Heroes of Silver Moon Chapter 179

"Earl Mengsk, how old are you?" Instead of directly talking about the matter of the noble council, the old king asked about the age of Earl Mengsk.

"Over a hundred and ten years old, Your Majesty, why are you asking this?" Earl Mengsk suddenly felt a little baffled when the king asked his age.

Count Hamilton and Count Santana also looked at each other, not knowing what the old king wanted to express.

"I'm more than one hundred and ten years old, and I'm already so old, but I'm more than one hundred and thirty years old." Looking at the white-haired Earl Mengsk, the old king also touched his white hair with emotion road.

"Your Majesty!" Earl Hamilton was startled, the old king was expressing his determination!

The patriarchs of the three major families are not stupid people, so they all heard the implication of the old king: Anyway, I don't have a few days to live. If there is no way to resolve the matter I'm going to talk about next, it's a big deal to come together Turn the table.

"Your Majesty, you will surely live another twenty years," Earl Hamilton comforted, knowing that the old king was expressing his determination.

This is the polite talk between nobles. They know what the other party means, but they still have to give the other party a step.

Just like just now, if Earl Hamilton did not go to comfort the old king, the scene would immediately become embarrassing.

And once Earl Hamilton went to comfort the old king, the old king could immediately make use of the problem.

"Hehe, don't you know about my body? Seven or eight years at most, three or four years at least, not too long." The old king said calmly, drinking the wine in his hand.

For people in this world, the death of the body is not terrible, what is really terrible is the death of the soul, so when the old king talked about his own death, he was so indifferent.

"Your Majesty, what do you mean?" Earl Mengsk asked cautiously.

"Yonah, you know, has a gentle temperament, and he should become a good king in the future, but he is also gentle, and his methods are not very tough!"

According to his own conception, the old king induced the three great nobles step by step.

"Your Majesty, are you afraid that His Highness the Crown Prince will be coerced by the noble council after he succeeds to the throne?"

Hearing the old king mentioned the crown prince, the three nobles finally realized which force the old king was going to attack.

"Yes, since the northern lords united to form the Noble Council, in order to maintain the stability of the kingdom, I have not expressed my position.

But you should know that the aristocratic council established by the northern lord has neither been approved by the kingdom nor recognized by the southern lord, so it is simply illegal."

The old king sat on the expensive chair made of white fox fur, stared into the eyes of the three great nobles and said.

He knew that these three great lords who were close to the royal family were actually inextricably linked with the noble council established by the northern lords.

But he believes that these three great lords will make the right choice, because the territories of these three great lords are all directly bordering the royal family.

The territory of the Earl of Hamilton is completely surrounded by the royal family.

If these three choose to join the noble council, once the royal family and the noble council go to war, the territories of other lords will not be mentioned.

But the territories of these three great lords will definitely be destroyed by the royal family immediately.

These three veteran lords who have been passed down for thousands of years are not fools. Once they lose their territory, they will definitely become nothing to the aristocratic council.

What's more, the aristocratic council directly faced the royal family, and the chances of winning were almost negligible. Don't forget that in addition to its own power, the royal family also received the support of the church and the southern lords.

If the two sides go to war, the noble council formed by the northern lords can only defend passively. If these three great nobles want to get the help of the noble council, it is simply whimsical.

There was silence in the secret room, the three nobles were all frowning and thinking carefully, while the old king was not in a hurry, sitting on a chair and drinking wine one gulp at a time.

After a long time, Earl Hamilton's brows relaxed, and then he said slowly: "Your Majesty, the power of the noble council should not be underestimated, we still have to think long-term!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, we still need to think about it in the long term!" The other two nobles agreed after seeing Earl Hamilton let go.

"Heh", the old king laughed when he heard the three nobles speak. He knew that the three nobles had made the right choice.

"I didn't think about going to war with the noble council, so why are you nervous?" Seeing the bitter faces of the three great nobles, the old king said with a smile.

"Hehe", the three great nobles sneered in their hearts twice. You didn't say that you would directly go to war with the noble council~www.mtlnovel.com~ But didn't your words mean that clearly and secretly?

"Yes yes yes", although the three great nobles complained in their hearts, they still followed the old king on the surface, and agreed embarrassingly.

"Your Majesty, since you don't want to go to war directly, what do you mean?" The young Count Santana didn't understand the old king's methods, so he asked suspiciously.

"Well, there is nothing you need to do. I just want you to secretly lobby some northern lords to make the connection between the noble council less strong."

The old king took another sip of the good wine, and then said lightly: "Especially those lords who directly border the royal family, and make it clear to them that once the royal family and the noble council go to war, who will lose the most?" ".

"Your Majesty, that's all." Earl Hamilton couldn't help but wondered when he saw that the old king had only ordered such a simple and trivial matter.

Compared with directly preparing for war, it is simply too simple for the three of them to lobby those northern lords whose territories border on the royal family.

Because the territory is bordered by the royal family, those lords have always been vacillating. Now that the three northern lords are going to lobby together, it will definitely make quite a few lords feel different.

"Yes, it's a very simple matter. You just go to lobby and leave the rest to me." The old king said with a smile on his face as he looked at the three nobles.

Having been a king for decades, the old king knows the way of manipulating people well. If he asks his subordinates to do difficult things, then they will definitely be timid and do not work hard.

But if they are asked to do some simple things, then they will definitely put up all their energy and spare no effort to complete the task.

Chapter end

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