Not to mention that Heimos, who rarely gets angry and ignores Garlan, made Garlan a little confused.
And here, the female knight who was waiting to speak to Garlan, whom she hadn't seen in years, heard half a sentence, and the horse suddenly turned around and left.
Fataya looked up, and could only see the back of Heimos, who was riding away.
The young man was completely blocked by the tall figure of the black knight, and she couldn't even see a single strand of hair.
She looked at the back of the Lord Heimos in a daze, not knowing what was going on.
However, she couldn't figure it out, her lover was clear.
Suojia looked at his master's back, which exuded an aura of oppression, and the appearance of King Garlan who was hugging him tightly, and only felt a little toothache.
As Fataya's lover, he watched helplessly as his lover was taken away by the king right in front of his eyes. He should be the one who was obviously angry.
But for some unknown reason, when he saw from a distance that Lord Heimos was on the back of a running horse, he dragged King Garlan from another horse into his arms, Said to be angry, and even the corners of his mouth twitched because of the illusory toothache that suddenly came out.
In addition, the behavior of turning the horse's head and leaving without waiting for King Garlan to finish speaking just now...
Suojia just wanted to hum in the bottom of his heart.
He thought that he was often accused by Fataya of being narrow-minded, jealous, and small-minded, and now he has an urge to grab Fataya's shoulder and shake it hard, while shaking and pointing at Heimos The adult's back asked her—
Look, see for yourself, compared to that one, my mind is really broad!
That person's jealousy and dominance are really terrifyingly strong, right—
However, Suojia was still sensible after all, and did not do this kind of behavior.
He took a step forward and helped his lover who was still staring blankly ahead.
Fataya stood up and frowned.
"Did my rude behavior offend Lord Heimos?"
She looked at Suojia with some worry and asked.
"Will it affect you?"
She knew that her lover was the subordinate of Lord Heimos.
Quarrels are quarrels. Suojia's position in her heart has always been very important, and she naturally doesn't want to bring trouble to Suojia.
Fataya's worried words suddenly made Suojia elated.
"Don't worry, Lord Heimos is not the kind of narrow-minded person who won't get angry over this little thing."
—Except for the matter of King Gallan, the eye of the heart is definitely smaller than the tip of a needle.
While comforting Fataya, Suojia silently added this sentence in his heart.
"but… "
Fataya always felt that something was wrong.
Suojia coughed, interrupted her words, pointed to the horse behind her and said, "Don't think about it, let's follow first, after all, this horse..."
"Uh, yes, this horse has to be returned to Your Majesty."
Suddenly remembering that the horse belonged to Garlan, Fataya quickly got on the horse and chased forward with Suojia.
They quickly caught up with Heimos and the others, because although Heimos turned his horse and ran back, he was only trotting, and the speed was not fast.
When Fataya caught up, he saw Gallan turned his head back and whispered something to Heimos.
Heimos, on the other hand, pursed his lips, looked cold, and said nothing.
He let Garlan talk to himself in a low voice, but his eyes were fixed on the front.
Fataya couldn't help frowning.
The attitude of Lord Heimos is too rude to King Garlan.
Just after thinking about it, she saw Garlan sighing a little, and seemed a little helpless, but he didn't seem to be angry because Heimos ignored his attitude. The helplessness was more like his own pet. Feeling of disobedience.
Then, Fataya saw Garlan raised his hand and rubbed Heimos' head.
The boy touched Heimos's head and whispered a few words to him with a smile like he was coaxing a child.
… This kind of visual sense seems to be smoothing the coat of the big black wolf dog…
The corners of the female knight's mouth couldn't help but twitch.
Although she couldn't hear what Gallan said, Fataya suddenly felt that the fierce aura around Heimos had softened a bit.
The eyes that had been staring straight ahead also fell on the face of the young man in front of him.
The sharp and sharp-edged gaze a second ago was like a blade, but the moment he met Garlan's smiling eyes, it was as if a sharp sword had been sheathed and entangled by soft white clouds.
In that look, in an instant, the snow melted and the ice melted.
Only soft, only attachment.
Those golden red eyes carried the afterglow of the sunset in the sky, staring at the moment of Garlan in front of him, but it seemed as if hundreds of millions of years had passed.
All things in the world will pass away.
Only he stared at the boy in his arms with immortal eyes.
…
puff.
Fataya suddenly turned his eyes away.
what happened
The female knight, whose heart was beating wildly for no apparent reason when Heimos was watching Garlan's gaze, was a little stunned at the moment.
Obviously it was in broad daylight, and obviously the two were just chatting with each other in a low voice.
But the kind of... uh... the indescribable atmosphere between the two... made her feel too embarrassed to continue watching.
Inexplicably, her cheeks were slightly hot.
She couldn't describe it.
Anyway... that Lord Heimos looked at King Garlan with a special, special look...
foul
…
…
Because of the lack of a horse, Heimos refused to let go, and Garland, who had finally managed to appease the tantrum black wolf, didn't bother to toss, so he simply rode together with Heimos.
It happened that Heimos was pulling the reins, and he was free to start nibbling on the hot hot chili scones that Heimos had just bought for him.
Just now in a remote place, you could ride a horse at a gallop. Now, when you get to a place where people come and go, you naturally have to slow down your horse and walk slowly on the street.
Soggar glanced at his lover.
The female knight had already felt a sense of duty, and the horse followed closely to the side, watching the surroundings with vigilant eyes, and loyally guarding Garlan's side.
"Your Mightiness."
On the street, Suojia naturally only used this vague honorific.
"Are you here for a private visit this time?"
Yes, 'again'.
The reason Suojia asked this was because Gallan had gone out of the palace privately more than once or twice, and he was about to become a repeat offender.
This young king is completely different from the previous kings.
The kings of all dynasties are located at the highest point of the palace, high above, overlooking all living beings on the throne.
Only when leading troops on an expedition can the people of the royal city take a look at the figure of the king, surrounded by countless guards, from a distance.
But this young king always left the palace from time to time, came to the people of the royal city, talked with ordinary people, and visited privately.
Every time he visited and returned to the palace, one or two dignitaries would suffer.
After doing this a few times, the powerful and powerful people in the royal city who used to oppress and raid the commoners were all in danger, and they all restrained themselves a lot. For fear that one day they were unlucky, they would be caught by the young king who went out of the palace to visit privately.
I don't know which dignitary will suffer this time.
Suojia thought silently in his heart.
"No, it's not a private visit this time, it's a bit of trouble that needs to be resolved."
Biting the fragrant spicy meat sauce scones bit by bit, the young man who answered vaguely didn't look like an unattainable and awe-inspiring king no matter what.
Looking at the young king in front of him who was almost completely different from what he imagined, and then looking at Heimos, whose eyes only fell on Garlan, who was eating scones, Suojia suddenly felt a little choked up.
He took a deep breath, pressed down the snack in his heart, and continued to ask.
"I don't know what it is? Do I need to work?"
Suojia has always been a person who is very aware of current affairs.
Although he was able to deal with Garlan by any means in order to help Heimos fight for the throne before, but now that the overall situation has been settled, looking at the unpromising appearance of his master who is fascinated by the young king - in fact, his lover In front of him, his IQ will drop sharply.
That being the case, of course he had to change his stance and began to think about how to serve Garlan to improve his status.
You must know that Xie Muer, his mortal enemy who has always lost the opponent since he was a small rival, is now extremely trusted by the young king, and the result of this is that in the current royal court, the power of the temple of the sun god Shamash is also very strong. Overwhelmed the temple of Nanna, the god of night.
As a priest of Nanna, he naturally had to try to turn this situation around.
He didn't want to lose all his life to his deadly nemesis.
"Well, you should also know that I set up a new business and trade office, which started operation half a month ago, but when I went to see it in the afternoon, I found that no merchants seemed willing to go there to trade."
Garlan didn't shy away, and continued to talk about it while eating the scones.
He knew that although Suojia was good at conspiracy and tricks and not very good, this person was very loyal to Heimos and could be trusted.
"that… "
Of course, Suojia, who pays close attention to the various developments in the royal city, knew very well about the Commerce and Trade Office that Garlan mentioned.
When you go there, you have to pay a certain percentage of business tax. Of course, those businessmen who regard money as their life are not willing to go there. After all, they will lose a lot of money in vain.
That department was still so sluggish with the support of Wang, and many people saw it as a joke.
Those people dared not talk about the real mastermind behind King Garlan, so they secretly ridiculed Tar, who was in charge of the Trade and Exchange Office.
Even, in the royal court, there was a wave of incompetence of Tarr, and he demanded that King Garlan abolish the Commerce and Trade Office.
but…
Suojia also pondered this matter privately.
Although he is good at devising strategies in the battlefield and politics, he is not familiar with commerce and trade, and of course he can't understand the purpose of Gallan's establishment of the Commerce and Trade Office.
Although he doesn't understand, he has a brain.
So, after thinking about it carefully for a long time, he vaguely had some thoughts in his heart, but he was not sure.
During this time, Suojia has been silently watching the development of the situation.
He vaguely noticed that it seemed that someone was fueling the flames in the royal city, deliberately publicizing the fact that the Commerce and Trade Office would collect business taxes, out of context, and using such a thing to cover other benefits of the Commerce and Trade Office—they deliberately used public opinion to sway the businessmen. The mainstream impression that 'the purpose of the establishment of the Commerce and Trade Department is to cut flesh from them' has been formed.
Suojia has already guessed that there is probably a large force secretly manipulating and trying to abolish the existence of the Commerce and Trade Department.
Enough to make that force not hesitate to play tricks on the new king's back... It must be very big.
It is because it is too big that those with vested interests are reluctant to spit out this big piece of fat.
They did not dare to confront the tough King Garlan head-on, so they did things secretly and controlled the businessmen through rumors to be hostile to the Commerce and Trade Office.
At this moment, their group has returned to the remote commercial and trade office on horseback.
From the bustling market just now to the location of the Commerce and Trade Office, in contrast, I feel more and more deserted and depressed here.
Except for a dozen or so guards standing guard outside the gate, the gate was empty and no one could be seen coming in or out.
The wide avenue that was specially widened for this place could not see a few people at all.
"Someone is playing tricks behind the scenes."
Sogar said,
"If it continues like this, there will be people in the court council who will request the abolition of the Commerce and Trade Department on the grounds that it is useless and just a waste of manpower."
He looked at Garland and asked, "What are you going to do?"
Swallowing the last bite of the scones, Garlan looked up at the deserted and deserted gate of the Commerce and Trade Office.
The sun was about to sink into the horizon, and the last faint sunlight came from behind, hiding half of Garlan's face under the cloak and hood in the backlight.
He stared silently at the nearly empty door.
Suojia looked at the silent young king's back.
he thinks,
It was this person who promised to let the merchants choose whether or not to trade at the Commerce and Trade Office.
I am afraid that at that time, this person did not expect that no businessman was willing to come.
It's just that now... King Garlan couldn't break his promise and force the merchants to enter it.
…
Soggar's prophecy was soon fulfilled.
In the small court meeting a few days later, after the usual handling of local government affairs, someone stood up.
"King Garland, your newly established Commerce and Trade Office has so far... not been very useful."
The minister who came forward euphemistically changed the word 'no effect' to 'not much effect', but others could understand what he meant.
"Go on, I'm afraid it's also..."
As the director of the Commerce and Trade Department, in the court meeting, he was directly told that his department was useless, and Tar's fat face immediately turned red.
However, he could not refute.
Someone took the lead, and then another person stood up.
"Your Majesty, because of the Commerce and Trade Office, your reputation in the royal city has been greatly affected."
He said respectfully,
"Since it doesn't play a big role here, it's better to abolish it. First, it can avoid people's comments about you, and second, it can save some manpower and material resources."
Several ministers echoed and proposed to abolish the useless Commerce and Trade Office.
They all said that in order to not increase the burden on the people, it would be best to cancel the Commerce and Trade Office and the commercial tax for the sake of King Garlan's 'wise name'.
This is all for the sake of King Gallan's reputation. After all, no other country on the continent has a business tax. Only Aaron Landis has this tax. If it is preached by those businessmen walking on the continent, not only Damage the reputation of King Gallan, and even the reputation of Aaron Landis.
What's more, if they are too harsh on the merchants, the merchants are not willing to come to Aaron Landis. In the long run, it will lead to the weakening of Aaron Landis' commerce.
The general meaning of those words can be summed up as-
Your Majesty, you cannot go your own way.
Raising taxes is not something a wise king should do.
Money is nothing but an external thing, and the righteous name of you and Aaron Landis is more important than that.
Under the painstaking persuasion of the powerful ministers, Garlan, sitting on the malachite throne, has been very quiet.
He sat and listened quietly to what the crowd had to say.
"I have heard your advice."
At the end of the court meeting, Garlan stood up.
"Maybe I didn't think much about it in the first place," he said. "I'll think about it more carefully."
After speaking, he got up from the throne and left.
The sky blue cloak was raised behind the young king who turned and left.
The blond hair that brushed over when he turned around covered his side cheeks, making it impossible to see what he looked like at this moment.
The people in the court also retreated one after another, and some of them exchanged understanding and satisfied glances with each other when they left.