"If you are in Angel, what's your status?"
The king sat by the window, looking at the street and asked.
"No identity. Your Majesty." The knight commander smiled bitterly. "In fact, before being rescued by the Duke, I had a name of Mordia Leverin."
"Leverin?" The king captured the key words, "You are a member of the royal family of Anger."
"Yes," replied the knight commander. "A descendant of an exiled prince. Your Majesty, this is nothing to brag about."
The king quickly understood why the knight commander said that.
Things must be pushed back to eleven years ago, when it was a power struggle within the state of Anger.
The knight commander's father, one of the princes of Ingres at the time, lost the competition and was charged with "intent to murder his brother", so he was exiled and had to flee Ingres.
This is not an uncommon occurrence, and stories like this abound in this era.
Now, isn't the king himself experiencing such a thing
The only difference is that after the knight commander's father took him away from the sad place, he unfortunately contracted typhoid fever. Before his death, the knight commander was entrusted by his father to the Duke of Buckingham of Legrand, who, perhaps for political reasons, arranged a new identity for the knight commander.
But the king should not have known.
After hearing the words of the knight commander, the king not only was not disappointed, but smiled imperceptibly.
He thought he did have a suitable candidate.
The grievances between Angel and the royal family have a long history.
It is located in the southwest of Legrand.
The first king of Legrand took his cavalry and longbowmen deep into the belly of the kingdom of Anger and forced the ruler of Anger to surrender by force. Since then, the royal family of Ingres and Legrand has often been in a period of "submission" and "rebellion".
What annoyed the Rose Royal Family the most was that three hundred years ago, King Angel was involved in a murder and joined forces with the enemies of the royal family to kill the then Crown Prince. So in 1134, the royal family convened a parliament and passed the criminal law that established the humble status of the Anger nation.
Since then, the conflict between the two sides has become more acute.
There is no doubt that the Ingres ruler, who has always hated the Legrand royal family, will definitely get involved after Legrand stirred up turmoil for the "Death of the King". However, compared to people with bad intentions such as Archduke Grace, Angel is just a scumbag.
They only have no specific goal to make Legrand unpleasant.
This is also one of the reasons why the king chose Angel.
Who would have thought that the king would suddenly unite with the most unpleasant Anger people on weekdays
In addition, the king has his own considerations.
Thanks to the Duke of Buckingham for his qualified care of his nephew, although Purland I grew up to be a tyrant, he still received a systematic education as an elite crown prince and had a certain understanding of his own territory. Therefore, the king was able to dig out the information related to Angel from his memory.
If the woodland nobles in the north were repeatedly ridiculed by the upper class, then Angel was directly considered unworthy of the stage.
The natural beauty of Ingres is beautiful - vast unexplored forests, rushing rivers, majestic mountains. And it is precisely these mountains, huge valleys, jungles, and rivers that limit Angel's development. The land is barren and internal traffic is difficult.
A joke "A year's tariffs on Ingres can't buy a button on King Legrand's sleeve."
The nobles only regarded Angel as a laughing stock, but the king saw something that could be borrowed and used at this time.
That's Angel's soldiers.
The harsh natural conditions make it difficult for Anger to develop agriculture. Many of them still use hunting as an important means of making a living to this day. The Angor people who hunted bears and leopards in the Taikoo Mountains are very good warriors, and that is why Angor can raise rebellions time and time again.
All the king wanted was to borrow this knife that could slaughter bears and leopards.
Angel's warriors do not have strong economic conditions to build armor, nor do they need to be like ordinary nobles, and knights need to prepare many retinues for battle. Therefore, their marching speed was enough to cut across the mountains in the southwest into the battlefield in the middle of Legrand in the shortest time.
Well, here comes a question.
How should the king make Angel this hunting knife for his own use
—He sent a letter to the knight commander.
The letter had been in the king's hand from the time the knight commander entered the door, and after listening to the knight commander's words, the king took up the pen and added a few more lines to the letter. Then he sealed the letter with his own hand with varnish.
No one but the king himself knew what was written in it.
"Take him and get back to Angel as soon as possible to meet your cousin." The king said in a calm tone, "Tell him that there is only one week left."
The knight commander took the letter in confusion.
Angel was a painful place for him, and he swore to the king that even if he threw his life there, he would definitely hand the letter to his cousin.
"remember."
The knight commander came to the door, and the king suddenly spoke.
"You are the sworn knight commander of King Legrand and the representative of the Rose Royal Family."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
The knight commander took a deep breath and left with his head held high.
…
"That's amazing, my majesty."
After the knight commander left, the devil came out of the shadows of the room. He seems to have a new hobby, that is, elusiveness.
"Look at that poor fool who was taken advantage of. Even if you gave him a knife, as long as you gave him an order, he would not hesitate to put the knife into his chest."
"Then you will be disappointed," said the king. "If there is such a knife, it must not have stabbed my knight."
The devil pretended not to understand the meaning of the king's words: "Yeah, I am your loyal hell knight."
The king sneered.
The devil had come to remind the king that it was time to leave.
At this time, the oath knight beside the king, in addition to the knight commander, also quietly left in the morning. It was also ordered by the king to escort a secret letter.
After the carriage set off, take the road to the direction of the palace.
Along the way, more and more cavalrymen ran past the road. As expected by the king, on the third day after the attack, the news that "the king is dead" broke out across Legrand at a thunderous speed.
When the king's carriage stopped at the tavern again, the discussion of the matter could be heard.
The fire was warm, the harp minor in the south was brisk and almost obscene, and the tavern was full of joy.
Yes, beaming.
Contrary to the situation when William III died, there is no grief...
To be blunt, most people were overjoyed. The tyrant's death was the best news for them this year.
The bard fiddled with the broken strings, and the funny clowns who also settled here threw colored balls for the crowd. Most of the people here were drunk, and everyone toasted each other and praised "Amen" and "Blessed by the Lord".
The only one sober is the king table in the corner.
The king and his knights sat quietly in disguise. The devil also looks no different from ordinary young people. Few people noticed their table, but the noise of the people could still clearly reach the king's ears.
The devil twirled the glass with his fingertips, making himself look like the drunks, and watched the king with the glass.
But he was destined to be disappointed.
The king did not respond.
At this time a clever ghost sang the adapted hymn:
"The merciful Lord bless the king
bless his people and his well-being
Let him not live so great, but die gloriously
let us sing joyfully
Thank you Lord! "[1]
This song was originally sung on the day the king was born, hoping that he would be as great and glorious as his father. At this time, it was sung with a slight change, and the irony was so mean-yes, the death of the tyrant was simply the blessing of the Lord for Legrand.
The knights at the table couldn't take it any longer and put their hands on the hilt of their swords.
The king put down the glass he was holding and stopped them with a look.
The knights sat at the table flushed with anger, while the king listened to the commotion in the tavern as if it were not himself who was being celebrated.
At this time, someone has already continued:
"… merciful Lord bless my king
bless his judge and his sheriff
Bless his forester and his deacons
Better to make them like my king
so that we can sing happily
Thank you Lord! "[2]
Then they shouted in unison, "Thank you Lord."
The king listened to the whole process calmly.
…
Still, there are people who will be mourning the news that "the king is dead".
The Duke of Buckingham is definitely the saddest one.
But the Duke's grief was quickly suppressed by him, and he began to investigate the specifics of the matter as soon as possible, and began to try his best to defend the situation for his nephew.
He didn't believe his nephew was really dead.
"The bloodline of the Qiangwei family cannot die so easily."
The duke who once killed the Abyss Strait and became a nightmare for the Blaises said so.
The Duke of Buckingham immediately gave up the cautious restraint he had once made for his nephew, showing a ruthless iron hand. On the day he received the bad news, the Duke of Buckingham sent soldiers, and all those who dared to publicize "the king is dead" on the streets were thrown into prison by him.
Prisons in the Legrand capital were filled in just a few days.
Such ruthless means will undoubtedly damage the duke's reputation, but the duke doesn't care.
—You know what
- The only one I can trust now is you.
The old duke recalled the scene on the day the king departed. He had a vague feeling that maybe the king had already sensed something at that time.
How did he answer then
"I will protect Legrand for you."
Ten years ago, he said so. Ten years later, it's still the same answer.
"Bring me my sword."
Duke ordered.
The Duke of Buckingham put on the red cloak given by the king, and on the cloak was the badge of the Iron Rose. Hu Cong stepped forward with the sword, he took the sword, hung it around his waist, and covered it with a scarlet cloak.
He's going to the upcoming emergency parliament.
Contents of Parliament—
Who will inherit the throne
The author has something to say: [1][2] Adapted from a 15th century English song, the original text reads "May the merciful God bless the king, bless his people and his well-being, let him live great and die glorious/Let us rejoice Sing/Thank God", at the time of Henry V's reign, when the country was strong and prosperous.
Buckingham persuasion: take the sword.