Chapter 624

In the meeting hall of the Imperial Palace, all the powerful men of the imperial capital are talking to each other. Just now his Highness The Regent announced the latest war report: the content is certainly exciting and exciting.

However, when the reading finished, Prince Chen looked at the crowd with smiling eyes, but everyone would be ostrich one by one, just sitting in their seats one by one. They would rather talk to each other in a low voice, as if they were all marveling at the contents of the war report, but no one spoke openly.

Chen Prince laughed, he knew these people hit is what idea.

"Duke tulip presided over a great victory in the eastern front, annihilated more than 40000 enemies and recaptured the occupied eastern fortress at one stroke. This war not only saved the empire from the humiliation and embarrassment of the defeat of the fortress, but also relieved the crisis of a large area of the Empire south of the fortress. What's more, such a victory is also the biggest one we have won in the face of these enemies since the war began. "

Chen Prince these a few words come out, just be regarded as to finally give this big victory to make the keynote of an evaluation.

All of you who are still pretending to talk in a low voice are relieved at last.

All right, the big boss is talking. Since Prince Chen said it was a great victory and of great significance... Then it was settled!

In fact, if it was in those years that such a victory had something to do with the popular tulip Duke, when the news came out, it would be a busy compliment. Because at that time everyone knew that Prince Chen trusted Du Wei very much, and the tulip family was almost the pillar of his empire. At that time, everyone was willing to do the icing on the cake.

But now... Things are different.

The relationship between the tulip family and the royal family has become more and more ambiguous. In this case. Who dares to talk? Heaven knows in the heart of Prince Chen what attitude he has towards tulip family.

Let's talk about this big win. Victory is victory, but no one dares to say anything praise first. In case Prince Chen is not happy with Du Wei, you still openly applaud Du Wei, it will be very inconvenient.

See Chen prince opened his mouth to cheer first, so the following people immediately applauded.

For a moment, the hall was full of cheers.

But then, these words of praise are always finished. For a moment, the scene fell into a delicate silence

Now that we have won the battle and made great achievements, it is only natural that we should be rewarded.

However, it's easy for others to say how to give Duwei a reward??

pay? Don't be kidding. Tulip Duke has been recognized as the richest man in the Empire! Even the Liszt family has become a subsidiary of the tulip family, and the weapon dealer, Mount Delan Warcraft, has long been willing to lose.

be promoted? Dewey's current titles include: General of the Empire, commander of the eastern front of the theater. Command of 200000 regular Imperial troops.

Up again? How to raise the price? Let him be the commander in chief of the war zone? If not, where is general Rostock? Besides... With the ghost relationship between the tulip family and the royal family, let Dewey take charge of the Northern War Zone of the Empire. Almost covering more than 80% of the most elite troops of the Empire?

Who dares to say such a suggestion?! court death!

So, SHENGJUE?

Duvet's title is already Duke! Duke, in theory, is the best title a courtier can get. Further up is the prince level. But the problem is, unless it's directly related to the royal family. It's impossible to be a prince.

This will be troublesome. You can't give money, you can't be promoted, you can't be promoted!

How can I get a reward?

Some people can't help thinking of a palpitating sentence in their heart:

You can't get a reward for your success!

None of you here is an idiot. At least you have been immersed in the big vat of the official sea for half of your life. None of you is not an old man, not even a young man like camisilo. In the past two years, he was also influenced by the old Prime Minister robustscher, and gradually became a little fox.

Everyone has witnessed the whole process of Dewey's rise.

Carefully speaking, Duke tulip, a young man, has made great contributions to the Empire since he came to the fore

Brilliant!

The amazing performance of the coup d'etat day can only be said to have achieved his personal prestige and established a close personal relationship with the Regent himself. But later, his contribution to the empire is probably from the Augustine Dynasty. No minister can match!

First of all, the "magic sharing spirit" was created. He participated in the establishment of the Imperial Academy of magic and broke the monopoly of the magic trade union on magic at one stroke. The imperial government and the magic trade union have been fighting secretly for many years. And the wizarding union is tough. Even the royal family has a headache.

With the establishment of the magic academy, the magic society and the spirit of sharing magic, the magic trade union no longer occupies a monopoly position in the field of magic.

So that the empire can have a way to train their own magic talent, although in this war, the Empire's own magic talent has not shown much effect, that is because after all, the time is too short. It's only a few years since the establishment of the Academy of magic. Even the first batch of students have only learned magic for a few years, and they still can't reach a deeper level.

But I believe that over time, the role of the school of magic will become more and more prominent.

In addition, after Duwei went to the northwest, the city of giliat successfully defeated the prairie people. With Duwei in the northwest, the threat of the prairie people to the Empire was greatly reduced. Even now, some people at the top of the Empire are vaguely aware that Duwei has interfered in the situation of the grassland and operated secretly. Only in exchange for the current situation of grassland people's internal friction and inability to look East.

And... The war to annihilate the northwest army. In that war, the tulip family made the first contribution!

And... Created an epoch-making air force!

And... In the three years of preparation for the war, Dewey donated at least 50 million gold coins out of his own pocket. Support imperial finance and military spending!

As for the small contributions of other places, they have not been listed!

Now, such a huge contribution has been made to the eastern front

Now?

It's a question whether to reward or not.

How to reward, this is a problem!

The silence of the people made the hall fall into a strange atmosphere again.

Finally, at this time, camisillo coughed and opened his mouth. They immediately cast their eyes on the young minister of military affairs. As everyone knows, this camisillo is not only a trusted lineage of the Regent, but also the old Prime Minister standing behind him.

"Your Highness." Camisillo's voice was very clear, his tone was broad, and he said calmly: "I think it's gratifying for Duke tulip to defeat the enemy in the eastern front, but now we haven't really been able to relax. According to what I saw, the detailed report submitted to the military headquarters, although we accepted the fortress. But because of the enemy's massive destruction and demolition of the fortress. And in this war, the Duke of tulip adopted the method of fire attack. As a result, although we recaptured the fortress, what we got was nothing but ruins. "

At this point, he hastened to add: "of course. I have absolutely no intention of denying the credit of the Duke of tulip! But as a minister of military affairs, from a purely military point of view, the most urgent task now is to re perfect the defense system of our eastern front! It's urgent. Now we have two choices! "

Chen Prince eyes a bright: "say down."

"First." Camisillo opened his voice. In the broad hall, his confident voice floated: "because the fortress has become a ruin, it has no garrison value and function, and it can not play an effective defensive role. I'm afraid the troops on the eastern front will still retreat to Yakin city. We must mobilize more materials and manpower as soon as possible to further strengthen and expand the city! Make it a new and stable military base on the east line. The advantage of this choice is: Yajin city is a modern city, as long as it is reinforced and expanded, no matter in terms of time, cost and manpower. You don't have to put in too much. But the drawback is: after all, the geographical location of Yakin city is backward. Once our army returns to Yakin, it is equivalent to giving up the control of the territory to the north of Yakin city. Moreover, the defensive nature of Yajin city lacks the overall effect and can only be regarded as a stronghold. Theoretically speaking, the enemy can bypass Yakin city to harass or sneak attacks on our inner territory. Although this is unlikely, after all, the enemy we are facing is not human beings, but some monster races. We can't measure them in the normal human way of thinking. "

Everyone nodded at the words.

Especially when it comes to the barbarians. The scene of bypassing the front-line stronghold and dividing troops to harass or sneak attack the inner territory of the Empire

even to the extent that. Theoretically, as long as the other side dares to fight for losses and send a large number of highly mobile wolf cavalry to make a surprise attack, they may even flee all the way around the imperial capital!

This is definitely not alarmist. If the other side is fighting to lose thousands of wolf riders, fleeing to the interior of the Empire, not seeking strategic goals, but blindly burning, killing and looting... God knows if those barbarians will do it.

And this kind of thing may not cause real harm to the imperial capital or empire, but once this kind of thing happens, whether it is the turbulence of the people, or the face and dignity of the Empire, the royal family is absolutely not allowed to have such consequences!!

It can be imagined that one day in the future, a wolf cavalry suddenly fled to the outside of the Imperial City, burned, killed and looted, even if it was finally encircled and suppressed by the Imperial Army... But once such a thing happened, how much panic and popular unrest would it cause?! If this happened, it would be a great shame for the Empire!

"Second choice." Camisillo coughed and said with a wry smile, "we have to rebuild this eastern fortress that we have taken back. Because of its geographical location, it is the best in terms of strategic defense! But the problem is that this fortress has almost become a ruin, destroyed by the enemy and burned by the fire. According to the detailed war reports I saw, especially the northern wall was damaged seriously, and almost half of it was torn down by the enemy! Although the fire burned. It will not shake the foundation of the building, but it is not easy to rebuild it. "

After a pause, he gave a bitter smile: "what's more, now the enemy is on the North Bank of the river. Moreover, we have lost control of the river! The enemy has control of the river. Once we rebuild the fortress, we can imagine that, no matter how stupid the enemy is. It won't let us finish it smoothly. They will harass and fight back! Without the river course, our defense lacks level. The enemy can cross the river course and directly attack the fortress we are rebuilding... While working, there are people nearby who keep making trouble. If I think about such reconstruction, I will feel numb. "

He talks with great eloquence. Speaking of the end, everyone in the hall is silent, a time of silence, one by one in the head looking at Prince Chen.

Prince Chen, sitting on the throne, had no other expression on his face. He seemed to be very calm. After pondering for a moment, he gently said: "this matter will be discussed in detail... Today is the first time. Camisillo stay, the others are scattered

Except for camisiro. When the rest of you left, there were still people whispering while walking.

Only the finance minister, the old man said nothing today. After he walked out of the hall, he unconsciously turned around and looked at the hall behind him. When he saw the figure of camisiro who was still in the hall, he could not help frowning slightly.

Next to him, there is a colleague who has a good friendship with him. He stops. Just casually smile: "how, lost thing?"

The chancellor of the exchequer laughed and shook his head. "I just think that our minister of military and the Regent's cooperation is getting more and more tacit."

"What do you say?" The colleague's eyes lit up.

The chancellor of the exchequer shook his head and left with an enigmatic smile.

Hum... Camisillo. You have to interrupt. Deliberately throw out the difficult problem of "two choices" and use this kind of thorny thing. Attracted everyone's attention, but cleverly shifted the topic!

The original topic was "how to reward the front-line victory". When camisiro finished, it became "how to solve the front-line crisis".

Of course, this little trick, some old foxes are not blind, but they are smart enough to keep silent. And most importantly, it seems that the Regent is very cooperative.

In Prince Chen's study, camisiro presented a detailed war report from his arms. This war report is much more detailed than the one read out by Prince Chen at the meeting. Including all the details of the war, the start of the war, the stalemate, the final victory, and so on. The level of detail is almost a text broadcast.

Obviously, in addition to the official channels, there are also intelligence transmission channels of the internal secret system of the military headquarters in the northern theater.

"What do you think of the new arms that Dewey brought out?" Chen prince sat back on the seat: "that Griffin knight?"

Camisiro is speechless.

Prince Chen himself laughed first, but the smile was not easy. His voice was filled with emotion: "this Duwei, it's always amazing! Like a magician, he takes out rabbits one by one from his hat. God knows what else is hidden in his hat. "

"Your Highness." Camisillo carefully reminded a: "Dewey himself is a magician."

"Well, I know." Prince Chen nodded and pondered for a moment. When he looked up, his face was dignified: "let's not talk about the Griffin knight for the moment. We have estimated that this kind of arms is expensive and rare, and it's impossible to form them on a large scale. It's his thunder cavalry... This cavalry that Dewey has been hiding all the time, and the fighting power that erupted out really surprised me. "

Ten thousand thunder riders, in the field, charge head-on and beat the orcs out of their armor, which is absolutely impossible for any human army before!

"Your Highness, you are worried..." camisillo said carefully.

"No, I'm just curious." The Regent suddenly laughed, his smile is very calm: "shouldn't I be curious? Duvi's men have so much power I don't know. As the ruler of the Empire, I'd be surprised if I didn't show any interest. "

Looking at the Regent's calm smiling face, on his handsome face, the smile was as elegant as ever, with wise eyes, exuding a kind of confidence in controlling everything.

Camisillo sighed in his heart, but with a look of fear on his face, he quickly bowed his head and said, "Your Highness, that's not what I mean. I mean... Get to know it! I still can't figure out how such a strange cavalry was formed. Some experts in the Army Department have been studying for many days, but they still don't know how this strange giant war horse was made.... "

"Court magicians don't know." Prince Chen said with a smile: "but the only thing you can be sure is that, unlike Griffin Knights... This kind of thunder riding, as a kind of army with strong combat effectiveness, can be organized in large numbers!! That's what attracts me

Camisillo gritted his teeth: "maybe... We can find a way to check in the Northwest..."

"No more." Chen Prince immediately shakes his head, vetoed this proposal, but he deliberately looked at camisillo deeply: "your brain is also a little dull? It's a suggestion. Dewey's confidentiality measures have been very good, and the Northwest has already become his base, with a deep foundation. We didn't have the slightest information before, so now if we deliberately check it, do you think we can hide it? Besides, isn't it chilling to do such a thing? "

Camisillo quickly nodded: "yes, your highness! I was wrong for a moment

The prince Chen stares at the legitimate family and looks at it carefully for a while. There is a deep light in his eyes. Then the light fades away and returns to his relaxed smile: "in fact, this matter doesn't need to be put in my heart. I'm just curious. After all, I'm really amazed by the amazing combat effectiveness of Lei Qi... If such a powerful army empire can be formed in large numbers... "

He shook his head again and looked at camisillo again: "you don't have to be suspicious of Dewey. From what I know about Dewey... It's a good thing that he's willing to show up such a card now. Just imagine, if the country is in crisis, he hides such a powerful army and refuses to use it... Then this army is not used against the orcs, but against whom? " The last sentence is a little heartrending. As soon as camisillo heard it, he broke into a cold sweat!! you 're right! The establishment of the army is for war! If Dewey doesn't take it out against the orcs this time, but hides... Who does he want to use such a powerful army against?! Against the Empire? a royal house? Camisillo stopped himself from thinking“ He is willing to take it out, but also in disguised form to convey the message to us: he has no selfish heart. " Looking at Chen prince said so relaxed calm, camisiro closed his mouth, silent down. Then, Chen Prince and casually told a few things, let camisillo left that detailed war report, just told him to leave. After camisiro left, the door of the study closed, Prince Chen leaned on the chair, but sighed deeply. Just now confidence and calm, but now into a shallow worry“ Show that you have no selfish... This is one of your intentions, Du Wei... "Prince Chen turned his lips, but said to himself:" but there is another intention, is to demonstrate to me... Show your strength? Is that so? " Prince Chen pinched his forehead. Dewey, does he know anything about my illness? Do you know? hear nothing of? Or do you know?