After listening to Paul's explanation, Ryan pondered for a moment and said, "I don't have the habit of doing things halfway, but my patience is not very good!"

"Seven days, I only need seven days!" Paul categorically gave a deadline: "If I can't contact the maid at my master's side within seven days, then I'll leave it to you!"

Ryan didn't speak, just nodded reservedly, and agreed to Paul, who bowed deeply to him and then turned around and left the room.

Ticylis slowly walked over to Ryan, sat down on a chair, and said in a slightly bitter tone, "Actually, I don't know who among those subordinates can trust. ”

"Oh?"

Tixilis sighed, spread out a map and laid it flat on the table, Ryan and Faras gathered around, listening to Ticilis slowly explain: "This is the entire eastern region, but the area I can directly rule is only one-third of it, and the rest are either fiefs of other families, or some vassal kingdoms, duchies, and tribes, of course, there are many rather desolate areas occupied by rebels. ”

"There are a total of ten huge families in the entire empire, and our royal family is naturally ranked first. When the empire was greatly expanded, it had repeatedly divided the frontier lands and left them to run their own affairs, and when the foundation for further expansion had been laid, a new offensive would be launched. After a long time, although the territory of the empire is getting bigger and bigger, the lords of the ten major families are intertwined, which of course allows everyone to monitor each other and avoid a certain family from challenging the majesty of the imperial family after sitting on the throne in a short period of time, but it also leads to the dispersion of their own power. ”

"In the entire eastern region, there are a total of 400,000 elite Naga troops, 700,000 ordinary soldiers, and 1.1 million local garrisons. Among the more than 2 million soldiers, I can directly control no more than 600,000, among which the 100,000 elites who are really useful are the 100,000 elites of the Tixilina Fortress, as well as the 60,000 elites deployed in the Seren Fortress in the northeast and a total of 70,000 elites stationed in several fortresses in the Narenas region in the south. The Empire is currently at war with the outside world, but the Seryn Fortress is tasked with defending against the invasion of the barbarian lobsters and lokka fishmen beyond its borders, and this army is simply immobile. As for the Narenas region in the south, it is an area where rebel activities are frequent, and if it is not for these 70,000 elites to forcibly suppress it, I am afraid that my territory will already be in flames. ”

"In this case, I can suppress the other families and control the entire territory, all relying on these 100,000 elite warriors stationed in the fortress of Tisilina. In order to ensure that this force absolutely obeys my orders, I promoted 4 generals to command a part of the army, and consciously increased the discord between them, so that there was no need to worry about them uniting against me, but now 3 of these 4 generals have joined forces to seize my Ocean Goddess Chamber of Commerce......"

"So you're worried that they're joining forces against you?" asked Faras, "so you've returned safely, but you're still hiding in the shadows, just to see if they're going to show up without you showing up?"

"Yes. Tisilis replied, "If I am alone, then I will definitely return to Ticilina without hesitation, as for the possible traitor among my subordinates, and the thoughts of these generals, I can only talk about it slowly in my heart." But now that I'm back with you, you and Ryan, two legendary powerhouses, I can rest assured that even if these generals move bigger, we can suppress them by force, after all, they are all elite soldiers of the empire, and they are deceived into attacking Paul's caravan. It's okay to seal the Ocean Goddess Chamber of Commerce, if you blatantly let them attack me, the lord, I believe they won't have the guts!"

Speaking of these power struggles, Faras is no stranger, she can be regarded as a very knowledgeable family, plus she has been fighting openly and secretly between the imperial capital and Catherine for several years, and she has long been a good politician, so she asked, "What is your plan?"

"I think so, first of all, we can't wait and see how things develop, because I don't have enough time, so we have to ......" Tixilis said what was in her heart, and then Faras joined the discussion, thinking about it again and again, trying to make every step perfect, and Ryan on the side didn't like this aspect the most, so he walked out of the room with a wry smile.

Ryan's temporary residence is a manor outside the city of Ethrisa, the rich people in the city usually buy a piece of land here, and then build a villa for vacation, with Paul's net worth and status, it is impossible to buy property here, the reason why Ryan can live in is because this manor is one of the secret residences of Tisilis, from the teleportation circle of Saluofin City to the multiple routes along the way, and then to the multiple footholds inside and outside the city of Etiresa, all of which were arranged by Tisiris in advance. Paul didn't doubt anything, as a member of the Concubine Lingcui family, it was natural that the concubine Lan disguised by Ticilis had such a family property outside the city of Ethresac, because about 500 kilometers southeast of the city of Ethresac was one of the few three fiefdoms of the Lady Lingcui family in the eastern region, the castle of Linganhya.

After leaving the yard, Ryan was bored wandering around the open space of the manor, it was already early morning in the underwater world, Ryan came here for a short period of time, and gradually learned to feel the temperature of the sea water to judge the time, but because he was still not used to soaking his whole body in the seawater, he still kept blessing himself with a waterproof enchantment when he was outside, and this time he came out to hang out was naturally no exception, of course, in order to avoid being too public, Ryan still wore a full-body cloak on his body.

This manor is indeed worthy of the residence of the rich, the whole manor turned out to be a flat open space, without any reefs, seaweed and other obstacles that block the view, if someone is not good here, the open vision can be found in advance, obviously Ticialis did not put much effort into this secret stronghold. Ryan looked into the distance, and through this clearing, and the large amount of seaweed in the wasteland between the two manors, he could vaguely see that there seemed to be a lot of people coming in and out of another manor a few kilometers away, carrying things, and it was estimated that most of the owner of that manor had come over for vacation.

Because it's none of his business, Ryan is not too lazy to look at it, he just walks around at will within his manor, and he has hardly left the seahorse for half a month before, which has also made Ryan suffer a little, he has not been so fortunate to travel for many years, especially after becoming a legendary powerhouse, where he wants to go, there is either a large group of servants around him, or he directly uses teleportation magic and flying skills to arrive quickly, of course, the area of this underwater world is larger than Ryan's hometown I don't know how many times, if it is on land with a seahorse speed of nearly 100 kilometers an hour, it will only take 2 days from Cassano to the imperial capital, but Ryan found from the map of Tisialis's eastern region that his party had only moved a small area so hard, and if he wanted to reach the easternmost frontier of Ticilis's territory, he was afraid that he would have to travel day and night for another 2 months.

"I really don't know how to describe the fanaticism of these Naga people for expanding their land, such a huge territory, but only an eastern region, listening to Ticilis's description, there are as many as 5 administrative regions like this in the entire empire, and Ticilis's eastern region can only rank fourth in terms of area, only above the central region. Ryan said to himself secretly in his heart: "If I have to learn something from this, I really admire that these Naga people can continue the tradition for such a long time, which we humans seem to be completely unable to compare with them, speaking of which our human favorite thing to do is to break the tradition, I don't seem to do less such things, haha." ”

Ryan thought of the end, couldn't help laughing, and then he continued to walk forward with his hands behind his back, and when he came to a lush seaweed at the edge of the manor, Ryan suddenly felt that there was an extremely weak aura hidden in the depths of the seaweed, this breath was too weak, if it wasn't for Ryan's strength being strong enough, he was afraid that he wouldn't notice it at all, he stopped and shouted towards the seaweed bush: "Who is it?"

The dense seaweed moved, and then a Naga child crawled out of it, this young Naga was a woman, very cute, she was wearing a gorgeous costume, but because of crawling in the seaweed, the costume became tattered, but the little Naga didn't care about this at all, she stood on Ryan's expression, tilted her head to look at Ryan a few times, and asked, "Hey, how can you find me? I just hold my breath, even Uncle Watson can't find it!" ”

Ryan saw that the person standing in front of him was just a little girl from a noble family, thinking about the busy servants he had seen before, and then looking at the surrounding directions, Ryan estimated that the little girl in front of him should have sneaked out of the busy manor just now to play, thinking that even if someone really had a disagreement with him, he would not let a girl with this status be a spy, so he didn't take her to heart, he didn't answer the other party's questions, and turned around and walked back.

"Hey, I'm talking to you, how can you turn around and leave without being polite?" Seeing that Ryan ignored her, the Naga girl chased after him and shouted a few words, and after seeing Ryan stop and turn to look at herself, the Naga girl continued: "Is this manor yours? I am from the manor next door, and I will live here for a while, since we are neighbors, let's get acquainted with each other first." ”

Ryan looked up and down at the Naga girl standing in front of her, and saw that although she was young and the clothes on her body were also tattered, but between her eyebrows, there was an elegant temperament in her speech and demeanor, obviously her background was definitely not an ordinary aristocratic family, but she was afraid that it was still the kind of big family with a long history, and Ryan believed that without this kind of perennial accumulation and edification, it would be impossible to develop this temperament. If it were another time, Ryan didn't mind having more contact with this kind of big nobleman, but unfortunately he didn't want to have more trouble now, so Ryan said: "As a nobleman, don't you know that it's rude to enter someone else's manor without telling him?"