There was a deafening salute from the castle now under the command of sapega in Vilna. The chimes of churches and bell towers all over the city.


    Yanush and sapega got out of the carriage, and they went to the gate of the castle together. On one side of the stairs, the military band played music.


    Yanush felt that the music played by the military band here was so different from Lvov. Of course, this is not to belittle lubaumatsky. On the contrary, the band under the marshal is completely composed of French and Italian, and their professional level is completely better than Werner''s group, which is a guest band of soldiers. However, the performance of the military gate really has the spirit of fighting on the battlefield, which makes people know that they have been on the battlefield.


    Janush went up the first step. He looked at his feet and stopped.


    The steps were carpeted with an ordinary dyed red cloth, not velvet. If such materials were used in Lvov, even the most humble servant of the Marshal''s family would disdain to use them. But here, it is used as a welcome for Imperial Envoys.


    Yanush sighed. In Silesia and Lvov, yanush heard rumors that commander sapega even mortgaged and sold off his silk underwear and silver buttons of his coat in order to raise military expenses. At that time, yanushi thought it was an exaggeration. Now it seems that it is the truth.


    "What''s the matter?"


    Seeing yanush stop, sapega asked strangely.


    "No, nothing."


    Janush smiled at sapega and continued to walk towards the gate. He deliberately leaned against commander sapega so that he could talk to him without being heard by others.


    "Pavel, is Lithuania in financial difficulties?" yanush asked softly.


    Hearing this, sapega looked bitter. He said to yanush in the same low voice: "I didn''t expect you to see it at a glance. Yes, Lithuania''s finance is about to collapse. First, the invasion of Czarist Russia, then the treason of Swedes and yanush raziweu, civil war and foreign war have never stopped for years. People are very poor. Although we managed to recover Werner, we didn''t get much useful war benefits Product. "


    "What about the assets of yanush raziweu? The raziweu family is one of the largest families in Lithuania, and yanush is the patriarch. Didn''t you capture tikeqing castle when you captured it?" yanush asked in surprise.


    When yanush asked, sapega was really hard to say. The Allied forces did occupy tikotsin, but the cellar in the castle was empty, and there was not even a Taylor in the last stronghold of the large raziwiu family. According to longzinski''s confession, most of Prince yanush''s assets were transported to miatelsk and provided to Prince boguslav to recruit troops and horses This is why Prince boguslav gathered 20000 foreign mercenaries. Prince yanush spent a lot of money to hire mercenaries himself. In the end, he even mortgaged the treasures in the palace to the Jews.


    Of course, the raziwiu family may be rich in numerous castles and farms scattered everywhere. However, most of these were emptied by Prince yanush''s army and the army of the alliance. As for the seized land and house deeds of the raziwiu family, commander sapega did not mortgage them to the Jewish banker, but handed them to mihau raziwiu. The raziwiu The loyal man of the family is a great hero in defeating yanush, and he is also loyal to King kazimiz. It is well deserved for him to take back these, and it is also a kind of solicitation to him.


    As a result, there are few spoils left, and most of them are treasures and works of art that cannot be realized immediately.


    Sapega briefly told janush about the situation, and janush was also shocked.


    "Then will it be difficult to send troops to Warsaw?" yanush had some doubts. He was well aware of the truth that troops and horses did not move and food and grass first. Can Lithuania still support an army expedition under the current situation?


    For this, commander sapega gave yanush a positive reply:


    "Don''t worry, old friend. The tenacity of Lithuanians is beyond your imagination. Even if we climb and eat bread with sawdust, we will arrive as scheduled to meet with his majesty and marshal."


    The two of them went into the hall. Behind them, Chechen, Natalie and other people attending the banquet also crowded in.


    Janush and sapega sat on the throne. The manager of the castle ordered the servants to set up the tableware.


    These tableware are also very common, most of which are made of glass and pottery, because sapesh melted the seized gold and silver tableware and minted them into gold and silver coins as military funds.


    When they were seated, the imperial envoy and the Lithuanian commander stood up, and they raised their glasses at the same time.


    The crowd also stood up.


    Yanush and sapega shouted with all their strength, "long live the night! Long live! Long live!"


    "Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!"


    The crowd responded in unison.


    The salute guns all over the castle rang again, shaking the walls of the castle.


    Then all kinds of food were brought up by the servants. Despite Lithuania''s financial constraints, the manager of the castle did his best to prepare rich food. There is no shortage of wine, beer, meat and cheese.


    As a hero appreciated by King kazimiz''s personal edict, Chechen was arranged at the table closest to the imperial envoy and commander. His uncle Pedro and others in the mercenary regiment were arranged to have dinner in the side hall because there were too many guests today.


    Chechen just took a few bites of a sausage. Suddenly, he felt someone kicking himself under the table.


    Chechen was about to look down, but the rest of her eyes saw Natalie smiling at herself. Now, Chechen doesn''t know who kicked himself.


    Natalie saw that Chechen finally reacted from eating, and she turned her head to yanushi again.


    "Father, I want to go out. It''s too stuffy here," Natalie said to yanush.


    "Well, wait a minute, wait a minute. There''s a dance after the party, so it won''t be boring at that time." yanushi said to his daughter with half a glass of wine left. He obviously didn''t understand what Natalie really meant.


    Natalie turned back unhappily. She originally wanted to find a reason to sneak out with Cherchen. But now I can only wait until the party is over.