The strongest prince in the fairy tale world

Chapter 46 Trap
Catherine glanced at the complacent Sirona, wishing to turn him into a dung beetle right now.

However, the Sirona family has been holding important positions in the army since the reign of Norman I, and has made great military exploits.

At present, among the 120 million army of the entire empire, 80% of the general positions are held by the Sirona family or their cronies. The prestige is extremely high, and the soldiers of the entire country are extremely loyal to the Sirona family.

Therefore, Catherine can't kill Sirona yet, but she can't use witchcraft to threaten Fredrow, after all, Sirona has long been on guard against herself.

Even at today's birthday banquet, the food and drinks were tested by the attendants with silver needles.

"General Sirona, I have already discussed with Prime Minister Fredrow about the military expenditure. The 30 soldiers stationed in the northern border will receive a total of 90 gold coins. In addition to the food and quilts used to keep out the cold In addition, each soldier can also get an additional winter compensation of one gold coin."

Catherine said to Sirona with a smile. In the eyes of everyone, Empress Catherine was afraid of and flattering Sirona. Everyone looked at Sirona with admiration.

Sirona enjoyed this feeling of being surrounded by stars, although he was also a little surprised that Queen Catherine would agree so readily this time.

"I thank His Majesty for the gift of the soldiers on the frontier."

Sirona said happily.

Before, Sirona clearly only needed 60 gold coins for military expenses, but Catherine did not expect that Catherine would allocate 90 gold coins directly from the treasury.

This is not a small amount. Even though the financial situation of the Norman Empire has always been very good, this huge expenditure will definitely put a lot of pressure on the treasury.

Fortunately, Catherine is in control of the country's financial power, otherwise she would really be just a shell queen.

"The appropriation has been prepared, and you will take it to the soldiers in the north tomorrow, General." Catherine said in front of all the ministers.

Sirona was very happy. He took a huge amount of supplies and money to the northern border to reward the army, which was another boost to his prestige in the army.

"More Your Majesty."

……

The next day, 500 carriages were loaded with 90 gold coins, and Sirona led an escort of [-] elite soldiers to the north.

Catherine stood on the upper floor of the castle, watching the magnificent army going north, with a smug smile on the corner of her mouth.

She asked the national teacher with white hair and beard beside her:
"Is it all arranged?"

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty the Empress."

The speaker was Allen, the dean of the Bowen College in Rome. Since Catherine came to power, he, as Catherine's confidant, was immediately promoted to be a national teacher, and he often gave advice to Catherine.

……

Sirona rode on the horse, majestic and majestic.

The long line of carriages behind him were all loaded with gold coins that had just been taken out of the treasury.

The horses were panting, after all the gold coins were too heavy.

The tinkling sound was very pleasant to Sirona's ears.

It's a pity that there are no high-level magicians or wizards in this escort team.

If there were, they would quickly discover that the middle of those gold coins was a pile of stones.

The illusion performed by Catherine herself made the gold coins look like real ones from appearance to touch.

Of course, if you take a bite, you can still tell the real from the fake.

But the cunning Catherine loaded the first and last carts with real gold coins, and the outer layers of the other carts were also filled with real gold coins.

Added up, Catherine spent a total of 20 real gold coins, and the remaining 70 were stone-changing illusions.

It is also impossible for Sirona to have everyone examine each one with their teeth.

Therefore, the handover has been successfully completed under the eyes of everyone in front of the treasury, and the 90 gold coins have indeed been collected by General Sirona.

……

At the same time, in the major military camps in the northern border, for some reason, rumors about the Sirona family have spread all over the past few days.

"Have you heard? The queen has allocated funds to our northern army."

"I heard that 100 million gold coins were allocated this time!"

"So much?"

"Some people say that General Sirona is actually very greedy. He asked the royal family for money in our name, and in the end most of the money went to their family!"

"Impossible, General Sirona should not be this kind of person, he looks very upright?"

"Maybe he was very honest at the beginning, but facing so much money every day, can his heart not change? If you look at the gold coins piled up into a golden mountain, can you hold back your greed?"

"Um, I don't know, you're new here, I haven't seen you before."

"Well, I was transferred from the army under Lieutenant Karl, and I have heard what Lieutenant Karl said about General Sirona with my own ears!"

The soldier thought to himself that Lieutenant Karl married Sirona's 12th daughter, so what he said should be more credible.

Similar rumors were widely spread in various armies, and the rumors became more and more biased, and everyone's trust in the Sirona family plummeted.

Of course, the spreaders of those rumors were all ordered by the national teacher Allen's careful arrangements.

……

These rumors are currently only spread among the bottom of the army, and Sirona, who is on his way, naturally doesn't know about it.

When he had just arrived in the first city in the north to rest his army, he sent someone to count the gold coins again.

The result made him extremely angry!
The illusion on those stones has long since failed, leaving Sirona with pebbles of hundreds of carriages!

"The sinister bitch!"

Sirona almost roared angrily, and he immediately ordered to turn back to Rome, and asked Catherine face to face what this meant.

After nearly ten days of returning to the original road, Sirona came to the city of Rome angrily.

He rode a horse and walked at the front of the team. As soon as he entered the city, the city gate behind him was closed, and all his ten thousand elite soldiers were blocked outside the city.

Then the queen's guard immediately came up and surrounded Sirona.

The team leader shouted loudly in front of the common people in the city:
"General Sirona, you are now officially arrested by the royal family for embezzling huge military expenditures!"

After speaking, Sirona was tied up by the guards and taken directly to the Roman Royal Prison.

At the same time, in Sirode's manor on the eastern outskirts of Rome, the guards found hundreds of boxes of gold coins, and stoned Sirode's charges.

Two major events happened at the same time, and overnight, the entire city of Rome was discussing the Sirona family.

Qiu Fu's heart, coupled with someone deliberately guiding the crowd, soon, the former glory of the empire, the illustrious heroes, reversed overnight.

Of course, the discovery of nearly a million gold coins from Sirona's manor quickly spread to all the armies of the empire. Coupled with the previous rumors, the three armies were angry for a while, and the hearts of the people were scattered.

In the eyes of the soldiers, the heroic, upright and selfless General Sirona had embezzled nearly a million gold coins, all of which were their military expenses!

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