Passing through the long corridor, this is Solomon's second visit to Perth Palace.

Outside the room where Edward was waiting to be summoned, Solomon met with the Marquis of Regina.

"Let's go in together. The old man nodded to Solomon, but his face was not very good.

After entering the room, Solomon appeared, and this was not a summoning to him alone, there were other people in the room, and looking at the clothing signs of these people, all of them were nobles.

Solomon immediately understood that this was Edward's mysterious Privy Council meeting.

"Reginaqing, you've finally arrived. Edward said gently, but like Reginer, his face didn't seem to be good.

"I'm old, so I asked everyone to wait a little longer, and ask Your Majesty Xià to forgive me. Regina laughed to himself, not mentioning the encounter with Solomon outside, otherwise he wouldn't have been late.

It was Solomon who was really late, but there was no way around it.

He received the news that Edward was going to see him today, and that the magician on the other side of the teleportation hall had teleported him to the Black Rock Plane to make an urgent notification.

After receiving the news, Solomon immediately put down his business and rushed back, but in the process of teleportation, time passed, so he delayed time, so that when he rushed back, he did not even go to see Regina, but ran directly to Perth Palace.

And his face is definitely still a fresh face in Perth Palace, so it took a lot of trouble, but fortunately, the royal director remembered his name and knew that Edward did want to summon him, so he could come in casually.

It seems that today is something important to discuss, Solomon thought, but for this time to enter this mysterious Privy Council meeting, it means that the inner circle around Edward has finally opened a way to himself.

This is of course the result of some recent events, and on the surface since the last time he mentioned the book of construction to Edward, Solomon is not qualified to attract the attention of the lord of a nation, but in fact it is not.

The successful implementation of the Pioneer allowed the royal family to receive the money, and when the money went into the treasury, Edward naturally remembered.

More importantly, although Solomon jumped into a pit and was embarrassed to the slave trade to tide over the difficulties, he still insisted on practicing his mention of Edward in the book of Jianyi and paying taxes as a businessman.

This was a good start, and it played a guiding role among the merchants of Asturias, and the merchants who belonged to the commodity exchanges, such as Derek, also began to pay taxes, so that the matter of paying taxes became more and more recognized among the new merchants, of course, provided that the Asturian army had to ensure the smooth business activities of the merchants and their personal safety.

Relatively stubborn are still those merchants who control the traditional commercial guilds, most of them are attached to the wealthy families of the three dukes, and as long as the power of the three dukes does not fall, it is difficult for them to change their banners.

"Who is this?" Finally, someone couldn't help but ask about Solomon's identity, and such a fresh face suddenly appeared in the Imperial Council where they could get close to His Majesty, even if everyone knew that this must have been specially allowed by Edward, but some people would still feel dissatisfied.

Count Philip promptly indicated Solomon's identity to the other party, and introduced it to both parties, and Solomon only then learned that the person who asked about his identity was named Benjamin, and the title was viscount, but he was born in the historic Disraeli family, although this family is not as good as the three major dukes, but it also belongs to the same level as the Spencer family.

"So it's just a kingdom mage?" Benjamin didn't speak, but someone else sneered.

"Osten!" Count Philip befriended Solomon, and only then accepted his dwarf slave girl's gift, and of course defended Solomon, "He will soon have a knighthood." ”

"Alright, time is pressing, don't worry about Solomon's identity anymore. I promised that if the ideas he proposed last time were effective, I would give Solomon a knighthood, and I would honour this promise, and when today's meeting was over, the Crown Master of Ceremonies would confer the title on my behalf. Edward interrupted the argument impatiently.

"Yes, Your Majesty. Everyone was stunned.

Edward looked around with satisfaction and said: "Today's meeting is very important, we have to summarize the gains and losses in the early stage, as well as the situation we will face in the future, and how to deal with it. ”

So the crowd began to take turns, and Solomon only listened quietly, this was the first time he had attended such a meeting, and the first time he had come into contact with information about the power core of the Asturian royal family.

Pieced together from what he heard at the meeting, Solomon slowly formed a puzzle in his mind about Asturias in Yugudral and the Falusi Gongon.

The two pillars of Asturias, the royal and the duke, temporarily ceased their discord at home and united with the outside world in order to face the hostility of other nations and the Church.

But this alliance is also limited to the outside world at the beginning, at best it is no longer infighting, try not to pull each other's feet, but there are still faint divisions, such as the royal family's main attack on Yugudral, and the dukes tacitly set the goal of Faroucion.

During Solomon's time in Black Rock, Edward personally presided over the strategy against Yugudral, and used his role as a legendary powerhouse to suppress other powerhouses who were unkind to Asturias, maintaining his position in the Otherworld.

Edward had endured for many years, and once he made a move, he won the church in the country, and cleaned up a lot of low-level churches in Asturias of the Church of Light, forcing the rest to either close their doors and run away, or replace them with members close to the royal family as clergy, and even the Ruolawan Cathedral, as the regional center, had to be silenced to survive. Such good results were achieved because Edward first succeeded in exposing the dirt and sins of the lower and middle classes of the church after years of preparation, so that they lost the support of the congregation.

The loss of the support of the Church not only dismantled the amulet, so that if the army was dispatched, it would be impossible for the Christians to stand up and oppose the royal family, and the lower levels of the Church became street rats that everyone shouted and beaten, and the kingdom had a righteous name for dealing with them, and even the general court of the Church could only shout in the air for the time being, and did not dare to send the Knights of the Church to interfere.

But compared to the outside, Edward was much more difficult, because in Yugular, he was also competing with a country whose national strength was comparable to that of Asturias, and the church was only superficially biased before, but after the deterioration of the domestic situation, the priests and other clergy sent by the church to the ** team increased several times, and the blatant support was almost not directly sent to the Knights of the Church.

The war of Asturias in Yugudral was much more difficult, and it was not necessary to face a fierce resistance from the original natives, which was not a rebellion that could be suppressed by a light yì like the dwarves of the Black Rock Plane, and there were still huge primitive forces in the natives of Yugudral, and there were new uprisings in the occupied areas.

Fortunately, however, there was such an uprising, because this kind of uprising, and the war of reconquista of the former indigenous countries, would not be directed against Asturias as well, but would also contain other countries.

In short, Edward has held out until now, and after the harsh winter of Yogudral's peace, the large-scale fighting had to be temporarily stopped, and only then did he have time to rush back, first, to deal with some difficult domestic affairs, and second, to deploy the strategy behind.

The situation of the Dukes in Farusion was even more ugly than Edward's, so they had to bow their noble heads and ask for help from the royal faction and other nobles, and were willing to discuss some matters in the Diet.

As a result, Edward won a great victory in this noble council, and the Duke's faction, in order to redeem the defeat at Farousion, had decided to hand over the supreme command of Faroucion and Yugudral.

This is good news, which means that under increasing external pressure, the three dukes not only agreed to stop the infighting, but also made concessions, and were willing to unify under the command of the royal family, not just in name, so the next problem for Edward was how to coordinate and command the operations on both sides at the same time.

He had sent Marshal Morgos to Faroución with reinforcements, the elite ironclad regiments of the royal guard, the hoplite regiments.

In line with this, the three dukes also made concessions at the Council of Nobles, agreeing to the tax increase proposed by the royal family, and this tax increase is not limited for a specific period of time, and will remain in effect until the council of nobles and the royal family agree.

However, it is also clear that Edward has a greater responsibility, and he must stabilize the situation on both fronts at the same time, and if you count the country, it is three.

Moreover, the external forms of Yugudral and Farusion have now gone beyond the scope of the original holy war, and have become the second battlefield between the church and the royal power.

These two places are no longer the usual, in the past, the defeat in the holy war would be supported by other countries of the same faith, but now they have become enemies who may take the opportunity to pounce and bite a piece of flesh at any time; in the past, if they lost, it was a big deal to give up their interests, but now I am afraid that it is not so easy to retreat, and it is very likely that the Church will take advantage of the other countries to swallow and cede the benefits, not to mention, I am most afraid that this will make other countries have the image of Asturias as weak, and then be encouraged by the Church to set off a war against their homeland.

In the past, there was a threat from the orcs, and the Terran countries were under the initiative of the Church of Light, and the ancestors of the royal families had made a covenant not to attack each other in the Kaos homeland, and to unite with the outside world.

But now that the threat of orcs is getting smaller and smaller, and there is a church to make trouble with it, it is difficult to guarantee that this covenant will not be overturned.

Although this covenant has the effect of a magical contract, it does not necessarily mean that there are no loopholes, or that God's messengers on earth have found some way to avoid it.

Fortunately, Edward was able to survive the winter, which gave him a chance to breathe.

If you want to maintain the situation in both planes, or even turn the inferior into the best in Faroucion, you will have to invest more.

This may have turned Asturias into a quagmire, and if it continues, the cost of the input will outweigh the future gains, but for the above reasons, Asturian still has to hold on.

"Solomon, is there anything you would like to say?" Edward looked at Solomon as he listened to the others.

Solomon's position was not enough to attend this meeting, but at Regina's suggestion, and with the impression that Solomon had given Edward, he agreed.

Solomon had already fulfilled some of the content of the book he had given to Edward, but unfortunately due to the current situation, Edward needed some more radical life-saving strategies, and some of those strategies took time to digest.

At this time, he couldn't help but look forward to Solomon again.

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