[0026] A sneak attack that does not talk about martial arts
As the saying goes, "It is as motionless as a mountain, but as mobile as thunder."
Ogesha, who is well versed in this, can either be nice and indifferent, or take action directly without leaving any room for error.
When the messenger returned to Mithral City from the capital of Demacia, Lux's convoy was already less than three days away from Mithral City.
In the eyes of the nobles of Mithril City, this was clearly a sneak (↑) attack (→) without martial ethics.
After receiving the reply, they learned that Ogesha had sent Lux to provide relief, and Cullen came to check the accounts. The nobles of the Crownguard family who gathered together and prepared to divide the accounts were stunned on the spot.
After a moment of silence, the whole room seemed to burst into flames.
"How could Ogesha do this!"
"I was the one who introduced her to Pete in the first place!"
"I held Lux when she was two years old!"
"..."
"..."
Everyone was expressing their dissatisfaction, and the reason for such dissatisfaction was that they were anxious.
Ogesha's guess was correct, these bastards were just trying to trick their relatives - except for the fact that the frost in Mithril City was bad in the first year, in the next three years, the weather in Mithril City could be said to be smooth, even for the barbarians in the north.
They are all honest.
In this case, they naturally collected enough taxes.
Then, as long as the frost was reported, the field taxes they received became their discretionary funds, and everyone could share them among themselves. Only the Zong family was loyal and dedicated to serving the country, and then used private money to fill the holes.
Ogesha had also sent an envoy before, but that time it was not a surprise attack, so Mithril City got the news in advance, made preparations, and split the profits, and finally successfully passed the envoy's investigation.
But this time, something seems to be wrong.
We just received the news here, and Lux is already almost arriving at Mithril City. This is clearly a surprise attack!
"Quiet!" In the midst of the noise, an old man with white hair and beard sitting at the main seat finally spoke, "Everyone, be quiet. Do you still have some noble restraint? Where have all the usual etiquette gone?"
This old man is Cordora Crownguard, even a generation above Peter in terms of seniority, and has always been the talker in Mithril City.
"What's the fuss about? Isn't it normal for the mistress of our Crownguard family to provide disaster relief and audit the accounts?" Cordola said with a righteous expression, "She is willing to provide disaster relief and audit the accounts, so just let her go.
——Our Lux needs some experience in this area. Let’s work together to help her and get her a successful outcome. That’s it!”
Cordola's opening made everyone here breathe a sigh of relief.
At this time, they finally realized that the person coming was Lux!
Calculating her age, Lux is only twelve years old this year, right?
What does a twelve-year-old girl know?
Disaster relief or something... isn't it just to save face!
Everyone worked hard to perform a play with the farmers under the rule, and then composed a song to praise them before leaving. Wouldn't everything be complete?
On the contrary, it was the butler who was accompanying him...
If you want to stop this guy's mouth, I'm afraid everyone will have to shed some blood.
"Don't think about the embarrassment of taking out one." Cordola seemed to have completely seen through the thoughts of others, and continued to add, "As long as this time passes, our lady in charge can give His Majesty an explanation——
When the time comes, your Majesty will waive the land tax in Mithril City, and she will no longer cause trouble."
yes!
Lux has come to provide relief. As long as everything goes well, it means that the frost disaster in Mithril City is an "officially certified" natural disaster.
Originally, it was a group of side clans who joined together to fool the clan, but now as long as the show is performed well, after Lux left, it is the side clans and the clan who work together to fool the king!
Recently, the attention of the Noxians has been on Ionia, the situation in Demacia is stable, and the king is very rich!
Following this line of thought, everyone present began to speculate about Ogesha in their own minds, and soon came to an extremely outrageous conclusion, that everyone was cheating Demacia, and then they didn't realize anything was wrong...
At this moment, they completely let go of their worries.
According to their style of acting, Ogesha would be held accountable if he, as a collateral branch, swindled the clan's money before - but if he and Ogesha swindled the Demacia country's money, then everyone
We are still a family!
This is the right thing, everyone is our own people!
Therefore, as long as this scene is played well and Lux can safely complete the disaster relief, everything will be fine. From now on, Mithril City will be frosted all year round.
Anyway, in today's Demacia, there are more than one or two places that are frequently hit by disasters - not far away, Forsbarrow even said that it "rains all year round and lacks sunshine"!
This is no more nonsense than frost.
In this way, the relieved nobles of the crown guard and the side branches began to discuss again. But this time, they were no longer anxious, but restored the restraint of the nobles one by one. They looked confident and seemed to be 100% confident.
Guaranteed to drag down the entire family.
After all, they found that bribing the messenger was easy, as was finding a few farmers to pretend to be grateful, but pretending to be frosty was difficult.
In the eyes of these nobles, a twelve-year-old girl like Lux can only be deceived, not won over - or in other words, they have nothing to offer to win over the little princess of the Crown Guard family.
But on how to cheat, the nobles had somewhat different opinions.
Most people think it should be a play.
Of course, some people have different views.
"We can also send some young people to enhance our relationship with her." Among the nobles present, a handsome man with platinum curly hair came up with an idea loudly, "The little princess is not old, she should be with her peers.
It’s more fun to talk about——”
This guy was not originally named Crown Guard, but was a knight born into a small local noble family in Mithral City. His real name was Diri Malik.
Later, he married into a fringe family of the Crownguard family and changed his name to Diri Crownguard, and then he barely managed to get into the upper class circles of Mithril City.
However, before he could finish his words, everyone else looked at him with eyes full of disgust and impatience.
Although no one took the initiative to interrupt, Dili's voice still became smaller and smaller...
Obviously, even for these nobles who are not merciless in cheating their own family members, Dili is at the end of the chain of moral contempt.
Among a large group of people with the surname Crown Guard, this former surname is somewhat out of place.
Finally, after being surrounded by pairs of unfriendly eyes, Di Li could only swallow the second half of his words back into his throat.
Observing words and emotions is his strength. He just spoke because he was too excited and couldn't hold it back for a moment. Now that everyone doesn't agree with him, it's natural that he can't continue to say anything.
"Ahem." Just when this guy was asking for trouble and closed his mouth, Cordola cleared her throat, "As for the frost problem... I will solve it, and wait until our little princess arrives in the secret."
When we go to Yincheng, I will definitely let her see with her own eyes a wheat field after frost and a group of poor victims to satisfy the compassion she deserves as a noble lady!"
Just like that, a promise was made in Cordola.
The nobles who thought everything was ready also stood up and left without any panic at all.
They were so confident that they had even begun to think of ways to steal the spotlight at the ceremony to welcome Lux.
Di Li, who was mixed in the crowd, lowered his head and raised the corners of his mouth slightly when he left - these idiots clearly have the biggest opportunity in front of them, but they only care about the unreported taxes.
Pheasants are pheasants. They obviously look up to see the phoenix branches, but one after another they are still looking for broken rice grains on the ground with their heads down!
You deserve to be separated from the family and a side branch!
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Almost at the same time that the nobles of the Crown Guard branch in Mithral City were meeting, Cullen also found Lux.
After many judgments, he believed that Lux was mature enough, so he planned to inform Lux of Ogesha's plans and intentions.
In other words, through the contacts along the way, Lux passed Cullen's test. The housekeeper fully recognized his young lady's ability, so he had no intention of concealing the true purpose of this trip.
After Lux learned all this, she was shocked.
Can it still be like this?
You know, even in the aristocratic circle of Demacia's capital, Lux is considered an influential "political figure", but she has never seen such a battle before.
In other words, she has never seen such wanton behavior!
Lie about a disaster to cheat on taxes?
This is not a sidestep or a loophole. If the behavior of the Crown Guard family is true, it is simply a typical case!
Is there such a bastard among the Crownguard family?
This deviation occurs, on the one hand, because the political level of the capital of Demacia is extremely high, and even if it is to fight for interests, it will act according to the rules, and there are no flaws on the surface; on the other hand, it is because Kalya helps her make judgments and decisions.
, and Ogesha will also deal with more complicated problems personally, so even if she has heard about it, Lux has never been directly exposed to such direct and bad things.
As if he had already guessed that Lux might feel unbelievable, Cullen quickly took out the letter Ogesha left for him.
Lux took the letter and opened the intact wax paint, and soon saw her mother's familiar handwriting.
The situation mentioned in Ogesha's letter is almost exactly the same as what Cullen described. In addition to the introduction of the situation in Mithral City, Ogesha also said a little more - this part is mainly about Lux.
He warned and encouraged her, and also told her that if she really encountered any danger, Lux could go to the garrison in Mithral City for help.
After reading the contents of the letter, Lux took a deep breath, then slowly folded the letter and placed it against the candlelight.
Tongues of fire licked the letter.
As the letter was burned to ashes, Lux finally calmed down completely.
It was only then that she finally realized that, perhaps because of Kalya's training, she had been mentally prepared to face such a thing.
"So, Mr. Cullen." Lux's long golden hair seemed to flicker in the flickering candlelight, "What should I do?"
"You need to understand the situation of the disaster and distinguish whether it is true or false." Cullen's eyes were full of appreciation, "And...using your identity, you can do many things much better than me.
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"Understood." Lux nodded thoughtfully, then raised her face confidently, "You can do the auditing as you please. As for my 'relatives', of course you have to leave it to me!"
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