Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 232 Chapter [-]

[Document No. 354-106 of the Rose City Intelligence Department]

[Category: Intelligence document]

【Confidentiality Level: Top Secret】

[Submitter: Haiyan (code name)]

[Time: August 994, 8, Imperial Calendar]

[This document is only for reference of "Tiger Shark" and "Pure White"]

Recently, a firefight took place in the Great Sunset Forest in the southern part of the empire, in the County of Halladayne. The two parties involved in the war were the regular army led by the commander of the County of Halladayne, Karl Nolan, and a group of forest troll rebels. The exact time is unknown. , the number of participants in the battle is unknown, and the details of the battle are unknown.

(Tiger Shark commented: What are you bastards doing?!)
(Pure white comment: Submit specific information as soon as possible.)
The winner of this battle is the regular army of the country.

According to the rumors of local civilians, this is an attack unilaterally launched by the regular army of the County of Halladayne. It is suspected to be a surprise attack launched by the above-mentioned forest trolls on Spring Leaf Town, the capital of the country of Halladayne, on a certain day in August. acts of retaliation.There is only minimal and one-sided information on this troll raid, which I submitted to Whitehall in a previous document, document number 354-104.

(Pure white instructions: Send the relevant documents to my desk tomorrow.)
(Tiger Shark commented: Received, I will let Lisa go to the archives to find it.)
According to the investigation, the conflict between the forest trolls and the Earl of Halledine stemmed from the excessive collection of the "tolerance tax" by the Earl of Halledine, which aroused the resistance of the local non-human race.For intelligence on the financial situation of the County of Halladine, see the report of "Tree Frog," the previous Springleaf spy, Nos. 312-49; The coming Sunset Boulevard is closed, please refer to the report I submitted, No. 354-96 to No. 354-101.

(Pure comment: These documents are also required.)
According to the announcement issued by the Earl of Halledine in Springleaf Town, Douglas Halledine, the current Earl of Halledine, was unfortunately brutally killed by the forest troll during the exchange of fire and has been confirmed dead.Springleaf held a funeral on the morning of August fourteenth.

(Tiger Shark comments: Fucking Earl Hallardine is dead!????)

(Pure white instructions: This is our intelligence channel, don't leak the news, wait for the official obituary from Halledine to the imperial capital.)
At present, the Counties of Halladine have beheaded the leader of the troll rebel army according to law, and the population of other captured trolls has been deported by the Counties of Halledine, and their whereabouts are unknown.

(Tiger Shark commented: I don’t know this, and I don’t know that, don’t you idiots even know where your grandmother is buried?!)
The rebels have been wiped out, but whether Sunset Boulevard will reopen in the near future is temporarily unknown.

(Tiger Shark commented: Fuck)
According to the information disclosed by the lover of the uncle's cousin of the maid in the Hallardine Manor, the Hallardine family is currently discussing inheritance matters, and the official obituary may be issued after the heir is determined.Since Earl Douglas Halladayne had no children and no will of any kind, members of the Halladayne family would likely meet to elect a successor to the title in accordance with traditional Southern succession laws.

The intelligence present is that the superior contender for succession is Mr. Joyce Hallardine, cousin of the Earl of Douglas Hallardine, who by his valor in the above-mentioned battle has won himself honors in the army. reputation.

(Pure comment: Send me the information on Joyce Hallardine.)
(Tiger Shark commented: Received, let Lisa find it now! But I don’t remember this person, he should be a distant relative of the Hallardine family, we don’t necessarily have his record.)
So much for the official information about the battle in the Sunset Forest and the murder of Earl Hallardine.

Here are some unverified local rumors:

(Tiger Shark commented: You wrote a fart without verification!)

Elliott Igor, the eldest son of the former Duke of Eagle's Rest and the current lord of Frost Maple Ridge, Eliot Igor, may have been in the area around Springleaf Town when the incident happened, and it is speculated that he may be on his way north to Beijing.

(Where the tiger shark should have left the mark, there is only a deep ink dot, which seems to be printed on the paper because the tip of the quill pen stayed for a long time because it didn't know what to write.)
(Pure white comment: It is very likely that the information is true. According to the date calculation, he should go to the imperial capital to report on his duties.)
According to even more unconfirmed rumors, members of the Igor family may have been injured in the troll rebels' raid on Springleaf Town. Therefore, soldiers of the Igor family may have assisted Halliday in the battle in the Sunset Forest. Enbo army.Circumstances and credibility unknown.

(Pure comment: Confirm with me. If you can't get the details, let "Haiyan" rot in this poor place of Chunye Town for the rest of his life!)
(Tiger Shark's comment: Received, I will send someone to tell these trash...)
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Lord Shuangfengling, who is in the center of the vortex in Spring Leaf Town, still doesn't know that this inexplicable race war has been sent to Rose City as information by the Whitehall eyeliner lurking in Spring Leaf Town.

In the past few days, Xia Houyan and the senior officials of Shuangfengling have been busy with one thing:

Feast.

After returning from victory in the Sunset Forest, we must have a celebration banquet, right?

The Earl of Hallardine was unfortunately killed. After the funeral, you have to exchange drinks with the local gentry, right?

The disheartened Commander Carl Nolan announced his retirement. Doesn't the roast suckling pig at the resignation banquet taste good to him?
As for the members of the Halladine family who rushed to Springleaf Town from all directions to try to fight for the right to inherit the title, the noble lord Xiahou Daguan couldn't do without a banquet.

These are more formal banquets;

In private, whether it was sending Chief Bloodfang to move his tribe to Frost Maple Ridge, or Joyce Halledine, who was expected to inherit the title, to thank the Lord of Frost Maple Ridge for his great kindness, the mouths of the senior leaders of Frost Maple Ridge were simply I haven't stopped, I've been eating and eating all the time.

After just one week, the situation in the country of Halladine has settled down, and the total weight of the Frost Maple Ridge team is also growing steadily——

——It’s not how much bribes they received, but that all the team members got fat.

A whole week after the "Bandit Suppression War in the Sunset Forest", the Igor family convoy, which had been delayed for a long time in this forest country, finally continued its journey northward.

In fact, Xia Houyan wanted to leave a long time ago, but after being treated with the antidote for the poisonous "Jian Shan Chuang" on Katerina's body, he still needed to recuperate for a few days, so he dragged it off until the end of the internal meeting of the Halledine family , Joyce Hallardine was defaulted as the next Earl candidate.

Witnessing Joyce Hallardine's transformation from a drunken soldier to a candidate for the next earl in just seven days, even the well-informed Xiahou official had to sigh:
A person's fate depends not only on self-struggle, but also on the process of history!

If it wasn't for the Earl of Halladayne collecting taxes indiscriminately, how could the honest and responsible forest troll turn against his lord?

If it wasn't for the forest troll planning a raid on the manor, how could Earl Hallardine, who was sitting at home, reach a turning point in his fate?
But most importantly, if the Igor family hadn't been guests at the Basil Manor at that time, it is still unknown whether the weak soldiers of the Earl of Halladine could successfully defeat the Enziai tribe and rescue the Earl;
In this way, it is even more impossible for Joyce Halladayn to have the opportunity to show his loyalty to Frost Maple Ridge, and then at the expense of the troll population of the Enziai tribe, in exchange for the secret support of the Igor family and take the opportunity to kill The cousin quickly took over.

Looking back afterwards, this whole series of incidents is like a series of tight steel chains. If any link in it goes wrong, the situation of the uncle country will not be able to get into the absurd situation it is now——

——And the beginning of the whole thing turned out to be that Igor's convoy going north was blocked on Sunset Boulevard...

Sometimes, fate is like "Uneasy" sung by a patient with congenital tone deafness under the guidance of an expired out-of-tune tape:
Nima is outrageous!
But after the whole incident, Xia Houyan pondered over and over again, and the Igor family seemed to be the biggest winner among them:
Not only did Joyce Hallardine, who was willing to be a dog for Frost Maple Ridge, be pushed to the throne of earl, but he even harvested the entire population of trolls from the Enzie tribe—this group of non-human races were not tolerated in the empire. Wait and see, but their gardening skills, herbal medicine knowledge and superb shooting skills happen to be the most needed human resources in the wilderness, the land of broken souls!

If Frost Maple Ridge suffered any disadvantages, it would be that Katerina and the soldiers of the Pioneer Army who participated in the war suffered a little bit of flesh and blood, and Lena Leslie began to pinch her belly all day long and plan to lose weight.

If it was a week ago, Xiahou officials would never have imagined that his trip to Beijing would have unexpected gains.

During the whole incident, Lord Frost Maple Ridge's only doubt was answered at Earl Hallardine's funeral.

After seeing off the last guest, Xia Houyan and Joyce Halledine looked at the earl's stone tombstone side by side, and chatted about the night when they suppressed the bandits.

"Why were you so decisive at the time, and you surrendered to us in Shuangfengling? Isn't it quick enough to betray your cousin?" Xia Houyan looked at the new earl with great interest who seized the opportunity to drink hard after the funeral reserve.

"He never gave me pocket money, it's a fart betrayal." Joyce rolled his eyes, "To put it bluntly, it is a rare event that my cousin was arrested, and there happened to be another one in the territory. It is even rarer for a lord to visit... I, Joyce Hallardine, just took the opportunity to gamble!"

"The bet is big enough..." Xia Houyan said sarcastically, "What if you are not afraid of losing the bet?"

"If you lose the bet, you'll die. A bad life is worthless." Joyce shrugged and grinned at Lord Frost Maple Ridge. people. I still have a little... odds."

"Exchanging a troll tribe for an earl's position is still generous. You won the bet." Xia Houyan curled his lips.

"You don't like it?" Joyce's eyes widened drunkenly, and his tone had already taken on the peculiar accent of a drunkard, "I'm Joyce Hallardine. ...Hitting both ribs! Don't worry, I'll pick a few beautiful local girls and send them to your house to be maids later on!"

"Forget it!" Xia Houyan hurriedly thanked Bumin, "My sister is strict..."

"You can secretly give it away." Joyce said with a playful smile, "Build a small building outside your house secretly, and send it there to be raised!"

Xia Houyan was afraid that he would fall into the abyss of corruption if he stayed any longer, so he left and ran away.

Before leaving, he finally gave Joyce a forehead salute:

"In short, Joyce was the one who saved the life of the troll Enziai. Your decision that night was also very courageous and courageous--in the future, if you continue to treat the Igor family as friends, our Frost Maple Ridge I will also consider you a friend."

Joyce shook his head somewhat annoyedly:
"It's not about courage and courage. To be honest, I really drank a little too much that night... I can't drink like this in the future..."

……

After leaving the country of Halledine along the re-opened Sunset Avenue, the Igor convoy did not dare to delay for a moment, and continued northward to the imperial capital.

However, the incident in the country of Halladine was just an accident after all, and there were not many disturbances in the follow-up journey;
The Demon Caravan Baron Alexios and his party, who had been following the convoy, also bid farewell to the lord shortly after leaving the earl country, and went their separate ways to Sanshuiwan, a major trading town, to try their luck and sell their products.

Originally, the official Xiahou was planning to take his sister to Sanshui Bay for a walk:

Katerina used to be fostered at the home of the Duke of Sanshuiwan when she was a child, and this time she just revisited her old place—but since Katerina is still in the recovery period of "Jianshan Creation" and is depressed, she may not be able to catch up with "San Shuiwan" if she spends more time on the road. Celebration of Augustus Day...

Xia Houyan discussed with Commander Cousins, and decided to change the established plan and head straight for the imperial capital by the shortest path.

The only thing worth mentioning along the way was that when passing the edge of the undead-infested area, Xia Houyan specially took the senior officials of Shuangfengling to get off the car, and held a simple ceremony to commemorate the lost leaders.

This undead-infested area was another heavy blow to the Igor family after the treason case, but it was also the place where a lord who traveled through the earth descended, and it was also the starting point of today's Frost Maple Ridge.

At the edge of the infected area, Xia Houyan changed into the short robe he wore in the infected area and wore the "Phantom Wrist Wheel" engraved with the magic rhythm of Simon Adrian, facing the center of the infected area, sprinkled A glass of dwarf spirits to comfort the souls of the Igor people who died here.

In the infected area, tens of thousands of zombies howled loudly under the command of Adrian's magical rhythm, like the cry of apes.

——Due to the limited mental power, it is unrealistic to use the "corpse control technique" to manipulate the zombie army to attack the city, but in a short period of time, let these undead creatures use their throats to act as salutes, and Xiahou officials can still do it.

Thinking of how many people lost their lives here, Katerina, who was not with the Eastern convoy at the time, also supported her sick body and wept sadly with Anjie's support. Knight Commander Cousins ​​even took off his helmet according to knight etiquette.

However, after the ceremony was over, Master Laurie and Bob Brook saw that the lord was far away and could not hear, and began to whisper.

"Master Laurie, have you found a problem?" Bob asked solemnly.

"What's wrong?" Master Laurie looked at Bob.

Bob, who used to be a member of the business team, followed the lord all the way from Eagle's Rest, to the infected area, and then to Frost Maple Ridge like Master Laurie;

Master Laurie believed that Bob Brooke must have been emotional, and he felt a little uncomfortable.

As a result, Bob Brook came up and said:
"I think something is wrong with the lord."

Master Laurie hurriedly covered Bob's mouth: "Damn! It's not fun to say that!"

"Oh, I didn't mean that the lord is not good!" Bob shook off Master Laurie dissatisfiedly, "I mean, the lord's luck is too bad, right? You see, when you accidentally stumbled into the infection Not to mention, the lord went to Rock Creek City, did a group of 'Desolate Wind' mercenaries die?
"My lord, he went to the Moon God Village and killed a group of half-human bandits, right?

"Our Igor family settled down in the Land of Cracking Souls, and as a result, all the bandits in the wilderness were almost dead, and the bastards from Rock Creek City even ran over and sent several groups of heads...

"That's all. My lord, he went to the defense line of the Arcane Spire. The commander of the southern army immediately raised his braids, and even chopped off a bunch of demon spies lurking in the southern army...

"A few days ago, it was a big joke in the world. I went to Chunye Town as a guest, and the earl just burped..."

After Bob finished speaking, he swallowed hard and lowered his voice:

"Master Laurie, our lord is just like the fucking incarnation of death, dead people wherever we go! Don't you mages say that you curse? Is there someone who can't understand our Igor family and put you down for the lord?" A curse?"

"Ridiculous!" Master Laurie severely criticized Bob's superstitious thoughts, "You common people, don't deify magic casually. How can there be such a curse as 'wherever you go, you will die'? Go away, your head is in good shape. Just stay on the neck and fuck your mind all day long!"

But having said that, Master Laurie thought that in a few days, the lord will enter the capital of the empire, where rich and powerful people gather, where interpersonal relationships are intricate, and where people can eat people without spit out their bones...

He suddenly had a strong desire to resign and run away.

(End of this chapter)