Chapter 158: Watching the Fire

At night, Dennis, the city sheriff of Kalmar City, was standing by the window, peering out at the brightly lit mansion not far away.

His right-hand man and friend, Thomas Thomason, a former bounty hunter, sat on a couch behind him.

In the case of the murder of Andre, the strongest warrior in the kingdom, Thomas judged the outline of the murderer with his excellent experience, and as a result, Denison found out that the real murderer of the case was William's subordinate with these clues, and was scared half to death, but was finally persuaded by Danbier, who has now become William's first think tank, and also took refuge in William.

Thomason, who has no official name and is closer to Dennis's personal staff, naturally joined William.

Now the whole city is not very peaceful, the law and order problem in the slums has long been a stubborn problem, the environment in the civilian areas is getting worse and worse because of the wall construction tax, and there are more and more crimes, and even the aristocratic districts are now in a lot of trouble because of Chloe and his bureau.

Dennis took the family to his estate, where he usually provided protection for the two families.

"How?" Thomas asked.

Dennis sighed, "Another family." With that, he lowered the curtains, unable to bear to look at the nobleman who had been dragged out of the mansion like a dog by the agents of the Investigation Bureau.

Although Thomason and Dennis are good friends, they are from very different backgrounds, and compared to Dennis's sadness when he sees other nobles suffer from rabbits and foxes, Tomasson has no feelings at all about the current events.

"The ......," Thomas asked, looking at Dennis and snooping in the direction of the docks, "I heard he's back, do you know what his attitude is now?" ”

"He went ashore during the day today, first to see the Earl of Reild, the Minister of the Interior, and then to the Count Alcatio, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the afternoon, and then went back to the barracks near the docks, and his attitude did not seem to have been settled." Dennis sighed again.

"He's waiting for someone to bid higher." "Now both Alcatio and Reild need his support, Rearde's side is outnumbered, there is no shortage of military people, Alcatio wants to get rid of Reild needs the support of the militia, Reald wants to get rid of Alcatio, if you don't get his approval, you also have to worry about being exterminated by the militia." ”

"How important are Stolt and his militia?" Dennis asked, incredulously.

Thomas grinned, "Who gave Stolt the strongest force in the city?" In the past, he didn't come out because he could barely maintain peace in the palace, and you know, there seems to be some problems with the background of our captain, if he suppresses the top of the kingdom by force, he is likely to be concerned or even intervened by the world government and navy, but now, whether Alcatio gets rid of Reald, or Reald gets rid of Arcatio, he has an excuse to send troops to exterminate the surviving side, do you think other people need to win him over, or rather, to appease him? ”

The result of class solidification is that promotion only depends on birth rather than ability, and the closed small circle culture leads to a lack of vision and knowledge.

Norton I, as a king, has never even walked out of the royal palace a few times in his life, and how good can the nobles in the royal city be?

Thomas had been a bounty hunter, traveled a lot, and had seen all kinds of people, so his knowledge was naturally higher than that of Dennis and a group of nobles.

Because their status and wealth come from the social order dominated by the world government, the aristocracy naturally thinks that this order is supreme and justified.

But Thomas knew that it was the force of the world government that maintained this order, and that force was the hard currency in this world, the key to securing the status of wealth.

Therefore, Tomasson is more concerned about William than Dennis usually because he has more confidence in William.

William's force has long been there, what is missing is just a name, and now the name is about to be there, in Thomason's view, William's rise is just around the corner, and he and Dennis will definitely be able to get some light at that time.

……

In the barracks in the docklands, William was checking the night guard with his hands behind his back.

Probably today's body, one of the most satisfying things for William, is the exuberant energy, as a power fan, the favorite thing to do is to ask about everything, not to let go easily, if you want to do this, you can't do it without an energetic body.

William experienced a rough morning at sea, and the comfort of the clipper was by no means good, and then he went to see the Minister of the Interior, Reald, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alcatio, and in the evening to train with the young soldiers in the barracks, and now in the evening, he had to go around the barracks, check the sentry posts one by one, and do another performance of folding the quilts.

From morning till night, he did not show the slightest tiredness, both physically and mentally.

"What did Reald and Arcatio say?" Sherlock, who was half a step behind William, asked.

"I'm disappointed on Raird's side, or maybe they haven't adapted to our new identities yet, so they just talk a bunch of nonsense, nothing useful at all," William shook his head and said, "It's our Chancellor of the Exchequer, he's a smart man, I want military power and knighthood, and he agreed without saying a word, probably because he has received the news that I've been to Rearder Manor before." ”

When the two walked to the west corner of the barracks, a slightly childish shout suddenly came from the secret: "Password!" ”

"Admire." William replied with a blank face.

"Honor." The figures of the two young soldiers turned out from two different places, one bright and one dark, and when they saw that it was William, they hurriedly saluted.

William returned the salute, talked with the young soldier, checked it, and left again.

"That's why you chose to help Arcatio first?" After leaving the sentry position, Sherlock pushed his eyes and continued, "Don't talk to Reild anymore?" ”

"Meet two more times, don't talk about the show, Reild and the gang are just bargaining chips for me, how can I help them? Barbarossa and Roy, both of them, I solved them personally, and I will leave the initiator Arcatio alone and leave him to someone else to solve? William sneered, "But I'm afraid it's a little strange that Alcatio's old thing promised so happily." ”

Sherlock thought for a moment, "He doesn't really want to usurp the throne, does he?" ”

"Who knows," William said indifferently, "If Chloe and I are really his people, then his usurpation of the throne is really not small, but what is the use of usurping the throne or not, have you never seen his son Aureliano, that waste can't even win over people, Dennis was almost forced to my side by him, Alcatio is so old, it won't be long before the throne will be passed to his only son, he is not worried about the throne being usurped again?" ”