Chapter 51: Peaceful London
Edward couldn't see the scene of Lord Earl's daytime prostitution, but with his current state, even if he saw it, there was no way to act.
At this time in London, the first commander of the Darkblade - Guy. Ham, reading the information sent by centurions from all over England, compiling it and sending it to Edward.
After three months of development, a large number of bankrupt gentlemen, the children of wealthy merchants, and craftsmen, who made full use of King Edward's name, and the lure of considerable income and the possibility of becoming knights, joined the Darkblade family with great joy.
After all, Edward positioned the Darkblade as a translucent organization, like the CIA in the United States, with deterrent and mysterious powers.
In a short period of time, the Dark Blade grew stronger and stronger like a balloon that was blown up.
At present, there are more than 300 members of the Darkblade in London, including the garrisons of the ten counties, a total of about 500 people, and Edward's guards are only about 300.
Of course, there were more people, and the monthly salary spent reached 800 pounds, and this was only ten counties in England, and there were only thirty-nine counties in England, and the coverage of the Dark Blade was only a quarter of that of England.
So Guy, the commander of the thousand, deserves to be worthy of his name.
Although the coverage is not wide, because it has just been established, there is no experience, and all the messy things are reported to London, which results in the daily busyness of the thousand masters.
For example, what Guy sees now: Your Excellency, the Duke of Buckinghamshire of Buckinghamshire doesn't know what he ate today, he has been going to the toilet all day, and the Duchess has only slowly improved after she has a doctor, according to the butler's uncle's brother, the Duke has diarrhea after eating eggs and soy milk! My God, I didn't expect to have diarrhea when I ate, I thought it was the devil's curse again? ……
This is the most reliable of all the letters he has seen today, and there are still some strange disappearances of the sow next door before! What aristocratic children are bullied by other aristocratic children! The knight married the daughter of a wealthy merchant and received a rich dowry! And so on and so forth.
However, after Guy hired a figure who had been the secretary of the county sheriff, the whole Darkblade slowly got on the right track.
Guy casually threw away the unfinished letter, and continued to pick up the letter at the top of the stack of letters on the right hand side.
"Dear Elder Qianfu! Excuse me! A middle-aged man dressed in an English gentleman's suit, with his left hand on his right chest, took off his hat and saluted Guy.
When Guy heard this, he looked up at his newly recruited subordinate, an elderly college student who had worked as a secretary.
"Mr. Tex! You're welcome! You have something to say! Guy said in a gentle tone, very politely.
Guy attaches great importance to this self-recruited talent, after all, he is the only one in the entire Dark Blade Organization who is truly educated in college. And he is the only veteran who has experience in dealing with copywriting.
"So, dear Mr. Ham!" Tex said solemnly, without the slightest sense of guilt.
"It's time to get off work! Can I go home? ”
"Mr. Tex! Later, when it's time to get off work, you can go straight back! No need to tell me! Guy said to him with a pleasant face, without the slightest care.
"The same will be true in the future! You can just go back! ”
"Lord Ham! Although this is one of the appointments you invited me, I still want to ask you for instructions! ”
"Alright! Mr. Turks, whatever you want! As long as you want! Guy looked helpless, and there was nothing he could do about this traditional English gentleman.
Mr. Turks slowly walked out of Darkblade's headquarters, step by step, back to his house in London.
Adam. Turks has an ancestral building in London, which is a little dilapidated, but still inhabitable.
In the past, he was the secretary of the sheriff, and he came from a big gentleman's family, mainly because after he accidentally offended the Earl of Buckingham, he spent almost the entire family's wealth, and asked His Excellency the Sheriff of Buckinghamshire to take care of it, so as to dispel the earl's anger a little.
Mr. Turks, who had no way to make money, had no choice but to take his family to London in a small two-story building left to him by his grandmother to earn a living.
Then, a month after he arrived in London, his remaining savings were depleted, and he was put to shame in the position of the king's spying.
The strict Mr. Turks has to come home in time every day because he is in his Chinese New Year's Eve and has five children. In this frightening Middle Ages, where the rate of child mortality was high, he was able to survive five children, which can only be said to be God's blessing.
His wife couldn't come over, and he was very affectionate with his wife, so he naturally wanted to help take care of it, let her slow down and rest.
At this time, at the Duke of Somerset's house, the busy Lord Duke Edward was seriously dealing with the new reform bill. For the Duke, who had always been committed to the Reformation, he had always been energetic and enthusiastic about the Reformation.
"Lord Duke! Lord Duke! The young butler who was waiting on the side had just received an important piece of news and had to disturb him.
"What's the matter? My housekeeper! Don't you see I'm thinking? "Edward hated being disturbed when he was thinking, especially when he was thinking about the most important Reformation.
"My lord! The main thing is that you brought to my attention the news of His Majesty the King, there has been a new movement recently! The butler's tone was very careful, he knew that the Duke had always been very short-tempered, for fear of making him angry.
After all, he didn't have the friendship he had with the Duke from childhood to adulthood like his father, and he couldn't afford to be careless.
"Say it! My butler, let me see what happens to my nephew of the King!" Duke Edward immediately restrained his temper and made a gesture of listening.
As for his nephew, who was the king, the Duke didn't care much about it at first. However, since his performance at the coronation, he has refreshed his understanding. And thus learned that this little nephew had been selling wine since he was six years old, and that he had sold the famous fiery wine in the market.
He couldn't help but pay no attention to it, especially after he became king, and the power forced him to keep an eye on Edward, and he couldn't relax, and he didn't dare to relax his surveillance of the king.
"His Majesty recently came to Portsmouth Harbour after attending the wedding of Lord Baron Thomas, and met the brother of the Earl of Southampton, James Brown. Rio Shesley! ”
"And Major James, having accompanied him for a while, wrote a letter and sent it back to the port of Southampton! In the hands of the Earl of Southampton! ”
At this time, the Earl's Court of Warwick was brightly lit, and the busy Earl also stopped his work and listened carefully to the butler's report on Edward's movements.