Warlords of the witcher world

Chapter 154 One Year Later
Not long after finishing talking with Chape, Herme left Novigrad.

He has stayed in this free city long enough and experienced many things, it is time to go back.

When Herme left, almost thousands of people came to see him off in Novigrad. Some people here were really grateful to the Lord Protector for saving the city, and some were forced by the orders of the Five Great Gangs and the Eternal Flame. come.

But no matter what, when the Vergen sailed out of the port of Novigrad, there were countless people in the port waving to the Lord Protector, and various colored ribbons were hung on the tower to express the enthusiasm of the people of Novigrad.

Seeing this enthusiastic scene, Duke Protector was deeply moved.

Although Aedirn was far away from Novigrad, it was difficult for him to turn this prestige into real political interests, but the situation was on his side.

In the next few years, the north will usher in another drastic change. As long as he seizes that opportunity, maybe the entire Novigrad can fall into his hands at once.

In this way, the Lord Protector left Novigrad and embarked on the road back to Aedirn.

Also benefiting from Novigrad are the witchers of the school of Griffins, though they do not travel with the Lord Protector.

The Griffin School gained a lot from this Novigrad incident, money, prestige, and most importantly, the expansion of contacts.

The Griffin of Elam was able to become the guest of honor in the courts of various kingdoms in his era, largely due to his good at dancing and marketing.

Elan got acquainted with the leaders of the five major gangs and the Archbishop of the Eternal Flame. Although it was largely because of Herme's face, once they knew each other, they knew each other. This allowed the Griffin School to obtain many work orders.

In a big city like Novigrad, there are countless monsters in the sewers, and no one is willing to clean up the dirt, so it is undoubtedly appropriate for a demon hunter to come.

In fact, if it weren't for Herme's face, they wouldn't have gotten these jobs.

The gangsters and the church don't care at all about how many water ghosts are in the city's sewers and how many unlucky people who stray into it will be killed.

The new archbishop, Chapei, intends to change a little bit, but the inertia will be difficult to change for a while.

Of course Elan knew this well, so he planned to lead the school to do a better job. As for why, on the one hand, it was to return Herme's face, and on the other hand, it was to reverse the reputation of the witcher.

Elam cleverly titled their work "Always the Grace of the Lord Protector of Aedirn and the Lord of the City", and the exploits of the witchers come after it.

It has to be said that this is very sad, but Elan is a realistic person.

What happened in the school castle made him cautious. Elan knew that if he wanted to restore his reputation as a witcher in the safest way, he could only put himself under the will of the powerful as much as possible.

From this point of view, the demon hunters are still the mutant killers who only use money to kill monsters. They just become mutant killers who can do good deeds. They go to the sewers to kill monsters for ordinary people. At least they can give people a good impression.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Elan knows that the journey is very difficult, but he must go on.

Finally, they were also given a job to assist in the arrest of Dagan followers when necessary.

This is incidental. After the catastrophe, Dagan believers basically jumped into the water and escaped with the murlocs.

In short, the Novigrad matter is over.

And as the old saying goes, some things end, but others are beginning.

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XNUM X Year X NUM X Month.

Unknowingly, time passed silently, and a year passed like this.

In the north, the influence of the war has basically been eliminated by time, the famine riots in various places are becoming less and less, and the society is returning to the peace of the past.

Thanks to the tax exemption policies introduced by various countries, the society has entered a new growth and prosperity.

The northern society that has experienced the war is glowing with new vigor and vitality, and the land that has been traumatized by the war is recovering.

This is undoubtedly beneficial to the north, and it can be said that all northerners are happy to see important sights.

Everyone knows that the southern empire is still sharpening its sword.

From time to time, news of friction from the border between North and South Sintra warns everyone that Nilfgaard is ready to go.

However, these things have nothing to do with ordinary people for the time being. What they need to do is to take advantage of this development and live a good life.

In Vengerburg, the quintessence of Aedirn has been completely restored to its former prosperity.

Outside the city walls, one piece after another of arable land is now full of food, and the crops are growing vigorously. Farmers are tending their crops in the fields, and in the distance are windmills turning gently in the breeze.

The road has been completely restored to law and order, and recovery has come, and now there is always a constant stream of people, horses, and carriages on it.

As the capital of Aedirn, which annexed Kaedwen, the prosperity of this city has welcomed a new wave of increase with the expansion of its territory, and there are many people coming and going.

The Lord Protector of Aedirn moved many wealthy Kaedweni citizens and merchants here, and a lot of nobles were also brought here.

The increase in the urban population naturally led to the demolition of most of the automatically formed slums in the cities and the construction of houses.

As for the poor people who were driven away, in Wengerburg at the foot of the king, the ruler still had to face. They also received a good amount of compensation, and they could buy land outside the city, build houses, or simply go to other cities to live.

Today's Wengerburg is more prosperous than it used to be, and there will always be a large number of people looking for opportunities to come here.

They either worked hard in this city, or made a fortune successfully and became a part of this city.

However, the latter is rare.

Now, on the road outside Wengerburg, a group of Cossacks was escorting some similarly dressed men to the capital.

They were led by a woman, a young and beautiful woman.

This person has short hair, and his eyes are black, the same as his hair.

She exuded a strong stern aura, which made many people who had evil thoughts after seeing his pretty face quickly dismiss their thoughts, or hide those thoughts deeper.

And seeing these people, people started whispering.

"Finally they caught these guys. Damn it, they snatched one of my uncles."

"These savages from Harkland just don't know the rules. It's long overdue."

"By the way, why is the leader a woman?"

"You can see that she came from another place. If you are from Wengerburg, you will definitely know the identity of that lady. She is Katya, the wife of the Lord Protector!"

Yes, the leader of this team is Katya, the wife of Duke Protector.

As always, Katya was dressed in black, with the same black leather cap and black gloves on her slender fingers.

However, what is more noticeable is her armament. She has a musket on her back, a spring-wheel pistol on her waist, and two beautiful small bags containing bullets and flames respectively. Next to the pistol are hand axes and daggers. There is also a machete on the belt.

It can be said that this person has armed himself to the teeth, as if he is always ready to step on the battlefield.

Katya came from the south, and the men in chains behind her were the reason she went south.

And this matter, that can be a long story.

During the Second Northern War, the southern Aedirn of Edelsberg and Rosenberg were decimated by Nilfgaardian armies.

Even after the war, through the exchange of prisoners, many people who were captured by the Southern Empire were exchanged, but the South is still sparsely populated, and a large number of ruins are waiting for people to take over.

In order to solve this problem, Heme began to encourage the Cossacks to immigrate to South Aden.

This has indeed achieved very good results. The ancestors of the Cossacks went to Hackland to escape taxation. Now they can return to the rich land where their ancestors lived and continue to enjoy tax exemption. Naturally, countless people responded, and The Cossack Ataman migrated with his group of followers.

Cossacks from Harkland quickly filled the population gap in South Aedirn, but this also brought new problems.

The Cossacks lived in an extremely unstable society. The normal state of this society was looting, war and killing, and they naturally brought this set over.

After gaining a firm foothold in South Yadian, this group of people began a series of operations such as looting villages and robbing business travellers.

The local Adian people are generally oppressed by the Cossacks. The Cossacks often go to their villages to act recklessly and rob them of their food and women.

For these Cossacks, this is part of life, and they take it for granted.

This caused an extremely bad impact on public security. The reckless activities of the Cossacks almost completely destroyed the security of South Yadian, and the entire Yadian complained about it.

This had serious political ramifications, too serious for Wengerberg to ignore.

In fact, noble officials oppressing the people are commonplace things on the mainland. Don't make it too big and everyone will ignore it. Anyway, "this is life".

But it is unacceptable for the Cossacks to do this, no matter in terms of prestige or actual benefits, this is unacceptable.

So, after taking in a lot of information, the government of the Lord Protector of Vengerburg decided to solve the problem.

After a long thought, Herme finally decided to send Katya to solve the problem.

Katya is the most suitable person to solve this problem. As the daughter of Hetman and the famous ataman of Hackland, she is suitable in status and ability to carry out this matter.

And Katya is also willing to go. She has lived in Wengerburg for almost a year. Although the life here is much better than that in Hackland, she is still not used to it.

As Gettleman's daughter, what she hopes is to run around and ride a galloping life instead of being a lady with a vase in a gorgeous palace.

Katya has never relaxed her bow and horse practice, and her war gang has always been placed by her side.

After receiving the order from her husband, Katya naturally took her people to the south to deal with the disobedient Cossacks.

Katya did play a huge role. When the daughter of Hetman stood there, most of the Cossacks obediently obeyed her authority. Even the pricks were defeated by Katya with the Cossack tradition lowered his head.

There are all kinds of competitions in the Cossack tradition. It can be said that Katya has practiced on these things since she was a child, and she is very familiar with them.

And more importantly, Katya can call nearby garrisons at any time, and her battle gang is not a weak force, so it should not be too easy to suppress the Cossacks.

The more important role of the identity of Gettleman's daughter seems to give you a step down.

After the Cossacks were subdued, the next step was to arrest people when they should be arrested, fine them if they should be fined, and send the captured prisoners to Wengerburg for sentencing.

That's why the people were so happy when they saw this group of people being arrested. During this period of time, they were used to all kinds of Cossack's domineering and lawless behavior, and their attitude should have been taken care of long ago.

Now that they are finally in charge, they are naturally very happy.

Seeing so many Cossacks being captured and sent to Wengerburg, everyone's favorability towards the Lord Protector's government is also increasing.

Everything looks perfect, the villain is punished, but is everything... really what it seems?

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"Okay, according to what you said, I tried to give hints to those people as much as possible. Fortunately, most people are quite upright and know what to do. I really don't understand. I can only do what I want to do." What to do."

In the residence of the Lord Protector in Wengerburg, Katya is talking to her husband, Herme the Protector.

Katya also took off her black robe by the way and hung it on a hanger.

The official residence of Duke Huguo is a very ordinary three-story building with a small garden attached.

It used to belong to a nobleman, who was later deprived of all his property because of his participation in the rebellion, and then this small building was used by the Lord Protector as his home in Wengerburg.

As for the Wengerburg Palace, of course it belongs to Her Majesty Baldwin, but that Majesty only lives in a small room in the palace, and the other rooms of the palace have basically become bureaucratic offices.

"It's been hard work, Katya."

Hemei gave his wife a hug. He just came over from the palace, which is the political center of the Kingdom of Aedirn, where the Guardians work on fair days.

However, the administrative pressure on the Lord Protector has been reduced a lot now. As he once swore, after returning to Wengerburg, he will decentralize power.

A large amount of administrative power was handed over to the dwarf Dunwa. Hemei only retained the power of adjudicating major affairs and appointing personnel. As for the military, he was still the highest military officer, but a large number of miscellaneous tasks in the army were handed over to Kanlai. Chicky.

One of these two is Hemei's old team, a direct descendant of the direct line, and the other is his township party. They are extremely reliable people.

"However, is this necessary? Since you didn't plan to do anything to them in the first place, why do you want them to have a symbolic sex with a few people with bad reputations?"

Katya's way of thinking is still largely Hackland's way of thinking, robbing and killing people is not a thing at all.

From her point of view, Hemei was just looking for trouble and asked herself to run away. She thought she could go on a killing spree, but it turned out that most of the time it seemed like a formality.

But she is still very satisfied. This trip gave her the feeling of running on the grassland. She has always liked this feeling.

"I have to come up with an explanation. This is not Hackland, Katya, you still haven't turned your mind around."

Holding his wife's hand, the two sat on the edge of the bed, Herme's fingers brushed across Katya's shoulder.

"And this time it's not that they have to pay a lot of money. This punishment is already heavy enough, and you still slaughtered a few, which is enough to make them calm down. In fact, if it weren't for the impact of those things they did, I would They don’t even want a symbolic prisoner, these scumbags who dare to do anything for their own boss, those Cossack nobles still attach great importance to it, such an easy-to-use chamber pot is hard to find.”

Herme drew circles on his wife's delicate and beautiful collarbone, and as he moved, Katya's face became more and more flushed.

In order to deal with this matter, she had left Wengerburg for a month. For a couple like them who are young and full of desire for each other's bodies, now, those things are short of a trigger.

As for matters in the south, Herme's attitude was very simple.

The Cossacks were servicemen he brought in, and as servicemen, he had to take care of them.

He would not do anything that would kill his own power for the sake of fairness and justice. No ruler would do such a thing.

So, handing over some chamber pots means nothing more, and the previous things will be written off, and it will be fine to practice more in the future.

In this continent, service personnel have privileges, but this privilege is limited.

Most importantly, don't do those outrageous things, the repercussions are terrible and everyone will be offended.

After this matter was settled, Herme also breathed a sigh of relief. When the time came, those who should be beheaded would be beheaded, and those who should be sent to prison would be considered over.

He also gained a lot in this matter, made a huge sum of money from the Cossacks, and set the rules for the lawless Cossacks.

Of course, he knew very well that there must be dishonest Cossacks who wanted to commit crimes, but that didn't matter. He asked the nearby garrisons to prepare, and at that time he had to use human heads to create a deterrent.

Then, Herme thought of other aspects.

Now the Kingdom of Aden is extremely stable, and Aden has returned to its former prosperity.

And Kaedwin has completely calmed down after quelling several small-scale rebellions in the past year, and the Lord Protector can further transform the country.

Kaedwen's original system has basically been loosened, and the Lord Protector can now shape the country according to his own will.

Today's Aden is very good, very good. It can be said that it is fully ready for the next round of war and further unification.

But it is a pity that the opportunity still needs to wait, and it is not advisable to start a war rashly.

For Herme, timing is now more important.

But, he didn't have any worries about it. Speaking of which, a certain white-haired witcher should be in Kaer Morhen by now.

The wheel of fate is about to start spinning again.

Thinking of this, Herme laughed, which undoubtedly showed that the north will soon be boiling.

And just as Hemei was thinking about that moment, he heard his wife's suppressed voice.

"Herme."

Then he saw the flushed face, and Hermi smiled.

"Yes, yes, ma'am, I understand."

(End of this chapter)