Lord Duke

Chapter 44Three years

In the history books recording the history of the Principality of Eaton, there was such a period of time. During that period, a duke signed a contract with the then king. It's called "Prosperity Contract".

And all the records about that period are nothing more than a short paragraph in the history books: Xingyuan calendar year XX of the Principality of Eaton, the Duke of Eaton was in chaos, and the Kingdom of Kelin and Saxi waited for an opportunity.After the western region was pacified, Kelin withdrew.The east was pacified, and the Sassi country withdrew.In the middle of the chaos, King Phil Love was assassinated, and King Chabu succeeded to the throne.King Chubu cooperated with the Duke of Slant and signed the "Prosperity Contract" to abolish the Protestantism that bewitched the people together.Later, the Duke of Payne led his troops to quell the rebellion in the central part of the Duke of Eaton, and a large number of nobles including the Duke of Corrie quelled the local turmoil in the west.Since then, the Principality of Eaton has entered a century of prosperity.

The records in the history books are like this, who knows the truth?And the truth is—

Three years later.

Two handsome young men walked down the street hand in hand.The water on the banks of the Volga River flows quietly, and the wind gently brushes the ends of their hair.

They laughed and looked at the scene of the people living and working in peace and contentment around them, heard the lively yelling, and went into their eyes. Everyone had hope on their faces and looked very energetic.Payne and Slant looked at each other and smiled, before continuing to walk forward.

The bell tower in the distance made a melodious sound, startling a flock of white pigeons.

The two of them are still walking, because they are so nice together, along the way, there are many girls secretly watching them with a smile, and occasionally the bold ones will come to them, just like now——

In front of him stood a little girl in a cotton skirt.The little girl blushed, she twisted the corners of her skirt a little uneasy, and finally mustered up the courage to look up at Payne and said quickly, "This... this gentleman, I, I, I like you! If you don't have someone you like, I will We..." The little girl blushed, but her eyes were shining, she was embarrassed to continue, but looked up at Payne expectantly.

Slant curled his lips, looked at Payne with some amusement, and counted in his heart: the eighth.

Payne still has the sharp and stern face, but his sharpness seems to have been softened long ago, and he doesn't know where to throw the sternness, so this face loses the momentum bonus, just Showing his original handsomeness, Payne smiled and said, "I'm sorry, little girl. I have a lover." As he spoke, he shook the hand holding Slant, and the little girl looked at the two of them, a little frustrated , but quickly cheered up, she smiled and said: "I wish you happiness!" Then she blushed and ran away quickly.

Payne and Slanter could still hear the girl running into the people she knew acquainted with, and those people joked: "How is it, Diane, what did he say?" "Those two are really handsome..." "What? They are a couple, they are really talented and handsome!" "..." Payne and Slant slightly bent their lips.

It is not uncommon to see same-sex couples walking on the street, and the atmosphere in the Principality of Eaton is very open.Slant smiled and reported the number to Payne: "The eighth." Payne smiled leisurely, and replied: "The eighth, even." Now the number of girls and boys who approached them was even.

It has been three years.No matter how many things in the past, there are only a few words today.

three years ago.

Payne learned from Duke Duck's spies that the person in charge of Priest Krill's army was actually called Fleilo, and that Fleilo was from the western Klingland, and he also accidentally learned that North and Garth was there too.

Slant had negotiated cooperation with Chubb, and after returning, the first thing they did was to deal with the army of Pastor Krill.The two parties cooperated and intercepted the spies who contacted Fleiro and Klingland first, and used some tricks to force him to backtrack, allowing him to send wrong information to Fleiro and Klingland.Chabu sent part of his own army, as well as the army of the nobles who surrendered to him, together with the army of Priest Ovi, designed to catch a turtle in a urn.

Fleiro and North died in the roundup.

Slant, on the other hand, took advantage of his natural advantage in the west to trust many sensible people who could see the situation clearly. At the same time, they used the false information that the former spies had passed to Klin State to deal a major blow to the army that Klin State came to.

Payne contacted some nobles, large and small, in the royal city, luring them and forcing them to submit to King Chabu. This is also included in the contract. Correspondingly, they helped him sit firmly. For the throne, he had to promise not to attack them, so Chabu gave them half of the original royal city army's soldier talisman.

For the rest, Payne handed it over to his subordinates to spread various other Protestant speeches, and put the preacher Ovi who had been caught by the war in front of others, and began to spread some correct ideas.In the past, the core bone of Protestantism was Bishop North. Without North, the thoughts of some people could be easily changed.

Priest Ovi originally had many followers, but he still chose to preach on the high platform in Willin Square, and the results were good. At the same time, after learning about the progress of Payne, Slant signaled that it was time to quell the rebellion of the people. Psychology, and made a speech on the unreasonableness of the laws of the kingdom, which he had written with Penn long ago, and made a speech in the West, and ordered his words to be carried everywhere.

After Slant delivered a speech, he contacted Chabu to announce the revised new kingdom law, and the common people knew that all kinds of unreasonable systems such as slavery had been abolished.

So far, most of the problems have been solved.

As for the absconded Gass, he came to assassinate the Duke of Payne at a certain banquet later, and was caught and executed everywhere.Duke Payne was slightly injured, so Duke Slanter, who was in the west, rushed to Wangcheng and took Duke Payne to the west.They are rumored to be very good friends.

After the strife of various forces, the Kingdom of Eaton finally regained its calm.Chabu promulgated many useful laws, such as the three-field system, which increased the output of agricultural products.The method of making money from cotton textiles that Slant had thought of before was popularized, and now most of the stores in the Duke of Eton have a blue iris logo.

Chubu also did not attack the two of them as they had agreed. Payne thought about it and gave Chubu the iron smelting recipe he had obtained before. Of course, he also kept an eye on it.The military strength of the Principality of Eaton has increased a lot because of weapons.

Chub was actually a good king.

Now, the Principality of Eaton is thriving.Slant and Payne walked forward hand in hand, the sky gradually darkened, and suddenly, in the dark sky, a big firework bloomed.People around started cheering.

It's the Star Festival again.The three major festivals of the Principality of Eaton are Star Gathering Festival, Star Extension Festival, and Star Wishing Festival.They confessed their love to each other on the Star Wish Festival, and then walked all the way until now.More and more fireworks bloomed in the sky, Payne and Slant kissed together.Surrounded by booing whistles and applause, some people shouted loudly: "Bless you!"

Warm breath and the itching of the trembling eyelashes on the cheeks, the two separated with a smile, and Slant leaned over and hugged Payne from behind, and said with a low laugh: "We have finally waited for this day."

——a day of holding hands and kissing in a fair manner.

The author has something to say:

The previous plot is too procrastinated T^T

I fast forwarded this chapter T^TT^TT^T

Forgive me, the next chapter should be finished?

Cough cough, ask for another wave of comments~~