Sarunbonelli was uneasy, but there was no better way but to send his elite men to the Duke's palace of Minas to quietly inquire about the news.

Time passed little by little, and the old prime minister's heart had never been so nervous, even when the city of Osgilia was broken last time and the rebels entered the city, the old man had never been so nervous. At that time, although the situation was bad and almost in a desperate situation, the old prime minister's thoughts were very simple: if the country was destroyed, then his own prime minister" was nothing more than a death, with his full name.

But tonight is different!

Most of his uneasiness smacks of weakness. Although he trusts these elite warriors in his home after all, in the empire, every wealthy nobleman has a tradition of raising elite private soldiers, and the private soldiers raised by these families are equivalent to the private armies of noble and wealthy families, and the fate and honor of his life have been completely maintained with the family, and his loyalty to the family is undoubted, and there is almost no possibility of rebellion. The aristocracy often did not tolerate the behavior of the rebellious family, and once this happened, "the rebel would be spurned by the entire aristocratic class."

He made preparations today, and the target was naturally the Duke of Minas The Duke of Minas had decided to come to the banquet to meet him, but he suddenly canceled the trip before going out, could it be ......

Could it be that the shrewd old fellow, he sensed his own abnormality?

The elite dead soldiers of their own family will never act as a rebellious informant!

However, the old prime minister of the sea all his life knows a truth: there are no absolutes in the world! It is often those things that seem impossible to live, once they are born, then they will bring about a catastrophe!

With the deep background of the Duke Minas family in the army, if the old duke learns that he actually has the intention to poison him, then the Minas family's immediate backlash and revenge will also be

He shook his head slightly. The old prime minister tried his best to suppress the distracting thoughts in his heart.

No! If he has a sense of "at this moment, he has already made a counterattack! Don't look at the old duke who has been quiet and quiet in the past few years, and he looks like he is old and indisputable, but Salembonelli is also old, and he has personally experienced the period when the old Duke of Minas was in charge of the army! The Duke of Minas back then, Xingzi was resolute and resolute, decisive in killing, and never hesitated for half a minute! If he knew that he had the intention of harming him, then at this moment, the old duke had already sent his elite subordinates who had been stored in the Duke of Minas's palace to fight!

The old duke has been fighting horses all his life, and the elite warriors he has raised in his family are undoubtedly second to none among all the wealthy nobles of the empire in terms of quantity and quality! The quality of the private soldiers of the Minas family can be compared to that of the emperor's private arm, I am afraid that only the emperor's private armed "Night Imperial Forest"!

If the Duke of Minas is really determined to fight back, then everyone will fight hard, and the loser must be himself!

This is a life-or-death moment!

The old prime minister didn't think his idea would be too exaggerated!

He knows Duke Minas's Xingzi too well! This guy seems to be a harmonious mess in recent years, but Xingzi back then will never change! As the prime minister, he is also the number one descendant minister who the emperor relies on as his confidant" If you let the old duke know that he wants to attack him, then the other party will definitely interpret it as the meaning of the emperor himself! Once he is convinced that it is the emperor himself who wants to attack the Minas family" Then the Minas family's counterattack will no longer have any worries!

"May the gods take care of it. The old prime minister's face was grim, and his eyes were full of cold light: "If the Minas family can serve the royal family without dissent, it will be a great blessing for the country! If it really becomes a mess...... Well, this is the catastrophe of the Empire!"

Until it was completely dark, "Lao Zai didn't eat half a bite of dinner, and waited quietly in the study.

Finally, when it was almost midnight, the person sent out to inquire about the news finally came back to tell the truth.

Sent out was the old prime minister's personal guard, a middle-aged samurai with a capable body, who ran into the prime minister's study, with sweat on his forehead, "Gasping for breath, obviously this journey is very hard."

"My lord, there's news!" The chief of the guard was about to kneel down and salute, and the old prime minister frowned: "Say! When is it, don't salute! Say it quickly!"

"Yes!" the chief of the guard, Xingzi, was cautious and meticulous, and took a breath before he quickly whispered: "I divided the men into two groups, one group went to check near the city gate, and the other team hid near the Duke's Palace with me. Just a while ago, "there was finally news that the team of knights led by Lord Luo Di returned to the city from outside the city, and the city gate was closed at night for a curfew, and Luo Di came forward to show the old duke's handwriting, so that the generals guarding the city opened the city gate and let them in." My guy was nearby at the time, and he saw it very clearly, and he couldn't go wrong. ”

After a pause, the chief of the guard added: "There is an unusual detail: I heard that when Lord Luo Di led people out of the city, it was all a horse caravan, and when he came back, there was a light carriage in the team" The carriage was very rudimentary, apparently temporarily levied outside the city, and some of my men recognized that it was a wagon, but it was temporarily modified, and a shed was added to the carriage! When they entered the city, the horse team hugged the car in the middle of the procession, and the carport was lowered and covered tightly." Obviously, they didn't want people to see what was inside. Because they brought the old duke's handwritten letter, the generals guarding the gate did not dare to check them, so they directly let them into the city. That group, after entering the city, went directly back to the Duke's Palace. ”

"What else?" nodded the old prime minister.

The chief guard groaned slightly: "I saw the carriage outside the Duke's Palace, judging from the wheel marks, the carriage did not carry much weight, and the wheel marks left on the road were light and shallow. ”

"Good, you're careful. The old prime minister nodded again, but frowned and said, "What do you think......?" What could be hidden in the carriage?"

"The subordinates don't know, and they don't dare to guess. The chief guard shook his head very honestly: "After the carriage entered the palace, the Duke's Palace closed the gate, and it can be seen that they are very well guarded throughout the palace, and the number of guards has at least doubled. ”

Salembonili took a deep breath and paced around the room for a while, then walked to the table and wrote a warrant and handed it to the chief of the guard: "Now that the city is under curfew" You immediately take my warrant and go out of the city to find out the news. Where did Roddy and the people go out of the city before, and where did they meet someone, "and where the carriage was recruited, check them all." Hmmm......"

Speaking of this, the old prime minister hesitated slightly, and the head of the guard moved in his heart, and said in a low voice: "My lord" Is PS to be cleaner, and ask the relevant people in the country, do you want to", he made a single-palm downward cutting action.

“...... No need. The old prime minister suddenly smiled, and the haze and nervousness in his eyes had disappeared: "The situation doesn't seem to be as bad as I thought. Well, "your heart checks" just don't show a trace, don't let people know that you are from my house. These days, hasn't the military headquarters transferred quite a few garrisons from the south? You have changed into the clothes of the local garrison and gone out of the city to inquire about the news. ”

After the chief of the guard received the order, the old prime minister breathed a long sigh of relief and slowly sat back in his chair.

It seems that "the Minas family's abnormal movements are not due to their own actions. Is there something important in their own home......

"What the hell was quietly loaded in the carriage that Roddy had brought back?"

What can be loaded in a carriage for transporting goods? Prohibited things? Naturally, they will not" Prohibited things, push is ordnance and weaponry, but the Duke of Minas has been in a high position in the army for half his life, and those forbidden weapons and equipment may be rare items to others, but there must be a lot of them in his house. So...... , is it some kind of private goods?

The Duke of Minas was also not short of money, "not guilty of doing such a thing."

Could it be......

Person!!

Or did the old duke contact some old subordinate of the southern local garrison and come into the city to meet and discuss some secret matter?

The old prime minister thought of this, and suddenly smiled bitterly, it didn't seem right to think so: unless he wanted to summon the old ministry to rebel, otherwise the old duke would never start summoning his old subordinates now, he had been in obscurity for so many years, and he had been very low-key, "I will not summon my subordinates before the current face is about to recover, which will attract the suspicion of others." He's only going to be more low-key now!

Thinking of this, the old prime minister's heart moved, "I think of something......

"Count the days, it shouldn't have come yet" The brigade came from the north in a hurry, even if it went fast, "There should be half a month before the "......", and when it was almost dawn, the "chief of the guard finally came back again with the results of the inquiry."

The chief guard was very effective in doing things, and the news he came back from the inquiry was also very detailed.

"When Lord Luo Di went out of the city" was to take people to a village and town in the northwest direction, less than twenty miles away from the emperor. I took someone to inquire about the news in the village and town, and the carriage was also bought at a carriage and horse shop in the village. We asked the people of the carriage and horse shop, and at that time the duke and people surrounded the vicinity of the carriage and horse shop, and did not let the idle people enter and exit, but the people of the carriage and horse shop heard the sound of crying from inside from a distance, and even the Duke of Roddy, when he came out, his eyes were red, but his expression was very excited, as if he was very happy, "I know." The prime minister's reaction this time was much calmer, and the news he brought back obviously further confirmed his guess.

"Sir, we ......"

"Let's go down, let everyone rest, there won't be any big deals. The prime minister sighed, and his eyes were a little complicated: "The things that follow are not something you can understand." ”

After the chief of the guard went out, the old prime minister called his personal housekeeper again.

"Prepare the car, I'm going out. ”

The steward looked at the old man's tired face and couldn't help but say, "Master, you haven't eaten a bite tonight, and it's not too early......

"You know, if I can't do it, it's tonight! Go quickly, don't follow the guards, change to an old carriage that doesn't dazzle, I'm going to the military headquarters." ”

The old prime minister drove lightly and quietly went out of the mansion in the middle of the night, "only two personal attendants followed, and even the groom was personally acted by the housekeeper."

When he visited the emperor's ** department in the middle of the night, the old prime minister did not show up, and only asked his subordinates to show a highest-level pass order, and the guards of the military headquarters immediately let him go.

The person to be visited by Salembonelli was Adric, although it was already the middle of the night, but the old prime minister had no doubt that Adric must not have fallen asleep at this time.

Although the old prime minister knew that his political goal was how to restrain this overly powerful military leader. But in private, he also admires the current pillar of the empire. Grand Duke Adric is selfless, and since he became Minister of War, he has been busy with official business and "forgot to sleep and eat", which can almost be said to be the most diligent military minister in the empire in a hundred years.

Although everyone is on different camps, "Lao Zai still admires Adrick's diligence very much."

Adric was surprised by the Prime Minister's late-night visit, but he immediately realized that the other party must have something important and secret to discuss with him, so he chose to come at such a time.

Adric quietly returned to the Prime Minister and had his guards tightly guard the area around the room where the two were meeting.

After closing the door with his own hands, Adric turned around and looked at the old prime minister who was already sitting leisurely in his chair.

"Adults came late at night, I don't know ......"

Before Adric finished speaking, the prime minister had already let out a long sigh: "General Adric, you are the best of the emperor's affairs, and you forget to sleep and eat, which really makes me admire." ”

As he spoke, the Prime Minister's eyes deliberately fell on Adric's table, which was a food plate, which was obviously Adric's dinner, and there were two pieces of cold and hard dough in it, with only a piece of smoked rou in the middle. Because it had cooled down, there was a disgusting white layer of oil floating on it.

The dignified minister of the emperor's ** affairs, the number one person in the emperor's ** team, actually ate so simply! The prime minister could naturally see that the bread was only made of the most ordinary coarse grains, and as for the smoked rou, it was no different from what ordinary soldiers in the army ate.

Adric saw the Prime Minister's eyes and smiled faintly: "The Prime Minister is serious. This kind of food is already good, at least there is rou to eat. If it is a food in the army for marching and fighting in the field, it is good to have bread to satisfy hunger. ”

The old man nodded, his eyes were a little complicated, he let out a long sigh, looked at Adric's tired face, and said in a low voice, "The general hasn't slept for a few days?"

"......" Adric frowned slightly, and said lightly: "The Prime Minister made every thing late at night, "I'm afraid you're not here to discuss food and lodging with me, right?"

In fact, Adric hadn't closed his eyes for two days, and he was tired and impatient.

"The general is hard. The old prime minister said lightly: "It's just that I have a sentence I want to ask you, what do you think, "What is the most difficult thing for you now?"