After the end of the Northern War, after Garlan rewarded the Northern Army, he led the Central Army on the road back to the royal city.
When he started to build the road, the first thing Garlan focused on was the road leading from the royal city to the north.
It has now been nearly a year, and a large amount of money has been poured into it. In addition, almost all the slaves who built the road were freed slaves. For the first time in their life, they exchanged their own property for their own labor, and they were very motivated. There is no need to monitor and urge the supervisor at all, so the construction progress of the road is very smooth.
From the northern border to the king's city, from the muddy and uneven roads to the neatly built, spacious and flat avenues, everyone has truly felt the benefits of building roads.
The leading generals were particularly impressed. Since stepping onto the new road, the army's marching speed has almost doubled or tripled.
There are side roads on both sides of the main road. Usually, caravans can walk on the main road, but once they encounter an army marching, they must take the initiative to give way to the side roads.
When the army was advancing, looking to both sides, the side roads were full of bustling caravans. Compared with the sparse teams and pedestrians on the muddy roads, the new road is full of traffic and lively.
However, even if the number of people is very large, the side road is not blocked at all, because the Shamash Temple has just announced a new 'road law' to the whole country, which stipulates that the side road is only allowed to go in one direction. Heavy fines will be imposed.
This avoids the blockage caused by the encounter of large caravans from different directions.
When King Garlan's chariot passed, the caravans and pedestrians on both sides stopped, faced the main road, kneeled respectfully, and bowed their heads to their king.
After the king's chariot passed, they stood up and looked curiously at the majestic army that covered the avenue in black and could not see the end.
The army returning from the battlefield carried a chilling aura of iron and blood, and the overwhelming sense of oppression made everyone on the side shudder.
For these soldiers who guarded their peace and national security with their bodies, the people couldn't help showing awe.
Many young people, both male and female, looked at the strong and powerful soldiers, and their eyes flashed with scorching light. Young men yearned for them, and young girls admired them.
The gates of the king city of Aaronlandis were wide open, and under the leadership of the high priest Shemuel of Shamash, all the nobles and ministers in the king city went out of the city to welcome the return of the king of Gallan.
Amid the cheers of the people on both sides of the road in the city, the young king rode a divine white horse and walked slowly on the road, stepping on the petals thrown by the people on the road, and the horse's hooves left a little floral fragrance. Palace of the Moon.
On the night that Garlan returned to the palace, many people tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep at night.
In particular, the powerful nobles who participated in the murder of Garlan were terrified one by one.
On the other hand, during the day, they also pretended to be nonchalant, because they still held a bit of luck and felt that their collusion with foreign enemies was secret and would not be found out.
They closely followed Garlan's every move, trying to make correct judgments from each other's behavior in order to better deal with it.
However, after King Garlan returned to the royal city, he was only busy with the accumulated government affairs and did not make any moves.
Because Garlan directly handed over the investigation and interrogation to Soga.
In his plan, the Nanna Temple would be responsible for torture in the future, so he has gradually begun to hand over similar matters directly to the Nanna Temple.
Knowing that this was King Garlan's training and test for Nanna Temple, Suojia didn't dare to relax at all. After receiving the secret order from Garlan, he began to investigate secretly.
With the cooperation of the intelligence department's controller Tal, he found out everything as quickly as possible.
In the era of King Camos, the real power aristocrats occupied more than half of the positions in the royal court and possessed great power.
However, it has weakened considerably after the war two years ago.
Although the war caused a lot of damage to Aaron Landis, it also destroyed the fiefs of many powerful nobles.
Coupled with the deliberate containment of Gallan after he came to power, now, the number of real power nobles who control the fief city is less than one-third of the number in the royal court.
Some of these real power aristocrats are still loyal to King Garlan, such as Karenni, who was the city lord who was proclaimed by King Kamos' father, but King Garlan gave an order and he did not hesitate. He gave up his identity as the city lord and worked tirelessly to guard the western border.
Some of them are not very talented, but they are better at being obedient, and they follow the orders of King Gallan honestly.
There was also a small group of people who were extremely dissatisfied with King Garlan's approach to weakening their power and taking away their fortunes.
In the murder of King Garlan, the powerful nobles with collateral bloodlines of the royal family were especially happy.
Because Heimos, the only one who has the orthodox right to the throne, is dead, if King Gallan is also dead, then the next King Aaron Landis can only be re-selected from the royal family.
They felt that King Garlan was born in the collateral bloodline of the royal family anyway, so since he was sitting on the throne, why couldn't he, who was of the same background, not be able to sit on the throne
Seriously, as a brown-skinned one's own bloodline is more noble, isn't it
These aristocrats of the royal family, who were so secretly slandering in their hearts, completely forgot that when the Gastadians came over, they were afraid of being the target of the opponent, and they shrank their heads like quails and did not dare to move.
They completely forgot that when King Camos died in battle, if King Gallan hadn't rallied his army to turn the tide and defeat the Gasdadians and save Aaron Landis, all of them would have long since become slaves and prisoners. .
- Maybe they didn't forget, they just chose not to think about it.
The allure of the throne made them dizzy and decided to take the risk.
They secretly contacted the old nobles of Kanal and the remnants of the Gasdadians, colluded, seized the great opportunity of King Garlan to go to Kanal, and plotted to kill King Garlan.
They managed to control Mitayas' wife and daughter, poisoned them, and threatened Mitayas with their lives.
A series of conspiracies unfolded.
First, the remnants of the Gasdadians deliberately attacked Karenni's army, delaying Karenni's march, allowing him to arrive at the King City of Kanal one step behind King Gallan.
After arriving at the royal city of Karnar, Mitayas, who was the inner responder, secretly passed the news that Gallan was going to sacrifice the dead soldiers in the early morning to the old nobles of Karnar.
The old nobles of Kanar, who were local snakes, arranged for archers on the only way to attack Garlan.
Of course they didn't think that such a simple strategy could kill King Garlan.
The purpose of arranging the attack of the archers is to put on a play.
Mitayas, who had known about the attack for a long time, deliberately injured himself with an arrow in order to protect Garlan, so as to gain Garlan's trust and be able to live in the same room with him.
In this way, he can take the opportunity to kill Garlan at night.
If it succeeds, Aaron Landis will be in chaos when Gallan dies.
At that time, Aaron Landis can't take care of himself, and the old nobles of Canal and the remnants of the Gasdadians can regain control of the turbulent Canal.
The real power nobles of Aaron Landis can also support the new king who is more beneficial to them.
In this way, all three parties are very happy.
But the hope is good, the reality is tragic.
The final result was that all three parties were completely defeated, and King Garlan won the victory.
The old nobles of Canal and the remnants of the Gasdadians were dug up and cleaned up in one fell swoop. From then on, the royal city of Canal was completely under the control of Garlan, and its control was gradually extended to the whole territory.
On the side of Aaron Landis, after Suoga found out everything, those powerful nobles who intended to murder Gallan were all charged with treason and conspiracy, and declared their crimes to the whole country in the name of Nanna Temple. Then beheaded in public.
As soon as these real power nobles died, all the cities that were entrusted to them were taken back and brought under the direct control of the Central Royal Court.
As a result, the number and power of the real power nobles in the royal court were further weakened.
The centralization that Gallan wanted to implement took another big step forward.
As for the wife and daughter of Mitayas who was held hostage by the real power nobles, although they were rescued in the end, the wife of Mitayas was a strong-tempered woman. After hearing about her husband's assassination of King Gallan, she He gave his daughter, who was less than two years old, to a kind and honest couple who had never had children for adoption.
Then, she left a suicide note saying that she had no face to continue to live, and apologized to herself.
The Mitayas and his wife had no other relatives. In the end, Kaijos came forward, collected the remains of the two, and buried them together in an unnamed cemetery.
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It took a full month for Garlan to clean up all the follow-up matters and the relevant personnel involved in the matter.
Then, he finally got a good rest for a while.
While he was busy, time flew by and summer came again.
The courtyard is full of greenery, tall olive trees stand in the greenery, the crescent-shaped pool draws a bend in front of the pavilion, and the clear pool water sparkles in the sun.
It's only early summer, but the city is already very hot, and all the lotus flowers are already blooming.
The green lotus leaves floated on the water, and when the wind blew across the water, Aaron Landist's light blue lotus swayed gently in the pool.
Garlan sat by the crescent pool, dipping his bare feet in the cool water.
A big lion with a golden-brown mane dipped in the water and swam to and fro.
As soon as it stopped, Garlan would throw a pebble and hit it, so it swam obediently again.
Originally, in summer, because it was too hot, Nega would become lazy and unwilling to move.
But in this way, the big lion that ate, slept and ate became round and rolled at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Garlan, who could not tolerate his mighty lion turning into a ball of flesh, brought Nega here every morning and forced him to swim.
Nega wanted to be lazy at first, but as long as he was lazy, Gallan halved his favorite fresh meat, so in order to eat the belly of the big lion, he had to swim in the water he hated every day.
A cool feeling came from under his feet, dissipating the heat in his body, and Garlan shook his calf immersed in the water, feeling a lot more comfortable.
Heimos, who was standing beside him, glanced at Garlan with a smile in his eyes.
He looked up, raised his right arm with a leather gauntlet, and blew a whistle.
There was a long cry in the sky, and a vigorous eagle descended from the sky, folded its wings and landed on Heimos' right arm.
Sharp eagle eyes stared at its master, and Anu let out a short cry.
Garlan looked up at it and laughed.
"I was still worried about where it went, but it came back on its own."
When he returned to the palace, he found that Anu was already here, and Ximul, Tapti and others also knew that Heimos was safe and sound.
It turned out that Heimos didn't want him to worry, so he had Anu fly back to the royal city to send him a letter shortly after entering Canal.
It's just that Garlan happened to have arrived at Kanal King City at that time, so he missed it.
Heimos fed Anu a small piece of fresh meat.
"When I got lost on the snow field, it found me and took me out of the snow field," he said.
"So it saved your life?"
Garland's eyes rolled.
"No, even without it, I can come out on my own."
Heimos lowered his head and looked at Garlan sitting by the pool with a smile.
He raised his hand and sent Anu back to the sky.
He leaned over and squatted down on one knee.
The golden red eyes narrowed slightly, staring deeply at the young man in front of him.
"There is only one person in this world... Even if I die, the body will crawl back to him."
Heimos said softly with soft eyes.
Then, he leaned over.
Seeing their faces get closer.
Suddenly, a cold glass cup was inserted from the side, blocking the approaching Heimos.
"Please don't come back as a corpse, Lord Heimos, that will cause panic and cause us trouble."
The female officer's voice sounded nearby.
"This is your honey juice."
The ice cubes inside clattered, and the glass cup that Tapti handed over almost touched Heimos's face, completely separating Heimos from Garland.
Heimos had to step back a little and raised his hand to take the juice.
He thought about it for a while, and simply sat down next to Garland.
shoulder to shoulder, very close.
The female officer standing behind Garlan couldn't help but raise her eyebrows. She was about to speak when Niega, who had swam in a circle, swam back.
It swam straight to Garland, then walked to Garland on the underwater stone steps.
A golden-brown mane was wetly clinging to his body.
So, as a cat's instinct, the big lion who walked up to Garlan shook his head violently and threw the water.
Garlan raised his hand to cover his face in time.
But Heimos, who was still holding the glass of honey juice in his hand, was caught off guard, and was immediately slapped with water by Nega.
The black hair that had been splashed with water was dripping wetly against his face, and the water continued to flow down his face, and the juice in his hand that had not yet taken a sip was splashed with a lot of water from the big lion.
He stared blankly at Niega.
Feeling murderous, Nega turned her head and opened her mouth to him.
oooo-
Heimos continued to stare blankly at it.
ooh ooh-
One man and one lion confronted each other for a moment.
Garlan, who was holding Nerga's neck, was already lying on the lion's body with a smile.
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The female officer standing behind looked at the bright smile on the boy's face, and her eyes softened.
She stood quietly, looking at the scene in front of her, a small smile appeared on her face.