Singled's death did not put an end to the failed Swamp Expedition. On the contrary, the nobles whose children died in the swamp began to track down who had made this unreliable suggestion in the first place.

Soon, they found out the source of the news.

Broadly speaking, there are two sources to this statement.

One source is the chatter of a certain aristocratic young master at the banquet, when the young master drank some wine, I don't know if it was the drunkenness that brought inspiration, or he took advantage of the wine to talk nonsense, anyway, he persuaded several companions around him, and everyone thought that this method was quite reliable.

Another source is a private letter from the Prince of Zion to a friend, in which he said: "For many years, we have waited until the autumn harvest is over and there is plenty of grain and grass before we take advantage of the slack to attack the Swamp. But if you think about it, when we were busy with the autumn harvest, the guys in the swamp were also busy with the autumn harvest. And because of the scarcity of resources in the Swamp, they pay far more attention to the autumn harvest than we do. So if we take advantage of their autumn harvest to do it, will we be able to have a surprise advantage? Although this method may have been useful for the first time, it is not bad to be able to use it once. ”

The words of the Prince of Zion were told to more friends by his friend, and then they spread. Just before that, there was a small talk of the noble young master when he was drunk, and the two sides got together, so that proposal quickly swept the entire royal capital.

This matter is not complicated, it is easy to find out, but after finding out, the follow-up things are really complicated.

The drunken young nobleman had died, and had died in that terrible night, and his body was found on the side of the road not far from the camp.

The dead are gone, he himself opened his mouth, and finally buried his life, no one can say anything about him Maybe he had a bad idea, but in fact, before the accident, everyone didn't think this idea was so bad. What's more, he himself died because of this idea, how can others pursue it?

But on the Prince of Zion's side, it's a bit of trouble.

The prince was the other one who proposed the plan, but he did not join the Everglades Expeditionary Force. This can't help but make people feel confused, and even have some thoughts that shouldn't be there.

In this regard, the prince was also helpless.

"I would have liked to go!" he and his friends from the sons of the great nobles emphasized, "it was my father and sister who stopped me, and they said that it was useless for me to take credit, so why bother to divide the benefits of others?...... There are always risks in fighting, and even if you don't encounter a demonic beast, who can guarantee that there will be no danger in battle?"

Prince Zion said helplessly: "Although this war was lost, the loss was not large, and only three men were lost in total, which is nothing for a defeat. In fact, even if this battle is won, the expeditionary force will still have to face extremely fierce battles and pay a lot of sacrifices and losses of 30 percent at the critical stage of withstanding the counterattack of the swamp dwellers, which is not much at all!"

Of course, he made a lot of sense, but after careful consideration, I knew that he had not said everything and avoided a very important question.

If the battle is fought according to the plan, then no matter how serious the losses are, it is unlikely that the children of the nobles who are officers will die on the battlefield, and their subordinates will be completely lost, and they will withdraw to the rear by themselves in the Western Continent world, which is generally the case in normal wars. The soldiers suffered heavy losses, but the nobles often did not suffer much.

However, this time, because of the accident, the entire expeditionary force fell into a panic, and as a result, on the way to escape, many noble disciples gave their lives. This time, the "loss of three percent" is not only the loss of the soldiers, but also the loss of the children of the nobles, which has also reached this proportion.

That's why the problem is so serious, if it's just the loss of soldiers, even if it's a veteran who dies, it's very distressing, it's just a distress. For the aristocracy, the soldier was just a consumable, and at the top of the sky it was a part of their wealth, and that's it.

Because of this expedition, there were probably nearly forty noble disciples who died. None of these people are from small aristocratic families, because no one will give up the opportunity to take advantage of the victory to others, so the aristocratic leaders with a total of one hundred and twenty or thirty people are all from the big nobles, and the lowest are the sons of the earl's family.

So, this number is really a bit huge, for example, a few years ago, in the Thracian civil war, hundreds of thousands of Thracian troops were almost wiped out, but the children of the great nobles who died were not even this number!

It is precisely because of the noble and sensitive status of these people that someone must give an account of their deaths!

It didn't take long for the big nobles to attack. At a meeting of the great nobles presided over by the king, an earl who had died of his eldest son mentioned the failed expedition, and then he said: "The death of my son can only be regarded as bad luck, and no one else is like it." But through this incident, we can see that His Royal Highness the prince is still not thoughtful enough to consider things, his personality is still not stable enough, and with all due respect, avoiding the important is not something that a king should do. Perhaps Your Majesty should consider letting Her Royal Highness the Princess inherit the throne. ”

This is said quite nakedly, and it is not disguised at all. The king retorted loudly at once, but then more nobles supported the count's opinion.

"That's right! we can accept a king of mediocre talent, but we cannot accept a rash king!"

"Ruling the country is a serious thing, how can it be child's play!"

No one can blame the king, only the king himself. So if the king makes a mistake and he doesn't want to blame himself, is it possible to make amends?"

"Her Royal Highness the eldest princess has a much more reliable personality, at least she will definitely not be in the rear by herself and let others charge!"

"I don't approve of the king going to the battlefield, but Her Royal Highness the eldest princess will not shirk responsibility if she makes a mistake, let alone play confusing concepts!"

For a time, the crowd was excited. The great nobles who had lost their children were in trouble, one after the other.

The king was not a person with a strong personality in the first place, and when he encountered this situation, he suddenly panicked and didn't know what to do. Thankfully, Duke Harrett opened his mouth and saved him.

For Singer's father-in-law, everyone still has respect. For the sake of Singerd's face, the big nobles who did not have dead children persuaded one after another, and finally brought the situation under control.

But after this, everyone knows that there is a serious problem with Prince Zion's original succession!