Hua Long, who originally thought that he was out of the sea of suffering, didn't expect that the perverted crazy old man didn't know when he got a marshal uniform of the Heavenly Spirit Principality, but this defective product looked like a fake no matter how it looked, and even the battle robe was replaced by a hundred family cloth, and the dragon embroidery on it didn't know when it turned into a four-legged snake.

According to the crazy old man: it was night anyway, and the distance was so far that those people on the fortress couldn't see clearly!

"It's really good!" In this way, Hua Long borrowed two more night's shells with his body.

To tell the truth, the power of the Shenhuang cannon makes the progress of Hualong's talisman qi quite obvious, after all, the cannonball is more powerful than the arrow, and the area of action is also wider, and how to reasonably and effectively distribute the aura needed for each point of the talisman has also become the main purpose of training.

There were only four days left until the competition.

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The inner city of the capital, the Count's Court of Auno.

Compared with four years ago, the Xilie family, where Count Auno belongs, has become the most powerful neutral faction in the capital, not only because the family is a relative of the imperial family, but also because Count Auno is good at using money diplomacy, which makes his influence among the nobles more and more obvious.

In addition, the scale of the Xilie family's industry is also getting bigger and bigger, and the mineral smuggling alone brings more than 10 million gold coins to their family every year, plus other commercial income, land income, and property income, the total annual income of the Xilie family has reached nearly 30 million.

As for the rise of the Xilie family, Marshal Ron and Prime Minister Rongte are naturally very concerned, after all, Marshal Ron and Prime Minister Rongte need to spend a lot of gold coins every year to support the army under their control, so the highest annual income in the empire naturally falls on the head of the Xilie family.

Early in the morning, the bedroom.

Because of the schedule, the Count of Onno had already gotten up early, and the Countess also began to help her husband get dressed after packing up at this time.

"Your hair has grown a lot gray?" said the countess, who loved her husband very much, and so did his husband, who, though he was getting busier, often found time to spend with her, and who was the only one of the great nobles who did not have a concubine.

Looking at his wife in the mirror, the angry Earl suddenly sighed: "You too, there are wrinkles!"

"Hua Long hasn't come back for four years, and he hasn't written a letter, I'm a little worried! It's Hua Yun, and he will come back every year!" The Countess rolled her eyes and said seemingly casually, as for the purpose, it was natural that Hua Yun couldn't control Hua Long's whereabouts at all from Xue Ya, so she wanted to find out the news that Count Ao Nuo knew through the Countess.

And Count Aonno naturally didn't know why, nodded slightly and said: "Don't worry, I asked the old lady of the principal of the women's college, Hua Long is very good and healthy now!" Speaking of this, he tied the coat of arms on his collar in front of the mirror, and continued: "Four days later, there will be a royal competition, and our Hua Yun will represent the academy in the competition, this is an honor, you remember to dress decently!"

Speaking of this, Count Ao Nuo couldn't help but show a smile in his heart, as long as there is no accident, this time the Imperial Contest and their Xilie family will be the biggest winner.

"I see, didn't you buy me a lot of clothes?" replied the countess, laughing, too.

After putting on the clothes, the Count of Auno kissed his wife's forehead tenderly, and said with a smile: "That old fellow Nicholas Junt came to me yesterday, do you know what he wants to do?"

The Countess was stunned for a moment, but he knew very well that her husband was always very angry when he mentioned this prime minister, otherwise he would have a straight face, but why was he so happy today?

"Did he go in person?" asked the Countess in surprise, for the old fellow was fine but seldom went out, and even the court meeting had not been there for a long time.

"Well, I'm going in person!" Count Aono said with a mysterious smile, "What do you think of his intention to marry his granddaughter Xue Yaxu to our family's Hualong?"

"Huh?" the countess was taken aback.

If this is the case, then won't there be another backer behind Hua Long in the future? Then it will probably be even more difficult for them to deal with Hua Long and win the hereditary earl position.

"It's just lip service, don't take it seriously, but it may not be a good thing for him to want to get married!" Looking at himself again, Count Auno nodded with satisfaction: "By the way, are you ready for the New Year for the Queen Mother?

Although the Earl of Onno rarely cares about the internal affairs of the Earl's Palace, but this matter of sending New Year's tribute to the Queen Mother at the end of the year is a big thing, and it is also the homework of the noble ladies every year, and he has to be cautious, after all, this is not only a time to test the family's financial resources, but also a time to prove the status of the men behind those women.

In previous years, the annual tribute was naturally the most beautiful time for the prime minister's wife and the marshal's wife, but in recent years, the amount of annual respect in the Earl's Mansion has also shown a straight upward trend, although on the surface, the annual tribute of the Earl's Mansion has always been behind the first two ladies, but in private, the Earl's Mansion has to give the Queen Mother a cash bill of one million gold coins every year. This is five times the total annual tribute of the marshal's wife and the prime minister's wife.

"It's all ready, I'll send it over in a moment!" The Countess has obviously received an invitation from the Queen Mother, and she will live in the palace until the royal competition today, which is also a gift from the Queen Mother, and besides, she will soon be able to see her son, which also makes the Countess very excited.

At noon, the Imperial Department of Justice.

It is a large three-story building located north of the Imperial City, with white walls, a dome covered with blue glazed tiles, sixty-six white marble steps, and a towering statue of the emperor in the courtyard, everything here seems to have an oppressive force that can restrain people, and this oppressive force naturally comes from the Imperial Code of the Cold Moon Empire.

In contrast to the busy traffic on the streets outside, the courtyard of the Judicial Bureau, which was unusually quiet, was filled with judicial gendarmes in blue uniforms. The rights of these judicial gendarmes are as terrifying as death among the imperial nobles, to put it simply, this imperial judicial bureau is dedicated to trying and arresting guilty nobles, as long as you enter here, I am afraid that if you don't die, you will have to peel off your skin, even if he is not guilty, with the imperial code, they can also get him some charges, this is the power of power.

In fact, everyone who passed by here walked with their heads down, because they were all afraid of having anything to do with the Imperial Justice Bureau in front of them.

Moreover, since the neutral Earl of Auno was appointed by the Southern Governor and concurrently served as the Chief of the Judicial Gendarme, it was no longer a haven for the reformists of Field Marshal Ron and the royalist aristocracy of Chancellor Ron, and now almost all the nobles were now filled with fear at the mention of the Imperial Judicial Bureau.

At this time, I don't know which unlucky guy was being dragged directly into the Imperial Justice Bureau by four judicial gendarmes, and then went directly to the office of the chief of the judicial gendarmerie on the second floor, where the Earl of Auno was located.

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