Chapter 29 The Silent "Deal"
After a touching and elegant reunion with the victorious Mr. Holland.
Brand and Yersin looked blank when they saw the uniformly equipped "iron can" troops, driving away the fleeing bandits and surrounding them from all directions.
Centered with the Holland family caravan.
An astonishing number of armored soldiers holding standard spears kept shrinking the encirclement.
The bandits kept gathering under their duress.
They did not let go of any bandit within sight.
“That’s the Imperial Infantry Regiment!”
After the well-informed Yersin saw the marks on the armor of the troops in front of him, he immediately realized that it was from the Kaya Empire. Standard army.
Brand, who “also recognized”, “had to” echo him because Yersin “speaks faster”:
"Well, that mark is indeed the Imperial Infantry Regiment."
The bandits originally had a numerical advantage in front of the Holland family caravan escort.
When facing the Imperial Infantry Regiment, which also had a numerical advantage.
They vividly demonstrated the "excellent quality" of "assessing the situation".
When they found that they were completely surrounded by the menacing imperial soldiers and had no way to escape, they all put down their weapons and goods, and lay on the ground with their heads in their hands.
He looked like "I won't resist" and asked for "preferential treatment to the prisoners".
Since the bandits are so sensible, the Imperial Infantry Regiment naturally has no intention of killing them all.
Although many young people with a strong sense of justice hate these unruly bandits.
But it is still a valuable labor force, and it would be a pity to get rid of it like this.
The most appropriate way to deal with it is to be demoted to a slave, and then make a "lifelong" contribution to the construction of the empire.
After the dust settled, facing his two sons who were full of doubts, Mr. Holland also revealed a little bit about what happened.
The cause of the incident was that a member of the noble family secretly issued a commission to kidnap Brand.
In order to increase the success rate, the man also secretly sold a batch of inferior ordnance.
But in the end, after multiple considerations, the person "reported" the commissioned party to the relevant departments of the empire in advance!
The reason for the report is not difficult to understand. The main reason is that she found something unusual in the entrusted party.
——It is very powerful and very powerful, but the fees are very low, and it looks cautious and humble.
Under doubt, the member of the noble family conducted a secret investigation on him.
Then various investigative clues came together and she came to a shocking conclusion!
——Undead!
Hundreds of years ago, all ethnic groups on the mainland formed a united front and sent troops together to completely destroy the undead empire that blasphemed against living beings.
After that, the undead turned from the bright side to the underground.
Activities in chaotic areas of various countries and races, undertaking various illegal commissions to make a living.
At the same time, in order to show your sense of existence, you also "advertise" yourself.
They will have many "big events" every once in a while.
More than a hundred years ago, a certain empire couldn't bear it anymore and took the lead in convening the "United Continent Conference" against the undead.
The result of the meeting was passed unanimously.
So across the continent, various races joined forces to launch a "big purge" against the undead.
The undead in the chaotic zone were directly "uprooted".
Under the all-pervasive magical means, all organizations and individuals that had even the slightest relationship with the undead were imprisoned or eliminated.
After that great purge, no matter what your identity, as long as you have anything to do with the undead, you are the public enemy of the mainland!
The undead has become a "taboo" term.
For nobles who cherish feathers, although such activities as "trading arms" and "kidnapping descendants of nobles" also violate imperial laws.
But compared with "colluding with the undead", a "death crime that punishes the nine tribes" that betrays the entire continent, that is nothing! and!
Everything must be based on evidence.
She just "lost" a batch of ordnance and "discovered" that she had been framed.
Then during the "investigation", it was "accidentally" discovered that the criminals were related to the undead.
In the end, I just "reported" it to the relevant departments of the empire with a "full sense of justice".
If you look at the results, she still succeeded in preventing the kidnapping of a descendant of a noble!
No inappropriate behavior whatsoever!
Of course.
That’s what I said.
But before reporting the matter, the lady’s family still sent extremely generous and expensive gifts to Viscount Holland in the name of “friendship” as quickly as possible.
At the beginning, because he had received a gift after all, Mr. Holland was relatively happy even though the two parties had not communicated with each other for a long time.
But when he checked the specific value of the gift, Mr. Holland frowned again.
Just when he was wondering, the Imperial Judgment Department initiated a remote summons for him.
The Inquisition Division wants Mr. Holland to authorize them to use magical means to conduct an "in-depth investigation" on a case involving Brand.
This communication between the two parties is reminiscent of the "friendship gift" received previously, combined with certain doubts investigated by the Trial Division, and the family name of the most important informant.
Mr. Holland, who has an extremely sensitive sense of politics, immediately filled in all the details in his mind that the trial department had not yet investigated clearly.
After guessing the origin of the whole thing in the electric light.
After careful consideration, Mr. Holland reserved the right to authorize the use of magical means to conduct an "in-depth investigation" of the incident despite the confused expression of the inquisitor.
The reason is: "It is temporarily inconvenient."
As for the behavior of some criminals who are planning to rob their own caravan and kidnap their sons.
Mr. Holland still cooperated with the Inquisition Department and the Imperial Army, and staged a good show of "asking you to put yourself in the urn" and "the fish died but the net was not broken".
“So we are bait?”
After knowing the whole thing, Yersin's face looked a little ugly.
But Brand smiled very happily:
“We have made a contribution this time?”
Looking at the two sons who behaved differently, Huo Huo Mr. Rand smiled, rubbed Yersin's head, and nodded to Brand.
Although all other aspects are "not worth mentioning," Brand's political sense is indeed much stronger than Yersin.
In fact, Mr. Holland had specially fought for this opportunity to make meritorious deeds.
Although there will be no "substantial" rewards now, it will play an extraordinary role at certain critical moments in the future.
"Lennart!"
When Mr. Holland was considering adding one or two political courses to Yersen.
A tin can whose armor is obviously more polished than other imperial infantry.
While untying the helmet, he walked towards them.
After taking off the helmet, the person had slightly longer messy blond hair that covered half of his face.
But you can still see the sunny smiling face with a neat beard under the hair.
——That was a middle-aged handsome guy.
In terms of appearance, although he is still far behind Brand, he seems to be on par with Mr. Holland.
"Anthony!"
After greeting the visitor, Mr. Holland introduced his two sons with a smile:
"This is Anthony Mesa, the current empire The commander of the 6th Infantry Regiment has just returned from abroad. You can call him Uncle Anthony!"
(End of Chapter)