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Chapter 48 46: Who is the insider (second update, please follow up)
"Then, let's start today's combat meeting."

Sitting on the chair, Evelin's expression became serious, revealing a hint of the leadership temperament of a superior, "Please report the combat results of each legion yesterday in turn."

This link had little to do with him. While the generals were reporting their results, Nolen used the meeting list that Evelin had prepared for him in advance to match the people in the meeting room with their positions.

Linfeng's army has three organizations, divided into knights, legions and city guards (regiments). Each organization is led by a regiment leader and two deputy captains, totaling exactly 9 people.

Among them, sitting directly opposite him was a middle-aged man wearing a red and white officer's uniform with white hair and beard. He was Ryan Anderson, whose status in this meeting was second only to that of the acting city owner Evelin.

He is the leader of the Linfeng Knights and the strongest individual in Linfeng City. He is an eighth-level knight who has been famous for a long time.

In addition, he also found a familiar face in the conference room——

Rainer Foger, one of the deputy commanders of the Linfeng Legion, he seemed to be the youngest among all the regimental generals present, with bronze skin and an unsmiling face.

When he was maintaining the city defense magic cannon on the city wall, Reiner was the one in the legion responsible for supporting him and Wilson.

It's just that he didn't have a good impression of Reiner. According to the division of responsibilities, Reiner was supposed to be responsible for the command of the legion's city defense force and the maintenance of the city's defense weapons.

However, the city defense magic cannons were in disrepair and had frequent problems. He and Anderson worked overtime for two days to repair them.

And after he bluntly pointed out the loopholes in the existing system of the city defense army, Reiner choked back and told him not to mind his own business.

From his position as deputy commander, he may have reason to say this. Even if something goes wrong in the army, do you, an outsider, need to point out it?

Perhaps this is not his problem alone, because the long-term peace has led to lax military discipline. This may be a common problem in the entire Linfeng army at that time.

But it was also because of this incident that he began to doubt the combat effectiveness of Linfeng's army, and thus silently accelerated the development of Valkyrie equipment.

Sensing Nolen's eyes sizing him up, Reiner also turned to look at him.

He was also secretly surprised. He did not expect that the alchemist who came to the city wall to maintain the city's defense magic cannon that day would actually appear in the conference room.

What is his relationship with White Raven?
It is said that the white raven can fly thanks to a set of mysterious alchemical equipment. As an alchemist, could he also participate in the development of this set of alchemical equipment?

The two of them were silently thinking about their own affairs. At this moment, a general from the city guard reported in the meeting:

"...The security in the city is still stable, but due to the war, the people's voice of rejecting foreign races has gradually expanded. Many people have been ostracized because of their blood. Some people have proposed to us that all mixed-race people be expelled from the city."

Unlike knights and legions, city guards are responsible for maintaining law and order in the city.

Among them, the mixed-blood people he mentioned were the mixed-blood descendants of Roland people and prairie people.

When the Roland Empire conquered the Lebus Grassland, Roland I promised the Lebus people that as long as they were willing to submit to the Roland Empire, everyone could become a member of the empire and enjoy the same legal rights as the Roland people. .

The leader of the Lebus tribe at that time, who was the Heavenly Father of that generation, was stubborn by nature and unwilling to leave others behind.

He refused the Roland Empire's persuasion to surrender, angrily led most of his tribe to leave the grassland, and vowed to come back one day to regain everything the Lebus tribe had lost.

However, the living conditions on the frontier outside the grassland were not good. In the end, a group of Lebus people remained and became part of the people of Linfeng City.

They get along with, intermarry, and live together with the Roland people. Over the past 80 years, they have almost completely integrated into Linfeng City and regard it as their home.

But now the grassland people have made a comeback and invaded Linfeng City with extremely cruel methods. As a result, the two have entered a state of war.Under the strong national sentiment, the people in the city were unable to go to battle to kill the enemy, so they vented their anger on other people with Lebusi ancestry.

They began to suspect that these people were spies planted by the enemy in the city, with the purpose of collaborating inside and outside to destroy Linfeng City, so they began to exclude these mixed-race people, and some radicals hoped to expel them all from the city.

While the war outside the city is raging, the national movement in the city is also intensifying, and has even become a major hidden danger affecting public security in the city, which has to attract the attention of the city lord's palace.

After all, no one wants something like the "suicide march" to happen again. Such an impact is too bad.

You must know that the Roland Empire is a centralized empire. Although the Bayhart family has the actual power to manage Linfeng City, they are not true lords and are still subject to annual assessment and supervision by the empire.

If the Bayhart family is unpopular and chaos reigns during their reign, the empire has the power to change the city owner and bring down the Bayhart family and the forces under their command.

Although this situation is very rare, it is not unprecedented in the history of the empire.

Therefore, whether it is for military or political considerations, the Linfeng City in front of us cannot cause any extra problems.

"Accepting foreign people who are willing to surrender is the tolerant policy adopted by the Roland Empire. We must implement the empire's policy."

Evelin knocked on the table and said in a deep voice, "Our enemies are the prairie troops outside the city, not the people inside the city. When mediating related disputes in the future, please be sure to convey this to the people.

"We are facing a formidable enemy. Only by uniting can we achieve final victory."

"Yes." The city guard general wiped the sweat from his forehead and sat down.

However, despite giving such instructions to the city guards, Evelin secretly felt anxious in her heart.

The grassland people have always been worried about counterattacking Linfeng City. In recent years, they have been frightened by the fact that Roland I is still alive. Although they have not invaded Linfeng territory on a large scale, they must have placed many internal agents in the city.

His father, the old city lord Aemon, suddenly fell ill a few years ago and is still lying on his bed. The doctor at the time concluded that it was caused by a strange and rare poison.

Although they later caught the poisoner, the poisoner committed suicide immediately, and his identity was clearly revealed without leaking any information.

Therefore, they were not sure who was behind the murder, and even thought it was political enemies in Linfeng City or even in the political circles of the Roland Empire.

Now, based on the recent situation, we can almost make a conclusion. It is not who is secretly poisoning, but the grassland people from abroad who have been trying to launch a war against Linfeng City!
Even the city lord was persecuted, which meant that the prairie people's internal forces had penetrated Linfeng City very deeply.

There is another piece of intelligence that supports this judgment - the grassland people will always launch raids on the weakest defensive strongholds on the Western Front, as if they know which side is best to break through.

The espionage and conspiracy theories circulating in the public are not groundless.

However, if a large-scale purge is carried out in the city, not to mention that it is contrary to the imperial policy, it will inevitably implicate innocent people, thus triggering a series of social unrest in the city.

For example, among the nine regiment-level generals participating in this combat meeting today, three have part of the blood of the Lebus people.

There are also many mixed-bloods in the army, and many of them are active at the forefront of the battlefield and are the vanguard against the invasion of the prairie people.

If they are all dealt with because of their bloodline, it will undoubtedly make many people feel dissatisfied with the City Lord's Mansion, which will shake the morale of the army and affect the army's combat effectiveness.

But if there is no one-size-fits-all approach, how should we find out the internal agents arranged by the prairie people in the city?
This question crossed Evelin's mind, making her frown deepen quietly.

　I finally finished coding, and I really thanked myself for the hard work.Where is the ticket?If there's anything else, bring it to me quickly (trembling sound)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)