The 593rd year of the Holy Light Calendar came soon. After the New Year's Eve, Claude either held a banquet at home to entertain guests, or accepted invitations from others to go to the banquet. After half a month, he felt like he had a little belly, so he decided to train himself hard when he went to the military camp to train the new recruits. He didn't want to gain weight like Bock'ar.
Regarding the cigarette business, Claude completely entrusted it to Butler Alec. His wife, Caifeni, was already a countess and could not go out to deal with these matters in public. She still had to entertain guests at home, especially the women of powerful local people. . Ever since her mother decided to find a good match for her younger brother, Blovik, ladies often came to visit with their beautifully dressed daughters, nieces, etc., so much so that his younger brother, Blovik, stayed at home until the third day of the new year. I ran back to the military camp...
Therefore, Kaifani can only supervise the finances. Housekeeper Alec is responsible for the real work of buying land, building workshops, and recruiting workers. As his deputy, Sergeant Kester only ensured the safety of him and the cigarette production workshop to be established. Even the idle old man Zach Karason was ordered around by Butler Alrick and was sent to Atura early. The Sri Lankan government purchased tobacco.
Claude ran to the military camp in the Weibato Port Direct Territory and stayed there for less than three days. An emergency falcon message from the theater headquarters summoned him back to Lanhu City.
What was so urgent was not clearly stated in the Falcon's message. It took Claude five days to get back by boat and then on horseback, and then he learned an unbelievable news.
"What are you talking about? The eldest prince is dead and he was assassinated..."
The person who brought this news was Bock Al. He traveled around the colonies on the west coast for more than a month just to confirm the news, and did not bother to return to the territorial war zone to spend the New Year's Eve. Unfortunately, his efforts were in vain. The news of Prince Hansback's death was brought to the Nubisian continent by some sailors on a smuggling ship. The strange thing is that no colonial newspaper could confirm the news. The death of Prince Hansback seems to have become a folk rumor. Everyone in the dock tavern is talking about it and speculating on the cause of his death, but there is no official news to confirm or refute it...
"... There are currently seven versions of the cause of death of Prince Hansback. The only thing that can be determined is that the time and place of death are consistent. At 11 o'clock in the evening on September 24 last year, the newly occupied Territory, the Florik Seaport with the best facilities in the original Principality of Modra, the palace of the city lord, and the temporary palace of the great prince.
The four more reliable versions all say that he was assassinated, but the characters and reasons for the assassination are different. The first version said that he robbed a beautiful folk woman to sleep with him, but was killed by the beautiful woman who was sleeping with him in her sleep. The beautiful woman disappeared immediately. The second version is that Prince Wedelek, our loyal king, sent a team of magicians to assassinate his brother and rival for the throne. This version is more convincing.
The third version is that because the eldest prince returned from White Deer City with a disastrous defeat, his generals felt that their future was bleak, so they assassinated the eldest prince while he was drunk and cut off his head in preparation for returning to the kingdom to ask for pardon. The last version said that the rebels of the original Principality of Modra sent several girls whose parents were killed by the Ovelas King's troops to enter the city lord's palace to work as maids. When these maids saw that the eldest prince was drunk, they decided to To avenge his parents and assassinate the eldest prince, this version is the most legendary..."
Bockal spread his hands: "The other three versions are more nonsense. They say that the eldest prince was seriously injured and died of his injuries after evacuating from White Deer City to Florik Harbor. This is impossible. It is said that the eldest prince Hansback was seriously injured. On the day before his death, the prince took people out of the city to inspect the military camp, and delivered a speech in front of his men that we would make a comeback. How could he ride to the military camp if he was really seriously injured
There are two other versions: the suicide theory and the fire accident theory. The story of suicide is that the eldest prince was so ashamed of his defeat that he was depressed and drank to drown his sorrows. As a result, when he was drunk and remembered his current predicament, he cut his own artery with a knife and bled to death. It was said that the eldest prince was drunk and was playing with the revolver given to him. He accidentally pulled the trigger and it went off. He was shot through the forehead by a bullet and died. These two versions are even more impossible. The eldest prince is surrounded by many personal attendants. They will not let the eldest prince get drunk and play with knives and guns...
Because the brothers Prince Hansback and Prince Wedelek fought for the throne, the Kingdom's Civil War broke out. Therefore, it has always attracted much attention from various countries. Newspapers and expert commentary articles about the Kingdom's Civil War usually appear in newspapers in the colonies on the west coast. . The latest news about Prince Hansback is that he defeated the three southwest counties in August last year and was forced to evacuate White Deer City to the newly occupied port of Florik. The ruins of White Deer City were recovered by the Kingdom's Red Dragon Legion. .
But the strange thing is that there was no news about Prince Hansback after he evacuated to the port of Florrick. The news of his death was spread among the people instead of being reported by any official newspaper of the colony. I privately asked the heads of several newspapers, and they all said that they were waiting for confirmation of the news. It was just that it was easy to get in and out of the newly occupied area, so there was no news. They didn't know whether it was a rumor or a real fact. "
Bockal has done his best. He brought back many newspapers from the colonies on the west coast this time. The newspapers about the civil war in the Kingdom of Overas and the news about Prince Hansback were all published in August last year. Reports and comments on the prince's evacuation from Bailu City. Claude looked at the publication date of the newspaper. It was November last year, and the news happened three months ago. This is normal for the colonies in Nubisia. After all, they are two continents. There is a vast ocean of silence in between.
Claude picked up a newspaper and read the expert's comment on the eldest prince's evacuation from White Deer City to the new occupied territory. This comment said that the troops of both the eldest prince Hansback and Prince Wedelek surrounded the White Deer City. Lucheng has been engaged in a tug-of-war for more than a year, and no one can hold on any longer.
So the eldest prince spent a month evacuating from White Deer City calmly, taking away all his troops and the families of his officers and soldiers. This was actually the result of Prince Wedelek's deliberate indulgence. Otherwise, if the troops surrounding Bailu City launched an attack within this month, the eldest prince might have to retreat alone. This month has been calm, and the two sides have not even had a major conflict. This is very strange, as if they have reached a tacit understanding.
Experts believe in their comments that Prince Wedelek should have decided to amplify the prince's return to the three territories occupied by the Kingdom of Overas during the five-year war in the eastern region when he was unable to eliminate Prince Hansback and his troops. The territory of a principality. After all, it is a newly occupied territory belonging to the Kingdom. When the Kingdom cannot directly administer it, it is much better to let Prince Hansback establish an independent country there than to other countries. Perhaps in the future, in a few decades, the two sides can negotiate to reunite as a kingdom...
"What do you think?" Claude raised his head and looked at the people in the conference room.
General Bolognik frowned: "I think this should be a rumor. Prince Hansbach cannot be assassinated so easily. This should be a rumor released by a force that hates the prince, and the intention should be to bring peace to the prince." The prince added to the chaos. If the eldest prince was really injured when he evacuated Bailu City, then he would have to go out with the injury to prove that he was still alive. In this way, his injuries would continue and he would not recover quickly... . ... "
General Skerry shook his head: "No, I think it is certain that the eldest prince was assassinated. Even our King sent people to assassinate his eldest brother. This is the most likely thing to happen. Otherwise, it would not be among those rumors. By clearly pointing out the time and place of the incident, it was obvious that the assassination that day shocked everyone in the port. The movement was too big to cover up, so there were rumors that the eldest prince had been assassinated.
Florik Harbor is the largest and most well-equipped port city in the original Principality of Modra, so ships heading to the Nubisian continent like to dock there to rest or purchase supplies. I think it was the sailors and crew members on the ships anchored there at night who saw the assassination at the city lord's mansion or the commotion caused by it, so they returned to the mainland of Nubisia and started to show off after a few glasses of ale in the dock tavern. This assassination incident.
However, I agree with General Bolognik's view that the eldest prince cannot be assassinated so simply. If there was an assassination incident, the eldest prince would have been injured rather than killed at most. This may be because the news that has been widely rumored but not confirmed has become an official report. The Grand Prince's troops must have implemented martial law on the port of Florik to find the assassin and his accomplices, so the reporters from the newspapers were restricted in their scope of activities. As a result, the message cannot be conveyed..."
General Skerry's guess was quite reasonable, but General Albert's words immediately changed everyone's view on the outcome of the assassination, or it could be said that it successfully distorted the story.
General Albert said: "I am not interested in whether Prince Hansback is alive or dead. He is not our loyal monarch anyway. Whether he is assassinated has little to do with us. What makes me wonder is that since August last year The eldest prince and his troops have evacuated Bailu City, so the sea passage between the kingdom's mainland and our overseas territories should be considered unobstructed.
But why is it that it has been five months since August to January of the new year, and no sea-going ship from the kingdom has arrived in the territorial war zone to tell us the news? I don’t believe that such a large kingdom can’t find an ocean-going sea ship. No matter how busy they are after the war, two or three months should be enough for them to clean up the battlefield. But so far, not a single sea ship has come. I really want to know if the Kingdom has forgotten our overseas territorial war zones..."
Yes, everyone remembered what Albert said. The news was published in the newspapers, saying that the eldest prince led his troops to evacuate White Deer City in August last year. The Red Dragon Army subsequently recaptured White Deer City. So why did the Kingdom arrive? Even now, not a single sea ship has been sent to restore contact with the overseas war zones. Is there anything strange in this
General Beach Green said quietly: "Obviously, the Kingdom does not want to bear the burden of our territorial war zone now, because the colonial war between us and the Hicks did not have a winner or a winner. If the Kingdom would send this When people come here, they are likely to receive a lot of requests for military support from our theater.
So they can only pretend that they have forgotten that there are overseas direct jurisdictions. When the victory of the direct jurisdiction war zone and the Hicks people is decided, with the final result, the kingdom will immediately send people to take over the power of the war zone. What they want is direct jurisdiction Wealth received instead of sending welfare subsidies to the direct administration. Maybe it would be better for us in the war zone not to have contact with the mainland of the Kingdom than to have contact..."
These words were quite heart-wrenching. Claude glanced at General Beach Green in surprise. He didn't expect him to see so clearly.
When General Skerry came to visit Field Manor on the second day of the New Year, the two drank too much. They stayed in the study and had a private chat about the future of the war zone and the personal futures of the five generals. General Skerry's view was more pessimistic.
He said that after the colonial war with the Kingdom of Hicks ended, reconnecting with the Kingdom would mean a major reshuffle in the war zone. If Prince Hansback wins, perhaps the overseas territories can survive for a while.
After all, the direct-administered territory is loyal to Prince Wedelek, and can use this reason to continue to fight against the eldest prince. Until the eldest prince shows real sincerity in negotiations and forgives everyone in the war zone for the crime of disrespect, then the overseas territories will return to the kingdom. territory.
If Prince Wedelek wins, then the war zone will be miserable, because what the war zone does now is a treasonous act for the kingdom. Whether it is establishing overseas banks, expanding the army or starting military industries, they all violate the kingdom's restrictions on the economic development and military strength of overseas territories directly under the jurisdiction of the country.
For the kingdom, the overseas territories are a collection of resources, a harvesting ground for wealth, and a dumping ground for goods. The kingdom has never regarded the overseas territories as the kingdom's mainland, so it does not want the overseas territories to have the strength to resist the kingdom's mainland... . ...
Everything the direct-administered war zone is doing now runs counter to the kingdom's original intention, but for the war zone, all these are choices made out of necessity. There was a civil war in the kingdom and contact was lost. In fact, even if there was no civil war in the kingdom, it would not be possible to provide sufficient support and help to the territorial war zone.
In order to defeat the Kingdom of Hicks and maintain the territorial integrity of the Kingdom's overseas territories, the Direct Territory War Zone can only develop the colonial economy according to local conditions and obtain sufficient war funds and military supplies to win this colonial war.
Even if the five giants in the war zone have preserved the integrity of the overseas territories and maintained the honor of the kingdom, after this colonial war is over, no matter who ascends the throne, whether it is Prince Hansback or Prince Wedelek, as long as the kingdom's mainland is restored, Once the control over the overseas territories is restored, the fate of the five generals in the theater will be exile and idleness. Unless you rebel and seize a territory by yourself, this fate cannot be avoided.
Perhaps the only one among the five generals in the war zone who would rebel is Claude. General Skerry's blunt words shocked Claude. Why do you think so? Claude asked unconvinced.
"It's very simple. First, you are the youngest, the most energetic, and cannot bear the grievance. Second, you have the highest prestige in the army, whether it is the Thunder Legion or the Rock Legion, as well as the theater command, in military training and this colonial war. Basically, you have the final say. The third point is the most important. You have always lacked awe of the Sterling royal family, so you will resist unfair treatment, while we will only accept the punishment of fate."
That's what General Skree said at the time, before analyzing the remaining four generals, himself included. General Bolognik is a traditional and regular soldier. He has received the traditional education of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. He maintains awe of the royal family and will obey any unreasonable and unfair orders issued by his superiors. Although his wife and children are all here, his family still lives around the royal capital. His parents and siblings run a farm to make a living and are proud of him. He cannot abandon his relatives and ignore them.
General Beachlin's relatives and family members had already immigrated to the direct territory, so he didn't have too many scruples. But he had always been on good terms with General Bolognik and followed General Bolognik's lead, so General Bolognik's choice was the direction General Bolognik wanted to take. Like General Bolognik, he would choose to accept what the kingdom did to him.
General Albert is also a traditional soldier. Unlike General Bolognik and General Bichlin, he will use words to vent his dissatisfaction. But he didn't have the guts to take the initiative to resist, and no matter how loudly he screamed in grievance, he would not take any actual action. But if Claude takes the lead in resisting, maybe he will be the first to follow. What General Albert needs is a boss who can back him up and be bold, a thigh that he can rely on.
As for General Skerry himself, he also bluntly said that he is not a leader. His only achievements are in the management of logistics and supplies. He has no military power and poses the least threat to the royal family. Perhaps he will get a better one if he strives for clemency. the result of. If the eldest prince ascends the throne, he may want to let him go because of his old relationship. If Prince Wedelek came to power, then needless to say, waiting for General Skree would be banishment and idleness.
After Claude sobered up the next day, he vaguely recalled the private conversation between General Skerry and himself. He thought about it for two days. What did he mean by these words? However, when he saw General Skerry's behavior in the following days, It's normal, just think of what he said as a drunken vent. Unexpectedly, I heard General Beach Green say something like this today.
General Bolognik's face turned a little dark, and he probably understood the true meaning of what General Beachlin said. After sighing, he scolded: "We are now discussing whether the news of the assassination of the eldest prince is true. Where did you two go? The kingdom was in a mess due to the civil war. Didn't read what was written in the newspaper? Wait, is Bailu City in ruins? The eldest prince must have taken away all the ships when he led his troops to evacuate. There is no sea ship from the royal capital to inform us. I believe that in a few months we will be able to restore communication with the kingdom's mainland. ... ..."
Claude shook his head. General Bolognik's words were considered unreasonable. He patted the table and said to those present:
"If there are no ships on the mainland of the kingdom, then we will take the initiative to deliver the message. Isn't there still a few ocean-going warships from the former Storm Fleet idle there in the Port of Corpicius under the direct jurisdiction of Tiersim? Our theater does not have enough funds to provide them. Restore the strength of the Storm Fleet to those navies. Now that Bailu City has been recovered, we can just return those warships to the Kingdom.
Let these Storm Fleet warships return to become the kingdom's maritime force, and let our couriers send reports from the war zone to the royal capital. I hope they can give us certain military support in this colonial war... . ”
"Claude is right. Now that the sea route is open, we will take the initiative to return to the kingdom to contact the mainland. Anyway, the navy asked them to join our direct territorial theater to form a cruise fleet but was unwilling to let them dispatch warships to escort and patrol the offshore area. We are asked to pay for it. Is this the Royal Navy or a mercenary armed fleet
Now I am just using this excuse to tell them to go back to the kingdom, so as not to constantly ask our war zone to allocate funds for them to build warships and restore the organization of the Storm Fleet. I don’t even think about whether that is something that our war zone can intervene in... " General Skerry shouted loudly.
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