As the sky grew dark, it was time for the two people in the cafe to part ways.
Time always passes quickly. Today Pullman has stayed here for a long time. Although as the supreme leader of a country, basically no one can restrain him, if he stays here any longer, it will also trigger some strange rumors and speculations.
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Before leaving, Pullman invited Lorraine Hill again, hoping that she would stay and participate in the construction of Crancia.
"I was not prepared for such a sudden invitation. Let's wait for a while, but I will come again tomorrow. I will stay in the royal capital this month." Although he did not agree immediately, Lorraine Hill still agreed to stay.
Some time ago.
Seeing the girl's answer, Pullman breathed a sigh of relief, as long as she didn't refuse. For this teacher who was like a fairy in the forest, he often felt that the teacher would suddenly disappear and then suddenly appear again inadvertently.
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"This is the access certificate to the palace. You can take this to the guards at the entrance. They will send someone to inform you and guide you."
Pullman handed over a shield-shaped badge, which was about the size of the palm of Lorraine Hill's hand. The badge was dark gold, with an enamel base, and several lifelike stars printed on it, with golden wheat ears surrounding the middle on both sides.
"Okay." Lorraine Hill did not refuse and accepted it directly.
"Well, see you tomorrow." The silver-haired girl waved to Pullman, and then the two parted.
As Pullman walked out of the cafe, two teams of knights of the guard who had been waiting for a long time had already lit torches and stood on both sides to protect the leader of Crancia as he returned to the palace to rest.
Lorraine Hill stood upstairs and watched the team below gradually go away, slightly sizing up the strength of this team.
Those knights in black armor are basically the elites of Sequence 4, and there are several followers in different costumes behind them. The strength of these people ranges from Sequence 5-7, and they seem to have their own specialties.
After spending a simple night in a hotel in the royal capital, Lorraine Hill also came to a side entrance of the palace on the morning of the next day. As for the main entrance, it is generally only opened for important events or formal occasions. The offices in the palace
People also enter through the side door.
Today's Crancia Palace is not a place where the royal family lives, but has been transformed into the center of the national administrative structure. Personnel from various departments circulate there, conveying documents and orders. Guards wearing capes and armor also stand on both sides of the aisles and corridors.
, as the center of a country, its defense strength is naturally top-notch.
"Hello, please wait."
After a guard took the shield-shaped badge handed over by the girl, he asked her to simply register it, and then hurriedly notified the internal affairs officer in the palace. Not long after, a woman dressed as a maid appeared at the gate.
She had a smart single ponytail, and she had documents in her hands. She looked to be about 20 years old. After walking out of the palace gate, she bowed slightly to salute the girl, and then led the way.
"Please come with me." Accompanying her were two black and white maids. They had light stabbing swords hanging from their waists. They looked like they were not just vases for serving others.
Several people walked around and around, walking through the garden-like palace corridor, and then came to a less crowded place.
"Sorry, we took a little detour, because Master Pullman said that you may not want to be seen by many people." The head maid took Lorraine Hill to a pavilion in the garden.
"The state meeting in the morning is not over yet, please wait here for a while."
After finishing speaking, she asked the two maids to bring some snacks and fruits and put them on the table.
"Well, it doesn't matter." Lorraine Hill sat on the white chair next to the round table and took a moment to look at the surrounding environment.
This should be an open-air garden where the Xifeng royal family entertained guests in the past. It is relatively quiet at the back of the palace. From the side of the pavilion, you can overlook the scenery of the royal capital below. Pieces of Chu-red brick houses are all over the field of view, and people are coming and going on the streets.
, curls of green smoke rise in the distance.
After sitting for a while, the maid who brought her here left temporarily because she had other things to do, but when she left, she left the two sword-wielding maids aside to follow Lorraine Hill's instructions.
Lorraine Hill asked the two maids: "When do state meetings usually start and end?"
"Hello, my lord, the meeting starts at 8 o'clock in the morning and usually ends around 10 o'clock if there is nothing important. However, the south is not very stable at the moment, so it may take a little longer."
Although they were just maids, these people were very familiar with the major events currently happening in Crancia under the influence of their ears and eyes. It happened that Lorraine Hill also wanted to know the current situation, so he started asking questions one by one.
"I have been away from this land for a long time and have only recently returned. Can you tell me about the current situation in Crancia? Of course, there is no need to tell me some confidential things."
"Okay, sir." The two maids were called forward by Lorraine Hill. They looked at the girl for a moment, then quickly lowered their heads and started explaining.
"Currently, Crancia is roughly divided into 34 counties and 12 provinces, with a population of about 250 million..."
It's really huge. Listening to the stories of these two maids, Lorraine Hill slowly understood the hugeness of this country. As the largest country in the Western Continent second only to Verdant in terms of land area, Crancia's population is undoubtedly huge.
It's small, but in the past few people would count it, and the nobles concealed it and didn't report it, so it has always been very vague.
It was not until after the destruction of the West Wind and the establishment of Clancia that the officials spent a lot of energy to re-count the population, land and other information, and some hidden things slowly emerged.
When West Wind existed, the apparent population of the country was probably less than 180 million, and a considerable number of them were slaves of the nobles, bandits in the mountains, uninhabited villages in the marginal areas, refugees who fled their homeland, etc.
After the country was stabilized and all the chaos was cleared, these invisible people gradually surfaced. This data also surprised the officials. Later, they had to increase the budget for domestic cultivated land, so that now all over the country are being reclaimed.
farmland.
After understanding the current basic situation of Crancia, Lorraine Hill became a little curious about these two maids.
"Where are you from before? Did you practice swordsmanship since you were young?"
The two maids looked at each other, and then replied carefully: "We are originally descendants of the West Wind nobles, so we were selected to enter the palace to assist and entertain some guests because we have some extraordinary skills, literacy, and good physical shape.
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Descendants of the West Wind? The girl thought to herself. After taking a look at the strength of the two, she found that they were around Sequence 4. Although they were not as good as those terrifying geniuses in the academy, it was extremely rare to reach this level in their 20s.
"Then how do you feel about today's Clancia, or how do the former West Wind nobles view Clancia now?"