Chapter 445

"Who will lead the attack and killing of a noble court count in dwemyk?"

Sophia frowned her slender eyebrows, looked sad and confused, and her voice was clear and sweet.

"Who can kill a powerful Silver Knight in my territory?"

The Marquis de Wemmick stared at Sophia closely, and the anger in his eyes seemed to explain the answer to the question.

The guests were full of imagination. Sophia led a large caravan north to the Principality of Teuton to answer Hora At the invitation of count Ludwig, I stopped by to visit izhin, the capital of dodo. However, instead of waiting for Sophia's car in Dengshi City, Hora left seven days in advance. The deweimick family managed to delay Sophia for three days. They didn't hold a banquet to welcome Sophia and the barbarian envoys until duncro led the iron wall knights. By this time, count Hora's motorcade had left Dengshi for ten days.

It was obvious that Hora did not want to go with the famous Marquis of Wimbledon. That's because the great nobles of Dodo are not comfortable seeing Sophia now.

For a long time, the Wimbledon chamber of Commerce has been working closely with the powerful lords of dodo. Sophia inherited the career of the old Marquis of Wimbledon and his connections. In order to stabilize her position, Sophia took the initiative to re sign a trade agreement with dodo's family. The stag business group made concessions to dodo's powerful lords by raising the purchase price and reducing the delivery price. So that the bucks business group could only make profits from the small lords and free people of dodo.

The Wimbledon chamber of Commerce clashed with the Southwind chamber of Commerce in the kingdom of Borui. It is reasonable that the power Lord of Dodo should firmly support Sophia. But they said they would turn over, completely regardless of the past. Relations between the two sides have taken a sharp turn for the worse.

If Sophia is an ordinary business aristocrat, bullying will also bully. It's a big deal to give symbolic compensation in other aspects. Even if she breaks her promise, it will be exposed. But Sophia is a strong willed stormy knight. She is close to the divine knight, and there are barbarians standing behind her. When the Borui people offended her, she cut off the arete trade of the Borui kingdom. Dodo Kingdom controls the North-South trade channel. Although it is not afraid of Sophia taking similar trade countermeasures, it must be careful of her revenge.

Sophia took the barbarians to visit the kingdom of dordordor. By way of Dengshi, the dewamik family were like enemies. Hora How dare count Ludwig go with her? As soon as Sophia's front foot arrived at Dengshi City, the count of golden lark was attacked and killed in the back foot. The Marquis de Wemmick did have reason to suspect that she was the mastermind.

"As far as I know, deweimick led bandits to run rampant during this period. They wantonly attacked the free people businessmen in Dengshi City, causing heavy losses to the bucks business group. I have written many times to hope that the deweimick family can arrest the bandits. But the Marquis turned a deaf ear to this and replied that it is the internal affairs of the deweimick family to eliminate the bandits in Dengshi City, and the Wimbledon chamber of Commerce has no responsibility Right to interfere. " Sophia said blandly, "maybe count Hora was attacked by bandits."

"Bandits?"

Marquis de Wemmick was not furious, but showed a thoughtful expression. After a while, he stood up and said seriously: "The special envoy of the Kingdom, the noble count of the golden Finch, was attacked and killed in dwemyk. As the Lord of the kingdom of Dodo and the Marquis of the dwemyk family, I will never let go of any murderer who murdered count Hora. I order the rock leopard order of the dwemyk family to lead 2000 mountain cavalry to start immediately and arrest the murderer." With that, he asked his attendants to present the letter to Duke dunkru, bowed and said, "Your Highness, the attack took place in the second half of last night. The murderer of count Hora must not have gone far. I have the courage to ask the iron wall knights for help!"

The high-ranking Knights of the deweimick family turned pale one after another. The Marquis directly asked the iron wall knights for help without consulting the family guardian. This means that the deweimick family loses control of the territory and has no way to take the murderer. The Senate of the kingdom can ask the deweimick family to take the blame and demote the Duke.

However, when the murderer led the attack and killing of Hora in deweimick, they have the ability to attack any core member of the deweimick family. Now the most critical thing is not to consider the political consequences of Hora's death, but to completely wipe out this hostile force. In addition, deweimick is certain to bear the wrath of Duke Ludwig, and the family needs to apologize to dunkru unreservedly The Duke expressed his support for the Dodo royal family.

The Marquis de Wemmick openly hugged his thigh, which made duncru very headache. After reading the contents of the letter, he almost blew his head and scolded in his heart: can't you fucking carry it first?

The Golden Knight pondered for a long time, knocked on the table, threw the letter to Sophia and said, "some survivors said that count Hora called the murderer's name before he was killed... Lord Nelson Randall." Without waiting for Sophia to say anything, he turned his voice and said, "of course, Hora may have been deliberately misled by the murderer... Anyway, please ask the Marquis of Wimbledon to stay in Dengshi for a while. We'll find out the truth when the iron wall Knights catch the murderer."

Who is Lord Nelson Randall? He is the number one confidant of viscount Randall. Viscount Randall is Sophia's husband, and Viscount Randall is also the only lover of the Rose Queen... The high-ranking Knights of the dweimick family suddenly realized that no wonder the Marquis roared for the support of Duke duncru. A goldfinch family is enough for them, plus a divine knight , maybe there is a future swordsman... Even if Dengshi city is made of refined gold, it can't carry it.

Fortunately, his highness dunkru still has a burden. The unicorn war riders of the iron wall knights are energetic, powerful and fierce. They are good at tracking and adapt to all kinds of complex terrain. As long as dunkru sends out 100 iron wall knights, none of the murderers can escape. Of course, the iron wall knight can't stay alive.

The high-ranking Knights of the dweimick family are in a complicated mood. They don't want to find out the truth now. They just have to fight a war of words with the royal family.

Lord Wallace, the deputy commander of the temple army, snorted coldly and said: "I can assure you that the Marquis of Wimbledon was not involved in this attack. If dweimick is unable to arrest the bandits, he can ask the referee for assistance. However, Lord Wimbledon is going to the Sassanian Empire to take his two Highnesses of the shining knights to visit the harlotts fortress and discuss the alliance with the elders of the barbarian tribe. This matter has nothing to do with religion And the overall situation of the kingdoms, no one can detain Lord Wimbledon! "

The crowd gasped, and the thing they were most worried about happened - Sophia couldn't play, admitted defeat and lifted the table! There were so many cards behind the table, and the size of the cards was amazing.

The kingdoms and churches agreed that barbarian diplomacy could not be controlled by any secular Lord. Sophia therefore suffered internal and external pressure. Now she has taken the initiative to help the shining Knights build diplomatic relations with harlottes. The shining knights are eager for it. What is it to let her out of a bad breath?

When the shining Knights crossed the river and demolished the bridge, dunklu was ready, but his teeth were still itching. At this time, a priest in Dengshi ran in in panic, with a sad face and trembling, said to bishop solz: "sir... It's not good... There's a refugee riot in Dengshi City, Dengshi shanty town!"

"What! The Supreme Lord is on... Make it clear to me what's going on?!" Bishop solz crossed the table, grabbed the priest's shoulder and roared.

"My Lord, it's... It's the people in the refugee camp who are dissatisfied with the oppression of the local free people and have a big fight! We need to climb the stone city and send troops to suppress the situation!"

Bishop solz blushed, and his fierce eyes flashed over Sophia. Seeing that she was also shocked, confused and not hypocritical, he pointed to the earthy Marquis de Wemmick and gnashed his teeth: "I said there would be an accident... I told you to suspend dispersing the refugee camp. You can't stand it. You don't listen to me. That's good! There are 80000 free believers outside the city. If there are a river of blood tonight and more than 5000 deaths and injuries, you'll wait for Lord trigowal to be accountable!" He kicked over the table and shouted, "my Marquis, what are you doing? Quickly mobilize the army to suppress the riots!"

Duncruz nodded to the Marquis de Wemmick and said to a high-level knight in secret silver armor, "Hernando, I'll lend you 30 unicorns. You take the high-level Knight of the de Wemmick family to hunt down the murderer."

Unicorns have amazing fighting power and can even tear adult ogres apart. 30 alienated unicorns, together with three high-level Knight teams, are enough to crush the enemies who attack count Hora. But duncru didn't let the iron wall Knights go out and made it clear that he wanted to leave room for turning around. The guardian of the dweimick family understood, bowed to the Duke and left with two silver knights The Knights hall.

So far, the dinner party in Dengshi city broke up unhappily.

When the Marquis de Wemmick took people out to suppress the situation, Dunn cruven said peacefully, "Sophia, we need to talk alone."

Wallace wanted to keep up with dunkru. When he saw Sophia inviting regzo to go with him, he sat down again. There was a barbarian urusa to protect Sophia, and dunkru would never dare to mess around.

The three of them crossed the long corridor and came to a lounge. Duncru gracefully opened the oak door for Sophia. Regzo bent down to squeeze into the lounge with Sophia. Finally, she shook her head, scolded in Savage language, and stood outside the door.

Duke dunkru smiled at the strong barbarian female warrior like the iron tower, walked into the lounge without closing the door, and smiled at Sophia: "it is said that the barbarian Weapon Master has the strength of silver knights, but I noticed that the strength of the two weapon masters is not weaker than that of urusa."

Sophia said with a faint smile: "barbarians have no hierarchy consciousness of gold, silver and bronze. Urusa is only an honorary title. The two weapon masters have crazy talent, but they haven't encountered any prey worthy of boasting."

"The golden order of knights represents the extraordinary level of life rather than combat effectiveness. Barbarians are much stronger than humans by nature... Halotes fortress is a force worthy of awe." Dunkru nodded and said: "But our human potential exceeds that of any race, and different kinds of orcs need to unite to fight us. Like centaurs, their average weight is more than 1000 pounds, and their strength is not much worse than that of barbarians, but if there are no goblin slaves to work for them, those animals are not our opponents at all. Because we humans have wisdom and know how to judge the situation. ”

"You should know that it is not Lord dodo's intention to embarrass you. The church is the behind the scenes. Our kingdom of Dodo must adapt to the changes of the times, avoid civil war and strive to expand outward."

"So I gave up." Sophia's beautiful eyes changed from purple to green and back to purple, "Your Highness, you should also know my state. I can give up the Wimbledon chamber of Commerce, urge the barbarians to establish a cooperative relationship with us, and then become a Lord. Can you let Sylvia return my husband to me? Can you let me take guarding the Randall family as my own career? Sylvia clearly told me that Victor's children and I will become the York family Who will inherit my career? Can you persuade her to change her mind? "

Dunn Croton was speechless. Sophia sneered: "you can't help me, but also destroy my faith. Aren't you cutting off my knight's road? If someone wants to cut off your Highness's Knight's road, what will your highness do?"

"What are you going to do?" Duke duncrore shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"Within fifteen years, I will try my best to help mankind win the trust of harlottes from top to bottom as a commercial aristocrat, and then attack the gold field as a Marquis of Wimbledon... I hope Victor's blood can stabilize and give me a marquis successor..." Sophia smiled gently in her eyes, immediately restrained her smile and said coldly: "Until then, no one can touch my chamber of Commerce!"

"I understand." Duke dunkru said, "as the guardian of the kingdom of Dodo, I assure you that the Lord of Dodo will safeguard the interests of the Wimbledon chamber of Commerce... But how are you going to solve this mess?"

"About count Hora, you have to give us an account of the Friedrich family!"

Sophia provoked the willow eyebrows and said teasingly, "if count Hora is not dead, you won't tell me... This is really a late respect."

After all, dunkru is a top knight, and he has chosen to compromise. Sophia stopped and said in a clear voice, "I have got the franchise of crude sugar. I promise Friedrich that he can get 8 million pounds of crude sugar every year, 18 Copper sols per pound."

Crude sugar is easy to store and carry. It can effectively help soldiers recover their strength and supplement nutrition. For pioneers, crude sugar is a very important strategic logistics material. Dodo Kingdom offers 20 copper sols per pound, and can only purchase 3 million pounds of crude sugar every year. Dunkru is very satisfied with Sofia's offer, but not satisfied with the share of crude sugar. He shook his head and said: "8 million pounds is not enough, at least 20 million pounds."

"20 million pounds? Randall's annual output of crude sugar is only 60 million pounds... In addition to Friedrich, I have to give Ludwig 5 million shares. The kingdom of Dodo occupies 13 million pounds of crude sugar. What's not satisfactory?" Sophia shook her head and said, "the price and share of crude sugar will not be changed, but I promise not to sell crude sugar to other lords of dodo."

Dunkru thought for a moment and said tentatively, "the ludwigs don't have to give us the share of crude sugar. Just sell it to us, Friedrich."

"Impossible!" Sophia shook her head firmly and said slowly, "I can only Trade grain materials such as green wheat with the Lord of dodor according to the trade mode of Southwind chamber of Commerce. However, the price of materials will rise. Wimbledon chamber of Commerce needs to earn a certain profit to maintain its operation."

The trade method of Nanfeng chamber of commerce is to dump materials at low prices and purchase goods at high prices to dodo's big family, so as to help them monopolize domestic grain transactions, so as to exploit the wealth accumulated by the small Lord family with high prices. This policy of Dodo kingdom is shameless and can not last long, but it is conducive to the development of the kingdom.

Sophia was willing to cooperate with Friedrich's trade policy, and dunkru immediately made a decision: "yes, that's it!"

"Not including the deweimick family. Anyone who dares to support them secretly is against me!" Sophia added coldly.

Dunkru smothered slightly and asked, "why?"

"The stag business group is distracted and is about to collapse. I must revive their morale!" Sophia smiled softly and said with all kinds of manners: "the deweimick family intervened in the struggle between the bucks business group and the southerly chamber of Commerce, openly helped the masked brotherhood fight against the mercenaries of the bucks business group, which made my men nervous. Even Lord Eckert disappeared. Deweimick is to blame!"

"I won't lift the trade ban of the dwemik family until I reach the golden stage or I'm happy that day."

Sophia got up gracefully, walked to the door, looked back and said, "the Dengshi riots have nothing to do with me."

"No nobleman dared to incite the exiles to fight." Duke duncrore sat in his seat and nodded heavily.

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"You are so brave..."

Todd, pale, stood at the height of Dengshi City, overlooking the free people's shanty town at the foot of the mountain.

Two light bands composed of torches divide the free people's shanty town into two dark areas, one is depressing silence, the other is desperate chaos.

Under the cover of darkness, the free people's armed struggle in Dengshi city began. Countless mobs killed people and burned houses with torches and sharp blades. Fortunately, there was a rainstorm just now, and the wet thatched shed was difficult to light, which did not lead to a fire. The church in the free people's area responded immediately. The paladin held a torch and pulled up a cordon to separate the riot area. Thieves' Union Under the leadership of the security soldiers, the thugs rushed into the scene and killed the refugees holding torches first.

When the shanty town fell into darkness, the feast of killing was finally staged.

Todd couldn't see the darkness clearly, but he heard trampling, screaming, crying, shouting, roaring, crazy laughter, weapon collision, and sharp blade stabbing into the body. These sounds formed a bloody hell scene in Todd's mind, making him like falling into an ice abyss, trembling all over and trying to block his ears.

"I'm afraid hundreds of people will die..." he murmured.

"At least!" Barrett was dressed in black leather armor, like a ghost whispering, "maybe thousands, maybe."

"So many people died... Do you think it doesn't matter?"

Todd held the sword until his fingertips turned white. He dared not look at Barrett for fear that he could not help killing the devil.

"What should happen will always happen." Barrett gave a low sigh and said dryly and coldly: "In this world, everyone is as hard as iron and as cold as iron. Every kingdom and territory is a large and small furnace. No matter how hard and cold you are, the furnace will burn you into iron juice, agricultural tools, armor, long sword and crown... No one is exception from noble riders to low-level refugees. If the furnace is small, the iron juice will flow out , as it is now. "

Barrett raised his chin and said condescending, "look at them. They fight each other like beasts. If you want to quell the unrest, you have to turn into beasts and participate in the killing. But do you want to save people or kill? Who is worth saving and who needs saving?"

"If the exile bandits want to join Dengshi City, they have to practice in the furnace. Everything should follow the rules of Dengshi city. If your home is destroyed and your land is taken away, they will also withhold your rations, rob your women and children, and turn you into a poor farmer, miner and craftsman... What will you do? I promise you will be as theoretical, pleading and punished as they are Beat, resist, and kill. "

"This kind of thing is inevitable, not in Dengshi City, but in other territories, and it will only be more tragic. At least we have made arrangements in advance..." Barrett shook his head and said with sobs: "You just tell them that the furnace is small and can't make so much iron. Others won't believe you, and you can't change it. Only when there is molten iron on the ground, the furnace will become larger. The fact is that the church needs this riot, the Lord needs this riot, the refugees need this riot, and everyone needs this riot!"

"I'm from the Randall family. I have nothing to feel guilty about the riots in Dengshi city."

Todd looked at Barrett with a smile in surprise. "Unexpectedly, you still have this insight..."

"Hey, hey, how can I have this ability? This is the insight of Lord Randall... Lord Randall has great talent and wisdom. He invited all people in the family to build a big and good furnace together. He can listen to our opinions and is willing to cultivate us. Therefore, this will not happen to Randall leader! We will not allow this to happen to Randall leader." Barrett said in a low voice, "it's my lifelong honor to serve such a master!"

"... it's also my lifelong honor." Todd's vision was different in an instant. When he looked at the fierce fighting below, he only felt that the clouds were light and the wind was light, and he was full of proud power. "The master is not a mortal. His blood is incomparably noble, and his wisdom and vision are naturally high."

"Oh, do you know how noble the master's blood is?" The old spy asked excitedly.

Todd smiled proudly, "hum, I can't tell you."

Barrett shrugged his shoulders in disapproval and turned to smile, "Sir, hurry up. It's really brave for you to take people to capture targets in FengChen district. I can't do this job."

Todd held his sword tightly and said hello. Dozens of powerful warriors followed him into the dark streets.

The shadow of mercury touched his beard, put on his hood, lowered his head, and said with a smile, "boy, you're still a little tender."

"Adults also said that wisdom is not intelligence, not blood... You have to have experience."