Time was inexorably drained, and soon came to the end of February 1217, when the warm wind of the early spring in the south wakes up the sleeping red and green leaves on the northern land.

The crisp morning dew had not yet melted, and by the time the first rays of morning sun had fallen on Crewe, Pedi was already training as a knight in the backyard garden of Fort Kaval.

"Snatch and Snatch"

Dressed in a cotton knight's training suit, Pei Di held a short bow and shot three shots that almost all hit the bullseye of the target not far away.

However, Pei Di frowned dissatisfiedly as he looked at the violently shaking arrow feathers, he was dissatisfied that the arrow target was too close, such a close distance was almost like playing for him.

"Whew" But in the end, Pei Di could only look at the flower cluster next to him and let out a helpless sigh, and then he threw the short bow in his hand at Eden next to him, and commanded: "Take a moment to transform this place into a swordsmanship training ground." ”

"My lord, this was a sword training ground before. Eden couldn't help but remind.

Pedi shrugged helplessly, "So... Do you have a way to convince your hostess to increase the distance of the target by removing all the flower clusters around the target?"

Eden was stunned, and his eyes subconsciously looked towards the gazebo next to him, and Pedi was already walking towards the gazebo while he was talking...

In the gazebo, Erin Phil was enjoying her breakfast.

"What did you eat this morning?" asked Pedi as she washed her hands with the help of the maid.

"Wheat porridge and bread. Eilea had already finished her breakfast, and was studying a book of magic that Pedi couldn't read, and from time to time she was taking notes on the parchment that had been laid out on the table.

"I've been getting a little bit of an appetite lately, so I'll be ready for some fried fish and stuff from tomorrow morning. After sitting down, Pei Di did not have the reserve of the nobles at all, and drank the wheat porridge directly in one gulp, and took the white bread coated with honey from the maid next to him.

"Today's honey has some strange taste. Paddy, who was about to look through the documents presented in the hall, stopped because of a bite of bread, and had a surprised expression on his face.

"Is it better or worse?" said Erin Field, with a charming smile on her face, looking up at her husband and stopping what she was doing.

Pedy was stunned by Erin Phil's solemn appearance, but he soon understood the point. So, he took another bite with a pretending to be careless, and in his wife's expectant gaze he said, "What did you just say?"

"Will you listen to me?" Irene Phier immediately straightened up like a fried kitten, "Honey!

"Not bad, it has a fresh scent. Pei Di commented seriously, "Eating it is like asking about the smell of flowers in the garden." He looked at the still-withered clusters around him, "I even thought our garden had begun to bloom again with its beauty." ”

"It's silver and blue flowers, a magical material. Eileen Phil immediately said, "It has its own unique fragrance... Didn't you say yesterday that honey was too sweet? I grated the petals of the silver and blue flowers and mixed them with honey. She blinked like a little girl, as if waiting for Pedy's compliment.

"Genius idea. Pedi couldn't help but take another bite, and then asked, as if remembering something, "Magic materials, can't they be poisonous?"

Erin Fei'er was stunned, the smile on her face immediately faded, and she looked at Pedi with an idiot look, "You don't even know the silver blue flower, this is a very common magic material, used to refresh and restore mental strength. She said in a very affirmative tone: "Don't worry, after eating it, you will become an idiot at most, and you will not die." ”

"Ahem" Pedi was almost choked on the bread by his wife's exaggerated expression and tone of voice, and when his wife finished explaining, he couldn't help but say, "This is the same effect as coffee?"

"How can coffee be compared to silver jacarand!" Irene Phil stuck the bookmark on the page she was reading, closed the book, looked at her husband and explained seriously: "Although silver jacarina can survive under any conditions, the premise is that it must maintain that it has more than seventy percent of the water element energy in its growth environment every day, but the water element energy in the normal space environment will not exceed five layers at most... Therefore, except for special areas, artificially cultivating the Silver Blue Flower requires magicians to provide it with an excess of water elemental energy every day!"

Pei Di was stunned for a moment, looked at the honey on the bread in his hand, and perhaps blurted out subconsciously because of the recent handling of territorial affairs, "I will get at least two imperial gold coins in this mouthful." ”

"I raised it myself!" said Erin Phier, gritting her teeth.

Pei Di was stunned for a moment and blurted out, "That's even more expensive!"

"Okay..."Erin Phil spread her hands and reopened the closed book, as if angry and ignored Pedi.

Pedi looked at his wife's current appearance and laughed out loud, and in his wife's rising 'anger', he quickly explained: "Okay, okay, my fault. He leaned over and put his hand on his wife's face, stifling a smile and saying, "But the way you look angry is so cute... You know, I'm a very serious person, and if it weren't for your cuteness, I would have been able to hold back a laugh. ”

"That's why you're making me angry?" said Erinphier, looking at her husband a little speechless.

Pedi had to apologize, "Okay, I was wrong, I was really wrong." ”

Irene Fil wanted to continue to be warm with her husband, but she looked at Eden next to her, who was impatient, and said stiffly: "Hurry up and finish breakfast, your retainer should be secretly cursing your laziness at the moment." ”

"Let them scold," Pei Di said indifferently, but his hand unconsciously flipped through the papers on the table, "Okay, let's see what today's meeting is about? There is also a joint document of the Knight Academy and the School of Magic in Seka Town. ”

Pei Di's eyes were attracted by the documents jointly signed by Cowlier and Bowenwright in Sekka Town and couldn't help but want to look through them, but Erin Phier next to him hurriedly said: "What you should do now is to go to the inner hall to meet our retainers, we can't ignore the letter sent by the Empire all the time, it's your own sister!"

His wife's words made Pedy's eyebrows furrow slightly, and he closed the document he was about to flip through and looked at Erin Phier with a serious face: "I know very well what I'm doing now, and I want to help Penny more than anyone else, to help her husband through the difficult time in front of him... But I'm not just Penny's brother, I'm not just thinking about my sister, I'm thinking about the future of the entire Crewe. ”

"Is there a conflict? And I think the most important thing is your family, and if you are trapped someday someday, I will definitely use all the power I can to get you out. Erin Phier said immediately.

"Thank you, dear. Pedi stood up, wiped his mouth, kissed his wife, and said, "It's a nice morning." ”

"Hopefully everything goes well today. Erin Phier looked at her husband who was leaving, and said in a blessed tone.

When Pei heard his wife's words, he turned around and asked, "Do you want to go with us?"

Erin Fei'er was stunned for a moment, and then said: "The promise of the Mage Tower to the empire is limited to the cabinet government when my father was in office. ”

"In other words, whether or not the Mage Tower sends troops depends on the attitude of the Empire?"

Eileen Phil nodded, "There is no such thing as a free lunch, my dear. ”

"As the future mistress of Crewe, you haven't been to a single meeting in the inner hall. Pedi asked again, "Really?"

"I'll have to figure out this experiment, and in an hour there will be a bunch of nobles waiting to be seen by me. Erin Phier pointed to the book in her hand and shook her head regretfully.

...

In the separate conference room to the side of the office in the inner hall of Kavalburg, although Pedi had not yet arrived, the sound of heated discussions had begun an hour earlier.

Naturally, what they discussed was the war that was taking place on the Suk Plains at this moment.

After the meeting of the Emperor's office on 27 February, the 'order' sent to Kruling arrived at Kaval Fort that afternoon.

Pedi consulted with his father and decided to ignore it.

On the afternoon of the 28th, the second letterhead from Lionburg arrived, this time in the handwritten letter of Queen Penny, and Pedy found his father after reading it.

This time, Duke Nick still didn't say anything, and Pedy asked Danmen Green of the Military Intelligence Department to find out what was going on inside the empire, and at the same time asked the trained Guards to assemble in the western part of Crewe.

When Pedi dressed up and appeared in the separate conference room on the left side of the inner hall office with a serious expression, it was already half past nine in the morning.

When Danmen Green, the chief of military intelligence who had been waiting at the door for a long time, saw Pedi, he rushed to approach first and reported: "Ten minutes later, the Imperial side has sent another letter, and it is a letter from His Majesty the Emperor..." ”

Pedi wasn't surprised by this, and after Danmen Green's report, he looked at Sira Marne, "How many troops can the territory gather in a short period of time?"

"Including the Guards Corps and the 1st Corps of the Kumar Fortress ... 80,000 regular soldiers should be no problem. Sira Marne immediately said, "If I am given three months, I can gather at least one hundred thousand troops." ”

"We're not going to have a war to destroy the country. Sir Edwin tossed a few documents in thick paper into the middle of the table, "Because the war between the Empire and the Elves has been devastated, the value of the Imperial gold coins in our hands is depreciating rapidly... Since half a month ago, our trade with orcs, goblins, and barbarians can no longer be settled with imperial gold coins. He spread his hands, "Everyone is asking for barter, with the supplies we have in Crewe, this maybe..."

"We should erase the head of Locke the Great from the gold coins and print it with the head of Duke Nick!" the old orc Morinda joked, interrupting Sir Edwin's next conversation.

"Haha!" Daisily Pombo laughed and looked at Pedi, "a good idea. ”

"A year ago, the entire continent was using Imperial Gold Coins. Danmen-Green shrugged, "Because the depreciation of the Empire's currency is not just affected by our Crewe Collar... The Eluk Collars, Twak Collars, Karen Collars, and even the Elves and Orcs have all been affected. ”

"The rebels led by Elok are preparing to build their national bank, and they intend to quickly extract gold with Imperial Gold coins. Sir Edwin looked at Pedi, perhaps fearing another interruption, so he spoke a little quickly, "My lord, as your treasurer, I must remind you that Kreul should set up his own public bank as soon as possible. ”

"More than three hundred years ago," Pedi leaned back on his couch and scanned the crowd, "Our ancestors used the blood of countless people to unify our currency, and now we are dividing the currency that was originally unified. ”

Everyone was stunned by Pedi's words, and just as they were reflecting on this sentence, Pedi tapped lightly on the table and continued: "You can rest assured, the Chamber of Commerce in Kawalburg has already started to use Imperial Gold Coin to obtain supplies and gold half a year ago, so our losses will not be great. ”

When Sir Edwin heard Pedy's words, he immediately spoke before the crowd could speak: "With the goods and gold we have in our hands, it is time to issue currency or establish a bank... When our bank is established, we can even use the name of the guild to take a stake in the national bank of the Elok Collar and exercise economic control over the Eluk Collar. ”

"Seems like a hassle!" Pedi frowned.

"It's not troublesome, Kru Ling has a natural advantage, because we control the trade between the Eastern and Western continents, and our warehouses in the coastal areas contain half of the supplies of the entire continent. Edwin controlled his excitement, "As long as we can make a deal with the goblins, orcs, and barbarians, at most a year, the currency of the Crewe Territory can be used throughout the continent. He held out a finger, his face flushed with excitement.

"But first, we have to be independent. Daisily Pombo said something abruptly, which was something that everyone present had been holding in their hearts, but it was the first time that it had been publicly raised!

The old marquis's words made Edwin Filmin swallow back the words that he was about to continue, and subconsciously closed his mouth tightly, as if he was afraid that one would accidentally say a word.

In an instant, the originally noisy conference room suddenly became unusually quiet.

"Knock Knock"

The silence didn't last long, Pedi slammed the table this time, and the dull voice brought everyone back to their senses, and they all looked at him, while he changed his posture to look at Daisily Pombo, but pointed to Edwin Filmin next to him, and said: "The matter of the public bank will be talked about at another time, and now we are going to discuss the rescue of the Central Empire." ”

"Sir Cyrah. Pedi suddenly looked at Sirah-Marne again, "Where did we just go?"

"With the military mobilization capacity of the current territory, we can gather 80,000 regular soldiers in a short period of time. Syrah-Marne said as she collected the thoughts in her head, "But if we want to attack the Elok Territory with these forces, it won't have any effect anytime soon. She walked over to the map in the conference room, "First of all, the Kingdom of Misha that has obtained the Hoko Islands will not sit idly by and watch us attack the Iruk Territory, and the elves will spare no effort to help the rebels. ”

"How's the contact with the Mage Tower?" Peddy looked at the Foreign Officer, Sir Bipp, "did they promise to send troops together?"

Sir Bipp looked at a document and explained, "Because Woz Pedro had promised to let Devin Pompo and us flank the rebels led by Elok before the Empire transferred Deven-Pompo's army in Tyre, but now that Deven-Pompo's army has marched to the Sook Plains, and the rebels led by Eruk have taken the opportunity to occupy the defensive line in Tyre, so..."

He looked up at Pedi and shook his head regretfully.

"Our young Emperor, Your Majesty, because of his cowardice, missed the best chance to destroy the rebels led by Elok. Daisily Pombo shrugged his shoulders with some pity, his tone as relaxed as if he were telling an inconsequential matter.

Syrah Marne added at this time, "That is, if we wage war against the Eluk Territory, we will have to face it alone..."

"According to MI intelligence, the rebels led by Elok are shrinking their forces. Morinda Morinda's voice interrupted Sira Marne's words, "They gave up a large part of the eastern territory of the Eluk Territory, this is a cake for nothing, we should not give it up!" he looked at Pedi, "I suggest that the First Legion of the Kumar Fortress be ordered to advance immediately towards the eastern territory of the Eluk Territory, and let our Guards Legion enter the Kumar Fortress. ”

"Let a legion go deep into Elok's territory?" Daisily Pombo shook his head slightly, "This is so..."

"I agree!" Syrah-Marne interrupted the old marquis and looked at Pedi, "This must be a deliberate signal from the Eluk Lords, they don't want to fight this war with us, so they want to play a show with us... For this, they paid for the eastern territory of the El Luk Territory. ”

"It's just your speculation, we need to check the information. ”

"It will take at least five days for such information to be verified!"

The topic was opened up at once...

Pei Di stopped speaking at this time, he quietly flipped through the documents submitted by various departments, and the sound of discussion in his ears made him subconsciously shake his head, and sighed secretly in his heart:

The Empire is really finished!

I don't know when the subjects of the empire no longer care about the survival of the empire, and they can discuss the rise and fall of the empire without any scruples.

It's as if in their eyes, the empire is long gone. ()

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