Chapter 544 Rebellion 12
In the hall of the Lord's Mansion in Huxin Town, officials at the administrative level and above from the Government Affairs Council gathered here. In addition to the people from the Government Affairs Council, there was also the old butler Philip, but three of the army were missing. Important figures - Chief of Staff Schroeder, Logistics Department Director Ron, and Equipment Department Director Kelly.
But everyone has no time to think about why the three of them are not here - and in fact, officials from the Government Affairs Council and military officials do not often get together for meetings - the minds of everyone in the hall have been filled with an incomprehensible question. Believing news is packed full of news:
The ruler of Arda and Emden and the earl of the Kingdom of Aldo - Paul Greiman has been assassinated.
Just four years ago, the last Earl Grayman left them under the attack of pirates, and today, the young earl who succeeded him also left them and ascended to the Lord of Light for Eternity. of paradise.
No one here spoke. Everyone was staring at the candles on the table in a daze.
They were all hurriedly woken up in the middle of the night and informed that there were important matters and they needed to go to the lord's mansion for a meeting. Many people were still wondering, didn't the lord go hunting elsewhere? Who would have expected that after suppressing sleepiness and rushing to the Lord's Mansion in a daze, what greeted him was a bolt from the blue.
But it was not absolutely quiet in the hall, there was still the sound of someone sobbing.
It was Philip who was wiping away tears, and the old housekeeper was suffering from great grief at this time. He had grown up watching Paul Grainman, and in a sense Philip had come to regard him as his own child, not just as a master to serve.
In addition to grief, there is another emotion tearing at the old butler's heart - that is, the huge guilt towards Paul's father and grandfather and even the Graiman family.
Starting from Paul's grandfather, the direct line of the Gleiman family has not been prosperous. Paul's father and grandfather were both only children, and they did not even have sisters. When it came to Paul's father, good luck seemed to have come - he and his wife successively They gave birth to two boys, but when Paul was more than two years old, fate suddenly withdrew the gift to the family and brought interest with it - Paul's younger brother and the brothers' mother both left the family due to an infectious disease. world. Out of love and longing for his wife, Old Graiman never remarried, nor did he have any illegitimate children. However, the family continued to encounter misfortune - after Old Graiman died in an ambush by the pirate Shark Gang, the Graiman family The only direct line left was Paul.
But now, the only remaining seedling has been broken by the wind of fate. Is this a curse?
Incomparable guilt weighed heavily on the heart of the old butler Philip. He believed that this was his responsibility and that he had failed to fulfill his duties as a guardian. As the steward of the Graiman family, he should keep all dangers out of Paul's reach. Why didn't he dissuade him from hunting at that time?
Thinking of this, the old housekeeper felt increasingly sad.
Suddenly, Philip felt something. He raised his head and met the eyes of old Ford sitting next to him. At this time, the eyes of the director of the Government Affairs Office were cloudy, with red eyes and a trembling expression on his face. Beard also showed the great sadness in his heart. Like Philip, Old Ford also watched Paul grow up. As an old minister left behind by Old Graiman, he also believed that he had some responsibility for Paul.
As soon as they looked at each other, the two old men who felt that each other had the same feelings as themselves burst into tears, bursting into tears.
Seeing that the two oldest and highest-ranking people in this hall have fallen into a state of being unable to extricate themselves, the remaining people are even more uneasy and flustered.
Especially Cecil, as the head of intelligence under the lord, knew nothing about the plot to assassinate the lord. No matter what the reason was, it was a huge dereliction of duty on his part. Now Cecil feels in his heart Ashes.
It seemed that among all the people present, Hansel Abbott, the director of the Ministry of Agriculture, remained calm. However, although his mind was calm, his emotions in his heart were complicated.
It has to be said that Hansel thought helplessly in his heart that Paul's departure was a huge regret. This earl was the most enlightened and motivated person among the local lords he had ever seen, and perhaps also had ability. Of course, this ability was not that In the traditional sense, the ability of a noble to rule the territory - on the contrary, the young earl is still slightly lacking in this aspect. Paul's ability in Hansel's eyes is his persistence in technology, many of which are just entertainment in the eyes of other nobles. Things were played out in Paul's hands, such as alchemy, machinery, and mathematics. Paul made huge and long-term investments in these things, and they all brought generous returns to his territory. , such as powerful firearms, pesticides that can control pests, incredibly productive factories, rich and vast farms, statisticians and surveyors who can provide detailed data on the territory, and a large number of other things that Hansel cannot know all.
There is also his long-term vision, such as the maritime trade that he strongly supported and the customs union that he single-handedly promoted. There is no doubt that maritime trade has brought huge wealth to the Northwest Gulf. Needless to say. Even better is the customs union. This thing was a huge loss in the eyes of many people in the early stage - after all, so much less money was collected. However, after the tariffs were eliminated within the alliance, the circulation of goods became more convenient and the restrictions were lost. Commerce has become more and more developed, commodity prices have also become lower, and the lives of the people in the territory have improved visibly. The losses in tariffs have been doubled in the prosperous market a few years later.
As for Hansel himself, Paul was kind to him in a sense. Before meeting Paul, Hansel was just a small tax collector and an empty worker in the Kingdom of Aldo. He is just a titled royal commissioner, and it was Paul Graiman who gave him a stage to display his political abilities. The earl's support for the royal family also gave Hansel a slight sense of presence in the eyes of the important people in the royal capital, so Sir Hansel Abbott was quite grateful to the earl.
After mourning in his heart for a while, the calm-minded Hansel immediately thought of a question - after losing Paul, what will be the future of Alda, what will be the future of the Government Administration, and more specifically Say, what will your future be like?
Will the Government Administration Council continue to operate in accordance with the policies formulated by Count Grayman during his lifetime? Does Arda still need to maintain a good working relationship with the royal family? Will the new lord continue to use his group of outsiders from Jingyao?
right! New lord!
Hansel immediately thought that the above issues would entirely depend on the attitude of the new lord.
(End of this chapter)