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"There are not too many people who send charcoal in the snow, and there are not enough people who add fuel to the fire, for the Ian family at this time, whether it is the imperial nobles or the church, there will never be many people who can stand with you, Your Excellency should not be confident enough to be able to fight against the nobles and priests of the entire South Ridge with the current strength of the new model army, right?" Wenceru shook his head, and was not angry, but only persuaded further.

"Don't worry about that. Seeing that Vateruw didn't take the bait, Evan Ian retracted his sneer with some smuggling.

As for the famous Divine Duke, Evan Ian was not at ease enough to reach out and form an alliance with him without any doubts. In fact, as Wenceru said, the strength in his hands was only just showing the tip of the iceberg, and when other unknown people were eager to escape as far as possible, only Katerina not only did not dodge, but took the initiative to stick to it......

If it weren't for other plans, this thing would be a true love party for the Nanling cliff!

"Ahem......" The train of thought suddenly went astray, Evan Ian couldn't help but cough a little in Wenceru's strange gaze, and put away the strange thoughts in his heart, Evan Ian held his cheeks and changed his sitting posture: "Are you an enemy of the nobles of Quannanling?" I don't think the situation seems to be so serious. ”

"Now besides the church and those Southridge nobles, is there anyone else who plans to get along with the Ian family?"

Evanian decided to play dumb for now.

Vátsru's gaze changed slightly: "Actually, before I came to the Duke's Palace, I went to Wenning District for some things, and then I found some people with strange appearances-"

"Your Excellency shouldn't know who those people with ulterior motives are, right? And in the eyes of Grand Duke Katarina, the people who have ulterior motives for Nanling and have special thoughts may be far more than just these people who have jumped to the surface, right?"

Evangel nodded noncommittally, and Wenceru's answer was decent, if he had taken the initiative to tell Evangel what his enemies were. He really has to think about it, because if you think about it from another perspective, no one wants to have a bunch of pig teammates who can't even see who the enemy is, and people who know that this premise has to stick their faces to their buttocks, then their hearts will definitely be punished.

It was only after testing Katerina's sincerity a little that Evan Ian hesitated.

Because the phrase "don't worry about Your Excellency" is really not a polite word, he didn't have the idea of confronting these people from the beginning. There is no intention of putting the new model army soldiers and Republicans who have worked so hard to train and die one less to fight for their lives with those bastards.

So what Caterina conceived of as "sending charcoal in the snow" or something, it was pure wishful thinking to send charcoal to the kang - the icing on the cake, more than him, less than him, like chicken ribs. It's embarrassing for Evangel.

However, when he thought of the other party's request, it was actually not so embarrassing for him, just like the white wolf with empty gloves, don't want the benefits in vain, and then give up is a hopeless fool.

But with his mind determined, Evan Ian showed a completely different attitude on his face.

Evan Ian flicked his knee a little nonchalantly, "I'm sorry, Lord Wenceru. As you said, the Silver Rose family is full of enemies these days, so I can't trust you so easily after considering your request for an alliance. However, benevolence and righteousness are not business, and today's Nanling is also a commercial land, in business, if you are really so eager for Nanling's technology, then please seriously exchange it for trading. Instead of using such vague 'full support'. ”

Wenceru's expression was a little grim, but he couldn't help but feel Katerina's foresight in his heart.

For the old foxes of the empire like Katarina, the peace oath or something is something that can be bypassed if you want to find an excuse and loophole, such as this year, when the Silver Rose family and the Nanling Kingdom tore up the armistice agreement and started the war again, it is completely unclear who made the first move. It is even very likely that the first to strike was not the Nanling people at all, but some forces from outside the Nanling with ulterior motives.

Politics is not child's play, and every politician carries the future and destiny of countless people, so they can't help but make every most prudent choice. And only politicians are like clowns who love to put on a show and act on the election stage.

Therefore, the distance between politics and ideals is the closest, and it is always the farthest, and what is measured in front of a politician and his ideals is usually only a scale, and there are many chips on the scale, and these chips are interests.

Interests are the heaviest bargaining chips in politics, and there is absolutely no need to worry about the possibility of betrayal before the benefits of betrayal do not outweigh the benefits of the alliance, so compared to the pale words written on the article, the common interest kidnapping is always the best covenant in the world. And for the little fox like Evan Ian, who is only 15 years old, but has already grown into a young man, and is so sophisticated that he can knock down those old foxes in the world of money one after another, only the most definite interests can really move him.

After careful consideration, and after thinking that there was indeed no other way, Wenceru finally reached into his arms and took out a small box.

He opened the small box in front of Evanian, revealing a thumb-sized ice-blue crystal.

"This is?" Evan Ian frowned, "Engrams?"

Engrammatics are a bit like otherworldly versions of CD disks, depending on the level, they can burn text or drawings of different capacities, and even videos, but because they are extremely expensive, no one is generally bored enough to burn any inconsequential AV films.

Wenceru, who was carefully pinching the small box, said something that made Evan Ian's heart stop beating violently-

"This is a complete set of drawings of the Church's airship technology from ten years ago. ”

"From the ultra-lightweight armor, the anti-prophecy system, the super-cavitating inner cavity, and even the super-large magic engine that the Silver Rose family wants the most, all of them are included, but with the power of Archduke Caterina, he can only secretly collect the old information from ten years ago, which should be more than enough to exchange for the artillery and golem manufacturing technology of Nanling. ”

Evan Ian was really stunned this time. He pinched his temples hard, and what did he hear? Airship Clams Clams...... It turned out to be an airship......

You're a hell of an airship, bastard!

What is an airship?

In the era when there were no aircraft carriers, the ironclad giant ship was the absolute hegemon of the sea, the absolute guarantee of sea dominance, and in the era of global strategic territory, it had sea dominance. It is equivalent to having the initiative in war, and having sea supremacy is equivalent to being invincible, until sea supremacy is replaced by air supremacy.

And what about airships?

In the empire that has a sea border in the east, and all its territories are inland, airships are equivalent to ironclad giant ships, air gunboats and strategic transport aircraft, which integrate air and sea supremacy.

Until now, the empire has not had a weapon that can shoot down airships thousands of meters above the ground with a single blow. The only few airship battle damage records in the history of the empire were also set by the people of Edhill during the Twenty Years War with Nanling.

After shaking violently to the naked eye, Evan Ian suppressed his mood and confirmed to Wenceru once more: "What type of airship is this?frigate?destroyer?cruiser?or...... Battleship?"

Evan Ian's voice trembled a little when he talked about the battleship, if he really gave him the design drawings of the battleship. He also has a golden opportunity period for fart, directly "ypa!", flipping the table with the emperor to flash people, and creating an empty mother to play "waaagh!" directly on the empire's mainland.

However, it turned out that things could not go as smoothly as he imagined.

Wenceru shook his head: "I'm sorry, I think Your Excellency is also very clear that we only teach cruiser technology, and all the technical indicators of the battleship class are more than double that of cruisers, except for the Imperial Academy of Sciences." No other place has the manufacturing technology to do so. ”

"Cut, second-class...... Evan Ian took the opportunity to restrain the surprise on his face, and planned to sit on the ground and raise the price, "It's so-so, but it's just a church cruiser ten years ago, and it's not as good as the active equipment of the Ninth Airmobile Crusader, right?

"Except for the Divine Duke Caterina who is blessed by both the gods and the Empire. No one would dare to risk offending both the Church and the Emperor and sell you the technology of the airship. However, Wenceru's answer was confident, "And at present, we are only looking at the possibilities in the Nanling technology, and whether it can reflect the value we expect in the end." I have to buy it back and study it before I can understand. ”

“...... Hmph, I don't understand what you say, it's obvious that Duke Caterina also knows very well that she will offend the church and the emperor by doing so, so where is her confidence in still acting like this?"

Wenceru nodded: "To tell you the truth, there is a request, nominally we are messengers sent by the Church, in the name of the Alliance, to redeem Sister Kate Kosner, her presence is necessary for the Church. ”

“...... Kate......" Wenceru said this, and Evan Ian understood that Katarina's "betrayal" was actually tacitly approved by the church, but that woman was indeed shrewd, fooling the entire church into it, and blatantly acting as a double agent.

However, after all, a double agent is a double agent, and a double agent who has no faith and only interests is a natural wall-to-wall grass, with two sides and two knives, if he really believes in Wenceru's request for an alliance, it is really difficult to say whether it is a two-rib knife or a two-sided one.

As for Kate...... Even Abbels, Elmens, and Glansnow don't want truth-level powerhouses like Abel, and they want to release this inconspicuous Miss Saintess by name, the meaning of which is very worth pondering, and this is probably one of Katerina's intentional reminders.

"Is it worth more than three truth-level priests to match...... "Ivan thought silently in his heart, "It seems that the only special thing about her is her status as a former saint...... I always feel that the church in this world is weird, and things like saints don't seem to be meaningless. ”

From a normal point of view, this request should be refused, even if it requires the release of Abel, a man who is more difficult on the surface.

But from another point of view, this may also be Caterina's plan to indulge, if he refuses to release Kate at this time, and the other party asks to exchange Abel, the only condition of Caterina's real subordinate is difficult to refuse - after all, after the exchange of interests, they are allies in the sense of the word.

Although there is no harmony on the surface, there is also detachment behind the scenes.

After much consideration-

Evan Ian raised his head, looked at Wenceru and smiled, "Since your church is so eager for Miss Kate's return, then I might as well do it as a favor and release her." ”

Looking at Václus's surprised expression, Evan Ian couldn't say how proud he was, yes, he didn't know what the hell the church was up to, but at least judging from the way they trained soldiers and priests, what they needed was iron-blooded soldiers and highly brainwashed executors.

But now Kate has been trained by him in a subtle way for more than a month, and she is no longer the obedient baby she was originally obedient to, and it is really hard to say what kind of interesting chemistry will occur when such a former saintess substitute is taken back by the church to engage in a secret plan that cannot be used for outsiders.

Wenceru looked at Evan Ian with strange eyes, he had seen the death, but he had never seen the death so deliberate, but since the other party intended to do so, probably there were other considerations, and he was not good at continuing to persuade, so after nodding at Evangel, he also planned to end the conversation.

However, after further negotiating some details, Evan Ian suddenly asked in a nonchalant tone, as if he had suddenly remembered, "Speaking of which, what did Caterina do with buying these golems and artillery technology back?"

"Such a dangerous technology is not like something that needs to be used by children to play with it. ”

Watsru stood up, flapped his hat, hesitated slightly, turned his back to Evan Ian, and said lightly in a low tone-

"Who knows, it's not going to be used against demons. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to read. )