The dance party is located in the palace hall. In the center of the spacious hall that can accommodate hundreds of people and practice it without feeling crowded, there are more than a dozen long mahogany tables, with various exquisitely made foods, which are placed on different tables according to the types of meat, vegetarian, desserts, and melons.
There are no restrictions on this kind of palace dance. The guests carry plates to get the food on the table according to their own preferences, and the beautiful palace maids interspersed among the guests provide wine to the guests as needed.
Whether it is the atmosphere or the solemnity, it is far from what I attended at Shenlong Plaza before.
For most people attending this dance, they are not coming to eat or dance at all.
Although those powerful people who control the pulse of the empire meet every day in the court, there are emperors pressing on them and many ears and ears below. It is hard to tell the truth between them.
Usually, several ministers and nobles with similar intentions wanted to get together for a meal or discuss something, and they were very careful, for fear that someone would report to the emperor that they had formed a clique and private affairs. This dance gave them the opportunity to get together. Most officials and nobles were holding a sprinkler pole in their hands and gathered together in groups of three or three to chat. This was a dance party with social purpose, and "eating" was not important here.
However, for the women in my house, the exquisite food made in the palace and the various rare fruits from all over the world have aroused their great interest.
The attention of Rosa and Xuezhi is quickly attracted
The little princess obviously likes this kind of lively scene, excitedly pestering little Christine and forcing him to perform the little magic tricks.
They all had a lot of fun, but Sheila and I were not in a relaxed mood. I knew that the dance tonight would end so easily. Sheila was also a little uneasy because the queen's gift was too expensive.
After putting some food on the plate, we returned to our table and whispered to what had happened before.
"Da Xiu, please find a chance to find this gift from the Queen, and I think we should return it to her!"
"How come the Queen of Beng gave it to you in front of so many people? If she returns it, wouldn't it be a sacrificing her face?"
The queen used this trick. Looking back now, I also felt a headache. This is a hot gift. Brigitte and Queen are in the same situation. Sheila received her gift. What would Aunt Brigitte think? "Are you worried that the aunt will be angry with us? Actually, the aunt is generous and will not care about this. This is not the thing I worry about."
Sheila was playing with the sapphire pendant while talking
This reminded me of the ring that Cayula gave me. I kept carrying that thing with me, but what happened during this period was one after another, and I had no chance to take it out at all.
"What are you worried about?"
"Look over there"
I looked in the direction of Hira's finger. Duke Ximeiya was standing with several ministers, talking and laughing. I didn't know the others beside him except for a few officials who usually meet at court meetings.
But these strangers are all dressed in luxurious clothes, and they can be seen that they are by no means ordinary people.
"Who are those people? Weird, why have I never seen them in the Emperor's chamber before?"
Sheila did not answer me. She closed her eyes and rubbed the pendant for a while. Suddenly she opened her eyes and asked me, "Da Xiu, do you want to get on the queen's line?"
I was shocked. I wanted to lean on the queen's tree to enjoy the cool air. I kept burying this idea in my heart. No one except my adoptive father knew about it. Unexpectedly, Sheila said it in one go.
Looking at my surprised eyes, Sheila chuckled, let go of the pendant with her right hand, and twisted her fingers hard on my face.
"Nothing to be surprised. What is the queen? If you didn't intend to give her an olive branch to show your goodwill, how could she have invested so much money to attract you!"
"It's not like that. In fact, these are all the evils of me, an old man who died. He used to be... good friends with the queen, and she was for the sake of her father..."
I'm embarrassed to tell my father's romantic history back then, but with Sheila's intelligence, I should be able to understand what I mean
"Is that true? You're scalp again..."
Sheila pouted and gave me a blank look
"It's not like this, it's not the same as what you said, but it's almost the same. We wave to each other, that's it."
"Really, incoherent"
Facing Sheila's angry gaze attack, I had no choice but to confess honestly and tell her my plans. Fortunately, Sheila didn't blame me either.
"I don't mean to blame you. Now you have to do it. If you don't find someone with power as your backer, your life in the empire will be more and more sad."
"Emperor Ola has completed seven changes. As long as we can survive until the day when Ru Yue ascends the throne, our lives should be easy."
I turned my eyes to the distance, Ruyue sat at a round table, wearing white silk gloves holding a red wine in her right hand, her eyes staring blankly in front of her, quietly sucking the red sprinkle in the glass
The girl in the fiery red dress sitting next to Ruyue is the strongest woman in Fengdu City, Ruyue's second son, Kama, the baby daughter of Duke Simea.
Their relationship seemed to be very good. Kama, who was sitting next to Ruyue, did not show any restraint because the other party was a princess. She chewed the fruit on the plate while constantly moving her mouth, not knowing what she was saying.
Ruyue, who was slowly drinking red wine, smiled from time to time, or nodded slightly, and occasionally moved her mouth to respond to Kama's words.
When the emperor was having a big banquet at Shenlong Square, Ruyue also gave me a long talk with Anda and Sheila. Although she was not very friendly to me at that time, she was quite friendly to women who were the same as hers.
However, since Rafa died, Ruyue's personality has become much more obstructed and becoming more and more arrogant. Although she often smiles at Kama, she just uses a polite smile as a mask to hide the true emotions in her heart.
After saying a few words to Ruyue, Kama, whose personality is somewhat similar to Ruyue, was also influenced by Ruyue's autistic indifference and said politely
At this time, a few young and handsome noble young men took the opportunity to come forward and talk to her, but her expression was still the same and her eyes were still empty and confused.
Even though surrounded by stars, Ru Yue’s current appearance gives me a feeling of being isolated in the world
"It's enough for the pride of heaven to do this without a close friend or someone who can say his heart!"
Now I finally understand why Ruyue, who has not had a very harmonious relationship with Queen Liana, is so good to her sister, Princess Ruyun. Apart from that perverted emperor, she is Ruyue's only relative
Sheila suddenly leaned her body into my arms and grabbed my hand
"I just want to remind you that the struggle between the relatives and the royal relatives have always been a loss-win situation! If you really want to find the queen as your backer, you must think twice before doing it."
I came back to my senses and turned my eyes to Sheila again: "What does it mean to fight for power between relatives and royal relatives?"
"What's wrong? Can't you see that in the empire, in addition to the emperor, there are actually two forces in control of the government."
"Friends, royal relatives, you mean the strangeness of the Farbir family's direct blood relatives and nobles, and the Queen's faction. I have been participating in the discussion for a long time, so why can't I see it?"
"Da Xiu, are you really confused or fake? You can't even see this"
Sheila smiled and squeezed it lightly on my thigh
"Actually, I always stand there, take a nap with my eyes open, and the emperor is talking there, but I am already asleep while standing..."
"You dare to say it! You are leading the war outside, how can you not care about these things?"
"I am a soldier, not those political crawlers! Soldiers only need to learn how to kill more people on the battlefield. What should I do if there are too many political things?"
As soon as I said that, I realized that I had said the wrong thing. How could I say such words in front of Hilla now regarding human life as a mustard of grass!
In the past, she bought a live chicken and wanted to kill her to nourish her body, but the chickens and ducks were often released secretly by Sheila.
But Sheila did not show the adverse reactions I thought. She shook her head and said, "Soldiers do not care about politics, can they fight a good war? Have you ever suffered? Have you forgotten?"
I was speechless and silent for a while. I asked humbly: "How do you divide the two factions of powers you mentioned?"
"A group of people is led by Duke Simea. These people usually stand on the left hand of the emperor. I heard that many of them are rich business giants in the empire. For example, Duke Simea, who became the Minister of Finance by donating money."
"The other group of people are those guys standing in the emperor's right hand. No wonder, I think it's so strange, why are the people with the surname Fabir standing together? Now I think I have heard of the sayings of left and right among the emperor's ministers. So that's the case!"
"People say that the Emperor is very confused. In fact, in my opinion, he is not at all confused. I heard that more than ten years ago, the entire chamber was occupied by people named Fabier. For the past ten years, he seemed to be confused and careless, but the ministers below changed their blood when people were not paying attention. Those who were promoted were heard. I heard that most of them were thanks to Queen Lianna who beat the drum next to the emperor and helped a lot."
After Shira reminded me, I remembered it vaguely. The scenes that happened when I assigned logistics work during the last expedition to Asania were indeed as Shira said.
In the memory my father left me, my evaluation of Queen Liana is a woman with great ambitions, great power and very skilled
When the money in their hands exceeds a certain number and money becomes a symbolic symbol, it will naturally pursue another kind of thing besides money.
I have drawn the general outline of the whole thing in my brain: the queen who was about to cultivate her own power met the Duke of Simea who was trying hard to climb up. Just as a bee encountered honey, the two sides hit it off and cooperated.
I was thinking, but Sheila continued to say, analyzing the empire's shame for me.
"In fact, it is not clear to divide them by left and right. For example, Kadus, the leader of the Royal Knights, although he is from the Fabir family, he has a very good relationship with the people of Duke Hiraya and is even more of the queen's confidant. He is a little unfamiliar with his father, and most of the noble young people of Fabir are similar to him. The relationship between the two sides is intertwined, so it is difficult to distinguish them."
"I understand, in fact, between the so-called left and right, there is still a large part of the centrists who please both sides.
Alas, the centrist, it would be great if I could please both sides! But this time I offended all the nobles of the Fabir family, and there was no way out except to commit to another faction."
On the one hand, I lamented my almost dead end, but on the other hand, I was extremely surprised by Sheila, so surprised that I felt a little panicked in my heart.
"Shila has really changed, she has changed a lot. She wasn't like this before!"
I have been lying to myself in the past, Sheila is still the same as before, pure and kind, shy, and not good at socializing. She is just a little jasper who has been held in my arms and cared for. However, now I can no longer connect her now with her in the past.
She, who had never known anything about political affairs in the past, never cared about these things, was able to talk in front of me overnight, discuss state affairs, analyze political situations, and be meticulous in detail. She was so smart that she was ashamed of me.
I even thought in my heart that if she sat in Ruyue's position, she would do a hundred times better than Ruyue who had just become an emperor before she could become a lonely person.
The last time I left Fengdu, Sheila did not have these abnormalities, but less than half a year later, such a drastic change occurred in her. Some major changes must have happened to her.
That mysterious crystal stone, the inexplicable words of the adoptive father before his death, and the advice that the former questioned the leader Lagus had in his words, these three things were clearly revealed to me that there must be a major change in Sheila.
I was shocked and panicked by Sheila, but I didn't reveal it on my face and continued to ask her: "Half are relatives and half are royal relatives. If these people join forces, it would be great for everyone to make a fortune together, how could they be divided into two factions?"
Sheila laughed. She didn't see the doubts in my heart, and continued to say things that made me even more worried, "Da Xiu, you are very smart on the battlefield. When you encounter such a thing, why would you be confused by a cake? Ten people come to eat it. If the cake is as big as a table, no one would care about who eats a little more. If it were a hundred people come to eat, the cake is only as big as a palm, what would you say?"
"Oh, I understand what you mean"
"The people on the Duke of Hamea and the forces behind them are mostly businessmen who come from politics. On the one hand, they are to survive the power addiction, and more importantly, they hope to use this to influence the national policy and earn the greatest benefits for themselves. In the past few decades, the royal children of the Fabir family have been constantly involved in commercial matters. Because they enjoy privileges, the pass-through tax exemption alone has gained a great advantage.
They did this to steal the cake from the Duke of Mimea, the Duke of Mimea, who was born in civilians. The Duke of Mimea abandoned the business and entered politics. I think he probably did it for this matter!"
Sheila is right. After the nobles of the Fabir family entered business, they naturally enjoyed a great competitive advantage in price because they enjoyed various tax exemptions.
In addition, the empire has been scrambling wars every year over the past century. In order to maintain huge military expenditures, the empire has repeatedly increased taxes. Although the civilians are suffering, the rich businessmen are even more complaining.
At this time, the royal nobles interfered in commercial matters and snatched the cake they had left. It would be strange if they didn't jump up!
I have scanned some memories left by my father, and then I found that more than ten years ago, Emperor Aola had the idea of exempting the royal nobles from various privileges and implemented some new policies. However, because these nobles were too large, they aroused opposition. In the end, this matter was incomplete. In the past decade, Emperor Aola quietly supported a group of emerging aristocrats like Duke of Mimea to power, which was precisely to weaken these family forces. Now it seems that Emperor Aola, the strongest glass in history, is actually not stupid at all. On the surface, due to his affection, he had to help the "right" suppress the "left" from time to time. , secretly but also supported these emerging forces, playing the trick of balance of forces, otherwise, I deliberately drowned aristocratic army of tens of thousands. Such a great sin, he just symbolically locked me up for several months and fined me a year's salary. Maybe it's in my heart. This glass emperor was too happy, because I helped him get rid of the big troubles in his heart.
"The two factions of the two factions are in harmony on the surface, but they are fighting endlessly. They are also desperately trying to win over their ally, Duke Simea, who is beneficial to them, and constantly showing goodwill to you, and making Queen Lianna's nephew become Princess Ruyue's fiancé are their means! The princess is the future emperor, and Daxiu, the military talents you showed in several wars have to be different! You are both strange goods and have great investment value! The queen gave me a necklace in public and deliberately let the little princess approach you, just to win you over. Maybe she wants to recruit you as a son-in-law in the future!" Sheila smiled and turned her eyes to the vicinity. Next to a small fountain pool, Little Christine was performing a magic trick for Xue Yi and the little princess: He gathered a large ball of water in his hands and changed into various animal forms, which made the two little girls cheer excitedly
"It's so wonderful. I didn't expect that Kristen's ability to manipulate magic was so powerful!"
Even the look of Sheila who was talking to me was attracted by the performance of Kristen Little, but I had no intention of watching Kristen Little. I was already in a mess now.
"Of course, in terms of the ability to manipulate magic, none of us can compare to the little Christine. People from their family are born geniuses who use magic!"
I casually told Hira, but secretly cursed her adoptive father in my heart. He knew what happened to Hira, but he hid it all in his stomach and refused to say it until he died.
Now I'm very surprised by Sheila
What happened to her was that made her adoptive father who treated me like a parent-child and insisted on hiding it in his heart. He didn't say until he died that I really wanted to know the answer, but I didn't really want to know the answer.
I'm very conflicted and a little scared, because I'm afraid that something horrible will pop up after the black cloth covered on the surface of the secret will be uncovered.
After Anda's death, Sheila is the most important part of my life. If there is another scar on the reverse scale, I really don't know what method to use to repair it.
"Strange, Sheila, you didn't care about these things in the past at all, why are you even clearer than me now?" The doubt drove me to stretch out my temptation claws
"This is what Mrs. Ryan told me. Last time, I begged her to help us talk for a long time. I just relayed her words."
Sheila's explanation is perfect, but I know she's lying
Even though Yagri, who is a newspaper editor, has the ability to find out these rumors through various channels, Sheila's discussion on the empire just now, looks at her own opinions and opinions, not to relay other people's words, because she kept raising her eyebrows unconsciously when she spoke.
I have known Sheila for almost a year. She knows me very well, and I also understand her habits and styles: I like to use my hands to slut on my scalp when I lie, while Sheila always raises her eyebrows unconsciously when she lies.
"I didn't expect that Yagri's argument is so incisive and powerful. If I have the chance, I really want to ask her for more advice."
I laughed and said something wrong, trying hard to suppress the urge to flirt with my hands, but a thought came to my mind: Do I want to find an opportunity to check with Yagri, and ask her if she really said something similar to Sheila. Even if I know she is lying, I will confirm it again.
When this thought came out, I was even more scared.
What's wrong? I don't even believe the person I love the most, and I actually have this kind of thought!
Too scary!
"Happiness is a bird. If you catch it, you must seize it!"
I shivered and subconsciously grabbed Sheila's hands, holding them tightly
"I can't lose Sheila anyway!"
"Daxiu, what's wrong with you?"
I held Sheila's hands, put them beside my mouth, kissed her gently and looked at Sheila's purple eyes with her intelligence, and I made a comeback and said, "I don't want to be the emperor's son-in-law! What is happiness? As long as you can look at you every day, hold your hand, and fall asleep with you. Wake up every morning and watch you sleep peacefully in my arms. For me, this is happiness. Sheila, you promise me not to leave me, and don't let happiness fly away again!"
Sheila escaped from my eyes and whispered: "What are you talking about? Who said I'm leaving?"
" That's good!"
I pulled Xila into my arms and kissed her desperately
"Don't, there are a lot of people here!"
"Do not care about them, as long as you are there, it's enough!"
I opened my eyes and glanced at Ruyue, and Ruyue happened to sweep at me.
In that moment, the eyes that were immediately avoided, there was three points of envy, but seven points of pain was revealed.
"Ruyue, you must have thought of the humble young man in Rafab. He is indeed very suitable for your man, but a pity..."
Thinking of Rafa, I recalled the passing Anda
If Anda had made me feel this way, I would talk to her without any scruples and ask everything, rather than being as sensible as I am now
Sheila is not Anda, and she cannot replace her position in my heart!
"It's really unscrupulous, hahaha..."
The laughter of Duke Simea made Sheila and I feel extremely embarrassed. I quickly parted. This powerful figure of the empire stood beside us when I was not paying attention, looking at me with a smile.
I looked around and then I realized that two-thirds of the guests present were staring at us
The eyes shot at me were half filled with the flames of hatred, but looking at Sheila was another look
Duke Shiraya looked at Shira and kept nodding his head
"Don't be shy, young people should be like this, they are like young people! Miss Sheila, she looks very beautiful today! This Blue Moon Star is very compatible with her!"
"The Blue Moon Star is the name of the gem on the necklace on Sheila's neck! More than ten years ago, my father gave her to Her Highness the Queen! She liked it very much, and she wore it when attending a major court dance. I didn't expect that this time I gave it to you. It's obvious that the Queen likes you very much, Sheila!"
Kama is also standing with Duke Simea, and today she is going to meet her future mother-in-law. Kama's clothes are obviously carefully dressed up.
Apart from her fiery red dress that looked like her personality, she rarely put on lipstick, slightly scribbling, and put on a string of earrings on her ears.
Due to her temperament, she still has nothing to do with a lady now, but she is also an angry and beautiful girl.
"Seeing that you are quite honest in the past few years and have not done anything wrong again, I will let you go this time! Sheila and I haven't met for a long time, so we're going to get together!"
The tone of speaking was still rough, but the ingredients of delirium were mostly used. As usual, I gave me a fierce warning look. Kama grabbed Sheila's hand and dragged her aside, leaving only me and her father.
"I'm sorry, my daughter spoiled me!"
Looking at Kama's back, the richest man in the empire shrugged his shoulders helplessly
"It's nothing. Sheila's blessing to have such a friend!"
I'm telling the truth. Compared to her gradually degenerate self and Sheila now, Kama still maintains her original nature. She still does things like this, and does not care about the details. She has not lost her true nature because of her age and her mental maturity.
"I don't think this is a good thing. She is too reckless and too scheming!"
Duke Simea shook his head slightly and sighed bitterly
"York has been at home with illness recently, and he is missing. The atmosphere here is much better now! By the way, my old friends in Garys have also come here, and they really want to see you!"
Duke Nimea pointed behind him and looked in the direction he pointed. At a square table in the corner of the hall, there were five luxuriously dressed strangers.
Seeing my eyes turned to me, one of the black-haired men raised their wine glass to me friendly.
"Garris"
When I mentioned this city that was flooded by me, I felt uncomfortable all over. This is the place where I achieved success and fame, but it is also a place where I have made countless enemies.
"Did you see the gentleman who raised his glasses? This time, the public opinion of the outside world has changed drastically overnight, but it is all for his help!"
" who is he"
"Some people say that half of the property in the empire is in my pocket. This statement is too exaggerated. In recent years, I have abandoned business and politics and have been caught up with me. But if half of the tongue in the empire is growing on that man, it is not too much."
"This person is..."
"He is Mr. Murdospoman, the tongue of the empire! He is in charge of more than two-thirds of the newspapers in the entire empire!"
Duke Simea raised the wine glass in his hand, toasted the black-haired man, and smiled and drank the wine in the glass.
There are no restrictions on this kind of palace dance. The guests carry plates to get the food on the table according to their own preferences, and the beautiful palace maids interspersed among the guests provide wine to the guests as needed.
Whether it is the atmosphere or the solemnity, it is far from what I attended at Shenlong Plaza before.
For most people attending this dance, they are not coming to eat or dance at all.
Although those powerful people who control the pulse of the empire meet every day in the court, there are emperors pressing on them and many ears and ears below. It is hard to tell the truth between them.
Usually, several ministers and nobles with similar intentions wanted to get together for a meal or discuss something, and they were very careful, for fear that someone would report to the emperor that they had formed a clique and private affairs. This dance gave them the opportunity to get together. Most officials and nobles were holding a sprinkler pole in their hands and gathered together in groups of three or three to chat. This was a dance party with social purpose, and "eating" was not important here.
However, for the women in my house, the exquisite food made in the palace and the various rare fruits from all over the world have aroused their great interest.
The attention of Rosa and Xuezhi is quickly attracted
The little princess obviously likes this kind of lively scene, excitedly pestering little Christine and forcing him to perform the little magic tricks.
They all had a lot of fun, but Sheila and I were not in a relaxed mood. I knew that the dance tonight would end so easily. Sheila was also a little uneasy because the queen's gift was too expensive.
After putting some food on the plate, we returned to our table and whispered to what had happened before.
"Da Xiu, please find a chance to find this gift from the Queen, and I think we should return it to her!"
"How come the Queen of Beng gave it to you in front of so many people? If she returns it, wouldn't it be a sacrificing her face?"
The queen used this trick. Looking back now, I also felt a headache. This is a hot gift. Brigitte and Queen are in the same situation. Sheila received her gift. What would Aunt Brigitte think? "Are you worried that the aunt will be angry with us? Actually, the aunt is generous and will not care about this. This is not the thing I worry about."
Sheila was playing with the sapphire pendant while talking
This reminded me of the ring that Cayula gave me. I kept carrying that thing with me, but what happened during this period was one after another, and I had no chance to take it out at all.
"What are you worried about?"
"Look over there"
I looked in the direction of Hira's finger. Duke Ximeiya was standing with several ministers, talking and laughing. I didn't know the others beside him except for a few officials who usually meet at court meetings.
But these strangers are all dressed in luxurious clothes, and they can be seen that they are by no means ordinary people.
"Who are those people? Weird, why have I never seen them in the Emperor's chamber before?"
Sheila did not answer me. She closed her eyes and rubbed the pendant for a while. Suddenly she opened her eyes and asked me, "Da Xiu, do you want to get on the queen's line?"
I was shocked. I wanted to lean on the queen's tree to enjoy the cool air. I kept burying this idea in my heart. No one except my adoptive father knew about it. Unexpectedly, Sheila said it in one go.
Looking at my surprised eyes, Sheila chuckled, let go of the pendant with her right hand, and twisted her fingers hard on my face.
"Nothing to be surprised. What is the queen? If you didn't intend to give her an olive branch to show your goodwill, how could she have invested so much money to attract you!"
"It's not like that. In fact, these are all the evils of me, an old man who died. He used to be... good friends with the queen, and she was for the sake of her father..."
I'm embarrassed to tell my father's romantic history back then, but with Sheila's intelligence, I should be able to understand what I mean
"Is that true? You're scalp again..."
Sheila pouted and gave me a blank look
"It's not like this, it's not the same as what you said, but it's almost the same. We wave to each other, that's it."
"Really, incoherent"
Facing Sheila's angry gaze attack, I had no choice but to confess honestly and tell her my plans. Fortunately, Sheila didn't blame me either.
"I don't mean to blame you. Now you have to do it. If you don't find someone with power as your backer, your life in the empire will be more and more sad."
"Emperor Ola has completed seven changes. As long as we can survive until the day when Ru Yue ascends the throne, our lives should be easy."
I turned my eyes to the distance, Ruyue sat at a round table, wearing white silk gloves holding a red wine in her right hand, her eyes staring blankly in front of her, quietly sucking the red sprinkle in the glass
The girl in the fiery red dress sitting next to Ruyue is the strongest woman in Fengdu City, Ruyue's second son, Kama, the baby daughter of Duke Simea.
Their relationship seemed to be very good. Kama, who was sitting next to Ruyue, did not show any restraint because the other party was a princess. She chewed the fruit on the plate while constantly moving her mouth, not knowing what she was saying.
Ruyue, who was slowly drinking red wine, smiled from time to time, or nodded slightly, and occasionally moved her mouth to respond to Kama's words.
When the emperor was having a big banquet at Shenlong Square, Ruyue also gave me a long talk with Anda and Sheila. Although she was not very friendly to me at that time, she was quite friendly to women who were the same as hers.
However, since Rafa died, Ruyue's personality has become much more obstructed and becoming more and more arrogant. Although she often smiles at Kama, she just uses a polite smile as a mask to hide the true emotions in her heart.
After saying a few words to Ruyue, Kama, whose personality is somewhat similar to Ruyue, was also influenced by Ruyue's autistic indifference and said politely
At this time, a few young and handsome noble young men took the opportunity to come forward and talk to her, but her expression was still the same and her eyes were still empty and confused.
Even though surrounded by stars, Ru Yue’s current appearance gives me a feeling of being isolated in the world
"It's enough for the pride of heaven to do this without a close friend or someone who can say his heart!"
Now I finally understand why Ruyue, who has not had a very harmonious relationship with Queen Liana, is so good to her sister, Princess Ruyun. Apart from that perverted emperor, she is Ruyue's only relative
Sheila suddenly leaned her body into my arms and grabbed my hand
"I just want to remind you that the struggle between the relatives and the royal relatives have always been a loss-win situation! If you really want to find the queen as your backer, you must think twice before doing it."
I came back to my senses and turned my eyes to Sheila again: "What does it mean to fight for power between relatives and royal relatives?"
"What's wrong? Can't you see that in the empire, in addition to the emperor, there are actually two forces in control of the government."
"Friends, royal relatives, you mean the strangeness of the Farbir family's direct blood relatives and nobles, and the Queen's faction. I have been participating in the discussion for a long time, so why can't I see it?"
"Da Xiu, are you really confused or fake? You can't even see this"
Sheila smiled and squeezed it lightly on my thigh
"Actually, I always stand there, take a nap with my eyes open, and the emperor is talking there, but I am already asleep while standing..."
"You dare to say it! You are leading the war outside, how can you not care about these things?"
"I am a soldier, not those political crawlers! Soldiers only need to learn how to kill more people on the battlefield. What should I do if there are too many political things?"
As soon as I said that, I realized that I had said the wrong thing. How could I say such words in front of Hilla now regarding human life as a mustard of grass!
In the past, she bought a live chicken and wanted to kill her to nourish her body, but the chickens and ducks were often released secretly by Sheila.
But Sheila did not show the adverse reactions I thought. She shook her head and said, "Soldiers do not care about politics, can they fight a good war? Have you ever suffered? Have you forgotten?"
I was speechless and silent for a while. I asked humbly: "How do you divide the two factions of powers you mentioned?"
"A group of people is led by Duke Simea. These people usually stand on the left hand of the emperor. I heard that many of them are rich business giants in the empire. For example, Duke Simea, who became the Minister of Finance by donating money."
"The other group of people are those guys standing in the emperor's right hand. No wonder, I think it's so strange, why are the people with the surname Fabir standing together? Now I think I have heard of the sayings of left and right among the emperor's ministers. So that's the case!"
"People say that the Emperor is very confused. In fact, in my opinion, he is not at all confused. I heard that more than ten years ago, the entire chamber was occupied by people named Fabier. For the past ten years, he seemed to be confused and careless, but the ministers below changed their blood when people were not paying attention. Those who were promoted were heard. I heard that most of them were thanks to Queen Lianna who beat the drum next to the emperor and helped a lot."
After Shira reminded me, I remembered it vaguely. The scenes that happened when I assigned logistics work during the last expedition to Asania were indeed as Shira said.
In the memory my father left me, my evaluation of Queen Liana is a woman with great ambitions, great power and very skilled
When the money in their hands exceeds a certain number and money becomes a symbolic symbol, it will naturally pursue another kind of thing besides money.
I have drawn the general outline of the whole thing in my brain: the queen who was about to cultivate her own power met the Duke of Simea who was trying hard to climb up. Just as a bee encountered honey, the two sides hit it off and cooperated.
I was thinking, but Sheila continued to say, analyzing the empire's shame for me.
"In fact, it is not clear to divide them by left and right. For example, Kadus, the leader of the Royal Knights, although he is from the Fabir family, he has a very good relationship with the people of Duke Hiraya and is even more of the queen's confidant. He is a little unfamiliar with his father, and most of the noble young people of Fabir are similar to him. The relationship between the two sides is intertwined, so it is difficult to distinguish them."
"I understand, in fact, between the so-called left and right, there is still a large part of the centrists who please both sides.
Alas, the centrist, it would be great if I could please both sides! But this time I offended all the nobles of the Fabir family, and there was no way out except to commit to another faction."
On the one hand, I lamented my almost dead end, but on the other hand, I was extremely surprised by Sheila, so surprised that I felt a little panicked in my heart.
"Shila has really changed, she has changed a lot. She wasn't like this before!"
I have been lying to myself in the past, Sheila is still the same as before, pure and kind, shy, and not good at socializing. She is just a little jasper who has been held in my arms and cared for. However, now I can no longer connect her now with her in the past.
She, who had never known anything about political affairs in the past, never cared about these things, was able to talk in front of me overnight, discuss state affairs, analyze political situations, and be meticulous in detail. She was so smart that she was ashamed of me.
I even thought in my heart that if she sat in Ruyue's position, she would do a hundred times better than Ruyue who had just become an emperor before she could become a lonely person.
The last time I left Fengdu, Sheila did not have these abnormalities, but less than half a year later, such a drastic change occurred in her. Some major changes must have happened to her.
That mysterious crystal stone, the inexplicable words of the adoptive father before his death, and the advice that the former questioned the leader Lagus had in his words, these three things were clearly revealed to me that there must be a major change in Sheila.
I was shocked and panicked by Sheila, but I didn't reveal it on my face and continued to ask her: "Half are relatives and half are royal relatives. If these people join forces, it would be great for everyone to make a fortune together, how could they be divided into two factions?"
Sheila laughed. She didn't see the doubts in my heart, and continued to say things that made me even more worried, "Da Xiu, you are very smart on the battlefield. When you encounter such a thing, why would you be confused by a cake? Ten people come to eat it. If the cake is as big as a table, no one would care about who eats a little more. If it were a hundred people come to eat, the cake is only as big as a palm, what would you say?"
"Oh, I understand what you mean"
"The people on the Duke of Hamea and the forces behind them are mostly businessmen who come from politics. On the one hand, they are to survive the power addiction, and more importantly, they hope to use this to influence the national policy and earn the greatest benefits for themselves. In the past few decades, the royal children of the Fabir family have been constantly involved in commercial matters. Because they enjoy privileges, the pass-through tax exemption alone has gained a great advantage.
They did this to steal the cake from the Duke of Mimea, the Duke of Mimea, who was born in civilians. The Duke of Mimea abandoned the business and entered politics. I think he probably did it for this matter!"
Sheila is right. After the nobles of the Fabir family entered business, they naturally enjoyed a great competitive advantage in price because they enjoyed various tax exemptions.
In addition, the empire has been scrambling wars every year over the past century. In order to maintain huge military expenditures, the empire has repeatedly increased taxes. Although the civilians are suffering, the rich businessmen are even more complaining.
At this time, the royal nobles interfered in commercial matters and snatched the cake they had left. It would be strange if they didn't jump up!
I have scanned some memories left by my father, and then I found that more than ten years ago, Emperor Aola had the idea of exempting the royal nobles from various privileges and implemented some new policies. However, because these nobles were too large, they aroused opposition. In the end, this matter was incomplete. In the past decade, Emperor Aola quietly supported a group of emerging aristocrats like Duke of Mimea to power, which was precisely to weaken these family forces. Now it seems that Emperor Aola, the strongest glass in history, is actually not stupid at all. On the surface, due to his affection, he had to help the "right" suppress the "left" from time to time. , secretly but also supported these emerging forces, playing the trick of balance of forces, otherwise, I deliberately drowned aristocratic army of tens of thousands. Such a great sin, he just symbolically locked me up for several months and fined me a year's salary. Maybe it's in my heart. This glass emperor was too happy, because I helped him get rid of the big troubles in his heart.
"The two factions of the two factions are in harmony on the surface, but they are fighting endlessly. They are also desperately trying to win over their ally, Duke Simea, who is beneficial to them, and constantly showing goodwill to you, and making Queen Lianna's nephew become Princess Ruyue's fiancé are their means! The princess is the future emperor, and Daxiu, the military talents you showed in several wars have to be different! You are both strange goods and have great investment value! The queen gave me a necklace in public and deliberately let the little princess approach you, just to win you over. Maybe she wants to recruit you as a son-in-law in the future!" Sheila smiled and turned her eyes to the vicinity. Next to a small fountain pool, Little Christine was performing a magic trick for Xue Yi and the little princess: He gathered a large ball of water in his hands and changed into various animal forms, which made the two little girls cheer excitedly
"It's so wonderful. I didn't expect that Kristen's ability to manipulate magic was so powerful!"
Even the look of Sheila who was talking to me was attracted by the performance of Kristen Little, but I had no intention of watching Kristen Little. I was already in a mess now.
"Of course, in terms of the ability to manipulate magic, none of us can compare to the little Christine. People from their family are born geniuses who use magic!"
I casually told Hira, but secretly cursed her adoptive father in my heart. He knew what happened to Hira, but he hid it all in his stomach and refused to say it until he died.
Now I'm very surprised by Sheila
What happened to her was that made her adoptive father who treated me like a parent-child and insisted on hiding it in his heart. He didn't say until he died that I really wanted to know the answer, but I didn't really want to know the answer.
I'm very conflicted and a little scared, because I'm afraid that something horrible will pop up after the black cloth covered on the surface of the secret will be uncovered.
After Anda's death, Sheila is the most important part of my life. If there is another scar on the reverse scale, I really don't know what method to use to repair it.
"Strange, Sheila, you didn't care about these things in the past at all, why are you even clearer than me now?" The doubt drove me to stretch out my temptation claws
"This is what Mrs. Ryan told me. Last time, I begged her to help us talk for a long time. I just relayed her words."
Sheila's explanation is perfect, but I know she's lying
Even though Yagri, who is a newspaper editor, has the ability to find out these rumors through various channels, Sheila's discussion on the empire just now, looks at her own opinions and opinions, not to relay other people's words, because she kept raising her eyebrows unconsciously when she spoke.
I have known Sheila for almost a year. She knows me very well, and I also understand her habits and styles: I like to use my hands to slut on my scalp when I lie, while Sheila always raises her eyebrows unconsciously when she lies.
"I didn't expect that Yagri's argument is so incisive and powerful. If I have the chance, I really want to ask her for more advice."
I laughed and said something wrong, trying hard to suppress the urge to flirt with my hands, but a thought came to my mind: Do I want to find an opportunity to check with Yagri, and ask her if she really said something similar to Sheila. Even if I know she is lying, I will confirm it again.
When this thought came out, I was even more scared.
What's wrong? I don't even believe the person I love the most, and I actually have this kind of thought!
Too scary!
"Happiness is a bird. If you catch it, you must seize it!"
I shivered and subconsciously grabbed Sheila's hands, holding them tightly
"I can't lose Sheila anyway!"
"Daxiu, what's wrong with you?"
I held Sheila's hands, put them beside my mouth, kissed her gently and looked at Sheila's purple eyes with her intelligence, and I made a comeback and said, "I don't want to be the emperor's son-in-law! What is happiness? As long as you can look at you every day, hold your hand, and fall asleep with you. Wake up every morning and watch you sleep peacefully in my arms. For me, this is happiness. Sheila, you promise me not to leave me, and don't let happiness fly away again!"
Sheila escaped from my eyes and whispered: "What are you talking about? Who said I'm leaving?"
" That's good!"
I pulled Xila into my arms and kissed her desperately
"Don't, there are a lot of people here!"
"Do not care about them, as long as you are there, it's enough!"
I opened my eyes and glanced at Ruyue, and Ruyue happened to sweep at me.
In that moment, the eyes that were immediately avoided, there was three points of envy, but seven points of pain was revealed.
"Ruyue, you must have thought of the humble young man in Rafab. He is indeed very suitable for your man, but a pity..."
Thinking of Rafa, I recalled the passing Anda
If Anda had made me feel this way, I would talk to her without any scruples and ask everything, rather than being as sensible as I am now
Sheila is not Anda, and she cannot replace her position in my heart!
"It's really unscrupulous, hahaha..."
The laughter of Duke Simea made Sheila and I feel extremely embarrassed. I quickly parted. This powerful figure of the empire stood beside us when I was not paying attention, looking at me with a smile.
I looked around and then I realized that two-thirds of the guests present were staring at us
The eyes shot at me were half filled with the flames of hatred, but looking at Sheila was another look
Duke Shiraya looked at Shira and kept nodding his head
"Don't be shy, young people should be like this, they are like young people! Miss Sheila, she looks very beautiful today! This Blue Moon Star is very compatible with her!"
"The Blue Moon Star is the name of the gem on the necklace on Sheila's neck! More than ten years ago, my father gave her to Her Highness the Queen! She liked it very much, and she wore it when attending a major court dance. I didn't expect that this time I gave it to you. It's obvious that the Queen likes you very much, Sheila!"
Kama is also standing with Duke Simea, and today she is going to meet her future mother-in-law. Kama's clothes are obviously carefully dressed up.
Apart from her fiery red dress that looked like her personality, she rarely put on lipstick, slightly scribbling, and put on a string of earrings on her ears.
Due to her temperament, she still has nothing to do with a lady now, but she is also an angry and beautiful girl.
"Seeing that you are quite honest in the past few years and have not done anything wrong again, I will let you go this time! Sheila and I haven't met for a long time, so we're going to get together!"
The tone of speaking was still rough, but the ingredients of delirium were mostly used. As usual, I gave me a fierce warning look. Kama grabbed Sheila's hand and dragged her aside, leaving only me and her father.
"I'm sorry, my daughter spoiled me!"
Looking at Kama's back, the richest man in the empire shrugged his shoulders helplessly
"It's nothing. Sheila's blessing to have such a friend!"
I'm telling the truth. Compared to her gradually degenerate self and Sheila now, Kama still maintains her original nature. She still does things like this, and does not care about the details. She has not lost her true nature because of her age and her mental maturity.
"I don't think this is a good thing. She is too reckless and too scheming!"
Duke Simea shook his head slightly and sighed bitterly
"York has been at home with illness recently, and he is missing. The atmosphere here is much better now! By the way, my old friends in Garys have also come here, and they really want to see you!"
Duke Nimea pointed behind him and looked in the direction he pointed. At a square table in the corner of the hall, there were five luxuriously dressed strangers.
Seeing my eyes turned to me, one of the black-haired men raised their wine glass to me friendly.
"Garris"
When I mentioned this city that was flooded by me, I felt uncomfortable all over. This is the place where I achieved success and fame, but it is also a place where I have made countless enemies.
"Did you see the gentleman who raised his glasses? This time, the public opinion of the outside world has changed drastically overnight, but it is all for his help!"
" who is he"
"Some people say that half of the property in the empire is in my pocket. This statement is too exaggerated. In recent years, I have abandoned business and politics and have been caught up with me. But if half of the tongue in the empire is growing on that man, it is not too much."
"This person is..."
"He is Mr. Murdospoman, the tongue of the empire! He is in charge of more than two-thirds of the newspapers in the entire empire!"
Duke Simea raised the wine glass in his hand, toasted the black-haired man, and smiled and drank the wine in the glass.
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