In the city of St. Faralles, the streets are lined with horse-loaded wagons transporting ordnance, and groups of soldiers are walking towards the training ground.

The Great War is coming, and the whole city is busy.

In the council chamber of the municipal building,

The staff was busy setting up tables and chairs, laying out tablecloths, making boiling water, and preparing to make tea and coffee for the VIPs.

The pre-war meeting was about to take place here, and representatives of the Valstad Empire and the Solan Kingdom were waiting in the corridors or VIP lounges;

The Reich's Prime Minister, Dali Einfurt, took a domestic briefing and reported to his sovereign:

"Your Majesty, the postman has sent news that there has been a mass riot in our country, instigated by the opposition in Parliament, and by the survivors of the city of Fritrusberg and their relatives.

The shopping streets of the imperial capital were smashed and looted, arson was set near the monument, urine was poured at the entrance of the General Staff building, and processions blocked more than a dozen traffic arteries, causing horse-drawn carriages to be congested. ”

The muscles on the emperor's face trembled slightly:

"Burning the city, 100,000 innocent souls, this incident will become a stain on my life, and I can't get rid of it even if I enter the grave."

"That's not your fault, it's a helpless move to cut through the mess quickly, if the decision-making at that time was not decisive enough, and the natural disaster and plague spread, the number of deaths in the country may be millions,

And that's not all, the plague will spread to other countries, destroying a city with an incendiary bomb and saving the world, even today, the decision of the day is the only right choice. ”

"Those who were roasted alive by Molotov cocktails must not think so,

Their families are even more eager to dig up the ancestral graves of my Midknights, and I have read the report that my son Constance had no choice but to send troops to protect the royal tombs and suppress violence with violence.

Dali...... Sometimes I wonder what better option could have been to stop the spread of the plague and save the inhabitants of Furtlassberg...... I couldn't think of a solution to get the best of both worlds. ”

"The world is in a dilemma, Your Majesty, sometimes, we have to make some painful choices, when playing chess, we also need to give up some chess pieces in order to take care of the overall situation, in the game of chess, there is a tactic called wing abandonment,

Ditch the winged pawn to ensure the offensive line of the powerful pieces in the rear, so as to take the initiative and finally win. ”

"Chess pieces...... No...... How can it be so simple,

Those who were burned to death by incendiary bombs were all fresh lives,

They have families, friends, and their own joys and sorrows, and it is not as simple as sacrificing their lives and deaths on the black and white chessboard.

The survivors of Furtlassberg will always see me as a tyrant, and the opposition will use it to hype it up. ”

"Crown Prince Constance has suppressed the riot by force, the opposition involved has been temporarily stopped, and your son has proven himself, but he is a qualified heir to the throne."

The emperor covered his eyes: "I actually want my son to wipe my buttocks, it is my incompetence that has led to the current situation, if you can't solve the trouble, you can only solve the people who create the problem, and large-scale riots like this will continue to happen." ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has to deal with it well, you have to be tough, sabers and rifles will shut up these thugs, these fools, who are being used as guns by the opposition, they should condemn the Voodoo Church, not their own monarch!"

"Don't kid yourself, Dalí, it was I who gave the order to fire the Molotov cocktail against all odds, and it was I who destroyed the city with my own hands and killed the innocent lives in the vaults.

The rioting crowd insulted endlessly, and I Sarantos deserved it, and deserved it,

With the worldview of the Church church, sinners like me will not go to heaven.

I have read the holy texts of the Templar Church, and the souls of those who have sinned will go into the deepest depths of Hell, endure thousands of punishments and the flames of Hell, and perhaps then I will be able to atone for my sins. ”

"Let a hero not have a good death? In that case, it would be unfair! ”

Dali Einfoot was silent for a few seconds, and then continued: "Your Majesty, if that is the case, I will also go to hell to suffer with you, and be your prime minister forever. ”

"Dali, thank you for not sinking on the lonely throne."

The Emperor smiled at the Prime Minister, and she hesitantly reached out to touch Dali's beard, but when she heard a knock at the door, she shrank back.

"Please come in!"

The Royal Attendant is allowed to enter the lounge:

"Excuse me, Your Majesty, Lord Marquis, King Solan and Prime Minister have arrived, and the meeting is about to begin."

In the council chamber, King Ingram Lafalit I of Solan sat in his rightful place,

The king, as the host, was silent, and Ingram spent the first half of his life in the midst of lust and couldn't say anything serious.

Without the king's restraint, a good pre-war united front discussion turned into a war of words for Solan nobles to vent their discontent;

The meeting was divided into two factions,

Duke Leclerc, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom, and hawkish supporters, and his allies Valsta Empire, are gathering forces to attack the remnants of Voodoo entrenched in the eastern part of the kingdom.

The doves in the kingdom's parliament, as well as some of the nobles and wealthy merchants of the kingdom of Solan, sat on opposite sides,

Frightened by the monsters summoned by Voodoo, these people feared that continuing the war would harm their own interests, and some feared that the dangerous ally of the Valsta Empire was planning to do evil, so they tried their best to advocate a peace agreement with Voodoo.

Each of them wears a dove badge representing the will for peace and calls themselves doves.

A dove Soran general complained with a bitter face:

"Your Majesty, I really don't understand, since Diamond Xespar has proposed an armistice, why refuse anything? We had the opportunity to put an end to this bloody war. ”

At the Imperial Representative's Table, Empress Saranitus smiled contemptuously and replied unremittingly, and the Imperial Prime Minister replied on her behalf:

"General, I am really shocked by your question,

Are you willing to let the cultists entrench in the eastern part of your country like a poisonous snake, in danger of turning their heads and biting at any moment, and you don't care about the division of the Solan Kingdom? ”

The general did not flinch: "If this is the price of peace, I am willing to bear this infamy,

Meteorologists have said that we are about to face an unprecedented cold winter.

There are hundreds of millions of Solan citizens to feed,

Guns and spears cannot feed the mouths that are waiting to be fed, and only peace can preserve the existing food reserves and winter cotton clothing. ”