Chapter 34

"This way, your majesty."

The governor of METZL showed the king the way respectfully. He was a young man. It was the first time he had seen the most distinguished figure in Legrand. His voice trembled with excitement.

METZL prison is located in the capital, and its environment is much better than that of merenta, who once held the Duke of Buckingham. Although the air is slightly cloudy, it is clean at least - of course, there must be some credit for working overtime.

The "talent" the king wanted to see was found by the Gru family, and was escorted to the capital prison of METZL castle.

Yes, capital prison.

Because these guys, more or less, carry a few crimes. They are people who deal with evil characters such as demons, witches and so on. Some of these people have been accused of "desecrating corpses", some of them have been accused of worshiping witches, some of them have been accused of mixing poisonous potions

In a word, they are all people who should be put on fire.

"Get up! Sluggard and asshole

The warden led the king all the way to the innermost cell. On the way, the young man who wanted to straighten his waist into a ruler turned gloomy as soon as he saw the situation in the old room.

He quickly stepped forward and yelled, trying to clean up the situation before the king saw it.

But the king had a good look in the cell.

There were seven people in a cell, some lolling against the wall, some curling up on the cold floor, some facing the wall in a thoughtful way It looks as if there's something wrong with all the nerves.

"Your Majesty."

The housekeeper whispered a warning.

"The crimes they are accused of include insanity and are likely to have been exchanged with evil forces."

The king, who sold his soul to the devil, made a single sound and did not make a statement.

"Open the door."

The housekeeper helplessly carried out the king's willful orders.

A few days ago, after general Hearn chose to be loyal to the king, the negotiation mission successfully returned to METZL castle.

The housekeeper saw the king almost speechless at first sight. He knelt on the ground and his lips trembled for a long time. No one could understand what he said. Finally, the king let him go to deal with the affairs accumulated in the palace.

My dear Mr. steward, the Duke has been handling your trifles for a long time. Do you know what you should do.

Yes, your majesty.

The satisfaction of the housekeeper lasted only a few days, and he was defeated by the king's strange demands.

Lord! Your majesty wants to come to such a dirty place in person.

The housekeeper felt familiar and weak.

The prison door opened, and the talents with shackles stood up under the whip of the warden. The king looked at them, and they looked at the notorious tyrant as well. They're a little bit less arrogant, and geniuses - or lunatics - have some kind of intuition about their kind.

They could vaguely feel that the young king, who had stepped into prison, had an equally dangerous smell.

The general manager of the internal affairs of the imperial dynasty held out his hand and handed several files to him.

"It's good to see you here, not on the scaffold." With a smile, the King opened the file and said, "I think you must think you're going to die?"

"Are you willing to let us live?"

A tall and thin middle-aged man in hemp clothes spoke.

The king noticed that his fingers were thin and long.

"Can people who feel that they will die be so calm? For your talents and the spirit of dedicating your life to science, perhaps the poets of later generations will write more praises for you? " The king numbered the file and said, "Oh, Mr. Jacobs, you have dissected the neighbors who have just been buried three times God, why do you cling to your neighbor? Why don't you get some bodies in the wilderness? "

"Because they've just been buried and the body hasn't been recovered, the vascular structure can be seen more clearly."

At this point, the face of the middle-aged man known as "Jacob" is full of fanatical color.

"Oh, so for the last time you were accused of killing your landlady."

"I didn't kill her!" The crazy anatomist was angry. "She was dead at that time! But I think blood can still circulate in blood vessels when people die Hateful, just a little bit! It's only a little bit short of me being able to draw a complete picture of the heart's blood circulation

"So when the landlady's son arrived, he saw you leaning over his mother. Poor man, he fainted when he saw that his mother was cut open."

Said the king faintly.

"His mother is dead, and life science will continue to develop." The crazy anatomist replied indifferently.

The warden turned pale and almost spat out. The housekeeper took a look at the king, guessed his Majesty's meaning, and asked him to go out first."Well, it's natural that you should be thrown into prison." The king looked through the file, "next You are accused of killing the carpenter's daughter. Mr. pharmacist. "

"I was saving her. I think there are some other things that can affect human life that we can't see with the naked eye That damned stupid doctor's ointment for her is dirtier than a stinking ditch! See what he used to boil the ointment - new born puppies, Lily oil, pine gum and earthworms Oh, my God! Does that fool think he's cooking recovery dinner? " The pharmacist gushed and swore.

"So you sneak into Miss Elia's room, throw away her ointment, and try to fill her with medicine?"

"Yes, I was saving her."

The pharmacist stressed.

"Well, it's natural that you should be convicted of murder as well as rape. Come on, next great gentleman. "

As the housekeeper's face became more and more ugly, and he wanted to plead with the king to throw these guys on the scaffold, the king asked everyone one by one.

These seven people are:

an anatomist who is dedicated to dissecting his neighbors, a pharmacist who hates all idiots, a doctor who tries to cut open his brain with a knife, two chemists who work together to study gunpowder and cause fire, and an architect who tries to use violence to make town residents plan and build houses according to his will - the king thinks that he should work with those two chemists Family cooperation, one is responsible for persuasion, two are responsible for arson.

The last one is an astrologer - a rarity.

According to what the king learned from the former Templars, astrologers should have gone to the Vatican.

But when the king turned over and found that he used the cross as a measuring tool, he understood how this guy did not dare to cross the abyss.

Only seven people were found in the whole area directly under Legrand. According to the king's idea, this is still too few.

However, the number of "talents" sought by the Gru family was far more than that, but after being screened out by the Duke of Buckingham at the request of the king, there were only seven left.

The others were thrown on the guillotine.

"You're all wonderful."

The king closed the file and praised it sincerely.

"It's true in every way. Should I say that genius and madman always go side by side? Gentlemen

"Thank you for your praise."

The pharmacist accepted the king's praise without any compunction.

From other people's looks, they also seem to feel that they deserve it.

The king applauded them: "great, gentlemen. So, a question, are you willing to prove to the world that you are genius, not madman? "

"What do you mean?"

Even in prison, he still tries to get his neat architect to ask - his obsessive-compulsive disorder and cleanliness addiction seem to be quite serious.

"It's a simple thing." The king said briskly, "I have a little interest in what you call 'truth'. Now you have a chance to live, which is to prove to me that what you insist on is right What about? Do you think you are right or wrong? "

"Truth does not lie. The goddess of knowledge and wisdom enlightens me."

The architect replied categorically that he was a heretic.

"Well, soon someone will take you out of here, and you will have bright, spacious rooms - what you call laboratories. As many corpses as you want to dissect, as many minerals as you want to obtain But how can you prove to me the truth of your ideas? "

The king raised his head slightly, as if thinking about something.

He was beautiful and dignified, like an asshole who could throw millions of gold pounds into the water.

"That's it," said the king in a deliberative tone, "a truly accurate human anatomy, a report on what the microbes that cause disease are, a sufficient and feasible urban planning - I need it to change those messy sewage systems, a gunpowder that can at least make you escape, a map of the celestial body. Well, gentlemen, are you fools or geniuses

In the king's scornful, mocking tone, seven men took the king's challenge.

The king looked at the housekeeper.

The housekeeper called in the warden and told him that someone would come and take them.

"I hope your research goes well."

The king said goodbye to the seven "geniuses" with a smile.

"After all If you lose, you will really die for science. "

There was something bad in his smile.

After that, the seven people who were taken out of prison understood the meaning of the king's last sentence.

They arrived at a surprisingly large house, but the royal guards sealed it off. The most important thing is that——At the front door of the house, there was a row of frames of fire.

Seven, one no more, one no less.

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On the way to their residence, the seven "geniuses" passed the tower of METZL castle.

The Duke of Buckingham and queen Elinor sat in the tower of the palace. They looked down from a high window and saw the scene.

Elinor is now the hidden guard of the court - not the Duke of Buckingham's revenge, but her final choice. She can't walk into the light now, so she is willing to stand in the shadow to guard her children.

After they passed, they returned to the tower table and sat down.

The Duke of Buckingham talked to Queen Elinor about the king's going to prison.

Queen Elinor sat opposite the Duke of Buckingham, watching a knife in her hand.

The arc knife that the king used to kill Archduke Grice.

The Duke of Buckingham got it from the king at her request.

The Empress Dowager gently stroked the handle of the knife, which made the Duke of Buckingham look complicated. He was used to seeing this man's madness, or his former violence and blood.

"His iron horse will wind up, his ship will weave a net, he will be powerful all over the world, and he will be the king of the world." The queen slowly pulled out the knife. She gazed at the blade and said, "you don't have to tell me what he did. You just need to tell me what he needs."

She watched her child die in front of her again and again, and there was nothing she could do.

But now everything is different.

She was able to cut through the thorns for her child, and she was also able to shield her child from the wind and rain. Finally, she was able to stretch out her shoulder and support the dark sky for him when he grew up completely.

How about taking in some lunatics?

If those lunatics don't listen to orders, she will try the knife with their heads.

Her child, what he does is natural.

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"I don't quite understand, your majesty." The housekeeper followed the king, walking in the prison. "What do you want them to do?"

"I'm going to have them form an Academy of Sciences."

Said the king.

He took a few steps forward and found that the housekeeper did not follow. He turned his head and found that the housekeeper was looking at himself with a very strange look.

"Are you serious?"

Even though it was offensive, the housekeeper couldn't help asking.

Lord, look at those guys?! The Academy of Sciences of a bunch of lunatics and perverts? What kind of academy is that? The madman academy?

Before the madman Academy of Sciences was set up, the head of internal affairs felt that he would be crazy first. He and His Majesty's thinking seems to be a whole difference between the territory of Legrand.

"Don't be so nervous." The king didn't seem to see the housekeeper collapse. "It's just a try. If they can't prove that they are genius rather than madman, then they can only start from the Royal College."

What to start with? To destroy those old scholars?

The housekeeper seemed to see the tragedy fall on the head of the Royal College.

In fact, the king wanted to start with the Royal College.

The black death will come in a few months, and the king did not place all his hopes on the devil. And even if the devil can really solve this disaster, what about next time? Relying on external forces will only lead to more serious consequences. The king's hope is to prevent and solve these problems from the root.

It's not easy. It takes time, courage and try.

The king can know some general directions, but he is a king, not a doctor, not a researcher. Naturally, he can't do everything by himself, and there are more things for the king to make decisions than studying one or two human structures.

For example, Legrand is like a huge ship. The king is the one who decides the ship's course. What he has to do is to make macro changes and control, to decide which old things on the ship should be replaced, and how to adjust the direction of the ship's course. As for how to replace the more subtle screws, how to make a replacement board That needs to be done by the people at the bottom.

He who knows what to do and what not to do is a qualified king.

During the conversation, the king and the housekeeper went to another cell.

The guy inside caught the king's attention - his room looked very comfortable.

"That's dunadi guros."

The housekeeper noticed the king's eyes and explained.

"Gulos I remember that he is the president of the five Port Alliance fraternity. It seems that he is the leader of the five Port Alliance today. " The king stood in front of the cell, watching the guy sleeping on the comfortable straw. "Is this his son?"

"Illegitimate children. It was he who robbed the Royal merchant ship last timeThe housekeeper was just about to shout to the warden and scold him.

The king stopped the housekeeper and went straight ahead. Bribery is the norm in prisons. As one of the oldest members of the five port alliance, the gulos family naturally has the abundant economic strength to reach out to METZL's prison and scold a warden for nothing.

"Your Majesty, the alliance of the five ports has not been at ease recently." The housekeeper followed the king, "do you want to warn them?"

"On the contrary." The king gave a meaningful smile. "I wish they could do something."

"You are..." The housekeeper looked carefully at the king. "Do you mean to force them?"

"If there's no excuse, there's no reason to clean up, is there?"

Asked the king.

The king, of course, deliberately hung up the five port alliance.

Don't forget how poor the royal family is. If the five port alliance is willing to fully cooperate with the king's next reform, then it's OK. However, this is impossible. The five port alliance has existed for a long time. They have been dazzled by the glory of the past and lost their sense because of their huge interests.

"Don't you worry that they will join other nobles and cause new unrest?"

The housekeeper ventured out his worries.

After returning to the Rose Palace, he suddenly found that more people were loyal to the king. This made the loyal housekeeper, who regarded himself as the king's first subordinate, have a rare sense of crisis. For this reason, he was as busy as a top during this period of time, not only filling in the gaps in his previous absence from the palace, but also actively paying attention to all the news at present.

The king's preparation before the great cleansing was naturally within his scope of attention.

The director of internal affairs is worried that if there is any change in this joint, it will cause a chain reaction.

"No. It's not like that, Mr. steward The king didn't get angry. He went on along the cold stone road with a kind of sneer. "The five port alliance has been rooted in the southeast for a long time. They are so arrogant that they forget their original caution. They even forgot to share the soup with others. "

"Watch it."

The king chuckled.

"If the five port alliance is in trouble, more people are trying to replace it than to send charcoal in the snow. There are too many people coveting such a big piece of fat. "

There was a chilling irony in the king's words.

He can see a lot of things clearly, so that he always speaks with a casual feeling.

"Get in touch with angel." The king said calmly, "they have been poor enough for a long time. I think they want to get involved in this."

There are many mountains in angar state, which means that they have rich forest resources. If the king is willing to bid and relax some terms for them in some aspects, I think angar state is very willing to provide the king with the wood needed for building castles, or even act as a escort.

"You sound ready."

The housekeeper was a little surprised and couldn't help exclaiming.

The king reached an agreement with angar state before the civil strife was put down. At that time, the king only borrowed the cavalry of angar state. But who would have thought that the king might have set his eyes on the timber resources of the angul mountains as early as that time?

The king laughed.

A loyalty, a peace of war, a cavalry, want to get the status of the free people from the king? Don't get me wrong, the king is not so generous. Before general Edmund of angar state reminded the king of the contract, the king was thinking about how to get more benefits from angar state.

The knight's familiarity with angar state was the basis of the king's plan.

It turns out that the king's early thinking is not in vain. Now it's in use?

The king walked up the cold stone steps of the prison step by step.

He wore exquisite black boots, which were inlaid with gorgeous gems. As the king walked, the gems on both sides were shining with stars. Every step of the king was firm and powerful. Looking at his back from the back, it was like a blade that never moved forward.

"In January, the five Port Alliance merchant ships refused to be searched by the customs governor."

"In February, five Port Alliance sub cities smuggled wool."

"In March, the gulos family of the five Port Alliance ordered ships to attack passing ships."

"In April, the shire merchant ship passed through the port of kossia without lowering its flag and was detained." [2]

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"In September, the allies of the five ports, together with Grice, smuggled the heavy cavalry of gurendy."

"In October, the five Hong Kong Alliance joined the change of rose."

The king's voice grew colder and colder. His voice was steady, but his fury was brewing under the calm ice.

The five port alliance may not know what they have done - they have killed a king with a wonderful memory. All the things they did, a stroke, the king remembered clearly."The uncrowned king of the sea and Commerce?"

The king gave a low smile.

What's hidden in laughter is chilling.

With a clear sound, the black boots stepped on the last step. The king raised his head and looked over the ground covered with thick snow. The cold wind howled.

"Where is the second emperor in my land?"

The king did not hesitate to step up the last step, he stepped out of the shadow. All of a sudden, the sun fell on him,

the cold wind roared, and the king's eyes and eyebrows were illuminated as if with dazzling light.

The scarlet robe told the iron emperor's decision.

If the throne of the rose family stands on the land of Legrand, then there can only be one will and one voice on the land of Legrand, and then there can only be one flag on the ships going to and from the abyss Strait.

Lord Grice tried to step on the throne and finally dyed the king's robe red with blood.

Now, the king is determined to let the old great ship, the five port alliance, sink into the abyss channel.

No provocation on the throne!

The author has something to say: tyrant: overbearing. JPG

congratulations to the little king for having a cross era Madman Academy of Sciences