Chapter 105: No more fighting?
Chapter 105 No More Fighting?
Just as the crowd was talking about the bright future of canning in the dining hall, a guard hurriedly walked in.
He came to Paul’s front and whispered, “Lord Gleeman, Emden’s messenger requests your audience.”
Paul’s face, which had been smiling just a moment ago, instantly became grave when he heard these words, and he said in a somewhat heavy tone to the people present, “Gentlemen, the Kent family has sent someone over, most likely with news that we least expect to hear.”
The atmosphere in the restaurant immediately chilled, and everyone’s face became serious.
Bryce cracked the knuckles of one hand and said, “Finally? Gentlemen, let’s face it bravely.”
Paul was actually a bit strange in his heart, because according to the latest intelligence, the Kent family should not have finished assembling their troops yet.
Forget about it, let’s not think about it first, soldiers come, water comes, water covers the earth, who’s afraid of who ah.
In order to fully show his “contempt” for the enemy, Paul ordered to bring the messenger to the dining room, he wanted to chew the canned meat, while meeting the messenger.
Soon the messenger was brought here, and when he came to the dining room, he frowned slightly and was extremely unhappy.
It was so rude that the Arda had planned to talk to him while eating.
Paul asked with a displeased expression, “What is the purpose of Mr. Emissary’s visit to Lakeheart Town?”
The messenger gave him a salute and said, “I have come by order of the Earl of Kent to convey to you his desire for peace.”
Paul laughed instead of being angry, “Ho ho ho! Which piece of my flesh does he intend to cut this time? Tell me painfully.”
The messenger said, “Lord Kent does not have a single intention for you, and the unpleasantness in the last meeting was all due to a misunderstanding.”
“He asked me to convey his apologies to you, the messenger we sent last time did not comprehend Lord Kent’s meaning and ended up complicating things a bit, causing you to have a big misunderstanding.”
Paul was a bit incredulous, “What? I didn’t hear it wrong, right?”
“You did not hear wrong.”
Then the messenger repeated what he had just said.
Paul asked, “And what …… about Bairdine?”
The messenger replied, “Lord Kent will ask no more about it.”
This is really evil! Paul couldn’t believe his ears, it’s not like he didn’t know what kind of person Maltz Kent was, his current behavior was completely inconsistent with the usual style of the past ah.
After continuing the conversation for a few moments, the messenger was quickly taken down to rest, and the crowd discussed the Kent family’s intentions in the dining room.
“Not a word of Maltz Kent’s words can be believed.”
“The Kent family is definitely quietly brewing some unseemly plot!”
“It can’t be said that they are trying to confuse us and come to sneak up on Arda while we are slacking off.”
The crowd murmured, and everyone held a negative view of the Kent family, believing that they absolutely couldn’t be lax in their defense over this.
Paul instructed, “Bernard, see if Supervisor Cecil is back in Intelligence yet, and if he is, call him in.”
Cecil didn’t come over to try the canned goods because he had something to do, and he soon came over with Bernard.
As soon as he came in he said hurriedly to Paul, “What a coincidence, Lord Graiman, I happen to be reporting to you an important piece of news that I have just received.”
“Oh? Then you tell me first.”
“The army of the Kent family that gathered at Fort Byram has been disbanded.”
Paul stood up at once, “Is this matter serious?”
Cecil said with a sure look, “A thousand times true, Lord Greymane.”
Paul let out a breath, “Cecil, do you know what I’ve come to you about? Just now, the Kent family came and expressed Maltz Kent’s intention to maintain peace with us, saying that the previous messenger misunderstood him and made a misunderstanding by taking matters into his own hands.”
Cecil asked, “What do you think, my lord?” Paul said, “How could I possibly believe such nonsense. He either has a bigger plot or he’s in some kind of trouble that he had to pause to make a move against us.”
Cecil nodded his head in agreement, “It is very wise of you to think this way, my lord, once this hungry wolf of the Kent family bites down on its prey, it will never let go of its mouth until it has torn off a mouthful of fat meat.”
Paul instructed him, “That’s why you have to continue to keep an eye on Emden, don’t let go of any breeze, and it’s best if you can plant a few people inside the Kent family.”
“I’ll continue to keep an eye on Emden, it’s a bit difficult to insert people into the other side’s interior, but I’ll try my best.”
Cecil promised.
Paul said to the crowd, “No matter what the Kent family’s purpose is for abandoning the war, the pressure we are under is finally slightly less. But iron still needs to be hard on itself, we must not pin our safety on the other party not having bad intentions, the power in our hands still needs to continue to be strengthened.”
He turned his attention to the officers present, “Schroeder, Bryce, and the rest of you in the army, I’m counting on you on the army side.”
Schroeder led the crowd to stand up in unison and said, “As you command, Lord Earl.”
Paul turned to everyone and continued, “Then let’s adjust our focus back to building the economy now.”
“Hansel, you will depart for the royal capital in a few more days! The second batch of grain that we’re offering to His Majesty the King is ready, and bring a batch of canned goods to the kingdom’s army to sell them, I think this kind of stuff is definitely to their liking.”
Hansel said happily, “Lord Greymane, I’ll go back and prepare it later. I think you’re right, things like canned goods are simply made specifically for marching and fighting in my opinion.”
Paul secretly thought, “You’re right, this canned food thing was originally invented by Napoleon in order to solve the problem of preserving military food for a long period of time with a heavy reward.
Hansel this time to go back can not only send food so simple, he also want to set up a northwest office in the king’s capital, leaving personnel stationed in the king’s capital, is responsible for long-term recruitment of talent as well as prying into the kingdom of the latest senior intelligence, Cecil’s a few powerful men will go to the king’s capital with him.
“There’s also the southern refugees you mentioned before, if you have the conditions and ability to send them here, do your best as well.”
Hansel responded, “I’ll keep an eye out, a bannerman like you who can take the initiative to help the kingdom out of trouble, His Majesty the King will definitely look the other way.”
Let’s hope so!
After explaining this matter, Paul announced to the crowd, “Gentlemen, today is really a day of good things, the war clouds over our heads are finally about to dissipate. The reason why I say it’s a good thing that keeps on coming is because I have another piece of good news to tell you.”
“Yesterday I received a report from the shipyard in Port Fullan that our first ‘Slurp Ship’ has been completed!”
Many people were puzzled, a ship is just a ship, is it necessary to make Lord Earl so happy?
Chief Steward Ford explained to those who were confused, “This ship is not the kind of oar sailing ship we usually see, its structure is much different from normal ships, and it was built for ocean voyages. With it, the oceanic trade that Lord Earl mentioned before can be realized.”
The crowd came to a realization, no wonder the Earl was so happy to be able to trade by sea, and there was no fear of the surrounding circle of lords joining together to blockade Arda.
The administrative officials talked about the bright trade prospects while the officers discussed the development of the navy, the atmosphere in the dining hall was once again relaxed as the people talked and ate food from their own cans.
Only the female advisor, Miss ‘Diaz’, couldn’t see much joy, the words of Paul asking Hansel to sell canned food to the kingdom’s army just now reminded her once again of the rebellion in the south.
In her heart, she thought: ”Alas! I don’t know how the south is doing now, and how father and sister are coping with the current situation.”
After being away from home for so long, and with her resentment towards her father fading, Erin began to worry about her loved ones and the situation in the kingdom, after all, she was the princess of this country.
Thinking about it she didn’t have the heart to stay in the restaurant, she finished the rest of the apple and stood up to bid Paul farewell, “Earl, I still have work to do, if there’s nothing else I’ll go back to the office first.”
Paul agreed, “Okay, Ms. Diaz, thank you for your hard work.”
Erin bowed slightly to Paul in greeting, then turned to leave.
Lardy also stood up and said, “Lord Gladman, I’ll go back with Miss Diaz, we still have to talk to each other.”
Paul nodded, “Be my guest, Miss Ladi.”
Lardy seemed to notice Erin’s change in mood as she took Erin’s hand and went back with her.
Looking at the backs of the two female counselors as they left, Hansel gave a puzzled look.
“That Ms. Diaz seems to have seen her somewhere, where exactly?”
He still couldn’t remember after thinking left and right, so he shook his head to chase away his doubts and began to focus on the canned beef in front of him.
(End of chapter)