Chapter XXXVIII
As soon as he raised his hand, he stopped Simon, who was about to get the sword. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 King Leo stood up and walked slowly to Luca in the middle of the hall.
"Lukka, of all the gifts these people have brought today, yours is the only one that comes from my people. I should personally come down to meet it, this is the voice of the people! How can I sit on the throne and wait for the guards to bring it to me?"
Even though King Leo walked very slowly. But his magnetic voice, the sound of slowly approaching footsteps, echoed in the quiet hall, still bringing endless pressure to everyone present.
As King Leo walked down the stairs, the princes and nobles who were originally sitting on the seats stood up one after another to welcome the arrival of the Supreme One! Walking to Luca's side, King Leo took the nameless sword stained with the sweat of Luca's palms with both hands, and caressed the glorious sword body lovingly.
"I took the sword. When I went back and told Master Leonardo da Vinci what I had said, I liked his gift very much. With that, King Leo turned and returned to his throne.
After the dedication session, the dinner continued, and the enthusiasm of everyone was extremely high.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have a word for you to listen to. Seeing that everyone drank to their hearts, King Leo also happily took a glass of wine from the wine table and saluted all the subjects present. "First of all, I would like to thank all of you. I am very touched by the sacrifice of the princes who have given up the time to spend the festive season with their loved ones, and instead of enjoying the joy of family at home, they have come to my palace to accompany me to welcome the new year. With that, King Leo raised his hand and drank the wine from his glass in one gulp.
"Your Majesty is a blessing to our country, and it is our blessing as courtiers to be able to accompany Your Majesty to spend the festive season. An old man from a southeastern mountain village stood up and saluted the king in return.
"Yes! Without His Majesty's hard work in the past few years, I am afraid that the current Behrent would have been weak. The other minister was also happy, and quickly stood up and said.
Obviously, the minister's point of view is the mainstream here. The crowd, which had just been quiet for a short time, began to boil again.
"Everyone, be quiet. Seeing this, King Leo stretched out his hand to suppress the enthusiasm of the crowd. "The merits and demerits of our own descendants will judge, and our achievements today will be scored by the people of the world. ”
"I invite you all to gather today to thank you for your efforts over the past few years. My decree is important, but without all of you doing your best to help me, our country would not be able to prosper today. ”
Recalling the bits and pieces of the past few years, King Leo was a little sad.
"It's been five years since I succeeded to the throne. I think that in the early days of the succession to the throne, the rebel Marquis Dax bullied me for being weak, and not only openly raised the banner in the southwest to start a civil strife, but also shamelessly colluded with the Kingdom of Gabes, in a vain attempt to take advantage of this to attack my Apocalypse City! It took only three years to exterminate them, and the southwest has now been pacified! And after two years of cultivation, our country has completely come out of the initial sorrow! I would like to thank all of you here, without your concerted efforts to help me, Belente would not be as prosperous as it is now! Come, cheers, everyone, for the glorious future of Berent!"
King Leo's words made the crowd angry, and they all picked up their glasses and drank them all.
"But I also want to remind everyone. After drinking, King Leo changed his words. "At this moment, Behrent has just recovered from the wounds of war, and the wounds in the hearts of the people have not yet healed. Some of you can't bear it anymore, and think that the kingdom of Haman on the southeastern border has provoked us several times, and we should send troops to fight us. You don't want to think that the kingdom of Haman is only an archipelago country, and its land area is less than one-third of our country. In terms of development, troops, and resources, how can we compare with Berente? No matter how strong he is at sea, it will be difficult for him to penetrate our interior. What's more, before the soldiers and horses moved the grain and grass, our treasury is now abundant, but now the treasury has just filled its stomach. How long can we hold out on to the current grain and grass when we really start a war? Not to mention the shortage of our navy. The contest between our nations is about interests! If we fight with Haman now, will we gain benefits? It will only be a waste of the treasury!"
"The stability and peace that the kingdom has achieved today have not come easily, and I hope that you and I will be determined to seek development. When we have a wide range of soldiers, not to mention a Haman country, even our feud Gabes, I dare to send troops to recruit and rebuild the former glory of my Belente! But this matter is not what we should consider now, I have invited a lot of young talents to this banquet, I tell you that these are not only to ask you young people to listen to us, but also to let you think more, the construction of Behrent is inseparable from any of them here! Now, let me seek development well, and when you are old, your successor will continue to move forward with the efforts of your predecessors. The development of the kingdom requires the efforts of generation after generation, not for a while, and when the time comes, I will naturally make the most suitable decision for the development of Belente!"
As soon as His Majesty's words fell, the originally dark night sky of Apocalypse City suddenly burst into light, and bursts of crackling sounds began to resound. It turned out that it was close to midnight, and it was the time for everyone to celebrate the New Year!
Looking at the dazzling fireworks in the night sky, everyone was excited.
"Come, for the future of Belende, for the people to be able to celebrate the festival happily every year like today, cheers!" said King Leo as the first to drink the wine in his glass.
"For Brente!" everyone drank their glasses of wine.
When the banquet was over, Liang Feng came out of the palace. Salong was so drunk at the moment that he couldn't even walk, so he stumbled to the palace gate with Liang Feng's support.
"Cheers, for victory, for Behrend!"
Saron, who was a mess of mud, muttered unarticulately. Looking at his unconscious friend, Liang Feng was a little helpless. I didn't expect the usually iron-blooded Saron to have such a temperament, just by virtue of His Majesty's words, the battle-hardened general was drunk happily.
"Hey, you're so drunk, how can I send you back?" Just when Liang Feng was embarrassed by the address of his friend's house, a delay appeared, and Salon's father, Duke Bell, happened to come out of the inner courtyard of the palace.
"We soldiers are the people's shield and the sword of the kingdom...... for no reason, when Liang Feng and Salon handed it over to Duke Bell, Saron suddenly said this.
"You ......" looked at his friend's face in the shadows, if it weren't for the strong smell of alcohol on his body, Liang Feng would even think that Saron was sober.
That's his motto and why he joined the army in the first place. Thank you. Duke Bell, who saw everything in his eyes, stretched out his hand to hold his son, and then got into the carriage and went home.