Chapter 305: Above the Court
Magical exchanges with the three southern provinces of the Varu Empire are the kindness and kindness of King Leo and Pico in return for Archduke William's promises. Don't look at William www.biquge.info don't look at the magician, the loss is not big, but at the political level, he has to withstand the pressure of Emperor Gavin XIII, and it is extremely rare to be able to do not help each other. This is also Leo, a person who has been kind to their Wagner family, if he were replaced by someone else, I am afraid that William would have eaten him alive and stripped him alive without taking any of the remains.
William was naturally extremely satisfied with Leo's return, and it was not in vain that he withstood the constant pressure exerted by the imperial capital. Although Leo had speculations about this, he did not know much about it, and Gavin XIII was furious at the court meeting about the return of the Kingdom of Lorraine to his homeland.
"Duke Solo, what are you doing with the Ministry of Inspection? Why is the Kingdom of Lorraine ready to regain the kingdom again? What are they going to do with it? With their pitiful Janissaries? How can they? How dare they?" Gavin XIII's loud and angry voice echoed in the Great Hall, and many of the nobles of the Varu Empire were silent, for fear of being noticed by the Emperor.
"Your Majesty, when King Fairman of the Kingdom of Lorraine passed away, we thought that we could take advantage of the leaderlessness of the Lorraine royal family to dismantle their ruling prestige, but we didn't expect it...... King Fairman came back to make an agreement with the Marquis of Leo. Duke Solo stood up with a blank face in the face of Gavin XIII's rage.
"Agreement, what agreement? It's Leo again, this Leo has mixed up with the Lorraine again, and the Blue Wolf Legion can't even catch any of these wastes, and he even puts his own legion commander in it. Hmph~" Gavin XIII, who was angry, blurted out, not considering the impact of these words at all.
Several military bigwigs who heard Gavin XIII's comments looked at each other and ignored each other, but it is difficult to say whether they have a mustard in their hearts.
"Our people bought General Laurent, the former royal family of Lorraine, and heard from him that Leo and King Fairman reached an agreement: Leo led his army to regain the old land for the royal family of Lorraine, and King Fellman canonized Leo as a duke, and promised the city of Pritz as a fief, allowing the establishment of a principality, allowing military and economic autonomy. As soon as Duke Solo said this, the nobles in the main hall looked at him in surprise, and they couldn't believe their ears.
King Fairman allowed Leo to set up his own country, and this kind of courage and trust is simply ...... He is worthy of a generation of wise kings.
King Fairman's decision further highlighted Gavin XIII's stinginess, narrow-mindedness, and intolerance, and also made Gavin XIII stand on his throne in astonishment, unable to recover for a long time. He knew that once the news of King Fairman's decision came out, he, the emperor who had forced Leo to defect, would become the laughing stock of the entire continent and the entire human world.
Everyone would praise King Fairman for his prowess and wisdom, but also ridicule him as a narrow-minded and useless emperor. Thinking of this, Gavin XIII felt a cramping pain in his chest, and he couldn't help but caress his chest with a pale face, and slowly leaned on the high back of the throne.
Sitting on the high throne and looking condescendingly at the powerful ministers who were silent, Gavin XIII gasped softly, knowing in his heart that these people did not know how much they laughed at and despised him in their hearts. When his eyes saw the Duke of Rawls, the Minister of State standing at the head of the Great Hall, he secretly hated the Duke of Rawls's constant instigation, so that he would drive Leo away in a daze, and even condemned him as a rebel and issued a wanted notice. In fact, from beginning to end, Gavin XIII knew very well in his heart that Leo would not rebel at all, and the current situation was caused by himself.
Thinking of this, Gavin XIII suddenly remembered something, he hurriedly leaned forward, stared at Duke Solo tightly and asked: "Leo went to the south and came into contact with the royal family of Lorraine, why didn't anyone report these news, and why didn't Archduke William stop it?" You know, the Lorraine people are all in his fiefdom, and once the Lorraine people leave, the biggest loss is their Wagner family. ”
"This ......" Duke Solo carefully organized the language, and replied in as tactful words as possible: "Archduke William must have known about Leo for a long time, but the Wagner clan owes Leo a lot of favors in raising troops to rebel and resist the invasion of the Lorraine Wizards, so Archduke William will definitely take the initiative to protect Leo, and even if Leo wants to take away the Lorraine people, Archduke William does not have any dissatisfied reaction." ”
At this moment, Gavin XIII felt that he was simply stupid, and he was simply humiliating. Even Archduke William knew about the Grace Picture and even hid Leo from the Empire. And he took the initiative to turn his back on Leo, who had helped and even saved himself and the Varu royal family. Gavin XIII felt a burst of excitement on his face, and even took his eyes off the face of Grand Duke Solo, not daring to look at him, for fear of being seen as weak in his heart.
At this time, the ministers buried their heads in their chests like quails, for fear that they would be angered by His Majesty the Emperor. Only the patriarch Nathaniel sighed and said softly: "Why is this!
Gavin XIII squinted at the old Nathaniel, the old thing getting more and more of an eyesore. If it weren't for Nathaniel's years of dominance of the Senate, his intertwined relationships among the nobility, and his protégés throughout the empire, Gavin XIII would have taken him first.
"Hmph! This Southern Grand Duke is really getting more and more disobedient, and he dares to openly disobey his will, and the heart of a wolf is simply a white-eyed wolf that cannot be raised!" Gavin XIII cursed Archduke William in annoyance, but unfortunately he had nothing to do with William. The Wagner clan has been operating in the south for so many years, and they have long built the south like an iron bucket, and the people in the south only know the grand duke of the south but do not know who the emperor is.
In recent years, there has been a lot of civil strife in the Varu Empire, and the Grizzly Bear Legion among the four major legions has not recovered so far, so it can only stay in the south as a garrison legion, and the Blue Wolf Legion has been defeated by Leo several times, and even the corps commander has been killed, and the four major legions have shrunk directly. This made Gavin XIII not have enough confidence, and he did not dare to press too the south, lest William surrender and rebel.
"Grand Duke Solo, your Imperial Inspectorate continues to infiltrate the south, and it is imperative to sabotage the quest to prevent the return of the royal family of Lorraine. This matter is the most important matter of the Empire's current affairs, and it must be done!" ordered Gavin XIII in a firm tone, and there was no excuse in his words.
Grand Duke Solo knew that this was probably Gavin XIII's attempt to play on the topic, and if he couldn't finish it, then it would be an excuse to take him down and replace. But after Gavin XIII finished speaking, he did not allow Grand Duke Solo to refute and scatter his sleeves at all.
After watching Gavin XIII leave, there was a buzz in the council hall, the nobles were discussing the names of the royal family of Lorraine, Leo and William, and only Grand Duke Solo and Nathaniel looked at each other in the chaotic crowd, and their eyes were cold.
There is a saying that the house leak happened to rain overnight, and when Gavin XIII was worried about the affairs of the south, he received a bad news from the north: the goblin clan had moved, a large group of goblins formed a legion again, and the hinterland of the empire advanced, although the green wolf army was dispatched many times to intercept it, but those goblins hid their tracks and the ability to cross mountains and mountains made the green wolf army unable to touch their whereabouts at all.
Unlike human soldiers, goblin soldiers are best at navigating the jungle, they don't need any roads at all, and in their eyes, jungle rivers and mountains and cliffs are much better than the gray wasteland. The Wolf Legion had to have a lot of trouble navigating through the woods, with soldiers with broadswords chopping up branches and leaves to open the way, and someone to transport food and supplies, and although the trees in the north were much sparser than the dense forests in the south, they still couldn't even touch the shadow of the goblins.
Among the Goblin Legions, there is a rare group of humans. The Holy Army warriors, arranged by Leo, helped Karashoe train its goblin soldiers. However, the presence of these Holy Army warriors made Karashu regret it, and under the influence of the Holy Army warriors, same-sex love also arose among the goblin tribes, and even out of worship of the superb strength of the Holy Army warriors, this same-sex love was quite popular. The male goblins, who were originally chasing after the females, now ignore the females, but instead cling to each other with the same sex, which directly caused the decline in the fertility rate of the goblin group that year.
Karashay was so angry that the Holy Army warriors taught bad goblins, but he didn't dare to go to the Holy Army warriors to theorize. The unintentional move of the Holy Army warriors has indirectly eliminated a hidden danger for the Varu Empire, and I am afraid that it will be difficult for such a thing as the Goblin Plague to occur again in the future.
Karasyu and the Saint Army warriors led the full Goblin Legion to the south day and night to round with Leo, but Gavin XIII had nothing to do with them, to catch these goblins, it would not be possible to complete it without several times the manpower, and once the entire Goblin Legion could not wipe them out, then if the fish that slipped through the net ran into the hinterland of the empire and became a disaster, it would definitely cause resentment among the people.
Gavin XIII pinched his forehead hard, groaned a few times with a headache, and threw the magic teleportation in his hand to the ground in hatred.
"The dignified Varu Empire, with tens of thousands of troops and many elites, is there no way to take those goblins?" Gavin XIII looked at the group of ministers who bowed their heads and said nothing with a gloomy face.
It's a pity that these noble ministers all seem to be counting the ants with their heads bowed, and no one answers Gavin XIII's words at all. It may be that the Minister of State Rawls, who saw that the hall was too depressed, lest His Majesty the Emperor look bad on his face, replied to Gavin XIII: "Your Majesty, although those goblins are heading towards the hinterland of the empire, it is inferred from their routes that they are heading towards the south, and they are likely to defect to the traitor Leo. ”
"It's Leo again!" Gawain XIII heard the name, and felt sensitively that others would secretly laugh at him in his heart.
"These goblins only have Leo in their hearts, and they don't know the majesty of the empire, so I'm afraid that the wild nature will be untamable, so I think we should send the Blue Wolf Legion to encircle the goblin colony and uproot the goblin clan to avoid future troubles. "The Duke of Rawls made another stupid move, meddling in military affairs as the Secretary of State.
Several military tycoons in the hall glanced at Duke Rawls with disdain, as if they were looking at a clown jumping off the beam.
"Your Majesty, you must not do this!" Before the military could react, Duke Solo objected.
Seeing that Duke Solo stood up against it, Gavin XIII's slightly softened face gathered clouds again. But Duke Solo only knew that he was dedicated to the empire, and he didn't care about His Majesty the Emperor at all, and his face was already extremely ugly at this time.
"The Goblin Clan was personally ordered by His Majesty to be annexed to the Empire, but if the Empire clears them not long after they are annexed, I am afraid that it will lose the face of the Empire. Besides, those goblins were already rooted in the Badlands Wastelands, and if they were to be cleared up, they would definitely run back to the Badlands Wastelands again, and our soldiers would be out of reach. Once again, the Northern Frontier will be plagued by goblins, which will not benefit the Empire. ”
Duke Solo has always been impartial, selfless, and does not care about other people's feelings at all, such a character is the most suitable to be the head of the Ministry of Supervision, but this kind of character has always made Gavin XIII dislike him. Now that Duke Rawls finally came up with an idea, and Grand Duke Solo stood up against, not only did Gavin XIII dislike it, but even Duke Rawls's face seemed to be dripping with yin.
"Hmph, Duke Solo, this is the prestige of destroying tens of thousands of elites of my Varu Empire!" Duke Rawls winked, and a low-ranking official willingly took the initiative to stand up and block the gun.
"Those goblin legions can escape because they travel through the mountains and forests, but the goblin colony is near the badlands wasteland, where there are all plains and hills, there is no place for them to hide, can't the Blue Wolf Legion even deal with some goblins? Duke Solo must be too underestimated to look down on the four major legions of the empire!" In order to show himself in front of Duke Rawls and the emperor, the low-ranking official didn't take Duke Solo seriously at all, and said provocatively.