Chapter 329: State and Family Affairs
The sun rises as always, and the bright sunshine makes the whole continent seem alive.
Around the island in the middle of the lake, Melidi leads Rachel and her Osmum fish-man girls who have been rescued from the clutches of demons to swim in circles in the lake, jumping out of the water every distance they swim.
It is said that this is one of the ways for the fish-people to exercise their bodies.
By the lake, in the garden of a sanatorium, Diana sat behind a stone table, discussing issues with a demon man.
Bazlev would always glance at Artoria from time to time when he was discussing issues with Diana.
Bazlev's parents were officials in the prosecutor's office of the Rurik Kingdom, and there was a long street of his house at one end of the street, and Artoria's house was directly opposite. Bazlev, like the bears of the street for three hundred years, was cleaned up by Artoria when he was a child.
Even though Bazlev has now become an expert in the core field of golem control, the psychological shadow left by his childhood has not been removed.
Artoria allowed Diana and Bazlev to discuss for three hours a day in the morning, as ordered by the sanatorium, and Bazlev honestly took his leave at two hours and fifty-nine minutes.
It was this morning that Charles stood at the foot of the mountain and began to dig the tunnel to the top of the 303 Heights with an EX curry stick.
Also starting his day at this time was Antoine II Bischberg in the royal palace of the kingdom of Bischberg in the far north.
If Linda had been in Antoine II's office at this time, she would have been distressed to find that her father was much older than she had been two years earlier.
Glancing at the bright sunlight outside the window, the sunlight made Antoine II feel a sense of disgust in his heart.
He wished there were dark clouds and thunderstorms outside his window now.
The weather was a bit bad this spring, with a lot of precipitation in the south and very little in the north.
The latest fortune teller of the royal family has been on Antoine II's desk, and this year's drought is very likely.
Antoine II could already think of what was going to happen, the nobles who got the news began to hoard grain, and the grain merchants in the south must have raised the price of grain significantly, and in the autumn there were probably displaced people.
If it was a previous year, countries could also ask the elves to buy food to tide over the difficulties.
But since the beginning of the war, the elves have exported a lot less food, and that food is just a drop in the bucket at that time.
If they didn't have enough food, the freedmen in the fiefdom would flee en masse, and the loss of vital human resources would be enough to break the aristocracy.
More seriously, "grain futures" will surely come out and add fuel to the fire.
After signing the order to increase the amount of grain purchased from the south and the purchase of Warcraft jerky in large quantities, Antoine II sighed and waved into the air.
A man who had hidden himself in his cloak appeared behind him, kneeling on one knee.
"What do you have to report today?" asked Antoine II.
"His Highness Abner has found two new lovers. The Cloaked Man reported.
Antoine II pinched his brow helplessly, his eldest son was capable of good, but he was too lustful, and the nobles of the court who revolved around the eldest prince could always meet his various requests.
After the head of the original court nobles, the late queen's family, the Bathory family, was completely destroyed because of their belief in evil gods, Abner became the new leader of the court nobles, and those court nobles were more diligent in their devotion to the new leader.
Fortunately, those court nobles were quite measured, and did not do anything such as robbing people's daughters and kidnapping travelers.
Since this was the case, Antoine II ignored him.
"Go on. Antoine II said.
"His Highness Abt yesterday invited the sons of the nobles to hunt in his domain. The cloaked man continued to report.
Antoine II's gaze sharpened.
After a long time, he said helplessly: "If they just hoard food, don't care." ”
The nobles who guarded their fiefdoms saw that Antoine II was getting older, and their minds began to move.
"Any other bad news?" asked Antoine II.
"Yesterday there was a huge issuance of county bonds in the city of Seven Hills. "The Cloaked Man has another piece of not-so-good news.
The city of Seven Hills is the name of the royal capital of the kingdom of Bischberg, and the city is named after the seven hills that surround it.
"Is it Avis?" Antoine II asked coldly, the eldest and second in the family had been doing things one after another, so he subconsciously thought that this time it should be the third.
Territory bonds, as the name suggests, are bonds issued by the lord in the name of their own territory.
Generally speaking, the lord of a territory issues bonds, either because their family is too poor to open the pot, or because they are raising money and preparing to make trouble.
In the kingdom of Bischberg, except for the court nobles, there are only a few counts and marquis-level nobles except for four princes and one princess, and those few are well-behaved and sensible and not short of money.
The backstage of the eldest prince Abner and the second prince Abt is not short of money, and there is no need to issue bonds.
Only the third prince Avis, who is in the same camp as the military, is a little tight because of the army, a gold-swallowing beast.
And Avis, who has a military background, is raising money aggressively, why does he want to guess, of course, it is to expand the armament war.
As for who to hit...... Hehe......
"Not His Highness Avis. The cloaked man replied, "Because the territory of the bond issuance is strange, we are verifying." ”
"Who is it?!" Antoine II asked sharply.
The earls had all been with him all the way, and he thought that he had never treated these old brothers badly.
Now that an old brother is trying to stab himself in the back, how can he not be angry.
The cloaked man replied, "It's Her Highness Linda's realm that is issuing huge bonds. ”
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Antoine II was so shocked that his eyes were about to fly out.
He did a lot of calculations, but he didn't count Linda.
"What's wrong with Linda?!" Antoine II stood up abruptly, his face flushed.
"She's short of money?!"
"Have you been deceived by a little white face?!"
"Send a squadron of griffon knights over immediately!Grab that little white face and tear it up and feed the griffin directly!!"
Fortunately, he still maintained a trace of sanity and did not drive in person.
"Your Majesty, please calm your anger. Cold sweat began to form on the cloak man's head, "It was Baron Rhine, a vassal of Her Highness Linda, who came to Qiqiu City to issue bonds, and the reason he gave was that Her Highness Linda was going to build a workshop in her territory and the Forge Temple. ”
Antoine II paced around the office a few times, and then ordered: "Bring in Baron Rhine, I will ask what is going on." ”
The cloaked man was ordered to leave, leaving only a restless Antoine II in the office.