Section 185: I'll see it

A few days later, when the fat man heard that the emperor had issued a special warrant for the Augustus family to directly sell the hoarded materials to the Empire of Light, he was immediately overwhelmed. In my heart, I can scold the queen who blows the wind to the emperor to death. You know, with the emperor's special warrant, it is equivalent to a special pass, and all the cities of the griffin kingdom along the way can no longer collect taxes. This alone has always saved the Augustus family a lot of money. If they take advantage of the opportunity to transport a little smuggling, they can obviously make another profit.

Of course, even so, their materials that are two or three times higher than the normal price will definitely lose money, but it is still much better than the total annihilation. In short, although the Augustus family will definitely be devastated this time, it has not reached the point of bankruptcy after all, and it can be regarded as a desperate situation.

The fat man felt sorry for this for a while, and he even thought about whether to send someone to pretend to be a thief to rob and kill the Augustus family on the way, and kill the other party completely. However, after a night of consideration, he reluctantly chose to give up. Because it is impossible to hide such a big matter from the royal secret agent, even if the emperor does not settle accounts with him, then the Franks of the Augustus family will definitely play with his life. In contrast, the workshops of the Stephen family are more vulnerable, and the fat man does not dare to force the other party to fight back wildly. You must know that there are thousands of thugs in the Augustus family, and when it comes to trouble, the fat man does not dare to say that he will win without damage. After all, the fat man wears boots now, and he is really afraid of Frank, a barefoot poor bastard.

As for Frank, of course he was ecstatic when he got the news, and he was almost moved to cry, and hurriedly called his men to prepare, and at the same time planned to celebrate his escape from death this time, and by the way, he could also take this opportunity to thank his sister.

But at this time, worse news reached his ears, the man planted by the Augustus family on the border, the Baron Defoe, had been wiped out during the expedition to the dreadnought, and even he himself was a headless corpse, and only a small piece of the well-preserved head and the emblem of his uniform were sent back by the dwarves.

The entire upper echelons of the griffin kingdom were shocked by the news. You know, since the kingdom defeated a small country that dared to rebel a few years ago, it has been almost ten years since there has been no major fight, or more precisely, it has been ten years since no one dared to challenge the majesty of the griffon kingdom. But now, a regular army of 2,000 people, plus a viscount nobleman, has been completely annihilated in the Great Gobi. Soldiers, commoners, nobles and royalty were outraged by the news.

Under these circumstances, almost as soon as the emperor received the news, he ordered the convening of a meeting of the imperial court, and summoned a group of civil and military ministers to discuss how to deal with it.

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In the chamber of the imperial palace, the emperor and a dozen powerful ministers sat around a large round table. He first reported the news from the front again, and then asked angrily: "The 2,000 army, and a nobleman, died so innocently! You say, what should we do?"

"Your Majesty, it is clear that we must avenge them!" said Frank at once and impassionedly.

"According to the dwarven intelligence, this unit was attacked by the mercenaries who accompanied the army, and finally led to the destruction of the entire army. If you want to avenge them, all you need to do is want those mercenaries!" the fat man said unhurriedly. He already knew from the old mage that the dreadnought fortress was the territory of the old evil, so naturally it was not like asking for trouble for the old evil, so he deliberately said it so lightly. But to be honest, he was actually very dissatisfied with the old evil's hot hand action, I don't know why he was so ruthless, after all, there were more than 2,000 people, and there was also a nobleman.

Frank had long seen that the fat man was extremely unpleasant, and when he heard him say this, he immediately sneered: "Is it enough to just want those mercenaries? Do we want to let go of the culprits of this incident, those bandits entrenched in the Intrepid Fort? You know, at that time, the army went to recruit them, and those mercenaries obviously couldn't rebel for no reason, they must have been bribed by the bandits of the Intrepid Castle to do this, so if we really want to avenge the dead soldiers, we must kill those bastards!"

"Ha, that's a nice thing to say, the vast Gobi, you think it's your backyard?" The fat man immediately said disdainfully: "Last time, you had to say that you were going to send someone in to exterminate some bandits, is this good? More than 2,000 people were sent in at once." You don't talk about learning a lesson this time, and you are still ashamed to take revenge? Well, there is a kind of you go by yourself, don't toss the poor border army below?"

"You?" When Frank heard this, his face turned green with anger, and he was about to speak, but he was immediately stopped by the emperor waving his hand.

"Okay, don't make any noise!" The emperor frowned and said: "Duke Frank is right, we must avenge the revenge of these more than 2,000 warriors, otherwise, how can our griffin kingdom gain a foothold on the mainland?" But Duke Stephen is also right, the broken place in the Great Gobi is really not suitable for large-scale use of troops, not only is it difficult to supply, but the most important thing is that we can't make too much fanfare, how can it stimulate the surrounding orc kingdom and dwarf kingdom. Guys, can you think of a way to pull out the nail of Dreadnought with a small group of elite troops?"

"Your Majesty, we can dispatch the Kingdom's most elite Knights of Champions!" Frank immediately proposed.

"What? Where do you want me to go? Don't talk about it!" When the Perfect Sword Saint Kalia heard this, he jumped up and said angrily: "My troops are the most elite and noble troops in the empire, and they are the model and symbol of all the troops in the Griffin Kingdom, and you are embarrassed to ask this legendary knight order to go to the Great Gobi to suppress bandits? What are you kidding? This is simply blaspheming the honor of the Great Knights! I resolutely oppose it!"

You know, the Champion Knights of the Griffon Kingdom is a glorious army that predates the history of the Griffon Kingdom, and its predecessor can even be traced back more than 2,000 years. The number of this unit is never more than 3,000, and those who enter must have at least the strength of a level 3 warrior, but also be handsome, virtuous, and proficient in horsemanship, and must go through a series of knightly training before they can finally become official members.

All the people of the Champion Knights are elegant and strong, and they don't even have any moral deficiencies, which can be called a model knight. So this unit is very famous in the Griffin Kingdom and even in the whole continent. It can be said that it is a banner of the Griffon King [***] team, so the perfect sword saint, Kalia, who is the head of the Champion Knights, dares to say the arrogant words just now.

And in fact, what the Perfect Sword Saint Kalia said was not at all right, such a thing as suppressing bandits, even ordinary regular troops should not be dispatched at all, it was originally the work that the local garrison should do, why did he call such a brilliant army to dispatch? You know, even when the kingdom is engaged in foreign wars, they will not act rashly until the critical moment. What's more, this time I'm going to the Great Gobi, the kind of place where birds don't, who would want to go?

Listening to Kalia's complaints, neither Frank nor the Emperor could help but smile bitterly. Frank could only say helplessly: "Dear Duke of Caria, you must understand that in addition to your troops, other troops must send a large number of troops if they want to destroy each other. But marching in the Great Gobi, the cost of every 2,000 people walking is close to 10,000 gold coins, and the empire can't afford to spend it!"

"Yes!" the emperor couldn't help but persuade, "For the sake of 2,000 dead soldiers, for the honor of the kingdom, can't you be wronged once?"

"Your Majesty!" said the Perfect Sword Saint Kalia almost with a cry: "The Champion Knights have been established for more than 2,000 years, we have fought bloody battles with the undead terrifying knights, and hand-to-hand combat with the abyss demons of the Burning Legion, under the leadership of the successive captains, we have fought with almost all the powerful armies on the continent, even if all of them are killed in battle, we have never given up the pursuit of honor! But, Your Majesty, you asked us to suppress the bandits this time? God, are we doing this kind of work?" If it spreads, then how can I have the face to see the heads of the past generations after I die?"

"This~" When the emperor heard this, he immediately felt that his request was a bit excessive, after all, the Champion Knights were already the strongest troops in the Griffin Kingdom, and such an honorary army was really not suitable for such a trivial matter as suppressing bandits, how to say it, it was simply a knife used to kill chickens!

"Otherwise!" Frank suddenly said to the side, "You can ask your subordinates to dress up as something else and do this as another unit, so that it has nothing to do with the Knights of Champions?"

"You?" Perfect Sword Saint Kalia was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and he immediately stood up, intending to scold Frank. But at this time, the emperor immediately said, "Good idea!

"......" Perfect Sword Saint Kalia didn't expect the emperor to say the same, and he was directly speechless, almost being angry!

(To be continued)