Chapter 458: Conspiracy

Appearing in front of the two was the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, but he was wearing a nightgown, soft-soled cloth slippers on his feet, and he did not carry any weapons on his body, as if he had woken up in the middle of the night to take a few sips of water. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Lorist patted Jenorio on the shoulder, motioned for him to withdraw his sword, and asked strangely, "Why are you here?"

"Hehe, I can't sleep, get up and take a walk, the moonlight is beautiful tonight, and I will come to you unconsciously......" said Grand Duke Fisabrun.

Lorist pouted, with a look of contempt, Lie to the ghost, old man, the villa where you live is still three houses away from me, and you sneaked around to my back garden, and even hid from the guards who kept vigil on the periphery, did you wander out unintentionally?

"Let's go to the study. Lorist turned and left, not bothering to talk nonsense to the old man.

Although Genorio was tall and strong, he was very sensitive and very good at reading eyes, so he went into the study first, lit the candles, and carefully closed the curtains, and then asked Lorist, "Your Highness, do you need anything?"

"Go get some appetizers, and bring some good bottles of wine from the cellar. When you're done, go and rest, it's late at night. Lorist said.

Genolio answered and went out, but the Grand Duke of Fisabrun was full of light: "Duke Kenmeth is more respectful to you than Your Majesty, and the best villa here is reserved for you to live in, and he has sent all his treasured good wines to your cellar." This time, His Majesty only gave up his own residence, but did not let you move out of this house......"

His Royal Highness had hurried over a few days ago, and as a matter of custom, the most luxurious villa here should be given up as his lodging place. But because he came without telling him, the best villa here has been occupied by Lorlist. Duke Kenmax was also very slippery, he didn't mention it at all, but gave up his house to His Second Highness, and then moved himself to a small house on the edge of the villa area, which left those who wanted to see the joke speechless.

No one dared to come to the door to ask Lorist to give up the house to His Majesty the King, not even His Royal Highness the Second Highness, he said to the nobles, first come, first come, I am just an uninvited guest, Duke Kenmeth even gave me his own house, what else can I accuse him?

In fact, everyone knows in their hearts that if Lorist is asked to give up the house to His Second Highness, then Lorist will definitely do it, but then he will immediately pat his ass and go back to the Northland, and then His Royal Highness's plan will be all in vain.

"Do you know how many bottles of good wine this guy Kenmath has taken from me with a drink? "Lorist invited the Grand Duke of Fisabrun to take a seat.

After contacting this old man for a long time, Lorist found out that this old man was a grand duke and a third-level great swordsman, but he was a greedy and lustful guy, and he really didn't understand how he became a three-great swordsman. Especially good wine, the same as Duke Kenmeth, but Duke Kenmeth can go into Lorlist's study to find good wine in the wine cabinet, and this old man can't enter the study, but he has another way, every time he comes to participate in the New Year's celebration in previous years, he will soon disappear, and then he can be found in the wine cellar.

All the good wine of Lorist is not bought, but trophies. When the slave kingdom on the Hanea Bada Islands was destroyed, the most harvested was all kinds of fine wine treasured in the estates of those slave nobles, adding up to tens of thousands of bottles. At that time, Lorist also wanted to enjoy these fine wines as the soldiers of the family's armed forces, but was stopped by Shi Fatzi. Shi Fatzi said that the lowest price of these wines was worth a few kimfords, and the highest was worth nearly a thousand, and they couldn't tell the difference between good and bad wine for the soldiers to enjoy, which was a waste.

As a result, tens of thousands of bottles of good wine were transported back to the Northland for storage, and in the past ten years, the various events held by the family, such as New Year's celebrations and other celebrations, plus rewards and daily consumption of Lorlist, almost 10,000 bottles have been lost. Ever since the Grand Duke of Fisabrun came to the Norton family for the New Year's celebrations, he went to the cellar every day to choose two or three bottles of fine wine throughout the winter and rainy season. I had to take two boxes back with me when I left.

Roughly calculated, every time the old man came to the New Year's celebration, he drank about 300 bottles of good wine, and the angry and distressed Director Speer cursed him to drink to death. It's a pity that Grand Duke Fisabrun, as a third-level great sword master, is strong and healthy, and can eat and drink, and he can't help but curse him. As the grandfather of Princess Celevia, the mother of the Norton family, every time he came to the cellar, it was like visiting his own vegetable garden, and Director Speer had to greet him warmly with a smile......

"Tell me, what's the matter with me in the middle of the night when you don't sleep?" said Loristra pulled a chair and sat down in front of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun.

"It's okay, I'm really just hanging out. "The old man is still stiff-mouthed.

"Do you think I'll believe it?" Lorist said disdainfully, "Did Your Majesty let you touch my bottom?"

"Nope. The old man flatly denied: "I came here so late to hide it from him." ”

"Really, what are you up to?" said Lorlist, saying to himself, this old man is treacherous, and I need to be on guard.

Grand Duke Fisabrun leaned back and sat down on the sofa: "I don't have any ideas at all. I just wanted to come over and ask why you didn't want to send troops. ”

"Do you still need to think about it? What do you say I will do when I send troops to help Your Majesty? He has promised you all good terms, but what benefits can he give us to the Norton family? He does not have as much money as our family, and we have reached the top of the title, and it is even more impossible to increase the territory. I don't want to say anything about the righteousness of unifying and reviving the empire, that's nonsense to fool people. All I know is that it is impossible for our Norton soldiers to die for the so-called great good. "Lorist told the truth.

"Well, what you say is true. Grand Duke Fisabrun nodded in agreement. This is also the tradition of the aristocracy, interests first, there is no conflict of interest, it is a group of harmony, with interests immediately is the brother to settle the account, the white knife in and the red knife out, every bit must be calculated clearly. Those who learn from Lei Feng are either treated as fools or suspected of ill intentions.

"By the way, what conditions and benefits did Your Majesty promise you to the Fisabrun family to agree to send troops?" asked Lorist.

"I haven't promised to send troops yet. Grand Duke Fisabrun replied.

"What did you say?" Lorist was stunned: "Why didn't you agree to send troops?"

Archduke Fisabrun, who originally thought that he would be the first to respond to the request of His Royal Highness to send troops to the war, did not agree to send troops, which really aroused Lorist's curiosity.

"Very simply, I told Your Majesty that if the Norton family does not send troops, then the Fisabrun family cannot send troops either. Because the Fisabrun family forces have always regarded the Norton family forces as their biggest opponents. If the Nortons refuse to send troops, then we can't send troops in order to prevent them. The old god of Fisabrun replied.

"You ......" Lorlist's eyes suddenly became unkind, "Old man, do you think that our Norton family is not enough to roast on the fire, and they are pouring fire oil on the fire?"

The old man clearly disliked that the conditions and prices offered to him by His Royal Highness were not qualified, and it was not good to excuse himself in person, so he pulled the Norton family out as a shield.

"You're doing a good job...... But do you think Your Majesty will believe your words?" Lorist sneered.

"Your Majesty believes it or not, I don't know, anyway, I do. "The old man was very calm.

Lorist stretched out his thumb: "Old man, you are too brazen, you have been running our family to participate in the New Year's celebration every year for the past three years, and you have drunk so much good wine from our family, do you really think that Your Majesty is a deaf and fool and does not know your whereabouts?"

The old man was very calm: "What if you know, don't forget that I am Celivia's own grandfather, go and see what my granddaughter has to do with it." Besides, Your Majesty is concerned about whether there is any military cooperation between our two countries. I have already admitted that your four alliances in the north force our family to buy so many daily necessities and civilian materials every year, but they refuse to sell us armaments, and Your Majesty has also persuaded me to be patient and not to have a conflict with you, so that I can compromise and beg for everything......"

Lorist was speechless, this old man deserved to be an old fox, and in a few words, he cleared up the relationship with himself, and said that he came to participate in the New Year's celebration every year as his own humiliation, and said that the business activities of the Fisabrun family and the four northland families were forced and oppressed, and then the second highness, whose mind was full of the great cause of the unification of the empire, actually believed his lies......

Lorist shook his head and sighed: "You old man is two-faced, seeing the wind and steering the rudder, when the second prince established the Iberian Kingdom, your Fisabrun family was still behind him. Now that you have become your Majesty's in-laws, Your Majesty's trust in you is more important than our Norton family, who have been serving the kingdom, is simply unreasonable. ”

"Hehe......" said the Lord of Fisabrun, when there was a knock at the door, and Genorio came in with some bottles of good wine, and brought in a few plates of food from the hands of several servants outside the door, and then said goodbye to Lorliste and left.

The old man's eyes lit up as he picked up a bottle of good wine, pulled out the pine cork, poured himself a glass and drank it all, and then poured wine into the silver cup in front of Lorlist.

"Tell me, what conditions did Your Majesty give you to displease with throwing the pot on our heads?" asked Lorlist, sipping the wine from the silver cup.

"It's nothing, it's nothing more than a promise to give our family territory another 200,000 immigrants, but we want our family to send two legions......"

Lorist smiled: "I think that's the case, Your Majesty can't offer any better conditions." Don't forget that if our Norton family falls in the future, your Fisabrun family will soon become the greatest taboo in your majesty's heart......"

"So we're using your Norton family as an excuse for you to fall on the sky. As long as we regard you as our greatest enemy, Your Majesty will always respect our family. However, if he wants to use 200,000 immigrants to send our Fisabrun family to work for him, he has a wonderful idea. The old man said something rebellious indignantly.

"Tell me, what do you want?" asked Lorlist, amused.

"We want to have a province in the hinterland. The old man replied.

"Hmm......." Lorlist's hand shook and he almost dropped his glass: "Is this possible? stop dreaming, old man, you should go back to wash and sleep after drinking too much......

"Of course it is. The old man said solemnly: "If you are willing to cooperate, this condition will easily be accepted by Your Majesty." Also, I've only drunk two glasses, and I haven't arrived at a bottle, how can I get drunk. ”

"Really? You're not drunk? Think about it, your Fisabrun family, like our Norton family, has one crown territory and two jurisdictions, and that's the end of it. Why would Your Majesty give your family another province of territory, isn't he worried that our two families' power is not growing fast enough?" Lorist scoffed.

"That's why I think it's a good opportunity now, you and I both know that the first step of His Majesty's strategy this time, that is, to recover the provinces of Swiv, Portoorg, Cambona and the Northwest Territories, is easy to achieve, and the two provinces of the former Principality of Rum need to be negotiated to settle it. It is likely that there will not be a major war, and His Majesty will only use his strength to suppress people, relying on an army of nearly a million to force the business alliance to return the two provinces and reach an agreement.

In terms of risk, His Majesty's plan was highly successful, and it was beneficial to participate in this war. It's just that our two families still need greater benefits, and it's not that His Majesty will send us away by leaking a little benefit from between his fingers. If you and I cooperate with each other more skillfully, Your Majesty will meet the requirements of our two families. "The old man is kind and persuasive.

Lorist shook his head: "I still don't want to get involved, this war is not good for our family. ”

"Aren't you interested in Makinohara Province?" said Grand Duke Fisaburun.

"Huh...... So what's the matter?Is Your Majesty going to canonize Makinoha Province as the domain of our Norton family?Also, what are you thinking, don't forget that Makinoha Province is the territory of your Fisabrun family......" Lorist stared at the old man.

"My idea is good for both of us, you just have to keep that in mind. In the next two days, His Majesty will come to you to negotiate the conditions for sending troops, and you will tell him that if he asks him to transfer Makinohara Province to you as a jurisdictional territory, you will agree to send troops......"

"To put it simply, what do I want Makinoha Province to use as an excuse?"

"Silly boy, don't you say that just in case, you are worried that our Fisaburun family will launch a surprise attack on the Northland? If you look at the map, you will understand that with Makinohara Province, no one can directly raid the Northland, and this is also for the safety of the Northland family's territory...... As long as you insist that Makinohara Province be the territory under your jurisdiction before agreeing to send troops, then Your Majesty will have to consult with me......" The old man analyzed it very clearly.

Lorist laughed: "Then you want Your Royal Highness to take out a hinterland province to compensate your Fisabrun family, don't you? But I don't understand, your Fisabrun family has developed well in the northeast steppe, why do you want an inland province to be a family territory? Dividing the family power into two halves is easier for people to break ...... separately."

Grand Duke Fisabrun sighed, "Boy, when the relatives in your Norton family grow stronger, you will understand the difficulties of being the head of the family. If it were in the inland provinces, the three provinces of our Fisaburun family's territory would have been completely divided up long ago. But in the Northeast Prairie, we can't do this, we can only stay warm together, and we can survive in unity.

Today, there are nearly 1,000 members of our family, the good and the bad are uneven, and there are intrigues and contradictions inside. Even as the head of my family, sometimes I can't do anything about something. That's why we want a mainland province to kick out all the eyes in the family and let them fend for themselves in the territory of that inland province, which is called a division of the family, which is a way to preserve the family's bloodline, in fact, this is also a kind of self-purification of the family, so as to stabilize the foundation of the family territory, understand?"

Lorist was silent.

The Grand Duke of Fisabrun drained the remaining wine from the glass in one gulp, reached out and grabbed two bottles of good wine, stood up, and said, "You have a plan in your heart, and I should go too, lest I be discovered." Remember, as long as you insist on Makinohara Province, the rest of Your Majesty will consult with me, hehe, he will agree to our conditions. Without our two of us, he wouldn't have much confidence in this war!"

The Grand Duke of Fisabrun walked away unconsciously, while the candles in Lorlist's study were lit until dawn.

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