The new young king, Louis I, was a hard-hearted monarch who managed to suppress rebellions in the provinces of the kingdom of Solan with great brutality.

He showed no mercy to traitors, executing nearly 20,000 people in three months, including a large number of high-ranking princes and nobles,

Even his own relatives were spared, the king's own brother, Prince Dominit, was sent to the gallows, and another 100,000 people who had committed lesser crimes were imprisoned in political prisons and subjected to inhuman torture.

King Louis did not trust the police, and he used the army to clean up the bandits, bypassing the law and executing the criminals without trial.

In order to punish the incompetent officials and suppress the disobedient old aristocratic forces, he began to boldly appoint capable young people, many of whom were promoted from ordinary people to aristocratic officials overnight, all of them were grateful to Dade, and these new nobles who were promoted by him were loyal to King Louis.

Finally, it took the new king three years to stabilize the political situation on the continent of Yawen, and by this day, Louis I had firmly held the power in his own hands, because all those who questioned him had been killed. ”

"This Louis Lafalette I...... Sounds like a ruthless character! It's kind of amazing! A minister said.

Another general stood up and said, "So what? We don't need to be afraid of each other, our Valstad Empire is not a vegetarian! Our regime is rooted in glorious victories on the battlefield, and we have never been afraid of anyone in the war, even if the enemy unites, it will not frighten us! In terms of economic strength, it is also second to none. ”

Baron Colin Douglas, the head of the Imperial Intelligence Department, stood up and spoke: "Gentlemen, this time the situation is different from the past, we must not look at this Solan Kingdom, they have a unique resource advantage.

The vast fertile land, warm and habitable climate of the Yawen continent, and the large population base have made the Kingdom of Solan one of the most powerful countries in the world. ”

Earl Southgate nodded in agreement: "Lord Colin is right, this time the opponent is different from the past, compared to the alliance of the countries of the continent of Olassis that fought against us ten years ago, the strength of the Solan Kingdom is obviously superior.

It is precisely because of his absolute confidence that King Solan has the courage to act provocatively against us. ”

An old minister said slowly: "If you want me, this guy is really full of food!" If you don't do a good job of rectifying the country, you don't hesitate to come all the way to find us trouble! It's inexplicable that we didn't have a holiday with them again! ”

"But there is no holiday, but if you think about it, the existence of our Valstad Empire is in the way of King Louis." Sir Simon said.

The old minister scratched his head suspiciously: "Blocking his way?" What do you mean by that? I do not quite understand. ”

Simon picked up the gilded scepter on the table and pointed towards the huge world map in the center of the table: "This young king, Louis I, was a careerist, he was not satisfied with the huge kingdom left to him by his father, he had higher aspirations, he wanted to be the ruler of the whole world, to be the king of kings!"

If you look closely, you can find that there have been signs of this matter for a long time, and in recent years, the Kingdom of Solan has been constantly picking quarrels and provoking troubles from countries on other continents, looking for opportunities to start wars.

And now, my dear compatriots, the claws of the kingdom of Solan have reached out to the continent of Olasis in the north, which is the land where our country is located. ”

One of the ministers offered a different point of view: "Simeon, I think you are overly worried, our Valstad Empire has maintained a peaceful development for ten years. Of course...... Some conflicts are not counted, although the Solan Kingdom does not have diplomatic relations with us, it has not shown strong hostility towards us, I think this incident is just accidental, everyone has overreacted a little......"

Admiral Lord Valero interrupted him: "I'm sorry, my lord, please allow me to interject, it is very likely that the Kingdom of Solan has been preparing for war for a long time.

Did you know that in the past year, our Coast Guard has received no less than 200 sightings.

Many fishermen or captains of merchant ships have claimed to have seen strange foreign ships along the mainland coastline, most of them unflagged, identified as smugglers or pirate ships, and several reports are particularly intriguing, such as this one. ”

Lord Valero flipped through the thick stack of papers in front of him, pulled out a piece of paper from it, and read it: "From the Valstad Imperial Coast Patrol, sighting report from Patrol Ship 232; On the afternoon of March 27, we found a brig slipping into our territorial waters, and the officials of the tax bureau thought it was a smuggler, but when we caught up with it, we found that the top of the ship's mast was hung with the flag of a black lion on a red background, which I recognized, which was the flag of the Kingdom of Solan, and then we drove the ship out of our territorial waters and wrote this report memo. ”

The angry general shouted: "Na! It's so rampant! Hang up the national flag and invade our territorial waters! This is a serious provocation! Oh no, this already constitutes an act of aggression! ”

Count Southgate said solemnly: "The facts are in front of us, our Valstad Empire, as the overlord of the current Ulassis continent, has received special attention from the Solan Kingdom, if King Solan wants to expand externally, we are equivalent to the first obstacle, an obstacle that he can't avoid." ”

There were also different voices: "My lord, there is nothing wrong with the sighting reports several times, maybe after our warning, their captain will remember it for a long time and dare not come again, I think it is all because of the misunderstanding caused by the lack of timely diplomatic relations and the lack of communication!" ”

"Just a misunderstanding? Now, what a fantasy you have, people are riding on our heads, and you still have fantasies about them! As far as I know, the Solan Kingdom has heard more than one or two news about us, and I guess that their intelligence agents have already infiltrated the major cities of our country, Zheng."

"I can prove it!" Baron Colin Douglas, Minister of Intelligence, said: My intelligence agents have arrested hundreds of suspicious foreigners, all of whom are from the Avon continent, and they all claimed to be commercial spies when they were arrested, and they came to inquire about the Chamber of Commerce, but I have never believed their words, these guys must have some ulterior purpose. ”

At this time, a young man with a panicked expression pushed the door open, and the guards let him in.

Everyone looked over at the same time and recognized the identity of Na Rao, this young man was the emperor's confidential attendant, only to see him run to Baron Colin's side, whisper a few words to the baron, and then walked to the emperor's side, handed the note in his hand to the emperor, and everyone in the hall talked about it.