At midnight that day, the China Palace where Lin Shuo and his wife lived welcomed an unexpected guest.
It was almost one o'clock in the morning, just like He Shanshan's house two hours ago, a person suddenly appeared beside the bedside of the chief executive and his wife.
Of course this person is not Yu Ruifeng, but an old man in his late sixties with gray hair.
And the effect of his appearance was far less terrifying than that of Yu Ruifeng.
The Babu bed has a white gauze curtain, which isolates the view from inside and outside.
In addition, since this person entered the Chinese Palace, both Lin Shuo and Di Lan have already noticed it.
In Lin Shuo's mind, this person should have come to see him long ago.
The chief steward of the Nordic court and the most powerful practitioner in the Nordic territory, Gao Wen.
This Knight of the Round Table had once fought against Lin Shuo when he was welcoming his relatives last year. The old man wanted to die, but Lin Shuo dismissed it lightly and did not die.
In Europe, the inheritance of the Knights of the Round Table, like the Druids, is an existence older than the Holy See.
The Holy See originated in the Apennine Peninsula in southern Europe two thousand years ago, while the Knights of the Round Table and the Druids, which are the spiritual heritage of the Celtics in northern Europe, were many years earlier.
Although the Celts became more and more miserable under the attack on each other later, and the original religious beliefs of the Celts disappeared. Now most of them have converted to the Crescent Sect of the European Holy See, but the inheritance of practice is still retained. .
As for Gawain, the inheritance of the Knights of the Round Table, in the last few hundred years, due to the premature death of the heirs, the quality has become worse and worse.
But Gao Wen himself was lucky.
When he traveled abroad in the early years, he met one of the Liemen Nine Dragons family, the previous head of the Yang family, who was also the father of Yang Baokun who fought against Lin Shuo at the alliance ceremony of the same generation.
The Jiulong family of Liemen is distributed all over the world, each staring at Jiulong.
Among them, there are two in Europe, and Lao Yang's family has been stationed on an island in the Norwegian Sea near Northern Europe for generations.
It has been frozen for thousands of years, and has been staring at something in the maelstrom of Moskva.
Patriarch Yang met this young man named Gao Wen by chance, and felt that this young man's cultivation aptitude was barely noticeable, and his character was not bad, so he gave a few words of advice.
It's hard to get away with this point. After forty years, Gao Wen is already the number one master in the Nordic practice circle. Not counting those hermit masters and the leaders of the major sects, he can be regarded as a well-known figure in the European practice circle.
Later, at the wedding banquet where Di Lan married Lin Shuo, Gao Wen took the initiative to tell Lin Shuo about it.
Lin Shuo had heard something new about meeting Patriarch Yang by chance back then.
Yang's hometown majored in Gaojue, and he has always been a master of science and technology. He has not done much, and there is such an anecdote in the world.
But no matter what, Gao Wen is somewhat related to Liemen.
In addition, he is also a representative of the Nordic practice circle.
Lin Shuo, the leader of the hunting gate, came to Northern Europe. This identity cannot be announced to the Nordic people, but Gao Wen, a representative of the Nordic practice circle, should contact Lin Shuo immediately.
We are all practitioners, people in the circle, and if there is anything to talk to each other about, this is what the landlord should do.
Moreover, Gao Wen is the person who handles the affairs of the practice circle on behalf of Northern Europe, so he should know more about the ins and outs of the current situation in Europe than ordinary people.
As a result, the old man disappeared for several days, and it was midnight when he suddenly appeared in the bedroom of Lin Shuo and his wife.
It doesn't matter what Lin Shuo said about this matter, Di Lan was already sitting on the bed, and began to curse through the white gauze curtain:
"Gao Wen, what's the matter with you
The knights of the round table in your family are ordinary, so it’s okay to lie to my Nordic royal family in the past. I turn a blind eye and close my eyes to be too lazy to expose you.
Now that something has happened, I don't expect you to be able to defend against powerful enemies with this level of cultivation, but it's not difficult to tip me off, right
Why wait until now? "
"Princess, why don't I come here now?" Gao Wenren stood on the edge of Ba Bu's bed, his hands drooping, "I can't help it, someone is staring at me over there, in order to get rid of this stalker, I spent a lot of time A lot of chapters."
"Who's staring at you?" Dylan asked.
"My cultivation level, although I can't get into the eyes of Chief Lin, but I still have some vain reputation in the European territory. They still value me there, and sent the Holy Knights of the Knights of the Hospital to follow me personally." Gao Wen said, "He His cultivation level is higher than mine, and he dragged me to drink every day, and his alcohol capacity is better than mine. At first, I really couldn't do anything about him. Fortunately, this man is lustful, so I arranged two girls for him, so I was able to get out. "
"A paladin of the Knights Hospitaller." Lin Shuo asked, "Is this man named Erwin?"
"Boss Lin also knows this person?"
"I know very well."
Could it be that Lin Shuo didn't know about this guy, he booked the entire red-light district in Borneo for him last time.
The old guy is in good health. Three days before and after Santiaojie, he just cleared the level.
Moreover, this person has something in his own hands, and Alphat's death cannot be separated from him.
So Gawain was able to get away this time, probably because of the intention of the new paladin.
It was obviously inconvenient to help, so I secretly raised my hand.
So Lin Shuo said, "Okay, you can talk about the matter here in a down-to-earth manner, he won't be able to finish it in a short time."
"Yes." Gao Wen replied, and then said, "For this matter, there is a simple way to talk about it briefly, and there is also a way to talk about it in detail. If you really want to be able to talk about it well, it will be a long way away. It will take twenty years. start talking."
"Then move a stool, sit down and talk slowly, the more detailed the better." Lin Shuo said.
Gao Wen moved a chair and sat down as he said, before saying, "Princess Dilan, do you still remember how many cousins you had before?"
"Yes." Dylan replied, "I had three cousins.
Grandpa's throne. At that time, these three cousins were higher in line of succession than my mother, who was only the fourth in line of succession.
However, during the period from twenty years ago to ten years ago, these three cousins died successively, and my mother became the first heir. "
"Then, does the princess know how your three uncles died?" Gao Wen asked.
The corners of Dylan's eyes twitched when he heard this: "Could it be my mother..."
"Don't think so." Gao Wen hurriedly interrupted, "Your mother was not involved in this matter from the beginning to the end, and was even completely unaware of it at the time.
But these three assassinations were brilliant, not only were there no evidence at all when they were investigated, they were just three accidents, and the group of assassins even forged powers of attorney and held them in their hands.
In other words, your mother obviously didn't attack the three cousins back then, but this group of assassins did for your mother and served as evidence that your mother entrusted them.
Once these forged evidence are released, others will definitely believe it, and your mother cannot prove her innocence. "
"You assassins in Europe, are you so wild about taking jobs?" Lin Shuo couldn't help but sighed when he heard this, "Can you still do business with porcelain?"
"Hey, who said otherwise." Gao Wen said helplessly, "This is their layout, they laid the line in advance, just to control the political situation in Northern Europe.
Now the Nordic royal family consists of your mother. Princess Dilan, you are still married. Although you are still the heir to the throne, we all understand that in fact you are no longer suitable to be a Nordic queen.
And once it is revealed that your mother assassinated your cousin to seize the throne, the throne will definitely be lost.
Princess, you can't inherit the throne, so according to the royal lineage, the new king will go to England to find it.
There is an earl in Derbyshire, England, who is a distant relative of your family. The two parties have the same father for nine generations.
And behind this Lord Earl is the Holy See of Europe.
So once your mother abdicates, it is equivalent to directly betraying the country.
But if you don't abdicate, then others will hold the handle tightly, so you have to compromise and make concessions. This is indirect betrayal of the country.
It's a dilemma, so in the past year, the queen has been tormented miserably.
Princess, with all due respect, your mother was not raised as an heir at the bottom of the line back then. She was not a politically strong person mentally, so how could she endure this kind of psychological torture
So in just one year, people who are more than ten years younger than me seem to be older than me. "
Lin Shuo nodded, thinking that was the case, and then said, "I have two questions."
"President Lin, please speak."
"Who are they and what are they trying to do?"
"They are the Holy See of Europe." Gao Wen said, "They want to integrate Europe into a country with the unity of politics and religion."
Lin Shuo couldn't help shaking his head after hearing this:
"Unification, this is quite ideal. From a European point of view, it does meet the needs of the current international situation. I can understand it.
However, the unity of politics and religion is turning back the wheel of history.
The Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution in Europe were once the hope of the entire world.
If they can do it now, it will be all useless before, and Europe may return to the Dark Ages. "
"Who says it's not, but from the standpoint of their Holy See, they can only have such a lofty goal." Gao Wen said, "In short, we in Northern Europe and them are not in the same way."
"Why didn't the European Holy See do this matter sooner or later, but why did it choose this time?" Dylan asked.
"Two reasons." Gao Wen said, "One is the situation, the other is the conditions.
The situation is that Europe's status in the world has declined and it has to rely on the United States. Everyone is unwilling to do so. This is an external situation.
And within their Holy See, the current scientific thinking has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Although the new generation of Europeans also believe in religion, most of them just need a home for their hearts.
There are fewer and fewer believers, and the faith is becoming more and more shaken. This makes the political influence of the Holy See on the whole of Europe gradually declining, and the interior is also being eroded by the power of secular capital. marginalized.
There are two conditions.
One is a strange creature.
In the past twenty years, strange creatures have begun to get out of control all over the world, and the Holy See is one of the groups of practitioners who are fighting against the strange creatures.
At the same time, the secular countries in Europe are also under the pressure brought about by the proliferation of strange creatures. Nuclear bombs are afraid to use, and conventional troops cannot work.
The two sides ebb and flow, the current prestige of the Holy See in Europe is the highest peak in the past 500 years, this is an opportunity.
In addition, the results of the scientific research on strange creatures carried out by the International Society for Biological Research in the past ten years will be a lever to leverage the future structure of the human world.
At present, the International Biological Research Association and the Holy See have actually completed the control, and they already have this bargaining chip in their hands.
In the end, our Nordic royal family is still sparsely populated, and they happened to have buried the thread before, and now they have found a breakthrough if they slipped the thread. "
"Then why are they forcing my mother to lure Lin Shuo to Northern Europe at this time?" Di Lan said, "What are they trying to do with Lin Shuo?"
"Well, they didn't force this matter." Gao Wen paused, as if a little embarrassed, "I suggested to the Queen to call Chief Lin here."
"What?" Dylan couldn't sit still when he heard this, and shouted, "Gao Wen, you are so brave!"
"Princess, please don't get excited." Gao Wen said, "Nowadays, the queen has been forced to have nothing to do with the Nordic situation, and the prince has always been nothing.
With my superficial cultivation, even if I put my life to the test, it won't help.
Now the entire royal family is looking around, and the only one they can count on is you to marry this uncle.
The two of you moved quickly, and the children are all born. It's a good thing, isn't there an heir to the throne now
So I brought you and Mr. Lin over here, and announced the news of the marriage to the public. Ordinary people only know that this is a teacher, but the people in the Holy See know that this is called external support.
Then hurry up and make a duchess for your two children, and the heir will be in line. This is called having children within.
After these two things are done, we can stand firm both inside and outside, so that we can fight them well. "
"No wonder the two things are so awkward together." Lin Shuo couldn't laugh or cry, and said, "It turned out to be a plan to drive tigers and wolfs away. You Gao Wen really think highly of me."
Gao Wen smiled and said, "President Lin, don't mind too much.
As long as you come to this matter, in my opinion, most of it will be solved.
No matter how arrogant the Holy See of Europe is, it dare not really attack you, the leader of the hunting gate, right
Otherwise, if the two largest practice groups in Europe and Asia go to war, both sides will definitely suffer.
The assassination last night, according to Erwin drunk, was just to scare you.
The paladin also said that as long as you are frightened, the Holy See will find someone to negotiate with you.
At that time, anyway, you remember, you are our son-in-law in Northern Europe, and you will give us a hand at the negotiating table to make life easier for the queen. "
"The negotiation is their idea, not necessarily mine." Lin Shuo said lightly.
"President Lin, what do you want to do?" Gao Wen became alert all of a sudden, "You really want to start a war with them, don't you?"
Lin Shuo ignored Gao Wen's question, but said, "It's getting late, you should go back first."
"No..." Gawain wanted to say something else.
But Dylan said coldly: "Didn't you hear what my husband said?"
"Hey! Hey!" Gao Wen hurriedly stood up, "I'm leaving now."
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