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Chapter 24 Journey to the Royal Capital

Gao Wen did not go fast.

Although Rebecca seemed a little anxious along the way, Gowen still arranged the itinerary at his own pace. He asked the team to stay in every town he passed by. After stopping, he would arrange soldiers to disguise themselves as travelers or mercenaries to mix into the crowd to spread the news that "the founding grand duke Gowen Cecil's heroic spirit resurrection" and "Gowen's grand duke will arrive in the city of San Sunil in the near future". At the same time, he would also buy local bards and gangsters to spread similar but more bizarre versions - the funding received from Viscount Andrew is enough for him to complete these things.

Originally, Gao Wen was still worried that he and Rebecca had no experience in dealing with similar local tyrants, and would encounter difficulties when doing these things, but he did not expect that the Byron Knight, who was traveling with him, showed extraordinary abilities. The strength of this middle-aged knight may not be considered high among his colleagues, but his ability to deal with idle people in society is impressive. Basically, he will not be able to get on the line with those "rats" after arriving in a city. Then, before the soldiers spread the news, various rumors about the southern border began to spread at the bottom of the society...

Gao Wen thought of the origin of this Byron Knight. According to Rebecca, Byron was not a serious noble child, but was once a mercenary who traveled around the world. He was only taken in by the previous generation of Viscount Cecil after an incident and was able to join the knight class. Now it seems that the experience of this former mercenary gentleman was not abandoned at that time.

Another person who helped a lot was not beyond Gao Wen's expectations. Amber was indeed a good player when dealing with those rascals, and it should be said that he had high professional qualities or strong professional skills... Gao Wen gave the half-elves some money to buy those gangsters. After she finished her work, she became more money after she came back...

This behavior was of course strongly condemned by Rebecca, who had a good tutor. In order to maintain her noble image in front of her descendants, Gao Wen had to press Amber's head to make her promise to return all the stolen money and promise not to commit it again in the future.

This hurt Amber very much, as if the value of life was denied - Gao Wen felt that it was probably impossible to establish a normal view of this elf shame.

Besides letting the rumors ferment, Gao Wen’s other purpose is not so easy to say: he needs to understand the world better.

It is not because the memory in his mind is 700 years different from the current era, but because he is not a person in this world at all. The pictures he sees in the sky can only be used as a map after all, and the memories inherited lack sufficient sense of substitution and flexibility - this was realized after he tried to search for memories several times but wasted his efforts because he did not understand the corresponding "keywords". Therefore, for Gao Wen now, the most urgent thing is to understand the world.

This process went smoothly.

He saw the poor and backward southern villages of the Ansu Kingdom, the bustling and lively central cities, the mountains and jungles, and the fortresses built by humans. All of this was gradually blending with the overlooking maps he remembered in his mind.

Through judging some details, he confirmed that the "latest" map in his mind should not have been outdated for too long. It was a record that was left about ten years ago - that was the last look he saw when he hung in the sky.

For this slow-paced world, the map from ten years ago was completely fine.

As for whether there would be any problems in Tanzan Town after leaving the Southern Territory for so long, Gowen was not as worried as Rebecca. He believed in Hetty's ability and could basically confirm that Viscount Andrew would conscientiously carry out the transaction - not that he believed in the character of the Viscount, but that he believed that interests could tie the other party to the Cecil family firmly. Before leaving the Southern Territory, he arranged for Knight Philip to spread all kinds of gossip. In addition to letting everyone know about the resurrection of Gowen Cecil, those surviving Cecil's citizens could also make the surviving Cecil's citizens the focus of everyone's attention, and also gave Viscount Andrew who had hosted those citizens no choice - he could only continue to raise the refugees until the day when Gowen Cecil returned from the capital and everything settled down.

No matter how long the journey takes, the journey will have its end. Two months after leaving the southern region, the towering walls of Saint-Sunil finally appeared in front of Gao Wen and his party.

This is a city built on a plain, and its scale is far from comparable to those poor and backward southern towns. The white walls and neatly tidy bright blue roofs are the biggest features of the city, so it has two reputations: "City of the Holy White" and "Crown of Blue".

Since Charles I, the founding ancestor of the country, led his people to reclaim fields and build soil on this plain, the city has undergone countless expansions and transformations. The most primitive earth and stone walls have long disappeared. Only a few monumental walls have been left in the old city area in the city. The newly built giant stone walls have expanded ten times more than the initial ones. The stones for building the city walls are all hard stones from the north and the eastern region. The bricks and stones are poured with molten copper and lead. In such a thick and solid city wall, a piece of crystal blessed by the earth elements is buried every 100 meters to ensure that it does not crack and disintegrate. The degree of luxury that ancestors who have developed this year may never have dreamed.

Gao Wen stood under Sunil's wall, looking up at the stone bricks shining in the sun, and found that there was no corresponding detail in his mind.

This city is no longer the same place as the small town in Gauven Cecil's memory.

With legal and reliable aristocratic identity certificates, Gao Wen and his party did not encounter any twists and turns when they entered the city.

The king, who ruled the entire kingdom of Ansu, was waiting for these visitors from the south in his palace, Silver Fort, and especially for the arrival of a special guest from seven hundred years ago.

In fact, he has been waiting for many days, and he is almost waiting for neurasthenia.

The ancestors are so till they can do it. This king said that they won’t take you to play like this. The secret reports from all over the south and the information from every town along the way from south to north have almost never stopped. The formal intelligence from officials at all levels and the rumor collected from the people can be almost piled up on the desk more than one meter high. There are at least one hundred versions of the content - not including the dialect version. No matter which version, the content in the center is about the matter of the ancestor suddenly lifted up and led his descendants to the royal capital. But only these news is sent over day by day, the ancestor himself...

Why don't you come!?

The plan made after receiving the secret letter from Viscount Andrew was long abandoned, and the response methods discussed with the trusted consultants were also invalidated one by one in the ancestor's travels and wandering around the city. Now, Gowen Cecil's return is well known - of course, considering the efficiency of information dissemination in this era, it is a bit exaggerated to say that it is, but at least everyone in the business and the little nobles who are capable of inquiring about the news must know about this matter.

Then what Francis II could do became very limited.

Sitting in the Silver Fort, he met the legendary Duke who returned, talked with him openly, and then sent away this living ancestor in a blatant manner.

At least every link that will be paid attention to must be upright and open.

However, Gao Wen did not intend to free the king so quickly - or in other words, his purpose in the first half had been achieved. Now he had to test the attitude of the king and the attitude of the people around the king. Therefore, he did not let the convoy go directly to the Silver Fort in a low-key manner, but not long after entering the city, he ordered all the soldiers to take out the flags that had been prepared in the car.

The flag was painted with the emblem of the Cecil family and the sword and shield emblem of the Ansu royal family. The two emblems were placed side by side, which was restored by Gao Wen based on memory and used by Gao Wen when he was still alive as the Grand Duke of the Southern District.

Even if there are only twelve big-headed soldiers, they must step out of the guard of honor.

The Cecil family has indeed become weak, but even though it is weak to the present level, this family that once expanded territory with the previous kings and established the Wu tribe still retains the last bit of pride, defending the people and the land, and never compromises on the battlefield - now only seventeen years old and only knows how to use fireball skills, Rebecca can be said to be the weakest generation of lords in Cecil's history. He has no ability in civil and military affairs, and his mind may be stuck by the door, but she can lead the last few families to guard the castle and let the last civilians break out, relying on the glory that has been passed down to this day.

Therefore, the Cecil family has the poorest fiefdom in the southern territory, but they still cultivated the best warriors in the southern territory.

Even if these soldiers are now dead, only a dozen people are left.

The soldiers raised their flags and rode in two rows on horses. Looking at the emblem flying on the flag, they seemed to be infected, their heads raised high, and behind them, Rebecca and Gowen had also gotten off the car and rode on horseback and walked with the soldiers.

Byron pioneered the way at the forefront. The knight who was born as a mercenary and became a monk did his best to make himself act like a real noble, so as not to insult the face of the family he was loyal to. But Gao Wen drove his horse to him and whispered to him: "Let's go - put those decorums aside. When we walked here, some people even carried axes for logging."

At the end of the team, in the carriage that was supposed to be riding by Gao Wen and Rebecca, the person sitting now was Miss Thieves and the little maid Betty who was dozing off.

"The nobles are really a sick creature, right?" Amber looked out of the car, and turned around and poked Betty's arm. "If you don't have a car, you have to go out to ride a horse, and you have a pitfall in your mind."

Betty's head was bit by bit, and she looked like she was nodding, but suddenly a small snot bubble appeared.

Amber blinked her eyes and looked at Betty, and suddenly noticed the pan that the other party put at hand. She immediately had a prank. She used her excellent skills as a thief and quietly approached the pan...

Betty suddenly picked up the pan and hugged it in his arms, staring at Amber with a shocked look: "No! The master said, this is mine!"

amber:"……?"
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