The witch thought I am a Demon God

The election crown of the Holy Empire is different from ordinary crowns. It inherits the style of the crowns of the early and middle ages of ancient civilizations. It is divided into two layers. The outer layer is a golden crown composed of eight sacred numbers 4 inlaid with diamonds and various gemstones. The inner layer It is a rose- and olive-shaped crown made of velvet and silk.

In the most ancient times, the crown was just a piece of cloth or a decoration composed of flowers.

The entire electoral crown is shrouded in divine light, which makes people worship.

Ivita took the crown from the hands of the sixteen-winged flaming stone angel and wore it in the eyes of all the princes.

Suddenly, Duke Pulfalz turned his head and closed his eyes tightly, as if he regretted it.

The electors showed various expressions.

Most of the ordinary princes and leaders of the participating races showed joy. The empire cannot live without an emperor, otherwise order will disappear.

The moment he put on the electoral crown, a sacred number 4 appeared on the back of Ivita's right hand, and quickly disappeared. A sacred light also appeared between his eyebrows, which lingered for a long time. It was the universal symbol of the world. Law: Divine protection of Ivita.

This means that Ivita has become the universal law: the human incarnation of the divine, and his will can, to a certain extent, represent the will of the universal law.

It can be described as a universal law: the divinely chosen God-man.

At the same time, Ivita's consciousness followed the light in front of her forehead, as if traveling through the boundless universe, overlooking the Black Magic Forest continent, seeing all kinds of creatures, and a majestic empire-like mountain in the Black Magic Forest. Like standing.

Countless small countries stand around the empire.

Ivita frowned, because most of those small countries broke off from the high mountain of the empire, and the sacred light that protected them seemed to be flawed and no longer invincible.

No longer truly universal.

And beyond the phantom of the mountains, there are mountains that seem to threaten the empire and want to crush it.

‘That is the national law of the Frankish nation. ’ Ivita swept across the Empire. ‘The foundations of the empire have been shaken by national trends. ’

‘The universal country will be hurt by the nation-state. This is something I have expected for a long time, but the damage is too serious. The Franks in the empire must be withdrawn as soon as possible. ’

Ivita came to his senses and returned to the Imperial Council Hall. He said to the electors, princes and racial leaders who joined the empire: "Everyone, since I was elected emperor, I will protect your interests."

"Now our enemies are, first of all, the Franks. We need a stable army to defeat our opponents."

The princes immediately whispered.

The representative of the elector of the Kingdom of Saxony coughed and said to Ivita: "Your Majesty, since you have been elected emperor, you should go to the church to accept the canonization again and the imperial capital to accept the canonization. As for the matter of conscription, I think it needs to be considered in the long term. Because Oyo III has already conscripted troops into the empire before.”

"The result is not good. Now the Franks are attacking all our countries, and each country probably wants to protect itself more.

Ivita glanced at the Hearthstone Witch. As the emperor, and she had just taken office, she couldn't change the price on her own. Sometimes she just needed to speak for herself.

The Hearthstone Witch immediately understood the meaning, puffed up her chest and said: "You fight separately, but you are each eliminated separately! What's the point of this? You might as well surrender to the Franks directly. Oh, by the way, I remember that the Franks reject the nobles. You If we surrender to the Franks, our lives may be worse than those of ordinary people.”

The Hearthstone Witch's sharp words immediately pierced the minds of the imperial nobles.

The nobles began to panic.

Ivita knew that the biggest problem was still with the electors. "What do the electors think of the issues raised by the Hearthstone Witch?"

The three religious electors came in and out together. Anyway, they were not secular nobles. The Archbishop of Mainz smiled at Ivita and said: "Your Majesty, our three archdioceses all support you."

"We are prepared to pay."

"After all, we are all monks, people who have dedicated their lives to the God of all things. It is not easy for us to kill people. We can only do what we can, which is to collect taxes and preside over the parliament for you."

The countries of the three religious electors are actually in the west.

Therefore, they were all anxious. If they had not really had no army and were relatively incompetent in using force, they would have formed a force with Ivita to fight against the Franks who wanted to tear up the tradition.

"That's enough. After all, you are all archbishops, and you are indeed not good at leading the army. Don't worry, archbishops. I leave the prayers to you and the army to me. You just need to ensure that you collect enough military expenses for me." Ivita Look at Duke Pfalz. "Where is the Duke? The Duke is famous for being good at fighting. He seemed to be eager to become the emperor just now. You are so powerful, so you should bear more."

Prince Pfalz had a dark face. "Your Majesty, how much responsibility does a small country like ours have to bear?"

Ivita quickly said: "Routine operations - the Principality of Palatinate and the three major kingdoms in the empire all need to send more than 15,000 troops. I will lead 30,000 troops, and the ordinary princes of the empire will send 300 troops. Taxes can also be used to replace the troops. "

"Many knight territories need to produce at least one knight. There are no restrictions on the apprentices, servants and infantry responsible for serving the knights. However, please note that each knight territory must produce a knight, otherwise the knight territory will be deprived of it."

"A knight's collar that cannot produce a knight can also provide the general expenses of a knight for three years as taxes."

These are all similar orders issued by Oyo III, but they are routine operations.

All are rights that the empire can have when facing a crisis.

It’s just hard to say whether the princes will listen or not.

The three secular electors showed dissatisfaction. The representative of the Elector of Saxony said to Ivita: "Your Majesty, you are the emperor of the Holy Empire, a democratically elected emperor, and not a dictator of the Franks. You cannot just It was so easy to gather resources to start a war. In the previous defeat of Oyo III, the armies supported by various countries became deserters, and they have not been taken back. These nearly 300,000 deserters have also formed a huge bandit class, attacking everyone they passed. Areas along the road.”

"Therefore, it still needs to be voted on whether to gather an army to fight against the Franks, or whether the princes will protect themselves."

Ivita said to the electors and princes: "I remember that I can use the imperial privilege three times a year, and I will use it now."

The electors looked at the Archbishops of Cologne and Münster.

The Archbishop of Cologne has the right to unconditionally reject the Emperor's prerogatives once a year, while the Archbishop of Münster has the right to record the Emperor's prerogatives and explain the scope of whether the Emperor's prerogatives apply.

These two religious electors were particularly threatening to the emperor's orders.

The Archbishop of Cologne smiled at Ivita under everyone's gaze: "I have disobeyed His Majesty's order once before, and I will not disobey the order a second time, so I agree with you to use your privileges."

The Archbishop of Münster thought for a long time and then said: "There is no problem with the way His Majesty uses his privileges."

These two are probably the Electors who need help from the Imperial Army the most.

When the interests of the elector coincide with those of the emperor, that is when the imperial power apparatus operates most smoothly, and that is the case now.

As a result, the elector representatives of the three major secular kingdoms could only send messages to the powerful people in the country to express the current situation.

After all, even the emperor would find it difficult to disobey the orders of the Parliament, let alone the electors.

After allowing the empire to gather its forces again, Ivita began to lead her troops overnight to understand the current situation of the empire.

The current situation in the empire is really a bit strange.

First of all, it is difficult to tell where the power center and economic center of the empire are. It seems to be everywhere, but it also means that there is no leader.

Secondly, even the electors and the emperor do not know how many princes there are in the empire. They only know that the last statistics of princes was thirty years ago, so thirty years ago there were 3127 princes. An ordinary prince, with ten thousand knights.

Looking at the neat figures in the knights' collar, Ivita suspected that this number was estimated by statisticians thirty years ago and filled in at random.

However, according to recent statistics, there are forty-seven free cities in the empire so far.

The so-called free city is a political system with a single city as the main body. A self-governing body, after getting rid of the shackles of the original lord because of its rich financial resources, it receives the protection of the emperor and is directly loyal to the emperor. It is a city directly under the emperor.

Strictly speaking, the emperor could collect enough taxes from these cities. Ivita calculated that Oyo III collected 1.5 million gold pounds from these cities last year.

In fact, the gold pounds paid by each city were not many.

But this is not bad, because Ivita discovered that the total taxes paid by the electors and more than 3,000 princes to the emperor last year were less than 500,000.

In other words, the emperor could only get less than two million in taxes from the empire. Compared to the huge size of the empire, which far exceeded the paper data of the Frankish Empire and the Pagan Empire, these taxes were pitifully small. .

The Holy Empire has the most powerful paper data of the Magic Black Forest at present, but it is a pity that these wealth emperors are difficult to receive.

In the Emperor's Palace of Regenburg, Ivita was reading information with Tartax, Hearthstone Witch, Blue Magic Witch, Wilson and others. Everyone couldn't help but feel ridiculous, because last year the Frank Empire's annual tax revenue was More than four million yuan, but the emperor of the empire, plus the tax revenue from his direct territories, could barely make up more than two million yuan in tax revenue.

Not to mention, if the Franks start a general war, they can easily collect more than ten times the tax, and collect the Frank tax a hundred years in advance...

Anyway, the emperor of the Holy Empire cannot collect taxes in advance. He is lucky to receive the taxes for that year.

Ivita thought for a while and finally understood. "The upper-level tax collection agency of the Holy Empire collects taxes through the appointment of regional governors by the emperor. These regional governors are usually electors and dukes."

"These people must have deducted a lot of taxes. And there are also places where they cannot collect taxes."

"These dukes and electors have to be outsourced to the lower-level nobles to collect taxes. As a result, the huge imperial tax revenue has been exploited layer by layer, and there is not much left in my hands. My main source of tax revenue can only be the empire There are forty-seven very wealthy independent free trade city-states within the territory.”

"By the way, do those peasant republics in the empire pay taxes?"

Ivita suddenly remembered that there are a bunch of special princes in the empire, namely peasant republics. These republics are excluded from the imperial parliament and are not recognized, but they are also recognized as princes in the empire in name.

The Hearthstone Witch knitted her eyebrows. "No, Your Majesty. I feel really sad when they don't pay any taxes. I'm almost heartbroken. How can they not pay taxes!!"

"None of these twenty-one peasant republics pay taxes. Fortunately, these peasant republics are gradually being swallowed up by the princes. Their national strength is poor and not worth mentioning. The only thing worth mentioning is the northernmost peasant republic Dieter Marshon.”

"But instead of the emperor, Dietmarschen turned to the local bishop and obtained nominal asylum."

Ivita didn't hesitate. "Then tell them to pay me taxes. I recognize their independence and existence, but they have to pay me taxes."

Ivita fell into deep thought. The reason why the empire became like this was because there was no unified government, unified rule of law, unified currency and justice, and unified army.

"I think there are too many areas that need reform in this empire."

"Forget about the electoral system. Since I was elected, I have no intention of coming down. Moreover, I am a god and will live forever."

"But I need to at least establish a central government first."

Iveta said: "Tartax, and Wilson, help me manage the assembled army of princes, and continue to let the Tomb King lead this army."

"The Tomb King's war command ability is good, I agree."

"I'm going to the church headquarters to get the full rights of the emperor."

Ivita looked at the Hearthstone Witch. "You come with me."

Oyo III was never fully crowned. He never received the Iron Crown, the Burgundian Crown, or the Pope. The original emperor would have been subject to universal law: Holy and Universal Law: Church Double protection and the right to the Iron Crown and the Burgundy Crown.

This is partly the reason why Oyo III was so passive.

But Ivita now only lacks the Burgundian crown, and with the papal coronation, she will collect all the crowns of the emperor of the Holy Empire, and he will restore the emperor's power to at least the historical average level.