Chapter 29 Spreading Smoke [3]
In the Minsk Dominion, the center of the empire came to welcome the ceremonial officers of Prince Ursula and his party, which is estimated to be three or five kilometers long. The huge Minsk Dominion has not been so lively for forty or fifty years. Those ordinary people who are interested are taking small steps and swarming there, although they can't say welcome. But when he heard that His Royal Highness Prince Ursula had won face for the empire, it was naturally another joke and excitement. There are endless people who shout long live. Such scenes have been counted by one hand for a hundred years in the empire.
You can imagine what kind of point this huge empire has reached. I'm afraid it's also a kind of deceptive joke. At this time, the empire had been weak for a long time. Even the facade outside is powerless. If you want to maintain it, you feel constrained everywhere. If it was really that easy, Frank would not have been so unbearable for the whole day.
"Ha ha, has the fortune of this empire reached such a level? The person who welcomed the road, who was penetrated in his eyes, was just curiosity, not the pride he deserved. What is this? So do we think of us as a group of monkeys that can be seen? Oh... This country is really getting weaker and weaker." There was a smile that was still there. After a sigh, it disappeared without a trace. His Royal Highness's thoughts are also elusive. Behind this man, what kind of ambition is there? It is already the person under his wings. It is extremely clear that it is also extremely difficult to really walk between subversion and revival. Walking so far, it has betrayed people's most basic patriotic thoughts. It can also be said that all this is not broken. Let's make a decision later. But to the elders of all the empire, it is so uncomfortable.
"Maclow, are you worried?" The prince's question made the commander of the angry legion of the imperial capital very relieved. He lowered his head and said in a condensed voice, "Your Highness, aren't you guiding our way? I have never hesitated and questioned this. After surviving for 20 years under a rotten system, I have already abandoned my evil thoughts. When such a rotten system betrays my loyalty, courage and belief, then I can only find the only ideal to follow you again, but I don't know what kind of effort I have to make to achieve a convincing level.
Prince Ursula was stunned and nodded, but he also thought to himself: Yes, a person still has ideals after all. When should my ideal, that is, my ambition, be realized? Macroe is a pure soldier. He made a choice that can be said to have no chance and chose me. To what extent can I lead such a group of people? Is it like this waiting for the opportunity to usurp the scepter? Or is it time for me to get up and grab it?
Ha... He took a long breath. For a moment, he found that he hadn't seen him for a long time. It turned out to be a mass of fog floating in the air. After a few seconds, it disappeared. Suddenly, has it been such a cold weather? Yes, it's already late autumn. In half a month, winter is coming.
The stacks in the field are like houses, connected into one piece. Firewood and grass should lay the foundation for the pens of cattle and sheep at any time to prevent the sudden outbreak of cold currents, causing cattle and sheep to freeze to death. This land of Minsk was once a place where the imperial royal family came out to hunt in the cold season. Unexpectedly, it has been like this for decades. Everyone shrinks in a small world, and they don't know whether to compete or fight. There are too few sharp people left.
"Let's go." Turning his head casually, those who have some ability and some confidence follow closely, obviously to be the confidant of His Royal Highness. The greeted ceremonial officers looked at everything plainly in this land of the northern gate, but the eyes of the young nobles still showed the excitement and enthusiasm that people could catch at once. This is a kind of young blood. Prince Ursula smiled in his heart and said: Didn't he look like this 20 or 30 years ago?
It seems that you can shed blood for the empire, for honor, and for your own belief. Only in the end did I suddenly realize that such a person was so stupid and ignorant. Under this system and empire, such a person is a meaningless death at all. High-level rulers, who has ever been compassionate? That's just a self-deceiving scam.
The only difference is that Ursula was a deceived person more than 20 years ago. But now, he is the one who deceives others.
This is the difference.
"Welcome to His Royal Highness!" The ceremonial official gave a formal aristocratic salute, and then the officials and nobles who offered it began to be amazing with almost no shame. He patted it like a flattery for free. If he hadn't been determined and had great ambition and wisdom, I'm afraid that in the face of this kind of flattery, even an old monk would be moved. At first glance, he thought he was an apostle of some kind of god.
"His Royal Highness has suffered a lot in the negotiations of the barbarian capital all the way. For the empire, for the glory of the empire, such efforts are really admirable. No one can erase and slander His Royal Highness's efforts for this country. It is really fortunate that such noble sentiments are more and more determinated in this empire. The empire can also have nobles with courage, faith and glory like His Royal Highness, just like the legendary glorious knights. It's really admirable." The leader of the ceremonial official is naturally a high-level official from the imperial capital. This can be said to represent a typical figure of wall grass. He has begun to prepare for the future. In the imperial capital, any nobleman and official has a political sense that seems to be nature. These ceremonial officials have long felt a kind of extraordinary and insipidity. Even if all this hasn't happened yet.
From a figure like Prince Ursula who suddenly said that he would die for the empire and go to the Grand Duchy of Norman, all of this has entered the calculations of middle-level officials such as ceremonial officials. Of course, what is shocking is that Prince Ursula has an unfathomable smile on his face, and only Marlow and his party can feel the shock.
Because before arriving at the border of the empire, the northern gateway of Minsk, Prince Ursula had expected it to his new lackeys. He said: The wall grasses of the empire, this time, I'm afraid they will be like kittens who smelled the fishy smell. They came to me constantly to me and test me. He even leaned closer to me bluntly.
Originally, there were people who were suspicious, but the scene in front of me was surprisingly speechless. The rumored super-intelligent Prince Ursula is definitely not a joke. In the past few decades, this man has kept his time to the extreme. However, if he has really given up the highest organ of imperial power, it is wrong. Because of all this, Prince Ursula could have obtained it at once, but what he didn't expect was that now, he must fight and seize it as he did twenty years ago.
"Markrow, do you see it? Such existence and scene is an act that has to exist and appear. This is an irresistible thing. You can't have a way to stop or block it, because it's a torrent. Only by changing it or guiding it will it reappear the indelible impression. Even if it is smashed, it is worth it. Because once you succeed, you will be famous for thousands of years and have the coveted supreme power. Prince Ursula's words are always full of inexplicable meanings, but this meaning can always be understood. The commander of the Macroe's eyes flashed with a trace of surprise, and then he was very convinced. At this moment, if there is any doubt about His Royal Highness Prince Ursula, it's really funny.
When the superiors, especially when they are pretentious and have been crowned with inexplicable sacred nouns such as elegance and nobility since childhood, then, their words are not about trivial firewood, rice, oil and salt, but things such as philosophy, life and world outlook that can't be seen on the streets of the market. Of course, it is impossible to hear it.
Macroe's origin is not noble and inviolable, and his ancestors are just a lonely baron. With a slight relationship in the army, he climbed here with talent and tough and strange temper. Of course, His Majesty Emperor Frank I is not really a blind man, a fool, a neurotic brainless person. He can feel Markro's loyalty. Therefore, in a place like the imperial capital where the competition for the position of an armament general is extremely fierce, a guy like Macro who can be said to have no background at all. Although his life is extremely bad and has been repeatedly excluded, he is indeed much happier than those who have been dismissed and cut off their heads. Because he is the only one of the thirty-six legion commanders of the Imperial City Guard, the capital of the empire, who has been a legion for six years. The rest were either transferred or promoted, and the rest were publicly hanged in the central square. In the Great Purge of the Roman Empire fifteen years ago, there was even a record of six generals hanging at the same time on May 20. Of course, this matter was naturally taboo in the next 15 years.
People are afraid to continue to encounter the damn black May. At night, when they think of the bodies of six generals who had been killed in the sea of blood hanging on the central square, many people feel that their backs are numb and naturally shudder. However, there is nothing we can do about it. To a certain extent, when the monarch's dictatorship reaches the extreme, His Majesty the Emperor, who enjoys such the pleasure of power, is naturally unwilling to let go.
This is no different from Nicholas I, the current emperor of the Slavic Empire. The biggest feature is that the collateral forces of the Slavic Empire can threaten the imperial power, and in the Roma Empire, the imperial power is supreme, which represents God's power in the world. Of course, in fact, that's what His Holiness said.
"Compapons with the welcome of the Normans, the people here are really impatient. However, in today's empire, these people actually form the backbone and cornerstone. I really don't know whether it's a kind of luck or a misfortune. Prince Ursula shook his head and said helplessly.
When he was just 20 years ago, he thought about assisting his father to rectify the country, double the territory of the Roman Empire, and completely control the eastern continent in the scope of the empire. One day, as long as the empire has been expanding, it will definitely be able to unify the world and become the ancient of the world. Today, it is a unique huge empire.
"Tiger. House is a terrible guy. It is difficult to reverse a little trace in our negotiations. He has seen through the inside of this country. He has been strong outside for a long time, and it is not as huge and horrible as imagined. Today's power is too difficult to operate such a huge empire. Therefore, he decided that we didn't have the bottom card to bargain with him, even at this moment, he was still playing carelessly with the Slavic Empire. Ursula looked at the front indifferently and let his eyes be distracted. Such a daze made him feel that his existence was so real without so much entanglement and troubles. It's unbearable to face an ambitious and wild guy.
This terrible pressure, imagine the original King Raft III of the Kingdom of Estonia, it seems that Prince Ursula is relieved. Although he is like Raft III, he simply disdains it.
"Lian Gang. Will a guy like Cole choose such a person as the power of cooperation? Alas, the world is really running so fast that I'm about to lose my feeling. Ursula came back from his mind and thought of Tiger. That bastard House actually wanted to be with the Sky Knight on the day he left. When Cole's granddaughter got married, he had a feeling of eating flies. He knew that this was Tiger. House's son of a bitch did it deliberately. He just wanted to make Ursula entangled, make him restless, and make him restless. He had to imagine how much energy and strength the bastard had increased every moment, and what really happened might be nothing.
"The mood of the West Slavs is not so soothing." Although Macro, a soldier, has to admit Tiger. House's army is definitely second to none, but his inner disseverance also makes him stubborn. He said coldly, and naturally he said the mystery of it. Just now. Cole did let Tiger give up. House took over, but this does not mean that the bastard has the ability to integrate the confidence and thoughts of the West Slavs.
At the beginning of the Northern War, the energy shown by the West Slavs was enough to influence the situation of the Northern Kingdom and the coalition forces of the Slavic Empire, but because of the plot and betrayal of Scandinavia, the West Slavs also had to choose to lie dormant. On the surface, it was naturally the great power of the Slavic Empire, which completely recovered the West Slavs and became an important part of the empire.
Only those who have experienced that era will know that if the Slavic Empire has a slightly oppressive or bad face, then the whole West Slavic territory is a piece of scorched earth and beacon fire. No one can fully mobilize the emotions of the West Slavs, except Gang. Cole, the sky knight in those years, was invincible and could change the view of an empire on his own. I have to say that it was so horrible.
And the status of the Eastern Mercenary Federation has also risen and become a world-famous guild, almost detached from the national system and become a mysterious organization. Of course, this is good and bad for the Slavic Empire. The good thing is that when the Slavic Empire was hit, the Eastern Mercenary Federation had to use its forces to maintain the country's system, so it will definitely help the Slavic Empire tide over the difficulties. At this point, in several confrontations between the Slavic Empire and the Roma Empire, whenever the Slavic Empire is about to collapse, the Eastern Mercenary Federation will be in Gang. Under Cole's order, he helped the Slavic Empire and then repelled the Roma army. Unfortunately, the power of this organization is so powerful that it may have affected the majestic rule of the Slavic Empire. As the emperor of an empire, how can he endure the threat of a strong force beside him? And no one knows if there are any terrible ambitious people in this organization? Just now. Cole is not an ambitious man, but everyone knows it. But just. What about Colwan's death? Is that damn heir also a humanitarian? No! Absolutely not! This is almost beyond doubt!
But now, well, bad things have happened. The Sislavs may also laugh secretly, and even be complacent, and meet the most savage, evil and ferocious demon in almost the whole continent. This great demon king will do nothing but kill and set fire to the country. The most terrible thing is that he seems to exist to destroy the aristocratic system. The great nobles of the Kingdom of Estonia hardly survived, and all of them were exiled or cremated. There are very few people like Count Chude Lake who have stood in the line early. The Duchy of Narval is even worse. The heirs of the grand duchies of this country and the legendary grand duress are about to hit Tiger. House's woman is a damn label.
Although in fact, this problem does not exist at all. But Catherine. Her Royal Highness Princess Nar was really sad to find that no gentleman dared to talk to her for more than three minutes. As for the surrounding area, if there were less than five people, she would not dare to have too much contact. Yes, no fool does this, despite the fact that Tiger. House himself is not clear about this. But in Catherine. Nar's troubles are terrible.
Prince Ursula sat in the carriage, and the officials who had just been like a tide naturally retreated. The reward order of the Imperial Noble Council is naturally coming down. As a prince, he naturally has nothing to reward. However, all the regulations that have to be compromised still need to be blocked, which is clear to even the most brainless nobles.
"I always feel that that bastard seems to be planning something, and it will explode soon." Prince Ursula said so indifferently just by the intuition of a wise man.