstairs, and at the same time they attacked the Sun King who was riding a war horse and waving to the crowd.

Of course, these actions are actually of little use. As the original body and a strong man at the peak of the Holy Domain, how can Ryan be solved by an assassination of this level?

Then a few grenades thrown from nowhere were even more hilarious.

Ryan just gently stretched out a hand, and all the bullets, crossbow bolts, arrows and grenades flying towards him were frozen in the air. The King of Knights clenched his fist and exploded instantly.

Before all of this was over, just as Ryan was moving, an extremely fast Chaos Assassin suddenly appeared from the void holding a dagger full of azure and filled with blood-sucking throat-sealing poison. From behind, attack Ryan.

Ryan dodged, and the next second, the magic of Lake God Witch Morgiana hit the assassin, who turned into white smoke and died on the spot.

The assassination ended in an anticlimactic manner. Ryan ordered a city-wide manhunt and captured a small group of Chaos Cult members. It was confirmed that they were followers of the famous Tzeentch sect "Red Crown" and "Colorful Flame Society". Further steps are to be taken. During the search, all Chaos followers suddenly erupted in colorful flames and burned themselves to death.

Everything ended in vain.

Although only a few old guards and a dozen soldiers and attendants were injured in this incident, the occurrence of such an incident at this juncture still greatly affected the atmosphere of victory in the Great Expedition. Ryan did not say much about this and held a brief discussion. After the celebration banquet, he immediately ordered the disbandment of the army. He did not plan to spend the winter in the capital, but planned to return to Mousilon's Fontainebleau Palace to spend the winter.

Inner hall and oval courtyard of the Palace of Fontainebleau.

Knight Queen Surya was dressed in a luxurious queen's dress. She walked quickly into the palace with the help of two maids. The female courtier Sylvia who also continued to serve as the head maid followed behind Surya.

"What's wrong, Your Majesty?" Sulia asked anxiously, her two slender and straight long black stocking legs moving quickly.

"His Majesty was in a bad mood. He called Ms. Aurora and Ms. Teresa from MI7. He didn't talk to them. He just asked them to wait outside the hall, as well as the Baron." Sylvia said anxiously. Said to Sulia: "Your Majesty seems to know about the Baron."

"Hey... Devon Hill, he is really..." Lidya Su anxiously held up her skirt and walked inside.

As soon as the queen appeared in the outer hall, the two heads of MI7, Aurora and Teresa, who were sitting outside waiting for news, all stood up: "Mrs."

"Mom." Devon Hill lowered his head and stood up. Ryan's eldest son looked very downcast: "Dad called us to wait outside. It's been two hours, why hasn't there been any movement?"

"It's okay, Devon Hill." Sulia first smiled and patted Devon Hill's face, and then said to Theresa and Aurora, who were a little nervous: "It's okay, he is just here. When I'm angry, I'll just go in and talk to him, you guys just wait a moment."

"Yeah." Aurora snorted somewhat displeasedly, saluted Sulia, and sat down.

"Excuse me, madam." Teresa was very uneasy. There was no doubt that MI7 was responsible for such a big assassination this time.

Sulia nodded to everyone, then signaled everyone to wait, ignored the old guards standing guard, directly reached out and pushed open the door of the room, and strode into the inner room.

Sylvia also wanted to follow in, but the old guard immediately lowered his halberd and signaled the head maid to stop.

The queen walked into the room and saw that the entire walls and ceiling of the gorgeous bedroom were decorated with gold leaves in gold, red and blue tones, the floor was covered with tapestries, and the chandeliers were sparkling and translucent. The decoration can be said to be the masterpiece of hundreds of years. , brilliant and elegant. The interior is beautifully decorated, with ceilings and wainscoting made of walnut.

The wall on the wainscot is divided into several sections by doors and pilasters, and in the center of each section is a large painting. There are reliefs in the form of skulls, swords, books, etc. around them. In addition to white, some of these reliefs are painted with colors or gold.

It was already late autumn, and the fireplace in the bedroom was burning brightly. Knight King Ryan was lying on the seat in front of the fireplace. He seemed to be asleep. There were rolls of parchment piled on the small table next to the seat.

Seeing her husband like this, Lidya Su couldn't help but snicker. The female knight walked to Ryan and sat down: "Okay, get up, Ryan, I don't know if others are pretending to sleep, but I can't tell if you are pretending to sleep." ?”

"ZZZ..." Ryan still lay there motionless.

"Get up, I'm waiting outside." Sulia adjusted her skirt. The female knight secretly took out a pair of soft-soled slippers from under the table, replaced the arrow blue stiletto heels on her feet, and put her After putting a pair of delicate black silk jade feet into slippers, he reached out and pinched Ryan's face directly: "Stop pretending."

"..." Ryan opened his eyes. He hugged Sulia's enchanting and fiery body with his arms, and kissed his wife hard on the lips amidst her exclamations. Go down and give her a deep wet kiss, until Sulia's breathing started to become rapid, then she let go and said with a smile: "I really can't hide anything from you, my wife."

"We have been married for so many years, what is there about you that I don't know about?" Lidya Su pinched Ryan's face angrily and leaned on his chest again: "Are you angry?"

"Of course you have to be angry." Ryan held Sulia on his lap, and the King of Knights groaned dissatisfied: "There is no news about such a big thing!"

"Didn't MI7 get the information about the possible assassination two days in advance?" Sulia reached out and brushed her husband's frown to calm him down. The Queen of Knights said softly: "You are the one who firmly believes that you are not afraid. Assassination is to lure the snake out of its hole.”

"Even the capital has been infiltrated by the Tzeentch sect. Morgiana sent a message back and followed the clues. She found the foothold of three Chaos sects in Kurona in the past few days. Isn't this enough to explain the problem?" Ryan said in a very serious tone. It's ugly, the King of Knights said: "What does MI7 do for food? So much of the funds are fed to the dogs every year?"

"It's not that you are a little too indulgent to them. If they don't want to go on an expedition, just forget it, and you will approve the funds they ask for." Sulia continued to scold: "You are not even so kind to your wife."

"Hehehe." Ryan couldn't help but kiss Sulia's face again. The King of Knights smiled and said: "Like means wantonness, love means restraint. For them, just feed them. It's different for you. Sulia, you are My rose, you are my flower, you need to be carefully nourished, cared for, cultivated and watered, you are the only flower in the world."

"You're such a guy, you just open your mouth to say something like this..." As soon as these words came out, Sulia couldn't express any anger. The Queen of Knights could only blush and continued: "Devon Hill is just a little anxious. , he has been clamoring to save the little queen recently."

"It doesn't matter if he makes trouble. It's the young people who don't make trouble that are the problem. It's easy to get angry at the young age." Ryan shook his head: "But no matter what, it is absolutely wrong for him to yell at his uncle."

"Yes, this is the son's fault." Sulia will be partial but will never be indiscriminate. The Knight Queen can only admit: "Uncle Angron regards Devonshire as his own, and he actually did it because of his little son. For the Queen to yell at his uncle is too much, really too much."

"Yes, so, I need to give these guys some time to show off and kill them for their majesty." Ryan smiled. He put his arms around Sulia's waist and hugged his wife, whether outside or outside. No matter how hard and tiring it is, home is the best safe haven: "You terrible wife, you can't bear to take care of your son, so you let me take care of it?"

"That's your son!" Lidya Su said angrily.

"That's your son too!" Ryan retorted angrily.

The couple looked at each other and smiled.

"No rush, just let them dry for a while." Ryan reached out for a volume of paperwork and asked Sulia casually: "How are the food reserves this year?"

"This year is another good harvest. The church's major warehouses have added more than 33 million kilograms of grain. In addition, the major duke warehouses have also stored a large amount of grain." Sulia picked up the important ones and said: "We Mu Several key warehouses in Xilon and Jean have just added more than 40 million kilograms of grain into storage, and at the same time released more than 10 million kilograms of old grain, including some old grain that has begun to have insect problems. Grain merchants in the fort purchased it on a large scale at low prices, and then sold it to the empire and border princes at high prices.”

"Yeah." Ryan nodded, and the big businessmen of Marienburg began to smell something.

Different from last year, this year, the entire Old World's food production has begun to show signs of large-scale reductions. Except for Britannia, which still has a bumper harvest, the entire Old World's food production has decreased by 10%-15%.

In the past few months, the price of food on the market has skyrocketed, with an overall increase of 30-40%. I received news from Schulz that the major grain merchants in Marienburg have all united to conduct "peer discussions" to drive up food prices and hoard food. , Sulia originally released 3 million kilograms of old grain to the empire, which was to avoid excessive rise in prices.

To be honest, these stored grains are only enough to feed the hungry people in the northern part of the empire for a month.

The food on the market was empty again. Except for Noor who could buy food from Britannia through special channels, the remaining food was eaten up by several major grain merchants in Marienburg. These big merchants even Shouted: "The emperor's army can enter Marienburg, but the emperor's decree cannot enter Marienburg."

"It is the nature of a businessman to pursue profit." Ryan sighed and shook his head: "Is there nothing Schultz can do?"

"Schultz can only manage the irregular and illegal behavior. This is a formal business behavior. Even if he is the Grand Duke, he cannot mess around." Sulia seemed very calm. The queen had food in her hands and was not panicking.

"There will be a time to deal with them, but now is not the time." Ryan nodded, and the firelight of the fireplace flickered on the face of the King of Knights: "Now the autumn harvest is in progress. Although the food production in the old world has decreased, at least everyone has harvested. It is not appropriate to take action at this time."

"Yes." Sulia nodded. The Knight Queen leaned on her husband's chest and said bitterly: "Obien is very dangerous this time. Bo Derek and Fedmund both deserve to die!"

"If they die, who will be the navy marshal?" Ryan laughed: "Who will be in charge of the Poseidon fleet? Is it possible that I can make myself the navy marshal myself?"

Lidya Su rolled her eyes at Ryan, she couldn't answer this question.

"Bo Derek and Fedmund are both capable, but they are still a little unaccustomed to the new military system after the military reform. They still feel that they are like the former vassal troops who followed the army." Ryan caressed his wife's back : "I have already warned them, and they have realized their mistake. You can't just hope that it will be done in one step."

"There is indeed no one else. Ever since the death of Marshal Hood and Marshal Henry, Britannia has lacked outstanding naval admirals. Now only Bo Derek and his son Fedmund are qualified for this position." Su Leah could only admit: "The navy and the army are different."

"Yes, the navy and the army are different." Ryan also smiled bitterly. As long as an army officer follows him, he can quickly grow into a qualified general in a few years. Britannia now has great stars and talents, but the navy is It cannot be cultivated in a few years.

"The matter of the High Essence Envoy..." Sulia then tested her husband's thoughts.

When Ryan was away, Sulia naturally had an overview of everything. At this time, the female knight was the supreme head of the Knight Kingdom. After Ryan came back, the queen had to discuss it with Ryan. She told Talleyrand's plan. Ryan, and also added his own point of view: "What I mean is that we don't need to go into the muddy water. The high spirits will not thank us. After returning from the expedition, even if we won a big victory, we still suffered nearly 15,000 casualties. Now The kingdom needs rest.”

"You are right, the kingdom needs to rest. Let's wait and see what happens in this matter. Leave it to me with my son." Ryan nodded.

Sulia wanted to ask something else, but Ryan glanced at the dwarf grandfather clock.

"Tell them to come in."

"yes!"

"Yes... Your Majesty will let you in." Raymond and Beria, the deputy commanders of the Old Guards at the door, responded one after another.

Aurora and Teresa from MI7 came forward, followed closely by their eldest son Devon Hill. When he saw his father holding his mother's hand and sitting side by side on the seat, Devon Hill's eyes lit up. But then he saw the warning in Lidya Su's eyes and quickly shrank his head.

Aurora, Theresa and Devon Hill knelt down and saluted.

"Please get up and give me a seat." Ryan raised his hand towards Aurora and Theresa, indicating that the two holy witches could take their seats. Theresa and Aurora were not surprised.

Devon Hill quickly got up when he saw this.

"Who told you to get up?!" Father's voice was like a storm, like lightning: "Kneel down!"

Devon Hill was frightened by Ryan, and tears suddenly filled his face. He looked at his mother subconsciously, and saw Lidya Su closing her eyes and not looking at him.

Now his son knew that the matter was serious, and he did regret treating Uncle Angron like that afterwards, but at that time he was so angry that he ignored it.

The son quickly knelt down and put his head on the ground.

Aurora and Teresa were also frightened. Ryan was no longer the same now. The King of Knights' every move was unpredictable like a thunderstorm, spring breeze, drizzle, summer sun, or winter snow.

But the mother and daughter had something to rely on after all. Ryan ignored Devon Hill and smiled at them: "It's none of your business. How about what I asked you to do before?"

The mature and beautiful Holy Witch adjusted the hem of her long skirt and took out a long roll of parchment: "This is the result of the investigation you asked us to investigate, Your Majesty."

Ryan took the parchment and motioned for Sulia to read it with him.

Ten minutes later, the King of Knights sighed: "Well done, dear Theresa and Aurora, you are very helpful in this matter, I should reward you well."

Without waiting for Teresa and Aurora to express their thanks, Ryan took the parchment directly and laughed uncontrollably: "Good guy, I was a good guy when I came up."

On the parchment were written the results of years of investigation by MI7.

After years of investigation, the number of Chaos sects with more than 30,000 people (including peripheral personnel) in the empire has been counted, including their main scope of activities and possible headquarters locations.

A long list:

Order of the Scarlet Skull.

Brass Sisterhood.

Brotherhood of Axes.

Fraternal Order of Wounded Veterans.

The Scarlet Pledge Club.

Nurgo Laohui.

Purple hands.

Red crown.

Order of the Broken Wheel.

Cai Yan Hui.

Tantra.

Descendants of Doom.

Rotten stomach followers.

Nurgle Carnival.

Tobias Butchers Association.

Presett Medical Exchange.

Society of Carpathians.

Gucci Art Costume Association.

Emerald Scepter.

West Boutique Membership Association.

And the "Yellow Fang Cult" who believed in the horned rat was specially marked by Aurora.

The Yellow Fang Cult, a large-scale chaos sect, has become so arrogant that a few followers openly killed several demon hunters and battle priests on the streets of Kronburg and then committed suicide. The cause and consequences were not found out, because all the attackers were killed or committed suicide. All symbols of identity have been wiped away. After weeks of investigation, the local nobles found no clues and could only assume that this was a vendetta.

"There is one more important thing, Your Majesty." Teresa continued to report: "Over Nuer, Baron Frederick recently discovered an altar of Khorne in a secret passage under the military camp of the Nuer Ironclad Army! This shocked the entire Nuer. Ercheng.”

"What?!"

"In addition, the wife of the White Wolf Elector Boris Todbringer was recently found out that she is actually a Slaanesh believer and a core member of the Middenheim Slaanesh Cult - the Emerald Scepter. "Aurora also reported: "Anne-Talis is the daughter of the Grand Duke Theodorik Geisel of Nord. After the elector Boris learned and confirmed the truth, he was extremely sad and ordered to use it. Du Jiujiu killed his second wife and announced to the public that she was ill and died. He is now extremely depressed, leaving all military and political affairs to the palace ministers and staying behind closed doors."

Ryan was speechless.

"Very good. A hundred flowers are blooming and a hundred schools of thought are contending. Some people have begun to be unable to sit still. Their master who wants to welcome them has gone south."

"Let's do our best first!"

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