Chapter 415: Historical Trap
Emaciation has the benefit of emaciation, and that is the natural clothes rack.
A soft face has the advantage of a soft face, that is, it is naturally close to people.
Born as a designer, she is naturally proficient in how to bring women's beauty to the extreme, and the new character she has created for herself is an intellectual lady.
For this new character, Sophia has not only changed her clothes and hairstyle, but also her skin color has been white, her behavior patterns have obviously changed, and her sitting posture and conversation have changed dramatically, which is the most standard court etiquette.
Court etiquette is certainly a constraint on people, but it is also a way to show beauty, and after so many years of evolution, it has excavated elegance and beauty to the extreme.
If he walked down the street without knowing it, and suddenly took a look, Sean wouldn't dare to recognize it.
He had to sigh that women are the most terrible creatures in the world, as long as they want to, there is nothing they can't do.
"In the territory, as long as I do my job well, no one will despise me, but not here, I represent not only me, but also the face of the territory. ”
Sophia said with just the right smile on her face, in a tone that was not slow or slow.
"And I'm in a very special profession and dealing with people, and if I show too bad or too special taste, I won't be able to win the approval of my clients, nor will I be able to blend in with them, let alone get information from them. ”
"I didn't misunderstand anyone at the beginning, you were born to do this. Sean was sincerely amazed, the other party was better than he imagined.
The people who are led by the Eternal Night Army are not simple.
Sophia's convenient identity is here, and of course the Eternal Night Leader will not let it go.
Before coming to Valesta, she had trained as a professional espionage.
In fact, the personnel stationed abroad under the Eternal Night Army, regardless of whether they are military or commercial, will have similar experiences.
You don't have to use them to spy on intelligence, at least you don't have to leak information inadvertently, right?
If there is an opportunity, it is inevitable to assist the military leader in spying on intelligence.
Sophia's work is destined to give her a natural advantage, and many times, there is no need for her to spy at all, and those information will be sent to the door.
The ladies and ladies of nobility who came to her for custom clothes were the best sources of information.
A lot of information is not necessarily obtained from the person concerned, and their families, relatives and friends may inadvertently sell them out.
In recent years, there are not many forces that pay as much attention to secrecy as the Eternal Night Commander, or rather, they don't have the awareness of this at all, and they don't know the importance of it.
They don't know that they have leaked many, many things by their unintentional words.
Especially in the hands of those professionals who fell into the hands of the Eternal Night Army Lord, they ate this bowl of rice.
The Eternal Night Commanders, both militarily and commercially, have a head start everywhere, and they are indispensable.
Now Sophia is the number one leader of the Eternal Night in the royal capital of Valesta, and many resources are available to her, including Sean's guard.
During Sean's absence in Valesta, they were all under Sophia's command.
"Your Excellency thinks highly of me, no matter how hard I try, it is less than one ten-thousandth of my lord's. Sophia said sincerely, not hiding the feelings for Sean in her eyes.
This kind of affection is very complex, with elements of male and female affection, admiration, and idol worship.
Sophia is not the first or the last person to harbor this kind of affection for Sean, it is destined by her origin.
However, most people are too far away from Sean, and over time, they will transform this feeling into pure loyalty.
If Sophia continues to be as anonymous as she was before, it is estimated that this will be the case.
But because of her special skills, she embarked on a completely different path and returned to Sean, and the feelings that had been suppressed began to emerge again unconsciously.
She spared no effort to change herself, is it really just out of what she says she says?
I'm afraid that's not the case.
Women are the ones who please themselves.
The only person who really makes them willing to make changes regardless of the return seems to be their beloved.
Spending hours trying to figure himself out and bring out the best in himself before Sean lands is proof of that.
Although she knew that this relationship would never belong, and she might not even be able to get a response, she was still like a moth that saw an open flame, and she couldn't help but pounce up.
If she were really the kind of woman who knows how to be flexible, she wouldn't have stuck to the path of fashion design until now.
In the face of Sophia's fiery gaze, Sean's gaze, which had been admiring the beautiful scenery, was retracted and sat upright, as if he was unaware of this feeling.
The most difficult debt in the world is the emotional debt.
This kind of debt, I was unwilling to carry it easily, and now I am even more reluctant to touch it easily, which is not only responsible for myself, but also responsible for my future wife and family.
But many things in this world are not determined by personal will, and they do not exist because they are not faced, especially in terms of feelings.
Sean suddenly found that letting Sophia sit in the same car with him was a test for himself.
Originally, the scenery is more of a test of people's self-control, and a more severe test than this is that you only need to nod your head and acquiesce, and everything will be sent to the door on your own initiative, which is even more difficult.
"Did you bring all the materials you had prepared?" Sean turned the conversation to business, distracting himself.
"It's all brought. Sophia handed several pieces of information to Sean in turn, "This one is the original version of the Great Declaration that the eight families of the Byron Alliance relied on when they signed the covenant, this one is the follow-up adjustment and modification version, and this one is the statistics of the recent performance of the agreement by the eight families, due to the rush of time, the last collection of data is not comprehensive, many of them are hearsay, and the authenticity has not been verified, so it can only be used as a reference." ”
After Sean and Angie Bena broke up, the Flying Eagle sent a letter to Sophia as soon as possible, asking her to collect information about the eight major families and find out the true position of this grand duke in the Byron Alliance.
This is the real reason why Sean recruited Sophia over to meet.
Sean said as he looked through the information, "Tell me briefly what you know." ”
"Okay!" Sophia's tone increased significantly this time, "The relationship between the eight dukes' families of the Byron Alliance is far more complicated than it appears, especially after so many years of development, some things are more difficult to determine clearly, this relationship should be separated, one is before the division of the Odin Empire, and the other is after the division of the Odin Empire. ”
Sophia has clearly done her homework, and the conditioning is very clear.
"Let's talk about it. "Sean did not have a clear goal in collecting intelligence this time, and he had a certain understanding of the situation of the Byron Alliance, but he was not systematic, and now he is in line with the principle of casting a wide net, and he has analyzed the unfavorable side of himself through massive intelligence.
"Then let's start from the beginning, the establishment of the Byron Alliance, has a deep historical background, the destruction of the ancient Andis Empire, not completed in a year or two, but placed on a long hundred years of timeline, they as a rebel army against the tyranny of the ancient Andis Empire, active for more than half a century, the main opponent in the middle and late stages is the Odin orcs who are the executioners of the warlocks of the Ancient Andes Empire, until Odin the Great led the Odin orcs to rise and hold high the banner of rebellion, which gave the ancient Andis Empire a fatal blow.
Under the attack of both sides, the ancient Andes empire still held out for nearly thirty years before it completely fell apart, and by the way, the most elite part of the rebel coalition army was killed in the Andes Mountains.
The war that lasted for a hundred years destroyed the entire Ashan, coupled with food shortages and plagues, the entire social system collapsed, and there was a big retreat, the Odin orcs were in full swing under the leadership of Odin the Great, and within the Byron Alliance, the mountains were lined up, and they were separated, if they continued to fight, there may be only one, that is, let the brute Odin orcs enter this land, the Odin orcs at that time were much more ferocious than now, and many tribes have not yet gotten rid of the habit of cannibalism.
In order to avoid the extinction of the species, the largest eight forces at that time formed an alliance, which was the prototype of the Byron Alliance, and then it took nearly half a century for them to clean up the other small forces, and finally formed a situation in which the eight major forces were established.
At that time, the Odin Empire was still a complete country, and it was able to draw millions of soldiers at every turn, and the Byron Alliance had to work together to avoid the crisis of extinction, so at that time, although they did not have the name of the empire, they actually had the reality of the empire, and the output of the major families would be transferred free of charge to support the Miracle Peninsula and the first line of the Broken Blood Fortress, which is also the content stipulated in the Great Declaration. ”
"Go on. Sean nodded, signaling that he had been listening.
"This situation in the Odin Empire after eating the original territory of the Cummins family, the Miracle Peninsula, divided into two, slowly changed, for a long time, the contradictions between the East and West Odin Empires are very sharp, frequent wars, there is no effort to pay attention to the Byron Alliance, which gives the eight families a chance to breathe at the same time, but also let them slowly become selfish, at first it was just arrears to the Broken Blood Fort of military allocation, to the later shoddy, and finally directly turned into a variety of deductions.
Until now, although the other six major families have not completely stopped their assistance to the Broken Blood Castle, they are no longer one in ten compared to their peak, especially in the last ten years, the situation is even worse.
The Manyu military leader has become a pot of gruel, and there is no unified power yet, and their assistance has basically stopped, only in the last two years, Countess Angie Bena has assisted a lot of military resources in the Broken Blood Fort in her personal name.
The Kingsley family is strapped for money and aid due to the competition with us for the swamp of despair, and it is even possible that it will be stopped directly this year, and it is unknown when it will be restored.
Not to mention the Cummins family, they have always been resentful of the Byron Alliance since the loss of the Miracle Peninsula, believing that the other seven families betrayed them in order to divide the Odin Empire, and since then, the supply has stopped.
The Brian family in the Huayu Plateau, due to geographical reasons, has always been relatively free, and it is difficult to supply military supplies here, so they provided most of the troops in the early stage, and later supported by providing bachelors and university scholars.
Now it is the Lancelot royal family and the Holt family and the Harrison family of the Twin Peninsula who really maintain the supply of the Broken Blood Fortress.
The two major families of the Twin Peninsula can maintain a normal supply, in addition to the fact that they also have lands bordering the Theodin Empire and will be harassed by them, there is also an element of witch secret order, and they have been trying to get closer to the Lancelot royal family and balance the Holy Aether Holy See through the royal family. ”
Although Sophia said briefly, it is already the history of the development of the entire Byron Alliance, and the situation is far more complicated than imagined.
It is intertwined, and the forces involved are far more than the eight dukely families of the Eastern and Western Odin Empires and the Byron Alliance, as well as the three major national organizations of the Holy Eaether Holy See, the Witches' Secret Society and the Warlock Alliance.
Not to mention that there are countless tribes under the Eastern and Western Odin Empires, and there are countless lords and nobles under the eight dukes of the Byron Alliance, each with its own interests.
This kind of realization made Sean can't help but glance at Sophie Yagao.
The other party was able to ascend to the throne of regent at the age of fifteen in this chaotic situation, and she sat for more than ten years, and of course she had the strong support of her grandfather, Archduke Cedric, and her own ability could not be ignored.
The other party's burden is heavier than he imagined.
Especially after the rise of the Eternal Night Army Leader led by himself, this balance was broken.
If it weren't for the fact that he could bring a lot of benefits to the Lancelot royal family through the Jacob River, the Lancelot royal family represented by Sophia would only be afraid that they would stand firmly behind the Kingsley family and eat the swamp of despair.
The Lancelot royal family is unwilling to see the Kingsley family get their own grain land, but it's all an excuse.
The threat of the Orcs of Odin will not be eliminated for a long time, and even if the Kingsley family obtains the grain production land of the Desperate Swamp, they will not dare to be independent easily, at most, the Lancelot royal family wants to exploit them, which is far from so easy.
At the end of the day, it's all about self-interest.
Looking at the history of the Byron Alliance, he has a deeper sense of the relationship of interests.
Especially when the power grows to a certain extent, the proportion of personal feelings will become smaller and smaller, and the final thing to look at is the interests of both parties.
There was a silence of thought inside the carriage, but it was bustling outside the carriage.
Countless good deeds of Valesta citizens are pouring towards their convoy, and it is human nature to like to watch the excitement, even if it is the citizens of Valesta who think they are superior.
Even from a distance, Sean could clearly hear their conversation.
"Look, look, it's the gift-giving team of the Eternal Night Army, I wonder what new tricks they will play this time?"
"That nouveau riche baron is going to show off again? There are really a lot of things about him this time, I heard that someone is ready to support him as the ninth Grand Duke of the Byron League, if he can really succeed, he will be the fastest promoted person ever, but this news, why is it so unpleasant?"
"You're jealous, aren't you? Originally, a barbarian who was despised by you, he rode on your head as soon as he turned his head, and it is understandable that he was unhappy, but I advise you not to do stupid things, people are in the limelight now, although they only have the name of a baron, but the power of the Grand Duke is real. ”
"Hey, who knows if it's true or not, this nouveau riche is famous for being able to blow, and every time he gives a gift, he has to make such a big fanfare, who knows if their strength is a bluff. ”
"Bluffing? Do you think the Kingsley family is looking like a bluff now? Many people thought that the Kingsley family and the Eternal Night Army leader had fought a defeat in the Swamp of Despair, but as soon as the negotiations were completed and the 100,000 army was transferred back, they killed those guys who picked up the cheap, and the blood flowed like a river, not only did the meat they ate spit out intact, but they also vomited blood one by one.
"I heard that the first war ransom paid by the Kingsley family to the Eternal Night Army Leader was squeezed from them, it was fifteen million royal gold coins, fifteen million? What kind of concept? Piled together, it was all a small mountain, I heard that it took a whole day just to load the ship, and the waterline of the building ship led by the Eternal Night Army went down by more than one meter, and this gold mountain alone can kill countless people, and this is only the first one, there are five million every year, do you say it is scary?"