Chapter 265: Asses Determine Heads
Chapter 260: The Ass Decides the Head
“Ahead is Mara Town, one of the territories belonging to the Hydra Family, and the town’s mayor is Baron Collens.” Little Thumb, who acted as a guide, very competently introduced to the three members of the envoy group.
In the face of Little Thumb, Marquis Burgassus always wore a smile and acted as if he never cared about Little Thumb’s identity, instead, they had a pleasant conversation.
Count Dekra’s attitude was a bit worse, did not hide the arrogance from his heart, just looking down on the gutter rat-like Little Thumb, while the Ninth Princess was still quietly watching, never commenting.
The difference in status and position of the three people, from the treatment of little thumb’s attitude can be seen, because the ass decides the head.
As an imperial aristocrat, behind Marquis Burgassus’ friendly attitude there is both the helplessness of his own lack of heritage and the same sickness with the Black Hand organization.
The black hand is not a civil organization, but a certain emperor of the empire specifically set up to do dirty work, because that period of traditional nobles of the power soared, nearly occupy the empire seven layers of political power, theoretically, as long as more than two thirds of the traditional nobles to reach an agreement, can replace the emperor, if the whole consensus, and even be able to split up the royal family.
No ruler can tolerate his subjects being too powerful, so even self-inflicted wounds are not tolerated, and the struggle evolves from the courtroom to a horrific massacre in the dark of night.
The Black Hand, representing the Emperor’s wrath, did not hesitate to raise the butcher’s knife against the traditional nobles, killing those who dared to offend the Emperor’s dignity and plundering the wealth they had accumulated over the ages.
But this process did not last long, first of all, the traditional nobles are not easy to mess with, and the real big nobles, the black hand simply can not mess with, also can not kill, so do not look at the kill a lot of people, but the bad luck of the small and medium-sized nobles, the death of these people will only let the big nobles eat full of oil, after all, wealth can be plundered, how to loot the land and population.
Even the emperor can not directly occupy these lands, because according to the tradition of the nobility, as long as the bloodline is not dead, there will always be someone to inherit the title and land.
And the traditional nobles marry each other, resulting in genealogy than the spider’s web are outrageous, want to kill clean simply unrealistic, and even some of the bloodline also extends to the royal family, how to kill?
Not to mention the land, even most of the stolen goods are also disposed of to the traditional nobles, so it can be seen that the emperor instructed the black hand of the killings did not hurt the traditional nobles at all.
Although the black hand’s painful killings allowed many traditional nobles to get some benefits, it doesn’t mean that the traditional nobles will continue to tolerate this behavior, because the black hand represents the emperor, and this kind of behavior of the emperor is destroying the traditions of both sides since ancient times.
It was important to realize that almost all of the traditional great nobles were founding fathers, and they were directly loyal to the emperor, a relationship between ruler and subject.
The problem was that this king was thinking about the vassal’s family all day long, who could stand this, of course they would rebel.
But no matter what, both sides had a tacit agreement to limit the struggle to a certain range, because once both sides really tore their faces off, the empire would immediately collapse, which no one wanted to see.
All of them are on the same boat, cursing is cursing, fighting is fighting, breaking up the boat is not an option.
But the emperor who formed the black hand broke the tacit understanding between the two sides, he crossed the line.
So some of the tragic political struggle, the emperor had to woefully early abdication, and then died soon after the lake fell into the water.
The emperor is like this, as the black hand of the butcher’s knife can be better.
Even if the new emperor felt that the black hand was good and wanted to keep it, he didn’t dare to do it blatantly, so he declared that the black hand was an illegal organization in the empire and had to be cracked down on.
This is similar to the situation of the imperial nobility, both are dogs under the emperor, only one in the dark, one in the open, but both belong to the kind of thing that is thrown out to the opponents when things go wrong. At this time the Kerens has changed into the baron’s costume, ready to go to meet the arrival of the envoy group.
Because of the end of the wave of the chaos, coupled with the merger of the military battalion into the main regiment, Mara Town did not have so many soldiers stationed, but as the first gateway to the south, it can’t rely on the musket militia, so Owen deployed a group of soldiers to Collins, including one hundred halberdiers and one hundred chest-armored cavalrymen.
As a troop type worth five progress value, not to mention the strength, the quality is more than one level beyond the ordinary soldiers.
With high energy, strict discipline, neat formation, and excellent equipment, they were all elite soldiers in the empire.
Marquis Burgasus, Count Dekla and the Ninth Princess were all bright, they were not surprised at the combat strength of these soldiers, in fact, even if the number of ten times, it would not mean much to them.
Seeing through the surface and recognizing the inside, this is the necessary ability of the superior.
As an emissary who often traveled all over the world, Marquis Burgasus’ observation is very amazing, and as a traditional nobleman, Count Dekra knows very well about the training of soldiers, the two of them realized at the first time that these soldiers are mass-produced, because the cooperation and formation of the soldiers are completely prepared for large-scale battles, not a small fight of dozens and hundreds of people, but a real war of thousands of people.
If they weren’t, then there would be no point in training such soldiers at all, as the cost effectiveness would be too low.
So that’s interesting, besides the empire with the major traditional nobles, who has the ability to train elite soldiers of this size? Also what would one want to use these elite soldiers for?
The three members of the envoy group, who were originally indifferent, immediately changed their attitude the moment they saw these elite soldiers.
On the side, Little Thumb watched the entire process and revealed a smile, as this was exactly what he was looking forward to.
The stronger Hydra was, the higher the value of the information in his hands would be.
But if he didn’t see the real thing, even if he talked a lot, it was useless.
This is not the case, before he was still ignoring the three people of the envoy group, right now the attitude has become much more cordial, including Count Dekra.
Count Dekra was arrogant but not stupid, the traditional nobles relied on the land, but it didn’t mean that they were bumpkins, in fact, they were the big source of students for the Imperial Academy, not to mention that alliances and marriages had been carried out in the life of the traditional nobles almost all the time.
Therefore, facing a powerful lord that may exist, his first consideration is not whether to report to the empire, or how to guard against, but how to alliance.
For traditional nobles, the enemies of the empire were not necessarily their enemies, in fact, as long as they didn’t touch their land, anyone could become their friend.
In the face of hidden problems, Count Dekra could care less, but Marquis Burgassus and the Nine Princesses could not, the former was the emperor’s emissary, and the latter had to assume the responsibility of the royal family, so any unstable factors were targets they needed to pay attention to and eliminate.
In any case, Collens’ reception went well, but the envoys didn’t stay much longer, instead heading directly to the heart of Hydra territory, the North City.
(End of chapter)