Lord of War

After sending away the envoy of the Chamber of Commerce Alliance, Sean turned and walked towards another room. .

  There, Cecilia and Xuefanio were chatting with Asuna, Old Hatch, Kose and others. But basically Cecilia and Asuna are talking about the sea in the north, south, east, and west, and there is no fixed topic, but only when talking about customs and regional differences, the old Duke Hatch will interrupt. The last few sentences are all about the customs and customs of the previous Kingdom of Darbion.

  On these topics, Coase is quite silent.

  But everyone knows that Kose is actually more keen on military warfare and other things. After all, he is an out-and-out war mad, so keeping silent on these topics is not surprising to everyone.

  When Sean pushed the door, Asuna and Cecilia had already had a heated discussion on the clothes.

As a female surname, everyone knows the love of beauty—except for Rena, Sean has seen her wardrobe, which contains seven identical coarse clothes: white linen shirts and brown linen trousers. . So on this topic, even Xuefanio couldn't help but insert the topic, watching Kose and the old Duke of Hatch shaking their heads for a while-in fact, the old Duke of Hatch was okay, and Kors looked at these women. His gaze was like looking at a monster.

  Shaun thought to himself: Kose is still too young to see the real purgatory.

  Seeing Sean come in, everyone ended the previous small chat without an appointment.

  I don't know why, a low air pressure started to fill the room as soon as Sean entered.

And when Sean took the seat, Hatch Bould, the old duke who still enjoys a relatively high prestige among the Darby family, finally said in a deep voice: "Our enemy moves faster than we thought. many……"

Although knowing that the "enemies" mentioned by the old Duke Hatch refers to the enemies of the political faction, Asuna still frowned slightly. Seeing her appearance, she probably wanted to correct the meaning in the words of the old Duke Hatch. It was just that the ** opened slightly, but closed it again, and finally did not speak out. In Asuna’s cognition, she is now considered to be a faction of the nobles outside the Great Wall, so the enemy that the old Duke Hatch said is actually her enemy, so in a sense, the old Duke Hatch is also Nothing is wrong.

  Looking at Asuna's appearance, Sean chuckled in his heart: obsessive-compulsive disorder.

  However, those who also noticed Asuna’s tiny movements naturally also included Kose, Old Hatch Duke and others. After all, among the people present, except for Sean, Rena, and Xuefanio, the others are all veterans who have been in the aristocratic circle for many years. This keen attention is still there.

Therefore, in the next sentence, the old Duke Hatch naturally changed his mouth slightly, and it was so smooth that it was a little unbelievable: "...The people of the Sené noble faction seem to have reached some kind of agreement with those in the former Northwest aristocratic circle. In this way, they can free up more manpower to target and attack us. The most important thing is that even in our influence, there are many people who are hesitant. These people are likely to be taken by the other side. Draw in."

   "What's the matter with that Roha Calci?" Sean asked.

  As one of the seven Duke of Ryan today, the other five Shauns know everything, but this one, Roha Calci, doesn’t know anything.

   "This is a cruel fellow." Kos Hopson, who had almost remained silent before, was the first to speak this time.

   "Cruel cruel?" Sean was taken aback for a moment.

  He suddenly became a little curious. He could be called cruel and cruel by a war mad. What kind of cruel man must he be?

  You should know that any true war madman is a very hard-hearted and cold-blooded person. Because for this kind of people, the victims of war are just a set of deaths. Even if they charge on the front line, they will not be moved by the fall of their companions. Most of the time, they don’t care about death at all. How many people are there, because as long as they can win the next war, even if they are completely wiped out in a local battle, they will not frown—in fact, even more extreme war mads will even send a batch to these local battles. Cannon fodder goes to death.

   So if you want to say that you are cruel, basically all war madness can be worthy of this name.

  Because of this, Sean is naturally very interesting for someone who can be called cruel and cruel by a war mad. .

   "Roha's words... is that the son of the devil?" Hearing Kos's words, the old Duke Hatch frowned slightly.

   Obviously, these two dukes have obviously heard of such a character.

  Coss nodded slightly.

   "What's going on?" This time, even Asuna became curious.

"The Karchi family is one of the seven dukes of Dabion. This family is one of the leaders of the Northwest aristocracy." Hatch Boulder said, "In some respects, this In fact, the family had already declined as early as the previous generation, but the rate of decline was slowed down in the hands of Old Calci for thirty years. It was not until the last time the war with Lane broke out that it could not stop the decline. "

  Hatch Bould's so-called last Lion war naturally refers to the incident of Asuna’s full-scale invasion of Darbion.

"Under this unstoppable decline, the Karchi family had to sell some territories and other things to maintain the stability of the entire family, but even this kind of stability has actually become quite fragile. There have even been several times of internal violence and scratching.” Hatch Bould continued to speak, “But at this moment, the Calci family broke out even more shocking news of the scandal, that is, the Calci family almost All the heirs have been killed."

   "What's the matter?" Sean was taken aback for a moment.

   "For family inheritance rights." It was Kos Hopson who took the call.

  As for the inheritance rights of aristocratic families, Xiao En naturally also knows something. After all, he has been involved in a lot of things in this world. The oldest in history is the one in the Kingdom of Portoroa, and the most recent one is the case of Xuefeng tribe and Broad. On the whole, Sean knows a lot about this dispute over inheritance rights.

"In fact, this incident should actually be regarded as a fuse." The old Duke of Hatch said again. "At that time, the candidate list for the heir of the Karchi family was not limited to direct line members, so this incident can be said to be a fuse. The real family turmoil broke out."

   "The murderer is... that Roha?"

Kos Hopson nodded: "In fact, at the beginning, everyone else was waiting to see the Karchi family's **** and jokes, but no one thought that what was waiting was actually a game that only cost two. The news that all the will of the entire Karchi family was completely restored to one person in just a few months.... And at this time, we discovered from other things that it turned out that Roha had already been a week before the start of this clan succession battle. He has already killed his father, and everything that follows is actually just a conspiracy bait, purely to solve the internal worries of the family."

  Hearing this, Sean and Cecilia looked at each other.

  Because of the two of them, they both thought of the same person.

  Syne Hastings.

  If you want to be cruel, then when Domingo Hastings died, the illegitimate son of the Hastings family completely discarded the last trace of his surviving surname, completely degenerating into a vengeful demon. From a certain surname, Thain is actually a very cruel and cold-blooded animal.

   "If it weren't for you back then, the Calci family wouldn't have fallen so fast." At this moment, Kos suddenly said.

  Sean and others were taken aback, then turned their gazes to Hatch Boulder.

"In fact, after any family develops to a certain level, various problems will produce many different results, both negative and positive, but more often because the heirs are not qualified enough to cause the family to start to decline." Old Ha Duke Qi said, "About fifty years ago, the Boulder family began to go downhill until I became the head of the family.... At that time, the domestic faction was relatively strong in the Northwest aristocratic circle led by the Karchi family. , And it was when I stepped up on the Calci family that I finally established the Boulder family’s strong and dominant position in the next forty years."

   "So... it's impossible for Roha to join our camp?" Sean asked.

"Yes." The old Duke Boulder nodded. "He was called the son of the devil in the upper circles of the Darbion Kingdom because his methods were so cold-blooded. This time he was not in the war with Ryan. He was not responsible for the overall planning and command of the Northwest aristocratic circle, but his army size and strength remained the most complete after the war. This makes people very suspicious of what he was doing at the beginning of the war."

"What else can you do besides preserving your strength and avoiding war?" Kos pouted his lips in disdain. "When the total war broke out and Ryan's army completely suppressed the northwest aristocratic circle, he took his army to hide in the territory. Nei. After waiting for the defeat of the Darbion Army in the Northwest Theater, he surrendered immediately and joined the Ryan Army with a nearly full-scale force."

   "Hey." Sean let out a strange voice, "This guy doesn't seem to be a fuel-efficient lamp."

"Roha Karci is also a battlefield commander who is very good at strategy." Old Duke Hatch said in a deep voice, "So those Sené nobles with his participation will definitely increase their combat power. Even in frontal conflicts. Lose to us, but it is absolutely enough to disgust us or create some conflicts. And once we are backed by those so-called Sené nobles, we are likely to fall into a disadvantage in the battle of confession."

"It doesn't matter." Sean shrugged, "So as long as every conflict we directly expand into bloodshed, after the number of times they conflict with us, they only dare to verbally ask for some benefits, but no matter what the method is. For us, it is entirely possible to use force to solve the problem.... So as long as they are still inferior to us in military power, then even if they are disgusting, we must consider our response."

   "This can be regarded as a way." Coase nodded, "It's just that we will be more passive at first."

   "It's better to be passive at the beginning, rather than being passive from start to finish." Xiao En asked rhetorically.

   "Indeed." Everyone thought for a while, then nodded involuntarily, acquiescing to Sean's statement.

  From the beginning to the end, no one proposed the idea of ​​wooing the Duke of Roja Calci.

  The reason is very simple. The Duke and Hatch Boulder have a feud relationship, so there can only be one choice between Hatch Boulder and Roha Carc. But for Hatch Boulder, everyone knows everything, and the old Duke Hatch is more upright and keeps his promises. Therefore, compared to a cold-blooded creature who dared to kill his father and brother, no one really wanted to. Go and cooperate with the other party, because such a person may stabb you in the back whenever he can.

  It’s just that what everyone is really afraid of is that the Duke’s military power is maintained relatively intact, so if there is any conflict in a short period of time, it will be disadvantageous to Sean and the others. Because in the last war, Sean, Asuna, and others fought many battles for their military exploits, because the military damage was relatively heavy, otherwise Sean would not ask the special envoy of the chamber of commerce. It's a condition of 100,000 slaves.

  He is really in urgent need of military supplementation, even if it is just the first cannon fodder, it is better than nothing.

This time the four of them met, in fact, it was mainly to discuss some specific details about the future offensive and defensive alliances between each other. Originally, there should be three people including Ronnis, Florence and Berne Baidi who participated in this meeting. All three of them were unable to come this time because of various temporary affairs. After all, their seven talents are truly an alliance organization. As for the other so-called foreign aristocrats, it is still a mess in the strict sense, but after this meeting, Hatch Boulder and Kos Hopp The two Sen took the lead.

  From the current situation, the nobles in the northwest aristocratic circle of Darbion, I am afraid they will not join their alliance.

  This is the so-called influence.

  As for the turmoil that will be caused by the reshuffle of the nobles after Ryan is upgraded to the kingdom, it has nothing to do with people with duchy titles like them. Anyway, the new parliament is about to be reformed, and it will be restored to the upper and lower houses of the system, and the upper house has a total of 41 seats, except for the seven dukes and 14 powerful marquis. , The remaining twenty positions will undergo a series of selection systems to be born later.

It’s just that these twenty seats can’t be like the first echelon formed by the seven dukes and fourteen powerful marquis: the upper aristocratic circle is so stable, and the scores are ranked lower in the rankings of the nomination rounds of each quarter. The five of them will fall into the House of Commons, and the five with the top five scores in the House of Commons will advance to the House of Lords. Similarly, the five lowest-ranked members of the House of Commons will be cancelled their seats in the House of Commons, and five people will be selected from the shortlist to enter the House of Commons.

  This shuffling looks very severe, and it is also full of strong competition names, but this way it can indeed ensure the vitality and development of the entire Kingdom of Lane.

  As for the scoring mechanism, it is selected by King Ryan.

  From a certain aspect, it can also ensure the concentration and privileged power of the king.

  It's just that all the nobles in the entire Kingdom of Lane would not have thought that the person who proposed this amendment was actually Sean. In other words, it was the staff behind Sean, Hela and Neal, who jointly proposed and made changes. It can be said that all deficiencies have been fixed, at least it is unlikely to cause some loopholes that can be exploited. , And also because of this proposal, so that Sean has a high position in the eyes of King Ryan.

  The topics discussed by the next four people are no longer confined to politics, but also involve the development of the future territory and some defenses. In this regard, Kose strongly urges to borrow from Sean. After all, the outstanding generals under Sean’s command have reached an outrageous level. Almost no one would not envy him. Even Kose wanted to let Sean set up an officer-level teaching class. He hoped to send some officers. Come here to learn.

Naturally, Sean will not have much opinion on this. After all, William is actually quite happy to do this kind of thing, and if these officers become famous in the future, then William will naturally become famous as a teacher. This is for Sean. As far as Coase is concerned, it is actually a win-win thing. As a result, including the old Duke Hatch and Asuna, they all have a keen interest in this training class.

  In the end, Sean had to temporarily limit the number of officers each of these three should be sent to study: no more than five.

As for the loan of the general to Kos, after Sean thought for a while, he decided to lend Koss all four of Stalin, Aldolf, Knock, and Dwight. In addition to Dwight leading the Scarlet Knights, Kos Sri Lanka must deploy troops for Stalin, Aldolf, and Knok. In this regard, although Kors regretted not being able to borrow William, he still said that he did not have any problems. After all, Kors had heard of Stalin, so for Aldolf and Knok who could be compared with Stalin. , He also expressed strong expectations.

  At the end of the discussion, Sean thought for a while, and said: "I will let Hela go to your side by the way for a few months."

   "Hella?" Kose was taken aback, "Who is Hela?"

  But Kos doesn’t know, but it doesn’t mean that the old fox Hatch Bould doesn’t know: "Hella? Hella Nugus?"

   "Yes." Sean nodded. "But her name is Hela Garcia now."

   "It turned out to be from the Garcia family, no wonder..." Hatch Bould said with some empathy, and then turned his head to look at Koss, "You fellow, please be happy."

   "Why?" Kose still didn't understand.

"Because it is this woman that made me determined to surrender to Asuna-sama." Hatch Bould gently threw a bomb, "If I didn't surrender at that time, the entire Boulder family would be destroyed. This woman ate it... Although the situation now doesn't look much better, at least the Boulder family has kept it."

  Hearing the words of the old Hatch, the eyes of the black mandala duke Kos Hopson flashed.

"However, don't look forward to Hela's tactical guidance too much." Shaun was afraid that Kos's expectations were too high, so he could only take a shot in advance. "Hela's tactical ability is simply weak, but in You can look forward to the overall situation and strategic level arrangements.... Of course, if you have very good tactical execution talents, then Hela probably only needs to give you a general strategic direction, and you can give the guys in the fascist kingdom. A great surprise."

   "Haha, you can rest assured that, I can't wait to surprise those guys now."

  For the excitement of Kors, Sean could only helplessly shook his head.

   "By the way, what plans do you have next?" Asuna said suddenly, "Tomorrow the national celebration will officially begin."

   "I will probably stay here for a while in the capital. I am going to participate in this underground auction held by the Chamber of Commerce Alliance."

   "Underground auction?" Asuna was stunned, "Why would you want to participate in this?"

"I heard that there is such an auction, so I want to see if there are any good things, and maybe I can also take some things out for some money." Xiao En smiled, "After all, the size of my territory is as good as the current one. In my opinion, it’s still a bit big, so I have to come up with something in exchange for some funds to subsidize my family."

  Hearing Shaun’s words, everyone present laughed.

  Which one of them is not currently in the post-war recovery phase, but the situation of Kos Hopson and Hatch Boulder is slightly better.

The former was mainly due to the fact that he had to deal with the fascist kingdom that was likely to take advantage of the fire, so his strength was preserved in this war, but even then he was still in a dilemma that he had to borrow generals from Sean; while the latter was because of the territory. As a result, the expenditure required for the tequila collar is greatly reduced. After all, the most important places and towns are still controlled by the old Hatch Duke.

As for Asuna, she actually never took a break after the war. Basically, there are still many small-scale disturbances in the so-called Garrod collar, so she has to let Elizabeth, Simi, Vivian and others go around. Fight the fire.

  So strictly speaking, apart from Duke Hatch, the other two are also poor.

   "If that's the case, maybe I need to take a look too. This time I just brought something over, maybe I can sell it for a good price." After hesitating, Kos Hopson also said.

"If this is the case, then you can go with me." Asuna blinked suddenly, "Because I received an invitation from the Chamber of Commerce Alliance, they will hold the first auction tonight." (Unfinished) to be continued.)