Power and Empire Chapter 1617: Northwest! (2)

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"My lord, it's a nobleman from Ruosend!" Hu Keqili stepped on the gravel on the ground and walked over. Beside him, several murderous guards escorted the courageous one. The terrified middle-aged aristocrat came over

"I just want to find a safe place to rest. I'm not a bad person, I can pay for it!" The middle-aged nobleman was obviously a little frightened, and he explained to the guard behind him. , The guards don’t care about him, just lift him from the ground and fall heavily to the ground,

"Don't hurt me, I'm really malicious!"

The middle-aged nobleman lay down on the ground begging for mercy, and the fragmented grass on the ground covered his pale face. He wore the alternately woven and buttoned-up clothing that was accustomed to xìng by the nobles. Patterned, a yellow roll hat rolled to the side

"Senders?"

The fat man who saw this scene frowned slightly. Although he had never been to Ruosend, with the rise of commerce on the northwest coast, other northwestern merchants and nobles often appeared on the northwest coast. Among them, Germany Nya and Rhosend have the most regions. Compared with the rigor and unsmiling of Denia people, they are completely different from the Rhosends who border them. The Rhosends are generally more talkative and like to make loud noises in pubs. , Often self-identified as a native of the Northwest. .

"Yes, this adult is right, I am a renegade!"

When the nobleman heard the fat man’s voice, he nodded quickly. He did not expect that the adults in the mouth of these fierce men turned out to be a young man with a silly appearance. Apart from overjoyed, he quickly took it out of his arms. A certificate proving your identity, raised with your hand, "This is a proof that the Principality of Rusende gave me a border crossing, and there is a signature of your country on it, which can prove that I am not telling lies."

The fat man didn't care about the proof. He walked over from the other side and squatted down. With the wooden stick in his hand, I picked up the face of the nobleman and looked at it. Under the light of the campfire, the hair of the middle-aged nobleman was the hot edge of the northwest aristocratic symbol, like a watermelon peel. Buttoned to the head, even though I was thrown to the ground in an embarrassing manner, my hair still didn't understand the slightest,

"Obviously I have cleaned it up with eggs. In this era, except for aristocrats who are stupid and have a lot of money. Ordinary people will not be willing to spend such unjustified money." The fat man grinned slightly, it's boring, he is really a nobleman, fat man. Gave a gesture to the guard

"Help him up!"

Hearing the order of His Majesty Falcon, two sturdy guards pulled up from the ground the middle-aged nobleman like a dead dog.

"I'm sorry, I hope it didn't hurt you! When you go on the road at night, it's always better to be cautious." The fat man gave the middle-aged man a sign of please sit down,

"It's okay. It's daring late at night, understandable!" The middle-aged aristocrat moved his sore limbs and smiled bitterly at the fat man, "My name is Angelio, the attendant of the Marquis of Sperry, the lord of County Derbyna. This time I was escorting my wife and young lady to Xinhai City. The road was blocked and I had to stop. There are so many places to camp. The other places are already crowded, but there is still some open space here. I really don’t know. This is a camp for adults!"

"Madam and Miss? You mean that carriage..."The fat man pointed with a stick to the carriage that the middle-aged nobleman got down.

"Adults can rest assured... If it is inconvenient, they can rest in the carriage." Angelio nodded in tacit agreement, glanced subconsciously. The murderous guards not far away were all ten meters away, suddenly Said in a low voice

"This lord, if it were me, other book friends are watching:. I would never choose such a soldier as a guard"

"Oh. Why?" The fat man was taken aback by surprise

"With all due respect, I can feel it, most of them have killed people, have blood on their hands, and they are not one or two of them!" Angelio said with a serious face. If I almost made the fat man faint with laughter,

The fat guy wanted to say that these guys did kill people, don't kill people, what do they do with them! This Rusender is really like the legend. He is not an ordinary outgoing personality. He actually said bad things about his subordinates in front of him, or he is too good-natured.

Angelio saw the fat man’s slightly twitching eyebrows, an expression of wanting to laugh, and because the young man in front of him was the first brother who led the caravan for the first time, he said with all his heart, "I know the reason to listen. It looks a little funny, but this is definitely something worth noting. In our area, there have been several incidents of soldiers coveting goods and killing employers halfway. Among those killed, there is another one I know. Man, Lord Aideli, the treasurer of Binah County. He hired a team of mercenaries to **** the tax for this quarter to the capital ten days ago. As a result, no one saw him again after he was out of the county, until three days ago. , Someone found his corpse cut into six sections in Anli Forest, twenty miles outside the capital city. The taxes and mercenaries were gone!

Angelio’s voice stopped, and his face was a little dim. "Because of this incident, the capital suspects that it was the Lord Marquis of Sbury, the guardian of the county, who was guarding and stealing. In fact, the tax itself is not important, but this matter The time of appearance was too wrong. His Royal Highness Locke, the heir of the Principality, had just returned from Kyoto. The county guard deliberately levied a third of the tax and sent it to please the future duke, "Come back from Imperial Kyoto? "

The corners of the fat man’s smiling mouth froze for a moment, and a cold light flashed in his eyes. Ten days ago, it was a coincidence.

"His Royal Highness Locke's mother is the royal family of Kyoto, Rila. Since the age of six, His Royal Highness Locke has followed her mother to Kyoto." Angelio said in a deep voice, "Everyone knows that Lord Duke suffered from a typhoid fever in April. The body is getting worse and worse. At this time, calling His Royal Highness Locke from Kyoto University is actually arranging the future of the Principality. It is just that such an incident in Bina County is undoubtedly a humiliation to Master Locke. The adults were afraid of accidents, so they arranged both the wife and the woman to Xinhai City on the northwest coast. If there are places in the northwest that Ruosende has scruples, then only the northwest coast."

"What an unexpected gain!" The fat man picked up the fire with a wooden stick. The Imperial Conference in Gaul Kyoto was held ten days ago. At the meeting, the Emperor Gaul’s decision to establish the Northwest General Although the candidate has not yet been announced, it is clear that someone will intervene in the heart of Northwest China.

Fatty once thought that if the Gaul wanted to intervene in Northwest affairs in the name of the Northwest General. It must have a strong foothold,

Since the initial agreement, the Northwest has formed an obvious division of Northwest, with the Northwest Coast as the leader in the North, and Denia and Ruosend in the Southwest. I still believe that the future control of the Northwest The core lies in Denia and Ruosende. Gaul may not fail to see this.

The Duke of Denia is a man of integrity and a strong body. . The style of work is rigorous, life is simple and regular, and the commander has an excellent army of 100,000. The relationship with the northwest coast is fairly good. Especially after the completion of the new sea city on the northwest coast, the connection between Denia and the northwest coast is even greater. Close, it seems that a community of interests has been formed,

And Ruosende is different, Ruosende is a veteran power in the Northwest Territories. He has always regarded himself as the southern boss, facing the weak Julius family, and was the first to raise the flag of rebellion. Although the Duke of Ruosend is already a sixty-year-old old man. It is still ambitious, because he is in the interior, Ruosende is more leaning towards the Gaul Empire in terms of power,

"It seems. The other party's layout has already been expanded, but I don't know it at all!"

The fat man clenched his fingers into a fist and took a deep breath. It seems that the old duke of Russender finally chose a path of no return. It is conceivable that if it were not for the unexpected rise of Denia and the strong suppression of the northwest coast, this old man who wanted to become the lord of the northwest all his life, The war for control of the northwest may have been launched long ago, and now Kyoto is backed up. With the combination of the two aspects, if you want to choose a cut that can enter the northwest, Rusend is undoubtedly taking advantage of the time and place. No wonder Rusend’s army Moves on the border are getting more and more frequent.

When the day lighted up, the carriage on the road was finally dragged. The road was smooth, and a large number of caravans turned their wheels and continued to head towards Xinhai City.

The sun shone on the ground from the gap between the leaves above his head, and the breeze blew his face. The fat man took his red cloak from Hu Keqili. The upper body of the guard's armor, the murderous aura on the guard's body is more and more diffused,

Angelio, who was lying next to the fire not far away all night, realized that he was actually spending the night with a group of soldiers. He stared at all of this dumbfoundedly, and he hesitated for a while before he was a little embarrassed. Come over, touch his head and say to the fat man

"I'm sorry, I don't know you are members of the army, this lord, I hope you don’t take it to heart last night!" Angelio looked a little scared

"What about last night? Haha, I don't remember!"

The fat man smiled disapprovingly, and turned on his horse. The news from this slander is much more interesting than his joke. It may be regarded as God’s favor for him, otherwise, from Gaul Kyoto’s move really caught people off guard

"In that case, I don't know if this adult can let us go all the way!" Angioli showed a trace of worry on his face and looked in the direction of the carriage. There were two blurred figures from the costumes. Look, it should be a middle-aged lady and a young girl

"Of course, it's only half a day's journey from here to Xinhai City anyway! I'm not in a hurry"

The fat man readily agreed. In fact, he also saw that the attendant named Angelio was obviously hiding something,

If you rush to send your wife and daughter to other countries just because of suspicion, it is estimated that the county guard is either delusional or timid and frightened.

And this attendant named Angelio actually saw from the beginning that he was a member of the army. He deliberately leaned over to camp together and deliberately asked to go on the road together. All his actions were to conceal one thing, that Inside the carriage that is not willing to get down and rest all night, there are secrets that people don’t want to be discovered

The carriage followed closely behind the cavalry guards, and many caravans passing by were all curiously looking at this strange combination, secretly guessing that there must be a big man in this carriage escorted by the army. , The guard cavalry is in front, the carriage is in the back

"Angelio, do we have to be with these people? Seeing these soldiers, I always feel frightened." The middle-aged lady in the carriage squeezed out half of her face ugly, with a hint of discomfort on her face. A head of golden curly hair, beautiful appearance, a little blessed, but it does not affect its beauty, on the contrary, it shows a little more grace

"Madam, with them there, at least we can not worry about those who follow us!"

Angelio rode on a black horse, leaned over and whispered

"As far as I know, the army on the northwest coast is very high in status. In some cases, they can even directly kill those who offend them. Unless those people eat the bear heart and leopard guts and run out to stop them, they will We can only watch us enter Xinhai City safely, and as long as we board the ship that leads to the other side of the sea on the pier, even the most outstanding hunting team will have nothing to do with His Royal Highness! Otherwise, Lord Duke will stay alone as a bait. All sacrifices were wasted"

"Yeah, those who followed H.R. Locke from Kyoto are too vicious. They controlled Lord Duke, and even his Royal Highness would kill him. Unexpectedly, H.R. Locke was so frantic that he wanted to kill his father and brother. To the point!" the middle-aged lady said in a whispered whisper, remembering the situation when she was a rì.

Angelio glanced into the carriage. A girl in a bright yellow dress was lying on the table in the carriage. She seemed too tired and had fallen asleep deeply, but she was only seven or eight years old. If it were not for two people to call your Highness, who would have thought that this was a boy,

"Is a half-brother, which is cruel, but not uncommon! If it weren’t for the pursuit team to follow too closely, we don’t need to make your Royal Highness female dressed up as a man! Although she was born a prominent, but now except for my servant With you, the poor man, there is no one left.' Angelio smiled wryly and shook his head." Entered Xinhai City, a good-looking novel:. Just follow the plan, Lord Duke has arranged it, at least to ensure that His Royal Highness reaches the opposite side of the sea alive! "

"Where are you? Are you going with us?" The middle-aged lady looked at him eagerly. There is a bit of vibrato in the voice

"I can't go, you know, these people have good noses. I will do my duty as a servant and lead them around the city!" Angelio God sè calmly, seems to have expected it a long time ago, "until they found out Fooled and cut my throat"

"You just don't want to live anymore? You still remember that year..." The middle-aged lady's sad eyes were like a cloud of clear water

"Why do you want to live? There is always a reason to live!" Angelio turned away, avoiding the gaze of the middle-aged lady, looking into the distance with a vague look, a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes

"I don’t remember what happened back then. You know, my family was all secretly executed by those people the night they escaped. My wife and three-year-old son were in the fire. Sinochem became ashes,

"My only hope now is that I can watch you take your Highness away from this place of right and wrong.

Actually, I should feel fortunate that if the marriage contract of the year is still there, the people who died three days ago are you and our son. Now, at least we still have the memory of being alone together for three days, dead! It’s better than living in endless thoughts in my next life"

"Angelio..." The middle-aged lady finally chose to be silent. The past was like a smoke, and she couldn't bear to look back. If the fat man saw this scene, he would think of the secret stabbing sent by the Duke of Russend. There is one in the report,

Roxidi, the youngest son of the Duke Ruosende, because the first wife holds the status of a royal family in Kyoto, she can't bear to stay in the remote area of ​​the northwest. Twenty-one years ago, she took her son to Kyoto by herself. Putting on a posture of old and dead, the Duke of Ruo Sende was ashamed of death and focused on the dominance of the Northwest. It was not until the age of fifty-four that an aristocratic maid gave birth to his second son. rì, the Duke of Ruosend declared that this son is the heir of the Duchy of Ruosend.

It seems that in the dark, the wheel of fortune in the northwest begins to spin faster,

The fat man deliberately slowed down on the sixth downhill in front. He has already noticed that behind the slowly moving horse team, a team of more than a dozen people is also following and slowing down at the same time. The team member appeared one hour ago

The leader of the team is a young man with a stern face, wearing a white lock armor with jīng-like patterns, and a white cloak behind him. The horses under the hips are obviously more expensive than the horses used by ordinary caravans. , The dozen people behind him, either carrying long swords or curved bows wrapped in animal skins,

Their eyes have never left the carriage in front of them. Fatty has seen this kind of eyes. It is the eyes of a murderer.

"It seems that this is the real secret!"

The fat man made a ready gesture to Hu Keqili~IndoMTL.com~Hu Keqili heartily clicked on him. Fifty guards and cavalry were divided into two teams, separated from the queue, and hoofs raised. The fresh soil on the ground speeds up like a wind and goes forward

The first 2 miles is Xinhai City, and the first one mile is through a forest area, unless the other party does not do anything, if you do it, it must be a forest!

"My lord, let's do it, there are 2 miles away from Xinhai City! "Behind, a burly man came up on horseback and said in the ear of the young man, "That is a densely populated area. As long as the other party gets on the boat, we will no longer have a chance to do it."

"Zia, are you crazy? There are soldiers in front of you. If you attack, do you know what the consequences will be! We will be chopped to pieces!"

A young woman with a black hood next to the young man said, a enchanting yellow skirt with a purple flower letter mark in full bloom on the saddle, and a handful of works of art hung on it. Curved bow, the shape of the bow handle is as attractive as her graceful figure,

"No hurry, one mile ahead is the forest!" The young man taking the lead said coldly (to be continued...)