Chapter 284: Distant Clouds (Part II)
After the lady finished speaking, there was a kind of silence in the carriage, and no one seemed to want to judge the sentence.
The last one to speak was the young baron, who seemed to have forgotten the lesson he had just learned, and said in a rather disdainful tone: "He's just a little bit of luck, I think, ahhh
Earl Donn's face was expressionless, and the corners of Duncan's mouth moved, and at last there was only a snort, although the young baron must have heard it, and his face flushed, but he didn't mean to look at it at all.
The lady also didn't seem to hear, she continued to flip the text backwards, and suddenly "oh", and said, "Leon led his followers to not only suppress the outsider riots in Brown Bear Town, but also repel a squadron of orcs?"
The Baron and Duncan raised their heads at the same time to look at the thin pages in the lady's hand, and Earl Donn snorted and said coldly: "Lady Peg, the royal family should have entrusted you with this task for several days, don't you know anything about this young man? As the second secretary of the royal family, this is a bit too dereliction of duty, right?"
"How so?" said Lady Pegg's face was a little ugly, but it was not good for her to come out in front of Earl Donne, "I've heard about him these days, but I'm usually very busy, and I really haven't paid special attention to what is happening in this barren land of the South. ”
"Busy making friends with those powerful adults when His Majesty is seriously ill?" Duncan suddenly said.
"Civilians, watch your words!" said Lady Pegg, "you have just targeted a baron, and now you have insulted a lady who is a serious viscount, if you are so arrogant again, I will immediately bring your actions to court when I return to the royal capital!"
Duncan didn't feel anything, but the young baron's eyes showed an excited look, seeing that he must have meant that he wanted the middle-aged man on the other side to say a few more words, so that after returning to the royal capital, Viscount Peg would punish the other party well.
"The court?" Duncan muttered as he rested his head on the box again, "I'm really scared down there, forget it, I'm sleeping." ”
Having said that, none of the three people in the carriage could see any "fear" on Duncan's face, and Ms. Peg had to say a few more words, but she heard Earl Donn ask lightly: "Go on, what else does that kid do after inheriting Darren's title and territory?"
Lady Peg still had some respect for the earl, she glared coldly at Duncan, who had already narrowed her eyes, and turned the page down from the text in her hand, her face suddenly changed slightly.
"A few days ago, Leon, together with Luthor, the deputy commander of Fort Mark, defeated the natives who had invaded Campbell from the Pale Mountains, and these invaders, including kobolds, goblins, trolls, and centaurs, combined numbered more than four hundred ......."
"This can't be!" Peg suddenly raised his head, frowned and said: "These people in the garrison are just messing around! Obviously, it was Luthor who drove the invaders out of Campbell with the soldiers of the border guard, so he had to write something about Leon, could it be that he had colluded with this young man to show him his success!"
"Yes, yes!" the baron began to interject, "just a few months ago he couldn't even beat me, how could he repel the attack of the invaders? I promise that the kid will not be able to do such a thing, it must be complicit!"
Count Donn was noncommittal, and continued to say in a light tone, "Then look back. ”
Ms. Peg seemed to have some premonition, and hurried to the next page, and after a few glances at the middle text, her face was even more shocked, but after a moment it gradually changed to a smile rather than a smile.
"No wonder the man in the garrison remembered the old Earl Campbell's arrears, and even let people go to Campbell with the detailed list...... It turned out that this kid was so arrogant that he injured Charles in Edburgh...... Ha! Dare to be so arrogant since he has some ability, and he is worthy of being a stubborn person who is known as Swell. ”
"Huh?" said the young baron, looking surprised, "who did you hurt?"
No one paid attention to his question, so he held his cane in embarrassment, but thought to himself, "Charles, haven't you heard of it, is it a soldier? It's normal to injure a soldier, I've done it many times, but why is Peg like this?"
Duncan, who was across from him, remained in a half-reclining position, breathing evenly, with an expressionless face, as if he had really fallen asleep peacefully in the bumpy carriage, but if someone was on his side, perhaps a smile could be seen passing through the corner of his mouth.
Don said: "I see, what I mean is to let you be mentally prepared, don't look at him with your previous eyes, otherwise you will make a fuss and embarrass me when the time comes." ”
A few thin pages of text were quickly turned, and at the bottom was a special text with a gold edge, on which Ms. Peg's fingers slid unconsciously, as if quite touching.
It is said that for this page, the big men in the royal capital argued for several days. ”
The Earl of Donn took his staff from the young baron's hand, and stood on the floor rubbing the handle with his palm, an action that must have been one of the limited pastimes of the old-fashioned middle-aged man, judging by the yellowing of the handle.
"There's no point in arguing, no matter how young he is, he's a rightful Lord Campbell, and if you have this time, it's better to pay more attention to other aspects! Caesar in the west is eyeing us, and Lorcan in the north is also ready to move, including the Pale Mountains in the south, these foreign enemies all have a serious threat to Swell, and there are mountain people harassing inside, especially at this time, His Majesty is suddenly seriously ill, and they still have the leisure to waste their tongues for a young man!
Peg was stunned and said with some unconvincing: "The northern part of the Lorcan Kingdom is those barbarians, and it borders Caesar on the west, how can it be possible to unilaterally tear up the defense treaty that we have signed for twenty years? Not to mention that even the Caesar Empire has to guard against many enemies, including the Alliance of Commercial City-States and the Holy See, what is the spare time to add a powerful enemy like Sver to itself?"
"As for those mountain people, they are some uncivilized barbarians in the Bronze Helmet Mountain Range, they can only be arrogant near the mountain range for a while, what else can they do?"
"So you're a little worried," said Viscount Peg at last.
However, she did not mention the seriously ill king, which was also discovered by Don, and the Earl thought about it for a moment, but shook his head slightly, as if he did not agree with Peg's optimistic opinion, but he did not continue the sensitive topic of the country, and turned back to the young lord.
He turned his face sideways and said to the baron on his left: "Your father arranged for you to be our entourage on this trip, just so that you can see the great changes that Leon has made in the past few months, I hope you will also change some of your feelings, can you understand his painstaking efforts?"
"Clearly, understood," said the baron, with a sad face hanging his head, for he knew that he could not afford any of the three men in the carriage, and that the journey back and forth was really bearable!
"And ......," the baron was even more dissatisfied with his father's approach, "Cork, these people are clearly the same as me, why can a dozen people go all the way to Leon for eating, drinking, and merrymaking, but I was stuffed around these people to suffer, and I was almost by that old fellow!"
Tang Enke didn't know that the little baron had such a thought in his heart, but he was very satisfied with his deferential appearance, so he let the other party go for the time being.
Then the earl's gaze swept over the two people opposite, Duncan was sleeping, so he decided to chat with the lady a few more words, after all, she was the secretary of the royal family, and her official position was not big, but she had come into contact with a lot of big people, so it was still necessary to maintain a relationship.
"It is said that the Secretary of State does not approve of Leon's inheritance?" asked Earl Donn suddenly.
The baron pushed her black-rimmed glasses, although she looked stern, but she was still very satisfied that this earl, who was known for his old-fashioned and strict sù, could take the initiative to start the topic again, so she forgot about Tang En's dissatisfaction with Tang En's judgment of the situation in Swell, and said with a hint of triumph: "Yes, it is probably because of the matter of Viscount Andre." ”
The news that the home minister's grandson was driven back from Campbell by Leon had already spread throughout the royal capital, and even the small nobles in the remote territories had heard about it, so the home minister was very unhappy, and first taught Viscount André a lesson, although he did not make any noise about Leon's approach, but everyone knew that this matter could not end like this.
Sure enough, when he conferred the canonization of Earl Leon Campbell, the Minister of the Interior began to attack, and of course his spearhead would not point to the legitimacy of Leon's inheritance, but to question whether it was necessary to give him the rights of the Earl of the Frontier with the young man's ability, especially since he had put all of Leon's previous stubborn deeds on the table, completely dispelling the voices in favor of giving Leon Campbell complete powers.
Then he took out a map of the whole territory of Sver more than ten years ago, in order to prove that in fact, Campbell's territory was not as big as it is now, and the north did not include the southern foot of the Copperhelm Mountain Range at all, which was originally the territory of Count Macaro, but because of Count Macaro's weak control of the Copperhelm Mountain, Darren Campbell Redfield gradually encroached on the southern foothills of the mountain range.
The Secretary of the Interior said that almost one-fifth of the entire Campbell area was cut, and this was not over, he also pointed out that the border between Campbell's western and Green Mountain Territory has always been a disputed area, and that the Earl of Green Mountain was willing to shrink part of the territory because the Earl of Green Mountain respected the merits of the old Earl of Campbell, but the young Earl Campbell had a dispute with Viscount Anto, the second son of the Earl of Green Mountain, before he returned to the territory, and finally left. So Viscount Anto was furious, and the Earl of Green Hill was also angry, and decided to expand the territory to its original location until Leon apologized in public.
I have to say that the Secretary of the Interior is very familiar with the laws and history of the kingdom, and this continuous punch is like hitting the nail on the head of Campbell, so that others have almost nothing to say even if someone wants to exonerate Leon, not to mention that it is known that several of Darren Campbell's friends who have enough weight in the kingdom's political arena all died in assassination not long ago, and the rest are some middle- and lower-ranking officers, and how many other people can look at the face of the deceased old earl to look after this young man who is known for his gentleness and has a very bad reputation?
But there is a person, this is a small lord in the north, Baron Winster, everyone knows that he is Leon's maternal grandfather, just because he wants to transport several bodies of the Redfield family back to his own territory for burial and stayed in the royal capital, he has been running back and forth in the royal capital after knowing Leon's affairs, but as a little baron, what role can Chester, where the marquis and even the duke have grabbed a lot of them?
But to everyone's surprise, when Baron Winster ran for many days and stumbled upon an old nobleman, the Marquis of Teutonic said something for Leon - "Old Earl Campbell has made great contributions to the country, and it is not easy for such a young man to be left in the family, you can temporarily withdraw the full strength of the Earl of the Border, but Earl Campbell's canonization of Wen Jiàn has to hurry up to him." ”
As he spoke, several other nobles soon came forward in support, and the Minister of the Interior and his supporters were somewhat surprised, knowing that there was no intersection between the Marquis of Teutonic and the family of Count Campbell, could it be purely out of pity? So the Secretary of State, after a few days of silence, with the approval of His Majesty the Sickly King, handed over the canonization of Earl Campbell to Earl Donne, and sent such a special team to Campbell to deliver it to Leon.
Of course, the power of the Earl of the Frontier is not written in the text, and in terms of the character of the Minister of the Interior, the matter is certainly not over.
Don and Peg whispered about the effects of the canonization, and the young baron next to him was speechless, while Duncan across from him was asleep, and a carriage carrying four people with different minds drove farther and farther on the bluestone road, gradually disappearing into a green forest, and this time they had to go to the Earldom of Macaro to deal with a single business, and then they would bypass the Bronze Helmet Mountains and enter Campbell.
Just a moment later, a group of seven or eight people came out of Chester's South Gate, all dressed in extremely similar attire, except for the slightly different emblem with a glowing scepter on the right side of their chests, all dressed in white robes.
When they left Chester some distance, the old man at the head looked up to the south, and the abundant divine light in his eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the dark clouds in the sky in that direction.
"Sophia, it's so you're in the land called Campbell over there," Bishop Quinine's face was not happy, "isn't Lord St. Martin with you?"
"That's easy......"