Public trial?You deserve it too!

The eldest prince panted heavily, staring at Leichter.

"It's impossible. If the emperor knew about it a long time ago, how could he not stop me? How could he let me continue?"

"Because His Majesty has decided to abandon you, Your Highness."

When Leicht said this, his voice was very soft, very soft, as if he was afraid of being heard.

"What did you say?"

The man looked at Leichter, as if he didn't hear clearly, but found that the old man who was still extremely tough before, blocking the study like a wall, had a face full of pain and tears in the corners of his eyes.

"Your Highness, if you do something wrong, you will have to pay the price. This is the law of the empire, and it is also your majesty's iron rule."

The old man looked at Augustus sadly, the heavy feeling made the man a little uneasy, even he was not so uneasy when he heard that Gutenberg paid a surprise visit to Leicht.

It was the sadness of seeing one's dreams collapse and decay, and there is no possibility of realizing them.

"Go back, Your Highness. I will not hand over Gutenberg to you, nor will I take him to tell His Majesty now. Please give me some time, and I will handle it properly."

Leichter bowed to Augustus, as in olden days.

"...Is, is it? You can handle it well—then, then you can do it, teacher."

Augustus agreed in a daze. He was still thinking about Leichter's words, and wondering if he was a little radical today——

When he subconsciously escaped and looked at himself before escaping from Leicht, he had that desperate and sad look in his eyes.

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Learn from Me: Chapter 180 Chapter 160 Five of My Human Friend

Augustus left Leichter's residence.

Just like he came in a hurry, he left in a hurry, and one can even see a bit of eagerness and anxiety.

The old man watched a large number of people follow Augustus away, and sighed, the other party really took him as an enemy to guard against him this time.

He turned around, as if he was ten years older, his whole body looked a little shaky, the piercing cough echoed in the empty corridor, but not even a waiter appeared.

The door of the study opened, and Gutenberg helped Leichter back to the chair by the desk and sat down, pouring him a glass of water.

"Thank you, Your Excellency."

the man said softly.

"I'm not saving you, I just want to keep the truth of the facts - it's not too much to send you to the gallows for these things you have done!"

"I know it's a crime I have to atone for and I'm not taking any chances."

Gutenberg's expression did not change.

"I just thank you for giving me the opportunity to tell all the truth."

"Sorry, Gutenberg, I can't give you such a chance."

The old man shook his head.

"I need you, and push all the crimes on my head—whether it's colluding with business alliances, smuggling goods, or conniving at the big nobles to extract money, all of these are planned by me. His Royal Highness Gusdu has nothing to do."

The man froze.

"what did you say?"

"Give me all your intelligence, correspondence, and collected evidence, Gutenberg, I still have the ability to tell the truth - what His Majesty said before gave me a little inspiration, as long as we stop now, and then send these merchants If we wipe out the nobles in one go, then there is still a chance to save everything."

The old man's voice was a little hoarse, but very firm.

"Listen, I've been preparing to attack the nobles for a long time, but that's just a plan, and it's still an unfinished plan. I need a reason, as well as His Highness's determination—otherwise the armed forces will be insufficient. This matter The matter must be known to His Majesty, and the Imperial Intelligence Bureau and the military department must be involved in order to be foolproof."

"This is the winning method I prepared for His Highness Augustus, because His Majesty has been looking forward to this day--his own son himself said that he would sweep these nobles into the garbage dump, and this incident will make him and the empire The cooperation between the intelligence bureau and the military department means that he has the upper hand, because His Majesty will not let an unfavored prince act with the imperial intelligence bureau."

However, Gutenberg heard something strange.

"...Your Excellency, if you do this, will there be a different trial?"

"Don't worry, you won't die, Gutenberg. Although your future may be destroyed or frozen, but as the price for me to use you, you don't have to worry about your own safety—I said, You put all the problems on my head, and if this matter can end with the full execution of the nobles, then there will be no such thing as a trial."

The old man and Gutenberg looked at each other.

"And...how about you, Your Excellency?"

"Me? What can I do? I'm old. Gutenberg, Jung, and I are all characters of the previous generation. The time for us to gallop is over. The children have all started their own families. I have What is there to worry about?"

Gutenberg withdrew his gaze and fell to the messy pages on the table.

"You said that His Majesty would not allow an unfavored prince to cooperate with the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, so that Provence counter-rebellion... His Majesty sent to assist Prince Ludwig was a high-ranking official from the Intelligence Bureau."

"I know—that time was the last chance. After listening to what you said, I realized that I was one step late that day."

Leicht showed a bitter smile. He was supposed to go to Augustus on the night the emperor held a triumphant dinner for Ludwig to explain his plan, but he chose to go the next day because of his exhaustion. ——

And on that night, Augustus sent Gutenberg northward to Lübeck overnight, and everything was irreparable from then on.

"Is this fate... On the night of Ludwig's triumph, His Highness Augustus and I thought of ways to break the situation, but I didn't go to him right then, but His Highness came to you directly... Wait until When I go again the next day, His Highness who has already made a decision will naturally not adopt my plan."

The old man sighed deeply.

Gutenberg frowned slightly. He felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

"Are you really sure, Your Excellency Leichter?"

He decided not to worry about it, but asked whether the plan would be successful, but he had already decided that no matter whether it would be successful or not, he would do his best to help the old man in front of him.

"I have some certainty. From the layout of His Majesty back then, I understand that these nobles are bound to die when they surround His Highness Augustus, but I don't know the timing--Your Majesty's expectations for His Highness are ultimately different from those of the other two. People are different."

The old man nodded.

"I think, if His Majesty wanted His Highness to do it himself at that time, then the time must have come."

Gustav nodded, and then asked hesitantly: "Then what if...we can't succeed?"

"It doesn't matter whether this matter is successful or not. What I want to do is to remove His Royal Highness Augustus from this matter. At least in the eyes of the people of the empire, it is I, the fool, who deceived His Highness the First Prince. Because of his trust in me as a teacher, he will not be strict with his subordinates, and let me lead to the result I have today."

The old man took a deep breath, as if he had let out all his hopes and ambitions.

"I have to bear the price for my mistake of not educating His Highness well, especially when this mistake has already endangered the empire, I can't escape it."

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"Your Highness, has Gutenberg been caught?"

The Grand Duke of Brittany surrounded him anxiously and asked.The dozen or so dukes and marquises on the side were all eagerly waiting for Augustus' answer.

"No, Mr. Leicht said he would take care of it."

Augustus waved his hand a little distractedly.

The Grand Duke of Brittany's pupils trembled instantly, and he looked back at those people. Their eyes were the same as his, showing a look of fear and shock.

Augustus should have been able to see the small exchanges of his "loyalists", but he was too concerned about Leichter's words and expressions before, so he was a little absent-minded about these, turned and walked to his study.

These nobles watched Augustus disappear into the corridor with gloomy expressions, looked at each other, and turned their attention to the Grand Duke of Brittany.

"...Is there any objection?"

There was an indescribable ferocity on the man's face.

Everyone shook their heads lightly.

"Then let's prepare separately and seize the last time—after the annual meeting of the nobles, let's all return to the fief early."

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What Claude didn't expect was that Gustav would come to him the next day and explain to him very seriously that those rumors were released by his brother's business competitors in order to maliciously slander the Baal Chamber of Commerce. My brother did not treason.

"..."

【…】

Claude almost couldn't maintain the look of conviction on his face. This kind of confusing situation from the inside out is really difficult to deal with.

【I seem to understand for the first time what you mean by char siew...】

"He is not only a piece of char siew, but also a piece of brother controlling char siew - I am a little pitiful for what will happen to this Mr. Knight after seeing Gutenberg in the future. Fortunately, I am not going to use him. If I can't make it, I will I can only feel sorry for the other party's talent."

[What if he can survive? 】

"Wouldn't that be better? Only those who can get rid of the shadow of their elder brother and truly grow up can be regarded as promising. What's even better is that he is still a piece of char siu, which is so easy to use." Claude shrugged, "But still Forget it, I don’t have any hope, as long as his brother performs normally—I said that Gustav is a profit, and Gutenberg is enough for me to pay back.”

【Speaking of which, shouldn’t Gutenberg have already done what you asked him to do? 】

"It's not that simple. After I talked with him yesterday, I knew what was going on with Augustus - Gutenberg is obviously a person without a backstage. Think about why Gutenberg didn't go there from the beginning. Tell Leichter, why is Augustus really able to completely block the news from Leicht?"

[He is closely monitoring Leicht?Not only did he gradually push him away from the power center, but he even planted a lot of spies around him to control the channel for the other party to receive information?The reason why Gutenberg didn't talk about it was because he knew about it, and he might directly get angry when he couldn't see Leicht? 】

"Yes, that's it. Augustus is monitoring his most trustworthy people and expelling his most loyal people. This is the reason why I broke the defense yesterday-I have been using it as the current stage. The arch-rival, even in the past, has had expectations of him, and he really wants to punch himself who has seriously considered allegiance to this club."

Claude had a stinky face, and his mouth was full of disgust for Augustus.

"What's the matter with the old emperor? One or two of the sons he raised are so outrageous. What's even more outrageous is that he is very conniving to such Augustus and gave him the greatest freedom and support. Free play? Is this considered doting?"

[Maybe it has something to do with the eldest prince's biological mother?The official news is that he died of dystocia, and then the emperor married the current queen and gave birth to Joachim and Ludwig. 】

"That's a bit strange, after all, he doesn't seem like the kind of person who would be troubled by love, but why, in terms of his layout, he has been expecting Augustus to storm into the big nobles."

The boy shrugged.

"With his means, I believe that when he needs his son as the piece of cheese in the trap, he will not be soft, but why did he give the switch of the trap to the cheese, and give enough money so that it will not be eaten?" protection of?"

[This is love. 】

"Love you**twist love."

Claude's mouth twitched.

"Can you be normal, just like when we first met, as a cold and heartless fan, ask a few questions so that I can explain to you what this conspiracy is."

[I was not familiar with it at that time, but now I am familiar with it, of course I can chat normally. 】

"I have a question." There was a strange light in the boy's eyes, "With the way we chatted just now, is it normal chatting in your race?"

【...Like, doesn't count? 】

"Don't use interrogative sentences to answer interrogative sentences!"

Claude raised his forehead.

[But in the human world, it should be considered a normal chat between friends, right? 】

"So you're saying you're becoming more and more human?"

【How can it be!I'm just... just learning from you - yes!That's it! 】

Claude spread his hands: "I don't think you can learn from me to be like a human being... The way you talked to me just now is as if you are a real friend of mine-but you have to understand , It’s hard for a person like me to have any real friends. Between me and my friends, there is either hypocrisy, or the other party thinks that I am unilaterally licking the dog. Or he is a piece of barbecued pork of little value. You don’t need to use your brain when you get up, and everyone just has a silly fun together and it’s over.”

[After all, we are a teacher-student relationship, you have no pretense or concealment from me, and I don't need to be cold-faced to make the atmosphere so stiff. 】

"But I don't know your name yet."

[I don't have a name, only a number, so I let you call me the system, I think this will probably make you feel more acceptable. 】

"It's too ugly to call out the serial number, it doesn't fit my aesthetics."

Claude shrugged.

"But the system is fine, at least the name is like what you said, I'm more used to calling it."

The system hesitated for a moment, she didn't care about this kind of thing, but if the other party cared, she was willing to change it.

[Or you can give me a name if you want. 】

"This is not very good. We are friends, aren't we? On the human side, naming is usually a top-down attitude. Only the creations of oneself will name each other. We are equal, so I'm not going to name you - it's disrespectful."

Claude laughed softly.

"It's better for you to create a name yourself. You can regard this as a milestone in your learning of human beings. Of course, it can also be used as a little secret between us. When we talk about names, we can remember each other—after all, I am still For the first time, having a friend living inside me."

[This is also the first time for me to have a human friend. 】