Chapter 465 Chapter 429: Two Flowers Bloom

Loulan City. After the last banquet, Du Wei secretly returned to the castle and had a meeting with Luo Xue and Queen Medusa in the castle, more than 20 days had passed. And the secret of Lord Tulip Duke came back, and then left quietly, not many people knew about it.Know, only a few people such as Vivienne and Philip. As for the outside news, it is still Duke Tulip who is busy with magic research and has not returned. Philip is very busy these days, and he is also a little nervous. The first reason is that last time Du Wei came back in a hurry and left in a hurry. Before leaving, he handed over the power to himself.Moreover, Philip could see a hint of anxiety and haste on Du Wei's face.He was sure that Du Wei might have encountered some trouble.

Moreover, it has been more than 20 days since my lord left, and there is no news... The second reason is because of the princess Louise in the city, and the future princess, Miss Delly. Since Miss Delly came to Loulan City and sent someone to contact the saint secretly, Philip became more and more sure: this future princess is definitely not easy!In particular, everyone now knows that the Tulip family and the opposing family have actually become political enemies. These days, Philip sent several times more people to secretly and closely monitor the Southern Chamber of Commerce where Miss Delly and Princess Louise lived.Moreover, the two eldest ladies refused to live in the castle—even Philip found Mrs. Liszt later, suggesting to ask Mrs. Liszt for help—as a result, even Mrs. Liszt invited the princess to live in the Liszt family. invitations were declined.

Given the friendship between Princess Louise and Mrs. Liszt, to refuse such an invitation must be the fault of Miss Delly, the future princess. Philip asked Uncle Alpha to bring the whole team to take turns day and night to closely monitor the two ladies. But the news he got was extremely mixed.Miss Dai Li has been restless these days in Loulan City. It is said that she met representatives of more than a dozen chambers of commerce in the south at one go.Later, he even personally participated in nine banquets held by representatives of those chambers of commerce—this move was a bit puzzling.

After all, Miss Dai Li's identity is the future princess, and she may even become a princess!Her elder brother is the Legion Commander of the Empire!Such an identity of the proud girl of heaven, she actually put down her figure and got into a group with those vulgar businessmen. If it is placed in the eyes of any real nobleman, it is an act of degrading her dignity. Moreover, according to the news from the watchers, this Miss Delly is really sociable, or in other words, she doesn't put on airs at all—she is willing to compromise everyone!In just these few days, in the headquarters of the chamber of commerce where Ms. Delly lives, countless people have visited and contacted her, including fur merchants, jewelry merchants, livestock merchants, and even members of a small mercenary group. chief.It can be as big as the head of a chamber of commerce in a province, or as small as a shop owner in a certain city.Miss Delly has seen more than forty guests these days!

According to Philip's order, all the guests that Miss Delly has seen will be assigned to monitor. However, after verification, the information collected in Philip's hands did not contain any valuable information. "Is she just meeting and chatting with these people for tea?" And the Alpha Knight below has already started to complain. After all, this Miss Delly has contacts with too many people, and after all, there are not many spies under Alpha, and at the same time, there are only a part of the staff left in the city to take into account the exchange of news in the northwest grassland.These days, Miss Delly has met too many people, and every guest has to follow up and monitor and investigate, which makes the Alpha Knights start to be short of manpower.

The more weird Miss Delly acted, the deeper the uneasiness in Philip's heart!He became more and more sure that there must be a reason for this woman to come to the northwest! Moreover, Philip couldn't put all his energy on Delly, a woman. Before Du Wei left, he entrusted all the power in the Northwest to Philip, and now the young Philip has become the temporary head of the entire Tulip family territory!Every day, all kinds of official affairs from various places have to be passed back, waiting for him to decide and arrange. Finally, on this day, someone came back and reported that they saw those guarding knights and servants in the chamber of commerce where Princess Louise and Miss Delly were stationed, and they seemed to be about to leave.

"They're leaving?" Philip frowned deeply in his heart, and suddenly asked again: "Is there any news from the sect in the past few days? Didn't His Royal Highness make any movement?" ?” The subordinates immediately replied: "No, as usual, Her Majesty the Holy Maiden will go to the Holy Knights every three days to preach the teachings. But three days ago, after the Holy Maiden returned from the Holy Knights, she sent someone to ask for hope. Let her follow the clergy of the religious institute to the family's private army to comfort the soldiers and preach the teachings. But this news has already been reported to you, and you have not approved it."

Philip nodded: "That woman wants to preach teachings in our army... Humph, God knows what she's trying to do, just ignore her and leave her alone." Philip walked up and down the room, thinking hard of Miss Delly. Could it be that this future princess really came to Loulan City, lived there for twenty days, attended a few banquets with a group of merchants from the chamber of commerce, and then returned home?That's what she came to the northwest to do?The majestic princess, went to the northwest to meet a few vulgar businessmen? In any case, even if there were any doubts in my heart, I couldn't stop him from leaving.After all, the other party's status is honorable.You can leave as soon as you say, and you can't go to check yourself.

"Let people follow them all the way out of the city..." Philip sighed, feeling a little helpless.He faintly had a strange feeling, as if he was being tricked by someone. After watching his subordinates go out, the number one staff member under Du Wei's command suddenly moved in his heart, and re-discovered the detailed information and lists of all the guests Miss Delly had seen these days, as well as her servants entering and leaving the chamber of commerce. Headquarters, where he went, who he met, all the information, Philip dug it out again and read it again. Finally, after reviewing a list again, Philip suddenly picked up a quill pen on the table, and quickly circled three names on the list of chambers of commerce that Miss Delly had contacted.

Because, on this list, the three names circled by him are different from other people on other lists! The leaders of these three chambers of commerce all met Miss Dai Li yesterday!And according to the information collected by their subordinates, before they met Miss Delly, they all rushed to Loulan City just before they met Miss Delly! According to detailed inspection, before returning to Loulan City, the three leaders of the chamber of commerce each took their own caravans to the north of the Desa Province, and it is said that they went to sell horses and furs. . Three businessmen who rushed back from the north at the same time went to see Miss Delly on the same day?

Immediately, Philip's heart moved, he stood up quickly, and walked to the wall. Hanging on the wall is a map of Desa Province.Philip's eyes flickered, and his eyes shrouded in the northern area of ​​Desa Province on the map, searching carefully. Soon, his eyes flicked...North! north? In the province of Desa, in the north, there are actually no other important places, only one!And it is the core area that is very important to the Tulip family! Gilliard City! ! ! After Philip paused in his heart, he immediately asked someone to find the official documents of all the chambers of commerce and caravans in the city entering and leaving the province of Desa. He quickly found out the three chambers of commerce whose names he had circled, and found out Before returning to Loulan City, which places in the north did they go to? After this investigation, Philip was even more frightened! It turns out that these three caravans have almost all approached Gilliat City! Because Gilliat City has become the family's production base, outsiders are not allowed to enter, so any passing caravans cannot enter there, and can only go to the surrounding cities to do business. And these three business groups stopped in a small town closest to Gilliat City a few days ago, and they stopped for two days! ! "Hmph! Three medium-sized large business groups are staying in a small town with a population of less than 2,000 at the same time! What kind of business are they doing? In such a small town, what kind of business can they do? Do it for two days?! There must be a ghost!!" With a sneer on Philip's face, he finally found the flaw! "Come here! Come here!!" He stopped shouting, and immediately some of his men walked in. "Is there any official documents and news reported back from Gilliat City?" The subordinate immediately shook his head: "My lord, we will hand over all the official documents to you as soon as possible every day, and there will be absolutely nothing left behind. There has been no news from Gilliad City for the past two days. Everything is fine and there is nothing wrong with it." Special things... I think what happened last time should have taught them a lesson, and now it should be a strengthened security defense force..." This subordinate was talking, when suddenly Philip stared and shouted: "What are you talking about! What happened last time! What 'learned a lesson'?!" He suddenly took two steps forward and grabbed the hem of his subordinate's clothes: "What happened last time!!" Seeing Philip's reaction, the subordinates couldn't help but feel a little scared: "Last time... Last time, in the routine report sent back from Gilliat City, it was said that there was a slave escape incident in their place, but the four escaped slaves, in the end The soldiers who were all hunted down were found. All four were dead, and no one escaped alive..." "Bastard!!" Philip became angry: "Why didn't you report this kind of thing to me!!" The subordinates hurriedly shouted: "My lord! How dare I hide this kind of thing! But this happened more than 20 days ago!! At that time, His Excellency the Duke of Tulip was in Gilliat. It has already been dealt with. So it was not reported separately, but only filled in in the monthly routine circular... And, I remember, when I brought that routine circular in, you, you ..." "Me what?" Philip said sullenly. "You saw that there were already words written by Lord Tulip himself on it, so you didn't pay attention to it." Philip froze for a moment, then sighed. Indeed, he vaguely remembered such a thing.After all, some time ago, His Excellency the Duke was in Gilliat City, so basically, with the number one leader, His Excellency the Duke, about the affairs in Gilliat City, he didn't have to worry about it.Therefore, all the official affairs of Gilliat City were handled by Du Wei on the spot, and he was only sent back to the Governor's Mansion for storage in the monthly routine report.I was also busy at that time, so I didn't pay much attention to the news of Gilliat City - after all, the Duke personally sits in town, so do I still need to pay attention? But Philip didn't know that although Du Wei was in Gilliad City in those days, Du Wei was busy researching how to hatch dragon eggs, and didn't pay much attention to the official duties in Gilliat City. "Quick! Get that document back for me! I want to see it! I want it now!" Philip looked anxiously. The subordinates seldom saw this calm and calm adult showing such an anxious look, so they hurriedly rushed out, and a moment later, a document was handed into Philip's hands. Philip looked over, and his eyes immediately changed! After reading it carefully, Philip jumped up at the table. His expression was a little hesitant at first, but then a flash of absoluteness flashed across his face! He suddenly took out a golden tulip badge from his pocket, and then summoned the elder Yan, the guard in the mansion. "Old Smoke! You take my badge and go out of the city immediately to the barracks, order General Longbottom to lead a thousand cavalry within a moment, go around the city to the east, and hunt down along the road!! Princess Louise and Princess Delly and her party stop me!!" After hearing this, Lao Yan's face changed, and he couldn't help exclaiming: "My lord! Intercept...send troops to intercept the princess and princess?" Philip's face was gloomy, and he said bitterly: "The matter is urgent now, and I have no choice! I know this matter is very serious, intercepting the carriage of the princess and princess... Hmph, I'm afraid I wouldn't dare to go with someone else. Only Long General Patton dared to do it! Hurry up! Hurry up!! Big things will happen if you are late!" Lao Yan braced himself, was about to go out, took two steps but came back, gritted his teeth and said, "My lord...if...what if they resist during the interception?" Frost covered Philip's face, and he said in a deep voice, "Except for the princess and Princess Delly...the others, if they resist, they will be shot to death!!" After hearing this, Lao Yan couldn't help but tremble in his heart! Hey, it looks like something big has happened! Once this kind of thing breaks out, it will be terrible! !After taking a deep look at Philip, Lao Yan's heart skipped a beat. After giving Philip a military salute, he turned around and ran out like the wind. Philip returned to the desk, grabbed the official document again, and carefully looked at the writing on it... "Three days ago, three fugitive slaves in our city sneaked out of the ditch on the evening of the second day. The soldiers chased them for two days, and at noon on the third day, they found the bodies of the three people behind a hillside fifty miles east of the city. After verification, the three were fugitives. Lost strength and fell to death. The three slave identities are..." What surprised Philip was that the identities of these three slaves, in Gilliat City, two of them were in charge of different processes on the gunpowder assembly line!And the other one is responsible for the production of the broomsticks of the "Deceptor Sky Knights"! ! snort!On the way to escape, lost strength and fell to death? joke! ! Philip's face was frosty: "What a Miss Delly, what a Princess Delly!! It turns out that they want to steal the foundation of our Tulip family!!" Be it gunpowder or flying broomsticks, they are the top-secret weapons of the Tulip family standing on the mainland! ! After thinking of this, Philip immediately strode out of the door and summoned his subordinates: "Prepare the horse!! All the guards on duty gather! Follow me out of the city to do big things!!" "Send the order to the Decepticon team! Order all the people left behind to leave! Search eastward, covering an area of ​​600 miles!! Find me the whereabouts of the princess and Princess Delly at all costs!" After giving two orders in one breath, Philip gritted his teeth and announced: "Send another order! The first person to be found will be rewarded with 10,000 gold coins! The official position will be promoted to three ranks!!" Philip knew that he did not have the right to award official positions, but he knew even more that he could no longer follow the rules! Because, once the secrets of gunpowder and broomsticks are lost, then the Tulip family's force advantage will be gone forever! !