"Call everyone to me!"

Hai'an refers to other family members, even his second daughter Yin Mo called, except for his sick and weak son, who was not alarmed.

That night, Ulf, who was asleep, and a group of soldiers left behind by Orlan were rounded up by the royal army.

Malmu was also invited out of the room by the maid.

Then the third daughter, Pepa, was also called.

Several men were brought before King Ella.

"Mother, those guards are arguing to death." Yin Mo was extremely impatient, but when he saw his mother's cold face, he didn't dare to say more.

"Father, mother."

"Your Majesty (King and Princess)."

Malm arrives and doesn't understand what is happening, and Ulf gets nervous.

After being sent here, he couldn't receive a lot of information from Orlan, so he could only pass the news of the royal court back in one direction.

At the moment, I don't know if Orlan has done such a big thing.

Ella asks Orlan to give Ulf two letters and asks him to read them again.

Orlan's taunting threat, Ulf sweating back......

When he finished reading, he almost didn't stand firm, and then Princess Haian said in a stern tone, "Hang Ulf for me!"

"No!"

Ulf folded his hands and begged for mercy from his two Majesties.

In order to save his life, Ulf couldn't care about his posture.

After all, he is a priest and monk, Hai'an is just angry for a while, wanting to scare him, and he is still worried about his brother's safety.

But punishment is indispensable, and he said, "Hang him up for me and give me no water to drink." ”

Ulf was dragged out, and before leaving, his eyes met Pepa's......

Then Haian looked at Malm, "You slut, like your mother, is so good at seducing men. ”

Malmu received a lady's education from an early age, and in gratitude for the kindness of his parents, he lowered his head and endured scolding.

"Your Majesty, you see, she is as cunning as her mother, she was not born to you at all, she is an illegitimate daughter!"

Malmu's birth has always been a heart problem for Ella, and recently, for some reason, rumors have spread again in the town outside the royal court.

And the king never thought that this was a scandal spread by Ulf, who was not restricted in his activities after he and Pepa fornicated under his nose.

Pepa thinks that as long as there are various scandals, it will reduce the chances of Ella being violent against her.

Ulf has been immersed in this affair, and even set fire to his place of residence and the surrounding area due to Pepa's threat.

Pepa even wants to use rumors to harm her sister and suffer the same treatment as herself, and it is best for Ella to kill Ulf as well, so that Lord Orlan may anger the royal family of Ao Lan and send someone to attack?

What Ulf read out just now, everyone present, she was the only one who was excited.

"Bring me a whip!"

After Haian asked the maid to get the whip, King Ella let the non-royal family go down, leaving the second son-in-law, William, behind.

Then, Haian's eyes looked at Malm, but swept towards Pepa.

She and Gulie have no father since they were children, and Gulie was very timid when he was young, and before the age of twelve, the two often slept in the same bed, and the relationship was far better than that of ordinary siblings.

If you can't hurt Malm, then take your anger out on Pepa.

The first whip went down, Pepa curled up in pain, and when Malmu saw this, he stepped forward and grabbed Hai'an's hand, but was pushed away.

So Malmu turned to protect Pepa.

Pepa's eyes were as cold as snakes, but Malm didn't care.

When protecting others, don't think about the gain or loss, as long as you feel that it is a good deed, then do it.

After all, Pepa also called himself a sister before she lost everything.

After a few lashes, King Ella hurriedly shouted to stop, "Your brother's life is gone?"

Hai'an, who was still angry, finally brushed his sleeves away, and his daughter Yin Mo immediately followed.

King Ella was distraught and instructed William, "Go and prepare, and immediately leave for Dan City to meet Oran." ”

When King Ella left, only Malmu and Pepa were left, embracing each other.

Hai'an's hands were very heavy, and Malmu had a few red marks on his back, and his eyes were tearful in pain.

William walked over to help the two girls up, but was glared back by Pepa's eyes, "Get away!"

After his own trouble, among some people who wanted to despise themselves, there was William.

Pepa endured it and didn't say anything, and one day, when she mastered the power, she would have to return it one by one.

"Slut, your fate in the future is to pick up customers at the brothel, and at that time, I will send different people to patronize you every day."

William then looked at Malm, "Orlan is crazy, you married a madman, the end is visibly desolate, I am waiting for you to come and beg me." ”

Malm did not respond to William, don't fight with the needless.

She endured the pain and helped Peppa to say, "No matter what fate is, as long as a person does not give up, does not despise himself, and has a good heart, I believe that there will always be a day of redemption." ”

The silver wedding ring that Oran gave her, worn on her finger at the moment, was simple and inconspicuous, but it gave her the confidence and motivation to live.

Pepa stopped talking, and finally replied, "If there is a day, I will return to you everything I have done to you." ”

Malmu did not understand this, so she departed, and when she returned to the worship room, she prayed again and again to God for shelter for those she was thinking about and for the loved ones around her.

Until he received the order, he followed him to Dancheng.

……

Oran rode on horseback, thirty miles outside Dan Castle, back and forth.

He has two things to do at the moment, one is to meet with Ella, and the other is that the guild merchant he sent has been arrested in the former royal territory of 'Yorkshire', and he has sent his trusted butler Southamp to deal with it, and he received the news the day before yesterday that he will return to the territory today.

The other was the meeting with the king.

This time, in order to save Conny and Gulie, he hid his evil deeds. Accompanied by Princess Hai'an, Ella mobilized extremely quickly, and the next morning after receiving the letter, a team of nearly 200 people headed for Dancheng.

On the way, they also met with the scouts sent by Orlan many times and exchanged information.

In the absence of Gullet, William became the most important military knight at the side of King Ella.

On the way, he suggested that he should take more people and launch an attack to capture Orlan directly.

But Ella was afraid that the strength of her direct private soldiers would be lost, and Shi Meng's team also took advantage of the chaos to sneak attack the direction of the royal court, and had no intention of confronting Orlan head-on.

Even after a night of thinking alone, Ella discovered that if Gurrich was not there, the princess's strength would be cut by more than half.

Not too bad from another point of view?

Once a person uses improper means to obtain some kind of benefit, he is also afraid that others will use improper means to seek to rob him.

Over time, Ella used wine to help her think.

His heart became cold and selfish.

And in this way, his hole cards were seen through by Orlan.

Oran invited Ella to meet and sent someone to check on the King's team in the high ground near Dan City in advance.

Combined with the information found on the road, do you know that the king did agree to the talks, and the number of people he brought with him did not look like a decisive battle?

Orlan tried his best to fight hard, and Ella always wanted to save his strength.

Even if Ella is stronger, she won't have an advantage.

Get Ella, and the variable of Shimon.

Orlan operated on two fronts, and at the same time sent someone to tell Shi Meng that on the way back, he was attacked, and several king's knights were captured, and now the king's men and horses are out from Dancheng, and they come for some reason?

Ask Shi Meng to defend the friendship covenant between the two

Orlan rashly made such a request, and Shi Meng naturally couldn't agree, he had to wait and see the situation first.

He also sent people out to investigate, and saw the king's troops on the high ground outside Dan Castle, although he did not know what King Ella wanted to do.

However, the line of movement of King Ella is the territory that Orlan wants to cede to the Vikings, so the matter of Shimon's acceptance of the new county territory will naturally have to be postponed for a few days.

Because of the rain slowed down the march

That night, Ella's army entered the city of Dan to set up.

But he didn't stop his actions because of the night and rain, and directly sent his knights to meet with Orlan's people.

This time, Orlan would never enter the city, and the two agreed to go fifteen miles each tomorrow morning, in the open air, and negotiate terms.

In the middle of the night, Southamp redeemed the caravan and brought it to Oran.

It was a caravan of eight men selling wool, full of carts when they went, and when they returned, everyone except Southamp had a very bad complexion.

Orlan was running out of supper, and he rewarded the uneaten food and instructed the cook to get more.

"Take it easy."

With Orlan's words, the men immediately took off their stinking socks and clothes, and generally roasted the fire while eating their food.

I didn't wash my hands, my legs were covered with mud, and I didn't care if it was dirty or not.

Orlan didn't dislike it, and the group helped him venture back, enough to get the honor of eating at the same table with the lord.

After the eight of them had eaten and drunk enough, Orlan asked, "The Vikings occupy Kent, and the southern countries send troops to guard the main routes, and it doesn't matter if you go out to trade and fail or succeed, but I want to know, who is making things difficult for you?" Want to punch Ben in the face? Yorkshire County Magistrate 'Gliese'?"

"Your Excellency, this is not the magistrate of 'Gliese', but the knight of 'Mercia'." Southamp explained.

"Mercia?"

"Your Excellency, you have sent someone to the magistrate of Gliese to propose an exchange of goods, our wool for their wheat, and the abolition of the two counties of merchant, and the collection of customs duties into each other's places, all of which have been implemented.

While we owe nominal allegiance to His Majesty Ella, and they owe allegiance to His Majesty Osberg, there is no problem with cooperation.

But just a dozen days ago, when King Osberg's whereabouts were unknown, I arrived in Yorkshire to find out that the former king had died in battle, and that Mercia's army had written a letter from the former king during his lifetime, saying that it was a special state of wartime and that they would take over the three southern counties until the 'heir' of the former king appeared.

After I brought the ransom money, the magistrate of Gliese helped us mediate and told me the truth, so that we could leave safely, and now Mercia is stationed in the three southern counties, controlling many merchant groups and nobles, and directly expropriating their wealth without compensation. ”

After Orlan heard this, the members of the merchant group asked one by one, and finally called Sals over.

Relying on speculation and speculation, several people analyzed that the former king had concluded an alliance with a foreign country to send troops to Vikings in exchange for the two countries to help him restore the throne.

The details of the deduction may be missing, but the general idea, Orlan expected.

It turned out that the last time the southern army repelled the Vikings and returned to Kent, they wanted to recover Kent in one go.

The former king took the initiative to ask Ying, proposing that if he was reinstated, he would exist as a subsidiary of Wessex and Mercia.

In times of war, all forces strive for their own best interests.

Mercia made a plan to let the former king's army and the army of the Queen of East Anglia serve as the vanguard.

The two strong men paid lip service to each other, and when they saw the former king and the queen's army in danger, they did not come to the rescue.

In the end, Osberg's whereabouts are unknown, and the Vikings tried to take advantage of the victory, but due to insufficient numbers, they were blocked by two strong forces.

A few days later, the news of the death of the former king was received by Mercia, and he quickly sent a thousand men to take over the three southern counties and forcibly expropriate the wealth of the merchant group, which led to the redemption of the Orlan faction.

The fifty-year-old former king died without restoring the borders.

A wave is not settled, a wave rises again, the vast battlefield, the storm.

Looking at the rain outside, Oran thought had a headache.

This kind of thing can't be hidden, and King Ella is later than he knows, and it is estimated that it will only be two or three days.

The rain was intermittent until midnight.

Southamp was cautious and didn't say much, but Sals was thinking, how to maximize profits?

As the English proverb goes, "Chaos makes great heroes." ”

The more Sals thought about it, the more excited he became, and just as he was about to say something, Orlan broke the silence first, he looked at Southamp, "You say, can we fight the Vikings alone?"

"It's hard." Nanamp saved face and did not say that it was impossible.

"Eight counties, eight county magistrates, we have two, two forces. If they can cooperate, the force will become eight, the population will be as high as 200,000, and the size of the army that can be drawn is no less than four or five thousand.

In this way, it was possible to fight against the Vikings and even have a local advantage.

Originally, I convened the Sain Conference, and even if it was successful, it is estimated that the participants will be limited to the four northern counties.

If you add the west, then the 'Carlisle County' that supports the king is only five counties, and the strength is still inferior.

Now that the former king has died in battle, the situation has changed again, you see, it's like the rain outside.

It goes down intermittently, sometimes big, sometimes small, and doesn't know when or what stops.

We are like merchants on the road, seeing the rain stop the progress.

One is to just do it and wait, wait until the rain is over, so that the situation can be seen at a glance, the risk is minimal, but the result is also the most passive, there will be various possibilities, others do not need our goods, or the road is blown up by the rain.

Reflecting the current situation, the Mercians may have successfully swallowed all three southern counties.

We want to send a merchant group in the future, and the tax revenue alone can overwhelm us.

With such a powerful neighbor, it is not realistic to want to confront us, and we can only be reduced to vassals.

The second is to calculate the change of rain, do not stay, and adapt to the situation.

Originally, I was not very sure that the conference would be successfully convened, and I even estimated that the worst outcome would be that the negotiations would fail, and I would have to maintain the tripartite balance of power.

We, Shimon, the king are against each other

But I know the rain well, so I'm not afraid.

But with the addition of Mercia, it's different.

The Mercians will not contact us until they swallow the three southern counties, but there must be other means after that, which will make the rain heavier, and the king of Ella will bear the brunt, we can belong to the kingdom of Mercia at any time, I am still an earl, can he descend to the throne himself?

There is only one way for the king to make the rain lighter, and to cooperate with me, with the other county governors and counts.

According to the Kingdom Law, the Northumbrian throne is a 'male succession system', and only members of the Norn family are eligible to hold it.

As long as the meeting is passed and the former king's faction abdicates, the kingdom will return to the situation of unification of the eight counties. ”

Orlan stopped at this, and Sals smiled and answered, "Your Excellency, Yorkshire has contacted us, and we should send someone to inform them at once that a general meeting is to be held, and in addition, early tomorrow morning, we will negotiate with King Ella to bring all the county princes together as quickly as possible and help him to restore him." ”

"What about the cowneck?", Nanamp asked.

"You can let him go first." Sals proposed.

"Isn't the wife of the cow's neck about to give birth, I want that as soon as the child is born, there will be no father." Oran opposed.

"Your Excellency, don't make a decision out of anger, he can't turn over your palm anymore, we can wait for stability and uproot him."

"No, we are suspicious of each other with the king, and we should first have a military alliance to strengthen our feelings, this is the last Viking in the realm who is mainly in trouble, and Gomon has already submitted to us and is not among them.

Destroying all the Vikings who had occupied the four northern counties in the days of the former king was a great feat, and it would make King Ella more respected by the magistrates, and I would have him agree, and he would have agreed.

Sals, Benber, tired of the old northerners, kept barking like vicious dogs in the land of Northumbria. ”

After Oran finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and said, "Soon, these hands will be stained with blood that will not be washed clean for a lifetime, but I am willing!"

"You're right, whoever dares to get in your way will die."

Sals saw Oran's demeanor and told himself that this was indeed the true king he was seeking.

At the end of the meeting, the forces that had just been dissipated in the territory were mobilized again, preparing to attack Shimon.

However, due to excessive recruitment, a few days later, it caused a clash between the knights and the people, killing and wounding more than 30 people.

As a result, both the surviving rebels and the knights who caused the conflict were killed on different charges.

But no one cared, at least Oran, and the infamy was borne by Kunsang and the others.

The rain continued until the next day, and when Oran met Ella, it was still raining, but Orlan had already cleared the rain, and he was relaxed.

When the fat king, riding on a white warhorse, approached, Oran dismounted in the rain and saluted King Ella,

"Your Majesty, this rain can't stop."