Chapter 383

Victor boarded the fourth floor of the Lord's house, and Nicole in a yellow tunic dress was standing at the door of the conference room.

"Honey, come in." With a smile, she came forward, took her sweetheart's arm and pushed open the iron oak door. "Madam is going to send someone to find you. You'll be back."

In the conference room, the big and small lords of the York family and nine silver Knights gathered together and looked at Victor coming in with dozens of eyes. Sylvia sat in the chair, turned her head, smiled at Victor and said softly, "honey, please sit next to me."

The conference room on the fourth floor of Yinyue manor is different from the traditional Lord hall.

The Lord hall is similar to a classroom. The big Lord occupies the throne. The right hand is the Lord's wife and the left hand is the first heir of the family. Opposite the throne is a table for three, representing the position of the vassal Lord's couple and heirs.

This conference room is modeled after the modern conference room, with an oval mahogany table in the middle for 40 people, and a circle of cowhide sofa chairs on the periphery of the table. Such a layout is better than amiability and easygoing, but it can not reflect the authority of family leaders. Violation of etiquette can not be regarded as a formal occasion.

However, Victor didn't want to see the Duke of York sitting with Sylvia, which made him very uncomfortable. Of course, nbiser York was also reluctant to stay with Sylvia. The dislike of the divine Knight always clearly shows the signal of "don't get close to me" in the way of spiritual coercion. It is difficult for mortals to resist this invisible pressure. Once enbiser gets close to Sylvia, he will be sweating and on pins and needles.

Victor sat down on Sylvia's side and saw nbiser and Katrina opposite the conference table. The people around him turned a blind eye to it as if he were the Duke of the York family. Victor couldn't help laughing and laughing. After careful observation, he found that there was something strange about the seating arrangement in the conference room.

The Duke of York and Lady Katrina are the left and right hands of the great Knight Bruce and the Viscount raven, the brother of trisley, respectively, followed by four Baron Lords. They have a common feature - they are all vassal lords of the new canonization, very dependent on the support of the Duke, and can be regarded as the direct line of enbiser.

Next came the grand Knights Viscount Gilles and Viscount melo. Their territory guarded the Duke's direct subordinates. They took turns to guard the central fortress and had a closer relationship with nbiser.

Then there were Viscount Hanas and Viscount Walter, two great knights who served two earls in the three eastern provinces. After their Lord was hanged by nyovist for treason, they accepted Sylvia's solicitation, swore allegiance and became the vassal Lord of the York family. Their position is just in the middle of the conference table.

Later, viscount Fred, lady odel, count tellandon and lady ulena sat opposite each other. They are the younger brothers and cousins of the Duke of York. In terms of strength, blood and inheritance, they are enough to challenge the status of enbiser and Katrina.

Finally, there are members of Rose Manor's think tank, Nicole, guardian Knights trisley, Victor and Sylvia.

If you look backwards, the positions of nbiser and Katrina are the main seats. They are arranged according to their distance. Just come and see, Rose Manor arranges seats according to the strength of the vassal Lord.

Victor thought about it carefully and found that Sylvia's deprivation of enbiser's right to enter and leave the Rose Manor freely occurred after Katrina was promoted to the Grand Knight, that is, whether Victor existed or not, Sylvia would let Katrina perform the duties of the Duchess, making the Rose Manor jump out of the limitations of the Duchess's residence and become the highest authority of the York family.

When nbiser was weak, Sylvia had to support him. Bruce and Katrina successively stepped into the silver field. With her plump wings, she got rid of the role of Duchess and exercised the power of guardian of the family.

The divine Knight put too much pressure on the vassal Lord. Only by acting as an objective and fair guardian, Sylvia can establish her own authority and ensure the unity and stability of the York family.

In fact, Sylvia is now the queen of the human horse hills, trisley and Nicole are the leader of the Queen's personal guard, Victor is the inner minister, nbiser is the heir to the throne, and others are the Queen's Lords.

This is a royal meeting of the Rose Queen!

Victor propped his chin, stared at Sylvia's perfect side face and thought: as soon as I crossed over, I slept with a queen Or was I lucky to be blessed by the queen as soon as I came here?

Sylvia has a keen spirit and exquisite mind. She knows the psychological activities of her close lover like the back of her hand. She quietly ran over Victor's instep with high heels, picked up Willow eyebrows and said, "honey, what did the Pope talk to you under the crown?" The smiling look seemed to say: wait for me and pick you up later.

Victor pursed his lips and spoke out his conversation with Clement.

"The Pope supports my mercenary Corps. He clearly defines three conditions: first, try to accommodate refugees; second, the mercenary corps and the clergy do not participate in the war between the Lords; third, Randall's stewards, deacons and officers must receive the training of trainee priests in the school." He concluded.

Sylvia thought for a moment and asked, "what do you think of the Pope's proposal from the standpoint of the Randall family?"

Victor pondered, "I have two choices. Continue to absorb refugees and expand the mercenary Corps. Or absorb refugees to a limited extent, transform the existing refugee families into Randall's children's families, and concentrate on training the next generation of soldiers. I prefer the second choice."

"Firstly, absorbing a large number of refugees will challenge Randall's administrative system and increase the resettlement cost. Secondly, the training time of migrant soldiers is too short to ensure their combat effectiveness and loyalty, and they are particularly vulnerable to infiltration. Finally, the strength of hired soldiers is insufficient, their casualties must be very large, and there are many dead people, so I will be very passive and even be punished by the church Insurance. "

"The Pope solved most of my problems. He arranged a school for trainee priests to help me transform refugees and train soldiers and deacons. The combat priests cooperated with mercenaries to improve the soldiers' combat effectiveness, courage and survivability to a certain extent. The combat priests were involved, and the church had no reason to hold me accountable. In other words, mercenaries in the pioneering war Our sacrifice is reasonable and lawful. "

"Most importantly, I have no choice." Victor shrugged his shoulders, spread out his hands and said, "if I refuse the Pope's proposal, it means that the church reserves the right to accountability. As long as the priest agitates a little, I can only dissolve the mercenary corps, but there are too few vassal soldiers and no mercenaries. What can I take to guard the southern fortress? Let alone expand the southern continent." He turned his head and said, "honey, I can only agree to the conditions under the Pope's crown."

Sylvia frowned and asked, "do you know Clement's intention?"

"Elusive..." Victor shook his head and said, "I think you must have an answer here."

Sylvia nodded and said, "I have received news that sane of the southern Diocese of the kingdom will succeed Lazarus as the cardinal of Gambis. Thain is a close confidant of pastor tamore, who once competed with Clement for the throne of Pope."

"The relationship within the church is complicated. The three chief priests of the Privy Council are clement, tamore and frieds. Frieds, backed by the Knights of glory, controls the academic affairs of the Sassanian Empire and the Wharton prairie. The cardinals of the kingdom of Dodo and the kingdom of SUSE are close friends of tamore. The kingdoms of Neville, Gambis and Borui belong to Clement's sphere of influence." Sylvia paused and said, "now, the educational administration of Gambis is about to fall into tamore's hands. Do you have any association with it?"

Victor frowned and murmured, "Perot is also a popular candidate for cardinal Gambis. He served as bishop of the horse hills, so he lost the chance to put on the red robe... Why did Clement let his disciples give up the abbey of Gambis?"

Sylvia chuckled, her blue eyes shining with wisdom: "the next 20 years will be a period for the lords to promote new farming and animal husbandry, accumulate strength and integrate inside and outside. Clement's judgment is not wrong. Once the new farming and animal husbandry is successful, the Lords and vassals will expel migrant workers and make room for their families."

"The Sassanian Empire has been resisting the orcs in the northern wilderness. The shining Knights shoulder the responsibility of eliminating the orc threat and recovering human homeland. They use the migration of refugees to integrate the internal forces of the Empire, and no one can blame them. If I guess correctly, frieds will throw the prairie parish to Clement so that he can take over the burden of resettling refugees."

"Clement, as a contemporary Pope, is duty bound to resettle refugees. The question is, how should we resettle them?"

"There is land in the human horse hills. The construction of super large-scale water conservancy projects in Neville kingdom requires a large number of employees and has the potential to develop the land. However, it is not in our interests to resettle a large number of refugees."

"We need loyal people and brave soldiers. Twenty years is enough for the people to thrive. Why should we accept weak refugees?" Sylvia looked around the audience and said faintly, "almost all lords think so. Clement obviously has different views."

"Whoever develops, who owns. If we follow the traditional way of development, we can't compete with the Augustus family, and Neville can't compete with the Sassanian empire. And Victor's mercenary Corps may be an opportunity for us to rise in development."

"Similarly, if the Sassanian Empire takes the lead in the development, the Knights of glory can summon more clergy, and frieds's reputation will rise greatly. He will return to the Privy Council on behalf of the Knights of glory and serve as the new pope. However, if the kingdom of Neville and the people's Machu Mausoleum use the mercenary corps to take the lead in the development, the church's resources will deviate to Clement, This is also his only chance to turn defeat into victory. "

"The resettlement of refugees is the overall situation, the development of territory is the overall trend, the overall situation is on Clement's side, and the shining Knights have to bow to the Privy Council."

"Our original strategy was to expand the tusk legion, form a pioneer corps and recruit refugees as baggage soldiers. With the tusk Legion as the main fighting force and the pioneer militia as the main defense force, the refugee baggage soldiers undertake the logistics tasks of transporting supplies, building defense facilities and developing cultivated land. Now Clement has given us a second option, training the refugee mercenary corps and letting the mercenaries Participate in combat missions. "

Sylvia stood up and said brightly, "this is a major strategic choice. I need to fully listen to different opinions!"

Everyone was meditating. No one spoke. After a while, viscount Fred took the lead in breaking the silence of the conference room.

"Since the Pope is in line with our interests, we can abandon the conservative baggage strategy and completely implement the grand Legion strategy of viscount Randall." He smiled at Victor and continued: "We all saw the military parade in Pinghu Town. The mercenaries have strict discipline and high morale. Although their combat effectiveness is weaker, the bravery under the Pope's crown makes up for this defect. It is an army that can fight. Please pay attention to two points. The mercenary Corps has only been established for two and a half years, and they still have a lot of room for improvement. Second, the number of mercenaries is large More than 2000 people, nearly half of the troops of the tusk army, and can continue to expand! "

"The orcs and monsters do not accept surrender, and the pioneering war is very cruel. For us, every vassal soldier of the family is very valuable. If there is an exile mercenary corps as an auxiliary, the number of casualties of vassal soldiers will be greatly reduced. Actual combat is the best way to train elite soldiers. The Pope encourages us to canonize elite mercenaries with land, which means that the pioneering war will not damage us Hurt the vitality of the family, we will fight stronger and stronger! "

Viscount Fred patted the table heavily, which instantly ignited the enthusiasm of the participants. Everyone whispered and talked.

The great Knight ulena gracefully lifted the beautiful hair on her shoulder, lifted her red lips and said, "my uncle Baron Cadia has been foster in the ASHA family of Borui Kingdom since childhood. He once participated in the pioneering war of pioneer castle. Uncle Cadia believes that the failure of Borui kingdom to explore the southern continent is due to the small number of troops and craftsmen."

"Bo Rui people made full preparations before they opened up the South China continent. Their scouts detected a beautiful land of lakes and lakes, and then mobilized 70 thousand armies. This is almost the limit of the mobilization of the kingdom of Bari. More than that amount will stop the production of the seven largest islands. The pioneer fortress began to be built on this piece of land, and the scattered small barbarian tribes around it were eliminated, but they never met a strong opponent. The pioneer fortress gradually took shape. When the Borui army concentrated on building the south bank wharf, 100000 barbarians flocked to it. They cut off the connection between the code head on the south bank and the pioneer fortress, and the main force of the Borui people had to evacuate by boat and garrison 6000 troops of the pioneer fortress The elite were besieged by barbarians and became a lone army. They stayed for a year and a half before they were rescued by the church coalition. There were less than 3000 survivors, and the total number of casualties in Borui Kingdom exceeded 30000. "

"Facts have proved that the barbarians in the southern continent have excellent wisdom and strong individual strength. They take advantage of the pressure of foreign enemies, integrate small and large tribes first, and do not fight with human troops for the time being. When human beings build fortresses, accumulate materials and improve production facilities, they launch a fierce attack, drive the main human force down the river, reverse the war situation, besiege the pioneer fort and rob Borui people of materials and life Production facilities. "

"If the Borui people mobilized 150000 troops and built two fortresses at the same time, they might have a firm foothold in the southern continent. Now, relying on Pioneer fortresses and production facilities, the barbarians have formed a powerful barbarian kingdom with a population of more than one million, which directly threatens the security of Borui's seven linked islands."

"Therefore, in the face of foreign opponents, we must take out the power of one blow and never give them any chance to breathe!"

"We need to implement the big Corps strategy."

Victor got up from his seat, stroked his chest and saluted, "sorry, Countess tellandon, please allow me to interrupt you. I have a question to ask."

Ulina's eyes flashed, looked at Victor with interest, and said with a smile, "Lord Randall, please ask."

Nicole turned her face and rolled her eyes behind ulina's back. Any high-ranking female knight who tried to pursue Victor was her rival. Trisley stared at Nicole and Victor angrily. Nicole's jealousy humiliated her as a teacher, but the love apprentice became so jealous because of the influence of the element sea, but it was victor in the final analysis.

Ignoring the anger and vinegar of the teachers and disciples, Victor politely asked, "the barbarians have ever intermarried with humans. Have the Borui people had a dialogue with the southern barbarians?"

Wu Lianna smiled faintly: "barbarians once intermarried with humans, and there are blood feuds that can't be solved. Besides, we want to seize the land of the southern continent..." speaking of this, she frowned her slender eyebrows and showed a thoughtful expression.

Sylvia said to victor in surprise, "are you worried that the Borui will inform the barbarian Kingdom and pull us back?"

If they can intermarry, they can communicate. Communication represents all possibilities. In the face of a powerful barbarian Kingdom, the Borui people's plan to explore the southern continent is blocked. They can spread the news of Gambis going south and disperse the strength of the barbarian Kingdom, so that they can also realize the landing plan.

Wu Lianna said: "it's possible. The Borui people just catch a few barbarian prisoners..."

Viscount Hanas grinned and said, "then we need more overwhelming strength!"

Sylvia looked deeply at Victor and said softly, "what do you think?"

Victor leaned against the back of his chair and vomited: "we will never fail to explore the southern continent by implementing the grand Legion strategy!"

"The reason is very simple. We are a strategic offensive. The aboriginal races in the south are a strategic defense. Both sides fight for consumption. Our territory is complete, and there is an inexhaustible source of hired soldiers and war supplies. The aboriginal tribes in the south are constantly losing blood. We can cross the river at any time and fight as we want. We can sweep their hunting grounds today and destroy their collection sites tomorrow. The aboriginal races can't cross the river, They can only be beaten, not fight back. How can they win? " After a pause, he shook his head and said, "I'm not worried about the development war in the southern continent... Ant talents are a big problem in our mind, and these monsters are also in the situation of strategic attack. Although we have high walls, fortresses and cliffs, ant people rush over 200000 at a time, and the people and horses must maintain a permanent force of at least 15000... This is my original intention to carry out the big Corps strategy."

"Two lines of operation!" Count tellandon laughed and said, "it seems that it is imperative to recruit refugees and form a mercenary regiment!"

The Lord and scholars talked again, and most of them nodded this time.

Katrina stood up and swept her eyes across the audience with a soft and pleasant voice: "since the great Legion has so many benefits, why can't other lords think of it? Why does his highness Sylvia hesitate?"

"In fact, the great Legion was not initiated by Viscount Randall. Do you remember the black emperor galdemer?"

As soon as he said this, the whole audience was silent and the atmosphere was almost frozen.