The King of Knights in a Different World
Chapter 18
As the new king, he represents a new regime, and certainly represents the greatest opportunity by his side. But it also means a huge risk, and Morgan's identity is destined to fail once she is involved.
Of course, it wouldn't matter if she was outstanding. But unfortunately, she doesn't have that kind of talent. This can be seen from the previous turmoil in Britain.
If Lucifer stands in her position, regardless of whether or not he is recognized by Wang Jian, Lucifer will directly stabilize the situation first, and then rule the court as the regent until a new king is elected.
As long as domestic conflicts can be resolved and foreign enemies can be defeated at the same time, the new king will appear at that time. If you want to be a virtuous minister, you can return the power to the king. There are even many other ways.
But unfortunately, those princesses did nothing, and even the four princes did not recognize her very much. With these examples, Lucifer didn't think it was a good thing to let her join them.
Listening to Lucifer's account, Semiramis also made a decision in her heart. She said the worst-case solution she had thought of before.
"In that case, I suggest that Wang put her to death for the crime of rebellion. Kill all possible rebellions in the enlightenment period. Or simply let me do it. I can let our princess die in a sad accident." Semiramis is now showing a cruelty that rivals her beauty.
The princess of the old royal family is definitely a huge hidden danger for the new king, and the safest way to not leave a hidden danger is to let that princess disappear completely. The Duke of Poison uncovered the stinger under her beautiful face at this moment. *
no.52 I am against (please ask for votes and flowers)
As the Duke of the West, her words are equivalent to rebellion. But it also proved that what she wanted to protect has always been this country, not the so-called royal family. Who is the king is not the most critical thing to her, the key lies in whether the king can lead this country to prosperity.
For this reason, even if things are revealed, she is willing to bear the notoriety of killing the master.
Lucifer was silent at this time, he looked at Semiramis calmly, and he could be sure that her words were not a joke. For a moment, he even felt that the woman in front of him was a bit dangerous, but then he thought about it, if it was used properly, it might be safer.
It's just that if you bear the darkness of this country alone, your strength is a bit heartbreaking.
Lucifer hasn't said anything yet, Leah behind him has already expressed strong opposition.
"Absolutely not!"
Whether as an upright knight or as a member of the royal family, she could not agree with such a decision.
"Leah, don't worry! How about trusting me more?" Lucifer smiled.
His silence just now was probably taken by the lovely knight Ji as thinking about the feasibility of this proposal.
"Sorry, please forgive me for my sin just now, king!"
"No! Sins are sins. I will save your sins until the evening to execute them. Now let us return to the immediate problem. I just said that. I have promised St. George to be kind to the royal family. Therefore, this proposal is also rejected. "
"Wang, being too kind is sometimes a virtue, but it's not an advantage." Semiramis changed his tone.
What this country needs is not a benevolent holy king, and the holy king cannot save this country. What it needs is a king who is decisive, who concentrates the eight virtues of the knight in one, but also has the seven original sins of the devil at the same time, and will not be affected by it.
"Is it kind. Mila, do you think I am the kind of king who will be affected by kindness?"
kindness! I may have a kind heart in my heart, but that also depends on the object. Not everyone is qualified to receive their pity, and not all times they will show their pity.
"No. So..."
At this point, Semiramis thought of another possibility.
"Yes! I have a better way to deal with the old nobles. As for Morgan, I have asked St. George to show her my attitude before."
"Will Saint George become a villain then?"
"Since he wants to preserve the former royal family, then this is the price he must pay. He is misunderstood as a villain, and he may even harm his reputation. In fact, I also want to know what step he can do with the vows in his heart."
If St. George couldn't persuade Morgan, and Morgan finally went to his opposite side and made the situation worse, he could only kill her. But at least before that, he had asked Saint George to give her a chance and did what she could do.
Semiramis is also much more relaxed, since Wang has made a decision with this, she will not interfere. She would put forward her own suggestion. As to whether Wang would accept it or not, it had nothing to do with her.
"I hope so. After listening to your words, I suddenly thought of a problem that has been bothering me before."
"What is the problem that can bother Wisdom as much as you, I am starting to be a little curious."
"It's just that you just issued a lot of laws. I don't think there is anything else, but one of the key is that the realm of the nobles is evenly distributed to all the sons. The official heir has only a small amount of preferential treatment. I am very much at this point. doubt."
"Pretty! Interesting! As expected of you, I immediately discovered the problem. Friendly reminder, but it hides the key to solving the problems of the old nobles."
"Solving the old nobles... That's how it turns out, it seems that you still have something to come up with."
"Do you want to understand, my prime minister." At this point, Lucifer's smile was mixed with a hint of pleasant cunning.
That's not a hard-to-see strategy. As long as you are a wise person, think about it and you will understand. But after the problem, seeing the problem and solving the problem are two different things.
As for Semiramis, of course she wanted to understand.
"I want to understand, but it's useless to understand. This is a decree that tells us that there is a problem, but we have not refused. If it is a conspiracy, your plan will be aborted at the moment of dismantling, but it is not, even if you tell Those people can’t do much if they don’t want your purpose."
The king declared that all sons of the nobles have the right to inherit the territory, which is equivalent to dividing the nobles from within. You may not see much in a short time, but when the problem is discovered, these divided nobles have long lost the ability to gather and fight against the central government.
After all, thirty people discussing treason is far more difficult than three people discussing treason.
It is often said that there are more people and more power, but when there are more people, they will lower their intelligence and turn them into mobs.
"I like to call it a conspiracy." Lucifer said the word.
"Very good! I found that we are getting more and more harmonious. The king needs to maintain his shining image, and it is best not to use conspiracy. Leave the conspiracy part to me, and you will continue to use your conspiracy as you are now. "
"Have you really decided, Mira." Upon hearing this, Lucifer suddenly felt a little sorry for the woman in front of him.
"Hey! Did I hear something wrong? Does the king care about me?" Semiramis's smile suddenly became very beautiful, and even Leah had a touch of heart.
"Well, you heard it right, I just care about you. If you do this, you will undoubtedly absorb all the shadows on my body, but the price of my brilliance is your sinking. Facing the abyss, you will also become the abyss. Affected."
As the son of glory, the prime minister took the initiative to carry the scapegoat. In this way, everyone would think that the king was very kind and all his evil deeds were on the prime minister. Such a combination can give play to the strongest strength of Wang and Xiang, but it also requires the absolute trust of Wang and Xiang.
At this moment, the two of them seemed to be connected, giving their trust to each other.
Lucifer's words caused a warm current to rise in Semiramis's heart. For this country, she is ready to go to hell. There would be no place for her in heaven anyway, she had thought so, but now, at least someone can walk with her, even if only for a moment.
"Don't worry! I'm just enjoying the fun of the conspiracy, not the real psychological gloom as you think. So, I will leave the blackface to me in the future. Trust me, I am very good at this kind of thing." , Her tone also softened.
"Really! I beg you, my prime minister."
Semiramis left here with a satisfied smile. Although today's meeting did not achieve her original goal, she unexpectedly got more benefits than she had imagined. She looked up at the sky, feeling the moonlight so dazzling for the first time.
After Semiramis left, the hall returned to calm. After hearing the words just now, the knight Ji behind Lucifer hesitated.
"Wang!" She whispered.
This is probably her first official contact with the so-called shady. Still the shady of the king and the prime minister.
"The king's body is not only brilliance, but also darkness. Walking in the darkness, he has light in his heart; when he is in the light, he always remembers the darkness. Walking between the light and the darkness, keeping his heart, using the light and the darkness, Melting into light and darkness, until finally surpassing light and darkness, this is the king." Lucifer did not defend himself, nor did he say that he would use less ambiguous things like this. He just said the kingly way he was heading.
"You know, Leah, I sincerely hope that all people in this country can maintain the virtue of a knight like you. In this way, even if the darkness of the whole country is concentrated on me, I will become the only villain in this country. I also think that my efforts are not meaningless."
Yes it is. Light and darkness coexist at all times. If the whole country is as bright as the sun, then the only person who bears the darkness of this country is the king, and it can only be the king.
"No matter when and where, your sword will always be my way forward." Leah took the initiative to hug Lucifer in public for the first time.
She didn't say anything like taking it together, she knew she couldn't do it, and the only thing she could do was stay with him as a sword, if he wanted to use it.
"Well, no matter how time changes, you will always be my scabbard." Lucifer gently shook her hand.
Everything is silent. *
no.53 a year
One year has passed since Lucifer's reforms began. In this year, Lucifer absorbed a large number of civilians and new aristocratic talents, and let them hold positions in his own territory in the name of previous justice. Because of their own lives, these people were not treated by others at first, but now they can become the king's direct subordinates. The natural result from this is loyalty to the king.
However, Lucifer did not allow them to hold too important positions for the time being, but mostly based on the basis. This also made the original old aristocratic faction put down a lot of vigilance. During the period, some aristocrats died, and Lucifer allocated their domain to their children in accordance with the new law.
After the first one, there is a second one. In this way, no one will doubt that the new king is just talking. Coupled with the economic construction of Lucifer's use of the war reparations obtained, the territory belonging to the royal family gradually became vigorous.
Lucifer also began to try to get his subordinates to use this territory as a model for internships, to fill the power gaps that will appear when the power is completely centralized in the future. Now Britain can't help but remind Lucifer of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period in his memory.
Private territory, a country within a country. After seeing the goodness of those old nobles, Lucifer didn't want to continue talking with them.
Lucifer also reopened the Royal Military Academy, which had previously closed down due to insufficient funds.
After a year of preparation, this place barely looks like an academy. But Lucifer does not intend to make it only as a military academy, but plans to build a comprehensive academy.
At present, after handing over the affairs to his clerk, Lucifer and his knight Ji are preparing to go to the Wang Family School for the most important task today, which is to recruit teachers for this school. Of course, it is not the military aspect, but other aspects.
After arriving in a huge classroom, Lucifer sat at the front desk. In front of him is a classroom like a university in his memory. The rows of seats in front are filled with applicants this time, and the corridor outside the classroom is also under martial law by the knights.
After reading these resumes, Lucifer asked them one by one, and the direction of the questions was the direction they were good at. Then, many people just left the classroom with expressions of shame in Wang's question.
After a long period of time, in the end there were only two people with real knowledge left in this classroom, instead of flicking like before. Of course, this was within Lucifer's expectation, and it was not bad to find two in the interview on the first day.
He didn't expect those people to be talents, even if he could find one out of ten, he would earn it.
However, these two seem familiar!
"Hornheim? Judging from your resume, what you are good at is more like alchemy than magic." Thinking about it, Lucifer asked.
"If I'm good at it, what I'm good at is actually the application of the five elements." With that, Hohenheim demonstrated his manipulation of the elements.
Five small **** of different colors seemed to surround the dagger in his hand.
"Is the fifth element proposed on the basis of the four elements, that is, the overhead element ether. It turns out to be a master! As far as your hand is concerned, it is not a problem to want to be a teacher of this academy." In the words, Lucy Phil also showed his hand. A crystal-like crystal rose in his hand.
Crystal spells, magic developed by Bailong Sith. Later it was inherited by the big hat Logan and placed in the large library.
"this is!"
"The magic that a certain scaleless white dragon researched in order to obtain dragon scales, I habitually call it a crystal spell."
Lucifer had only finished speaking, and the lady next to her leaned in impatiently.
"Wow! Awesome! So fun! This is the type of magic that I have never seen before. Coming to this country is really the most correct one of all my decisions. Hello, Knight King, I’m Leonardo da Vinci He is von Hornheim Paracelsus." The woman was happily introducing them to Lucifer.
"The creator of the legendary omnipotent man and the sage stone, I’m very happy to meet you. I’ll start straight to the point. I want to invite you to join the magic department of this academy. Of course, there is no official under the magic department. You are the tutors for the subjects, and the names of these subjects can be determined by you." Lucifer directly explained his thoughts.
The two in front of them have undoubtedly passed the interview. Since they came here to prove that they are also interested in the work here, there is no need to say too much polite words.
"No problem. But, in addition to the normal salary, we are actually more interested in the magic you just used."
"The highest level of the Wangli Library, I used to write research findings there. This is the key!"
Lucifer took out two official employment documents and put a key on them.
Da Vinci glanced at each other, and he was not polite.
"Deal!"
"You two are welcome to join."
After continuing to deal with some college affairs, Lucifer returned to the palace. He asked Altria to ask the kitchen to make some dessert, and he was about to take a short rest.
Due to the previous poisoning of Lucifer, Altria now pays special attention to Lucifer's diet. The previous incident was discovered by Lucifer in advance, and it did not cause any problems, and even pulled out a bunch of nobles who had private transactions with France. Naturally, these people will end up without saying much.
The current Janissaries have completely changed their blood once. Thanks to Altria's outstanding performance in this year, she was called the "King's Shield" by outsiders. Although she herself may prefer the title of ‘King’s Sword’.
The waiting time didn't last long, or it was still time to let Lucifer relax. Semiramis came here with a bunch of documents, and she put these things that needed to be decided into Lucifer's hands.
"This is the decision to be completed today."
"That’s all? Just find a reliable person to deliver this kind of thing. Come and deliver the documents in person. It’s not like your style." Lucifer said jokingly while browsing the paper documents in hand. .
Over the past year, the cooperation between the two of them cannot be said to be seamless, but at least they are intimate. Lucifer didn't even tell Altria about many things on the dark side, but discussed with Semiramis and asked her to execute it.
If the glorious country they are looking forward to together does come, they may become the only crime in this country, or accomplices.
"Wang knows me very well. In addition to these written documents, there are verbal transmissions from the old nobles. They used to call me frequently and wanted me to help propose the bill. As for the content of the bill, it is the restoration of the war tax. ."
Seeing that there was no one, Semiramis directly picked up the black tea held by Lucifer and drank it. The moment the tea entered her mouth, she frowned. The tea here is obviously not Lucy's work, she put down the cup boringly, without the idea of continuing to drink. *
no.54 You are looking for a dead end (please ask for votes, ask for flowers)
The so-called war tax is a law left by the king. The content of this law is actually very simple. That is, once the country starts fighting, everyone is obliged to pay taxes and prepare for the war.
On the surface, it looks like a law beneficial to war, but it has been abused long ago. This decree still existed until a year ago, and was later abolished by Lucifer.
"Restore the war tax. This again! How many times have this happened. They don't seem to learn well at all, or they don't have a brain at all, and they don't understand what I said?" Lucifer put down his hands. The files that have been read are full of irony in their voices.
In fact, before that, those people had proposed many proposals to restore the war tax, but they were all rejected by Lucifer. Lucifer's righteousness also made them completely unable to find a reason to refute.
Since the king can't say anything, he can only talk to the prime minister. The prime minister is also a great nobleman and can also benefit from the war tax. In the eyes of the old nobleman, their interests are the same. However, this is only in their opinion.
"I don't think so. It's just because of greed. Previously, war taxes were a major source of income for them. As long as they had a tight hand, they would immediately start a war. Of course, most of the time they were fighting against other territories in the country."
"War against other territories? It's a show. They are afraid of death. Will they really go to war? At most, they collude with each other, show them to the civilians, and then squeeze money out of it."
Lucifer couldn't help thinking about a year ago. At that time, because of the victory of the war, they received a sum of compensation. After these people heard the news, they immediately ran over to tell themselves, that so and so is the knight of their own family, and said that since he joined the king's commander, they did not Will stop them, and won't let them return.