Chapter 61: The Silent Summer Celebration

"Tomorrow is the summer celebrations, and the recent riots have been increasing, and it feels like they are about to be overwhelmed, Marshal. A senior officer of William's family said to Alonso

"You go down first. "Alonso has also been frowning lately, and there have been too many things and too many worries in this period of time.

Now the empire's problems are too many, and the high housing prices have left the poor without even a place to live. The successive wars and disasters were undoubtedly another blow to the dying empire.

A large number of refugees are displaced and homeless, but the elites are rich and extravagant. Natural disasters and man-made disasters have almost exhausted the food of the empire, but the upper echelons of the empire have come to intensify their wanton accumulation of wealth, extravagance and waste, completely ignoring the lives and deaths of the civilians at the bottom.

In this case, the price of food here has become almost the entire expenditure of ordinary people, and even then they can't eat meat, and it would be nice to be able to nibble on bread, and the key is just enough to maintain a slight state of hunger.

The most terrible thing is that more and more refugees are pouring into the city, and they are not only bringing chaos but also disease and pestilence.

In the past month or so, the Order has also changed its previous style, and began to blatantly arrest people on the streets and execute people at will, which is also acquiesced by Emperor Keyes, and Alonso can't control it if he wants to, after all, the people of the Order have not directly touched the interests of the Empire, they have high rights, and even Prince Keyes was crowned as Emperor of the Empire by Pope Aixi himself in the Cathedral of San Antonio.

As for the Empire's Chief Magic Advisor, he still maintains the mystery of the past, but he has to be guarded against, who knows what he is doing.

People don't want to work, they become like Emperor Keith, they only think of wine today and drunk tomorrow, they are greedy for pleasure and do not want to make progress, and only participating in riots, smashing and looting and other things can arouse their interest, so they want to get something for nothing.

It was really exhausting, Alonso felt more stressed and tired than ever.

In the north, the newly established Kingdom of Norsland is also eyeing the empire, and now it is just a fool's dream to recover the north by force, and the empire no longer has that strength.

In the holy city, the secret organization composed of the people at the bottom has also risen in a big way, and it cannot be caught and killed, but it has intensified.

Tomorrow is the annual summer celebration, and I wonder what Emperor Theodon would have done if he was still alive and saw it all like this, and how he would have felt when he saw that the empire of what had once been so glorious became?

Alonso's loyalty is unquestionable, he was originally an obscure minor lord in the political arena of the Empire, but now he is almost in charge of the military power of the Empire, but this burden may be a bit too heavy.

In fact, what Alonso didn't know was that he hadn't slept so late at this moment, and he was still worried about the country and the people. But what were the nobles at the top? if he had the stone ball, like Molz, he would have seen that some of the nobles were gathering to suck the moon candy and have fun with a group of beautiful unclothed female slaves. In the end, there are four nobles who are doing something with a slave girl, who is only fourteen years old after being accused of being a shrine maiden by the Order.

Looking at the female slaves who were naked, eating moon candy, and were extremely happy, I don't know how their parents would feel when they saw it.

What is the Emperor of the Empire doing on this ordinary and extraordinary night?

Our Emperor Keith, who is now in the main hall where he lives, is playing with a group of maids, but they all seem to be sweating profusely, and they are all white, which is dazzling.

Do you think that's the end of it? Our Emperor was very fond of having people record these images with magic crystal balls, and he also asked the court painters to paint on the spot.

In short, on the eve of this summer celebration, our emperor had a great time.

Alonso was alone in his camp tent, and he had done his best to secure tomorrow with all available troops.

Although he was still a little uneasy, he had done his best, and there was nothing he could do.

He was drinking, he didn't even have anyone to talk to, and he even wondered what he was doing it for.

I didn't sleep all night, everyone was drunk without drunkenness, until the east turned white, and a new day came.

Alonso, as usual, washed himself and changed into the armor of his whole body, which had accompanied him for many years, and was now scarred and not glamorous.

It seems that today is cloudy and the sky is covered with dark clouds. It's not often the case, and for many years summer celebrations have generally been held in sunny weather.

Alonso convened a meeting of his officers and again detailed the deployment of security and other tasks.

After the meeting, Alonso personally led his men to inspect the city.

This year, unlike usual, few people traveled all the way to attend the summer celebrations, some were just Delmans from all over the country, and many turned out to be refugees.

The city defense work was not slackened for a moment, and many of these refugees were driven out of the city by the city defense army to a temporary refugee area outside the city. There, Alonso's Williams were heavily guarded and supported by the Imperial City Defenses.

Everything is arranged, and the morning is about to inspect the Imperial Guard in front of the newly built heroes. Since this Hall of Heroes was destroyed by the black dragon Ildelai, Alonso led people to rebuild it, and in recent years, Emperor Keyes ordered to build a large number of buildings, spending huge sums of money to make this Hall of Heroes more magnificent, more magnificent, but this also made the burden on the people increasingly increased, but Emperor Keyes chose to turn a blind eye. Contrary to the Hall of Heroes, the Imperial Guard has not been as good as it used to be over the years.

Whether it is the selection of soldiers, internal management, and daily training, plus the real elite is exhausted when the black dragon attacks here.

This year, the square hill in front of the Hall of Heroes was not crowded, and the faces of the few citizens were full of helplessness.

Dalena, under the care of the people arranged by Emperor Caiss, also appeared with him in front of this Hall of Heroes.

Before Emperor Keith could speak, a light rain began to fall in the cloudy sky.

In front of the Hall of Heroes, the people were silent, and the atmosphere became extremely embarrassing.