Under this situation, the administrative efficiency of the entire imperial capital gradually began to become extremely low. Luke wanted to find a few guys to punish them, but they were not fools and would not do anything too extreme to get themselves burned. At the same time, Catherine also kept comforting the Fernando royal family and Luke, hoping that they would focus on the overall situation and not destroy the rare stable situation in the imperial capital.
People who can become officials and have some real power are certainly not fools. They are not good at doing serious things, but they are very good at internal friction, which not only makes things that should be done go nowhere, but also makes it difficult for others to find out the reasons. After all, this country is gradually declining like an old man. Many things are no longer as black and white as they were when Fernando I first founded the country. After 200 years of changes, the distinction between black and white is no longer clear, but slowly appears. Another area, that is gray,
After all, Luke is just one person. He cannot support the government affairs of the entire empire. In order to make a country run effectively, Luke can only assign people to take charge of all aspects. Not only Luke, but all countries on this continent. In this way, no matter how wise the king is, it is impossible for him to have enough energy and time to do everything. The best way is to delegate power, supervise the released power through necessary means, and let the right people do the right things. Eliminate qualified personnel to keep the entire organization running,
At first, Luke was quite looking forward to Catherine's mediation. After all, Luke didn't intend to do anything too bad. However, after several rounds of mediation, Luke found that the officials from the Fernando department were still doing their own thing and were unable to do their daily administrative affairs. The internal friction was still serious, so I made up my mind to teach these annoying guys a lesson.
As a result, Luke began to pretend to be powerless. He no longer had strict requirements on government affairs, and gradually lowered his requirements for officials of the Fernando faction... Luke's pretentiousness made Henicos and others ecstatic. They thought Their non-cooperation plan achieved great results, and their joy also affected those around them,
Under Luke's deliberate indulgence, the members of the Fernando royal family began to slowly lose their vigilance. Many arrogant royal children thought that Luke was afraid of their royal status, so they gradually returned to the way they were before the war. Fernando XIII was still there. That kind of scenery when
The opportunity that Luke had been waiting for finally appeared. When a son of the Fernando royal family was galloping with his servants in the imperial capital, he drove the horse into the market and failed to stop in time. As a result, he was knocked over. Many stalls were opened and nine civilians were knocked down one after another, resulting in seven deaths and two injuries.
Luke was overjoyed after learning about this incident. He changed his usual low-key attitude and personally led the elite troops of Jonas Legion to come forward and kill the calm-looking perpetrator, Henicos, on another street. The only grandson was arrested, and after Henicos learned that his grandson had been arrested, he immediately led people to find Luke and asked him to release him. However, Luke did not see him at all, and the next day, he brought the perpetrator Taken to the street where he galloped for a high-profile trial,
Since the evidence in this case was solid, the entire trial went very smoothly. The perpetrator thought that Luke was just pretending. After all, he was a direct descendant of the Fernando family and had no need to be afraid, so he admitted it all without hesitation. Unexpectedly, the final result of the trial was unexpected. It's hanging,
He was sentenced to hanging, but Luke did not carry out the execution on the spot, but deliberately postponed the execution to give Henikos enough reaction time. Luke was going to use this method to lure the unbearable Fernando royal family into using force, and he could mobilize Orlando's Royal Knights gave these moths a fatal blow and took the opportunity to cleanse them of the nasty moths.
Henikos was 79 years old, and his son was also in his 50s. This time his only grandson was going to be sentenced to hanging. How could Henikos bear it? So he used an extremely tough attitude to ask for someone at the intersection, but This is what Luke was waiting for, and he refused righteously. The two sides almost started fighting on the spot. Although it was finally stopped by Catherine who came after hearing the news, the atmosphere in the entire imperial capital also became tense.
The time was getting closer and closer to the date of hanging the only grandson of Henicos. Henicos also decided to use force under the advice of his staff. He believed that the Royal Knights were loyal to the Fernando family and would never favor Luke. As long as he The army he usually bribes, plus the family's private soldiers and slaves, can definitely catch Luke off guard and rescue his grandson. Once his grandson is rescued, he will be immediately sent away through the magic teleportation array. As long as he is not in the imperial capital, What can Luke do
No one expected that on the night before the execution of the hanging, the leader of the Royal Alliance Fernando Henicos suddenly became bedridden. The old leader originally held a secret meeting with several confidants in the secret room of his home to confirm the next day's action steps. But suddenly he trembled and fell to the ground.
No one knows that this is actually Catherine's masterpiece. In order to ease the tense anger in the imperial capital, Catherine went to the mansions of Henicos and Luke in her capacity as Her Majesty the Queen a few days ago to mediate the whole matter. Luke and Henicos had already made up their minds. Naturally, the mediation failed and Catherine's efforts were in vain. Naturally, no one would find out that Catherine had released a corrosive curse on the latter during a private interview with Henicos.
With Catherine's strength, she unleashed this dark magic on an old man who knew neither magic nor martial arts. She didn't even use spells or gestures, and completed the curse on Henicos almost instantly. And this dark magic corrodes the curse. At the beginning, the power was not very strong. Those who suffered from it felt a little weak and thought it was caused by overexertion. When the corrosive curse fully exerted its power, it would be very difficult to treat it.
Henicos kept wailing in his bed all night long. His body was even festering and rotting at a visible speed. Even if several priests took action together and treated him with light magic, they could barely contain a little of the corrosion. Speed, in fact, it did not alleviate Henicos' pain at all, but made his death worse.
When the sun rose the next day, the 79-year-old Henicos died in his own breast, stinking all over his body, and his grandson was hanged by Luke under the royal auditorium a few hours later. , Luke felt very sorry for the death of Henicos, because he was almost able to completely eliminate the worms in the imperial capital, but for Birmingham, whose power and reputation were comparable to Henicos, he felt extremely lucky , because the old guy who was weighing on him is finally gone,
In this way, an adventure of Catherine achieved great rewards. When Henicos and Luke were at war with each other, her unremitting efforts conquered everyone's hearts. This made Catherine's prestige rise day by day, and the Fernando royal family's Their power was greatly reduced, and there was no way to compete with Luke. Even their right to survive had disappeared. They had to fall to Catherine under the leadership of Birmingham in order to gain a living space.