"Chapter 15: Covert Surveillance"
There are many cowards who use their inferiority complex as an excuse to avoid life's problems, and there are also many people who use their inferiority complex as a clockwork to achieve great things.
– Alfred Adler (Austrian psychologist)
The failure of the alliance plan with Prince Harry is only an expected thing for Prince Pros, and among the four princes vying for the heir to the throne, no matter which prince is the strongest, the most proud character is definitely Prince Harry.
The proud Prince Harry was the second strongest prince after the Great Prince in the past, but now he can't even compare to the weakest of the other three princes, the fifth prince, which is not a big blow.
To add insult to injury, Prince Philip, who has always had a close relationship with Prince Harry and formed an alliance with him, abandoned Prince Harry's power at a moment when his power was severely damaged, and turned to Prince William.
It was based on this understanding of these circumstances that Prince Pross came up with the idea of wooing Prince Harry, and invited Prince Harry to negotiate an alliance while Prince Philip secretly visited Prince William.
Facts have proved that Prince Harry, who has suffered blows one after another, still has not given up the pride in his heart, and in the face of the olive branch personally thrown by Prince GLP, he still bluntly chose to refuse, knowing that the consequence of refusal is that he is completely disqualified from competing for the throne!
"Your Highness, are you really no longer considering the alliance proposal of the Eighth Prince?" On the way back to the house, the leader of the Silver Guard, Hunter, couldn't help the doubts in his heart after all, and whispered to Prince Harry in the carriage.
"Hunter, you also think the eighth party's alliance proposal is tempting, don't you?"
"Your Highness, it's not that the Eighth Prince's proposal is tempting, but that we really need strong foreign aid right now, and I think we can use the Eighth Prince's power to develop ourselves, and then choose to end the alliance with the Eighth Emperor after we make a comeback. ”
Hearing his own personal guard commander say such a taken for granted, Prince Harry was disappointed in his heart, but he asked seriously: "Hunter, we won't mention this alliance for the time being, you tell me, what do you think of the strength of the Bai family in the south?"
"The Bai family in the southern realm?" Hunter, who felt that his thinking was a little disordered, replied with a little doubt: "First was the birth of the Twin Sword Saints, and then the birth of the Feather Forest Divine General; ”
"Feather Forest Divine General?" Before Hunter's words were finished, Prince Harry, whose face was full of differences, said curiously: "This Feather Forest Divine General should refer to the White Peak Legion Commander of the Feather Forest Legion;
"Your Highness, since the legendary combat experience of the Commander of the White Peak Legion was reported from the Nice Province, the Imperial Military Department has publicized the Commander of the White Peak Legion in the name of 'Feather Forest Divine General', and used this to call on the young men of the Empire to join the army to defend their families and defend the country. ”
"Duke Cullen of the military department is not stupid, he knows how to use this hard-won opportunity to hype up, but I am afraid that the achievement of this propaganda is not the boss he wants to support, but the boss who sits on it!"
Looking at Hunter's puzzled face, Prince Harry didn't mean to say anything to solve his doubts, he didn't continue to talk to Hunter about the Feather Forest Divine General, but turned the topic back to the original and said, "You can go on." ”
"The Bai family of the three dukes, the Twin Sword Saint and the Eleventh Legion sat in the Llorente Province in the south, and the Yulin Divine General commanded the 250,000 troops in the east of the empire, in my opinion, the Bai family with such a strong strength is not much worse than the five major families of the empire!"
"The Bai family, whose strength has grown by leaps and bounds, is still quite far behind the five major families of the empire. After rejecting Hunter's judgment, Prince Harry said with a solemn face: "After excluding the five major families of the empire, I am afraid that the Bai family is the strongest family in the empire." ”
"Alas, why is it the Eighth Prince who has formed an alliance with the Bai family, not us?" Hunter, who sighed, said Prince Harry's heart in one word.
"With the full support of the Imperial Minister of Justice inside, and the strong assistance of the Bai family in the south, how can we take advantage of such an old man? People have the will to fight tigers, and tigers also eat people's hearts; it's not that I don't want to make a comeback, but I really can't afford to gamble!"
Prince Harry, who rarely revealed his heart, said these words for the first time in front of his own guard, and Hunter, who heard the bitterness in his own prince's heart, immediately closed his mouth and drove the carriage in peace.
When the first rays of dawn appeared in the sky, the dawn after a long dark night began to slowly descend on the world, and the four princes, who had been busy all night, returned to their respective mansions to rest, happy or sad.
At this time, Charlemagne, who was busy with government affairs in the first half of the night and rested in the second half of the night, had just gotten up from his warm bed, and when the palace ladies who served him had retreated, a black shadow instantly appeared out of thin air in the palace's most heavily guarded dormitory.
"Your Majesty, Prince Philip secretly rushed to Prince William's mansion last night, and the secret conversation between the two lasted until the eve of dawn. ”
"Hmph, the fifth child has not been firm enough since he was careful, and it is difficult to start and finish everything in everything, I thought that he would change a little when he grew up, but I didn't expect that he still has no progress to this day, which is really disappointing to me!"
As the commander of the Hidden Guard, the Empire's largest intelligence organization, the man in black knew Charlemagne's temperament, and he wisely chose to lower his head and pretend that he didn't dare to hear it.
"Since the boss and the fifth are secretly allied, I don't believe that Xiaoba will be idle, did he find the fourth last night?"
"Your Majesty is wise!" After hurriedly sending a sycophant, the man in black reported the truth: "Last night, when Prince Philip left the mansion, he killed Prince Harry and seven spies under the command of Prince Pross, which alarmed Prince Pross. ”
Later, Prince Pross invited Prince Harry to have a secret conversation at Earl Adonis's mansion, and according to the reports of the two princes' spies, Prince Pross was interested in forming an alliance with Prince Harry, but Prince Harry rejected Prince Pros's proposal. ”
"This fourth brother of mine, everything is good, but his temperament is too unruly, if he can let go of his pride and form an alliance with Xiaoba, he may not have a chance to make a comeback, why don't he even grasp this last chance?"
"Your Majesty, Prince Harry's Silver Guard, Hunter, once suggested that Prince Harry form an alliance with Prince GLP, but Prince Harry thinks that the Eighth Prince has Duke Tesla and the Bai family outside, and his strength is too strong, and there is no chance of making a comeback in an alliance with him. ”
"The fourth child has such a vision at a young age, but he has not lived up to my cultivation of him, Ames, the province of Metz in the north of the empire has not yet fallen, you go and convey a secret message to the Marquis of Harold, so that he can secretly help the fourth child recover his strength. ”
"No!"
As soon as Ames, who received the order, wanted to leave the dormitory, Charlemagne opened his mouth and added: "By the way, you can send a few more capable generals to the western province of Brest in the empire, and I hope that within three months, one-third of the nobles who are loyal to the fifth can be transferred to the fourth one." ”
"No!"
Although the Hidden Guard is the most loyal force and the sharpest dagger in the Emperor's hands, this does not mean that Ames, the leader of the Hidden Guard, will not have his own selfish intentions, and sometimes the orders issued by Charlemagne and Ames's selfish intentions will have a very sharp conflict.