Fourteen years ago, after the marriage between the Norman Archduke and the Duchy of Kent, which was across the sea, he became more and more out of line, and this time he dared to instigate Orbrey to kill the nobles of the kingdom.

"It turns out that this is the reason why Your Majesty has built checkpoints in the outer city of the royal capital, facing the direction of the Schengen Province, and allowing the Guild to interfere in the territory under the province of Pulie. Lawsay's expression was admiring, but his heart was uneasy and jealous, because Adrian had another intelligence route, and he didn't let him, the intelligence director, know.

Adrian added, "I have worked hard to govern, and the country is becoming more and more prestigious, but Adolf is also like a heavenly favor, and every two or three years in his territory, there is a novelty, such as a waterwheel to help the farming, good quality paper, and soap, all of which have been made up by him, and I have asked the financial officials to estimate that the annual income of a prince is equal to the annual income of the treasury!"

I thought that by the time I died, I might still be only half a Gallic king, and the decree would not be able to pass through the whole south, but this was a good opportunity for me to fight another civil war, as I did back then, to put the Chiron family in control, and to find a good wife for Asunlu and strengthen his position. ”

As soon as the conversation changed, Adrian mentioned his youngest son, and Lawsay's heart moved, thinking that Adrian had been uncertain about the status of his eldest son Kunk for a long time, could it be that he wanted to establish Asunlu?

The first three sons of the king, who can choose anyone, have all lived past the age of twelve, and they are not afraid of the danger of early death, even if there are two princesses, the queen is in power, in the history books, or in several small states in the northwest today, there are examples.

But Asunlu is a little prince who has just turned two years old! And he was born with a stain, neither a long nor a heir, which is a precursor to great chaos. Raussey wanted to say something, but in the end he held back and did very little to make the king happy.

Adrian also realized that something was wrong after speaking, "Asunlu is still young, I just said casually, don't take it to heart." ”

And he said, "How serious is Randall?"

"I heard that I was critically ill, my eyes were no longer visible, and I had a heavy hemorrhage when I was in the province of Dom, the territory of Count Penny!"

"That means the marriage with the Kingdom of Aragon has also been blown up?"

"I think so, but it's also a rumor, and now it's changing day by day. ”

"Boni, this bastard, dares to learn from Norman's marriage to a foreign royal family, and for more than a year, he has set up checkpoints in the south to block the goods sold to the royal capital, which is more of a hindrance to kill than the kid in the north.

Originally, it would take at least three years, and when I succeeded in reforming, I would have an advantage, so I have always been polite to him, and I have been rewarded for his son in the royal capital, but he is not grateful, I will let him know that in the vast land of Gaul, the eagle banner is better than the lion banner, and he is the real king of all beasts.

You continue to watch, and tomorrow you will gather all the ministers, and if this battle breaks out, I will all take back my hands in the three provinces of Purje, Grad, and Norman, and complete the great cause of unification. "Adrian is ambitious.

"Yes. ”

After saying some more about homely things, Laussey withdrew from the palace, and when he returned to his residence, the more he thought about it, the more wrong it became, and he even found his younger brother Guillaume. Both brothers have been with Adrian for many years, and both have held high positions.

"Big brother, it doesn't matter who Your Majesty likes, we support it, what are we afraid of? We can have today's status, it is all a gift from Your Majesty. ”

"After that, can you guarantee that the next king will be able to trust us? According to the custom, the king is young, and his relatives can govern on his behalf, and in case he is ruled by his maternal family in the future, we still want to die a good death? Have you forgotten what happened in the first place?"

When Raussey spoke of it, Guillaume was also worried, it was a blood feud.

"But even if His Majesty wants to set up a young son, Prince Kunke, as the eldest son, has the highest prestige, he has experience on the battlefield at the age of fourteen, and the military also supports him, and it is not so easy to establish Asunlu. Guillaume said.

"What Your Majesty wants to do, you have to achieve it, you think, in the past three or four years, how many new officials from the common people have been appointed by the king, this group of people is a blank slate, completely loyal to the king who promoted them, in two more years, these people will grow, Your Majesty will carry out the next step of reform, Your Majesty's final plan is to monopolize power, and any orders will not go through the subordinates. ”

"The monarchy is sacred, it cannot be violated, these eight characters, Your Majesty has mentioned it no less than ten times recently, and there should be a big change in two or three years, Your Majesty actually has an unknown intelligence route for me, and I think I am also on the list!"

"It's going to take a while. Guillaume was a little relieved.

"It's better to cure the disease than to prevent it, otherwise it will be too late. "Rau Track.

"Then we support the eldest prince?"

"No, I'm in charge of the intelligence agency, I've done so many things for Your Majesty in the past few years, including the family of the eldest prince's cronies, I didn't give face at that time, and now I'm taking refuge in the past, even if he takes the throne in the future, I have no future, so I can only go back to the manor to retire." ”

It is difficult to quit a man who has tasted power, and Raussie, from a knight to a count today, has long been accustomed to giving orders, and if he is allowed to retire, he will never want to.

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, so what should I do?"

"Yes, we can take refuge in the second prince, Lewu. Raussey said someone Guillaume had never thought of.

"He, he's not as good as the third prince, a disabled person, the vassals look down on him, no one will support him, the Gallic royal family has been around for hundreds of years, and he has such a strange nickname. Guillaume looked suspicious.

"That's right, he himself doesn't have hope, if someone helps him, this is a great kindness, and the reward in the future will be hundreds of times ....... Raussey analyzed.

"So what are we going to do? Suddenly approaching, who are we going to talk to?"

"No, as the head of intelligence, the movements of the royal family are my primary concern, the second prince has no close ministers, we can do what he likes, he likes to raise birds, get a few precious birds over, wait for a long time, and then show his mind, at the same time, you must also take good control of your troops, and from now on, find a way to install more people into the Praetorian Guard. ”

When the two brothers finished talking about important matters, it was late at night. At the same time, in the Norman province to the north, the officials also closely discussed the affairs of the province of Plete.

The Norman province was located in the northernmost part of Gaul, and its people even had a different name from other provinces - "northerners".

When Gaul was still in the era of secession, the more barren "continent of Russia" further north finally developed its own iron-smelting and shipbuilding culture at a rate of 500 years behind.

Among them was mainly helped by knowledge from distant and exotic lands - the "Romans".

At that time, the southern part of the Roman Kingdom was blocked by other land powers, and there was no inch of land land land, so they could only develop northward, and they sent an expedition to the north to the north of today's Danes, a tribe named Shem, and the Shem tribe began to trade.

But ten years later, the Roman Kingdom found that not only this place, but also other neighboring tribes were very wild, although the land was vast, the climate was too cold, it was difficult to grow food, except for some natural mineral plants, basically had no value, and the voyage was expensive, so it interrupted communication and colonization ideas.

The Semitic tribe later imitated the Roman ships, they took local materials, made tall oak trees into flexible, lightweight, wind-resistant fast boats, for short transportation, and later carved the bow of the ship into the dragon god under the throne of Odin, so when this ship was rampant in the North Sea in the future, the coastal people who were disturbed by it called it "dragon boat", whenever they saw the mighty and angry dragon boat ashore, they were afraid and afraid.

This ship has a characteristic, the deck is open, there is no protection of ordinary ships, the cold wind blowing on the ocean, and the huge waves that come from the lapping can freeze people to death and engulf them at any time.

At that time, in order to find a more fertile land to reproduce and develop, the Shem tribe united with other tribes, drove an open-air clipper, endured the cold wind and bones, and began to explore unknown foreign lands.

But after more than fifty people died in the frigid seas farther north, they considered the north worthless and set their sights on the south.

It was a gamble, and if it failed, then for a long time there would be no more proposals for sailing.

This voyage, favored by the main god Odin, gave birth to many lucky people, who were photographed by the currents of the sea, some were photographed to the southwest, landed on the British Peninsula, and some anchored in the countries of the Nordic continent, they set foot on a softer and more humid land, the grass was green, and they saw tall temples and statues, and tasted sweet and delicious food.

But good fortune is only an illusion, and these people are either killed, or expelled from the sea, or enslaved.

And among them was Ivan, the son of a young and intelligent chieftain, who was only fifteen years old at the time of his arrest. Because of his handsome appearance and amazing memory, he became the male favorite of a duke of the Roman Kingdom, and after the duke became regent, he followed him into the court service.

During this period, he greedily flipped through the Roman court collection, all kinds of crafts, agricultural books, which he chewed in his heart, and thirteen years later, he was a scholar in the court.

Roman had already treated him as one of his kind, and he cherished his homeland, and when foreign powers invaded, he secretly hired sailors, rented ships, and crossed the fierce ocean to return to his homeland.

When he stepped on the cold frozen soil of his hometown, he wept excitedly and kissed the ground under his feet, leaving behind the words "Roman is gone, our people are renewed", and brought earth-shaking changes to his homeland!