Chapter 358

The Roland Empire, 963.

In this year, a lot of important things happened in the Empire. No matter from any angle, these events are worth reading in the history books.

In particular, these things happened before the coming years of the grand Roland continental war, which highlighted the subtlety of some things

At first, in the early spring of 663, count Raymond, who had made great contributions to the Empire and was known as the last famous general at the end of the Augustine Dynasty, died of illness in his own room and bed in the castle in his hometown of Lorraine plain. This imperial general, who once participated in the northwest station master more than 20 years ago and personally led two expeditions to the South Ocean, has completed his own life journey. There was a stain in his career, though: a coup.

But it doesn't erase his lifelong achievements. In later generations' comments on the general, there is a very interesting remark:

"Throughout this general's life and deeds, whether it was the outstanding performance of the first grassland northwest war or the contribution of the later Nanyang expedition, it was no less than that of any famous general in history. However, this was not the general's greatest contribution to the Empire. Many people think that this General Raymond's greatest contribution to the Roland empire... To the mainland and to the people is that he gave birth to a good son. "

The second thing that happened in this year was the start of a large-scale conscription across the mainland. The Empire invested a lot of financial and material resources, drew out the elite from the reserve, selected the elite from the local garrison on a large scale, and formed the new empire Auxiliary Corps.

At the time, no one knew why. The public statement is to supplement the northern storm legion, which suffered heavy losses after Warcraft. But everyone knows. It's just an excuse.

In the spring of 963, a new baptism ceremony was held in the imperial capital. His Royal Highness Prince Chen, the actual ruler of the Empire and the supreme ruler of the mainland, accepted the religious baptism given by Pope Paul XVI.

Although every emperor in the past dynasties had to be baptized by the pope before he was considered a legitimate emperor. But the baptism of the Regent is extremely rare: he announced publicly that Pope Paul XVI would become his own Godfather after his baptism!

The ceremony was very lively that day. Tens of thousands of citizens of the imperial capital attended the whole baptism.

This incident has been strongly opposed by many royal nobles. In our opinion, it is a great shame for the royal family, even a strategic failure! During the confrontation between the royal family and the church for thousands of years, even at the time of the most crisis in the history of the Empire, the royal family has always maintained its pride and dignity, never bowing to the church! But this is a young wise future monarch, but made this kind of "stupid" behavior, let everyone extremely puzzled.

A lot of people think that. It's a deal: obviously, because of the temple's strong support in the coup, the Regent is giving back to the temple for the land.

That's a good guess. However, it is believed that this will inevitably leave a stain on the wise Regent's career: he used the royal dignity for the support of the temple for his own sake. So what's the difference between him and the late prince who set off the coup?

But then two things happened, once again let people to Chen Prince's support rate increase!

On the third day of the baptism, the Regent issued a notice: at the behest of his majesty Augustine VI. Charlie is the first heir to the imperial throne! Before the crown prince came of age, his Royal Highness Prince Chen was still in charge of the state affairs of the Empire. At the same time. Prince Chen was conferred the title of Prince.

Prince Chen, with his own behavior, actually gave up the throne on his own initiative... Although he was actually the ruler of the Empire.

And the temple suffered losses: they did not get an emperor godson, only a prince Godson. The political significance of this baptism is greatly discounted.

Everyone thought that the temple would be very angry and launch a series of counterattacks with the royal family. To everyone's surprise, the temple was more united with the royal family!

The Pope and the Regent, after many meetings and negotiations, signed a series of agreements in the next three years. The temple indicated that it was willing to give up religious taxes in some areas, and then donated them to the Imperial Army in the form of free donation to show its support for the Imperial military expenditure.

On the other hand, the Empire announced the construction of new religious centers in more than a dozen places to carry forward the doctrine of the goddess of light. One of them is tulip duchy, the province of Desa.

And it's worth noting that, in fact, someone has found out that at the Regent's ceremony. Your Majesty the pope in attendance. The spirit leader of the Roland empire. It seems that he is very old and weak. Many devout believers are worried that his holiness will soon be called away by the goddess.

Only after Du Wei got the news, he knew that after the battle with the wizard King Bai He Chou, the Pope's serious injury was far from recovered.

Another detail is that the leader of the Mosa sect in the temple of light, the Archbishop of North Central, his Excellency Maximus, also attended the baptism ceremony. To everyone's surprise, the leader of the Mosha sect was wearing a red robe, which shows that his status in the church has changed: Cardinal!

Moreover, during the baptism, the new cardinal always stood in the first position of the Pope's head! This further implies his identity, which has been designated as "Archbishop" by the Pope.

Usually, in the church, the status of "Archbishop" has a special meaning, the successor of the pope!

Using this kind of public occasion, Pope Paul XVI undoubtedly announced his future successor in silence.

Anyone who knows the inside of the church knows it. In the church, the Mosa represents the moderate, while the Yemenis are the Hawks. This is what Pope Paul XVI did. Undoubtedly, it has laid a foundation for the rise of Mosa faction.

The establishment of a moderate leader as the successor undoubtedly shows the temple's attitude in the future: to repair relations with the imperial family and live in harmony.

The fourth major event of the year. The news that Warcraft was rampant in the north had spread all over the mainland. Then the Empire issued an order to break the sky, officially announcing that all kinds of private mercenary adventure teams from all over the mainland could hunt Warcraft in all parts of the north from the date of the order. The Empire even made a very detailed list, and all kinds of Warcraft showed the clear amount of reward. All the Warcraft can get the reward from the local government!

When such a notice was issued, the olfactory sensitive people immediately saw the actual nature of it!

The mercenary regiment of Roland Empire has been legalized since then!!

After years of decline in the age of knights, this announcement is undoubtedly of special significance! It stimulated the vigorous development of local mercenary risk-taking organizations, and a large number of low-level warrior classes who once had no jobs or food. Finally, they found their own way out. A large number of newly-built local mercenary Corps in the north are issuing notices to recruit new people!

It is reported that in a city in a Warcraft ravaged area in the north, the land Knight Association suddenly received 300 applications for warrior rank assessment within one day after the announcement. Normally, this number is their workload for a year.

Because of the rise of large-scale mercenary regiments. In addition, it's profitable to hunt Warcraft. Although Warcraft is terrible, driven by interests, many people still take this road of adventure.

And soon. The rampant situation of Warcraft was greatly alleviated. A large number of Warcraft fled into the north of the Empire. Facing a large number of human bounty hunters who were blinded by money, the rampant problem of Warcraft was effectively solved by killing the Empire without a single soldier.

And... The Empire's finances were no small help. Although there is a reward for hunting Warcraft, the Empire does not have no income... Any mercenary regiment must declare the list to the imperial official. The Empire even set up an official mercenary control department, and each mercenary regiment had to maintain its legal status. Taxes must be paid to the Empire every year.

Some people support this law, while others oppose it. Supporters think it can effectively solve the problem of rampant Warcraft in the north. The opponents are worried that once the legal opening of the mercenary regiment is opened, they are afraid that the public security problem will leave trouble in the future! It is not the situation that people want to see.

When Dewey got the news, he just laughed. He's sort of a supporter. His attitude is: "anyway, even if the Empire does not have this order. It is an open secret that various mercenary regiments have existed in the north for a long time. Since it can't be stopped. Why don't we just lift the ban, and then we can get more taxes. "

The fifth big thing happened in this year. The Imperial military announced that they would build a large military fortress in the north of the Empire, about ten miles south of the frozen forest.

The site selection of this military fortress has been strictly selected. The final selected site is very crucial. It is just on the Bijing main road leading from the frozen forest to the south. There are large mountainous areas and places difficult to walk on both sides, but this area is relatively flat. Moreover, in the last event when Warcraft rushed out of the frozen forest, this place is the main direction of Warcraft torrent.

According to the imperial official, this time the empire is going to spend a lot of military money to build the largest and strongest military fortress ever! From then on, no possibility of the rampage of Warcraft! As long as there is such a fortress standing in the northern part of the Empire, the vast northern territory of the Empire in the south of the military fortress can be guaranteed.

Under the leadership of the old prime minister, robustscher, the imperial army put forward a huge plan.

"This military fortress will be the most outstanding product in the history of the Imperial military." All the military experts who have seen this plan have expressed such feelings. The only difference is that some people can't help but put forward that "it's too wasteful to spend so much military expenditure to build this almost miraculous military iron wall just to stop those undeveloped Warcraft."

Up to now, no one knows that there will be a big enemy invasion in the north in the next three years.

In order to build this military fortress, the military once again had a big quarrel with the chancellor of the exchequer for several days. And in the end. It's still the Duke of tulips who solved their problem.

The Duke of tulip once again donated 10 million gold coins to the army in his own name.

Such a move, let everyone marvel, and guess... This tulip Duke, how much wealth does he have? The donation of 50 million gold coins is no secret.

Under the leadership of tulip Duke, Mount Delan Warcraft is willing to donate weapons worth 3 million gold coins to arm the new main battle Corps in the future. The Earl of villa and other nobles. They also donated tens to millions of gold coins.

In the summer of this year, on Dewey's 16th birthday, Dewey received a small gift from the military.

The envoys sent by the military said that because the military fortress was built with military funds donated by Duke tulip, in order to show their respect for Duke tulip, they are willing to ask Duke tulip to name the new military fortress in the future.

In fact, Dewey had already seen the construction drawings of the military fortress. Although it's highly confidential. However, judging from the relationship between Duwei and the Regent, there is no secret. And... Many of the contents of the construction are even proposed by Dewey.

For example, the strongest prismatic wall is covered with sharp barbs! There is also a tower every ten meters above the city wall. There is a heavy military catapult on it! And the huge military fortress is enough to accommodate more than 200000 troops, or even more! Inside the military fortress, huge cellars were excavated. It is used to store grain. In addition to the cold weather in the north, the food is not easy to rot. if the cellar is full, the grain in it will be enough for the garrison to support for a long time.

Even Dewey himself designed several catapults... And they didn't launch stones. Instead, it is a new type of "gunpowder bomb" improved according to the production base of giliat city.

All the people who have seen the design plan agree that "this is a defense line that will never be broken!"

Will never be broken through?

When Dewey heard that. All of a sudden, the idea of mischief came out again.

Therefore, in the face of the emissary sent by the military, Dewey gave a name to the strongest subway wall defense line in the future

Kaspersky

The sixth major event of the year. In the spring of this year, according to the traditional spring exercise of the Imperial Army, there were about 50000 private troops belonging to the Rowling family in the southern Rowling plain of the Empire. The recruits of the two divisions are not really recruits. They are all veterans who have been demobilized and re enlisted after careful selection. After the reorganization, in the name of "spring drill" long-distance training, we started from the Luolin plain and went all the way to the northwest.

Subsequently, the army was stationed in the northwest province of Desa. Although this army is nominally the private army of the Rowling family, everyone knows that as the eldest young master of the Rowling family, and the patriarch is his minor brother, this private army is actually under the command of Du Wei. What's more, Du Wei pays for the salaries.

In this way, together with the tulip family's more than 40000 people, Duwei's army has gathered a total of 100000 troops, and the governor Bohan of the neighboring province, after the last conscription, has more than 40000 troops. Great changes have taken place in the pattern of Northwest China. Even a fool can see that Dewey's action is obviously aimed at the northwest army.

On the mainland, everyone is watching, not knowing what will happen to the northwest in the future. The northwest is like a fire that can explode at any time. At this moment, only a subtle change is needed, which may trigger the largest scale war of the Empire in decades. Moreover, it is still a civil war!

The seventh big event of the year

When it happened, no one noticed the process. It was not until the result of this incident that people were stunned. It can be said that the pattern of the mainland is very subtle, even insignificant. Completely reversed

Late autumn, 963.

Tulip Duke governor's house, Loulan City, northwest Desa province.

Dewey frowned, his fingers gently stroking the brow, as if trying to smooth the anxiety between the brows. He is looking at a document, a report to be exact. Tulip family, Du Wei's first adviser, is also the chief executive. Philip was standing in front of Dewey. The young man's appearance is more mature. There is a faint calm between his eyebrows. His hands are habitually folded in his sleeves, standing there quietly. The whole person exudes a deep taste.

Duvet finished reading the document in front of him, then slowly closed it. On the cover, there was a big red line:

top-secret! Northwest military plan for the next three years.

Dewey pondered for a moment. Looked at Philip one eye: "these contents, are you a person to write?"

Philip laughed. "No, I've heard some advice from general Longbottom, and knight Rowling has given me some inspiration."

Ruolin? Dewey picked his eyebrows. This year, Ruolin has done quite well. Since Nanyang's operation. After thoroughly developing Jolin's military talent, Dewey simply transferred the female knight to her own army. In the beginning, Dewey let her head a cavalry brigade, but a year later. Because of her outstanding performance and Du Wei's intentional promotion, Ruolin has become the commander of 3000 cavalry in a cavalry battalion.

If there is no accident, she will be the first female general of tulip family in the future.

Even QQ, this guy, talked about Ruolin when chatting with Duwei by chance. The guy couldn't help exclaiming.

"This female Knight reminds me of the Messiah."

"Aragorn's wife? Chief Knight of the order of Saint Laurent? "

"That's her."

And Ruolin's performance made the proud cavalry trained by Longbottom have to be convinced. After being honed, the female Knight's martial arts level has reached level 4. Although it's not high, it's pretty good. After thinking about it for a long time, Dewey asked Hussein's advice, so he taught Ruolin the basic action of star fighting. After that, Ruolin's strength immediately increased again. In Northwest time. Besides her military career, Jolin spent all her spare time. They are all used to ask for advice from Hussein and Rodriguez.

Rodriguez's comment on Rowling is: "she's like me... Late bloomer."

It can be said that when she was young, this descendant of the mun nationality, who had experienced too many ups and downs, finally sharpened her edge.

Dewey looked at Philip and sighed: "it's a good plan... But when it comes to implementation, it's a lot of difficulties, a lot of ah... Philip, we seem to have a big family and a hundred thousand soldiers now... But you have to understand that our army is not as good as lugao of the northwest army in terms of quantity and quality! All his 200000 troops are elite, and all his generals are veteran soldiers. "

But he still has a word in his heart: Lu Gao's identity is actually chishuiduan, a disciple of Xueshan! If it does, I'm afraid Hussein and Rodriguez are not his opponents alone.

"Besides, we have to guard against the grassland people in the West." Dewey sighed.

Although Baihe Chou, the king of snow mountain witchcraft, seems to have established a good personal relationship with himself, and Baihe Chou also promised not to enter the mainland within ten years... But what he promised was not to enter the mainland, it was him! He didn't promise grassland people not to invade!

And, further... Dewey's not a kid! This matter of life and death, he will not build confidence on verbal commitment!

Three years... Three years. Now it has been more than half a year, time is more and more urgent, and there are not many things left for us.

"I mean... West before East." Dewey tapped on the table: "from the northwest army, keep a close eye on it. Besides, we have Bohan, our ally, by the side of the northwest army. If anything happens, he will take the lead. Our goal is to get rid of the prairie people before the northwest army goes to war, at least to make sure that in the future when we deal with lugao, the prairie people will not stab in the back! "

Philip laughed, and then he seemed to say a leisurely: "in that case... Your highness. Mr. alpha, you should be back soon

Captain alpha, uncle alpha. For more than half a year, he has not been with Dewey, or even in the northwest. Most of the people in tulip palace don't know where the knight of alpha has gone. Only a few people in the inner circle of Philip in the mainland know where alpha is going.

Alpha is on the prairie. To be exact, he stayed on the grassland all this time. The sun on the grassland, a dark skin. The life of drinking mare's milk and eating mutton almost completely turned him into a prairie man. Even his hair was dyed brown by Dewey with special medicine.

What's more, he deliberately disguised a long scar on his face, which allowed him to cover his face with gauze and hide his true face, which could hide his nose. After all, Roland's nose is straight. And the bridge of the nose of the grassland people is more collapsed.

Alfa's current public identity is the number one general beside Lord Saladin. His name is "Igo", which means "Eagle on the grassland" according to the language of grassland.

Saladin. At the beginning, the boy named sharadin, who Duwei put back, was the 13th son of the prairie king, the son of a Roland slave.

After he returned from that defeat, he suffered a lot at the beginning. Because of the defeat, the prairie King's anger was vented on all the deserters who were lucky to escape. After hundreds of deserters were executed, the prairie king was even more angry and almost relegated his son to slavery. Fortunately, he was persuaded by people around him that "after all, he is your blood. If he becomes a slave, your dignity will be damaged."

The king of grassland didn't know about these people. In fact, he received a lot of benefits from Saladin. Of course, the one who gave the money was Dewey.

After escaping the punishment, Saladin was punished and left the royal court. He was sent far away to the far west of the grassland royal court to herd horses, cattle and sheep. In fact, he was allowed to live and die on his own.

And then, Alfa's bodyguard, with more than 2000 grassland slaves given to him by Dewey, came to these slaves on the grassland. Half of them were bought by Dewey from all over the mainland. Half of them were presented by the prince of grassland at the time of the peace talks.

These two thousand slaves. Dewey selected some obedient guys, and then alpha took them into the grassland, and contacted sharadin.

Dewey asked alfa to take a message to Saladin: that's all I can do. If you can't make it any more, it just means you're incompetent.

Facts have proved that this Saladin is not incompetent, he is very capable!

With great skill, he soon subdued the two thousand slaves and formed them into cavalry. After robbing a few small groups of grassland horse thieves, his subordinates immediately increased to 4000. In less than half a year, he annexed a weak tribe and finally broke away from the royal court and became the chief of a small tribe.

Wang Tingli did not pay attention to these things. After all, the tribe that Saladin annexed was just a small tribe with a population of less than 10000, and most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled.

But then, sharadin's power, like a snowball, grew up!

Alfa became the contact between him and Dewey. Alfa got in touch with Dewey, and Dewey provided sharadin with many high-quality weapons produced by the Empire!

There is a lack of mineral resources on the grassland. Although the grassland cavalry are strong, they are short of high-quality armor and weapons. This is their historical weakness. After getting the support of Du Wei's weapons, Saladin is even more powerful. He was originally a very capable guy. It took another year for him to control tens of thousands of people and control more than 20000 strings.

In any case, this number is enough to be considered as a medium-sized tribe on the grassland.

What's more, in order to increase his strength, Dewey even sent two of his own magic students!!

When Wang Ting finally noticed the abandoned son of the grassland king, the grassland king was surprised at the amazing development momentum of the son he didn't like. On the one hand, he was vaguely dissatisfied.

But soon, Saladin made a move, he took the initiative to surrender to the court, said his tens of thousands of people, and 20000 cavalry. They are willing to obey the orders of the grassland king and are the most loyal soldiers of the grassland king.

And the only condition he put forward is not even a condition.

His request was: "I just begged my father to give me the treatment of a son! After all, you are my father. "

Grassland king is very happy. If he only made a gesture, he could get tens of thousands of people and 20000 cavalry. No one would refuse such a thing.

In the next month, sharadin sent people to worship a lot of cattle, sheep and horses to the king's court... Although the king of grassland didn't lack these, he gave up his son. He was very satisfied with this kind of filial action.

What's more, Saladin even went to the court without any attendants! Then that day, in the king's court, in the golden tent of the grassland king, in front of many leaders under the grassland king, and a dozen other sons. There are also many tribal chiefs.

This Saladin actually knelt down in public and made the most solemn and respectful etiquette on the grassland

Kiss the prairie King's feet!

Such a submissive attitude even moved the grassland king. He even felt that he was a little too harsh on his son. After all, although he was born of female slaves, he was also his own seed. And... It seems that he is quite capable. And he's very deferential to himself.

Then something happened, so that the grassland King's last doubt about Saladin was dispelled.

Here's the thing. Because of the defeat of 20000 cavalry in jinlangtoudi, a tribe loyal to Wangting was disgusted with Wangting. The tribe decided to move far away and no longer obey the orders of Wangting.

This angered the prairie king, who ordered to punish the disobedient tribe. Saladin, on the other hand, volunteered to do it.

He did a great job. He soon exterminated the tribe and handed the head of the tribal chief back to the grassland king. After destroying the tribe, all the people, cattle, sheep and horses in the captured land were handed in, and he did not intercept them at all.

More importantly, in this battle. His cavalry suffered a lot. More than 4000 people died. Almost a quarter of our strength has been lost. But he didn't complain at all. On the contrary, he sincerely expressed that he was his father's son. My son Lang is my father's son. The loss of their own strength, and nothing, even if the loss again, as long as the father can be happy.

This kind of words, say, who will go to say. But if we do, there won't be many people.

Saladin was cruel enough. He used the death and blood of 4000 subordinates in exchange for the trust of the grassland king. Let prairie King believe, this son is not support soldiers self-respect, he is really willing to bleed for himself obedient guy.

In less than two years, in such a short time, sharadin, the son of a female slave, became one of the sons trusted by the king of grassland.

At this time, Dewey was still recruiting in the Lorraine plain.

Duwei knew all the process and all kinds of things about sharadin according to the letter sent back by the guard chief of alpha.

When he saw sharadin in the tent, in front of all the people, regardless of his dignity, crawling on the ground, to kiss the grassland King's feet... I don't know why, Duwei suddenly felt a chill on his body!! Seeing off Philip, Dewey took out uncle alpha's letter again. He read it again, and then sighed softly: "almost. It's time." After that, Dewey went out of his study. He didn't let any bodyguards follow him. He went directly under the castle. Through the long corridor, he came to a small building behind the castle. Far away, the sound of the melodious organ came from the room. Du Wei pushed the door in, and saw a charming girl, everyone dressed in a veil, dancing with the rhythm of the organ. They danced the standard Palace dance, which was taught by the most outstanding palace etiquette teachers. All the girls here are just the poor "prey" that Dewey brought out from the northwest army camp. Dewey's eyes soon fell on the girl sitting in the middle of the house, playing the organ. There is no doubt that she is the most beautiful one among all the girls. Her eyes, just like her name, are as quiet as the moon. When Dewey came in, the people here saw him, and all of them stopped immediately. Then the girls turned around and bowed to Dewey. Then, with the wave of Dewey, they quickly backed down“ You stay Dewey pointed to the girl playing the organ. The room was quiet. The girl seemed a little nervous, but the strict training made her still stand up, and then smile at Dewey like a spring breeze, giving a royal ceremony. Du Wei narrowed his eyes: "your name is hanyue, right?" Han Yue's cheek turned a little red, and he bowed his head and said, "yes, your highness." Dewey took two steps. Then he suddenly raised his hand, gently lifted hanyue's chin, raised her face, and carefully looked at every detail of her face. Hanyue's face turned red. Her eyes were evasive and shy“ I remember you. I remember you at the beginning. You are a beautiful girl Dewey let go, his face only satisfied, but there is no indulgence in beauty. Obviously, he hasn't finished, so hanyue listens quietly“ How have you been here for more than a year? " Han Yue immediately raised her head and said solemnly, "my life was saved by the Duke. I live very well and happily here. I've never had such a happy life in my life. " Dewey nodded. "So, you appreciate me?"“ Yes Han Yue's voice trembled: "I... I'm willing to repay the Duke with everything I have."“ Good Dewey smiles. His voice is steady and calm“ Well, it's time for you to repay me. "