Section 191 Chance

"Your Excellency, General. Robin was a little surprised. Because Bayrell is "sick at home", it is basically Robin who sends all kinds of message files. But Robin never looked at the contents of these secret letters before Bayor. Even if you look at it, it is those documents that are not sealed and clearly displayed without confidentiality.

"Ruthless! Ruthless!" Beller muttered. He didn't hear Robin's words, he was completely caught up in his own thoughts. In this case, Robin could only stay aside and wait quietly.

The letter was held in Beller's hand, but it was crushed with the strength of his sword. The entire letter paper was crumpled into a ball.

Bayral maintained this posture for a long time. As far as Robin felt, it was almost half an hour or even a little longer, and Bayral finally returned to normal. His hand let go of his hand and placed the letter on the table instead.

"General, you just ......" Robin didn't dare to say that Bayral's face was full of hatred and hatred, but changed his perspective. "What do you mean by being ruthless enough?"

"The Gruni are ruthless enough. Bayrell said. "Or maybe the little queen is ruthless!"

"What do you mean?"

"Remember that Ashrufat? According to you, it was probably the one of the Scarlet Dukes. ”

"Of course I do...... What's wrong with him?" Robin had long known that after the little queen left Fornorus City, it was this general of Ashrufat who would be the commander. Unfortunately, the church refused to participate in this civil war, otherwise Robin would have found a way to get this secret to the church. In Robin's mind, human affairs are not yet the turn of an outlier like vampires to intervene.

"Originally, I thought," Beller's voice sounded normal, but Robin sensed a sense of pretense of relief from the General. "It's a thirty percent chance he's the Scarlet Duke in disguise. Now that possibility has been reduced to one. ”

"What did he do?" said Robin, a little confused.

"He was charged with 'containment of rebellion,'" Beller replied. "Killed all the inhabitants of Fornoros...... Well, in fact, it's not a kill, there are still hundreds of lucky people who survive. ”

"Tu ...... Slaughter the city?"

"That's right. Bayral replied. "It's the slaughter of the city! It's similar to what Garunas, the sage of the wilderness, did. There are many such records in the books...... But in the contemporary era, it is kind of interesting. ”

"But...... But...... It was a civil war, was it?" Robin's surprise was not because he knew the horror of the word, but because of a kind of disbelief.

In fact, within the Central Seven Kingdoms, civil wars are at least not rare, if not commonplace. Among other things, Ryan has been mired in a massive split and civil strife (which is also due to Bayer's manipulation). However, in the civil war, there are cases of rape and plunder, there are ethnic vendettas, and there are cases of military discipline that lead to excessive soldiers, but it is necessary to say that there is a large-scale massacre of civilians...... It's not very common.

This is also a very normal way of thinking, because in a civil war, mass murder does not mean anything at all, on the contrary, it seems stupid. Especially in a country like Gruni, there are no relatively independent ethnic groups in the country.

"That's right, although spies can get some crucial things wrong...... But there's no mistake with that kind of information, right?" Béral sat down, as if contemplating a plan, but finally let out a sigh of renunciation.

"Ruthless enough, decisive enough! Robin, do you know the truth...... In the past, I have always thought that the 'descent theory' was ridiculous, and even a few exceptions could not shake my judgment. But now it seems that this theory is still very correct, it is only a matter of the scope of application. ”

"General...... Robin was still shocked and thinking, and his mind couldn't turn for a while.

"Yes! Yes! It's a question of scope. The theory of descent is not suitable for every bloodline...... "Bayor's train of thought seems to have turned entirely to a matter that has nothing to do with the situation at hand.

"General, you said Gruni's little queen...... No, it should be that Ashrufat who ordered the slaughter of the city?"

"That's right, pretty thoroughly. Beller pointed to the letter and motioned for Robin to read it himself. But this time Robin didn't dare to look at it.

"This must be a stupid outrage!" Robin shouted. "In this case...... Isn't it the expansion of our country...... No, is it the best reason to cut down crime and hang people?"

"It's useless!" said Bayrell. "The little queen is very clever in her tactics. Before this happened, she had returned to the city of Eagle Falcon and entrusted the assault on Fornoros to the general Eshurufat. So in this way, she completely dissociated herself from this matter. If it were up to our country to start a war under this pretext...... The little queen only had to throw Count Essrubat into the prison with ease, and all excuses disappeared at once. And then what can we do?"

"Ah......" Robin was stunned.

"That Ashrufat...... According to the official version, it was previously a squire aristocrat. The so-called 'squire noble' is just a polite title, which is essentially a commoner. He was canonized as a nobleman for his meritorious service in defending the queen in a coup d'état. Such a man is very unscrupulous, and it doesn't matter if he commits such a slaughter of the city—because everyone knows that he is a newly canonized nobleman, an upstart. It's like an inferior student, even if he fails an exam, his teacher won't be angry. On the contrary, a failure of an honor student in an exam will definitely make the teacher furious. You know what I mean?"

"What do you mean, General...... Whatever crime Eshurufat commits will not damage the Queen's heroic image?

"At least not very much. So...... Not only is this not a stupid atrocity, it's a well-woven conspiracy. Bayrell said. "The biggest difficulty of this conspiracy is finding a ...... Guys like Ashrufat. This is the position of a 'dead man', and those who do this work must have the consciousness of being abandoned by the monarch. Now you understand what I'm saying about Ashrufat, it's probably not the Scarlet Duke. ”

"If it was the Scarlet Duke, he wouldn't do such a stupid thing...... This is tantamount to suicide. "Robin has completely understood. I don't know if it's Bayor's words that are convincing, or if it's because he himself doesn't feel quite right about the fact that Ashrufat is a vampire.

"That's right. This thing...... Nine out of nine, it was the little queen's instructions. It's her carefully laid out plan. Only the little queen herself has an interest. ”

"But why do you want to do such a thing, General, this is a civil war, and she's the queen. Is it a good thing to kill one's own subjects? Is it worth playing any conspiracy? Is there any profit to be gained?"

Robin...... What have I been teaching you...... Oh, by the way, I've always taught you to think more and use your brain more. We must look through the phenomenon to see the essence. Don't let superficial phenomena cloud your thinking, especially ...... You can't limit your mind to a certain horn. For example, I taught you that victory is not necessarily victory, and defeat is not necessarily defeat. The whole and the part, the present and the future, the surface and the details, the real and the illusion, these things must be grasped and analyzed. It's the same thing. ”

"General...... Are you saying that a massacre is not necessarily a massacre?" asked Robin, a little confused.

"No," Beller grimaced, a rare smile. The smile he was showing now was the real one, and it showed that he had detached himself from the bad mood he had before. For human beings, it can be said that it is a very rare quality or ability to let the facts that happened in the past and can no longer affect their emotions. "Slaughter is slaughter, that's true, but ...... Civil war, not necessarily civil war. ”

"Civil war, not necessarily civil war?"

"Well, the little queen had defeated Byron's field forces before, and she did what she did normally—like any civil war for royal power. She ordered the execution of a few people, but spared the rest and incorporated the captives into her own army. True, this is indeed the practice of the Civil War, but the situation in Fornoros City is different. Fornoros City...... Robin, you've been to see it yourself, do you think the people of that city love Byron?"

"This ...... Byron was very popular with the people. ”

"That's right, whether this popular heart is bought, good, or just...... In short, the people of the city loved Byron more than the little queen. No, it should be said that the people of Fornoros only know Byron, and do not care about the little queen. Byron's family ruled very effectively through the ages, and Byron himself understood the truth that 'rabbits don't eat grass by the nest', so the city of Fornoros, ostensibly domestic, was an integral part of Gruny, but in fact it was honored by another monarch...... Enemy country!"

"Ah......h

"Your Excellency," Robin asked cautiously. "So, it's actually a well-crafted ......"

"An elaborate conspiracy. Bayral replied. "I thought it was a good opportunity for us, not the best one, but it was also a good opportunity, but I didn't expect it to be ......."

"Nice chance?" said Robin, feeling a little strange. The city of Fornoros was suddenly breached, and the news of Byron's suicide became known two days before. But Béral did say something similar at that time......

"Robin, you know something...... The biggest problem in expanding territory is not to win on the battlefield, but to ...... Hold on to that land. You need a plausible excuse to convince the people to submit to our rule and prevent other countries from being too wary of our country. If you get a land of turmoil, the people are full of hostility, and small riots and uprisings are continuous, coupled with the hostility and vigilance of other countries...... What is the value of such land to us? It turns from a benefit into a burden, and even a hostile alliance. With China's current strength, it is absolutely impossible to confront a strong enemy on multiple fronts. At that time, it may become the fuse for the destruction of the country. As I told you, when there is enough strength, strength is diplomacy, and when there is insufficient strength, diplomacy is strength. This is also the reason why we can never interfere with anything. ”

"But the city of Fornoros...... Not of this type?"

"Yes!" replied Bayral. "Because of Byron's death, the people there must hate the little queen...... It's a passable excuse...... Of course, it's no longer useful. ”