The clues Amber found were somewhat beyond Gao Wen's expectations - he had guessed that Surrey? Randolph might be a down-and-out nobleman, or he might have been deprived of his title for his crime and had to hide his identity, but he did not expect that he was a defected royal shadow guard, but he defected while on the process of searching for the inheritance of Gondor... This is inevitable that it is confusing.

It seems that the Ansu royal family is not really ignorant of the secrets buried in the Dark Mountains. Although most of the related inheritance has been lost due to the fog moon internal strife, they should still have some clues. At least, they know that there is something in the Dark Mountains.

Of course, the premise of this speculation is that what Surrey Randolph is looking for is really disobedient fortress, not another Gondor legacy.

"At present, we have not found any other entrances and exits for the Disobedience Fortress. As for the entrances we have found, there is no sign of being opened," Gao Wen said while thinking, "And even if he has really entered the Disobedience Fortress, it cannot explain his defection - it is just an ancient scientific research base. What can be there in there that makes a royal shadow guard betray his king?"

"I can't understand... When I recall it now, he is really a person who never mentions his past, and his life is a mess," Amber shook his head, his voice a little low. "He always takes me around, changes his address frequently, forges his identity, and sneaks under the noses of local nobles to maintain his life. Most of our energy is spent on it, which makes me very dislike him for a long time... But now when I think about it, he has a reason for these actions."

"The royal family would not let a defected royal shadow guard so easily. They must have looked for him in the southern border for a long time, so he had to hide from and hide, and he could not seek more decent jobs with his identity as an extraordinary person - because all the businesses related to the extraordinary are monitored by the nobles, so he could only be a thief, or occasionally take on some mercenary tasks as a wanderer, and he could not contact other mercenaries for too long, in case those mercenaries were behind the identity of a certain nobleman's black gloves."

Amber flattened her mouth: "It's probably that's the case..."

Gao Wen began to ask some details of that year: "Did Pittman be with you at that time?"

Amber grabbed her hair: "It's not long since I remember that Pittman and my adoptive father have been friends, but I don't know when they met them exactly - the half-elves' memory ability in childhood was not as serious as humans, and I seemed to be more serious. My memories of that time were vague."

"A defecting royal shadow guard who hides from all over the world actually makes friends like Pitman during his hiding. Don't you think this is weird in itself?" Gao Wen raised his eyelids. "A man who is escaping from the pursuit of the royal family will not make friends with strangers under normal circumstances, unless there is a reason to do so - has your adoptive father mentioned this reason to you?"

Amber frowned: "He has never told me that I only heard the two of them brag about being the strongest thief group in the Southland - but this reason is definitely not reliable."

"You don't know, Pittman must know," said Gao Wen. "If he had the chance, maybe he would be willing to say it."

Pittman, a druid who is both a sleeper and a priest who dies all things, hides many secrets behind his seemingly sloppy old man. Gao Wen knows that he must have hidden a lot of things, and perhaps there is something about Surrey Randolph.

In the past, Pittman did not tell anyone these secrets. This may be a protective measure, but now Amber has found clues about his adoptive father. More importantly, the former royal power of Ansu has ended, Amber himself has even incorporated all the royal shadow guards, so some things that could not be spoken back then should be able to be said at this moment.

"I'll ask him," Amber nodded. "After so many years, he should tell me what happened back then."

"Well," Gao Wen thought for a moment, and then said, "Other thing, can you roughly tell when you were adopted by Surrey? Randolph? How long after he arrived in the southern border? Is it after being incognito for several years, or is there an adopted daughter around him when he decided to defect?"

"Then I don't know even more," Amber grabbed her hair again, her ears tremblingly, "What are you asking about this? What are you thinking of?"

"A hypothesis that seems very likely to be in my opinion," Gao Wen looked at Amber in front of him, and his association ability was fully utilized. "Have you ever thought about it? Randolph's defection might have something to do with you?"

"Me?" Amber stared at himself with his eyes, with a look of "You are teasing me", "What are you saying! I was still a child at that time!"

"What if the task recorded here is fake? What if he was not looking for Gondor's relics in the Dark Mountains, but you?" Gao Wen pointed to the book on the table. "We can boldly assume that perhaps his real task is to find a hybrid elf with special bloodline and hand it over to the Ansu royal family, or more extreme... the task requires him to kill the hybrid elf, and he failed to take action at the last moment, then everything can be explained."

Amber looked at Gao Wen in amazement, as if he was deeply shocked by the other party's imagination. After a while, he spoke: "Photograph is not a guess, Lenovo is not a random thought... You are almost making up stories, what is the evidence - the dignified Ansu royal family, why are you looking for a mixed-blood elf when you are full? You even get a royal shadow guard for this..."

"So I said, maybe it's because your bloodline is special. Don't forget that you only know that half of your bloodline is an elf, and your other half is from whom is a mystery. Do you know that your biological father is an elf, do you know who your mother is?" Gao Wen tapped the table gently, "And don't forget a very important point: the shadow seal ring."

The expression on Amber's face froze suddenly, and she had obviously recalled the origin and characteristics of the ring.

Gao Wen looked at her and said slowly: "You can use the Shadow Seal Ring of Francis II, and you have a ring that is exactly the same and has no magic power on your hand. This clue... don't you care?"

Amber thought for a while, suddenly pressed his chest with a nervous look on his face and took a breath: "Mom... I can't really be the remnant of the previous dynasty!!"

Gao Wen's expression was so serious that he almost couldn't maintain: "The word "remnant of the previous dynasty is not used like this!"

"Don't correct my words at this time," Amber waved his hand vigorously. "The possibility you mentioned really makes me doubt myself. It's obviously just a guess out of thin air without any evidence... Well, now there is some evidence, but is this possible?"

"I'm just talking about my own thoughts. I'm afraid no one knows the specific situation except Surrey? Randolph himself," Gao Wen shook his head, "But no matter what the truth was back then, even if it was as I guessed, it's meaningless now--the power of Ansu has ended. No matter what the king wanted your adoptive father to do in the southern border, this purpose has disappeared with the end of the dynasty. You are now a body of freedom, so don't think too much."

After a moment of silence while thinking, Amber finally let out a sigh and smiled again: "What you said is... the old royal family is gone, why am I still worried about so much?"

She seemed to have put down some burdens, and in a short time she replied to her usual careless and careless appearance. After the topic ended, she asked Gao Wen about the next arrangement: "At present, the order of San Sunil has been roughly stabilized, and the transfer of power in all aspects and the establishment of a new management structure have been completed. Should you consider the next step?"

"Yes..." Gao Wen leaned back, tapping his fingers on the armrest of the seat, "We have been stuck in this city for a long time."

After tapping the handrail a few times, he turned to Amber: "How is the situation in the East?"

"The staff sent by the Victorian Grand Duke has already joined the General Maryland, and the local nobles in the East are basically cooperating with the incorporation. They even put together a reserve force and consolidated the defense line of the Changfeng Fortress with the Cecil Legion."

"As expected," Gao Wen nodded, "The nobles in the East should be the most rescued group of many corrupt nobles in the old Ansu Kingdom. Although they also have the complete set of problems of the old nobles, because they face the threat of Tifeng for many years and the effective governance of the Luolun family, the local nobles were still very awake when facing the war situation. However, the reserve army they pieced together should not be very useful... The real elites in the East have been destroyed in the Holy Spirit Plain. The only remaining are the garrison troops of Changfeng Fortress, and the combat power of the reserve army and leading nobles from other places are not much stronger than the private soldiers of ordinary nobles. What else?"

Amber sorted out the information he had and continued: "There seems to be no movement on the Tifeng border, but Maryland is worried that the other side may accumulate strength secretly. Now he is trying to collect intelligence and beware of Tifeng's invasion at any time.

"Baisha Mining Company has taken over the mine again and has begun to repair the railway damaged by the giant deer. At the same time, according to your order, the engineering team continues to extend the previous East Line Railway, and strives to drive the Iron Throne to the vicinity of the Changfeng Fortress in the autumn - if there are armored trains, we don't have to worry so much about Tifeng.

"As for the maintenance of the Iron Throne... it will take about half a month. It lost two arsenal sections of the car, and the body power ridge and shield group were also overloaded and damaged, which was quite serious. Two heavy factories in Glen and Cecil are working overtime to start construction, striving to reduce the cycle."

"In any case, the Iron Throne must restore its combat power as soon as possible, even if only half of the train is transported to the border," Gao Wen said in a deep voice. "After the war, we lacked troops. Even if we had advanced weapons and equipment, the current defenders of Changfeng Fortress may not be able to stop the established extraordinary legion of the Tifeng people."

Amber frowned: "Do you think Tifengren will really start a war at this window?"

"They have been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, but the errors and delays in intelligence may make them miss this opportunity," said Gowen. "Rosetta Augustus must be paying attention to the war on the Holy Spirit Plain, but it is difficult for him to accurately grasp how much we have lost in the war - whether we win miserably or big, which directly affects whether he will order an attack."

The people of Tifeng were waiting for Ansu to shed all their blood. Gao Wen understood this very early, and in fact, the plan of the Emperor Rosetta had been mostly successful. Despite the variable of Cecil's rise, in general, all areas of Ansu except the southern border have been severely damaged in this war. Large areas of grain production areas have been transformed into scorched earth, a large amount of reserved grain was polluted or burned, and a large amount of youth power was consumed. In this situation, even if a thin southern border is elite, it would be difficult to spread to this huge land.

The Emperor Tifeng did wait until Ansu's great decline. He attacked at this moment and would do it once and for all. But due to the inefficiency and error of intelligence transmission in this era, he might not have time to realize this.

Gao Wen knew that it was a ruler who was decisive and cautious enough. His decisive and iron-fisted could ensure that as long as the emperor's order was issued, all the war machines of the Tifeng Empire would be operated instantly and attack the Changfeng Fortress with all their might, but his prudence...if used properly, it might be possible to give Cecil a chance to save his life.

He said to Amber: "We must find a way to make the Tifeng people unable to understand the real situation of Cecil, find a way to make Rosetta? Augustus overestimate the defense of Changfeng Fortress and overestimate the strength we retained after the war."

Amber thought for a while: "I will help General Maryland develop a plan to show the message of "Cecil's victory" and try to make the Changfeng Fortress show a strong military state..."

"This is not enough. Rosetta? Augustus is a very terrible opponent. He will not just stare at the Changfeng Fortress," Gao Wen said in a deep voice. "Domestic propaganda must be quickly unified. This war on the Holy Spirit Plain must be a minor victory. Our reserves are sufficient. Young and middle-aged people actively join the army due to the motivation of victory. The resignation of the Ansu royal family must be more decent. We must never publicize content such as the royal knights almost wiped out and the Northern Legion is not available.

"So far, our propaganda staff have done a good job in these areas, but the publicity efforts in the eastern region are much weaker than in the southern region... This must be compensated immediately.

"In addition, our trade with Tifon must be maintained, not only to maintain, but also to expand - Cecil took over this vast territory, and our demand and output can only increase, not decrease, but must increase greatly... Only in this way can Rosetta be avoided? Augustus guessed how much population we lost.

"Don't worry that Cecil can't afford such a large scale of trade. The magic industry's throughput capacity is amazing. And I have arranged for Grand Duke Berdevin to negotiate with the Auguri tribe. The gray elves and dwarves over there are very interested in our alchemy potions and textiles. By trading with them, we can pass on half of the pressure..."

Gao Wen talked about his own ideas one by one. His goal was very clear, which was to mislead Tifeng's ruler.

As long as you grasp the information transmission rules of this era and find its backwardness and various loopholes, it is possible to achieve this goal.

Of course, Rosetta? Augustus is never lacking in wisdom. Tifeng also has his own intelligence department. Even if this misleading is successful, it should not last long. But what Gao Wen wants is a short-term misleading - all he needs is time to "gasp and recover" after the war. As long as the Iron Throne recovers its combat power and arrives at the border, the food harvest will be achieved this year, and Cecil's next batch of recruits complete training and assembly, then he will have the confidence to block Tifeng's offensive. If he can mislead it longer and even spend this winter, let Emperor Rosetta react next spring... By that time, he will be even more at ease.

Amber remembered what Gao Wen told him in his heart, and at the same time began to select trustworthy subordinates in his heart - she is not only the leader of the intelligence department, but also many participants and executors of confidential plans. Especially this time, what Gao Wen wants to do must be involved in a large number of military intelligence agencies, so she must prepare from now on.

After she wrote down the matter one by one, she raised her head and her ears trembled slightly: "Besides these, there is another thing that should be put on the agenda, right?"

Gao Wen raised his eyebrows: "Hmm?"

"A grand crown," Amber stretched out his hand and drew a big circle, as if to strengthen the word "grand". "The situation is stable, the power transfer is completed, and the management organization is formed. Shouldn't the rulers of the Cecil Empire announce the arrival of a new era? And this is also a window to send a signal to Tifeng..."

After following Gao Wen for so long, this half-elf has learned a lot of novel and useful words. Listening to this guy saying such reasonable words seriously, even Gao Wen nodded: "Yes, this matter should be put on the agenda."

He didn't care about the so-called "coronation ceremony" before, because stabilizing the situation and restoring production is the top priority, but now the "coronation ceremony" has a special role. As a person who grasps value, he must pay attention to this matter.

"When are you going to be crowned?" Amber said with anticipation.

I don't know what this guy is looking forward to.

"Wait until some special 'cargo' is transported from the White Sand Hills to San Sunil," Gowen said, "but before that, preparations can be started."

"Special goods?" Amber reacted and vaguely guessed what Gao Wen meant, "...ah, that's really suitable for the new emperor's crown... But are you planning to crown in Saint Sunil?"

"Actually, I was thinking about Cecil at the beginning, but Herty's suggestion changed my mind," Gao Wen raised a curve to the corner of his mouth, and his eyes fell on the wall on the side of the study room - Ansu's sword and shield emblem was once hung there, but now it has been replaced by a flag of sword and plow. "Ansu's royal power ends here, and the new empire will begin here."

To put it bluntly, the coronation ceremony is for people to see. Since that is the case, we must make it present the best effect-

Gao Wen wanted to let the old nobles of Saint Sunil see clearly, let the church, army, and the old royal ministers see clearly, let them see the alternation of the old and new eras with their own eyes, and have a deep enough impression of this process. Only in this way can the stability of the subsequent process of reform be further ensured.
Chapter completed!