After learning that Denethor II was coming to visit him, Roland naturally did not remain indifferent. He pulled his advisors into a room and began discussing countermeasures.
Roland's idea was undoubtedly to weld Gondor firmly onto the wheels of war. He was no saint; for those in the north, only if Gondor, Rohan, and Mordor beat each other bloody could he fish in troubled waters during the war. He had no desire to end up like those who latched onto someone else's thigh, only to become the thigh themselves in the end.
To prevent himself from clinging to someone else only to be treated as the one to cling to, Roland decisively shut himself in a dark little room with his subordinates to discuss a plan. They had to figure out how to sweet-talk Gondor onto the chariot of the War of the One Ring ahead of schedule. Adolf Heinrich and the others did not know that the War of the One Ring was about to unfold, but they were still very interested in tying Gondor to the chariot. It would be even better if they could tie Rohan to it as well!
"Gondor's current Steward is Turkon—Turgon. What is his situation like now?" Adolf Heinrich turned to the others. As Roland's advisor, he knew the identity of Gondor's current helmsman, but he did not know the details very well.
This made Adolf Heinrich frown. It seemed he needed to suggest that His Majesty Roland establish an intelligence network for the kingdom! Adolf Heinrich had originally wanted to put this matter off. Roland's newly founded kingdom was, after all, little more than a ramshackle operation. Keeping it functioning stably had already taken everything Adolf Heinrich and Yun Feng had. As for establishing an intelligence network, neither of them had even