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Chapter 480 [Saint?Devil?]

The scorched earth order has been delivered.

In the northwestern part of the land, these days there have been horsemen in Tulip Armor galloping back and forth, passing from village to village, driving the peasants away from their homes.

And not too many people expressed dissatisfaction. Because in this land, for everyone, the name Tulip Family means that you can believe in it unconditionally and surrender to it!

Even a three-year-old child knows that as long as he trusts the Tulip family's decision, then the owner of the Tulip family will never let his subjects suffer!

This trust has been planted since the red-haired boy came to the Northwest one hundred and forty years ago.

Even in the most difficult war years of the Roland Empire, in the face of waves of invasion by alien orcs, the people here lived far better than people in other places in the territory of the Tulip family in the northwest.

So, when the owner of the tulip family ordered the people here to burn down their farmland, abandon their homes, and leave the countryside with the old and weak women and children to live in the city, few people questioned the order.

Everyone believes that the owner of the tulip family will definitely give everyone an explanation and give everyone full compensation, and this compensation will definitely make everyone satisfied.

One hundred and forty years ago, the red-haired young duke of the first generation said: As long as I can keep my people alive, then I can not care about the life and death of people all over the world.

This sentence completely bought the hearts of the people of this land!

Everyone believes that as long as they are still "my people" as the owner of the tulip family thinks, then they will be well protected!

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As Panin rode his horse along the road, walking through the countryside, watching the originally barren land being abandoned in this way, the grain that had not had time to be transported was directly burned.

Panin's heart is like a knife!!

He's not distressed. It's fear!

It wasn't until he saw the scene in front of him that he was really sure that the woman from the Tulip family wasn't just talking about it - she really did it!

She really put this "scorched earth strategy" into practice! She really dared to give up the tulip family's thousand-mile territory, put on a completely undefended posture, and only explicitly guarded a few cities, and casually gave up this thousand-mile land, allowing those steppe people to enter and exit at will?!

Before leaving, Panin's mind was full of thoughts: how dare she!!

But now, Panin had a thought in her heart: she really dared to !!

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The gates of Loulan City have begun to strictly enforce the night curfew.

But tonight was an exception.

Until midnight, the gates were still not closed—of course. The distance of 100 meters inside and outside the city gate has been emptied, and no one dares to approach the city gate under the curfew at night. Otherwise, they will be arrested as spies or thieves.

A team of horses rushed to the bottom of Loulan City, the number was not much, only five or six people, but the horse team brought with it was full of twenty horses.

The soldiers defending the city were not nervous, there were no woods on the left and near the outside of Loulan City, and even if there were, they would have been cut down decades ago.

Above the bare wilderness. At a glance, you can see more than ten miles, and you can't hide people at all.

The horses rushed to the city gates, and some people threw the tulip badges, and then the horse team drove in. Rushed into Loulan City, and in this night, entered the tulip castle in the city.

The horse team stopped at the castle gate, and the knight on one of the horses in front of him rolled over and jumped off his horse. His robe. Covering his face, he dismounted, and strode up the steps with his head down. Quickly approached the castle gates.

In the hall, Du Weiwei's long hair and shawl stood by the wide steps. A slender hand pressed against the railing. Behind her, on the wall was a huge oil painting, in which the young Duke Tulip smiled.

The visitor quickly ripped off his hood, and the servant of the Tulip family came quickly, holding a plate with a cup of hot soup and tea on the plate.

"It's hard to travel late at night, this late autumn is cold, if you have anything to say, drink a cup to warm up your body before talking. Du smiled slightly against the railing.

Syllable!

The plate was lifted, and the cup of hot tea was spilled directly on the steps.

Looking at the frosty face of the man in front of him, Du smiled coldly, and his tone was mocking: "It seems that you don't need hot tea, you have enough anger in your heart." ”

"I can't help but be angry!"

Panin angrily kicked the cup at his feet, stood in place, looked up at Du Weiwei on the steps, and shouted: "Messiah, are you really going crazy!!"

"I'm not the one who is crazy. Du Weiwei still had a calm smile on his face: "Paning, you are the governor of the northwest who is personally appointed by Xiluo, and the first important task of your coming to the northwest is to deal with my tulip family." But now you have only two or three retinues, and you have come to my Loulan City on horses for eight days, and to my house late at night...... If you don't have a bad brain, you should know that we are enemies now, and you ran into an enemy's lair, but you still dare to say that others are crazy?!

Two days ago, I heard a report from my men that you are here, and I still don't believe it. I didn't believe it until now that you were standing in front of me.

The question on my mind, Panin, is whether I'm going to kill you now, or whether I'm going to grab you and throw you into a dungeon, and slowly dig something out of your mouth—I'm sure you know a lot. ”

Paning seemed to hold back his anger, he clenched his fists, and stared at Du Weiwei with his head raised: "I'll come, just ask you...... Are you really going to be a traitor to the Empire!"

"Traitor?"

Du smiled slightly, she seemed to be a little tired and stretched out her hand to cover her mouth, and yawned: "Are you saying that a duke of the Tulip family betrayed this empire, is there a more ridiculous joke in the world?"

“...... Yes!"

Panin's eyes are on fire!

He bit the pressure and said hatefully: "I know, many people also know! If it weren't for your Tulip Family, I'm afraid that the Roland Empire would have been out of existence now! If your ancestor had a little ambition more than a hundred years ago, it would not have been the Augustinian family sitting in the palace now!"

But even if your tulip family is kind to the empire, no matter how deep the kindness is for more than a hundred years, it should be repaid!

Since your ancestor did not choose to be the emperor but chose to be a courtier a hundred years ago, then you, the descendants, should honestly keep the duty of a courtier, the status of half king and half minister. Originally, you are a freak, you are a smart person, you should understand that this kind of unreasonable thing cannot be stored forever!

I came to the northwest, not Aker's people to the northwest, and you should understand! I don't want to fight a civil war, and even His Majesty doesn't want to fight a civil war!

He never even thought about really eradicating the Tulip family, he just wanted to weaken you, he just wanted to take back the power that an emperor should have!

It's Aker who really wants you to die! That guy still dreams of being the Rollin family to replace the Tulip family!

That's why I think he's an idiot!

Because even if it's Xilo Xià. You can reuse him, you can marry his daughter, and you can even conspire with him to weaken the Tulip family!

But His Majesty Xiluo would never want to see a half-monarch and half-minister Tulip family disappear, and another half-monarch and half-minister Luo Lin family appear!

It is impossible for the Luo Lin family to become the second half-monarch and half-minister special beings! The emperor would never allow them to do so!

Messiah, you are not a fool! I even think that you are one of the few people in this empire that I can see in the eyes of Panin!

You should also understand that things are far from the point where everyone tears their faces.

The first thing I did when I came to the Northwest was to drive back all the men under Aker's men! I released all the people of the Tulip caravan that had been captured—and I withheld the goods, because that was the Emperor needed face. A face that shows that you are strong, and I believe you should be able to understand this approach - your family is not short of that little money.

Even if you're going to be angry, you're going to teach Shiloh a lesson, but you've gone too far this time!

You really want to see those foreign cavalry drinking the Lancang River. Do you really want to be happy to see the Orc Legion flag planted on the land of the Rolands?!

Answer me!"

Panin's tone said that he was questioning, but it was better to vent the anger in his heart. He said so much in one breath, to the end. There was deep regret and anger in his eyes.

Du Weiwei didn't move.

She stood in place, quietly looking at Panin, and listened to Panin vent his words. She didn't even look at her in the slightest.

Quietly waiting for Paning to finish speaking, Du Weiwei pulled the corners of his mouth.

"Finished?"

“...... That's it!" Panin sighed.

"Your Excellency the Northwest, you have been traveling for so many days, and you are still tired of a few horses, and you have quietly notified the scout of my family that you are coming, and I haven't slept here in the middle of the night waiting for your guest...... You're just here to put on a show of a loyal and famous general? I'm sorry, but you played badly, and I, the audience, were very unhappy. ”

"Acting?" Panin is on fire!

He pointed at Du Weiwei: "Do you think I'm acting? If I were acting, the Thunder God's Whip of the two divisions would have already crossed the border! If I were acting, I wouldn't need to come to see you at this time! I would wait for the grassland people to call, and then the army would press the border! When the time comes, your tulip family will be wiped out, what will be the end!!"

"Oh?" Du Wei smiled indifferently: "Then, Panin, you only need to answer me one question." If your answer satisfies me, I'll tell you the real reason for doing so. ”

“...... Answer your question?

Du Weiwei suddenly changed and walked down a few steps, narrowing the distance between the two before, but because of the height gap between the two, although Du Weiwei stood on several steps above, the two still only looked at each other.

"What is the position of you, Your Excellency Panin Gallonin, the present Duke of Rhine, who came to me in the middle of the night to play the role of a loyal general......? My other nephew, Marhi, was killed by you and Shiloh.

My dead nephew, although not a generation of heroes, is by no means a bad emperor, no matter how you count it. During his reign, the empire was also smooth, the country and the people were safe.

Panin, if you are really a patriot. A loyal servant who cares about the country, then why on the night of the New Year, you stood opposite the emperor to whom you once served with a sword!

You opened the door of the palace! You put the rebels into the palace! When Gule murdered Xiao De, it was you who stood in front of the emperor and blocked his rescue!

Panin!

The coup d'état in the New Year, I thought about it carefully for a long time.

Aker participated, and for good reason, he wanted the Rollin family to replace the Tulip family!

Gu Le participated, and for a reason, he was originally a diehard loyalist of Shiloh. Marsch believed him wrongly, and there was nothing to say!

But you, Panin, what reason do you have to participate in the coup?

Marhi had always admired you during his lifetime, and you had become the commander of the Guards before you were thirty years old - it was the Guards! not an army of cats and dogs. Being able to be the commander of the Imperial Forest Army is the emperor's attitude towards you! It is a sign that he will make great use of you in the future! You don't even need to do anything, before the age of thirty-five, you will be sent out and become the commander of the legion! You are in your forties. You might be able to become the Minister of War! You don't want such a future!

And thou art rebellious?

You helped Shiloh usurp the throne and murder the emperor who once appreciated you.

What do you get?

Broke an arm, and then became a duke?

Sue sù me. Why the hell are you doing that?

I'm sure people like you aren't jackals for power - and besides, I don't think Shiloh can give you more!"

Panin's face sank.

He suddenly took a deep breath and slowly exhaled it.

He didn't answer Du Weiwei's question. Instead, he looked at Du Weiwei expressionlessly: "Do you really plan to do this? There is no room for recovery?"

"It seems that you are not willing to answer my question. Du Weiwei did not hide the shameful expression on his face: "Then you can do whatever you want, Paning." Anyway, it's already happened, I'm going to ask now. It's just to satisfy my curiosity. If you don't tell me, I won't ask you again. ”

Panin closed his eyes and thought for a while before he opened his eyes and said, "The steppe people have already raised their troops, and within two months at most, their troops will reach your territory! Even if you shrink your defenses, abandon those rural areas, and shrink all your strength in the cities, aren't you afraid that the steppe people will really attack those cities?"

Everyone knows that the tulip family has wealth in the city that can make everyone blush! I don't think that those strong walls can stop the steppe robbers. ”

"They don't dare. Du Wei smiled faintly: "Those houses in the countryside, those livestock, are the bones I threw to these wild dogs, whatever they want." If you dare to offend my city, I will let these wild dogs know that there are some things they are not allowed to touch. Believe me, Panin, I'm sure of it. No one can break down the city of the Tulip Family, not any city. These steppe people can't do it...... They didn't dare to do it either. ”

"Messiah, you are crazy! When the more than 100,000 cavalry of the steppe people surrounded your Loulan City, you would not say such crazy things again!" Panin pointed to Du Weiwei's nose and shouted.

Du shrugged his shoulders slightly: "I'll let you see it - even if the cavalry of the steppe people comes to my Loulan City, they will only come to salute me and worship me." Panin, what you said couldn't have happened. ”

"You ......"

Panin's heart suddenly jumped!

He had a very crazy thought!

"The steppe people's army, is it ...... You ......"

Du Wei touched his forehead: "You are not too slow to react after all." ”

"You woman! You're really crazy!!" Panin suddenly changed color: "You are treason!!Attracting foreign invasions!!You are naked treason!!"

"Treason?" Du Weiwei laughed: "Don't say it so noble - an accomplice who usurps the throne and accuses others of treason? Panin, when did you become a comedian?"

No, no, no, I didn't collude with the King of the Prairie. I only provoked them a few times at the right moments.

And I've never wanted to use the steppe people against you - trust me, the Tulip family isn't that stingy.

The plan against the steppe people was made very early on, long before you had a coup d'état. The tulip family has begun to stimulate the nerves of the steppe people step by step.

As for why, it should be understandable with your cleverness: for the past one hundred and forty years, the steppe people have been our sheepdogs, and now this sheepdog is getting stronger and stronger, and more and more disobedient, and it is time to slaughter it.

Our tulip family has been playing with this shepherd dog for generations. Been playing this game, fattening, killing, and then raising a batch, killing again.

It's just that in the past, when my parents and grandparents played this game, the movement was relatively small.

And now that I'm in power, I'm a big person and want to play bigger, and I've played this time. It is estimated that there will be thirty or fifty years of quiet, and there is no need to think about the threat of the steppe people anymore.

I don't want to be like my parents and grandparents, and spend the rest of my life staring at the grassland, I want to make the grassland people quiet once and for all, and then I will free up my energy to do other more important things. ”

"You!you admit it?!" Paning looked at Du Weiwei in horror: "You admit that you caused the invasion of the steppe people......

"I wasn't complicit, I just admitted that I played a role in it. Du snorted slightly disdainfully: "Yes, I admit it." So what? Even if you know now, can you still make all the hundreds of thousands of red-eyed cavalry on the steppe disappear?

Panin, don't be so naïve.

On martial arts talent, military strategy talent. You are indeed first-class. But when it comes to politics, you're just a child.

The steppe people are getting stronger, and they can already muster hundreds of thousands of troops - such a threat must be eliminated sooner rather than later.

I don't want to go on an expedition to the steppes, which would have to go through the northwest corridor of Mount Kilimano. Walking through the desert is too tiring and costly. I'd rather let hundreds of thousands of steppe people take the initiative to run over and run in front of us for us to kill.

We're far from the steppe, and if they fail, they'll have nowhere to run. All I have to do is block that northwest corridor...... No, I don't even have to block that corridor, do you think a group of defeated soldiers can easily cross that desert?

Do you think a group of people who have lost a battle will carry food and water with them?

That desert may be the place where the steppe people are buried.

I don't like to be charged as a slaughterer or an executioner, I prefer to be a hero.

Panin, what do you think?

If I take the initiative to march into the grassland, I will be said that I am a sinner who slaughtered the people of the steppe and a butcher who exterminated the population.

Let them in, and I am the hero of the resistance to foreign enemies.

Which title would you prefer?"

Looking at Du Weiwei's bright and moving smiling face, Paning suddenly felt that his heart was full of coldness!

This woman is crazy......

She's not crazy!

She's a devil at all!!

"You...... Aren't you afraid I'll get these words out there?" Panin narrowed his eyes.

"Of course not. ”

Du Wei looked at Panin, as if looking at an idiot: "No one will believe you if you say it! Now the whole world thinks that the Tulip family is the victim, ours is suspected by the new emperor, our Northwest Independent Division is almost reversed, and the emperor also sent you to the northwest with two divisions of the Thunder God's Whip, oppressing us all the time...... Even if you go out on the street and say that the Tulip Family has led the Prairie people to invade, no one will believe it, and everyone will only think that you are deliberately slandering the reputation of the Tulip Family on the orders of that guy from Shiloh.

Panin, don't you understand? This is a conspiracy, not a conspiracy! Because the hundreds of thousands of troops of the steppe people are placed there, and they will definitely fight over. Whether you say it or not, this fact will not change!

Once they call, as long as it's the Tulip family who saves the world in the end, then no one will investigate what the reason is in the first place.

Do you know? My great ancestor once said, "The human heart?" is what is used to be played with! Therefore, the most unreliable thing in this world is the human heart!

Panin, remember this sentence...... If you don't die too early, remembering this sentence will be good for you later in life. ”

Panin suddenly felt cold in his fingers!!

Suddenly he had a ridiculous feeling in his heart!

This world is completely different from what I thought?!

"Then ......" forcibly suppressed the urge to go up and stab this woman to death with a sword, Panin said slowly: "Then...... What kind of way do you have to deal with those hundreds of thousands of steppe cavalry? That's hundreds of thousands of cavalry, not hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep! Since you have planned this a long time ago, I believe you don't want things to change, right? Didn't you say that this thing was planned before the coup d'état?

"If the coup hadn't happened. Du said lightly: "Of course I will discuss with His Majesty Marhi how to dig this big pit now, and then clapped his hands and smiled and watched the grassland people jump in." But now, now that Marsh is dead. And Shiloh wished I was dead...... So why should I sue you?

Panin, I'm not that great...... Someone stabbed me in the back, and I still have to smile to help you?

I'm a woman, and women are very stingy and vindictive.

The army of hundreds of thousands of steppe people, you can solve it, Shiloh will solve it.

Of course, I know that most of you can't solve it. So I'll be patient.

When you fail, I'll save the world.

You see, what a beautiful story it is. When the world is in danger and everyone is finally helpless, the hero will appear on the scene to save the world...... We, the Tulip Family, have always played this role for a hundred and forty years, haven't we?"

Looking at Panin's pale face, Du smiled slightly disdainfully: "I admit that the coup d'état did disrupt some of my steps. But...... Left and right are already like this. I don't care too much, one sheep is also killed, and ten sheep are also killed.

Didn't Shiloh always want to be a great and good emperor?

Okay, I'll give him this chance.

Behind my back, my Northwest Independent Division rebelled. This is not a good emperor, only a conspirator - not to mention that he has failed.

And these hundreds of thousands of steppe cavalry are my gift to him. An emperor naturally wants to lead the country to resist foreign enemies.

If he can do a good job. Then in the end, you don't need me to come forward, that's fine. ”

Panin stared at Du Weiwei: "You...... You're the most vicious woman I've ever seen!"

"Thank you for the compliment. Du said lightly: "In fact, the tulip family has never produced saints, only devils." We have always been people who stand with the devil. Moreover. Why should I feel guilty? I did this to completely eliminate the external problems of the steppe for the empire, and in thirty or fifty years, everyone will not have to worry about the growth of the steppe people. After shearing the wool this time, we can easily go decades.

Panin, this is the real service for the country and the people.

As for you...... Do you think that if you murdered the first emperor to death, and then ran to the northwest and put on a posture of serving the country and the people, you can really clear your name?

Go back, Panin!

I can kill you, I know, you must have made a breakthrough after the battle with Marhi, maybe you have become a saint, maybe you are not.

But believe me, none of this matters to me, whether you are a saint or not now, I have at least a hundred ways to kill you in Loulan City.

For the Tulip family, there is nothing unusual about such a thing as the Holy Order.

I won't kill you, Panin, I'll let you go back.

On the one hand, because you are the chief of the northwest, the invasion of the steppe people, there is always a need for someone to stand up and carry this matter first.

On the other hand...... After a few days of driving for you, a few horses died of exhaustion to see me, and finally you still have a little thought for the country, and I will let you leave alive.

Go back, Panin, and don't come back to see me. This is me, if I am another force or leader, you dare to come alone as an enemy, and I will kill you a long time ago.

Your romantic heroic feelings will kill you sooner or later. ”

After Du Weiwei said this, he suddenly seemed to lose interest, glanced at Panin boringly, turned around, changed and walked up the steps, and then disappeared at the end of the stairs......

Panin stood on the spot, staring blankly at the staircase......

Overhead, in the huge oil painting, the red-haired young duke is smiling at the world......

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[I know this chapter may surprise many people...... Well, let's look behind you slowly~~

PS: Kindly recommend a book "Sword Dynasty", author: not guilty. I'm sure you're familiar with him.

I read part of this book, and there is only one evaluation: It's really jian...... If you are interested, you can try it~】

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(To be continued......)