Chapter 540： rebellion one twelve

In the hall of the lord's mansion in Huxin Town, officials at the supervisory level and above from the Government Administration Council gathered here. In addition to the people from the Administration Council, there was also the old housekeeper Philip, but three important figures in the army were missing—Chief of Staff Schroeder, Logistics Ron, Head of Department, Kelly, Head of Equipment.

However, everyone has no time to think about why the three of them are not here—and in fact, officials from the Government Council and military officials don’t often meet together—everyone’s minds in the hall have been filled with an unbelievable news :

Lord of Arda and Emden, Earl of the Kingdom of Aldo, Paul Greiman, was assassinated.

Just four years ago, the previous Earl Greiman had left them under the attack of pirates, and today, the young Earl who succeeded him also left them and ascended to the eternal heaven of the Lord of Light.

None of the people present spoke, and everyone was staring at the candles on the table in a daze.

They were all woken up hastily in the middle of the night and informed that they had important matters to go to the lord's mansion for a meeting. Many people were still wondering, didn't the lord go hunting elsewhere? Unexpectedly, after suppressing sleepiness and rushing to the lord's mansion in a daze, what greeted him was a bolt from the blue.

But the hall was not completely quiet, there was still the sobbing sound of a person floating here.

It was Philip who was wiping the tears, for the old butler was in great distress. He had watched Paul Greiman grow up. In a sense, Philip had regarded him as his own child, not just a master to serve.

In addition to grief, there is another emotion tearing at the heart of the old housekeeper—that is, the great guilt towards Paul's father and grandfather, and even the Greiman family.

Starting from Paul's grandfather, the direct line of the Greiman family was not very prosperous. Paul's father and grandfather were both only children, and they didn't even have any sisters. When it came to Paul's father, good luck seemed to come—he and his wife had children one after another. But when Paul was more than two years old, fate suddenly withdrew the gift to the family, and it also brought interest—Paul’s younger brother and the brothers’ mother both passed away from this world due to an infectious disease. Out of love and longing for his wife, Old Graeman never remarried, nor did he have any illegitimate children. After the family continued to encounter misfortunes——Old Graeman was killed in an ambush by the Pirate Shark Gang, the members of the Gramman family Only Paul is the only seed left in the direct lineage.

But now, the only remaining seedling has been broken by the wind of fate. Is this a curse?

An incomparable feeling of guilt weighed heavily on the heart of the old housekeeper Philip. He believed that it was his own responsibility, that he had not fulfilled his duty as a guardian. As the steward of the Greiman family, he should keep all dangers out of Paul's reach, so why didn't he dissuade him from hunting at that time.

Thinking of this, the old housekeeper became more and more sad.

Suddenly Philip felt something, and raised his head to meet the gaze of Old Ford sitting beside him. At this time, the eyes of the director of the Government Affairs Council were cloudy, and the red eye sockets and the trembling beard on his face also showed his Great grief.

Like Philip, Old Ford also watched Paul grow up, and as an old minister left behind by Old Gleiman, he also believed that he had some kind of responsibility for Paul.

As soon as they looked at each other, the two old people who felt that the other party had the same feelings as themselves burst into tears.

Seeing that the two oldest and highest-ranking people in this hall have fallen into a state of being unable to extricate themselves, the rest of the people are even more anxious and flustered.

Especially Cecil, as the chief of intelligence under the lord, was ignorant of the plot to assassinate the lord. No matter what the reason was, it was his own huge dereliction of duty. Now Cecil was completely ashamed.

It seems that among all the people present, Hansel Abbott, the director of the Ministry of Agriculture, remained calm, but although his head was calm, his emotions were complicated.

It has to be said that Hansel thought helplessly in his heart that it was a great pity that Paul left. This earl was the most enlightened and progressive person among the local lords he had ever seen, and perhaps also included ability, which of course was not that great. In the traditional sense, the ability of nobles to rule the territory—on the contrary, this young earl is still a little insufficient in this aspect. Paul's ability in Hansel's eyes is the obsession with technology, and many of them are just entertainment in the eyes of other nobles. In Paul's hands, things like alchemy, machinery, and mathematics have been played out in Paul's hands. Paul has made huge and long-term investments in these things, and all of them have brought rich returns to his territory. Such as powerful firearms, pesticides that can control pests, workshops with amazing productivity, fertile and vast farms, statisticians and surveyors who can give detailed data on the territory, and a large number of other things that Hansel cannot fully understand.

There is also his long-term vision, such as the maritime trade he strongly supported and the customs union that he single-handedly facilitated. There is no doubt that maritime trade has brought huge wealth to the Northwest Gulf, needless to say. What's even better is the Customs Union, which is a huge loss in the eyes of many people in the early stage - after all, so much less money is collected, but after the tariffs are canceled within the alliance the circulation of goods is more convenient Now, the unfettered business has become more and more developed, commodity prices have also become lower, and the lives of the people in the territory have improved visibly, and the loss of tariffs has been multiplied in the prosperous market after a few years. Compensation .

As for Hansel himself, in a sense, Paul has kindness to him. Before meeting Paul, Hansel was just a small tax collector and a royal commissioner with an empty title in the Kingdom of Aldo. , it was Paul Greiman who gave him a stage to display his political abilities. The earl's support for the royal family also gave Hansel a slight sense of presence in the eyes of the big shots in the capital, so Sir Hansel Abbott was still very grateful to the earl.

After mourning in his heart for a while, the cool-headed Hansel immediately thought of a question-after losing Paul, what will happen to Arda's future, what will happen to the Government Council's future, and more specifically, what will happen to his own future? Sample?

Will the Government Council continue to operate in accordance with the policies formulated by Earl Gramain before his death? Does Arda need to continue to maintain a good cooperative relationship with the royal family? Will the new lord continue to employ his group of outsiders from Jingyao?

right! New lord!

Hansel immediately thought that the above question would depend entirely on the attitude of the new lord.