The time quietly came to the end of February 1217.

As time passes, the New Year's spirit in Crewe is quietly fading.

Shops in various neighborhoods of the city are opening their doors, trade unions and handicraft workshops are also opening, and the employment agencies at the gates of the city are crowded with young people who quit their jobs before the New Year.

In the backyard of Kavalburg, a few young leaves have grown in the decayed garden. In order to make the garden bright and beautiful in a few months, from the beginning of the month, every day at dawn the castle's gardeners will appear on time, these patient gardeners will find weeds according to their experience and carefully care for the young leaves of the newly grown flowers.

Surrounding the backyard garden is a small curved two-story building, which Pedi refused to let his father offer him as a master bedroom after his marriage, and renovated it into his residence.

From the bottom of his heart, he liked this small building, which was not luxurious, but which was in harmony with the garden, and in this enclosed, semi-militarized castle, the place was almost like another field house.

When the first rays of sunlight shine on this curved building every day, Pedi will instinctively wake up from his deep sleep.

Today, of course, is no exception!

When he woke up, Pedy subconsciously moved his gaze to the bedside table, where the date of the calendar that Sir Edwin had specially ordered for him was February 23.

Pedi tore off the top date with a backhand, allowing the time to be refurbished to February 24.

At this time, Erin Feier, who had been forcing her eyes to sleep beside Pedi, also woke up, she leaned on Pedi's body, and whispered, "It's dawn again?" She tugged at the quilt and didn't want to get up, "Oh, the goddess is above, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I'm too tired every day!" She held her husband's cheek, and after the two looked at each other, she asked, "Do we have time to dine together at noon today?"

"During the critical period of territorial political reform, the war situation in the Iruk Territory has changed again. Pedi gently stroked his wife's soft hair, "I made an appointment with the generals this morning to discuss the battle in Klan Ling, which may be delayed for a long time. ”

As he spoke, he kissed his wife lightly on the lips.

"I wish this war would end sooner. Erin Phil let go of Pedi and propped herself up, and gently pointed her finger at the curtain that blocked most of the sunlight not far away, and the "creak" thick curtain automatically parted to the sides, and more sunlight instantly shone into the room.

Pedi had already gotten out of bed when the curtains parted, and he walked to the window and smiled, "Magic is so convenient..."

"Magic can do anything!" Ilein Phier paraphrased the words of the paladin of the church, and learned the solemn expression of the paladin when he prayed, and then she looked at her husband and said, "After the wedding, I lost all my time... Every day, every day, every day, many ladies whom we could not refuse came to see. ”

"So, just now you were practicing your magic. Pedi joked.

Erin Phier shrugged helplessly, "The only thing I can do now is these little magics. ”

"It's only temporary, at most half a year, the number of people visiting you will decrease, and then you can find time to study magic and learn new things. Pedi leaned back against the window railing, looked at Erin Phier and smiled, "You're going to be a real magic professor." ”

"Hopefully. Eileen Fil didn't give any hope for this, so her tone was not very confident.

"You should have more faith in yourself, my dear. Pedi stepped forward and kissed his wife on the forehead, "You have a talent for this..."

"No, I don't have the talent... My magical talent is not even as good as Sister Phyllis's. Erin Feer leaned into her husband's arms, "I just have innate conditions that no one else can match, and the first book I read was The Foundation of Magic, which my mother picked for me. ”

"The Basics of Magic, a book... Interesting books. ”

"You just mouthed a boring book!" Irene Phier looked at him with her arms around her husband's waist, "You say, aren't you?"

"No, I wanted to say that this book is interesting at the beginning. ”

Erin Phier looked at her husband with eyes that didn't look like she spoke, "Even if you tell the truth... So, what was your first book?"

"I don't remember, I should know how to read first, how can I read if I don't know how to read?"

"Literacy doesn't count, I'm talking about the first book I read independently. ”

"Well," Pedi asked, after thinking for a few seconds, "Does the Knight's Code count?"

"The Knight's Code?" Irene Fielder looked at her husband with a look of surprise on her face, "How can you read such a boring thing?" she called the Knight's Code a 'thing', not a book.

"You've seen it too?"

"I've seen a little bit, because for a while I was obsessed with knights. "Later I found out that the knights were all lies, so I didn't look at them again. ”

"Then you should read the General History of the Empire, it doesn't lie. ”

"The General History of the Empire is also a lie!"

"What book doesn't lie?" asked Pedy, leaning back on each other and walking to the window.

"Yes. Erin Phier replied solemnly, "Most books on magic knowledge don't lie. ”

"Are you kidding?"

"Isn't this joke funny?"

"Huh!"

The voices of the two men grew quieter and quieter, and finally fell silent.

It was a warm silence as the two snuggled up to each other, enjoying the rare time alone each morning.

But this warm snuggling is not destined to last long, after the castle guards in the garden below changed guards, Erin Feier took the initiative to withdraw from her husband's warm embrace, she changed a more formal expression and said: "In the tea party these days, many ladies asked about the separation. ”

"Partition?"

"Our nobles are all staring at the land that Herion has led!" explained Eilefeil, then adding, "but there are also many who oppose the separation, and they can quarrel for a whole day at the tea party. ”

"It seems that I need to be more explicit. Pedi said thoughtfully, and then instructed his wife, "You don't pay attention to this matter, otherwise it will exacerbate their conflict." ”

"I'm not that stupid yet. "As the future mistress of Crewe, Eileen Fil has no small legal rights, but she does not abuse her power, but only sees herself as a counselor to advise and advise her husband.

"I think you can follow the council of the Mage Tower and set up a mechanism to put the contradictions that the nobles have sparked on the table, instead of seriously hurting each other in the shadows. Erin Fei'er's expression was serious, "The 'Abnormal Events Supervision Committee' under the Council of the Mage Tower is used to quarrel. ”

"Fort Kawar has a council of nobles. Pedi shrugged.

"But we don't officially acknowledge the existence of the Council of Nobles, the 'Council of Nobles' is just a collective term for the nobility at the weekly meetings, and the discussion of the nobility at the meeting is pure quarrels, and the resulting proposals cannot even be placed on your table. "But unlike the Guardian Committee of the Mage Tower, when the professors quarrel with the results, their proposals will be protected by law, and the Council will have to respond positively... Moreover, under normal circumstances, the Council will not veto the proposal formed by the 'Committee', because this bill itself is the will of the entire Mage Tower!"

"Similar to the High Council of Elves. "But it turns out that the way the Supreme Council rules is only for the elves, and now even the elves have abolished the Supreme Council." ”

Hearing this, Erin Phil looked at Pedi as if to say, 'You're stupid', "It's completely different from the Elven Supreme Council, because the 'Council' has no actual leadership power, only the right to supervise and advise. ”

"I see what you mean. Pedi shrugged at his wife's current expression, "The Kru Territory doesn't need such an institution for the time being, because only a dictatorship can maintain the stability of the territory for a long time to come. ”

Eileen Feier was stunned, and seemed to understand her husband's words.

"Alright, see you in the evening. Pedi stepped forward to kiss his wife goodbye and walked straight to the changing room next to the bedroom.

...

In the cramped office of the inner hall of Fort Kaval, all the people who should have arrived before Pedi arrived.

The newly appointed captains of the Knight's Guard, Sir Sir Cilla Marne and Marquis Daisily Pombo, sat in two chairs at their desks with their eyes closed, the Chief of Military Intelligence, Danmen Green, habitually stayed in the dark corner next to the window, and the Orc Morinda sat on the bench that belonged to him as Pedi's chief military adviser on the wall of the bookshelf.

And the Knight of Wren, who was the representative of the local legion, and the commander of the garrison corps, Sir Fred, who returned to Crewe City to report on his duties, stood very close to the door and lowered their heads and thought about their own affairs.

Duke Nick, the owner of the castle, reclined on a chair with direct sunlight at the window.

The old duke did not let the meeting begin, he turned his back to the crowd like a bystander, and slept in the sun's rays.

Without a knock, the office door opened through the outside door.

At the moment when the door opened, Sir Cilla Marne and the Marquis de Daislie Pombo bounced up from their seats and turned to look at the door with a respectful expression, Baron Danmen-Green, who was hiding in the shadows, walked to the middle of the room with the strongest light for the first time, and the old orc straightened up with the cane in his hand, and Sir Wren and Sir Fred, who were closest to the door, immediately retreated to the side.

"Master Pedy. ”

"Lord Baron!"

Pedi, who walked into the room, immediately greeted everyone, he nodded habitually, took two steps and stood face to face with Wren, and patted Wren on the shoulder, "Is the injury healed?"

"Alright, sir. Wren nodded.

Pedi smiled and nodded as he looked at Fred next to him, the Legion Captain dressed himself like some minor country nobleman from the Suker Plains, "You're doing a good job, Sir. ”

"It is my honor to serve the Reagan family, my lordship. "Sir Fred is as modest as ever.

Pedi laughed twice and walked quickly to the middle of the room, he looked at Danmen Green with encouraging eyes, patted him on the shoulder and walked to Duke Nick by the window.

"You don't have to worry about me, old man. The old duke waved his hand with his back to Pedi.

Hearing this, Pedi had to stop him from moving on, and then walked silently to his office chair and sat down.

The three-point document written on the office desk on thick paper came into view as soon as Pedi sat down, and he glanced at it, ignored the one submitted by the Council of Nobles, and set his eyes on the 'Opinion on the Rectification of the Army' drafted by the Knight Guard.

The draft of the 'Army Rectification Opinions' was ordered by Pedi to be made by the Knight Guards a month ago, and Pedi was a little surprised by the appearance of this document, he picked it up and flipped through it and said, "I asked you to come today, mainly to hear your views on the war situation in the past few days under the Iruk Command?"

"Are we going to join this fight?" Morinda asked the question that everyone in the room wanted to ask.

Peidi did not evade this question this time, and under the gaze of everyone, he said decisively: "If the Central Empire cannot end the civil strife in the Elok Territory, then we cannot rule out the possibility of sending troops. ”

"I see. The old orc's eyes narrowed into slits.

After reading the two paragraphs of the 'Army Rectification Opinions' drafted by the Knight Guards, Pedi closed the documents and looked at Sira Marne and said, "Re!"

In a moment of Sirah-Marne's stunned moment, Pedi patted his left hand on the document, "I have a hunch that the war of the Iruk Territory will soon be decided, and this war that has lasted for almost two years will come to an end. With that, he pointed to Danmen Green, "Has the latest battle report been sent back over there?"

Danmen Green behaved cautiously, he walked slowly to the map hanging on the wall directly opposite his desk, and after turning on the magic lamp mounted on the ceiling with Pedy's consent, he said when the map was clearly visible in the ample light, "The news came at two o'clock in the morning, but the news was before six o'clock yesterday afternoon. ”

He picked up his whip and pointed at the left defense area of Tyre Town, "Three days ago, the Elven Coalition Army gathered more than 100,000 elites and began to storm the left defense line of Tyre Town, but..." his voice suddenly increased, "With the intervention of the newly established War Executive Committee of the Empire, the new commander-in-chief of the defense area of Tyre Town, Count Devin Pombo, did not send troops to reinforce his left defense line!"

Danmen Green quickly moved the whip in his hand to the vast plain in front of the central defense line of Tyre Town, "Because, the Imperial side has a new plan, they took advantage of the main force of the Elven Coalition to attack the left defense line of Tyre Town, gathered an absolutely superior force to raid the garrison camp of the Elf Coalition in the central region, and successfully occupied all the surrounding advantageous villages and towns before the main elven force reacted. ”

"On the 22nd, the elven coalition army reacted to the imperial assault, they gathered 60,000 elites from the right battalion, and at the same time, sent 30,000 troops stationed in the northwest direction of Iruk City to flank the imperial assault army..." ”

"As of 6pm yesterday, the left side of the Tyre side was still in a stalemate, and the battle in the central region was also winning and losing, and it was not clear who would win. ”

After the information was introduced, Danmen Green looked at the people in the room and said, "This is the general process of the large-scale decisive battle that broke out in the Iruk Territory since the 21st of this month, and I have marked the deployment of the military forces of the two sides in advance in advance in the current military intelligence department. ”