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The atmosphere became tense.

Maguire stared at Mia and me, his eyes penetrating.

Seeing a few of us being silent for a while, I was about to open my mouth to explain.

Maguire suddenly smiled and said: "Hahaha, but I suddenly remembered that I also had some dereliction of duty, such as causing His Highness' leg to be injured.

You have caused such a big thing in my territory, and I am more or less responsible. Besides, you came to visit me specially, and I really feel guilty. "

Mia smiled slightly, shook her head and said, "I don't blame you. You did nothing wrong. This was a complete accident, including the fact that my men killed people in your territory. It was just an accident."

"It's good that Your Highness understands. Since it was an accident, it's easier to explain. I can pretend that your men killing people on my side never happened, and you can also..." Maguire smiled lightly, but did not finish the sentence. .

Mia spoke, nodded and said: "I understand, I will not tell this matter to my father, let alone take the opportunity to impeach you, Mr. Maguire."

After she said this, she suddenly winked at me.

My brain was running fast, and I suddenly thought of what she meant to me, so I opened my mouth and said to Maguire: "Duke Maguire, I killed people because there were many dangerous elements in your territory and endangered the safety of His Highness. .

As you can see now, Her Highness was seriously injured because of those people. She just wanted to come over and complete the assessment smoothly, so please give me some guidance to avoid any unpleasantness in the end! "

Maguire groaned, sighed, nodded and said: "Okay, but in this case, I will have to waste some words on Her Royal Highness Diana's side.

Originally, I entrusted Princess Diana to go to the city of Haka in the North District to help the refugees affected by the famine there, distribute disaster food, and ask her to show sympathy to the people.

But now, other than that, there are no major events in my territory. If Her Highness Mia wants to get a perfect score in the assessment, this is undoubtedly the best thing to do.

However, if Your Highness Diana knew that I asked you two to complete the same task, I'm afraid she would be unhappy, so Your Highness Mia went, don't say that I specially invited you to go, you know what I mean. Bar? "

Mia smiled calmly and said: "I'm so happy that Mr. Maguire can be honest with me like this. Don't worry, I will handle this matter well and help your territory by the way."

Maguire smiled and said to her: "With His Highness's words, I feel relieved. In two days, the supplies in the granary will be packed. By then Your Highness will set off with the convoy, and I will have a special escort." I’ll escort you!”

"Understood, I have taken note of Mr. Maguire's kindness. I will mention you more in front of my father in the future. I will go back outside to sort out the fleet first, and I will not chat with you anymore!" Mia stood up and said.

Maguire also stood up, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll take advantage of this opportunity to arrange a place for you!"

In this way, I helped Mia leave the hall.

She walked back outside with me on crutches, led by a servant.

As soon as she came back, she smiled and said to me: "Randy, I am very satisfied with your performance today!"

"Haha, what do you mean by this, Your Highness?" I asked knowingly.

Mia said happily: "You just clearly stated my purpose very correctly. It seemed like it was your personal statement, but it was actually my intention.

As a princess, when faced with people like Maguire who don't welcome me, I can't use forceful measures openly. I can only find ways to use my words to smooth things over.

And you just threatened him with words. If he doesn't help,

Me, then I have to take the blame for my injury. Even if my father thinks of him as an innocent person, he will be sentenced to dereliction of duty, dereliction of duty, and lax supervision of my princess. Seriously. , it will even affect his title, and his father will have a useful handle to deal with him in the future! "

Mia's words did not surprise me.

The most important thing for emperors is balance. They are elected by their subordinates to seek collective interests.

If either side is out of balance, it is likely to threaten the emperor's position.

So for thousands of years, these emperors have tried every means to balance their subordinates, divide their power, or set up another force to let the two fight against each other, and then reap the benefits.

If he doesn't give his subordinates any leverage, how will the emperor convict them and control them in the future?

And Mia just has Maguire's leverage.

As a princess, she went back to whisper in the ear of His Majesty the King, saying something unpleasant to Maguire. Perhaps the King had long wanted to get Maguire, the Duke, but he had never found a suitable reason.

Isn't the reason why Mia was attacked just the right thing to take advantage of?

Mia continued: "You killed people on Maguire's territory. This matter actually poses little threat to us. After all, I was injured first and you killed people later. You made up a good reason and successfully returned." Confronted the other party.

However, I couldn't distinguish the host from the guest and let him, the host, lose face, so I just kept thanking and compromising. "

"Understood!" I nodded slightly and said calmly.

The first thing you have to learn as a subordinate is not to please the boss, but to find ways to understand what the boss is saying and to speak for the boss at the right time.

The higher a person is in a high position, the more he has to know how to hide his true self, so sometimes it is inconvenient to truly express what he means, so he needs to rely on his subordinates.

Subordinates actually have another name - translator.

I looked at Mia who was sitting back in the wheelchair and couldn't help but joke: "Your Highness's trick of playing hard to get is quite good!"

Mia couldn't help laughing and said: "To be precise, it's not hard to get, I just put my attitude on my face. This is why I don't use a wheelchair and have to use crutches to go in. I want to express my feelings towards The sincerity of this visit and the determination to complete the assessment tasks.”

"That's it." I suddenly realized.

Tuoji came over at this time and asked: "Your Highness, what were you talking to the captain just now? Is things going smoothly? Why are you back so soon?"

"Haha, isn't this fast? It took us nearly an hour just to walk back and forth!" I said with a dry smile.

Mia replied to Toki: "It went pretty well, thanks to Randy."

Tuoji said: "It would be great if, Your Highness, you had brought me in just now. I want to see what it looks like inside!"

Mia held her forehead and said, "I'm afraid not. You're not very good at talking, and sometimes you misunderstand me. If you had gone just now, things might have been messed up!"

"Ah, no, Your Highness, am I that bad?" Tuoji's face was full of embarrassment.

I patted him on the shoulder and said, "Being a human being is just like in "Journey to the West". If you can't be a leader like Tang Monk and can't earn a living, then you should try your best to become a strong man like Sun Wukong.

If you are not a strong man like Sun Wukong, then learn to be a talking flatterer like Zhu Bajie. If you can't be a Sha Monk, talk less and do more!

But don't be like that white dragon horse. Not only do you work hard, but you also get very little reward, and you don't even get a chance to speak! "

Tuoji asked in confusion: "Captain, what is "Journey to the West"?"

I rolled my eyes, sighed, shook my head and left.

After sorting out the fleet, Maguire arranged accommodation for us.

As Mia's personal escort, I had the honor to live with her in the most luxurious private room.

The lunch menu was very good, with wine and meat, and Maguire entertained us personally.

During the conversation, Maguire learned that I was his fellow countryman.

"What a fate, Randy, you are actually from my territory?" Maguire said in surprise.

"Haha, of course, my hometown lives in a small town called Tela. Not only that, but my friend Tuoji is also a resident of the Kassela territory. When there was a war, we bumped into each other by mistake. They escaped together!" I said with a smile.

Maguire groaned and said: "When it comes to war, I suddenly think of Dema Beiya!

This country has been very restless in the past ten years. It not only kills, burns, and loots its neighboring countries, but it is also said that it will march north to regain the original territory of the northern continent.

If the second prince hadn't come forward and tried his best to mediate the relationship between the two countries, I'm afraid my territory would have suffered too! "

Mia said: "My second brother was also praised by my father for this matter, so I admire him very much!"

Maguire smiled and said: "Your Highness Mia is too humble. Although the second prince came forward to ease the relationship between the two countries, you should be able to meet this condition.

In other words, this is the task given to you!

After all, you were engaged to the prince of Demabeiya, weren't you? "

"And His Highness the Second Prince is simply trying to mediate through marriage!"

He drank a drink by himself and asked Mia across the dining table: "I'm very curious, Your Highness Mia, why did you terminate your engagement with the third prince of Dema Beiya?"

Mia sighed and frowned: "Actually, it's not something I can decide, it's entirely an accident.

My fiancé, Prince Clark, died inexplicably in the palace where he lived, but they could not find any reason, nor could they find any possibility or trace of homicide. Later, they actually judged that he died of natural causes, which is surprising! "

"What, there is such a thing. A noble prince of a country died in his own palace and was judged to have died of natural causes!"

I saw a look of shock on Maguire's face and his eyes widened.

Mia shook her head slightly and said: "After all, I don't know much about what happened in other countries. Thinking about it, I feel lucky that a prince died like this inexplicably. If I had married him early, maybe They will also suffer disaster!"

"Your Highness is right. Come on, Your Highness is eating, and I'll toast you with a toast!" Maguire said enthusiastically.