Liang Taibai also politely expressed his gratitude to the king, and the king seemed to be generous, but in fact, even if the king did not hand over the command, Liang Taibai had countless ways to bypass the king and directly command the army.
Over the years, the various subsidies of the Dawning Academy to the Principality of Roses have not been in vain, and those subsidies have been exchanged for almost absolute control of the Principality of Roses, political, financial and military, especially when the king was a little disobedient after his coronation, Dawning Academy has placed pro-Dawning Academy officers in the royal capital guard army very early, just to deal with all changes at a critical time.
The king also knew this, so he simply sent a favor to push the boat.
After getting what he wanted, Liang Taibai did not leave immediately, after hypocritically politely saying something unnutritious to the king, the ambassador suddenly changed his words, as if unintentionally pushed Xiao Lin, who was idle beside him, to him, and said with a smile: "I came here in a hurry last time, I didn't have time to introduce him, his name is Xiao Lin, he is an expatriate from Dawn City not long ago, although he is relatively young, but he has a lot of practical experience, if possible, I hope to let him temporarily take up a military position in the royal capital guard, It is convenient for unified and coordinated command. ” "I have handed over command to the ambassador, and it is entirely up to you to appoint these officers."
The king was a little strange, he knew that Liang Taibai would definitely install a large number of people from the Dawning Academy in the army after he went to command, but there was no need to talk to him about these things, and he was also mentally prepared.
Of course, Liang Taibai's purpose is more than that, and he said with a smile: "Speaking of which, you may not know the king, but you owe Xiao Lin a great favor." ” The king looked puzzled: "Human favor?
” Liang Taibai replied: "Your granddaughter went out a few months ago and was attacked in Wildfire Town, but fortunately she was rescued by Xiao Lin. ” The king's face was expressionless: "My princesses live in the palace all year round, not to mention Wildfire Town, even this Principality of Roses has never left, oh of course they were just escorted away by you two days ago." ” Liang Taibai smiled and reminded "kindly": "I'm talking about Princess Ibya, I think the king should not forget his own granddaughter." ” There was a dead silence in the palace.
The king's gentle face froze instantly, he turned his head, and for the first time he began to look at Xiao Lin very seriously, and in the two previous meetings, he had only regarded Xiao Lin as Liang Taibai's entourage.
Xiao Lin was slightly embarrassed, and more puzzled, he didn't understand why Liang Taibai suddenly pulled out Ibya, but he also observed the king's face with a little curiosity, wanting to see if the old man felt the slightest guilt about his granddaughter who had driven out of the palace with his own hands.
After a brief loss of consciousness, the king's face regained his composure, and he bowed his head to Xiao Lin: "Although Ibeya's mother was expelled from the royal family for triggering the laws of the kingdom, Ibeya still has royal blood flowing after all, thank you for saving the royal bloodline." ” The king's expression was not cold, mild with indifference, and it was easy to hear the utterly polite and courteous thanks, and it seemed that the king did not care about Ibea at all.
Xiao Lin didn't have a good impression of the king in the first place, but now he was even more disgusted, if it weren't for the fact that this was a diplomatic occasion, he would probably have the urge to go up and beat up this ruthless old man.
After introducing each other, Liang Taibai did not linger, and left the palace directly with Xiao Lin, until he walked far away and there were no palace guards around, Xiao Lin couldn't help but express his confusion, he didn't believe that this politically astute and experienced ambassador would do a meaningless and boring thing.
But Liang Taibai didn't choose to answer directly, but asked a little seriously: "What kind of person do you think King Rose is?"
” "I'm not familiar with him."
"It's okay, tell me about your first impression."
"Although he seems to be very enthusiastic about us, in fact, there is a lot of wariness of us in every sentence, he does not welcome us, I don't judge whether he is a good king or not, but at least he will definitely not be a qualified relative."
Xiao Lin said truthfully.
Liang Taibai smiled noncommittally, and sighed in a low voice with a slightly complicated face: "Frankly speaking, regardless of his position and identity, he is actually a good king, do you know what the first thing he did after taking office?"
” Xiao Lin shook his head.
Liang Taibai continued: "The Norma people are very curious about many novelties on our earth, and even many things have become local high-class luxuries, and the previous kings, with our support, will inevitably ask us for these things, although it is disgusting, but under foreign policy, these small needs will naturally be satisfied.
But this king is different, he borrowed books from us when he took office, a lot of books, books of all kinds. ” "Our own book on Earth?"
"Yes, we have a lot of them in our own library, oh of course, it is impossible for the earth history books to be read by the natives, but at that time, with the good diplomatic relations between the two countries, a lot of other books were also sent, anyway, these things are the least valuable."
"What kind of books did he borrow?"
Xiao Lin vaguely guessed something.
"A lot, in addition to history, humanities, arts, economics, etc., oh, especially the economic books are the most, at that time we actually didn't take it seriously, a person who didn't know anything about the history of the earth went to the economic politics of the earth, but a few years later, the king began to try to implement the reform of the rose country."
Xiao Lin opened his mouth wide in surprise: "He wants to get rid of his affiliation with us?"
” "That's right."
Liang Taibai sighed again, revealing a face that he didn't know whether it was pity, pity or a little admiration, and said: "It's a pity that his political IQ can be compared to those old men who have lived for hundreds of years at the top of the Dawning Academy, although the king's series of reform policies are very subtle, but the school still quickly sensed his intentions." ” Xiao Lin was silent for a while, and said, "We definitely won't allow him to reform." ” "The Duchy of Roses is a very important vassal territory for us, and we will never tolerate the loss of it, but if the king is removed from power by assassination or any other means, it will provoke fierce opposition or even mutiny from the conservative ministers in the Rose, and the chaotic situation of the Rose is also not what we need, so we secretly sent people from the intelligence service to obstruct the king's reforms in various places, and make the ministers think that the more embarrassing predicament caused by the failure of the reform is because of the king, and then completely lose trust in the king."
Xiao Lin suddenly realized and shouted: "Ambassador Liang, don't you want to say that this rebellion started because of us!"
” Liang Taibai smiled bitterly: "The actions at that time were measured, and it was impossible to reach the level of rebellion, but I didn't expect it to be used by others, and someone secretly took advantage of the situation to fuel the flames and use us to launch a rebellion."
(To be continued.) )