When Hig and the others came to the village, they saw more than a dozen guards surrounding this middle-aged man in a red robe, with a blue and white ambassadorial ribbon coiled around his waist, a gold-bottomed and blue pigeon-marked statesman's medal pinned to his left chest, and a scroll unique to Queen Catherine in his right hand, with a golden ceremonial ring on his finger.

Higg and the others immediately stepped forward to salute, and Higg said with a smile: "The envoy is coming, you should notify in advance, and we can also go out of the mountain pass to greet us." The Messenger came so boldly, and we did not greet him according to etiquette, and Her Majesty blamed him, but we could not afford it! ”

"You're Higg?" The messenger asked.

"Yes, Emissary, I am Higg!"

The messenger said: "Mr. Higg, Her Majesty has received a report from the commander of the Second Legion, and praises you for your bravery in the campaign to exterminate pirates, and has specially sent you to present Mr. Higg with the Medal of Bravery, hoping that Mr. Higg will not let down Her Majesty's kindness, and make persistent efforts to make further contributions to Her Majesty!" ”

After that, open the scroll and start reading the paperwork on the scroll! Higg and the others bowed to the scroll, not daring to move.

Higg didn't listen carefully to the bullshit papers, all the nonsense of praise and encouragement, trying to make people die for the Queen. Higg wasn't the brainwashed and poisoned kind of person in Shante, he was thinking about the real purpose of the queen's emissary, was it to award a medal of valor?

After five or six minutes of the long paperwork, Higg's waist was bent very sore, and the messenger finished reading.

Higg immediately stepped forward, took the paperwork with both hands, and said: "Rest assured, Lord Emissary, Hig and everyone here will always be loyal to Her Majesty, for Her Majesty, for the recovery of Alasia, you will fight bravely to kill the enemy, and you will not flinch to the death!" Saying that, he was smiling secretly in his heart, and it was also a nonsense to deal with nonsense.

The messenger turned and took out a golden medallion from the box held by the guard, with a blue and red-trimmed suspender on it, and hung it around Higg's neck!

"Thank you, Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty!" Higg said.

"Long live Her Majesty! The crowd shouted loudly.

"Mr. Higg, Her Majesty also asked Her Majesty to bring ten barrels of good wine, and let Mr. Higg reward the meritorious soldiers on his behalf!" The ambassador spoke, instructing the guards behind him to bring the wine out.

"Then I will thank Her Majesty for her kindness on behalf of all the soldiers!" Higg smiled and stepped forward to hold the ambassador's left arm, and said affectionately, "Your Excellency, please go into the cave and rest!" I hope you don't dislike me for being a poor country! ”

The messenger turned his face to look at Higg, changed his relaxed expression, and said to Hig, "Haha, Lord Higg, please!" ”

"Your Excellency, please!"

……

The cave is indeed very simple, after Shante and Higg managed the cottage, there was basically no arrangement, it was still the original long table and bench, plus the big head chair in the main seat.

Higg retreated and let the envoy sit in his chair, and said with a tentative smile: "Your Excellency, the official business is done, let me make arrangements for it, and give the lord a pick-up first!" ”

The envoy ignored Higg's words, and said solemnly: "Her Majesty asked the next generation whether Mr. Higg was building a city in Gauder to build a kingdom within a state?" ”

As soon as he said this, the faces of everyone present changed, and Snoring even stood up, waited fiercely for the messenger, was pressed by Higg, and said: "You all go out first, and I will talk to the envoy!" ”

Higg was also shocked by the messenger's words and broke out in a cold sweat, turned around and said to the messenger with a smile: "I think Her Majesty has misunderstood, Higg will always follow Her Majesty and be loyal to Her Majesty, I hope Your Majesty will not believe these rumors!" ”

"Rumors?" The messenger said: "You dare to say that you did not build it, and privately recruited soldiers and formed an army? ”

"Emissary!" Higg smiled, "It's getting late today, it's not suitable for talking about business, tomorrow I'll personally take the adults around to take a look, is it like the rumors said that the army was privately built privately?" The envoy has just arrived, and I haven't had time to prepare any decent gifts, so please don't be surprised. ”

Higg said, beckoning to the entrance of the cave where he was resting, and the two soldiers came out with a large box and placed it in front of Higg, who opened the box, and the box immediately glowed with a dazzling golden light.

Higg smiled and said, "Your Excellency the Messenger and all of you are tired, let your Excellency as a reward, and when your Excellency leaves, I will have another Cheng Yi!" ”

The ambassador looked at the big box with his eyes, and said with a smile: "What is Mr. Higg doing, we are all working for Her Majesty, what is the point of hard work?" ”

"Your Excellency!" Seeing that the envoy was not angry, Higg said with a smile: "Of course, there is nothing wrong with you and I working hard for Her Majesty, but it is not good to suffer your own subordinates!" ”

The messenger laughed: "Alright! Then I'll thank Mr. Higg on behalf of my men. With that, he motioned for the soldier to carry the box down.

Higg wiped the sweat from his forehead and continued to smile and said: "I have arranged for the following to prepare a banquet for the adults to unblock, here is a poor and remote place, there is nothing to entertain, I hope Mr. Ambassador will not see outside!" ”

"Hahaha!" The envoy smiled and said, "I also serve Her Majesty the Queen, what do you say when you see the outside but you don't see the outside!" ”

"Since my lord said so, I will not be outside, I hope that when you return to see Her Majesty, you can explain the misunderstanding well, it is purely a rumor!"

"Hehe, I'll talk about it after the inspection tomorrow, don't worry!"

The next morning, led by Charlie and Denilson, Higg accompanied the ambassador to inspect his territory. Higg had already told Charlie and Denelson what they could and couldn't go, and where they needed to make arrangements in advance, and asked them to take the ambassador to the dirtiest, poorest, and messiest places.

It's easy to say that it's dirty and messy, and it's the refugee camps that are leading the way.

As soon as I entered the refugee camp, a foul smell came to my nose, although it was early spring, the climate in the south was warm, flies were flying everywhere, and several people, more than a dozen people, were crowded into simple temporary resettlement houses, all of them with yellow faces and thin muscles, and their clothes were shabby! Even Higg was sad to see it, let alone a pampered ambassador.

"These refugees are homeless, many of them are lonely old people, and when I traveled a few years ago, I saw that the once prosperous empire is now shattered, the people are struggling to make a living, most of the villages are empty, and the farmland is barren, and my heart is extremely unbearable," Higg said. Although I am a bandit, I am also a subject of His Majesty, and these suffering people are also His Majesty's subjects, since I have chosen to be loyal to His Majesty, what reason is there to see His Majesty's subjects starving and losing their loved ones! That's why I united with these righteous people who have the same idea as me, and in this relatively peaceful area, build some simple houses to shelter them from the wind and cold, so that they can have hot food and soup, which can be regarded as doing my duty for Your Majesty. Higg burst into tears as he spoke, and lifted his sleeve to wipe his tears.

"These people eat these in the morning?" Da chewed the gruel in the cauldron with a spoon and said.

"Your Excellency!" Charlie said, "If it weren't for your visit today, I'm afraid that these rioters will make trouble, where will there be food this early in the morning?" If you don't believe me, you can ask the people here if they have had breakfast before. ”

"How many refugees do you have here?" The messenger asked.

"About 200,000!" Higg didn't dare to say too much, the crime of gathering a crowd to rebel was too big, so he had to cut it in half.

"So much for 200,000? Is this the case? The messenger asked.

"My lord, you've seen the best of our picks!" "There are so many refugees, where can we build so many houses, even if we have manpower, we don't have so many materials." There are still many refugees living in caves, and some even sleeping in the open! ”

The envoy's face was heavy, he nodded, and said, "Well, you have indeed done a good thing for Your Majesty!" ”

"Let's go see the city you built!"

Charles did not take the messenger to the site of the city by the sea, where the interior hall was being built, which was absolutely not to be seen by the envoy.

Charlie took Higg and the messenger to Waltai's workshop, which was full of workshops, and the sound of soldiers banging was in the workshop.

"This is your city?" The messenger asked.

"My lord, I don't know what the city you are talking about, this is the area where we have the most buildings and the most people working here, if you think this is also a city, I have nothing to say."

"What are you doing with so many workshops? There are also weapons and armor workshops, do you need to make so many weapons? The messenger said angrily.

"Don't be angry, listen to me!" Higg said unhurriedly, "There are 200,000 refugees here, how much do they eat and drink every day, it is not difficult for adults to calculate, if I don't have a little industry, let the refugees do a little bit of work, one is that they can't feed them, and the other is that the refugees who have nothing to do will make trouble!" My lord, half of the workshops here are tool workshops, mainly to make farm tools, and spring plowing is about to begin, and there is a shortage of farm tools, so if so many refugees don't farm, where will they have so much money to buy food to feed them? As for the weapons and armor you mentioned, they are actually orders I received from General Colenva, one is to support Her Majesty's army, the second is to allow the refugees to have something to do, and the third is that I belong to the territory of the city of Misland, which is occupied by Arad, and of course I must have my own civilian defense force. If you don't believe me, I have an order agreement with General Kolenwa here, and you can also check through the above relationship to see if what I said is true! ”

The ambassador did not speak, but walked into Waltai's workshop, and Higg followed, walked to Waltai's side, and winked at Waltai, who gave him a disdainful look, snorted softly, and handed him a fine dagger.

Higg took the dagger, turned to the messenger and said, "My lord, the craftsmanship of the workshops here is very ordinary, but I accidentally got a good piece of iron some time ago, and made a dagger, and I actually sharpened the iron like clay. If you like it, please accept it. He handed the dagger with both hands.

The ambassador admired the delicate clumps and glittering jewels on the dagger, and without blinking his eyes, Higg picked up a sword from the side and stretched it out in front of the ambassador. The ambassador drew his dagger, and suddenly the white light was dazzling, and he used the dagger to slash at the blade of the sword, and with a bang, the sword was cut off by the waist, and the tip of the sword fell to the ground.

"Sure enough, it's a good dagger, Mr. Higg is so polite, if I shirk it, it will seem to be angry, so I have to smile cheekily! Hahaha"

…… Accompanied the envoy for two days, giving gifts and inviting guests to dinner, and on the third day, he had to take two boxes of gold coins Cheng Yi to give the envoy back to restore his life, and Higg was also exhausted.