Annan's acting style, even if it cannot be called vigorous and resolute, at least has nothing to do with the term "sloppy".
After confirming his relationship with Kaifni, Annan first stayed in Noah for a few days.
On the one hand, it was to confirm that the ceremony of the cup-bearing woman was running normally, and on the other hand...even with Annan's level of freedom, he felt that it was not good to leave Kaifuni directly and go home at this time.
However, Annan's presence in Noah did not hide it from anyone.
So the next day, the Three-Eyed Crow also knew about it.
On the same day, Old Crow invited Grand Duke Annan to a banquet at Crow's house. The other nobles learned about Annan's visit to Noah through this incident.
The Crow family is planning to invite guests. This news cannot be hidden because servants in noble families actually have their own social circles.
They will exchange information with each other and draw circles.
Invitations, investigations, surveillance, inquiries and other actions between some nobles also rely on this circle.
In fact, many noble families do not have too many idle people.
These great nobles who can serve as agents are all believers of the Silver Jue Church. The funds they donate to the church every year, plus the taxes paid on their properties, are all considered "senior believers" of the Silver Jue Church.
Because of this, he will have received some systematic learning from the church during the succession stage. The person who can finally win the inheritance war will at least not be a fool.
They know that if some servants are made extremely idle and only used at special moments, other servants will also feel unfair. When they are used to being lazy, if they really encounter
When it comes to tasks that require "reserve resources" to be completed, it's probably difficult for them to do them well.
Therefore, unlike the United Kingdom, the nobles on Noah's side only use a small number of servants that are sufficient for daily maintenance.
Whenever someone wants to resign, they must first start recruiting new people. After training is completed and the job handover is completed, the resignation will be approved and a large severance package based on the number of years of service will be given.
Work like banquets obviously does not fall into the category of "daily maintenance". Whenever a noble prepares to hold a banquet, they will find other nobles who are close to them and can trust them to rent, and allocate some of their servants for use.
Complete the banquet.
For this purpose, they would give their servants a daily salary subsidy that was several times more generous than usual work, and they would also give some small gifts to the nobles who rented the servants to show their friendly relations.
And this amount of money is much less than hiring two or three times more servants at home. It may not even be a fraction.
Of course they don't lack the money, but they don't want to waste money and make things worse.
At the same time, the work of servants is basically within the scope of what they can handle. They are neither too idle nor too busy, which also helps maintain their work attitude.
While these servants serve as servants, they are also spies sent by their masters to get information.
Of course, it is not the work of secret agents such as stealing confidential documents or eavesdropping on important information.
But by observing the maintenance status of some facilities, who is the host planning to invite to the banquet, and then looking at whether the family heirs go home during the banquet, what they said at the banquet, whether there are conflicts between the heirs, and whether there are any conflicts between the heirs.
Is it possible that there is some hidden family conflict...
Added together, these details can analyze very important information.
Therefore, it is necessary to send out the smartest, best-remembered, and best servants in order to get the freshest and hottest first-hand information.
Obviously, these miscellaneous matters cannot trouble the big nobles, so they are all handled by the housekeepers and maids of each family.
Coupled with Noah's agent system, from a certain perspective... In the royal capital, the actual power and influence of an earl's housekeeper and head maid are undoubtedly greater than those of the mayors and lords of some places.
Much bigger.
This level of information will also be disclosed to their "allies".
But the problem is...Noah today does not have an obvious, separated faction. At least in the royal capital, there is no one at the "agent" level.
So their allies will definitely have other allies.
The original message can only be spread quickly or slowly, and it will eventually spread to everyone.
As for what information each family analyzes from this news, it depends on the quality of each family's servants and how their family's advisors analyze and process this information.
In the past, Noah's power was divided because of the disputes over the battle for the inheritance, or more clearly, because of Prince Philip's troubles, which forcibly divided the country. But now, with the eldest princess voluntarily withdrawing from the core circle of power, other
All the heirs died, and Noah's old faction ceased to exist.
The irony is that the nobles who were fighting fiercely and bloody a year ago can now sit together with a smile and happily chat about their parents' shortcomings.
Because of this, when all the nobles in Noah learned that Grand Duke Annan was going to visit Crow's house, they also learned that their little queen was going to go with him.
Other nobles thought this was quite normal. After all, the top controller of the intelligence and secret service departments directly invited the top leaders of other countries to his home for a banquet.
When no one can monitor the Crow's house, it is normal for the Queen to do it herself.
At first, they did suspect that the queen was the puppet of the Duke of Winter.
But they soon "gradually" learned what great things the Grand Duke had done.
He is already a confirmed god.
In terms of status, it is even comparable to the Twelve Righteous Gods. At this level, Annan is no longer as simple as "the supreme leader of a neighboring country"... because it is impossible for anyone to dare to be hostile to a person.
A true god.
Not even false gods or even evil gods can be provoked by them. Not to mention Annan, whose status is at least above that of a god.
If they could lick Annan, they would rather give up their power and move the whole family to the cold winter!
They even hope that their little queen can have a better relationship with Annan.
However, what Kafni did made them worry about what she was going to do.
It’s not that there’s anything wrong with her handling of government affairs…
Objectively speaking, Kaifuni's handling of government affairs is simply perfect. If not everyone knew that Kaifuni was a true "arbitrary tyrant", I am afraid the nobles would have thought that Kaifuni had a top-notch think tank of more than thirty people.
group.
Her only problem is that she is too iron-blooded and cruel.
She doesn't look like a fifteen-year-old innocent girl at all. While other aristocratic girls are still discussing pets, accessories, elegant and reliable young men and sassy ladies...
However, Her Majesty Kafni showed a gentle and even shy smile, whispered softly, and said slowly that she would drag the viscount and even the earl's entire family out to hang them.
Corrupt bishops, nobles who overstepped their authority, and the officials under them who opened the door for them... Kafni began to liquidate one by one. Those who voluntarily surrendered, and those who were willing to report others as witnesses could be given lighter sentences.
The crime of attempting to destroy evidence and not admitting to death was increased by three degrees.
Kafni remained unwavering in the face of begging for mercy and pleading, and did not even look at the sky-high bribes given to her by the nobles. Faced with the threat of assassination, she just twisted the assassin into a rag and hung him outside.
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Because of this extremely violent and direct strategy, many of Noah's stubborn illnesses were easily eradicated by Kafni. Although some vitality was also damaged, there was no doubt that many of the root causes of the disease were eliminated. This also made Queen Kafni a low-level official.
The reputation with the people has reached a peak.
If Kaifni was a puppet, she would never do such a thing, and it would be impossible for her to be allowed to do such a thing.
It was the Crow Family who issued the report and provided evidence.
Their family was promoted to the rank of duke with an exception. As the queen's ubiquitous eyes and the crow perched on the crown, she began to liquidate the past one by one.
Only then did people remember...the crow's cry was exactly the sound of mourning.
The old crow has been pretending to be confused for thirty years.
Now people know how stupid he is. He sees everything and writes it all down, but he never talks about it.
For such a guy who can be called an old monster, it is normal for the queen to be wary of him even if she is in the same camp as him.
But these nobles soon realized that... they even underestimated the old crow's shrewdness and wisdom.
When Old Crow saw Grand Duke Annan and His Majesty Kafni, he smiled and began to congratulate them.
Immediately afterwards, he asked Grand Duke Annan lightly in a very old voice in front of the public:
"When do you plan to marry our Majesty?"
This was considered transgressive, and almost everyone present was frightened.
But unexpectedly, Annan responded very seriously: "On December 1st of this year... on my grandmother's holy day, I will marry Kaifni.