The Count of Laurent decided to have a showdown with Elizabeth.

He left London with a few escorts overnight and headed for Dorset in the south. That's where Elpsel's head office is located, and Elizabeth lives there all year round.

"Do you think it's just a simple business? Actually, you are wrong. Forget Worry Powder comes from the Northern Continent. To be precise, it is the creation of giants. ”

"Do you think the Saxons are still as strong as they used to be? Actually, you are wrong. Think about your arms supply and production, and it's not you who actually controls it, nor the Marquis of Brackbarn. Or would you say the Xiuang Brothers...... Hehe, you still haven't answered correctly, the real major shareholder of the arms company is His Majesty the King, that is, George. Unexpectedly, I spent more than 60,000 pounds to find out the secret through very secret channels. I was also surprised at the time, and only later did I understand the king's ambitions. ”

"The Saxons are ostensibly monarchical, but in fact they are semi-combined with the constitutional system. The Thuang family has been creating an arms company since more than 100 years ago, but their real name is not "Thuang", but they have the same surname as the king. To put it simply, it is a side branch separated from the royal family, and in order to achieve their desired goals, they have changed from the former royal nobles to the current Xiuang. ”

"Don't you think it's strange that you're the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Kingdom? Why did the Xiu Ang family become a special arms supplier to the Royal Army and Navy? And all the purchase contracts were approved by the king. I know that the people below will show you all kinds of data, as well as analysis files. Both the survey results and the data presentation show that the performance of the guns and weapons of Xiuang is the best, and the overall cost performance is also the highest. But what if you think about it upside down———— it was all a conspiracy from the beginning? ”

The Count of Laurent, who thought that he was standing on the absolute high ground of morality and justice, was so aggressive that he wanted to force Elizabeth to submit...... Of course, not the kind between men and women, he just wanted the Elpso family to confess their guilt and come up with a large sum of money to support the military plans of the Marquis of Brackbarn. However, the words that came out of Elizabeth's mouth shocked Count Laurent, and he felt that he had entered another world, an extremely terrible, terrifying world.

"The king sought absolute power from very early times. The exact time is no longer available, and I can only speculate based on the time when Xiuang was founded. This is the biggest secret of the Saxon royal family, because the relationship between the king and the parliament of important ministers is balanced by each other, and major decisions must be approved by a three-fourths vote after deliberation by several ministers of the military, finance, and interior affairs. The king could vote twice, but that power was too little for him. The royal family is constantly trying to change this situation, they want "divine authority of the king", they want to dissolve the parliament of important ministers, and regain absolute control of the country, as they did hundreds of years ago. ”

"A single sentence can decide the life and death of one person, or thousands of people, and no one dares to oppose it...... You know what I mean? ”

"Money is needed at all times. Without gold and silver, the king was at best a beggar of honorable status. ”

"George is a good king in your opinion, he is willing to use the money of the inner treasury to raise an army, and he is gentle on the lower classes of the common people. Actually, you're all wrong, that's not what George really is. He had at least £100,000,000 in the coffers of the Huon Company, and the total value of the properties in the name of the Huon family was more than £130,000,000. Thank you, Earl, for most of them are immovable property, and if it were gold pounds, you and Lord Brackbarne would have been wiped out by the king's army. ”

"I've already said that anyway, I don't care to tell you more secrets about George. Our king actually likes men, but he's a very restrained guy. If you take the time to pay more attention to the daily life of His Majesty, you will find that he visits the Huon family too often, too often, under the pretext of "visiting the factory". He had several male lovers there, and each time he could spend a good night in the bedroom of the Xiuang family. Hehe...... You must think I'm lying, and if you have the chance, ask Her Highness the Queen privately to see how she will answer your question. ”

"Why is George so obsessed with building the kingdom's navy? Why is his annual allocation item and amount in the Army much lower than in the Navy? In fact, the reason is very simple, the army is headed by the Marquis of Brackbarn, but the commander of the navy is a real member of the royal family. What would you do if you switched? ”

"You should be grateful to the Venerable Giant King, if it weren't for the fact that he led his army to win the Northern War, and then went south, occupied Morente and Port Levine, and directly threatened London, Lord Earl, you would not have had the opportunity to sit here and listen to me tell you these secrets...... Don't look at me with such anger and disdain, you and I are not enemies, we should be friends and close allies. ”

"George will soon be going to do something to you and the Marquis of Brackbarne...... Why, you don't believe my words? Hehe...... The name Duke of Weimmert should not be unfamiliar to you! His eldest son had entered London four months earlier with a musket corps of two thousand men, of course, on the basis of a provisional conscription order issued by the Marquis of Brackbarne to the nobles of the fiefdoms. In fact, Duke Weimmert was also the king's man, and he and his family swore allegiance to the royal family very early...... True allegiance, not just a ritual on the scene like you and the Marquis of Brackbarn. Sending too many troops at once would raise suspicions, and as long as the city of London remained in a stalemate, the Wemmerts had a reasonable excuse to increase their troops. Fifty thousand, or eighty thousand, plus the other nobles with whom the king secretly liaisoned, the total number of troops could reach 300,000. They don't care if you fight the northern giants on the front lines, and if you are defeated at the slightest defeat, the king will issue an edict and send you to the gallows for "dereliction of duty". ”

"You say I'm making rumors out of thin air? Hehe...... Well, I can show you the real evidence. I hope you can still maintain your current state after reading it, and you won't have a mental breakdown and become crazy. ”

Count Laurent spent more than four hours studying the documents. Most are hand-copied transcriptions, but there are also very few originals. It can be seen that Elizabeth has put a lot of effort into collecting evidence, and the combination of the two just corroborates each other, regardless of time and events, and is also in line with the memory of Count Laurent's mind.

He was completely slumped in his chair, unable to utter a word———— never dreaming that the king he worked for would seek to kill a number of important ministers all the time, and even the loyal and unselfish Marquis of Brackbán would be at the top of the list of mortals.

"What you want is the prosperity and strength of the country, the whole of Saxon. But George is different, all he wants is royal power, and on this premise, anything can be discussed, especially those nobles, including Duke Weimmert, George will give them more fiefs to ensure his own power. ”

Elizabeth's words were sharp, and the Count of Laurent, who had finally come to his senses, also had a deep question: "What role do you play in this?" ”

The other party's answer surprised Count Laurent, and he almost jumped up from his chair: "I am the concubine of the Giant King." ”

Elizabeth had of course thought it out to tell the Count these secrets———— Laurent had only a few guards, but Dorset was not London, it was the territory of the Elpsel Comptoir, and it was her own people inside and out. In particular, there are as many as 500 elite guards in the headquarters of the family manor, and there are more than 2,000 private armed forces on the periphery. In case of special circumstances, Elizabeth can also mobilize civilian forces hidden in the city of Dorset, and in two days at most, she can gather 30,000 people.

Of course, as far as she is concerned, she does not have any emotional inclination towards Count Laurent. Strictly speaking, the basis of "honesty" is still Tianhao, which is far away in the north of the mainland.

"At the right time, we can tell some of the secrets about Forget Worries and the inside of the kingdom to those who are worth winning over and have a good chance of becoming our supporters."

These are Tianhao's exact words.

Elizabeth is no longer the ignorant little girl she was at the beginning. Time and experience have given her a wealth of experience, and the spores implanted in her body have fundamentally changed the way of logic, and in turn, expanded the space of thinking, in short, become smarter.

Holding the secret between the king and the Xiuang family is a hole card in Elizabeth's hand. She initially only secretly collected it at Tianhao's orders, and then used it as a powerful means that could be used and controlled. It turned out that Tianhao was right, and playing this trump card in front of Count Laurent completely shook the earl's belief in the country and loyalty to the king.

Timing is also important. If it weren't for the Dragon Empire's army moving south, the Tyrant-Tooth Marine Corps could attack the capital London at any time, and Elizabeth would not have easily revealed this secret.

Words like "Giant Princess" are Elizabeth's self-raising worth, Tianhao has never agreed, and it is impossible to agree.

But it must be admitted that Elizabeth's words had an effect on Count Laurent, and he began to meditate.

"There's no way back for you. The Battle of London is about to begin, and the Marquis of Brackbarn has not many soldiers at his disposal, and in terms of combat effectiveness, the army of the Dragon Empire has an absolute advantage. ”

"London has no walls, and even if you drive the civilians to dig trenches, it won't help."

"The king and the nobles who were loyal to him would not let this opportunity go. I can bet anything that they will use all means to stop the Marquis's military campaign and defeat him, and only then will there be a reasonable excuse to kill you and uproot the Council of Ministers. ”

"Of course the king will not remain in London, he must have arranged a retreat long ago. Only a fool would shout the slogan "For the King" and give everything for George. ”

Count Laurent's heart was distraught.

Reason told him that Elizabeth was not lying, but the long-standing convictions in his mind were so in conflict with them that the Count had forgotten all about his worries and focused all his attention on the king and the marquis.

He returned to London as fast as he could, scavenging money from warehouses and various sources to finance the Marquis of Brackbarne.

At least in the eyes of the Count of Laurent at the time, Elizabeth was not a threat to herself. He had only one thought on his mind———— to make sure that all of Buck's (Brackbarn's) military operations met his demands as much as possible. Only by winning the battle for the defense of London can we be qualified to talk about anything else.

Laurent asked for an army from the Marquis to keep an eye on the king and the eldest son of Duke Weimert.

By the time Tyrant Tooth and his Marines arrived in London, there were signs that the king was operating in the shadows, and there was a lot of evidence to confirm Elizabeth's previous words.

When the Marquis of Brack Barn rushed into battle, Count Laurent also made a final decision———— he did not consider himself a brave man, and he did not want to use his cowardice as a foil for his heroic friend Buck. He was kind and upright, and he really gave everything for the Saxons...... But the dead can't speak, someone has to live to make it all public, someone has to go to the bottom of the debt from the king and the conspirators and settle it for Buck.

The Earl sent someone to secretly contact Elizabeth in advance, and when he received the news of the death of the Marquis of Brackbarn, he led his troops to capture the son of the Duke of Weimert. Since then, he has been a complete apostate.

All this, in the eyes of Count Laurent, simply followed his heart. He didn't think it was a betrayal, after all, it was the King who betrayed Buck and the Council first, and I just did what I had to do.

Tianhao's gaze lingered on Count Laurent for half a minute.

"All that you do, you will be rewarded." Tian Hao smiled and shifted his gaze and swept over all the white defectors: "I, the first emperor of the Dragon Empire, hereby solemnly promise: each of you will be rewarded with no less than one city. ”

The weight of this sentence is too heavy!

Count Laurent looked up suddenly, his eyes wide in disbelief, staring at the young giant sitting on the throne.

The rest of the defectors behaved in much the same way as the Count, either with their mouths wide open, or they looked helpless, or they stood still with a blank stare...... After being silent for a long time, someone finally asked Ai Ai hesitantly: "...... Your Majesty...... You...... What you just said...... Yes, is it true? ”

"Of course!" Tianhao's image at this moment is extremely majestic, and the whole person seems to be shrouded in the aura of justice and integrity: "I am the emperor, and the words of the king are promises." In our words: it has to be true. ”

What does "one word and nine crowns" mean? There is no such word in English.

But the previous words have already been explained, and it doesn't matter if you don't understand the rest of the story.