"Father, please don't say any more, it's still your body that matters. ”

Edward eventually plucked up the courage to speak out, and to this day, he still has illusions about his father's health.

"After this battle, the tribe will be greatly damaged, no matter what you plan, as long as I swallow this breath, it will be beneficial to you, don't have any worries, just leave the responsibility to me. Thoreau knew that it would take time for the young man to accept all this, and he was now patient with the young man, but he himself was running out of time. If he doesn't talk about many things, it may turn into a bad debt.

"You've always done a good job, and the bad guy is me. Thoreau came out of nowhere, and in Edward's astonished eyes, Thoreau continued to nag.

"You're going to be a real master of the ZTE, you're capable, yes you have, but I don't want to admit it...... Mom, I've always treated you like a maid! What did I do to make you do this to me?"

"I've been perfect all my life, and even if I lost this war, I don't feel like I've done anything wrong. Only you, Edward, my son......"

"You're the biggest stain on my life, the only stain on me! ”

"Only now do I understand that the stain is on you, but not you. It's just that I didn't teach you to be what I wanted, and then I didn't dare to face it. ”

Two lines of tears flowed from Thoreau's cheeks, and he spoke in a loud and small voice, fast and slow, and intermittently.

"You're going to blame me, but you don't say it, do you?"

"Come on, boy, come up and bite me if it's my seed, and show me how sharp your teeth are!

"I never blame you, father. ”

Edward's body trembled slightly and finally calmed down. It wasn't just Thoreau who untied his own knot, but so did Edward.

"I don't blame you, Dad. ”

Even if you've never said so much to me, not once. I love you forever, Daddy.

By the time Edward left Thoreau's corpse, everyone had realized that Edward had changed, as if a part of Thoreau had lived in Edward's body.

For the first time, the newly appointed chief of the Campbell family issued his directives.

"Everyone, we can't stay here any longer, those Great Pruss will come back at any time. Take away the wounded who can be saved, and take away those who can't,"

"I bless you, and I hope you make it back to the swamp alive. ”

"And what about your father's corpse?" questioned one of the Wiegand tribal generals, in his heart, even Thoreau's corpse was more important than the life of a lightly wounded man, and there was more than one Wiegand with this idea.

"Bury it on the spot, he's a great man, but don't delay too long. ”

Jan lay weakly on the ground, looking at his younger brother in amazement. This weegand boy, who used to be as soft as a sheep, now has a lion in his eyes.

Thoreau's lying body is gradually losing its temperature, but if someone tries to look at him now, you will see peace and relief on his face.

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William rode back to town, and it was nearly evening, and the sun shone on his face, stretching his lonely back.

"Hey, William," a young man from a small town rode excitedly to William's side.

"I've heard that you've had a good harvest this time, and you've made a great contribution back to the town. The heads of four serious Wiegand main forces, I heard that one of them is still their general?"

"We're still late this time, or we'll be able to get a few more Wiegand heads. But that's fine, and we'll have fewer brothers. ”

These young warriors who later joined the battlefield only assisted in the plans of the regular army, and more often used as a deterrent to coerce the Wegand army, so their casualties and even physical exertion were not very large, at least they still had the energy to compare each other's achievements.

William looked at the young man's empty saddle and knew that this guy who had been chattering with him since he was a child was not holding back his fart.

"Tell me straight, how many do you want me to give you?"

When the young man saw that his thoughts had been seen through, he was a little embarrassed, and even the sleek energy that had been hanging on his face all the year round was reduced by a few points.

"Before I left, I boasted to Sophia about Haikou, and now it doesn't look good to go back empty-handed......

Give me one, and my children and I will thank you. ”

"I'll give it to you. ”

"Hey, we've been friends for many years, so you can't give me an ear or a handful of hair......

Wait, I didn't hear what you just said. ”

"I'll give you, I'll give you a, a complete Wiegand head, and I'll give it to you right now. ”

William was not a man who just said nothing, and under the young man's astonished eyes, William took one from the head hanging from the horse's back and threw it to the young man. In the young man's disbelieving eyes, William patted the horse and walked away.

The young man did not think that William was a stingy person, on the contrary, William was honest and generous like his father, so he thought of asking William for loot. It's just that William was originally a somewhat rigid person, and things like military exploits should not be the type he would easily hand over to others, which made the young man feel a little uneasy.

It seems that since the end of that sentry mission, William's whole person has given him a rather awkward feeling.

The young man attributed this change to William: William is no longer the person he knew when he was a child, he is now determined to be the kind of leader he is, and he is working hard for it.

This young man was originally a big mouth, and after he thought of this possibility, he couldn't hold back his mood and began to spread the word everywhere, and even accidentally shook out the fact that he had borrowed a head from William.

The consequences of the big mouth were serious, and when the young man was proud of the town with the head he had taken from William's hand, he walked up to him with the longing goddess Sophia and slapped him his pig-like face.

By the time the townsmen returned to Valuno, rumors had changed from William lending Freddy a Wiegand head for free to William's heroic command of the town's youth.

The rumor spread like a fire throughout the town, and it reached Joyce's ears as well.

As the mayor of a town, Joyce, who heard this rumor, certainly wouldn't believe this kind of nonsense rashly, but he had his own considerations.

Joyce touched his graying hair, and although he had only a one-sided relationship with the young man named William, he believed in his ability to read people.

That young man is essentially a good person, and the problem of ability only needs to be exercised a little more.

What's more, Joyce and William's father, the timber merchant Hams, had a close relationship, and in this war against the Wigand people, he also produced a lot of materials, although he didn't say it, but these things were recorded in the hearts of many townspeople, and from this time William's record could be passed on so quickly, there were inevitably these grateful townspeople fanning the flames.

If rumors are combined with power, then rumors are no longer rumors, but established facts.

That night, an incident was brought to the Freddy's family at the same time as the defeat of the Wiggeners.

"Freddy, have you heard, it's that William, who grew up with you, has been appointed as the next mayor of the town by Mayor Joyce today because he walked into the house with his left foot. The mother asked casually as she brought up a bowl of broth for her son.

Freddy covered his swollen face with one hand, took the broth from his mother with the other, and nodded solemnly.

The news of the victory at the Battle of Valuno spread throughout the Northlands in just a few days, and it could have been a big setback for the Wiegand people, who were likely to be honest for many years, but it was an undeniably good thing for the Northlands.

The Great Prus nation is stronger than the Wiegand people, as a whole. Judging from the Northland alone, I'm afraid this matter is not going to be reversed, if it weren't for the fact that the Wiegand people were still in the era of divided tribes, not to mention whether these residents and towns of Great Pruss could continue to exist, even the royal court of Beihai might not be destroyed.

The second prime minister of the Great Pruce Empire, the former king of the North Sea, Lord Tamori, had received information about a possible invasion by the Wiegand a week earlier through his connections in the North Sea. Using his power, he suppressed this small matter first.

It wasn't until news of the victory reached Abbasquia that Tian Sen made a big deal out of it, making it "a thirtieth birthday present from the most loyal subjects of the North Sea Kingdom to His Majesty the Emperor Notting." ”

The amount of work to unite a group of tribes, large and small, into an empire is unimaginable, and it took a lot of time and energy just to measure the land of the lords who were loyal to the empire, and when Tian Sen ascended to the position of prime minister of the empire with ambition, he found that it was a complete mess.

After resigning as king of Beihai, the council of nobles of Beihai supported the great chief Orlov, or Grand Duke Orlov, with the tacit approval of Tian Sen, as the new king of Beidi.

Although Orlov is famous for his reputation and can intimidate the vassals of the North Sea, he has no control over the market villages that have risen in recent years—or he doesn't know or care about the existence of these new things.

Tian Sen once sent an envoy to visit the king of Beihai, and the messenger brought a large number of written words, one-third of which could be regarded as treasonous remarks, but they were really for the good of the Beihai king. But Ollov only glanced at him, or rather, at the messenger, and drove him out of the royal court in the North Sea.

Olof sent the messenger a word, and Tian Sen was almost after receiving the news.

"Do you still think you're the king of the North Sea, a lackey of the Empire!"

Since then, the relationship between the Beihai royal court and the empire has declined sharply, and under Tian Sen's rhythmic control, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the royal court of Beihai is being hollowed out. Orlov was the only one who didn't know it.

Besides, even if he knew, it didn't make much sense. Tian Sen had sufficiently isolated the North Sea, but his bias towards the political center undoubtedly hurt the relationship between Cyporus and the Kingdom of Prus.

The former of them had also been a loyal supporter of the empire, while the latter's relationship with the empire was stiff, but there was no chance of détente.

As the Prime Minister of the Empire, Tian Sen had his own mansion on the outskirts of Abbasquia, which was built by the Abbasquia royal family with money brought back from their southern expeditions. The mansion is not big, but it can be called exquisite. The mansion as a whole is made of Solomonic bluestone bricks imported from the port of Abbaschia, which is strong and beautiful, showing the majesty of an imperial ruler without making it appear too inflated, preserving the face of the royal family.

In order to facilitate administration, the Abbasquia civic groups also built a trail for the Prime Minister, which connected the Prime Minister's House with the town of Abbasquia.

At first, Tian Sen said something bad about this matter on the surface, but he was still very happy in his heart, after all, everyone likes the feeling of being respected, especially the low-level Dousheng Xiaomin can spontaneously mobilize to build roads for themselves, so he once thought that what he did at Felipe's funeral was recorded in the hearts of the citizens.

It wasn't until some time later that Tian Sen realized that it was not himself who used this road the most, but the merchants in the town. They bought cheap goods from the docks, sold them in the towns, and sold them at high prices to themselves, their chamberlains, and other imperial officials. They were able to benefit from this far more than they would have paid for the construction of the road.

On the other side of the town of Abbasquia, closer to a forest, the subjects of the Great Plusian Empire spontaneously built lavish palaces for the Abbasquian royal family. Hot springs, waterfalls, gardens, hunting grounds, and even tall shrines, as long as the citizens of the time could think of it, and they thought that the emperor might be able to use it, then they all built.

In order to connect this palace hidden in the mountains, the citizens diligently built a wide avenue for the royal family, which was specially used by the emperor's chariot to run over.

The construction of a dirt road like the "Prime Minister's Path" was obviously not worthy of the emperor's honorable status, and some citizens wanted to get some stones. But in order to build the emperor's palace, there was no decent stone nearby for a while.