Chapter 293 Europa Universalis
Laura, Helen, and Sophia, plus Gwen who was resting on the bed, the women were talking about something, and the chat was full of enthusiasm.
"Oh, you're back? Is the matter over?" Laura greeted David with a smile when she saw David walking in: "I heard that the king sent an envoy?"
"Yes, His Majesty the King summoned the lords to the capital, and the border seems not very peaceful."
After briefly describing the situation, Laura also realized that David might be going out for a while.
"Are you going together?"
"This..." Gwen would love to go, but it's too embarrassing because she has to go to school: "I might not be able to."
"Of course I want to go!" Laura said without thinking about going to the capital with David. She missed the last time she went to the capital because of something, so she must go and see it this time.
"I can also go back and see my father and mother." Sophia also wanted to go back and have a look. After she came to Cold Winter City, she wandered around all day and learned about all kinds of strange things in Cold Winter City very quickly.
She knows very well how convenient and fast the plane from Winter City is, and returning to the capital is not a troublesome thing for her.
Similarly, it would not be troublesome to go back to the capital and then back to Winter City, and she would not suffer on the way.
After living for a period of time, Sophia felt that Winter City was indeed her ideal place. She felt that everything was very convenient to live here. Even when she missed her parents, she could go back to the capital to visit them in a short time. So Sophia didn't consider choosing other people at all.
The only question is, how can David be willing to marry himself? It might be a good idea to talk more with these women around David to learn about David's preferences.
"By the way, can I wear power armor to go back?"
"sure!"
This time I go to the capital, all members of the Winter Knights will wear Blizzard Power Armor, and this set of equipment will soon be known to the high-level officials of the Kingdom of Tiran.
There is a high probability that it will be seen by the Holy Gunter Kingdom, and there is no need to hide it.
As for the Royal Alchemy Workshop in the Kingdom of Tilan, will it 'steal' the power armor technology? If they can copy it, David will even give these alchemists a thumbs up.
"Is Helen going?"
Gwen couldn't go, Laura and Sophia would go with him, David looked at Helen again, Helen decided to stay in Winter City after thinking for a while.
She is not very interested in going out to see other cultures. She feels that even if she stays in Winter City, she can still learn about various civilizations.
Moreover, David specifically mentioned that this trip to the capital will not affect his original plan. Before leaving Winter City to go to the capital, David will still go to Sparta.
David is willing to take care of her family and country. She is already very happy, so she will not add to the chaos during this trip to the capital.
Helen felt that when David took Princess Sofia back to the capital, it might not be a good thing if there were too many women by his side. It would be bad if the conflict between David and the King of Tilan was ignited.
After asking if they want to go to the capital together, David asked the next few people what they were talking about just now, but no one was willing to tell him. Instead, they said good night to him one after another, and each dispersed.
In the next few days, David took a group of people to the Kingdom of Sparta and discussed the plan to unify the Balkan Peninsula with King Tyndarius of Sparta.
Tindarius attaches great importance to this mission given by the "God", but he is worried that the strength of the Kingdom of Sparta is not enough to complete this mission.
Until he learned that David would give them seeds of crops capable of producing a large amount of food, teach them more advanced planting knowledge, and provide them with various advanced weapons, Tyndareus realized that the Kingdom of Sparta was about to embark on a new era. peak.
After reading the map brought by David, Tyndareus even said that he would not only bathe the entire Balkan Peninsula in the holy light of David, but also turn all the fertile land on the northern shore of the Mediterranean into holy light. The place that shines.
How long will it take to complete this goal?
Tindarius didn't care at all. Even if he couldn't achieve the goal in his lifetime, he still had two very good sons, and they would definitely be able to accomplish the goal.
As for David's mention of "giving the slaves a hard hope", although Tyndarius didn't quite understand it, he tried hard to figure out what to do.
For this reason, Helen began to popularize various "advanced knowledge" to her father during this period of time, and Tyndarius began to realize that simple oppression and exploitation are creating greater hidden dangers.
Spartan Helots system is very pure oppression and exploitation. As slaves, Helots do all kinds of dirty and heavy work without any guarantee of survival.
As David’s ‘identity’, he could completely force the Kingdom of Sparta to abolish slavery, but he didn’t do so. He didn’t think abolishing slavery directly was a good choice, and those with vested interests in the Kingdom of Sparta would definitely be dissatisfied.
What's more, the Kingdom of Sparta is not a system where the king speaks for itself. Changing the basic system casually will plunge the entire kingdom into turmoil.
At the same time, he was also very curious, how Tyndarius, who had received some hints from himself, would solve the crisis brought about by the Helots system?
As a result, the day after David left Sparta, Helen asked herself if it was possible to send some of the Periasians and Helots to Winter City for training.
"Spartan IV?"
"no."
Helen shook her head. The members of the Spartan Heavy Infantry Regiment are all Spartans. In the Kingdom of Sparta, they are all masters. After all, in the eyes of Tyndarius, only the great Spartans have No one is qualified to serve the gods, the lowly scum and slaves have no such qualifications.
"Only receiving relatively basic training, my father is preparing to form a new legion as the main combat force to unify the Balkan Peninsula."
Received training from David, the number of elite fighters who were eliminated and returned to Sparta is not enough, even if they are reused, they cannot lay down such a large land with such a small number of people.
So Tyndareus is going to build a larger legion. In addition, he also wants to use this method to let go of a small hole: soldiers who join this legion and make meritorious deeds will receive the "Spartan 'The identity of the people, instead of being the Piriasi and Helots, gave the lower class an upward channel.
"Of course there is no problem."
David didn't think it was a big deal. If good soldiers were found among this group of people, Winter City would still be able to intercept them.
Winter City wants to keep people, will Sparta refuse? Of course not, they'll be even happier!
It just so happens that Helen will stay in Winter City, so she can follow up the whole process.
By this time, David had almost arranged everything at hand, and Baron Soken also began to remind the Earl of Glamorgan in a relatively friendly and subtle way, should he go?
"Already almost arranged, we will leave in two days, and the specific time will be determined today or tomorrow."
Hearing David's answer, Baron Soken was also very satisfied. As long as Earl David-Glamorgan responded to His Majesty's summons, his mission would be considered complete.
He was a little worried that Baron Glamorgan didn't want to go to the capital at all. If that happened, something might happen, and he, the envoy, might not end well.
Now, he can put half of his heart back, and the other half can only fall down when he really sets off.
Watching Baron Soken leave, David looked at Edwin Van Cleef, who had been quiet and silent. The Winter City intelligence director was sitting in the corner, looking very non-existent.
"What has Baron Soken done recently?"
"Visit everywhere in Winter City." Since Baron Soken came to Winter City with his envoys, everyone has been closely followed by Edwin Van Cleef and his men: "The barracks and docks are the places he visits the most. Here, this Baron Willy-Socken should not be a professional intelligence officer, but he has received some military training, so he pays more attention to military things."
"Hmm!" This is not surprising. After people in this world came to Cold Winter City, it was strange to look around without curiosity: "Where are his subordinates?"
"Most of them are normal, except for one person." Edwin Van Cleef tapped his glasses frame with his hand, and then a beam of light was emitted from the temple of the glasses, forming a clear holographic image in front of David: " This person is a very ordinary guard of the envoys, and after coming to Cold Winter City, he frequently came into contact with the Raines missionary."
"Temple people?"
"possible!"
"Do you know what they are talking about?"
"it's here."
Edwin Van Cleef took out a pen, fiddled with it a few times, and played the sound directly. After the simple conversation was over, he explained that the sound information was obtained by someone lurking beside Raines—exactly It is said that there are bugging devices in various areas of the building where Raines lives.
Even Raines has it, and Raines is completely unaware of it. Even though he used magic props to isolate the surrounding sounds to prevent eavesdropping, the conversation was still recorded by the bugging device on his body. down.
"Heh~" After hearing Raines' situation, David couldn't help laughing, and then discussed this part of the intelligence information with Edwin, who was also smiling: "What do you think about these two people?" What do you think of the conversation?"
On the surface, the two seem to be simply chatting, but Van Cleef, who has undergone professional training, has already deciphered several possibilities from it.
After careful analysis, Van Cleef believes that Raines should be saying that his development in Winter City is not going well, and he hopes that the Temple will give more support.
(end of this chapter)