Heroes of Silver Moon

"What, the king has declared war on the Red Scorpion Khanate!"

Hearing the messenger's report, Simon suddenly felt ridiculous, how could it be possible? He had just discussed with the king some time ago, and he would never start a war easily!

"Yes, Lord Marquis, I heard that it is an edict from the Holy Empire." The envoy said respectfully.

As the envoy of the royal family, he may be arrogant in front of other lords, but he must not put on airs in front of this one.

After all, the relationship between Simon and the king is obvious to all.

"Do you need me to do something?" Simon asked after being stunned for a long time.

No matter what the reason is, since the horn of war has sounded, it is absolutely impossible to stop it with his own power alone.

We can only do everything possible to win this war!

"His Majesty the King didn't give any instructions, but let us urge the lord to send troops. If you don't join the war, you need to pay a war tax." The messenger laughed.

Under the enfeoffment system, when the king launched a war, the lords under him either sent troops or money. In short, they could not spend any effort. Otherwise, why did you entrust you with land?

"The Alpine Territory is too far away from the Red Scorpion Khanate, I'll pay the war tax!" Simon said, frowning.

If possible, of course he would like to send troops to join the battle and take the situation into his own hands. Unfortunately, the territory is too far away from the Red Scorpion Khanate, and the new army is a hot-armed army that relies heavily on logistics.

Once the new army joins the war, the logistics supply cannot be provided, and it is basically useless.

"According to the title and size of the fief, you need to pay a war tax of 50,000 gold coins." The messenger quickly gave an estimate.

Simon was not pretentious, and directly took out a gold card with 50,000 gold coins, and put it on the desk in front of him, and the messenger also stepped forward to take it.

"Then I'll go back and report to the king." The envoy turned around and was about to leave. Not only Gao Shan led this family, but he also had many lords who needed to be notified.

"Wait, the king really didn't say anything?" Simon called the messenger who was about to leave, and gave Deborah a wink.

Seeing this, Deborah immediately handed over a bag of gold coins.

"Well...if I have to say it."

Stimulated by gold coins, the emissary's memory finally came back to life, and he recalled carefully: "Before I left, the king seemed to mention that you have a ring from Marquis Simon. He likes it very much. I hope you must keep it. Dedicate it to him when he returns home after a great victory!"

After speaking, the envoy stood in place, waiting for the Marquis' order.

Simon narrowed his eyes, ring? What ring? He and that old man have never communicated on the ring, have they?

Moreover, he only has two rings now, the lord's ring of the high mountain collar, and the space ring used to hold things.

The lord's ring that used to be from the new law collar has been completely discarded as the new law collar has been merged into the high mountain collar.

The lord's ring is a symbol of the lord's power, and it must not be dedicated to the king. His space ring was obtained from an adventure, and its quality and capacity are average.

The royal family has better storage items than this, and they don't look down on his space ring at all.

Besides these two, what else?

Um? After careful recollection, Simon suddenly remembered a ring from the dust of memory.

The seal ring that the old king gave him back then!

In the past, Simon experienced the slums. In order to help those poor poor people, he once proposed to the old king to build a poverty alleviation base on a piece of land near the royal capital.

The old king not only agreed to the matter, but also gave him a ring representing the power of the king.

As a result, after the matter was settled, Simon kept procrastinating and did not return it, and the old king did not ask him for it until his death. Both parties forgot about it tacitly.

"Ah, I see. When the king returns from victory, I will personally dedicate it to him!" Simon suddenly came back to his senses, and nodded to Deborah, so Deborah handed the messenger a bag of gold coins again.

Feeling the heavy weight of the purse, the messenger left with a smile.

In the study, Simon, who watched the messenger leave, fell into deep thought again.

The seal ring representing the power of the king... When the great victory returns... What is this old man implying?

If the battle goes well, wait for him to hand in the seal ring when he returns, but if the situation is not normal, or if there is an accident with him, the king, will he temporarily assume the power of the king?

The start of this war was extremely abrupt and weird. If you think about it in this way, it shows that the king is also extremely disturbed by this war.

In the beginning, it was the lord of the northern border who asked the king to fight against the Red Scorpion Khanate. Later, it turned into gossip, and now the Holy Empire directly issued an edict.

Everything seemed to be that there was an invisible black hand forcing the Silver Moon Kingdom to fight against the Red Scorpion Khanate.

Is it really an accident, or is it going to repeat the tragedy of the Blue Kingdom?

"Deborah, what's the progress of the reconstruction of the territorial system?" Simon asked solemnly as he sat motionless behind the desk.

"Barely building a framework," Deborah replied.

Although two and a half months have passed since the military-political meeting ~www.readwn.com~, building a complete administrative system is by no means achievable in a short period of time.

Especially for officials, the new law still leaves a large gap in the villages.

"Speed ​​up the progress, don't we have a group of elf coordinators? Give them the status of temporary residents and let them take official positions directly!" Simon said with a straight face.

"This...follows your will." Deborah was startled, but knowing that she couldn't change Simon's thoughts, she could only nod her head in agreement.

The Elf Counselors are the educated part of the Elf slaves. Simon specially selected them to assist the administrative department.

Normally, I can only do some trivial documents and provide some suggestions, and I don't have the power to directly intervene in government affairs.

Even so, this practice of Xinfaling has been criticized by other lords, who believe that alien races should not be allowed to intervene in human power.

What's more, Simon has now lifted his slave status and let them directly serve as territorial officials.

"In addition, the new army's arsenal is rushing to work, and ammunition is piled up in unlimited quantities. I will establish a production line for rifles and pistols as soon as possible, and the production will not stop until then."

Simon showed a little anxiety, stood up and paced back and forth, and continued: "The new army will continue to recruit recruits, gather enough for a 10,000-man division, and let Harris also speed up the training progress!"

"Yes, I understand." Deborah meticulously wrote down the orders one by one in the notebook, and at the same time became serious.

For the first time, he saw Simon showing anxiety.

"Oh, I wish I was worrying too much..."

Looking at the sky in the distance, Simon rubbed his temples sadly. What kind of vortex did the Silver Moon Kingdom fall into?