Under this situation, the administrative efficiency of the entire imperial capital began to gradually become extremely low invisibly. Luke was determined to find a few guys to punish him, but the other party was not a fool and would not do too much to cause trouble.
Catherine kept appeaseing the Fernando royal family and Luke, hoping that they would put the overall situation first and not destroy the current stable situation in the imperial capital.
Of course, people who can become officials and have some real power will not be fools. They are not good at doing serious things, but they are very good at internal consumption, which not only makes what they should do, but also makes it difficult for others to find a handle.
After all, this country is like an old man gradually weakening, and many things are no longer as distinct from black and white as when Fernando I was just founded. After 20 years of changes, the black and white are no longer distinct from each other, but are slowly emerging.
Another area is gray.
After all, Luke is just a person, and he cannot support the government affairs of the entire empire. In order to make a country operate effectively, Luke can only appoint personnel to be responsible for all aspects. Not only Luke, but all countries on this big six are
In this way, no matter how wise the king is, he cannot have enough energy and time to do everything. The best way is to delegate power, supervise the power released through necessary means, and let the right personnel do the right things,
Unqualified personnel will be eliminated and the entire organization will be operated.
At first, Luke was very excited about Catherine's mediation. After all, Luke didn't plan to do it too well. But after several mediations, Luke found that the Fernando officials were still incompetent and his daily administrative affairs were
There is still serious internal friction, so I made up my mind to teach these annoying guys a lesson.
So Luke began to pretend to be powerless. He no longer strictly demanded government affairs, and gradually lowered his requirements for the officials of the Fernando faction... Luke's artificiality made Henikos and others ecstatic.
They think that their non-cooperation plan has achieved great results, and their joy has also affected the people around them.
Under Luke's intentional indulgence, the members of the Fernando royal family began to gradually lose their vigilance. Many arrogant royal family members thought that Luke was afraid of his royal identity, so they gradually returned to before the war. Fernando XIII was still there.
That kind of scenery when it was.
The opportunity that Luke had been waiting for for a long time finally appeared. A child of the Fernando royal family, while riding a horse with his servants in the imperial capital, broke into the market because he was driving the horse, but did not stop in time, and ended up over.
Many stalls knocked down nine civilians in succession, resulting in seven deaths and two injuries.
Luke was overjoyed when he learned about this. He changed his usual low-key attitude and personally led the elite troops of the Jonas Legion to come forward from another street, which was the perpetrator, Henikos.
The only grandson was arrested. After learning that his grandson was arrested, Henikos immediately brought people to Luke and asked him to release him. However, Luke did not see him at all, and on the next day, he took the perpetrator.
He was taken to the street where he was running for a big trial.
Since the evidence in this case was true, the entire trial went very smoothly. The perpetrator thought Luke was just pretending. After all, he was a direct descendant of the Fernando family. He didn't have to be afraid at all, so he admitted it carelessly. Unexpectedly, the final trial result was
It's hanging.
The sentence was sentenced to hang, but Luke did not perform it on the spot, but deliberately postponed it and gave Henikos enough reaction time. Luke was planning to use this method to lure the unbearable Fernando royal family to use force, and he could mobilize it
The Royal Knights under Orlando gave these borers a fatal blow and took the opportunity to cleanse these annoying borers.
Henikos is 79 years old and his son is over 50 years old. This time his only grandson will be sentenced to hang. How could Henikos bear it? So he asked for someone from the intersection with an extremely tough attitude.
This was what Luke was waiting for, and he refused righteously. The two sides almost fought on the spot. Although they were finally stopped by Catherine who rushed over after hearing the news, the atmosphere in the entire imperial capital became tense.
The time is getting closer to the date of hanging Henikos's only grandson. Henikos also decided to use force at the suggestion of his staff. He believed that the Royal Knights were loyal to the Fernando family and would never be biased towards Luke, just put him in the same way.
The army that he bought on weekdays, plus the private soldiers and slaves of the family, would definitely catch Luke's one off guard and rescue his grandson. When the grandson was rescued, he would immediately send him away through the magic teleportation array, as long as the person was not in the imperial capital,
What can Luke do?
No one expected that on the night before the execution of the hang, the leader of the Fernando Royal Union, Henikos, suddenly became bedridden. This old leader originally held a secret meeting with several confidants in his secret room at home to confirm the steps of the next day's action.
But suddenly he trembled all over and fell to the ground.
No one knows that this is actually Catherine's masterpiece. In order to ease the nervous anger of the imperial capital, Catherine went to the residences of Hernikos and Luke a few days ago as Her Majesty the Queen to mediate the whole thing, because
Luke and Henikos had already made up their minds, so naturally the mediation failed, and Catherine's efforts were in vain. Naturally, no one would see that Catherine released a corrosive curse to the latter during the interview alone.
With Catherine's strength, she released this dark magic against an old man who knew no magic and did not know martial arts. She even did not use spells or gestures, and almost instantly completed the curse of Henikos. This dark magic corrodes the curse
At the beginning, the power is not very strong. The middle-aged person feels a little weak, thinking that he is caused by excessive fatigue. When the corrosion curse is fully exerted, it will be very difficult to treat it.
Henikos kept wailing in bed all night, and his body was even rotting with visible suppuration. Even if several priests took action together, he could only barely curb his corruption with the magic of light.
, In fact, this could not relieve Hinikos' pain at all, but instead made him die even worse.
When the sun rose the next day, the 79-year-old Henikos died of smelly body in his bed, and his grandson was hanged by Luke in the royal viewing stage a few hours later.
Luke felt very sorry for the death of Henikos, because he could almost completely solve the borer in the imperial capital. But for Birmingham, whose power and reputation were comparable to Henikos, he felt extremely lucky, because
The old guy pressed on his head was finally gone.
In this way, Catherine's adventure paid great rewards. When Henikos was at a strife with Luke, her unremitting efforts conquered everyone's hearts, which made Catherine's prestige rise day by day. And the Fernando royal family
The power was greatly reduced and there was no way to compete with Luke. They even had the right to survive. They had to turn to Catherine under the leadership of Birmingham to gain room for survival.