Our Knight King was suffocating. He was in a state of both pain and happiness. Laing whimpered a few times and motioned for the Lady of the Lake to move away. He was almost suffocating. "I can't breathe, My Lady!"
"Still calling me My Lady?" The Lady of the Lake let go of Laing's neck. She stretched out her slender finger and tapped on Laing's forehead. Then she turned over and lay down beside him. "Call me My Lady, or Lilith! Didn't I tell you to call me Lilith in private? "
The Lady of the Lake was wearing a white silk dress with ripples on it. Her slim waist showed the unique elegance of the goddess. There were golden irises, which symbolized nobility, and white ribbons, which symbolized purity. The ribbons were embroidered with the motto of chivalry. Her long golden hair, which was like a waterfall, was tied up by a white-gold, green-leafed, diamond-encrusted laurel, the Crown of Eternal Radiance. The goddess smiled and pinched Laing's chin. "My dear, Berchemund and the others are learning foreign languages outside. Why are you hiding in the tent?"
The goddess was obviously in a good mood. She had not been seen for a long time. The bed Laing was lying on was not very big. Lilith easily turned over and lay down beside Laing. She and Laing were half-lying on the soft pillow. She hugged Laing's arm and hugged it to her chest. Under the long dress, her beautiful legs were directly exposed to the air.
Her slender, jade-like legs were wrapped in white unicorn ultra-thin silky pantyhose. They shone under the light of the magic lamp in the tent. Her charming legs were bent and stretched out along the quilt. Under the high-grade white unicorn pantyhose, her feet with green nail polish and fair skin could be seen. The goddess stretched lazily. She enjoyed this time alone. Then she kicked Laing with her feet. "Hey, my dear, why are you ignoring me?"
"I'm reading a book." Laing smiled bitterly and took out a thick roll of parchment. The Knight King was really tired recently.
"You're tired. Come, let me give you a massage." The Lake Fairy saw that Laing was tired and felt sorry for him. She immediately reached out to give Laing a massage. Laing also naturally enjoyed the goddess' service.
Klein did not blame the Goddess of the Lake for not appearing for such a long time. To put it simply, the Motekin Invasion was essentially a proxy war, which was a war between mortals. The Goddess of the Lake could not enter the fray rashly. Otherwise, the Four Gods of Chaos might enter the fray themselves. That would be a much more difficult way to play the game.
In addition, there was another important reason. It was a war in a foreign country, which was not the territory of the Lake Fairy. In addition, it was not convenient for her to appear because of the corruption of Chaos. If a god was killed by a mortal, he would really die. So many gods in the old world had seen Motekin attack Wolfenburg, but none of them directly came to help the mortals defend it, let alone the Lake Fairy.
"Motekin is dead, and the Army of Chaos is greatly weakened. However, the Empire and we are not in a good situation now." Laing finished reading another book. It was a detailed list of the army's purchases.
Tomorrow was the day of the Holy Grail. Morgiana directly gave 3,000 crowns to the Lake Fairy witches under her command. Together with old Krupp, she prepared enough food, livestock, and alcohol.
The Lake Fairy took the list. The goddess nodded after reading it and did not object.
It was not a problem to have a celebratory feast after the victory of the war. The Empire did not want to have one, but they did. This was to improve the country's image and enhance the Brittany's national confidence and pride. The day of the Holy Grail was a good reason to declare the country's strength.
Laing only found out about this after the event. Knight King looked at the list and slightly confirmed the amount. Based on his rich experience, his previous market research, and his familiarity with the prices, he confirmed that 90% of the funds had arrived, and 10% of the funds had been "lost." He stamped the list to show that he had read it.
The Lake Fairy put down the list. "I did not expect Motekin's death. His defeat … was a little too fast. I am not saying that you are not capable, but with your current strength, it will be a very difficult battle to defeat Motekin."
"I know that I am not as strong as Motekin, and Motekin is slightly weaker than my brother." Laing nodded slowly. Knight King frowned. "But Motekin has the blessing of the Four Gods of Chaos. It is easy to defeat him, but very difficult to kill him. I was ready to fight to the death, but he committed suicide. What an amazing person. Even in the end, he was still unwilling to be a puppet of Chaos. Hateful, but also admirable."
After that, Laing could not help but laugh. "I think the one who should be most grateful to Motekin is Emperor Karl-franz."
The Lake Fairy rolled her eyes at Laing. The goddess took a roll of parchment without hesitation. She followed suit and crawled under the quilt, squeezed together with Laing, and secretly leaned into his arms.
There was a sense of warmth in working like this. Laing smiled gently. The man and the goddess began to deal with the government affairs together, and Laing secretly took advantage of her. Although the Lake Fairy was a little shy, she could not help but feel happy when she thought that she was the only one in the tent. So, she let Laing do something naughty.
"François's army is almost here. He is the commander-in-chief, and his deputy is Sir Jerrold," the Lake Fairy said casually. "Your Duchess of the Empire is a little slow."
"François only has fifteen thousand people, but this is a fresh army." Laing smiled when he heard the news, but then he immediately frowned. "These people may not be enough. If our plan …"
"What if we add Rokossovsky's army?" The Lake Fairy naturally knew about Laing's secret plan. The goddess thought for a while and said, "You have twenty-eight thousand people in your hands now, plus François's fifteen thousand, plus the Empire's army and the Dwarf's army. Is it still not enough?"
"The Empire's army seems to be lacking in strength now. According to the results of the discussion on Lauen's side and Emperor Karl-franz's letter, the goal should be to recover all the Empire's territory and drive the Army of Chaos out of the territory for the time being." Laing shook his head. "The Butcher King of the Dwarves has already planned to withdraw from Kaderin. Indeed, the Butcher's Castle Dwarves have a good relationship with the Empire and Kislöw, but they can't help infinitely. Kaderin is also not a peaceful place. It is often surrounded by Green Dwarves."
"Then what about your Empire's Duchess? Is she and the Nur's army willing to follow you out of the Empire's territory and fight? " The Lake Fairy urged. "I know you have a way. As long as you can deal with Emilia, you can deal with the Nur's army."
"… From the rear, Suria sent two urgent reports." Laing took two more parchments. The Knight King was really going crazy from the series of endless government affairs. "Lilith, take a look. They are all related to Kislöw."
The Lake Fairy took the parchments and looked at them.
The first thing was that under Berliat's plan, the Kislöw's army that retreated to Brittany had a serious mutiny. The Red Sea Army took the lead. In the face of Tsar's "order to protect the emperor", the Red Sea Army reacted greatly. They gathered together and started a mutiny. The army's commander-in-chief, Rokossovsky, was "under house arrest" (temporarily replaced by Suria as a senior military advisor). The new commander-in-chief was a Bear Cavalry General under Marshal Rokossovsky's command. His name was Georgi Konstantinovich. He performed well in the Örengrád campaign. His personality was tough and ambitious. Although he was a pure soldier like Rokossovsky, he seemed to be particularly passionate about politics.
Of course, this was all arranged by Suria. In fact, Marshal Tsar's prestige in Kislöw's army could be said to be at its peak. If it wasn't for Berliat's exquisite operation, and the fact that the Kislöw's last elite force was too far away from Tsar, Katarina might have seen through the plan.
But now, the plan seemed to be a success. The Kislöw's army already had a lot of complaints about Katarina. After Berliat's excuse and reason to scare them, the Kislöw's army that went through the Örengrád campaign instantly exploded. Many of the soldiers were even asking Berliat if they could join the Ugor's army and serve the great Knight King, Laing.
Now, the army had already rested and set off from Brittany. They were preparing to travel by sea to the port of Norden in the north of Oster to meet up with Laing's army.
The second matter was shocking. It was about the Örengrád Kirov Munitions Factory.
The Kirov Munitions Factory reported that there were a total of 1378 workers. The Brittany, under Suria's arrangement, had allocated enough areas and provided corresponding rations. However, after Berliat, who was in charge of this matter, and Chief Engineer Urban, who cooperated with him, investigated the factory, they discovered that the Kirov Munitions Factory actually had less than 300 workers who could actually operate and smelt!
Where did the rest go?
Suria was furious and ordered Berliat to investigate, but Berliat told Suria that there was no need to investigate. He knew everything.
The Kirov Munitions Factory had a huge shortage of workers. It was not the first time that it had fallen behind and was past its prime. Kislöw had allocated tens of thousands of gold Dukat every year, but most of it had gone to waste. The bureaucrats and Poillé lords who supervised the factory had arranged for their relatives and friends to eat their fill. Some of them were nominal workers in the Munitions Factory, but in reality, they had already found a way out or were ordered by others to do private work.
In addition, there was also a model of "outsourcing", where a worker was nominal in the Munitions Factory but did not go to work. Instead, they took out a small portion of their salary to hire "temporary workers" to work in the factory. They had no skills and were forced to do manual labor.
It was very simple. When Chief Engineer Urban was still called Sheogh, because he repeatedly brought up this matter, he was almost "drowned to death". From this point of view, Tsar had thrown him into the Cheka prison as a form of protection.
Another more impulsive Kislöw engineer, Andrei, "drowned to death". The local Poillé concluded that he was drunk and drowned to death. Tsar did not believe it and sent a Cheka envoy, Anatoli Nikolayevich, to investigate. As a result, this envoy was killed in less than a month after taking office. The cause of death was that he was jealous of a beautiful songstress in Örengrád and several Arabis, and was later killed by an assassin hired by the Arabis.
Because of this matter, Örengrád set off a storm, killing and arresting more than a dozen Arabis and confiscating all their property. For this, Katarina also rewarded Örengrád's Duma members with a large sum of money.
Then what about the envoy? Who still remembered? Who still cared? Wasn't it a happy ending?
"As for why the current Kalashnikov is fine, first, it's because he's a bit boring, and he doesn't dare or want to say a lot of things. Second, after Sheogh was imprisoned and Andrei was killed, he was the only qualified great engineer left. So, everyone knew not to touch him." Laing smiled bitterly. Knight King put down the document and directly scolded: "The former Red Tsar Boris drained the industrial system built by the Romanov Family, but it was eaten clean by these vermin! Lilith, you directly send a message to Suria and ask her to deal with them severely. There are less than 300 workers, then I want these. The rest, send them back to Kislöw and ask their female Tsar for their salary! "
Damn it! These people think that without you, the Kirov factory can't operate? Who do you think I, Laing, am? Katarina can't investigate further because she has no choice. This is Brittany, my territory! Deal with them all!
At the same time, Laing also added: "Since there are only 300 people, then forget about the plan to build a new factory. The Kirov factory will be merged into the Musilon Firearms Factory as the third workshop, mainly responsible for the manufacture of firearms. When I go back, I want to see qualified firearms! Long firearms, short firearms, shotguns, and revolvers, I want to see them all! "
"I know." Seeing that Laing was still angry, the Lake Fairy smiled and rubbed his eyebrows: "Don't be angry, Laing, Suria will take care of things."
It's really difficult to be a good king. Laing smiled bitterly. Knight King corrected the documents for a while and finally finished the matter. He took the Lake Fairy's little hand and handed the things that Aralos brought to Lilith.
"By the way, Lilith, this time Bertrand made a great contribution in the war. The Holy Grail Medal of Honor I originally planned is not enough. I can award the highest medal, the Lady of the Lake. How about you personally award it?"
"Okay." The Lake Fairy smiled charmingly and whispered in Laing's ear: "Then … what about my medal?"
"Your medal?" Ryan was stunned for a moment and didn't react.
"The one you gave to Suria!" The Fairy of the Lake became shy again. "You haven't made it mature yet. You're always so concerned about Sulia, but you can't treat me so badly!"
"… Oh, I want to go out!" Laing's face suddenly turned green. Last night, he reluctantly let Morgiana and Veronica …
"Don't go!" Seeing that Laing wanted to escape, the Lake Fairy was ashamed and angry. She reached out and grabbed Laing who wanted to escape, and shouted in Knight King's ear: "Laing, I am also your wife. Why do you spend so much energy on Morgiana, but not on me? Hmm? "
"That … That's because …" Laing thought that it was because he spent too much energy on Morgiana. Ever since she went to war with me, she would stick to me whenever she was free. I am also very tired!
The Lake Fairy was about to say something, but at this time, a shadow flashed outside the tent. The Lake Fairy was so scared that she quickly hid under the blanket. The Lake Fairy was always very shy in private.
Laing also quickly returned to his half-lying position: "Who is it?"
In fact, Laing knew who came in. The only people who dared to enter his tent without notifying him were Morgiana and Veronica.
Sure enough, it was Morgiana. The Lake Fairy witch came in with the Holy Grail. She saw Laing's strange expression and felt a little strange: "Laing, I have arranged the specific steps for the Day of the Holy Grail. The preliminary plan is to distribute jam pies, roasted meat, and wine to every soldier. The knights will also have honey and cream muffins. I have also prepared maple syrup for your Old Guard.
What happened to you? " Laing's expression was very strange. The Knight King seemed to be enduring something: "I know, Morgiana. Go and arrange it. I will go and check the site after I finish reading these documents."
"Oh, right. Other than these, I think we should also give some relief to the disaster victims." Morgiana was even more confused. The Lake Fairy witch slowly approached: "The preliminary plan is to prepare fifty big barrels of oatmeal. The first batch of refugees will each have two spoonfuls."
"Okay, okay, I know." Laing was indeed very nervous: "I am a little tired, Morgiana."
Morgiana's eyes flashed, and the Lake Fairy witch immediately realized something. She put down the Holy Grail and said angrily: "Laing! Are you hiding something from me?! "
"No." Laing was very embarrassed.
After that, she stretched out her hand and lifted the quilt: "What is this?"
"Ah, this?"
Morgiana's pair of pearl stilettos fell to the ground one after the other.
The tent was quickly shrouded in fog.
… I am the section break that you are hiding something from me …
Early the next morning, a grand celebration began on the ruins of Wolfenburg. The Brittany celebrated one of the two most important festivals in the country, the Day of the Holy Grail.
The Knight King, Laing, personally gave a speech.
What was surprising was that for some reason, Laing had shaved his beard clean. Not even a little stubble was left.
It was a little strange.
Before anyone had time to think about it, the Day of the Holy Grail had officially begun!
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