Seven days later, the royal palace in Tawugang City officially sounded the death knell of the king, which brought another round of grief to the citizens who were rebuilding their homes. For seven days, Queen Carol and everyone were together, waiting for King Andrew to return, but reality did not satisfy their wishes, so they had to succumb to reality.
It is said that Queen Carroll sounded the first bell with her own hands and then fainted in the maid's arms. Feichi didn't know whether it was true or not, but he thought it was probably true. He did not go to the scene, but was with the main figure of the Hall family at the Shaqi Manor. This was the first time he personally handled important matters after taking over the title of Earl and managing the family. However, no matter how important the matter is, it is better to comfort the parents who have lost their children.
"She just cried all day long, so annoyed, ignore her!" The old Count's health was not as good as before after being burned by the dragon. He could not live without a crutch wherever he went, especially when expressing his emotions. "Fech, your brother is gone, now you must support the family. I don't know if you heard that bad news. Our queen's family was attacked by a blood-colored meteor and suffered heavy losses. My old friend Marquis Garau Siya...ah!"
"I already know this news. The death of the Marquis will inevitably affect the queen's prestige. Cook also mentioned this specifically when he reported. He was very careful. During my absence, he had compiled a piece of important information about the nobles."
"My old friend is good in other places, but when he encounters things, he likes to force himself and has too little flexibility. When the blood-colored meteor is in trouble, I hide outside. He doesn't want to defend the castle. He is so old, how can he defend it?" The old Count knocked on the ground with a crutch, then coughed twice, and shook his head. "I admit that I am useless, so I can still live. Alas! Feiqi, you have to be careful next. After this blood-colored meteor, the kingdom will probably be unstable."
Fitch nodded: "Father, Eddie reported to me something. Now many nobles in the kingdom have united to seize the power of the king under the banner of helping Delmond govern the government. Now, in terms of quantity, they have won many people, and most of the nobles are probably not opposed."
"If you don't object, you agree, but you won't rush to the front. Everyone is confident that you can get benefits in this matter." The old Count thought for a while, and then asked: "Eddie is very loyal. This is a very rare quality for women. But is her news true? What is the source?"
"She was responsible for potatoes and arranged many officials who knew about farming. She was in a low position, but she was working very well in diligence. These people were willing to report to her that they might have problems. However, father, women can be loyal, so you don't discriminate."
"Then you have been betrayed too little by women! Then you will know that only women who have married will be truly loyal."
The old Count seems to have a lot of stories about this. If he is really bored one day, maybe he can ask Cook. He has been with his father and must know a lot.
It seemed that the old earl also noticed that his son suddenly had a strange interest and immediately started to pull the topic back on track. "What are you going to do if you want to suppress it? If you want to suppress it, I still have a few surviving friends who can use it."
"I want to push it back," Fitch said.
The air seemed to solidify for a few seconds, and the quiet needles around it could be heard. The old count looked at his son. Although the two of them looked at each other, he could still hear Feiqi's determination. After a while, he asked, "What do you want to push down?"
"All nobles, no one stayed. There were no nobles, only officials, all land belonged to the country, and there was no special status of hereditary status - except for military merits."
"Who will manage the country?"
"I." Feige said: "If Andrew was there, I would help him wholeheartedly and use another route. But he was gone, and I don't have time to wait for Delmond to grow up, and I can't wait for the Yongli continent. Andrew's prestige can suppress those little nobles and avoid a lot of pulling and trouble. I don't have the patience of him, so I don't play this game."
"So you are going to lift the table up, and then let our Hall family be the target of public criticism, fight a path of blood, and then become king by yourself? I think this is even more nonsense than when you are doing alchemy! Even if you can kill those nobles, who will help you manage the country? You will only fall into endless quelling."
"I asked Cook to do a statistic. There are twenty nobles who can reach the size of the Hall family in the United Kingdom. It's better to have about two hundred of us. The rest are knights without a fixed family. I can destroy a family in a day, at most half a year..."
"Are you going to kill someone? Are you still a saint?" The old Count lifted his crutch hard and pulled at Fitch's arm, but was blocked by an invisible soft barrier. He tried to knock, and then said, "You are not the means of the Goddess of Truth, and far from being a divine art. Magic, magic, is it really the devil's method in the end?"
The old Count had a personal experience of how terrible the flames that the dragon breathed. He did not have hope of life, so after he survived, he was also very interested in Feiqi's ability to save himself. If this power could be used again, the health and safety of the Hall family could be guaranteed. However, as he continued to meditate, the breath of hell emerged from the dark corner and explained the truth to him. Therefore, when Feiqi said to kill, he thought of the devil.
"The land rights of the kingdom must be centralized and unified, the military rights of the kingdom must be unified, and the regime of the kingdom must be centralized. From then on, the kingdom has only one focus, that is me. Striking any other point will not really change the trend of the new kingdom's concentrated power development. At present, only I can withstand the blood-colored meteor, so let it come to me." Feiqi said: "Father, I have decided. The best result is that people will assist me in managing the kingdom, followed by I go to the Kingdom of God to find angels and saints to help, and at worst I can find the devil and manage this kingdom."
"You are going to bake the entire family on the fire!"
"I'm at the bottom, and the family won't feel the heat until they cook me. But it's true that the defense should be strengthened to prevent thieves from coming to harassing me."
"You also know there are thieves. Once you turn the table, the nobles will become gangsters, even more gangsters than gangsters. Can you handle it?"
Feiqi shook his head: "I don't do things that I'm not good at, and I don't deal with these games. I either convince them one way or convince them in another way. Father, before Andrew disappeared, I felt that I still had time to complete my vision and find a way to save the Yongli continent. But he was gone, and I had to take action by myself. Otherwise, what else can I do to manage the country under the name of Delmond? I can't bully him like this."
"He should be the crown prince and the next king. If you don't help him, you want to be the king by yourself, isn't it bullying him?"
"He wants to be a king, so he will prove to be stronger than me first. After himself, there will be only stronger kings, no inherited kings." Feiqi smiled and said, "Father, Andrew will be the first king, and I am the second one, his achievements..."
The old Count shook his head: "Don't pull him in. He won't agree to what you want to do! So don't try to take advantage of him. If you want to be a pioneer, then be the first one and don't find shields! The good reputation of the Hall family seems to be ruined in your hands!"
“My method is right.”
"All the losers think so!"
Feiqi stood up, nodded, and retorted: "All successful people have the same confidence. Father, take good care of themselves, I hope you can see my success and change your current view."
"Don't hurry to leave! I have something to ask you. What are you going to do with Delmond and Carroll."
"Pick them home, you want to teach, but I will teach you if you don't have the heart. If he can become a talent, he will have a better chance to take over me than others." Feiqi smiled bitterly and said, "I have considered that if he doesn't push back and start over, Delmond will have to become a king until he becomes an adult. I can't wait for him for eighteen years, and I don't want to undermine him and make him a puppet in these eighteen years. I have such ability, but I don't want to take this sinister path."
After hearing this, the old count was silent, and after a while, he sighed quietly. "According to what you said, my methods to deal with Aria are also a little sinister. It seems that they are not as good as you? Haha, I can't find any way to refute you. OK, anyway, all the nobles started out and killed, and at worst they can do it again. You don't want to be a fraudster or a killer, or a big robber, it's understandable. Anyway, I can't care about you, let alone you, just let it go."
Fitch nodded, stretched out his arms and hugged his father, and then took his leave. He didn't go far, but just returned to the living room. Here, Shani, Eddie, Cook and the "bearded blacksmith" Knight Wisco Smith were waiting for him. Several people sat nervously, and the drinks and snacks around him did not move. Against the background of the blood-colored meteor, this could be called a waste.
"My father said I was probably crazy and didn't agree with my approach, but I didn't want to care about me if I couldn't control it, so I let myself do it." Feiqi walked into the house, looked at Cook and Vesco, and said straight to the point: "You two have been following your father for the longest time. You can choose to follow me or continue to follow your father, and I won't mind."
"The old Count asked me to follow you, so I don't have to make a choice if I follow you or follow you," Cook said. "And I believe that the Hall family will definitely be stronger under your leadership."
"I have nowhere to go." Vesco smiled slanted, with scars on his face squeezing together. "All things I am proud of are done in the Hall family, and I will continue to stay here. To put it bluntly, following you, I can protect what I have made before and not lose, and I have the opportunity to make more."
Feiqi nodded: "With you two, at least there will be no chaos in the house. The Knights of Hell can ensure that there will be no chaos in Tawugang City and the surrounding areas. I will deal with other chaos outside."
"Wait, why don't you ask me for my opinion? I'm also a very important role!" Eddie turned his head slightly and said to Feige with a smile: "Sir Earl, although I used to be your maid, I can be a baron now. Among the four people, I have the highest status. You won't discriminate against me because of your gender, right?"
"Don't waste time, I know what you want to say." Feige glared at Eddie, who just rolled his eyes, his long eyelashes trembled, and even avoided it. "Now, tell me about the situation of the United Nobles? What's the progress they have?"
"Those people are a little timid. Although they can propose plans, they have no courage to implement plans. They just wait for others to be the first to make a comeback and get benefits from it themselves." Cook said: "Their organization is not strict, and they have also pulled our friends in, so we can know no matter what happens inside."
"There is another wave of people expressing their loyalty to the queen, saying that if an unstable incident occurs, the queen can use their power to give them a heart. Then these people left the palace and came to Shaqi Manor to express similar meanings. Everyone knows that you are not seeing guests now, so they all left letters, and the words written in them were sincere, as if they were afraid of misunderstandings." Shani said to Feiqi: "Carol was frightened in the palace and was not in good spirits. I think you should talk to her. If she was bewitched by those nobles and thought she still had strength, that would be a problem."
"After a while, you go to Carroll with me to explain the current situation and my plan. Then, with her consent, we will send the trusted knights in our family to protect her, at least more than the Siya family." Feiqi then said to Cook: "Money is brave. The so-called small nobles of the Unionist faction need to be brave enough to attract all the swaying and ambitious people. Through our friends, we will secretly strengthen their courage, but don't reveal their identities, so as not to backfire. It is best that they can slap the table first so that I can take advantage of the opportunity to overturn the table."
"Well, I think it's good. Before starting, you always have to see who is a friend, who is an enemy, who is irrelevant, etc.." The bearded blacksmith twisted his beard and said, "Feich, you should also have the city guards in Tawugang City. Now this is a bit stupid. Should you change him?"
"That was appointed by Andrew himself. I don't want to change it if it's necessary. I want to talk to him and give him a chance to show off and prove himself."
"Okay, but I will still stare at him, don't mind." Witters said with a smile.
"Don't forget the Knights of Hell, they are the strongest armed forces in Tawugang City. Although you are the leader, the Knights are loyal to the king, and secondly to His Highness Prince Delmond." Cook reminded: "You can't be too confident at this time. Anyone who wants to make trouble knows the importance of the Knights of Hell, and may have begun to reach out."
Chapter completed!