There was chaos in front of Prince Mario's palace, and in less than half an hour, the house burned down a shell, and then collapsed into a pile of sand and stones, burying the original prosperity and opulence in the rubble

Minter stood in the crowd of onlookers, and couldn't understand why this was happening.

The sound of horses' hooves galloped towards him, and he turned his head to see that it was Prince Mario at the head, his hair was a little messy, his face was still stained with blood, and there was a hint of madness in his eyes

Mario jumped off his horse and rushed straight into his house, looking at the pile of ruins, his face full of disbelief Jada rushed up, and shouted, "Don't think you can escape!" Even if you destroy all the human and physical evidence, I have a way to prove your guilt! ”

His words attracted the sideways glances of several men and women dressed as servants around him, and the gaze that shot at Prince Mario immediately took resentment, but the latter was unaware, and raised his foot and hurriedly walked forward, and Jada hurriedly beckoned to his subordinates behind him: "Stop him!" ”

Shedd and several other samurai quickly stepped forward to block Prince Mario's way, the latter shook them off, still walking forward, they were worried that this was a prince, they didn't dare to draw their swords to face each other, and were hesitating, Jada angrily got on himself, suddenly saw Minter in the crowd shrink his head, and called him without much thought: "Minte, help!" ”

Minter secretly called unlucky, so he had to jump out and chase after him, but strangely, Prince Mario didn't go too far, and stopped when he reached the backyard, looking at the gravel in that place in a daze, Minter and Jada came to him, looked at each other, and were about to step forward when they heard a hesitant voice next to him: "Your Royal Highness?" Is it His Royal Highness? ”

A person turned out from behind the fallen tree next to him and knelt down in front of Mario: "Your Royal Highness, the old butler... He didn't escape..."The man choked up and began to cry, and said intermittently: "In the front house... There are still dozens of people in there ... Didn't find any... The guests of the West Wing rooms did not escape either... The house is all over... We don't know what's going on, why... will explode suddenly..."

Mario asked dumbfounded, "My wife... And what about the kids? ”

The man raised his head in some surprise and said, "The king... The princess and several dukes are in the palace, have you forgotten? ”

Mario then remembered and breathed a sigh of relief, but his face was soon full of doubts, and he lifted the man's collar: "You just said that none of the guests in the West Wing room escaped?!" Where did these explosions and fires start?! ”

The man was startled and replied with tears in his voice: "I don't know... Suddenly it burned with a bang..."

Mario threw him away, looked around at his ruined home, and gritted his teeth

Seeing this, Jada was also puzzled, could it be that he did not do this to destroy the evidence? Who would that be?

But he can't care about so much now, there are more important things to do, he stepped forward: "Since your family is fine, don't resist, go back with me!" ”

A trace of unwillingness flashed on Mario's face, he looked back at Jada, sneered, and left the backyard with Shedd and the others, someone had already driven a carriage waiting at the gate, Mario got into the car very calmly, Shedd immediately stood by the door to guard, and several other Jada's local warriors also surrounded it next to the carriage stop

Jada breathed a sigh of relief and turned back to Minter and smiled, "Why are you here?" Your Majesty is okay today? Minter hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is in good spirits today, and he specially gave me a day off to let me go home to rest, I came here when I was walking around the neighborhood when I heard the explosion... Pretty smooth, right? ”

"It's going well, none of those bastards escaped" Jada was a little smug, but quickly straightened his face again, "Minter, Your Majesty is still very weak, right?" If you let him meet Prince Mario, he will definitely be irritated, so why don't you let them meet yet, how about it? ”

A low cold snort came from the carriage, Minter frowned, and said, "Your Majesty is not as fragile as you think, and besides, he must really want to see his brother, and if you don't let him see him, he will feel sad."

Jada was a little disappointed, and then Sargent galloped over on horseback, turned over and saddled down, saluted him, and said, "I have taken those people to the royal prison, what should I do next?" ”

"Send Mario to the palace first!" Jada shook his horsewhip, turned his head and said to Minter lightly, "You can come back too, Your Majesty is not in good health, and I need you."

Minter had no choice but to respond, and when he turned over and got on his horse, he glanced unwillingly at Prince Lawr's house, and then looked back at the Prince's Mansion, where the flames were still burning, and the wounded and screaming people around him, and felt only uncomfortable tightness in his chest

As soon as Gale II received the news, he immediately ignored the dissuasion of the court physician, ran out of the room on crutches on his own, grabbed Prince Mario's arm, looked up and down carefully, back and forth, and then breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay..." He withdrew his hand, and also withdrew the worry on his face, and said lightly: "Come in" After that, he went back to the room first, Prince Mario lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking, and after a while, he walked into the door

Jada wanted to follow, but was stopped by the court steward, "Your Excellency, Your Majesty wants to talk to His Royal Highness the Prince alone" Jada frowned, and was about to say something, but saw the steward shake his head, so he closed the door, and had to stay outside the door angrily

In the room, Gale II sat down in a chair behind his desk and said, "Your family is fine, but what happened to the explosion?" I've heard that more than twenty people have died, and a dozen are missing, and I've sent a doctor over, and the pension will be issued soon, but... Isn't it really your dry land? ”

Prince Mario sneered: "Why would I do such a thing?!" I'm not guilty! You forced me! He stared at his brother and said, "Brother, to be honest, I have always been good to you, you are not in good health, I will help you deal with government and military affairs; Your prestige is insufficient, and I will help you suppress those who oppose you; I'd love to sit in that seat, but since you're seated, I'm not going to grab it! Am I bad for you? Why do you have to drive me to death with those bastards?! At this point, he felt a little uncomfortable: "Did you just care about me... Not really? ”

With tears in his eyes, Gale II said, "You are my own brother, how could I not care about you?" How could they want to force you to death? Even now, I won't do this, as long as you don't plan any rebellion, I will never hurt your brother, now that my mother has died, you are my dearest relative..."

Prince Mario also became sad when he heard him mention his mother, and the brothers sat down and cried for a long time, before he shook off the tears on his face and said: "Since that's the case, let's talk about it, brother, I won't betray you again, but don't stop me, if I go to war, you will help me prepare military food and armaments at home, and when I win those countries in the future, how about we rule this continent together?" ”

Gale II gently wiped the tears from his face, his face full of exhaustion: "No"

"Why?!" Prince Mario stood up suddenly, "You always say that I am wrong, that I am for my own interests, sacrificing the country and the people, this is bullshit!" I'm not doing it for myself! He rushed to Gale II: "You know exactly what is going on in our country!" There is little arable land, low grain production, poor land and scarce resources, but the population is increasing, and the life of the common people is becoming more and more difficult, and more than half of the people in the north do not have enough to eat! If this continues, our people will starve to death! But those foreign merchants still come to our country to buy grain and use it to make wine! They sell us cheap grain from their own production, and our people are foolishly deceived, but I will not be deceived by them! If I hadn't found out and stopped it in time, sooner or later the country would have fallen into the hands of those foreign businessmen! ”

He strode over to the window and pushed it open: "Look, what's out there?!" Except for mountains, or mountains! Our ancestors once ruled over most of the continent, but we now have less than a third of it! It's still the most barren, the people are so poor that they can't even eat, as a descendant of Nicodimus the Great, don't you blush?! ”

Gale II opened his mouth and did not speak

Prince Mario continued: "Now we have a good opportunity, I have a comprehensive plan, I can take possession of those fertile lands, so that our people can have delicious food, warm clothes to wear, beautiful houses to live in, fertile land to plant!" Anyway, those countries in the south obviously have a large area of land, but no one cultivates it, and if they have money, they only use it to do some boring things to harm other countries, why can't we grab those land and wealth to feed our people?! ”

He threw himself in front of his brother and said excitedly: "Brother, promise me, we can realize the ideals of our ancestors together and make Nuojia more prosperous!" ”

Gale II looked at his brother deeply, feeling that he did not really know him in the past, and felt a little ashamed in his heart, but on this issue, he took a very firm position: "Mario, I ask you, if you really occupy those lands, how are you going to govern them?" ”

Prince Mario was stunned: "What? Of course, the people were moved over and cultivated for farming, and the environment in the south was better than in the north, right? ”

"Is governing a country just for people to farm? What about the people who lived in that land? ”

Mario sneered at the corners of his mouth: "Those people..."

"Didn't you think about them?" Gale II interrupted him, "Do you think that if you are strong enough, you can deter those people and make them obedient?" He sighed: "This was the case when Emperor Nicodimus the Great did, and as a result, he failed."

"What?!" Mario stood up suddenly, "How is this possible!" It's obviously because his son is vying for the throne..."

"That's just one of the reasons!" Gale interrupted him again, "As early as his deathbed, rebellions have begun to emerge in various places, and those cities that he attacked have become a mess because there are no suitable people to govern them, and they will soon be controlled by the original inhabitants and gradually form a resistance force He once wrote in his diary, regretting that he did not prepare for a few more years, as long as there are a few more years and a group of excellent civil officials are trained, this kind of thing will not happen Although he has discovered the shortcomings, but because he died too quickly, he did not have time to leave instructions, When the resistance learned of his death, they immediately rebelled, with irreparable consequences" He reached into the drawer under the table and took out a very old pamphlet: "Take it and see it, this is the codex left by Nicodimus the Great, which has been handed down from generation to generation by kings"

Prince Mario took the booklet, flipped through a few pages, and squeezed out his voice with some difficulty: "Now that you know... Every king knows, so why has no one ever said it?! ”

Gale II smiled bitterly, that emperor was the pride of Noga, how could such a thing that damaged his image and reputation be promoted? He said: "In short, I am not against you unifying the continent, but against you doing it now, our country does not have enough financial resources to support a war, and reluctantly doing it will only make the situation worse. Although it is a country of brothers, my brother who may not be of the same heart as us, and now is not the time to unify the continent..."

Mario suddenly shuddered: "I... I... But... They said—" He opened his mouth to his brother, but as if something was holding him in the throat, he couldn't say anything

Gale II sighed and patted him on the shoulder: "Good brother, you can rest for a few years, perhaps, in our lifetime, there will be a chance..."

Mario grabbed his hand and wanted to say something, but after hesitating, he still couldn't say that Gale II thought he was ashamed, and after a few words of comfort, he asked the court steward to take him away: "Don't think too much, let's go rest first, what's the matter, I'll talk about it tomorrow" Mario silently left with the court steward, looked back at his brother, and sighed lowly

Jada stared fiercely at him as he walked past him, and just after him had just said a few words in his ear, he heard Gale II calling himself, so he had to leave him into the room, and Mint watched Prince Mario disappear around the corner of the corridor, feeling that his back was more desolate than ever

That night, Prince Mario's temporary residence in the palace suddenly burst into flames, no one knows how the fire burned, some people say that Prince Mario is afraid of crime**, some people say that some people are afraid of deeds and kill people, and some people say that it is the enemy who vents his anger, and I don't know who is telling the truth The princess lives in another palace with several sons, and the princess lives alone, they all escaped the fire, but Prince Lawr, because he was stimulated by the fire, suddenly went crazy, He slammed his head against the wall, broke his head and bleed, and when the guards found out and asked the doctor to come for treatment, he couldn't save himself

When Gale II got the news, he lightly instructed the affairs of the future, and shut himself in the room, and no one would see Jada try to persuade him to open the door, but he ignored it, and refused to see that the ministers were helpless, and finally it was the court governor, Mrs. Cole, and Minter, who persuaded him for a whole day, before he relented, opened the door, and allowed them to bring food and food in, but he still refused to pay attention to Jada and the others

The next day, he ordered Prince Mario and Prince Lawler to be buried with their original titles, and the princess and princess had to return their property and leave the palace to live

Only Jada was still not received by Gale II, and even Sargent, who had been trusted by the king, was also affected

Rumors slowly spread

(There's a problem with the network.,It's always broken.,This is the fourth time I've uploaded...) ）