Chapter 249: 247: Uproar (Subscribe)
Auxerre, White Castle.
The head maid Eva walked hurriedly through the deep corridor, ignoring the maid who saluted her, and quickly walked to a study and stopped.
She took a deep breath, tried to calm herself down, and knocked on the door.
"Come in!"
When Grand Duchess Aphra's voice came, Eva immediately opened the door and walked in.
In the luxurious room, the Grand Princess was reviewing various documents. Her desk was filled with various documents.
Nobility is actually a profession with a very high upper limit and an even lower lower limit.
If you want to be happy, you can ignore everything and live a carefree life, living a life of drunkenness and dreams every day.
But if you want to protect the ancestral heritage, revitalize the family, or even go further, you have to engage in intrigue, work day and night, and life will not be easy.
Grand Duchess Aphra is the latter, and she is too busy every day.
However, when she reached her position, many things either progressed or regressed, and she could no longer do as she pleased.
She ignored Eva's arrival and continued to correct the documents in her hands.
However, Eva walked up to her very 'rudely' and placed a parchment scroll in front of Grand Duchess Aphra.
"Master, you need to review this first!"
The Grand Duchess did not take any action, but was stunned for several breaths before looking up at Eva.
She asked, "Good news or bad news?"
Eva was stunned when she heard this, not knowing how to respond. After a long while, she managed to utter, "It's good news, and it's also bad news!"
The Grand Duchess glared at Eva and said, "Do you know what I'm asking?"
Eva giggled and became serious: "Master, don't worry, Master Luo Yi won. Not only did he win, but he won beautifully!"
"The Carlisle family suffered a crushing defeat, with at least half of their knights and militiamen captured or killed.
but……"
"But what?"
"The Marquis of Carlisle is dead. He died on the battlefield, his head cut off!"
Snap!
The pen in Grand Duchess Aphra's hand fell onto the table. She suddenly looked up at Eva, her eyes full of disbelief.
Seeing that Eva had no intention of avoiding the question, she immediately opened the parchment and quickly read through it.
Then, the second time, the third time...
After several minutes, she threw the sheepskin scroll away, leaned back, rested her back on the chair, raised her head, and stared at the ceiling.
"Winning is a good thing. After this battle, no one in Flower Territory will be dissatisfied. The nobles in the Principality should also put away their petty thoughts.
But the death of the Marquis of Carlisle is a problem! A huge problem! "
Aiwa said: "Are you worried about the internal struggle of the Carlisle family?
As far as I know, there are only three or four people in the Marquisate who have the right of inheritance. It shouldn't cause much trouble, right?"
"Those are just minor incidents. What I'm afraid of is the main branch of the Carlisle family.
If the Bonaparte Empire felt that the balance of power within Normandy had been broken, the Duke of the Carlisle family would probably take action himself.
If this happens, countless twists and turns will appear out of nowhere, and the future is hard to predict."
"What should I do then?"
Grand Duchess Aphra thought for a moment before saying, "With the death of Marquis Carlisle, the succession of the Carlisle family is a problem. We should suppress the most promising one and support the others.
Let them fight for a while and buy some time!"
"And then there's Earl Wick. That old man has been hiding for so long. Now that this opportunity is so good, shouldn't he come out and walk around?
You make some arrangements to make him bolder."
"Also, notify the Council of Noble Elders to issue a 'mediation' notice in their name so that all subsequent matters can be brought back to the negotiation table."
Grand Duchess Aphra looked at Eva again and said, "I'll leave these things to you. Don't make any mistakes, understand?"
"yes!"
Aiwa responded, but then added, "Mediation is a matter for both parties. What if Young Master Luo Yi disagrees?"
"I will write him a letter, asking for a higher ransom and more goodies, but not the territory.
Don't worry, I will persuade him!"
Aiwa continued, "Also, regarding that Earth-type fourth-order sworn knight, should the news be sent over simultaneously?"
This time, Grand Duchess Aphra paused for a moment and said, "Tell them. I think Roy should have a lot of guesses."
After finishing her duties, Eva hurried off to do her work again. Before leaving, she took away a large pile of documents that she had already reviewed.
When Grand Duchess Aphra was the only one left in the study, she played with the parchment scroll in her hand and suddenly laughed.
"Although it was a bit troublesome, this battle was won beautifully!"
…
Overall, Grand Duchess Aphra was very happy.
The death of the Marquis of Carlisle will bring endless troubles, but that is a matter for the future. Right now, the most direct result is that it has dealt a blow to the arrogance of the old aristocratic alliance.
However, while the Grand Duchess was happy, some people were very worried.
Somewhere, a secret place,
Marquis Sean Castro and Marquis Ricardo McKinley got together again.
"Lost? Lost? That bastard Nolan actually lost?
He was so confident and confident, I thought he was really that powerful, but he ended up losing his life!"
Marquis Sean Castro paced around the room, his whole body in a state of anxiety and fear.
"I thought that Karl Raymond's death was a good thing, but I didn't expect that another unruly person would come!"
"Marquis, that's a marquis, and he killed him without blinking an eye?"
"This business is a huge loss! A huge loss!"
Marquis Ricardo McKinley was dazzled by his spinning and couldn't help but close his eyes, rubbing his eyebrows, and said, "Okay, okay, stop spinning around, it won't do anything!
We are gathered together now to discuss countermeasures!"
"Countermeasures? What countermeasures can there be?"
Marquis Castro retorted: "Now that Nolan is dead, I'm afraid the Carlisle family can't be relied upon. Those little guys don't count. The only ones left in the old aristocratic alliance are you and me."
"Let me make it clear first, the Castro family can pay, but don't look for me when you go to the battlefield.
Nolan was beheaded, I don’t want to face the Lion King, the King of Lions.
You should know how powerful that is. A battle between knights is impossible to win."
"I'm scared now. I'm afraid that woman Afra will get ruthless and start a civil war, and wipe us out completely.
We can, can..."
He hadn't finished his words, but the meaning was obvious, and it was no wonder he thought so.
Before, when the three of them joined forces and gained the upper hand, they were extremely mocked and took a lot of benefits without giving any face at all.
However, compared to his panic, 'Silver Fox' Ricardo was much calmer.
He sat on the sofa, his silver-white hair meticulously groomed, his eyes, full of time, emitting a wise light!
After hearing what Marquis Castro said, he shook his head and said, "No, Aphra will never choose the path you mentioned!"
"Why?"
"Because she is the Grand Duke of Normandy, what she wants is stability, not complete favoritism?
Therefore, she should use conciliatory means to stop this war and resolve all conflicts at the negotiation table."
I have to say, his prediction was very accurate!
But the next second, he added: "It's just that Nolan's death also destroyed all our advantages.
From now on, I’m afraid our lives will be really difficult!
Especially this time, the Raymond family has produced such a powerful figure."
"King of Lions, King of Lions!"
I wonder how much emotion is contained in Silver Fox's words.
The McKinley family is actually famous for its network of relationships among aristocrats. If they were to take a step back, they would have to give up a lot of benefits!
This is not a good thing.
"So we can only endure it like this?"
"We have to endure it. The worst that can happen is that we lose some money. But it's not that we absolutely have no chance, is it?"
"Ricardo, is there anything you can say?
Don't break a sentence into three parts and try to be secretive. That's really annoying, you know?"
"Besides, after all, our two families are already on the same boat. What can't we talk about?"
Old Marquis McKinley was so angry that he lost his temper. If Nolan was here, he could still suppress it. Now, he could only shake his head and said:
"What I mean is that we can't engage in a head-on conflict, as that would be a huge loss for us.
However, we are not the enemy of the Raymond family, so why should we act as their pawns?"
"you mean?"
"I remember that your family's business has some market in the Bonaparte Empire, and you should have a lot of connections with that Duke.
You can reveal the news to him. After all, it’s the relationship between the main family and the branch. If such a marquis dies, I don’t believe they won’t pay attention, or even take action!!!”
Marquis Castro nodded repeatedly, but in the blink of an eye he raised a question: "But I remember that your McKinley family and the Carlisle family have more marriages. In terms of in-laws and network of relationships, they have much more business than my family.
Why not you, but me?"
Marquis McKinley enumerated, "Of course I have things to do too. I am in charge of communicating with the families that participated in the destruction of Lion Castle.
The Norman Diocese of the Church of the Sun God, the Northwest War Zone of the Bonaparte Empire, and the Eastern War Zone of the Sardinian Dynasty, I am responsible for far more than you think! "
Marquis Castro nodded and said, "In that case, I will make the arrangements as you said.
As for the Duke of the Carlisle family, I leave it to you."
"you……"
"Why, do you have any objections? I knew you, old man, had evil intentions!"
"I mean, I promised!"
Marquis Castro was stunned, then horrified: "Oh no, you fooled me, damn it!"
…
Another place, an ancient castle on the top of the mountain!
The elder Freud of the Freud family focused on something very different.
He looked at the secret document in his hand and roared at the group of young descendants of the family in front of him: "Look at them? Look at them?"
"He's less than twenty years old, yet he possesses extraordinary strength. He even dared to cross levels and fight against a natural disaster, and he won!
Look at you again, each of you has a weak body, insufficient fighting spirit, and lacks magic power. You are as weak as a little chicken.
If you get out, don't tell me you're the descendant of the Floyd family. I can't afford to lose face!"
A voice muttered in the crowd, "Speaking of which, when you were twenty years old, you weren't much better than us, were you?"
"Who? Who's mumbling down there? I want him to come up and speak."
Old Floyd's roar became louder, and as a result, everyone in the audience lowered their heads and no one spoke.
After a long while, he could only say, "Practice more, everyone, practice more!"
So, a group of people ran to training grunting, and old Floyd watched for a while, and when he saw that no one was slacking off, he turned around and left.
But the moment he turned around, his face had become completely gloomy.
The Marquis of Carlisle is dead, that disgusting fat bastard is dead, shouldn't that be a good thing?
But in reality, it is not in the interests of the Floyd family at all.
…
The Battle of the Nobles,
The Wick family was defeated, the Marquis of Carlisle died in battle, and the new Lion King led his knights and was undefeated on the battlefield.
When the news gradually spread, it was like a storm, causing an uproar in the Norman Duchy!
Third update, will be revised later!
(End of this chapter)
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