The Amber Sword

Brando turned back to God, staring at the natural jewels of soft light and Xia in his hands, turning his head and finding Delphine's eyes on his face.

“What's the matter? ”

“Nothing, Lord.” Delphine shook her head gently, which shifted her gaze, except that there was still a noticeable sense of loneliness between her eyebrows.

Brando could not help but lament that the Prime Minister's thoughts were extreme, but she herself did not try to be a victim. By contrast, although she had plotted many things behind her back, there were not many victims who had actually suffered as a result, and it was more a matter of arbitrariness and bigotry than a cruel comparison of war and disaster that had plunged countless people into the ranks of the Silver Queen.

Seriously, Roman is the only one who really blames her. But what happened to the businessman's sister is not necessarily a necessity. Brando's mind is quite clear, since the dragon of dusk has been plotting for several times, because a mortal in the district can change?

In fact, he knew it all in his heart, but when Delphine brought it up again with a contemptuous tone, he couldn't help but generate anger.

“Are you sure it's okay?” Brando asked, “Do you want to take a break? ”

“No,” Delphine hesitated for a moment: “I just had a dream. ”

“A dream? ”

“Well... dreamt of something as a child.” She smiled and looked in remembrance: "Lord, I lived in Rheinburg until I was five years old, near South Bankel, in my father's land. When I was a kid, I was a head kid, and I had a bunch of little buddies, mostly orphans from Silver Lily Orphanage -- you know Silver Lily? ”

Brando seemed somewhat surprised: "Civilians? ”

Delphine nodded.

“Surprised? You think a nobleman like me would give up and hang out with civilians? ”

“I don't see it at all.” Brando replied that, of course, he knew that the Cruz Empire was so heavily hierarchical that nobles rarely even dealt with civilians, let alone made friends.

And noble descendants are more strictly tutored, often by a good lady before they reach adulthood, let alone mix with the children of civilians, not to mention civilians, even small nobles in general rarely get into their ‘eyes’.

In fact, just to see how proud and proud the little princess was when he first dealt with Faina.

If it were someone else, Brando might barely believe a little bit, but he looked at Delphine and couldn't see how the treacherous Prime Minister Kim would be without the courtesy of Mori's nobility.

“Oh, I'm afraid if my father and grandfather found out about this, they'd have to be furious. ”

“I'm afraid it's more than a thunderstorm.” Brando wonders, what kind of family is the Nedevins in the Empire? What is the status of Old Chancellor Ned Man in the Empire? To let him know that his eldest granddaughter, the eldest daughter of the family, is mixed up with a group of dirty, poor boys all day long, just in case the Nedevins are going to have an earthquake.

And he said, “So, did you dream about that? ”

Brando had no idea that the phrase he had spoken had caused Delphine to shed tears, and he watched two lines of crystalline tears fall from the Prime Minister's golden face.

Brando suddenly fell apart.

Ever since he met the Prime Minister, Kim Kim - no matter how much he was hurt and struck, or even when the day was almost devastated by dragon flames - she has never been so emotionally out of control, although hysterical.

“Miss Delphine...? ”

“Lord, do you really think a man who has betrayed his beliefs and vows is worthy of redemption?” Delphine suddenly asked.

“ …… ”

“After my fifth birthday, I had to go to Mekhotophen, and before I left, I met my friends for the last time. I remember it was in a barn, and I swore to every one of them that one day I would come back and see them, and I would never forget my promises and my companions because of the change in my identity.”

“Like any fake kid, I touched my fist with Rowen, and Demi gave me her favorite strawberry doll,” Delphine clasped her fist tightly, Brando saw her fingers whitened, nails almost choked into the flesh, and bled: “However, I forgot everything, this shameful, snake-hearted woman, forgot all her vows, forgot her companions...”

“... until she returns to Lynn and back there...”

“Cloak Bay disaster.” Brando sighed slightly and understood everything.

It was a riot in 358 A.D., 37 years after the end of the second Jihad in the year of the Star Gathering, and 18 years after the great cleansing of the East Mets region, there were successive droughts and locusts in the Bay of Cloaks and the surrounding area, yet the Empire increased its tax revenues on the area under the newly promulgated law. In the spring of the following year, massive uprisings of displaced persons erupted in the regions of Loin, Banrol, Karas and elsewhere at the instigation of dissatisfied heathens who remained after the Great Purge.

However, the uprising soon led to a double repression of the Empire and the Temple of Fire, which, according to historical records, was followed by rivers of blood in these areas, and the countryside became a wilderness and deserted smoke until it gradually regained its anger some time before or after the pillars.

But whose fault is it?

Brando thought.

A child, naturally, easily throws things behind her head, and one day she remembers her promise once again, returning to her childhood homeland, and finds that everything is long gone.

“… did you dream about the scenes of the past in your dreams?” Brando asked.

Delphine took a gentle breath and suddenly silenced.

Her tears were silently dried before she could regain control of her emotions, and she replied softly: “In 19279, in the year of the real ear, the Empire promulgated a law - the Helosto Law - which reformulated the tax reform in accordance with the law, exempting farmers in the provinces of the Empire from religious taxes and thirteen other miscellaneous taxes -".

“That was the follow-up to the reform of the Golden Yaw year," Brando looked at the girl and replied softly, “a reform presided over by your grandfather, in which the Temple of Fire largely deprived farmers of control and mitigated the peeling of farmers. Shortly thereafter, the Empire entered what is called a 20-year boom, and that was the beginning of the glorious era ——"

Prime Minister Kim looked up at him silently, with a slight surprise in his purple eyes.

“In the first century, in 331, my grandfather left imperial politics, because of the rebound between the temple and the old aristocratic forces, the Helostojo Act was abrogated, but most of the provisions of the Covenant were inherited in the new French language, which he then inherited. ”

“That was because Her Majesty was not steady enough to see the temple sit up again, and, as far as I know, the new French text was in fact the product of rivalry and compromise between the two sides.” Brando shrugged for a moment and was slightly confused, wondering why Delphine was suddenly talking about it.

“But the scene was not long and Her Majesty soon showed a strong side. With the support of the dragons and the Bukas, she soon became full of wings, and the temple was no longer her opponent, and at this time she was about to attack the imperial interlocking aristocratic political forces. ”

Delphine replied coldly: "She first supported the Paloot family and then promulgated the Tenipani French, which was, in fact, born to neutralize my grandfather's influence in imperial politics and suppress the Nederweyne family. ”

Upon hearing this, Brando suddenly understood what she was going to say.

The Prime Minister's golden circle is slightly red: “The following year, according to the French language, the Empire imposed heavy taxes on the Rhine, Banrol and Karas regions, nominally to supplement the expenses of the Imperial Navy's newly docked vessels, but in fact His Majesty suppressed the Nederweyne family and imposed a sweet gesture on the Cecil family - with a view to supporting it in His Majesty's move for the Parut family's relocation. ”

“In that year, successive droughts and locust plagues in the northern part of the Gulf of Cloaks were supposed to relieve the region of taxes, in accordance with the traditions of the Empire. But Her Majesty's struggle with the old aristocratic political forces is reaching a stage of whiteheat, so she will never compromise at this time, and after April, taxes in the Loin, Banlor and Karas regions will indeed increase -"

Speaking quietly here, Delphine silenced down.

“In the spring of 359, I received a letter from Lazer, after which I quietly went to Karas, but I didn't get to see Rowen in time for the last time. Their army was shot to death in the hills north of Cape Bay, and by the time I arrived they had been surrounded by General Mangrov--”

It was only after a long period of silence that the young girl's voice sounded slightly calm:

“Afterwards, I took the oath - that one day I would have to revisit the reform of the Year of Cash Glory and be able to repay my grandfather's wishes; and that I would reintroduce the Hellstoy Act, which my grandfather had repealed, but to do so I understood that I had to reproduce the influence of the Nederweyne family on the Empire in its fullest days. ”

Brando looked at her and sighed heavily.

He never thought this paranoid lady would have such a lofty ideal in her heart. However, she chose the wrong path, and the Nederweyn family was able to move to such a position in history, purely because, thanks to the game of kingship and denomination, he fulfilled the supreme desire of sovereignty for the Great of Grantoti and became an indispensable and important part of the tripod of the empire of that era, so that the Nederweyn family was extraordinarily sublime and distinguished throughout its life, and the Nederweyn family therefore shook the empire.

……