Chapter six hundred and forty fourth heart
Outside the church, the crowd had gathered, and a sudden spread of news shook everyone. The nobles and soldiers were all shocked. Even those who had already vaguely realized some truth in advance were shocked after learning the details of the matter.
In order to eliminate the nobles who had opposed him, the king framed the Duke of Gowen Cecil, to ensure his royal power and to prevent the Cecil family from returning to the center of the kingdom's power, he actually directed the sensational killing on the Czeil platform.
This is not a rumor, but a tangible evidence and witness - a secret letter that should have been destroyed was found, and several inner court servants who were unwilling to remain silent also stood up to testify the king's guilt. Outside the chapel, the fat Earl of Bahrain waved a letter in his hand angrily: "This is a conspiracy! The king deceived Duke Cecil with false information, making the Duke mistakenly think that the Crow Terrace was captured by monsters. The King killed hundreds of nobles and their knights just because these people had opposed him!!"
The knights around the church were in agitation, and the commotion gradually evolved into louder and louder shouts. Some of the inner court nobles who were in shock and fear quickly joined the wave of condemnation. Only a few people in the crowd maintained a strange silence, and a small number of nobles were confused and stunned, as if they had lost their position at once, as if they suddenly couldn't understand what was wrong in this world.
More people were motivated, and a kind of betrayed anger began to spread among the crowd.
"The king we support turns out to be a tyrant?!"
"He can kill a hundred nobles who oppose him today, and he can kill us tomorrow!!"
"He himself was crowned with blood! We should have known from the beginning!"
Some people were shouting at the top of their lungs. At first, they were only a small part of the people who were shouting, but somehow they quickly infected almost the entire crowd. Some people shouted to ask the king to come out of the church, and some people who felt betrayed were staring at the door in anger. If there was not the last guard guard at the entrance of the church, these people might even rush into the church.
Then, the church door was pushed open, and Wales Moen appeared in front of these people.
"The king is out!" "He is out..."
The crowd couldn't help but take a step back in the commotion, but then came up again. A noisy voice sounded from all directions, shouting that the king would explain the contents of the letter. The Earl of Bahrain stood in front, waving the letter paper in his hand, and shouted: "Your Majesty! Please explain all this - why did you write a letter to tell Duke Cecil that the crow platform was captured by monsters?!"
The fat count's face turned red, and every word he said was squeezing out the strength of his whole body.
Wales looked at the Earl of Bahrain for a few seconds, and then clearly said after the crowds around him became quiet: "I just cleared the borers of the kingdom."
This was a disguised recognition, and the crowd suddenly became in an uproar.
And when the uproar almost reached its peak, the crowd suddenly quieted down again.
A tall figure walked out of the shadows in the church, Gao Wen walked out of the gate and stood next to Wales expressionlessly.
"Frankly speaking, since the day I walked out of the grave, I have met many people in this era, some people tried to be my opponent, some people thought they were my opponent, some people thought they were my ally, and some people thought they were my ally," Gao Wen glanced at the king beside him, "But you are the only one who is neither an opponent nor an ally, is the first person who really surprised me and was even a little caught off guard."
"That's my greatest honor," Wales smiled slightly and said softly, "The next thing you have to do is only one thing--condemn me."
No one heard the whispering conversation between Gao Wen and Wales, but everyone could see the two people having a communication. A nobleman in a royal blue coat shouted loudly: "Duke Cecil, you have been deceived by this 'king'! He wants to put you in a state of injustice!"
Gao Wen glanced at the nobleman who was shouting loudly and said to Wales in a low voice: "This man is very loyal to you."
Then before Wales responded, he said, "It's a pity that the stage you arranged does not fit my style."
Wales finally showed a hint of surprise on his face, but before he wanted to say something, Gao Wen had already stepped forward and said to the gathered nobles and soldiers: "Don't doubt it, I know what is on the crow's platform."
The square in front of the church suddenly became quiet, and everyone forgot to speak out in shock. Some people couldn't help but take a breath after a moment, while others subconsciously turned their eyes around.
The soldiers and chariots of the Cecil Legion gathered around the open space, and the cold war machines were paying indifferently to all this, without any sorrow or joy, and with a good discipline.
"That letter is true, and my bombing of the Crow Terrace is true, but before we discuss whether this matter is just or not, I have something to show you."
As Gao Wen said, he stretched out his hand to the side. Only then did people notice that a short half-elf wearing black close-fitting leather armor had already stood there at some point. This amazing hidden skill first surprised the extraordinary people present, and then they saw the half-elf handing a stack of paper with handwriting and patterns to Gao Wen.
Gao Wen took the print from Amber, and first flipped it over, then read: "Earl Yuriel, a royal family is directly named a noble, and his fief is located in the west of Saint Sunil. On the 58th of last month, he planned to defect and once packed the property of twelve carriages, including three carriages and several war horses that were supposed to be city defense supplies... Later, he noticed the abnormal transfer of the Royal Knights, and urgently canceled the escape.
"Vissue Jodikoll, a nobleman in the Neijing, also planned to defect and transferred a large amount of royal property by bribing the guards... He also urgently canceled his escape because of his well-informed information, and then actively devoted himself to the new king to conceal his crimes.
"Virgium Barge and his brothers tried to defect from the North Gate, and for this, they killed an upright knight who opposed the defection, who tried to report to the Silver Fort, and disguised him as a fall.
"This is even more powerful. The Earl Hopkina who tried to defect. I even had a magical photo of her rushing to the North City Gate in a car--"
Gao Wen raised a page of paper, and clearly presented an image of a noble carriage with an emblem wiped out of the emblem towards the city gate. On the image, a woman with a thin face was poking her head out and looking nervously at the streets. The background behind the carriage was the northern wall that everyone knew of Saint Sunil.
"I still have a lot of information here, a lot of it."
Gao Wen's voice woke up many people in the square who were stunned. After waking up, almost everyone suddenly felt a complete cold air spreading from the bottom of their hearts.
The Duke looked at everyone-even though he was far away in the southern border, his sight had already covered the northern capital.
These materials, these words and pictures, the perspectives they present are disturbing, and the details they possess are frightening. For a moment, the nobles in the square even had an illusion, as if they were completely unblocked under Cecil's nose, and the guests at every banquet, every guard under the porch, every pedestrian passing by the roadside, every corner, every moment, had a pair of eyes belonging to Cecil staring at him.
But Gao Wen himself knew that he was far from doing this. Although after more than two years of operation, the Military Intelligence Bureau did set up many sites and spies in the city of San Sunil, his "surveillance" of the royal capital was still quite limited. However, the nobles who tried to defect were really not lucky enough, or they only cared about the attention of Silver Fort, and ignored the sights of the civilians everywhere on the roadside and behind the windows of the alleys in the corners of the streets, and many of them were exposed.
On the other hand, the information in his hands is also half true and half false - but who cares at this time?
"During the national crisis, trying to defect, sweep away military supplies, destroy the city defense arrangements, and even murder the city guards. This is a serious treason," Gao Wen put down the information in his hand and said calmly, "What happened on the crow platform is just a law enforcement."
This is Gao Wen's style - he ordered the bombardment of the crow platform, and there was nothing to admit. He wanted to eliminate those nobles, and there was nothing to admit. Just like what he did in the southern border, he neither deviated nor disguised in matters about traditional nobles.
After all, there is not "deviation" between the order he promoted and the old aristocratic order, but a tit-for-tat confrontation. Since it was destined to be incompatible from the beginning, it would be better to do it directly.
After all, he did not need to "leave a way out" for himself in the old aristocratic group. Instead, he had to be careful that if he cooperated with this scam today, this hypocrisy would become a stain in the eyes of the people one day in the future.
"I'm done," he said calmly, "who wants to speak?"
The church square was quiet, but this quietness was not only caused by tension and fear, but also a contradiction and entangled mentality that bothered everyone. Except for soldiers and low-level knights who might have a simple position, the nobles present with a little knight realized the difficulty of this problem:
Traitors are extremely abominable. There is no doubt about this. At this moment, those who stand here have basically all the pro-war factions who have truly defended the capital and despised the fugitives. After seeing the evidence, they certainly felt a certain degree of recognition of what happened on the crow platform.
But Gowen Cecil's methods made them uneasy again, and the cannon fire made everyone deeply afraid.
The king did remove the "borerworms" of the kingdom, but it is undeniable that the king did use this method to eliminate dissidents. Regardless of whether Duke Cecil knew the truth on the crow platform or not, the king's letter was true, and the motive was also true...
The huge sense of contradiction and almost absurd sense of division made everyone not know what to say for a moment. It seemed that no one should support it, but they had to support one...
This unbearable quiet lasted for a whole minute before it was suddenly broken.
The people gathered in front of the chapel suddenly dispersed from both sides, wearing duke cloaks and elegant Duke Berdevin Franklin stood up.
The duke held something in his hand that seemed inexplicable to others - it was a metal plate made of mitral.
After seeing the metal plate, Gao Wen's face was not surprised at all. He just turned his head slightly and looked at Victoria next to him. In the complex sight of the Duke of the North, he saw a trace of solemnity, and then the solemnity turned into relief.
Berdevin Franklin came to Gowen and Wales with the Misilan plate. After exchanging a deep look with Wales, he turned around and looked at the crowd in the square:
"In any case, the king's behavior of using the Duke of Cecil to eliminate dissidents is undoubtedly true. His motives contain great selfishness and a terrible abuse of power. This unquestionable fact proves one thing: Wales Moen is no longer suitable to continue to be our king, and he should step down and abdicate and give way to the wise.
"Duke Cecil's bombardment on the Crow Terrace is a thundering method to eradicate traitors. He stays away from the power center of the royal capital and does not have the motivation to eradicate those who disagree with political dissent. Although this decision is too cruel, it is a normal decision in a critical state of national crisis - this is my judgment."
Behind Gao Wen, Amber, whose figure was hidden outside everyone's sight, muttered softly: "It's really ridiculous..."
Gao Wen responded softly: "Yes, it's just ridiculous."
There are too many points to argue about in Bedewen's words, as if they deliberately amplify one's faults and deliberately ignore the other's terrible behavior itself. It is clear that the one who actually fired the fire was Gao Wen, but in the end everyone would ignore this.
But the most ridiculous thing is that after Bodevin finished speaking, no one in the square refuted.
The people were silent for a moment, then exchanged sights with each other, and under some silent tacit understanding, they nodded one by one.
Berdevin turned around and looked into Wales' eyes: "Your Majesty, do you have any objections to this conclusion?"
Wales smiled relaxed and things finally returned to the direction he planned.
"I have no objection."
"Then, please give up the throne, Your Majesty."
Chapter completed!