After the revolution, the Imperial Border Guards were dismissed on the spot by the Kolas government, and they were required to disarm and leave the country within a certain period. Unwilling to return to the empire as reservoir dogs, a handful of unruly professional soldiers chose to remain in the Frontier and accepted the employment of Baron Hurd, who was adopted by the ambitious warlord as a private army.

Shortly after the Census team clashed with the slave catchers in Mochizuki, Lyudmila received secret information from a trusted local source that the lords of the estates in southern Xinjiang had gathered in Mochizuki Castle to elect Baron Hurd as their leader and plot to establish a secession territory that would not be subject to the jurisdiction of the government in the Far East.

The leader of this group of careerists, Williams von Hurd, was a frontier nobleman who was enshrined in the royal family of the Assanian Empire, and is said to be in contact with the imperial authorities, and is regarded by the imperial military as an important pawn in the recovery of the Far East. The Assanian Empire, which is far away, cannot provide substantial support for Baron Hurd, but it is said that Baron Hurd also has close contacts with a certain high-ranking and powerful person in the border fortress of Canaan, and his public identity in southern Xinjiang is the "Cotton King", the mining tycoon, and the governor of Mochizuki City, in fact, the local "Emperor of the Soil"!

With such a lawless "Earth Emperor" entrenched in Mochizuki Castle, and Lyudmila and Tonya having just clashed with their private soldiers, it would be too risky to place the census team in Mochizuki Castle. So the "Dawn" turned around and flew to the second largest town in the border region "Sweetwater Town", which is two hundred miles away from Mochizuki City, the oasis on the Gobi Desert is a settlement of half-giants, and one of Tonya's senior sisters is from this town, and is currently in charge of agricultural production in her hometown, and has built Sweetwater Town into the largest grain and cotton base in the region, which is very famous in the local area.

Tonya thinks that Sweetwater is safer than Mochizuki with the Green Druids in it, and that Sweetwater has not yet established an administrative structure, and the local half-giants are also Far Eastern nationals, so they should not be left out by the census.

Lyudmila accepts Tonya's suggestion and decides to conduct a census in Sweetwater, incidentally gathering information about Baron Hurd's party. On the way from the "Dawn" to "Sweetwater Town", she wrote this long letter to Roland introducing the complicated situation in southern Xinjiang, asking him to come to meet him as soon as possible.

The night Roland received the letter, he went to Veronica and told her that there was a change in southern Xinjiang, and that he had to deal with it and leave early tomorrow morning.

Veronica took Lyudmila's letter from him and hurriedly read it, realizing that the situation was indeed not optimistic, she looked up at Roland, and said with a strange face: "Southern Xinjiang and Mulberry Bay, the problems seem to be similar?" ”

Hearing her say this, Roland also felt that the thorny problems faced by the Far East and Parnia were quite similar, both were separatist forces that refused to submit to the central government in remote areas far from the capital, and the rebels were all from local wealthy families, and they all had ulterior ties with foreign forces.

"It's kind of ironic that I was helping your parents suppress the rebels in Parnia, and I didn't think there were signs of a fire in my backyard." Roland smiled bitterly, and then analyzed the situation in southern Xinjiang: "Compared with Mulberry Bay, the environment in southern Xinjiang is more complex, and there are more forces involved, and there is a historical factor that cannot be ignored, when the Far East became independent, the southern Xinjiang region did not respond, and the remaining imperial border guards in the local area did not all evacuate, and some of the diehards turned to Baron Hurd, the lord of Mochizuki City, this person is said to have a close relationship with Archbishop Philip, and he has already bought indulgences to launder his name, and he is still one of the few Far Eastern natives who have been awarded the title of imperial knighthood, It can be seen from this that he must have his heart set on the empire, and he has no sense of belonging to the new regime established after the revolution, and he has not yet openly raised the flag of rebellion, but he knows that the time has not yet come, and if this cancer is allowed to entrench in southern Xinjiang, sooner or later there will be a big chaos. ”

Veronica's vision of analyzing the current situation has grown much better than at the beginning, and she pondered: "At present, the Assanian Empire is at odds with Fizhen and Hailan, and is constrained by the disputes of the New World, and has no energy to invade the Far East at the same time, which is an excellent time to solve the hidden dangers of the frontier. ”

Roland nodded: "I also think so, the time is fleeting, I have to hurry up and get on the road, wait to say goodbye to your parents, and leave for Sweetwater Town in Southern Xinjiang early tomorrow morning to meet with Mila and them." ”

Veronica hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively, "Can you take me with you?" ”

Roland had already guessed her intentions, and stroked Her Royal Highness the princess's hair with a smile, "Of course I'm willing to bring an extra helper, provided that your parents don't object." ”

"That's fine, I'll convince them!" Veronica is confident. Compared with the other aristocratic ladies who were kept in captivity in the courtyard like caged birds, she was much happier, getting along well with her parents who were in high positions, there was no barrier to communication between the two generations, and her parents never restricted her freedom as long as she gave a reasonable reason.

In order to convince her parents to agree to let her go, Veronica had to use a little strategy and take Roland to the martial arts field to find her father first. Prince Vlad is a majestic lord and a legendary sword saint in the Far East in the eyes of the world, but outsiders don't know that the dignified sword master has no resistance to his daughter's coquettishness, and even if his daughter wants a star in the sky, he has to try to pick it; In contrast, Veronica is more afraid of her mother, and Lady Theodora is always able to see through her daughter's ghostly eyes and discipline her daughter more harshly, so Veronica decides to find a breakthrough from her father first, and then ask her father to convince her mother.

Father < daughter< mother < father...... This is the wonderful mutual conditioning relationship of the Vlads. The quick-witted Veronica made the most of the chain and succeeded in her goal by convincing her father to let her go, and Prince Carol promised to bring her daughter to intercede with his wife.

"Ronnie, you go back and prepare your luggage first, I have something to say to Roland."

"Huh? Two big men whispering? Well, I promise not to eavesdrop. Veronica grimaced, left her father's practice room, and closed the door. As for whether it will squat outside the door and eavesdrop, it's hard to say.

Prince Carol poured Roland a cup of tea and opened his mouth without hesitation.

"I heard Roni say that when you were in Mulberry Bay, you had a conflict with the young master of the Naraku Order?"

"During my expedition to Mulberry Bay, I did have some clashes with the members of the Naraku Order, and then Tamara came forward to take her men, and both of us were more restrained and did not escalate the conflict further." Roland replied truthfully.