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Chapter 108 The Betrayed City Lord Ling
Because the opinions could not be unified, the two soon broke out an extremely fierce quarrel.This made Ling Zhixuan also startled.

Ling Zhixuan looked at his father who was arguing fiercely with Qian Duoduo, but felt a little sad in his heart, because his father still hadn't seen the situation clearly.If it was before, Qian Duoduo would not dare to resist him.After all, he himself represents the government, and to fight against it is to fight against the government.

But now, the official strength of the Hanhai Empire is unprecedentedly weak, and Qian Duoduo now has tens of thousands of troops under his command, and several of his guards have even been promoted to master sword masters.Such a powerful force can completely control the trend of the empire, so my father chose to fall out with the other party at this time, which is really not a smart move.

After a fierce quarrel, the two broke up.Then, before Ling Zhendong could calm down, Zhao Tiezhu, accompanied by several royal knights, came to Ling Zhendong and said that he wanted to terminate the master-servant relationship between the two.

Ling Zhendong, who had just been 'betrayed' by Qian Duoduo, was furious when he heard the words, and cursed at Zhao Tiezhu: "You cripple, when you were desperate and about to starve to death on the street, who took you in and gave you I gave you food, clothes, and even taught you superb blacksmithing skills! This is how you repaid me, what an ungrateful villain!"

In the end, Zhao Tiezhu didn't even bother to quarrel with him. After all, in Zhao Tiezhu's view, the two have completely different ideas, and they can't talk about it at all. Even if his ideas are spoken out, they will never be recognized by Ling Zhendong. , so it is better not to say.

After tidying up his things hastily, Zhao Tiezhu left here amidst Ling Zhendong's scolding.

Then Ling Zhixuan left.The reason why she wanted to leave here was because she was afraid that her father would be extremely angry and take all the anger on her, so she wanted to move out for a while, and wait until the other party's anger subsided.

And Ling Zhendong watched everyone leave one by one, and suddenly felt a feeling of betrayal.Crazy colors began to flicker in his eyes, as if something was brewing.

With the arrival of night, the battleship also returned to calm, and most of the people had already fallen asleep.After all, there are no good entertainment items on the sea, so naturally we can only go to bed early!

But in the darkness, a few figures in night clothes suddenly appeared, and under the cover of the darkness, they quietly approached the place where the emperor's grandson, Hai Xiaobao, lived.

Soon, these men in black sneaked into the emperor's grandson's room, and then pulled out the long swords around their waists, ready to stab the sleeping emperor's grandson.

But before these men in black could make a move, the room was suddenly brightly lit, and then a cyan sword light swept across fiercely, cutting these men in black in half.

"How courageous you are to dare to assassinate the grandson of the emperor!" As the words fell, a tall and handsome man walked out of the corner of the room. Who else could he be if he wasn't Sky Sword Master Frank?
Frank stepped forward and took off the masks on the faces of these men in black, only to find that their cheeks had been scratched, and they were completely unrecognizable from their original appearance.Then he picked up the long swords that the opponent had dropped on the ground, and found that these long swords had the logo of the Royal Knights on them.

"Hehe! Do you want to frame Your Majesty? This method is too clumsy!" Seeing the Royal Knights logo on these long swords, Frank couldn't help but sneered.

"Go and check for me immediately! The murderer must be on the boat, and it's easy to find clues!"

Just when Frank asked the soldiers to investigate the real culprit behind the assassination of the emperor's grandson, Ling Zhendong ran wildly in the night with a face full of panic, and finally came to the boat that was used by the adventurer during the day, and was about to take the put down a small boat and escaped by boat.

To be honest, he regretted it shortly after sending out those assassins, but there is no regret medicine in this world.He almost completely lost his mind because of his anger, and that's why he did such a seemingly stupid thing.After the anger subsided a little, he knew immediately with his shrewdness that the planting was impossible to succeed, and even after the mastermind behind the scenes was found out, his title and life would be lost.

"With this kind of small boat, in the rough sea, if you don't have superb driving skills, you will have to fall into the sea to feed the fish before you can drive very far!"

Just when Ling Zhendong was about to put the small wooden boat down, a familiar voice rang in his ears.

When Ling Zhendong heard this voice, his movements froze immediately, and then he turned his head slowly to look, and found that the person who came was Su Li, the girl who had worked closely with him in the past.

But in this situation, seeing the other party, Ling Zhendong felt only panic and despair in his heart, but no joy of seeing his old friend.

"Okay! Don't be so afraid. If I want to kill you, you won't be able to get here alive! I'm waiting for you here to provide you with a tool to escape. This is based on our previous friendship. But in the future, you can only live incognito, and it is impossible to return to the original glory!" Seeing the terrified look on the other side's face, Su Li explained.

Then with a wave of her hand, a small submarine quietly emerged from the sea next to the battleship.

"Let's sit here and go! This way you can walk quietly. When the pursuers arrive later, I will tell them that you have committed suicide by jumping into the sea in fear of crime. This will be considered as an end to this matter!"

Ling Zhendong looked at this strange-looking 'ship' and quickly guessed its approximate function. Then without much hesitation, he lowered himself from the battleship to the submarine along a rope.

"Goodbye! Take good care of my daughter for me!" After leaving these last words, Ling Zhendong got into the submarine under the guidance of an NPC crew member.

After picking up Ling Zhendong, the submarine quickly re-submerged into the sea and disappeared without a sound.

Just a few minutes later, a large group of soldiers followed the trail and came here, but they did not find Ling Zhendong here, but only saw their queen.

"The murderer has committed suicide by jumping into the sea! Let's all go back!"

Hearing what Su Li said, the soldiers of the Hanhai Empire did not doubt the authenticity of the other party's words, or did not dare to doubt, and quickly retreated obediently.

Because Ling Zhendong, the culprit, was not caught, soon some nobles who supported Hai Zijing wanted to vent their anger on his daughter and proposed to execute Ling Zhixuan.

Fortunately, Su Li personally tried to protect the other party, so these nobles could not succeed.

Seeing that one of his powerful allies died like this, Hopner expressed his sadness, and at the same time became even more desperate for the situation. After all, he had already heard through people before that one of Ling Zhendong's former subordinates betrayed him and secretly gave Haizi Jing invested 100 million gold coins, which made the other party no longer worry about lack of money in a short time.Presumably the reason why his ally took the risk was also because he was desperate for the situation, so he thought of using this low-level method of framing to damage Hai Zijing's reputation.

such a pity!The success rate of this hastily made plan is really too low, and once it fails, Ling Zhendong himself will not escape death!

After the many nobles had dispersed, Hai Zijing asked Su Li, "Why are you trying to protect Ling Zhendong's daughter? Could it be that the other party is also some important person?"

"No! It's just because I like her!" After Su Li left such a sentence, he also left Hai Zijing's room. After all, she didn't really want to be the other party's queen. What would it be like to stay here in the middle of the night? Words!

After Hai Zijing received this answer, he was so shocked that it took him a while to recover.

"Oh! It's such a mess, sleep...!"

After one night, Hai Zijing woke up early in the morning, and immediately called for Zhao Tiezhu, asking him to start mass-producing cannons and install them on other wooden warships to improve their combat effectiveness.

Through previous wars, it has been proven that the artillery manufactured by Zhao Tiezhu has no problems, so it can indeed be mass-produced now.

But after Zhao Tiezhu listened to Hai Zijing's request, he asked back: "Your Majesty, do you really think this is the most important thing now?"

"Of course! This matter doesn't matter, why does it matter? You must know that we have many enemies now. If we don't strengthen the fleet strength as soon as possible, if those enemies catch up with us, we will really be punished!" Facing Zhao Tiezhu's inquiry, Hai Zijing answered seriously.

After listening to the other party's answer, Zhao Tiezhu smiled lightly, and then said: "No! Your Majesty, I think you have overlooked one very important thing, that is why the Hanhai Empire has fallen to where it is today! It is because of the war. Insufficient strength? No! Obviously this is not the case. Before we faced the allied forces of the Orcs and Iron Bear Empire, which were far superior to ours, we were still able to win more with less and beat the opponent with heavy losses! And finally led to the situation What completely collapsed was the rebellion of those great nobles in the rear!"

"Then here comes the problem. No matter how powerful your Majesty is now, we will increase the strength of our fleet, but there will be another group of nobles rebelling, so what should you do then?"

"Whoever dares to rebel, I will kill his whole family!" Facing Zhao Tiezhu's question, Hai Zijing replied with a murderous look on his face.To be honest, he also hated those big nobles who betrayed the empire, although in a sense, it was those traitorous nobles who gave him the chance to ascend to the throne.But he would rather not have this opportunity than to see his country decline to the point it is today.

"Your Majesty, you are wrong again! Killing is not the solution to the problem. Even the more you kill, the more people will betray you. The real effective way is to make those nobles have no chance to rebel!"

While talking, Zhao Tiezhu took out a copy of the reform plan he wrote overnight from his pocket, and handed it to Hai Zijing.

Hai Zijing took a look at the reform plan, and found that it contained some plans to reduce the privileges of the nobility, such as limiting the number of private soldiers of the nobility!There is also the need for those nobles to hand over the tax collection rights of their territories to the royal family.

"Master Zhao, will this really prevent the nobles from rebelling?" Hai Zijing asked Zhao Tiezhu for advice after briefly reading the reform plan.

"Of course! First of all, look at the first article. Restricting the number of private soldiers of the nobles will restrict the armed forces that the nobles, big and small, can control, and can no longer wantonly expand the number of troops in their hands. In addition, the right to collect and recycle taxes is a way to draw fire from the bottom. The original nobles, since they were responsible for the taxation of the territory, so in order to pay less tax and hide their own strength, they can completely fabricate data. There are 100 million people in the territory, and they can insist that there are only 50 or even less. In this way, they only need to pay very little tax, and they can use the saved money to expand their own military power. It is the main reason why the great nobles of all countries will end up with big tails."

"And once the royal family takes back the right to collect taxes, they can take the opportunity to re-examine and count the population of those nobles' territories, so as to be confident about the strength of each noble, and at the same time make those nobles no longer able to evade taxes, and It is impossible to secretly recruit the people in the territory into soldiers, which greatly weakens its power!"

"Oh! I understand. In this way, if those nobles want to rebel in the future, the officials sent by the royal family will first find out the anomaly. In this way, before the nobles have accumulated their strength, the royal family can preemptively strike and make those nobles There is no chance of rebellion at all!" Hearing Zhao Tiezhu's introduction, Hai Zijing also gradually understood the intention of the other party's reform plan.

"That's right! Your Majesty, you've finally figured it out!" Seeing that Hai Zijing finally understood his intentions, Zhao Tiezhu expressed his relief. Before coming here, I was really worried about what to do if the other party couldn't understand his painstaking efforts!

"Master Zhao, you are really talented! Letting you be a blacksmith really wronged you! Why don't you become my prime minister!" After feeling the power of Zhao Tiezhu's reform plan, Hai Zijing The emphasis on Zhao Tiezhu has once again been raised to a higher level, and under the excitement, he actually invited him to be his prime minister.

"No! Your Majesty, you really misunderstood! How can I have such a great talent! There is absolutely no way I can do this Prime Minister. The reason why I can think of these things is because I have been taught by Miss Su Li before. Some pointers, in terms of talent, Miss Su Li is the real talent!" Faced with Hai Zijing's "wandering" invitation, Zhao Tiezhu calmly refused, and at the same time, he dismissed Su Li Lift it out to let the other party know that he is not being humble on purpose.

"Haha! So that's it! In this way, I really chose the right queen! With such a talented queen to assist me, why worry about our Hanhai Empire not being able to revive!" And Hai Zijing was listening to Zhao Tiezhu's words. After some rhetoric, he felt more and more wise and mighty. A queen chosen at random is actually a power hidden among the people!

(End of this chapter)