Warhammer Throne

In March of 2522 of the imperial calendar, Brittany will go to the beginning of winter and spring will come.

The return of the Sun King Ryan and Queen Suria plunged the entire kingdom into a boil. Sure enough, as the fairy in the lake said, Ryan and Suria could return within three months at most.

Two months later, the three factions that were secretly planning and liaising with each other saw Ryan and Su Liya return. On the one hand, they breathed a sigh of relief, and on the other they also sighed secretly. As a couple of political strong men , The vacancy after Ryan and Su Liya left was really a huge piece of fat, everyone wanted to rush to take a bite.

It's a pity that the couple came back too quickly. If there is no news after a few months and there is no way to save them after trying various methods, the conservative knights and nobles will really take action.

Ryan was not surprised by this. As a traverser and the successor of Makado thinking, Ryan knew that the entire bureaucratic system he had established was sufficient to maintain the operation of the state apparatus for a certain period of time, and the bureaucracy was inertial. The human empire bureaucracy established by Makado maintained the empire for three thousand years before it was disintegrated in the War of the Rise of the Beasts. As his successor, the bureaucratic organization established by Ryan was naturally not weak.

Moussilon’s Palace of Fontainebleau, with the appearance of Ryan and Sulia, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The Regent Raun and François, the chief minister of the cabinet, all rushed over. They were a little nervous.

Ryan’s prestige is too high. This time even the Mogul, which the wood elves have spent thousands of years unable to solve, is drinking hatred under Ryan’s sword. If Ryan blames them for arbitrarily without instructions, then Ryan and Franço The trouble that Wa has to face is not small.

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

In the conference hall of the Palace of Fontainebleau, Regent Lawn and his old husband François reported the three months of work to Ryan and Sulia, and Ryan’s two courtiers, Veronica and Teresa, also arrived. .

Ryan found it very interesting that Veronica had a calm expression on her face. She was only happy when she saw Ryan come back, but Teresa was aggrieved and almost cried when she saw Ryan.

what's the situation? Ryan was a little strange, he noticed that Mojana shrank a little unnaturally, and wanted to listen to the report before talking.

It is worth mentioning that due to the disappearance of Ryan, the fairy in the lake lost the source of energy for staying 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 guard gave her more Activity space, but the goddess is still weakened, she is currently temporarily leaving Bretania because of something.

Behind the long table in the conference hall, Ryan and Sulia sat side by side. Everyone felt that after a few months of disappearance, Ryan and Sulia had both strength, tolerance and status. A great change.

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

The first is that the jihadists on the expedition to Sylvania organized by the Church of Justice have basically been assembled in Braunschweig, and Cardinal Alfred from Brittany also brought a The army went to Braunschweig to respond. The estimated number of the army is 25,000-30000. Because this is a jihadist army, the number of combat priests, dervishes and cult knights in its army far exceeds the normal organization. In contrast, the number of firearms and the elite of the Imperial Central Army was relatively small.

"It is worth mentioning that, according to the intelligence of MI7, the Justice Church has encountered great difficulties in military expenses and logistical supplies." Lawn took the document and reported to Ryan and Su Liya Hui: "There is also the army, The cost of large-scale mercenaries is very high, which puts the formerly wealthy Church of Justice into a stretched situation."

"Normally, less than four years have passed since the Battle of the Martyrs in Tharfjord." Ryan nodded slightly: "The original army organization is not so easy to recover, so how does Archbishop Vekema plan to solve this problem?"

"Archbishop Vekema did not focus on this aspect. He only ordered the major dioceses and the following chanters, cardinals, cardinals and regional patriarchs to solve this problem by themselves." Franço Wa touched his goatee, and the old father-in-law took out a thick piece of parchment from a stack of documents: "The church subordinates are forced to do nothing by the short time limit and the high amount of money, and the effect of raising funds from multiple sources is not good. Your Majesty, you also know that the situation in the empire has been bad recently."

"Yes, I know, so what is this?" Ryan took the parchment, took a look, and was instantly scorched and tender.

I saw that this parchment was stamped with the stamp of the church, and it was written in black ink with the big words-indulgences.

"In the name of Charlemagne, forgive you for your sins." The densely packed text probably reads the church's forgiveness of sinners and punishments for crimes committed by him-offsetting in the name of money.

This indulgence came from the Imperial Rick collar, the price was 30 silver coins, and it was stamped with the Hemgart Church of the Church of Justice. The crime was a drunken and minor fight.

How come out even the indulgences? Ryan was angry and funny: "The people of the empire believe in this? Isn't this a scam of money? This is too much of a sand sculpture for the people?"

Lawn and François both smiled bitterly when they heard the words, but Su Liya had taken the indulgence, and after a few glances, she couldn't help frowning. The female knight covered her forehead, she was speechless.

"Facts have proved that your Majesty, under the very bad situation and various threats, the empire's faith boom is even more fanatical than before." Lawn spread his hands: "People are vying to buy indulgences just to seek salvation and peace. Let Charlemagne forgive his sins. Many people believe that this can be redeemed. You underestimate the despair of people in this dark age. They will try to catch any straw."

"But this kind of trick can't deceive everyone." Ryan said silently, and the Knight King almost wanted to scold him, but thought that this was not his own kingdom, nor was it the **** of the kingdom, so he could only bear it.

"Yes, some members of the church, including Cardinal Alfred, and some imperial nobles, including Emperor Karl-Franz, expressed dissatisfaction over it or not." Francois nodded. "But when almost all civilians support this, the emperor and the dissatisfied factions in the church can’t say anything. What the empire wants is stability. Moreover, as a compromise, the church’s indulgence empire will levy taxes. But a lot of money."

"Someone even came up and asked when our Lady of the Lake Church sold indulgences. They can't wait." Lake God Sorceress Mogiana inserted a sentence behind: "I asked the lady, the lady did not support but There is no objection."

"The next thing," Ryan said helplessly.

"The second thing is that after the previous battle, the wood elves fully retreated into the forest." Lawn went on to report the second thing: "Your Majesty, the military alliance we signed with Esso Loren seems to be It has been unilaterally invalidated. The Alair frontman promised by the wood elves is now stationed in the Sharon Forest, not alone. Fortunately, Sister Twilight has reiterated the rules of mutual assistance... but this is obviously not a military alliance."

"Normal. This is a sequelae of defeating Mogul. Our weird neighbors probably think that they can be completely autistic next." Ryan said in a deep voice, "It's okay. Send someone to notify the Wood Elf that I'm back. But, presumably, the attitudes of Aisoluoren and Alai's military fronts will change immediately."

All the people present were awe-inspiring.

Is this Ryan? Is his prestige alone enough to make those isolationists change national policies? !

The matter was settled, and Raun said the third thing.

The three Breton jihadists and expeditionary forces in Araby reported.

The Nicohara Desert is awakening. According to Kalida's news, the immortal Emperor Setra ordered all the tomb king army and all the war machines to wake up, seemingly preparing for an unprecedented battle.

"Pay close attention to the movements of the Tomb Kings and try not to have direct conflicts with them. It is really impossible to ask Queen Kalida for help, or to withdraw directly to the mainland." Ryan then ordered: "At this juncture, we better not to bear the huge Lost."

"Yes!" Lawn and Francois both expressed their understanding.

After the three matters were explained, Lawn and François immediately put forward the idea of ​​"returning the government". The regent of the kingdom and the chief minister of the cabinet expressed the hope that the power should be returned to Ryan. However, what was in the process of cleaning up unexpectedly was, Ryan refused: "I need to retreat, just in Fontainebleau, I need to retreat to attack the demigod realm."

"Your Majesty, has there been a new breakthrough?" Raun suppressed the shock in his heart, and asked repeatedly: "But I found it in the subspace?"

"Forget it, I need a few months of retreat, and Su Liya will also be with me." Ryan nodded: "During this time, I will trouble you to continue to be in power. Just follow the existing phalanx."

"Yes." "Understood." Lawn and Francois had no objection to this.

In the next few months, Bretania will continue to operate in accordance with the previously established bureaucracy.

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 responsible for military industry and supervision, and also arranging a series of national policy guidelines, and then preparing to work with Su Liya Retreat.

Sure enough, as soon as Ryan came back, the Wood Elf’s attitude immediately turned around one hundred and eighty degrees. Queen Alaire personally sent a message, reiterating the military alliance and trade agreement between Esso Loren and Brittany, and even more cordially. Said that Essoloren and Brittany are strategic and friendly relations, the history of the two sides is a friendly history, we are close friends, Queen Alain expressed through a letter to Her Majesty the Sun King and Queen Suria that they would eliminate demons. Gul’s thanks and best wishes.

Sister Twilight's Allai frontman also expressed willingness to listen to Ryan and Suria's orders.

It's just that Ryan is busy retreating now, and has no time to bother with these pointed ears.

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

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

Three days later, Ryan and Su Liya entered the training room of the Palace of Fontainebleau to retreat.

On the way in, Su Liya was still smiling and talking to Ryan about what happened before, about the contradiction between Morjana, Teresa, and Aurora.

What happened to Ryan's backyard? In fact, the problem is very simple. From the bottom of her heart, Mogiana dislikes Teresa and Aurora's behavior. After Ryan and Sulia disappeared, the first thing Mogiana did was to hold Tere first. The transfer of Shah's duchess and fiefdom.

Yes, Morjana immediately ordered the holy grail knights to buckle Teresa's full set of costumes, seals, and crowns, and temporarily seize the enfeoffment land. With this arrangement, the title and fiefdom of the sorcerer were frozen on the spot.

Teresa and Aurora were aggrieved. The sorcerer turned pale with anger. She immediately questioned Morgia, saying that this was clearly the title and land granted to me by Lion. Why would you take it away? !

Magiana said that I didn’t take it away. The Lake God Witch naturally stated that there was no precedent for the witch’s entrusted land, and Ryan did not pass her anger, so Magiana stated that we just want to "discuss again." Discuss, study and study." After the study is completed and the discussion is complete, it will naturally be returned to you after the adjustment is completed.

Teresa went to the regency group headed by Raun and François, but the knight nobles also owe Teresa and Aurora favorably, so naturally they won't risk offending Mojana to support her.

In this way, Teresa’s titles and fiefdoms were all detained. Veronica took over the titles and fiefdoms smoothly, and has begun to exercise her powers as a queen, and Teresa is still stuck here. No, finally waited till Ryan came back, and the female warlock had tears down. She hurriedly seized the opportunity to file a complaint with Ryan and asked Ryan to be fair.

Ryan found Mogiana, and Mogiana produced a series of evidence, evidence that Aurora "corrupted intelligence funds for personal enjoyment and over-quoted many court procurement items."

Ryan was so dumbfounded that he didn't know about Aurora's problem?

Of course he knew that he knew better than many people, but because the mother and daughter were both his courtiers and Xier, he opened one eye and closed one eye.

But Maugiana put the matter in the open, and Ryan had to be punished. He first settled Maugiana at the price of "15 days", and then warned Aurora and Teresa severely. After a while, the title was finally sealed.

This matter is even finished.

"Speaking of, so many retired officers enter the court, is this really good?" Su Liya asked the second question. The female knight sat opposite Ryan in the training room: "I remember...Foster father Didn’t you disapprove of the idea of ​​Brother Killiman and never reserved a place for this group of people in the Human Empire and the Council of the High Lords of Terra?"

Ryan wants to digest the power of the subspace source, the four chaos gods, and the incarnation of the elven gods swallowed by Mogul.

Suria wants to digest the power of the Primarchs and a small part of the power bestowed by the emperor.

Ryan couldn’t help but smiled: “I’m the heir of my father, but that doesn’t mean that I must inherit all his policies and national policies. I have my own considerations, my dear, you know, compared to the opposite side of the mountain. Empire, Karl-Franz’s empire, where are our real weaknesses and backwardness in Brittany?"

"?" Su Liya was puzzled.

"Let me put it this way, the composition of a political power is a pyramid. The top level is the sacred value, the middle is the middle organization, and the base is the grassroots governance." Ryan nodded slightly, and the original gray knight whispered softly. .

"The solution to this problem is to establish bureaucratic groups."

"And the establishment of the core of our bureaucratic group is the transition from the army!"