"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

In the early morning, when the sun was shining down above the sky, with the sound of bells ringing inside and outside, the gate connecting the inside and outside of the Golden Palace also slowly opened, like the entrance of one world to another, in front of several traveling carriages.

Despite their name, these vehicles were all drawn by cardinals.

In recent years, the Cardinals' Society, initiated by the Queen, has carried out a radical overhaul of Nari's transportation, and of course some of the obstacles have not been achieved overnight, especially the Chief Chancellor, who burst into tears after seeing the cardinals on his financial statements approved for a reduced budget, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer eventually had to give up the argument after many debates with the Secretary of State for Environment and Health.

The first reason was that he couldn't work with the Empress, and secondly, he was indeed tired of the foul smell of horse manure on the streets of St. Nari.

After several carriages came to a slow stop, the door of the black carriage at the head opened outward, and out of the carriage stepped a fairly sturdy white-haired old man, who was none other than the newly ascended Prime Minister O'Oni.

The old man seemed to have little skills, but he unexpectedly became an evergreen tree in the stormy political environment, and the people below fell like straw batch after batch, but he still stood strong and even rose all the way up, and finally became the prime minister in the year of the sixtieth year.

It's all because O'Omni has an ability that none of his previous prime ministers matched: an immense ability to observe.

Not only for people, but also for situations.

This innate ability not only allowed him to carry his mistress and male pet that his original wife had maintained for many years behind his back in his private life, but also allowed him to stand in a safe place under Elizabeth's hands.

This ability had become his passive instinct, and it was no different this morning.

As soon as O'Ionie stepped out of the carriage and took his first breath of the air outside the Golden Palace, he felt a tightness in his chest, as if he felt a heaviness before the rain poured.

He stretched out his hand and rubbed the air, but he didn't feel the moisture as he expected, so he snorted and turned his head to look at the carriages parked behind him.

At this moment, the doors of those carriages had also been opened, and several of Nari's "big men" walked out of them.

Just one glance, O'Oni didn't want to look at it anymore.

Defense Minister Pietro, Foreign Minister Xiuji, Director of the Hidden Affairs Bureau Albert Brown.

There are so many and complicated people in the political arena, and the appearance of one of these people is already a headache for him, not to mention that they are all together now.

He sighed inwardly, but his face was as usual, watching them come to him to greet him,

"Good morning, Prime Minister."

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister."

"Hehe, good morning."

O'Ionie smiled and walked with them behind his back to the Golden Palace, but it seemed that O'Ioni didn't say anything more than the first greeting, but walked forward.

The rest of the people glanced at each other as they walked, and after secretly exchanging opinions, the Minister of Defense opened his mouth first,

"Yesterday, the Prime Minister was summoned by His Majesty, and today the routine report called you again, it is really hard Mr. O'Oni."

"It's all trivial, compared to your group of 'dangerous elements', yesterday's financial meeting was even more worry-free."

"Where." Defense Minister Pietro sneered, but then asked, "Presumably, with Mr. Ihsan's ability, yesterday's financial report should satisfy His Majesty, right?" ”

Ihsan is now Nari's chief financial secretary, and he was the one who made yesterday's report.

But as mentioned earlier, O'Oni was extremely observant, and he almost instantly understood what the other person was trying to ask.

O'Ioni blinked, then replied noncommittally,

"Just because you're satisfied yesterday doesn't mean you'll be satisfied today, you know, Pietro."

“.”

O'Oni left the other ministers behind him and walked quickly to the Golden Palace, as if he didn't want to talk to them too much, so that the rest of the people could not follow after glancing at each other.

O'Iony's reason for doing this was also very simple, because he could see that these ministers had an opinion about Empress Elizabeth, and it seemed that they had reached a point where they had to do so

The outer court of the Golden Palace was a little more lively than ever, and O'Oni thought as he looked at the inner court officials passing by in the palace.

Her Majesty seems to have driven all the officials of the inner court to live in the outer court, and I don't know why.

As they passed, the two court officials standing in the corridor were whispering with their heads bowed, but O'Ionie only heard a few words and was easy,

"Really, did you see that?"

"It's true, I think we must have moved out of the inner courtyard for that reason."

"Could it be that Your Majesty is really?"

"Otherwise, why did Your Majesty secretly kill those dogs of hers in the first place? Dozens of almost a hundred, oh my God, I heard that they were all buried in the grass in the inner courtyard, and I don't know why we killed all those cute little guys, but I think it will be with us to move out."

"Shh

The two court officials who were talking quickly shut down after seeing several ministers walking into the palace from outside the gate, lowered their heads and went about their business.

In fact, Oioni didn't hear the whispers of those girls at all, he could only vaguely hear a few scattered words, "Your Majesty", "Reason" or something, it should be about things in the Golden Palace.

He only blinked, and when he had not heard anything, he walked on, and after a few passages of the cloister, he entered the conference room, and before Her Majesty had arrived, he sat on his side, closed his eyes and waited for His Majesty to come.

Today's Empress came later than usual, in the past they had been sitting here waiting for them before the Empress arrived, but today they sat here for almost ten minutes without seeing the shadow of His Majesty.

Of course, they didn't dare to have any opinions, but they were still curious about the change.

"Click! Click! Click! ”

It wasn't until a loud sound of heavy footsteps outside the door that Oioni opened his eyes and looked at the door at the same time as several ministers who had been preparing for a long time beside him.

"Good morning, everyone."

I saw Elizabeth walk into the conference room with a very light expression, although the expression on her face was still not warm, but it was still difficult to hide the radiance on her face.

O'Ionie had seen it yesterday, but for the first time, the ministers next to him had noticed that the Empress was completely different from the past.

How to say it, it is a felony to judge His Majesty at will, but this feeling is still unavoidable after all.

If Elizabeth in the past felt like a battle-hardened, fishy sword to those below, the current Elizabeth is more like a brand-new, polished and shiny sharp sword.

That's not to say that Her Majesty doesn't feel dangerous, it's just

Well, it seems to be more energetic?

It seems that all of a sudden, from the bitter cold of the deep winter to the early spring, which is probably the feeling.

I don't know if His Majesty has gotten some secret medicine recently, which can replenish blood and make his face full of red light, and it seems that even his mood has improved a lot.

It's a pity that I don't dare to talk to His Majesty at will, otherwise the old man would also want to ask if there is any secret medicine

O'Oni thought so, but honestly said good morning to Her Majesty.

Elizabeth sat in the first place empty-handed, and her empty eyes glanced at the ministers who were preparing below, as if she knew everything in an instant, and before they could speak, she looked at Pietro, the Minister of National Defense, among them,

"Pietro, do you have something to mention before you make the official report?"

The named minister blinked, glanced at his colleagues but didn't dare to look at Elizabeth, and was silent for a while before he spread out the original bill in his hand and said in a deep voice,

"Yes, Your Majesty, it's about the fiasco of the Southern Continent Alliance."

"Go on."

Elizabeth leaned back in the chair behind her, looking at the crowd below with interest, letting the cold gaze in her eyes sweep over every inch of their expressions, trying to reveal any bit of secret that was hidden beneath that reaction, as if it would bring her endless pleasure.

"Half a month ago, the coalition forces of the Southern Continent lost in the encirclement and suppression of the Southern Red Dragon Court. Unprecedented. Not only did the generals appointed by His Majesty die, but a large number of recruited troops were directly disbanded into formations, or even disappeared directly, and we did not arrange for manpower to reorganize the army, counting the missing and dead soldiers, the total number can reach seven or eight out of ten. With so many people, even 100,000 pigs may not be able to catch them in one day, but they can be defeated by the Red Dragon Court in one day, this is simply "

"I know the situation, and the person who reported it said that there was a vision in the sky at that time, and it was the vision that defeated our army, not the Red Dragon Court."

"Then according to Your Majesty's wishes, what should we do next? Could it be that the Southern Continent just gave up? ”

"Yes," Elizabeth didn't seem to care about the outcome over there, and directly announced her order, "I have decided to cut off all the allied forces in the Southern Continent to stop the loss. ”

Pietro opened his mouth, as if in disbelief, and muttered,

"Wait, Your Majesty, I don't understand"

"Is it hard to understand? Or are you not unintelligible, but have an opinion on the decision? ”

"Me"

Pietro opened his mouth, and under Elisabeth's extremely stressful glances, he was almost speechless with horror, and even beads of sweat were squeezed out of his forehead, but in the end, he still trembled his teeth, and after confronting the countless "I have no opinion" that was about to escape from his mouth, he opened his mouth with difficulty,

"I have an opinion. Whether it is the affairs of the southern continent, the affairs of the eastern side, the affairs of the northern border, or the affairs of the sea, I do not understand the deep meaning of Your Majesty. And it's not me, my colleagues, and many ministers who are suspicious of His Majesty's resolution."

Sitting on the side, O'Ioni closed his eyes and sighed silently, not expecting these guys to have the courage to speak their opinions about Elizabeth.

You must know that in the past few years, Nari's foreign policy has been finalized by Empress Elizabeth into an unprecedented hardline attitude, especially towards Schwarley and Kado, who have had disputes in the past, if this is the case, these ministers may not show anything, after all, some of their elders may have participated in the disputes with Schwali in the previous few hundred years, and it is normal to have a little national hatred.

But the only thing that puzzled the ministers below was that Her Majesty the Empress liked to make a kind of proxy war.

Previously, the human alliance army in the Southern Continent was like this, and there were only a handful of Nari people in the army, all of whom were recruited from the east side of the Western Continent, stirring around in the Southern Continent, and also supporting a puppet regime of the Green Dragon Court.

This is also the case not only on the southern continent, but also on the chaotic east side of the western continent, where it seems that a fanatical religious and military organization called the [Pure Holy Anointing Army] has been set up, and under the banner of "anti-chaos and rectification", it has started wars with many small countries that have stabilized the situation, and as a result, the atmosphere over there has become hot.

The Black Chieftain of the ocean backstabbed all the other pirates and hunted retail pirates frantically; The Sardinian women and the Turan family in the north are also secretly supported to fight against the rising plane tree

Over the years, these ministers have watched the empress step in everywhere, investing a lot of money outside but getting nothing but death and chaos in one place.

If it weren't for the fact that the territory of Nari has become so strong and fat in recent years, and that these things have not affected the territory, I am afraid that Pietro would not have waited until today to say these words to Elizabeth.

Pietro stated all of this to Elisabeth, and made it clear and clear that "Your Majesty should stop doing such things again."

Pietro couldn't help but sweat on his forehead, and he glanced cautiously in Elisabeth's direction, only to find that she was only listening, not looking at him.

Somehow, he was really afraid of Elizabeth's gaze at him, and the horrible feeling was really hard to describe, like the pain of stripping him of his clothes, skin and flesh, and then exposing him to the sun.

Elizabeth has not yet expressed her opinion, and the director of the hidden affairs bureau on the side also took advantage of this time to speak,

"Your Majesty, although the Pure Anointing Army on the eastern front of the mainland is progressing smoothly in the war, and the kingdoms swept along the way are basically powerless to resist, we have received reliable information that there are many rebel groups hidden in the destroyed kingdoms that are brewing. It is no longer possible to fight the Holy Anointing Army that we support head-on, and they may therefore go to extremes to target us who stand behind the Holy Anointing Army. It is not impossible to carry out terrorist attacks in the territory of Nari, and even to plan actions against His Majesty."

That's the way it is, although the Holy Anointing Army supported on the east side of the continent can easily fight those small countries, and it is not as difficult as the hard bone of the Red Dragon Court, but even the most brutal and inhumane genocide will eventually have a root system, and this is the case with the information received this time.

The Director of the Hidden Bureau also sided with Picatero, and in essence he also rejected such thankless foreign affairs, especially since Empress Elizabeth had not told anyone about the real reasons for her actions over the years.

The so-called division of interests in the southern continent?

If this is the case, why is there still a lot of recruitment, and why is there not enough attention paid to the aftermath?

"What?! An attack on His Majesty? Albert, I command you."

Next to him, Prime Minister O'Oni, who had been silent, was the first to sit still when he heard that there might be a "beheading operation" against Elizabeth brewing, and he hurriedly opened his mouth to raise the level of attention to this matter, but Elizabeth on the side only smiled slightly, she still didn't care, not only to those who intended to rebel against her, but even to the two of them just exhorted.

She didn't seem to have the slightest need to explain to them why she was doing things, but there was a little appreciation for their sincere advice in her slightly empty eyes, but nothing else.

Elizabeth raised her left hand, stopped Iony's unfinished words, and said casually,

"Your duty is to stop any terrorist attacks against St. Nari, and as for me, if they have the guts, let them come, they can give it a try."

"Your Majesty, it's better to be careful, you"

"Shhhh

Pietro said so much, and Albert added a lot of it, and they probably expected the consequences of countless admonitions, dragged down and beheaded by the angry Elizabeth, and more lightly devalued and insulted, but they did not expect Elizabeth to do nothing to them.

Maybe it's because Her Majesty Elizabeth has been in a good mood these days?

But, it seems, His Majesty doesn't want to explain anything, even just when their advice is air.

It's just that they are only mortals under the command of the empress, and they don't even dare to raise their heads to look directly at her courtiers, how can they see what Elizabeth sees from this moment's perspective?

But Elizabeth, who was sitting in the main seat, was still bored listening to their reports on other matters, but in the palm of her hand, which should have been empty, a huge and richly decorated gold cup seemed to have been held in the palm of her hand, and shook with the movement of her wrist.

"Whoa."

As he shook, there was a heavy and subtle liquid sound in the golden cup, like a glass of red wine colliding in a goblet.

Elizabeth's golden eyes twisted slightly, and she looked down at the golden cup, only to see that it seemed to have accumulated a lot of scarlet, oil-like dirty liquid.

The unclean liquid was about to overflow the entire golden cup, but it was still so light in Elizabeth's hands, and even as she swirled her wrist, the golden cup began to twist into a vortex that would swallow everything around her.

It seems that it is still a little bit close.

As she looked down at the cloudy liquid in the cup of unclean gold, Elizabeth thought expectantly,

"What are the arrangements for the next honeymoon with Fisher?" (end of chapter)