Now Samir is already a ninth-level great warrior, and it is impossible to know who taught her martial arts back then. People speculated that it was taught by her husband. Her husband was not King Sinah, but Semir's ex-husband, a general of the kingdom.
The general of the kingdom was stationed in the city-state on the western border of Assyria. At that time, there were frequent conflicts between Assyria and the nomads on the border, and Semir also followed her husband to fight. As a king, Sinakh also made great military achievements in his early years. Once when he led an army to resist foreign invasion, Semir's husband was also in the army, and Semir secretly put on armor and went to the battlefield beside her husband.
During the fierce battle, Semir's helmet was accidentally picked off by the enemy, and while her hair was flying, she stabbed a general of the opponent off the horse with a shuttle gun. Sinach, who was in command of the battle, happened to see this scene, and with just this startling glance, the sound of fighting on the battlefield seemed to be fading away, and he only had this beautiful girl in his eyes.
Soon after the war ended, Semir's husband was impeached, convicted and executed. Semir disappeared for a while, and when she reappeared half a year later, she had become the queen of Assyria. She was only seventeen years old that year.
No one in the kingdom dared to discuss this matter publicly. Some people privately said that she was a woman who loved vanity and power. There were also sympathizers who defended Samir. Under the king's coercion, a girl had to succumb. But then again, who among the widows in this kingdom would not want to be queen
Ge Lie recounted the results of his investigation, and finally lowered his voice: "After the death of Semir's ex-husband and she became the queen, no one knows what happened. But Faust once told me that it is possible for Semir to marry the king. It has something to do with the oracle, so she must have been under some kind of coercion. Now that she is a ninth-level warrior, she can now make new choices for things that she couldn't do before."
Faust's experience is no secret, but the legend of Queen Semille is quite jaw-dropping. Gilgamesh was about to speak, but Amon suddenly closed his eyes as if listening to some news. After a while, Amon opened his eyes and said, "I heard the latest news from everyone's prayers, Gilgamesh, this news may have something to do with you."
Gilgamesh shook his head and said, "I have given up everything and wandered to find the meaning of life. Is there any news about me?"
Amon said to Ge Lie again: "This latest news, I am afraid it will help our plan."
Ge Lie also shook his head: "Amon, I know that you are already a god, and you have means that mortals can't, so don't get your appetite, just say it!"
Amon said unhurriedly: "Emperor Sinach really expanded himself to the extreme. He was not satisfied with the kingdom of Baron having ceded six city-states. He even sent an envoy to King Hammurabi II of Baron to give orders. He He wanted to marry Princess Xiaoqian, and said that if Princess Xiaoqian did not agree, he would gather an army and capture the two city-states of the Kingdom of Baron. Because they were afraid of the brutality of the Assyrian army, the two city-states had already panicked, and the residents fled one after another.”
Gilgamesh stood up when he heard the words, and shouted angrily: "He thinks well!"
Amon and Gelie reached out to support the table at the same time, two rays of light flashed, adding perhaps the most solid divine protection in the world to this rough wooden table, and then Gilgamesh slapped the table with a slap .
Ge Lie asked with a wry smile: "Jill, do you still have any thoughts about Princess Xiaoqian?"
After a momentary burst of anger, Gilgamesh sat down again, sighed and said, "Everyone knows that Princess Xiaoqian was my fiancée, but that was just the king's arrangement, and there is no talk between me and her." No feelings, no feelings at all, and now, it is even more impossible to have any relationship. Who Princess Xiaoqian wants to marry is her own business, but no matter what, I don't want to see Princess Xiaoqian and the Kingdom of Baron to be humiliated like this."
Amon and Ge Lie looked at each other, and they said in unison: "So Xinach must die!"
Princess Xiaoqian is already in her twenties this year, and she has broken off her engagement with Gilgamesh for several years, but she has never married. sensitive. No one in the Kingdom of Baron dared to say anything about Gilgamesh back then, but the situation would be more complicated if it were someone else. Because King Hammurabi II of Baron is old and has no children, there is only one sister in his immediate family, Princess Xiaoqian, and the rest of the so-called princes are his nephews.
The laws of the Baron Kingdom did not prohibit women from being regents or even inheriting the throne. Even in history, there were precedents where a king had no children and chose the most powerful nobleman in the country to marry a princess and inherit the throne. Because the queen can pass the throne to her husband, whether it is voluntary is another matter. The battle for the throne depends on two factors. One is to see who the king is in, and the other is to see who can control the domestic situation. Otherwise, even if you inherit the throne, you will not be able to sit on the throne.
The charming Princess Xiaoqian is a famous beauty in the Kingdom of Baron. Amon has seen it with his own eyes, but Sinach wants not only a beauty, but also a country. At present, the people who are qualified to inherit the throne in the Kingdom of Baron are Princess Xiaoqian and the king's nephews. In recent years, Prince Feng Niu, who has made great achievements in commanding the army, is considered to be a stronger contender for the throne than Princess Xiaoqian.
It is not difficult to guess the intention of Sinach's sudden intervention. He first married Princess Xiaoqian, and then used the power of the Assyrian Empire to help Princess Xiaoqian ascend to the throne. At that time, he might control Queen Baron in his own hands. Or simply force Queen Xiaoqian to abdicate, and use political means instead of military means to firmly control the Baron Kingdom in his own hands.
This trick is amazing, and I don’t know if it came from Enlil’s instructions. If Sinakh marries Queen Baron, or simply puts this crown on his head, then he will truly become famous in the annals of history. Assyrian the Great. And the main god worshiped by the Kingdom of Baron could no longer be Marduk, which symbolized the complete victory of Enlil, and this god would reunify the gods of the Anunna enlightenment system.
Gilgamesh looked at Gelie and Amon again, and said a chilling sentence: "You must have guessed Sinach's intentions. It is difficult for the Baron Kingdom to refuse his request, and so is Princess Xiaoqian. I can't help myself. If you want to stop Sinah's conspiracy, the easier thing to do than assassinate Sinah is to kill Princess Xiaoqian!"
Amon frowned: "Do you think so?"
Gilgamesh shook his head and said, "Of course I don't think so, but I have been the city lord for a long time, and I also know the politics and officialdom of the kingdom. Some people will definitely think so, maybe they will do it, whether it is for He himself is still for the Kingdom of Baron. For example, Prince Feng Niu, the first choice is probably to get rid of Princess Xiaoqian. It is naturally impossible to take public action, but assassins can be sent to assassinate."
Amon asked again: "If you really assassinated Princess Xiaoqian, how can you explain it?"
Ge Lie interjected deeply: "Under the current situation in the Baron Kingdom, there will inevitably be a war faction and a peace faction, but as long as they are not real traitors, they don't want to see Sinach's plot succeed. If Xiaoqian The death of the princess will most likely be declared a suicide, and the main combat faction can use this to make a fuss and unite the people of the kingdom with the same hatred.”
Amon groaned and said, "It turned out to be suicide."
Ge Lie has been smiling wryly today, and nodded again: "This is a reasonable speculation. It may sound dark, but this is the part of politics that tires me the most."
Amon also showed a wry smile: "Since this is the case, Sinahe will definitely send someone to protect Princess Xiaoqian. She must not be allowed to die. Whether it is suicide or suicide, he will definitely try to stop it." Speaking of this, he suddenly He closed his eyes again and listened to something. He opened his eyes after a while and said, "Among my disciples, there is also a person who asked me to go to Baron Kingdom to protect Princess Xiaoqian."
They were discussing this matter in the small courtyard, and Aesop, George and others were also discussing the latest news in the Temple of Amon. George was born as the high priest of the Temple of Isis, and speculated on a similar possibility. One of the disciples couldn't sit still, and immediately prayed to God Amon, hoping to protect Princess Xiaoqian, and this person was Mei Danzuo.
Mei Danzuo and Amon "rescued" Princess Xiaoqian back then. Although it was a kidnapping incident directed and acted by Princess Xiaoqian, Princess Xiaoqian gave him enough repayment as a warrior afterwards. Princess Xiaoqian asked Mei Danzuo to drive back to the capital with her own car, and resumed his status as a noble warrior. These seem insignificant today, but Mei Danzuo was really grateful back then. Moreover, the beautiful Princess Xiaoqian left a deep impression on Mei Danzuo, who once declared himself an admirer of the princess.
Mei Danzuo's thoughts are very interesting. Since he has saved her once, let's really save her again today. On the other hand, he also does not want Princess Xiaoqian to fall under the control of Sinaher, so Medanzo's "protection" has a double meaning.
Gilgamesh asked curiously: "Sinach will send someone to protect Princess Xiaoqian. I didn't expect that some of your disciples would want to protect her. Who is this person and what is the means?"
Amon replied: "The purpose of protection is different from that of protection. This person is the leader of my disciples, Mei Danzuo. You have seen him on the battlefield, and he is holding the divine bow you once used. "
Gilgamesh nodded: "This man is not weak, since he wants to go, you can send him."
Ge Lie looked at Gilgamesh with a half-smile and said, "Aren't you going?"
Gilgamesh replied while drinking: "I am no longer the city lord of the city-state of Uruk. I will go to the royal capital of Baron, but I will only pay attention secretly as a wanderer. Leave it to that Metatron."
Ge Lie said again: "If you don't talk about Princess Xiaoqian herself, Sinah's doing this is not a bad thing for our plan. He wants to marry Princess Xiaoqian and make Princess Xiaoqian the Queen of Baron, so Princess Xiaoqian's The identity cannot be an ordinary concubine. But don’t forget that Emperor Sinach already has a queen, what will Semir think? Will he abolish the empress of Semir, who was born as a commoner, or will he establish two queens at the same time? ? If it is the latter, it is something new that has never appeared before, but Sinah should be able to do it."
Amon picked up his glass and said, "No matter what Sinach does, Semir will not be satisfied. Besides, Semir has been at odds with Sinach, and was scolded, and now he is defeated on the battlefield. Sinach is a very good excuse to abolish the queen. Compared with Semir's ideas, Sinach certainly values the country of the Baron Kingdom. It is natural for the emperor to think this way, but it is different for women. If Semir was coerced back then The one who married Sinah, and now Sinah uses coercion to marry another princess of the kingdom, no matter what the purpose is, Semir can hardly tolerate it."
Ge Lie looked at Amon with a half-smile and asked, "God, do you know women very well?"
Amon shook his head lightly: "I don't know much about it, but I can try my best to experience it."
Gilgamesh also glanced at Amon and said, "I don't know about women, but he should know goddesses well."
Amon changed the topic and said: "The matter of Princess Xiaoqian is an unexpected incident. Since Mei Danzuo wants to protect her, I will send him there. Let's talk about the matter just now, Mr. Ge Lie. Although you have analyzed so many possibilities, But it is difficult for us to communicate with Faust and Semir, the idea is simple, but it is difficult to implement."
Ge Lie twirled his goatee and said, "Since I brought it up, I naturally have a way to sit down with Faust and have a good talk. God Amon, I'm afraid you still need to appear in a certain way, and it also needs the cooperation of the city of Salem." .”
Ge Lie suggested that Amon send an envoy to Enlil City to discuss the exchange of prisoners of war between the two sides. The envoy will also submit a document, which will agree on the time, place, method and number of prisoners of war exchanged. The official official documents also include some diplomatic rhetoric and praise to the gods and so on.
Ge Liehui will write this document in the name of Aesop, the lord of Salem. He and Faust have been old friends for many years. They used to exchange letters and discuss various esoteric issues. Faust should be able to recognize Gelie's handwriting and the code words left in the letter at a glance.
Ge Lie will make an appointment at a time and place, and ask Faust to go out of the city to a secret place for an interview. As for the content of the talk, he will explain clearly, and promise to absolutely guarantee the safety of Faust, declaring that this is not a trap or a trap. If Amon promised not to take this opportunity to fight Faust, Ge Lie would write this letter and wait for Faust at the appointed time and place.
Amon immediately agreed, promising not to take this opportunity to set up a trap to ambush Faust, but asked back: "Ge Lie, you and I have no malice towards Faust, but you can guarantee that Faust will not take this opportunity Ambush you?"
Ge Lie said with a chuckle: "People must have trust and choices in this world. Amon, if there is an enemy you will trust, who will you think of first?"
Amon looked at Ge Lie and said, "Of course it's you, we used to be enemies too."
If even Ge Lie is not trustworthy, then there is probably no trustworthy person in the world. The old lunatic trusted Ge Lie back then, and even let him witness the last moment of his life. Amon also trusted Ge Lie, and gave him the command of the Salem Legion without hesitation on the battlefield. And how could Faust, who has been a friend of Ge Lie for many years, not understand this? Gelie's reputation comparable to that of a god in Hatti Kingdom did not rely on any conspiracy and struggle.
Ge Lie said again: "At the time and place I appointed, even if Faust wants to ambush us, do you think the three of us will be afraid? As long as the army is not mobilized to encircle and suppress, at least there is no problem in protecting ourselves." That's right, if the three of them get together, who will they be afraid of
Gilgamesh was stunned and said, "Am I going too?"
Ge Lie smiled: "Since you are here, why not help to the end? That is another battlefield. After Amon meets Faust, it will not be too late for you to go to King Barron."
Gilgamesh narrowed his eyes and muttered: "Whether Faust trusts you or not, it is a great adventure for him to come out of the city to talk about this matter. As long as he is willing to come, it means that he really has ideas in his heart, and your plan will come true." It might work. I wouldn't mind going with you as a bodyguard."
The three discussed the details again, and Ge Lie began to write the document for exchanging prisoners of war between Salem City and Enlil City. Amon issued an oracle, one ordering Aesop to prepare to send envoys to the city of Enlil; the other was to allow Medanzuo to go to the capital of Baron, but he did not tell Medanzuo that Gilgamesh would also go.
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In Baron King's capital, Baron City, in Princess Xiaoqian's mansion, the beautiful princess is singing a melancholy song—
"The beautiful legend has disappeared
I'm lamenting the wrong way of life
The song has gone and will bear the bullying of fate
The land and the city-state are scattered and separated
All my wishes are gone
look at the suffering crowd
Even the compliments startle me
People who once admired my voice are like duckweed in this world
There is a long-forgotten feeling
I also longed for the solemn tranquility
And now the song is like mourning on the strings
like fate wavering
The world in front of me fades away,
The past is vaguely revealed one by one... "
Those who really know this princess know that she is not without ambition. She has long been secretly full of desire for the throne of Baron. She used to travel around the country in the name of playing around, not only investigating the situation in various places, but also making friends with and cultivating her own personal forces. Including the establishment of Marduk City in the Duk Plain was planned by her alone.
In the "kidnapping" incident that Mei Danzuo and Amon had encountered, Princess Xiaoqian even tried to drag Prince Feng Niu into troubled waters, and took the opportunity to attack the most threatening political opponent. But people are not as good as heaven. With the departure of her fiancé Gilgamesh, Princess Xiaoqian lost the most powerful political support, but Prince Feng Niu was very lucky to become a hero and a new political star in this kingdom.
Before the defeat of the Baron Kingdom this time, King Hammurabi II had already made a decision to stabilize the domestic situation and balance the forces of all parties. After his death, he would pass on to Prince Feng Niu and make Princess Xiaoxi the Prince Regent.
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PS: The poems sung by Princess Xiaoqian in this chapter are adapted from "Fautus"—author's note.