"What? His Highness the Second Highness has been promoted to Great Swordsman?" Lorist immediately understood that the Second Highness had stayed in the palace for nearly two years in order to be promoted to Great Swordsman. He didn't even bother to take advantage of the coalition forces of the Central South Kingdom.
Fatty Shi took out a piece of off-white silk with words written all over it: "Your Highness, this is the message from the Eagle that I just received from the imperial capital. The letter said that the Second Highness left the palace three days ago, and first secretly informed his subordinates. Many ministers announced yesterday that he had been successfully promoted to a first-class swordsman after learning about the situation in the kingdom, and they are planning to hold a grand banquet tomorrow to celebrate."
Lorist took the silk, looked at it and threw it aside, rubbed his chin and pondered, "Do you think this guy is a son of a plane? He can't be beaten to death like a little strong. Seeing that he is almost finished, but when he turned around I saw him make a big change, look lively, and immediately make something happen to you. In the past two years, I still wonder why he stayed so peacefully in the palace as a tortoise. Sword Master."
After staying with Lorist for a long time, Fatty Shi has long been familiar with Lorist's catchphrase, and knows that the so-called Xiaoqiang is a cockroach. But he still asked suspiciously: "Your Highness, what do you mean by the son of the plane?"
"Uh... Well, the meaning is very simple. I heard that every plane has people with great luck. No matter what dangers they encounter, they will turn the crisis into safety in the end, and even have unexpected gains. Just like every time the human world encounters great chaos. When great changes happen, there will always be a few outstanding or lucky people who can turn the tide. People like this will be honored as legendary heroes in later generations, so some people call these people the sons of the plane. Pampered in general... "
"Oh..." Fatty Shi understood, and he curled his lips in disdain: "Is he also considered a son of the plane? I don't believe it. If you didn't give him the standard equipment and property of the White Lion Legion, and sent troops to help him restore the country , how could it be possible for him to regain the throne so quickly last time. I have already said that he is not a fuel-efficient lamp. I don’t know how proud he is to be promoted to a great swordsman. I believe that the Kingdom of Antinac will soon have no peace .”
Lorist smiled and nodded: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter to us whether the Second Highness is a great swordsman or not. He is a smart man, and he won't think about our Norton family. But for the business alliance and the four middle duchies This is not good news, maybe soon the Second Highness will take advantage of the fierce battle between the Commercial Alliance and the Central South Kingdom Alliance to send troops to recover those provinces. We just wait and see the excitement."
"Do you think the Second Highness will send troops?" Fatty Shi asked.
"Of course, it has been three years since he ascended the throne. I have been impressed by the fact that he has not fought for three years. Although he hid in the palace to promote the sword master, he did succeed. Now the situation in the kingdom is stable, and several of his subordinates This corps has also become elite and well-trained because of the small troubles on the border. Besides, the business alliance does not want to fight on both sides. Under such circumstances, our king found such a good opportunity when he left the palace How could he not stir up trouble with his nature? His promotion to Great Swordsman will only make his attacks stronger and sharper." Lorist replied.
But Lorist's guess was wrong, and after three days, he received another letter from the eagle from the imperial capital.
"What, the Second Highness is going to inspect the entire kingdom? What the hell is he doing? Shouldn't he mobilize the frontline legions to recover the provinces that fell into the hands of the business alliance at this time? Go to inspect the kingdom at this time and make sure this is the second Your Highness? Wasn't someone pretending to be you?" Lorist was very surprised, and even wondered if this Second Highness was himself.
It is not surprising that he has not been out of the palace for two years, and it is not surprising that he inspected the kingdom after he left the palace, but this time, Xinying sent a message saying that His Highness did not want to inspect the provinces around the imperial capital in his hands, but to inspect the western provinces. Tegal, Dremke, Winston and Southern provinces. What the hell is this guy up to
You must know that West Degrad Province is the territory of the Kenmes family. Dremke Province and Winston Province have already belonged to the Norton Family's jurisdiction according to the oath signed by His Royal Highness and the Four Alliances of the Northland. The province is the family domain of Count Felim and is subject to its jurisdiction. His Highness the Second Highness was promoted to Great Swordsman and did not go to inspect the provinces directly under his own control, but went to these places that were not under his jurisdiction to inspect. If there is no ghost to kill Lorist, he would not believe it.
Could it be that the Second Highness repented or thought that he would be able to rely on being promoted to the first level of great swordsman? If that was the case, Lorist didn't mind giving him a little bit of a hard time, let alone a first-level sword master, even a third-level sword master was not considered by Lorist. Just after thinking about it carefully, I felt that the Second Highness would not be so unwise, daring to flaunt in front of Lorist just by relying on the name of a great swordsman. You must know that the former lover of the Grand Duke Fesabrun, the third-level great swordsman Xian Di was beaten and captured by Lorist two or three times in front of him.
"Aside from visiting these provinces, does Second Highness have any other strange actions?" Lorist asked again.
Fatty Shi looked at the secret letter in his hand again, and shook his head: "No more, Your Highness. The Second Highness just announced that he will inspect these four provinces. What makes me wonder is why he didn't release our family's Northland as well." Into the inspection list? Could it be that he inspected these provinces to deal with our family?"
"Impossible." Lorist stood up and walked to the map next to the wall to check the route His Royal Highness announced to patrol: "It's wishful thinking to deal with our family with the strength he currently possesses, and no noble will listen to it." His appeal. Do you really think those nobles are fools? If you think that the status of the great swordsman and the king can make the nobles obey, then he is not the Second Highness. Besides, he wants to deal with our Norton family, so he can’t be so big. I suspect that he meant something else. Well, even though he didn't announce that he would inspect the Northland, Dlemke Province and Winston are also under the jurisdiction of our family, and it is justifiable for us to send a team of troops to guard them. Anyway, he is also our king, if you follow him, you will know what he is doing."
"Then who should go?" Fatty Shi looked at Lorist, and according to common sense, it is most appropriate for Lorist to go to receive him, but Lorist is too lazy to see the Second Highness, especially when his cousin Chrisya and After the Second Highness broke up, Lorist became even more malicious towards the king.
Thinking about it, Chrisya was eighteen years old and followed the Second Highness on the battlefield. Not only was she loyal, but she also became his lover. Unexpectedly, after being together for twenty years, they broke up. For Lorist, it is obvious that the Second Highness is hostile to the Norton family, and it is probably because of the concern of the Norton family and Lorist that he refused to let Chrisya become the queen of the kingdom...
"How about I go?" Fatty Shi thought for a while and decided to make a trip by himself. As the chief knight and administrator of the Norton family, or a baron, his status is worthy of meeting the king.
Lorist shook his head and refused: "You can't, don't forget your identity."
"What's wrong with my identity?" Fatty Shi wondered.
"Don't forget that you are a golden knight. I'm worried that His Royal Highness will pull you to try a move. He has just been promoted to a great swordsman. It's easy for him to take you down. You can't refuse. I don't want to see you missing arms and legs. , I am too embarrassed to retaliate when he makes an excuse of accidental injury, it will be very troublesome." Lorist said.
This is true, when the former Grand Duke Lukins of the Northland went to meet the second prince, the king of Iberia, but the great swordsman next to the second prince used his golden knight to give him a knife. In name, he was giving advice, but in fact he was teasing him. , made Duke Lukins ashamed, and lost face. Even in his heart, even if he wanted the Northland to establish an independent principality, he was afraid to take action because of the threat of the two great sword masters beside the second prince. In the end, he died at the hands of the horse bandits, and his family was wiped out.
Let Fatty Shi go to meet His Highness the Second Highness and accompany him on a tour. There is a great possibility that during the tour, he will be dragged by the Second Highness to a sword competition in front of those nobles in the territory, and show off his prestige as a great swordsman. It would be a trivial matter to lose face at that time, and the Second Highness did not dare to tease him too much, lest he anger Lorist. But the problem is that Fatty Shi's swordsmanship is not good. With his three-legged cat's swordsmanship, if the Second Highness is vicious and knows the importance of Fatty Shi to the Norton family and wants to cut off Lorist's arm, the excuse is that he has just been promoted to the realm. Severing Fatty Shi's hands and feet and then sincerely apologizing, that would be the worst ending. Even if Lorist wanted to have an attack, he couldn't, so he could only stand by and suffer.
"How about I let my grandfather-in-law go with me?" Fatty Shi had another idea.
Lorist still shook his head: "Pull it down, even the old man Injerek can't keep you. There is another great swordsman beside the Second Highness. What's the name of that one? It's the time I went to save Reddy, it's called, it's called Man Come on, he seems to be a second-level great swordsman. If you take Injerek over there, if he stands up for you, the master swordsman of Mister will also stand up for the second highness. And the second highness has just been promoted to the big sword It is impossible for a master to fight against Injerek, he will only find the golden knight to compete, this is also a kind of cultivation for the newly promoted great sword master, you still can't escape."
"But I thought of a good candidate just now." Lorist said, and immediately pulled the bell rope for recruiting.
"Genorio, where is Reddy?" Lorist asked.
"Your Highness, the senior brother went to see the second senior brother in Rock Castle." Genorio replied.
"Send a letter to Eagle and ask Reddy to come back, I have something to do for him,"
"Yes, Your Highness."
"You want Reddy to go?" Fatty Shi asked.
"Yes, don't look at Reddy's current level of silver, but his current level of swordsmanship after practicing my skills is equivalent to that of a first-level great swordsman, and maybe he has surpassed it. Asking for trouble. And he is my eldest disciple, so it is enough for the Second Highness to welcome and guard on my behalf. Let Reddy and Parker bring a thousand guards there, lest people say that I, the Grand Duke of the Northland, have no manners .Parker is a silver star, a shield guard, and the Second Highness will not trouble him. By the way, you should also prepare a gift for them, even if it is a gift to congratulate the Second Highness on being promoted to the Great Sword Master."
"Okay, Your Highness." Fatty Shi replied.
Three days later, Reddy and Parker took a thousand guards to Vanades City in Dremke Province, where they would wait for the arrival of His Highness the Second Highness, and escort him on his inspection tour.
Lorist then put the matter behind him and ignored it. As a result, ten days later, the Duke of Kenmes rushed to the Bear City with a team of people.
"Why are you here? Isn't the Second Highness going to inspect your family territory?" Lorist asked strangely.
"Don't mention it, that guy came to my house to show off his power, I didn't see him in hiding." Duke Kenmes was a little annoyed.
"Did you compete with your family's Golden Knight?"
"En." Duke Kenmes nodded.
"That doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if the Golden Knight loses. It would be a joke if he can't beat your Golden Knight after being promoted to Great Swordsman. Also, why are you hiding from him?" Lorist asked.
The Duke of Kenmes said: "It doesn't matter if our family's Golden Knight loses. The problem is that His Majesty the King didn't come here to compete with the Golden Knight. He wanted our family to send troops."
"Send troops? Fight the business alliance?"
"No, hit the four central principalities."
"Oh..." Lorist's eyes lit up, the Second Highness' plan was good this time, it turned out that he was planning for the Central Four Principalities. No wonder the inspection route is so weird. It was indeed a surprise to attack the four central principalities through the southern provinces. But there are great benefits. One is that the four principalities in the central region sent troops to reinforce the Fesabrunn family the year before last, and fought a battle with the four alliances of the Northland, almost annihilating the entire army.
The second is that the attack from the southern province was very sudden. Although the four principalities in the central region retreated and were very vigilant about the border defenses, they knew that the main goal of the four northern families was to deal with the Feisabrun family, and they were not interested in attacking the central region. The Four Principalities, because if they attack, the Feisabrun family can easily turn around and succeed if they make another surprise attack. After all, the prestige of the Prairie Army God is so prestigious that the four northern families dare not take it lightly.
The border between the Four Central Principalities and the Second Highness is the Bailuhu swamp area, but that road is not suitable for attacking. The Four Central Principalities have very strict defenses against it, and they have built castles and fortresses, making it difficult to break through. As for the border of the two southwestern provinces, they are confronting the business alliance. It is a long way to go to the borders of the four principalities in the middle of the country before the province of Campona, Puerto Org and Anderwolf can be reached.
It seems that His Royal Highness wants to take advantage of the war between the Commercial Alliance and the Central South Kingdom's allied forces to attack the four central duchies first, and finally recover the provinces of the former Krissen Empire that were defeated by the Commercial Alliance. During the war, attacking the four central countries at this time can prevent them from receiving the support of the business alliance, which is a very good idea. Anyway, the legions of the border kingdoms of the kingdom and the commercial alliance have the advantage and are in an offensive position, so withdrawing the White Lions and moving them to the southern provinces will indeed hit the four duchies in the middle by surprise. It is obvious that the Kenmes family sent troops to increase their strength. advantage.
"You promised to send troops?" Lorist asked.
"No, I didn't go to see His Majesty the King. The excuse was that I went to Beihai City to meet my lover. It was my father who came forward to greet the entertainer, and he didn't agree to his request to send troops. He only said that he would think about it. As soon as he left, I will take a boat I came here to see you and ask what you mean." Duke Kenmes replied.
"Well, then I have to think about it carefully." Lorist said.
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