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Chapter 85
Today, for all the people who met the royal grain delivery convoy at the gate of the capital, it is probably a day that they will remember forever.
Although not everyone knows how to farm, the people who need to line up at the gate of the city early in the morning to enter and exit are either farmers and commoners who rely on the sky to feed themselves, or well-informed merchant convoys. Among them, those who don’t know the wheat productionThere are too few people.
In their impression, it is time for a bumper year to produce five or six bags of wheat from the land of 1 Schatt. This more than doubled the output, which sounds very false, as if even the field can produceThere are people who don't know how many harvests they have made up to fool people.
But Aluke made such a big noise on purpose, it is impossible for the people next to them not to hear it. After listening for a while with their ears upright, they knew that this person was the steward of the royal family, and he was in charge of the wheat in the field, so it is impossible for him not to know what the real output of the land should be.
Especially after Aluke blew out this terrifying number loudly, scaring everyone, Aluke's colleagues saw that this was an excellent publicity opportunity, they got together and quietly discussed a few words, and they came up with a plan.
I saw one of the stewards standing at the convoy and shouting at Aluke from a distance: "Hey, Aluke, what are you talking about? Didn't you say that this matter should not be talked about?"
When Aluke heard this, he immediately cooperated with annoyed expression: "Ah, I forgot for a while, old friend, just pretend you didn't hear anything, and come to my house for a drink and dinner at night."
After speaking, he ran back to the motorcade to line up.
And those who thought that Aluke was talking nonsense and joking saw him like this, and began to think that what he said before might not be a joke.
For example, the soldier captain, he couldn't help but follow him, wanting to ask questions clearly.
Aluke hesitated at first, but then the soldier captain said, "Anyway, you can tell it all. If you don't say it clearly, it will be more troublesome for others to spread the news."
When the other stewards heard this, they also said, "That's the truth. It's really more troublesome to make people who don't know enough to make false rumors. Then, Aluke, you can tell him."
Only then did Aluke explain the matter about Maimai clearly, and during this period, many people who had already lined up to leave or enter the city stayed by the side of the road and refused to leave, listening to him with their ears pricked up..
For a while, the entire city gate was blocked, but the soldiers saw that no one else was making trouble, and they were all listening to the news there, and they were also curious, so they turned a blind eye, did not go to clear the pedestrians.
And at this city gate, there are actually some people whose purpose is different from those who lined up to enter and leave the city. They were sent by the nobles to guard here to inquire about news.
At yesterday's court meeting, because of the tit-for-tat confrontation between the left and right prime ministers, Lucis did not say anything about the wheat production, but his waiters still revealed the news according to his wishes.
Everyone who heard the news didn't believe it, but there was no need for the waiters to deceive them with this kind of news that was fake at first sight, so someone sent servants to guard the city gate yesterday, just to see if it was true.So much food was transported into the city, and some people even found out that the palace was going to send people to receive the food, so they deliberately placed their own people in the escort convoy, just to get first-hand information.
So now, most of the people in the grain delivery convoy were sent by the nobles to inquire about the news, and they were also the first to confirm that the news was true. After all, they were arranged to live in Maidena this night.In the village, often ask the villagers for news.
But now, with the cooperation of the stewards, the news that "the great majesty asked the princess to teach them the planting techniques from her hometown, finally planted a huge harvest of 1 schat and 13 bags of wheat."Spread out at an astonishing speed.
Ever since Ella came to Sathia, various rumors about her have emerged one after another, and because no one knows where the princess's country is, even if she asks people from the Mio continent, she can onlyI got an answer that I had never heard of before, so slowly, after the silver-haired princess showed various magical abilities, the rumors about her origin began to "may be from a small distant country in the north of the Mio continent".It became a rumor that "maybe it is a princess from the Kingdom of God".
Anyway, all the civilians in Sathia now believe that the silver-haired princess is the person sent by the gods from the kingdom of God to save them.
So when they heard that the wheat whose output sounded too ridiculous was taught by Her Royal Highness to cultivate them, the eyes of people who didn't believe their words at all, thinking that they were deliberately attracting people's attention, suddenly changed.
During the period when the convoy entered the city, many people came over to ask the convoy for details, and before the grain delivery truck entered the warehouse of the palace, they even got the achievement of being welcomed by the road—I don’t know how the news spreadIt's so fast, anyway, there are people watching their convoy pass by the roadside, and some people even catch up with them for a while, listening to the stewards say how they grew the grain of this convoy under the guidance of Her Royal Highness.of.
"If you don't believe me, you can go outside the city to see it. You know the original royal ranch next to Maidena Village? That's where we planted these wheats. Now the wheat stalks in the field haven't been harvested yet, but you look at itIt can also be seen that in a while, the gate will have to dig up the ground and plant new ones."
"Plant new ones? Can you grow two crops of wheat a year?"
"Of course it can be planted twice a year. We used to start planting wheat during the plowing season, but this time the bumper harvest was planted not long after the flood season began. Now that the wheat has been harvested, can't we plant it again in the field??”
"It's not good? It's because you don't know how to grow. If you grow like us, don't say it's not good. The harvested wheat will burst your granary."
"Can it be planted? Of course, His Majesty has ordered before that when the planting season comes, those of us will be responsible for teaching everyone how to grow wheat."
Similar conversations always happened from time to time, until the convoy entered the palace, and the others could only stop in front of the gate of the palace, everyone lowered their voices.
"My mouth is dry, but it feels really good."
"Yeah, I've never been so beautiful."
"After the news spread today, when we go home, we will ensure that many people will come to inquire about the news, and then you will be able to enjoy yourself again."
They talked and laughed and delivered the food to the warehouse manager, and then went home. As the colleagues said, when they got home, they were surrounded by relatives, friends and neighbors who came to inquire about the news.
Such news naturally reached the ears of some foreign missions who had not yet left. Believe it or not, those people who were planning to leave stopped.Get their new planting method from King Sathya - of course they think it's a bit beautiful.
And those missions who left Boiman early after hearing that the lockdown was lifted naturally did not hear the news, and they would find out later that it was too late to turn around and go back, so they could only write a letter to the country in regret, asking them to send anotherThe messenger is coming.
Ella has started to receive a lot of posts these days, but now the ladies all know that she doesn't like to attend outside banquets, and just after such a thing happened, no one dares to take the risk of asking her out of the palace,So these posts are all expressing that they want to see her.
People who are going to see her at this time, Ella doesn't need to think too much, they all know that it's because of wheat.
Of course she won’t reject this kind of request to see her, but she doesn’t have to do other things when she sees them one by one, so Ella simply held another tea party, inviting all the wives who asked to see her, and everyone sat down.Drink tea, eat snacks and talk, ask all the questions you want to know, and she will solve them at once.
Ella now even has a place dedicated to holding tea parties. The spacious hall is facing the beautiful garden, tall trees block the sun, and the hall is warm and comfortable decorated according to her preferences. The table made of rattan woodChairs and sofas are placed everywhere. Although the sofa is not a soft fabric sofa, but a hard wooden sofa, the structure that fits the human body and the cushions placed on it still make people refuse to get up after sitting on it., and the small rattan armchairs around the small round table allow familiar and close people to have some private whispers at close range. When the mood comes, you can also play a few games with the poker and mahjong prepared by His Royal Highness—not to mentionWell, as soon as these two new entertainment methods appeared, they swept the entire Sathya from top to bottom, and almost no one disliked them.
Unknowingly, the aristocratic wives of Boiman began to hold and attend tea parties. They ordered the same sofas, tables, chairs and poker mahjong as Her Royal Highness, and invited a few friends to sit in the morning or afternoon.Gathering together to drink tea and play cards is not as lively as a banquet, but it is more relaxed and enjoyable, and it can easily consume a whole day of time.
Although this kind of gathering is still unavoidable, Ella has gradually tasted a bit of fun, and she is no longer so exclusive of socializing with noble ladies, and even has a few more reasonable noble friends—from the elderly lady toThere are aristocratic girls of the same age—although they still don’t go out of the palace, but they are invited to the palace for a small gathering. This makes people around her, including Lucis, feel very relieved.
Ella/Her Royal Highness is fine with everything, but it is too quiet. If you don't get in touch with others, you will easily feel lonely.
On Lucis' side, he is preparing to propose to Ella.
Since the proposal was rejected by Ella last time, Lucis seemed to have temporarily given up on this idea. In fact, he had put in a lot of effort in private, just to formulate a marriage proposal that would satisfy Ella.
He asked many ministers in private how they proposed marriage. It can be said that most of the ministers were confused by this question.
After all, they are aristocrats. Although Sathya advocates free love, the marriages of people in the aristocratic circle are more marriages arranged by their parents, so they have basically never done marriage proposals. His Majesty asked them these things, and theyCan't say anything at all.
After Lucis realized that he had asked the wrong person, he quickly changed his strategy, changed the object of the inquiry, and finally settled on a marriage proposal method that satisfied him.
However, although the method of proposing marriage has been decided, there is a little difficulty in implementing it, so Lucis has been working hard on it recently, so Ella doesn't see him much.
But she didn't notice anything wrong. Sometimes she herself is too busy to take care of other things—like now she is racking her brains to write about the bank's plan—so she just thinks that Lucis isBusy business.
If the reason is, it is estimated that it is the group of bandits.
After the last two members of the bandit group were arrested, it seemed to them that the matter had temporarily come to an end—Gebitland was too far away from them, and Lucis wanted to send people to investigate the true identities of these people.People used to travel at sea for a month, and then come back, so it would take three or four months, and it would take a year to wait for the result.
Moreover, Sathya felt that he had obtained enough evidence from the previously captured assassins, so he didn't pay much attention to the confessions of Auston and Alger.
Moreover, these two people suffered a lot of injuries when they were arrested, so they were treated better than other assassins when they were arrested. Although they were whipped as soon as they were arrested, but after they refusedWhen they didn't cooperate and didn't say anything, the interrogators didn't continue to torture to extract a confession, but locked them up and kept them cold.
The two were locked up with other assassins, and next door to them was Claude who was arrested first.
When they saw Claude, Auston and Alger wanted to pounce on him and tear him apart. If he hadn't informed him, they wouldn't be in the current situation.
But soon they discovered that Claude's situation was not right, or that he and the other two members who were arrested together were not right.
"what happened?"
Auston dragged his wounds and observed the cage for a while, and found that no matter what they said, Claude and the other two members of the bandit group were huddled near the door of the cell, staring at the torches outside, and from time to timeMade some indistinct fine crackling sounds.
— they look like they're crazy.
Those who were arrested earlier than them replied across the aisle: "They were like this when we came in, not only them, the situation of the deputy head is also not very good."
Auston and the deputy head George were not together, but the cells in the dungeon were separated by wood, so although they were a little far away, they could still see George's cell from a distance.
He looked in the direction the person below pointed, and he saw George, like Claude, on the edge of the cell, staring at the torch outside and chanting, because George was in the cell diagonally opposite them, and Oston could still seeThe expression on his face was numb and dazed, looking like he was stupid.
In addition, there are other people with higher status in the bandit group who have more or less mental problems.
This made both Oston and Alger feel uneasy. Oston himself is a brutal person who likes to interrogate, so he knows very well that some tortures can indeed destroy people's will, but they are all extremely cruel tortures, butAmong the people who look wrong now, except for Claude and the two assassins who were in charge of the assassination at the beginning, although the others have injuries, they are not serious. It seems that they are just whipping. How can we make them changeinto this.
The same member who answered them before told them: "Claude was like this when we were arrested, and after Deputy Head George and others were arrested, those people saw that they did not confess, so they were locked up alone., it will become like this when it is released.”
The member of the bandit group who spoke was also a gangster who licked blood, but because he had joined not long ago, he was just a little guy who didn't know much, so the interrogators didn't pay much attention to him, so everyone else was dismissed.When taken to other places, he and the rest of the people were just whipped, and they didn't know what happened to them.
But just looking at the abnormal appearance of the deputy head and the others after they came back, the rest of the people trembled and broke out in cold sweat, especially since there were no extra wounds on their bodies, and it made people wonder how they became like this.
The unknown is often the scariest.
In fact, their situation is just a stress response after being locked up in a small dark room. Originally, after being released from the small dark room, they will gradually get better.
But because the interrogators are very interested in this new type of interrogation method that does not harm the prisoner's body but can stimulate them to tell the truth obediently, after asking the necessary confession, they will arrest the prisoner from time to time.One level, observe and record their situation, so as to better grasp this interrogation method, and the members of the hapless bandit group are stimulated repeatedly like this, it is no wonder that Claude and the others are not crazy.
The other people who have not encountered this kind of situation are seeing them turn into their current inhuman and ghostly appearances, and they are naturally very scared, so they will answer whatever is asked of them, and they dare not lie.explain.
Because of this, they were actually a little guilty when they faced Auston, but when they thought that Claude confessed them in the first place, and he has become like that now, they felt at ease again, and thanked themselvescooperation.
Except for the soldiers from Gebitland, the members of the Bandit Group are vicious. They joined the Bandit Group to live a better life. They have no sense of belonging to the Bandit Group, let alone Auston.In terms of loyalty, all of them are selfish people. If they don't really know much, these people would have used those secrets in exchange for their own chances of survival.
After Oston and Alger saw the situation of Claude George and the others, they were already prepared in their hearts to be tortured in this way, because they had never seen the scene when they were taken away and sent back. At first they firmly believed thatI can stand that kind of test, but after being left out for two or three days, facing these seemingly crazy former companions every day, the mentality of the two of them has been shaken.
Then after they were finally remembered, taken away and locked up in a small black room, after suffering less than a day of mental blows, Auston remembered what Claude and others were like now, and when he thought of himself, he would also becomeIn that way, he directly called out his identity without hesitation, and asked to see the king of Sathya.
He is a noble baron of Gebitran and has his own territory and family. Although he first came to Shadia under the order of the king he is loyal to, he was not born as a knight, and his loyalty to the king is not as high as twoHe was the deputy head, but now the two knight-born deputy heads are finished, and he, a nobleman, doesn't want to follow in their footsteps.
So he exposed his aristocratic status, hoping that Lucis would allow him to redeem himself with a ransom according to the rules of war on the Miou continent.
There are often wars between the lords on the Mio mainland, and the losing side usually does not lose their lives. They only need to pay a ransom to the winning side to redeem themselves, so it is only natural for Auston tomade this request.
As for the fact that revealing his identity would bring Gebitran a lot of trouble, Auston didn't take it seriously. Seeing Claude's current appearance and the clear reaction of other people when he revealed his identity, he knew thatClaude and the others have told everything, so the private plans of King Gebitran have obviously been known to King Sathya.
Regardless of whether he exposes himself or not, the other party already knows, so of course he has to think about his own life.
Of course, he also knows that after he does this, it may be difficult to gain the trust of King Gebitran, and he may even be confiscated from the noble title and then executed, but he can't care about that anymore, the worst thing is to go back secretly and bring all theThe family property goes to live in other countries. Although Gebitran is a big country in the Mio continent, it is not as strong as Sathya. There are several countries as powerful as him. He fled farther to seek refuge.It is impossible for King Bielan to send someone to capture him back.
Auston thought about this plan, but never thought that King Sathya would disagree.
Although the Kingdom of Sathia will allow nobles to pay fines to avoid crimes, but that is when the royal family is not involved. The things that Auston's bandits do are obviously not within this scope, so he wants to use money in exchange for his own crimes.Freedom, of course, is impossible, not to mention that the two countries are so far apart. Whether his family is willing to come to rescue him is one thing. It is completely unnecessary for Lucis to go to war just before that point..
However, since Auston had voluntarily exposed his identity, he originally wanted to announce the fact that the assassination was actually planned by Gebitland, and he would have the most favorable witness.
Lucis, who was busy studying hard for his marriage proposal ceremony, didn't have time to meet a little baron imprisoned. After listening to the report from the subordinates, he just threw out a sentence: "Tell him, if you want to live,Just write down carefully how King Gebitran ordered him to come to Sathya, and how he made him divide the countries of Feiluo. I will make arrangements when he finishes writing.Ask him to publicly accuse Gebitran of his crimes."
Counting the members of the foreign missions who participated in the assassination of him, they have been imprisoned for a long time. They should have figured out who to withdraw as a scapegoat. Let's listen to this Baron Alstontestimony.