The end of autumn is not the end, and the cold air is beginning to arrive.

A low-ranking official in the Palazzo of Burgundy was arrested by the Minister of Justice on charges of drunkenness and abuse of a barmaid in a tavern to death.

For Besançon, the capital of the country, where deaths and injuries occur every day, this is really not a big deal.

If it weren't for the fact that the owner of this tavern called "Moulin Rouge" had his hands and eyes in the sky, perhaps the guy in the palace minister's office would have gritted his teeth and compensated a few large silver coins.

However, the tavern owner, Emory, was a more serious person, and he sent him to prison with a complaint.

A small low-level official can be arrested and arrested, and it doesn't matter if he is fined, imprisoned, or even beheaded, but the sheriff in charge of the interrogation is a nosy person, and when he interrogated this charge of "manslaughter", he asked for other evidence of the crime by the way.

As a result, several other middle-level officials in the palace minister's office withheld the post-war reconstruction funds allocated by the palace to various places, and the scandal of corruption was brought out, and the amount was not large, but the circumstances were very bad.

The chief justice of the palace stepped forward and sent the five officials from the palace minister's office to prison.

The matter was far from over, and on the third day after the corrupt officials were arrested and imprisoned, the tax auditor in the palace treasurer's office, according to reliable information, "suddenly" discovered that there were two county governors in the province of Thorne, who had only been in office for less than a year, who had concealed the land, population, and agricultural output value of the county, and had stolen a huge amount of 100,000 fennigs of state taxes and various taxes that should have been handed over to the court in half a year.

So the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Court was alarmed, and the matter was stabbed to the monarch Flender.

The monarch was angry, and Balwin was panicked......

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The city of Besançon, the inner court of the court.

Count Balwyn, the prime minister of the court of the Marquis of Burgundy, could not kneel, and the monarch Flender tried several times to pull him up without success.

"Miya-sama, why do you bother? The justices have already made it clear that those mongrels withholding appropriations and evading national taxes are just actions they make in private without your secret, and they have nothing to do with you! ”

"Lord Marquis, those bastards did these things without me, but they were always promoted and appointed by me, and I have no one for my unknown crimes, please punish me." Speaking of the sore spots, Balwin began to wipe away tears.

Flender was forced to be helpless, and sighed, "It would be great if the noble officials of the entire Hou Kingdom could be like the palace minister." ”

"Okay, Lord Gongxiang, I will confiscate you with five thousand pfenniels and suspend your salary for half a year."

Five thousand pfennigh and half a year's salary are not punishment for Balwin, but Flender didn't wait for Balwyn to speak, and raised his hand to stop it, "The palace minister is not guilty, if I punish you heavily, it will make the entire Hou country feel cold." ”

Balwin compromised, "Thank you Marquis for your grace!" ”

"Lord Marquis, those mongrels in the palace minister's office are innocent, but although those two county magistrates are blinded by money, they are both meritorious ministers~" Balwin was still kneeling on the ground, and he was still thinking about interceding for his henchmen.

Flender suppressed the killing intent that flashed in his eyes, leaned over to help Balwyn up, and said gently: "I know that they are all heroes who have followed the palace minister for many years, and they have also made contributions in the battle of successors."

"In this way, remove the two county magistrates, recover the withheld national taxes, recover part of the fiefdom, retain the title, detain them for half a year, and then come out to make meritorious contributions after half a year. As for those guys in the palace minister's office, for their sake of doing their best for the palace minister and the Hou State, they will confiscate the money and goods that are greedy for ink, and be sentenced to one year in prison. I hope they will live up to the kindness of the palace minister. ”

Balwin nodded gratefully, swearing to get the bastards back the stolen money.....

Watching the contented Balwin walk out of the inner hall and disappear from view, Flender grabbed the silver cup containing wine beside him and smashed it to the ground with a snap......

Balwyn left the Inner Court, and he became more and more confused about what had been happening lately.

Monarch Flender already had a grudge against the old-fashioned elites, and this Balwin himself understood. He once suspected that the recent frequent accidents of people around him were a precursor to Flender's attack on him.

But Flender was so confident in himself that he didn't have the slightest intention of doing anything.

Three days later, the people who had fallen one after another were disposed of, but, as Flender had promised, the stolen money was recovered, the land was confiscated, and the justices sentenced them to prison terms ranging from months to a year.

Such a punishment was so light that even Balwin himself would be embarrassed.

Another week passed, and the palace minister's office, which had been disturbed, returned to its former calm, and everything seemed to have not happened.

The calm lasted for three days, until one sunset afternoon, Balwin, who had just finished the court meeting and was returning to the palace minister's mansion, was besieged by a group of masked men who suddenly appeared on the street.

The prime minister of the palace was almost assassinated, and the city of Besançon was full of storms.

The First Infantry Regiment of the Palace Guard Legion (the backbone of which was the original Longxia Legion) immediately blocked Besançon City, sent four teams in armor to hunt down the assassins in Besançon City, and immediately sent more than 100 elite generals to guard the palace minister's mansion to prevent the assassins from committing another attack.

The palace guards are not only extremely brave in killing the enemy, but also have the ability to chase the murderer and catch the thief.

Less than two hours before the palace encounter was assassinated, a group of people of unknown origin were arrested, and after a surprise interrogation, those guys quickly confessed their origin - the province of Jonah.

The frying pan is on, and someone in the province of Jonah actually assassinated his lord, which is treasonous.

The monarch is furious!

He put on his old robes, took on his sharp sword, and personally led a hundred inner court guards to the palace minister's mansion to protect Balwin.

Early the next morning, learning that the assassin of the traitors in the province of Jonah had already infiltrated the palace minister's mansion, Flender immediately ordered all the guards and servants in the palace to be imprisoned, and Balwyn and his family were brought back to the inner court to be guarded......

The court magistrate and the court magistrate showed unprecedented efficiency, and it only took half a day for them to investigate the whole matter.

At noon, the earth-shattering news came from the court that some outlaws of the Hou Kingdom had attempted to murder Earl Balwyn and colluded with the Swabians to occupy the province of Jonne.

The three of them became tigers, and no matter how lame their words were, they couldn't stand up to the spread all over the sky.

There was a crisis in the Hou Kingdom, and the military minister of the palace issued a martial law order for the whole territory, and the two infantry detachments of the palace guard corps with 1,000 elite regiments and the court janissary corps cavalry regiment with 500 cavalry regiments stationed outside Besançon entered a state of combat readiness......

The Marquis of Burgundy entered the winter in an instant.