Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

When Marcel returned home, his wife and others had been waiting for him for a long time.

"My dear, what has happened? Those mud-legged soldiers have started to take to the streets again. I had an appointment to go riding with Mrs. Pitt today, but now I can't go out suddenly."

In addition to his wife, there were a bunch of other people from Marcel's family, including Marcel's brothers and other relatives.

After seeing the soldiers from the two southwestern borders taking to the streets again, they all put down their work and things at hand and gathered here as quickly as possible.

This is also the reason why Marcel's family has been able to continue from the previous dynasty to the present and become one of the most established noble families in the royal capital. No matter what happens, they must keep pace with the head of the family and will never act on their own.

The last time the soldiers took to the streets, they cleared out a group of nobles who were not loyal enough to Her Majesty the Queen. Now these peasants have stepped into the inner city with their dirty military boots. The nobles in the inner city have begun to panic again, especially since Her Majesty the Queen seems to have some clues about the assassination of the King.

Marcel comforted his wife and said, "Don't worry, this is none of our business, but you and Mrs. Pitt didn't talk about anything sensitive, did you?"

"No, I follow your wishes. Mrs. Pitt and I are just ordinary friends. Our friendship is limited to the interactions between ordinary ladies."

"You didn't promise her anything, did you?"

Seeing Marcel's serious expression, Marcel's wife nodded and said, "She hinted to me many times that she had something to tell me, but I always found an excuse to run away."

Hearing his wife's answer, Marcel finally let go of his worries. After hugging his wife tightly, Marcel ordered: "Take out all the letters between you and Mrs. Pitt and present them all to the palace."

It would be good if we don't have a too deep relationship, then we can hand over all the letters that we have contacted with those insects openly. This may not be of any use, and Her Majesty the Queen cannot check them one by one, but what is needed is an attitude.

The essence of fence-sitting is not to stay on the wall all the time, but to jump down from the wall without looking back at some critical moment.

Then, Marcel looked at the people who were waiting to greet him at the door of the mansion, and simply treated this place as the site of a family meeting. He shouted, "Her Majesty the Queen has obtained information about the murderer behind the assassination of the previous king. If there are still people among you who have any connection with the murderer, please speak out quickly, and don't let yourselves drag down the entire family."

In fact, a lot of the information was leaked by Marcel. Marcel was even worried that Her Majesty the Queen was getting something for nothing. He was afraid that Her Majesty the Queen did not have enough clues, so he simply wrote down many of his own speculations and clues in his hands.

Some things should either not be done at all, or they should be done to the extreme.

This is a crisis for the Old Party, but also an opportunity. As long as they sell out their teammates ruthlessly enough, then when the time comes, it will be discovered that the murderer of the king is the Old Party. Not only will they cut ties with those insects, but they will also enhance the prestige of the Old Party.

Even because it was the old party that provided the clues and obtained the artillery trading rights, the nobles in the two southwestern regions had to give the old party face.

By then, the power in the capital will be restored to balance, and the win-win-win future that Her Majesty the Queen talked about may really come true.

Marcel was not worried that the Queen would shamelessly take credit for the old party's achievements. Once this precedent was set, all the credibility the Queen had accumulated so far would collapse, and there would be no talk of reform.

The current situation in the royal capital is far from the point where the Queen is going to break off relations with the old party. It is better to say that the political talent Her Majesty the Queen has shown now has far exceeded Marcel's expectations. She is an expert in using the means of using one faction to attack another. Such a person will not overturn the table at will.

The family members around Marcel all shrank their heads and no one dared to answer.

Seeing this, Marcel sighed and said, "I'm going back to the study first. You all go yourselves. If anyone has contact with those insects, you can come to the study to find me. The rest of you go collect intelligence. Be polite to the nobles in the two southwestern regions. They may not be our enemies in the future."

After hearing Marcel's orders, the family members left one by one. Of course, some of them were also planning how to return later.

Marcel calmed his nervous wife again and went to the study.

Soon a servant delivered information that Her Majesty the Queen was no longer in the palace. The Vatican decided to restore Her Majesty the Queen's title of Saint, so Her Majesty the Queen had been moved to the cathedral and was under the protection of the Goddess Church.

Moreover, the gates of the royal capital have been temporarily closed, especially the inner city area, where all the nobles can hardly take a step out.

Many noble families who wanted to escape have been directly detained.

Some family members also returned one after another and truthfully reported to Marcel about their interactions with the masterminds, hoping that Marcel could save their lives.

Fortunately, these people did not hold high positions and could not do much. Marcel felt that he could still handle it. After scolding these people, he asked them to hand over the evidence and go back to wait for news.

Seeing that Marcel only wanted to hand over the evidence and didn't ask them to hand themselves over, those people cried and hugged Marcel's thighs and said that they would never dare to do it again and would follow the head of the family's lead in the future.

After all, on their way back, these people had already seen soldiers from the two southwestern regions carrying muskets and going out into the streets to arrest people.

Her Majesty the Queen's methods are very simple and crude, but they are effective, and no one dares to really accuse Her Majesty the Queen of cruelty, because although Her Majesty the Queen does not kill many people, she really kills people. These nobles can only point at the new prime minister's nose and call him a treacherous minister, because the prime minister will not fight back.

A group of nobles including Marcel began to miss the Clan era. Although it was a short time, Clan was a very standard and excellent king. His methods were not so cruel. He was willing to communicate with both sides and would not send troops into the city to take over the city defense at every turn.

Clan's reform proposals, which were originally unacceptable to the nobles, have now become amiable. After all, these reform proposals are in line with the image of a good king. Aren't they reforming for the purpose of revitalizing the country?

Marcel became angrier and pounded the table. Why didn't he accept the plan proposed by Cran? Why didn't he run to stop it when he heard the first rumor? Such a good king was gone just like that.

Now, Clan is dead, and a new queen has come in, who is more brutal, more reckless, and whose husband just died. Are the insects happy now?

It can be said that if there had not been the pressure of the rise of the Kingdom of Anjou, Clan would have been the perfect king in the eyes of almost all the nobles. Of course, it is not ruled out that it was because Clan had a short reign and died early, which automatically added a layer of filter to the hearts of these nobles.

Especially when compared with the new queen.

Many nobles of the Old Party hypnotized themselves with this reason, thinking that it was all the bugs' fault. If those bugs had not assassinated the king, then the relatively mild Majesty Clan would still be in power now, and Her Majesty the Queen would not have lost her husband just after getting married, would not have ascended the throne, and would not have become what she is now.

These nobles selectively forgot that before he was assassinated, Clan frantically strengthened the queen's power and cooperated with Lilith's reform combination.