Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 403 Chapter [-] For Art
According to Bruce Skye, Grand Duke Rosario very much hoped to meet Duke Eliot Igor in the city of Eternal Sun, an important town of elves in the east, and then "hunt in the wild" together.

"Hunting", this is a very famous slang term in the political context of the empire.

Generally, when imperial nobles say they want to hunt in official documents, they basically mean to find someone to fight.

If the word is "will hunt", the subtext is - I don't like you, you are just a post, today we two have to fight to the death.

The "hunting" mentioned by Grand Duke Rosario is different from "hunting". It does not mean that Rose City and Shuangfengling, which have always been friendly and friendly, have accounts to settle; It's definitely not a peaceful trip, our two families have to join forces to find someone—as for who, we won't know until we go.

The invisible expectation of Grand Duke Rosario made the lord very hurt:

I don’t know when, when the people of the empire mentioned Shuangfengling, the first thing they thought of was fights, wars, and murder. It's like a bloodbath - until now, he doubts that his name, Elliott Igor, has even had the effect of stopping children from crying at night in the empire.

Goodness see you!Shuangfengling is a people of Yao and Shun who love peace, are good-neighborly and friendly, do not cause trouble and are not afraid of trouble!The Igor family has always regarded maintaining the peace and stability of the wasteland as their duty!The Igor Pioneering Army is a peacekeeping force that is compassionate and strict with self-discipline!
I don't know what kind of scumbags are spreading rumors every day, and forcibly portrayed the kind, kind, sincere and kind Duke Elliot Igor as a murderous maniac...

Xia Houyan was quite skeptical. This matter had nothing to do with those bastard writers in Dongbingku—he planned to do a good job in the wilderness literature and art circle when he came back from the north.

Although there is a bit of sadness in my heart that "others laugh at me for being too cruel, I laugh at others for not being able to see through", but since Grand Duke Rosario has kindly invited the lord to go north to help the field, the lord is always embarrassed to refuse.

So, early the next morning, he began to select and organize the elite soldiers who were going to bring them to Eternal Sun City this time.

"Forming an army" is a task that seems simple but is actually extremely difficult.

According to the "Crown Act", provocations and wars between imperial lords are strictly prohibited. Because of this, it is not easy to lead troops through other noble territories.

Generally speaking, each territory can send more than 500 armed forces to other lords' territory only in the case of supporting the empire's foreign wars;
And before that, a series of cumbersome diplomatic procedures such as notifying the imperial royal family, sending a note to the imperial military headquarters, and negotiating with the lords along the way must be completed before they can officially transit.

However, the current situation in the eastern border is not clear, and the grand duke’s meaning relayed by Bruce Skye is vague—Xia Houyan doesn’t particularly want to make too much noise about leading his troops northward:
The Igor family has as many potential enemies as potential friends in the political arena of the empire. Those bastards who fell into trouble when Father Vincent Igor died are still alive... They just won the foreign war, Just take the mighty people back to the country to show off their power. In the history of the earth, those who did such things generally have no good end.

——It is best to handle the matter quietly and calmly, this is the way that is most in the interests of Shuangfengling.

In view of this, great attention should be paid when forming troops.

Xia Houyan discussed with Sean Mountbatten, Alan Cousins ​​and others for a long time, and finally decided that the troops he brought to the East this time will not be named "army" at all, so as to bypass the "Crown Act" The red tape under the constraints.

This army, which is not an army, will have a deceptive name:
Shuangfengling Labor Art Troupe!

Yes, not the army, but literary and art workers who enrich the cultural life of the soldiers who fought bloody battles on the Eastern Front!
It happened that Shuangfengling's novels and virtual idols had become more and more popular in the Central Plains in the past two years. Xia Houyan simply tore down the cultural achievements of the territory and made it a banner.

The first is to be incorporated into the army—ah no, the members of the "Northern Blizzard Mage Troupe" who were incorporated into the "Shuangfengling Labor Army Art Troupe".

This battle-tested elemental force has transformed into the "Frozen Throne Magic Troupe" this time, and all the magicians in the troupe put on black cloaks and top hats, and have changed jobs to become magicians. .

——Using magic to change human life is a kind of juggling in a broad sense, right?

The Frost Maple Ridge cavalry in the team put on thick camouflage to hide their eyes and ears, and turned into poets.

The reason why these rookies of modern poetry named "Poetry Collection Group of the Sons of Abandoned Capital" ride horses is to travel around and lean on horses to speak a thousand words; It's because those who write poetry these days can't marry a wife, so they can only use their lives to attract the same sex.

——The lord issued a warm call to invite the poets of the "Sons of the Abandoned Capital Poetry Collecting Group" to write great red poems on the land of the empire!

The elite archers in the team are crowned with the title of "Ali Buda Choir".

In order to find a reasonable explanation for the full moon carved bows on their backs, the lord racked his brains, and finally remembered the elves who sent guns, cannons and cultural relics to Shuangfengling.

In the setting, the "Ali Buda Choir" is composed of bards carefully cultivated by Shuangfengling, focusing on ancient elf poetry; in order to fully express the style of elf epics, the bards in the choir not only wear pointed ears jewelry, dyed her hair a vibrant emerald green, and carried a monochord specially fashioned to look like a bow—trust me, it’s really just an instrument.

——Let the voice of the elves resound in every corner of the continent!
In the end, the largest infantry group in the team really made Xia Houyan take great pains.No serious art troupe can explain why there are more than 1000 strong men in the team-so many people, even going to the Spring Festival Gala to talk about group crosstalk is a bit too much!
The lord thought over and over again, and finally chose a suitable identity for them—the writer of Dongbingku.As for the huge number of people, it is also easy to explain: don’t you see that there are as many writers on the street today as crucian carp crossing the river, and a mere thousand people are not enough to fill the "Biqu Pavilion" with a library.

The real brilliance of the identity of "Dongbingku Writer" is that there is no need for any additional disguise at all——

A magician needs to wear a top hat, a bard needs to have a green head, a modern poet needs to find a good father, and a web writer does not need any additional qualifications, and can do it with a brain (it seems that he can do it without a brain)!

However, in order to deceive others, Xia Houyan reluctantly gave each of these fake writers a quill, making it seem as if giving the writers a keyboard would make them even more insecure.

Now that all the members of the team have a second identity, it is easier to explain the large vehicles and equipment carried with the team, all of which are "performance props"!
——In these years, no one will not use the "Thrace Annihilation Arrow" to perform their talents, right?No way no way?
After everything is ready, the mighty "Shuangfengling Labor Art Troupe" with about [-] people, after shouting their oaths at the People's Square of Fenghuangtai, followed in the footsteps of the lord, and marched towards the goal of the trip with pride. Land—Eternal Sun City in the east, ready to spread the brilliance of art to the bloody imperial battlefield!

It is particularly worth mentioning that the only member of the team who did not have a false identity was Mr. Bob Brook.

On the business card he carried, it was honestly written "The first debater of the Frost Maple Ridge Debate Team, former five-time defending champion of the Eagle's Rest Debate Competition"——

——A title that looks ordinary to outsiders, but chills to the people of Shuangfengling.

……

During last year's peak trade season, the lord led a team northward to the imperial capital to participate in the extremely sad "St. Augustus Festival".

Now on the road of the Long March again, the "Shuangfengling Labor Army Art Troupe" has truly seen the vicissitudes of the world.

Last summer, although Grand Duke Rosario had already missed the championship in the Eastern Region, the defeat of the Imperial Eastern Army had not yet spread to the mainland, and there was a harmonious scene of whitewashing peace along the way.

But this year, the war in the east has intensified. Even the little people of Dousheng who don't hear anything outside the window can already feel the pressure of survival that is more than ten thousand tons:

Along the way, even the businessmen who are on the road are in a hurry, with their heads and faces tightly wrapped, looking at others with suspicion, and the sense of insecurity in their hearts is vivid on their faces;
And the farmers on the side of the road who used to face the loess and back to the sky, buried their heads and worked hard, are gone forever. The land Xia Houyan saw along the way has been abandoned, and the farmers he occasionally meets also have sad faces, yellow and thin.

During the war years, the lords of the various territories of the empire wanted to send money to send troops to support the front line. Naturally, such a heavy burden could not be carried by the lords and nobles themselves.

But these farmers who remained on their land were not even the worst.

Since the "Shuangfengling Labor Army Art Troupe" took the road that ran through the north and south of the empire, the people who saw the most along the way were actually refugees fleeing from the north to the south.These refugees often lost their homes due to the war, and had to drag their families with them, trying to find a glimmer of life in the south.

Most of these refugees are honest farmers. After losing their own land, they no longer have any ability to earn a living. They can only beg along the way for a living. As for going on like this, will the whole family starve? To die on the way, or to reach the Promised Land in the South, the answer to this question is known only to the Holy Spirit.

On the way to the north, once he encountered refugees with children, Xia Houyan would ask his subordinates to give them some food, and then told them that there was a safe territory in the south called Shuangfengling, which opened the door to all immigrants.

——In today's world, Xia Houyan doesn't even dare to distribute gold coins to these refugees, because they are likely to be murdered by bandits and robbers on the road because of the belongings in their arms.

Yes, bandits and robbers.

This original special product of the Soul Breaking Land has sprung up like mushrooms in the Central Plains of the Empire as the environment deteriorated.As long as you deviate from the main road, you will find human corpses exposed in the wilderness, and the remains of robbers killing civilians.

Many of the elite troops in the major territories have been dispatched to the front line, and they can no longer maintain the law and order in the territories; on the other hand, hunger, poverty and heavy taxes continue to force the original good people to become bandits. A road of no return.

On the way, the Shuangfengling Labor Art Troupe even bumped into a gang of bandits who tried to block the road and rob them. This group of robbers was also unlucky. I never dreamed that why this convoy under the banner of the "Art Troupe" , there will be a group of elite soldiers stronger than the local lord's private army.

In order to fulfill the responsibility of the lord of the empire a little bit, Xia Houyan deliberately made the convoy detour on the way north, and pulled out a few bandit villages that did evil things. Xia Fan suddenly woke up and became a Buddha immediately.

——When the Igor family immigrated to the south, they suffered a lot from the bandits, robbers, and mercenary regiments. The lord, this can be regarded as a bad breath for himself who was down and down back then.

The "literary and art staff" accompanying the team could feel that the lord was obviously in a bad mood along the way, and his eyes looking out of the car window were a little dim.Some of the new recruits were puzzled by this, and they couldn't understand how the hard-hearted, calm and stern Lord Lord could suddenly fall in love with the scene-but Alice Comstock, Captain of the Guards, insisted, and Elliott, Duke Igor Adults are actually quite soft-hearted.

Everyone thinks that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is unbelievable.

However, when Alice Comstock climbed into the lord's carriage and cared about the lord's mood, the lord just shook his head and said with a smile:

"It's nothing, I just suddenly remembered something I promised someone before... something I haven't finished yet."

Alice vaguely remembered that the "others" in the mouth of the lord referred to the old orc general named Gullit Gale.

Although what you see along the way is the decline of the current situation, the "Shuangfengling Labor Art Troupe" is not in any danger. Along the way, some local lords hurried out to greet the Igor family team when they heard that the team passed by, but Often when we rush to the side of the road, we can only eat the exhaust gas left by this cultural performance team traveling day and night.

The first time they really rested was in the hinterland of the Central Plains of the empire, the trade and shipping hub at the confluence of the three rivers, Sanshui Bay.

Due to its proximity to the front line of the eastern border, this city of wealth is also covered with a layer of murderous aura at this moment. There are many imperial soldiers patrolling outside the black stone city wall, and the businessmen and civilians who come and go have more inspections before entering the city. Documentary procedures.

On the head of the south gate of Sanshuiwan and above the rolling Lion Heart River, in addition to the family emblem of Duke Jose Rivera of Sanshuiwan, there is also a Leviathan military flag with a wave pattern.

That was the flag of the Navy of the Imperial Western Army.

Sitting on the horseback, Xia Houyan followed Alan Cousins' fingers and looked towards the east of Sanshuiwan City. Sure enough, behind the shadows of the city walls and buildings and in the dense fog in the morning, he captured a piece of Silhouettes of sails.

"That should be the flagship of the Imperial Western Army's navy, the Obra Latin." Knight Commander Cousins ​​looked serious, "Lord Lord, it seems that the commander of the Western Army's navy, General Halifax, is now in Sanshuiwan Stationed in the city."

"Western navy..." Xia Houyan smacked his lips, "Ah Lun, let's rest at Sanshui Bay today. Actually, I really want to see what kind of character this imperial navy admiral is— — In my experience, guys who drive boats are generally pretty aggressive."

(End of this chapter)