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"No need to wait for the future, I have already heard it."

A familiar voice sounded, and the girl stepped into the County Governor's Mansion, followed by Renee, Cecilia and Eric Scamario.

"Your Excellency, Viscount." Jarrod Garcia saluted respectfully to Charlotte.

Charlotte nodded and looked at John Rice.

"Your Excellency..." John Rice said in a hoarse voice, "The people of Ambratu have suffered enough. Please forgive them..."

John Rice was not a stupid man. He knew that without Charlotte's tacit consent, Jarrod Garcia, as the defender, would never dare to condone the riot in Ambratu so blatantly. He even suspected that Charlotte was the mastermind behind the riot in Ambratu.

Charlotte laughed when she heard John Rice's words. She walked around him for a long time and asked slowly, "Mr. John Rice, I'm curious, who were you thinking of when you said 'Ambratu people'?"

John Reiss froze in place, not knowing how to answer.

"If I'm not mistaken, when you said 'Ambratu people', you were thinking of the former citizens of the Ambratu city-state, right?" Charlotte said.

John Rice trembled slightly.

"You advised me to treat the Ambratu people well, so I appointed you as the governor of Ambratu County and asked you to help me govern all the Ambratu civilians," Charlotte continued, "but what about you? You still only regard yourself as an elder of the Ambratu city-state, and you still only think about the Ambratu citizens who once voted for you. In my territory, there is no difference between citizens and free people. They are all just civilians. I hope that the citizens and free people of the city-state period can bridge the contradictions and live in harmony, so I appointed you as the governor. But..."

Charlotte paused for a moment before continuing, "Mr. John Rice, you have completely failed my trust and expectations of you."

John Rice opened his mouth and said slowly after a while: "I...I am willing to accept any punishment."

John Rice knew that Charlotte wanted him to bear the main responsibility for the riot, but he had no choice but to accept it.

"There is no need to rush your punishment. You are still the county governor of Ambratu County for the time being. You still need to appease the people and count the casualties." Charlotte said, "In addition, Jarrod Garcia was negligent in his duties and failed to suppress the riot in time. He will be dismissed from his position as deputy captain and fined half a year's salary."

"This..." Can you blame me for this? Jarrod Garcia almost blurted out, but when he met Charlotte's eyes, he swallowed his words back and lowered his head and said, "Yes!"

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Volume 146: Chapter 133 Chapter Appointment and Dismissal

Under the clearing of the second brigade of knights and squires, Ambratu, which was like hell on earth, gradually calmed down.

The civil servants brought by Cecilia are still counting how many people died in this riot. This task is really difficult for these young people who have never been to the battlefield.

The attendant knights in charge of cleaning the streets of the inner city reported that they had shoveled out more than ten carts of corpses that looked like nothing. The corpses had been chopped into pieces like pork waiting to be cooked, and it was impossible to tell how many people were in each cart.

Not to mention the children hanging from the eaves and the woman whose intestines were pulled out across half the street...

"Once human evil is unleashed, it is so terrifying."

Cecilia, whose face turned pale, let out a long breath and spoke to Charlotte.

Charlotte looked at the two civil servants who had just vomited again and curled her lips: "What's so strange about this? Didn't you hear Lilith say that the Delmer people who live next door to us like to massacre the city all day long?"

“It was on the battlefield after all…” Cecilia felt that the two situations were somewhat different.

"They are essentially the same..."

Charlotte wanted to express some insightful opinions and show Cecilia her clear understanding of human nature and the world, but before she could open her mouth, she felt a sharp pain in her abdomen.

Charlotte frowned and rubbed her belly.

"Are you feeling unwell again?" Cecilia asked, noticing Charlotte's expression.

"It's okay, I'm just hungry." Charlotte waved her hand nonchalantly.

"Miss, would you like to have some?" Renee took out a small bag from somewhere, "This is the fish floss I asked Linda to make with silverfin fish."

Charlotte's face darkened: "Don't mention any fish words in front of me."

Lilith's guess was very accurate. The silver-finned fish could indeed relieve Charlotte's hunger, and her "predation" was indeed the ability to absorb extraordinary powers from food. Originally, because of her hard work since childhood, Charlotte was actually a little nearsighted. After eating the silver-finned fish today, Charlotte clearly felt that her eyesight was getting better. Obviously, the extraordinary power absorbed from food was repairing and even strengthening her body.

However, as Lilith said, the extraordinary power contained in the silver-finned fish is very meager and can hardly meet Charlotte's needs. Charlotte is now like a fitness athlete who is in the muscle-building period and urgently needs to supplement protein, but the only option in the diet is green vegetables. Eating less can't meet the body's needs.

If you cannot meet your body's needs, there will always be a special feeling of hunger lingering around.

However, the meat of silverfin fish contains a certain degree of toxicity. This toxicity is not particularly fatal, at least not for extraordinary people, but eating it will cause symptoms such as difficulty breathing, muscle pain, and more importantly, diarrhea all day long.

How can a beautiful girl have diarrhea all day long?

Charlotte couldn't accept it.

So, starving has become Charlotte's daily state recently.

"The main meals are enough for me to bear, and you actually make them into snacks and carry them with you." Charlotte complained.

During the meal, looking at the silverfin fish meat, Charlotte couldn't help but want to eat a few more bites out of hunger, but the toxins in the silverfin fish reminded her not to eat too much. Every meal seemed to be torturing her willpower.

"Miss Lilith said that eating a little when you are very hungry can relieve your pain." said Renee.

"Okay," Charlotte took the meat floss, ate a few bites, and then suppressed her appetite. Looking at the remaining meat floss, Charlotte suddenly felt sad. "I'm so miserable... When will this kind of life end?"

"Who knows? Maybe it will end tomorrow." Renee smiled and took the pocket back from Charlotte.

After reading a lot of ancient materials and studying them repeatedly, Lilith came to a conclusion that it was actually a good thing that Charlotte was constantly feeling hungry, which meant that her body still had a lot of room for strengthening. On the contrary, if Charlotte didn't feel hungry, it would mean that the "predation" ability had reached its limit in strengthening Charlotte's body.

Of course, the higher the upper limit, the better.

Therefore, Charlotte should now expect her hunger to last longer and be stronger. The stronger and longer it lasts, the higher the upper limit will be.

That was why Renee was in the mood to joke with her young lady.

Just as Charlotte was about to refute Renee, she suddenly heard a sharp cry.

Charlotte and the other two turned around and saw a woman with disheveled hair and disheveled clothes lying on the ground, trying desperately to stop the body collection team from picking up her son's head.

Charlotte didn't hesitate much and immediately walked over.

When the corpse collection team saw a few distinguished persons approaching, they quickly stepped aside.

Charlotte squatted down and helped the wailing woman up, not paying any attention to the sticky black blood and corpse fluid on the woman's hands.

The woman's husband was at a loss when he saw this scene. Although he didn't know Charlotte, the black-armored knights guarding behind her were enough to show her noble status.

"Madam," Charlotte consoled softly, "your child has simply returned to God. He will be happy under God's blessing..."

"Waah wah wah..." The woman was still crying.

Charlotte squatted beside her and gently stroked the woman's back to comfort her until her excitement gradually calmed down. Then she said, "Let's bury your child as soon as possible so that his soul can rest in peace."

The woman then reluctantly let go of her son's head.

"Your Excellency..." The woman's husband wanted to thank Charlotte, but he didn't know how to express it.

Cecilia on the side introduced Charlotte tacitly: "This is Viscount Lanwan, Miss Charlotte Mellorfield."

"Your Excellency, the Viscount!"

The couple, who had just suffered a great misfortune, were frightened and wanted to kneel down immediately.

Charlotte quickly supported the two men and said, "It is my fault that such a tragedy happened in Ambratu. I failed to protect my people and let you suffer."

The couple was deeply moved when they saw Charlotte's sad expression. They shook their heads and said, "It's not your fault. It's all the fault of those citizens and John Rice!"

Charlotte spent the entire day doing this - appearing in the streets of Ambratu, comforting the people who were severely hurt in the riots.

With Charlotte's personal efforts, Viscount Lanwan's reputation in Ambulatu gradually became better and better, while in contrast, John Rice's reputation became worse and worse.

The reason for this is not difficult to understand - neither side of the riot regarded John Rice as one of their own, and after the riot began, John Rice did not make any timely and effective response. As a county governor, John Rice's performance was incompetent.

The people did not understand the separation of civil and military power. As a civil official under Charlotte, the county governor had no right to mobilize the city defense forces. If he wanted to use troops, he could only negotiate with military officers like Jarrod Garcia. The military officers were unwilling to pay attention, and the county governor could only stare blankly. They only knew that John Rice was the most powerful person in Ambratu at the time, but he watched the riots happen and spread without doing anything. In the end, the Viscountess of Lanwan had to come all the way to save the situation.

John Rice followed the knights, civil servants and the body collection team, and worked hard to resettle the refugees, treat the wounded and collect the bodies, but wherever he went, he was looked down upon, and everyone looked at him with disappointment and hatred.

At the beginning, John Rice felt very aggrieved. He knew that he should not bear all the blame, but he could not defend himself. However, gradually, as he saw more and more tragic deaths and more and more families being wiped out, John Rice no longer wanted to defend himself.

"Mr. Rice, take a break."

A young man handed John Rice a large piece of pancake for dinner and said.

"Thank you." John Rice wiped his hands, took the pancake and thanked him.

The young man's name was Baby Wood, and he was the former mayor of Elm Town. John Rice knew that Charlotte brought this man here, most likely to take over his position as county mayor. However, John Rice did not have much bad feelings towards this young man. After a day of getting along with him, John Rice felt that Wood was willing to do any dirty work, and he did not look like a young man from a wealthy family at all.

After asking, John Rice learned that Wood was indeed from a peasant family.

"You don't have to worry too much. This riot cannot be blamed entirely on you. The conflict between the city-state citizens and the free people will break out sooner or later. It can only be said that you... are unlucky." Wood saw that the old man looked more and more lonely and haggard, and could not help but comfort him.

However, John Rice shook his head with a wry smile. He raised his hand and pointed to a house opposite. The whole family living in the house had been killed. There was blood on the walls, the floor and even the roof. It was difficult for the body collection team to clean it up, so they could only leave it to dry.

"Your Excellency the Viscount is right. I made a big mistake. I always thought that protecting the citizens of Ambratu meant protecting the people of Ambratu, but I forgot that the people living in Ambratu County are not only former citizens of the city-state." John Rice sighed, "Until now, I still don't know whether this family was a former citizen of the city-state or a freeman. But does it matter? They all died in vain in the riot, and the whole family died in vain..."

Wood didn't know how to comfort John Rice. In fact, the tragedy of the Ambrato riots really shocked this young man from a peasant family.

On the second day, the same notice was posted at each city gate and the entrance of the county governor's mansion in Ambulatu. The notice was signed by Viscount Lanwan himself, announcing the removal of John Rice from his position as county governor. However, because no suitable Ambulatu person has yet been found to take over John Rice's position, John Rice will temporarily serve as county governor.

After posting the notice, Charlotte summoned influential figures in Ambulatu County to the county magistrate's mansion.

Palacio was very nervous when he was summoned. Most of the slaves who participated in the riot were his, and he was the one who suggested hiring the mercenaries. He was very worried that Charlotte had already obtained evidence of his crimes, so he summoned him to the county governor's mansion and killed him with a knife. However, the knights blocked his door, and Palacio had no chance to escape, so he had to accept Charlotte's summons.

Fortunately, Charlotte did not mention the riot when she saw him. She asked, "Mr. Palacio, I heard that you are the president of the Mineral Chamber of Commerce?"

"Uh, yes." Palacio didn't understand why Charlotte brought this up, but he nodded truthfully.

"I'd like to ask the Mineral Chamber of Commerce to help me with something." Charlotte said again.

Hearing this, Palacio couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, bowed slightly and said, "It is my honor to serve you, please just give me your orders."

Charlotte smiled and nodded, saying, "I think you should know that the summer grain harvest in the Kingdom of Lesare will begin soon. In my jurisdiction, the Viscountry of Lanwan, Ambratu County, and Dorukocha County are all short of grain. I hope that the Mineral Chamber of Commerce can help me purchase at least 150,000 petards of grain from the Kingdom of Lesare."

Palacio thought Charlotte would continue to say something, but Charlotte stopped here and stared straight into Palacio's eyes.

"This...purchasing food is not a problem."

The problem is that you didn’t say anything about giving money!

"There are frequent wars nowadays, and food prices are not cheap."

Palacio tried to warn Charlotte.

Charlotte laughed and nodded to a knight beside her. The knight walked out of the reception room and came back after a while with a few black balls.

pat.

Several balls were thrown in front of Palacio.

Palacio was so frightened that he jumped up from his seat. These were not spheres! They were human heads! And Palacio recognized two of the heads. They were the extraordinary people he hired.

"I want to exchange them for 150,000 pounds of grain purchased by the Mineral Chamber of Commerce. Do you think it's enough?" Charlotte asked again.

Palacio fell to his knees and kept saying, "Enough! Enough!"

Charlotte's subtext was obviously to let Palacio use 150,000 petards of grain in exchange for her not pursuing the merchants of the Mineral Chamber of Commerce for the crime of being the masterminds involved in the riots, the most important of whom was Palacio himself.

Maybe the evidence Charlotte had was not detailed, but Palacio didn't dare to bet that Charlotte would not hang his entire family because of insufficient evidence.

Charlotte nodded and said, "Also, is there any local person in Ambratu who is suitable to be the county governor? No, right?"

Palacio was slightly stunned, then quickly replied: "No more! Absolutely no more!"

"That's good." Charlotte said with satisfaction.

On the third day, the notices posted at the city gate and the county magistrate's office were changed again.

In the new notice, Lord Viscount Lanwan stated that she had received strong demands from many residents of Ambratu and decided to abolish the verbal agreement that "Ambratu people should govern Ambratu", revoke John Rice's position as acting county magistrate, appoint Green Plains Principality native and former Elm Town Mayor Baby Wood as Ambratu County Magistrate, and set up the Ambratu Government Office, court, and patrol team...

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Volume 147: Chapter 134 Chapter Angel Cathedral

Charlotte retracted her promise that "Ambratu people would govern Ambratu."

The residents of Ambratu have no objection to this.

From the ruthless Jonathan Hackman to the weak and incompetent John Rice, the residents of Ambratu have finally realized that the people of Ambratu can't govern Ambratu well!

The Government Affairs Office, the court, and the patrol team were formally established, and Ambrato was completely brought under Charlotte's control. Government orders were passed down and she was able to do whatever she wanted.

This is of great significance to Charlotte. The forces on the Sokya Peninsula are about to be reshuffled. If the Aiye Alliance is really defeated and the Delmer army attacks, Charlotte will at least have a bridgehead on the Sokya Peninsula to fight against the Delmer.

Just as Charlotte was preparing for a great battle with the Delmer people as if facing a formidable enemy, one of the two Delmer kings, Westom Gillis, ascended to the Archangel Cathedral.

The Delme city-state quelled the rebellion within the Delme Alliance in the shortest time possible and was finally able to turn around and continue attacking the Aiye Alliance.

With Feidi just around the corner, Westom believed that the century-long war between the two alliances was about to come to an end.

However, before that, Westom still needed to pay his respects to Iger as a matter of routine.