Chapter 167 The Duke’s Responsibilities

When Roddy strode in, Andy lazily lay on the soft couch on the top balcony of the Palace Castle, holding a glass of fresh milk in one hand and a fresh "newspaper" in the other. The rising sun had just risen in the sky. The skeleton emperor sighed with satisfaction: "This is a happy life..."

Then he looked back at Roddy: "Boy, what happened again after coming to me so early?"

Roddy looked at Andy and said directly: "How long will I be the Duke of Tulip?"

Andy didn't speak.

Roddy had already shown an impatient expression: "Thunder Whip has also taken over, the opposition forces in the imperial capital have also been wiped out, and the Marquis of Carolin has been hiding at home these days and dared not go out... What else do you need me, Duke Tulip? I no longer want to live with someone else's face! And readers are also a little bored!"

Andy slowly put down what was in his hand, stood up from the soft couch, and walked back into the room.

"I know you're impatient." Andy seemed to sigh: "But you have to endure it for a while..." He smiled: "The situation has just stabilized, and a Tulip Duke needs to shake the scene..."

Roddy frowned. Just as he was about to say something, Andy had already said first: "Boy, don't think I don't know what you are thinking. You want to get rid of this identity as soon as possible... and then you can go to trouble the Pope, right? I tell you, it's not time yet!"

Andy sighed: "Do you think I like the genius of the Gods?" His tone gradually became serious: "The Gods ruled the spiritual world of the entire continent for thousands of years. Can you compete with them alone? How about Mr. Qiu? The strong people in the realm! They were destroyed in front of the "subduing arts" of the pope and those bishops! Do you think you can beat them?"

Roddy's eyes showed a gleam: "No matter what, I will never let Corsica VI go!"

"Don't you let him go? He won't let you go!" Andy frowned and said, "Have you forgotten the dragon on you? The girl from the Silver Moon tribe didn't let you go. Do you think the God Church allows someone who inherited the demon dragon? Have you forgotten the grudge between the demon dragon and the god?"

Andy's eyebrows were a little sad: "Sooner or later they will know! The stronger your power, the less unconcealed the dragon energy. At that time, if you don't go to the Pope, he will come to you! Why do they have to deal with Mr. Qiu? It's because he is a Kara tribe. In their eyes, you are more 'outlier' than Mr. Qiu!"

Roddy said coldly: "So what? I must take Dracula's Spear!" His tone was a bit ostentatious: "What else is the blood of the gods!"

Andy said in a deep voice: "I tell you boy, when you face a powerful enemy, if your strength cannot defeat the other party, then you'd better not take action first! Be patient, endure until your strength is strong enough, and then decide the outcome in one fell swoop! That's the right way!"

Roddy frowned: "What should I do?"

Andy smiled slightly: "Have you forgotten the fable that Wuya said?"

A deep smile appeared on his face, and he slowly whispered: "The shackles of thousands of years have gradually decayed, and the eyes of the devil will stare at the earth. The emperor's blood will eventually solidify, and the vicious curse will linger on every piece of light. They sprinkle disasters all over the world with curses, and they spread deaths all over the earth with disasters. The blood of the gods will destroy the temple, and the withering of the thorns takes away everything."

Roddy's eyes flashed: "The thousand-year shackles are gradually decaying. What kind of shackles are they? Is it the shackles on the body of the demon dragon? The devil's eyes are staring at the earth, the devil, it's not the demon dragon, it's Kara. Anyway, in the eyes of the people of the Divine Cult, these two are devils... The emperor's blood will eventually solidify. Now the emperor of the empire is dead, and Balang's son is also dead. The queen's child is not the blood of the Thorn Flower family at all, so this sentence can also explain! Needless to say, the withering of Thorn Flower... The blood of the gods crumbles the temple... Could it be..."

A strange smile appeared on Andy's lips: "Don't you understand that the temple is overturned? In other words, the temple will definitely be overturned in the future!"

"The blood of the god..." Roddy suddenly said, "What is the blood of the god? Is it the blood of the god? But when will the god appear? How can he make him bleed?"

Andy sighed and shook his head: "I don't know this, I don't know either. You may know...Don't you have a lot of strange things in your mind for no reason? How to make the gods bleed? I guess the demon dragon will know more about it...haha."

Roddy frowned and said, "What are the curses and disasters? What exactly are they talking about..."

A strange gaze flashed in Andy's eyes, but the gaze just flashed, and then he blew and laughed: "We can't understand these things for the time being, and we don't have to worry. But now I hope you can be patient! I said, be patient! The longer you endure, it's to slap your enemy more powerfully in the future! I've told you many times. Don't you understand?"

Roddy remained silent and said slowly: "Participation is to endure, I can endure it for the time being, but I really don't want to continue to pretend to be the identity of this Tulip Duke."

He raised his head, looked straight at Andy, and said word by word: "I want to be myself! I want to be Roddy!"

Roddy said lightly: "I don't know what you have, but if you want me to do something, it's better to tell me first." He walked closer to Andy step by step: "I don't like the feeling of being controlled by others. If this matter is not solved every day, I'm not at ease."

Andy shook his head: "Didn't you have a ten-year agreement with Dak? Now there is Luo Yantar in the northwest and the mountains in the south... Well, don't worry about the mountains. Wuya is dead. Shanyue will be the world of the Silver Moon Tribe in the future. Looking at the way that Dan Yuewu looks to you, she probably feels embarrassed to go against you... There is also the Roland Continent in the north..."

The more Roddy heard, his face became gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Is Luo Yantar in the northwest? If I pacify the northwest grassland, will I let me be free?"

Andy suddenly smiled: "Luo Yantar? Don't be busy dealing with it... He is very useful... In my plan, he should be a very useful stepping stone... a stepping stone to set off the hero..."

Andy smiled, then his expression gradually became strange: "This will satisfy you soon... Since Seit has really left, there is no need for this person to continue to exist..."

Roddy's heart moved: "There is no need to continue to exist?"

Andy smiled strangely: "Boy, I promise you to be yourself and Roddy! But have you ever thought that you can also be the Duke of Tulips while being Roddy... I promise you to give you your true face, and I promise you that you can be with Nicole with peace of mind... But you still have to continue to do this Duke of Tulips."

Andy came over and said something softly in Roddy's ear...

Roddy did not smile, and there was no relaxed expression on his face. He suddenly glanced at Andy strangely and said slowly: "Andy, no matter what you are going to do, I said, don't try to control me anymore. Don't let me do things I don't like to do!"

Andy said coldly: "Don't you want to do it either for Nicole?"

Roddy looked at Andy deeply, suddenly showed a smile, and said lightly: "Okay! But, Andy! I hope you won't make me regret it!"

After Roddy left, the smile on Andy's face gradually disappeared, and he sighed: "This kid is getting more and more of his own ideas... but, alas... is that hell curse and disaster in the prophecy the hell? Disaster... What an interesting thing..."

Marquis Carolin knew his current situation very well.

The news about the imperial capital has spread, and the news has spread to all directions of the empire. Now no one knows it very well - the Lionheart family, which was originally favored by the emperor in the empire, is almost overwhelmed!

In the past, there were traffic in front of the door, but now there were no more people. Those who originally cursed themselves now even walked away from the Marquis' Mansion.

But the Marquis of Carolin is an old fox in politics after all. He understands: until the end, no one knows whether it is a loss or a win!

After all, the emperor's attitude towards himself has changed most, but the Northern Legion is still in his own hands! With military power in his hands, the emperor dare not really treat him! Besides, after working hard for so many years, his influence in the imperial officialdom cannot be eliminated by eliminating it! No matter what the reason is, as long as he supports it, there will definitely be a chance in the future!

The Tulip Family was suppressed by the emperor for so many years, and finally they could stand up again. So, the Lionheart Family can do the same!

Of course, the first thing is how to preserve the military power in the hands of the family!

Miro's legion in the North and Ruben's legion in the Northwest legion!

The same legion commander, Ruben retreated as soon as he said he was stupid! A reckless warrior who didn't know how to cultivate his own power would certainly not stand!

But Miro is the successor trained by Marquis of Carolin for countless efforts! He is already independent of his strategy and scheming! He has been in charge of the Northern Legion over the years and can be said to have basically controlled the morale of the army. The forces belonging to the military command have basically been undermined by him. Miro, the Northern Legion, is just right.

In this case, the emperor wants to replace him? Is it so easy?

The Marquis of Carolin sneered.

Zieg has been promoted to deputy commander of the Central Cavalry Legion, but he, the deputy commander, has no expression of happiness at all.

Looking at the team of people under his subordinates... they are also worthy of being called "Thunder Whip"?

It's a joke!

Those commanders were all full of money, and their ability to count money was better than that of fighting! Zigg only watched the exercises in the army once, and his face turned pale. Originally, the Central Cavalry Legion had not had a large-scale exercise for a long time, and Zigg was only doing exercises in the Wolf Tooth Army. Although he knew that other military camps had broken military disciplines, how bad was it, he finally opened his eyes.

I simply marched in a row, and more than a dozen of soldiers in a group of 100 twisted their feet, and more than a dozen were trampled off their shoes...

A simple cavalry charge exercise was halfway through the journey. Several cavalrymen collided with themselves and fell and injured several people on the spot. Some people rushed, but when they rushed to the end, they found that the scimitar in their hands was lost...

Zieg was so angry that his nose almost turned crooked. Roddy didn't say a word and stood aside coldly, with no joy or anger on his face.

"Let all the officers line up!" Roddy said coldly. Then he looked at the commanders beside him who had already been pale and said coldly: "What are you looking at! I said the officers line up, didn't you hear me?"

A dozen chief and deputy commanders ran away in a hurry. The war horses brought by their respective soldiers brought weapons. Roddy also walked down and turned over his horse first. He looked at the subordinates beside him with a look of surprise and doubt, and said coldly: "You are all the commanders and officers of the Central Cavalry Legion. Originally, many of them were excellent soldiers selected from other corpses. Are the soldiers you brought today at this level? Now I ask you to perform in front of me! Follow the marching array! I will agree first, you can do nothing. If you don't want to perform, get out of the Central Cavalry Legion! Take off your uniforms!"

No one speaks.

Roddy took a deep breath: "If you want to leave, I will never stop you! But I will come in three days. If I don't watch the soldiers' exercises, I will watch the officer first! Anyone who can't do it will be executed! Everything will be done according to the wartime laws!" His eyes were as cold as ice, and he said fiercely: "The Thunder Whip will not leave any garbage!"

After saying that, he rode his horse and left first, without even looking at these people.

Zieg followed up on a horse, with a worried face and couldn't help but say, "Duke, this seems not good... These people have identities, and there are many family backgrounds behind them... If you do this, it is equivalent to driving them out of the Central Cavalry Legion. Now... Although the Duke is trusted by His Majesty, I'm afraid that those families will make trouble, His Majesty will also..."

Roddy said lightly: "You don't have to worry about this."

Your Majesty? Your Majesty is that old skeleton! What am I going to do now? Will he object?

Zieg was still worried: "It just seems that the Duke's approach is too intense. It's better to spend time training well. With me, Zieg, you can always train them into a qualified Thor whip!"

Roddy suddenly stopped the horse, glanced at Zigg, and said, "Zig, the current Central Cavalry Legion has completely rotted!" His expression was a bit strange: "It can be said that these people, from soldiers to officers, are not soldiers at all! The soldiers are for the generous military pay of Thunder Whip, and the officers are just to embezzle more military supplies and a bunch of scum. Think about it, if they had a little combat power, would the process of our entry into the city that day be so smooth?" His tone gradually became solemn: "Think about it, if it was not us who broke into the city that day, but a team of enemy troops, and cavalry of Luoyantar, the grassland, could these people resist? I'm afraid they would collapse in less than three moments!"

Roddy sighed: "I admit that there are prodigal sons in this world who turn back, and bad people will become good people... But that is a minority after all! In my opinion, instead of wasting time trying to adapt this army, it is better to replace all the garbage!" Speaking of this, Roddy said lightly: "Not only these officers, but also those soldiers! They should not say anything about Thunder Whip, even ordinary soldiers are not up to standard! It is better to flush and select new blood in the local garrison army!"

Ignoring Zieg's expression, Roddy said lightly: "Transfer my orders and re-exercise them in three days, and if you have them today, you will be executed! Everything will be followed by the military orders during the war! If you want to leave, let them take off all of them and get out of the barracks!"

"Three days?" Zigg's eyes widened: "These people can't practice in three days..."

Roddy sneered: "I didn't let them practice...I didn't expect them to practice...I gave them three days to get out! Let those guys who are scrambling to get out of here! I don't want to give them any more chances! "Thunder Whip" is a proud name, and opportunities are given to those who are qualified!"

The military order from Duke Tulip was passed down, and the barracks immediately became in chaos.

The soldiers were almost mutiny - especially those who were just interested in scrambling military pay. If they had no food to eat in the future, how could that work?

But Roddy had long expected that ten thousand fully armed Wolf Teeth Army would guard outside the military camp and stare at them. If someone was causing trouble, he would immediately catch a military stick.

Therefore, under Roddy's first-hand operation, the largest large-scale soldier discharge incident in the history of the empire occurred...

Nearly 200,000 Central Cavalry Legion, after the final selection, only less than 50,000 were left behind. The rest took off their military uniforms and became civilians. Life and death will come from heaven in the future... If you want to live, rely on yourself!

The Tulip Duke's Mansion was almost squeezed out by the families led by officers of all sizes. Countless pleading and bribers were bombarded by Roddy. In the end, the guard Rand and a team of people were simply allowed to guard the door of the Duke's Mansion.

Those people with some forces in their family finally couldn't stand it anymore. They were so soft that they were hard and tried to unite to put pressure on Roddy, but Roddy didn't even look at it, and just threw it to Rant: "Are you rude guys, fight it out! Throw it out of this street!"

The next day, a group of bruised nobles ran to the emperor to complain - it was too bullying! Even the Duke of Tulip could not be so arrogant! After all, they are all nobles, so many families, can he just fight?!

But the emperor's words made them completely cold: "You can go and communicate with Duke Tulip for this matter yourself."

There were also people who cried and tried to win the sympathy of the emperor, but His Majesty the Emperor was too lazy to even look at it, and the Guards directly bombed them out of the palace.

In this way, the most powerful and elite central cavalry legion, which was originally known as the most powerful and elite among the four main legions of the empire, and the famous "Thunder Whip", was left after the rectification, only 50,000 people were left (including the 20,000 Wolf Tooth Army, which was re-registered to Thunder Whip).

The reserve department of the empire was busy, and he wanted to recruit 150,000 reserves in one go... and he was still joining the "Thunder Whip"? The choice was a big deal...

The Duke of Tulip has already made a statement, and the selection work must be meticulous. If you want to stuff a person with all kinds of cats and dogs into the "Thunder Whip" - let alone enter the Thunder Whip, wait for the Duke's whip first!

Those Barons who were driven out of the Central Cavalry Legion by bruises and swollen noses are role models!

Just as the Central Cavalry Corps was busy expanding and the officers of the reserve department were busy almost all night. Late at night, Roddy hid in the Duke's Mansion to read books.

Nicole sat next to him, her face a little depressed, and she couldn't help but whisper: "Rody, are you too anxious to tidy up the Thunder Whip like this? Some things cannot be done too well."

Roddy put down the book and smiled faintly: "I know... even the Duke of Tulips back then had never done such a thing." He pointed to the book in his hand and smiled: "I have carefully studied the history of how Duke of Tulips led troops to fight in the past."

Nicole sighed: "You have offended so many people in one go..."

Roddy shook her head and smiled, "Nicole, you were wrong... It was not me, Roddy, who offended people. It was Sate! It was Sate Duke of Tulips!"

Nicole was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Is there any difference?"

"The difference is very big." Roddy sighed: "I'm in a hurry! In order to make me return to Roddy one day earlier, I can only do this. The sooner I finish these things that should be Duke Tulip, the sooner I can get my freedom!"

He couldn't help but gently hold Nicole's hand and said softly: "I don't want to be your 'brother' anymore! Nicole! I don't want to hold your hand and secretly close the door! I want to be Roddy! I hope I can hold your waist and hold your hand in front of others. When I want to kiss you, I can kiss you."

Speaking of this, Roddy gently put his arms around Nicole's waist and kissed her red lips gently.

Nicole looked at the scorching eyes in Roddy's eyes, her cheeks flushed, gently hooked Roddy's neck, and said in a low voice: "Rody...I...I'll be your woman tonight, okay?"
Chapter completed!