Apocalyptic Dragonborn Lord

Chapter 61 Imperial Envoy
After being blindsided by countless knights, Stannis finally asked where they were stationed—the most northwest corner of the camp...

It seems that he is really unpopular, because he found that his originally remote camp now seems to have become a public toilet...

Even when he got here, there were a few guys shitting in the newly dug hole, not paying attention to him at all.

"Boss, do you want to chop them up!" Anxious Robert shouted out his sword.

Stannis hurriedly stopped him, he didn't want to cause trouble, "Don't, the main purpose of our coming out this time is to keep a low profile, we must keep a low profile! Korodov, take some people and throw these guys into the cesspool .”

Soon, those unlucky ghosts were crying and struggling in the fermented dung. Although the dung pit was only half a person high, it was not so easy to climb up.

After venting his anger, Stannis became worried again. It must be a bad place, where should he camp?
At this time, another voice sounded from behind.

"Stan!"

Stannis turned around, and found that an old man was shouting to himself happily, beside him, there were a dozen or so gorgeously dressed guards guarding him.

The man looked familiar, and Stannis thought for a moment before remembering that he had seen this face at a dinner party hosted by Annist.

He was Seanbean Bernard, old friend of Stannis, and—Employee of the Empire.

I didn't expect to meet "acquaintances" here, and Stannis was of course overjoyed.

"Uncle Xiao Enbin!" He expressed surprise in an enthusiastic tone, and made extremely exaggerated movements to hug the old man.

But in an instant, more than a dozen sharp pickaxes were pointed at him. It was those guards, and it seemed that they would not let him get any closer.

"What...what's the situation?" Stannis froze in fright when facing this group of menacing strong men.

Xiao Enbin smiled apologetically at him, and then signaled the guards to retreat.

"I didn't scare you, I hope you don't take offense. These are the guards assigned to me by His Majesty the Emperor. The order they received was to prevent all dangerous situations from happening."

Isn't that the royal guard?Stannis looked at the group of six-foot men again. No wonder the heavy painted gold armor he still wore in the camp was to show his status.

"I didn't expect to meet so soon that day." It seemed that Xiao Enbin didn't see through Stannis' true colors, and still treated him like a nephew.

"I didn't expect to meet so soon! Then, Uncle Xiao Enbin, what are you doing here? Didn't the empire fail to mediate?"

The old man sighed, "I am ashamed of the entrustment of His Majesty the Emperor, and I failed to quell this war, but I still want to do my best here to prevent the further expansion and deterioration of the war."

It turned out that he was here as an observer, "Then won't you misunderstand the Savoy on the opposite side if you stay in the camp of the Principality of Tanis? It will make them mistakenly think that the empire is on our side."

Xiao Enbin laughed, "You don't have to worry about this. The empire maintains absolute neutrality among the princes below. My deputy, Prince Philip, the deputy envoy of the empire, is right across the street, with the Duke of Savoy."

It turned out to be betting on both sides.Stannis is very disdainful of this kind of behavior at both ends of the mouse head, doesn't he have any principles at all!
"Then why did the war break out?" He asked again, because he only knew that a lord under Savoy had changed his course, but there was no need to engage in such a big battle, right? The medieval lords who defected to each other were not like eating and drinking Is it as easy?

Xiao Enbin gave him a meaningful look. He didn't expect that the rumored absurd lord would be so interested in politics.

"The cause of the war was that the Duke of Savoy wanted to forcibly marry the daughter of the Marquis of Red River Rhett Forlani, but she had already been betrothed to someone else, but the Duke of Savoy still wanted to order her to break the engagement and wanted to marry by force. And threatened that if he didn't get it, he would send troops to crusade. The Marquis of Red River had no choice but to take his territory and go to the Duke of Tanis who bordered him. Of course, His Excellency the Duke was happy to obtain a large piece of territory, so he sent troops to protect him, but was defeated by Savoy. The army is blocking this mountain pass."

After hearing the reason for the war, Stannis couldn't help opening his mouth in disbelief and said, "Just for this reason, to go to war for a woman?"

Xiao Enbin shook his head with a wry smile, the little guy in front of him was indeed too young, "Of course not, although it was for these things on the surface, there was already an undercurrent surging underneath, and many forces had already taken action to wrestle with each other, and this war is probably already For the best."

Stannis was confused. A person like him who is not qualified to be a member of the keyboard standing committee certainly doesn't know why war is the best result. Politics is indeed the most complicated thing in the world.

"By the way, where do you live now? Do you want to move to my place? If you stay closer, you can take care of me." Xiao Enbin asked him politely.

But Stannis was not polite at all. He was suffering from being homeless and said quickly: "Okay, okay, Uncle Xiao Enbing, my nephew still has a lot of things to ask you for advice!"

Now that he had said that, Xiao Enbin had no reason to reject him. By the way, the twenty or so people under him finally had tents and settled down.

Into the night
The big camp was not as chilling and lonely as Stannis imagined, but it was very lively. Prostitutes and bootleggers walked between the tents, bringing countless laughter.If he hadn't seen those drunken soldiers gesticulating with each other with swords, he would have thought that these people were here for an autumn outing.

"This... this military discipline is too lax." Even someone as lazy as him couldn't stand it.

This doesn't look like a war, all the depravity of the world can be found here.

For example, there was a group of naked women wrestling in the mud outside the tent at this time, and the soldiers next to them laughed and drank and sprinkled coins on them.The peddlers tried their best to sell their wares to passers-by. Stannis really couldn't understand why those strong men were wrapped in layers of dyed cloth. What's the use for them to buy these things!Even black pigs roamed the camp, drinking from a trough with lonely, drunk soldiers.

Stannis couldn't accept it for a while, it was too different from the army in his impression.

"Don't be so surprised? Don't you know that the army is the most filthy place in the world? Some desperate murderers and robbers hide in the army, and the lords are happy to recruit these scum into the army to expand their numbers, so Can you expect these people to be moral models?" Robert comforted him.

Stannis shook his head. He would never let his army degenerate like this.

(End of this chapter)