"So we must send troops, and show the absolute loyalty of Nijmegen to the new king, so that the scheming Majesty cannot find any reason, and he is worried that he will not have a chance to weaken us on the side of the couch, and we will not be able to let this poisonous snake's plot succeed."

"Nijmegen has become a principality and pushed us to the forefront, everyone is waiting to see how the Duke of Nijmegen fell from the peak to the bottom, as long as His Majesty finds an opportunity to raise his arms, there are naturally many people jumping to do the work of falling into the well, at such a juncture, we must act with caution."

I tapped my fingers on the table as if it would smooth out my thoughts.

"The Nijmegen Chamber of Commerce should keep a low profile when it enters other territories, and when encountering resistance, you must not use the name of Nijmegen to suppress others, it really can't be stopped, and when I come back from Poland, we will discuss a solution, anyway, there is still money to spare." Speaking of which, I stopped and stared at Leonardo's moody face, hoping that he would give me an affirmative answer.

The old guy pondered for a long time before he replied unhurriedly: "The new site is in ruins, there are many places to spend money, although I am good at dancing with long sleeves, but I am only barely trying to maintain, this expedition will be a lot of money, and the follow-up resettlement of the fallen soldiers will have to invest more, not to mention your grand canal project......"

Leonardo stopped his voice, raised his head and spread his hands at me, as if to say, "How's it going?" I'm using these idioms pretty well, right? ”

I stood up on the edge of the table, stretched my slightly fat arm that had been indulging in a comfortable life for a long time, thought about how to stuff it into the chain mail that was now slightly hooped, and ordered Rollo, who had just entered the room: "Send heralds to all territories, let everyone pack up their weapons and armor, and prepare to follow me to Poland to turn over the rivers and seas!" ”

Leonardo picked up his cane and tapped his knee under his robe, and an attendant knocked on the door and came in, looked at me nervously, and then whispered something in the old fellow's ear, Leonardo waved his hand to let him out, turned his head to me and said:

"Even if all the noble knights and their soldiers in Nijmegen are assembled within five days, and the baggage and grain and grass of the army are sorted out, there is no guarantee that the whole army will arrive at the designated place on time, just now my people came to report that the heralds to other principalities will leave three days earlier than us, Your Majesty is obviously deliberately making things difficult for you."

Although I was surprised by the efficiency of Leonardo's intelligence organization, I was even more annoyed that he was a small group with its own network independent of the principality system, and as a leader, he should learn to delegate power moderately, but it does not mean that his subordinates can be above the master!

Suppressing the anger in my heart, I tried my best to keep my face unchanged, and calmly explained to him: "I have already thought that I will not assemble according to the established place, and now Nijmegen is a principality, although it has the duty to fulfill feudal obligations, it also has the right to act alone. ”

"I will write a letter to Your Majesty to explain the intentions of Nijmegen this time, as long as you achieve the same strategic results as him, I believe Your Majesty will not be able to find any reason, all in all, the standard of our actions is to be harmonious and different, holding our arms and giggling, and looking back is still our own set."

"Harmony and difference......" Leonardo pondered the meaning between the lines for a long time before nodding thoughtfully.

"This will not only avoid Nijmegen being punished for not assembling on time, and avoid the danger of Emperor Henry taking advantage of this opportunity to let us act as a death squad to kill people with a knife, but also to complete the combat mission independently, and to gag Your Majesty's mouth with victory, maybe they will suffer a defeat under the combined attack of the Poles and Hungarians, and we will not need to contact the spies over there to mix some sand with Your Majesty's troops?"

I smiled contemptuously: "Don't do that, believe me, that straw bag is also a little talented in playing with power, when it comes to marching and fighting, I can easily throw him ten streets." ”

"In the mountains of Bohemia, with noble knights and Hungarian lightly armed horse archers, sooner or later they will be killed, I think the Duke of Carinthia, who is most familiar with the Hungarians' way of fighting, will not draw the attention of His Majesty, that old boy has long been holding back, and wants to tear some flesh off Emperor Henry's body, these two people did not deal with each other from the beginning, and the same is true when their identities are changed."

"Isn't this the moment you've been waiting for?" Leonardo squeezed his eyes at me with understanding, like a lewd rascal who was in the same boat.

"You can make a fortune by being silent." I curled the corners of my mouth into a smirk smile.

"Let's step back into the background and watch the clowns who can't wait and can't afford to lose, the more they fight, the sweeter we laugh, Your Majesty will gradually forget about Nijmegen, and even if he wants to bring it up again, he can't spare time in a hurry. When they are defeated and the empire becomes a dilapidated ship sailing in the storm, do you think everyone will choose to change the captain to repair the hole, or jump into the water and flee for their lives? ”

"You're a bad person." Leonardo stood up on crutches and staggered out of the room to arrange for the preparation of food and hay.

I stared at him and closed the door and left, stunned there for a long time, muttering to myself: "All this has just begun, don't let me learn Zhu Yuanzhang so early, and you don't want to be a high-ranking and ill-intentioned Hu Weiyong, let us be a monarch and minister, and finish this road well." ”

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I solemnly signed my name under the parchment that the clerk had written, and drew the gourd as he had written it beforehand, drawing it in a chaotic circle, and finally took the gold seal with the coat of arms of Nijmegen and covered it with the hot paint that the attendant had just showered.

I enjoy stamping all kinds of documents the most, the feeling of metal solid extrusion soft and a bit of elastic liquid, similar to when I was a child, I used to engrave plasticine in molds, especially if I can make the veins of the Nijmegen heraldic seal clear and vivid, which makes people happy.

"Send the fastest horse to His Majesty the Emperor immediately, and send this one to the Duke of Hanover, if the Duke has already sent troops, catch up with him, tell our allies about our battle plan, and save yourself from being picked on by others when you get it, and besides, you have to use Hanover's territory to march with troops, and it is not polite not to say hello." I stuffed the two rolled parchments into a special wooden barrel, and handed them to Rollo, who was standing aside, and told him to arrange the heralds at once, so as not to waste time.

"If there is no more fighting, my two arms are so fat that they are about to grow on my body, you know my, my lord, the trivial matters of dealing with the territory almost annoyed me to death, you have to send me an old palace minister quickly, not to mention anything else, just deal with the little nobles who come to propose marriage every day, those small etiquette make me crazy for the first two of them! They are like locusts in transit, no matter if things can be done or not, they will eat a round belly first. ”

Watching Rollo close the door from the outside, the bull sat on the chair, chattering and complaining, looking at this bitter and hateful appearance, presumably taking care of government affairs alone during this time really made him scratch his brain at most.

"I'm a little better than him, but I also hate dealing with the nobles who come to visit, and instead of wasting time on this, it's better to give me a hundred archers to train, and then I can provide a lot of elites."

Kohler sat on the edge of the bull, and spread his hands sadly to express his helplessness, as an archer, his eyes are still bright, even if he casually glances at it, it can make people shudder, this time must not have wasted his own kung fu, I wonder how to improve the range and production process of bows and arrows.

I looked at the two powerful henchmen with sad faces, as if I saw the appearance of myself when I first became a baron, not only the customs and habits were extremely unsuitable, but the etiquette was even more black, and the strength of the stunned tiger head and tiger brain was no different:

"These are all compulsory courses to become a qualified nobleman, be patient, I also came from that stage at the beginning, and I suffered more than you."

I smiled and stood up and walked to the window, leaning against the wall to look at the large and small marching tents lined up along the river outside the city, like mushrooms blooming everywhere overnight.

"How many men did you bring here? Presumably it's your men who are camped up there, right? "I pointed to the dozens of tents in the shantytown next to the city wall, they were different from the other nobles' arrangement with the lord as the center, standing there horizontally and vertically, how it looked like neatly cut tofu blocks, and the green flags on the top of the tents were not the green onions sprinkled on them.

The bull hurriedly swallowed the wine in his mouth, trying to answer, but was choked and coughing, and Kohler glanced at it with slanted eyes, and replied unhurriedly with an under-beaten expression, which was as annoying as running backwards and whistling easily in front of the penultimate place:

"I brought with me five knights and their attendants, a hundred archers I personally trained, to ensure that they can pass through the trees in a hundred steps, the most important thing is that most of them are from Orion, and they have already practiced the ability to drill into the forest and climb the ditch, and there is no obstacle at all in mountain combat, they are familiar with the forest as well as they are familiar with their own home, find a place to hide silently, and hide invisibly like a bobcat that is patiently preyed." Kohler nodded affirmatively, it seemed that he had worked training soldiers during this time.

(End of chapter)