Chapter 395: The Number One Traitor
The guard's shout attracted the attention of his colleagues. At this time, the chief guard suddenly wanted to pierce the nosy bitch with his sword, but suddenly a lasso was put around his neck. The two people beside him pulled back and tightened it like a lasso and knocked the poor chief guard down with one move.
"Ahem. You know what I mean." The chief guard wanted to say something harsh and struggle, but the lasso was getting tighter and tighter. He wanted to cut the rope with his sword, but when he fell to the ground, a pitchfork stabbed his sword-holding hand.
If he hadn't been wearing chain mail, this former top swordsman in the palace would have died from a beating from farm tools.
After losing the guards, the king and his family completely lost hope. Charles XVI could only barely keep calm: "I am the king! Go and ask the nobles here to see me!"
The guards waved pitchforks: "Sir, the nobles here have already run away!"
"Then ask the steward to come and see me!"
However, his bad luck on this day played a role again. The mayor, who looked like a farmer, was a supporter of the "Mountain Party". When he was woken up in the middle of the night, his face was dark. When he saw the king "visiting" his jurisdiction, he was stunned at first, and then his face darkened again.
The dramatic arrest of His Majesty the King who had fled made the people of the Holy Kingdom feel funny and angry. Due to the fatal operation of running away and not running well, who is the biggest traitor in the kingdom?
At first, the guards who controlled the king's family and the chief of the guards reported to the town hall. The mayor, who confirmed the news, rushed to the city in the dark at night. Historians recorded it like this:
A tall and burly man approached the city gate and shouted loudly: "Are there any reliable patriots here? Something serious has happened!"
Just when everyone thought that the imperial army was coming, the man announced shocking news: "The king's family is in town, they are disguised and want to escape!"
The guards in the city immediately rushed into the town with guns and swords, and many people visited the king's family like watching monkeys. The first discoverer proudly held up the gold coin to prove to everyone how superb the coin design and casting technology of the kingdom was before.
The reinforcement of the city guards was necessary, because soon the cavalry who originally escorted the king rushed from the barracks and a tense confrontation occurred. In the end, both sides agreed to escort His Majesty the King back to his loyal Valuana Palace together. For the telegraph system, there was no sleep tonight, and the news spread explosively.
When the sun came out the next day, even the fish in the big vegetable market knew that the enemy was in the palace!
The king's family, who were desperate, were sent back to the palace gate, and the military police slammed the iron gate.
The National Assembly established the National Salvation Committee, which was given almost all powers in the state of war, and the first time the committee members used the "imperial sword" was to cut the palace.
Bang! The commissioner kicked open the expensive door roughly, turned the furniture that the servants had carefully cleaned and arranged upside down, and took away the antique safe of His Majesty the King directly.
"This box is three hundred years old!"
"Then you shouldn't use it to display anything." The lock of more than three hundred years is not so reliable. The search officer easily broke it and took out various letters from it. Most of them carried ancient family emblems, showing a huge network of old rulers covering the continent of Floren.
Now they were all packed into bags, and the guard captain who was like a rag bag was also taken away. The soldiers didn't care about the wound on his arm caused by the pitchfork, and they tightly tied the loyal minister out of the palace.
The letters between Charles XVI and foreign nobles were put aside. In the current notice of the committee, everything was planned and instigated by the guard captain.
A tall guillotine was erected in the square where the luxurious six-wheeled carriage was once transported. The people surrounded the square and the surrounding area. Amid their shouting and cursing, the chief guard was pressed on it and listened to the executioner proclaiming his crimes.
"Traitor, outright criminal! Do you have anything else to say?"
The chief guard looked at the angry people, all of whom were unfamiliar faces. He suddenly realized that these people might be meeting him for the first time, but now everyone had a deep hatred for him and wanted him to die.
He seemed to be back to the day when he watched a play in the Royal Theater. He saw many new nobles and many rich people. He remembered the people who toasted and exchanged cups with him and called him brothers when he was in glory.
Now some of them sat on the high platform to decide the life and death of the chief guard, and some hid behind the scenes and disappeared. But none of them are here. The square is full of strangers who have no intersection with him but are extremely angry.
Awesome, really awesome. The chief guard sincerely sighed for those who helped him go to the guillotine.
"Today you dare to judge and execute me, execute the chief of the palace guards, and tomorrow you dare to put the king on the guillotine!"
The executioner showed a triumphant smile: "If Charles XVI really committed treason, then we will judge him. Everyone is equal before the law and the interests of the country!"
"After I die, it will be your turn, and after the king dies, it will be your turn one day. Sooner or later, the people behind you and the people above you will have to go." The chief of the guards cursed almost roaringly.
Swish——
The cursing stopped. Under the blood splatter, the onlookers were shocked and silent at first, and then cheered enthusiastically.
In a newly opened restaurant in Lanster, a new first-tier city in the Kingdom of Bain.
"So Charles XVI failed to escape and was caught by a group of farmers, becoming a laughing stock of the international community." Rorschach put away the newspaper because the meal was coming.
Caroline was already used to Rorschach's sudden use of the term "international community" in Istani. She patiently cut the skin off the crispy elbow:
"I heard it on the road yesterday, from the driver. Now ordinary people can know any news immediately."
"Because those newspaper reporters chase hot spots like hounds, fearing that they will be one step slower than their peers. There is another very important thing, the telegraph makes the news spread faster than the legs at the mass level."
In the past, only magic guilds and churches had special fast communication channels. The cost of maintaining the communication array for the guilds was high, but the profits earned from the information gap were even more terrifying.
Caroline just remembered that the birth of the "telegraph" seemed to be related to the boy in front of her. She reminded him: "The Empire should have obtained the telegraph technology now."
Rorschach nodded: "Yes, since they occupied the northern part of the Holy Kingdom, they will always get the wreckage or find the operator. No matter whether Valois is strictly guarding or Byrne keeps the so-called secret, they can't completely block the spread of technology." He shrugged: "But this is a good thing. Sooner or later, everyone can enjoy the convenience brought by the advancement of communication."
"You are open-minded. If everyone in the academy is like you, I won't be so angry that I resign." Caroline wanted to roll her eyes, but she held back for the sake of her appearance in public.
If everyone is like me, the academy will be in chaos.
After the meal, Caroline put down the tableware, wiped her mouth, and was a little excited: "Okay, go and show me your wizard tower. You are the first one of my students to build a tower by yourself."
"Well, why don't we visit the factory first? Every one is like my child." Rorschach felt weird after blurting it out. It sounded like a single young man showing off his baby to the teacher?