After this incident, His Majesty Marshall said with emotion: "The Marquis of Trollope is my eyes, so that all the mice hidden in the darkness have nothing to hide. ”

Hence the nickname "The Eye of the King" came to this marquis, and he himself often referred to himself as the Eye of the King.

The origin of his aristocratic butcher's nickname is inextricably linked to another matter.

In the eighth year of His Majesty's reign, the Kingdom of Helsinki sent another 100,000 troops south to wash away the humiliation of the Battle of Serre.

The northern legions of the Kingdom of Arthur rushed into battle, and suffered a great defeat.

As the so-called victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, His Majesty Marshall did not hold anyone responsible, but mobilized all the military supplies to fund the front, but was stopped by the Marquis of Trollope, because the other party smelled something unusual from this defeat.

At that time, there were 60,000 troops stationed in Hailan Province, of which 40,000 were displayed on the front line, 100,000 against 40,000, and the difference in strength between the two sides was huge, and defeat was a normal phenomenon.

However, the 40,000-strong army only held on to the border for less than two days before retreating, which is somewhat abnormal.

This Hou Ye analyzed the information provided by his subordinates, and the result was really a major discovery.

It turned out that in recent years, the high-ranking officers of the Northern Military District have been complicit in reselling military supplies and replacing the sophisticated equipment provided by the king to the soldiers with inferior equipment.

This is so hidden that no one would have noticed it unless the Kingdom of Helsinki had suddenly attacked.

When His Majesty Marshall found out, he couldn't help but be furious and ordered that the top leaders of the Northern Army who were involved in the resale of military supplies should be severely punished.

The Marquis of Trolope stopped again, feeling that the matter was not as simple as it seemed.

This marquis has extreme self-confidence, and if he wants to make small moves under his nose, the difficulty is not ordinary.

He asked His Majesty Marshall to postpone the handling of these people, and he ordered someone to investigate secretly, and as expected, the Ministry of Intelligence pulled out several bigwigs from the political arena, and even the Ministry of Intelligence itself was involved.

Seeing that the matter was exposed, the magnates involved in this matter were not very afraid, after all, this matter was very involved, and if they wanted to deal with it, I was afraid that the top leaders of the Northern Army would be killed, and the court would also have to be empty.

Now it is the tension of the war between the two countries

Moment, by no means the best time to deal with this matter, otherwise it would be digging your own grave.

His Majesty Marshall also took this into consideration, and thought of turning big things into small things and small things.

However, to his surprise, the Marquis of Trolope once again showed his resolute and bloody methods, directly concealing from His Majesty and beheading all the officials and their families involved in the matter.

Fortunately, at that time, the aristocratic forces of the Wang Se Kingdom were not as intertwined as they are now, otherwise it would not be as simple as involving half of the court.

Of course, the result of the war was unsurprisingly lost, and the Kingdom of Arthur lost one-third of the land of Hailan Province.

However, the Marquis of Trolope has repeatedly claimed that he does not regret this matter, and he often said to His Majesty Marshall: As a king, you must have the courage of a strong man to break his wrist and scrape his bones to cure poison, and the embankment of a thousand miles is destroyed in the anthill, and if it is allowed to develop, it will become a great hidden danger to destroy the kingdom of Arthur.

Since then, this old marquis has been famous far and wide, and has been dubbed a butcher by the nobles.

As for the origin of his nickname of the King's Eye, it dates back to the fourteenth year of His Majesty Marshall's reign.

In the fourteenth year of His Majesty's reign, His Majesty Marshall wanted to recover the northern lands of Hailan Province, which had been occupied six years earlier, and raised a large army to conquer it.

The war lasted four years, and the treasury of Arthur's kingdom was almost squandered.

In the end, the war reached a tense moment, and there was no food in the treasury to allocate money.

His Majesty Marshall was so anxious that victory was at hand, and how could he be willing to withdraw his troops.

His Majesty, who was known for his love of the people as a son, increased the tax burden for the first time and promised his subjects that after the victory in the war, the tax burden of the whole country would be reduced for two years.

Although His Majesty Marshall's intentions were good, he underestimated human greed, and this decision to raise taxes almost ruined the decades-old foundation of Arthur's kingdom.

When Earl Mackinto said this, he sighed lightly and looked at the surrounding nobles with a sneer: "You should know the virtues of the nobles, especially the nobles of the court who do not have fiefs, they can do anything in order to satisfy their own desires for luxury. ”

"If Your Majesty dares to triple the taxes, the taxes that fall on the people at the bottom will be increased fivefold, or even tenfold, and those cool officials don't care if you have money or not, if you can't pay it

If you pay taxes, you will rob people and food. ”

It was still the Marquis of Troope who was the first to get the news, and Hailan Province had long been in ruins and the people were in dire straits, and as a result, the nobles there openly disobeyed the king's order not to levy taxes, and forcibly apportioned the tax burden to these poor people.

If it had only been levied according to the rules, the sum of all the taxes that had never been heard of before was nearly six times higher than the amount prescribed by the king.

If he could really get so much money, His Majesty Marshall would probably turn a blind eye and get through the immediate difficulties first.

As a result, instead of handing over the money to the national treasury, they lied to the kingdom, saying that Hailan Province was full of disasters and difficulties, and there was no excess tax burden to collect.

That is to say, most of the six-fold tax burden levied went into the pockets of the nobles themselves, and only a small part went into the treasury, which was even less than sixty percent of the tax burden payable.

However, these are not the end, these nobles are greedy and fat, and they still don't forget to flaunt how they love the people like children, saying that they can't bear to see Hailan County starving everywhere, and feel His Majesty's love for the people, so they have reduced many tax burdens.

If His Majesty Marshall did not know the whole story of this matter, since he knew how could he endure this, he strictly ordered the Marquis of Trolope to deal with this matter seriously.

So this marquis personally led people to set off, slaughtering a full sixty-four powerful families who were rampant, up to the old, down to the young, thousands of heads fell to the ground, even the chickens and dogs did not let go, and the blood of the direct killing flowed like a river.

In the end, His Majesty Marshall was shocked by the cruel methods of this marquis, and reminded him to refrain from acting, after all, how innocent the old and weak women and children were.

The marquis refused in front of many powerful people: In troubled times, you should use heavy codes.

He said a very famous sentence at that time: The nobles were greedy for money and their families were used for pleasure, and now when they encounter bad luck, how can they be spared, these powerful parents, wives and children are innocent, and the people who are forced by them to sell their children and daughters and can only starve to death are not innocent?

Hearing this, Renard couldn't help but be in awe of this old marquis, such an upright person is really rare.

Seeing this, Earl Mackinto pouted, and he whispered: "Don't think of him as great, in fact, the whole thing reveals a conspiracy. ”

Lei Ye showed a strange expression when he heard this: "Conspiracy?"