Chapter 526： A deal

After the welcoming banquet, Gao Wen did not immediately follow up with Victoria or Veronica, but let these guests rest in the "Autumn Palace", or follow the reception staff arranged by him to visit some places, he gave The reason is that he hopes that the guests will be able to understand the land as much as possible and take a rest in these days to alleviate the exhaustion accumulated by such a long journey. With this justification, he has dried the guests for three days.

Victoria did not waste these three days. During these three days, she did everything possible to understand everything about Cecil, from the daily lifestyle of people to the sporadic intelligence of the Cecil army, from the market to the surrounding products. There are limited channels of contact, and she has not let go of any opportunities that will help her understand the land.

Until the fourth day, she finally waited for Gao Wen’s news.

In the study of the Lord's House, Victoria Wilder sat on a single sofa for the guests. She looked curiously at the place where Gaowen was working on the weekdays. The sights swept through the shelves and decorative armor. Finally, it falls on a huge map: the map is hung on one side of the wall, between the two bookshelves, which depicts the entire territory of Ansu, and even draws a part of the newly dumped soil and Tifeng, Shenglong Principality. The land of the Ogure tribe, which is the most exquisite and detailed map that Victoria has ever seen. It not only accurately marks all the mountains and rivers, but also marks a large number of numbers used to describe the distance...

It is not uncommon for the lord to hang the map in the study, but it is not easy to hang such a precise map. The Duke’s sight falls near the center of the map and stops at some point in the eastern part of the Holy Spirit Plain.

She saw a striking red cross near the giant wooden crossing, and a line of notes next to the red cross: Ansu 736, the harvest month of the 43rd.

It was the date of the last large-scale engagement between the rebels and the kings before the winter, and the time and place were not bad.

"It seems to be very interesting to my map? The girl at Wilde?"

Gao Wen’s voice suddenly came from the side, awakening Victoria from a brief thought. She saw the founding father entering the room and sitting on the other sofa next to her.

"Betty, prepare tea, and send it to the study." After the seat, Gao Wen waved to the little maid standing by the door, and then turned to Victoria. "I hope that I have not been delayed for too long. The new Principality is always busy."

"Of course, I can imagine how busy you are every day," Victoria succumbs to Gao Weng, although he is the guardian of the Duke, but the huge gap in her generation still makes her always pay attention to even such informal occasions. Etiquette, then she looked up again and looked at the huge map. "...you have a very good cartographer, and you seem to be very concerned about the situation outside the South?"

"The Cecils hope to live a peaceful life, but the outside world will not be as pragmatic as we hoped, and we will pay more attention to the external situation." Gao Wen smiled. "And you are not Are you concerned about the situation here?"

The members of the gang were walking around the city. Of course, the open things were unstoppable. Victoria did not intend to cover up. She just nodded slightly. "This land is very mysterious to us. Since the beginning of autumn, the whole The Southland is equivalent to being hidden in the fog for Wangdu, which is of course curious."

The little maid Betty came to refreshment and began to fill the guests with tea. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Victoria turned the topic straight to the direction of his concern: "Duke Cecil, how do you see this civil war in Ansu? ?"

Gao Wen kept smiling and looked at Victoria and said: "I am sorry to see that the descendants of the old friends will actually make this situation, but if you want to ask me who I support in this civil war. I can only say that I don't support anyone."

This can be said to be the expected answer. Victoria’s expression is unchanged, but he continues to say: “War is not provoked by us. No one in Silver Fort hopes that Ansu will split. From the sudden rebellion in the east, we have been very passive.”

"Ah, 'It’s his first move'. He heard that Herbie said that Rebecca often complained when he was fighting with a man." Gao Wenyang started. "You know, until the winter, Rebecca often suffers from disaster. I was taught, so you should be thankful, thank you Charlie, Snow, Anthony and Evans. They didn't come back with me. Otherwise, you have to worry about not only the girl in the civil war, but when you arrive. Do you want to explain to Snowveld the first move of the children of Anthony Loren and Charlie Moen?"

All explanations and negotiating scripts prepared by Victoria in advance are invalid.

She has not been able to communicate with people who are enough to be their elders for nearly two decades. In this respect, her experience is even better than Rebecca who played twice a month.

Fortunately, her head is smarter than Rebecca, and after a brief mistake, she reorganized the language: "...I understand that you and the founders of the kingdom created this country not to let us kill each other. The civil war will definitely make you feel bad, but the situation has developed to this way. The war is not to stop. We can't hand over the country to a prince who is a prince and a swearing swearing kingdom. I think the east will not be so easy. The local war will continue, and the power of Ansu will become weaker during the war. At the same time, we all know that Tifeng is waiting for you, waiting for the Ansuo to clean the last drop of blood. ""

Gao Wen looked at Victoria's eyes: "Very good, you can at least realize that there is a Titan next to it, so in order to end the war as soon as possible and end the war in a way that meets your expectations, what do you think of?"

Victoria indulged for a moment, then said what Gao Wen expected: "The position of the king can not continue to be vacant."

Gao Wen adjusted his sitting position and leaned back on the back of the sofa: "Wales of Wales?"

"...French Francis had appointed Edmund as the heir and made an oath in front of the ancestors, but now the oath is obviously obsolete. Ansu needs a king and needs to be a whole again. His Royal Highness is the only candidate. "Victon paused. She looked at every change in Gao Wen's expression and continued to say slowly. "We hope to have the Welsh Moen as the new king. This is the common wish of the North and the West Duke."

She was concerned about Gao Wen's expression changes, but Gao Wen's expression did not change. The founding Duke just maintained that kind of faint smile, listened like an outsider, and did not express his opinion until she said it for a long time.

Gao Wen thus calmed the atmosphere for two minutes, and then suddenly broke the silence: "Victoria, is the secret silver vow in the winter castle?"

The heart of the Duke’s heart stopped a beat in an instant, and although her face remained as usual, the tension in her eyes did not escape Govin’s eyes.

There is no fluctuation in Gao Wen’s heart: as he had expected a long time ago, as a founding hero who shrouded the aura, Ansu’s nobles did not mind hanging him on the wall, writing in the book, engraved in the stone. On, even on the altar, but they will definitely mind the hero of this founding king sitting on the throne

Because the heroes on the stone on the books on their walls can be fake, but the one on the throne is true.

But he didn't expect the usefulness of the emergency agreement of 700 years ago. He just mentioned it and then continued to say: "Do you think Wales will be a qualified king?"

"He will," Victoria said, still circling the contents of the secret silver vow. She replied very cautiously. "Hid Royal Highness is not as sharp as Edmund, but he has inherited his father's stability and integrity. Only such a king can heal the wounds of the peace after the end of the civil war, restore the country as soon as possible, and after experiencing the trauma of war, people will also want to welcome a gentle king who will support His Royal Highness."

"But this is not enough for you to change the situation between the East and the East. I know your thoughts, hold a king, get orthodox, get more support from the nobility, let the people courage, the idea is good, and probably there is A little effect, but don't forget, there is also a qualified Crown Prince in Dongjing, and in the past two decades, the Crown Prince has been one of the more deeply rooted people. Even if you let Wales be crowned in advance, Dongjing can also Immediately set up a new king and pull the situation back to the previous state."

"But if you can support His Royal Highness, then the new king's orthodoxy will be greatly strengthened, and the aristocrats and the public who will fall to the royal family will have more," Victoria couldn't help but say, "Your attitude is crucial..."

"Let me openly support one of Charlie Moen's sons to kill another son?" Gao Wen knocked on the small table in the middle of the two sofas. "You should understand that it is very difficult for me to express myself in this civil war." ""

Victoria knows that Gao Wen is not unable to express his position, he just does not want to.

The founding duke is a cautious and radical coexistence. He is now cautious because he does not trust the king at all but he does not seem to trust the rebel forces in the east.

This is already the best situation that was originally expected.

"Then you mean..." The Duke looked at Gao Wen's eyes and asked him.

"I don't object to the coronation of Wales," Gao Wen said without hesitation. "But if I want to admit that he is a king, he must at least come up with the merits of being a king."

Having said that, he paused a little.

"And as for the girl of the Mithril contract in the winter castle, you can safely put it away, I don't plan to use it."

It was not until this sentence came out that Victoria Verde was really relieved.

Govin Cecil did not explicitly support either the royal family or the East, but at least he did not intend to be a king.

In this way, at least Ansu does not have to face another civil war.

After determining Gao Wen’s attitude, the Duke’s heart settled down, and according to the plan she had made before departure, she began to seek greater support from Gao Wen here: “Thank you for your understanding but if You can give the king more support, then the end of the civil war may be even earlier. As you just said, just letting the underdog of Wales not fundamentally change the current situation in Ansu, Wang ** And the **** balance of the East... must be broken."

"I have already said that I am just 'no objection to the coronation of Wales'," Gao Wen interrupted Victoria. "I will not openly support any party to this civil war, and to be honest, the South has just experienced a In the war, my army needs rest, my people need to recuperate, and we can't afford it."

This is a well-founded reason, and Victoria can't think of a place to refute.

But after a moment of silence, Gao Wen suddenly spoke again: "However, as a friend of Charlie, I can't sit down and watch his kingdom."

Victoria’s eyes were slightly enlarged: “You mean...”

"I am willing to provide some help in other fields, except for the military," Gao Wen said unhurriedly, "such as weapons and armor..."