When Evan walked out of the castle, he immediately saw more than a dozen carriages outside the door, and he was a little suspicious for a moment, King Charles would not have moved all the royal family's resources here. However, he quickly stepped forward and prepared to hand over the money and food.

When the knight at the head took off his mask, Evan immediately recognized this person as Zeka, the captain of King Charles's personal guard.

"Hello, Baron Aven, this is the last assignment His Majesty has given me. I've escorted these things safely."

Evan looked at Zeka with some surprise, what was the last task in the latter's mouth? He couldn't remember what damage this knight had suffered in the previous battle. Isn't it a great wonder for such a person to leave the kingdom?

"Yes, what do you mean by the last mission in Lord Zeka's mouth, after which you're leaving the kingdom?"

Zeka was stunned for a moment, and then reacted that his transfer order was a while after the reward, and it was estimated that Ai Wen had misunderstood.

"His Majesty the King has given me the position of Baron Sika, and I am not leaving the kingdom with a part of my troops to sit in Sika Castle. I swore allegiance to the king until the last moment. I will never break my oath."

Evan hurriedly expressed his apologies to Zeka, and quietly changed the topic, and began to talk about supplies and army expansion. The two gradually became familiar with each other in the process.

"Aven, the things here are already one-third of the royal family's inventory, you don't have too little. To tell you the truth, Your Majesty is also under a lot of pressure. This battle was not actually a big victory for us, so the royal family still couldn't make ends meet in the end, not to mention that there are many people who are secretly opposing, and I hope you can shine enough light to prove that Your Majesty's choice is correct."

「……」

Ai Wen was silent, he is not the Putin of later generations, he may be the best hero in a big country, but if you want to turn the tide in a small country and help the building to fall, the difficulty is not ordinary, you can only do your best.

"Don't worry, I can see that His Majesty and Lord Count Morol are optimistic about you, so just let it go."

Seeing that Evan didn't answer, Zeka smiled and was relieved, stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, and said boldly,

"Don't worry, no matter what goes wrong, it will be solved for you."

After sending Zeka away, Evan ordered everything to be put away and put in the warehouse. Now that the support promised by King Charles has arrived, the expansion of the Snapdragon Army is officially on the agenda.

He immediately summoned the military minister Horst and several Snapdragon army captains and asked them to go to Middlesex and Essex to recruit soldiers, and the number was tentatively set at about one hundred and fifty.

In the end, Ai Wen repeatedly told them that the Snapdragon Army is the elite of the elite, and it is better to have fewer people than to mix in the inappropriate, and try to find those who have no family as much as possible.

If there is a family, the children must not be older than five years old, and the whole family must be moved to Laquis. Horst and the captains didn't quite understand why they did this, but they didn't refute it.

After the few of them left, Deloris walked over and rubbed the corners of Aiwen's eyes.

"Little one, what do you want to ask?"

Deloris shook her hands and muttered with some confidence,

"No, I just think Evan looks tired, so I thought I'd help you relieve your fatigue so that you wouldn't have to make any strange decisions."

Hahaha, Evan smiled and leaned back, tears flowing. Annoyed, Deloris pinched Aven's face fiercely. Evan reached out to take his fiancée's hands, turned around and hugged her to his lap amid her screams.

"Little guy, others don't know about you, I've been with you for so long, and I still don't know what you're thinking? While there's still some time, you can just ask whatever you want."

"I always think you have other thoughts about the Snapdragon Army, of course I'm not denying the Snapdragon Army, but I'm curious because I find it repulsive when people mention it?"

Evan smiled bitterly, shook his head, and sighed abruptly.

"It's not that I exclude other people from talking about the Snapdragon Army, but I think so far, a lot of people are starting to think too highly of the Snapdragon Army, or rather think too highly of me. I always feel that Snapdragon Army and I seem to be able to solve a lot of problems. I have raised this issue with the Earl and His Majesty the King before, but they have not cared."

Deloris frowned, thought for a long time, and asked with some uncertainty,

"But I don't think there's anything wrong with that, you did something that a lot of people can't do, and of course this reaction is normal, is there anything wrong with that?"

"Of course there is a problem, do you think that there is anyone in this world who can do this except God who is omniscient and omnipotent?"

Deloris shook her head blankly, although she didn't know about it anywhere else, but she knew that there was definitely no such person in Middlesex. Otherwise, she would have known about it a long time ago, and it would be impossible to remain anonymous.

"At the end of the day, I'm a human being, not a god, and there are always problems that I can't solve. The same is true for the Snapdragon Army, which is an army of ordinary people, not angels, and there are always battles that cannot be solved."

"Before, I was a little proud, thinking that with my ability and the help of the Snapdragon Army, I could punch the Mercians and kick the Wessexes, but this war slapped me hard and made me sober up, neither I nor the Snapdragon Army are invincible, and there will always be a situation where we can't do anything."

"However, whether it is His Majesty the King, or the Earl, or some other nobles, they all think that the Snapdragon Army is very strong, and I am very strong, and I think that as long as I help me expand the number of Snapdragon Army, I can protect the kingdom, but how can there be such a thing. That's why I'm strongly opposed to expanding the Snapdragon Army."

"Because even if the whole country expands the Snapdragon Army, how many people can there be? Two hundred, or three hundred? What's the use of five hundred? If the Mercians and Wessex really want to, it is not impossible to dispatch two or three thousand people at a time, and in the future, the Snapdragon Army will participate in more and more battles, and other countries will know that the Essex Kingdom has a very elite army."

"This will give the Mercians and Wessex a strong sense of crisis, and if the two countries join forces to fight each other, what will we use against the armies of the two countries? If the blade is too bright, it will attract the attention of others and cause problems that could have been avoided."

Evan patted Delores' small hand lightly, knowing that the latter didn't seem to understand it, and he couldn't accept the logic quickly.

"If you don't understand, I can say a bad analogy that might help you understand."

Deloris nodded, quietly waiting for Aven's words.

"If I say that there is a person in front of you who hasn't drunk water for three days, what do you think is the most important thing to do now?"

"Drinking water, of course?"

Deloris replied with wide eyes and some confusion.

"Yes, you should drink water, but now the other side has given you a glass of poisoned wine, and said that this is the only thing now, if you want to drink, drink it." Do you think you should drink it?"

"How can you drink poisonous wine, and if you drink it, you will die?"

Deloris said hesitantly, and at last she seemed to understand something, and hurriedly said,

"Wait a minute, Aven, what do you mean...... Yes......"

"That's right, the behavior of a weak country to develop the Snapdragon Army with all its might is the same as a person dying of thirst drinking poisoned wine to quench his thirst, and it is very likely that it will not be able to strengthen the country's power, and may even become the target of a joint attack by the major powers, accelerating the country's demise. But the Earl has also told me that it is precisely because the kingdom is so weak that even if you know so much, you can only assume that you don't know."

Deloris was silent for a long time, what Evan said seemed to have some truth, but she also felt that there were some reasons for the actions of her father and His Majesty the King, but she didn't know how to sort out her thoughts in a short time......