Rose Empire

"That guy Henry said earlier that he would deprive my father of his title? Did he swallow his words so quickly?"

This is totally inconsistent with Henry's vengeful personality. Charlotte still found it hard to believe.

However, Hermann talked about the source of the news - Renee's father, Wolf von der Leon, the butler of the riverside castle.

With that person's endorsement, there is nothing to question.

In fact, according to Hermann Green, the news that His Majesty the Emperor was going to confer the title of Duke of Greenfield on him had already spread throughout the Principality of Greenfield.

Not long ago, Emperor Henry's teacher, the Minister of the Seals Urosh Lindahl, was on a diplomatic mission to the Duchy of Greenfield. At the banquet hosted by Jose Melefeld to welcome him, the old minister loudly expressed the emperor's wish in front of many nobles of the Duchy of Greenfield.

Even if Wolf von der Lehn didn't tell Hermann, Hermann would have heard the news from other people.

In addition to enthroning his father as king, Henry also plans to enthronize the city of Field to the Duke of Greenfield as the coronation place for the future king of the Greenfield Kingdom.

Field City is a small town located in the Bailong region directly under the royal family. There is no prosperous trade or exquisite buildings in that small town, only large tracts of farmland surrounding the town. "Field" means "field" in Oran.

Although inconspicuous, the small town has a unique meaning for the Melefield family - it is the place where the Melefield family started. According to family documents, during the Wimbledon Empire a thousand years ago, the ancestor of the Melefield family was a large landowner living around Field City, and the family name came from this.

The nobles of the Green Plains Principality were very excited when they heard the news. If the Green Plains Principality could be upgraded to the Green Plains Kingdom, most of the nobles would be promoted to a higher level, which would be a real benefit to them. Returning to their homeland and being crowned king on the land of their ancestors would be an unimaginable honor.

After listening to Hermann Green's words, Charlotte finally understood why Jose Melfeld had asked Hermann to tell her that "the situation in Oran is dangerous now, and the military strength of the Principality is tight. If she causes any major trouble again, it will be difficult for me to rescue her in time."

What is the military strength that the principality is worried about?

It is clearly the human heart.

The royal family wanted to grant Field City in the Bailong region to the Green Plains Principality, but the rebellious Ethel had almost conquered half of the Bailong region. Even a three-year-old child could see that the royal family wanted to make the Green Plains Principality fight with the Kingdom of Cato, but the nobles of the Green Plains Principality could hardly resist this temptation.

When everyone leans slightly in a certain direction, it becomes an unstoppable force that is pushing Jose Melfield to make risky choices.

In fact, Charlotte felt that it was not only the nobles of the Greenfield Principality who were shaken, but also her own father, Grand Duke Greenfield himself...

Perhaps in the future José Melefield will say: "It was the people below who pushed me to go to war with the Kingdom of Cato."

But Charlotte believed that Jose Melfield would also be tempted by the achievement of obtaining the crown that his ancestors had dreamed of for a thousand years but had never been able to obtain.

The fact that his father did not publicly reject the crown promised by Henry was proof of this.

"It seems that there are still capable people in the royal family. They saw through my father's narrow-mindedness at a glance..." Charlotte rubbed her temple in distress. "Jose Melefield is only fit to be a small businessman. A little bit of profit can make him run around!"

Hermann Green and Cecilia in the study lowered their heads in embarrassment. Charlotte slandered the Duke of Greenfield, but they were father and daughter, and how could an outsider casually take up this topic?

Besides, that's a king!

Looking at the whole world, who would dare to call a crown a petty gain?

Hermann Green handed Charlotte two more replies and left the study.

There were two letters. One was from her cousin and sister-in-law Monica. Monica attached a short poem in the letter, saying that she had started writing poetry again... Unfortunately, the poem lacked the freshness and naturalness that Charlotte liked, and had more gloomy tones.

The other letter was naturally from his brother Andre. In the letter, Andre defended himself, saying that he had no dissatisfaction with Monica, nor did he deliberately want to miss the wedding. Instead, someone wanted to kill pregnant Mary, and he delayed the wedding to protect Mary. He suspected that the person who wanted to kill Mary was Duchess Rosie...

At the end of the letter, Andre said that he heard that Charlotte was fighting a war and asked with concern whether Charlotte was safe. In addition, he sent his knights with some money to the Viscount Lanwan's territory, hoping to support his sister's war.

After counting, Cecilia told Charlotte that Andre had sent only eight knights, and the money they brought was only 7,562 fusos.

While Charlotte was complaining in her heart that her brother was really poor and it would be better for him to save his pitiful private money to buy milk powder for his illegitimate son, she picked up a pen and wanted to write a reply to Monica and Andre.

But after dipping the brush in ink, Charlotte suddenly didn't know what to write.

Charlotte dropped her pen in boredom, walked back and forth in the room with her hands behind her back, and finally stopped in front of the large map hanging on the wall.

Charlotte looked up at the map, thinking for a long time, and suddenly said: "Something must have happened in the Principality of Bonan."

"Hmm?" Cecilia was unable to follow Charlotte's thoughts for a moment.

Charlotte explained: "If nothing had happened to the Principality of Bonan, the royal family probably wouldn't have been willing to use a crown to instigate my father to go to war with the Kingdom of Cato. When the Edisans reached the gates of Platinum City, the royal family didn't even want to do that."

Cecilia nodded as if she understood something, and then asked curiously, "What will happen in the Principality of Bonan?"

"Who knows?" Charlotte shrugged. "Duke Bonan died so suddenly and left behind so many sons. I wouldn't be surprised no matter what happens to the Duchy of Bonan right now."

As she spoke, Charlotte couldn't help but sigh: "Our intelligence agency is still understaffed, and the Viscount Lanwan Territory is so remote..."

The Viscount of Lanwan is located in a corner of the Orlan Empire, so news about the neighboring Green Plains Principality can spread slowly. If Charlotte doesn't take the initiative to send people to inquire about news from places outside the Green Plains Principality and just waits for it to spread, it would be better to look for it in history books a hundred years later.

But Charlotte didn't have enough people to send special people to find out the information.

Although the Grey Knights led by Robin Mancini have made many military achievements, their size is still limited. The total number of core Grey Knights has not exceeded 30 people. At most, they can infiltrate two or three city-states at the same time. It is already very difficult for them to deal with the situation in the Sokya Peninsula, not to mention taking into account the intelligence within the Oran Empire.

The Rose Knights currently only had a few cats, big and small, namely Sophia and Lola. Apart from using them for entertainment at night, Charlotte could hardly count on them at the moment.

Cecilia thought seriously for a while, and suddenly an idea flashed in her mind, and she said, "Business Department!"

"What?" Charlotte asked confused.

"There are three caravans under the Business Department of Elm Town, which are responsible for regularly purchasing food, wine, timber and other things that need to be purchased in large quantities from the empire. The captains and accountants of these three caravans are all selected by me personally. They are smart, eloquent, loyal and reliable. If it is some information that is not confidential, you can let them find out while doing business, and then sort it out and hand it over to you." Cecilia suggested.

After thinking for a while, Charlotte said affirmatively: "Good idea, then I'll leave it to you, Cecilia."

"Yes, sir." Cecilia responded. After a pause, she frowned and reported, "I have received several reports recently. The enrollment situation of Yushu Town Primary School does not seem to be very good..."

With the end of spring ploughing in the Viscount Lanwan Territory, the second phase of the Elm Town project also started. The first thing to be built was the school - Cecilia was very concerned about promoting education. The construction of the school was very simple. Just level a piece of land, build a few cabins, and surround it with a fence, and a school was built.

Charlotte named it "Elm Town Primary School". Cecilia and the local people thought that Charlotte chose this name because the school only accepted children under thirteen years old.

Although Cecilia had high hopes for this primary school, the actual situation after the school started was not optimistic. Many parents were unwilling to send their children to school, and they could also explain it by saying that they needed their children to help with housework at home. Some children themselves did not want to go to school and frequently skipped classes. Some children even preferred to go home to work rather than stay in school to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic...

"Do you need to tell me such a small thing?" Charlotte asked puzzledly.

Cecilia sighed and said helplessly, "I can't understand it. Studying should be easier than doing farm work, right? I don't understand why those children hate studying so much."

Charlotte crossed her arms and smiled, "Cecilia, you can't apply your own situation to others. For some people, studying is actually much more painful than working. For those children who have been left alone since childhood and have not developed a habit of studying, it is normal for them to not like studying."

“But what if the students themselves don’t want to go to school? If they don’t learn, it will be useless no matter how much the teacher teaches,” Cecilia said distressedly.

"You don't have to study if you don't want to?" Charlotte sneered. "You have someone prepare a literacy and basic arithmetic test every month for the students to do. If they get a literacy question wrong, arrest their father and whip him. If they get a math question wrong, arrest their mother and whip her."

Cecilia was stunned. After a long while, she asked blankly, "What if there are no parents?"

"Then beat their uncles and elders. If there are no elders, beat their neighbors." Charlotte answered without hesitation.

It sounds unreasonable that the neighbor was whipped because the child refused to study. In Charlotte's previous life, such a rule would definitely be condemned by thousands of people.

But what era is this? It is the feudal era, the slave era. As a great feudal lord, Charlotte does not need to reason with a group of common people.

This year, the canal will be open to navigation, the cement plant will be completed, and Yushu Town will expand again... These achievements will bring a large number of jobs that require literacy and counting. Charlotte urgently needs to cultivate enough "high-quality" labor force, and these twelve- and thirteen-year-old children in Yushu Town Primary School are the first batch. In this era, fourteen or fifteen years old can be considered a whole workforce. Thirteen-year-old children can learn literacy and arithmetic for a year, and next year they can take up "high-tech" jobs.

"The school I founded is not a place where they can study if they want to or not if they don't want to. In my school, receiving education is an obligation they must fulfill, just like farmers must do labor service and knights must do military service. What is the crime of evading military service? They should be hanged. I just whipped their parents, which is already merciful enough."

Charlotte explained to Cecilia the "feudal" theory of compulsory education.

“This is too…” Cecilia didn’t know how to comment for a moment.

"Don't worry," Charlotte laughed again and said, "It will probably only be a few whippings in the first two years. When the people see how much the lives of the first and second batches of children who received education have improved, they will soon take the initiative to urge their children to study hard."

Cecilia had no choice but to take a deep breath and say, "Well, I hope you're right."

Just as Charlotte and Cecilia were discussing the education of the naughty children, there was a knock on the study door.

"Come in," Charlotte said.

A female knight in leather armor pushed the door open. It was Anna, who was in charge of guarding the castle.

Charlotte's castle was guarded by the territory guards who assigned different knights to guard the castle every day, while the interior was guarded by two female knights, Anna and Celine, who took turns guarding the castle. However, Celine had gone to Dorukocha with her father not long ago, so Anna had been in charge of guarding the castle recently.

After entering the door, Anna saluted Charlotte and Cecilia: "Your Excellency, Miss Cecilia."

Charlotte raised her hand, indicating that Anna didn't need to be polite, and asked, "What's the matter, Anna?"

Charlotte discovered that after awakening her two wings, in addition to the ability to draw extraordinary power from food, the ability of one wing, "confuse the mind", also increased significantly.

This growth is a bit strange. Not only is it easier and more handy for Charlotte to use "Confuse the Mind" again, but even the "Confuse the Mind" effect that Charlotte had previously inflicted on others seems to have been strengthened and consolidated.

This was discovered by Charlotte when she happened to pass by Anna's room door one night and inadvertently saw Anna praying in the direction of her room.

In order to verify the timeliness of her ability, Charlotte had not used "Confuse Heart" on Anna for a long time. Facts have proved that after repeated superposition, "Confuse Heart" decays very slowly on Anna, who is already loyal to Charlotte. But even if it decays slowly, it still decays. There is no such thing as no weakening at all, and there is no situation where the effect suddenly becomes stronger.

In this regard, Charlotte could only think of her promotion to the second wing.

"Lanwan Research Institute said that the citizen militia faction adapted by Mr. Ferguson is almost complete." Anna reported.

Charlotte gathered together her scholars and established the Lanwan Research Institute, which was located next to the Yushu Town Primary School. Even the architectural style of the institute was similar to that of the Yushu Town Primary School.

"Really?" Charlotte was skeptical. "Could it be that Ferguson is up to something again?"

"It should be true," Anna nodded and said, "Knight Jack Moore is taking Mr. Ferguson to the Fairy Lake Military Camp for testing. Mr. Robert Kaye and Mr. Cliff Chapman are also there."

Charlotte was surprised when she heard this: "That's great. Cecilia, let's go and take a look together."

"Yeah." Cecilia nodded with a smile.

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Volume 141: Chapter 128 Chapter Special Arms

Charlotte arrived at the Fairy Lake in a carriage. As soon as she got off the carriage, she saw Cliff Chapman, whom she appointed as the dean of Lanwan Research Institute, and Robert Kay, a researcher at Lanwan Research Institute.

Charlotte raised her skirt to the two people who came to greet her, and then asked, "Mr. Chapman, have you seen the results of Mr. Ferguson's adaptation?"

"Yes, I've checked it," Cliff Chapman knew what Charlotte was worried about, so he said directly, "Although Mr. Ferguson has only adapted it to three wings, after my careful inspection, I didn't find any problems with the main trunk. The awakening ceremony should be safe, and the subsequent four to six wings have already taken shape..."

Charlotte nodded slightly and finally felt relieved. Although Clive Chapman's professional ability might be slightly inferior to Ferguson's, he was also a scholar supported by the royal family and still had basic vision.

Cliff's words also solved Charlotte's doubts: why did Ferguson work so quickly? Originally, he had only completed the transformation from one wing to three wings.

Charlotte turned her head and looked at Robert Kaye, who looked haggard and had dark eyes, and asked, "Mr. Kaye, why do you look so tired?"

Robert Kaye, who was yawning, swallowed the remaining half of his yawn when asked by Charlotte, and replied unhappily: "Of course, it is to complete the task assigned by you, sir."

"Are you done?" Charlotte asked again.

Robert Kaye was out of breath: "Not yet..."

After arriving at the Viscount Lanwan's territory, Charlotte stopped Robert Kay's research on the "explosive collar" and gave him a new research task, which was to design a portable device that could assist people flying on giant eagles at an altitude of three thousand meters to aim at targets on the ground.

Charlotte also offered a reward of 100,000 francs for this research task, with a deadline of one month.

At first, Robert Kaye thought it was a simple task, as even a four-year-old could use a slingshot. He patted his chest and promised to complete the task within ten days and get the reward.

However, after Robert Kaye personally flew on a Giant Eagle, he realized how difficult it was to aim at a ground target at an altitude of three thousand meters. At such a high altitude, even a majestic church looked as small as a speck of dust. The flying speed of the Giant Eagle was much faster than that of a griffin, and the wind was strong in the sky... Under the influence of all these factors, if a javelin was thrown, it would be a piece of cake to deviate from the target by a few hundred meters.

Charlotte took the time to give Robert Kay a few cram lessons to perfect concepts such as inertia, acceleration, parabola, etc.

Robert Kaye finally realized that he was probably tricked by Charlotte. Such a complex topic could not be completed in one month with his level. However, he was a person who really liked to study hard, otherwise he would not have developed the "explosive collar" and got himself into debt, but he still enjoyed it. So even though he knew he was cheated, Robert Kaye was still attracted by this new knowledge and plunged into this topic, studying, drawing, and doing experiments day and night.

However, although Robert Kay had a good level of mathematics and physics, he was still limited by the times and was still a little immature. Just studying the mathematics textbooks prepared by Charlotte for the future opening of a formal school was enough to consume his brainpower.

So, when Charlotte asked him why he was so tired, Robert thought it was a knowing question.

But as he was talking and walking towards the barracks, Robert suddenly perked up and said, "But I have some ideas about the flight sight you mentioned."

"Oh?" Charlotte asked, becoming interested. "What's your idea?"

"Do you know the 'Shadow Ritual'?" Robert asked.

"Oh, I've heard of it." Charlotte nodded.

The "Black Shadow Ritual" is not a proper name. In order to awaken extraordinary powers, the poor people of Orlan constantly simplified the awakening ritual of the Royal Griffin Knights faction, which eventually led to many "alternative versions" of the awakening ritual of the faction being circulated among the people. Some of these awakening rituals are quite reliable, while some are very unreliable. After the unreliable simplified awakening ritual fails, the victim often encounters adverse symptoms such as black shadows appearing in the vision, which will not dissipate for a long time.

Therefore, these unreliable "alternative versions" are called "Dark Shadow Rituals" by the people.

"I have studied in detail the reasons for the formation of black shadows in the Black Shadow Ritual, and based on the results, I have created a small ritual. This ritual can not only produce black shadows in people's vision, but also red, green, and yellow shadows. I call it the Rainbow Ritual." Robert said as if showing off.

The corners of Charlotte's mouth twitched twice. The Black Shadow Ritual was a bitter joke used by the poor people of Oran to describe those poor simplified rituals. However, Robert was not only interested in the formation of black shadows, but also seriously studied shadows of various colors. For a moment, Charlotte wanted to complain.

"My idea is to use this little ritual to build a scale in the Giant Eagle Knight's field of vision," Robert said with increasing excitement. "As long as we repeat the experiment and test the falling data of the standard javelin at different heights, without flying speeds, and under different forces in advance, then all the Giant Eagle Knights need to do is throw the javelin when the scale in the ruler's eye hits the target."

As Charlotte listened to Robert's description, her expression gradually became serious.

Robert's words reminded Charlotte of the augmented reality technology in her previous life. She had to admit that, at least in terms of concept, this was a pretty good idea.

"How do you plan to construct this ritual on the Eagle Knight?" Charlotte asked.

"Have you forgotten my amplifier?" Robert said proudly, "It is not difficult to transform the ritual that amplifies the ability of Hawkeye into a rainbow ritual."

Charlotte immediately shook her head. "Don't mention your explosive collar to me. I don't want to see my knights' heads blown off for no apparent reason before they even go to the battlefield."

"But..." Robert wanted to say a few words for his invention.

Charlotte waved her hand again to interrupt him: "Unless you can replace the spark agate with other safer extraordinary materials."

All the words Robert wanted to say in his argument were stuck in his stomach.