king of the castle

Chapter 470 Undercurrent

First of all, there were strange rumors brought by businessmen traveling between Kent Town and Mandos City. It is said that Grand Duke Hamilton, who went to the Lund Peninsula, was recuperating in Kent Town. He seems to have recovered and looks very good. 【】

At the beginning, people didn't believe this kind of legend, but later more and more people spread it, and everyone said it clearly, even where the Duke was injured, when did he arrive in Kent Town, who and so and so and when and where he met His details are very consistent, and others can't help but believe it.

However, everyone who knew that Hamilton was in Kent Town had the same suspicion, that is, why did the Duke not return to Mandos City to recover from his injuries, but rushed to Kent Town farther away?In any case, the conditions in Mandos City are much better than those in Kent Town. It is completely unreasonable for Hamilton to do so.

Every time the audience raises such a question, the businessmen who spread the news will smile mysteriously, and then lower their voices: "Of course there is a reason for this, do you want to know? Come, come, let's find a quiet place place to tell you well”

So the businessman will think that Hamilton was actually cheated by the king's suspicion and sent to die on the dangerous Lund Peninsula. At a critical moment when he was seriously injured and surrounded by undead creatures, it was up to Earl Lee to arrive in time to rescue the Duke and Miss Anna.Earl Lee not only took the risk to rescue the Duke and his daughter, but also wiped out hundreds of thousands of undead creatures. At present, there are only a few undead creatures left on the Lund Peninsula, and this is all thanks to the Earl.

The merchants talked about the whole incident incessantly, and the whole process was smooth, as if they had witnessed the whole process on the battlefield at that time, and it seemed that the merchants had become full-time troubadours, which stunned the audience For a moment, he subconsciously believed their words.

After these businessmen from Kent Town told the whole story, they smiled mysteriously at the audience: "You said, in this case, should the Duke go back to Mandos City to recuperate or go to Kent Town?" What's better?"

"Of course it's a fool to go to Kent Town and return to Mandos City." Every time the audience always responded with the same answer, and then told more people what they heard with great enthusiasm.

It's no wonder that the citizens of Mandos are so excited. It's not that they are not conscious and like to believe and spread rumors.It’s just that the inside story spread by these businessmen is too explosive. It involves so many elements that everyone likes to hear and see, such as royal power struggle, conspiracy and betrayal, heroes and beauties, and undead creatures. It is too embarrassing for these citizens not to spread the word up.

It didn't take long for the citizens of the entire Mandos City to know about this matter. Even when the nobles attended the gathering, some people would mention this matter cryptically and exchange their opinions on this rumor quietly. .

Compared with those ordinary people, the nobles have more resources and know more information, so they can treat this so-called rumor more objectively.

First of all, the fact that the undead creatures on the Lund Peninsula have been greatly reduced has been confirmed by the army guarding the Lington pass.The army reported that the pass had not been attacked by undead creatures for many days, and at the same time sent a scout team to go deep into the Lund Peninsula for three days, and confirmed that there were indeed very few undead creatures on the front line of Galen City. The area has not had time to scout.

At the same time, the pass also confirmed that Earl Roger Lee did lead a team of soldiers into the pass some time ago, and claimed that Duke Hamilton and his daughter Anna were also in the team, and he would take the Duke back to Kent to treat his injuries.

From these two points, it shows that the rumors outside are very likely to be true. Roger may indeed have entered the Lund Peninsula, not only rescued Duke Hamilton, but at least wiped out a large number of undead creatures.

Reminiscent of all the recent chaos in the kingdom, and the "accidental death" of the Minister of Finance, Marquis Anthony, in the palace, all the nobles believe that it is definitely not a rumor, but a fact.

This made all the nobles secretly vigilant.It is true that the Duke of Hamilton is very powerful in the kingdom, but there are also many nobles who are watching every move of the powerful Duke, waiting for him to do anything deviant, so that he can sue the king to seize the power of the Duke.But even under such circumstances, Hamilton has never been caught by anyone, which undoubtedly shows that the Duke is very restrained in his use of power.

But even so, Alonso III actually attacked the Duke.What's more, this attack was deadly. It actually took Hamilton's father and daughter directly to the Lund Peninsula. This was an attempt to wipe out the Hamilton family. Even true political enemies would rarely use such ruthless means.

In doing so, Alonso III not only broke the balance of power between the king and the nobles, but also allowed the nobles to truly realize what kind of person their king was.Some aristocrats who were still trying to fight for a higher position planned to die down, and many timid nobles decided to return to the territory as soon as possible, and the farther away the ruthless king, the better.And those nobles who have no territory are pitiful, they can only stay in Mandos City with fear.I don't know which day the king himself was not pleasing to the eye, so he sent himself to the Lund Peninsula to die.

As for those aristocrats who had followed the lead of the Duke of Hamilton, they were even more disturbed. They left Mandos City with various excuses as soon as they confirmed the news.Some of these people returned directly to their home territory, while others found some safe places to settle down, and all of them were nervously watching the situation.But they all did the same thing, which was to send messengers straight to the town of Kent in an attempt to get in touch with the Duke of Hamilton.

Many nobles from the original Hamilton faction really had nowhere to go, so they went straight to Kent Town.Instead of staying in Mandos City and waiting for the king to attack them, they might as well go to the Duke.Anyway, the two sides are now in dire straits, so it's better to follow Hamilton and gamble for luck.

The aristocrats of the kingdom still maintain a group of harmony on the surface, but there are undercurrents surging in the interior.Many nobles are planning for their own future, hoping to win some benefits for themselves in this turmoil, and take a step back to keep their current benefits.

Although many aristocrats had disagreed with Hamilton's political views before, most of them sided with the Duke this time.After all, Alonso III's behavior this time was too much. Not only did he cross the bottom line that everyone obeyed, but more importantly, he put the nobles at risk, so it was naturally impossible to get everyone's support.

While the nobles were looking for their own way out, the grievances between the king and the duke spread among the people.Different from the rational speculation of the nobles, the people gave full play to their rich imagination on this matter.

It didn't take long for various versions of the saying to be circulated among the people.Because when Hamilton was in charge of the Privy Council, he actually did some good things for the country and the people, so various versions of folk legends sympathize with the duke and put the king on the evil side.

Some of these different versions of the legend say that the king was jealous of the duke's talent, so he found an opportunity to frame him; some said that the king and the duke fell in love with the same woman, and that woman actually liked the duke, so the kingdom took poisonous hands to get rid of the rival; It is also said that Alonso III intends to surrender to Byzos, the old enemy of the Thorne Kingdom, and the Duke tried his best to stop the king's despicable behavior, so he was assassinated.

There is another statement that is the most exaggerated.The person who came up with this version was obviously inspired by the fact that Vettel was disguised as an undead creature, and Alonso III also wanted to use the undead creature to get rid of Hamilton, thinking that the king was also disguised as an undead creature.The reason why the undead creatures want to do this is naturally a terrible conspiracy. They want to turn the entire Thorne Kingdom into a world of undead creatures, and use this as a starting point to rule the entire continent. be persecuted by it.Now all the people of the Thorne Kingdom should take action to overthrow the rule of the undead king and avoid this catastrophe that is about to sweep across the entire continent.

In short, after the merchants from Kent Town spread the "insider news" to Mandos City, various versions of rumors gradually spread in the kingdom, not only made the nobles and civilians panic, even the army had some The morale of the army is unstable.In addition to the kingdom's first-line army, some second-line troops and reserve troops even began to desert.This has not happened in the Thorne Kingdom for nearly a hundred years, which shows how influential these rumors are.

In fact, these businessmen from Kent Town are all subordinates of the big businessman Cage.Under Roger's behest, Cage let the businessmen spread such rumors everywhere.Roger, who has lived on Earth, is well aware of the power of public opinion. Although he and Alonso III have not officially confronted each other, they have already gained the upper hand.

For various reasons, neither the nobles, the army, nor even Massa, the captain of the palace guard, reported these things to Alonso III.In addition, recently the king's attention has been on the safety of the palace and himself, and how to mobilize forces to deal with Roger, so he didn't notice the power of these rumors at first.

However, among the nobles, there are also a few nobles who are absolutely loyal to the king, but they have been isolated by other nobles, so it was very late that they learned that there were so many rumors that were unfavorable to the king.These nobles hurriedly told the news to Alonso III, which made the king furious, and immediately ordered the people to stop talking about all rumors about the king, otherwise they would all be sentenced to death.

Those nobles who were loyal to the king did the same, and hanged several commoners who talked about it that day.Originally, both Alonso III and the nobles thought that this turmoil could end here.However, neither Alonso III nor those nobles expected that things were developing in a worse direction and would soon be out of their control.

Chapter 470 Undercurrent

Chapter 470 Undercurrent surges, arrives at the site