Three Philosophical Questions for Travelers

The prime minister made of iron, the muddy king, six

The prime minister made of iron, the muddy king, six

His Majesty the King asked: "My lord prime minister, there must be someone crazy between you and the little trident. I think the one who is crazy is definitely not you, right?"

The crazy one is you. "As you said, Your Majesty, I have seen the little trident - Bone Kahn, he is a mad king."

The little king made a serious face and said, "He is not a king!"

"He said he was," said the prime minister. "I saw him tore up the armor of the old kings of the bay and dug up the tombs of his ancestors. He seemed to want to tell the world in this way, 'I am different from the cowards of the past' .And he said himself that he was the king of the Baylands. And he said—”

"He also said that he would kill all the men in my family and fuck all the women who have relations with me." The king said before him.

The prime minister was taken aback and thought to himself: How could the king know these things?Who will tell him this sooner than me?

The little king continued: "My lord prime minister, don't worry. Let me tell you that a mad king has appeared in the bay area, which is a good thing for us."

Kloin looked sideways, "How do you say that?"

"It's just you and me, the monarch and my ministers. Let me just say it straight, Mr. Prime Minister, let me ask you, this vast northern border—" He opened his arms and asked loudly, "Who does it belong to?"

The prime minister saluted and said, "Of course it belongs to you, Your Majesty."

The little king showed a sarcastic smile and asked, "Really? Is it all mine?"

Of course not, Kloin thought to himself, the power in the north has already been divided into three, the king, the Grand Knights, and the Vulcan Cult, the three major forces are intertwined, I am among you, and you are among me.The nobles were also torn apart in this storm of power. Many nobles declared their allegiance to the king on the one hand, and hired knights on the other hand, or believed in the Vulcan sect.The big nobles stand in line, while the little nobles fish in troubled waters, swaying among the three giants.If they are not careful, they will be trampled to pieces.

"What kind of answer do you want to hear?" Chloe said.

"Just the one you were thinking about just now—oh! Come on, my lord prime minister! We have been monarchs and ministers for ten years, and you even know how long my dick is, so what else can you say?" He smiled recklessly He got up, and then took another sip of juice milk, "I am a king, a lame king! Two legs are broken, and the third leg is still healthy—you think so?"

Is it healthy?The prime minister knows that the king can favor ten princesses in one night, but he has no son so far.He says he doesn’t want a son, but the chancellor thinks otherwise.Because the old king took a lot of effort to give birth to a son, maybe the Heworth family is like this.

"So I have to get my other two legs back, Mr. Prime Minister, this leg can't be connected by ourselves alone, and we still have to ask the people from the Gulf to help."

The Gulf people will not come to catch your leg, and they will break your third leg.The prime minister looked at him and said, "I'm all ears."

"The Vulcan Cult, the Great Knights, these two dogs broke my two legs, I want to kill them all, but I can't beat two dogs with one king, I can't beat them."

That's not what a king should say, the chancellor thought.

"So I had to get the Bay people to come in so I could let the dogs bite them. You see, a dog, no matter how big it is, is a dog, and a dog is supposed to do what a dog does—if the janitor If the dogs don’t bite the invading enemies, can’t I, the master, justifiably kick them away?”

Our Majesty the King wants to use the power of foreign enemies to help him eliminate these internal traitors. This is like asking a wolf to clear his wounds, Kloin thought to himself.

Theoretically speaking, this may make sense: the great knights will have the duty to guard the territory, and there will be their garrisons in the Heavenly Father Pass; and when Vulcanism became the state religion, it was written in the doctrine: believers should guard the empire territory to defend against the invading enemy.

Now both the Great Knights Association and the Vulcan Cult are secretly accumulating power, how many soldiers and horses do they have?several thousand?Thousands?Or 10,000+?How many lunatics can these guys summon with a wave of their hands who are willing to sacrifice their lives for their lies?The prime minister was very afraid of this. He could only see the bills on the bright side, but not the demons in the shadows.

When the people from the Gulf invade the northern border, the king can justifiably order these guys to take out their private army and expose it to the sun.If everything goes well, part of the power of the Cavaliers and the Vulcan Cult will be consumed by the war, and the king can take this opportunity to seize their illegal property and private army, thereby greatly weakening these two powers and allowing the king to return to supremacy. .

But obviously it won't be that simple.

Kloin said: "Your Majesty, let me remind you that we cannot bear the consequences of losing the war."

"Oh, I was expecting them to lose!" His Majesty the King said with a smile, "If they lose, their strength will decline, and it will give me a good reason to weaken his power-the defeat is something they can't bear The original sin committed, those nobles whose property is threatened will realize that the great knights will fight against the Vulcan Cult. Instead of supporting them, it is better to be loyal to the king. In this way, I can also pull the nobles to my side-suppress Killing two dogs and wooing the nobles, this is killing two birds with one stone! Haha!"

Still looking forward to the defeat of their own country?The prime minister was very annoyed, he might as well have let his brother be the king at the beginning, the prime minister thought that although His Royal Highness Faen was just as licentious, but at least he was upright and smart, and he would not treat the country as a plaything like him.

Fifteen years ago, the eldest son of the old king, Fan Heworth, ran away from home and never returned.People have searched all over the four principalities, but there is no news of him.In desperation, the old king had to announce that Fine died of illness and let his second son Cade inherit the throne.

Fine is also a playful libertine, but he is much more reliable than the "little king" in front of him.His wisdom, courage, and martial arts are all worthy of the words "king of a country". He could have become a good king.However, Fine has the heart of a bard. When he was still in the palace, he wrote many poems, in which he wrote his fantasies: for example, he conquered the big waves of the East China Sea with a small sailboat, and wanted to learn the magical magic of becoming a pigeon. ; He wanted to taste the fine wines of the five lands and seven tribes, and then fell drunk on the clouds of the immortals.He said that he was going to the Western Regions to find the biggest golden bumps, and to compete with yaks to see who was more powerful... But at most, he would write about women. He liked tall girls in the north and docile girls in the Gulf; he wanted to dance from the Western Regions in the morning. Ji woke up in bed, and then went to dance barefoot with girls from the southern country at night and sing under the moon.

He even gave himself a stage name, Fane Timnard—oh, what a joker's flamboyant name.

The chancellor made of iron, the king of mud, seven

The chancellor made of iron, the king of mud, seven

"Well, Your Majesty, you expect them to lose—but what if he wins?" Kloin asked a fatal question, "For me, Knight Commander Hassan Heron can easily deal with the Gulf Offensive in the Gulf—the soldiers in the Gulf are of low quality, they lack generals, and most importantly they are poor, they are no match for Hassan Heron.”

The little king rolled his eyes at him, and said, "Are the people from the bay so bad? I heard that the little trident is very brave!"

"He is a tyrant with nothing but brute force." Kloin said in a deep voice, "Wars cannot be won by strength, but wisdom is also needed."

The little king stared at him, and suddenly let out a burst of laughter.Chloe felt puzzled for a while, and asked, "What are you laughing at?"

His king said: "How do you know that the little trident must have no wisdom?"

The prime minister couldn't give an answer, so he had to say: "Even if he is wise, he can't defeat us. The objective strength is too weak."

"But I believe he has the strength to fight Hassan Heron, um, I hope he has." The little king shook his glass and drank the milk.He sat on a chair with his back loaded, his belly sticking out.

Our king has not ridden a horse for a long time, the chancellor thought, he eats, drinks and plays all day long, and sooner or later his health will break down.

Kloin said: "Even though he has the power to fight, I still don't like the little trident."

"You are right, my dear Prime Minister, what we need is a protracted war." He dipped his finger in a little milk, drew a few dots and several intersecting lines on the table, and then pointed Looking at all this, he said, "Here is Eaglehead, here is Sands Castle, and here is Heavenly Father's Pass, and below is King's Row, Antlers Pass, and the Two Acropolises of the North - Hillson and Hillland. Here—" he drew a big circle on the King's Road with milk, "creates a quagmire of war, involving the Baylanders and my two dogs. You know, the city of Two Acropolis belongs to the Cult of Vulcan and The Great Knights Council, and the Holy Land of the Pope is to the east of Hilson. If the northerners attack here, then the people of the Vulcan Cult must join the war. In this way, my goal will be achieved."

How naive, Chloe thought to himself. "Your Majesty! Do you really think that the Gulf people have the strength to fight on two fronts? They can't even settle the Great Knights, how can they go to a tug-of-war with the Vulcan Cult? I think this war will soon be three Months, slow as a year, it is impossible to grow any longer."

Then the little king said something that caused Chloe's blood pressure to skyrocket——

"Little Trident can't fight two against one, but I help him win the war." He said.

Crazy, dare you to be the mad king! "You can't do this, Your Majesty!" The prime minister slapped the table and roared, "You can't help outsiders attack our motherland, you are, this is..."

"You want to accuse me of treason?" The little king looked at the prime minister with cold eyes.Chloe's expression twisted for a while, and he said, "Don't dare!"

"I don't think you dare, you just dare to say it in your heart." The little king sneered, "Chloin, you must know that cutting a tumor will inevitably bleed and cause a little pain. There is no way to do it."

"Then how much blood will we shed?"

The little king was silent for a while, and said, "We may lose our heavenly father."

"Your Majesty, you should know that the distance between Eagle Head City and Jinsha Castle is only a few days. If you march quickly, this distance can be completed in four days. If the Heavenly Father Gate falls, the enemy will directly attack us. The capital—" The prime minister stomped his foot lightly, "That's right here, Eagle Head City."

"It's right to fight Eagle Head City! Do you think they can take it down?" The little king laughed, "It was reasonable for the former kings of the northern border to set up their capital in such a dangerous place, because it is far more dangerous than Heavenly Father's Gate." Be strong, the strongest shield in the north is not the Heavenly Father Pass, but the Eagle Head City! Once they break through the Heavenly Father Pass, there will be two situations; first, the arrogant enemies will go straight to the Eagle Head City come, and then fall under the harsh winter of Eagle Head City like countless invaders; the second type, they don’t come to attack, they attack other cities, but Eagle Head City is a giant they can’t avoid, once they turn their spears, Then we can cut off their retreat, burn their baggage, destroy their reinforcements, and let them face the enemy. In the end, these rootless people will be consumed and withered in the cold wind." After all this, he Opening his arms like an emotional poet, his face was intoxicated, "We will be the ones who will win in the end, and the people from the Gulf, the Great Knights and the Church of Vulcan will lose three times."

What he said was not unreasonable, but it was too idealistic after all, Kloin thought to himself, even though the little king had some intelligence, he had never been on the battlefield after all, and could only talk on paper.The real battlefield is ever-changing, and everything will not happen as you expected.

Fantasizing about the bleak future, the prime minister couldn't help saying something depressing: "But if the enemy is approaching the city, I suggest you leave early, the country cannot live without a king."

"But the little king can't abandon his home, are you right, Lord Kloin?" The little king jumped off the chair and said, "He is the little trident, and I am the little king. I think we are all in the same boat. .”

"What do you want to do, Your Majesty?"

"I will fight him to the death and let him know who is the master of the four principalities." Cade Heworth said.

The prime minister's eyes widened in surprise, he didn't expect the little king to say such bloody words.The prime minister had a feeling that he had been waiting ten years for this sentence. "You..." He hesitated to speak, he didn't know what to say.

"I may not be his match if I go to the front, but I just need to stand on the wall and shout, and people will fight for me. You know, as long as my face appears on the wall, the army will fight Morale is high."

"But this is very dangerous, Your Majesty. A stray arrow, a stone throw, or a soldier climbing up the wall, any of them may kill you."

"I have courage," said the little king.

Chloe shook his head and said, "If courage can save lives, there wouldn't be so many martyrs who died in battle."

The little king nodded and said, "If I die, this country will be yours, Mr. Prime Minister."

"what did you say?"

"I have no sons or brothers—you said that if I issued a decree for you to inherit my empire, would you be able to do it?"

The prime minister's hairs stood on end.The absurd king talks absurd things, he thought, and he has no idea what a country is. "Your Majesty, please don't make such a joke." He said solemnly.

"Is it funny?" The king turned to get an apple, and then tried to break it, but his strength was too weak to split the apple in two, so he took the table knife and cut the apple.

Kloin was silent for a while, and said: "Your Majesty, first of all, you will not die, you—"

"Suppose I'm dead." The little king plunged a knife into the apple, and sweet, frothy juice came out from the knife edge, "Then what should we do next?"

"I can't inherit the country, it's against the law, and the nobles and other forces won't agree. Then there will be..." A storm, he thought, "Besides, I'm too old and I'm sick, I think I won't live long. Your Majesty, you should... quickly find an heir."

"Is there time for me to have a baby now? Oh, yes, I also have a wandering brother, you can get him back and be the king."

"This is for our country, I beg you to be more serious." The prime minister lowered his head.

"For the country? No, the country is rotten, I don't want to look forward to it. I'm for myself, and my girls." He spread a little cream from the table with his fingers and put it in his mouth , that was exactly the cream that had been applied to the princess before, "If he hadn't said, 'I want all the women in my family every day', I wouldn't be too lazy to fight with him! Hahahahahahaha..." He let out a harsh laugh, and immediately His face suddenly froze, and sadness climbed onto his face like the frost of a cold night.

"Master Prime Minister, I have never owned this country. My throne is picked up, and the country is lame. All I have is this Tianhu Lake, and these girls from all over the world—however Now my enemies will take the last of what I have, and I must fight."

"You still have my loyalty, Your Majesty." Croin knelt down on one knee, and the knee was in severe pain as he bent, but he didn't care, "I will fight side by side with you."

"Then I will accept your loyalty, Chloe." He wrapped his coat tightly, and then took out the crown from under a pile of fruit peels and put it on his head, "Go back, Prime Minister, go to bed early at night, and you have to go to court tomorrow morning .”

Chapter 5: A Fork in the Road of Destiny, a

Chapter 5: A Fork in the Road of Destiny, a

Haven stood on the roof of Bear Castle, overlooking the Antler Pass.

Now that the news of Grand Duke Trident's death has spread, there are all kinds of scary rumors about the new king: what little trident has declared war on the north; Said he was going to fuck the women of the northern royal family...

But these are absurd rumors after all, Haiwen thought to himself, these rumors are not credible, no matter how crazy Little Trident is, he is also the king of a country, he will not commit such bandit behavior.

At this moment, he was thinking about another question.

If there was a war, what would Bear Mountain look like?There are mountains and rivers between the Bayland and the northern border, and the three major passes are the only places where they can confront each other—the Antler Pass is one of the three passes, where troops are stationed all year round.If the war starts, then the Antler Pass will inevitably become the center of the war vortex.

Haiwen didn't want to support the Little Trident's war. In his opinion, the most important thing now was to feed the people of the Gulf.This year, there was a flood in the south and a drought in the north. I heard that there was already a famine in the White Bird City generation, and a lot of victims of the disaster came to Xiongshan recently—is there a war under this premise?This is not a wise choice.

The sun was scorching, and the heat wave was coming. After standing for a while, Haiwen was already sweating profusely.He returned to the castle and found a shady room. At this moment, the servant told him, "My lord, Miss Laya is back."

"Okay, take me to see her."

Haiwen didn't care about taking a break, so he immediately followed the servants to the downstairs of the castle.When he came to the lobby corridor, he saw Laya and his party unloading luggage at the door.He hurried up to say hello and said, "Laya, and friends from the White Clothes Society, it's been a hard journey."

Laya's three attendants saluted first, but Laya was a little slower.She froze for a moment, and then said: "It's nothing, my lord."

Laya's face looked very tired, and her voice was not as sweet as before.Haven had a bad premonition in his heart, he asked Laya, "Laya, what happened?"

"No, I'm just..." She squeezed out a smile, "I'm a little tired. Oh, I have to tell you about Jinsha Castle."

"it is good."

So Haiwen took them to the reception room on the first floor, where he asked someone to fetch melons and fruits chilled in the well water, and poured sour plum soup made of violets for them to relieve the heat.The two men drank the drink and shouted refreshedly. Eros also drank a little, but Laya didn't even touch the glass. Her strange behavior made Hewen even more disturbed.

Haiwen asked her, "Laya, during the time you left, I heard all kinds of rumors. I heard that the little trident was tyrannical. He declared war openly and dug his own family's grave. He even said— —”

"That's all true." Laya interrupted him, "My lord, rumors are often exaggerated, but this time the rumors can't keep up with the exaggeration of reality. Little Trident is the most terrifying mad king in history, you'd better hurry up and get ready Countermeasures, otherwise everyone will be finished."

Laya seldom talked to him in this way. Haiwen was stunned for a moment and said, "Preparation measures? War preparation measures? Are you saying that I should resist the little trident?"

"I don't know." Laya said, "I can only tell you that the little trident is summoning all the nobles, and he asked me to tell you that he wants you to express your position on this matter—whether to be loyal or to resist, he urgently needs Answer."

"I don't want to join his wars, Raya."

Laya nodded and said, "I don't want to either, but the mad king has already started killing. According to rumors these days, some nobles who resisted him have been murdered. Among the two marquises, the Marquis of White Bird has expressed his allegiance to the new king. And Lord Mondalia of Fengleibao is still very ambiguous. I think the Marquis of Mondalia wants to wait for Jinshanbao to give him a profit before swearing allegiance. No matter what, they will not resist the little trident."

Haiwen remembered what Yawen had said to him when he was in Xiawan.He pondered a little, and said, "Maybe some people are still trying to resist him, and the nobles in the bay area won't go crazy with him."

"Yes, no one will go crazy with him, but the nobles are afraid of him, Mr. Haiwen, you have never seen the berserk of the little trident, I can guarantee that anyone who has seen him will be frightened by him."

Hearing this, Haiwen couldn't help asking: "What kind of person is he?"

Laya shook her head and said, "Only by seeing it with your own eyes can you believe that there are such people in the world."

Haiwen didn't expect that she would give such an evaluation, and he was at a loss for a while.At this time Laya said: "If nothing happens, I will leave."

"Wait, what about the letter?"

"Oh, the little trident said that as long as you are loyal to him, then the affairs of the Sternier family are trivial..." She rolled her eyelids, then saluted Hewen, and said, "I'm very sorry, I have to go take a break."

Haiwen had no choice but to let her leave first. After Laya left, Haiwen stopped her followers and asked, "What's wrong with Laya?"

The two men looked at each other, then shook their heads.The girl named Eros said: "We don't know, since Jinsha Castle came back, the adults have been...very sensitive, very..."

"I saw her cry." said the hornless orc. "I never thought that the saint would cry." He said in a small voice.

"Saints are human too," Aaron said.

"Yes, it's a woman." Eros sighed and murmured in a low voice, "She didn't tell me anything, I don't know what happened. But I've never seen her in such pain, I'm very disturbed."

Haven was also very disturbed.Raya has always been the most reliable of them all.She is resourceful and well-versed in the world, as if there is no unfair situation for her.Haiwen thought for a while, and said to Eros: "Eros, you can only rely on you for Laya's affairs. Only women can understand a woman's mind. We men can't get into her heart."

Eros nodded silently.

Immediately, the three attendants also resigned, and Haiwen stayed alone in the meeting room thinking about the question—should he be loyal or resist?He realized that he was at a fork in the road of fate, and the next choice would be related to his wealth and life.At this moment, he heard Ramon's voice from outside the door, "My lord, I have your letter from Xiawan."