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

In the capital of the Kingdom of Capet, Queen Lilith was pacing in the hall of the palace.

Although some nobles and ministers have repeatedly suggested redecorating the hall to highlight and show off Her Majesty the Queen's achievements, such as replacing the hall's glass with stained glass depicting the Queen's deeds.

But they were all rejected by Lilith one by one. These guys simply wanted to take some kickbacks in this way. After all, under Lilith's severe crackdown, the gray income of some nobles was getting less and less.

Building royal palaces is a traditional way to make money. The king got a newly renovated palace, and the nobles took plenty of kickbacks, but the common people had to suffer. However, the queen's prestige is so high now, I believe the people are willing to pay for it. What's wrong with taking advantage of Her Majesty the Queen's reputation?

However, many guards do think that this hall should be redecorated. Not to mention to highlight the majesty of Her Majesty the Queen, at least it should prevent people from getting cold, right?

As the season entered winter, the north wind of the eternal frozen earth finally blew into the royal capital. Due to financial problems, the glass in the hall, which had not been maintained for a long time, began to leak air. However, some guards were still wearing thin indoor clothes, which made them shiver with cold.

But the anxious Lilith didn't feel the cold north wind blowing into the hall at all, and even felt a little hot.

As the war in the North continued to advance and the Gray Leader army arrived at the Golden Ear Plains and was about to destroy Doug, Lilith did not care. She simply felt that the Governor was finally going to unify the North.

Lilith has also made arrangements for the follow-up plans.

But man proposes, God disposes. As expected, the subsequent plan went wrong. After being silent for a while on the southwestern border, Anjou started to attack again, and the other side also began to use artillery and started bombarding each other on the southwestern border.

At first, Lilith suspected that the artillery on her side had leaked out, but the opponent's artillery was obviously modified and the method was different from that of the gray-collar worker.

During the subsequent investigation, Lilith found out that the opponent's artillery came from Doug in the North. However, the opponent simply disdained to use the artillery purchased directly from Doug, but instead figured out the principles of artillery and modified it themselves, so that compared with the original artillery, it was completely unrecognizable.

The base is very similar, but the opponent's artillery is obviously larger, more powerful, and has a longer range, even more exaggerated than the city defense artillery.

What if we can’t produce on an assembly line like the gray-collar workers? King Albert of Anjou learned the essence of Lind, which is to be strong and powerful.

At the beginning, Alberto also wanted to carry out large-scale mass production like Gray Collar, but he soon found that although he could gather rune craftsmen and alchemists from all over the country to work for him, not to mention the efficiency of mass production, standardization alone would be difficult to implement.

Although it cannot carry out standardized mass production like white-collar workers through assembly lines, some mechanical devices, and specific mathematical arrays, the greatest advantage of the Kingdom of Anjou is that it can concentrate many professionals.

Alberto, who couldn't figure out how the gray-collar workers would solve the standardization problem, simply gave up on standardization and mass production, and instead asked these alchemists to collectively research more powerful heavy artillery.

I won’t mass produce it, I’ll just make a big one.

As long as all alchemists come together to build a big one, there is no need to worry about standardization and mass production.

Thus, the Anjou cannon, whose body alone was the size of a large carriage, came into being.

It was only because Alberto had not unlocked the train and tank technology, and had no better means of transportation, otherwise the size would have gone straight towards the direction of the Gustav cannon.

These artillery pieces are slow to transport and require the help of professionals, and are not very efficient. One artillery piece and one shell must be operated by a dedicated troop.

In a normal war, this kind of troops would be sitting ducks and would have to be specially equipped with escort troops, which would consume a lot of resources. But Alberto didn't care. After all, Capet's border coalition forces had retreated back into the city after the last battle and did not dare to fight outside the city.

Not to mention actively harassing the artillery units.

Although Capet's side sang and danced after winning, the whole place was full of vitality and everything seemed to be flourishing.

But it couldn't really be said that Anjou lost. After a few attempts, they continued fighting.

Under the attack of the Angevin cannons, Capet's Southwestern Alliance soon fell into a disadvantage again.

Not long after the war resumed, two border towns had already fallen.

This is mainly because the mobility of the Angevin cannon is really difficult to describe, and most of the time is spent on traveling.

At this critical moment, news came from the north that the demon monsters and the Gray Leader Army were fighting to the death in the Golden Spike Plains.

Not to mention that the information transmitted in this era would be seriously distorted, just repeating the situation on the Jinsui Plain battlefield is enough to make people feel very magical.

What's more, in the eyes of the royal nobles, and even in Lilith's eyes, the gray-and-white army, which had very strong combat effectiveness and completely advanced weapons and equipment, was actually defeated.

This is not a rumor, but intelligence verified by multiple channels.

Even though the intelligence in this era is easily distorted, with multiple proofs, the only difference is the extent to which the gray-collar and white-collar workers have been defeated.

Although reason told Lilith that the Gray-collar team had not suffered a crushing defeat, at most they had retreated to defend, and the situation should still be in a stalemate.

After all, if the Gray-Collar Army of the Golden Ear Plains was really defeated, then those horrific monsters would have been wreaking havoc in the North long ago, and it would be impossible that there is no news about this at all like now.

But at the round table meeting, those royal nobles will not listen to you rationally.

Soon, all kinds of rumors spread wildly in the royal capital. Many people hoped that Lilith could express her position as soon as possible, but they were all rejected by Lilith on the grounds that the war in the north was not yet clear.

Almost everyone in the royal capital was waiting for the reply from the Northern Governor to Her Majesty the Queen.

Not long after, the special messenger knight finally arrived in the hall against the north wind. Now all the news about the North Territory was raised to the highest level by Lilith, and Lind's reply had even reached the level of an urgent military intelligence report.

Looking at the wax seal on the envelope, Lilith breathed a sigh of relief. When she contacted the North Territory before, but it turned out that Sean was in charge, Lilith's heart was in her throat. If something unexpected happened in the North Territory, the situation would become even more chaotic.

Fortunately, Lind just went to the front line and did not lose contact.

But this at least shows that the current war situation in the Golden Ear Plains is not optimistic. Even Governor Lind, who had basically been hiding in the rear, has gone to the front line in person.

Lilith sat back on the throne, carefully opened the envelope and read it carefully.

After all, this letter may determine the future diplomatic policy and direction of the royal capital.

Although she really didn't want to deal with the demons, if the demons really had such powerful and terrifying monsters under their command, Lilith would have no choice but to sit down and talk. However, Lilith didn't think the demons were as easy to talk to as those people imagined.

Especially those monsters that take humans as sacrifices. No matter how you look at it, the Vatican will not tolerate the existence of these monsters, right?

It’s a pity that the Church is now in a weak position and can only help Lilith. Otherwise, those nobles who dared to talk about renegotiating with the demons would probably be warned by the Church at the first time.

After reading the letter, Lilith held her forehead helplessly. At this time, Lilith finally discovered that the temperature in the hall was not right. She called the guards and activated the warming magic circle under the hall.

"Next time Prime Minister Nora comes to see you, remember to tell him to repair the glass in this hall so that there is no need to redecorate it."

The shivering guard nodded gratefully. Her Majesty the Queen finally remembered this.

As the magic circle was activated, the temperature in the hall gradually rose, but after reading the letter again, Lilith still felt extremely cold.