A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

Venal City, a city known for its prosperous trade, and at the same time, because one of the two mother rivers of Aaron Landis, the largest tributary of the Enki River, the Venal River surrounds the city, so it is also Aaron The most important grain producing area southwest of Landis.

The Vinar River brings abundant river water and fertile soil to the city, and the subtropical climate makes the city's crops ripen twice a year.

However, the existence of this big river has its advantages and disadvantages. Every year during the flood season, the Venal River will rise. If there is too much water, it will break down the river embankment, flood the farmland and cities, and cause floods. In the history of the city of Vinar, there have been floods many times. Therefore, the maintenance and reinforcement of the embankment of the Vinal River is the top priority of the work of the successive consuls of the Vinal City.

In the kingdom of Aaron Landis, there are two ways to rule the city.

One is family inheritance, which is inherited by fathers and sons and inherited by blood. As long as the current city owner reports his heir, he can get the royal approval of the king.

The second type is a city directly under the jurisdiction of Wangcheng City. There is no city owner, and the consul sent by Wangcheng is responsible for the management, and this consul is generally changed in three years.

And Vernal City is the second kind.

After riding for two days and two nights, King Camos and others finally arrived near the city of Venal.

On the third day of arriving here, almost at noon, King Camos stood on top of a mountain on horseback, and the whirling wind swept his brown hair. He looked down at the huge city surrounded by the river below. There was something faintly passing by his golden brown eyes, and he thought, as if thinking about something.

A small white hand reached out and dragged him, waking him from contemplation. He looked down at his little brother, and smiled.

"Brother Wang, I want to go on."

Carran, who was held in front of him, tilted his head and said to Camos.

"it is good."

Camos said with a smile, turned over and dismounted, patting the neck of his dark old man. The black horse sighed and turned away, reflecting the sun, and the dark fur flashed like a satin in the sun. Moving beautiful gloss.

With his hand stretched out, Camos hugged Galland down and placed it on the ground.

Garland walked two steps forward, with jungle wind blowing across his cheeks, bringing an unfamiliar smell he could not hear in the royal city.

When standing on the top of the mountain and looking down, you can get the huge city into your eyes. He didn't know what the city used to look like, but at the moment, one-fifth of the city was covered with yellow-brown sewage. The muddy water criss-crossed the city and surrounded the collapsed buildings.

Outside the city, the large block of land was supposed to be green square farmland, and most of it was swallowed by muddy water. Occasionally a part of it appeared above the surface of the water, and there was no slight green in the mud field, only the ugly tan.

Garland can see that in the city of Vinar, in the first half of this year, the grain crops of this season are probably not harvested.

While Garlan was still looking down on the flooded city below, King Carmus, who was meditating for a long time, spoke.

"Gallan, get ready, let's go down and see."

"Okay, Brother Wang."

After arriving near the city of Venal, King Camos did not directly bring the five hundred cavalry into the city, but deliberately made a big bend, found a hidden place in the dense forest next to the city, and camped Down.

Then he sent dozens of soldiers in disguise and went out to explore the situation of the city separately. Gallan could tell from King Camos's complexion that the news he found was probably not very good. Although Brother Wang still smiled at him, he could feel the surrounding of Brother Wang around him in these two days. There is a raging anger.

"What are you thinking?"

Seeing King Camos, who was busy changing clothes after returning to the camp, Xie Muer frowned.

"Go out shopping."

Camos replied for granted.

He has taken off his dark brown leather armor and put on his ordinary riding outfit. And it is a slightly loose riding suit, long-sleeved trousers, which can well cover the strong muscles on his arms and legs, making him look like an ordinary tall man.

He thought for a while and said, "Call him also."

Prince Huimos, who was arranged by Camos to stay with a team of cavalry, soon came over, and then he was thrown away with an inconspicuous dress, and he was put on.

After finishing, Camos took the two princes and a dozen cavalrymen, disguised as ordinary nobles passing by the city, and set off. Of course, he didn't ride the black matak. The king of the horse was so conspicuous. He just found an ordinary horse at random.

Gallan sat in front of King Camos. As the horse beneath him ran, the huge city on the horizon slowly appeared in front of him from far and near.

When I looked down from the high mountain, I already felt that the disaster was terrible. As I looked closer, I was more shocked.

The roads in the middle are all covered by the shallow water, and they have become mud roads. The running horseshoes step on the muddy muddy water heavily, splashing it out.

Most of the farmland with lower terrain than roads on both sides was completely submerged by yellow-brown sewage. It can be clearly seen that large swaths of mature crops are lying in muddy water, and almost all of them have been soaked.

Leading King Camos pulled the reins and slowed down. Garran turned his head to look around, and saw the poorly dressed peasants, or serfs, standing in the drowned farmland.

Most of them looked dull and old, wrinkled on their foreheads.

They stood barefoot in the mud, watching the crops soaked in a daze. Some old women squatted in muddy water with undressed children, picked out the crops that were not so bad, and put them in bamboo baskets full of mud.

These lost half a year of labor, and the serfs who were going to endure hunger did not show a sad expression on their faces. Their expressions were more dull, and there was no light in their eyes. But it was this expression of insensitivity and no hope of opposites that made people feel more heavy-hearted.

Approaching the gate, Gallan looked up at the huge gate. There are soldiers closely guarding the gates of the city, and check in and out. And there are two places that seem to be refugee shelters near the gate of the city. From a distance, you can see a pot of pots and pots cooking porridge.

Garland turned to look at King Camos behind him. Camos seemed to have seen it there, and nodded slightly, but soon he frowned again.

Because the so-called food relief point is very wrong, it is reasonable to say that there are places where food is distributed free of charge, and the refugees in the disaster should flock to go, but in the place where the gruel is applied, there are only a few old people who are not old. Ask for porridge.

Camos turned his head and whispered to a bodyguard behind him. Then the bodyguard dismounted and went to the shelter to investigate the situation. The others dismounted at the gate of the city and waited to look around.

Garlan thought about it, and ran to the porridge spot on the left, leaned over, and looked hard at the pot.

The boring porridge soldier who was standing there wanted to catch up with someone. At first sight, he was a lovely kid. The kid leaned over to the steaming porridge pot, looked inside, sniffed hard, and then looked up. Looking at him innocently.

"Is this delicious?"

The soldier smiled a little.

"Little guy, don't you smell pretty?"

He also laughed at this cute kid.

"Go back and find what your adults want to eat. This is not something you can eat."

He said while reaching out, he wanted to pinch the child's small face.

But the soldier's hand hadn't reached before. A hand came from behind and grabbed the child, pulling one by one, and dragging the whole child back.

Heimus, who was chasing him, dragged Galland behind him, blocking the soldier's sight without any trace. Then he smiled and apologized to the soldier, and grabbed Garland and walked back.

"Hymos."

"what?"

"There is water in it, not porridge at all."

Garlan remembered the so-called porridge that he had just seen. It was clear that there were some wild vegetables floating on the surface of the water, and he could hardly see any food.

"……is it."

The boy replied. He had held Gallan's hand tightly since he had not let go.

He said, "What do you want to do next time, tell me, I will do it for you."

He didn't notice that Heymos held his hand tightly, and Gallan was still looking left and right. Suddenly, his pupils contracted sharply.

He saw the edge of the city wall, near the river, where piles of corpses piled up, many of them were soaked in water, and the corpses were soaked by the water, emitting a rancid smell, attracting countless Flies and bugs crawled on the carrion.

Moreover, from time to time, there are soldiers passing by with new bodies and throwing them away at will.

...No way.

Doing so will surely cause a plague. This river is the source of water in the city. After drinking the river water, those who survived the flood in Vernal City probably will die more than half.

Garlan thought.

After waiting to go back, he must tell Brother Wang about it.

…………

The crowd slowly turned around in the city of Venal. The wealthy and wealthy areas in the city were okay, leaving only a trace of the flood, but many houses collapsed in the ordinary residential areas and the slums, and It seems that it has never been rebuilt. It is full of ruined trees, lying on the ground in a mess, and occasionally even seeing a few dead bodies under the collapsed house.

They wandered around for a long time, and did not leave the city until evening, and then quickly drove back to the camp deep in the forest.

King Camos frowned, this was not the first time he came to the city of Venal, so he was very unhappy when he saw that the bustling and lively city in the past turned into this deadly look.

auzw.com He knew that things like natural disasters were unpredictable and irresistible by manpower, and he could not use the natural disasters to blame the officials of Venal City.

but……

But what if this is not a complete natural disaster?

You should know that when the city of Vinar was hit by disaster, he immediately allocated a large amount of materials to rescue the disaster.

If the officials are effective, the city should not be what it is now, more than a month later.

With the return of King Camos and others, the soldiers who went out to search for news in the daytime also returned, reporting to Camos what they heard.

"It is said that several refugees died of diarrhea after eating congee, and since then, few refugees have eaten."

"Indeed, a large amount of food was delivered to the city of Vinal, but in this month, only two times of food were distributed to the city residents, and the amount was not large. It is estimated that half of the food should be left over ."

"The same is true for medicines. I have listened to them, and they have only distributed a little herbal medicine symbolically."

"The fishermen by the river say that starting from the second half of last year, the embankment of the Vinar River has been rarely started and maintained."

Hearing this, King Camos, who had been sitting quietly, smiled.

"Those guys continue to say that the city of Vinar is extremely depleted of food and medicine and needs to redeploy a large amount of relief supplies in the past."

He said that with a light tone and a light tone, some students gave me a great sense of oppression.

Everyone stood in the same place, bowing their heads, and at this moment froze.

King Camos said: "Since last year, the governor of this city has been constantly asking me for money and food to repair the river bank—"

He said, word by word, the last few words were almost forced out of his teeth.

"King Camos!"

A quick shout came from outside, the curtain was lifted, and the priest of Samash walked in with a dark face.

"Please come and see."

Standing at the door, he kept the posture of raising the camp curtain and said to Camos, a slight cry came from behind him.

Camos walked out quickly, and everyone in the camp followed him, and Garland was no exception.

As soon as he went out, he saw that two or thirty people were kneeling on the ground. Among them were several women, and they were holding two young children. They were sobbing in a low voice, with an expression of horror.

"what happened?"

King Camos glanced at the man kneeling on the ground and asked.

"I brought a few people to investigate the thieves in this neighborhood, but it is strange, many people are not clear, and I have also seen the terrain around, there are no traces of places suitable for thieves dens."

Xie Muer answered.

"On the way back, we happened to encounter this group of people being attacked by thieves...The thieves were very strange, they actually had a lot of weapons and horses. And it stands to reason that they came out as thieves to rob to make money, but they just happened to be To attack these refugees who lost their property due to flooding."

"I think their main purpose seems to be to capture women and children from the crowd."

The surrounding air cooled down a little bit and settled down, like an invisible momentum emanating from King Camos who silently listened to Sherman.

King Aaron Landis stood there, and in the dark night, the light of the burning torch was reflected in his golden brown eyes, making his eyes bright at this moment as if there was fire burning.

The cavalrymen on the side bowed their heads in silence, and the kneeling people fell deeply on the ground. The atmosphere did not dare to take a breath. Even the ignorant children stopped crying as if they were afraid of something at this moment.

The frightening Lion King, standing there alone, his terrible enough to make people unable to breathe.

"King Camos, I suspect that the so-called big-share thieves reported to us were disguised as soldiers."

Xie Muer continued his gloomy expression.

"Under the advice of some people, while the floods suffered a lot of suffering, when it was difficult to count the deaths and missing population, the army was disguised as thieves and the surviving citizens, especially women and children, were used to human trafficking……"

As soon as he said this, he was suddenly interrupted.

Hearing the bang, King Camos slapped it on the tree beside him.

"Those people...damn!"

He said that when he spoke the last two words, his voice was terribly low.

The golden brown eyes looked like flames burning, that was the eyes that were angered by the beast.

Natural disasters may be terrible, but more terrible than natural disasters are **!

"The entire city of Venal should be cleaned from top to bottom."

The young king spoke a terrible command in a calm tone.

Camos thought, probably because he had patronized the border and killed other countries in the past few years, and had not killed anyone in Aaron Landis, so some borers felt that they were good to talk.

It's time to let those guys see the blood and know the value of life-and let them remember the fear of the'Lion King' again.

"Get on the horse."

As soon as King Camos's words fell off, all the cavalry on the scene had turned their horses in almost a second, ready to go.

The horses beneath them snorted, sprayed with heat, and their hooves were digging into the ground.

As soon as their king ordered it, they would rush into the city of Venal, and mercilessly washed away the greedy guys who angered their king.

"Wait, King Camos."

Sherman stopped Camos.

"Not yet."

He said, "Following the so-called thieves, I have found the place where the people they have taken into custody can rescue them at any time."

He shook his head.

"However, none of the children who were caught were found, and none of them were found. I suspect that, with some ulterior motive, they moved those children to another place."

"It's easy for us to solve the guys in the city, but I'm worried that in order to protect themselves, they will annihilate the crimes madly-to solve all the children secretly, then..."

Xie Muer's words hadn't been spoken, and someone cried out with a whimper and interrupted him.

A man kneeling on the ground screamed desperately at Xie Muer while crying.

"Please, please! Save my daughter! She is so young, she is only five years old--"

As soon as the man cried, the others who had endured also cried and pleaded.

"And my child-he was captured yesterday."

"My son must be alive, and he must be alive. I beg you to help me out!"

There were even children crying and rushing to hug Xie Muer's legs, begging him to save his brother.

Xie Muer pursed his lips and endured the discomfort of being soiled by the dirty child. He did not push the child away, but turned to look at King Camos.

"In a short period of time, I am afraid that it will be difficult for us to find the children who were taken away." He frowned tightly. "However, after a long time, I am very worried about what will happen, especially once our traces are exposed, Those people will be the first to destroy the evidence, and those children are very likely to be..."

For a time, except for the crying and crying of the people who knelt and knelt on the ground, the night was very quiet.

All the cavalry were silent, including King Camos who had already ridden the horse, he was meditating and seemed to be thinking about something.

In this cry, it seemed to hear a long sigh.

Then, a child's clear, soft and sweet voice sounded in the dark night.

"If there is a child, there is one here."

Under the reddish fire, the little prince's hair, which pointed to himself with his fingers, flashed a bright and soft luster in the dark, like a shallow halo on his head.

"Let them take me away and you will know where those children were sent."