Chapter 672

Recently, the number of guards in the New Roman city has increased significantly. In the main streets of the city, teams of soldiers can always be seen rushing by. There was a tense atmosphere in the air, and the curfew announced a few days ago brought it to a climax. Even people who are insensitive can smell something different from this atmosphere.

That is, the head of the order of the signet, the real master of new Rome, is in a bad mood.

That's for sure.

It represents the majesty of the papal hall, the powerful force of the city of Rome, and the Allied forces of the three legions of the order of St. signet's defeated in roaring bay!

Who would sit in Solon's position would not be able to take it lightly.

This is shocking news for the whole city of new Rome. You know, since the end of the bloody war with the alien and high mutant animals, in the next few decades. Before the emergence of rebel forces, after the rise of pirates, and the Knights between large and small fighting no less than hundreds of games. There are wins and losses between each other, but no one has ever lost so thoroughly or so miserably.

After all, behind this tragic defeat, it means that nearly 3000 years of life has been left in that bay forever, and there are as many as two army leaders who died in the war! This is definitely the first time in the history of the papal chamber. The significance of these two military commanders is above the soldiers who died in the war. After all, soldiers can be reborn through recruitment and training, but those with level 8 abilities are dead and one less.

The west continent is different from the central continent in that the number of capable people is small and the level is generally not high. So like karomon and habes, for the knights, it is absolutely a valuable asset. Two died at a time, and another army commander, mamillo, disappeared. It's strange that Solon doesn't feel sad.

But when it comes to heartache, no matter how painful Solon is, there is no family pain behind the two army commanders.

Carmon's family, odeson, and habes's family, Kalki, are all one of the big families in Rome. The former was a family of generals in the old times, with royal blood, and was an important official in any era; The latter is an old aristocrat, and there have been many cardinals in the family history. Habes' grandfather was the only surviving cardinal after the cataclysm, and later served in the attack of alien and mutant animals. His father was one of Solon's few supporters behind the scenes. He was habes' teacher and the former head of the 7th Division, rambonis.

It can be said that the two military commanders, no matter they or their families, are inextricably linked with the papal chamber.

After receiving the bad news, both oderson and Kalki reacted fiercely, and petitioned to the papal hall many times to send troops, which gave soron a headache.

But when the two families were furious, some people were secretly happy. After all, the oldsen family and the Kalki family are both supporters of Solon, and they have gained a political height of power by supporting Solon. At the same time, how many pairs of eyes are watching them silently behind their backs. There is light, there will be shadow, and the more bright the light is, the more thick the shadow behind it is.

So while the two families are angry, naturally some people will be happy. Of course, it can't be shown on the face.

Half a month after the battle of roar Bay, Solon came out of his palace with a gloomy face. Accompanied by the leader of the pro guard, Weser, he went to the conference room. During this period of time, Solon's face has not half a smile. Weser can only carefully ponder the boss's mind. But the limit he could think of was the defeat of roar Bay and the fall of two army commanders, which made Sauron feel bad.

Of course, he doesn't want to get it. Although the death of two army commanders made soron feel bad, it was Franklin that soron was most concerned about. On the surface, the war was for fighting pirates, but most of the reason was for the Mr. beast who escaped from him.

Sauron's original intention is to make Franklin realize that he has no place to live at sea by attacking pirates. As long as he can push the beast ashore, Sauron will be sure to catch him. Unfortunately, the incident went against the original. Not only did it fail, but also thousands of soldiers and two army commanders were killed.

Not catching Franklin means that the devil who still dominates his palace will not be happy. If the silver devil is not happy, Solon will have no hope to advance. If not, it will lead to some punishment and so on. Fortunately, Gaia has been sleeping in the palace these days, so soron knows he has a chance. As long as he catches Franklin before Gaia wakes up, he will still be able to see the tenth level.

God knows how eager he is to be promoted, which is the instinct of almost every capable person. And the higher the level, the stronger the desire. Similarly, the higher the level, the more difficult it is to go further.

While thinking about what to do next, the meeting room arrived. Today is the quarterly summing up meeting in March. Solon can already foresee that the two big families will take this opportunity to urge to send troops. Whether it is the oderson family or the Kalki family, they have contacted him many times in private. Every contact, without exception, is the topic of revenge on this link.It's a headache for Solon.

He never likes to be judged by others. He is also not afraid to kick these two giants out of the political circle, even if they were his supporters!

But after kicking them out, for a while, Solon couldn't find any other family to replace them, no matter in terms of inside information or financial resources. But just go further. As long as you can step into the threshold of ten steps, you can use absolute force to shock anyone. At that time, we will kick some self righteous guys out of this circle and confiscate their property directly, which will not have a great impact on Luomen city.

In the pyramid of power, soron never intended to make room for others at the top of the tower. In the pyramid, as long as he is enough!

When wessel pushed open the side door of the conference room, the noise rushed out, which made the leader frown. Secretly looked at Solon, but he did not have any expression, and just that iron blue face gradually receded. But after serving Sauron for so long, wither knew that the calmer he was, the more terrible he was.

The conference room is different from the war room. It's a vast hall, and the ground is covered with marble. The gray and white pillars of five great men are arranged on both sides, and each pillar is decorated with angel sculptures. The arched dome is inlaid with gorgeous crystal lights. When the lights are fully on, the dome will be as beautiful and magnificent as the galaxy of the universe.

On both sides of the wall is a row of stained glass windows, the window mosaic is more to the Bible story as the theme. In the middle of the hall of the conference room is a scarlet carpet, which extends to the base at the end. There are two magnificent seats decorated with gems on the pedestal, which are for Pope and Solon. The Pope is still the spiritual leader of the New Roman city. We can see that Solon's power is hidden in the city by looking at his seat side by side with Qi.

There are two flags on the wall behind the pedestal. On the left is the flag of the papal hall, and on the other is the flag of the order of the signet.

Solon strode to the throne in front of the knight's flag and sat down. Then he looked at the blank chair beside him and said, "where's the Pope?"

After wessel whispered in his ear for a while, Solon's face was expressionless. He just nodded, then looked at the ministers in the hall and said, "well, let's start the meeting."

The camp between the ministers was also quite different, and the officials belonging to the Knight Order and several Legion leaders naturally stood on Solon's side. The opposite, of course, are the bishops and civil servants of the papal chamber. After Solon announced the meeting, a man with a fine mustache and gorgeous clothes came out. He was Titus, the finance minister of the city of Rome. He was good at dancing and belonged to the Lord who would not offend anyone. After paying a salute to Solon, he said, "Lord Solon, the total revenue of our city of Rome has increased by 15% this quarter. But in my opinion, this figure can be increased by another 5% to 10%. The reason why it is lower than I expected is that some of the taxes paid by several of our colonies seem to have been lost. "

As soon as utus opened his voice, he kept on expounding his views. This man does have his own way of managing money, otherwise Solon would not have let him be the chancellor of the exchequer. But utus' wordiness is well known, but it's wordy. He can use ten sentences to explain things that can be expressed clearly in one sentence without repetition. It has to be said that he is equally excellent in eloquence and financial management.

The chancellor of the exchequer started with the tax revenue of the colony, made various explicit and implicit claims, and finally vaguely talked about several big figures in the hall. Suddenly, several aristocrats' faces changed color, and Solon was a little sad about the minister. Utus was not involved in the church and the Knights' order. Sometimes when it was said to rise, the spearhead would reach out to some important people. Among them, people on both sides of the church and the Knights order would order it for him, and none of them could take advantage of it.

But because utus is such a personality that no one is afraid to offend, Solon secretly protects him, or the old boy will die on the belly of some woman on a drunken night. Of course, Solon doesn't value him, but he needs a neutral person to make some inconvenient voice.

Seeing that utus spoke with great interest, soron was afraid that he would go on and the whole meeting would not be held. So he glared at him. Utus was also alert. Now he knew that his performance time was almost up. But in the end, he could not help saying, "Lord Solon, you should take charge of your holiness. Your highness, this quarter's financial subsidies have increased by 10%, which is enough to feed 100 civilians for a year. "

Solon nodded and said, "yes. I've heard that his Highness the Pope is very keen on speaking recently. I'll try to persuade him when he comes back. "

Utus was so elated that even the Pope called him this time. The chancellor of the exchequer has done his job without regret. Utus saluted Solon with satisfaction before returning to his position.Then there was another minister who wanted to report something and was suddenly held back. The minister's face was full of anger, but his colleagues kept winking at him. Only then did he notice that a red shadow appeared in front of the group. The minister hastened to retreat. It was a cardinal, and it was the bishop of mendriza. In addition to being the head of the Kalki family, he was also the father of habes, the commander of the 7th regiment who died in the war.

Mendriza is over 50 years old this year. But the power of the seventh level light element makes him look like a middle-aged man in his forties. His face is very similar to that of habes, but he has more vicissitudes than habes. As soon as mendriza came out, Solon knew what he was going to say and said in advance: "Dear bishop of mendriza, for the death of habes. I am deeply shocked. At the same time, I can assure you that it is imperative to fight against pirates, but I can't be in a hurry. After all, it's a big deal, and I think the bishop can understand it. "

Mendriza looked up at Solon and said, "habes is the best of my five sons and daughters. He has been contributing to the papal chamber and Lord Solon without any regrets. But now, he died in the hands of those dirty pirates, and even the body is missing. As a father, I can't bury my favorite son in the family cemetery. As a bishop, I can't lead the soul of a believer through the last part of the road. No matter from which identity, I am ashamed of habes. If even the desire of revenge for him can not be realized, what face do we have to face my lineage and those followers? "

"Monseigneur mendriza, I think I've made it clear enough. It's not that we don't get revenge, it's that this is not the time. " Solon said impatiently.

"What's the time, Lord solo?" Mendriza is advancing.

Solon was about to get angry when the door opened and a knight of the silver hand trotted in. After whispering something next to wither, the pro Guard commander whispered next to Sauron: "Lord rambonis is here. He seems to have brought a group of retired officers of the order."

Solon snorted and said, "let him in."

So wither made a sign, and the knight stepped back quickly. Then the door opened again, and an old man in full armor came in from outside. Although this man is already a flower, his whole body breath is concise, and his killing mechanism is like substance. Mingming's whole body was clean, but since he came in, there seemed to be a smell of blood floating in the hall.

"Rambonis? It's the bloody knight. Why is he here? "

Such comments suddenly sounded quietly in the hall, rambonis can be said to be a senior member of the order. At present, most of the thirteen commanders of the order, including Sauron, are his students. In the dark history of papal hall and alien confrontation, rambonis was always active on the front line. And the bloody road through the eternal mountains is the way he leads the army to get through the blood and fire.

It can be said that rambonis' meritorious service is all played out, so he has the name of bloody knight.

Now he's here, no doubt, for habes. After all, habes was his last student and his favorite.

Seeing rambonis, Solon had to stand up and frown, "teacher, I thought you were on Redwood island."

"Fart! My student is dead, what mood do you make me stay in Sequoia island! " Rambonis roared like a mad lion.

"I am also your student, not only me, but also several of you." Sauron warned.

"But habes is different from you. He is the purest and the most ideal successor for me." Lambonis stressed.

"At the same time, he is also a commander in chief of the army, and there are also 12 commanders, including me. We can sacrifice ourselves for the papal chamber at any time, and habes is no exception! " Solon said tit for tat.

Rambonis snorted heavily. It sounds like a slight voice, but it strikes everyone's chest like a heavy hammer. The officers in the Knights' regiment basically accepted it, but there were many ordinary people in the civilian ministers' side. All of a sudden, more than a dozen people fell, including the finance minister, Mr. utus.

Solon's face sank and he said in a loud voice, "rambonis, this is the conference room!"

He called the bloody Knight by name, but let rambonis suddenly wake up. This student is not the young man of that day, but the real master of Rome. At that moment, he said, "I'm presumptuous. Please forgive me."

Seeing that rambonis finally returned his face, Solon's face slowed down and said, "Sir, I know the feelings of you and bishop mendriza. But... "

"I know!" Rambonis nodded: "I understand your concern. The order has lost two captains, and the other is dead. You can't afford the same loss, so I'm here. I have brought some old subordinates. As long as you give me enough soldiers and ships, we will fight for you! "At this time, just after hearing this sentence, utus suddenly cried out: "no, the soldiers' pension will exceed the budget!"

Rambonis glared at him. Utus turned his eyes and fainted again.

Solon's face was gloomy, and rambonis's action was a violation of his taboo. For him, the teacher can gather up a group of old subordinates for habes, although these old people are not as powerful as before. But force is force. Sauron doesn't want to have another force besides the Knights under his eyes. In particular, this force is not under our control.

Almost for a moment, Solon did not intend to let rambonis and his old subordinates go back. But how to solve them is a problem, suddenly Solon thought, Gaia once said that except him, no one is allowed to enter the palace. If rambonis and they break in by themselves, Solon can push everything out of the way.

So Solon smiles and says, "teacher, it's very important. Don't you come to my palace for a moment first. I'll discuss it with you after the meeting? "