Chapter 544 Rebellion 12

In the hall of the Lord's Mansion in Lake Heart Town, all officials of the administrative level and above gathered here. In addition to the people from the Administrative Council, there was also the old butler Philip, but there were three important figures in the army missing - Chief of Staff Schroeder, Director of Logistics Department Ron, and Director of Equipment Department Kelly.

However, everyone had no time to think about why the three of them were not here - and in fact, officials from the Administrative Council and military officials did not often gather together for meetings - everyone in the hall had already filled their minds with an incredible news:

Paul Graman, the ruler of Alda and Emden and the Earl of the Kingdom of Aldo, was assassinated.

Just four years ago, the previous Earl Graman had left them under the attack of pirates, and today, the young Earl who succeeded him also left them and ascended to the eternal heaven of the Lord of Light.

No one in the room spoke, and everyone was staring at the candle on the table in a daze.

They were all hurriedly awakened in the middle of the night and notified that there were important matters that needed to be attended to in the Lord's Mansion. Many people were still wondering, didn't the Lord go hunting in another place? Who would have thought that after he rushed to the Lord's Mansion in a daze, he would be greeted by a thunderbolt from the blue sky.

But the hall was not absolutely quiet, and there was still a sobbing sound floating here.

It was Philip who was wiping his tears, and the old butler was suffering from great grief at this time. He had watched Paul Graman grow up since he was a child. In a sense, Philip had regarded him as his own child, not just a master to serve.

In addition to grief, there was another feeling tearing the old butler's heart - that was the great guilt towards Paul's father and grandfather and even the Graman family.

Starting from Paul's grandfather, the direct line of the Graman family was not prosperous. Paul's father and grandfather were both only children, and they didn't even have sisters. When it came to Paul's father, good luck seemed to have come - he and his wife gave birth to two boys in succession, but when Paul was more than two years old, fate suddenly took back the gift to the family, and also brought interest - Paul's younger brother and the mother of the brothers both left the world because of an infectious disease. Old Graman never remarried or had any illegitimate children out of love and longing for his wife. After the family continued to suffer misfortune, when Old Graman died in an ambush by the pirate shark gang, Paul was the only direct descendant of the Graman family.

But now, this only remaining descendant was also broken by the wind of fate. Is this a curse?

The old butler Philip was weighed down by the guilt. He thought it was his responsibility and that he had not fulfilled his duties as a guardian. As the butler of the Graman family, he should have kept all dangers out of Paul's reach. Why didn't he dissuade him from hunting at that time?

Thinking of this, the old butler felt more and more sad.

Suddenly, Philip felt something in his heart. He looked up and met the eyes of old Ford who was sitting next to him. At this time, the eyes of the head of the Government Affairs Council were cloudy, and the red eyes and trembling beard on his face also showed his great grief.

Like Philip, Old Ford also watched Paul grow up. As an old servant left by Old Graman, he also felt that he had some kind of responsibility for Paul.

Once they looked at each other, the two old men who felt the same as themselves burst into tears.

Seeing that the two oldest and most senior people in the hall had fallen into a state of being unable to extricate themselves, the rest of the people were even more uneasy and flustered.

Especially Cecil, as the head of intelligence under the lord, he knew nothing about the conspiracy to assassinate the lord. No matter what the reason was, it was his huge dereliction of duty. Now Cecil's heart was dead.

It seemed that among all the people present, Hansel Abbott, the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, was the only one who remained calm. However, although he was calm, his emotions were complicated.

It must be said, Hansel thought helplessly in his heart, Paul's departure was a huge regret. This earl was the most open-minded and motivated person among the local lords he had ever seen, and perhaps also capable. Of course, this ability was not the ability of aristocrats to rule their territories in the traditional sense - on the contrary, the young earl was still slightly lacking in this aspect. Paul's ability in Hansel's eyes was his persistence in technology. Many things that other nobles saw as just entertainment were played out in Paul's hands, such as alchemy, machinery, and mathematics. Paul made huge and long-term investments in these things, and they all brought rich returns to his territory, such as powerful firearms, pesticides that can prevent and control pests, workshops with amazing productivity, rich and vast farms, statisticians and surveyors who can provide detailed data on the territory, and a large number of other things that Hansel could not know.

And his long-term vision, such as the maritime trade he strongly supported and the customs union he promoted. There is no doubt that maritime trade has brought huge wealth to the Northwest Bay, needless to say. Even more interesting is the Customs Union, which was seen as a huge loss in the early days by many people - after all, so much money was saved. However, after the tariffs were abolished within the alliance, the flow of goods became more convenient, the unfettered business became more and more developed, commodity prices became lower, and the lives of the people in the territory improved visibly. The losses in tariffs were compensated many times over in the prosperous market a few years later.

As for Hansel himself, Paul had a kind of benefactor to him in a sense. Before meeting Paul, Hansel was just a small tax collector and a royal commissioner with an empty title in the Kingdom of Aldo. It was Paul Graman who gave him a stage to display his political ability. The earl's support for the royal family also made Hansel have a little sense of existence in the eyes of the bigwigs in the capital, so Sir Hansel Abbott was quite grateful to the earl.

After mourning for a while, Hansel, who was calm, immediately thought of a question-after losing Paul, what will be the future of Alda, what will be the future of the Council of State, and more specifically, what will be his own future?

Will the Council of State State continue to operate in accordance with the policies formulated by Earl Graman during his lifetime? Does Alda still need to maintain a good cooperative relationship with the royal family? Will the new lord continue to employ this group of outsiders from Jingyao?

Yes! New lord!

Hansel immediately thought that the above questions will depend entirely on the attitude of the new lord.

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