Stratholme God

  Chapter 47 Is all this in your calculations?

   In the imperial study, King Terenas angrily overturned the four-cornered low table in front of him, and at the same time, the one in his heart, he hadn't tried to be so angry for many years, but he really couldn't control himself.

  The back of his hand is full of blue veins like the whiskers of an old tree, and his body is bulging, showing the anger of the old king.

   Behind him, a group of ministers knelt down on their knees, bowed their heads, they were all cowardly, and even a little heavy breathing seemed to be a death penalty.

"The face of Lordaeron, the most powerful nation of mankind, has been wiped out by you trash!" The old king's low voice seemed to turn into a whip, and he slapped the ministers' faces fiercely, all of whom felt hot on their faces. : "Get out of here first!"

  The ministers withdrew in a hurry, like Montana.

  In the study, only the old king and the 4 personal guards behind him were left.

  The eyes of the guards are like electricity, and there is always a slight movement of the right arm, and there is a tendency to draw their swords when they disagree.

   Terenas spoke to the void: "Let's not discuss the loss first, has the cause of the matter been found out?"

"It's generally found." When a shadowy guy answered in the corner of the study, a thick black parchment rolled out of the corner in a suspended state and landed on Terenas' desk. superior.

  Each country has its own intelligence agency, and other ministers keep away from such people.

   Terenas swept away the other messy statements and reports on the desk, took it out and read it, his pupils shrank, and a mouthful of turbid air rushed into his throat on the spot, almost breathless, and he was rushing to die.

After reading it three times, he looked at Mr. Shadow in disbelief, and squeezed a few words out of his teeth: "You mean, the palace of the Menethil family that has not seen blood in thousands of years has been defiled by ugly monsters, more than eight The death of ten middle and lower-ranking nobles or their families, plus five hundred soldiers and servants, was actually due to an accident!?”

   "According to the information collected by the minister so far, the preliminary judgment is indeed true."

   Terenas was so angry that he vomited blood.

   This is nothing! ?

   The context of things is quite clear:

  The Duke of Stratholme did not receive much actual reward after his triumph.

   I don't know if it was because Terenas was too stingy, or because the king himself sold someone's captives to the arena, which inspired someone's business talent. So MacDonald picked up Duke Fordragon and asked him to present a group of living orcs to convince other Lordaeron nobles by example.

   In fact, the Duke of Stratholme is likely to have pitted Fordragon. Because of the 150 orcs captured by the people of Stormwind Kingdom, all of them were left by McDonald after they disembarked in Lordaeron. They sent a written report to the Minister of the Kingdom Palace, which said that the people of Stormwind Kingdom submitted On the 30 orcs, I hope His Majesty the King witnesses the horror of the orcs.

   On the other side, another 120 orc captives were sold to the arena under the major dukes that night.

   Looking at the long list of bosses behind the hosts, Terenas held his breath.

   "The Duke of Tirisfal, the Duke of Silverpine, the Duke of Andorhal, the Duke of Rockmere..."

  He is meow!

   This is a typical example of everyone making a fortune together!

  Tonight, more than a dozen convoys of orc slaves, large and small, almost entered the city from front to back. The other teams were fine, except for the Ritter Planck team.

  At that time, there were 3,211 private soldiers in dozens of noble mansions on King Street. In other words, any two orcs can kill these orcs with all their strength.

  The guards at the palace gate are also trash. According to the captain of his own guards, as long as a team of 30 guards can at least kill them all.

  However, this is where the blood is. No nobles are willing to take action, and the nearly 100 guards at the palace gate can't stand it.

When the    orcs came in, Terenas was so frightened that he ran away first surrounded by guards. If it wasn't for McDonald's leading the team to rescue the car, even Alsace and Kalia would be hiccups.

   From every angle, though, McDonald's is a bit of a suspect.

   Terenas finally said: "Duke Stratholme, what do you think?"

  The king was suspicious after all. After all, the introduction of orcs was caused by McDonald's. Although he has the power to save the driver, he also has suspicions on him.

   Sombra knew exactly what his master was asking.

"Any rebel with a normal mind would not use only 10 knights, 87 soldiers with uneven armor, and 4 priests in pajamas, holding a pile of thirty unbladed weapons, including The rubbish, attack the palace with 3,600 royal guards and praetorian guards. Or count on 30 crazy orcs with bad minds to go all the way through the palace gate and murder the kings and princes and princesses of Lordaeron."

  What Sombra said made sense, but Terenas couldn't refute a word.

   Compared with the doubts about Mai, Terenas was even more annoyed that no one but the kid MacDonald would come to the rescue!

  You great nobles, aren't you my vassals?

   Is your loyalty just in your mouth?

asshole! One or two are unreliable!

   But how can Terenas be angry!

  The human kingdoms in the world of Azeroth are all standard feudal systems.

  In ancient times, transportation was inconvenient, and the territory that the king could directly govern was doomed to be quite limited. Sealing out the territory became an inevitable choice. The sealed territory no longer belongs to the king. Only the lords of the fiefs were loyal and accountable to the king.

   A simple generalization can describe this relationship: "My vassal's vassal, not my vassal!"

The lords below    are all earth emperors. When these younger brothers did not have to pay taxes and tribute to the king, they were in charge of fighting the country.

   (After the Celestial Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty, including the Qin Dynasty, these are all centralized systems, and there is a big difference.)

   Usually, the king cannot make any substantial punishment for the disobedient grand duke. Unless there is absolute evidence to prove that a certain big noble and the whole family are treasonous, at most, let the current duke abdicate and let his son inherit the title.

   "Okay, I got it."

   Half an hour later, in the palace hall, Terenas brought the frightened Arthas to meet a large number of nobles who came to see him overnight.

   "Congratulations, Your Majesty!"

   "Your Majesty and His Highness are safe and sound is the greatest happiness of the kingdom!"

  When the king is in trouble, not a single figure can be seen; when it is safe, a group of people come up to beat the rainbow fart.

   Terenas felt disgusted when he saw the faces of the great nobles.

of course there are exceptions.

The Duke of Andorhal knelt down under the throne stairs with tears and snot, "Your Majesty, you must call the shots for me! Duke Stratholme's orc slave almost killed his servants - my wife has been severely punished. Frightened, still nervous now... Your Majesty—"

   This big fat pig cried so earnestly and splashed dirty water so well that the corners of his eyes twitched when he saw McDonald's beside him.

  Made! Without morals, anything is possible!

  If you can't learn, you can't learn!

   But then again, 'my slave'?

  …

Terenas, who was wearing a silver crown of thorns and thorns on the throne, made a gesture with an expressionless face, and immediately a palace minister came forward to read: "The matter has been checked, the owner of the White Cross Arena, Ritter Planck, purchased 30 After becoming an orc slave, the care was not strict, which led to a catastrophe and caused the biggest loss to the Kingdom of Lordaeron since the founding of the country, including Viscount XXX and Baron XXX…”

   After reading a long list of names, the palace minister finally said the verdict:

   "The entire property of Ritter Planck is confiscated. All his property, except the White Cross Arena, will be distributed to all those injured in this incident."

   "The Duke of Macdonald Stratholme led his troops to rescue and rescued them, and is specially given to the White Cross Arena..."

   Hearing this, looking at the system prompt, McDonald's eyes suddenly went black and his ears were buzzing. Even after the king admitted that the threat of the orcs did exist and asked everyone to start preparing for battle, he didn't listen.

  After the meeting, returning to the duke's mansion, Bolvar came up and said strangely: "Your Excellency Duke Stratholme, is all this in your calculations?"

   (end of this chapter)