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If he had not nominally maintained the existence of the old principalities after the signing of the merger treaty, he would not even know where to find a basic administrative team.

Like Miragliano, Al supported the Field and other families who had served him as white gloves in the war, and at the same time directly stationed a legion in this important city to control it. Only in this way could he have a good grasp of this once dominant principality.

As for the original Prince Rodrigo, Al, out of a mentality of having fun, has always kept him and his older beautiful wife "by his side". Although there are rumors and romantic scandals everywhere, saying that Al is a dragon and a phoenix, and a husband and wife are together, but in fact, at least for now, he has not done anything to this pair of noble captives, for the time being;

After the merger of the two countries, all duchies and city-states abolished titles such as "City Prince" and "Commercial Prince" and changed them to "Duke" like the commercial city-states of Marienburg and Bateau.

In principle, each of the seven duchies has a "Duke" elected by the parliament to represent the duchy in loyalty to El. The Duke has the power and responsibility to command local troops, promote the agenda of the parliament, supervise the governance of the duchy, and implement El's will.

With Al's endorsement, their power is much more secure than that of the "princes" in the past who were easily overthrown by hostile forces, but at the same time, they have to serve Al.

This is actually equivalent to Aiur actively centralizing power for the Tyrells, using his authority to create seven tyrants in Tyrell. Although they are nominally nominated by local councils, he has the supreme power to deny the duke candidates or directly dismiss the current duke. In other words, these seven dukes are essentially tools used by Aiur to control the local areas.

El was not worried that these elected people would betray him. They were in great power, and if they got the support of the locals, they would be much more likely to rise up than the loose, passionate patriots who launched uprisings. According to the system, the dukes had to meet with El frequently and have face-to-face contact with the Eternal Chosen. It could be said that they were walking around naked all day long. The power of the Five Seals would sooner or later make these people completely submit physically and mentally - in that way, they would become an extension of El's will. He could even manipulate these seemingly "local" dukes to carry out a purge of those who did not listen to the Golden Palace. In the end, it would be his own people who would bear the blame, just like the serious conflict between the rich and the poor in the countryside of Tirell due to his strategy. But El could still rule everything with the image of a perfect, great and glorious monarch.

These methods are a little bit despicable.

But there is no way, because it was Aiel who led the army to fight from north to south, instead of the greenskins fighting from south to north. Then Aiel was invited by the neighboring country and led troops to rescue, and finally expelled the greenskins successfully, replicating the story of Margarita?

In Margarita, the subordinates were afraid that Al would catch a cold, so they considerately gave him a white robe;

If the Tyrells could be so considerate and give him another yellow and red robe, he wouldn't mind.

This way of ruling with magic and treating the people under his rule as potential enemies and targets for killing was not something Al liked, but he had no choice. After all, this was a land with millions of people, and they were more or less suspicious and hostile towards him.

He will eventually give up these means, and if everything goes well, then perhaps the Tyrells will not realize this until the end, but that will only happen after the Tyrells, like the Estalias, sincerely support him and truly regard him as their monarch.

Until then...

In the Black Castle of Miragliano.

Members of the Sixth Legion wearing blue hats and the Gemini symbol, as well as the wisent beasts in long robes and the members of the Council of Scholars wearing the All-Seeing Eye, were constantly coming in and out of this place, busy as they were.

In order to obtain Al's forgiveness and a promise, Visconti has given up the largest compensation they can offer and begged for Al's mercy.

That is, they have been operating on the throne of the prince for nearly four generations, with an intelligence network spread throughout the country of Tyrell, as well as from the New World to the border princes.

The name "Octospider" is well-deserved. If it had not encountered a prince whose brain overheated and failed at a critical moment, and an opponent like Aiel who came from heaven, I am afraid that under different circumstances, the Greenskin War would have ended with the destruction of Estalia. Then, if the country was restored with difficulty under the interference of Bretonnia, the Empire, and the elven reinforcements, Tyrell's massive westward expedition at this time might really have achieved some achievements.

Then the Visconti could also use this prestige to unify the forces within the principality and complete the transformation into a preliminary formal country rather than a loose federation in this generation.

pity.

Chapter 89: The Disobedient Marquis and his Wife

"The east wind blew again last night in my small building, and I could not bear to look back at my homeland in the bright moonlight"

"The carved railings and jade windows are still there, but the king has changed"

"How much sorrow can one have? It is like a river of spring water flowing eastwards."

The emperor's mood when he wrote this poem may be consistent with Rodrigo's psychological state during this period.

feeling of sadness.

Melancholy.

exotic.

Depression.

It's probably something like this.

Even though the treatment he received was much better than what he had expected in the worst case scenario after entering the conqueror's camp, the young Rodrigo was still filled with resentment over the destruction of his country, the loss of his family, the failure of his ambitions, and the fact that he and his wife had to live under someone else's roof...how could such resentment be alleviated by a temporary compromise?

As expected, after Rodrigo surrendered in women's clothing, the Double-Headed Eagle disclosed the provocative letter sent by Castle Black to the Tyrells. This made the Tyrells, who were already at a disadvantage in the war because they had taken the initiative to provoke the dispute, even more speechless about the result of their defeat. Aiur could just let his soldiers plunder in Tyrell.

So people began to hate his arrogance and regarded him as the biggest culprit who started the war.

Rodrigo Visconti.

The "Milagliano" after his surname had been crossed out by the people of Micheng. Now the first duchy was governed by a coalition of six families represented by Field. Under their promotion, the people of Miragliano had begun to publicly blame the prince for the cause of the war and all the consequences it caused, calling it:

"Rodrigo's Folly"

Or "Visconti's Folly".

Under Al's deliberate actions, although the prince and his wife were detained in his entourage, they were not completely cut off from the outside world. They still had court attendants and servants outside who could pass on information and intelligence for them. When Rodrigo learned that the people of Milan had begun to hate the Visconti family because of him, according to the report of the supervisor, the prince at that time:

"He covered his face and cried, saying that he had no face to see his ancestors and intended to jump into the water. He asked his wife to consider their friendship and implore Your Majesty to allow him to collect his body and return home to thank his fellow villagers. Later, his wife persuaded him to sit and weep silently."

Al laughed.

After laughing, he sighed in a fake manner:

"Duke Anle...well, the king has followed me on the southern expedition for many days, and he can't help but miss his hometown. I sympathize with him deeply." So he ordered someone to go to Black Castle to pack up two sets of furniture and utensils used by the prince and his wife, and send them to the emperor as soon as possible to "present" them to the prince and his wife in order to ease the prince's homesickness.

As for the results, Al didn't know, but the prince's mood did "improve" a lot, and he took the initiative to bring his beautiful and virtuous wife to "thank" Al for the gift.

As for the monitor's report:

Upon receiving this "gift from home", the prince initially showed sadness, then anger, and then fear, fearing that Al would further humiliate or even kill him;

His wife Isabella comforted him and said that since Al gave him the equipment of the Black Castle, maybe he wanted to send him back to his country in the future and establish a puppet. In that case, at least he could keep his position as prince, and the Visconti foundation would not be completely defeated by Rodrigo's generation.

He also praised Ai'er for his extraordinary talent, extraordinary talent, and broad-mindedness, and he embraced the Southern Kingdom. He said that such a wise ruler was destined to establish a foundation in the future. It was not unfair for me to lose. As long as I serve him sincerely, I will never owe him anything... I guess he said this to the monitor.

Al pretended not to know.

The person who came to bring him the message was none other than the Demon of Pleasure, Valentine of Cruelty. Because this guy was too idle. During Margaretta's reign, she was nowhere to be found every day. When Aiel went on the Eastern Expedition against Tyrell, he asked her to accompany the army in the hope that she could play a role. However, the whole thing went too smoothly and there was no room for her to play a role, so he just let her monitor the captured Tyrell nobles.

As a great demon of pleasure, his target is the great keeper of secrets of the Slaanesh camp. It is a waste of talent to face a group of mortals. If a K-series person received such a task, he would probably either chop off the heads of these people and bring them back, or want to chop off Al who gave him the next task.

But Valentin didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Instead, he enjoyed it.

It seems that sniffing out gossip is a woman's nature, even if she has become a demon.

Al showed a certain amount of respect to this "interesting" prince couple, and intentionally saved the Visconti family from being wiped out by the six major families and their enemies from all over Tyrell, allowing the latter to retain a certain amount of strength. He also did not publicly state how he would punish them, otherwise Rodrigo's current title should be "former prince" or "deposed prince".

Of course, in Al's eyes, he is no different from the "Lord of Jiangnan" and the "Marquis of Disobedience". He is kept as a plaything for fun.

After all, the fact that the man dressed as a woman and went out to surrender did amuse Al.

This aroused Al's interest in "observation", and he tried to take another look at this legendary couple, and to stay with them to see if he could have some more fun.

But the board will definitely fall eventually.

It is impossible not to deal with it, because one of the banners raised by Aiel is "legitimate revenge". At the national level, it has been settled on the grounds that the two countries will no longer be pursued after the merger of the two countries to form the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. However, how to deal with the prince and his wife who directly humiliated him is an issue that everyone in Tyrell is concerned about.

It was just put in the back, otherwise he would use it as an excuse to deal with the Tyrells after the beating, and they would think: It was the Visconti and the Miraglianos who provoked you, you have already dealt with them and you come to fight me! Fuck you!

This kind of "wronged" idea.

So Al deliberately left the issue of how to deal with this couple, who were already severely polarized in the eyes of the Tyrells, until after the war.

This incident, like the massacre at the port of Tobaro, has many people regarding the prince and his wife (mainly themselves, but as a couple they hold joint responsibility) as "war criminals" and the main cause of today's outcome, especially in Lusigny and Remas, which suffered the most in the war.

Others secretly reject the rule of the two-headed eagle and miss the "local" faction of the Tyrells in the past - because no one dares to clamor for the restoration of independence when the two-headed eagle is at its most powerful, so they temporarily use the name of "local" to do "independence".

It is believed that although the prince failed to withstand the enemy, it is also regrettable. Although the letter was extremely rude, from a strategic point of view, it was very effective in using the prince's diplomatic reputation to provoke the enemy and force them to take the initiative to fight. Look, didn't Al come here less than three months after the letter was sent?

Although there was a "deviation" in the final result, it was not wrong from a strategic point of view.

Who could have predicted that the two-headed eagle could flip over the Inara Mountains and rush directly into the Withered Swamp?

And he’s so good at fighting?

Normally speaking, wouldn't a person be severely injured and have both energy and blood depleted after being beaten up?

The ratio of beastmen and humans in the army of Aiur's Eastern Expedition was roughly 50-50. Not to mention the beastmen, even the Estalia army fighting alone could show extremely strong combat power, beating the Tyrells who had not fought a major war for hundreds of years and only occasionally fought small fights between mercenaries, or fought with the natives of the New World and hunted monsters. Were you always so good at fighting before? Why didn't I know that...

So from this point of view, these localists are trying to make up for the prince who has become one of the shameful benchmarks of Tyrell. One of the main reasons is:

The enemy is too strong, it’s not him who is capable of this.

It would be the same no matter who comes.

Very similar to the idea of ​​some fans.

After Al learned about these people's strange ideas, he even had the idea that keeping them might be more useful to his rule.

......

I definitely won’t kill him.

Al is not a good killer in his life, but he is a lustful person.

The best time to kill him is actually when the city is just breached. Just capture him and put him on trial, then fight to the death. When the snap comes, Miragliano will be disabled. No matter how dissatisfied he is, he will not dare to jump again. And when the prince's folly ferments, no one will think of revenge for him. Instead, they will spit and say, "Well done! It's a pity that he died not early enough!"

Locking him up doesn't seem to make much sense. If he's imprisoned, we have to find a good place. If he's locked up and humiliated like other prisoners, it will cause dissatisfaction among the Tyrells. It's better to just kill him with a knife.

So Al was thinking of a punishment method that would not be too out of line, be accepted by the public, and reflect his kindness - at the same time, it would punish him without undermining the authority of the king.

After he subdued Sartosa, he marched north and stationed the "Storm" Army in Lusigny, on the one hand to prevent pirates from causing chaos, and on the other hand to suppress the rebellion of this principality, which had the highest ambition and suffered the greatest losses in the war.

More than three months had passed since the negotiations at Remas. For the Miragliano people, who were the first to be occupied by him, almost a year had passed since that unforgettable war.

The smell of gunpowder seemed to have faded.

Now, it's almost time...

Drag out the socially dead prince and whip his corpse?

After dealing with this matter, El was almost planning to return to Margarita. Except for the princess Tobaro who was pointed out by El, and a priest of the War Church Reform faction who was nominated by Verezzo (before El attacked, Tyrell also had priests who followed Margarita's War Church path), the other candidates for the Seven Dukes were not in place yet. El planned to let them go directly to Margarita to pay homage and take office.

Then...

Al sat alone in the Senate House of Remas City.

There was no one else in the entire circular conference hall except him and his immortal guards.

The style of this venue is very simple, with a platform in the middle where speakers can speak to all directions. Surrounding it are simple one-piece marble benches arranged in multiple directions, leading up one step at a time. It is said to be a legacy left over from the ancient empire. There are almost no additional decorations in the venue, and there are glazed windows on the dome that can cast sunlight.

"Summon the Marquis of Disobedience...Please ask the prince and his wife to come over."

Al supported his chin with one hand and looked around the conference hall, as if he saw the ancient city of Remas hundreds or thousands of years ago, where senators and oligarchs were arguing over matters of all sizes.

And he is here today, I wonder if he has some "national affairs to attend to"?

Chapter 89: The Senate, Couples, Conquerors, and Drama

"Your Highness, are you happy here (referring to Remas) and miss home?"

"I have heard good news from the prince, please play the harp!"

"A hero is one who has great ambitions, good plans, and the will to contain the universe and swallow up the world... The heroes of the South today are only the prince and me!"

"..."

"I wonder if Madam would like to dine with me tonight?"

"..."

Thoughts are floating and floating.

It floated in a strange direction.

All of Al's cosplays feel like they all end up as the Prime Minister...

"Already arrived."

The immortal guards who were linked to El's spirit sent such a message to their eternal master. El withdrew his thoughts from the emanation, still maintaining the posture of a king sitting on the throne thinking, silently waiting for the visitor.

Soon, the guards' steel boots made a clanging sound as they stepped on the marble bricks of the Senate.

A man and a woman were quickly brought into the Senate's meeting hall.

Who else could it be if not the prince and princess?

Rodrigo's face looked a little gloomy at this time, and there was a hint of anxiety about his impending fate in his eyes.

Especially after entering the conference hall with his wife, he found that the venue was extremely empty. Apart from the statue-like guards, there was only one Al sitting on a stone bench, which looked very deserted.

But it also makes people feel very depressing.

This made the prince feel very uneasy. In an occasion like this, it was almost certain that some private things would happen that were not suitable for public disclosure.

Logically speaking, having been trapped in the enemy camp for nearly a year, we should have gotten used to the fear and worry, but this time is different.

In the past, Al had never summoned the prince and princess alone under such circumstances.

In addition to taking the prince in women's clothing to visit the Great Temple at the beginning, when having dinner in the camp that night, Ai'er ate with a few cubs and "invited" the prince and his wife to join him. During the meal, he found some topics to talk about enthusiastically, asking the couple about some of Tyrell's customs and practices. Their attitude seemed good and they were graceful. They were not as violent and cruel as imagined, who could not wait to humiliate him, beat him, or even torture him, and would even be cruel to his wife...

If it weren't for the generally bad attitude of Aiel's children towards the Tyrell who wrote a letter to humiliate their father, if Aiel didn't make any arrangements, given Hera's temper, the prince's head would definitely be twisted off and made into a wine bowl.