Warlords of the witcher world

Chapter 101
When Herme's team entered Vengerburg, the crowd warmly welcomed the Lord Protector's return - the main reason being that the Lord Protector brought back a large amount of supplies.

After being welcomed by the people, Herme went straight to the Wengerburg Palace, where he still had a lot of government affairs to deal with.

Then he finds himself with a gift.

To be honest, when he returned to Wengerburg, Herme didn't expect that he would get such a gift.

And what he didn't expect was that he thought that someone might cause trouble after he left Wengerburg, but he didn't expect that the person who actually caused trouble was so stupid.

In the office that belonged to him in the Wengerburg Palace, the Guardian just looked at the report sent by Charon, which was the property of the nobles who were confiscated in this ridiculous "rebellion".

"Three earls, seven barons, 29 knights... It's only been half a month since I left, so many people are planning to make trouble, and according to the report, these guys are actually planning to assassinate me?"

Herme was a little amazed at Charon's ability. He didn't expect that he would dig out so many people in just half a month.

What's even more amazing is that this group of people planned to kill him. Haven't you seen that the Nilfgaardians have all failed?Do you think you can still be as powerful as the Nilfgaardians?

"So they are all dead now, Lord Protector, and their property belongs to the Lord Protector's government according to the law. This is not a small sum of money."

Charlene smiled and bowed to Herme, looking as if he was taking credit for himself.

In fact, in his heart, it is quite a pity for this result.

Not a single big noble was caught, they were all small and medium-sized shrimps, all of them were cannon fodder.

But he also knew that this was normal. After all, this "rebellion" was so clumsy, it must have been a pawn thrown by those big nobles.

"Well...the money is indeed quite a lot. Put it into the military fund. As for the real estate, it will be under the jurisdiction of the government first."

After thinking about it for a while, Herme decided on a destination for the money and the property, which was enough to fill part of the gap.

As for the other vacancies, we can only wait for Keweier's loan to arrive, and the diplomatic envoys sent by Herme are currently running around in the northwest country.

Every time when money was mentioned, Herme couldn't help but envy Redania. They got the most money from Keweier, but they were half-given and half-loaned.

Kovir actually embezzled to Redania the gold and silver that the Nilfgaardian Merchant Guild had invested in for the future of the Empire's occupation of the North, in effect using Nilfgaardian money to beat the Nilfgaardians.

After all, who told the relationship between these two countries to be so deep.

"By the way, how many spies have I discovered during the half a month I've been away?"

Putting down the report, Herme asked about the main work that Charon was doing now, which was intelligence and counterintelligence work.

"All I can say is that there are a lot of spies."

Charon shook his head slightly, "Niflgaard, Redania, Kaedwen, Temeria... and some spies who I haven't found out so far, who want to find out the secrets of the artillery There are a lot, but fortunately we have at least confirmed the existence of these people, the blind spies have basically been arrested, and some are still under surveillance."

Recalling the experience of the past few weeks, Charon only felt that it was terrible. Facing so many temptations, the forces of Aedian's intelligence department could only barely guard against the enemy. For this reason, he was so busy that he was about to faint.

But, he also found some joy in it.

After the initial pain, he became happy and accepting, and the feeling of fighting people seemed good.

"Then, let me tell you how things are going."

What Herme said was to investigate the background of the banking industry.

When this matter was mentioned, Charon's expression immediately collapsed. He didn't collapse so badly when he asked the spies before.

"All I can say is, it's hard to find out."

Charon's face was full of pain, "Only in Aden, the intricate relationship structure between those banks is very frustrating, and there is also a ring-by-ring holder structure, it is difficult to figure out the real relationship. Which of them can be accepted. I am currently gathering a group of people with clean family background and working experience in the banking industry, and I am asking them to work overtime to sort out."

If Charlene can still find fun in fighting people, then facing the "shit mountain" in the banking industry, all that remains is a mask of pain.

"Hmph, it's not surprising."

Hearing Charon's report, Herme felt that Hogg's words were almost indistinguishable from the facts.

Even professional intelligence and financial practitioners can't figure out the relationship structure behind it, which is very telling.

Don't forget, the background of this era is the Middle Ages after all, even if there is magic that makes some things advanced enough to enter the category of modern times, the background is also the Middle Ages.

Such a complicated structure can only show one point, that is, some people don't want others to know the secrets behind these banks.

"Okay, Charlene, go ahead and go to work. I am very satisfied with your work, but I hope you can continue to maintain it. I have to leave many things to you. By the way, what do you think of Orito Castle? If you need , I can give him to you, together with the surrounding estate."

Herme knew very well that motivating people to do things required benefits, and he didn't mind giving benefits, but it was just one or two castle estates, nothing at all.

"Thank you very much, Lord Protector."

Herme's words stunned Charon, he did not expect that the Lord Protector was willing to give him the land
With this character, no matter how you look at it, he is a totalitarian who gathers land.

Lord Protector is of course a centralized faction, but he changed the direction of centralization.

As for the nobles, he didn't intend to kill them all, and he couldn't kill them all.

So the goal he set for himself was to turn these nobles from lords into real estate owners, and to land the nobles' territories-this is actually what the monarchs of Aden are doing.

Although it seems that only the name has changed, the gap in the core is huge.

Next, Charon withdrew under the signal of the Lord Protector.

Because the Lord Protector then took out his own family letter, obviously to see what happened over there in Fort Sazar.

When leaving the Lord Protector's room, Charon involuntarily noticed the Weilang guards at the door. After all, these tall lizards were too conspicuous.

Compared with when they were just recruited, now the Weilang people have changed their guns, especially the guards here. Now they are supported with thick iron plates-the kind that humans can never carry, but it doesn't matter to the Weilang people.

Now the big lizard is the most conspicuous existence in the entire Wengerburg palace. Together with the original guard of the country, they formed a barrier to protect the Duke of the country.

Charon also noticed that the lizard colleagues who suddenly appeared in the National Guard were very dissatisfied, and wanted to compare with the Weilang people in every aspect.

He heard that Marondo, the captain of the National Guard, doubled his training several times recently, and asked his subordinates to learn all kinds of magic knowledge to prepare for various emergencies.

It's just... These big lizards are obviously indifferent to these provocations - but no one can see what kind of expressions they have.

Speaking of which, Charon still remembered that when the Weilang people entered the city, they caused a lot of panic.

Many people regard these lizards as demons, and some Cliff followers want to shout and kill them.

However, these were all stopped by Bishop Oerkang of Wengerburg. The bishop announced that these large lizards were influenced by the gods, and they were no longer the original lizard demons.

His words did play a considerable soothing role, and everyone still accepted this statement.

And Charon disdains this very much, that guy is nothing more than showing his favor to the protector of the country.

If the protector of the country conflicts with his interests or does not have the status of a divinely favored person, he must have another set of words.

Now Oerkang can be said to be the standard-bearer of the Gongdang (Guogong Party), and it is a passion to fight for the power of the Huguogong in various fields.

The bishop stole all the limelight from him, but Charlene is not someone who cares about these things. It's good for him, at least it can save him some things.

After all, Oerkang has gained a lot from Herme, such as the promotion of Cliff Church's status and property in Aden, these benefits are enough to make the bishop fight for Herme to the death.

The more important reason why Charen is happy to see this scene is that this leader of the public faction is not easy to be at all, and there are a bunch of different factions among Herme's supporters...

Hackland faction, Wengerburg faction, Esenland faction, Vergen faction... There are all kinds of messy small factions. The public party is like a ball of thread that cannot be sorted out. The spies couldn't see what was going on either.

The conflicts within the public party are also very intense. All factions want to gain more benefits, but the reason why this group didn't make a fuss was because the army of Nilfgaard in the south was suppressing the border.

Anyway, after the war, the situation must be very exciting.

After all, the government of the Protector of the Kingdom is a force integrated by the Protector of the Kingdom by relying on his own army and ability after the severance of the Aedian royal family, and its internal relationships are naturally intricate.

Soon, Charoen came to the colonnade of the Wengerburg Palace.

This is a corridor made up of a series of pillars. There are exotic patterns on the pillars and the ceiling. It is said to be from the style of Ou Feier. The use of exotic styles is also one of the ways to show power.
This colonnade was built by King Demavi's father, and he could leave the palace by walking through it. Charon remembered that he had played here when he was a child.

Although he is an illegitimate blood of the royal family, it is still possible to play here. His Majesty the King is very generous.

But this is all in the past, and now the royal family has only one baby legalized from illegitimate children.

And he also defected to the new ruler, and because of this, he became one of the important ministers of Aedirn from a lowly illegitimate blood.

On the colonnade, to his surprise, Charlene found Selchik and Malcorrection walking towards the palace while chatting.

Really, just thinking about the matter of the public party, why did the leaders of the royal party and the neutral faction come here.

The so-called royal party refers to the group of people who are loyal to the royal family, or loyal to the old order and old interests.

The main body of the royal party is the royal knights and the dukes, the most important of which are the royal knights, these knights directly under the king's court in the royal realm, and currently the only reliable heavy cavalry in Aedirn.

This alone is enough for them to occupy an important position in the political situation in Aedirn.

Needless to say, the neutral faction is a group of people who sit on the wall, most of them are bureaucrats from Wengerburg and local forces from the cities of Aden.

These guys don't have much cost for them to make big political bets. Once the car overturns, the whole guy is finished.

So they can only be cautious and neutral, not to offend this or that, just watch from the sidelines.

Anyway, I have done the things explained above, as for the others, hahaha, I will just take a look.

For them, how to get through this unstable period smoothly is the most important thing.

However, Charlene didn't intend to say anything more to them. He had a lot of work and was in a hurry to get things done, so he just nodded to the two important figures in the Wengerburg court and left in a hurry.

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"It seems that Wengerburg is really busy today, and we important ministers passed by one by one."

Looking at the back of Charon leaving, Selchik said,

"After all, I have to report to Lord Protector."

Marcie shrugged, "After all, that kind of thing happened, ha, those idiots were finished so quickly as I expected. I didn't expect those people to be so courageous. Their behavior is really too clumsy. To think that you can still see such a clumsy performance."

"That's why I went to Edelsberg. I don't want to have anything to do with these idiots. Just being with them makes me feel like throwing up."

Mentioning those people, Selchik's face turned cold.

Those people are just stupid and bad, and they act like a bunch of clowns.

Although he knew that this group of people had some big nobles from the royal party behind them to do this kind of thing, the stupidity of this group of people really exceeded his expectations.

From Selchik's point of view, every time he saw these people, Aden was getting closer to the day when the world would be turned upside down.

The White Knight can only hope now that after this incident, those nobles who still have some unreasonable thoughts will calm down and stop making troubles.

"Since you went to the southern border, how is the situation there?"

Seemingly unintentional, Marcie took advantage of the situation and asked about it,
"The surrounding areas of Edelsberg and Rosenberg are relatively good. The reconstruction work of these two fortresses is enough to feed the nearby population, but the situation outside Edelsberg, or outside the town, is very bad. Many people can only say that they are living. In addition, I found that there are some problems with the flow of accounts of relief funds and supplies. I don’t know why the documents are in confusion. The main purpose of my return this time is to ask the Lord Protector to thoroughly investigate the many accounts since the war began, and investigate whether there are any problems.”

"Well, it is a bit exaggerated to investigate so many accounts, Lord Selchik, and you have to think that there are not so many people in the government at present."

Marcius coughed dryly and described his difficulties.

But his true intentions were still well hidden by him.

"I heard from Mrs. Hemei before that the government will continue to expand. I think there will be enough manpower when the time comes. Maybe there will be a thorough investigation of the entire government. I plan to let my people supervise and ensure the investigation authenticity."

"Ahem, cough, you can't check everything, maybe you can find something."

As if he was choking, Marcie subconsciously said this sentence after coughing continuously, and the expression on his face couldn't hold back anymore.

"Yeah, maybe we can find out something."

Selchik looked at Marshall with a mysterious smile.

Well, at this point, Marcius also understands that this time he must lose his car to protect his handsomeness, and everyone must restrain himself when making money in the future.

"Are you really, worth it?"

Seeing Selchik's expression, Marshall felt relieved.

Because the white knight didn't really want to do anything to them, but obviously just wanted to take the opportunity to clean up some corrupt elements he didn't like.

If he really planned to kill them, he wouldn't tell himself these things here.

"I think it's worth it."

Selchik just answered firmly in this way, and he remembered the scenes of freezing and starving to death he had seen.

Although he knew that this would not save many people, but as long as he could save as many as possible, it would make him feel more at ease.

Marcius continued to lament that the good times are really over. First, the rebel nobles in the government were purged, then the Lord Protector stuffed them in, and then Selchik wanted to attack the corruption in the southern border. It's really different from before.

In the past, these civil servants relied on accounting and various word games to eat a lot of money in all parts of Aden.

Not to mention the ease of working every day, but also enjoying government benefits and various legal income, it was a comfortable day.

But now the situation has really changed, the income is getting less and less, and the profit sharing is increasing. If the resources controlled by the government are not increasing, the government has already become a state of fighting for resources. —But now there are indeed signs of such a situation.

If we say that the previous Yadian government was about everyone working together in harmony and getting promoted when the time came, then now there are many things that need to be fought for.

But fortunately, the vacancies are still very large, so the current situation is just that the struggle has become more intense.

Marshall was wondering if he had simply defected to the Lord Protector. Right now, the Lord Protector was constantly active in all areas of Aedian. Anyone with a discerning eye could see where the power in Aden belonged in the future.

However, after a while of entanglement, Marcius still decided not to lead to the Lord Protector easily. Anyway, as the head of Aedirian civil servants, he will win over everyone, and he is safe.

Therefore, it is better to do your own thing honestly, and quietly watch how the situation will develop.

(End of this chapter)