Release that Witch Chapter 191: Fang of new King
Petrov sipped lipstick tea, leaning on a soft feudal lord chair, long released a long breath.
It has been more than two months since he took over Longsong Stronghold, and he finds that he likes this hall more and more. The step-by-step structure allows him to overlook the officials and attendants standing below from the main seat position. This feeling of power holding him makes him content.
In the first month, there will be some small nobles who jump out to question themselves openly, or secretly plan a riot, etc. Of course, there are many people behind the scenes who are behind them * From the Elk and Wolf families. Petrov obeyed his father's suggestion and sent all the civilians without a title or the underground Mouse to hanging post, while the young noble with a title was imprisoned and expelled from the Western Region after the family paid the ransom.
The implementation of this set of Thunder methods quickly calmed down. After all, except for Honeysuckle Family, several other Knights have gone caught to Border Town, and impossible resisted Petrov's policy from the bright side. Afterwards, he divided the interests of stronghold into a part to compensate the losses of the big family during the arrest, so that all noble formed a relatively stable interest group.
Except that 30% of stronghold's income is turned over to Border Town, the remaining 70% is used to maintain city operation, 20% is used to comfort the remaining large noble, and Hull territory gets the remaining 20%.
Today, the portrait hanging on the back of the feudal lord seat has been changed from Duke Ryan to Fourth Prince Roland Wimbledon, and he is looking forward to the portrait of his Petrov Hull one day.
If you can completely own Longsong Stronghold, your Earl collar can be combined with stronghold to become a real Duke territory. 50% of the surrender and appeasement can also be saved, and invested in stronghold business trade, in exchange for prosperous profits.
Of course, the premise is that Roland can successfully board Throne and become the king of Greycastle.
"Sir," a guard walked into the feudal lord hall and handed a letter, "It was from Border Town's."
After hearing the word Border Town, Petrov immediately sat upright.
He took the envelope and flattened the thin papyrus. It can be seen from the bad qualitative paper that the letter came from the eyeliner he put in the serf party.
The result of the battle more than two months ago was incredible. Although Petrov did not go in person, it heard a bizarre story from his father. In order to understand the reasons for the failure of Duke, he arranged many henchmen in the hands of those sent to small town. They pretended to be craftsmen, herders or serfs, and passed the information one by one they saw back to stronghold.
He believes that other families will certainly do the same.
But so far, apart from two people disguised as serfs who are still sending new information each month, those craftsmen and herders have no news, as if they disappeared.
Whether they betrayed themselves or were they eliminated by the prince?
He shook his head and focused on the secret letter.
The contents of the letter were written with charcoal, the text was crooked, and there were signs of being soaked in water in some places. It seemed to be written secretly while working.
The first paragraph states that Scarlet Water River is building an unknown tower on the shore. A huge iron can is stacked on the top of the tower. Three towers have been erected, each of which is close to the stronghold city wall. The blacksmiths seemed to be making the tower in the town, and it was a whole when it was transported to the river. Then there will be First Army soldiers standing up the bezel around the iron tower. When the next day, it will magically stand up.
Construction ... this is another word. Petrov thought that the same is true of the previous secret letter. Looking at the information, I feel that the prince is constantly building small town. The last time was to build roads and bridges, this time to build iron towers. Does His Royal Highness want to spend all the gold royal from the stronghold castle in one breath? And the use of the iron tower is still unknown ... You must know that the spies in the hidden serfs are not real serfs, but the well-known personal guard. If it is a sentry tower or an arrow tower, he can definitely see it at a glance.
Probably the iron tower has not been completely completed. It's hard to judge. Petrov shook his head. Maybe there will be more detailed information next month.
He moved his eyes to the next paragraph.
The letter states that a large merchant fleet departed eastward after staying for a week at small town dock. The ownership is unknown. A large pile of ore ingot and saltpeter was unloaded from the ship during the stay.
It is easy to understand that saltpeter is purchased. It will become very hot in the summer to the second month. The cooling of the castle requires a lot of saltpeter. It can also be used to refrigerate drinks and juices. As a royal family noble, I definitely do not want to make myself big Sweating, just like the farmer in farmland.
But the purchase of ore ingot made Petrov a bit surprised. Border Town was originally the origin of the ore. Remember that before Months of Demons, when he went to small town as envoy, Prince Roland exaggerated and said that he would double the total amount of ore sold. Not only does it not export ore, but also imports ore ingot?
Looking at the iron tower that was at the height of the stronghold city wall in the previous paragraph, he found that he couldn't figure out what His Highness the Prince wanted to do.
But when Petrov saw the last paragraph of Secret Letter, he suddenly froze.
Border Town has held several outdoor theater performances in the square in the last two weeks?
No tickets, the name of the play is unheard of, and serfs are encouraged to watch. What surprised him the most was that the performer had a Western Region star, Miss May, who has disappeared recently!
What is situation?
May's disappearance is a recent big news of stronghold. In a series of dramas that should have been starring in her, the actress has been changed. noble left the stage to protest. The theater had to issue a notice, claiming that May left the theater without authorization under the situation account of anyone, and his whereabouts are currently unknown. As soon as the news came out, the noble who were Western Region's theatre-loving people immediately became uproar.
But she went to Border Town? There is no theater there! And to perform for civilians and serfs ... Petrov can hardly imagine such a scene in his mind. Miss May in impression is not an approachable actor.
Considering again and again, he decided to write a letter to His Highness Roland, and formally asked him about it. As a drama enthusiast, I haven't seen the wonderful performance of Western Region Star for a long time. Not to mention, the chance of even inviting Shirley is much less. Since the drama was publicly performed in small town Square, it is not surprising that it was seen by the merchant. It happened that this merchant was from Longsong Stronghold, so the news came to his ears. So I thought that expose would not lurk in the serf's personal guard.
Just as Petrov was about to let attendants draw up the text, a Knight quickly walked into the hall and hurriedly said, "Sir, the guard at Dongmen Watchtower found that a Knight team is approaching stronghold!" >
"Knight? Can you tell where it came from?" He stood up suddenly.
"The other party is holding the high tower double gun flag, sir," Knight answer said, "if it is not impersonation, they should be new King troops." (To be continued.)