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"What, the Red Dragon made a contract with Earl Hudson?"

Morrison asked in disbelief.

Everyone entered the Ural Mountains to catch the dragon, and Hudson came back half a day before them. As a result, in just such a short period of time, the red dragon became someone else's mount.

If he had known that this dragon was so easy to subdue, he would have come to fight on behalf of the royal family no matter what.

At his age, Morrison has only a few years to live well, and he will definitely not be able to use it. But the royal family needs it!

The reputation of Crown Prince Caesar is so bad. If he can recover a dragon, he can re-establish his prestige and restore his previously lost reputation.

It's too late to say anything now, the contract has been signed, and there is no possibility of going back on it.

"Yes, Mr. Morrison. The red dragon was returned to the military camp and soon after being tied up with iron chains, he woke up.

Earl Hudson went to check the situation in person, and Red Dragon took the initiative to conclude a contract with him. He turned into his own dragon, so His Excellency the Earl ordered the release of the red dragon to go back to recuperate. "

The noble officer's words were obviously messages that Hudson deliberately released to the outside world.

This is his commander's camp. Without him as the commander's nod, the face of a worshiper is not enough for the noble officers under his command to say anything.

Without any surprise, Morrison was choked to death. The famous scene in the legend actually happened before our eyes. This kind of psychological gap is unbearable to normal people.

Although he didn't want to believe it all, the facts were in front of him and he couldn't help but not believe it.

Reminiscent of the classic story of picking up a bear on the way to the Hudson, it seems that harvesting a giant dragon would also make sense.

With this kind of unstoppable luck, he wouldn't believe it without the blessing of the gods.

"I know, let's pass the news to that little guy Efiero and ask him to come over and handle it!"

Morrison said tiredly.

Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. As an old antique of the royal family, he is already over 170 years old. No matter how well maintained he is, he will not live a good life for a few days.

If you worry about these things anymore, your death will only come faster. Sky Knight is not a cabbage, the royal family still needs to exist to support the show!

As soon as he finished speaking, a familiar voice came from behind him.

"Ancestor, I already know. It's just that this matter is difficult to handle. The addition of an additional dragon will indeed improve the strength of the kingdom.

But this red dragon had previously attacked the military camp and set fire to a large number of material warehouses. The alliance investigation team will definitely suspect that we are deliberately acting! "

Grand Duke Efiero said with a depressed look.

It is a good thing for the kingdom's strength to increase, but he would rather not improve in this way.

Originally, Hudson's reputation in the country was rising rapidly. He was completely invincible among his peers, and he couldn't find anyone who wanted to support him in the ring.

The Koslow family is weak now and can still suppress it, but what about thirty to fifty years later?

By then, Hudson was still at his peak, and the older generation in the kingdom had almost faded away, and he was simply a chosen "powerful minister".

What's even more embarrassing is that this quasi-powerful minister is extremely lucky. Although I haven’t heard of going out to pick up gold coins, people can pick up monsters!

First the Earth Bear, now the Dragon. If he had nothing to do and went to the Warcraft Mountains every now and then, he didn't know how much he would gain.

As for the trouble with the alliance investigation team, it is purely an excuse. Originally, the other party came here to find trouble, and they would eventually find an entry point.

Unless all the nobles of the Alpha Kingdom are willing to give up on the orc prairie and not extend their tentacles here, they are doomed to continue to have trouble.

"Okay, Efiero! Just take care of these little problems yourself and don't take me with you.

Anyway, the dragon has been captured and the mission of the enshrining group has been completed. You can figure out the rest by yourselves. "

After saying that, Morrison turned around and left.

He had been too stimulated today and needed to go back and relax. That's the bad thing about getting older, you can't stand stimulation.

Seeing this scene, Grand Duke Efiero showed a wry smile on his face. If there was a good way, he wouldn't have to worry.

To deal with a special existence like Hudson, the royal family must not only reuse him, but also restrict and suppress him. The game is a balance.

Among them, the degree is the most difficult to control. A little carelessness can lead to disaster in the end.

…

In the handsome tent, Hudson and Grand Duke Efiero sat looking at each other, like close friends, drinking tea leisurely.

"Congratulations to Earl Hudson, for becoming the fourth dragon knight in the mainland! This is an honor for our entire Alpha Kingdom. Your Majesty will be very happy to know about it."

After listening to Archduke Efiero's words, Hudson rolled his eyes secretly. Caesar III can only be happy.

Originally, he had appeared too quickly, which was enough to be feared, but now that he had appeared like this again, the danger level must have skyrocketed.

"Ha ha……"

"It's all luck! Maybe it was the previous battle that damaged the red dragon's mind. As soon as I went over to investigate, he cried and shouted that he wanted to make a contract with me."

It's okay if there is no explanation. As soon as this explanation came out, Archduke Efiero became more and more depressed.

If the red dragon was really beaten to its brains and contracted the problem of making contracts with others, the royal family would really suffer a lot this time.

But this is just a thought. Although the Dragon Clan has a lot of weird history, it has never happened before that someone took the initiative to sign a contract after being beaten to death.

"The Earl is still very charming. If someone else had been there, it might have been a different ending.

But the red dragon has become our dragon, and I'm afraid it will be difficult for the Alliance Investigation Team to explain. This time they come with bad intentions, so your Excellency, the Count, must be prepared to deal with them. "

Archduke Efiero changed the subject.

It seems to be reminding Hudson to be prepared, but in fact it is telling him that since the red dragon has been turned into a mount, he must deal with the consequences of the disaster caused by the red dragon.

"Don't worry, Grand Duke, the alliance investigation team came here this time mainly to track down the reselling of military supplies. The previous fire dragon burning warehouse case was just a small case among them.

The Logistics Department has already investigated this series of cases. It just involves the face of the kingdom. I haven't figured out how to deal with it now.

Now we are left with two choices:

Either complete the fire dragon burning warehouse case, admit that the defenders were derelict in their duties, and erase the matter of reselling military supplies. The kingdom will pay for the alliance's losses, and in the end the nobles who resell military supplies will foot the bill.

Either the Logistics Department will directly hand over the evidence in hand to the alliance investigation team. Among them were evidence of reselling military supplies, and evidence of someone paying to invite Red Dragon to burn down empty warehouses.

Your Excellency, you are also one of the witnesses. Judging from the situation at the scene that day, there was not a grain of food or the remains of a weapon in the ruins of the destroyed warehouse... There was even very little dust on the ground! "

Hudson unceremoniously used the blame-shifting technique.

It is impossible to be taken advantage of. The goal of the Alliance investigation team is the Alpha Kingdom, not the Red Dragon.

As long as the arms reselling case is settled, the Alliance has no reason to hold on to the Red Dragon. Rules are only used to restrain people, not dragons.

Once the evidence is thrown out, the alliance investigation team will have no time and waste time on the red dragon.

After all, the dragon clan still has some cards on the continent of Aslant.

Unless they are really cornered, no great noble is willing to risk retaliation by slaying the dragon.

What Hudson said before to deceive Red Dragon was pure nonsense.

If you kill a dragon secretly in private, maybe everyone will dare to do it. If you kill a giant dragon openly and openly, everyone will have to worry about being retaliated by the dragon clan.

Just show off the tiger skin of the Human Alliance and brag about it. The power of the dragon is not only reflected in its single combat power, but its high mobility is the most awesome.

Dozens of giant dragons formed a group and captured a powerful force. It was quite difficult to wait for the reinforcements from the Human Alliance to arrive and help collect the corpses.

As long as they don't go too far and just retaliate against the forces involved, it will be difficult for the divided human race to muster the courage to start a full-scale war with the dragon clan.

The ball was kicked to his side, and Archduke Efiero's smiling face suddenly fell. I had long heard that Hudson was difficult to deal with, but I didn't expect that he was really flawless in his work.

It seems to give two choices, but in fact it just digs two pits before and after, and you have to jump into the pit to advance or retreat.

Internal processing, face is saved. But the Human Alliance will definitely not give up. There is a high probability that they will have to force the Alpha Kingdom to make major concessions before letting them go.

Directly handing over the evidence of reselling military supplies to the alliance investigation team is undoubtedly a violation of the rules of the game.

Not only would the kingdom's face be trampled on the ground and rubbed, it would also cause strong dissatisfaction among the nobles in the country.

"May I ask Earl Hudson, how much military supplies did those guys in the Northland resell?"

Grand Duke Efiero asked with concern.

Don’t be afraid if you have problems, but you won’t be able to solve them if you are terrible. If the hole left is small, everyone can work hard to fill it up.

"Dear Grand Duke, I am afraid only they themselves know how much military supplies they have resold in total.

But here I have a partial list of the military supplies they resold. If calculated based on the current market price, the total value of these incomplete statistics of materials alone would not be less than 10 million gold coins. "

said Hudson, deliberately switching concepts.

As a dealer in the black market, it is not 100% clear who is reselling the materials and how much materials are being resold, but the statistical data generally does not have too much error.

Ten million gold coins sounds scary, but that's because the current transaction price in the market was originally caused by the intervention of the investigation team.

If we put it another way, the amount of profit from reselling military supplies suddenly shrank to between 1.5 million and 1.8 million gold coins.

Divided among the five major families, each family only has more than 300,000 gold coins. It is indeed excessive to make so much money in just a few months.

But this money was not swallowed up by a certain Duke alone. The younger brothers below are also following the profit sharing.

The blackest noble in the North only has such a big appetite. Generally speaking, the nobles of the Alpha Kingdom still have some moral integrity.

Everyone did extend their hands to the coalition's logistics supplies, but at least the bottom line was still adhered to.

If not, we wouldn't be able to fill the gap in time after receiving the news of the arrival of the investigation team.

The nobles of the North took risks because, on the one hand, there really wasn't that much material on the front line that could help everyone fill the gap; on the other hand, their holes were too big and they really couldn't afford that much money, so they had no choice but to throw them away. .

Grand Duke Efiero, who did not care about the details and was confused by the figure of ten million gold coins, pondered for a while and then said slowly:

"Earl Hudson, this matter is so big that I can't make a decision for a while. How about we hold a meeting of the Logistics Department first and let everyone discuss and decide together?"

What should have been reported to the king was that Archduke Efiero, as a good minister, was obviously unwilling to embarrass Caesar III by throwing such a hot potato.

It was destined to offend the Northland nobles to death, so it was better for coach Hudson to take the blame.

Thinking of this, he suddenly discovered that it wasn't so bad for Hudson to get a red dragon mount.

If it weren't for this giant dragon, it is estimated that the young commander in front of him would continue to pretend to be confused, and it would be impossible to directly fall out with the nobles of the North.

However, I have to admit that the knife that Hudson is handing out now is a precise control of the right time, place and people.

If in the early days, when everyone had a lot of holes, whoever came out to expose the reselling of military supplies would be everyone's enemy.

The current situation is obviously different. Except for the guys in the North, the other nobles in the kingdom have almost filled their holes.

Now is the time when everyone dislikes the nobles of the North. Why do they have to cut off their flesh and blood to make up for the shortfall, with the exception of the nobles of the North?

It's okay to act rogue, at least you have to be clever. Now that you have been caught, you must take responsibility.

In the final analysis, it was the nobles of the North who caused this disaster. Even if Geoff disappears, it will not change the fact that he comes from the Locknard family.

The most important thing is that the nobles of the North usually offend many people in the kingdom in order to snatch resources, and a large group of nobles want to add insult to injury.

However, their most important enemy was King Caesar III.

"Don't worry, Your Excellency, the Logistics Department has already made a decision on this matter. In the last logistics meeting, we set the tone: if it can be handled internally, it will be handled internally.

The relevant evidence that the nobles of the North resold military supplies and bribed the red dragon to set fire to the vacant warehouses is all in this box.

In addition, some time ago, several dukes in the North had secret contacts with people from the Holy See. It is unknown what was discussed specifically, but soon an assassination case broke out in the capital.

Of course, this is just a guess. It cannot be used as evidence, so don’t take it seriously. "

Hudson said without hesitation, applying eye drops.

Providing evidence to the Human Alliance investigation team is just talk. Even if the meeting of the Logistics Department could pass, he couldn't do that.

Every circle has its own rules. Hudson is a noble from the Alpha Kingdom, not from the Human Alliance. When it comes to matters of principle, he must sit up straight.

In order to avoid being cheated, he did not hesitate to set the tone early on to deal with the situation as much as possible internally. Perhaps it was this tone that prompted the northern nobles to take risks.

After all, reselling military supplies is a thing of the past. The account books and warehouses were burned, and it was up to them to decide how much supplies were lost.

As long as one of our own does not come forward to report, it will be extremely difficult for the investigation team to find evidence.

You must know that after the warehouse-burning case broke out, they specially sent someone to notify Red Dragon to go overseas to avoid the limelight.

Unexpectedly, Maxim was just a scammer. He promised to be good, but in fact he didn't take their warnings to heart at all.

From Red Dragon's point of view, even if he can't defeat him, can he still be unable to run away?

One careless move and you lose everything.

Hudson, who didn't want to pay for it himself, could only deal with the Northland nobles like crazy. As for offending people, I don't care about that much anymore.

He is the commander-in-chief of a frontal armed conflict. If the Northland nobles dare to take action, it will be rebellion, and they will surely destroy themselves.

He sent people to carry out assassinations. He had earth bears and dragons as bodyguards. It was estimated that no assassin organization would accept such a life-threatening order.

"Okay, Earl Hudson. I will report this matter to the king truthfully. If the alliance investigation team comes to inquire, please find a way to delay it for a while!"

Grand Duke Efiero said helplessly.

Encountering a watertight opponent, the plan to let Hudson draw hatred alone was shattered before it could even begin.

After this incident, I am afraid no one will believe that this action against the Northland nobles was not a conspiracy between Hudson and the king.

As soon as the war was over, they returned directly to their fiefdom with their troops. Even if the northern nobles wanted to retaliate, they would not be able to reach that far.

This debt will most likely be blamed on the king. After all, after recovering several provinces in northern Xinjiang, the royal family is about to surround the fiefdoms of the five major families in the north.

In terms of area, one house is better than five. Once it develops, the power of the royal family will surely reach a new height.

We could have relied on northward expansion to break this passive situation.

But as soon as the reselling of military supplies came out, the ready-made handle was given to the king. If Caesar III did not cut them severely, it was because of the blessing of the Lord of the Dawn. If he wanted to get a new fiefdom, just dream!

There is no point in making trouble. Except for themselves, all the nobles in the kingdom hope to have one less person to share the cake. On this issue, everyone will stand with the king.

You can only imagine how miserable the five major Northland families will be in the future if they just sit back and wait for death, reduced to sandwich biscuits.

Unless they were forced to do so, the Northland nobles would not have played a disgraceful role in the previous assassination case.

In fact, they were too afraid of Caesar III and wanted to replace him with a king who was easy to fool.

"Don't worry, Grand Duke, I will try my best to delay the situation. However, after all, the investigation team represents the Human Alliance. They want to intervene in the investigation, and I cannot withstand the pressure.

Over at the Royal Capital, you'd better hurry up. Otherwise, if the people from the investigation team find out anything, they will be in big trouble! "

Hudson talks about trouble, but deep down he has a completely different idea. Having trouble is a good thing, but not having trouble is a big problem.

I have harvested a giant dragon. If there is no big news to divert attention and attract hatred, how can I calm everyone's jealousy?

Just because I can't take the initiative to report to the alliance investigation team doesn't mean that I can't secretly guide the investigation team to investigate the case.

No matter how clean a large-scale material transaction is, it will inevitably leave loopholes.

There are so many people involved in the case, including the traders involved, those responsible for escorting the supplies, and witnesses along the way. Who can guarantee that no one will leak anything?

If the material gap can be filled in time, these people's remarks are just nonsense and cannot be trusted.

If the gap cannot be plugged, these people will be the breakthrough point in the case of reselling military supplies. Once the hole is opened, the rest will be easy to investigate.

Destroyed empty warehouses and unprotected and unbacked account books are all loopholes.

As long as we go deep into the military camps of the northern nobles and investigate, we won't have to worry about finding any evidence. Even if the people in the investigation team are not helpful, they will receive video data before and after the warehouse was burned.

As soon as he signed the contract with the Red Dragon, some evidence about the Northland nobles reselling military supplies was thrown out by Hudson.

There are more nobles, and there are people of all kinds.

Occasionally, a noble officer likes to write a diary to record important events that happen every day; and there is also a noble who likes to use a photo stone to record important events around him, which is also very reasonable.

Some things must be done or not done; once done, they must be done.

The nobles of the North are deeply rooted and have the power to overturn the table in the kingdom. The power within the kingdom alone may not be able to do anything to them.

If you really want to hurt them, you have to use external force. If the Human Alliance wants to kick the Alpha Kingdom off the dining table, it must implement the arms reselling case.

The Human Alliance came forward and refused to let go, and there was no way to explain it unless a few northern nobles died.

For this reason, Hudson did not hesitate to take the title of Marshal of the Kingdom that he had not yet obtained.