People in Terra, governing a weird little country

Wow! This mouth is open so wide!

This time, even with Ernst's great concentration, he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

High-speed battleship, this is a serious strategic-level weapon. Are you serious about selling it to Kjerag?

Can you, Ahmonie, ask for this? Or is the Duke of Wellington really so generous?

Ernst was somewhat skeptical.

However, after thinking about it carefully, Ernst finally understood.

Ahmoni is just painting a rosy picture for herself!

High-speed battleships were something you couldn't afford, let alone sell. Even if you did, Kjerag couldn't afford it. Even if he scraped together enough money to buy one, Ernst wouldn't dare to buy it.

There are many countries in the world that can buy nuclear bombs, but how many dare to buy them? A man is innocent but guilty of possessing a treasure. Holding this thing is a hot potato. Unless Ernst completely makes Kjerag join the Duke of Wellington's camp, buying a high-speed warship will only bring trouble to himself. And Ernst obviously won't do that.

Standing on one side is a delicate matter, and completely leaning towards either side will plant hidden dangers in the future. Italy is very particular about this, as it has always been a victorious country.

"I appreciate the Duke of Wellington's kindness. But why don't you, Special Envoy Ahmonie, first tell me specifically what the Duke of Wellington wants me to do?"

Seeing that Ernst was not dazzled by this "sugar-coated bullet", Ahmonie was somewhat surprised and looked at Ernst a few more times, raising her evaluation of him a little higher.

It's a pity that Ernst was born in a small country like Kjerag. If he was born in Victoria, he would have been able to get a good position under the Duke of Wellington just by relying on his determination.

She paused and said:

"First thing: the evacuation of Londinium."

"You may not know this, but Londinium is in chaos right now because of some disobedient Sarkaz mercenaries. I'm not in a position to go into detail about the specific situation, but the problem is that there are still a large number of civilians in Londinium."

"According to our intelligence, the president of Victoria National University has recently sent a letter to the Duke of Caister asking for help, hoping that the Duke of Caister can help the people on campus leave Londinium."

"The first thing is to ask everyone to give Duke Caister some trouble so that her evacuation plan will not go so smoothly."

Prevent the Duke of Castor from evacuating the teachers and students of Victoria National University in Londinium?

Ernst's brow furrowed.

Ahmonie thought Ernst was worried about how to complete this task. She smiled and told him not to worry. She simply reminded him:

"This mission is actually very simple. As long as you can find a way to remind those unruly Sarkaz mercenaries in the city..."

"Can you tell me about the next one?" Ernst interrupted.

Ahmonie raised her eyebrows, stared at Ernst silently for two seconds, and nodded.

"The second thing is that the Duke of Castor will be attending an art exhibition in Londinium in a while. The Duke of Wellington doesn't want her to be so successful, but according to the Duke's ban issued by Parliament, the Grand Duke cannot go near Londinium."

"So he hopes that you can find a way to either make it harder for the Duke of Caster to enter the city to participate in the exhibition, or to ruin the art exhibition."

Ernst nodded thoughtfully.

It sounds like a simple task, but it is not.

There was a very obvious contradiction in Ahmonie's words. The Duke's Decree issued by the Parliament clearly prohibited the Grand Duke from entering Londinium, but why was the Duke of Caister able to openly enter the city to attend the art exhibition?

Entering the city openly and sneaking into the city like the Duke of Stafford and the Duke of Cavendish are two completely different concepts.

Not to mention, the city they entered was occupied by the Sarkaz.

Ernst had no idea what cards the Duke of Castle had hidden that made her so confident. And it was even more difficult to mess up the itinerary of a duke who had hidden cards.

Perhaps it would be much easier to start from the art exhibition, but Ernst couldn't think of any good way to connect himself with the art exhibition.

Will the people of Londinium enjoy listening to Yelagund songs and watching Yelagund fireworks?

These unbelievers who don't like Yelagund probably won't do that.

"What about the third thing?" Ernst continued.

Ahmoni: "The third thing is also very simple. Even simpler than the first two."

"The Duke of Wellington hopes that Kjerag can wreak havoc on the Duke of Caister's territory."

"Sabotage?" Ernst didn't understand what Ahmonie meant for a moment.

But Ahmoni explained quickly: "Well, for example, blow up one or two restaurants, assassinate one or two nobles, and it would be best if we could make the entire Dukedom of Caister panic."

"Weapons and equipment, bombs, personnel training, the Duke of Wellington is happy to help. This can even be a long-term task. As long as Sherag completes it once, the Duke of Wellington can pay him for it -"

"Stop talking." Ernst interrupted Ahmoni with a serious expression.

"Does the Duke of Wellington want the Kjerag people to become kbfz and use the lives of the Kjerag people to create trouble for the Duke of Kaster?!"

"You don't have to say it so harshly." Ahmonie seemed to have not expected Ernst to have such a big reaction, and quickly said, "Prime Minister, you should also understand that with the reward given by the Duke of Wellington, this effort is completely worth it. Not to mention, this is also a good way to help you maximize the value of the domestic opposition."

"All Kjerag people are Yelagund's people, and are the people of Kjerag's government, regardless of whether they are in opposition or not."

"Oh, Prime Minister, politicians can just talk nonsense to the people below. The Duke of Wellington is talking to you about cooperation." Ahmonie was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

Ernst took a deep breath and forced himself to suppress the thought of ending the conversation and the deal.

“Then I definitely won’t choose three,” he replied. “That doesn’t conform to the negotiation principles I proposed at the beginning.”

As long as it does not harm Kjerag's fundamental interests, everything else can be discussed.

What are Kjerag's fundamental interests?

Kjerag's government? Manjushri's religion? The money from the Kalan trade?

neither.

The fundamental interests of Kjerag are and only are those of the people of Kjerag.

If there are no people, where do the people come from?

Ernst would not let the Kjerag people die.

Some people may question that Ernst sent the people from the Perlochi territory to sweatshops, working ten hours a day, with at most one day off a week, and possibly even working overtime. Isn't this also a cruel form of exploitation, sending the Kjerag people to their deaths?

Ernst did not explain, because this is the iron rule of civilization development.

If you say this is hypocrisy, you are right. Politicians themselves are not good people. Hypocrisy is their tribute to virtue with evil.

But evil also has a bottom line. When capitalist oppression and concentration camp massacres are put together, people with conscience will always give priority to saving the latter. Social development cannot always be accompanied by moral decline, otherwise what will eventually be built is only a cold, extreme, modern cage.

"I understand." Ahmoni frowned and shook her head helplessly.

As a Terran, a subordinate of the Duke of Wellington, a spy and adviser, she found it difficult to understand Ernst's decision.

If she were in his place, she would definitely choose the third one. A small sacrifice can bring greater benefits, and even political influence. Even if it is exposed, it doesn't matter. This is just a moral issue, and the people are always willing to put morality aside in the face of their own interests.

If you could let someone you may never have met die, and you could get millions and your family could live a good life, what would you choose?

Why not?

But since Ernst sternly rejected this option, she was curious for a moment, which one would Ernst choose in the end?

"Let me think about it for a while and get back to you later." Ernst maintained his usual style of thinking twice before acting. After he finished speaking, without waiting for Ahmoni to recover, he stood up and left the room.

Looking at his back, Ahmoni pouted her lips, tapped the table with her fingers, and muttered to herself:

"Weird Kjerag."

Chapter 125 The right thing to do is to take the credit!

"Rationally speaking, apart from the third option which is basically not considered, the difficulty of the second option is actually comparable to the first option."

"Just like Ahmonie said, it is actually very simple to disrupt or prevent Duke Caister from evacuating the Victoria National University personnel out of the city. We just need to send someone who can speak in front of the Sarkaz to inform the leader of the Sarkaz who occupied Londinium about this matter."

Ernst simply analyzed:

"The simplest point about this option is that although we may seem to be disgusting Duke Caister, in fact, we don't need to confront Duke Caister and his gray hat subordinates head-on. As long as the Sarkaz can be a little more powerful and send even a small number of troops to monitor Victoria National University, Duke Caister's plan will be disrupted."

Jeston spread his hands and said, "What else can I say? I'll definitely choose this one."

"The second option is too troublesome. It is almost impossible to stop Caister from entering the city."

What Jeston said makes sense.

Unlike the first option, Ernst had almost no way to stop Kaster from entering the city. Sue her parents? That was impossible. Duke Kaster had the guts to enter the city openly, which meant that she didn't care about the Duke's ban at all.

Don't say anything. You can use this to let the Duke of Wellington or the Duke of Windermere come forward to accuse the Duke of Caster.

Why do you think the old fox, the Duke of Wellington, would rather spend more money than give this troublesome task to Ernst?

He just didn't want to get involved in this matter himself! To put it bluntly, he was still keeping a low profile and working on his secret territory tour plan. If he was willing to come forward to condemn it, he would have condemned it long ago.

It is even more impossible for Ernst to let Windermere get involved. Even if the Duke of Windermere knew about this matter, he would be very happy to condemn it. This condemnation could not be instigated by Ernst, but was voluntary on the part of Ampherice Windermere.

This is not a trivial matter of "doing a favor". Asking others to do things according to your suggestions and others doing it voluntarily out of interest are two different things. The former is interfering in other countries' internal affairs, which is taboo!

The United States can do this because it has the power. Kjerag doesn't have that ability. It is not a country with a six-pointed star on its flag, so it cannot be a conjugate father and son of Colombia.

Not to mention, this was a deal between him and Wellington. The good thing about the Duke of Windermere was that she was very stubborn, so Ernst was not too worried about what Anferlis would think of Kjerag, but with her personality, she probably wouldn't want to see herself being used as a gun by Ernst to exchange for another reward from Grand Duke Victoria.

She wished that she was the only Grand Duke around Ernst and he didn't know anyone else.

And destroying an art exhibition would be even more troublesome.

First of all, it was a hassle for Ernst to enter the city. If he wanted to attend the art exhibition, he had to enter the city legitimately. The art exhibition that the Duke of Castle attended would not allow an unidentified person without permission to attend.

Entering the city was just the first hurdle. Where would Ernst get an invitation to the art exhibition? Even if he had managed all the previous steps, how could he get out of Londinium unscathed?

Duke Kast must have had more than one or two tricks up his sleeve to enter Londinium, which had already been occupied by the Sarkaz. Among them, there must have been some military means.

Ernst wasn't sure if he could deal with the Sarkaz, but it was definitely enough to deal with him without summoning Yelagund.

This is not to mention that Ernst and Kjerag are not the Duke of Windermere and her vast and martial duchy. Once Ernst publicly offends the Duke of Caister, he will inevitably pay the corresponding price.

So, the best option is definitely the first one.

Instead of confronting Duke Caister head-on, he directly revealed the news to Sarkaz and obstructed Duke Caister's plan to evacuate personnel.

Given the implicit hostility between the Sarkaz and the Grand Dukes after they occupied Londinium, there was no way they would reveal the source of this news to Duke Caister, who clearly had ambitions for Londinium.

In this way, he could get away with it safely, prove his ability in front of the Duke of Wellington, and get the funding.

"But...but in this case, what about the teachers and students of Victoria National University?"

Xinteleya's voice was a little weak, but in this quiet room, it was like a heavy hammer hitting steel.

This is also the hurdle that Ernst has never been able to overcome.

The high walls of Londinium are a cage. The people trapped inside may face attacks from the Sarkaz at any time. They finally found a way and asked for help from Grand Duke Victoria who had the ability to rescue them from the cage. Did Ernst want to extinguish their little light of hope?

Yes, Ernst was also very clear that the Duke of Caster's action to rescue the teachers and students of Victoria National University was definitely not for a simple purpose. Even by hearing the name of the school and its location in the core area of ​​Londinium, Ernst could guess that most of the people there and their families must have a high social status.

But so what?

No matter how you smear him, the Duke of Caster was saving lives. Maybe the people he saved will make you angry or sad in the future, and you may think that you should not have saved them in the first place. But the act of saving lives should never be blamed!

Again, Ernst can believe that there are good people among the Sarkaz, but the overall reputation of the Sarkaz over the past thousand years has been doomed to be that they are not worthy of trust.

After revealing the news to the Sarkaz, Ernst could not feel at ease to entrust the lives of potentially tens of thousands of people to the possibility that the Sarkaz who was performing the guard mission happened to be a moderate.

Who knows how they would stop the teachers and students when they saw them starting to evacuate?

After taking a deep breath and exhaling it for a long time, Ernst looked at the three people in the room, including Lavshini, and shook his head:

"No, we can't tell the Sarkaz about this."

Kjerag missed the opportunity of the Duke of Wellington's investment, and he would not perish because of it, but the teachers and students of Victoria National University only have one life. Ernst could not make such a gamble.

He has flexible moral standards, rich experience in passing the buck, and is a standard civil servant within the system.

Because of this, thanks to the many ideological training courses he had taken in the past, he still remembered the persuasive teachings of his predecessors on the regret chair:

“Hold the bottom line.”

Ernst closed his eyes silently. Although he felt regretful, he felt at peace in his heart.

Conscience is not worth much if you sell it, but it will be very expensive if you keep it.

He finally understood the meaning of this sentence.

There was a long silence in the room.

Jeston found it hard to understand Ernst's hesitation. Xinteleya silently sat down next to Ernst, stretched out her hands, hugged Ernst, and patted his back gently.

Only Rafshini did not understand Ernst's hesitation, nor could she understand why Xinteleya wanted to comfort Ernst.

So she jumped out of the "choice" circle and asked her own question in confusion: