I Will Be The Crowned King

Vol 3 Chapter 116: artist

The cavalry company commander, Lieutenant Jason Fruhoff...a standard Clovis soldier, in Fabian's words.

This sentence means that he is a small country nobleman - for the Guard, the entire Clovis is only the capital and the country - received a primary church-style college education, served in the army at a very young age, relying on family ties. Take the lieutenant trainee and serve in a certain fortress or reserve army.

According to the "standard", he will become a lieutenant by the age of twenty-five, a major by the age of thirty, a lieutenant colonel by the age of forty-five, a staff officer, a logistics officer or a civilian at the age of fifty, and an honorable retirement at the age of sixty. - If there is such a day.

Jason, a twenty-year-old cavalry lieutenant who has served on the Eastern Frontier for four years, is very satisfied with his life so far.

The only dissatisfaction may be the meager salary... The lieutenant's allowance is more than enough to live alone, but if you still want to go out for an outing or listen to the opera occasionally, join a relatively "upper" club and salon, buy real estate, get married...

Either tighten your belt or find a way to earn extra money.

As a young officer who spent faster than he earned, Jason chose the second path.

The reason for joining the Storm Division is also very simple. Anson Bach promised a high proportion of loot distribution, coupled with his "our career" speech in Eagle Point City, it really made Jason and many of his peers excited. All of a sudden, while aggression, I feel that I have become a lot nobler.

Of course, he did not expect that the war of invading the vast land would be so easy; he also did not expect that the main force of the legion was frustrated and the empire invaded. The storm division, who had planned to get a vote and run away, turned out to be the only one who could stop the conspiracy of the empire. Wei Army.

Looking at Duke Aiden, who frowned and stared at the letterhead, the cavalry lieutenant felt for the first time what is meant by impermanence.

"Your Excellency Jason Fruhoff."

Just when the cavalry lieutenant was still thinking about it, Duke Aiden, whose cheek was blocked by the letterhead, suddenly said, which shocked him instinctively: "Yes!"

"Want something to drink?"

Duke Aiden waved to the servant beside the wine cabinet as he spoke, but although it was a polite remark, his tone was cold and sullen.

"Thank you, but no need." Jason, who was sitting upright, said sternly:

"I'm on official duty. According to the Clovis military regulations, drinking alcohol is strictly prohibited."

"Alright then, I'll ask someone to prepare a bottle of this year's new brew and put it together with your salute." Duke Aiden's expression was extremely calm:

"The horses for the return journey are ready, and you can leave at any time."

After speaking, Duke Aiden didn't want to say more like a superfluous courtesy, and got up as if to leave.

Ugh?

The cavalry lieutenant was stunned, and then got up quickly: "Then! Duke Aiden, you haven't told me your answer yet..."

"Don't think about it!"

Duke Aiden, who had his back to Jason, suddenly shouted sharply: "This is my answer, can you hear it clearly!"

He turned his head sharply, staring at the cavalry lieutenant with a beast-like gaze:

"Go back and tell Anson Bach... Your deputy commander, I don't care how good he can come up with, and there are 10,000 or 20,000 reasons of last resort, Aiden's Emmanuel family, will not Bow down to the Francois family, let alone make him the lord of the land!"

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"I'll say it again, absolutely not!"

He didn't give Anson time to finish his words, and he was surprised at first, and then his face suddenly turned cold, Grand Duke Thun categorically vetoed: "Unifying the vast land, but it must give the Duchy of Aiden absolute autonomy, and also remove Aiden from the Duchy. Rise to the Grand Duchy, but also include the Port of Carindia into the territory of Aiden?!"

An Sen, who nodded slightly, took it for granted: "Only in this way will Aiden be willing to surrender to the Francois family."

"If that's the case, why am I fighting?!" Claude Francois said angrily:

"Being a nominal king of the vast land, I still need your help from the Clovis?!"

"Of course not."

Anson took a sip of the wine on the table, smiled and pushed the glass towards the other side: "The Francois family is the legitimate ruler of Hantu, and no one is qualified to be the king of all Hantu people except you... uncle."

This title made Duke Thun's cheeks twitch slightly, and he took the wine glass handed over by Ansen in a bad mood. The warm wine calmed his anger a little, and said slowly:

"I am touched that you can care so much about the interests of the Francois family, and it is indeed my lifelong pursuit to unify the vast land; but to give Aiden the autonomy and to cede the port of Carindia to him, this is really true. Yes……"

"If we don't do this, we must kill the Aiden." Anson interrupted coldly:

"Now Aiden has at least nearly 40,000 troops - 8,000 people are at the Iron Bell Fortress at our feet, 15,000 people are entrenched in the western border of Mist, and the rest are scattered and stationed in frontier fortresses to resist the invasion of the empire."

"Don't give him what he wants most, the rifles in the hands of these 40,000 people and the fortresses, warehouses and territories they guard will immediately become the possession of the empire along with themselves."

"Except for the Iron Bell Fortress under our feet, before the Empire invades Thun's territory, there will be no fortress in the entire Hantu that can stop the Empire's attack."

An Sen sighed: "Of course, this is a more euphemism."

"Then what's not euphemistic?" Grand Duke Thun couldn't help asking.

"It's not polite..." Anson suddenly paused, "Pfft!" He laughed out loud:

"Let's put it this way... Leon probably didn't tell you, in fact, it only took me one day to knock down the Iron Bell Fort."

Claude Francois was stunned for a moment, and then his expression became ugly.

"Even so, there is no need to cede the port of Carindia to Aiden, right?" Grand Duke Thun was still very reluctant:

"It's not enough to give up one-third of the territory and give him the Luyin Valley. Do you have to give him the most prosperous city in Hantu?"

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"That's right, what do I want the port of Carindia?" Duke Aiden said coldly to the lieutenant of the cavalry:

"Yes, I used to want her very much...but that was once, and now the port of Carindia was first a fleet rebellion, then you Clovis looted, then a city riot, and finally landed by the Imperials occupied."

"In addition to the ruins of the current Carindia port, there are thousands of hungry thugs who can't wait to skin the rich and noble merchants and eat meat! And in order to get these, I have to kill the imperial people stationed in the port first. You die and I live!"

"In the eyes of your deputy commander, am I such a pure idiot?!"

"Uh……"

Facing the furious Duke Aiden, Jason really didn't know how to answer.

Not because he also thinks the Duke is an idiot - at least not pure - but because he thinks the Deputy Commander's idea is really crazy.

How to defeat the Imperial invasion in the torn Far Lands? It's very simple, just unify the land and find a king who is willing to join Clovis.

and then? Gone.

It's that simple!

A piece of ancient fertile soil, thousands of people, a dozen ancient families with a history of more than a hundred years, and powerful rulers... Actually changed because of the idea of ​​an ordinary Clovis, to create a A new kingdom - and more importantly, it looks like it's still viable.

Is there anything crazier than this? !

The huge impact of reality made the cavalry lieutenant who no longer believed in fairy tales for a long time, couldn't help but recall the storybook he read when he was a child... Suddenly, he felt a creepy feeling.

"Respected, respected Duke Aiden, I know your concerns." Resisting the fear in his heart, Jason's voice trembled a little:

"But even so, this still doesn't change the fact that Port Carindia is the most prosperous city in the land - as long as you take her and build it seriously, within ten years she will be prosperous again, and you still get your The most desired thing!"

"The price is to become a vassal and vassal of the Francois family." Duke Aiden said coldly:

"Do you know what happened to the last Duke Aiden who knelt down in front of others - all Aiden stood up and rebelled against him, slashed him with thousands of pieces, and then took his only surviving young son to the throne and brought him to the throne. With a crown smeared with his father's blood, he was made a duke."

"That youngest son is my great-grandfather. He told my grandfather over and over again before his death that my father and me, the Emmanuel family... never bow down!"

"Well said!" The cavalry lieutenant hurriedly praised:

"And this time, you don't need to bow to the Francois family - Grand Duke Thun agreed, as long as you are willing to nod, you will be Grand Duke Aiden, and you only need to kiss the king's chest at the ceremony, and you can also meet when you are cheering. The kings stand side by side!"

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"When did I promise this?"

Archduke Thun, who was squinting, interrupted Anson, who was still talking:

"I want to give him autonomy, to give him the port of Carindia, and to promise him that he doesn't have to kneel before me—then I'm the king of the vast earth, isn't it just a decoration?"

Then you have to say that, your king is really just a decoration; that's all, many people want to be... Anson smiled slightly:

"It's just a stopgap measure."

"It's an expedient measure." Grand Duke Thun smiled coldly:

"Or the reins of your Clovis around my neck?"

"For weak and incompetent rulers, it makes no difference - because they have neither the determination nor the guts to get rid of it." Anson was noncommittal:

"But you are different, dear Uncle Claude, you are a truly ambitious ruler."

"Dear Anson nephew, you too." Grand Duke Thun still sneered:

"If I'm looking for a mouth to brag about, I don't need a smart guy like you."

"That's right, so everything I say is from the bottom of my heart."

An Sen with a sincere face still said solemnly: "In the past, you had ambitions to rule Hantu, but you lacked a legitimate excuse, lacked a title that could be used to rule Hantu, and lacked the strength to defeat everyone."

"Now you can have the latter two at the same time just by nodding your head, but there is still a lack of a slogan that can unite the entire vast land."

against the empire.

Grand Duke Thun played with the wine glass without saying a word. After a long silence, he lowered his head and said, "...How sure are you?"

"One hundred percent." Anson's face showed a confident smile:

"Jason Fruhoff is an excellent cavalry officer, born into a family, and sure to win the trust of Duke Eden - I trust him."

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"Drag him out to me and kill him."

The grim-faced Duke Aiden suddenly said coldly, "It's a little warning to Anson Bach!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of Qi Shuishuan drawing his gun and loading the gun immediately sounded in the hall, and more than a dozen figures rushed from all directions.

"etc!"

The panicked cavalry lieutenant quickly opened his arms and roared nervously: "This is not a trap! Please believe me, this is really not a trap - I am here with full sincerity!"

"I don't see any sincerity."

Duke Aiden gritted his teeth, his fierce eyes were like a wounded beast: "All I see is looting and extortion!"

"You Clovises, together with the Francois family, took advantage of the opportunity of the empire's invasion to unify the vast land and turn Aiden into your territory - very good, very good, but you can't expect to be happy!"

"Let me repeat it again, I was beaten to death by the Imperials, slashed by my own people, and even knelt down in front of Claude Francois, and I felt unwilling to see the flag of the Clovis people in the On the land of the vast earth..."

"Clowe's army will never be stationed in Hantu!" The cavalry lieutenant, who was pressed to the ground by seven or eight rifles, hurriedly shouted.

"What did you say?!"

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"I repeat, Clovis's army will never be stationed in Hantu." Anson looked at the shocked Archduke Thun calmly:

"This is the only promise I can make to you~www.readwn.com~Uncle Claude Francois."

"Why?!" Grand Duke Thun didn't understand very much:

"I can understand that this is because the Empire will not allow it - as long as Clovis's army is still there, the Empire will not stop attacking Hantu, but how do you ensure that Carlos II and his ministers..."

"Because Clovis doesn't have that many troops to waste." Anson picked up his glass and sipped lightly:

"If you want to defeat the powerful enemy of the Empire, Clovis has already exhausted his strength just by defending against the attack; if he sends troops to control the vast land, it is meaningless if there is too little, and too much is a waste."

"So I can assure you that after this war, Clovis's army will stop at Eagle Point City, and will never station a soldier or soldier on the land further south."

"Can this promise reassure you?"

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Pushing the door out of the room, An Sen, who was relieved for a long time, happened to meet the little secretary who came out from behind another door: "How is it, did he agree?"

"Yes." The little secretary nodded and said:

"After the death of Rocco Visanha, Mist was divided into three parts, inherited by his grandsons, and professed allegiance to the François family - on condition that Rocco Visanha remained Grand Duke of Mist. , and on an equal footing with the King of Hantu."

After speaking, he couldn't help but sigh: "Master Anson Bach, you are really an artist."

"How to say?"

"It's nothing." The boy smiled:

"Great art is self-explanatory."

After he finished speaking, he turned and left with the document in his hand.

Anson, who looked at his back, shrugged inexplicably, picked up the rum bottle and drank it.

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