Chapter 134: The Tribulations of the Empire (Part I)

Chapter 134: The Tribulations of the Empire (Part I)

The same mutilated siblings, the same waiter dress, the same military temperament. All this immediately reminded Du Weilian of the night he was assassinated in Jumu Town on the way to the imperial capital!

As soon as a trace of anger appeared on his face, the waiter immediately noticed it, and his originally rock-like calm expression immediately flashed a trace of vigilance, and after taking a step back, a fine light suddenly appeared in his eyes and stared at Du Wei tightly!

Du Wei's hand had already touched a magic scroll in his sleeve. Since the assassination, Du Wei has a good habit, he specially sewed two pockets in the sleeve of his magician's robe, the wide sleeve of the magician's robe is a good place to hide weapons, and several magic scrolls are placed in each of the pockets of the two sleeve robes, so that he can quickly have the ability to protect himself in case of danger.

At this moment, Du Wei held a magic petrification scroll in his hand, staring at this waiter carefully, as long as he dared to move slightly, he was immediately ready to eject the scroll out of his sleeve.

"My dear friend, what's wrong with you? Looking at your face, it seems a little uncomfortable? With a gentle greeting, Prince Chen suddenly took a slow step, this step was just right, and the gentle aura on his body immediately dispersed the murderous aura between Du Wei and the waiter, instantly dissipating the crisis into invisibility. Prince Chen's step seemed simple, but it seemed to be intentionally or unintentionally stopped right between Du Wei and the attendant.

Du Wei forced a smile and took a deep look at His Highness: "It's nothing, it's just that I suddenly have a headache." Then, his gaze crossed Prince Chen, fell on the hand of the attendant, and said with a smile: "I'm just curious. In such a place, why is this waiter's hand..."

The waiter also seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, silently bent over, and bowed respectfully to Du Wei, but even when he bowed, his body was tense, as if he was always ready. Du Wei looked at him and did not move. After the waiter bowed, he quietly stepped back and left.

"This is not the right place." Prince Chen's whisper quietly fell into Du Weidi's ears, and Du Wei saw the deep eyes of this young highness in a blink of an eye, and he coughed disguisedly: "I'm just a little curious."

Then, Prince Chen had already pulled Du Wei out of the door and came to the terrace.

This terrace is huge. The cyan stone carvings look mysterious in the dark night. Du Wei deliberately looked at a statue of an ancient warrior in front of him, that statue warrior holding a long sword and wearing armor stood quietly on a stone platform. Du Wei came closer and saw that the samurai's face was actually inlaid with precious stones, and the long sword in his hand was also carved out of ivory. Under the faint moonlight of the surroundings. A faint warm and soft sheen appeared on that ivory.

"The backstage of this place should be the military." After staring at this samurai statue for a long time, Du Wei suddenly spoke.

Prince Chen held the railing on the terrace with one hand and a crystal wine glass in the other, listening to Du Wei's words, he did not answer immediately, but took a small sip of wine first, and then took a deep breath. Smiled: "Look, it's better to have a terrace." How beautifully the roses bloom in the garden below... If you can bring your beloved girl in front of such moonlight and flowers, it will definitely be a very beautiful thing. Saying that, Prince Chen turned to look at Du Wei: "My friend, tell me, do you have a beloved girl?"

Du Wei silently glanced at His Highness and thought carefully for a while...

Beloved girl?

Not sure why. Think of this sentence. Du Wei's mind suddenly flashed that day in Walker Harbor, when he said goodbye to little Vivian. The little beautiful magician who spoke a little stuttered and blushed, timidly kissed her cheek, and then left the scene.

"Maybe, there is." Du Wei replied with an involuntary smile.

Prince Chen glanced at Du Wei quietly, and a faint hint of surprise appeared on his handsome face: "Unfortunately, I didn't."

Saying that, he shook his head, drank the wine in the glass, then put down the glass, walked to Du Wei's side, and smiled: "You guessed well just now, the backstage of this place is indeed the military."

The expression on Du Wei's face did not change much.

"I don't know what happened to you just now." Prince Chen frowned slightly: "But I need to remind you that in this place, you'd better not do anything beyond the norm." The depth of the water in this place is not what you can imagine. Even if your father is here, he will not want to provoke those behind here.

Speaking of this, Prince Chen glanced at Du Wei: "What are you thinking?"

"Nothing." Du Wei said lightly: "I just think that such a place is actually opened by the military... Somewhat unexpected. The dignified emperor ** side would actually make this kind of... Place.

"Yes." A trace of sadness flashed in Prince Chen's eyes, and he whispered, "It's very sad... Perhaps this is also one of the signs before the chaos.

Then he sighed and stood side by side with Du Wei: "This is actually not a secret, in the aristocratic circle of the imperial capital, everyone knows it, but no one will break this." Even my father, he knew about the existence of this place, knew that the military had made such a place around the imperial capital... Hey! The dignified imperial ** team, the army guarding the glory of the empire, actually did such a thing, do you think my father is very happy? Every time he mentions this place, he gets angry and smashes things ... But what can be done about this? Even a few bigwigs from the military command, including your father, did not have a good impression of this place, but they were helpless. "Why

?"

"Because of the money!" Prince Chen smiled bitterly: "Because of the lack of military spending!"

Saying that, Prince Chen raised his head, looked at the crescent moon in the sky, and sighed softly: "My father, His Majesty Emperor Augustine VI, the ruler of this continent, the monarch who reigned for forty-four years... To be honest, if he had been born in the age of war... For example, the Aragon era, or the turbulent era when our Augustinian family ascended the throne to save the empire, with my father's character, I am afraid that I can become a generation of wise lords! He likes martial arts, so happy achievements, and his favorite is to fight in the south and the north, and use non-stop conquest to satisfy his inner glory needs... In fact, this is not a disadvantage, if in the war years, this will be a good character advantage of a monarch, but unfortunately, he was born in the era of the stability of the empire... And it is still in a thousand-year-old empire, and the national power has reached an era of prosperity and decline! Such an era, but produced a monarch full of conquest, is not a blessing for a country.

Du Wei did not say that the other party was in the current emperor's majesty, so it was a big crime to belittle the monarch behind his back. The other party is the emperor's favorite youngest son, and behind his back he said that his old son has a few bad words, even if he is known, it doesn't matter, but he can't answer!

"My father reigned for forty-four years, but unfortunately the entire continent has been unified, where else can he conquer and vent his desire to conquer? Only those alien races after the Northwest Desert have always had some frequent changes. Twenty years ago, my father organized a desert expedition that slaughtered 100,000 alien races and stained the yellow sand, a year known as the 'Year of Bloodshed'. Alas... Father was too anxious. Although those alien races change frequently, they are all small fights, and in general, they are still under the rule and control of the empire. But because my father was anxious in his heart, he found a target to vent, so he did it desperately... Although the conquest hit the alien races hard, the blood feud that slaughtered 100,000 people made those foreigners form a blood feud with the empire since then, and the original pacification policy was no longer effective. Alas... It is a pity that the previous emperor, my grandfather's efforts for thirty whole years, were all wiped out by my father's butcher's knife! Speaking of this, Prince Chen glanced at Du Wei: "You know about that expedition to the desert war?"

Du Wei nodded.

Although that war took place twenty years ago, when Du Wei did not come to this world, he was familiar with many history books and documents, and Du Wei probably knew about the war.

There is a vast desert in the northwest of the continent, and the depths of the desert are a narrow grassland from the geographical environment, backed by snow-capped mountains. In that land, there was a nomadic alien race, rebellious by nature and brave. That people had been conquered by the Empire in the Aragon era, but after all, there was a desert between the interior of the Empire and the steppe peoples, which became the biggest obstacle to the Empire's control of that area. For hundreds of years, the empire had weak control over that conquered people. That nation also often started small-scale rebellions, and the empire fought many times, and the most always could win, but the vast desert caused heavy losses in the empire's supplies, and every time it won the war, it was often not worth the loss.