Chapter 67: The Death of Kane (1)
When everyone's expression of Kane and his wife being assassinated, their faces changed.
Everyone present knew that Gula was just such an only son, and he also knew why he was so happy these days. Now that his son and the unborn next generation are gone at the same time, isn’t this saying that Gula’s bloodline is already gone?
Whether it was Gula's friends or enemies, they all looked at him with pity. For the noble family, nothing was more miserable than blood cut off.
"What's going on?" Alice asked anxiously.
Although Alice was dissatisfied with Gula's not loyal to her, Kane also met her when she was young and was still very concerned about his assassination.
Although Gula's housekeeper was heartbroken, he knew that to take revenge, he still needed help from the nobles present. His master was waiting for his reply, and he couldn't help but suppress his emotions and said: "When the young master took his young lady to visit the city of Wirt, he was shot and killed by a group of assassins with crossbows. Although the young master's bodyguard killed all the assassins, because the incident suddenly happened, the young master and the young lady were assassinated on the spot."
"Have you investigated the identity of the assassin?" Alice asked.
The butler shook his head speechlessly.
Everyone had no hope for this, after all, no idiot would easily reveal his identity to the assassin.
However, many officials present cursed the Black Rock Kingdom. In their opinion, only the hostile country, Black Rock Kingdom, would do such a despicable thing.
"Your Highness, please Rong Weichen retreat." Gula, who looked dazed, bowed to Alice in a bitter tone. Then, without waiting for Alice to agree, he left with the butler.
Alice, who had originally wanted to say a few words of comfort, could only look at Gula's back and sigh.
She doesn't care about Gula's rude behavior now. When encountering such a thing, she can still express her words clearly. Most people have long been overly sad and can be in a coma.
Next, after sending several officials to investigate the origin of the assassin, everyone was not in the court, and the court meeting ended, and everyone left the palace with a heavy heart.
Because no one knew what Gula, who had one third of the troops near the capital, would do because of the death of his only son, and they all secretly prepared to welcome the arrival of the storm.
Gula and the butler returned to the mansion speechlessly. As soon as they entered the inner courtyard, Gula immediately stared at the butler with a ferocious groan and said, "Don't tell me that the origin of the assassin has not been found yet!"
"The old servant deserves to die. When I get the news, the old servant is already in vain. When I think of the young master, I'll be... "The old servant?" The butler knelt on the ground with tears in his face and started to cry.
When Gula saw the butler's painful appearance, he couldn't help but sigh: "Oh, get up."
He understood the butler's feelings for his son. The butler's family has served for his family for generations. Because he has been leading the army for many years, Kane can be said to be the one who takes care of him. To put it more than he is, his deep feelings for Kane even exceeds his feelings for Kane.
When encountering such a thing, don’t even talk about him, he will panic. He will definitely come to report it to him as soon as he receives the news, and he is not in the mood to investigate the murderer.
"Master, you must avenge the young master!" The butler who had already stood up clenched his fists and shouted.
"Of course! No one can be free and easy after killing my Gola's son! I will definitely crush them to ashes!" Gola roared viciously.
"Master, the old servant has asked the guards to send the young master and the young lady back, and the assassin's body and weapon are also sent together." The butler reported to Gula about his handling of the matter.
Gula didn't say anything. When he thought that his son and his unborn grandson had disappeared, he couldn't help but feel a torn pain in his heart. His bloodline was almost cut off. Fortunately, he was prepared, otherwise such a blow that would have caused him to faint.
Gula, who had stabilized his mind for a little while, asked, "Which hostile force do you think this was done?"
"Master, the old servant believes that this is not done by foreign forces. If foreign forces want to assassinate important figures in our country, they will never choose the young master as their target." The butler said carefully.
Gula suddenly clapped his hands and said, "That's right! Kane is just an officer at the level of team leader. Foreign forces cannot assassinate him! And even if he wants to assassinate him, it is impossible for his wife to be killed together! This must be what my enemy wants me to be the only son and grandson to do!"
Speaking of this, Gula's forehead was bursting with blue veins, and he himself couldn't figure out who wanted to cut off his blood in China. After all, there were too many people who had offended these years.
The housekeeper gritted his teeth and said, "Is it the queen's faction that did it?"
No wonder the housekeeper immediately put his suspicion on the queen. If Gula had not supported His Highness the Princess, the queen would have ascended the throne as queen.
Gula raised his brow, then shook his head and said, "It's impossible that it was them. Last time I made it clear that they would be neutral. They would not be stupid enough to offend me and push me to the princess's side."
After thinking for a while, the butler said hesitantly: "So, is it possible that it is a princess?"
"Princess?" Gula frowned: "Impossible? If I hadn't supported her, she would have been sent to a foreign country to marry her long ago by the queen. She would not have been so ungrateful."
"The old servant doesn't think so, because in the eyes of the princess, your neutral position is almost equivalent to betraying her. If she does not have a direct army, she may have to rely on you; but when she has a direct army, you are just rebellious in her heart." The housekeeper reminded again.
Gula was silent for a while and shook her head again: "It's impossible that it's a princess. If the princess had such a courage, she would have destroyed the queen and ascended the throne as king."
"But if it weren't for both of them, then who would it be?" The butler frowned and puzzled. He really didn't know how to find the target from the many enemies.
"Oh, I can only wait until the assassins' bodies and weapons are delivered to see if I can find clues." Gula said helplessly.
"Master, do you want to notify the second young master?" said the housekeeper carefully.
"Hmm?" Gula thought for a while, shook his head and said, "Let's talk about Kane's affairs. If the mastermind behind the scenes know, then I'm really the last one!"
"Ah, do you need to send someone to protect the second young master?" The housekeeper asked nervously.
"No, the situation is chaotic now, so I'd better wait until the situation stabilizes before releasing his news. Besides, he is in the army now, so don't worry about his safety." Gula said this, waved his hand and asked the butler to retreat.
In the palace, Alice is discussing Kane's assassination with Isna.
"Isna, look at who was the one who assassinated Kane? Could it be that the queen sent someone to attack?"
Isna shook her head: "No, the queen cannot anger Lord Gula at this time. Doing so will only push Lord Gula completely to your Highness."
"Who is that? Foreign forces cannot assassinate Kane, a low-level officer." Alice was puzzled.
"Your Highness, be careful. I'm afraid that the mastermind behind the scenes will blame the assassination mastermind on Youth Highness." Isna suddenly said with a serious expression.
Alice's face changed and she immediately frowned and pondered. She was not a fool. Of course, she understood that her relationship with Gula was suitable for conspirators to add fuel to the fire. After a while, she spoke out: "It seems that the queen is more suspicious. What should you do if you think I should do?"
"It is not enough to participate in the investigation of the murderer and take the opportunity to disrupt the acquisition of the city defense forces. The imperial guards in His Highness's hands are not enough. As long as you capture the military power, you will be invincible. Why not recall Lord Cons, right?" Isna suggested.
Alice shook her head and said, "No! I will recall Cons at this time, which may make all officials mistakenly think that I am forcing them, and I am afraid that Gula will also doubt it."
Isna immediately shut up when she heard this. She knew what Alice was worried about.
"Oh, what should I do? I have only two thousand imperial guards in my hands now. Not to mention the troops stationed around the royal city, the city guard alone has a legion, with a total of more than 50,000 people! Even if the organization of the city guards is disrupted, I have no one to control it. You must know that all the officers of the city guards have something to do with the old guys in the military!"
Alice said distressedly.
Hearing this, Isna frowned. Although she had rich knowledge and might be quite qualified to handle government affairs, when it comes to the ability to use conspiracy, she might not even be as good as a country girl.
"Otherwise??Carlo back?" Isna suggested: "He is ranked second in the Kons army. He has some cadres in his hands. How about transferring them all back to be reinvigorated into the city guards?"
"This is a good idea, but that's what happened?" Alice didn't say what happened later. She couldn't say that after Carlo was transferred, Cons's troops were completely Cons's private troops.
Alice was not willing to doubt Cons, but the troops with more than 100,000 troops were in the hands of one person, and no king would feel at ease.
Although he used to consider Cons as his future husband and felt at ease with him, he was just a penniless character at that time, and now Cons is a general with heavy troops.
And the most important thing is that he doesn't know what he wants to him at all. If Cons is completely unimportant to him, wouldn't it be a disaster for raising a tiger? That's why Alice refused to transfer Cons back, because Cons, who holds 100,000 heavy troops, can definitely control the entire capital.
Although Alice didn't say it clearly, Isna immediately understood what Alice meant later. Regarding this, Isna could only sigh secretly.
She could not guarantee Cons' loyalty to Alice, nor could she guarantee Cons' affection for Alice. Isna could not make any guarantee for Cons, who had heavy troops.
Although Isna is a little interesting to Cons, when it comes to royal power, Isna will only stand on the side of her friend Alice.
After thinking for a while, Isna suggested again: "Lord Carlo has been here for so many time, so he has trained some confidants and asked Lord Carlo to send these confidants back to take over the city guards. How about it? Lord Carlo stayed with Lord Cons and continued to help Lord Cons conquer his country."
"This should be OK. It's better to find someone with aristocratic blood, so that they can use military merits to promote them to the brigade commander, and the guys in the military headquarters have nothing to say." Alice laughed when she felt the problem was solved.
Hearing this, Isna couldn't help but sigh in her heart. Those who came back would be on par with Cons. In this way, they would no longer obey Cons' orders, and it would be even more impossible to obey Carlo, who was just a team leader. "Beware of anyone." Is this the art of an emperor? Maybe she was also wary of herself?
Thinking of this, Isna shivered, shook her head, abandoned her inexplicable feelings, and told Alice about other things.
In the harem, the queen laughed a little exaggeratedly: "Haha, Gula's only son is so ruined? God is so open-minded. Kanata is doing a good job! He must have framed the assassin's origin on the little bitch. Then it will depend on how the two families will beat them to death!"
The middle-aged man hiding in the queen's harem said with a bitter face: "Your Highness, this is not what we did. Your Highness's manpower has not yet entered the country."
The queen was stunned for a moment: "It wasn't us? Who did it? It wasn't that little bitch who made it in a whim, right?"
"It should not be the princess. The princess's staff is under our surveillance. They have not taken any action during this period. The situation is a bit troublesome now, and a mysterious enemy appears." The middle-aged man said with a serious expression.
The queen asked in confusion: "Even if there is a mysterious enemy, it doesn't matter. At least he and Gula are hostile. Isn't this good for us?"
The middle-aged man shook his head: "We just received information and sent a spy to monitor Gula's son Kane. He was also killed while Kane was assassinated, which shows that the enemy knows us very well and is hostile to us."
"Damn it! He actually went against me! Who is this enemy? You must find them out and destroy them!" Hearing that he was hostile to him, the queen immediately jumped up and scolded.
"Your Highness doesn't need to be excited. As long as we participate in the murderer's investigation, we will definitely find clues from it. Maybe we can take the opportunity to lead the clues to the princess."
The middle-aged man smiled.
"Haha, that's right, it's up to that little bitch to frame her and see how she denies it! Everyone must be very disappointed with her at that time!" The queen laughed proudly.
The cavalryman Vina, who had followed Cons to rescue hundreds of soldiers, is now kneeling at the gate of Gula's official residence with grief on his face.
Along with him, in addition to dozens of soldiers with the same expression and movement, there were also two gorgeous coffins.
Although Weiner's face was sore, he cursed in his heart. He never expected that he would have a bright future, but would have been implicated by Kane's assassination! Now, let alone getting promoted and getting rich, it is unknown whether he can save his life.
Who told me that in order to get promoted faster and to express my loyalty to Gula, I was willing to demote Kane and deliberately became Kane's personal captain! Now that Kane is assassinated, it is himself who is unlucky! In the martial arts hall of Gula's mansion, there are dozens of incomplete corpses and dozens of crossbows on the ground of this spacious hall. Gula's butler brought several experts who looked like autopsy to check the corpses and weapons.
There were dozens of soldiers standing around the hall, including Vina, among which they were Kane's personal soldiers who sent the bodies back, and now they all lowered their heads and dared not say anything.
Weiner carefully glanced at Gula, who was expressionless in the hall, and felt a trembling heart. The atmosphere before the storm came made him feel really uncomfortable. Their personal soldiers thought that when they met Gula, they would definitely be scolded and then dragged down to be executed.
But he didn't expect that Gula seemed to be indifferent and ignored the dereliction of duty among her people, but instead focused on studying the origin of the murderer.
The personal soldiers were all nervous. They didn't know if there was a thunderous anger behind them. They had nowhere to escape and could not resist, so they could only pray that Gula's anger would come to them later.
When I saw the corpse and the weapon, I had already taken several professionals to inspect the housekeeper. It took me a while to summarize the opinions of the professionals: "Master, the identity of these assassins is roughly clear, and they are all from bandits."
"Bandit!" Gula raised his eyebrows.
Chapter completed!