569. Summoned again
Every night, Mo would send someone to bring in the news, and as a professional ninja, these tasks were simply familiar, and the surveillance network set up by Elizabeth's people around him was simply useless.
The leader who monitors us is none other than Ulsingham and his right-hand man Thomas Phillips. I know exactly what these old friends are up to, and it is a fantasy to use such outdated means to defend my intelligence network.
Once, a shinobi accidentally revealed clues while delivering news, and was discovered by a new subordinate in Ulsingham, who tracked the shinobi for three streets before getting rid of him.
Perhaps in a hurry to show his face, this guy named Maxim actually knocked on the door of my courtyard for this purpose, and wanted to come to my house to search for hidden thieves.
I said, "I am the Duke of the British Empire, and I want to search my compound, you can, let the queen out of the written search warrant!" I'm willing to work with you. ”
Maxim was choked by me, but when I think about it, I was right. If there is no approval from the queen to search a duke's mansion, I am afraid that the day when the search is completed will be the day when the head is lost!
Maxim went away hatefully, returned to the base camp, and he was angry with 1510 to Ulsingham and Thomas Phillips.
I don't know why, the eyes of the two main leaders looking at him made a word deep in his mind - pity.
Maybe it's a delusion! Maxim said secretly in his heart. As to whether he should apply to the Queen for a search warrant, Ulsingham said this:
"Young people, sometimes, what is right is not necessarily right, and what is wrong is not necessarily wrong. Anyway, take care! ”
Thomas Phillips didn't speak, but nodded silently.
Maxim was a little stunned, not understanding what happened to the two leaders who had always been stern. But that night, he knew why the leader said that!
Since he has been on the front line of spying on me, he has not been home for a long time. As a result, late that night, he suddenly received a notification that his home was on fire!
Yes, a fire like a heavenly fire burned his small building to the ground!
When Maxim rushed home in a hot sweat, it was just getting dark, and his wife and children were wrapped in sheets, staring blankly at the burnt home.
When they woke up in the middle of the night, they were already in the firewood room, and no one knew how they got there, and by the time they were found to be on fire in their neighbors, they woke up and rushed to put out the fire, the main frame of the room had been burned!
Standing in front of the ruins, Maxim didn't know whether to be sad or rejoicing, and even less to hate or be thankful.
He knew who the other party was, but the other party obviously didn't kill him, and transported everyone out unknowingly and unnoticed, just burning the house to the ground.
His identity is secret, Maxim knows this very well, since he entered the organization of Ulsingham, his original identity has been cancelled, and now everything is new, clean as a blank sheet of paper!
And his wife and children have nothing to do with him in name, so how did that Oriental, well, Duke of America, find out his own details?
Maxim suddenly remembered what Ulsingham had said at the beginning of the mission, when he had assigned work to his people!
"When you work, the country's life is your own."
"Sometimes people have to learn to know how to advance and retreat, and not to be too serious."
"Whoever succeeds has a reason for success."
"Take care!"
All of this is reproduced like a movie before Maxim's eyes. When he reacted, he quickly stepped forward and hugged his wife and children, who were shivering in the cold wind, knelt heavily on the ground, and cried loudly!
In the afternoon of the same day, Maxim resigned. The reason for resigning was that he was not physically fit for the job.
Ulsingham knew what such an encounter would do to a young man in his early thirties, so he did not force him to stay, but transferred his work relationship to the back office, and rented a medium-sized house for him for a long time not far from the headquarters.
By the time all this had been dealt with, Ulsingham and Thomas Phelps had seriously rearranged the work and made a lot of demands.
But this time there is no need to say so much, seeing what happened to Maxim, the other surveillance workers are all terrified.
The only consolation is that the two leaders treated their people well, and did not fall into the well when Maxim was in trouble, which can be regarded as maintaining the stability of the team on the whole.
These are all trivial matters, although there is a lot of noise in the circle of insiders, but there is not much speculation about this matter from the outside world.
After all, the weather has been dry since the beginning of spring, and it is normal for fires to occur, but I just lament the good luck and great fate of the Maxim family.
In such an atmosphere, the end of spring has passed, and the beginning of summer is approaching, and summer in England is not much different from spring, it is still so cold and damp, sticky like fish skin that cannot be dissolved.
I focused on my cultivation every day in such a pure environment, and my sword and body skills had greatly improved, and sometimes I even thought that if Elizabeth locked me up for another three years, I would already be a peerless master when I went out!
This funny fate, sometimes I really can't tell what's right and what's wrong!
However, my hopes of becoming a peerless master were eventually cut in half, and on the third day after I was established, there was a knock on my closed courtyard door and a request to see me.
When the door was opened, it was none other than Elizabeth's niece, Isabella, who came herself.
I wasn't surprised at all to see her come - recently Mexico sent the latest news that the dreadnought fleet used the construction of a fleet in Europe as a cover, attracting almost everyone's attention, but in fact the real construction plant was located in Africa!
Yoohee contacted Rodriguez and played a beautiful trick.
Countries including Britain and Spain believe that the scale of construction with Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Bruges as the construction plants represents the whole of the dreadnought, and they have been paying attention to it, but they are not too panicked.
But when the African fleet sailed to Europe, and after the Spanish navy attacked the Dutch merchant fleet near Iberia, it fought a fierce battle with the Spanish fleet!
In that battle, the Spanish Navy sank six battleships, while the Dreadnought did not lose one! The six-to-zero result shattered everyone's glasses, and they began to face up to the status and strength of the dreadnought.
And that's probably the main reason Elizabeth summoned me, she panicked, that's the root.
In fact, according to the displacement of Britain's own fleet, it is definitely dozens or hundreds of times that of the dreadnought.
But the terrible thing is that the dreadnought fleet is under unified command and command, while the huge British fleet is subject to capital from all sides, and the power that the queen can mobilize is actually very limited.
Unless it was a decisive battle with Spain, if you didn't win, you would die, so everyone fought desperately.
As for now, when the situation is good and people have money in their pockets, who will fight to survive?
So from this point of view, the UK is actually facing a situation similar to Spain as a whole, and my actions just touched on Elizabeth's pain point - she simply does not have the strong capital operation ability of me, or the UK does not have the strong capital financing ability of the Netherlands.
So when Elizabeth learned about this pattern, she panicked completely, and hurriedly sent Isabella to meet me.
"Qilan, you've gone too far!" When Isabella saw me, she said straight to the point: "The queen is very angry and annoyed, have you figured out how to explain it to her?" ”
"Why should I explain it to her?" I said mockingly: "She has the ability to stick a knife in my back, so I am not qualified to prevent such a thing from happening again?" What is the rationale for this? ”
Isabella stared silently into my eyes, and in my eyes she saw only determination, confidence, and perseverance, without the slightest hint of panic when she was about to face a catastrophe.
"Do you really think the queen won't move you? You should know that the reason for this is all because she is nostalgic. "Isabella tried her best to convince me.
But I snorted and laughed: "Missing? I'm the one who really misses the old! Elizabeth harmed my interests in this way, and wanted to bring disaster to my base, and I did not declare war on her immediately, but came back to meet her, which shows that it is me, not her, who really misses the old days! ”
Isabella was silent, but I was unforgiving, pointing in the direction of the Palace of Westminster, and said aloud:
"If Elizabeth talks, yes, I have three requests."
Isabella looked at me and motioned for me to continue.
"First, apologize." "Sticking a knife in the back to a friendly friend and friendly soldier deserves the most sincere apology," I said. ”
Isabella nodded, and I continued: "Second, compensation. ”
"How much?" Isabella asked.
"I'll send the accounting list over, and what I want now is an attitude."
Isabella nodded and didn't speak again.
"Thirdly, stop other hostile acts, you know what I'm talking about, and if she still moves against my fleet, then I think, we'll all have our own choices, right?"
"She's the Queen!" Isabella finally let out of her anger.
She came to see me, in fact, it was really the reason she just told her, she missed the old. She didn't want to see me in a head-on conflict with her elders, especially since she was so deeply tied to Elizabeth, and hurting Elizabeth was hurting herself, it made no difference.
"How could the Queen possibly apologize? Not before, not now, and not again! ”
"Humph! Of course, it's her power! I also did not show weakness: "After staying here for so long, my morality has also been fulfilled, three days!" ”
I stretched out three fingers at Isabe: "In three days, if she doesn't give a final answer, I'm leaving." After all, time is precious, and I don't have time to hang out with her here! ”
Isabella looked at me deeply, nodded and said coldly, "I will tell Her Majesty the truth what you mean." ”
After saying that, he flicked his sleeves, turned around and pushed the door.