Warhammer Throne

To be fair, Marienburg is a very special city in the history of the empire.

This city first appeared 20 years before the empire. The Judun tribe settled here at that time. They established Fort Marien on the mouth of the Rick River, an abandoned elven acropolis, and a pier. Fort soon faced the attack of the misty demons in the southern swamps. It took ten years for the Judun tribe to defeat the misty monster tribe.

In the 501st year of the imperial calendar, Emperor Sigismund, the "conqueror" of the Empire, defeated the Kingdom of Jutten in the Battle of Marienburg. King Jutnis of Jutten agreed to peaceful reunification and merged Marienburg and its surrounding areas into Wei Since then, Marienburg has become a part of the empire. The Kingdom of Judun has disappeared from history, but as the price of peaceful reunification, the Judun family has obtained many privileges and passed on to this day.

In 632 years of the Imperial calendar, the Norskars looted Marienburg for the first time. This terrible war continued for more than a hundred years. Until 765 years of the Imperial Calendar, the Empire finally signed a peace treaty with the Norskars. The war was temporarily stopped.

Since then, Marienburg has been a part of the empire until the beginning of the Three Emperors era. At that time, there were three emperors in the empire. These three emperors were arguing over the throne, and other electors also began to govern themselves. From this time on, Marienburg There have been signs of separatism in the Westerner. About 1600 years in the imperial calendar, the merchants and trade unions of Marienburg, together with the elector von Buick, announced the establishment of the Marienburg Autonomous Assembly government. Since then, Marienburg gradually broke away from imperial rule.

In the imperial calendar in 1979, Margarita III, the elector of West, was elected as the queen of the imperial in the electoral council, but neither the Justice Church nor the White Wolf Church or other churches refused to be Margarita. When King III was crowned, Margarita III decided to join forces with the Poseidon Church to establish himself as Emperor Marienburg. From this day onwards, Marienburg officially broke away from the empire. The Rune Fang led by West was later returned to the empire by loyal empires. The empire handed it over to Nord.

Then came the great jihad. Ludwig the savior assembled all the remnants of the empire. At this time, Marienburg also gave up the title of emperor. The merchants of Marienburg decided to give all of their supplies to the savior, and the great jihad ended. Afterwards, the Marienburg Council promised to return to the empire system and gave an amazing wealth for the savior to rebuild the empire, but the conditions were complete autonomy and the empire must not interfere in internal affairs. Ludwig agreed after thinking about it for a long time. Its complete autonomy.

After the prince of Rick, the Frederick family, gained the imperial throne, the grandfather of Karl-Franz, Emperor Leopold, tried to lead the army to regain Marienburg, but was defeated by the local defenders. After that, the prince of Rick We have tried many times to regain Marienburg, but to no avail.

At the same time, Marimburg also has the only enclave of the high elves in the old world-Iphitau. This has already been introduced in the previous article, so I won't repeat it here.

Therefore, the great trench merchants of the Marienburg House have faced many crises after the great jihad, but they often have a solution. Either they ask for assistance from the Empire or they ask for assistance from Bretania. It is not a big trench. The merchants can also request the assistance of the high elves.

These business princes are confident.

It's nothing more than money!

However, this time, things were different.

It's a dwarf, the dwarf is here to seek revenge!

Inside the House of Lords of Marienburg, in the spacious and bright hall, the business princes of Marienburg gathered together to discuss what to do.

Among them, Van der Guber-Schultz, who is the Grand Duke of Marienburg, had a calm expression on his face. He was leaning on his luxurious chair with a face that was nothing to do with me, tasting gin, and sitting on him. Next to the second largest trench merchant in Marienburg, Viscount Casanova of the Gentlemen's Union Chamber of Commerce chatted and laughed happily.

These two people are nothing to do with them, and it is obvious that revenge will not come to them. The other chambers of commerce in Marienburg obviously know that Viscount Casanova has spent a lot of effort in hiring that famous mercenary partner. ——The matter of Gotrek and Felix, which made those business princes gritted their teeth and yelled at Casanova for being such a young man.

The businessmen present at the meeting mainly include the following.

Marienburg is now the third largest chamber of commerce, the largest food merchant in the old world, and the Bakel family chamber of commerce with trading branches all over the old world and with strongholds in many places.

The fourth largest chamber of commerce in Marienburg, descendants of the royal family of the Judun Kingdom, and the chairman of Judun Chamber of Commerce, Van Hougmans, the Judun Chamber of Commerce lost a lot of money in the attack on the Bafengshan national debt, and took a step back from the third largest chamber of commerce.

Claude Juncker, president of the Luxer Chamber of Commerce, the fifth largest chamber of commerce.

These three business princes knew that they were the main targets of revenge for the dwarves. At this time, Hugmans had sweat on his face. The president of the Judun Chamber of Commerce first put the pamphlet of the Bafeng Mountain Dwarves Hate Book on the table: " Everyone, we are in trouble."

"Damn dwarf!" Becker said impatiently, "We are normal business activities. What do they think Marienburg is? This is a free trading harbor! Everyone has freedom of speech and freedom. The power to make a choice! Why are they threatening us, and also looking for us...huh? Asking for compensation and the trial of these dwarves?"

"Yes, I think so too." Claude Juncker was wearing a gray-black military uniform with a rapier around his waist. He cursed that the dwarves are really idiots: "I propose that we can use the stones and rots of the city. The fruit of the dwarfs smeared the faces of the dwarfs and let them go!"

"Then they will confuse us with mercury bullets and artillery!" Hugmans, the descendant of the Judun royal family, said viciously: "Have you seen those two armored ships? Who of you wants to try shelling? Comparing with armored ships? Get up, our fleet is simply fishing boats!"

Marienburg does have its own navy, but it is a yellow water navy, and the more elite Rick Navy and Nord Navy, the two imperial navies, are not Marienburg's army.

The business princes doubted whether their gunboats could penetrate the skin of the armored ships.

"...That's not a dwarf's armored ship." Someone in the House of Lords said: "Those moustache dwarves just boarded the ships of Brittany and the Ashes."

"That's the dwarf's armored ship! The dwarf is man-made, and the dwarf came down from above." Hugmans said sharply, "Are you still pretending not to understand? The Ash Legion, the chivalrous people of Bretania, are all in harmony. The dwarves belong to a group!"

"Knight Ryan and Chief of the Ash Legion Fukun are brothers. They brought the dwarves and parked in the harbor. You don't understand the meaning of this?" Hugemans continued: "Damn the King of Knights and The **** Ash Legion, they have made up their minds, do you pretend that you don't understand or do you really don't understand? We do it, and they have a reason to do it."

Everyone was speechless, and the business princes began to make trouble.

"How much does a dwarf want?" At this time, Baker, the president of the Bacher Chamber of Commerce, spoke. This old gentleman of about sixty years old, wearing a tuxedo, a black dome hat on his head, and a single piece of gold round glasses hanging on his face He thought about it for a long time, and this time he slowly said: "Peace, we only want so much, how much the dwarves want, everyone gather together, let the matter end here, forget it, otherwise, how do we do it? Business?"

"How much the dwarf wants is written on this leaflet." Hugmans took out a wrinkled leaflet and put it on the table.

"For Marienburg's disrespect to the Angland clan: three thousand gold coins."

"For Marienburg's disrespect to all the dwarven clans: five thousand gold coins."

"For Marienburg's disrespect to recover all the dead dwarven compatriots in Bafeng Mountain: 10,000 gold coins."

"Finally, in order to wash away the unprovoked insults of the failed experts, celebrate the return of Bellegar and his glorious royal family: 20,000 gold coins and the head of José-Magic Bird!"

Business princes, look at me and I look at you. They are all shaken. Claude Juncker is wearing a silk robe and light tights. He furrows his brows. He takes the flyer from Hugemans carefully. Looked at it: "So, the dwarf wants 38,000 gold coins, plus the head of Mr. Magic Bird?"

"That's right." Becker touched his gold monolithic round-frame glasses, and squinted his eyes: "The dwarf asked us to give a reply within three days. Today is the first day, gentlemen and deputies. , Can you guys have time?"

"Do you really want to give money?" Claude Juncker's face was full of gloom: "Doesn't that seem to be bullying? The dwarves can come to ask once, and in the future we can come to ask twice, three times, countless times, we are not dwarves. My little vault! Sir Becker, your mind is really not clear!"

"The dwarves are not humans, Lord Juncker? The dwarves are not elves. Gold coins can wash away their hatred and let them return with a full load. This matter is over." Becker clasped his fingers and put them on the table, and said in a deep voice: "If Yes, can you listen to my opinion? We tried to pool some money to get rid of the dwarves."

"Pick up the money? How much?" The chairman of the Judun Chamber of Commerce Van Hugmans said impatiently: "Don't forget, we are the territory of the empire! We are citizens of the empire, and the dwarves can still tear down Marienburg. Wouldn’t it be possible to bring them back into the mountains? If so, then it would be like declaring war on the empire. This group of mustaches does not represent the entire race of dwarves!"

"Karl Franz's court will not declare war against the dwarves for us!" Becker emphasized: "The question of the Supreme King Thorgrin-Hammer has come to the emperor's desk! You think it is for the empire. Are we important or the dwarven covenant important?"

"We have the founding ceremony of the savior!" Hugmans roared: "Full autonomy."

"The dwarves have the sacred alliance of Charlemagne!" Becker also roared: "Hugemans, put away the pride of your Judden clan. That is a higher-level alliance. The empire cannot lack the dwarves, nor can we. , You know how many things Marienburg has and how many trade contracts are signed with the dwarves!"

"So there is no way? We can only pay the money obediently, right?" Van Hugemans sat down helplessly.

"Well, let's make up 18,000 gold marks." Claude Juncker, the president of the Luxem Chamber of Commerce, said: "We recognized the first three items of compensation for the dwarves, and we recognized half of the last item. They regained Bafeng Mountain. Glory back home, what does it matter to us? We don't recognize this one, and Mr. José Magic Bird... Your Excellency Hugemans, where is the others?"

"He is now hiding in a manor outside the city." Hugmans said helplessly: "My people have controlled him, but..."

"Send him to the dwarf." Becker's old voice was a little hoarse, he just yelled a few times to make his vocal cords fatigued: "Take it as an apologize."

"But if you do this, how will those people continue to speak for us in the future?" Hugmans was very annoyed: "and our romantic Mr. Adame? Where did the others go? How did he disappear at the critical moment? ?"

"You don't know him yet? This old dragon is very cunning." Becker continued his words: "Well, send Mr. Magic Bird to the dwarf. As for 18,000 gold coins, let's get together, we The three major chambers of commerce put together 12,000, and the remaining 6,000 gold coins, everyone also put together, take it, and it will be spent to eliminate disasters. Everyone, we are all businessmen, and you are willing to break this. Is it quiet? It's really going to be messy, and it's not easy for everyone to do business."

"Also, it can only be this way." Hugmans was also discouraged.

In the end, Marienburg’s House of Lords deliberated and decided to take out a sum of money to dismiss the group of dwarves, and the right to spend the money to eliminate the disaster.

They appointed the Archbishop of Poseidon Church, and Aldrich took the money to solve the problem.

At the same time, the leader of Marienburg's underground world, the romantic Adamabe Huntsman, also received news that the dwarves had come to seek revenge.

"Father, what should I do? What should I do? The dwarves are here to seek revenge, the knights are here to seek revenge!" Adame's son Alfons was scared to a bit of horror: "Damn, damn! Why didn't they get wiped out in Bafeng Mountain? "

Adame was very calm. The king of Marienburg’s underground world sat calmly behind his desk. He calmly opened the safe and threw the most important material evidence into the brazier and burned it. The old gentleman did not look nervous at all, but rather calm: "What should we do? What are we going to do? Did we snipe the Bafengshan national debt? Or did we offend the knight king or the dwarf king? Think about it, we did it. What? Did we leave any evidence?"

One by one bills fell in the fire and burned clean. Adame smiled and said, "Also, we have sent a generous gift to Britania. They will not find us whoever settles the bill. Don't worry, Alfons, settle your mind, it's death at this moment! It's not like you are looking for a way to find death!"

"Father, you really have the foresight." Alfons carefully recalled the actions of their father and son, and then he barely calmed down. Unconsciously, his back was soaked.

"You have to think twice, think about danger, think about retreat, think about change in doing things. Only when you know the danger can you avoid the danger." Adambe frowned, he burned all the most important evidence, and then opened the small vault and took it out of it. A big box.

It was filled with gold coins of the gods, and each gold coin of the gods was a sticker of Lady Fortune. After a careful calculation, there were hundreds of them! There are more than 100,000 gold marks in it. Adame looked at the box and sighed suddenly, and handed it to his son: "Take them all, to manage relationships, to buy rich gifts, and part of them to the Ashes Legion. Part of it is given to the King and Queen of Brittany. Keep a few of them for yourself, buy the best equipment and find the blessing of the Poseidon Church. I have already signed up for you. From the day after tomorrow, you are the ashes. A recruit of the First Army of the Legion, a knight apprentice."

"Father?!" Alfons hurriedly rushed to Adambe, and he looked very excited: "What, you actually want me to join the Ash Legion? Father, don't you take your son on the road bī)? You want I'm going on an expedition to the new world? So... what do you do?"

"Hehehe~ I'll teach you another word that imperial generals like to say." Adamabegan smiled and took Alphonse to sit down. The romantic man who had been in Marienburg for more than 20 years stretched out his index finger and pointed to the brazier. Burning ashes in the middle of the world: "Put it to death, and then live!"

"I have carefully observed and collected newspapers over the past few years. Sooner or later the future of the new world will belong to this purple phoenix, and this purple phoenix has a lot to do with King Ryan and Schultz." Adame was surprised. Said: "Don't look at the fact that our father and son have done such a big thing over the years. It is because we are still useful. The business princes need us to solve the underground world of Marienburg and clean the dirty corners for him, so that we can get the opportunity. , But people like us are destined to be just a rag, not even a tool person. After more than 20 years, I can feel that those people in the House of Lords have recently had the idea of ​​replacing people, but we are In the recent national debt issue, I stood on the wrong team."

"What? We did so much for him! He actually?!" Alfons said angrily: "Are we people destined to be..."

"So, I want you to serve in the Ashes." Adabe closed his eyes and nodded slowly: "Alphons, my son, I tell you, with your tail clamped, go and serve as a soldier for Fogen. Your Excellency, you must use your own performance to let Your Excellency Fukugan and the generals and soldiers of the Ash Legion look at you again. I have spent more than 20 years training you, your swordsmanship, and your knights at any cost. The Ash Legion will not be vulnerable. When you get there, forget that you are the son of my Adame, and forget that you are the underground noble prince of Marienburg. You are just a recruit, a trainee knight, and be your soldier."

"Father, I know." Alfons shed tears. He wiped the tears with his hands vigorously and lowered his head which had been held up.

"Oh, let's go." Adame sighed: "If Grand Duke Schultz really starts to move and wants to change my rag, my father's old fate may depend on you to save it!"

"Otherwise, people like us are not destined to die well!"