Godsend Field

182 Threat
"Gauss, how's Nero's situation?" Tianci sat in the courtyard and looked at the attic and asked.

"Young Master, Young Master is in a bad mood right now. I have locked myself in the room since I came back. We were kicked out when we went in just now!" Gauss said, looking at the attic worriedly, "Young Master hasn't eaten all day. !"

Tianci sighed, "Actually, I understand Nero's current mood very well. Yesterday, my blood was not fused so that they caught the handle, but today they are clearly picking on the bone in the egg!"

"Master Godsend, Lord Gauss! Let me deliver some snacks to Master Nero!" Si Ni asked carefully, holding a plate of snacks.

Gauss looked at Tianci, and Tianci nodded, "Little Benben, be careful when you go in, if Nero gets angry, don't take it to your heart, he is not fighting against us!"

Si Ni nodded, and carefully walked towards the attic with a snack in her hand.

"Gauss, you know the family better, can you tell me who that elder is?" Tianci asked.

Gauss exhaled, "That elder is called Sanna Kate. He is the former elder of the Kate family and the highest seniority in the family. He is the younger brother of your great-grandfather. Speaking of which, it happened nearly a hundred years ago. , I also heard from my father that Nick Kate, the second patriarch of No.20, had four sons, the most successful of which were the second son Sunda Kate and the third son Sanna Kate. At that time, the second son Sunda was sincere , handles things properly, and the third son, Sanna, is smart and seasoned. The old patriarch Nick Kate often has a lot of trouble choosing which one to be the heir. Later, it was the grandmother who said something that made the old patriarch Nick Kate make a decision. Sanda is the heir. Grandma said that although Sanda is smart and clever, it is difficult for him to achieve great things because of his narrow mind."

"Then does he hate grandpa and us because of this?"

"Oh! I heard that Elder Sanna refused to accept it and had a big quarrel with his grandma, and finally left the capital and came to the fief. Later, when the Patriarch Sanda Kate succeeded to the throne and selected Master Dreis as the young patriarch, he used The identity of the elder of the direct line came forward to stop him, but at that time there were two elders of the direct line who were on the side of the patriarch, so there was no big trouble. When Master Dreis succeeded the patriarch and chose Master Yar as the young patriarch, Sang Na's son is already an elder of a foreign race, and he interfered and made things difficult for Young Master Yar. Later, Master Yar caught his evidence and I personally killed him in front of the elders' courtyard. Only then did the other elders calm down! Alas, only It's a pity that I happened to be with the Duke on important matters when Master Yar was touring the province, so I couldn't protect Master Yar. This time I thought that Sanna would learn his lesson and settle down, but I didn't expect him to be so stubborn! And his grandson is now Elder Andrew Kate of Cal City."

"So that's the case! No wonder he didn't show up sooner or later, but he showed up during Nero's baptism, so he was lucky!"

"That's true! I sent someone to monitor Sanna when I came back this time, and I didn't see anyone he met. I think they had already prepared for all this before we came!" Gauss said.

"Then what can you do now?"

"Young master, I, Gauss, are just a martial artist. Before coming here, the Duke once told me that if you encounter any embarrassing things, you can ask Miss Chenwu. If Miss Chenwu can't solve it, you can hand over this kit to me. The young master opens it, and all problems will naturally be solved! But try not to open it unless it is absolutely necessary!" Gauss took out a delicate kit from the space ring, and sewed the opening with fine thread.Holding it in your hand, you can clearly feel a folded paper inside.

Tianci looked at the kit, "I know that grandpa actually wants to use this baptism to train us, especially my younger brother, so you should keep this kit, and don't let Nero know unless it is absolutely necessary!"

"Yes!" Gauss put away the kit again.

"Crack!" The attic door opened.

Nero and Si Ni walked out, and Nero no longer had the anger he had when he just came back, and seemed calm, "Brother, Gauss!"

"Nile, are you okay!" Tianci asked with concern.

Nero smiled slightly, "Things have already happened. What we have to do now is to find a way to solve the problem. It is useless to be locked in the room alone and sulk!"

Tianci and Gauss were relieved.

Si Ni smiled brightly, "Let's talk, I'll prepare some refreshments for you!"

"Little Benben, by the way, call Chenwu and Gru. There are many people and strength is great. Let's have a good discussion!"

After a while, Chen Wu and Gru quickly walked to the yard, "My lord!"

Hearing that there was going to be a discussion, Qin'er curiously dragged Li'er over to join in the fun.

It doesn't need to be explained that everyone knows about it, Tianci directly asked everyone if there is any good way.Following Tianci's gaze, everyone lowered their heads, and finally focused their gazes on Chen Wu.

"My lord, in fact, we can reverse it. If you want Master Nero to inherit the young patriarch, you must have the command of the Duke's patriarch to be effective. If you want the order of the Duke to be effective, you need the approval of at least one elder, so at present The breakthrough point of the matter is whether we can get an elder to come to our side!" Chen Wu replied, "There are eight elders now, we can analyze these eight elders and see which elder is easier to split."

"Gauss, can you analyze the eight elders with us!"

"Among the eight elders, Elder Osai and Elder De Anji are the elders of the direct line and the brothers of the Duke. According to the past, the elders of the direct line are the right-hand men of the patriarch, escorting the patriarch and helping the patriarch manage the entire family. Barely defending the interests of their foreign clans. But since the Duke, this situation has changed. Because of the turmoil in the country, the Duke is often overwhelmed with government affairs and has no time to take care of family affairs, so slowly let the elders control The real power, especially Elder Orsay, has vaguely become the leader of the elders. Because the two direct elders were viscounts at the beginning, they wanted to rely on the Duke to obtain an earl or even a marquis, but the Duke was serious on the grounds that they had no credit for the empire. Refused, since then they have been at odds with the Duke!"

"The elders of the foreign races all follow the example of Elder Weida in Nasda City. Among them, Elder Hawkingt in Ayton City, Elder Fenler in Dallas City, and Elder Gordon in Tran City usually don't make any big moves. But Kiel Elder Glover of Guise City and Elder Andrew of Carr City absolutely would not approve of this, because when Young Master Yar returned to the fief for baptism, he killed their father, the elder at that time."

Chen Wu listened carefully, and thought for a while, "According to this, Elder Glover and Elder Andrew can be ruled out! In addition, there are Elder Orsay and Elder Weida. They are currently the most powerful elders. If Master Nero inherits The young patriarch will be able to exercise the rights of the patriarch. At that time, Elder Orsay and Elder Weida will inevitably lose all their powers, so they will definitely not agree. In this way, we can only learn from Elder De Angie, Hawking Elder, Elder Fenler, and Elder Gordon are attacking! The question now is where do we attack to make them submit!"

"I've thought about this! I traveled around various cities with Si Ni some time ago, and I have a deep understanding of their taxation situation. Their actual taxation is far from the reported taxation. This not only violates the family rules, but also violates the laws of the empire!" Nero said.

"Master Nero, these are all estimated by us and cannot be used as evidence! If you want to testify clearly, they must get their account books!" Si Ni said softly.

Chen Wu nodded, "Si Ni is right. Before we have conclusive evidence, they can deny it. Only with conclusive evidence can they be forced to submit!"

But how can the ledger be obtained?
Seeing the silence of the crowd, Qin'er suddenly said, "Couldn't it be better to just steal it?"

Chen Wu sighed, "Of course we can steal it, but where should we steal it?"

The ledger is their most important thing, so how can they put it in one place casually?It will definitely be kept in a very confidential place.

"That's not entirely true. If the account is what they want in the end, then we might as well knock the mountain and shake the tiger and see how they react!" Tianci said.

"My lord, what do you mean?" Chen Wu asked puzzled.

"I mean Nero, tomorrow we can visit that elder first and see how they respond!"

Nero nodded, "Since they have already attacked, we can't just wait to be beaten. I also want to visit the elders. In my impression, Elder D'Anji seems to be a little cowardly. Why don't we start with him!"

After lunch the next day, Tianci accompanied Nero to Elder De Angel's other courtyard.

Although the eight elders lived in the elders' house together, their residences were quite different. Elder Orsay and Elder Weida lived closer to the middle meeting hall, while the other elders lived a little farther away, and Elder De'Anji lived the farthest.

Seeing the arrival of Tianci and Nero, Elder De Angel was very surprised.

"Do you two have anything to do with me? If you have something, you can go to the conference hall to discuss it!"

Nero smiled slightly, "My brother and I are here to visit you, Elder De Angel, why is it inconvenient?"

Elder De Anji laughed unnaturally, and stretched out his hand to stroke his short beard, "In this case, invite the two of you!"

Tianci and Ni Luo followed Elder De'Anji into the gate. Although Elder De'Anji's residence was located in a remote place, the building was extremely luxurious. Every table and chair in the house had been meticulously carved, and the surrounding walls were also Exquisite gold silk murals are hung, and the light gauze curtains are extremely luxurious.

"Elder De Anji's residence is truly magnificent!" Tianci casually praised after sitting down.

Elder De Anji was proud of himself. At this time, three beautiful girls walked in lightly, holding three cups of fragrant tea and putting them in front of them.

"I don't know how many purple gold coins are needed to build a house like this?" Nero said lightly, looking at Elder De Angie.

Elder De Anji's face froze for a moment, "These are the accumulated buildings of previous elders, not built by me alone! What's the matter with you two who came to me this time, let me tell you!"

God sent a smile, "Actually, our purpose of coming this time is very simple. We want you to support the decision of the patriarch and support Nero to become the young patriarch!"

"Impossible, it's absolutely impossible!" Elder De Angie roared as he slammed his teacup on the table.

Nero stood up and walked in front of Elder DeAnji, "Nothing is impossible on this continent. You refused because we didn't give you a suitable price. Now my brother and I are here. Before I came, my grandfather said that I could Make all the decisions for him, and my brother is also the actual ruler of the Northwest Province of the Marquis of the Empire, so you can make your request, wealth, title, or status?"

Elder DeAnji looked at Nero vigilantly. He really didn't expect that this sentence came from this young boy, "As the elder of the Kate family, everything should be based on the interests of the family. Our elders are We will not do anything that harms the interests of the family! We..."

"Shut up!" Nero suddenly became furious.

Elder De Anji was taken aback for a moment, and then looked ashamed and angry.

"Family interests? Just because you have the nerve to say it!" Nero was furious, and said sonorously and forcefully, "Kate fiefs seven cities and 83 villages, with a population of 750 million to 160, and the annual commercial tax can be as high as 160 million to 45 purple." Gold coins, besides the commercial tax, you also collect other taxes at the same time. The monthly pure tax can be as high as [-] million purple gold coins, and how much do you report to the Ministry of Finance every month? How much do you report to your grandfather? [-] million! Let me ask you, where did the [-] purple gold coins go?"

Elder De Anji suddenly panicked, as if his tail was stepped on, he jumped up, "How do you know... no, you can't know, you are talking nonsense! You are talking nonsense! You are talking nonsense!"

Nero stretched out his hand and forced Elder De'Ange on the seat, looking straight at Elder De'Ange with a gloomy face, "You are wondering why I know? If I haven't read your accounts, how would I know? ? I came here today just to make a deal with you, I want you to support me, and I proposed to my grandfather to pardon you at that time! Otherwise, you don’t need me to tell you what will happen when the sky is broken!”

Elder De Anji sat on the chair, his eyes kept rolling in his eye sockets, his chest heaved and heaved, and after a while he smiled coldly and said, "The two young masters are so good at running to threaten me? Old man!" After so many years, I almost fell into the hands of two children today. Since you have our corrupt account books, you can openly dispose of our elders according to the clan rules, so why come to beg me in private? Our eight elders have a clear conscience , how come corruption?"

Elder DeAnji regained his strength and stood up angrily, walked to the door, and flicked his long sleeves, "Seeing off the guests!"

Tianci stood up and strode out of the other courtyard, while Nero walked up to Elder DeAnji and said coldly, "You can do it yourself!"

Walking out of the other courtyard, Nero looked disappointed, "It's a pity that this De Angel was not bluffed! It will be even more difficult for others!"

Tianci said with a smile, "Hehe Nero, our purpose of coming this time is to shake the mountain. Although Elder De Anji is still very calm on the surface, but you can't find his heartbeat is extremely fast. I'm afraid he is still panicking now!"

"Brother, why do you want us to knock the mountain to shake the tiger? And now they even know about our secret investigation of their corruption!" Nero asked puzzled.

Godsend smiled mysteriously, "Nile, you can walk around with me now. With my current situation, without you by my side, I'm afraid I won't even be able to move a single step!"

Within a moment, Elder De Anji ran out of the other courtyard in a panic, towards Elder Orsay's residence.

Tianci and Nero followed slowly, maintaining the appearance of 500 meters.

"Brother, why do I fail to understand you more and more! It's this time, and you're still in the mood to visit the garden!" Ni Luo looked at Tianci and said, and followed Tianci helplessly.

"Fourth brother, something is wrong, something is wrong!" Panting heavily, Elder De Angie rushed into Elder Orsay's study and shouted in panic.

Elder Orsay was reading the book, his face darkened, "Dange, what happened to make you yell like this, is there any rules?"

Elder De Anji stretched his head to look outside the door, and found no one carefully closing the study door, "Fourth brother, the big thing is really bad, today those two bastards ran to my other courtyard to threaten me, they have already started We are investigating the private retention of Zijin coins! And...and you even know the numbers!"

Elder Orsay's eyes widened suddenly, and he stood up abruptly, "Do they know the numbers?"

"Yes! They even reported to me, saying that we have intercepted at least 45 purple gold coins every month. They also said that they have read our accounts!"

"Nonsense!" Elder Orsay said with a gloomy face, "If they had seen it, they wouldn't have said it was 45!"

Elder De Angie remained silent. These accounts have always been kept by Elder Orsay. "Fourth brother, how much do we have every month? Are the accounts still there?"

Elder Orsay stared at Elder De'Ange with both eyes, and Elder De'Ange immediately retreated to the side.

Opening the door, Elder Orsay strode out of the other circle, followed by Elder DeAnji.

All the guards who were in charge of guarding along the way saluted Elder Osai one after another. Elder Osai stared straight ahead. The two elders went straight to a house on the left side of the elders' courtyard. This house was where everyone was baptized that day. In the family ancestral hall, tall bronze statues of ancestors stand majestically.

"Elder!" More than a dozen guards in front of the house saluted Elder Orsay.

"Get up, I'm going to pray to the ancestors, you stay here, no one is allowed to come in and disturb me!" Elder Osay said seriously.

"Yes!" The guards said in unison.

Elder Orsay pushed the door open and closed the door. Elder DeAnji and his personal guards stood guard at the door together.

Elder Orsay walked into the house, first bowed his head respectfully to the bronze statue of the ancestor, then stood up and walked to the back of the bronze statue, there was another very inconspicuous bulge under the boot behind the left leg of the bronze statue, Elder Orsay Press the bump.

There was a soft moving sound, and a blue brick suddenly bounced off the ground behind the bronze statue.Elder Orsay struggled to pick up the blue brick, revealing a hole on the ground, inside a small wooden box.Elder Orsay raised the wooden box, opened it, and several accounts appeared in the box.

Godsend eyes lit up, accounts!

Elder Orsay closed the wooden box with a cold snort, and instead stretched out his hand to push aside the soil in the cave, took out a long strip of gemstone from inside, walked to the third portrait at the back, lifted it up, and on the white wall behind was exposed A small hole, the same size and shape as the strip of gems just now.

Insert the gemstone into the small hole, turn it, and there is a buzzing sound, a fist-sized space is exposed on the wall, and seven space rings are placed inside.Elder Orsay looked at the ring with a proud smile, took out one and put it on his hand, moved his palm slightly, and a stack of ledgers appeared in his hand, and Elder Orsay flipped through it casually, "45, hahaha, 45! I really want to be old To tell you the truth, it is actually 65, hahahaha!"

(End of this chapter)