Chapter 598

Ten years ago, the little Baron of Wimbledon was assassinated by an unknown wizard. Victor suspected that his coming was related to the wizard and the extraordinary existence behind the wizard.

To find out the root of the wizard, you may have a chance to catch the extraordinary tail, but the wizard who murdered the little Baron was suspected to have been bitten by witchcraft and died in the basement of a hotel in Heibao town. Victor was still very weak at that time. He was afraid to arouse the suspicion of others and touch the attention of extraordinary existence. He had not sent someone to investigate the details of the wizard's death. The clue seemed to be interrupted.

Until Victor captured his throat cutter in the territory. According to the killer, he served Raymond According to Peter's order, the moon elf nobles in the human kingdom were cleared. At least two nobles died under his dagger, one is the noble daughter Michelle, and the other is the lover of Queen SUS.

Aristocrats and civilians live in two worlds, and the moon elf blood aristocrats are heavily protected by the great aristocrats. How can violent civilian assassins assassinate the moon elf blood aristocrats? Even if you succeed, how can you escape? Once the assassin is captured, can the mastermind run away?

Raymond knows his cousin's whereabouts like the back of his hand. It's not difficult for him to kill Michelle, but he will leave a very obvious trace; Queen eliano's lover is heavily protected. According to reason, the throat cutter has no chance to assassinate him. However, he just killed the Queen's lover and could walk away. This shows that the throat cutter's assassination of the Queen's lover was secretly promoted by Lord Susi, which may be a warning to the eliano family by the Susi family, but it also shows that Raymond's attempt to murder the moon elf aristocracy has been seen by the Susi aristocracy.

The masked brotherhood serves both Borui and the SUS nobility. It is not surprising that the throat cutter uses the channels of the masked brotherhood in the SUS kingdom to expose his identity and purpose.

Prince Peter was warned by Lord suss and soon found out the truth. He decisively executed Raymond's close housekeeper, deprived him of his family inheritance, exiled him to Nanfeng port, and arranged for him to participate in the military action of infiltrating the Gaogen barbarians, so as to commit crimes and meritorious deeds.

The throat cutter is a paranoid madman, full of hatred for the nobility. Raymond Is Peter crazy, too? If he was not crazy, or was influenced by witchcraft, he would have done such a crazy and reckless stupid thing.

The broken clue was reconnected. Raymond Peter came into Victor's sight.

Later, Raymond presided over the Southwind chamber of Commerce and attacked the business network of Wimbledon chamber of Commerce in dodo kingdom. He used the power of the masked brotherhood. Mercury not only captured the color changing cloak of the blood guard, but also had a close contact with the mysterious wizard organization.

Victor has reason to believe that the nest of wizard organizations is in the Eastern League. They have everything to do with the judges. Considering the factors of paladins hunting wizards, the two sides should be a captive relationship. Tricky wizards don't want to be pigs in the referee's circle. They have the ability to support an aristocratic agent.

Raymond, the future Prince of the kingdom of SUS Peter? It's a good choice

Victor didn't have the ability before. Now, his highness Randall can try to work in Raymond Peter put a line on his side.

The specific plan is: Todd joins Jacob as Ranger Duncan Ludwig, trying to persuade him to attack master Peter who patrolled the twilight forest line; Todd planned the assassination for Jacob and enlisted Damon, the former Sheriff of denstone, to participate in the attack on Raymond The reward for Peter's action was that the children of wamon's family got Jacob With Ludwig's favor and help, the successful assassination paid atonement money for them, helped them get rid of their status as prisoners, and then joined the royal family of Gambis.

Vammon is the dark son chosen by mercury.

He was convicted of the assassination of the count of the golden Finch and was deprived of his family name and aristocratic status by the Lord Marquis de wemick. The referee sentenced him, his family and his vassals to 10 years of hard labor in the dim yellow forest line, and then exiled to the Eastern League.

Nelson led the bear regiment to attack Hora at night When Ludwig was, sheriff varmont left Hora and led the family children to break through first. Varmont and his family suffered the most severe punishment from the aristocracy, but at least they did not fall victim to count Hora and temporarily saved the lives of the family children.

Mercury's evaluation of wamon is: selfish, cherish family, have judgment and determination.

Such people won't listen to Todd's words, let alone they don't have deep friends themselves. Varmont was not sure that Ranger Godfrey was Jacob Ludwig, Todd won't introduce him to Jacob. This itself is a trap under the mercury cloth. Jacob, Warren and Raymond are all in the game.

Todd didn't directly encourage Jacob to assassinate Raymond Peter, this is the stupidest thing to do. As long as mercury creates a fatal encounter and provokes a chaotic conflict, it is not afraid that Jacob will let go of the murderer of his fiancee.

Jacob knew nothing about it. How could Todd introduce Warren to him? Varmont didn't see the victim and immediately knew that it was a trap to kill him. But from the moment Todd found him, he had no way back.

Varmont can't tell the priest,. Because he is a prisoner of crime, his words have no weight and can be trampled on at will. His aristocracy saved him once, but not the second time. There was no evidence in his hand. The assassination had not yet taken place. It was a capital crime to slander a knight and noble with high blood. All he could do was follow the script of mercury - pretending to agree to participate in the assassination, making a false relationship with Todd, spying on the ambush plan, going back to the water at the critical time and trying his best to rescue master Peter in distress.

If you fail to rescue Raymond, you will die, but if you succeed, you may get Raymond Peter's favor. Warren is not an ignorant civilian. He can make his own judgment and is bound to seize the opportunity to change his fate.

Assisting Todd to assassinate Raymond is tantamount to suicide. Let's not mention it for the time being. Just look at the identity and camp of both sides. One is Jacob, the prince's son of Gambis Ludwig; The other is Raymond, the eldest son of Lord Borui, the future Prince of SUS Peter. Warren helped Raymond Peter's southerly chamber of Commerce attacked the Wimbledon chamber of Commerce and therefore offended the Marquis of Wimbledon. With this connection, it was unwise for him to take refuge in the blue finch family in Gambis. He could not bear the hostility of the Marquis of Wimbledon, but Raymond Peter is more receptive to him.

Warren knows who to help with his ass!

However, mercury chose all this for him.

The wonderful thing is still ahead. Assuming that vammon successfully assisted Raymond and won the favor of the other party, he must not tell Raymond the truth, otherwise he will not report the truth and his intention is wrong. He pretended that he knew nothing about the assassination plan. Even if he was accused, he had to grit his teeth and refuse to admit it.

This leaves a handle on mercury.

Of course, it was Todd who wanted to kill Warren most, but his worry was superfluous, because Todd not only wouldn't sue him, but also tried to cover up for him, and then found the right opportunity to cook him slowly. Jacob didn't know him at all and couldn't drag him into the water.

He can't report in advance and confess afterwards. Warren should be able to think that he was targeted by a big force, but he had no choice but to jump into the hole dug for him by mercury.

After reading Barrow's plan, Victor was also amazed. Paul When Randall was young, he was full of intrigues and tricks. He played the knight vamon in his hands, which was better than his teacher Barol.

In fact, this fully reflects the huge gap between organizations and individuals. Mercury's information, manpower and resources are unmatched by valmon, even the high-ranking Knights Jacob and Raymond Peter became the target and pawn of mercury.

Unknowingly, mercury has grown to this extent... Victor can't help being complacent. The whole plan is planned and implemented by mercury. He is only responsible for issuing orders and doesn't intervene. During this time, he lived in the Royal vacation manor and engaged in the study of the secret method of soul and blood. Mercury could not contact him. The implementation of the infiltration plan, the unexpected conditions in the middle, how many alchemical militias mercury sacrificed, whether vammon was dead or alive, and whether he was killed by Raymond Peter takes in... Victor doesn't know these things now. In fact, he doesn't care much about the results.

If you fail, you can start again. Mercury now has this ability.

His highness Randall smiled and seemed in a good mood. Tnis tried to ask, "Your Highness, look at this..."

Turning his eyes back to tnis's face, Victor smiled and said, "my friend, you should think about yourself now."

Trinis was the first court aristocrat Victor knew. The two sides had maintained close contact, and he even became a part of the golden regiment. Making friends with Viscount Randall has brought some help to teness. However, with Victor's status becoming more and more respected, the help has become a resistance to Tenet's career. The most obvious change was that he was transferred from the Revenue Department to the Ministry of the interior by the Regent. His fiancee changed from the granddaughter of marquis Ludwig to the granddaughter of the Don. She was also a female knight.

Tunis should have been in charge of the Kingdom's tax department first and worked for several years in the most hated position. Marquis Ludwig would help his grandson-in-law pave the way for his rise, and the position of home secretary was prepared for him. In the future, it is not impossible for him to wear the palace ribbon.

Now, Victor has been promoted to the throne of the guardian of BIS, and tnis's career is completely over.

The Kingdom has more than one Guardian. If each Guardian interferes in the internal affairs of the Kingdom, it is tantamount to challenging the blood and authority of the royal family, which will only disintegrate the kingdom from within. Therefore, the guardians decide the development direction of the Kingdom and have the final decision-making power, but they cannot interfere with the king's rights or cultivate party members in the court.

Tanis has the label of his highness Randall on his body. It is inevitable that he will be refrigerated overhead in kite castle.

Facing the concern of his highness Randall, Tanis was dejected, but said very sincerely, "it's my great honor to serve your highness.".

Victor shook his head and said with a smile, "Tanis, you are knowledgeable and have the ideal of assisting the king. It's a pity to be the liaison officer between me and kite castle..." he paused, turned the conversation and said: "The Ranger Godfrey clashed with Raymond of Peter's family because of a misunderstanding. Godfrey was captured by mistake. He is now a prisoner of Raymond Peter. According to convention, his family has the right to exchange ransom for Godfrey's freedom from his Excellency Peter... I just don't know how many guards of Peter's family Godfrey killed, and whether knights and nobles died in his hands?"

How many people and how many pensions the Peter family has to die, how much ransom Jacob needs to release, has the final say of the Peter family. The blue finch family has inherited thousands of years and accumulated wealth, which is bound to be considerable. But it can not allow the lion family to speak.

Tenet's eyes brightened and respectfully said, "Your Highness is willing to lend a helping hand. We Ludwig family will offer it."

"If I mediate, your future will really be hopeless."

Victor waved his hand, smiled and said, "in fact, there is a great nobleman in gangbis who can easily solve Ludwig's problems."

"... the Marquis Sophia Wimbledon."

Tnis's face was full of surprise and immediately showed a thoughtful look.

Victor didn't give him more time to think. He said directly, "go and ask the Marquis of Wimbledon for help first. If she won't come forward, I won't be late."

With that, he pulled down the rope that tied the bell, the carriage stopped quickly, and the attendant opened the door from the outside.

"My friend, you can go back and talk to your wife now."

Tenet quickly saluted and left the carriage quietly. The attendant led the horse, but he failed to step on the stirrup twice in a row.

Through the window, I saw the haunted tnis gradually moving away, and a smile appeared on Victor's face.

The guardians of the Kingdom do not interfere in the internal affairs of other families. Of course, his highness Randall of the human horse hills cannot directly intervene in the Court Affairs of Auguste.

Victor has no intention of destroying the Kingdom guardian system, but the Kingdom's tax and financial policies are related to the development of the golden group. He not only wants to control the gold regiment, but also let the gold regiment pass unimpeded in human countries, so he can't bring in the royal families of countries with strong political aspirations. The exclusion of powerful royal families harmed the interests of the kingdoms. One can imagine how they will react to the gold mission.

The trade tax can solve the potential contradiction between the gold regiment and the royal families. In fact, with the development of agriculture, animal husbandry and handicraft industry, trade will only become more and more developed. Such a large trade industry, whether you like it or not, all kingdoms have to levy trade taxes.

No one likes to pay taxes. Those who advocate collecting trade taxes must be beaten up. Williams once wanted to collect trade tax, but it was resisted by the fiefdom lords and fiefdoms. The chief official in charge of tax reform had a miserable ending. He was framed and convicted. He was sent by the regent to Minsk fortress as a small logistics officer.

If the road from top to bottom doesn't work, you can only muddy the water from bottom to top. The king would take extraordinary measures to encourage the small lords to collect taxes indiscriminately. The situation became more and more chaotic, causing people's resentment to boil and priests to jump. At this time, the king would come forward to clean up the mess and carry out tax reform.

In order to let the kings fool around, it is better to grasp the leading power of tax reform and formulate a trade tax policy that meets the needs of the gold group and can open the field of financial services to gold.

If his highness Randall did it himself, he would be strongly opposed by the four princes and lords of kite castle, even if it was beneficial to the royal family. In fact, Victor is not willing to offend all lords. He is not only the guardian of the Kingdom, but also the count of golden eyes.

Only the Marquis of Wimbledon is not afraid to offend. The Marquis of Wimbledon is about to give up the dominance of the chamber of Commerce. In exchange, Sophia will lead the Wimbledon family into the power center of the kingdom. The tax reform that no one is willing to take over is a very good breakthrough. Sophia carried out the tax system reform. On the surface, the four princes of kite castle had to stand on the side of the Lord and trip her. Secretly, they would only try to promote it.

The collection of trade tax is in line with the interests of the royal family. The four princes and the royal family are actually one.

However, Sophia lacks a suitable spokesperson. Because she herself is a high-ranking female knight. There has never been a precedent for a high-ranking knight to serve as the Minister of state of the Kingdom, not counting the military minister. That position has always been held by the core members of the augustian royal family.

Tanis Viscount Ludwig was the best person Victor could think of. He himself is a member of the Ludwig family, married the female Knight of the Ludwig family, and his successor's surname is Ludwig. He was willing to join the Marquis of Wimbledon and preside over the tax reform. Of course, he had to bear the pressure from all sides, but once the tax reform was successful, the four royal families could accept Tanis as the chancellor of the exchequer of the kingdom.

If you were a scholar from another family, the eve of the success of the tax reform would be his downfall.

The most important thing is that tnis is already a member of the golden group. He doesn't know it.

It's not worth pushing tnis into the position of Chancellor of the exchequer. He and I met... Victor was satisfied, paced out of the carriage and looked at the sparkling Lake bassac.

Suddenly, a sailless boat caught Victor's attention.

It is about 17 meters long and 4 meters wide. It adopts a pointed bottom configuration. There are three pairs of long paddles on the side of the ship. It should be driven by the paddle. However, its oars went deep underwater and did not move back and forth at all. Instead, it was doing semi rotating movement. The sailing speed was only slightly slower than that of the oars. At the bow of the ship stood a graceful and slender figure. She was wearing a women's scholar robe, with white and gold braids on her chest, and a pair of crystal glasses on her tall and beautiful nose. She was beautiful, graceful and full of intellectual beauty.

Isn't it Princess Roland?

Victor looked at the strange boat, itching, took Caligula, walked quickly to the dock and asked the guard for a small fishing boat.

"Aka, you row and I'll take the helm."

Caligula sat down with a smile and rowed hard. Victor pulled up the sails, stirred the air flow and filled the sails. The small fishing boat drew a white line on the water and sailed quickly towards Roland's boat.

Roland also saw victor. She turned back and ordered that the ship began to accelerate and escape, obviously not letting Victor close.

Victor is known as the son of the wind. The strong wind he evokes can't move the big ship, and it's OK to drive the small fishing boat. Roland's escape made the big fool play with his heart. He manipulated the oars to coincide with the current. The ordinary small fishing boat was driven into a speedboat by two extraordinary people. After a while, he caught up with Roland.

"Why are you chasing me?!" The long Princess stood in the bow, stamped her feet on her hips and scolded victor.

Victor stroked his chest, smiled and said, "seeing the most beautiful long princess, I can't help chasing after her and greeting... Your highness, can I come up?"

Roland was very satisfied with Victor's answer. The corner of his mouth tilted a happy arc and nodded, "come up."

Victor and Caligula jumped onto the bow deck and immediately observed the ship's drive. It had no bottom deck, and the whole cabin was exposed to Victor's eyes. 16 sailors sit below, in pairs, three groups on the left and right, and two groups on the stern. They step on the pedal wheel, and the connecting rod of the wheel drives the oar to rotate.

"This is... This is a boat?!" Victor's eyes widened and he let out a voice of surprise.

"Well, the princess invented it!"

Roland pushed his eyes on the bridge of his nose and saw that the dwarf Lorraine was struggling to climb on the bow deck, so he added, "Lorraine is my assistant. He made a little effort..."

"... only a little." She stretched out her right hand and pinched the tip of her little thumb, emphasizing that it was really only a little.

Caligula saw an acquaintance, bent down to carry the jumping dwarf from the bottom cabin to his eyes, and greeted him with a giggle: "dwarf."

Looking at Caligula's bull eyes, Lorraine was silent for a moment and whispered: "Hi, aka, it's nice to meet you... Today's weather is fine, sunny, the temperature can't be too hot, and the wind is not too strong or too small. It's suitable for fishing... Aka, can you fish? Shake your head and show no... It doesn't matter, I can teach you... Can you put me on the deck? Gently, like a baby, yes, that's it. Well done... You stupid. I Lord Lorraine defeated a stupid giant with wisdom! "

He kicked Caligula fiercely, and the dwarf flashed back to Roland and looked out of his head. He said loudly, "the most beautiful, the wisest, the bravest, the most noble princess, your most faithful servant today has taught a giant, this glory belongs to you!"

"Well done, Lorraine." The princess affirmed the dwarf's achievements.

Kaligura looked around in confusion, looked down at the dwarf making faces at him, and said to victor, "master, the dwarf deceives people. There are no giants here."

"... aka, you are really tall for master Lorraine. You'd better sit in the bottom cabin."

Victor bowed his head and asked the dwarf, "Lord Lorraine, did you invent these oars?"

"I invented it!"

"It was invented by your royal highness!"

Lorraine jumped out and waved her arms and explained, "yes, yes, yes, it was invented by Princess Roland. I am honored that your Highness has accepted Lorraine's not worth mentioning."

"What kind of advice can you let your royal highness accept?" Victor asked curiously.

"Ming ship is stupid and stupid. I don't know which fool invented it." Master craftsman Lorraine disdained to say: "Wheels are heavy, seaman tramping hard, complex structures, easy to damage, and not yet well repaired; half of them are on the surface, half under water, increasing resistance, affecting the stability of ship navigation; too large, and a collision accident will happen when we are in port." what is the beautiful Princess's sigh, why can't the Ming boat be as smart as fish? The fins and fish tail. The royal highness of the princess accepted the Lorraine's not worth mentioning advice, replacing the fins with the long boat on the side of the ship, and the long stern of the stern instead of the fish tail, invented the flying fish boat.

Victor's eyes lit up and said in surprise: "Yes! Long oars are set on both sides of the ship's side and tail. The long oars go deep into the water. The wading area is small, which is not affected by wind and waves, and the resistance is small. The sailors pedal the runner and let the connecting rod drive the oars to do semi spiral movement underwater. Like fins and fish tail, the propulsion efficiency is higher than that of the Ming wheel, which is convenient for repair during navigation. Even if the pedal wheel is broken, the sailors can directly swing the oars, which is very suitable for inland rivers and lakes Sailing... I have to admit that flying fish ships are better than Ming ships. Well done, Lord Lorraine. "

"This is the invention of your royal highness. I have just made a few suggestions." Lorraine corrected Victor's wrong remarks.

Victor said with a laugh, "your little advice is very helpful to the kingdom. Of course, this is the credit of your royal highness. However, you can consider that the two wings should be connected with the pedal wheels, so that the motion of the long OARS will not interfere with each other, but they will be in harmony."

"Linkage? Linkage! Linkage... Let me think, let me think... Let me see." The dwarf puffed, jumped into the bottom cabin and began to observe the structure of the pedal wheel and connecting rod.

"Victor, you don't seem angry?" Roland looked at the absorbed wisdom dwarf and asked curiously. Lorraine explained that the inventor of the ship was a fool. She kept laughing.

Victor smiled and shook his head: "without countless fools walking in front, there would be no great inventors behind. At least the pedal wheel and connecting rod structure of Ming ship are still valuable."

Roland opened his mouth and shrugged his shoulders.

At this time, there was a sudden alarm bell in the direction of Kali port. They looked back and saw that the beacon tower of the port church was lit, and the thick smoke was rising slowly. It was shocking red, like blood burning!

"Church red smoke! Guardian oath!"

The eldest princess of gangbis turned her head and looked at the distant mountain on the left side of the lake bank. Another striking red smoke reflected in the green eyes.

"It's coming from the north. Is something wrong with the Sassanian Empire? It can't be the beacon messenger of the church who lit the wrong beacon? No, the red beacon needs the approval of the chief Shepherd to unseal the secret oil... It's over, it's over, I'm so excited!" Roland said excitedly, holding his flushed cheek.

The red beacon represents the crisis of the whole human country. Once the church lights the red beacon, the Knights of the human kingdom must abide by the ancient oath of protection, prepare the whole army for war and go thousands of miles to help. The last time the church lit a red beacon was 3000 years ago when the ogre King conquered the capital of the human empire.

Roland was hit by a rare event in 3000 years. She couldn't help but have the feeling of hero longing. The disturbance of wind and fire elements around him suddenly subsided and was silent. A deep breath diffused around, and the ripples of air and water were solidified. Roland turned his head and saw that Victor's dark golden eyes were shining like fog and rainbow, floating upward along the corners of his eyes.

"You... You, are you crying, or are you a new talent for the secret of spiritual blood?" Roland asked, tongue tied. This is obviously the manifestation of void water element and void wind element, but she can't feel any element disturbance on victor. But the huge and deep breath is like the essence... Calm!

Is it the special manifestation of the void fire element?

Victor's voice seemed to come from the cold wind of the abyss, empty and cold.

"I've been... Shit, like the original ant disaster, I'm not ready. I'm a joke... Turn around and go back to Hong Kong. We'll go back to Wangdu."

"The whole army is ready for war!"