In the early morning, when the sun is shining down from the sky, with the sound of bells ringing inside and outside, the door connecting the inside and outside of the Golden Palace slowly opens, just like the entrance from one world to another, displayed in
In front of several approaching carriages.
Although they are called "carriages", in fact all these vehicles are pulled by the cardinal.
In recent years, the Cardinals Association initiated by the Queen has carried out a thorough reform of the traffic in Nali. Of course, there are some obstacles and it is not easy to achieve overnight. Especially the Chief Financial Minister, when he saw the cardinals one after another on the financial statements,
After the purchase was approved and the budget was compressed, I was on the verge of tears. However, after many debates with the Minister of Environment and Health, the Finance Minister finally had to give up the argument.
The first reason was that he could not go against the Queen, and the second reason was that he was indeed tired of the criticized smell of horse manure on the streets of Saint-Nali.
After several carriages slowly stopped, the door of the leading black carriage opened, and a relatively strong white-haired old man stepped out of the carriage. It was none other than the newly elected Prime Minister Ooni.
This old man seemed to have little ability, but he unexpectedly became an evergreen tree in the turbulent political environment. People below him fell like straw after batch after batch, but he remained strong and even got promoted all the way, and finally in his sixtieth year.
He became Prime Minister in 1998.
This is entirely because Ooni has an ability that all previous prime ministers cannot match: extremely excellent observation skills.
Not only for people, but also for situations.
This innate ability not only allowed him to maintain a mistress and male favorite for many years behind the back of his original wife in his private life, but also allowed him to stand in a safe place under Elizabeth's hands.
This ability has become his passive instinct, and it was the same this morning.
When Ooni stepped off the carriage and took his first breath of air outside the Golden Palace, he felt a tightness in his chest, as if there was a heavy feeling before a heavy rain poured down.
He stretched out his hand to rub the air, but did not feel the moisture as he expected, so he could only groan and turned to look at the carriages parked behind his carriage.
At this moment, the doors of those carriages were also opened, and several "big shots" from Nali stepped out.
After just one glance, Ooni didn't want to look at it anymore.
Defense Minister Pietro, Foreign Minister Xiuji, Director of the Secret Service Albert
There are only so many relevant figures in the political arena who have complicated matters. The appearance of just one of these people has already given him a headache, let alone now that they are all gathered together.
He sighed inwardly, but his face remained normal as he watched them come towards him to say hello.
"Good morning, Prime Minister."
"Your Majesty Prime Minister."
"Haha, good morning."
Ooni laughed and walked with them into the Golden Palace, holding hands behind his back. But it seemed that apart from the greeting at the beginning, Ooni stopped saying anything and just walked forward.
The remaining people looked at each other as they walked. After secretly exchanging opinions, the Minister of Defense spoke first,
"The Prime Minister was summoned by His Majesty just yesterday, and today I have summoned you again for a routine report. It's really hard on Mr. Ooni."
"It's all trivial matters. Compared to you group of 'dangerous elements', yesterday's financial meeting made me more worry-free."
"Where?" Defense Minister Pietro laughed sarcastically, but continued to ask, "Presumably with Mr. Ihsan's ability, yesterday's financial report should satisfy His Majesty, right?"
Ihsan is now Nali's chief financial minister, and he was also responsible for yesterday's report.
But as mentioned before, Ooni has extremely excellent observation skills, and he can understand what the other person wants to ask almost instantly.
Ooni blinked, and then replied noncommittally,
"Satisfaction yesterday does not mean that you will be satisfied today. You know this, Mr. Pietro."
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Ooni left the other ministers behind him and walked quickly to the Golden Palace. It seemed that he didn't want to talk to them too much, so he let the remaining people look at each other before they could follow him.
The reason why Ooni did this is also very simple, because he could see that these ministers had objections to Queen Elizabeth, and it seemed that they had reached a point where they had to express their opinions.
The outer court of the Golden Palace was a little more lively than before, Ooni thought as he looked at the inner court officials passing by in the palace.
Her Majesty the Queen seems to have driven all the inner court officials to live in the outer court, and I don’t know why.
When they passed by, two chamberlain officers standing in the corridor were talking in whispers with their heads down, but Ooni only heard a few fragments of words.
"Really, did you see it?"
"It's absolutely true. I think we moved out of the inner courtyard for this reason."
"Could it be true that Your Majesty?"
"Otherwise, why did Your Majesty secretly kill her dogs earlier? Dozens, almost a hundred, my God. I heard that they were all buried on the grass in the inner courtyard. I don't know why he wanted to kill those dogs.
Kill all the cute little guys, but I think it has something to do with us moving out."
"Shh!"
The two inner court officials who were talking quickly stopped talking after seeing several ministers walking into the palace from outside the gate, lowered their heads and continued busy with their own affairs.
In fact, Ooni didn't hear the whispers of those girls at all. He could only vaguely hear a few scattered words, "Your Majesty", "reason", etc., which should be about things in the Golden Palace.
He just blinked, pretending that he heard nothing, and then walked forward, bypassing several corridors before entering the conference room. At this time, Her Majesty the Queen had not arrived yet, so he sat upright in a side seat, closed his eyes and waited.
Your Majesty is coming.
The Queen arrived later than usual today. In the past, the Queen was already sitting here waiting for them to arrive before they arrived, but today they sat here for almost ten minutes without seeing His Majesty's shadow.
Of course they didn't dare to have any opinions, but they were still curious about this incident.
"Ta! Ta! Ta!"
It wasn't until heavy and powerful footsteps sounded outside the door that Ooni opened his eyes and looked at the door at the same time as the ministers who had been preparing for a long time beside him.
"Good morning everyone."
I saw Elizabeth walking into the conference room with a very calm expression. Although the expression on her face was still warm, it was still difficult to hide the radiant look on her face.
Ooni had already seen it yesterday, but it was the first time that these ministers beside her noticed that the Queen was completely different from the past.
How should I put it? It is a serious crime to judge His Majesty casually, but this feeling is still unavoidable after all.
If the Elizabeth of the past gave the impression to the people below that it was like a battle-hardened sword full of fishy smell, the Elizabeth of the present is more like a sharp sword brand new from the factory, polished and polished.
This doesn't mean that Her Majesty the Queen doesn't feel dangerous to others, it's just that
Well, it seems more energetic?
It's as if we suddenly went from the cold depths of winter to the early spring of the hibernation of insects. This is probably how it feels.
I don’t know if His Majesty has received some secret medicine recently, which can replenish blood and make your face glowing and radiant. It seems that your mood has also improved a lot.
It's a pity that I don't dare to talk to His Majesty casually, otherwise I would also like to ask if there is any secret medicine
Ooni thought so, but still said good morning to Her Majesty the Queen honestly.
Elizabeth sat at the head of the table with empty hands. Her empty eyes glanced at the ministers below who had made preparations. She seemed to understand everything in an instant. Before they could speak, she looked at Pietro, the Minister of Defense among them.
"Sir Pietro, before the formal report, do you have something to mention?"
The minister who was named blinked and glanced at his colleagues but did not dare to look at Elizabeth. After being silent for a while, he resigned himself to spreading out the original bill in his hand and said in a deep voice,
"Yes, Your Majesty, it's about the disastrous defeat of the Southern Continent Allied Forces."
"Go on."
Elizabeth leaned on the seat behind her and looked at the people below with interest, letting the cold gaze in her eyes scan every inch of their expressions, trying to bring to life any secret hidden under that reaction.
Cutting it out, as if doing so would bring her endless pleasure.
"Half a month ago, the coalition forces in the southern continent failed in the encirclement and suppression of the Red Dragon Court in the south. The losses were unprecedented. Not only did the generals appointed by His Majesty die, but the large number of troops recruited were directly disorganized and even disappeared. We
No manpower has been arranged to reorganize the army. Counting the missing and dead soldiers, the total number can reach seventy-eight out of ten. With so many people, even one hundred thousand pigs may not be captured in one day, but they can actually catch them in one day.
Being defeated by the Red Dragon Palace within a short period of time, this is simply "
"I know the situation. The person who reported it said that there was a vision in the sky at that time. It was the vision that defeated our army, not the Red Dragon Palace."
"Then according to His Majesty's wishes, what should we do next? Will the Southern Continent just give up like this?"
"Yes." Elizabeth seemed to not care about the outcome there and directly announced her order, "I have decided to abandon all coalition forces in the southern continent to stop losses."
Pietro opened his mouth, seemingly in disbelief, and murmured,
"Wait a minute, Your Majesty, I don't understand."
"Is it difficult to understand? Or is it not that you don't understand, but that you have opinions on this decision?"
"I"
Pietro opened his mouth. Under Elizabeth's extremely stressful glance, he was so shocked that he could hardly speak. Even beads of sweat squeezed out from his forehead, but in the end, he still trembled.
He chattered his teeth and struggled with countless "I have no objections" that wanted to escape from his mouth, then he spoke with difficulty,
"I have opinions about His Majesty's Southern Continent, matters on the east side, matters on the North, and matters on the sea. With all due respect, I do not understand His Majesty's deep meaning. It is not me, my
Colleagues and many ministers have doubts about these resolutions of His Majesty."
Sitting on the side seat, Ooni closed his eyes and sighed silently. Unexpectedly, these guys still had the courage to express their opinions about Elizabeth.
You must know that in the past few years, Queen Elizabeth's foreign policy has been finalized by Queen Elizabeth and has become an unprecedented tough attitude, especially towards Shivali and Kadu, who have had disputes in the past. If this is the case, these ministers may be
They won't reveal anything. After all, some of their elders may have participated in the disputes with Shivali in the past few hundred years. It is normal to have a little hatred between the country and the family.
But what puzzles the ministers below is that Her Majesty the Queen likes to engage in proxy wars.
This was the case with the previous human coalition forces in the Southern Continent. There were only a handful of Nali people in the army, and they were all recruited from the east side of the Western Continent. They stirred things up in the Southern Continent and supported a puppet regime of the Green Dragon Palace.
This is not only the case in the Southern Continent, but also in the chaotic east side of the Western Continent. There seems to be a fanatical religious military organization called the "Pure Holy Anointing Army" established there. Under the banner of "counter-insurgency and correcting the situation", it has cooperated with many people who have stabilized the situation.
A small country started a war, and the result was that the atmosphere there became heated again.
The Black Chief on the ocean stabbed all the other big pirates in the back and hunted retail pirates crazily; in the Sardine Kingdom in the north, the Turan family was also secretly supported to fight against the rising Wutong Tree.
Over the years, these ministers have watched the Queen try to get involved wherever she goes, investing a lot of money but getting nothing but death and chaos.
If it weren't for the fact that the territory of Narli has really grown stronger and fatter in recent years, and these things have not affected the territory, I am afraid that Pietro would not have waited until today to say these words to Elizabeth.
Pietro stated all the above to Elizabeth, and made one point clearly and clearly, "Your Majesty, please stop and don't do this kind of thing again."
After saying this, Pietro couldn't help but break out a layer of sweat on his forehead. He glanced cautiously in Elizabeth's direction, only to find that she was only listening and not looking at him.
This act of not looking at him made him feel slightly relieved. Somehow, he was really afraid of Elizabeth's gaze towards him. The terrifying feeling was really hard to describe.
All the clothes, skin and flesh were stripped off and then exposed to the sun, which was so painful.
Before Elizabeth expressed her opinion, the director of the Hidden Affairs Bureau on the side also took advantage of this time to speak,
"Your Majesty, although the Pure Holy Anointing Army on the eastern front of the mainland is progressing smoothly in the war, and the countries it raided along the way are basically unable to resist, we have received reliable news that many resistance organizations hidden in the destroyed countries are brewing. Support us head-on.
It is no longer possible for the Holy Anointed Army to fight, and they may go to extremes to target us who are standing behind the Holy Anointed Army. It is also impossible to carry out terrorist attacks in Nali, or even plan actions against His Majesty."
The thing is like this. Although the Holy Anointed Army supported by the east side of the mainland can easily defeat those small countries, which is not as difficult as the hard bone of the Red Dragon Palace, even the most brutal and inhumane genocide will eventually retain its roots. This
This is the information I received this time.
The Director of the Secret Service also stands with Pietro. In essence, he also rejects this thankless foreign-related behavior. In particular, Queen Elizabeth has not mentioned to anyone the real reasons for her actions over the years.
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The so-called going to the Southern Continent to divide interests?
If this is really the case, why are we still recruiting troops abroad, and why is there not enough attention to that side?
"What?! An attack on His Majesty? Albert, I order you"
Next to him, Prime Minister Ooni, who had been silent all this time, couldn't sit still when he heard that a "decapitation operation" might be planned against Elizabeth. He quickly spoke to increase the importance of this matter, but Elizabeth on the side
But she just smiled slightly, and she still didn't care, not only for those who resisted her, but also for the admonitions they had just given.
She seemed to have no need to explain to them the reasons for her actions, but her slightly empty eyes revealed a little appreciation for their sincere advice, but other than that, there was nothing else.
Elizabeth raised her left hand, stopped Ooni's unfinished words, and said casually,
"Your scope of responsibility is to stop any terrorist attacks against Saint-Nali. As for those against me, if they have the courage, let them do it. They can give it a try."
"Your Majesty, it's better to be careful, you"
"Shh, let's end this topic. I'm tired of it. Let's move on to the next topic."
Pietro said so much, and Albert also added a lot. They may have expected the consequences of countless suggestions, being dragged down and beheaded by the angry Elizabeth, and even more mildly being devalued and insulted, but only
Unexpectedly, Elizabeth didn't do anything to them
Maybe it's because Her Majesty Elizabeth has been in a good mood these days?
However, it seems that His Majesty does not want to give any explanation, and even just treats their advice as empty air.
However, with their mortal eyes, they were just the Queen's servants who did not even dare to raise their heads and look directly at her. How could they see what Elizabeth saw from her perspective at this moment?
But Elizabeth, who was sitting in the main seat, was still listening boredly to their report on other matters, but in her palm that should have been empty, a large, luxuriously decorated golden cup seemed to have been held in her hand.
Amid it, it swayed with the movement of her wrist.
"Hua Hua"
While shaking, a heavy and subtle liquid sound came from the golden cup, just like a glass of red wine clinking in a goblet.
Elizabeth's golden eyes turned slightly and she lowered her head to look into the golden cup, only to see that there seemed to be a lot of scarlet, dirty liquid as thick as oil accumulated in it.
The unclean liquid was about to overflow the entire golden cup, but it still seemed so light in Elizabeth's hands. Even as she rotated her wrist, the golden cup began to twist into a vortex that would swallow up everything around it.
It seems that it's just a little bit close.
While looking down at the swirling turbid liquid in the unclean golden cup, Elizabeth thought with some anticipation,
"What arrangements should I make for my next honeymoon with Fisher?" ()