I, the prince in distress, send money

Chapter 25: Run Away, Prince (I)

It was dark and the moon was rising. Vernal, who had just finished a sumptuous dinner, sat tiredly in his study, enjoying the massage from his maid.

As the helmsman of an empire, Vernal was exhausted.

The great nobles in the Bohemian Empire, the powerful officials in the imperial bureaucracy, and the imperial generals on the border are all tough guys.

It is not easy to be the helmsman of a big ship, and it is even more troublesome when the ship is old, leaky and drafty.

For example, today, Vernal received a report that the military had a large-scale conflict with the Retalia Empire army in the Hendari border province and had lost the battle.

A conflict? And a loss?

Why did the conflict occur, who fought whom, and how did they lose?

The army's report did not mention the above issues at all, and only said, "We lost, the emperor, please send us money quickly to make up for the losses!"

Could Vernal just admit it blindly?

No, so this matter is not over yet. Vernal needs to send an envoy to the Hendali front to investigate and inquire about the cause and process of this conflict.

Vernal had actually anticipated that this matter would eventually come to nothing, but he had to express this attitude so as not to let the generals on the front line become too unscrupulous.

No matter what, you have to hand over a scapegoat for me.

Since you won the battle, I have nothing to say. I don't care whether it was you who took the initiative to attack or the Letelia military launched a surprise attack. However, since you lost the battle, you have to accept the punishment.

In order to deal with this matter, Fornal spent all his energy and time on it. He had to deal with those powerful nobles in the Council of Nobles before he persuaded the Minister of Finance to approve the project and allocate funds.

The status of the Bohemian Emperor is supreme, but his power without sufficient prestige may not be absolute.

Because he was tired physically and mentally, when Vernal got his reward and Meredith asked for a meeting, he was extremely unhappy.

But no matter how unhappy you are, you still have to do your job. Responsibilities and rights are on your shoulders. If you give up your responsibilities, your rights will also leave you.

Therefore, Vernal summoned the palace steward.

"Your Majesty, the truth behind yesterday's assassination in Noble City has been uncovered."

Meredith said as she bent down and raised the paper in her hand. The maid standing in the room quickly walked over to catch it and turned to hand it to Vernal.

The emperor picked up the paper and looked at it for a few seconds, a hint of anger appearing on his tired face.

"Is there a traitor among the peace doves?"

"Yes."

"Who is attacking my peace dove?"

"We're still investigating, but we've already identified a rough target. Throughout the empire, the only nobles capable of accomplishing this are those few."

Meredith paused, waiting for the Emperor to comprehend the situation before continuing.

“The assassins who tried to assassinate Grand Prince Bagniya died this afternoon from poisoning of unknown causes. Apparently, they were all assassins who had taken poison before the assassination attempt began.

According to my investigation, I found that two assassins appeared next to the little prince of Bagnia two days ago and stayed in his house..."

"What a boring frame-up."

Vernal scoffed, seeing through such a childish and obvious trick.

"Is the mastermind behind this plotting to drive a thorn into the heart of the Grand Prince of Bagniya, or is he planning to play tricks on me and mock my plan to support the Bagniya royal family?"

Meredith quickly lowered her head, not daring to respond to the question.

"This evening, I sent people to search for and monitor the little Prince of Bagnia, but we were too late and he had already disappeared."

"Run away, or died?"

"It's not certain yet."

"Pity."

Vernal sighed.

"That Bagnian musician is a mediocre person with no ambition or vision. I was thinking there was a backup plan to replace him, but unexpectedly, the backup plan is gone..." "Do you need to investigate?"

"Don't worry about this for now."

Vernal waved his hand, rejecting Meredith's suggestion.

He is just a little prince of Bagniya, his life or death is of no importance.

"The most important thing now is to dig out the other unstable factors within the Dove of Peace. I don't want to see another one happen."

"clear."

"Also, I need you to select reliable people to immediately and secretly go to the Hendali Province to obtain intelligence about the border conflict from the local Peace Dove branch. I want to know why the army would go to war with the Retalia border troops in winter, which is not suitable for war.

There must be something wrong here.”

"Yes."

……

"Ah, so you've escaped from Neama already?"

Chris, sitting in a rickety carriage, leaned out of the window and looked at the outline of the Neama city wall that was gradually disappearing behind him, feeling confused.

I ran away immediately, but no one paid any attention to me. Am I thinking too much and being too self-indulgent?
Chris scratched his head, thinking about this embarrassing question.

Chris had a gloomy face, but in this convoy consisting of more than ten four-wheeled carriages and more than fifty people, some people were cheering and excited.

"It's finally started, we did it, mate!"

Behind the carriage that Chris was riding in, Connie, wearing a cloak, was so excited that she suppressed her voice and expressed her joy to Lin Ruoyu beside her.

Lin Ruoyu had a blank expression on his face. He found it hard to understand Connie's excitement.

Although the main storyline was advanced, the assassination mission was not completed. Chris even fled Neama as a refugee. The start was difficult. Why was this female NPC so excited?

Players have reason to be excited, because as long as they can be resurrected, no matter how difficult the game plot is, it is not a big problem.

Therefore, Lin Ruoyu found it difficult to understand Connie's feelings.

In fact, not only Lin Ruoyu found it difficult to understand, but Isaac, who was riding in the same carriage with Chris, listened carefully to the voice behind him, then turned his head and gave Chris a wry smile.

"I'm sorry...I didn't take good care of my daughter."

Although he didn't know what exactly happened, after listening to his daughter's somewhat crazy words, Isaac roughly knew that this matter must be related to her.

He knew his daughter wanted to be a superior person, but he didn't expect her obsession to be so deep.

There are fifty people in the merchant caravan. Except for ten players, twenty of the other forty or so people are Isaac's old friends, members of his smuggling team, and old brothers who have been with him through thick and thin.

Even though they knew that this trip was very dangerous, they followed Isaac without hesitation.

The remaining twenty people were Connie's young friends.

Isaac didn't know how his daughter managed to convince so many young people to work for her and follow her.

As a smuggler and an incompetent father, Isaac had long ago deliberately kept a distance from his daughter, not letting outsiders know about their relationship, so as to avoid implicating her if he was caught.

Therefore, he really didn't know what his daughter had experienced over the years.

"Don't blame her, it's my problem."

Chris leaned back.

"Where do we go now?"

"Let's leave Neyama first and find a place to camp before ten o'clock. Neyama is very peaceful within a hundred kilometers. It will be dangerous outside this area. We must plan our next route.

As for the destination... let's go to Bagnia. Apart from Bagnia, we can't go to Letelia because according to the merchants who came to Neama, a war will start at the border between the two countries as soon as spring comes.

According to our schedule, we will arrive at this time, which is not safe..."

(End of this chapter)