Chapter Seventy-Two: War Is Coming
"My lord, this is a letter from Lord Gareth. The soldier who came handed him a sealed parchment.
Ronnet stepped forward to pick him up, and all unknown persons had not been allowed to approach Jason since the last assassination.
Ronnet usually carries it with him.
Jason took the envelope, then opened it and looked at it, there were three pieces of information, and they were densely filled with information from the recent period.
Includes part of the intelligence inside the Kingdom of Lopez.
Jason took this information, and the more he looked at it, the more ugly his face became, and finally he couldn't help but throw it on the ground.
"Lawlessness, lawlessness!" he whispered, his face gloomy.
"Summons Lancelot, tell him to come at once, I have something important to discuss!" finally he leaned over again, picked up the parchment, held it in his hand, and commanded the soldier.
"My lord, what happened?" said Ronnat, who said it was their duty to share the Lord's sorrows.
"See for yourself. Jason's tone suppressed infinite anger, which made Ronnet's heart tighten.
He read the information that made Jason angry at a glance, and his eyes were full of shock, this was really a big event that stirred the north.
The letter mentions that after the winter, King Lopez, Jason's father, suddenly became seriously ill, and the queen forbade many ministers to visit him on the grounds that she could not disturb his cultivation.
And the kingdom's eldest prince, Phil Lopez, was temporarily ruled by his uncle, Marquis Boro Garcia, and the vassal nobles of the Garcia family were also reused, and the entire kingdom was now firmly controlled by the new nobles.
The old aristocracy, led by the Dibes family, was persecuted to varying degrees, which made them extremely restless, and signs of unrest were gradually appearing.
The aristocratic faction led by the Marquis of Asa Lake was also suppressed and pushed out of the center of power, but strangely enough, they did not fight back, but obeyed the orders from the kingdom's court and handed over their power.
This makes the already chaotic situation even more confusing.
Even more terrifying things are yet to come, the Duchy of Lion has raised the red and gold lion flag on the border between the two countries, and war is about to break out.
Even Grand Duke Cameron, known as the "lion before the king", personally went to the border to sit in town, which made Lopez, who had just lost the "war falcon", panic in the country.
This series of events has left the other two of the three northern countries on the rise, and Lopez has almost reached the point of life and death.
The most important thing is that after the king's serious injury recurred and he couldn't take care of political affairs, no one has come to inform him until now, he is the second prince of the Lopez Kingdom!
"These people ......" Ronnatt didn't know how to describe them after reading it, and he only cared about the rights in front of him and ignored the future development.
"A bunch of rat-eyed bastards!" Jason sneered, and he knew that these people were going to do whatever it took to fight for power.
Now that Phil is in power, who represents the interests of the new aristocracy, how can they not take this opportunity to severely suppress these old nobles who have been working against them?
Even if it is to cause turmoil, they will not hesitate to do so.
"It's all stupid people who are blinded by immediate interests, and they don't want to think about how they can end up if something goes wrong with Lopez?"
"The sorrow of the vested interests. Ronnet said calmly that he had seen a lot of such people.
"We have to be ready. Jason squinted.
"Until the situation is completely upheavalous, we must retain the strength to protect ourselves. There was a cold glint in his eyes.
"Even we can take the initiative. "Since they didn't think of themselves as their own, then Jason wasn't going to be polite to them, and he couldn't be merciful when it was time to kill.
"But our partnership with the Kyle family ......," Ronnat said again, referring to the veins of Pure Heart Stone in the northern ice fields.
"Will it be affected?"
"The Qingxinshi veins in the north still have to be prepared for mining, and Lancelot and Gareth will immediately lead troops to attack at the beginning of next year. ”
"As for whether the Kyle family's cooperation with us will be affected, I think they have their own way of dealing with this kind of thing, and they must have made a lot of money from the war. ”
"I see, sir. Ronnet bowed his head in response, and all he had to do was swing his sword and slash the lord's enemies under his horse.
"It's unsettling. Jason looked south, and he felt that this matter was definitely not so simple, and although King Lopez's injuries had been getting worse, it was far from being too sick to be a single person.
To the east of the Kingdom of Lopez, at the border with the Duchy of Lion.
The two sides have stationed nearly 100,000 troops here, but they are only confronting each other, and have not launched a single attack.
Although the Duchy of Lion is a vassal state of the Kingdom of Lopez, his national strength is extremely strong, and his territory is one-third the size of Lopez, and the Grand Duke of Cameron of this generation is no longer under King Lopez.
After several generations of hard work, this once small country has unwittingly grown enough to wrestle with his suzerain, and this turmoil within the kingdom of Lopez is an opportunity for the Lion Principality to rise!
"Father, the other side is an army group led by Earl David Leslie 'Vulture'. "In the camp of the Duchy of Lion, a girl with long blond hair and beautiful eyes said to a middle-aged man full of majesty.
This young girl is Princess Gwendlin Cameron, who once framed Jason, and the middle-aged person is Cotton Cameron, the Grand Duke of Cameron of this generation.
The man known as the "Lion Before the King" can be the "Lion before the King" who betrayed his king and intended to overthrow the king's rule and then establish himself as king.
The "Lion Before the King" will no longer exist, and there may be a Golden Lion King in the near future!
"I don't understand, why don't we attack?" asked Gwendrin, the Earl of David who seemed to her to be a small man, though he had an army of seventy thousand men united by more than twenty nobles, large and small.
But in Gwendline's opinion, this is a rabble, and she doesn't know if she can withstand the slaughter of the heavy infantry legions of the Lion Duchy.
"The lion fights the rabbit with all his might. Grand Duke Cameron looked at his daughter kindly.
"There's a lot to learn, and if we go straight and head on, we're going to cause too many casualties, so we're going to have to wait for a chance. ”
"What chance?" Gwendlin asked puzzledly, how could there be any special opportunity for the general to fight, and in her opinion, as long as she could win, how much sacrifice was worth it.
"An opportunity that can give Lopez a total collapse on the eastern front. Grand Duke Cameron smiled mysteriously and sold off.
"......" Gwendrin didn't look into it any further, but was silent, sitting there thinking about something.
"As long as we can win this war, the dream of generations of the Cameron family will be realized, and the Lopez family will pay us back. He stood up and looked in the direction of the royal capital of Lopez, seriously full of war.
It's a pity that you can't compete with me on the battlefield, and the new nobles who have just come to power will not use Asa Lake, which is undoubtedly a huge opportunity for the Lion Duchy.
"I will conquer this land. ”