Chapter 461: The Royal Family’s Dilemma 1

Chapter 461 – The Royal Family’s Dilemma 1
Duke Rupert Walter carefully poked his head out of the window to take a look.

“My lord, I went to the front to take a closer look, there is no one in the alley.” The attendant standing outside came up to him and reported in a low voice.

“Good, we’ll take this road today.”

The wheels of the carriage squeaked and turned, a dozen guards with their hands pressed on the hilt of their swords surrounded the city in a circle to protect the car, each of them full of wariness as if they were on the verge of an enemy.

However, just as they entered the alley, there was a shout of “Lord Palace Minister’s car is here!”

Sitting inside, Rupert Walter’s heart thumped, secretly screaming, “Bad!”

He looked out the window and a large group of people clattered around. What the hell, where did all these people come from? Was each and every one of them hiding in the cracks of the ground.

Ever since the rebellion of the Greedy Wolf Archduke Giles was “pacified”, the matter of pacifying the southern nobles who lost their lands in the rebellion has become a big headache for the royal government.

The so-called quelling of the rebellion was only in exchange for Giles’ promise not to secede from the Kingdom of Aldo, but the land south of the Thorn Fortress is still occupied by this vicious wolf.

At the beginning of the rebellion, the main force of the kingdom’s army was busy expelling the highland barbarians, recovering the royal capital that had been turned by the rebels, and preparing for the shortage of provisions due to the fires, which greatly delayed the southward movement. Giles was not busy attacking the north, but took this time to focus on those territories in the south that were loyal to the royal family but could not receive timely support, and by the time the kingdom’s army regained its strength, the southern lands were basically under the control of Giles.

Now reviewing the behavior of Giles in the whole rebellion, it seems that his purpose of starting the rebellion was not to raise the supreme power of the kingdom, but to attract the attention of the royal family by creating chaos, and then eat as much meat as he could get his mouth on.

The territories newly annexed by Giles were all divided up by him and given to his own men, while the original owners of the territories, whoever was alive, were all expelled to the north by him in the spirit of “chivalry” without any injury to their lives.

These lost nobles naturally gathered to the royal capital Jingyao, and dragged their families, a large family.

His Majesty the King had to take out a large sum of money to resettle them – this is a must, people because of their loyalty to the royal family to fall into this situation, the king has to be able to afford this loyalty, and if you do not care about it, will not let the whole world loyal to the royal family of the aristocrats cold heart.

However, the money given by the king can only maintain the basic standard of living of the nobles, for those who have fallen from favor or the territory is not much bigger than a village of small nobles, but for those middle and upper class nobles can not.

When these people were in their own territories, they had a large number of slaves to call on, they were surrounded by people, they could run in their own forests for a day when hunting, and every day was either a banquet or a tournament, so how could they have lived in the present day (in their opinion), which is just like falling from paradise to hell – before they lost their wealth, they would have been in the same situation. When they hadn’t lost their wealth, those days were just normal for these nobles, but now they had become the paradise in their memories.

Another huge difference was the change in status. When they were in their own territory, as lords, they were the only ones who could speak, and their orders were better than the king’s. Now that they were stranded in Jingyao, they could only speak for themselves. Now that they had been exiled to Jingyao and were living under the fences, their courage to speak had weakened by three points.

Originally, if the kingdom’s army was able to defeat Giles, then they would be able to get their territory back, and as loyalists they would also be able to tear off a few pieces of meat from the mountains of the defeated Giles and his vassals as a reward.

However, waiting and waiting for such a result, the royal family seems to have in fact acquiesced to the dominance of Giles over the southern lands.

What about their original territories? What about their future life?
Unwillingness and resentment gathered in the hearts of these landless nobles little by little.

So they ran around, mobilized their connections in the circle of Jingyao nobles, and strongly demanded to organize an army to crusade against Giles, the traitor, in order to wash away the shame of the kingdom and restore their own territories in the south.

After being pressed day after day by the embarrassment of life, the second purpose slowly became the main purpose in most people’s hearts.

And their behavior also fit the demands of the hardliners among the nobles, and received their support, evolving into a very powerful force, and their actions became more and more daring, and now it has reached the point where they gather at the entrance of the royal palace every day to petition, and stop the carriages of the important court ministers on the major transportation routes.

Duke Rupert Walter, a minister who had served as Palace Minister for His Majesty the present King for nearly twenty years, was now faced with being blocked by such a group of people.

Heavenly Father in Heaven, he was already changing his route to the palace every day to avoid this crowd. There was no way to hide now, so Rupert had to straighten his clothes, step out of the carriage, and fiercely glare at the attendant who had just scouted the way.

The guards held their shields and tightly guarded the surroundings of the Lord Palace Minister.

There was really no way to get into this situation, who let the day before yesterday when a palace official was arguing with this group of people, the back of his head was smashed with rotten eggs.

Although that official’s rank wasn’t high, who could guarantee that the anger of the Lost Land nobles wouldn’t spread to the minister.

What if the rotten egg was replaced with a brick, or even a dagger?

“Lord Palace Minister! How is the discussion between His Majesty the King and the ministers going?”

“Yes, when will the royal family send troops to crush the rebels?”

“Lord Palace Minister! Please make sure to bring me along if you send out troops, I want to see my territory recovered with my own eyes.”

Rupert had just stood still when the requests to go to war rose and fell.

He waved his fingers openly, “Gentlemen! Gentlemen! War is not a small matter, ah, it’s a top-level event that concerns the country’s safety and future, so naturally, it can’t be decided in a day or two.”

It was a dilemma to neither say that the war should start immediately, nor to say that it would not be fought.

People were very dissatisfied with his answer.

“It can’t be decided in a day or two, but it’s been almost a year or two, hasn’t it been decided yet?”

“Yes! If this goes on, people in our territory will almost forget about us, the lords.”

“Lord Palace Minister, we don’t want to be parasites in the royal capital, we want to return to the territory to support ourselves.”

The clamor and discontented voices converged into one, making Rupert very headstrong.

“Lord Palace Minister, we also know that we can’t decide anything in the street, this is our collective petition to the king.”

An old man tremblingly took out a thick booklet from his bosom and shakily handed it to Rupert again.

“I beg you to be so kind as to convey it to his majesty. Alas! how I would like to see my native land again before I am called by the grace of the Lord!”

The old man wept as he spoke, driving those around him to cry along with him.

Alas! How many times has this happened? At first, Rupert would still have some heartache, but now there was only a coldness in his heart.

Lord Palace Minister bet Giles’ spies were sneaking around to see his jokes.

(End of chapter)