When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 725: Meliati is a bastard?
The blood that oozed from the lead box left intermittent dark marks on the stone bricks.

Stepping on drops of blood, Cosimo walked through the corridor of the palace, but found that all the silver candlesticks originally inlaid on the wall had disappeared, leaving only charred fixing holes.

In the distance, there was the sound of hammers pounding; it was the craftsmen and soldiers prying the last few gold-leaf portraits off the wall.

After standing in front of the audience room for a long time and taking a deep breath, Cosimo knocked on the oak door.

"Come in."

The audience hall, once filled with enamelware and malachite carvings, is now left with only bare plaster walls.

All the porcelain and gold and silver decorations have disappeared, and no one knows where they went.

Genesis III was curled up in a faded brocade velvet chair, and a dull-furred orange cat was curled up on the long table.

As if frightened by the approach of the huge monster, the orange cat curled up on the table suddenly lowered its ears, arched its back, and breathed at Cosimo.

At the table, besides the attendant Viscount Balde, there was a rustic old woman, sitting humbly on the edge of the chair.

The old woman was curled up in the shadow of a pillar, her fingers covered with age spots were nervously rubbing the hem of her coarse linen skirt, and the worn tips of her shoes left two light brown marks on the ground.

When she raised her head and glanced at the lead box, the cloudy whites of her eyes were tinged with jaundice.

It was rare to see such an old woman in the court, which inevitably made Cosimodo look at her a few times.

"Your Highness," Cosimo knelt on one knee and held up the lead box, "the bandits who smuggled sugar and ready-made clothes have been captured."

The moment the lead box was opened, Viscount Ravel's head, with a sneer on his face, appeared in everyone's sight.

Jinigis covered his mouth and nose with a silk handkerchief, and the attendant immediately stepped forward to examine the head.

Cosimo knew that the new king, Genesis, who was a vegetarian, did not like the sight of blood and corpses.

At the same time, because of this, the king's breathing method is only at the ridiculous second level.

But Cosimo naturally did not say these words, he just lowered his head and waited.

The servant leaned over and whispered something in the king's ear. Jinigis immediately laughed and combed the orange cat's frizzy fur with a comb: "Well done, my Bee Sting."

After calming the cat, Genegis took off a gold ring from his hand and threw it to Cosimo: "The war has cost a lot, so I give this to you as a reward first. I will reward you more after you defeat Neidbach."

Looking at the ring on his hand, Cosimo thought again and again, and finally asked hesitantly: "Your Highness, please forgive my rudeness, but the soldiers are asking if their salaries can be paid in one lump sum..."

Jinigis was very frank: "The sugar from the Windmill Land has defeated Leia's power in the Windmill Land. The commercial tax and the city redemption tax have been greatly reduced, and we are short of money.

But it doesn't matter. After defeating Duke Neidbach, I will clear out all the nobles involved, completely revoke the royal favors and fiefs, and auction off these titles and manors to raise funds.

By then, I will pay all the outstanding military salaries and fiefs in one lump sum."

This time it was Cosimo's turn to be surprised. He really didn't expect it to have come to this.
To sell the titles of nobility at will, instead of inheriting them according to bloodline or distributing them to meritorious persons?
Legally speaking, as the king and patriarch of the Blue Bee family, Genegis does have such power, but this is bound to arouse widespread opposition.

Genegis' succession to the throne was already under question, and now its legitimacy is being shaken even further.

Cosimo looked at the gold ring in his hand, feeling mixed emotions.

When Cosimo left, Genegis turned to look at the old woman beside him. Coupeau continued calmly: "Go on." When she spoke, her broken front teeth were exposed, and the sound of leaking air was like passing through an old bellows: "Yes, Your Highness... That night, the fog was so thick that you could squeeze out water, and I went to the back alley with the chamber pot.
The moonlight stretched the shadows very long, and I heard some noises coming from Miss Lulos's room...

I went in to see... Oh my god, the person lying on the bed was not a twelve-year-old girl, but a monster over three meters tall..."

Before she could finish, Balder narrowed his glasses and said, "Do you have any evidence for what you said?"

The old woman hesitated for a long time before she spoke in a whisper: "I don't have any evidence, but I saw it with my own eyes. The little girl turned into a three-meter-tall gorilla..."

"Or do you have any physical evidence?"

"..." Looking at the confused look on the old woman's forehead, Jinigis casually tapped the table with his cane, "Okay, I got it. Come on, go and have a rest first and take care of yourself."

"Maybe it's just the ramblings of a country woman." Balder came closer to Jinigis, "It's not necessarily true."

"Does it matter whether it's real or not? As long as it works, it's fine."

Looking at Balder's blinking eyes, Jinigis said calmly: "Think about it, Vincent was able to become a duke as an adopted son because he married Lulos.

When Lulos gave birth to a daughter, he was considered to be in charge of the dukedom on behalf of her daughter.

Since Lulos didn't go crazy due to the witch disease, but is a witch, and witches cannot give birth to offspring, then where did Meliati come from?
I guess she should be the illegitimate daughter of Vicente or the Duke of Hermash, and it is very likely that she is Vicente's illegitimate daughter.

Why? Duke Hermash was a great knight who finally gave birth to a daughter in his later years.

Later, when he got older, you know that the great knight's Gao Wan would shrink into a raisin due to the potion, and the probability of him giving birth to a daughter was very small.

Then this Meliati is the illegitimate daughter of the adopted son Vicente.

I can't help but ask, if a woman who has no blood relationship with Iris sits on the throne of Duke of Herma Stone or even the Despot of Thousand Valley, will the nobles accept it?

Will the people of the Iris family in Fran be convinced? Will those old-fashioned people in Norn, who value blood ties above all else, still support Meliati?

If Meliati does not have the blood of the previous Norn Chosen King, can she still get strong support from the Norn people? "

The attendant Bard scratched his head and said, "It's already a done deal. She's already a tyrant. What's the point of exposing her?"

Jinigis sneered: "Sometimes reputation is more useful than a sharp sword. This story is both true and reasonable and can gain the trust of many people.

Meliati did not understand the role of status. She used force and spies to suppress everything. Once there was a flaw in her undefeated holy image, people would doubt her.

If there is too much suspicion, even the smallest flaw will be magnified infinitely, as if she has become the flaw itself."

Balder thought about it.

Jinigis asked in a low voice: "I said before that I would send bandits to sneak into the Thousand River Valley to cause damage. Did it succeed?"

Balder shook his head in shame: "Either they were stopped by the bastions and clockwork cannons, or they were found out by the Night Watch and the Cheka."

Jinigis stroked the soft fur of the orange cat and said, "Don't worry. Just watch. Where swords can't penetrate, straw sandals can easily step on it."

(End of this chapter)