Chapter 46: Turning enemies into friends (Part 2)

Fortunately, Cinderella's attention was no longer on them at this time. This girl was not interested in the topic they had talked about before. She was wandering around and didn't know what was thinking in her mind.

After listening to Old Tom's words, Paine nodded thoughtfully. After all, Old Tom is just a timid man-eating mandrill, and his brain is not very bright. It is good to know these situations, and the information he provided is enough for Paine to analyze some intelligence.

Old Tom mentioned that 30 years ago, after the Guards killed the king and established the current king, the Guards began to be stationed in various places. In the past, they stayed in the royal capital to protect the king.

Paine remembered that Old Tom initially said that he had only arrived in this village 30 years ago and was the earliest resident here. He had witnessed the bloody and dark history of the Green family who developed this place and made their fortune.

And all these things happened 30 years ago. Is this a coincidence or is there another hidden story? Paine vaguely felt that he had grasped a certain key, but he was always just a little short of grasping it.

But after all, that was an old thing thirty years ago. If Paine wanted to find the answer, he would be wasting a lot of time. His mission was not to dig out the historical context of the world, so Paine quickly put these things behind him. , what he needs to extract is specific information about the Guards.

"They just moved the Guards out of the royal capital in batches and stationed them in various places on rotation, without purging them. It seems that the Guards are not the only ones in this country who can threaten the king."

Paine's thoughts quickly figured out this connection: the current king came to the throne because of the regicide of the Guards. Emotionally, he must be afraid of the threat of force from the proud and powerful Guards - as The person in power will not be grateful for the "favor" that pushed him to the top. The first thing he would do after taking power would probably be to settle the matter, but he did not do so, which means that there are other forces restraining him and making him take action. And it is not difficult to guess that 80% of this power comes from the powerful local nobles.

Because the Guards are the king's direct troops anyway, if this force is eradicated rashly, then the king will not have the confidence to check and balance the powerful local nobles. By then, the powerful local nobles in the kingdom will also be able to make the king unable to sit down. rather.

This can be seen from this village. The Green family can dominate here just by relying on a false low-level title. Even the stationed guards are bribed by them. The two are in cahoots, and even the king is. Always kept in the dark.

Paine believed that there must be more powerful nobles in the kingdom, so although the king wanted to rectify the guards, he was unable to do so, so he could only delay doing so.

Reminiscent of what Old Tom mentioned before, "The king likes to wear nice new clothes the most. He does not hesitate to spend a lot of money to dress beautifully. He neither cares about his army, nor does he like to go to the theater, nor does he like to ride in a carriage. Visiting the park - unless it was to show off his new clothes, he would change his clothes every hour of the day, either in the dressing room or on the way to the dressing room."

This kind of performance of only caring about new clothes and not caring about government affairs is probably because he is too lazy to deal with this mess. It is somewhat similar to the mentality of the famous carpenter emperor in the history of Blue Star in his previous life.

So Paine came up with the idea.

"Old Tom, do you know where the Guards team is stationed in the village?"

"Why are you asking this? They are a bunch of bastards who eat people without spitting out their bones! You must not provoke them."

Old Tom was shocked.

"Don't be nervous, I just want to connect with them emotionally."

Paine couldn't help but slander: Eat people without spitting out bones? You, a man-eating mandrill, have the nerve to say this?