There was a small episode in the process of dividing the spoils, although the number was almost twice that of the Blood Wolf Knights, but in the face of the blood wolves led by Earl Douglas himself, Stuart still lost hundreds of knights, and he proposed to take an additional 5,000 gold as compensation, the reason was sufficient, and the amount was reasonable, but Augustus still directly refused, under the desperate pursuit of the Blood Wolf Knights with purebred Andalusian horses, his purple iris also suffered a certain loss, so did he also take a part as compensation? This doesn't make sense, when the task was assigned, it was also said that each was responsible, how could it be possible to do such a thing without paying any price? But Stuart still did not give up, the old Count Donald wrapped in a thick velvet blanket around the fire and never spoke, and Arthras was not easy to participate, so only Augustus and Stuart were left to argue and not back down. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In fact, the biggest problem of this temporary small alliance is that Alfred and Stuart do not agree with each other, and their hearts are even more incompatible, and at present, they are avoiding being isolated, Stuart has repeatedly tolerated it, but once he is free, this small alliance will fall apart, so how to deal with the contradiction between Stuart and Augustus is also the biggest headache for Artelas.

To maintain cooperation, profit is always the first element, especially for the aristocracy.

There was no way, seeing Augustus's resolute attitude, Arthras had no choice but to persuade a few words, and finally said that Sauron was willing to take out 1000 gold from the proceeds to compensate for the loss of Count Stuart, and then he looked at the sleepy old Earl Donald, although the old count originally planned to ignore it, but finally couldn't stand Artelas's unblinking gaze, after thinking for a long time, he smiled a little weakly, and looked at Augustus who also expressed his willingness to compensate Stuart, and finally only Augustus was left, but he didn't expect that even in this case, facing Arthras's sight, Augustus still pouted and saidI didn't marry Stuart's daughter.

The situation seemed to be about to stalemate again, but in the end, probably considering that Augustus would never compromise, Stuart was the first to back down.

This contradiction was finally temporarily resolved.

Then, the four people who had the most say in the wasteland at present gathered around the stove to discuss the future, after all, age is the greatest wealth of the pen, the old Earl Donald sat up a little, and worried: "Isn't everything we have done this time too easy? It stands to reason that the menacing Douglas will not be so vulnerable, right? Even though this is the wasteland, he also lacks enough knowledge of the wasteland. ”

Augustus explained: "It's not surprising, you haven't been to the imperial capital, you don't know the wasteland in the eyes of the great nobles of the empire, for them, the wasteland is almost no different from the northern lich, and all the sinners in the wasteland should also be struggling on the death line, even survival is precarious, where is there any strength and will to resist, so this time Douglas suffered the loss of 'arrogance', and it will be the real difficulty in the future." ”

Arthras frowned, "How difficult will it be?"

Augustus sat on the spacious sofa, holding his chin with one hand, and he said unhurriedly: "You have all seen Douglas's Blood Wolf Knights, he still has at least 400 knights, I estimate that after he arrives at Francis's castle, he will ask the imperial capital for help as soon as possible, Herman is not easy to say, but Rodrian will bring at least 500 knights, and his combat effectiveness will not be inferior to that of blood wolves." ”

"200 Blood Wolf Knights can almost crush my Knights head-on, the blood wolves of nearly a thousand people...... We can't compete with that!"

When it comes to the combat effectiveness of the Blood Wolf Knights, Stuart is obviously apprehensive.

"What are your plans for the future?"

Perhaps even Arthras and Stuart didn't realize that after getting caught up in Augustus' deployment, all they could do was fully cooperate with Augustus' arrangement.

Augustus shook his head and said: "What is the plan, Rodrian's haven't come after all, our advantage is that the wasteland is our home field, but their advantage is that we can only passively wait for their arrival, but no matter what, no matter when the support given to Douglas by the imperial capital comes, we can never think of head-on conflict with them for the time being, guerrilla, and division, which is also our only chance." ”

The other three were thoughtful.

The atmosphere gradually became solemn.

But as Augustus said, they can only passively wait for the arrival of those people in the empire at present, and they have no way to make plans without being sure of the true strength of the enemy.

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In the castle of Sauron, the lords of the wasteland gathered together for a sumptuous dinner, and the next day, after watching the war between the wasteland and the empire, the lords left one after another, and in the words of the old Count Donald, he could go to God at any time, and must return to the castle to teach his heir as much as possible, and Augustus offered to escort the old count away.

Arthras sent Augustus out of Sauron's domain.

On the way, the young Marquis of Sauron asked Augustus very frankly what he wanted to do with such a huge investment in building and building roads in his territory recently.

Augustus didn't hide it, and there was no need, the infrastructure of his territory was almost complete, even if he didn't say it, the wasteland would soon know his intentions, so he roughly analyzed it with Arthras, in the empire, at present, the Bourbon royal family and the Holy See are severely cracking down on all kinds of black industries, whether it is a bloody gladiatorial arena or a dirty and disorderly casino, basically they have lost their living space, what he wants to do is to pull all these industries to the wasteland, one is to increase the vitality of the wasteland, make the wasteland a paradise of sin in the true sense, and then increase the influence of the wastelandAs long as the nobles of the empire are willing to come to the wasteland to squander the gold in their pockets, I believe that one day they will fall in love with the wasteland, and at that time, it doesn't matter whether the wasteland will be accepted by the empire or not.

At this point, Augustus suspected that the reason why the Holy See and the Empire joined forces to fight the deformed and exuberant black industry was probably the pressure on them from the Hermitage, because the motive of the Hermitage to try to destroy everything was to destroy all evil.

Arthras wasn't too surprised.

He had heard such rumors before, and now he had only been confirmed from Augustus.

He hesitated, and then asked, I heard that a new Moulin Rouge has recently been built in your territory?

The Moulin Rouge, originally one of the largest brothels in Sauron's territory, was owned by Lady Mary, and was also the most important pawn in Francis's betrayal of Sauron.

He stared at Augustus' expression, as if he wanted to know how Augustus would answer.

However, Augustus just smiled casually, neither denied nor admitted, but simply told him that Elizabeth was currently taking care of the affairs in the territory, and he really didn't know what he was asking, and if he wanted to know the answer, he had to ask Elizabeth.

Elizabeth.

This name made Artelas lose his soul suddenly, no matter how good he was, no matter how potential, Artelas's age also determined that his mind was difficult to be rock solid, especially if he was already married.

It wasn't until he was about to leave Sauron's territory that he readjusted his mentality and lowered his profile to ask Augustus what he could do in it if he could turn the wasteland into a paradise for sin.

This means to get a piece of the pie.

Augustus made no secret of his admiration for Artelas, no matter where Alfred and Sauron would go in the future, at least Arthras now knew very well what he should do, he did not refuse directly, but looked at the desolate land behind him, and said slowly: " The people in the wasteland may not know what I'm doing this for, and they won't see what I'm doing to the wasteland, but that's okay, in the near future, when high-rise buildings start to build on this ruined land, and the roads become smooth and comfortable, everyone will remember what I did for the wasteland, not just for Alfred, even if you don't do anything, just the taverns in your territory, Hotels are enough to bring you huge profits and taxes in the near future, we live here, we can't just survive here, we have to do something to make our lives better, even for the sake of our next generation. ”

Arthras looked strange.

It really didn't look like the Augustus he knew.

After all, it's for his Alfred, right?

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After Arthras left, Augustus sent the old count of Donald all the way to Donald's territory, politely declined the old count's invitation, and he immediately returned to his castle, although he was not in a hurry, but Augustus, who jumped into the carriage, did not look back, and did not see that the old count of Donald's carriage always stayed where Augustus left and did not leave.

On this day, the old earl, who was in a state of complete health, braved the bitter cold and stood outside the carriage, looking at the young man in the distance.

He thought a lot, and his eyes were extremely complicated, hesitant and painful.

At this time, Augustus looked through the booklet again in the carriage on his way back, and the pamphlet found from Douglas's box of gold, with a solemn expression.

It is a book of accounts that records Douglas's business in the Empire.

"Abraham, young child, rape-murder, 500 gold coins. ”

"Adrian, woman, cut throat, 300 gold coins. ”

"Benson, old man, sodomite, 100 gold coins. ”

......

A pen records the bloody source of the Douglas family's wealth, and also fully witnesses the deformed and trembling interest of many nobles in the empire today, Augustus would not doubt where Douglas could find such a number of commoners for his noble guests to have bloody amusement, just take the wasteland, the human trafficker Augustus is not untouched, but until today, he is deeply aware that those who are trafficked are not only sold by the rich or nobles as servants and slaves, but also many of them, died, died inexplicably.

He held the filthy and terrible account book and slowly closed his eyes.

This world is sick.

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...... (To be continued.) )