Chapter 237: Wish-Fulfillment (2)
"Law...... Well. Ryan. Adela sat down next to Vivien and immediately spoke: "At present, Cassano's side is quite stable, a new batch of fighters have been trained, and there are ......"
Seeing that Adela couldn't wait to report back to him on the construction of the territory, Ryan waved his hand casually and said, "There's no need to say this, I can trust you, Adra." β
Adra's face flushed, and her body trembled slightly, because she didn't expect that she would have such a high position in Ryan's heart, and she would ignore it after handing over the power of Cassano to herself, or Adela herself would definitely not be able to do it. Of course, Adela didn't know that Ryan didn't plan to personally intervene in the trivial matters in the territory at all, as long as he kept his magical deterrent power steadily increasing, and maintained the guidance of the general direction of the entire territory.
"You, do you believe me that way?" Adela whispered.
"Fool!" Vivien patted Adela lightly on the back, and said in a strange tone, "I said that we are good sisters, don't we still believe you?"
Adra's heart was even more moved, she had learned about Vivian's situation from her father Adams, and now Vivian regarded herself as a good sister in front of Ryan, obviously not forgetting the original agreement between the two, and Ryan just smiled and didn't say anything, which shows that Ryan also approves, what else makes Adela more excited than this? When she governed Cassano, she basically did it with the intention of currying favor with Ryan, how to make Cassano's strength thrive, how to make Ryan happy, Adela would do it meticulously, and now everything she did has been rewarded, is there anything better than this?
"Okay, Adra, in the future, I will try to leave the affairs of Cassano territory to you to manage, after all, I am not good at managing a piece of land. Ryan looked at the somewhat incredulous look on Adra's face, and said with a smile: "Of course, some big things, such as the appointment and dismissal of personnel in important positions, Cassano's diplomacy and foreign strategy, we still have to discuss more, as for those daily things, don't you have a council, then deal with them according to the division of labor in the council." β
Adela moved in her heart, she heard two meanings from Ryan's words, one is naturally that she still has to ask Ryan's opinion on important matters, after all, this territory now belongs to Ryan, and he hands it over to others to manage, which does not mean that he has handed over his power, and the other layer is about the diplomacy mentioned by Ryan, because ordinary territories have no diplomatic power, obviously Ryan does not intend to turn Cassano into a vassal of the imperial capital, even if Ryan and Farath marry, Cassano is only an ally of the imperial capital and not a subsidiary.
With these two layers of meaning, Adela was suddenly relieved, the first layer showed that Ryan did not intend to use Cassano and leave, he would still continue to govern the land as the overlord of Cassano, and the latter layer of meaning also reassured the power layer of the original Cassano led by Adams, Ryan would not sacrifice Cassano's interests to curry favor with the imperial capital.
In fact, Adela didn't know that Ryan had already discussed with Faraz by doing this, for the current imperial capital, their own territory and population were enough, and they didn't want Cassano to add a fraction to the far south, and once the two were married, Cassano would be incorporated into the imperial capital, which would definitely discourage other forces that had a good impression of the emperor, and the third and most important reason was that Cassano was unified because he surrendered to Ryan's feet, not the imperial capital, and forcibly turned Cassano into a province of the imperial capital, which could only cause a big messγ
"Okay, it's rare to see each other, why do you keep saying this?" Vivien deliberately pretended to be unhappy, and Ryan and Adela stopped talking about government affairs as she wanted, and instead played tarot cards with Vivien. Because Vivian was seriously injured and bedridden, she slowly became obsessed with the game of tarot cards, but the level of those maids who served her was not very good, and every time she deliberately lost to Vivian, she was noticed by Vivian, so Vivian simply stopped letting them play with her, and now with Ryan and Adela, Vivian is going to have a good time.
"Ha, I won again. Vivien placed the last two "Human Crossbowman" cards on the table, and couldn't help but laugh as she looked at Ryan, who had at least ten or more left.
"Hey, Vivien, you're amazing, are you sure you've only been studying for less than ten days?" Adela sighed as she put down the remaining cards in her hand and counted out two gold coins and handed them to Vivien. In fact, when it comes to card skills, Adela has at least ten years of experience since she was a child, and she is definitely far ahead of Vivien, just now she didn't deliberately play the wrong card, then Vivian's two "human crossbowman" cards don't want to play, and the winner can only be Adela.
When Vivien won, Adela had just one Naga and a Lich left in his hand, which was not small, but it was not a pair, and according to the rules, Vivien's two cards were not in pairs. However, although Adela lost, he didn't lose much, and the most important thing was that Vivien would never notice that Adela was letting herself, unlike the group of almost idiot maids, who kept a pair of "** division" cards that could kill 70% of the "** division" cards in their hands, and they didn't dare to win Vivian's poor two smallest "human farmers" , lest she be angry after winning Vivian, but I don't know that this kind of game must have to win or lose to have fun, of course, the one who wins more is the happiest, such as Vivian, who is now watching Ryan count the gold coins.
Vivien smiled and watched Ryan count 17 gold coins, which meant that Ryan still had 17 cards in hand, obviously losing badly. Looking at the almost small mountain of gold coins in front of him, and then at the last two tight gold coins left in front of Ryan, Vivien teased Ryan and said, "Do you want me to lend you some?"
Ryan rubbed his nose with a wry smile, he naturally heard what Vivian meant, but if he could make Vivian happy, it would be nothing to be a clown himself, anyway, none of the people present were outsiders. Ryan didn't let Vivien, but he himself was not even fully familiar with the rules of this tarot card, let alone all kinds of card skills, but today his luck was incomparably worse, and the cards in his hand would always be a little worse than Vivian, so the 500 gold coins per person were only the last two in just 2 hours.