Chapter 131 Failure

"Hey, dear Count." A short and fat man in a gold embroidered robe greeted Ash Rufate from a distance. "You are here again."

This one is Min De, the etiquette minister of this small court.

The bureaucracy of the seven countries is generally similar, but there are some differences in details. For example, "Minister". Although many officials can be called "Minister", in fact, the status differences between them are quite different. The highest status is the group of people who can attend the imperial meeting. The host of the imperial meeting is the king, and this meeting is actually the highest decision-making body of the entire country. For example, the current position of Ash Rufate and the Minister of Finance is an important official position of this type. He is qualified to attend the imperial meeting and express his opinions on various major issues of the country. There are even many decisions that must be referred to his opinions. Min De, the "Certificate of Etiquette", is much worse, because unless otherwise, he has no right to attend the imperial meeting.

In fact, the so-called minister of etiquette should have been the prime minister's subordinate. Of course, the position of the prime minister is vacant at this moment, so Min Dee, in a sense, temporarily took over part of the prime minister's responsibilities.

"You are here to ask for Her Majesty the Queen again?" Min De asked with a smile on his face.

"That's right." Asu Ruffat replied. He saw the expression of gloating in the other party's expression. But then again, Asu Ruffat now rarely cares about other people's expressions.

"Her Majesty the Queen rejected your request again?" Min De's smile squeezed even more.

"Yes." Ashu Rufate said. Perhaps everyone in the entire Eagle City knows this. Ashu Rufate, the nouveau riche who was once the queen's personal guard, relied on his performance at critical moments to become the core of the new palace, and even once became a "one-person imperial meeting". But now, he has obviously fallen out of favor with the little queen. Because for several days, Ashu Rufate has refused to ask for an audience with the little queen. And this is not because of physical discomfort.

"It's probably because you're uncomfortable. Lord Earl, you're really not the time to come." Min De replied. This sentence is completely a kind of desire to cover up.

"Maybe." Ashu Rufate replied, then turned around and wanted to leave.

"By the way, Count," Min De asked suddenly, "I heard... you no longer work as a court chief?"

"Yes." Ashu Rufat replied lightly. He really didn't care, but this did not affect others' viewing his attitude as a disguise.

To be honest, even if the position of the Grand Chief of the Palace has not become famous or not, it is at least insignificant since Byron's coup. This is obvious. The original palace was home to thousands of people (including 300 guards), dozens of officials of all sizes and sizes, and also to receive a large number of guests from all over the country, receiving various intelligences, and various religious or political activities. Because of this, the work of the Grand Chief of the Palace Scadra has always been very busy. But now, there are only a few dozen people working in the entire palace (if the former regent's residence can be regarded as the palace) and there is no diplomatic reception at all, let alone any royal activities. The original intelligence work has now been interrupted with Byron taking away all the personnel and has not been restored yet - Groone has no energy to care about other countries.

Ashu Rufate was removed from the position of the chief of the palace, which was nothing in matters. He was just a job that was not very meaningful. However, such appointments and removals were themselves some signs. People with a keen sense of smell had already noticed the problem.

"Well, there are not many things now," Min De said. "Even if the position of the Grand Chief of the Palace is vacant, it doesn't matter."

"I think so too." Ashu Rufate was already impatient with the conversation, so he wanted to leave again.

"Earl Ashurufat, you look like you are going out?"

"Yes, I'm going to go to the Guards." Ashrufate replied. "Because although I am the Chancellor of the Finance Department, I am still the commander of the Guards."

"Ah, I remember...that...Baranka..."

"He is a 'temporary'." Ashu Rufate smiled.

Seeing Ash Rufat leave quickly, Min De was stunned for a long time. There was no one nearby at this time, so he could have enough time to think about the meaning of Ash Rufat's words. To be honest, in the eyes of a person with ulterior motives, anything meaningless would become very meaningful.

...

Two friends sat in front of the table beside the window of the tavern, drinking silently. Outside the window, the setting sun was as bloody as the sun.

"Is there any news in the royal city recently?" Essin asked.

I don't know when the Duke of Byron stopped notifying Essin to attend the meeting. So his news immediately became closed, and many things had to be found by inquiring about rumors or asking Cleo. However, Essin was not surprised by this matter. If Byron's men were divided into two factions according to their origin, then the faction of Fornoros City had already gained an overwhelming advantage. The people brought by Byron from the Hawk City were slowly being squeezed away.

Aside from this trend, Byerheim's affairs seriously affected Essim's status. Now, almost everyone under Byron already knows that Essim has no future. Apart from his true close friends, who would meet and chat with someone who has no future?

Having said that, Essin's situation is already good now. At least because of his previous performance of volunteering to break up, Byron favored him. At least he also has a position and a salary to get. Many people who retreated from the Duke of Byron to Fornoros are now in trouble. Because they are indeed a large number of people, Fornoros does not need so many civil servants here.

Finally, the Duke of Byron issued a new order, which was to pay salaries according to the current position. Of course, there were also nominal test competition and other flower heads. But every discerning person could see Byron's true intention. You should know that when they first came to Fornoros, they had the same income as the Falcon City.

These people can still live a life now, but their future may not be very bright. Because on the one hand, the little queen of Hawk City gritted her teeth at their behavior of following Byron and regarded them as rebels; on the other hand, Byron already believed that they had no value to use, so she no longer cared about their life or death.

When they followed Byron, they probably didn't expect the current situation.

"No news..." Cleo replied. "Bayer went to Eagle Falcon City and has not come back yet. In other information, it seems that there are rumors that the little queen and Eshu Rufate have had a falling out."

"Ah." Essin made a meaningless exclamation. No matter how much he got up, Esshu Rufate's fate would not be worse than those of the Eagle City officials who chose the wrong master.

"How much does this wine cost?" Cleo asked, taking a sip of the wine. "To be honest, it doesn't taste very good."

"Don't ask me, it's not the best one anyway." Essin replied with some frustration. "You know, I can only receive military pay now, no knight's salary. I can't afford a better wine... If you don't like it, then you can buy some good ones yourself."

"You are no longer a knight." Cleo laughed. This is the truth, because after the failure of Byron's coup, the little queen of the Falcon City had long declared a large group of people, including Essin, to be rebels and deprived them of their titles. However, when they first arrived in Fornoros, the Duke of Byron would pay their salary according to their original noble titles.

"Yes, I'm no longer a knight." Essin raised his glass, raised it high, and bathed in the light of the sunset. "And my colleague... Ashu Rufate has made his mark. He is now a count and has become the Minister of Finance of the Little Queen."

"That was his life for it. Essin, don't be jealous." Clio said. "In that case, if it were you, would you sacrifice your life to protect the Queen?"

"I don't know." Essin replied. "We are in danger of wealth and honor. If it were me... If I knew that doing so would have such a rich reward... I... might also make the same choice as Eshu Rufate. People like us should have gambled with their lives to have the opportunity to make a name for themselves in a short time."

"Hey, don't be so pessimistic, Essin. You know our little queen can't last too long."

"To be honest, I don't believe it anymore."

"That's the case. When we retreated, we took away all the money from the treasury... In fact, we took everything except those debt bills. Our little queen is now financially nervous and has to divide it into three portions of a piece of bread."

"Ah, Cleo, I know everything you said," Essin said. "But... I clearly remember that when Duke Byron returned to Fornoros, he said that the little queen could not last for a month. Then he changed his words to last for two months... Then three months... and then four months... and now it has become eight months. The same words, after hearing so many times, have not been fulfilled. Anyone has the right to doubt the truth or falsehood of this sentence. Are you right?"

"Essin, to be honest, that's a miracle. Even Lord Byron doesn't understand why our little queen still has so much money."

"I don't understand either, but I at least know the facts. The fact is that our Queen is still living well in the Hawks City, and our loyal Ashu Rufate has become the Earl and the Chancellor of the Finance... Oh, he also serves as the Grand Chief of the Court and the Commander of the Guards. And we two..."

Essin shook the cup in his hand. The drink in his cup was slightly cloudy in the sun. Anyone who has a little knowledge of the wine knows that this is the most obvious evidence that the wine has a poor texture.

"...but I can only drink this kind of wine." Essin said lightly.

"You know, the situation is not what Duke Byron wants," Cleo replied. "At least, he fulfilled his promise to you. You said you wanted a military post, and he gave it."

"Yes, I gave me a good military post and asked me to take a few soldiers to guard the warehouse." Essin shook his glass again, "and also allowed me to drink this kind of wine. I should indeed thank him. In fact, some of us who followed him from Eagle City can't even afford this kind of wine."

Not everyone hides a sum of money for emergencies. Those unlucky guys who don't usually save money and cannot win positions in intense exams are probably worse than Essin said.
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