Chapter 547 Andre's Assist
Compared to Upper River County, which is even returning to the cold, Hotam, which is located in the plains, has taken advantage of the benefits of the Emerald Sea Current.
While the mountain bikers of North Mound County were still wearing woolen linings and woolen burkas, the people of Hotam County had already changed to thin woolen blouses or dresses.
Even those who are greedy for cool have put on linen shirts and leather waistcoats.
In the past, Feiliu Castle would have been bustling with people in the spring after the thaw. Citizens out for spring, merchant ships on the Naoan River, and nobles traveling for hunting crowded this prosperous area.
But this spring, the sun is still bright and the river is still clear, but Feiliu Castle is much more depressed.
On both sides of Wangjia Avenue are no longer farmers going to the market and vendors pushing carts, but groups of beggars and homeless people.
Especially near the headquarters of the Imperial Company and important castles, a large number of craftsmen who were forced to sign deeds of sale and IOUs were wearing ragged clothes and walking like zombies on the spring land.
These people hardly need any mobilization. They are willing to follow the Saint Sun Rebel Army or the current Hotam County Rebel Army after just saying a few words.
Andre, dressed like a beggar and with his face smeared with mud, came to a river with a few companions.
This was originally a hunting ground for nobles, and the rangers and knights patrolling the outside would not allow beggars like Andre to enter.
But the few trusted knights of Count Sampoli who were guarding today did not seem to see Andre, so they walked straight into the hunting ground.
Breaking through the bushes and picking off the silk threads from his wool trousers, Andre used his crutch to push aside the thatch and saw a clearing in the forest with a pond.
On a rock crisscrossed by trees, a middle-aged man wearing a silk shirt and a black coat with split puff sleeves sat on it.
Compared to Andre's calm face, the middle-aged nobleman with long hair and a slicked back was even more anxious.
"I didn't expect the Earl to come. I thought it would be Wester." Using a cane, Andre took off the rag hat on his head.
Compared to before winter, Andre was still a little fatter. It seemed that the nobles' support for the rebels was not small.
Count Sampoli obviously had no intention of talking nonsense with Andre. He asked directly: "The Shadowless Man seems to be checking something, and Wester is about to be found. Do you know what's going on? "Is it something?"
"Ask me, who should I ask?" Andre pretended to be depressed, "I was also targeted by the Shadowless People, and they killed me for some reason. One of my loyal men actually just wanted to take away my handwritten note from his hand."
Sampoli walked back and forth under the shade of the tree several times: "I have a piece of news, Prince Condai. It seems that a communication between you and Demon Horn was intercepted.”
In fact, Andre knew in his heart that the gossip was clearly from the informants arranged in Prince Condai's army.
Prince Condai knew how to use intelligence personnel to gain convenience and monitor these restless nobles. Don’t these nobles know that they would in turn monitor Prince Condai?
For local snakes like them, it couldn't be easier to place a few people in Prince Kong Dai's civilian team or even the imperial company.
“We communicate frequently with Your Majesty, it’s no big deal.”
“Did you send the other secret messages we sent through Wester to that Horn?”
Andre stared at Sampoli, and then spoke slowly for a long time: "I can guarantee that there is none, but I am not sure if Warren Taylor has one. You know, he wears the same pants as the Salvation Army."
< br>"Damn it." Sampoli originally wanted to yell and curse a few words, but found that neither he nor Andre could control the stubborn Warren Taylor, so they could only give up in frustration.
With the departure of Prince Condai, the mountains that originally suppressed the local nobles disappeared, and their control returned once again.
Barneyforth, who had been given high hopes by Prince Condé to monitor them, regarded Prince Condé's hope for him as nothing.
He hardly looked at the nobles' wanton behavior.
During the Leian Civil War and the split in the Holy See, Barnifus lost his two main sources of support, religious and secular, so he obeyed orders obediently.
The first spring breeze of 1446 brought to Flying Castle not only the warm current from the ocean, but also the battle reports and edicts of Duke Luel and Duke Neiderbach.
The two royal dukes, who were supported by the local nobles, forcefully advanced their troops to the islet on the river, almost to the bottom of Changge City.
Although Guinigis has 17 imperial companies in his hands, the two royal dukes also have 16 imperial companies in their hands.
Prince Kong Dai, who could have played a decisive role, was trapped in the quagmire of the Qianhe Valley Uprising. He was defeated by 5 command companies and basically lost the possibility of serving.
So the original confrontation between the two sides began to gradually escalate.
For Genigis, who has a shallow foundation, he can hardly mobilize any troops outside of the command company, and can only use mercenaries.
After promising a series of privileges, the two dukes received the support of a large number of local nobles, as well as a large number of domestic servants and powerful infantry.
Within half a year, this sudden civil war will end with the victory of the brothers.
This means that the civil war in Leia is about to end, and the church is about to return. Even if they would not attack Prince Condai, Prince Condai would not resist the Holy See's resumption of governance over the Church of the Thousand Valleys.
Prince Condai had no way to intervene in Barnifos's promotion and punishment.
The ones who can really get involved are the cathedral priests of various cathedrals. Most of them are children of local noble families.
What Prince Kongdai wants to fight for is the title Prince of Qianhe River Valley, which means that the lords of the legal territory of Qianhe River Valley must be loyal to him.
But this does not mean that he can purge the nobles at will, unless it is rebellion and conversion.
Otherwise, neither church law nor Leia's aristocratic law would allow superior lords to arbitrarily deprive nobility above the count of their territories.
This kind of illegal behavior was done by that monster Horn.
"You are not really rebelling. Even if you are discovered, you will only be fined at most." Andre still looked like an old god, "I am miserable, I really want to be hanged. "
Sampoli looked at the calm Andre. On the one hand, he sighed for his great heart, but on the other hand, he was helpless: "His Royal Highness may have evidence of my collaboration with the enemy. You guys Why are you so careless?
Oh, it’s a good thing if it doesn’t go on the scale, it will weigh more than a thousand pounds. He has already wanted to attack me, and I will lose my skin this time.”
If the nobles hate Horn, it is because he broke the law and purged the nobles.
The reason why I hate Meliyati is because she tried to amend the local laws of Qianhe River Valley so that she could legally deprive the nobles of some of their privileges.
The reason why today's nobles are against Prince Condai is because Prince Condai is doing illegal things despite being legal.
The laws of the Qianhe Valley are left by our ancestors and are immutable!
Especially when it comes to territorial laws, Prince Condai sent people to divide the fields at will before he became the Prince of Qianhe River Valley.
If this really makes him fall for it, what’s the point?
Next to Prince Condai stood five companies of the Imperial Order, and behind him were various knights of Leia and old men from the previous dynasty.
"Your Excellency Sampoli, are we one and the same?" Andre crossed his legs, "I have an opinion, do you listen?"
"Tell me."
"You are not alone in your confusion. , How about making all the nobles confused? It would be great if you spread rumors that Prince Condai controls everyone's evidence and is ready to cleanse everyone."
It's been laying the groundwork for so long, Ender. Lie's last moments are so vivid.
Don't underestimate his intelligence network. The nobles can place spies in Prince Condai's army. Could it be that Andre can't?
Combined the news that "Ven, the knight on the gray horse, intended to surrender and offered evidence of the nobles' collaboration with the enemy, but was regarded as alienated" and the information about the Shadowless Man's investigation of his handwriting.
Andre almost instantly came to the conclusion that Prince Condai was suspected of being ill.
Given the current desperate situation, although I don’t know how much it can increase my chances of winning, it is better than not doing it.
“It’s a joke, no matter how suspicious he is, can he still deprive me of a century-old foundation?” Sampoli replied half amused and half disdainful, “You want to mess up the water in Hotam County, it’s not like that Easy.”
Andre didn't reply, but took out a pocket watch from his arms and looked at the time.
"What? What are you waiting for?" Sampoli frowned.
Andre still didn't speak. He looked up at the sky and then down at his pocket watch.
"Speak, the person in front of you is the Count!" Seeing that Andre didn't reply for a long time, Sampoli stepped forward angrily. As soon as the words came out, he heard a rush of footsteps.
"Lord..." The knight pushed aside the bushes.
Sampoli suddenly turned his head: "What's wrong?"
"Wester... Wester, he, he is dead!" The knight knight almost gave Sampoli a blow as soon as he opened his mouth. Staggered and fell.
Westall, the man who helped the nobles contact the Saint Sun Rebels, is dead!
Just after the Shadowless Man investigated him!
He turned back and glared at Andre in disbelief, holding on to the last glimmer of hope and asking in a trembling voice: "Who killed it, can you find out?"
"It has been found out. He is a black market thug." The knight knight gasped, "One of our people."
(End of this chapter)