In the next few days at Beishan Castle, Lin Shuo's main task was to eat.
Anyway, there is one griffin a day, and the leader of the hunting gate doesn't care whether the owner here is really polite or genuinely caring. In short, Lin Shuo is willing to eat it if he is willing to take it out.
In the past few days, Nemea has begun to lose weight visibly with the naked eye, and her face is haggard, but she still has to put on a smiling face in front of Lin Shuo.
Because the news came from the capital, the emperor did send a mission.
Of course, it is somewhat inappropriate to say that it is a mission. To be precise, it is a working group.
Because the mission should be aboveboard and with great fanfare, this group of people is not of this nature.
After all, the future daughter-in-law had such an incident, the emperor's face was disgraceful, so the dispatch of this working group was relatively secretive, and the candidates were not officials on the surface, but the emperor's secret guards, a total of six people.
Four of them are ninth-level practitioners with title strength, named Miao Chengyun, Lin Shuo, Yang Baokun, and Su Dongdong.
The purpose of these six people is to publicly execute Artemis in Beishan Earldom, and wash away the stigma of the royal family.
This matter is kept secret in the capital, and the royal family wants to save face, but it is open in Beishan, because to respect the teachings of the Sea God Sect, one must set an example in the local area.
When the news came, Nemea remained calm and even wanted to cry.
Because he originally believed that the mission was real, and sent someone out to prove the falsification. In fact, he felt so distressed when he killed the griffin, and subconsciously hoped that the mission was fake.
As a result, the heaven failed to fulfill the wishes of the people. They really have the emperor's life, and they are also a group of emperor's secret guards. They are the people around the emperor, and they are more difficult to offend than ordinary officials.
What else can I do, I can only continue.
The sub-altar of the Principality of Mia of the Sea God Cult is in charge of producing female priests to satisfy Lord Zhengshi.
The Duke's Mansion is responsible for producing griffins to satisfy the deputy envoy.
But the priestess can go back the next day, and those women are actually not priestesses, but local fireworks girls pretending to be, this can be fooled.
The griffin can't go back if it falls into the stomach, and this can't be faked.
So Amphitrite didn't feel bad for arranging six in one night, and Nemea killed one in a day is really going crazy.
Not only that, but Nemea had to bear the grievances, and from time to time he approached the deputy envoy, because the envoy spent all his time on women in the next few days and had no time to talk to him.
So in the past few days, Lin Shuo not only had a good meal, but also had a good chat.
By the way, the situation of the Principality of Mia is almost clear from the mouth of Nemea.
As for Nemea, he was not born to play politics.
A real political master is ambitious without revealing it, well-prepared, and finally turns out his hole cards when everything is ready, and beats others with one stick.
And Nemea is a title-level master, although his title of "Griffon Lord" is not high, he can be regarded as a "miscellaneous name" in the title. But in the one-third of an acre of land in the Principality of Mia, that is also the number one practitioner.
Since force is tyrannical, things are often resolved by force, and I don't like to use my brain.
In fact, Lin Shuo himself had this kind of virtue before he became a teacher.
So he understood Nemea's situation very well, and he didn't talk about fighting for power, and his mouth was not strict.
Although Nemea was very polite in front of Lin Shuo, he never concealed his ambition.
He told Lin Shuo that with the lifting of the seal of the gods, a new continent finally appeared in the outer seas of Daxizhou.
Although the Principality of Mia is not big, there are not many masters, and there is no capital to compete with other princes in Daxizhou, but its geographical location is now unique because it is on the coast.
At that time, when he has integrated the Principality of Mia and got the outlet to the sea, he will build ships and occupy the new continent on the other side of the ocean.
Anyway, those humans in the New World are stupid and barbaric, and they are definitely not the opponents of the Great Western Continent master. By then, he will be able to build a huge empire in the New World.
As long as Lin Shuo is willing to speak well in front of the emperor after this trip, so that he can gain a firm foothold in the Principality of Mia, Nemea will promise to give Lin Shuo a kingdom in the New World in the future. Documents can be written.
Hearing this promise, Lin Shuo's mouth twitched, thinking that you were trying to get a fart.
Although everyone in Daxizhou is a master in cultivation, the "New World" in their eyes is no longer what it was ten thousand years ago.
There are also masters of practice in the "New World", and no matter how powerful the masters are, they are not enough to greet them with a single shot.
Daxizhou is currently still in the Iron Age, and the political structure is a feudal system where all heroes stand side by side. The level of warfare under this system is actually very poor.
If the entire Atlantis had turned the table with the earth, there might still be some movement, at least one Europe alone might be able to choke.
But if it’s just the Principality of Mia, then forget it. It is estimated that it was wiped out by Lin Shuo’s mother-in-law’s North Sea Fleet before Europe even saw it.
Although Nemea's promise was absurd, Lin Shuo had to pretend to be very interested, after all, he was short-mouthed.
He asked Nemea to send him a map of the Tianlan Empire, saying that he would study it at night to see where the future Mia fleet would go to sea.
Nemea didn't know what Lin Shuo was thinking, so she was very happy and sent someone to bring the map that night.
So Lin Shuo and Queen Mother Xi closed the door at night to study the map together.
Queen Mother Xi was very dissatisfied with this, saying that Lin Shuo always used excuses to delay her married life.
Lin Shuo pretended not to hear, pointed to the hand-painted animal skin map on the table and said, "Madam, please see, that's how it is."
"Don't interrupt." Queen Mother Xi rolled her eyes, "It's as if you understand something."
Lin Shuo smiled and said, "With Madam's guidance last night, and today's map, I have indeed understood Emperor Tianlan's intentions."
"Then tell me about it." Queen Mother Xi stopped her demonic hand with a playful expression.
"I overlooked an obvious thing before. This is probably the so-called darkness under the lights." Lin Shuo reflected, "Our group of people appeared in Daxizhou, but it was actually an advance expedition team to touch Daxizhou. Situation in Xizhou.
If Europe can send an advance team to land on Atlantis, doesn't Atlantis have any idea about the 'new continent' that is so close to Europe
We discovered Daxizhou, and Daxizhou must have discovered us too.
Of course, the people on Great Western Continent have never experienced the great geographical discovery of the earth, and most of them should have no knowledge of the discovery of the new continent.
The common people don't know what the emergence of the New World means, but for the nobles here, this is undoubtedly an opportunity.
The reason why the nobles of Daxizhou are nobles is that their ancestors fought for land and robbed them.
Now the pattern of the three great empires in the entire Great Western Continent has been formed, which is a relatively stable international political pattern.
If nobles want to improve their titles and sites, they must grab new sites, but under the current political structure, the cost and risk are extremely high.
And the emergence of a new continent that is not too far away is a godsend opportunity. "
"You've finally figured this out. I thought you were fascinated by that woman Artemis." Queen Mother Xi said softly, "Honey, if you like her, would you like me to possess her? Go to the dungeon tonight?"
"Don't interrupt." Lin Shuo didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "I'm analyzing it."
"You male humans' desire to show off in front of your spouse is really innate." Queen Mother Xi laughed and said, "Didn't you just say you were stupid last night, and you have to get it back?"
"I want you to see if my analysis is right, and you can correct me if I'm not." Lin Shuo said helplessly, "I know you are smart in this area, and you have a good wife in your family. I want to ask for advice."
"Okay, you go on."
"Even an aristocrat like Nemea, who is not very good at thinking, has seen the opportunity, and the biggest aristocrat in Daxizhou, that is, the emperor, must have seen it too." Lin Shuo said, "Look at the territory of the Tianlan Empire. , the west and south are neighboring countries, the north is the vast snow-capped mountains, and only the east can go to sea.
But from the beach where we landed for the first time to the next port, there was only the Earl of Xilan in the Principality of Mia. During this period, Artemis' ship sailed for a full day and night.
This shows that there are very few seaports in the east of the Tianlan Empire that are suitable for use as ports. Among them, the Earl of Xilan in the Principality of Mia is a ready-made good port that supports large-scale fleets to go to sea. "
"Then why?" Queen Mother Xi asked.
"So Emperor Tianlan's intention is not to break up the Principality of Mia, but to completely control the Principality of Mia, especially the Earl of Xilan." Lin Shuo said, "This is to prepare for the next step of the imperial fleet going to sea."
"But the Principality of Mia belongs to the Kingdom of Badia, not the territory directly under Emperor Tianlan, so how can he control it?" Queen Mother Xi asked again, "Duke Nemea has seen this opportunity, Badiya Didn’t King Ya see it? Will King Badiya give up the Principality of Mia honestly?”
"That's why the emperor and the third prince can't come forward directly, but seek to cooperate with us temporarily." Lin Shuo said, "The Principality of Mia is not directly under the Tianlan Empire, and there is the Kingdom of Badia in the middle. The idea of bypassing the royal family and attacking the principality directly is a big taboo in the enfeoffment system."
"So, what conclusions can you draw?"
"The conclusion is that the third prince, who represents the royal family, will take back Artemis, a fiancée with a bad reputation, after a lapse of one year. Artemis helped the Duke to the position." Lin Shuo said, "Of course, the Duke Artemis, because the previous crimes were only pardoned but not clarified, so the prestige is out of the question, so it is convenient to be a puppet. In fact, it will be her husband, the third prince who is deeply trusted by the emperor, who will rule the principality. Therefore, the empire is equivalent to directly controlling the principality of Mia."
"Artemis is not a stupid woman." The Queen Mother of the West nodded and said, "After learning that the third prince was involved in this matter, she immediately thought of the result you are thinking of now, so she would rather be burned to death than bear the burden. Stigma to be a puppet duke.
At the same time, she would be anxious, because the longer the time dragged on, the more time the Third Prince would have to arrange this matter.
You have also seen the ability of the third prince. Whether the mission is true or not is a matter of one word.
So Lin Shuo, if you give him so much time to make arrangements, how can you make Artemis turn around and become a real duke
You know, whether she was directly burned to death, or saved by the third prince and turned into a puppet, she will not take you to find Yun Yuexin. "
Lin Shuo was thinking about something while listening to Queen Mother Xi, but he frowned when he heard this: "My mother is your mother-in-law, how can you call her by her first name?"
Queen Mother Xi stuck out her tongue: "I was wrong, husband, please punish me."
"How to punish?"
"Don't you know how to punish you?" Queen Mother Xi smiled and pushed Lin Shuo onto the bed.
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