in the name of the queen

Chapter 109 Sussex people don’t like it
  The gentle sea breeze blew through the square, bringing coolness to the crowded crowd.

Although the latitude is not low, warm ocean currents blow against our faces with moist winds. The winter in the imperial capital is not too cold, and most of the time there are no snowflakes.

The long-lost bright sunshine also made the crowded people feel warm.

Their eyes followed the Queen straight to the high platform, watching the Queen raise her scepter to greet everyone, then walked into the temporary box that had been set up and sat on the throne.

Although they could not see the beautiful Queen for the time being, they knew that she was there, and they knew that the Queen was definitely watching them.

But they never could have guessed that the perfect queen in their minds was sitting lazily, quietly waiting to get off work.

To the Mirror, the performance was meaningless, it only had to fulfill Sif's instructions.

Those inspiring words were either programmed in advance or given to Sif at short notice.

The real queen is currently in the carriage, exchanging lines with her rumored lover, preparing to go on stage.

The process of the Glory Day celebration has been fixed for a long time. This is the ancestral method and has rarely changed for hundreds of years.

First, the Chief Minister of the Cabinet delivered a speech on behalf of the government, briefly summarizing the work throughout the year and looking forward to the development blueprint for the coming year.

Then the representatives of the God of Abundance took the stage to give blessings.

Next is a grand theatrical performance.

Artists from all over the world come together to perform their signature shows.

This is also the moment that everyone is most looking forward to.

When First Minister William took to the stage, the audience was somewhat disgusted with him.

This year Sussex was lackluster and did not expand its territory. The only change was the change of emperor.

But changing the emperor cannot be included in the report as an achievement.

It cannot be said that with the joint efforts of the cabinet ministers, the old emperor died at sea.

William didn't want to mention the new emperor Sylve's name too much, so this report seemed particularly awkward.

This on-site report is simply the most boring report in recent years.

Except that the data is slightly different from last year, the content is almost the same.

The people in the imperial capital are not ordinary people. They have high political literacy and like to discuss politics.

Although not everyone is good at their own field of work, when it comes to running the country, many people feel that they are better than the chief minister.

And much stronger.

Seeing that old guy William was still chattering away, the people in the imperial capital couldn't bear it anymore.

The boos continued.

“We don’t want to hear clichés!”

"Hurry up and finish it!"

"We want theatrical performances!"

"We want to listen to Her Majesty the Queen's holy voice!"

William's face was ugly. He lowered his head slightly, trying not to expose his pale face.

His hands were shaking too.

It's not cold, it's angry.

This work report was carefully prepared. It not only used Spring and Autumn style to cover up the shortcomings of the late emperor's governance in the last few years of his reign, but also cleverly attributed the credit to the cabinet ministers.

This is a beautiful article that he and his secretary spent several days writing. It took care of all aspects. What happened to these unruly people?

William, who was dizzy with anger, seemed to have forgotten that his work report was comprehensive, but he downplayed a certain person and forgot a certain group.

The queen was downplayed and the masses were forgotten.

If you don't give face to the masses, they will just think you are confused. If you don't give the Queen face, you are a traitor. Only if the people of the imperial capital can buy it, you will be a traitor.

Tens of thousands of people booed in unison, the sound was loud and penetrating. The First Minister had never thought that he would be booed wildly on such an occasion, and he was a little confused.

His extremely high political literacy allowed him to persist until the end of the report, but his trembling voice could not be clearly transmitted through the blessed amplification magic circle.

When William walked off the stage, he was in a daze.

This is a scene he has never seen before in his decades of politics.

It will also be a stain on his political career.

He didn't even know how to face it.

Maybe asking Her Majesty the Queen to come out and say a few words could save the situation, but he couldn't speak.

Asking the Queen to come to the rescue would make the situation even more embarrassing.

William walked into the cabinet minister's box in despair. Just when he was depressed, Alban, who had never dealt with him well, came up to him and softly comforted:
  "William, don't worry about it. These unscrupulous people are just talking. Do they understand politics? When will it be their turn to make irresponsible remarks on national affairs?"

"You are the chief minister who is responsible for the thirty-four provinces of the empire and nearly 100 million people. How can you be weak?"

William looked at Alban with complicated eyes.

Maybe he really saw the wrong person.

I thought that Alban was not getting along with him and would step on him, but he didn't expect that the first person to come to comfort him was this political enemy.

William didn't say anything, but nodded heavily.

Alban is right, these idiots don't understand how hard he works!
  No matter how much cunning people clamor, they can't change his determination!

After William, Archbishop Hermann, who represented the Holy Court of Plenty, took the stage.

The whole place was silent.

The boos, curses and jeers quickly died down.

It is inevitable for people to get sick and injured while alive. The God of Abundance may not be able to save everyone, but it can provide hope to believers.

No matter how boring Hermann's words were, no one dared to object.

Routine speeches and routine applause are the same as before.

The archbishop was very considerate and walked off the stage without speaking for too long, leaving the stage to today's protagonist.

Artists from all over the world.

The artistic performance begins.

With the host's exaggerated introduction in a long tone, the first program made a grand debut.

The first one to take the stage was the back-up show.

A back-up show doesn’t mean it’s of poor quality, it even has to be top-notch.

This program will set the tone of the entire show.

Amid cheers from the crowd, the performance began.

Acrobats from the Sasanian kingdom were the first to take the stage.

They presented traditional circus performances, swallowing knives, spitting fire, taming animals, and juggling. Their dazzling performances delighted the audience.

There were a lot of spectators, but the stage for the performance was set high, and the audience in the distance could still vaguely see it.

The spectators on the periphery could only vaguely see some dancing flames among the crowds of people, and heard the roars of the large speeding beasts.

They felt itchy when they heard it, but they couldn't see clearly, so they wanted to push forward.

The people in front refused to give way, while the people behind wanted to move forward, and a conflict almost broke out.

Just when some impatient viewers extended an invitation for intimacy to each other's mothers, the earth-shattering roars of tigers and lions made everyone's hearts tremble.

The highlight of the circus performance, the lion-tiger fight, appeared.

To satisfy people's curiosity, the Sasanian Circus has many exciting bottom-of-the-box shows.

For example, a huge stone is placed on the chest, and an elephant steps on jade feet.

Unfortunately, the elephant brought this time was unable to perform on stage due to diarrhea due to traveling across the ocean.

Fortunately, they have a second show that guarantees ratings.

Liger fight.

This is no ordinary liger, but an exotic beast.

The bloodthirsty cave lion weighing over 500 kilograms and the northern giant tiger weighing nearly 600 kilograms are both rough-skinned, thick-flesh, and extremely powerful beasts.

Their strength is more than ten times that of ordinary ligers, and they are full of momentum when slapping each other.

The people of Sussex had never seen such a powerful liger. They were so mesmerized by the sight that some good-hearted people even imitated the tiger's voice and roared.

The troublemaker may just want to add to the fun, but to the giant tiger, it sounds like provocation.

What kind of little tiger dares to run wild on my territory?
  Following the sound, the giant tiger jumped eight or nine meters and rushed into the crowd.

A shrill scream sounded. Although professionally trained giant tigers will not take the initiative to hurt people, it is still too scary for a giant tiger of hundreds of kilograms to fall from the sky.

Although no one died, some unlucky people were affected and injured their legs.

As we all know, the screams of lightly wounded people are louder than those of seriously injured people, and the screams of seriously injured people are louder than those of dead people.

As the screams rang out, the crowd was in chaos.

Seeing that a stampede was about to break out, people walked out of the private rooms belonging to the Sussex Royal Family and the Vladimir Empire Envoys at the same time.

Queen Sylph raised her scepter high and issued orders to everyone through the amplification magic circle.

"The giant tiger has been controlled and everyone stopped moving immediately."

Her voice is not too high, but it has infinite magic power.

Although the audience was frightened, they still cautiously stopped and stopped moving.

On the other side, Angelina walked out of the box and jumped into the crowd like lightning, pressing her cold palm on the forehead of the manic giant tiger.

"Be good, don't hurt anyone."

The clear voice was somewhat cool, like a tranquilizer, actually calming the giant tiger down.

The giant tiger not only calmed down, but also behaved like a cat.

In the carriage, Sif, who saw this scene, muttered softly: "Who is this guy? Why does he like to be in the limelight so much?"

Roland smiled and said: "It should be the Rurik Shadow Temple. They are always very mysterious."

Sif didn't think much and continued to prepare her lines.

With the Queen and Angelina taking action, the order that was about to collapse miraculously returned to normal.

The audience stopped moving and the tiger returned obediently.

Two priests in white passed through the passage given by the crowd, treated him on the spot, and cured the unlucky guy.

Normally, this guy might not be able to find a priest for treatment. He was lucky.

But under normal circumstances, he would not have been knocked down by the giant tiger. He was also very unlucky.

The people around him burst into laughter, lamenting his luck and mocking his bad luck.

But soon the guys froze.

The Queen is here.

Holding the scepter, Sylph walked into the crowd and came to the unlucky guy.

"Sir, are you okay?"

The unlucky guy almost fainted from excitement.

Her Majesty spoke to him!
  "I, I, I'm fine, nothing happened at all."

The unlucky guy struggled to stand upright, his frightened little hands didn't know where to put them, and he wanted to chop them off.

The Queen comforted the frightened audience around her, and her gentle voice blew into everyone's heart like a spring breeze.

When she returned to the throne, the second program had begun.

Very wonderful soprano singing.

The singer specially invited from Thalia performed the song "The Sun in My Heart".

Listening to her beautiful singing voice, the audience was silent, but they already knew who the sun was in their hearts.

The show goes on and on.

Artists from all over the world took to the stage to perform.

The professional and wonderful performance won bursts of applause from the audience.

The good time always passed very quickly. After the foreign artists finished their performances, the host announced that the next stage would be a stage play competition.

Cheers erupted as the crowd decided the final winner.

The crowd who had just been in shock were naturally happy to be able to be the real masters at this moment.

After auditions, a total of seven works participated in the finals.

The first few works are all wonderful and each has its own merits.

The people were a little confused, who should give this crucial vote?
  They are a little confused.

But they won't have to worry about that soon.

When Finley's name was read, the audience fell silent.

Who is Finley? Anyone who likes literature knows this.

Even if you are not familiar with literature, Sussex people have heard of the name of the Macbeth family.

Is he participating too?

Many people chanted the surname of the Macbeth family, while some curled their lips in disapproval.

With the Macbeth family participating, there is no suspense in the competition. The prize will be awarded directly.

The actors Finley hired came from Rurik and are a national-level performance team.

When several actors walked onto the stage, Adam, who was waiting backstage, had a solemn expression.

Experts don't need to take action, they can just look at the aura to know if it is there.

Adam certainly knew how powerful they were.

After all, he had been colleagues with some of them.

Adam was about to lower his head when he saw a figure that shouldn't be there.

Angelina.

Didn't she join the Shadow Temple? What is she here to do? She also knows how to act?
  Adam frowned slightly.

Angelina does not understand acting, but she understands ice control.

The weather is nice today, even a little warm with the sunshine.

This is not good, it is not good for the performance.

So Angelina is here, she wants to artificially create a world of ice and snow.

The theme of this performance is that the winter in Vladimir spreads across the continent, and the Sussex people actively choose friendship and peace under the approaching cold.

This is a show with clear political implications.

It is to warn the Sussex people that if they are enemies, winter will be waiting for them; if they are friends, the sun will still shine (smog will fill the air).

To be fair, the performance was of a very high standard.

Not only are the actors of a very high standard, but the script has ups and downs. It opens with a few young soldiers staggering in the ice and snow, and then cuts to the stupidity of middle-level officers and the incompetence of high-level officers.

And most importantly.

Soldiers from both sides simultaneously issued calls for peace.

It is a very good anti-war script.

Especially in the context of several small-scale conflicts between the Sussex Empire and the Vladimir Empire, peace is extremely precious.

Many people in the audience have lost relatives, friends, and neighbors in these conflicts, and many more have relatives who have lost limbs in these conflicts.

If this performance were played in normal times, it would definitely resonate.

But this is a glorious day.

Sussex people are proud.

They are the pioneers who resist the rule of the Magic Empire, they are adventurers who explore the ocean, and they are the pioneers who lead the steam revolution.

Sussex is the best in the world.

This concept exists like a mental stamp in the sea of ​​​​consciousness of every old Sussex.

Although Sussex has had three mediocre emperors in succession over the years, the emperor and the cabinet competed for power and each other consumed a large amount of resources in the empire. Coupled with the rise of Queen Sophia, the empire's title of number one in the world has become increasingly unstable, but these are all It cannot change the thinking inertia in their minds.

On this sacred occasion of the Glory Day, foreigners performed threatening anti-war propaganda plays in the Royal Plaza of the Imperial Capital.

The old Sussex didn't like it.

The old Sussex man couldn't stand it.

Finley's arranged helper began to applaud.

But there were also boos.

The booing was not loud, but it was harsh.

(End of this chapter)