I Will Be The Crowned King

The bright moon is in the sky, and the lanterns are just beginning.

When the grand triumphal ceremony finally came to an end, a grand dinner was held at the Lighthouse Palace, the second largest building in Port Carindia - the first being the Hantu Cathedral - which made the noise of the night and the liveliness of the day. Completed seamless connection.

In order to please Anson and his storm division as much as possible and make him forget about the "800,000 compensation", the Carindia Council almost did everything possible at this banquet, and it took great pains to get it out. A flower cluster came out.

The Hall of the Lighthouse Palace, which was the main venue for the banquet, was originally just a stone old castle building. Because of its long history and indeed large enough, it was reserved and used as the office space of the Carindia Council.

It has also been repainted today, with an extravagant red carpet on the smooth bluestone floor, colourful drapery on the otherwise slightly drab walls on both sides, and a ceiling hung with exquisite Empire-style crystal chandeliers. .

The corners around the hall are also filled with sculptures and oil paintings of various eras. Even the tables, chairs and tableware are either old antiques or high-end luxury goods that are absolutely expensive...

In short, it is very gorgeous, extravagant, very good, and very spirited. At first glance, it is the favorite of upstarts who have no taste or understanding of art, or it is an exotic high-class banquet scene imagined.

Leon was quite critical of Carindia's arrangements. He remembered that the Lighthouse Palace dinner was a very quiet salon party where fresh fish and country wines were tasted in a slightly dim light, and they talked to each other— The big purple and big red in front of him, in his opinion, is basically the opposite of deliberately fooling people.

But it is very appetizing to the officers of the Storm Division.

After all, most of this group of people are either fresh graduates, or civilian grass-roots officers like Carl Bain—and black pot professionals—have not participated in any real "high-end banquets"; like the feast at Golden Rock City before , in their eyes, it is not as good as this time.

Under the colorful lights, the brightly-colored tables are filled with countless, let alone nameless wines and delicacies; each of them looks very tempting and very close to the Clovis. Taste - There are many meat dishes and pickled products, and whether it is sweet, salty, sour or spicy, the taste is very strong.

With the rhythm of the notes resounding in the hall, the graceful maids shuttled back and forth around the dining tables like flying butterflies. They moved gracefully, and served every guest with all their hearts. The "tuned" storm division officers were either as stiff as wood, or excitedly babbling nonsense, or they were blushing and speechless.

As the most honored VIP in the whole show, Anson was not only placed in the main seat that was originally the host, he enjoyed the flattery and flattery of the surrounding Carindian nobles, and described him and the storm division as gods and soldiers. Down, omnipotent, let the next Carl Bain keep rolling his eyes, drinking bottle after bottle of stuffy belly.

It's a bunch of idiots who are about to be beaten to the bone, and they still don't forget to thank the idiots of the bad guys... Looking at the group of Carindian nobles who are still talking and smiling, Carl, who is flushed from drinking, can't help but think of it. .

Accompanied by the warm applause of the scene, An Sen, dressed in a colonel uniform and a one-shoulder cape, walked to the ceremony stage and started his speech tonight.

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At the same time, in the top secret room of the Palace of Lighthouses, an impromptu negotiation was going on at the same time as the banquet.

"Lord Fabian, is this different from what we said before?"

Looking at the agreement in hand, the representative of Carindia, who glanced at his companion, said with an ugly expression: "Is there any misunderstanding here?"

"Misunderstanding? No, no, no, there is no misunderstanding." Fabian shook his head and raised his hand to gesture to the little secretary beside him:

"This is an agreement that was carefully calculated by the clerk of Deputy Commander Anson Bach, His Excellency Alan Dawn, after detailed investigation and evidence collection, and will definitely not exceed the current limit that Carindia Port can bear."

The limit to endure... The representative of Carindia frowned, resisting the displeasure: "But you clearly promised us before that you would persuade Deputy Commander Anson Bach to accept the reason why the Port of Carindia has suffered huge losses. , press the indemnity to around 400,000 yuan!"

"There are records at the time and your autograph as evidence. Are you saying... are you going to break your promise?!"

"Of course not!" Fabian suddenly widened his eyes:

"As someone who has experienced it firsthand, I understand your difficulties very well - indeed, it is really stretched to pay such a large amount of indemnity under the current conditions of Port Carindia, and I am indeed taking this with the most sincere and sincere attitude. An objective fact was passed on to His Excellency the Deputy Commander!"

"but……"

"But!" Fabian interrupted him righteously:

"But unfortunately, I failed."

Um?

The representative of Carindia was stunned, his eyes bigger than Fabian: "What is a failure?!"

"It means that I failed to convince Deputy Commander Anson Bach." Fabian spread his hands:

"I tried my best, but unfortunately, the Deputy Commander did not take my advice - it's that simple."

"This..." Representative Carindia looked shocked, almost unable to control his desire to curse.

"What's more important..." The representative of Carindia, who had not waited for his face to be extremely ugly, asked, Fabian's face suddenly sank, and there was a hint of anger in his narrowed eyes:

"It really made me fail to convince the deputy commander, which led you to think that the culprit behind my broken promise... It was none other than Carindia, and it was you!"

"US?!"

The representative of Carindia was even more surprised.

"It's you who told me that Carindia's finances are already stretched, and I really can't get the amount of indemnity, so I will promise you to persuade Your Excellency the Deputy Commander to reduce a little." Fabian seemed to suppress his anger and said:

"But in fact, you don't seem to be frank with me."

"How is this possible?!"

The representative of Carindia also seemed to be provoked: "The great Council of Carindia will never deceive allies and act in perfidious acts - Sir Fabien, I demand that you immediately withdraw this unsubstantiated and unprovoked act. Charge!"

In the face of his rebuttal, the sneering Fabian didn't say anything, he sat down slowly without saying a word, and gestured to Alan Dawn on his lower body with his eyes.

"Please don't jump to conclusions so quickly as to whether Major Fabian's remarks fall into the category of 'groundless allegations'."

The little secretary who noticed the other party's eyes immediately opened his mouth and said with a smile, he took out a thick stack of parchment scrolls from the black document bag he was carrying:

"In fact, just before this afternoon, I just transferred a list of payments and expenditures for the Carindia Council from Hantuo Cathedral, which clearly records the detailed income and expenditure of your treasury accounts for the past two months."

The representative of Carindia, who was still angry just now, suddenly narrowed his eyes.

"For example, with regard to compensation for losses caused by the mutiny of the fleet, two shipyards in the port of Carindia received new orders on June 18. The number you mentioned is eighty large galleys." The little clerk with the parchment raised his eyes:

"However, the orders and advance payment remarks received by the shipyard indicated that there were only eight ships."

"This……"

The representative of Carindia opened his mouth and hesitated.

"Also." The little secretary continued to add: "Tonight's triumphal ceremony and banquet expenses, the total expenditure recorded in your treasury accounts is 28,000 gold coins."

"But I checked the way of payment and the current price evaluation of Carindia Port. Even by the most exaggerated standards, it is only one-third of this figure."

"In addition, you also mentioned the reconstruction cost and compensation of Luyin Valley, with a total amount of 100,000 gold coins; but according to what I have learned from the officers and soldiers of the Storm Division, the damage to the town is indeed serious, but more serious casualties."

"According to the oral accounts of several Carindian soldiers who came back with the Storm Division and the people of Green Valley, they did not receive any compensation or notices; after deducting the 30,000 gold coins for rebuilding the town, I would like to ask you to spend the remaining 70,000 yuan. Where are you?"

"There is also work on rebuilding the Carindian Corps after the war, which is also an important part of your treasury expenditure; but I understand that the money has been allocated so far, but I have not heard that any famous arms dealer has contacted you Contact; if necessary, there is a Clovis arms dealer representative in the White Tower City in Thun, who can come over at any time."

"and……"

In the small conference room, the smiling little secretary kept talking, reading the contents of the thick stack of parchment to the opposite side.

Every time he recites one, the cold sweat on his face, which is like sitting on pins and needles, will increase by one point, his hands and feet will gradually become cold, his brain will be completely blank, and the blood on his face will fade at a speed that can be seen by the naked eye.

Exactly twenty minutes later, when Alan Dwayne placed the last piece of parchment in front of him, the trembling representative of Carindia was already bloodless, his eyes were dull, and the whole person seemed to be smitten with evil. Yes, trembling and trembling.

"That's about it now, because it's only today, but the preparations were rushed, please forgive me." The little secretary said a little apologetically:

"But even with your current financial situation, paying the 800,000 indemnity is definitely more than enough, and there is no financial stretch at all."

"In addition, just in case, I also counted the loss of the ocean fleet mutiny; it was indeed a heavy blow to the port of Carindia, but it has not yet reached the point of real injury."

"After all, although you have lost a large fleet, you are also temporarily free from the burden of maintaining fleet expenses and maintenance; the real decline in revenue will not be obvious until at least next year; if nothing else this year, taxes will even have It may increase."

The representative of Carindia was silent.

"This, these... these documents, which family did you get them from?"

"Family, what does this have to do with Carindia's family?" The little secretary blinked his eyes with a confused expression:

"The state treasury expenditure account, the market price level, and the orders in the factory... These are all public information. As long as you look for it carefully, it is not very difficult to collect a general information in a short period of time. After all, it is not impossible to say anything. secret."

So the representative of Carindia was even more silent.

He twitched his throat and looked at the small boy in front of him with a hint of fear in his eyes:

"Lord Ellen Dawn, you... who are you?"

"I'm not a 'sacred', Your Excellency." The young man smiled slightly, and his cheeks were a little embarrassed:

"Just a humble, not worth mentioning, a little secretary."

Looking at the Carindia representative who had been beaten to the core, Fabian coughed lightly, took the words and continued:

"Therefore, after taking into full account the premise that this year's Carindia did not cause a lot of expenditure on the treasury due to war and fleet mutiny, Deputy Commander Anson Bach rejected the request for a relief from indemnity."

"In addition, in order to ensure that Carindia will not be threatened by the two major forces of Aiden and Mist, and to improve the level of protection of the Storm Division for your country, we have decided to increase the indemnity from 800,000 to 100,000 yuan. One hundred and eighty thousand, to meet this demand..."

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"...so peace has always been a luxury since time immemorial, because it means not only the absence of war, but also the enjoyment of happiness with prosperous trade, stable life, equal communication, and safety for everyone. the right to live."

"And like I said, to win this right, it will cost a lot, and it will take everyone to work together and sacrifice and fight for it!"

"It requires people to let go of hatred and differences, to stop fighting each other, but to unite together with one goal, one voice, for us and our future generations, in exchange for that costly, hard-won and precious peace!"

In the banquet hall~www.readwn.com~, An Sen, who was standing on the podium, waved his hands from side to side, and talked to everyone present, with infectious words popping out of his mouth one by one, and he talked in a eloquent manner.

At this moment, the smiling little secretary suddenly walked into the banquet hall, passed through the crowd that could not stop him at all, walked to the podium and handed a parchment scroll into his hand.

When his eyes fell on the parchment, the corners of An Sen's mouth twitched indistinctly, and he immediately clenched the agreement in his hand and raised it above his head abruptly:

"And now! Please allow me to announce a solemn good news to everyone - after a short negotiation, our Storm Division has reached a cooperation intention with the Republic of Carindia."

"The noble Carindians will fight for this great cause with us, with the Thun and all those who are committed to peace in the Far Lands!"

"Long live--!!!!"

Excited cheers instantly turned the hall into a sea of ​​joy; accompanied by thunderous applause, the Carindian nobles who didn't know they were beaten to the bone danced happily one by one, shouting "Friendship" and "Friendship". Peace" slogan.