Chapter 21: Upheaval in the Forest of the Moon
That night, with Audella's support, Flora climbed the crystal staircase and met her father and brother in the Temple of the Sun. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info her appearance surprised her father and the ministers, and the person with the biggest eyes was His Royal Highness Prince Auroran.
"How do you ......"
"Why did I come back, didn't I?" Flora took off her buckskin cloak and tossed it to the palace attendants, taking out the permission document from her breast pocket, "I have expired my term as a messenger of peace, and I have received permission from Prince Kail, the leader of the Hazy Moon Forest, so I am back." ”
The Sun Elf Emperor also stepped down from his throne and asked excitedly and hesitantly, "Flora, since you have received permission to return to China, why don't I know about it?"
Flora glanced at her brother from a distance, disdainful of his vicious actions, and saluted her father, "Because Prince Kayl is now in trouble, he has no extra energy to send someone to our country to inform him of this. ”
Prince Oloran trembled: "Sister, no matter how difficult it is, you can't forget to send someone to inform you of such an important matter." Don't be a fake. ”
Princess Audrey rebuked, "Brother, this is not child's play, don't talk nonsense. The permission document bears Prince Kair's magic coat of arms, which is enough to prove that it is not a forgery. ”
The emperor took the document and examined it carefully, and asked, "Daughter, since this document was signed two years ago, why did you not return to me until today?"
Flora glared at her brother angrily, and said to herself, "Don't you know the reason best?"
Auroran quickly looked away.
The ministers were almost all supporters of Prince Aurora, and of course they had to say a strong word to the prince. They questioned the princess, since the permit was genuine, it was not at all reasonable for the leader of the Moon Forest to encounter great difficulty, not only could he not escort you back to China in a beautiful manner, but he could not even send an envoy to deliver a letter.
Flora looked around at the ministers and replied aloud, "Good question, everyone. This is one of the major things that I have to say about my return to China. There has been a drastic change in the Forest of the Misty Moon, the rightful leader Prince Khail has lost his authority, and all the power of the country has fallen into the hands of the regent Grand Duke Berumar......"
Flora paused for a moment, and continued in a voice that resounded in every corner of the Holy Yang Palace: "This means that Prince Kayir, who is willing to coexist peacefully with the Golden Dawn Forest, has lost his major powers such as personnel appointments and dismissals, army scheduling, and formulating national policies, so that he can't even take care of the trivial matter of sending me back to China, and the regent who is full of hatred for the Golden Dawn Forest in his heart is already the de facto leader of the Moon Elves!"
Flora's words silenced everyone. She thought that the news she brought had touched her father and the ministers, but unexpectedly, her father slowly raised his head and asked, "Do you smell this ethereal aroma?"
"Aroma?"
Father nodded: "Just yesterday, the Moon Spirit Envoy from Muentia, the Forest of the Misty Moon, also paid tribute to the Spirit Rhinoceros Incense, conveying the meaning of peace between the two countries on behalf of Prince Kayir. I see that everything is normal in the Forest of the Moon, and it is not in crisis as you say. ”
"What?" said Princess Flora, with wide-eyed astonishment.
Prince Oloran smiled coldly: "Sister, even if it is to find a reasonable reason for secretly returning to China for herself, these words sound too childish. If there was to be a war between the two countries, it would have broken out ten years ago when you destroyed the Celestial Track, and now that the restoration of the Mithril Moon was nearing completion, there was no reason to go to war. ”
The ministers also chimed in: "That's right! A war is not beneficial to the two countries, even the officials of the upper echelons of Muntia can reach the same consensus as us!"
Flora snorted and rebuked angrily, "If the high-ranking officials you are talking about are Field Marshal Lu Dejia and Treasurer Li Wei of the Moon Forest, these two people have already been sent to the judgment seat by the Young Zhuang Officers under the Regent for accepting heavy bribes from the Sun Elves!"
This sentence shocked everyone and turned their eyes to the princess in unison, not daring to ignore it any more. The Sun Elves are not good at warfare, but they have abundant supplies, so they sometimes give large sums of money to the Moon Elves high-ranking officials to bribe them to maintain the apparent peace, which is a secret that the upper echelons of the Sun Elves keep secret. Now that the princess had said a word, they could not help but be not surprised.
"Y-What did you say?" asked Prince Auloran stammering.
"You think you've done a good job of secrecy, don't you? But I'm sorry, but the fact that Ludgar and Levi have money with you can be sung everywhere in the Forest of the Moon, even a three-year-old child. ”
The princess took out two light-stained crystals and threw them on the ground, and the projection was frozen in the moment when the two high-ranking officials were beaten to the head by stones thrown by the angry people on the judgment table. Because the picture was too bloody and the three-dimensional sense was good, the officials present subconsciously avoided it, as if the stones in the picture might fly out and hit their heads at any time.
"The Field Marshal and the Treasurer are Prince Kayir's most important right-hand men...... It can be brought down. In my mind's mind, the regent didn't have the power to rule the world, so what was he able to shake Prince Kail's power?"
The princess replied solemnly, "The power on which he depends, which the Moon Elves call 'miracles,' but it seems to me that it is an inhuman thing, something unusually dark and evil......
The regent Grand Duke Berumar is the uncle of Prince Khail, although he originally had the right to act as an agent of the court in name, but although the prince is young, he is talented, whether it is popularity or political skills, he is a lot higher than this uncle, so the prince is listened to in court affairs, and it has never been the regent's turn to intervene. In Princess Flora's initial impression, the image of the regent was just a depressed wilted uncle.
It wasn't until five years ago that the black-clad witch appeared at the Regent's side and became his staff member that everything changed.
The Black Witch is a miracle in herself, she can heal the plague that spreads in the main city with the wave of her hand, or she can command the beasts in the mountains to wipe out most of the hares that destroy the vegetation in the mountains and forests, and provide food for the people of the Moon Elves who endure famine for months. can also go alone to crusade against the bandits who are harming one party, but after a day, all those unruly grass robbers are taken into their own subordinates.
But she was by no means a gift from God, as Prince Khayl had judged when he mentioned the black witch to Flora.
Kayl was keenly aware that the aura of this country was undergoing some kind of change, and he was confident that with his strong strength and iron-blooded wrist, he could keep this country firmly in the palm of his hand forever, but suddenly one day he suddenly realized that the cornerstone of his throne was gradually being hollowed out by an invisible force, piece by piece.
The important ministers of the country on which he relied fell one after another, and the reasons for their downfall were too strong to refute. Lady Kira, who was in charge of the internal affairs of the palace, was found out by the regent and exiled thousands of miles away for stealing royal property; Sir Julian, the foreign minister who advocated peace, was sent to the gallows by the regent for betraying the country's major secrets; and Grandpa Amun, a steady and sophisticated personnel officer, was also demoted to the rank of commoner by the regent for the crime of secretly promoting relatives.
Kayl asks Flora, O princess of a foreign land, is the Lone King a ridiculous person who is easily deceived in your eyes?
Flora shook her head, Brother Ren, if you are really so easily deceived, and the court is really full of young people, we don't have to look at your face in the Forest of Jinxi, and I don't have to be a hostage in this kind of place.
Kayl was drunk and laughed heroically: "Hahaha, that's right, Your Royal Highness the princess of a foreign country, the lonely king is not even able to do such a simple thing as eliminating the dregs." Since I took power, I have cleaned up a lot of villains who think they are smart, and these ministers who have recently fallen from power have been specially entrusted with important tasks precisely because they dare not make small moves under Lone's nose. ”
Khail drank the liquor from the rhino horn cup and threw it at the princess.
"Flora, this rhino horn cup is the treasure of the Moon Elf King's family, worth a thousand gold, Lone gave it to you today, are you willing to promise that Lone will never return to the country, and stay by Lone's side as a messenger of peace for the rest of your life. ”
Seeing this, the attendant standing beside the princess quickly copied the wine glass in his hand, placed it firmly on the table of Kayl, and said politely, "I am afraid that we will not be able to agree to the good intentions of His Royal Highness the Prince." ”
This entourage is the "Ranger General" Raphael that the Guards General asked about from time to time.
Raphael was originally one of the "Three Martial Saints" of the Sun Elf Kingdom, and the Three Martial Saints refer to the "General of the Military God", "General of the Ranger" and "General of the Guard", and are the three most powerful among the Sun Elves, who are responsible for commanding the regular army, the Knights of the Jungle Bow and the Royal Guard, and are also responsible for protecting the safety of Auroran, Flora and Audreya respectively.
The princess was sent to the Forest of the Moonlight as a messenger of peace, and the Ranger General was willing to give up his position as commander of the Knights of the Jungle Bow to be a small retinue, giving her meticulous care and protection.
Raphael has a chic and gentle personality, and his strength is extremely strong, and he is a male god-level figure in the Forest of Golden Dawn. He took off his military uniform and changed into the Jungle Hunter's costume, wearing an emerald green Jungle Hunter's cloak and a goshawk's feather in his sideburns, although this dress was too ordinary, it was enough to wear it on him to make the hunter's outfit popular in the Golden Forest for ten years.
Even a lonely female general like the Guards General, when she thinks of the Ranger General, she will inevitably show a girl's gentle and shy look.
Kayl smiled and asked the princess, "Lonely's invitation, don't you agree?"
Flora burst into a rage: "What a joke! Of course I don't agree!"
"Why don't you agree?"
"Nonsense! how would anyone put the fate of his life on the line for a broken wine glass!" said Flora, franticly stepping on her stool.