my magic industry

Chapter 115: Court Discussion

On February 1392, 2 in the imperial calendar, at six o'clock in the morning, the young and vigorous Count Karen got up early from the bed of his fourth wife.

After finishing the grooming and dressing work under the service of the maid with gentle hands and feet, and simply eating a piece of fruit cake with black tea, he boarded the luxurious carriage and took advantage of the faint morning light to travel from his Earl's mansion to Longmian Palace, ready to participate in today's court meeting.

After this period of private communication and benefit sharing, the enlightened forces represented by Earl Cullen and Earl Stewart have succeeded in getting many neutral and even conservative people to accept their road repair plan in the imperial capital and surrounding areas.

Many people can gain some benefits from the alliance through this plan, but after the alliance has mastered the power to collect road tolls, there is still a question mark over who will benefit more.

Although this matter has been settled, there is still one thing that needs to be bothered by the two high-level alliance leaders, Earl Karen and Earl Stewart, and that is the issue of the new army.

The new army proposed by Grand Duke Conns Rand is nominally to be trained by the palace guards, but their purpose is to hand over the new army to the alliance for training, which requires a reason that can convince Emperor Prieter.

Although Emperor Pulit was tortured by the curse for a long time, it did not affect his intelligence, and even with the help of the royal secret treasure, he still had the energy to deal with the court meetings every half a month.

It is naturally impossible for Earl Karen to directly move the residence of the palace guards to the R&D center of the Alliance, in the delusion of being able to hide the truth.

After internal discussions among several of their alliance high-level officials, they formulated a relatively possible plan and prepared to implement it at today's court meeting.

After carefully recalling the various countermeasures formulated in advance, Earl Karen got out of the carriage at the stables outside the Sun Palace, and accompanied by his attendants, walked along the mirror-like marble corridor without any haste. Walking towards the Alan Hall, the officials of the five major departments encountered along the way respectfully bowed down to salute him:

"Good morning! Earl Karen!"

"Well, Gui'an."

Earl Cullen just nodded slightly at them, and occasionally responded to the important figures in the enlightened faction, and soon arrived in the huge Aram Hall, which was large enough to accommodate thousands of people present at the same time.

This used to be the most important banquet place for Queen Marit. In the three-thousand-large (about 4000-square-meter) hall reinforced by enchantment, there are only eight giant pillars with a thickness of three people surrounded by them and a height of nearly 20 meters. , On these pillars are carved scene reliefs of the eight most important events in the life of the Sun King.

On it is a huge crystal mural of the Sun King establishing the Sassen Kingdom made of crystals of various colors. Through the special magic mechanism set on the giant pillar, it can provide sufficient lighting for the hall.

Anyone who steps into such a tall and luxurious palace will feel a kind of reverence and awe spontaneously.

In the hall, the palace guards stood in bright armor on both sides, and in front of them were court servants and maids in black and white costumes.

Going further, you can see that in the hall that was originally filled with long banquet tables, there are now luxurious chairs. In the place facing these chairs, there is the throne with twelve steps and the golden and red two. colored silk weave curtains.

Earl Stewart had already sat on the director's seat of the Finance Department at this time. Hearing the sound of Earl Cullen entering the Alan Hall surrounded by a group of people, he turned his head and gave him a slight nod.

After Earl Karen took his seat on the soft and original sofa, all the officials from the five major departments arrived soon.

At around seven o'clock, His Majesty the Emperor of the Sassen Empire, Sassen XVII Preet Ahlika, surrounded by a line of court maids and attendants, slowly stepped onto the tall throne of the Aram Hall from behind the Sun Palace. .

It doesn't look like Emperor Prieter is suffering from a curse, but Earl Karen knows that this is the magic power of his Golden Knight, the treasures of Wyrmrest Palace, and the potion prepared by the court alchemists. The combined effect barely suppressed the curse, and it was able to appear no different from ordinary people at this time.

After Babbitt Louise, the court attendant, who was dressed in a gold-threaded attendant uniform, carefully counted the officials who appeared in the five major departments, the palace minister Fusk Knoll, a short and fat man with snow-white horoscopes Hu's minister walked up the steps, sat down on his side six steps away from the throne, and announced loudly:

"The court meeting begins!"

"Well, Minister Fusk, what happened to the empire recently, please explain it to me and the ministers!"

Emperor Preet sat leaning on his throne, raised his right hand, and let his palace minister follow the normal court discussion process.

"Your Majesty, during this period of time, the empire has been stable. The Thain people in the east have overwhelmed the power of the empire. His Excellency Longfellow Thain, the Grand Duke of the Eastern Region, has sent a message to indicate that the war in the Eastern Region is currently stable. The Kingdom of Thain has no longer fought against the Empire. heart of.

The area of ​​the native land in the south has expanded a lot, and various plantations are sending tea, cotton, and brown sugar to Helgana every day.

The pirates of the Kingdom of Prussia in the west did not invade the territory of the empire. At present, only the northern border of the empire is still stalemate in the war with the six northern countries.

The day before yesterday, Grand Duke Conns Rand sent a summons, hoping that His Majesty the Emperor would allow the Palace Guard to train a new army of 1000 people for the northern border.

It is said that this new army was proposed by Queen Dorothea. Although the army adopts brand new weapons to fight, although they are all ordinary people, they seem to pose a considerable threat to the knights on the battlefield and can supplement a considerable part of the strength of the northern border. "

"Ordinary people are a threat to knights? Could it be the enchanted crossbow?"

"Although the average strength of the palace guards is at the level of the great knights, do they really know how to train the army? And they are still a group of ordinary people?"

Hearing the last words of Palace Minister Fusk, all kinds of small conversations suddenly sounded in the Allan hall.

This is a normal phenomenon during imperial court meetings. After all, the five major departments belong to different departments, and not everything these officials at the core of the empire can know in time, so it is necessary to leave time for them to communicate at this time.

"Oh? A new type of weapon that can threaten knights? Let me think about it... Dorothea seems to have told me about this kind of thing, it seems to be called muskets and cannons, right? Count Karen, you and Dorothea walked away recently It's closer, do you know about it?"

Gently raising his hand, the voices from the audience stopped immediately.

When Emperor Pulit heard that the Grand Duke of the Northern Territory actually proposed to let the palace guards build him a new army with new weapons to fight against the knights on the battlefield, he became a little interested, cheered up and said, and turned his eyes to the On Earl Karen at the forefront of the Commerce Department.

"Your Majesty, I do know this. Although the weapon called the musket is also related to magic, its cost is only comparable to that of an enchanted arrow. That is to say, a musket only costs a little more than 1 gold runt.

And such a rifle can continuously fire eight bullets similar to crossbow bolts in a short time, which are powerful enough to penetrate the armor of knights and cause serious injuries to them.

In addition, the weapon called the cannon can fire several heavy projectiles, which is more powerful than the musket, and the cost is only 25 jinlund. In my opinion, it is indeed a sharp weapon to change the battlefield .

I think Princess Dorothea was also worried that the war in the north would endanger His Excellency the Grand Duke, so she had people develop these two weapons. That's why Grand Duke Conns Rand knew about these two weapons so quickly and asked the court to Guards come to train new troops in the use of these weapons. "

(End of this chapter)