Codex Pirates

Chapter 158 Watching the Fire

At night, Dennis, the city sheriff of Kalmar City, was standing by the window, looking at the brightly lit mansion not far away.

His right-hand man and friend, Thomason, a former bounty hunter, sat on a sofa behind him.

In the case of the murder of Andre, the strongest warrior in the kingdom, Thomason used his excellent experience to judge the outline of the murderer. As a result, Denison used these clues to discover that the real murderer was William's subordinates. He was frightened to death. In the end, he was persuaded by Dampier, who has now become William's first think tank, and joined William together.

Thomason, who had no official status and was closer to Dennis's personal staff, naturally joined William.

Now the whole city is not very peaceful. The public security problem in the slums is a long-standing problem. Because of the wall tax, the environment in the civilian areas is getting worse and worse, and there are more and more crimes. Even the noble areas are now Because of Crowe and his investigation bureau, there was a lot of panic.

Dennis took the Thomason family to his manor, and Thomason usually provided protection for the two families in the manor.

"How is it?" Thomason asked.

Dennis sighed: "It's another family." After he finished speaking, he lowered the curtains, unable to bear to look at the nobleman who was dragged out of the mansion like a dead dog by the agents of the Bureau of Investigation.

Although Thomason and Dennis are good friends, their backgrounds are very different. Compared with Dennis's emotion of seeing other nobles suffer, Thomason has no feeling at all about the current incident.

"That..." Thomason looked at Dennis, pouted his mouth towards the pier, and asked, "I heard he's back, do you know what his attitude is now?"

"He went ashore during the day, first met the Minister of the Interior, Earl Reard, and then the Minister of Finance, Count Arcadio in the afternoon, and then returned to the military camp near the pier. It seems that his attitude has not yet been settled. Dennis sighed again.

"He is waiting for whoever bids higher." Thomason said, "Now both Arcadio and Riel need his support. Riel has a large number of people, and there is no lack of military support. People, if Arcadio wants to get rid of Rild, he still needs the support of the militia, and if Rild wants to get rid of Arcadio, if he doesn’t get his approval, he also has to worry about being wiped out by the militia.”

"Stolt and his militia are so important?" Dennis asked suspiciously.

Thomason grinned: "Who gave Stolt the strongest force in the city? He didn't make it before because the palace could barely maintain peace. You know, our Captain's background seems a bit The problem is, if he uses force to suppress the high-level kingdom, he is likely to be noticed or even interfered by the world government and navy, but now, whether it is Arcadio getting rid of Rild, or Rild getting rid of Arcadio, he has As an excuse to send troops to wipe out the surviving party, do you think other people need to win him over, or more precisely, appease him?"

The result of class solidification is that promotion is based on background rather than ability, and the closed small circle culture leads to lack of vision and insight.

As the king, Norton I never even stepped out of the palace a few times in his life, but how could the nobles in the royal city be any better?

Thomason was a bounty hunter, traveled to many places, and met various people. His knowledge is naturally higher than that of Dennis and a group of nobles.

Because their status and wealth come from the social order led by the world government, the nobles take it for granted that this order is supreme and justified.

But Thomason knows that it is the force in the hands of the world government that maintains this order. Force is the hard currency in this world, and it is the key to safeguarding wealth and status.

So Thomason is more concerned about running for William than Dennis is usually, probably because he has more confidence in William.

William's military power already exists, what is missing is a name, and now the name is almost there. In Thomason's view, William's rise is just around the corner, and he and Dennis will definitely be able to get some credit by then.

...

In the barracks in the dock area, William was checking the guard post on duty at night with his hands behind his back.

Perhaps one of the most satisfying aspects of William's current body is his exuberant energy. As a power fan, his favorite thing to do is to intervene in everything and not easily delegate power. If he wants to do this, no one Energetic bodies don't do it.

William experienced a rough sea in the morning, and the comfort of the flying clipper was definitely not good. After that, he went to see the Minister of the Interior, Rield, and the Minister of Finance, Arcadio. In the evening, he trained with the young soldiers in the barracks. In the evening, I have to go around the barracks again, check the guard posts one by one, and at the same time do a tuck-in performance.

From morning till night, he didn't show any signs of fatigue, either physically or mentally.

"What did Rield and Arcadio say?" Asked Sherlock, who was half a step behind William.

"Reald's side disappointed me, and it may be that they haven't adapted to our new identities, so they just talked a lot of nonsense, with nothing useful at all," William shook his head and said, "It's our Chancellor of the Exchequer , is a smart man, I asked him for military power and a title, and he agreed without saying a word, probably because he has received the news that I have been to Reild Manor before."

When the two of them walked to the west corner of the barracks, a slightly childish shout suddenly came from the dark: "Password!"

"Advocating." William replied blankly.

"Honor." The figures of two young soldiers turned from two different places, one bright and one dark. Seeing that it was William, they quickly saluted.

William returned a salute, talked with the young soldier, checked, and left again.

"So you chose to help Arcadio first?" After leaving the sentry position, Sherlock pushed his eyes and continued to ask: "Stop talking with Reard?"

"Meet two more times, and let's not talk about it. Reard and his group are just bargaining chips for me. How can I help them? Barbarossa and Roy are both settled by me personally. Am I going to leave out Arcadio, the instigator, and hand him over to others?" William sneered, "However, that old man Arcadio agreed so readily, I'm afraid it's a bit strange."

Sherlock thought for a while: "He doesn't really want to usurp the throne, does he?"

"Who knows," William said indifferently, "If Chloe and I are really his people, then his chances of usurping the throne are pretty good, but it doesn't matter whether he usurps the throne or not. You haven't seen his son Ouyang?" Reliano, that trash can't even win people over. Dennis was almost forced to come to my side by him. Arcadio is already so old, and he will pass the throne to his only son in a short time. Isn't he worried that the throne will be usurped again?"