Chapter 23 The Great Priest (1)
"The officials thought they could not take on this important task, so please take it back." This sentence was a sentence that Cons racked his brains to come up with a more elegant sentence, but he was still used to proclaiming himself in the army and did not surrender like others.
When everyone heard Cons' words, they were stunned, but when they saw the generals whose face had returned to normal, they immediately realized. Yes, how can they live if they offend these generals?
But they didn't know that this was what Cons said in his heart.
The only thing I knew about this sentence was Alice from Cons' heart, she smiled and asked, "You don't accept it? So do you have any wishes? Everything is OK, I will definitely satisfy your wish."
Hearing this, not only did the general's face change drastically, but the ministers and queens also changed. This sentence means that no matter what request Cons made, he had to agree to him, even if he wanted to be named king.
The queen and the masked blue woman who had not spoken up all the time, stood up and was about to make a comment to Alice, Cons spoke up and asked him:
"Xiaguan is an illiterate person and hopes to learn to read and write."
The whole hall suddenly became silent, and everyone, including Alice and the masked woman, stared at Cons blankly. Even if Cons proposed to be crowned with the king, they would not be so shocked.
Is it only a chance to gain wealth and glory to ask for hope to study? After having money and status, are you still afraid of not being able to hire a teacher?
The four words "What an idiot" are the consistent impressions of Cons.
Alice looked at Cons, who was looking down in the distance with a strange look, and sighed silently: "A man without ambition."
She calmed her expression and said to Cons: "Is your wish to learn knowledge?"
Seeing Cons nodding, he continued, "Okay, I'll satisfy your wish, Master Isna, this matter is going to be troubled by you, okay?"
The words Alice said to the masked blue-clothed priest.
Although the great priest named Isna couldn't see her expression, everyone knew that she was stunned when she heard this, which could be seen from her stiff body.
But she immediately recovered and saluted Alice and replied, "I'm happy to serve you."
Her voice is infinitely gentle and sweet. If you distinguish a beautiful woman by voice, she must be a peerless beauty.
When she sat back, her face under the tulle mask looked at Cons.
For some reason, Cons suddenly felt a large number of hatred eyes. He looked at the corners of his eyes and found that it was the unfriendly look brought by the young civil and military ministers. These people who hated him include Weiner and Gula's son Kane.
Cons didn't know that he had just asked the generals to give up hating him, but the young ministers began to hate him.
This is all because Alice lets Isna be Cons's teacher.
Master Isna is the youngest master in Qihongguo. Although few people have seen her appearance, from the people who are fortunate to see her, who have been foolish for several days, they must be a peerless beauty.
In Qihong Kingdom, the great priest is the most knowledgeable person, and is equivalent to a Grand Secretary.
Those young people who hated Cons were single nobles, and they had seen Isna's appearance and had contact with her. Everyone almost lost themselves.
She usually tried hard to find opportunities to get close to her but couldn't get what she wanted. Now that Cons can actually let Isna teach him to read, wouldn't she be by Isna's side all day? Of course, those who have a crush on the great priest will hate Cons.
At this time, Gula came out and bowed and said respectfully: "Your Highness, I think that the great contributions made by Cons cannot be rewarded like this. Cons should be given appropriate official position, knight title and reward."
The generals were stunned when they heard this, but soon realized that Cons had exchanged his credit for learning and could not get a high position.
Now I just want to get a military rank for him and give him a chance to sell favors for the princess. So all the generals came out to ask for it.
The princess seemed to know that there was such a result, and smiled at Gula, "Then how should General Gula give me reward?" She gave the decision to Gula so that Gula knew that she trusted him very much.
Sure enough, when Gula heard this, she looked happy and thought for a moment, and responded respectfully: "Cons was originally the captain of the team. With his merits, he should be promoted to team leader this time. The knight title should be named third-class knight. Of course, with such great merits, the gold reward should be rewarded 10,000.
"This is a fool's opinion. I wonder what Your Highness and the generals think?"
Gula deliberately disappeared when Cons led the mixed wing not long ago. Cons was at least the leader of the brigade, but his son was just a team leader. How could he let him overpower his son?
When the generals heard this, they hurriedly said that Gula's proposal was very good and nodded in response.
Alice originally wanted Cons to gain these status. Her performance just now was just selling a favor to them. Cons was just a tool for her to further gain the loyalty of the generals.
"Okay, Cons, appoint you as the lieutenant-colon team leader of the first team of the First Brigade of the First Division of the First Legion. With one thousand men under your command, you will be granted the title of third-class knights and rewarded with 10,000 gold coins. Since the First Legion has not been rebuilt, you are allowed to appoint and remove officers of all levels under your command by yourself." Alice immediately ordered, her tone without being opposed by others.
Although civil and military officials were a little dissatisfied with the licence of appointing and dismissing officers at all levels under their command, the thought that the First Legion followed the previous king to the border and was destroyed and had not been rebuilt, which means that Cons had no superiors, and Cons had only one thousand people under him.
According to convention, Cons only had the power to appoint and remove the corps captain and squadron leader. However, just a few officers' affairs were not worth contradicting the future queen for the appointment of these small officers, so everyone stopped talking.
Although the queen wanted to speak out against Alice's order, she saw that the generals looked satisfied, knew that she would not receive support, and was too lazy to come forward to make trouble.
Cons, who originally wanted to refuse, was about to speak when suddenly the door of the hall called the guard: "Hisser Moermo is here!"
When everyone heard this, they stood there in their original position. The princess, queens and great priests stood up and looked at the door.
Seeing this, Cons had to endure the words. At the warning of an official, he lined up beside Vina, and now he was the military officer closest to the gate in the hall.
An old man wearing a soft man's robe with gold wire embroidered on the side and a hat of the same color was surrounded by several sages and walked in with a smile.
The old man was not a puppet, but he nodded with a smile, nodded with a greeting, no matter he was a guard, an official, or a servant.
The civil and military ministers bent down to salute when they saw him appear, including the princess and the queen.
When Master Molmo passed by Cons, he took a few glances at Cons.
Master Molmo would pay attention to Cons, not for anything, but because Cons did not show a flattering look and did not have a particularly respectful expression.
You have seen too many of those two expressions.
Whether it is a civilian or aristocrat, they usually see themselves as these two expressions. Now that they see different expressions, the leader will certainly pay attention to it, but the leader is not a stingy person and will not care about these things. So after looking at Cons, he walked towards the princess and the others.
Cons didn't know why this leader Molmo was so powerful. Everyone was so respectful to him. At this moment, he was thinking that he didn't know what to learn.
This was his only wish in his life, so he looked at Master Isna intentionally or unintentionally.
Isna was looking at the leader, so when she happened to see the look of Cons looking over, she couldn't help but frown. She was a peerless beauty, and beauty would think that the man who was close to her had some intentions.
This is because she has encountered too many men who have approached her with various excuses over the years, and she will classify Cons as this type of person because she believes that Cons made this request to the princess in private.
But she didn't expect that Cons would use great contributions to exchange for the opportunity to learn from her. After receiving this task, she had to endure the uncomfortable mood to complete it.
Weiner beside Cons felt the look of Isna looking at this side. He was stunned for a moment, looked sideways, but just saw Cons turning around.
Weiner immediately felt a strong sense of jealousy, on the one hand, for Isna, and on the other hand, because Cons's rank is always higher than himself.
The reason why he would be jealous of Cons was the same as before, because Cons was a civilian, while Viner was a nobleman. Although he was a former nobleman, he still had a noble bloodline.
He would obey Cons' orders before because he was a low-ranking nobleman and did not make any contribution, and was just a cavalry squad leader.
But when they were running, the enemy generals actually ran to him and died. When the generals heard that they had aristocratic blood, they immediately led them to be the captain.
He also knew that this was a means for the noble generals to resist the promotion of non-noble soldiers, otherwise he would have been promoted in many years without knowing how many years he could have been promoted.
I originally thought I didn't have to obey Cons' orders, but who would have thought that Cons immediately won a higher official title than him and made the public lover his teacher, how could he not let himself be jealous?
Weiner suddenly found that a civil servant looked at him opposite him, looked up and found that a middle-aged civil servant with an ordinary appearance was smiling at him. Although he didn't know who he was, Weiner still nodded to him as a gift. He didn't want to make enemies casually.
At this time, the princess and queen sat down, and the leader sat in the seat of the original master. The master stood respectfully behind the master like other masters.
"Princess, I came to your country this time to ask for the residents of your country's land that have become a vacuum." Master Molmo said to Princess Alice.
"Your Majesty, please be polite. Please give me some instructions if you have any questions." Alice was stunned for a moment and said with a smile.
"Okay, I will ask His Highness the Princess to send troops to take back the country and stop leaving the land that has been irritated by the enemy to no longer have any support." The leader said in a deep tone.
Everyone here knows that from the border, the huge land with a depth of nearly 1,000 kilometers and an area of nearly one million square kilometers, the army of the Black Rock Kingdom retreated to the border, and the army of the Qihong Kingdom returned to the capital, so there was no military force there and it became a vacuum zone between the two countries.
Moreover, the guards of each town were wiped out by the invading army of the Black Rock Kingdom, and each city became a defenseless city.
When the army of Black Rock Kingdom advanced, in order to quickly annex the land, it did not plunder the property of each town, let alone retreating.
In order to compete for the throne, the army of Qihong Kingdom had no time to take away the rich households. Besides, the rich households were all rich people, and they made money by land. Even if they were killed, they would not leave their own land. Therefore, the wealth of these towns remained in their original position.
In this case, the poor and criminals who cannot survive, as well as the straitors and deserters who survived the war, how could such a good opportunity be missed when they saw these unprepared towns?
They formed various bandit groups, ranging from a few people to a group of secretly blocking the road, or as big as a group of hundreds of people to a group of siege cities and plundering the ground.
The officials and gentry who did not follow the army would not watch their property being plundered, so they combined the towns and hired mercenaries to protect the town.
Although these mercenaries are like robbers, they will still protect their employer's towns. Of course, in order to increase their wealth, they will inevitably rob other towns. This is the so-called rabbits do not eat grass beside their nests.
As a result, the nearly one million square kilometers of land immediately became like the Warring States Period, fighting all day long, and constantly attracting hooligans and fugitives from all over the country.
Everyone knows that if this continues, a place of nearly one million square kilometers will definitely be separated from the Qihong Kingdom, and will eventually be annexed by the Black Rock Kingdom or become an independent country.
Chapter completed!