Chapter 248: The Pearl Shines Again
Inside the gazebo, Ceci jumped to his feet and shouted anxiously to Albert, "Have you done it yet?" If not, let him stop immediately!! β
β... This... Lei Hain had said that he would interrogate Jayhain this afternoon... So I asked them to do it at noon... In terms of time, they should have done it by now......"
"What!?" Ceci was shocked, pale and took two steps back, and sat down on the railing of the gazebo, and fell into a state of stupor.
Lei Hai did say that he would interrogate Jie Haiyin this afternoon, and asked him why he would abandon the city and flee openly at the expense of the honor of the royal family.
He didn't think anything was there when he heard this, but now it seems that it was a trap set against their Izquir family!
Even the time has been chosen for you, if you don't start at this time, when will you start?
"Father... Father... You don't have to, Lei Hein may not be smart enough to be this way, he ......"
Albert was also sweating, but he still had a bit of luck, and comforted his father with a reluctant smile on his face.
However, before he could finish speaking, a shout suddenly came from outside the courtyard.
"Your Excellency El-Sisi, Chancellor of the Exchequer, are you there?
I am an envoy of the royal palace, and I have been ordered by your majesty to invite you into the palace. β
At the sound of this, a bitter smile finally appeared on Seci's bark-like old face, and he glanced at his favorite son with a bloodless face, and then stood up like a walking corpse, tidied up his clothes a little, and walked out of the courtyard without looking back.
Behind him, Albert Itzikil stood like a statue in the gazebo, standing from noon until midnight.
The next day, an incredible piece of news came out of the palace.
The only ordinary aristocratic family among the three ancient nobles of Lugoin, the Izakir family, who is in charge of the financial lifeblood of the entire kingdom, announced that they will retire from the political arena of Lugoin.
The current head of the family, Cessi Izquir, donated nearly ninety percent of his family's fortune before retiring to "support the reconstruction of Rogoin" and moved his family out of the city of Rogoin to settle in the port of Kings in the west.
According to some gossip, the retirement of the Itzikil family is related to the shipwreck more than ten years ago, and some people simply speculate that the Itzikil family and Jhein committed the heinous felony of killing their brothers.
However, this family has never had any bad deeds in Lu Gaoin, and the children of the family have always been very low-key and rarely cause trouble, and it is precisely because of this that King Lei Hain finally let them live, otherwise according to the crimes they committed, it would be light to destroy the entire family in one day!
After cleaning up the Izquir family, the new king turned his attention to his younger brother, whom he once loved very much.
He took the time to visit the Secret Prison (a prison for secret criminals or royal criminals) and spent the whole night there.
The next day, when the guards of the prison were patrolling the prison, they were horrified to find that the previous king, Jehine, had hanged himself from the bars of the prison with his clothes.
After learning the news, Lei Hein was silent for a long time, then sighed softly and muttered in a low voice, "Why bother? β
He then ordered everyone not to spread the news, and rewarded the uneasy queen of the previous king in the harem, allowing her to continue to live in the side hall of the harem with her son.
With a quick cut through the chaos, Lei Hain quickly purged the kingdom of all factors that could hinder the reconstruction of Rugoin and the current political stability, and then the king began a drastic military reform.
He first sent an emissary to the Desert Mercenary Regiment's location, and persuaded the Desert Mercenary leader, Grez, to re-integrate his mercenary regiment into the national army.
Then the existing corps establishment was completely dismantled, and the elective generals were promoted according to their performance in the past war, and some incompetent non-commissioned officers were also eliminated.
He mixed the mercenaries of the desert mercenary group into the ordinary legion, and set up a teaching team within the legion, which was composed of high-level mercenaries who would teach ordinary soldiers the skills of fighting monsters.
Moreover, he also took advantage of the fact that the war in Yucatana was still going on sporadically, and asked the teaching team to escort the legionnaires to transport supplies to Yucatana Fort, and encountered some remnants of the demon legion monsters on the way to train the soldiers.
Eventually, he dismantled the Royal Guard, leaving only a Janissary squadron led by Chris and another high-ranking professional selected from the Polis family, and the rest of the group was formed into a first-class squad sent to the gravel wasteland to carry out the task of clearing and retaking the town.
In addition to the military aspect, Lei Hein also made very significant improvements in the commercial aspect, first announcing a 3 percent increase in commercial taxes, but if a merchant could set up a free refugee shelter outside his shop or in a public place, and send his own guards to patrol the city with the city guards, then the merchant would pay a 50 percent reduction in the commercial tax.
At the same time, the king also converted some of the small fishing boats that survived in the harbor area to make them suitable for one-way ocean travel.
He then sent bold emissaries aboard these ships to the ports of Rugoin's former trading partners, telling them that Rugoin was safe now and that the people were waving gold coins to procure large quantities of supplies from any merchants who came to rebuild.
Soon, outside Rugoin's harbor, there was once again a lively scene of thousands of sails competing with each other, and His Majesty the King, who had just eaten a perfect pill from the Itziquil family and Jehein (the Hope was eventually found and towed back to the port), did not hesitate to buy out the goods brought by several caravans, and even bought several of them along with the caravan.
With the re-possession of ships (the previous merchant fleet had been sunk in the Harbor War), His Majesty's plans for a revival of commerce were fully launched.
Kurast can't go for the time being, but there are still a lot of potential customers in the twin seas outside the strait.
Ray Hain, who had cruised there many times as a young man, knew the local people's demand for goods, so he always found goods that sold well in the Howorth Islands.
The merchant fleet returned with a large amount of supplies and a full load of gold coins on its first voyage, and the reopening of the maritime trade channel revitalized the blood transfusion channel of Lu Gaoin.
Thanks to the efforts of the king, his vassals, and the city's inhabitants, Lu Gaoin is quickly recovering, as can be seen from the fact that the harbor area has been built to be more spacious and cleaner than before.
Once again, there was a surge of people on the main street of the business district.
Most of the refugees were sent back to their homes in the rubble wastelands.
Most of them received a pension sufficient to get their lives back on track, paid entirely out of His Majesty's own pocket.
Yet, beneath the faΓ§ade of this faction's prosperity, King Ray Hain and Rugoin's guardians have never forgotten the real threat they face.
On the other side of the blue ocean that brings wealth, the demons of hell are frantically expanding their power in the humid and sweltering rainforest.
These vicious monsters are watching Lu Gaoin with greedy eyes, and if they can't solve the threat from them, Lu Gaoin can't really sleep well for a day.
(Volume II, Finale)