"Haha, José, why do you pretend to be confused in front of me?"

Sistine squinted his eyes and said with a faint smile: "The seriousness of the situation in the northwest is not much better than the Macedonian invasion, if it is not handled well, it will cause a war to the empire, and His Majesty the Emperor gave me the order that no matter what, the stability of the northwest must be maintained, and there will be absolutely no accidents in the northwest in the next few years!"

"Then, could it be that His Majesty the Emperor doesn't care about the situation in the northwest and lets the Northwest Army make it bigger?!"

"Hmph, of course not!" Sistine squinted, with a faint chill in his eyes: "The empire is not indulgent in the northwest, now that the war of the Macedonians has subsided, Duke Ellios can also be regarded as dampening the sharpness of the golden armor, and the other ...... In addition, you killed a Macedonian prince, even if the Macedonians have resentment, I am afraid that they will not have the time and energy to go east now, so there will definitely be no major changes in Moxi in the past few years, and the only thing to be wary of is those steppe wolves and this northwest army. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

When Sistine said this, his tone was a little more relaxed, and he said lightly: "So my advice to you is to try not to have any friction and contradictions with the Northwest Army, at least in the past few years, to stabilize the Northwest Army." As long as the empire withdraws its hand, it will naturally solve the problem of the Northwest Army completely, but so far, the time is not ripe!"

Half an hour later, Sistine quickly left the inn with his servants and escorts, and a cavalry team of dozens of men at the gate picked up the governor of Moxi Province.

When Gould and Break entered the room, they saw a pensive José, and the fat man noticed that the young boss did not look good. However, seeing them come in, José still waved his hand at them easily, and said with a helpless expression: "Guys, it looks like we're going to stay in Sadland for a while!"

After noon the next day, Joseph went to the Doge's Palace for another handover, but this time the Sistine did not show up, but sent the Will to complete the handover with Joseph. But Jose didn't care about that, he was still thinking about what Sistine had said last night.

At least now he was getting the news that the Empire did not want to use force to pacify the northwest for the time being. Or rather, that guy from Mondevia IV doesn't have the energy to deal with the Northwest Army now. This result was not something that Joseph expected, but he was even more suspicious that His Majesty the Emperor was probably going to attack the Divine Highness!

Looking at the entire Empire of Light, except for the Papal States of the Temple, I'm afraid there is no force that can make Montevia IV so jealous, right? The so-called empire has not been able to take the time to clean up the situation in the northwest in the past few years, and I am afraid that most of it is because His Majesty the Emperor is concerned about the Sacred Province in the northeast, right?

However, this is not surprising to Joseph, after all, in the aristocratic politics, it is basically headed by Montevia IV, the Ellios family is in decline, and in the aristocratic schools within the imperial capital of the entire Bright Empire, the real power is also the Norman family and the Sistine family supported by His Majesty the Emperor. As for the imperial military and government, in addition to the northwest, there are more than 100,000 soldiers in the central fortress, I'm afraid it's not to deal with the triennial rotation exercise, right?

Either way, it wasn't Jose's turn to worry about these things, and he didn't have much affection for the so-called temples himself, although most of the reasons came from the temple archbishop who was higher than the pursuit of Suya.

Soon Joseph was done in Valen, and before leaving, the Sistine held another banquet for Joseph, or this guy seemed to be a very keen nobleman for banquets and the like, but this guy had the means.

José left Valen on the third day, and with him on his way to Sadrand were three hundred slave warriors and a dozen cartloads of food supplies, and even a lot of other things, such as some iron armor and the like...... Although these things did not flow from official channels, Joseph was a nobleman after all, and he had the power to own a private army, and before leaving, he specially took out a sum of money and gave it to Sistine and Weil's mansions respectively!

At least in Jose's opinion, such an approach is very necessary, after all, even if others treat you as their own person, as a subordinate or colleague, if you want to gain a foothold in the northwest now, it is always necessary to spend some money. He sent 100,000 gold coins to Weir's mansion, and he sent a full 500,000 gold tickets to Sistine's mansion.

Soon, however, the Sistine returned the favor with three hundred sets of infantry armor and standing weapons!

This made Jose feel less painful soon, after all, three hundred sets of armor weapons, although not worth half a million gold coins, but for himself, a new official, it was definitely a good deal. Not to mention anything else, here in the northwest, iron is definitely a good thing, the northwest itself has many Gobi Deserts, even in the mountains and valley corridors, there is not much arable land, let alone any mountains, lack of iron and less food, more sand and more wind are the characteristics of Moxi.

Therefore, these three hundred sets of infantry armor solved the problem of José equipping private troops from regular channels, which naturally made him have a good impression of that Sistine, of course, it was only based on the transaction.

The group drove out of the pass, and a day later they crossed the Moxi Pass and entered the river valley corridor.

Speaking of which, it was not the first time that Joseph had entered the Guanwai, but the scene he saw this time was more shocking to him than during the war: for three whole days, they passed through more than a dozen towns and cities, and almost did not see any densely populated places, and even a few of the trade routes that were quite rich before were also dilapidated, and there were even more homeless people coming and going than residents, and the roadside was full of homeless people, all of them unkempt, with yellow faces and thin faces, wandering towards the Guannai.

The more José walked into the valley, the more unsightly his face became, and for the whole three days he saw on the road even more than half the inhabitants of the war. Although there were many displaced people at the time of the war with Macedonia, there were only more residents, but at this moment walking in the corridor of the river valley, most of the fields in the distance were deserted.

It was the spring ploughing season, but there were very few farmers in the fields, but most of them were ragged homeless and beggars. In the evening, there was no smoke rising from the town, and the entire corridor of the valley was as depressed as a wasteland.

"It seems that the environment in the valley is more severe than I thought!"

Inside the carriage, José couldn't help but look a little ugly as he watched the homeless people scatter on the road......