Under Zoya's explanation, Annan quickly understood.

…… This is again the plan of the week's Annan arrangement.

His initial assumptions were entirely correct—rather, it was because of his own plan that Annan was able to guess so well.

Because no one knows "Annan" better than Annan.

Think about it...... Ten years ago, what kind of predicament did the Duchy of Winter face?

The Polar Brotherhood had already been formed at that time, but it had not yet begun to build the Vault, but it was presumably already associated with the Fallen;

Judging from the composition of the high-level of the icebreaker army, the hands of the group of winter represented by the "right hand" at that time also mixed in a lot of troublesome people......

Annan remembered that when he was at Noah, the old bread mentioned that "the news has been blocked by the cold winter, and they can't get the information." All matters that can be externally handled are handled by the "right hand" of the Winter Hand.

This means that the Noah kingdom could even get information from the Winter Hand before. Either someone is betraying the information, or they are simply infiltrating the spies......

In addition, the hinterland nobles in the dead winter are not at ease—the curse of the living remains circulating within the Melvin family is undoubtedly some kind of plan in progress; Because Ivan's anti-corruption laws in various places have also made many local nobles dissatisfied with him, and the Winter family has not made a move for a long time...... There is a real lack of deterrence.

If Annan had found out something similar to the Melvin family's "curse of the bones...... Careful thinking that belongs to the forces of the various forces in the winter.

Then it is entirely possible that he will directly use the "right thumb" Vladimir to give this powerful medicine.

- First, let the Winter Rebel gather all the Winter Hand suspected of being spies from other countries, or the less capable Winter Hand to him, and then choose to defect. In this way, these winter hands will be completely eliminated...... The Grand Duke also had an excuse to gather power.

These duties are said to have been incorporated into the left hand, but after all, they are the powers that the Grand Duke has withdrawn and re-conferred, and must be consulted before acting...... This is equivalent to receiving the power that has not been directly managed for a long time to the side.

At the time of the subsequent liquidation, the local nobles who had funded the icebreaker army also had an excuse to purge them. Again, this is a large-scale decision to bring power back to the central government.

And as the last "waste utilization", let Vladimir enter the underground world and continue to rein in the enemy's winter forces...... While expanding your power, you can also plunder resources without worrying about prestige.

In the end, Annan defeated him, and while obtaining these resources, he was able to defeat the enemy's winter forces in one fell swoop.

- Indeed a good plan.

It is indeed Annan's style.

Annan's plan usually focuses on killing multiple birds with one stone. At that time, Annan was frozen by the heart of winter for nearly ten years, and his feelings were extremely weak...... It is understandable that he was a little more ruthless than Annan.

"However, two years after he entered the Underworld...... [Winterbreaker] suddenly stopped contacting us."

Zoya said.

Obviously, the anti-winters are still active underground. Although his sense of presence is not very strong, he is indeed gathering the enemy's winter forces, and he is constantly building and strengthening his own forces.

But he suddenly stopped contacting Winter's side.

No matter how cold winter changed his contact information to find him, either he couldn't find it or didn't reply. In short, he completely cut off his connection with Winter...... And Winter can't say the other way around, "The Winterbreaker is actually someone we sent out" and "This is what we planned from the beginning".

Those people are all liquidated, and you said at this time that you are in the same group as the leader?

Then the winter inside is about to start to make trouble.

If the Winterbreaker tells this information, it will be the most troublesome - whether or not the Grand Duke of Winter admits it, as long as he says so and someone deliberately publicizes it, it will cause considerable damage to the authority of the Grand Duke of Winter.

…… But the problem is that the Winterbreakers didn't do it either.

He has a lot of material in his hands and knows a lot of secrets.

Once it really shakes out, it will cause a very big loss to the winter...... But he never shook out, and it was not easy for Rinwinter to send people to chase and kill, and he didn't dare to hire a sage to intercept him.

"Because he didn't do anything hurtful to Rinwinter, we can't be 100 percent sure that he did defect. But for so many years, he has been accumulating power, but he has never contacted us even once...... This is obviously not normal and unreasonable.

"I must also admit that Vladimir is the strongest hand of winter. He is proficient in all kinds of espionage, tracking and anti-tracking techniques, and can easily leave a code if he is being spied on...... Not to mention that no one could spy on him silently. ”

Zhuoya said cautiously at the time: "This matter is indeed very strange, but I suggest that you leave it alone......

Her advice is to stay on the sidelines – at least not to push the "Winterer" to the other side and make him a real "Winterer".

Annan thought the same way.

Compared to the hazy state of affairs on the side of the Winterers.

The Melvin family and the Far North Brotherhood are much more realistic—

The former is "cursed bones" and "made of gold", while the latter is "secretly communicating with the Fallen" and "using sealed forbidden techniques".

This jumping back is really refreshing.

They don't have that many fancy intestines at all.

At least when Annan was ready to make a move, he was still hesitant and didn't know whether he was a friend or foe.

Annan has never liked to wait, and his actions can be called crisp and neat.

When Citalopram and Si Dark took the time to go online at noon, Annan directly asked him to teleport over.

Pulling the three players of Citalopram, Si Dark, and the Wandering Child, as well as the two high-level winter hands of "Left Ring Finger" Zhuoya and "Left Little Finger" Zorgen, Annan and his party set off directly.

- This is the second day of Annan's succession.

It was not even twenty-four hours before he succeeded to the throne of the Grand Duke...... He ran straight out of the Frost Province.

At this time, Dmitry, who had just left the province, had just heard the news that Ivan had been transformed and Annan had succeeded to the throne, and was about to rush back...... As a result, before he could leave, Annan had already run out.

And he also holds the symbol of the great duke's authority - the "three-color scepter".

This is a very different force of action from the sick and mild-mannered Grand Duke Ivan.

But at least Zoya and Zorgen don't hate it.

Grand Duke Ivan is the type that will not be annoying to anyone......

He usually acts with scruples, and generally chooses to mediate and resolve disputes. "Prosperity" to force over instability...... He is the generation of grand dukes who has handled the winter year the best and has the fewest young people who have escaped the winter.

But this also means that Ivan will not be too tough in the high-level battle.

And Annan is different.

The people of Winter knew that Dmitry had been helping Ivan with government affairs more than ten years ago - but none of them knew that the youngest son of Grand Duke Ivan, "Annan Rindon", had been helping with advice since he was four years old; Since the age of six, he has already woven and dismantled many conspiracies with his own hands.

When he couldn't run a rope, he could already use the difficult compound ritual; At the age of eight, he had already written poems and invented more than a dozen new inventions, including the internal combustion engine.

While creating these great deeds, Annan even consciously hid his self...... Only the high-ranking Winter Hand and his immediate family know what he did.

Of course, in Zhuoya's opinion, in fact, this kind of thing does not need to be hidden at all.

Because it sounded so fantastical—anyone who sounded it would think it was Ivan building momentum for his young son.

In other words, blowing.

And Zoya and they have long been under the command of Annan, and they have carried out several "not so gentle" but effective enough tough actions. It was precisely because of this combination of hard and soft administrative means that Grand Duke Ivan, who had to walk on crutches, would be feared by those nobles.

But none of them could have imagined it......

This "soft and hard" method was originally two people, one soft and one hard.

Now to outsiders, the Grand Duke of Annam has just ascended the throne and is very young, and the Winter Hands must have many thoughts in their hearts.

But only these "ten fingers" know ...... In fact, they have long been acting under the command of Annan.

Compare Ivan's decision-making.

They prefer Annan's style.

For example, before Annan's party left for Wrangel......

Annan found the "left index finger" and wrote a piece of paper.

Bring the frost beast troops over first, and place them quietly at their doorstep.

Isn't it scary?

- Yes, it's scary.