Chapter 48 - Dying
Grand City.
A resident population of more than 50,000, a city wall height of more than 30 meters, a magnificent lord’s palace, a tall and white city hall in the middle, a neatly planned business district and a hotel and hotel street, a military school in the west, and a military school in the north of the city On the hill, there is a magnificent and magnificent monastery with flowers and flowers, crowds of people, merchants gathering, and workshops like clouds. This city, which has been built for less than five years, is more prosperous than Upper Wallis. The king of the kingdom is Watts.
But this morning, a team of light cavalry rushed into the city from the city gate. After the announcement of the emergency martial law, the whole Gran City was shrouded in a repressive atmosphere.
In the afternoon, there was a fierce shout of killing from the Lord ’s Mansion. After a while, the shouting stopped, and some sharp-eyed Granite citizens seemed to find that Lord Downey of the Lord ’s Mansion seemed to be held by a team of heavily armed soldiers. When I arrived at a place I didn’t know, I suddenly had a gimmick in my heart. Grand City was going to change.
Uh …
Lord House.
In the side hall of the Western Chamber.
Was brought in by the soldiers, downcast, with an angry face, Downey saw the man he hated most in front of him.
“Shameless thief! You have put everything in my territory into your own pocket!” Downey pouted and spit at him.
“Donny, where did I disappoint you and make you so resentful to me? Look at the bustling city at your feet, look at this fertile land, bricks and tiles, grass and trees, which is not I am fortunate to have hit you hard. You sit in the castle every day to enjoy these achievements, and enjoy the glory and wealth. Why do you want to mess with me all this time? “
Zhou Ming turned his back around and looked at this Downey, who was in his thirties, had a chin and beard, and his mature character was far from mature. He was extremely disappointed in his heart, and he really didn’t know what to say.
Fortunately, he has assisted him for more than ten years.
Hey, he is indignant.
“Bah! Damn thief, I just hate not to listen to Eugenie’s words earlier, to poison you with a glass of poisonous wine! Let you thief, steal my authority, put me in that puppet’s seat, let you Fooling around, I ’ve had enough of these days! I ’m going to take back my own things and take back everything stolen by you **** thief! “
Donny hysterically roared, red eyes, rushed at him with open teeth and claws, but was immediately pressed by the two guards.
Looking at this look of Downey, Zhou Ming suddenly remembered the lady Madeleine who had regarded him as his own and cared about him. She also did some unnecessary resistance after some sullen. In the weather, she jumped down from the top of the tall castle, ending her painful and desperate life.
Unexpectedly, Downey finally came to this step, either for his supreme authority to dominate everything above, or for the smile and sweet promise of the peerless beauty, or for greater freedom and more The vast sky chose to betray his close friend, and chose to betray his wife, Alice, who had given him four children for 13 years.
This is absolutely unforgivable!
Yes, after fighting with Zhou Ming for more than ten years, the defeated and defeated King Herian finally found a fatal loophole in his impenetrable defense line. This fatal loophole is naturally Downey.
Herian secretly sent her daughter Princess Eugenie to Downey ’s bed through several merchants ’channels. It ’s always good to see ~ Downey, who has left more than a dozen illegitimate children in the past few years, I love this natural stunner who is beautiful, graceful, and accepted the court etiquette guidance since I was a child.
Upon learning of her true identity, she was the daughter of King Herian, and was told that her father Herian was willing to marry him to stop the war, and promised to make him the Gran who occupied the seven counts in the east of the kingdom. After leading the Grand Duke, Downey’s heart immediately jumped with no effort.
Not only that, King Herian also promised that after his death, he will be elected as the first heir to succeed the King of Warris, that is, if he agrees to marry Princess Eugenie, he will not only have a peerless Beauty, can also get a complete kingdom of Wallis.
Dry, why not!
At this time, Downey ’s mind had long thrown his wife, Alice, who had been with him for many years, into the country of Java.
Compared with Eugene, who was born in the royal family, this civilian wife, who has no origin, appearance, temperament, culture, and aristocratic etiquette, is no more than a hairless civilian wife. The status in Downey’s heart has been reduced to that of ordinary mistresses. There is not much difference, and even because of the multiple births, she sometimes feels that she is not as good as those young and beautiful mistresses outside.
After winning Herian’s beauty plan, Downey, under the guidance of this beauty, implemented Zhou Ming’s policies in the territory for many years, and during his expedition, the changes were a mess.
If the six governors appointed by Zhou Ming were replaced, the six counts who had taken over the military and civil affairs in the past were recruited, and a group of knights who did not know from it were recruited. This one baron, the one knight, not many. For a long time, this land, which has undergone earth-shaking changes for more than a decade, has returned to the state where the lords of all sizes were divided into autonomous states more than a decade ago.
For a time, the overturned Grand Collar was tossed by Downey, and the people’s grievances were boiling.
Zhou Ming, who was shocked by the fire in the backyard, had to return with light cavalry and quickly controlled the shock that was likely to cause him to fall apart.
“Donny, have you ever heard such a sentence, the reason why a stupid person will die is because he still did the most stupid thing when everyone knew he was stupid!”
Zhou Ming said indignantly that the stupid things that Downey did, except for the woman behind him and a group of knights of unknown origin supporting him, this territory, this city, and even this mansion, except for a few speculative , No one stood up to support him.
Even escorted his guards, all members of the **** guard who were most loyal to him.
“Ryan, don’t you want to kill me?”
Suddenly hearing the word “death”, Downey trembles in panic, and remembers his cruel heart. He has been using despicable methods to know how many people have been killed in the past years. Now he is pointing his spear at himself. Downey realized this. , I should n’t have done it, and I provoke this demon.
噗通!
The extreme fear of death caused Downey to kneel and hug Zhou Ming ’s trouser legs, crying: “Sorry Ryan, I was wrong, please forgive me, I am the best friend and brother-in-law, Do you have the heart to watch Alice lose her husband, and her four children, so young without a dad? Do n’t kill me, please do n’t kill me! “
He squirmed forward a bit more and hugged Zhou Ming’s thigh.
“If you kill you, the decision is not in my hands, but in the hands of Alice, please go to Alice.”
Zhou Ming shook his head, freed from Downey’s drag, and withdrew from the side hall, handing over everything here to Alice, who came in with a child in her arms.
Alice, who walked into the side hall, had red eyes, apparently she had just cried, and her body was a little trembling. It was the side hall she just took to the next door, poisoning the Princess Eugenie who made her feel ashamed for the first time. Later, for the first time, she who had watched a living person die in front of herself had not yet come out of the emotion mixed with fear, excitement, excitement and hatred.
“Alice, my beloved wife and lover, please beg your husband! I swear to God, from now on I will only love you and a woman, I will be single-minded and only treat you as a woman! Please do n’t Kill me, I am the father of your four children and your husband. In your heart, you are far more important than your brother ’s husband! “
Close to the collapse of Downey, hugged Alice’s skirt feet, tears and nose shed together, at this moment he just wanted to live, even if he lost all the glory and wealth, live like a dog, as long as he can live.
“Go away! You have no conscience, you can’t even match my brother’s hair! Just for a woman, she abandoned the promises she had made to me, abandoned the future of my four children, and abandoned you Everything promised to me! Now you want to kill my brother, something that your conscience was eaten by a dog. Go to death, go to **** and confess! “
Alice gave the death sentence without mercy, yes, she had fantasies about this man, but watching him have more and more illegitimate children outside, watching him more and more indifferent towards herself, until After seeing the woman who made her feel ashamed and desperate, she had no mercy and sympathy for this ruthless and unjust man.
Yes, my brother is right, the only man in this world who treats her well, and always treats her well, only the brother.
“Alice !!”
Downey shouted desperately, but could only look at the back, farther and farther away from himself.
Uh …
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, ten years have passed.
In the past ten years, Zhou Ming led his Tiger and Wolf Corps, after occupying the entire territory of the Kingdom of Warris, suspended the pace of external expansion, and turned to build a strong fortress at the border to prevent several neighboring kingdoms from uniting and invading due to fear. This new country is not yet stable internally.
Continue to promote the agricultural revolution, reduce the gift, reward fertility, improve environmental hygiene, release thieves, abduct the population from neighboring countries, and use various means to increase the population base of the country.
Implement low tax policy, encourage industry and commerce, vigorously mine coal mines, smelt iron and steel, improve military strength, not only to enrich the people, but also to enrich the country and strengthen the army.
In just ten years, the little “Burns Kingdom” under Zhou Ming’s administration has become a population of over 600,000, an elite army of over 30,000, and in a state of emergency, can pull out a hundred thousand The “powerful country” of the army.
In August of this year, during the border war in which the four kingdoms joined forces to invade, the entire army of 40,000 troops from the four kingdoms was destroyed. The king was killed and two captives. The small “Burns Kingdom” shook dozens of kingdoms and made a name for the entire continent.
Some observant kings also noticed the unique political structure of this kingdom in this battle, and the immense power contained in it led some voices to explore reforms to begin to spread in some kingdoms.
This battle, because of the occasional cold and the worsening of lung disease, also became the last battle commanded by Zhou Ming in his military career. For the next few years, he could only lie on the bed of a private manor and continue his life with expensive drugs. I also called my two sons around and decided to train them in the last few years.
Uh …
This day, the weather was cold.
Perhaps it was because he felt that his time was approaching. Zhou Ming called his two sons to the hospital bed and gave a good call.
He said to his 26-year-old elder son John: “John, I know you control two-thirds of the Kingdom ’s field troops and have great achievements. Last year, he won the 12 Earls of the Iron Fort Kingdom. You are also proud and look down Your weak cousin, the king … but you must not tell your aunt Alice, please ask your cousin Alan to move your **** and give you that position, absolutely not to do this! Named Burns, it should belong to the Burns family! This is my promise to Alice. I will keep it when I am alive. If I die, you will keep it! “
“Yes, Dad!”
The eldest son John lowered his head and said, he was very surprised. This idea was buried deep in his heart, but he didn’t expect it to be seen by his father.
“John, it ’s not my dad who wants to stop you from doing a big business, but it ’s not this kind of fighting business. Look long-term, do n’t just stare at the Kingdom of Burns, any land outside of the Kingdom of Burns, you You can dominate there. “
Tired of talking, stopping for a while, Zhou Ming said again: “John, do you know, an explorer I sent to the east last year came back recently, and he told me that behind the Ural Snow Mountain on the east of the kingdom, there is An extremely vast piece of land, even larger than the hundreds of kingdoms we know! You can send someone to chisel a passage to occupy that vast piece of land. There are many volcanoes and minerals on the piece of land, including Saltpeter and sulfur needed for gunpowder. “
“Dad, the Ural Snow Mountain is so high, it is said that only the devil can cross over and send someone to chisel the passageway. When will that be chiseled? Dad, I plan to knock down the Iron Fort Kingdom next year as my kingdom, Alan Cousin and Aunt Alice should agree. “
John said with a light face, the entire Burns Kingdom was brought down by the Derek (surnamed Zhou Ming) family. Now he just wants a feudal state he has laid down. No one should gossip. .
Looking at the elder son John’s frivolous words, Zhou Ming knew that no matter how many times he repeatedly told him, I’m afraid he wouldn’t care too much. This child, after learning a little fur on him, UU reads the book www. uukanshu. Com was a bit arrogant and vain, but after all, he was his own son, he was not good to say those heavy things, he just hoped that he would n’t be too big after he left.
After explaining to John, Zhou Ming’s eyes were on his younger son, who was only 16 years old, had a personality similar to himself, and was very interested in invention and creation.
This young son is very talented. At the age of 13, according to the design drawings he gave, he invented a powerful matchstick gun.
Perhaps it is to know what his father ’s account meant this time. Little George has not spoken, but just listened quietly. When he heard that the Ural Snow Mountain can be turned over and there is a wider world behind, his eyes lit up and aroused. A boundless curiosity.
“Dad, do you want me to fulfill my wish for you and help you see the world behind the Ural Snow Mountain?”
Zhou Ming hasn’t spoken yet, but just touched his own eyes. Little George seemed to know what he would ask, and said first.
George knows that his father’s lung disease is already very serious. Every word he says is very laborious. He is sensible and hopes to relieve his father some pain.
“George, you are among a few children … the youngest and the smartest. My father only has one sentence … keep your strong curiosity and curiosity, don’t care about the views of others, go forward … go forward … … the dream of … the place … “
Perhaps it was a sigh of relief, Zhou Ming felt more and more tired, his head drifted, and his body was gradually out of that pain. Before losing consciousness, it seemed that he heard his younger son George, his wife Anna and two daughters , The sound of crying in the ear.
Uh …
“Ding ~”
“The character of the game is dead and is exiting the game …”