Chapter 29 The Silent "Deal"
After a touching and elegant reunion with the victorious Mr. Holland.
Brand and Yersin looked blank when they saw the uniformly equipped "iron can" troops driving away the fleeing bandits and surrounding them from all directions.
Centered on the Holland family caravan.
An astonishing number of armored soldiers holding standard spears kept shrinking the encirclement.
The bandits kept gathering under their duress.
They did not let go of any bandit within sight.
"That's the Imperial Infantry Regiment!"
After the well-informed Yersen saw the marks on the armor of the troops in front of him, he immediately realized that this was the standard regiment of the Kaya Empire.
Brand, who "also recognized", because Yersin "speaks faster", "had to" echoed: "Well
, that mark is indeed the Imperial Infantry Regiment."
Originally occupied in front of the Holland family caravan guard Bandits with numerical superiority.
When facing the Imperial Infantry Regiment, which also had a numerical advantage.
They vividly demonstrated the "excellent quality" of "assessing the situation".
When they found themselves completely surrounded by the menacing Imperial soldiers and had no way to escape, they all put down their weapons and goods and lay on the ground with their heads in their hands.
He looked like "I won't resist" and asked for "preferential treatment to the prisoners".
Since the bandits were so sensible, the Imperial Infantry Regiment naturally had no intention of killing them all.
Although many young people with a strong sense of justice hate these unruly bandits.
But after all, it is still a valuable labor force, and it would be a pity to get rid of it like this.
The most appropriate way to deal with it is to demote him to a slave and then make a "lifelong" contribution to the construction of the empire.
After the dust settled, facing his two sons who were full of doubts, Mr. Holland also revealed a little bit about what happened.
The cause of the incident was that a noble secretly issued a commission to kidnap Brand.
In order to increase the success rate, the noble also secretly sold a batch of inferior ordnance.
But in the end, after multiple considerations, the nobleman "reported" the commissioned party to the relevant departments of the empire in advance!
The reason for the report is not difficult to understand. The main reason is that the noble found something unusual in the person who took over the commission.
——It is very powerful and very powerful, but the fees are very low, and it looks cautious and humble.
In doubt, the noble couldn't help but conduct some investigation on it secretly.
Then various investigation clues came together, and the nobleman came to a shocking conclusion!
——Undead.
Hundreds of years ago, all ethnic groups on the mainland formed a united front and sent troops together to completely destroy the undead empire that blasphemed against living beings.
After that, the undead turned from the bright side to the underground.
They operate in chaotic areas of various countries and ethnic groups, taking on various illegal commissions to make a living.
At the same time, in order to show their presence, they also "advertise" themselves.
They will have many "big events" every once in a while.
Decades ago, a certain empire couldn't bear it anymore and took the lead in convening the "United Continent Conference" against the undead.
The result of the meeting was passed unanimously.
So across the continent, various races joined forces to launch a "big purge" against the undead.
The undead in the chaotic zone were directly "uprooted".
Under the all-pervasive magical means, all organizations and individuals that had even the slightest relationship with the undead were imprisoned or eliminated.
After that great purge, no matter what your identity, as long as you have anything to do with the undead, you are the public enemy of the mainland!
The undead has become a "taboo" term.
For nobles who cherish their feathers, "trading arms" and "kidnapping descendants of nobles" also violate imperial laws.
But compared with "colluding with the undead", a "dead crime of punishing the nine tribes" that betrayed the entire continent, that was nothing!
and!
Everything must be based on evidence.
She just "lost" a batch of arms and "discovered" that she had been framed.
Then during the "investigation", it was "accidentally" discovered that the criminals were related to the undead.
In the end, he just "reported" to the relevant departments of the empire with a "full sense of justice".
If you look at the results, she still succeeded in preventing the kidnapping of the descendant of the noble family!
There is no wrongdoing!
Say so.
But before reporting the matter, the nobleman's family still sent Viscount Holland an extremely generous and expensive gift as quickly as possible in the name of "friendship."
At the beginning, because he had received a gift after all, Mr. Holland was relatively happy even though the two parties had not interacted with each other for a long time.
However, when he saw the specific value of the gift, Mr. Holland frowned again.
Just when he was wondering, the Imperial Judgment Department initiated a remote summons for him.
The Inquisition Division wanted Mr. Holland to authorize them to use magical means to conduct an "in-depth investigation" of a case involving Brand.
This communication between the two parties is reminiscent of the "friendship gift" received previously, combined with certain doubts investigated by the Trial Division, and the family name of the most important informant.
Mr. Holland, who has an extremely sensitive political sense, immediately completed all the details in his mind that the trial department had not yet investigated clearly.
After guessing the origin of the whole thing in the flash of lightning.
After careful consideration, Mr. Holland reserved the right to authorize the use of magical means to conduct an "in-depth investigation" of the incident despite the confused expression of the inquisitor.
The reason was: "It's temporarily inconvenient."
In response to the behavior of some criminals who were planning to rob their own caravan and kidnap their sons.
Mr. Holland still cooperated with the Inquisition Department and the Imperial Army, and staged a good show of "asking you to put yourself in the urn" and "the fish was dead but the net was not broken".
"So we are bait?"
After knowing the whole story, Yersin's face looked a little ugly.
But Brand smiled happily:
"Do you think we have made a contribution this time?"
Looking at his two sons who behaved differently, Mr. Holland smiled and rubbed Yersin's head, and then looked at Bu Rand nodded.
Although all other aspects are "not worth mentioning," Brand's political sense is indeed much stronger than Yersin.
In fact, Mr. Holland had specially fought for this opportunity to make meritorious deeds.
Although there will be no "substantial" rewards now, it will play an extraordinary role at certain critical moments in the future.
"Lennart!"
Mr. Holland was considering adding one or two political courses to Yersen.
A tin can whose armor is obviously more polished than other imperial infantry.
While untying the helmet, he walked towards them.
After taking off the helmet, the person had slightly longer messy blond hair that covered half of his face.
But you can still see the sunny smiling face with a neat beard under the hair.
——That’s a middle-aged handsome guy.
In terms of appearance, although there is still a lot of gap between him and Brand, he seems to be on a par with Mr. Holland.
"Anthony!"
After greeting the visitor, Mr. Holland introduced his two sons with a smile:
"This is Anthony Mesa, the current commander of the Sixth Infantry Regiment of the Empire, who has just returned from abroad. You can call him Uncle Anthony!"
(End of Chapter)