Perot licked the lip of black tea and leaned on the soft lord's chair and grew out of his breath. (

More than two months have passed since he took over the long-song fortress, and he now likes the hall more and more.The step-by-step structure of the step-by-step rise allows him to overlook the officials and attendants standing below from the main seat, and this feeling of power satisfies him.

In the first month, some small nobles will jump out to openly question themselves, or secretly plan riots, etc. - of course, the people behind the scenes who provoked them came from the elk and the wolf family.Pello followed his father's advice and sent all the unprovoked riots or underground rats to the gallows, while the knightly nobles were imprisoned and expelled from the West after the family paid the ransom.

This set of thunder methods was implemented, and the situation quickly subsided.After all, in addition to the honeysuckle, several other knights have been captured in the border town, it is impossible to resist Perot's policy from the bright side.Later, he also divided the interests of the plug in a part to compensate the losses of the extended family during the arrest, so that all nobles temporarily formed a more stable interest group.

Now the fort's income is paid to the border town, the remaining 70%, 30% are used to maintain the operation of the city, 20% to appease the remaining nobles, and the territory of Hermon has received the remaining 20%.

Today, the portrait hanging from behind the seat of the Lords has been replaced by the Duke of Lane with four princes, Roland Wimbledon, who is looking forward to one day hanging a portrait of himself, Perot Hermon.

If you can completely own the long song fortress, the family's count can join the fortress and become a veritable duke territory, and 50% of the paid and appeased can also be saved and put into the business trade of the fortress, in exchange for a richer return.

Of course, the premise is that Roland can successfully ascend to the throne and become the king of the whole territory of Fort Grey.

"Your excellency," said a guard, entering the lord's hall, and handed a letter, "the news of the border town."

Hearing the word border town, Perot immediately sat up straight.

He took the envelope and flattened the thin papyrus, as can be seen from the inferior paper, and the letter came from the eyeliner he had inserted in the serfs.

The results of the battle more than two months ago were inconceivable, and although Pero did not go in person, he heard a strange story from his father.In order to find out the reason for the Duke's failure, he arranged many confidants in the hands of the people who sent to the town, disguised as craftsmen, herders or serfs, and sent the information they saw back to the fortress.

I think other families will do the same.

But so far, in addition to the two disguised as serfs, new information has been coming every month, and the craftsmen and herdsmen have no news, as if they had disappeared.

Did they betray themselves or were they all exterminated by the prince?

He shook his head and focused his attention on the letter.

The contents of the letter are written by carbon pen, the writing is crooked, and in some places there are traces of water, which seems to be secretly written down while working.

The first paragraph says that an unknown-purpose tower is being built on the banks of the Redwater River.The top of the tower is stacked with a huge iron canister, and three have been erected, each close to the fortress wall.The blacksmiths seemed to complete the production of the tower in the town, and it was already a whole when it was transported to the river.Then the first army soldiers will stand up around the tower, and the next day, it will magically erect.

"Build" ... is the word, Perot thought, the last secret letter is also the same, just look at the information, feel that the prince is constantly building a small town, the last time was to build a road to build a bridge, this time is to repair the tower.Will His Highness take all the golden dragons that have been scraped out of the fortress castle in one breath to be willing?And the tower is still unknown... It is necessary to know that the spies hidden in the serfs are not real serfs, but well-informed personal guards, and if it is a sentry tower or arrow tower, he must be able to see it at a glance.

Probably the tower is not yet fully completed, it is not easy to judge, Pero shook his head, perhaps until next month there will be more detailed information.

He turned his eyes to the next paragraph.

The letter wrote that a large fleet of merchants left east after staying in the town dock for a week, and the belongings are unknown.During the stay, large piles of ingots and nitrites were unloaded from the ship.

Buying nitrite is easy to understand, summer to the second month will become very hot, the castle cooling needs to consume a lot of nitrite, but also can be used to refrigerated wine and juice, as a royal aristocrat, certainly do not want to let themselves sweat all day, with the field of farmers as wretched.

But the purchase of ingots let Pero feel a little surprised, border town is the ore origin, remember the demon month ago, as a messenger to the town, Prince Roland also exaggerated, said to sell the total amount of ore doubled, the result is not only not to export ore, but also to import ingots?

Thinking of the tower in the previous paragraph and the tower of the fortress wall, he now became more and more confused about what his Royal Highness wanted to do.

But when Perot saw the last paragraph of the secret letter, he froze.

In the past two weeks, the town has held several open-air theatrical performances in the square.

No tickets were taken, the name of the play was unheard of, and serfs were encouraged to watch.What surprised him most was that the performers actually had a star from the West that had not been known recently, Miss Mayy!

What is this?

May's disappearance is a big news of the recent fortress, and several dramas that should have been starring her have changed actresses, and the nobles have left halfway to protest.The theater had to announce that May had left the theater without telling anyone, and his whereabouts were unknown.As soon as the news came out, the Western theater-loving nobles were suddenly uproared.

Did she go to the border town?There is no theater!And to the commoners and serfs to perform ... Peiro's mind for a moment could not imagine such a scene, and his impression of Miss Maye was not an approachable actor.

After much consideration, he decided to write a letter to His Highness Roland and formally inquired about it.As a theater lover, I haven't seen the wonderful performances of the West Star for a long time, and even the opportunity to invite Shirley is much less.Since the play was publicly performed in the town square, it was not surprising that the business was seen by the merchants, who came from the long song fortress, so the news reached into his own ears - so that, in this way, it should not expose the guards hidden in the serfs.

Just as Perot was about to let the waiter draft the text, a knight walked into the hall and said, "Your excellency, the guard of the east gate looksout, and there is a team of knights approaching the fortress!"

“The knight?Can you tell where it came from?”He suddenly stood up.

"The other side holds the tower's twin gun flags, your excellency," replied the knight, "if not impersonated, they should be the new king's troops."(Unfinished.)