Proof of the Sun King

In March 2522 of the imperial calendar, Britannia went in the middle of winter and early in spring.

The return of the Sun King Ryan and Queen Suria made the entire kingdom boil. As expected by the fairy in the lake, Ryan and Suria can return within three months at most.

After two months had passed, the three factions who were secretly planning to communicate with each other were relieved when they saw Ryan and Surya coming back. On the one hand, they also sighed secretly. , the vacancy after Ryan and Suria left was really a huge piece of fat, and everyone wanted to jump up and take a bite.

It's a pity that the couple came back too quickly. If there is no news after a few months and they have tried all kinds of methods to save them, the conservative knights and nobles will really take action.

Ryan is not surprised by this. As a traveler and the successor of Machado thinking, Ryan is well aware that the entire bureaucratic system he has established is enough to maintain the operation of the state machine for a certain period of time. The bureaucratic system has inertia. The bureaucratic system of the human empire established by Malcador maintained the operation of the empire for three thousand years before it was declared disintegrated in the war on the rise of the beast.

In Mousillon's Fontainebleau Palace, with the appearance of Ryan and Suria, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The Regent Laun and the Chief Minister of the Cabinet, Francois, who were far away in Curona, came. They were a little apprehensive.

Ryan's prestige is too high, and this time even Morgul, whom the wood elves have spent thousands of years being unable to solve, is under the sword of Ryan. The troubles that tile has to face are not small.

Fortunately, Ryan only looked at the situation in the past few months and didn't say much.

In the conference hall of the Palace of Fontainebleau, the regent Lauen and his father-in-law François reported their work for the past three months to Lane and Suria, and Lane's two female courtiers, Veronica and Teresa, also arrived. .

Ryan finds it very interesting that Veronica's face is light and cloudy, and she is only happy when she sees Ryan back, while Teresa is full of grievances, and she almost cried when she saw Ryan.

what's the situation? Ryan was a little strange. He noticed that Morgiana shrank a little unnaturally, thinking about listening to the report first.

It is worth mentioning that due to the disappearance of Ryan, the fairy in the lake lost the source of energy to stay in the mortal world, and naturally could not walk in the mortal world for a long time, although the continuous disintegration of the maelstrom and the great guardian gave her more energy. There is room for activities, but the goddess is still weakened, and she is currently temporarily away from Brittany because of something.

Behind the long table in the conference hall, Ryan and Suria were sitting side by side. Everyone had a feeling that it seemed that Ryan and Suria had been missing for a few months this time, whether it was strength, bearing or state. great change.

Lawn, the regent of the kingdom, reported three important things.

The first is that the jihadist army for the expedition to Sylvania formed by the Justice Church has basically been assembled in Brunswick, and Cardinal Alfred on the side of Brittany also brought a The army went to Brunswick to respond. The estimated number of the army was 25,000-30,000 people. Since this was a jihadist army, the number of battle priests, ascetic monks and knights in the army was far greater than the normal establishment. In contrast, the number of firearms and the elite of the Imperial Central Army is relatively small.

"It is worth mentioning that, according to the intelligence of MI7, the Justice Church has encountered great difficulties in military spending and logistical supplies." Lawn took the document and reported to Ryan and Suria: "And the army, The cost of hiring mercenaries on a large scale is very high, and it puts the already well-established Righteous Church into a situation where it is stretched."

"Normal, less than four years have passed since the Martyrdom of Taal Fjord." Ryan nodded slightly: "The original military organization is not so easy to restore, so how does Archbishop Vikma plan to solve this problem?"

"Archbishop Vikmar did not focus on this aspect, he just ordered that the issue be resolved by the dioceses and the great chanters, cardinals, cardinals and regional patriarchs below." Franço Wa stroked his goatee, and the old man took out a thick parchment from a stack of documents: "The church's subordinates are forced to do nothing by the short time limit and high amount of money, and the effect of raising funds from multiple sources is not effective. Your Majesty, you also know that the situation in the Empire is not good recently."

"Yes, I know, so what is this?" Ryan took the parchment, glanced at it, and was instantly struck by lightning.

I saw that this parchment was covered with the seal of the church, and it was written in black ink with large words - indulgence.

"In the name of Charlemagne, forgive your sins." The dense text probably reads that the church's forgiveness of sinners and punishment for his crimes - offset in the name of money.

This indulgence came from the Imperial Rickland, and the price was 30 silver coins. It was stamped with the Helmgart Church of the Justice Church. The crime was drinking and minor fighting.

How did you even come up with indulgences? Ryan was angry and funny: "The people of the empire believe in this? Isn't this a blatant cheating of money? This is too much to treat the people like sand sculptures?"

Raun and Francois laughed bitterly when they heard the words, while Suria took the indulgence and couldn't help frowning after a few glances. The female knight covered her forehead with her hands, she was really speechless.

"It turns out, Your Majesty, under the very bad situation and various threats, the faith craze in the Empire is even more fanatical than before." Lawn spread his hands: "People are rushing to buy indulgences, just to seek redemption and By asking Charlemagne to forgive his sins, which many believe will lead to redemption, you underestimate the desperation of people in this dark age who will try to grab any straw."

"But this kind of trick can't deceive everyone." Ryan said speechlessly, and the King of Knights almost wanted to scold, but thinking that this was not his kingdom, nor the kingdom's god, he could only endure it.

"Yes, some members of the church, including Cardinal Alfred, and some imperial nobles, including Emperor Karl Franz, expressed their dissatisfaction, either explicitly or implicitly." Francois nodded. : "But when almost all the commoners support this, the emperor and the disaffected factions in the church can't say anything. Now the empire wants stability. Furthermore, as a compromise, the church's indulgence empire will tax the empire. But a lot of money."

"Someone even came to the door and asked when our Lady of the Lake Church would sell indulgences. They couldn't wait." Lake **** witch Morgiana added a sentence after: "I asked the lady, and the lady did not support but No objection either."

"Next thing." Ryan said helplessly.

"The second thing is that after the previous battle, the wood elves completely retreated into the forest." Raun went on to report the second thing: "Your Majesty, the military alliance we signed with Athel Loren before seems to be It has been unilaterally abolished, and the current promised by the wood elves of Ariel's frontier is now stationed in the Sharon Forest, not only without ministers, but fortunately, the Twilight sisters have reiterated the rules of watching and helping each other... But this is obviously not a military alliance."

"Normal, this is the aftermath of defeating Mogul. Our odd neighbors probably think that they can completely shut themselves down next." Ryan said in a deep voice, "It doesn't matter, send someone to inform the wood elves that I am back soon. However, the attitudes of Athel Loren and Ariel's Frontier will change immediately."

All the people present were stunned.

Is this Lane? Is his prestige enough to make those isolationists change their national policy? !

The matter was settled, and then Lawn said a third thing.

The three Brittanian Mujahideen and Expeditionary Forces in Araby report.

The Nicohara Desert is waking up. According to the news of Kaleda, the immortal emperor Settra ordered all the Legion of Tomb Kings and all war machines to wake up, as if preparing for an unprecedented war.

"Pay close attention to the movements of the tomb king, and try not to have a head-on conflict with them. It is absolutely impossible to ask Queen Kaleda for help, or to withdraw directly to the mainland." Ryan then ordered: "At this juncture, we better not bear the huge burden. lost."

"Yes!" Both Laun and Francois understood.

After the three things were explained, Lauen and Francois immediately proposed the idea of ​​"returning the great power". The regent of the kingdom and the chief minister of the cabinet expressed the hope of returning the authority to Ryan, but what was unexpected and was being cleaned up was, Ryan refused: "I need to retreat, just in Fontainebleau, I need to retreat to attack the demigod realm."

"Your Majesty, is there a new breakthrough?" Raun suppressed the shock in his heart and asked repeatedly, "But it was found in the warp?"

"Forget it, I need a few months to retreat, and Suria will also be with me." Ryan nodded: "During this time, I will trouble you to continue to govern, just follow the existing square."

"Yes." "Understood." Laun and Francois had no objection.

For the next few months, Brittany will continue to operate according to the bureaucracy set up previously.

The only difference is that Ryan is back.

The Sun King spent three days arranging a lot of things, including letting Talleyrand accept most of the diplomacy, including making Beria in charge of military industry and supervision, and arranging a series of national policies, and then preparing to work with Surya closed.

Sure enough, as soon as Ryan came back, the attitude of the wood elves immediately turned 180 degrees. Queen Ariel personally sent a message, reaffirming the military alliance and trade agreement between Athel Loren and Brittany, and even more cordially. Said that Athel Loren and Brittany have a strategic and friendly relationship, the history of the two sides is a friendly history, and we are close friends. Gul's thanks and best wishes.

The Twilight Sisters' Ariel's Frontier also expressed his willingness to follow Ryan and Suria's orders.

It's just that Ryan is busy retreating now and doesn't have time to pay attention to these pointed ears.

In addition, within three days, Ryan also accomplished a major event, that is, he ordered the veterans in the army to retire again. Among them, there were more than 70 retired soldiers from the old guards, and there were thousands of freemen infantry regiments. People were forced to retire, and the best of them did not return to their hometowns, but entered Lane's court as bureaucrats and continued to hold positions. Their loyalty and ability have been tested, and the barracks have proven to be excellent management after many years of experience. By.

Since then, Ryan has carefully arranged the "military transition" system for more than ten years before it was officially established.

Three days later, Ryan and Suria entered the practice room of the Palace of Fontainebleau to retreat.

On the way in, Surya was still laughing with Ryan about what happened before, about the conflicts between Morgiana, Teresa and Aurora.

What's going on in Lane's backyard? In fact, the problem is very simple. Morgiana disliked the behavior of Teresa and Aurora from the bottom of her heart. After Ryan and Suria disappeared, the first thing Morgiana did was to hold Teresa first. Sha's title of Duchess and the transfer of fiefs.

Yes, Morgiana immediately ordered the Holy Grail Knights to detain Teresa's full set of baroness costumes, seals and crowns, and the lands that were entrusted to them were temporarily detained. In this arrangement, the sorceress' title and fief were frozen on the spot.

Teresa and Aurora were wronged, the sorceress turned pale with anger, and she immediately questioned Morgiana, saying that this was obviously the title and land that Ryan had conferred on me, why did you take it away? !

Morgiana said that I didn't take it away. The witch of the lake **** naturally said that there was no precedent for this witch's ennoblement and entitlement before, and Ryan didn't talk to her, so Morgiana said that we just have to "discuss it again." Discuss, then research and research." After the research is completed, the discussion is completed, and the adjustment will naturally be returned to you.

Teresa turned to the regent group headed by Raun and Francois, but the knights and nobles also had a bad impression of Teresa and Aurora, and naturally they would not risk offending Morgiana to support her.

In this way, Teresa's title and fief were detained, Veronica successfully took over the title and fief, and has begun to exercise her own power as a duchess, while Teresa is still stuck here and can't move a step. No, after finally waiting for Ryan to come back, the sorceress burst into tears. She quickly seized the opportunity to complain to Ryan and asked Ryan to do justice.

Lane found Morgiana, and Morgiana produced a series of evidence, evidence of Aurora's "corruption of intelligence funds for personal enjoyment and over-quote on many palace procurement projects"~www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Ryan was made to laugh and cry, doesn't he know Aurora's problem?

Of course he knew, he knew it better than many people, but for the sake of this pair of mother and daughter are his female courtiers and Xier, he turned a blind eye.

But Morgiana brought this matter to the fore, and Ryan had to punish him. He first settled Morgiana at the price of "15 days", and then warned Aurora and Teresa severely. After a while, the title was finally sealed.

Even if this is over.

"Speaking of which, is it really good for so many retired officers to enter the palace?" Suria asked a second question, and the female knight sat opposite Ryan in the training room: "I remember... Didn't he disapprove of Brother Guilliman's idea and never gave them a place in the Imperium of Man and the Council of High Lords of Terra?"

Ryan wants to digest the power of the Warp Elementium, the Four Chaos Gods, and the incarnation of the Elven Gods swallowed by Morgul.

Surya was to digest the power of the Primarchs, and a small portion of the power bestowed by the Emperor.

Ryan couldn't help but smile when he heard the words: "I'm the successor of my father, but that doesn't mean I have to inherit all his policies and national policies, I have my own considerations, dear, you know that compared to the opposite of Qishan The empire of Karl Franz, where is our real weakness and backwardness in Brittany?"

"?" Suria was puzzled.

"Let me put it this way, the composition of a regime is a pyramid. The top layer is sacred values, the middle is the middle organization, and the base is grassroots governance." Ryan nodded slightly, and the Gray Knight Primarch said softly. .

"And the solution to this problem is to create bureaucracies."

"And to establish the core of our bureaucratic group, it is the army that turns to work!"