Chapter 466: Unscrupulous!

I’m sorry. This chapter was supposed to be published last night. When I published the first chapter, I was so upset by a guy who found it. I just wrote more than a thousand words and I just completed it. You can go to the book review section. , I have already hung up those posts, and I would like to ask everyone for advice. Also, everyone, please look at this scumbag guy. There is no fan value at all. I suspect that another website sent to make trouble. There is not a book in the library. Could it be that he hasn't read one of so many books on our website? ?
"Thank you, thank you Lord Baron for your generosity." Excited, the general held Cook's hand tightly with both hands.
"Haha!" Cook laughed.
"My Lord Baron, please!" Now the general is more enthusiastic about Cook, and there is no way he is not enthusiastic.
"If the general has anything to do, I will go around." Cook refused with a smile.
"Oh, actually I have nothing to do." The general sighed and replied somewhat lonely.
Cook was weird now. As the highest commander of the human coalition forces, why did he have such an expression? Cook hesitated and asked, "How difficult is the general?"
"Your Excellency, it's hard to say a word!" The general shook his head and wandered around the top of the fort with Cook.
Cook did not follow up, but accompanied the general. After a while, the general asked leisurely: "Your Excellency Baron doesn't think I'm beautiful, right?"
"Hehe, the general commanding a million army, isn't it..." Cook was puzzled. Could it be that the position of commander-in-chief is not good?
"Your Excellency, what you look at is superficial..." the general slowly explained to Cook.
It turned out that the commander-in-chief who was in charge of this place was the guy who was pulled out by the Bright Empire and was ready to be a scapegoat. This time the millions of troops of the Orc Empire, the Scarlet Fortress had no hope of defending. The nobles and nobles who had no positions in the fortress had already fled. Up here.
Even if they have a position, their family members have been sent away long ago, just because they were afraid that the Scarlet Fortress would be breached, so the position of the commander was simply a position to beheaded.
"Look at the baron. Only 300,000 of these soldiers are soldiers stationed in the fortress. The remaining millions are troops sent by the bishops." Standing on the top of the fortress, the general pointed to the lazily basking in the sun. Some soldiers continued.
Cook took a closer look and could see that the weapons and equipment on these soldiers were too low-grade. They were actually bamboo armors, that is, armors made of bamboo. If you didn't look carefully, they thought they were metal armors.
"Is this a farmer?" Cook took a breath.
"Humph, farmer, these are elite troops sent by the bishops." The general snorted angrily, obviously very angry.
Then the general whispered in a gloomy voice: "It's fine for the farmer. The empire has weapons and equipment and rewards, but those guys shouldn't have taken away all the weapons and equipment distributed, even a reward. None stayed."
"I..." To be honest, Cook was really shocked. At such a crisis, there were such people. But then Cook was relieved. An empire has existed for too long, and there is no aristocracy. What's the secret? Cook remembered the Jiawu naval battle on the earth. In fact, the Jiawu naval battle was also a pit by the officials at the time. Artillery shells and food were sold privately to the Japanese in exchange for white silver. Waiting for the battle, there was no response at all when the shell hit the enemy's battleship. How long did that empire exist? How long does the Bright Empire exist?
"That's all. The most hateful thing is that only half of the food distributed every month falls into the hands of the soldiers, and there is nothing to do with meat." The general was completely angry.
"Aren't there reinforcements?" Cook had a feeling that he was standing in an undefended fortress, which gave Cook a very uneasy feeling.
"Reinforcements, those guys are second-rate troops from other empires, but those guys are also sent by the nobles. Not only do they have their own officials, they also have countless fights every day..." The general was even more angry when he said those reinforcements.
Cook was stunned. This is the so-called strongest line of defense, the strongest line of defense for millions of troops, but Cook was puzzled again: "Then how do you repel an attack by the orcs?"
"From last winter to the present, the fortress defenders have paid more than a million soldiers' lives, and the defensive equipment is even more massive. Among them, hundreds of thousands of civilians are not counted. The fortress itself has less than 300,000 troops. One hundred thousand, and as long as the orcs launch another attack, the fortress will be over." The general shook his head and smiled bitterly.
Cook shook his head and said: "Impossible, aren't there so many giant crossbows, magic giant crossbows, and magic crystal cannons?"
"Hehe, we are launching one arrow here, and ten will be reported later. There is also this arrow. Your Lord Baron will understand if you take a closer look." The general took a giant crossbow arrow and handed it to Cook.
Cook took the arrow and found that it was wrong. It was much lighter. Cook looked carefully and was speechless. The creation of the giant crossbow arrow is very strict. The arrow shaft should be made of hardwood, iron pine, iron wood and the like, and To dry in the shade, without cracks, more than a dozen strict procedures, the arrow should be made of white iron.
But the one in front of Cook is not only made of miscellaneous wood, but what is even more hateful is that it hasn't dried very much, and even has some sun-cured skin. As for the arrow, it is not metal at all, it seems to be cut from wood. It was done, and finally a dye similar to the color of white iron was applied. This fraud is too obvious.
"How is this possible?" Cook couldn't figure it out. Don't those nobles fear being discovered.
"How can it be impossible? The fortress is nothing more than two results. Keep it and not keep it. If you keep it, everyone will have the credit. Even if it is discovered, some are scapegoats, let alone failing to keep it." The general slapped the wall fiercely. Then said.
Cook suddenly understood that compared to finding scapegoats, the profits brought by these weapons were too lucrative. With the weapons of millions of armies, Cook understood how much benefit those nobles could get after thinking about it.
For those who have benefited, a housekeeper or the leader of a workshop can be suicided, and the benefits gained are huge, and hundreds of millions of gold coins fall into the hands of those guys.
"Does your majesty do not care?" Cook asked suspiciously afterwards.
"Tube? Keke, keke, Lord Baron, don't you think your majesty knows?" the general asked, coughing twice.
"What?" Cook could hardly believe it.
"From top to bottom, a large number of bishops and nobles do this, who the pope wants to arrest, and, even if they are discovered, those bishops and nobles will definitely find scapegoats. Those bishops and nobles are not fools. Your Majesty found the evidence, and it is now the most critical time for the empire. If the empire's internal strife, then the fortress will definitely not be able to hold." The general sighed and explained.
Cook still has a question in his heart. Cook cannot ask this question, because according to the framework of the Holy See, it is impossible for such a situation to occur. Although corruption exists in all societies, don’t forget that the Holy See is different from ordinary ones. Empire is a complete religious empire.
Occasionally a person who is greedy for money may believe that Cook would believe it, but it is related to the safety of the empire. Cook can't figure it out. This is a religious country and the craziest.
"Is it against yourself?" Then an idea jumped into Cook's mind.
"Manli, show me who is the commander of the Scarlet Fortress, and his family?" Cook asked Manli to collect information on the Scarlet Fortress through his ID card while thinking.
"Cook, all this information is collected. The Scarlet Fortress is an independent system, directly under the jurisdiction of the Holy See Presbyterian Church. The commander is Danny Moradon. As for the details, you need to check it." Man Li immediately replied to Cook.
"Well, continue to check." Cook replied through his ID card.
What also makes Cook strange is that the command system of the entire fortress can’t have only one guy in front of him. It is necessary to know that an army of millions of people, even in the modern era of advanced communications, requires a huge command system. The group is, but now Cook sees a general, which is impossible.
After thinking about it, Cook couldn't think of a good way, and he had to make a helpless decision, which was to brake quietly and see what other tricks the general had followed.
After Cook became suspicious, chatting with the general gave him more thoughts, and Cook also observed the suspicion that these giant crossbows seemed to have just been assembled. You must know that the giant crossbows are very large, once they are installed. It will not move unless it is damaged. It is covered with a special shelter when it rains, but even so, it will change under the wind and sun.
A huge crossbow was like this, Cook thought it was damaged, but the five huge crossbows on the top of the fortress were all just assembled, and Cook's suspicion was even heavier.
"General, where is the magician stationed here?" Cook asked casually, in fact he was very nervous.
"Hehe, Lord Baron, they are just some incompetent junior magicians." The general replied with a smile, without saying where the magicians were.
Cook laughed, because Cook had already affirmed that what the general said was basically a lie. If it was true and corrupt, the general would take himself to the place where the magician was even if he was dissatisfied, but now he avoids it. If you leave it alone, it will be interesting.
"What about the rest?" Cook asked casually again.
The general looked at Cook and found that Cook seemed to ask casually, and he replied: "I have sent all the people down, and stick to it in sections. Unless I have an order, I can't leave the area. "
"Oh, your Excellency General did a good job." Cook said, sneer in his heart.
Cook didn't even think about which part of the trouble the general was making. After walking around, Cook said to the general: "Your Excellency General, I will leave today!"
"Huh?" The general was obviously shocked by Cook's words.
"Thank you for your hospitality!" Cook gave a noble gift and walked under the fort.
"Your Excellency, aren't you here to support our fortress?" Hearing this, the general hurriedly followed Cook and asked in confusion.
"Originally I wanted to support ~EbookFREE.me~ but seeing what it looks like now, I am sad. It seems that there is no hope here. In addition, I don’t plan to sell magic metals and magic airships to your empire anymore. Don't tell me about the materials I donated just now." Cook said as if he had made a decision.
"This..." The general was stunned, then cold sweat came out.
"Your Excellency General, I admire you very much, but the price I sold you magic metal is much lower than the market price. I have always supported you, but what I saw made me sad. Where is the war? , It’s basically a tool for those greedy guys to earn money. I don’t want the magic metal I sold to be sold at a high price. General, I am also thinking about your empire. Anyway, the fortress is also guarded. No longer, why waste so many gold coins.
Cook patted the general's shoulder after speaking, said with satisfaction, and then left in a big stride.
"Why, how could this be?" The general found out that Cook was gone after a while, thinking that Cook would not sell to Imperial Magic Metal, his majesty's anger..., thinking of this, the general directly fell to the ground.
"No, I have to find those guys." There was a close contact between the and the city wall, and the general was awakened by the severe pain, he got up and left in a hurry, cursing someone in his mouth.