Chapter Ninety-Nine: Freemasonry
PS: There are changes at the end of the previous chapter
Training tens of thousands of soldiers is an incomparably huge project, and financial, material, and human resources are all indispensable.
Zartya is only responsible for training, and all material deployment and personnel deployment also need to be managed by someone as a whole.
For such a laborious thing, at the first time, the image of Da'an's cousin with a bitter face appeared in Tsepesh's mind.
He pulled the velvet rope and told Moussard to summon the Duke of Da'an.
A few minutes later, Duke Da'an came to the office.
Seeing Arthur and Zartya, he paused in his footsteps, and stood at a certain distance from them.
This is the pride of a great nobleman, even if he is introverted, he is not exempt from vulgarity.
However, Cepes said very shamelessly:
"Cousin, let me introduce you, this is Zartya.
Regarding the training of recruits, you need to cooperate with him to do the overall work. ”
For a moment, Duke Da'an stood on the spot, and Zaltya was flattered.
"I'm quitting!"
The next moment, Duke Da'an reacted strongly, and his face turned the color of pig liver.
"Cousin, this is all for the future of the family, please don't be so excited.
Besides, it was to let you cooperate with the training of recruits, and did not let you obey Zartya's command. ”
Tsepes kept smiling, and the situation in front of him was as he expected.
"I don't do it! Whoever loves to do it, who does it! ”
Duke Da'an didn't take in the oil and salt, and still refused with a tough attitude.
He had made many compromises in the face of Tepes, and this time, he couldn't bear it.
However, Cepes's next words immediately changed his attitude.
"Cousin, recruit training is more resource-intensive, and I think it's necessary to pit your father-in-law.
If you should do this job, I promise you, you will lose all your money. ”
With an extremely accurate entry point, Duke Da'an's face changed and changed, and finally said hesitantly:
"What are you going to do to that old bastard Lloyd Dyer?"
Next month, Vladis is going to hold an engagement ceremony, and his fiancée, the daughter of János Hunyati.
We can take this opportunity to invite our guests, Duke Lloyd Dyer of Poland, to be on the guest list.
You don't need to know how to do it later, just wait and watch the show. ”
"Vladis is going to be engaged to the daughter of Janos? Hey, unfortunate boy, he will probably be worse than me in the future. ”
Duke Da'an first showed an incredulous expression, followed by sighs and sympathy, and everyone felt the same kind of sympathy.
How terrible it is to have a strong old man, he has a deep understanding.
And compared to Yanoche, Duke Lloyd Dyer is simply a weak chicken.
His reaction gave Cepes the feeling that he was forcing Vladis to jump into the fire pit.
"Cousin, how about it, do you accept my previous proposal?"
Kick all the unreliable ideas out of his mind, and Cepes gets back to business.
Duke Da'an pondered for a moment, gritted his teeth and said:
"Deal, I'll go handle Vladys's marriage."
Without mentioning any additional conditions, Duke Da'an agreed to it, which is enough to see how deep his resentment against his father-in-law is.
It was a pain that Tsepes could not comprehend, and he shrugged his shoulders and said:
"Don't forget, there's also the preparation for training."
"Don't worry, it's all left to me, but what was promised to me must be done."
A shady deal was reached, and Duke Lloyd Dyer, who was far away in Poland, suddenly felt a dark wind blow in the back of his head, but when he looked back, there was nothing.
Once the training of recruits is finalized, the workload is enormous, and all kinds of preparations must be made from now on.
Duke Da'an took Zartya with him to discuss the details.
When they left, Arthur, who stayed behind, scratched his head and asked:
"Just now, was your conversation with Duke Da'an serious?"
"Of course it's serious, if you and Viscount Muya are locked up in the same room, he doesn't know who you are, will you beat him up."
"I ...... Probably not. ”
Thinking that Viscount Muya had always looked down on the second son of his family, Arthur had an epiphany.
Looking at the tangled expression on Arthur's face, Tsepes smiled and left the office.
All the arrangements were made in an orderly manner, and two days later, the twins, who had delivered the letter, returned to the Palace of Kurtea together, as agreed.
The threatening letter to Thomas was successfully nailed to his bedside, and it is not clear for the time being what effect it will have.
Albania's Stedebe, on the other hand, asked the elder brother of the twins to send back a message:
"The enemy of the Ottomans is my friend."
This sentence may sound heavy, but in Cepes's view, it has no practical meaning.
If Skanderbeg is sincere, he will definitely give a concrete plan for cooperation, and not let people bring back a slogan.
In this regard, Tsepes can understand, from the perspective of Skanderbeg, it is undoubtedly necessary to think about Albania first.
In the blink of an eye, another two days passed, and because of the return of Marzad, the much more restrained Mirsa, knocked on the window of Cepes in the middle of the night.
When Tsepeš awoke from his deep sleep, he immediately realized that what Millsa had brought must have been a great surprise.
He got up from his bed, opened the window and asked:
"Got a catch?"
"The body buried tonight was dug up!"
Mirsa clenched her fists, and her whole body was extremely excited.
Tsepes was equally excited, but he forced his composure and asked:
"Where did you dig up?"
"There's a farm to the west, where the redhead is guarding, and I'm coming back to report it.
I'm going to go to the teacher and ask him to bring someone and surround the place. ”
Mirsa could not hold her breath, and when she had finished speaking, she was about to turn and jump out of the window to leave.
Fortunately, Tepes's eyes were quick and he grabbed him by the back collar.
"Don't worry, just keep a secret look for a few days to see if it's a transit station or a real vault.
At the same time, keep an eye on the bodies that have been taken away to see if there are any other places to be transferred. ”
"You'll have to wait......"
Mirsa grumbled, but he knew in his heart that Tsepes was right.
"With a little patience, it's very close to the day of closing the net."
Patting Mirsa on the shoulder as a sign of comfort, Tepes, who was no longer sleepy, decided to have a chat with his friend.
He pointed to the chair next to him and said:
"Sleepy? If you're not sleepy, just sit down and have a drink with me. ”
"I'm sleepy." Mirsa's answer was very uncooperative.
"Have a drink when you're sleepy, and then go back to your room and sleep."
Tsepes spoke hard, and Mirsa sat down in a chair beside him with a nonchalant expression.
"Since your teacher came back, you've become less talkative, so something must have gone wrong."
From the wine cabinet, Tsepes took out two crystal glasses and poured them full of golden eaux-de-vie, spirits, more suitable for late nights.