Chapter 232
Chapter 232.
These days, Maltz Kent was getting more and more irritated.
By all accounts, the posture had not deviated from the planned course of events, and the only hiccup had been the running of Henry Ferdinand.
But that should have been irrelevant; as a prisoner held on Duke Ferdinand’s personal orders, his future life would be spent in exile after his private escape. Henry’s family has been arrested, and his domain and family property have been forfeited.
Only one thing remains to be done, how did he he run away?
This as yet uninvestigated matter seems to portend an uncertain future and has become a nail in the heart of Maltz Kent.
It is true that what is feared comes to pass, and two weeks after Henry’s flight, Earl Kent gradually heard some winds – it seems that some people are secretly conspiring with the lords of the region to oppose him.
Suspicious nature of the Earl of Kent immediately sent spies to inquire around, the situation gradually became clear: a despicable, shameful conspiracy is brewing, and the initiator of the conspiracy is secretly and he has a gap in the Earl of Price – Parker.
“This old thing really doesn’t know how to die!”
Earl Kent, who had finished reading the secret report, roared and kicked over the table in front of him, frightening the servant beside him so much that he fell to his knees at once.
The Earl inwardly paced the room in several circles with worry. He originally wanted to immediately summon the army and wipe out this group of sneaky villains, but after careful thought he gave up.
First of all, it was necessary to determine who were enemies and who were allies.
Now that Maltz Kent had stayed in Sente as the Duke’s heir to take care of various affairs for Duke Ferdinand, he immediately wrote a letter and had his men transcribe many copies and send them to the lords of various places, inviting them to come to Sente to discuss an important matter – about whether or not to continue to send troops to help the royal family to put down the rebellion.
As a result, only half of the lords came to the meeting in person, and the others either excused themselves as having something to do or simply sent a representative to deal with the matter.
Among the lords who didn’t show up was naturally Count Plath Parker, who had already been identified as the initiator of the conspiracy.
There was even that little bastard from the Gladman family, who shouldn’t have been spared last year.
These lords who didn’t come must have something in their hearts.
The lords who came to Senter City had a day’s worth of discussion, but they didn’t come up with a result, and the meeting ended unhappily. Maltz Kent didn’t care, the meeting itself wasn’t his purpose, estimating the scope of the enemy was the real thing.
As the crowd dispersed, he said in a warning tone, “Those who dare to challenge His Excellency the Duke’s authority will definitely not have a good ending.”
The lords thought sourly, “This one won’t be yours sooner or later?”
After roughly locking down the enemy’s range, Maltz began to gather his inner circle, contact potential allies, and forge his own alliance. He was already the biggest vassal of the Ferdinand family, and now that he had taken control of the Duke cum becoming the Duke’s heir, he quickly gathered a large group of people around him.
With the strength of the Kent family, it is no problem to face any of the northwestern families alone, but when facing an alliance of many lords, he will have to weigh it carefully, so he also needs to organize his own faction.
So, the lords of the northwest bay have stood in line, gradually formed two camps, both sides are in the military preparation, waiting for the time is ripe to give the enemy a fatal blow, a small-scale civil war is about to start.
What makes Maltz Kent feel shocked is that his enemy even shook out his secret things, what use witchcraft to hold the duke hostage, plotting to learn from Giles to betray the kingdom and so on. How did they know? Earl Kent was puzzled, all along he had been doing it very secretly, and out of the worship and confidence in mysterious magic, the Earl did not suspect the Duke Ferdinand who was already on the verge of death.
However, all these things are through the gossip, the enemy has not yet made a big fuss about this, but it has already made Count Kent fidgety.
On the surface, the earl pretended to “rumors” disdain, lazy attitude, but privately become suspicious, suspecting that his side was planted spies.
Many servants and guards who served the count had bad luck, imprisoned, executed, the ducal residence where Maltz lived in a state of anxiety.
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After returning to Lakewood from Earl Parker’s castle, Paul threw himself into preparations for the upcoming war. The southern border of his domain was adjacent to Maltz Kent’s lair, Emden, and he had to prepare for it in advance as he would bear the brunt of a war.
But in the days that followed, he got to see how the lords of this era fought.
It had been almost a month since the meeting organized by Price Parker had ended, and the battle still hadn’t been fought.
During this period, gossip was flying around, and I don’t know which guy with a lax mouth leaked out a few of Maltz Kent’s major sins, and the matter of the lords plotting to overthrow the Parker family was also rumored.
Naturally, this kind of news would surely reach Maltz Kent’s ears, so he also began to organize his forces.
By now everyone in the world knew that two powerful factions in the Northwest Bay were duking it out to take each other down.
“The sense of secrecy in this day and age is pretty bad! I was thinking of a sneak attack wave when our side is ready.”
Paul lamented this during a meeting on the staff and re-emphasized the importance of secrecy.
Both sides were dilly-dallying in gathering their forces, and Paul considered whether to take advantage of his standing army and immediately raid to take Emden in the south, but abandoned the idea over the objections of his officers.
In case the other side has already gathered a stronger force than their own, and their own side of the allies can not yet take have enough power to support Alda, then it will be over. It was better not to be the one to take the lead.
So the town of Lakewood took full advantage of the quiet before the storm to strengthen its own forces. Whether it is the regular army or the militia forces have strengthened the training volume and strength, the soldiers in the army were drilled to the point that even the energy to go to the kiln is gone, once back to the dormitory will lie on the bed and huffing and puffing.
Under the organization of the Council of State, the population of the southernmost villages began to migrate to the north, in order to prevent the looting of the Kent family.
The shipyards in the port of Fulan began to work overtime to build merchant ships suitable for transportation, in case the war was unfavorable and the trade routes on land were cut off, maritime transportation would become the lifeblood of the two places of Alda and Baildin, which were now really too dependent on foreign trade.
The iron factory in the valley is also expanding again, when the war breaks out, the demand for iron from the surrounding lords will increase dramatically, Paul plans to use the low price of iron to sell personal favors, and in the meantime, strengthen his own right to speak in the alliance.
The sword is already sheathed, just waiting to stab the enemy.
(End of chapter)