Chapter 457

In the old world, the horn of war sounded from the northwest.

Kingdom of Sirte, King capital, karpas.

The ancient capital was shrouded in darkness. In the brightly lit palace, the old king ibohad bansain sat alone on the throne and looked at the two documents in front of him in silence.

One of the two instruments was a proposal submitted by the house of Lords for the promotion of Baron Sean montre to earl, and the other was a declaration of war against all citizens submitted by the cabinet.

"It seems time to make a choice."

After a long silence, the old king ibohad stamped his iron rose mark on the two documents.

In the past two years, due to the recovery of the evil tide and the deterioration of the environment, although the cost of transferring materials from the new world to the old world has increased a lot, the value of the new world to the Kingdom has not actually decreased, or even vaguely increased, because although the transportation cost of a large number of ordinary materials has increased, greatly reducing the original profits, there are extraordinary materials. So far, let alone others, The Kingdom's development in the new world found several extraordinary veins, including black iron veins, chalcocite veins, and even a small Mithril vein.

For the Kingdom, these extraordinary materials are strategic materials. Even if the transportation cost is higher and the risk is higher, it is completely acceptable, but now the Kingdom has to give up this benefit.

In fact, if these two seemingly unrelated documents did not appear at the same time, the old king or the kingdom of Sirte might not have easily abandoned a pioneering land as large as the new world, at least not as clean as it is now.

It is true that ASIM bansain was seriously injured, and the Kingdom temporarily lost its control over the new world development. It is true that the Montel family has a six rank title in the new world, and its strength is strong, but it has a position of righteousness. In fact, the kingdom is not unable to regain its control over the new world development. After all, the Kingdom has not only royal families, but also other nobles, It's not that we can't draw out the strong of the sixth order to go to the new world, but we need to weigh the pros and cons, and consider whether it's worth it.

In this trade-off of interests, the full outbreak of the war added an important weight to Montel's side. In this case, even if he was a little unwilling, ebohad had to reluctantly give up the development of the new world in exchange for the support of the Montel family.

"The sleeping lion has awakened. What will the final result be?"

Under the seal of the iron rose, the tight body slowed down, the light shone, and Eberhard's look was hidden under the shadow, making people unable to see clearly and unclear.

In June 1226, on this rainy day, six years later, the cotea state of the free Federation was lit by the red flame again. The borts who had been brutally suppressed by the free Federation because of the first independence uprising launched the second independence uprising at this time. The most dramatic thing is that they once again controlled cotea state like God's help.

When the free Federation was shaken by the second fall of cotea, it was silent for hundreds of years. It had long declined in the eyes of ordinary people. The Mensa Empire, which had completely fallen into the second class, declared war on the free Federation. Once the news was confirmed, the whole old continent was shocked.

Some people ridicule the Mensa empire's overestimation, because although the Mensa Empire still bears the name of the Empire, it is far behind the free Federation in terms of economy and force. Others are secretly surprised because transcendence has recovered, the tide of the times has rolled up, and the Mensa empire with a long history and ancient cultural heritage may give birth to a new vitality under such circumstances.

When the war broke out, the progress was beyond many people's expectations. In a short month, the Mensa Empire took the land of a state of the free Federation and formed a linkage with the cotea state occupied by the bolt people.

However, at this time, the bald eagle Kingdom also issued a statement, officially declared war on the Mensa Empire and stood on the same front with the free Federation, and this is not the end. In the same month, the kingdom of ozhaya also issued a declaration of war, officially joined the war and stood with the Mensa Empire, and the shadow of the war church was vaguely revealed behind them.

The four countries fought fiercely, and the flames of war began to spread outward. Like a Mars, it completely ignited a pile of oiled dry firewood in the old world.

In the following month, that is, August 1526, more than a dozen kingdoms and principalities were involved in the war, or voluntarily or forced to join the two sides respectively. So far, the northwest of the old continent has completely become a pot of chaos, and most of the continent has been ignited by the war.

Now, the kingdom of Sirte in the southeast corner of the mainland has also been affected and has to participate in the war and build an anti aggression alliance with the free Federation, the bald eagle and other kingdoms.

Of course, the reason why the kingdom of Sirte made such a choice is that the relationship between the Kingdom and Mensa Empire has been relatively rigid due to historical problems, and the second is that the war involves the condensation of steam theocracy.

Driven by the forces such as the free Federation, the bald eagle Kingdom and the kingdom of Sirte, steam power has been widely spread in the old continent, and there are faint signs of setting off a steam trend. However, if you look down from the top, you will find that there is still a huge steam gap in the old continent.

The Mensa empire is an ancient country with a large population and vast land, but perhaps it is too old. The Mensa Empire rejects new things such as steam engines from top to bottom. Even though the steam engines have proved their value with facts, their application in the Mensa empire is still quite limited, Basically focused on the military.

For the practice of the Mensa Empire, several countries such as the free Federation, the bald eagle and Sirte are naturally very dissatisfied with the struggle for steam theocracy, because without the huge territory of the Mensa Empire, the cohesion progress of steam theocracy will be greatly delayed and may even die prematurely. On this matter, several major Kingdoms have negotiated with the Mensa Empire more than once, But the result is not ideal.

In fact, before the war broke out, the free Federation and other kingdoms considered the possibility of force diplomacy. Since the words didn't make sense, they talked with their fists, forced the Mensa Empire to change by force, or even divided the Mensa Empire and operated by themselves. What they didn't expect was that the Mensa Empire took the initiative to declare war before they made up their mind.

It is precisely because of this background that the scale of this war will expand again and again, sweeping the whole old continent in a very short time.

The horn of war has sounded, but I don't know where the future will go.