Zero no ambassador: my harem

Former royal capital of Albion, current seat of Parliament. One day after the Battle of La Rochelle.

In the main hall of the palace, the original throne had been removed, and seats were placed around a central round table in the hall.

There were five chairs closest to the center, and the circle of chairs was also larger, with five permanent members of the council sitting on them.

About thirty chairs were placed outside, seats for other local nobles and ordinary members of the parliament.

The five permanent members of the council looked ugly, before the war report came in, Albion's advance army was wiped out, and the port of La Rochelle was still under Torristine's control.

The rich-looking Haus patted his cheeks, "The situation is clear, what do we do next? Do you all have any suggestions?"

The outside councillors were talking and did not comment. Eyes looked to the five men in the center.

"Ahem, I see ah, since we didn't hit the port, we'll lose a lot if we want more troops. Might as well stop." The one who spoke was Nirent, with a kind and smiling face.

A group of people at the back followed and nodded their heads in agreement, and the short stumpy Megan next to him was silent, so he should be agreeing with Grunt's meaning.

"Where's this going, we're the ones who are going to fight, and we're the ones who aren't. Torristine might just turn on Albion." The Chancellor of the Exchequer barked, "And the mobilization of the army has already cost millions of gold coins, and the pensions of the twenty thousand advance troops who died in the war. Who do you want to pay for that? I've already spent half a million gold coins, how can I stop without seeing a harvest."

There were also some councilors who echoed his opinion, all of them had contributed money to the war, and some even had all of their soldiers join the advance guard and then die out. If the war was stopped, it would definitely be impossible to get back the money, or even lose blood.

In the meantime, Houser lowered his eyebrows.

In the meantime, Haus coughed quietly.

The other councillors who were still making noise immediately quieted down and looked at this great councillor.

"My opinion is, fight, keep fighting. Those wrecked floating ships are rough, but they are 400,000 gold coins. And I've got an idea about the port of entry, Pace you talk to everyone."

Pace hung his face, dissatisfied inside. Although I'm weak, I'm also a permanent councilor just like you Haus, but I'm instructing me, am I being treated like an underling? But the situation was stronger than the people, and the House family was now powerful.

Pace spoke slowly, "Actually, two days ago, Gallia's messenger came to see me."

The people at the bottom were noisy and very surprised.

"King Joseph of Gallia is willing to lease the port city [Hirutni] to us for one million gold coins, one gold coin for each passing soldier, so he won't stop our army from passing through. We can use the Gallia to attack Torristine."

"What!!!" The rear councillors exploded, the main war side beaming, the main peace side sad.

In the meantime, Grant and Magan were also slightly frowning, it was clear that this condition was out of their expectations.

"It seems that everyone is fine with this condition, how many troops are you willing to contribute? I, the House, offer a hundred floating ships with a capacity of one thousand, worth two million, to be remembered when the dividends are paid." Haus compared a thumb faintly.

One hundred floating ships with a capacity of one thousand would represent an army of one hundred thousand.

"One million for the lease and one hundred thousand for the toll, which my Mani family pays. Another five thousand soldiers are provided." Mani Dao.

"I'm offering five thousand soldiers and five magicians." Pace went on, obviously putting down a lot of money.

Glent and Magan looked at the other three tigers and laughed inwardly.

"My Glent family is offering twenty thousand soldiers, including one thousand sets of enchanted armor."

"My McGann family will contribute twenty thousand soldiers, plus one thousand blacksmiths who accompany the army to repair the weapon armor."

The minor nobles in the back of the family successively reported their numbers, all of which were what five hundred and one thousand, adding up to only twenty thousand.

Haus frowned slightly, it took 100,000 to raise 70,000, which made him feel ashamed.

"Since none of you are very enthusiastic, I'll just send out another 30,000 soldiers. One hundred thousand in all, land from Gallia [Hirutni], use Gallia, and attack Torristine. Two days later I want to see your soldiers show up at the port, and depart three days later. All right, dismissed." Haus stood up and left the council hall.

Other large and small councilors also left the hall one after another and returned to their respective territories from the former king's capital where the council was located to raise soldiers. The representatives of the Mani family even took one million and one hundred thousand gold coins on a floating ship escorted by one thousand troops to buy a road to the Gallia royal capital.

Shortly after the Albion Council made their decision, Willus and Hao Tian also arrived at the Grant family mansion.

The soldier at the gate looked puzzled at Willus, who called himself a friend of the Lady of the Grunts.

"All you have to do is give this letter to Asya or Alia of the Glent family and they will recognize me." Willus dressed as Ruth placed two gold coins in the soldier's hand.

The soldier nodded at the gold coins in his hand, "Alright, I'm on my way to the lady."

The janitor soldier ran away with the letter and a little over half an hour later, a young girl came running.

Long green hair tied into a ponytail behind her head, silver-white armor gleaming, and a clear face.

She looked around as she ran to the door with a happy face and saw only Ruth and Skye.

"Who gave you this letter, take me to him." The young woman locked her eyes on Ruth and grabbed Ruth's hand, looking eager.

The corners of Hoshi's mouth were slightly raised, as if something interesting was going on.

Ruth also showed joy and leaned in to whisper something into the young girl's ear.

The young girl slowly turned scarlet and turned around.

"Well, she's my friend. Let's go, Will, Ruth." The young girl released her grip on Willus's hand and walked back a little stiffly.

Willus followed her. Horton was stopped as he tried to enter.

"Miss Ruth, is this fierce-looking man a friend of yours?" The soldier asked.

Hao Tian's lips were drawn, vicious-looking? Willus' make-up was abominable.

Willus glanced at Hoshi, "He's my escort, please let him in."

"Yes, please come in." The soldier carried away the lance that was in his way and stood straight without looking at Hao Tian.

"Cut," Hao Tian was slightly depressed and followed Willus into the Glent mansion.

Chapter 10 - The Glent Sisters

Willus and Hao Tian entered the mansion with the girl with the green ponytail.

She led the two into the study where a woman with long blue hair down to her waist was waiting.

Screening off the maids and guards, the pony-tailed girl introduced, "Sister Asya, this is Miss Ruth."

The woman took a slight look at Willus's female costume and didn't comment.

Then she looked at Hao Tian with a cold gaze.

"This is no place for a servant like you to be, get out of here."

Hao Tian looked at Willus. Willus shook his head.

"Asya, Alia, he's someone you can trust."

"Who are you?" Asya asked.