Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Chapter 144 Everyone has a bright future

Lilith no longer cared about the title of Saint. After all, Lilith's talent in divine arts was very ordinary. Her becoming a Saint, apart from replacing the original heroine, was more due to political considerations.

Moreover, it is not necessarily a good thing for Lilith to regain the title of Saint now. It is estimated that no noble would want to see a queen who combines politics and religion.

It seems to have greatly enhanced Lilith's prestige, but in fact it is just adding fuel to the fire and it is difficult to last long.

But Lilith still agreed. This would not only enhance her prestige, but also allow Lilith to directly intervene in religious affairs, making religion a true extension of royal power.

At the meeting to denounce the North, Lilith was still a vase saint, sitting like a minion, but now, Lilith is probably the most powerful saint in religious history.

In addition to restoring Flora to order and officially canonizing her as a saint, the old Pope also gave Lilith a power. Now Isa, who is using the title of saint in the North, will be canonized as a saint when Doug is defeated.

This is also a gesture of goodwill to the gray-collar workers.

The old Pope has already noticed something from Gray-Collar's reform plan. The Governor of the North will definitely not just stay in the North like Grand Duke Lars, even though the Governor now fully supports the Queen.

The more the governor supported the queen, the more the old pope felt that the governor had big ambitions, so the old pope kept helping Lilith to show goodwill to the North and relieve the pressure on Lilith.

At least if the gray-collar workers really attack us in the future, they will not be morally right. War is fought with people's hearts. Doug has been frustrated everywhere. Besides the fact that he cannot win the battle, his unpopularity is also a major problem, especially after the comparison.

Lilith did not comment on this. This was just like trying to gain favor from the gray-collar governor in her letter. It was basically just psychological comfort.

After Lilith returned to the palace, her personal maid brought her the latest intelligence. The Black Crow Secret Party had already fled into the territory of the Kingdom of Anjou. After all, it was an organization of shadow professionals, and it was indeed very slippery and difficult to catch.

Originally, the Black Crow secret party thought that after the assassination was successful, the situation in the capital would be in chaos. If they were really tracked down, they could just push out two scapegoats to take the blame.

Add to that the covert operations of his employer, the nobles and demons in the royal capital, and there is a high probability that this matter will come to nothing.

He was just a king. The Black Crow Secret Party had killed quite a few kings of small countries. Although this job was a bit big, the Black Crow Secret Party did not expect that it would become such a big deal in the end.

The succeeding queen not only maintained the situation in the capital and promoted reforms, but also kicked out all the partners, the demons. The remaining nobles in the capital were still able to resist, but after the queen and the gray-collar workers began to engage in arms trade, the situation gradually became one-sided.

Especially after the nobles in the two southwestern regions began to intervene.

Whoever owns the artillery has the right to speak in the southwest border. After hearing that the gray-collar workers used artillery as rewards, many knights and nobles far away in the southwest border sent people to the royal capital to investigate.

Especially for those who are already in danger on the border, who would care about the royal nobles and the killer organization?

And now, the Black Crow Secret Party was pushed out, causing the Black Crow Secret Party's headquarters to flee to the Kingdom of Anjou overnight, finally avoiding those investigators with gleaming eyes.

It has to be said that the Black Crow Secret Party is still very principled and did not reveal their employer in this situation.

Lilith put down the investigation report. There is a lot of water here. According to the investigation, the mastermind behind the assassination is not just one person, but may be a group of people, a vested interest group.

The first thing that Lilith thought of was the old party in the royal capital. After all, from the perspective of who benefits and who is suspected, the old party is like the yellow mud falling off the crotch, and it is impossible for them to clear themselves of any connection. Now there are people in the royal capital who are constantly investigating the old party.

But when Clan was assassinated, the concept of the New Party and the Old Party did not exist yet. Now there are still quite a few people in the Old Party, and some of them really oppose Lilith's reform plan because they think it is too radical, at least on the surface. There are also many very prestigious old nobles in the Old Party, so it is unlikely to kill them all with one blow.

After seeing the report sent by Judith, Lilith knew that she could not delay any longer. After the spring, in addition to the two governors in the north who were fighting fiercely, the probing of the Kingdom of Anjou became more and more fierce, and it was about to start a full-scale war, just waiting for the Kingdom of Capet to show the slightest sign of decline.

Some alchemists reproduced real cannons based on the disposable cannons that Prime Minister Nora had brought over before, but they were unable to mass-produce them, and it was a drop in the bucket for the long line of defense. Lilith did not have such strong control, so she threw all the alchemists into the workshop to make cannons by hand.

Therefore, in the end, he still had to buy it from Gray Collar, and now the only thing he lacked for the permission to purchase artillery was the real employer of the Black Crow Secret Party.

However, Lilith was not without a way to deal with these behind-the-scenes masters. The price of assassinating a king must be high, especially since the Black Crow Secret Party used magic-breaking stone arrows that could break through magical defenses. The cost could be said to be quite high.

Although the Black Crow Secret Society is very principled, Lilith does not believe that they are a charity organization that does not make money.

Then all we need to do is investigate the large-scale cash flows of the royal capital nobles before and after the assassination.

After Lilith shared this investigation direction with Judith and Scott, the two Dukes of the Southwest immediately took action, and countless accounts were turned over.

Originally this was impossible, but now the assassination of the former king has become the top priority of the capital. Why don't you cooperate with the investigation? Are you guilty? You know, many nobles in the capital are lining up to prove their innocence, but you are the only one who won't cooperate? Open the door! Southwest Allied Forces!

Even the most conservative nobles had nothing to say about this matter, and at most asked the officials who came to investigate to be more polite.

Is it useful to investigate these? Not necessarily. After all, given the level of these nobles, their assets are already recorded in a mess, and it is difficult to see anything. Even if the smarter nobles make some changes to the accounts, no one will notice it.

But this gave Lilith a legitimate reason to investigate these nobles and to conduct a thorough investigation of the nobles in the royal capital.

And it doesn’t matter whether Lilith has found out anything or not. What matters is that some people think that Lilith has really found out something.

At the first roundtable meeting after the investigation began, Lilith kept emphasizing that the Gray Collar side just wanted an explanation and an account, implying that neither she nor the Gray Collar side would kill them all. At the same time, she claimed that the investigation had made progress, and her eyes occasionally drifted in the direction of the Old Party.

It seemed that as long as the old party brought out the masterminds hiding among themselves, the investigation would stop. By then, the royal capital and the Duke of Southwest would obtain new muskets and cannons, the new party and the queen would investigate the old party, and the old party would find the murderer and clean up its ranks to gain fame.

Everyone has a bright future.