Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 424 Yes, Prime Minister
Looking forward to it, looking forward to it, the next day came, and the pace of the military exercise was approaching.

The open space between the civil fort and the rear camp has been opened up by the imperial army as a huge military training ground.

Relying on the west wall of the civil fort, the craftsmen of the empire built a simple tower with a pergola with wood, which was used as a viewing platform for the guests of the military exercise; Any guest is open to keep military secrets.

Twenty minutes before the official start of the military exercise, when Xia Houyan climbed onto the viewing platform with Isa Sandria in his arms, the platform at the top of the tower was already crowded with high-ranking nobles who came from the imperial capital to watch the ceremony .

As for their accompanying knight attendants, they were uniformly left at the foot of the tower to temporarily act as security guards.

I heard from the officer downstairs that the orc envoys of the Glorious Federation had arrived on the west side of the Burning Crystal Canyon this morning, and were immediately guarded by the soldiers of the Imperial Army. Only federal envoys will be allowed to attend the ceremony.

Due to some ulterior reasons, Xia Hou got up a little late today, so he was late.

Therefore, the imperial nobles who had already arrived on time were already gathering in twos and threes, busy chatting and building relationships, and no one noticed the Lord Frost Maple Ridge and Isa Sandria who had arrived late.

Xia Houyan was too lazy to take care of these imperial wastes, so he was naturally happy, and took Yisha to find a small corner in the shadows to shrink up.

Yisha leaned in her fiancé's arms, looked around the audience, then blinked, and whispered to Xia Houyan's ear:
"Eliott, look—the one over there is Lord Guillaume."

——Actually, there is no need for Yisha to remind, Xia Houyan has already noticed the middle-aged man standing in the middle of the viewing platform and talking with a smile:

This guy is quite conspicuous on the viewing platform, because there are twenty or thirty imperial nobles, surrounding him like stars and moons, all with flattering smiles on their faces, it is disgusting to watch.

"Guillaume..." Xia Houyan chanted the name, squinting at the middle-aged man.

——Guillaume Gaunt, the latest Prime Minister of the Empire, who was born in the famous Gaunt family in the north, is also the leader of this aristocratic viewing group from the imperial capital.

In the human empire, the official position of "Prime Minister" is generally conferred by the emperor himself, and he is the number one bureaucrat who assists the emperor in handling government affairs—however, in the history of Haven Continent, the powers held by successive prime ministers are actually different, and they are basically completely different. It depends on the wishes of His Majesty the current emperor.

Compared with the noble title cast by iron and steel, the position of the prime minister who can be appointed and removed by the emperor at any time can be said to be as fragile as duckweed on water, so the imperial people have never respected these royal henchmen who hold the position of prime minister—unless this person is at the same time Sitting on a real title of nobility.

Xia Houyan vaguely remembered that the last prime minister of the empire was an old man duke in his 80s, who was basically old enough to be deaf, dizzy, and incapacitated. The prime minister, the highest bureaucratic position in the empire, was just a symbol of honor for you nothing more;
Lord Guillaume Gaunt himself is the second son of the Duke of Gaunt, Snow Valley City in the north, who has no right of inheritance.At the beginning of this year, after the former Prime Minister accidentally choked to death while eating, His Majesty the Emperor suddenly issued an edict to appoint Guillaume Gaunt as the Prime Minister of the Empire, which shocked the government and the public for a while:

Because, before the emperor's edict of appointment was issued, few people in the entire empire knew who Guillaume Gaunt was--jumping from an unknown nobleman to the prime minister of the empire, Guillaume's Life is like flying into the sky on a griffin.

It is precisely because of this unprecedented promotion speed that since the beginning of this year, when Guillaume Gunter took office as prime minister, rumors about him have been rampant. There are even rumors that he is a wizard who is intended to be cultivated by His Majesty the current Emperor Basil III—that is, Frost Mr. Elliot Igor, the Duke of Fengling, has been winning consecutive battles this year, which has prevented Guillaume from seizing the headlines of political gossip for a long time.

And what Guillaume Gaunt did after he took office did not feel ashamed of his trust in His Majesty the Emperor and his career career:
Just when the public opinion in the empire suspected that the newly appointed prime minister was another mascot who did not do anything practical, Guillaume suddenly led the Imperial City Defense Forces, and vigorously searched more than 30 chambers of commerce in the imperial capital Gyeonggi, and found out that they were evading taxes. Facts—according to word of mouth among the residents of the imperial capital, at that time, the city defense army seized the lights of the chamber of commerce's property, and they were on for three days and three nights before they were extinguished;
The final result was that these unlucky chambers of commerce, under the coercion of Guillaume, pinched their noses and paid a huge amount of tax to the Royal Taxation Department - this huge sum of money was quickly turned into military expenses and supplies and sent to Burning In the hands of the frontline soldiers in the canyon.

In this sense, the reason why the civil castle next to everyone can stand here is thanks to Mr. Guillaume's feat of fighting local tyrants and dividing the land in the imperial capital.

It was also after this incident that no one in the imperial political circles dared to despise Guillaume Gaunt, the new prime minister, and many people who followed suit racked their brains to curry favor with Guillaume, who was deeply trusted by the emperor. Your Excellency—this time, Guillaume Gunter is the head of the envoys observing the ceremony, and it can only be said that it is what everyone expects.

But, the Xiahou official, who watched the nobles in the shadows, was not interested in these popular fried chickens in the political arena:
To put it bluntly, his ambition is to take good care of his own one-acre three-point land in the Land of Cracking Soul. As for the princely mansions in the imperial capital are all new owners, and their civil and military clothes are different from those of the past, it is all about my Igor family!

Just as Xia Houyan was bored and lit the cigar with his fingertips, taking a bite with Isa in his arms, several heavyweights stepped onto the viewing platform:
The Commander of the Imperial Central Army, Ryan Grant, and the Commander of the Imperial Eastern Army, Graham Rosario, appeared on the stage surrounded by a group of high-ranking officers of the Imperial Army.

Then, without a doubt, they didn't see Lord Shuangfengling hiding in the corner, and they were directly surrounded by the imperial nobles of the audience group to greet and say hello. For a while, everyone sang me and laughed at Yan Yan, and the atmosphere was so harmonious .

The official Xiahou in the shadow curled his lips.

"Everyone! Everyone!" Grand Duke Rosario stood among the nobles of the empire and announced loudly, "The military exercise is about to begin. Please prepare to watch the ceremony!"

"Hello!" Isa nudged her fiance lightly with her elbow, "I heard that people from Shuangfengling are also going to practice? Are you ready? Don't make a fool of yourself..."

——The ugly performance of the Igor family during the "St. Augustus Festival" has already left a deep psychological shadow on the Countess of Stigmata.

"Just watch..." Xia Houyan replied sullenly, watching the great nobles take their seats on the stage and prepare to watch the military exercise.

However, the fact that Xiahou officials don't want to join in the fun doesn't mean that everyone will tacitly treat him as a transparent person.

After settling down several nobles, the Prime Minister of the Empire, Guillaume Gunter, suddenly turned around, smiled and walked towards the Lord of Frost Maple Ridge in the corner——

——Although Mr. Guillaume kept his expression, he had obviously noticed the existence of Mr. Xiahou from the corner of his eyes.

"Master Igor, I am Guillaume Gunter, may your territory be prosperous forever." Guillaume walked to Xia Houyan, lowered his voice and nodded slightly, "It's an honor to see you here... "

It's a little funny to say that Guillaume Gunter is almost 40 years old, but he still has to maintain a respectful attitude in front of the young Duke of Frost Maple Ridge.

What's even more interesting is that Guillaume greeted Xia Houyan directly, but did not greet Isa Sandria alone - "The Countess of Stigmata is the Duke of Frost Maple Ridge", which has obviously become an empire. The implicit consensus in politics.

"Nice to meet you, may you be safe." Xia Houyan nodded with a bitter face.

In view of the many unhappiness of the trip to the imperial capital, the lazy and crazy lord of the Tianjiao actually wished to keep a distance from these important political figures of the empire.

"His Majesty Basil was very happy to hear the news that you rushed to help the Eastern Territory. His Majesty said at the banquet, 'With Elliott here, why worry about the immortality of the orcs?'" Lord Guillaume laughed, "Ego Your lord is really the backbone of the empire..."

"All the backbones I know are going to be poked..." Xia Houyan replied with a wry smile, "As for the orcs on the other side of the canyon... I am a mortal, so how can I guarantee genocide? ?”

Guillaume stood there for a full two seconds in a daze, after all he couldn't understand, how could there be a fool in Haiwen who took the flattery seriously?
However, Guillaume Gunter is worthy of being a mature politician who has been tested. He immediately straightened his expression and said with a smile:
"Master Igor is too modest! Your fierce record on the Great Plains of Dolores is well known. With you sitting on the front line of the Burning Crystal Canyon, we will definitely be able to drive the orcs out of the land of the empire eventually..."

Xia Houyan opened his mouth and was about to answer when he heard another voice beside him:

"...Master Guillaume, you are thinking too far."

Jahouyan and Guillaume Gunter suddenly turned their heads and found that it was Grand Duke Rosario who spoke, the commander of the Eastern Army of the Empire, shoulder to shoulder with the commander of the Central Army Ryan Grant, walking slowly towards the two of them come over.

Several giants on the viewing stand got together, which almost immediately attracted the attention of the imperial nobles—and following the sight of Grand Duke Rosario, they quickly discovered the man who had been hiding in the shadows before. Lord of Frost Maple Ridge.

The eyes of the imperial nobles instantly became hot again.

——Who knows who doesn’t know, the aristocratic lord whose reputation is rising most in the empire today is none other than Elliot Igor, Duke of Shuangfeng Ridge!With Dong Bingku's novels and "What the Lord Eats Today" sold all over the country, no matter how uninformed the dead house nobles are, they should know the super big news that the Igor family made in the heartland of the orcs!

If "to curry favor with Prime Minister Guillaume" is compared to Grandma Liu going to the Grand View Garden for an autumn breeze, then "hugging the thigh of Elliott Igor" is comparable to a small declining country accepting the United States as its father. An absolute guarantee for the future!

It was also thanks to the presence of big figures such as Grand Duke Rosario, otherwise, maybe someone would have rushed out of the auditorium, hugged the boots of the official Xiahou and kissed them wildly—according to Xiahouyan's disposition towards these bastards of the empire With my understanding, the possibility of this matter is really not small.

Grand Duke Grimoire Rosario seemed to have not seen the imperial nobles who were about to move, first nodded to the high official Xiahou, and then fixedly stared at Guillaume Gaunt, saying:
"Lord Guillaume, you said just now that you want to expel the orcs from the hot land of the empire - this is certainly the wish of all of us, but is it too early to say this? After all, our primary goal now is to stabilize the Living in the front line of the Burning Crystal Canyon..."

Guillaume smiled and looked at Grand Duke Rosario:
"Is it too early? But I think that with the current military strength of our empire, as long as we send troops to the east immediately, the federal orcs on the other side of the canyon will collapse without a fight..."

"Lord Guillaume..." Grand Duke Rosario frowned slightly and raised his voice, "I told you this once when you first arrived yesterday—then I will say it again now: last year You don't know the battle situation in [-], why does the current imperial army take the initiative to attack the orc army on the other side of the canyon?"

"But His Majesty the Emperor and I both think that the Federation Orc is just a paper tiger..." Guillaume smiled and shook his head, "With the secret weapon we brought this time, last year's tragedy will definitely not happen. It will be staged again. Dear Grand Duke Rosario, you are also a member of the Empire, you don’t want to save the imperial people in the occupied area from suffering?”

Grand Duke Rosario took a deep breath and said:

"Of course I would. But, Lord Guillaume, General Grant and I are the supreme commanders of the Empire on the front lines—and both of us agree that the time for the Imperial Army to launch a counterattack is not yet ripe—even if Basil Your Majesty also agrees with you, and that will not affect my decision."

"Of course, of course." Guillaume laughed and said, "You are the commander of the Imperial Army, and this is just my personal opinion on the situation of the battle."

The Grand Duke Rosario took another deep look at the Prime Minister of the Empire, and then turned around with the Marquis Grant, saying no more.

Guillaume Gaunt turned to the high official Xiahou who was watching the play, shook his head and said:
"I'm making you laugh, Lord Igor—His Majesty and I both believe that the current imperial army should take the initiative to attack, reverse the decline, beat up the orc bastards on the other side of the canyon, and regain hundreds of miles of lost land in the east... It's a pity, Luo Lord Sario and Lord Grant seem to disagree with my idea, thinking that we must stick to the Burning Crystal Canyon... I don’t know about this matter, what do you think, Lord Igor?"

Xia Houyan thought seriously for three seconds, and then replied:
"It's none of my business?"

Guillaume never expected that what he was waiting for was this answer.He was still in a daze with his mouth open, when he heard a nobleman shout loudly:

"Look! The observers from the green-skinned bastard faction are here too!"

(End of this chapter)