Chapter 782 Weakness

"Old Zhu, I remember the last time we talked was a few years ago, when you wanted to redeem the green pepper of the cone, right?" Arthur said to the king of the land of flowers on the other end of the phone with a little emotion.

After being silent for a while, Lao Zhu, the king of the Land of Flowers, said with a self-deprecating recollection, "Yeah, I was still a king at that time!"

Arthur smiled meaningfully and said, "That's all in the past, accept the reality!"

"But I just can't accept the reality~" Old Zhu said quietly.

"Really. So what are you thinking now?" Arthur asked faintly.

"Thinking? Ha!" Lao Zhu sneered and said, "If the king is defeated, what else can he think? Now I just want a decent way to die!"

"Decent way to die?" Arthur shook his head and said lightly, "No way!"

Lao Zhu was stunned for a moment, and then said in a self-deprecating tone, "What? Don't I even deserve the last respect?"

He said it was self-deprecating, but he actually meant to mock Arthur inside and outside of his words!

Originally, he thought that Arthur, as the king of a superpower like Saint Martin, should be a person of grace, but now he heard that Arthur had rejected his request for a decent death, and he felt that Arthur was a man without grace. This is why he said these words that seemed to be self-deprecating, but also meant to be sarcastic!

And Arthur listened to Lao Zhu's words, and instantly understood that he had misunderstood his meaning!

So, Arthur explained lightly, "I mean, you can't die!"

"Um!?"

After a trace of astonishment appeared on Lao Zhu's face, he couldn't help asking, "I can't die?"

"Yes!" Arthur nodded.

"Why?" Old Zhu asked with a frown.

"The Country of Flowers is a big country, and it has been passed down for a long time. In the past thousand years, people from your family have been sitting on the king!" Arthur did not explain directly, but said something that seemed to have nothing to do with the problem. !

However, listening to this, after thinking for a while, Lao Zhu finally understood what Arthur meant!

In the past thousand years of the flower kingdom, the throne has been inherited by their family, and it has never changed. The commoners and nobles in the kingdom are also used to their family members as kings, ruling flowers. country!

In this case, even if St. Martin occupied the country of flowers by force, he would not be able to make the civilians and nobles in the country of flowers surrender from the bottom of their hearts.

At most, they are afraid of St. Martin's force and surrender on the surface!

Once something happens, or if someone instigates it, then the commoners and nobles of the Flower Country who are dissatisfied with the rule of St. Martin from the bottom of their hearts may rebel and bring the Flower Country into chaos!

As for who will encourage

Loyal to the royal family, branch families branched out from the king's lineage, careerists hidden in the kingdom, etc., these are all likely to instigate a rebellion in the Land of Flowers, or even participate in the rebellion!

As a kingdom with a population of more than 13 million, once a rebellion occurs, it will inevitably take a lot of effort to quell the rebellion, and it may even delay the development of St. Martin!

If you want to prevent this from happening, you must use some methods to prevent the rebellion from happening at the source!

Grind by time!

This is the most stable way!

Put the army in the country of flowers and suppress the country of flowers, so that there is no chance for the rebellion to occur. Under the condition of the stability of the kingdom, the country of flowers will naturally be slowly forgotten by the civilians, and the civilians will not know it. Unconsciously agreeing with the rule of St. Martin, the rebellion will no longer occur!

But this takes a very long time!

At the very least, it is only possible if the civilians of this generation of Flower Country, and even the next generation of Flower Country civilians all die!

Therefore, under this method, some auxiliary methods are needed to speed up the process of the commoners of the Flower Country forgetting the Flower Country!

For example, strictly control the branches of the royal family in the kingdom to prevent them from causing trouble!

For example, tax exemption for civilians in the land of flowers and buy their hearts!

For example, catch some noble criminals, and then arrange some public trials to expose the scandals of the nobles in the land of flowers to the commoners, causing the commoners to hate the nobles!

Another example is to let Lao Zhu, the king of the country of flowers, come forward to appease the hearts of the civilians of the country of flowers, etc.!

All of the above practices can speed up the process of Saint Martin's truly conquering the land of flowers.

And among them, the role played by Lao Zhu, the king of the land of flowers, is the most important!

If he is willing to cooperate, then in terms of the prestige of the royal family of flowers in the past, under his appeasement, the commoners will not surrender to Saint Martin, but at least most of them will not rebel!

Even if he is unwilling to cooperate, as long as he does not die, it can play a certain role in stabilizing the situation in the Land of Flowers!

But if he's dead, things won't be good!

Whether he committed suicide or not, the civilians in the land of flowers will definitely think that he was persecuted to death by St. Martin, causing panic among the civilians in the land of flowers.

And the aristocrats, careerists, branches of the royal family, loyal to the royal family, etc. in the country of flowers will take this opportunity to trigger a rebellion within the country of flowers!

Throw the land of flowers into complete chaos!

"But, I just want to die!"

After trying to understand Arthur's words, Lao Zhu said in a deep voice after being silent for a while.

"You can't die!" Arthur said lightly.

"I just want to die!" Lao Zhu emphasized seriously, "Even if you don't agree, I still want to die. This is my last dignity as a king! Our country of flowers can't survive after the country is broken. the king!"

Listening to Lao Zhu's words, Arthur instantly understood what he meant!

Even if Arthur didn't want him to die, he would kill himself if he had a chance!

And the reason is very simple!

That is, the pride in his heart as a king will not allow him to live when the kingdom is broken!

Arthur thought for a while, frowned and asked, "Even if your death will cause chaos in the Land of Flowers, and St. Martin has to be suppressed by force, will it cause a large number of civilians in the Land of Flowers to die?"

Lao Zhu took a breath and fell silent!

But after being silent for a while, he still said firmly, "There is no king in the kingdom of flowers who can survive in this world after the kingdom is destroyed!"

"I appreciate this kind of thinking!" Arthur said solemnly.

For this kind of king who can carry out the king's death to the end, Arthur has a lot of respect from the bottom of his heart.

Of course, respect is respect!

This will not be the reason for him to let go of the Land of Flowers!

Arthur is a more realistic king, and he doesn't talk about feelings. Although Lao Zhu's idea makes him awe, he won't let him go because of it!

After speaking, Arthur changed his voice and said quietly, "However. What about your only son, Princess Zhu Jin?

Upon hearing this, Lao Zhu's pupils shrank suddenly!

He asked in horror, "What did you do to her?"

"Ha ha!"

Arthur smiled and said, "How about it. It's not so much now! But if you don't cooperate with us and instead think about suicide, it's not necessarily the case!"

"Since she left the palace, her whereabouts have been in my hands. As long as you cooperate, she can escape from the country of flowers, but if you don't cooperate, she can't get out of the country of flowers!"

"You!" Old Zhu's anger rose to his head with a "bass", and he wanted to curse on the spot.

But in the end, his lips moved slightly, but he couldn't say anything, he could only grit his teeth and say hatefully, "Despicable!"

Humans cannot be perfect!

Everyone has weaknesses!

However, some people hide their weaknesses deeply, while others do not hide them so deeply that people can recognize them at a glance!

And Lao Zhu is undoubtedly the latter one!

As the princess of the land of flowers, Zhu Jin has never married another woman since her mother, who was Lao Zhu's favorite woman, passed away because of the dystocia. On Zhu Jin, she has become a girl who has collected thousands of love and life since she was born!

"Ha ha!"

Facing Lao Zhu's words, Arthur smiled and said with a little meaning, "This is the king!"

Hearing this, Lao Zhu was silent!

After thinking for a long time, Lao Zhu gritted his teeth, and in a hoarse voice, with difficulty, a few very reluctant words popped out of his mouth, and said, "Let her go, I promise!"