Law of the Devil

The number of fleets of the Tulip family is not the largest compared to the prosperous Imperial Capital Wharf, which has a first-class throughput in the mainland. The problem is that this fleet is still It's too eye-catching. First of all, all twenty big ships are sea soul-class sea ships, which is extremely rare in the inland canal—it can be said that if it is not because of the need to welcome the triumphant return of the Nanyang expeditionary fleet in history, there will be many Once the river channel is widened again, it is difficult for such a large ship to enter the imperial capital directly from the waterway.

And the second is to "attribute" to the dazzling flame tulip flag on the ship.

The huge fleet actually occupied the river, and even stayed at the pier for too long. Originally, there were a lot of merchant ships coming and going in and out of the pier of the imperial capital every day. So many berths were suddenly occupied by such a huge sea-going fleet. It seemed crowded. However, for the sake of the tulip flag, no one dared to provoke it.

Under the supervision of the officials and soldiers of the Imperial Capital Public Security Department, the huge fleet began to unload the goods. The huge and heavy boxes were moved from the big ships. Supervised on site, mobilized hundreds of carts to move back and forth, and worked in full swing for two days before unloading all the ships. At this time, if you are careful, you will find that an official of the Public Security Department who is in charge of the inspection at the dock is already sweating profusely!

Since the day of the coup in the imperial capital, the Solomon family used merchant ships to secretly transport a group of archers into the city. Fortunately, Du Wei has a good personal relationship with the current head of the Public Security Department, Camisiro (Camisiro is about to step down as the head of the Public Security Department and takes up the post in the military, and he is also happy to sell Du Wei a favor before leaving office). Therefore, the inspection of these cargoes of the Tulip family is not strict. I just randomly picked two or three boxes of goods and opened them for a look. They were not prohibited weapons or dangerous people smuggled in, so they were allowed to go.

But... The detail worth mentioning is that during the interrogation. It's in one of the cargo holds on the ship. In front of the official from the Public Security Department, Little Zach randomly opened a box, and just as the box was opened a crack, the official took a deep breath before leaving, and then exclaimed: "Almighty God!!"

The color of the box is golden. Reflected on his face, the poor guy almost went blind! At this moment, the greed and astonishment in human nature are clearly evident.

Little Zach immediately closed the box, and then took out a gold nugget about half the size of a brick from his sleeve, stuffed it into the official's hand, and said lightly: "My lord, what is written on the document, go back How should I put it. You know it."

This person only felt that he had a heavy piece of gold in his hand... Even though it was a fat job to be an inspector at the dock. But such a big piece of gold. But it is enough to cover his own income for one or two years! He struggled to stuff the heavy gold into his bosom, and put it next to his body. Then he hurriedly nodded with a smile to the chief steward under Duke Tulip.

In this way, the twenty shipments of gold, silver and jewelry were recorded in the documents of the inspectors of the Imperial Capital Public Security Bureau as: Nanyang native products.

As a result, the inspection officer and the record officer received a sum of income worth thousands of gold coins, and the mansion of Lord Camisiro, who was in charge of the Public Security Department, sent a special box of " Nanyang native products".

Of course, Du Wei doesn't expect to be able to hide this kind of concealment from everyone. After all, it will still spread out after a long time. It's just that he needs to have a legal "entry procedure" for his "windfall".

As for letting others know that you are rich, so what? Does anyone dare to make their own ideas? Don't forget, in addition to being a powerful duke, he is also a magician of mainland civilization!

Sure enough, after a few days, there was an uproar in the imperial capital, and a "news" was spread. It was said that Duke Tulip's Nanyang maritime trade fleet dug a huge gold mine on a small island in Nanyang...

Du Wei didn't care about this kind of gossip. He's been very, very busy these days. To the surprise of the personal guards around him, the Duke, who had never shown any respect to the gods, actually ran to the temple of the imperial capital for three days in a row these days!

On the first day, when Du Wei went out and ordered his subordinates to "set out to drive the temple", these subordinates almost thought they had heard it wrong--wasn't it? Our lord is a guy who is notoriously disrespectful to the gods, so we actually want to go to the temple?

After arriving at the temple, Du Wei sent people in to report directly: Duke Tulip, I want to see the Pope!

Does the Pope meet whenever he wants? Not to mention a Duke Tulip who is notoriously disrespectful to the temple—when the Northwest Temple wanted to set up a religious office, the clergy did not suffer from Du Wei, so there is really nothing to the Duke Tulip inside the temple. Friendly to speak of.

What happened next, the gang was completely at a loss.

The Pope actually sent someone out immediately, and politely invited Duke Tulip to enter. Then, Du Wei stayed in the temple until dark before coming out.

Afterwards, His Excellency the Duke went to the temple for three consecutive days, and asked His Majesty the Pope every day, staying in the temple from morning till night, not knowing what to talk about inside.

Du Wei was very kind to his subordinates on weekdays, and he couldn't help asking his boss if there was a curious and daring bodyguard, but Du Wei smiled: "Your master, I have decided to convert to the glory of the gods, and I will be devout from now on." God, be an honest believer.

As soon as these words came out, everyone absolutely did not believe them. From their point of view, it was possible to turn the world upside down. It was absolutely impossible for the Lord Duke to believe in God.

On the fourth day, Du Wei didn't go out anymore. He locked himself in the study, and then called Hussein, Rodriguez, and Ms. Medusa Queen Nicole into the study together. Then tell anyone not to disturb. Several people just stayed in the study for a whole day.

At the same time, a strange thing happened in the palace.

The religious leader and spiritual leader of mainland Roland, who never goes out all year round, is His Majesty the Pope. He actually came to the palace in person. Ask to meet and negotiate with the Prince Regent! .

joke! A few days ago, for the relief of the snow disaster in the south, the temple deliberately discredited the royal family, and the relationship between the two parties was already extremely tense. Now what is His Majesty the Pope doing to see the regent? Could it be that the verbal battles are not enjoyable, do you want real people to pk? ?

The news was less than half a day old. It spread throughout the imperial capital to the powerful figures of the core elite, especially the important ministers of several empires, who also got the news.

After all, there must be something wrong with the meeting between the actual ruler of the empire and the spiritual leader of the empire. Otherwise, the two of them are people with a lot of things to do every day, so is it okay to meet and chat?

At that time, according to some news from the palace. His Majesty the Pope and His Royal Highness the Prince Regent had a secret conversation for a full afternoon, after His Majesty the Pope left the palace in the evening. His Royal Highness the Regent was obviously a little tired and weird, and he didn't know what had affected His Highness the Regent's mood. Let this Highness that night. They all slept in their own study room, without sleep all night - there was a concubine of His Highness who thought he was very much loved. Relying on his own favor, he probably felt that he might be a role like the future queen or concubine, so he couldn't help being a little arrogant. Originally, the regent king promised to spend the night with her, but he let the pigeons go. Unhappy, she was so proud of being favored, and went to the regent's study in person to act like a baby.

But what this beauty never expected was that Prince Chen, who was usually gentle and doting to her, would lose his temper that night! Unexpectedly, in a rage, he ordered the court warriors to call in, and in front of the guards and court servants, he whipped the woman dozens of times, and then ordered her to be thrown out of the palace!

At this moment, everyone knew: Your Highness is in a bad mood! !

And the whole day after that, His Royal Highness the Regent seemed to be acting very strangely. He locked himself in the room and did not allow anyone to disturb him. That kind of deep murderous look frightened me.

In the end... what happened?

Another day later, the regent seemed to become more and more manic, his mood was extremely unstable, he even ran out of the room in the middle of the night alone, and suddenly ran out of the room with bare feet, driving away the attendants and guards who followed him, alone He ran to the "White Tower" in the center of the palace.

Then, the ruler of the empire, who is considered to be the wisest and wisest young monarch in several generations of the empire, frowned tightly, barefoot, wearing light clothes, sitting in the cold night On the icy ground under the White Tower, just sitting alone for the whole night!

All the guards, under his strict orders, were not allowed to approach him and stood at a distance.

The regent sat until dawn all night. When the sun rose in the morning, Prince Chen, whose face was full of exhaustion, finally calmed down. He stood up, walked under the White Tower, stretched out his hand, Touching the white marble on the wall of the tower back and forth, he suddenly murmured to himself: "Your Majesty Aragorn, you have spent countless thousands of years ago to build this white tower and leave behind this powerful magic circle. In order to meet today's situation?"

Well, yes, it must be. At that time, the mainland had been unified. Under the leadership of His Majesty Aragorn, the army of the Roland Empire was invincible. On the mainland, there was no existence that could threaten the empire. Looking at the universe, there was no threat. In this case, Aragorn However, such a giant magic circle was left behind, which cost the empire countless financial resources and manpower. Is it to defend against enemies from where?

Could it be the north...

Thinking of the content of the secret conversation between the Pope and himself, Prince Chen frowned.

If it is just a one-sided statement of the Pope, maybe Prince Chen may not believe it.

This is normal. How can you believe such an important matter just by talking about it? It’s as if the Pope of the Vatican suddenly went to meet the President of the United States and said, “God entrusted me with a dream. I know that in three years’ time aliens will invade the earth on a large scale. Now you must quickly order the whole country to prepare for war.” People would think the pope was crazy.

Similarly, Prince Chen would not believe such things casually. But after all, it is associated with the sudden rush of a large number of monsters from the nearest frozen forest, which has never happened in the empire for thousands of years.

Moreover, apart from the Pope's words, in fact, there is an iron law within the royal family of the Roland Empire, which has been passed down from generation to generation! That is, "Under any circumstances, the magic circle of the imperial capital must not be abandoned!! Each generation of emperors even had to invest new financial resources to repair or even perfect the magic circle. Even the most stupid emperors strictly abide by this iron law.

More importantly, regarding the northern part of the continent, beyond the extreme north of the frozen forest, there are some exiled races... This legend is completely unknown to ordinary people on the Roland continent.

However, Prince Chen knows! In the royal family, there are naturally the most secret and most precious documents handed down from ancient times. Although there are only a few vague records, they can also be combined to draw a vague guess.

The visit of the Pope of the temple also brought some ancient documents that have been preserved in the temple for an unknown number of years. All of this reminded the young monarch: all this is true, it really happened!

In the north of the mainland, there is a group of ferocious enemies, much stronger than the Caoren and the Northwest Army! And soon, they will go south and enter the empire! !

"At this moment, I actually hope that it is my brother who succeeded in the coup." Prince Chen stood under the rising sun, gently stroking the White Pagoda, and said in a low voice, "What a heavy burden..."

And also after dawn on this day, in the morning, the military sent an urgent military report, which was personally written by the head of the Rostock Corps of the Northern Storm Corps.