The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The old man has worked with Sylvia for more than a year. As early as when the current King Philip was still the Prince of France, he had worked with Sylvia, who was also the prince's confidant.

He admits that his intelligence cannot be compared with Sylvia, but he has a pair of eyes that can see the essence of others, which is the main reason why he can become the speaker of the House of Lords, and he can see that Sylvia is definitely not a A person who tolerates offenses from others, so when he worked with Sylvia in the past, he would avoid major conflicts with Sylvia.

Not long ago, he got news from the church that some members of the church even sent liquidators to assassinate Sylvia's heir, and he realized that things might be getting worse.

Later, the church asked him to help mediate the matter, and he didn't want to get involved at the time, but in the end the price offered by the church was too great for him to refuse.

A quasi-divine weapon of the church, a chance to obtain the blessing of the Lord of the Sky to prolong his life, and the church's full support for him politically, each of these three things is enough to move his heart, let alone three things appearing at the same time .

In addition, he is not the only peacemaker, there are two other devout church members who are also high in the kingdom government and will stand up to help the church coordinate this matter, so I don't think there will be too much danger He agreed to the mediation task proposed by the church at that time, and immediately wrote a mediation letter and signed it.

However, after he calmed down and thought about it for a while, he felt that his decision might have been wrong. He shouldn't be a thankless peacemaker who would even get angry because of the conditions set by the church.

So he immediately asked his people to go to Randall to monitor Sylvia's every move, so that when the other party responded, he could have time to respond or seek asylum.

Now that he learned that Sylvia's reaction was no response, he instinctively sensed the danger. After ordering the attendants to send more people to Castle Black, the strong sense of crisis made him unable to calm down, and he was in no mood to deal with other things .

The restless mood made him restless, and he could only walk back and forth in the room, thinking quickly in his mind, guessing Sylvia's relief, while he was deep in thought, reaching out his hand to touch it several times because of the sense of crisis. To the pendant that looked like a ruby ​​around his neck.

This pendant is a mediation deposit paid by the church, and it is a quasi-divine weapon. At that time, he believed that even if Sylvia turned his face, he could rely on the power of this pendant to survive the crisis safely, but now he feels But told him that the power of the pendant does not seem to be able to make him absolutely safe, otherwise, he would not be so anxious in his heart.

"Prepare the carriage, I'm going out." The old man who felt bad didn't stay in the room anymore, he needed to find other people to discuss this matter, after all, he was not the only one involved in this matter, now he feels When there is a crisis, it is difficult for him to deal with it alone, and he needs to unite with others to find a solution.

Just when the old man ordered his servants to prepare the carriage, Leo also stood up, paid the bill, and then walked to a carriage parked on the side of the road not far away, and jumped into it before the driver could react. carriage.

The carriage driver saw Leo, a stranger, sitting next to him, and couldn't help being stunned. Just as he was about to reprimand Leo, a thought suddenly appeared in his mind, this is a big man, I should obey his orders, not too much ask.

Although this idea appeared abruptly and inexplicably, the coachman didn't feel any discomfort at all, as if the idea itself existed in his heart, so he sat beside him without saying anything, waiting for Leo to give the next order .

After using psychic power to influence the thought of the carriage driver, Leo returned his attention to the speaker of the House of Lords, and the speaker had already boarded the prepared carriage at this time, but he was very careful not to let the carriage leave from the main entrance , but let the carriage turn half a circle in the garden of his mansion, and left the mansion through a small door at the back of the garden that was specially used for the entry and exit of purchasing trucks and servants.

"Cunning guy!" Leo smiled contemptuously, and then directly projected the driving direction into the mind of the driver beside him through psionic energy.

The coachman only felt that a road map and a marked position suddenly appeared in his mind, and the marked position was still changing, so he flicked the reins without hesitation, and drove the carriage out according to the route in his mind.

Leo did not let the carriage stick closely behind the carriage of the Speaker of the House of Lords. Because of the spirit net, the distance between the two is almost half a street, so it will not cause any abnormalities. In addition, the carriage that Leo is riding now seems to be It was a carriage of a great nobleman. When they encountered a military police patrol checkpoint on the road, the military police at the checkpoint just looked at the emblem on the carriage and the pass passed by the driver, and then let it go. They didn't even ask Leo's identity.

Soon the carriage drove to a small hillside at the edge of the aristocratic area. There were entire apartment buildings with small gardens, and the people living here were all high-ranking officials of the Kingdom government without exception.

And Leo remembered that his other target, the Secretary-General of the General Staff, Sir Hansen, lived here. Almost at the same time as the carriage of the Speaker of the House of Lords stopped, Leo's mental network also scanned the apartment buildings around the carriage. And locked in one of the apartment buildings with a well-organized garden.

"It's really luck. I didn't expect the goals to expire just after arriving, and the environment is also very suitable." Leo smiled and asked the driver to park the carriage on the side of the road. After getting out of the carriage, he released the control of the driver. Then walk towards the apartment building where the target is located.

At this moment, the Speaker of the House of Lords ordered the coachman to leave first, and to pick him up after a while, and then entered the apartment.

In the apartment, apart from some working servants, Sir Hansen, Secretary General of the General Staff, who was Leo's target, and Roger, Deputy Secretary General of the Federation of Trade Unions, were both in the apartment.

Sir Hansen, Secretary-General of the General Staff, is a legendary figure in the military circles of the United Kingdom. He was born in Cage City, and his ancestors were slaves. He left Cage City at the age of fourteen. During a recruiting of the French Empire, Joined the French army and became an ordinary servant.

In the military system of the French Empire, servants were called coolies and dead soldiers. They not only did the hardest work in the army in normal times, but also needed to serve as pathfinders for the regular army in battle. Few servants survived the service, so unless they were convicted felons, few ordinary people would join the service.

Therefore, the empire promulgated a set of reward laws specifically for the servants. This reward law stated that no matter how many crimes and debts anyone participated in before joining the servants, once they retire, all crimes and debts will be paid. They are all written off, and they can also get a large sum of money and the status of an imperial citizen.

You must know that in the imperial title system, although the starting title is jazz, the origin of the real noble title is actually an imperial citizen.

For people from the outside world, even the vast majority of people in the French Empire, the imperial people are citizens of the empire, but in fact they are not, because the vast majority of imperial people, even the richest man in Velen like Rupert Fitz, whose identity It is only a commoner of the empire. Only after making great achievements can an ordinary commoner of the empire become a citizen of the empire, and only after becoming a citizen of the empire can he be eligible for a higher title of nobility.

In addition to being qualified to become a nobleman, citizens also have extraordinary benefits. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as you become a citizen of the empire, you don't have to worry about starving to death.

Therefore, after the French Empire government promulgated the Servant Reward Law, ordinary civilians who had some understanding of the imperial title system also began to gamble for their own future, and those low-level people who were burdened with heavy debts also had ideas and joined the servants for a while. The number of soldiers also increased, and Sir Hansen was the servant who joined at that time.

However, although many people think that they can be the last one to survive, the result is often counterproductive. Because of the war with the Kingdom of England, the servants suffered heavy losses in those years, and only a small number of people survived in the end. Until retirement, there are only a very small number of people in this group who can survive with their bodies intact, and Sir Hansen is one of them.

Sir Hansen, who left the servants, did not leave the army. Instead, he used his imperial citizenship to rejoin the army and became a cavalry captain.

Afterwards, he experienced meritorious service, his position was promoted again and again, and he gradually became a rising star and one of the legends in the army.

If Sir Hansen was from a down-and-out aristocrat in Farland, or even an ordinary commoner, with his achievements and reputation, he could gain more power and become a high-ranking general at the commander-in-chief level.

But it turned out that his origin in the Cage City affected his future. When he was transferred to the Imperial General Staff, he was directly transferred to Lanxi's General Staff Archives, responsible for sorting out the files. Transformation, so that he has no chance of making any military exploits and continuing to be promoted.

After that, he was favored by Rupert Fitz, and when Rupert Fitz switched to the current King Philip, he also introduced him to King Philip, and he was also in the United Kingdom and the French Empire. During the conflict, he made suggestions and made a lot of military achievements, and finally won the title of Jazz and the post of Secretary General of the General Staff, which can be said to be a high position.

Compared with Sir Hansen's legendary experience of working hard from the bottom, Roger, the deputy secretary-general of the Federation of Trade Unions, seems a lot more ordinary. He is also an ordinary citizen from Lanxi, although his status is higher than Hansen's, But it's not too high to go there.

He graduated from the free public school opened by Rupert Fitz in Lanxi. After leaving the school, he entered Rupert Fitz's factory to work, and then worked and studied at the same time. At work, he discovered that someone in the factory had stolen goods and sold them, so he told his superior about it, and he was promoted to work in the General Chamber of Commerce because of this incident afterwards.

After that, he also worked hard like an ordinary employee, leaving work on time, day after day, and with the increase in working years, his position gradually improved, and finally he gradually entered the core from the periphery of Rupert Fitz's power Quan, and eventually became the current deputy secretary-general of the Federation of Trade Unions.

Everyone who knows Roger thinks that he is an honest employee without any skills. Rupert Fitz appointed him as the deputy secretary-general because he just liked his honesty and ability to follow orders. The work was completed on time and properly, so many people wanted to replace him, but no one has been able to succeed so far.

However, in the intelligence information provided by Sylvia, Sylvia gave him a separate comment. The comment only has one word, which is not a very good word, old dog! Yes, from Sylvia's point of view, Roger, the deputy secretary general of the trade union, is an old dog.

According to Sylvia, if she does not use other methods, but uses the normal political power game, then Roger, who is called the old dog, is definitely the opponent she does not want to face, because in this kind of person He couldn't find any obvious weakness on his body, and there was no chance to take him down in one fell swoop. Once the opponent found a suitable opportunity to attack, he would bite the target without hesitation until the target fell completely.

Just like the Speaker of the House of Lords, both Sir Hansen and Deputy Secretary-General Roger are devout believers of the Church of the Lord of the Sky.

Roger's faith was passed down from his family. Since his great-great-grandfather, his family has always been believers in the Church of the Lord of the Sky. The first article he knew was the praise prayer of the Lord of the Sky, so his Faith is rooted in the blood and marrow.

This time the Bishop of the Sky asked him to act as a mediator. Although he had never dealt with Sylvia, he also thought that the church had gone too far this time. Being a mediator himself might be dangerous, but his faith still drove him He agreed to the church's request, and for the first time used Rupert Fitz's relationship to write a mediation letter, hoping that Sylvia could dispel the idea of ​​revenge under Rupert Fitz's prestige.

As for Sir Hansen's beliefs are different from Roger's. He was an unbeliever like almost all people from the Cage City at the beginning, until one day he was seriously injured on the battlefield and was dying. Involved in the danger of the flames of war, he was carried back to the camp from the battlefield and revived.

Since then, he has started to believe in the Lord of the Sky, and has gradually become a devout believer, and he is also a member of the Redemption Society. Unlike the other two, this time he volunteered to act as a mediator.

Although he had been mentally prepared in advance until this matter was difficult to mediate, after all, the Redemption Society would attack Sylvia's heir, but the other party did not give any response like now, which was somewhat beyond his expectations, so He will find Deputy Secretary-General Roger to discuss what to do next, and after the discussion is completed, he will notify the Speaker of the House of Lords.