Early in the morning, Yongxing City, on the gallop road to the north city gate, a group of soldiers of the city defense team avoided the people in the open space in front of them very carefully, and consciously prevented others from approaching. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Don't worry, I'm not stupid enough to openly kill the prince in the royal capital. ”

I saw the Duke of the Cliff Lord, Cousin Nanpust, standing tall in the middle of the road, flicking the snow on his cloak covered with the sign of the Bighorn Deer, and said coldly:

"Just wanted to see him. ”

He stood in front of the continuous convoy, looking at the vigilant Bright Star privates in front of him, waiting for their master's answer.

Gilbert stepped out of the carriage and frowned as he looked at the carriage of the Bighorn deer parked not far away and several of the guards of the Nanpuster family, as well as another carriage marked with tricolor irises in the distance:

"Lord Duke of Nantop, if you want to see off the mission, you can wait at the North Gate...... Intercepting halfway is really not the demeanor of a land lord. ”

"It's not just me," Cousin grimaced, gesturing toward the carriage in the distance, "and the tricolor iris boy." ”

Gilbert quickly thought about the situation at hand.

"We all know that although he is only seven or eight years old, he is not an ordinary child," Gorsd flicked his cloak impatiently, "pass the news to the second prince and let him make a decision." ”

A childish voice came from the third carriage:

"It's all right, Gilbert! ”

Tails pushed open the door and walked up to Cousin, accompanied by a nervous Waia Cassel and Midira Rolf, who looked like a great enemy.

Cousin looked at the child with a complicated look and mouthed Nunu on the side of the road.

Tails took a deep breath, nodded, waved his hand at the Squire and the Windwiel, and followed Cousin to the side of the road.

"What kind of drama is this?" said the thin Lord Putirai, deputy envoy of the mission and mentor to the prince, and stepped out of the carriage impatiently, as if disturbed by a good morning.

Gilbert shook his head: "The kingdom is fighting. ”

"So peaceful?" Putile narrowed his eyes as he looked at the two figures of the Duke of Cliff and the Second Prince, one large and one small, in the distance.

"Peace?" Gilbert frowned and glanced at his old friend.

"I'm about to cry when it's peaceful," Putilai pursed his lips and sneered: "You should go to the Eastern Continent, go to the Qilin Holy Capital, and see the infighting between the Chen royal family and the eunuchs and nobles in the Suye Dynasty - of course, you haven't been there, and it's normal to be shallow." ”

Gilbert exhaled through his nose in dissatisfaction, unable to find a valid word to refute him.

Damn bards.

Tails looked at the unkind Duke of Bighorn in front of him, and pondered the other party's intentions.

He must have come with some purpose.

But we are already doomed.

Be vigilant.

"I didn't expect that the first person to come was you. Tails said silently.

Cousin snorted.

"I don't want to see you in front of so many people...... Falkenhause's cynicism is so annoying," the one-eyed dragon stared at him coldly: "Little ghost, I know you're smart - don't talk nonsense, listen ......"

"I don't like you - no one has ever dared to call me a hypocrite. ”

Tails spread his hands helplessly: "Then what do you want me to call you? liar?"

Or...... Acting school, actor, Yue Zhang?

Gorst ignored his words, and the blind left eye was scarred:

"But I can still put aside my prejudices. In the future, the Cliff Realm can fully support you to become the supreme king, suppressing the aristocrats who are about to move, and the sinister lord - the Giant Horn Deer will serve you as the lord, and the Bright Star will still be the royal family. ”

Tails was stunned for a moment.

What the?

"I thought," Tails twitched between his eyebrows, "the Bighorn Deer is no longer with me." ”

But Cousin ignored him.

"There is only one condition. "The one-eyed dragon is very steady.

"Sure enough," Tails, frightened by the one-eyed dragon's anomaly, breathed a sigh of relief, "you won't show me favor for nothing." ”

"Battles must be priced, and victories must be rewarded. (war_es_in_price_as_victory_es_in_trophy)" Cousin narrowed his only eye: "This is the language of the Nantoist family. ”

The traverser looked up and looked at the cyclops.

"So, what 'price' do I have to pay to get your 'reward'?" said the vigilant Tails, cautiously.

"It's simple," said Cousin with a grimace on his face.

"His Majesty Kessel abdicated, and you were crowned king in advance. ”

Abdication...... Coronation......

Miscellaneous......

What the?

It took Tails three seconds to comprehend the sentence.

And then he changed color in a rage!

Gourd didn't mean to joke at all, and kept looking at him seriously.

The two looked at each other for five seconds.

"Ha, I actually tried to provoke the only pair of bright star father and son," Tails grinned, "Don't you know that the reason why I have everything now is because of your majesty...... Father's got it?"

"This is not a provocation, it is a sincere offer and invitation. The one-eyed dragon's expression remained unchanged, and his tone was serious:

"It is not the stars that we fear and hate, nor you, who are not bullshit compared to kingdoms, but your father. ”

"The King of the Iron Fist. ”

Tails looked at the cyclops with burning eyes

"What do you think the 'Nova' was formed for? Do you think that Arend's actions were really just because of personal hatred and resentment?" said Gorsd with unprecedented seriousness.

"This is all for the lords to protect themselves! in order to preserve the family ...... that we have been building since the founding of the country."

"Enough!"

Tails interrupted him without hesitation.

Just kidding, this level of provocation......

"I only see you persecuting the calamitous royal family and persecuting your father," Tails said coldly, "questioning my identity and obstructing the rights I deserve......"

But the one-eyed dragon's face changed, and with a look of anger on his face, he interrupted him in a loud voice!

If all you can hear is the story of the sad king and the resolute royal family that the pro-kings have told you, then you can just gouge out your eyes and keep only your ears!"

Tails was stunned for a moment.

The one-eyed dragon exhaled a few times and said to him word by word, "You underestimate your father, you underestimate the king of the iron fist, and you underestimate the fear he gives to the stars. ”

Cousin said slowly:

"Since the years of blood, Kessel has become more and more domineering, almost frantically grabbing power. ”

"From the establishment of a Duchess of the Blade Leader, who can only survive on the prestige of the royal family, to the indirect control of the two major families in the southwest, the piranha who controls the southwest estuary of the kingdom, and the richest sunrise flower. ”

"Until he unusually recruited the 'three marshals' and established an astonishing royal standing army. ”

"Then there's the Central Tax Act, which weakens the major lords, the Regular Conscription Act, and the Frontier County Expansion Act, which produces a large number of new nobles. ”

And his favorite state was the council - with thousands of popular opinions to force the lords to submit and surrender power to the royal family, as was the case with desert wars, as was the case with the succession to the throne, and the high council in which the lords united was useless, and the only voice of the king and the cheers of the square could be heard in decision-making. ”

He even wanted to meddle in the inheritance of the six wealthy families and the thirteen wang clans. ”

"Even Cavendire's family infighting two years ago had his shadow. ”

Tails felt a pang in his heart.

This is...... What the?

Cousin said with a gloomy face:

"Do you think that when war is imminent, but no one is willing to send troops for the king—is it really that we don't care about the life and death of the stars?"

"Your father, and his wrists, are terrible. ”

"Let him do it for twenty years, and our nineteen nobles will be eaten clean in terms of power, wealth, status, and people and territories...... Surrender or destroy - the stars will return to the imperial system! With such a king here, how can we not panic, how can we not resist, how can we not do our best to protect ourselves?"

Cousin's eyes were on fire, and he took an oppressive step forward:

"You see it...... The northern border was forced to rebel, the blade leader became Wang Ji, the southern bank leader was greatly injured due to the family struggle, the East China Sea leader was scared into a shrinking turtle, and the Western Wilderness took advantage of the importance of the western front to protect himself," his eyes were stern and solemn: "And the cliff leader, I don't want to sit still." ”

"Nova is using Exeter's power to contain Kessel's kingship - the last of our desperate efforts except to raise an army. ”

Gorsd gritted his teeth: "We didn't succeed, it's a trifle......"

"But if Kessel continues to go his own way......"

Tails looked at Duke Cliff in shock.

This was another version of what he had heard about the current state of the stars.

Far different from the version that Gilbert instilled in him.

"The Scarlet Years have changed him, and Kessel is like a true Emperor," Goested said in a poignant voice, "wanting to dominate everything in this realm." ”

"He treats every lord as an enemy, never shows mercy in suppressing calculations, treats the stars as his own carriage, and has no restraint in horsewhips and spurs......"

"Those who can be used are bargaining chips, and those who cannot be used are suppressed and eliminated, and those who go with it prosper, and those who go against it die. ”

Tails frowned tightly, remembering that at the beginning of the meeting, the earls had questioned the power of the king.

"It's not a good thing, not for our lord, or for the bright stars, or for the whole star......"

"If this ancient country continues like this, sooner or later it will cause great disaster!" Cousin gritted his teeth, his eyes like lightning:

"You're about to leave for Exeter, and it's not a good errand...... But it will allow you to see another star from another angle—see what the children of the north wind and the dragon think of us. ”

Tails lowered his head, soothing his breathing.

"Why did Tormund come to rule with the lords, and wasn't it because of the tyranny of two generations of empires that it was finally destroyed?"

Tails opened his mouth, but then swallowed the word "calamity" into his stomach.

He had a hunch that the end of the empire might not be as simple as the "calamity strike" that Gilbert said.

"If your goal is to become a tyrant like your father, at the cost of the stars," Cousin turned coldly and pulled up his cloak, "then I didn't say that today." ”

The one-eyed dragon looked at Tails, who was deep in thought, with a complicated expression: "But you said it that day...... If you care about the stability and security, peace and prosperity of the stars...... If this is your desire, and not to be the only king who reigns supreme......"

"Then my proposal is valid forever. ”

The Duke of Nantope left one last word and turned to leave:

"Have a safe journey, don't embarrass the stars. ”

Tails stared blankly at the departing one-eyed dragon.

This person......

This is a completely different kind of Cousin from the Duke of Cliff, who forced the king to become a prince at the Council of the Kingdom.

No, he told himself: it was all the other party's trick, to ruin Kessel's image, to separate their father and son......

And--a voice from a long time ago sounded in my head

[From a feudal state to a centralized absolutist state, it is the only way for almost all European countries......]

But Tails clenched his fists lightly.

He looked up at Cousin in the distance, and at Jenn Cavendeir, who had staggered past him.

"I hope I didn't bother you. Jenn bowed very graciously.

"Where," Gorste replied coldly, "be less fooled, don't think of me as the one behind the assassination, and I'll be satisfied." ”

Jenn's face froze, and he watched as Cousin boarded the carriage.

Tyres, who felt that he was having a big head, sighed deeply, looked at Jenn, and asked angrily:

"What's the matter with you?"