Chapter 120: Military Newspaper
Looking at the scarred man in the way, the leader snorted coldly, and waved his hand to lead someone to rush over, but his hand had just been raised, and the sparks splashed by the blade across the paving stones stung his eyes, and before he could give the order, Faramir dragged the knife with one hand, and a person with the momentum of wind and thunder had already rushed to the front, and the long and weird long knife suddenly slammed horizontally, with a whimper that broke the air, as if to cut everyone off.
As soon as the sword in the leader's hand was drawn, before he could exert his strength, the swords intersected, and after a soft sound, the long sword broke from it, and the long knife continued to gain momentum, cutting through the leader's clothes and bringing out a string of blood beads.
With a muffled snort, the leader retreated to the team, if this knife hadn't been dodged quickly, I am afraid that it would have been cut off by the terrifying long knife long ago, but even so, he underestimated the other party, dodged the blade, but did not dodge the fighting spirit on the blade, and now he has been hit hard in the abdomen and has lost his combat effectiveness.
"Again, there is no way out. After seriously injuring the leader of the other party with a single sword, Faramir did not rush into the crowd as he imagined, but stood with his sword, as if he had no intention of attacking at all, so what was his purpose?
Faramor's murderous reputation has long been spread in the royal city of the Ron Empire, and many people in black know him, so they naturally know that Faramor is absolutely ruthless, but now he has no intention of making a move, does he really just want to keep himself from going this way?
Is this possible?
The leader changed lanes, and many men in black slowly withdrew from this side road on alert, but Faramir just watched silently, and had no intention of catching up, and when the men in black dispersed, Faramir breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the blood on the ground, silently put the long knife back behind his back, looked left and right, and then withdrew from this side path with a playful smile.
When the shouts of killing sounded in the city, he had already arrived at Calle's bedroom, although it was already the middle of the night, but the second prince still did not sleep, but was watching the domestic news obtained through special channels.
Seeing Kahler holding two pieces of paper and comparing them with each other, Faramir couldn't help but feel a little lucky, these letters were obtained through the businessman Kate, and this is a secret letter, which usually looks like an ordinary letter written by Kate and someone with a good relationship in the family, but no one found that those words are specially typeset, the letters are written extremely neatly, each word is in the same column as peers, and if others want to read it, they can only praise the person who wrote the letter for his strong control, but he never thought that it was a secret letter.
In fact, the secret letter is also very simple, that is, a piece of paper that is exactly the same size as the letter paper cut out some holes, and then put it on the letter paper, so that the useless words will be filtered, and the exposed words will be extracted and arranged, which is the information that the other party wants to report.
"Your Highness, what's going on on over there in the Empire?" asked Calle as he sat down across from Calle with his weapons stacked, he was free to do whatever he wanted in Calle's room, which was granted by Calle, and there were a few others who were also licensed, Ghost, Daisy, and Alf were among them.
Kahler put down the letter, shook his head and said, "There are no major events, but the rebellion has expanded, some provinces have fallen, and the empire is now mobilizing forces and preparing to put down the rebellion." ”
"Is Your Highness convinced?" Faramor didn't read the contents of the letter, but he asked this sentence to prove that he wasn't too sure of the news.
Kahler was stunned for a moment and asked, "What do you believe? Do you mean that the Empire has put down the rebellion, or is it the cause of this rebellion?"
This rhetorical question made Faramir stunned, and after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't help but be awe-inspired, the second prince in front of him thought differently from ordinary people, thinking about how many battles he had fought with the crown prince a few years ago, and he couldn't remember how many battles he fought, however, he didn't think that those rebels were guilty, the Kotler Empire was a superpower, and there was slavery, but most of the people who resisted were not slaves, but ordinary people.
Why did these people rebel, the top of the empire never thought of this, but Faramir had doubts, but because of the orders of the royal family and the requests of many noble lords, the eldest prince suppressed everywhere in the empire, and there was almost no idle time, and his own military judge did not rush to the front line, and naturally killed a lot of rebels.
But most of those rebels are disheveled, incomplete, and the battle is not organized, they will only rush up and scatter in a hurry, and a rain of arrows can shoot down a large area, and the counterinsurgency is often effortless, but why should this people rebel?
Faramir only left this doubt in his heart, and never told anyone, but now Calle's words have brought up the question that has been buried in his heart for a long time, the cause, why these people rebelled, this is the question he should think about as a high-ranking member of the empire, not because of the instigation of the lord and the temple.
"Faramor, do you know how Kotler's grain harvest has been in recent years?" Seeing Faramor's reaction, Kahler nodded with satisfaction, and then threw out this question, Faramor shook his head, he is a military judge, only the people in the army, how do you know where to go about the imperial harvest? In addition, how does His Highness's way of speaking become more and more similar to that of ghosts and ugliness, when he encounters any problems, he always asks the focused questions that he doesn't seem to want to do first, which makes people feel that it takes a lot of brain power to understand what he wants to express.
"You're going to be in a position of power in the Empire in the future, and it's time to pay attention to these things. Calle knew that it was too early to let Faramir pay attention to this, in fact, if it wasn't for the ghost and ugly reminder, I'm afraid he wouldn't think so far, in the face of the turmoil in the empire, at the beginning he and the current Faramir had the same idea, since it was a chaotic people, kill it, but after encountering the ghost and talking about these problems, he realized how stupid this kind of problem is.
Among the three major empires, the Ron Empire, which has a stable domestic situation and no slavery, is the most, and the ghost has lived in the Ron Empire at least for a short time, so as a bystander, and a person who lives tenaciously at the bottom of society, he naturally has different opinions and opinions on Kotler's rebellion for many years.
And it was these perspectives and opinions that opened another window for him to see the truth, so he also wanted to help Faramir open the window of the mountain so that he could also know the whole process of how things were developing.
"Generally speaking, the grain harvest of the empire is on a downward trend, with less peasant labor, abandoned land, coupled with natural disasters in local areas, the harvest in a specific area is almost zero, and the frequency of rebellion is the most in these areas, I have paid special attention to the issue of taxation, very high, do you know what this means?"
Although Faramir looked terrifying, he was not stupid, and with a little touch, he understood what Caleb was trying to say. "Your Highness is saying that these rebels were forced to rebel, and the empire doesn't have disaster relief ......" Halfway through his words, he stopped talking, because he knew that the money would definitely not fall into the hands of the people, so where did these sky-high disaster relief funds go, you don't have to think about it.
In addition to the layers of officials and lords, most of the big heads were used to worship the temple, which is why the temple is always the loudest to shout about counterinsurgency.
In this way, the current situation of the empire is caused by the empire itself?
"Anyway, we can't intervene now, it will take a while for the Sunset Legion to reach the border of the Empire, according to the plan of the ghost, we have to exchange blood in the territory of the Orc Empire, and I don't know what happened to the Sunset Legion now. After saying the last sentence, he smiled lightly and said: "There are ghosts and ugliness, we don't have to worry, let's talk about the situation tonight, the other party just retreated? Alf was rescued by that girl?"
What happened at night was very simple, in a few words Faramir finished describing the matter, and Calle was contemplatively dipped his hand in water, and spent a symbol on the table, Faramir looked at the symbol and his heart moved, that symbol was actually the symbol on the girl's clothes, why did the other party take Alf?
Alf, who was worried by the two of them, now felt that he was cold, in fact, being carried in the hand by a person, and then jumping forward at an extremely fast speed, even if there was no wind, the meaning of the whole bone pierced his clothes, making him feel the bones of his whole body tingle.
"Boy, we're here!" After saying that, the old man with a short figure had a few ups and downs, and finally stopped in front of a thatched house, and at the same time put Alf down, let him move his hands and feet, and looked around, Alf found that Glory City was just a black shadow in his sight, and calculated the distance, in such a short time, this old man actually took himself for nearly fifty miles, this speed is really staggering, and it is no wonder that he will be frozen like this.
"You kid must be honest and obedient, you will answer whatever the young lady asks you, don't lie, don't play tricks, if you answer the questions properly, they will naturally send you back. After speaking, the old man respectfully said to the thatched house: "Miss, the person has arrived." ”
"Uncle, give him that thing. The familiar pretty voice came from the room, the old man nodded and took out a scroll from his chest, handed it to Alf and motioned for him to open it, Alf's face changed slightly, and he opened the scroll with hesitation, as soon as he opened it, Alf's face turned pale, but then he returned to normal.
"In the near future, there will be the entry of the Eighth Legion of the Sunset Legion of the Ron Empire, and it will be regular for three days, so I hope to prepare as soon as possible. ”
This is the content on the scroll, but what is read is not Alf, but the mysterious girl inside, Alf just opened this scroll because the content was written by him, and he returned to normal only because this thing was completely extended by the other party, the problem is in the way of writing, he used the square word created by the master, not the orc script, nor the common script of the continent, this kind of writing has never been out of the orc empire, and it is impossible for the human race to know it, which is also the reason why he returned to his normal face.
But now, the people inside directly recited it, how did this make him continue to calm down, Alf, whose face was pale, subconsciously roared: "This is impossible, how can you know each other? this, this ...... It's ......"
"It seems that this military newspaper was indeed written by you, and the content is true, but I am not looking for you, the person who taught you to write this kind of writing is what I am looking for, who is he? Where is it?"
They're looking for a master!?" Alf suddenly raised his head and looked at the strange thatched hut in front of him with a look of horror.
"I've been looking for years. ”