Power and Empire Chapter 2504: Thunderstorm (24)
Fize King Capital
with a soft sound, two six-meter-high arched relief wooden doors were pushed aside by the guards standing on both sides
Fazer King Laurian II strode into the room. The empty room was full of light. Sunlight shines through the high windows, reflecting a few squares of gold on the snow-white walls. A whole piece of Casmaar cashmere carpet with red background and white pattern covers the entire meeting room with an area of 30 square meters,
"Your Majesty"
saw him walking in. A dozen General Fezer who were talking eagerly inside stopped the conversation immediately, all expressions knelt on one knee, and the generals behind him dragged his cloak to the ground. Among these generals, the oldest Nearly sixty years old, young ones are thirty or forty years old. Everyone bows their heads. The epaulettes of these generals have ornate fringes representing the vines and night flowers of the Fazer royal family, indicating that they belong to the regiment directly under the Fazer royal family. Generals, for them, King Laurian II is not only a king, but also a patriarch. He is the lord of the entire royal legion, so they are not a military salute, but a courtesy to their lord
"Get up all, I believe you all understand the purpose of recruiting you all! What do you think about the armistice agreement," Laurie VI graciously waved his hand to everyone. Smiling at the corner of his mouth, there is no pressure from the king. Here are his own people. There is no king here, only clansmen. Therefore, he behaves more like the old man of the neighbors, except that his old and deep eyes will occasionally flash a little. It’s not like the old man’s dullness, but the cold light that makes people feel pressure, like a sharp sword, which makes people feel a little heart palpitations
"That agreement..."
"How should I change it, it's a bit too much!"
"Yes, sending the entire coastal area directly out, is it just forcing the military to rebel?"
Hearing what Laurian II said, the generals glanced at each other. The meaning in their eyes was so clear that everyone did not agree with the agreement, but the armistice agreement was established by the king. They are the generals of the regiment directly under the royal family. Most people have the status of a royal family, and your Majesty is a grasshopper on the same rope. It can be said that all honors are all honors, and all shame is shame. It is not a good idea to directly oppose the decision of the lord.
"Your Majesty's decision, we naturally support it with all our strength," said General Fei Ze, who seems to be the most prestigious and somewhat gray on his head, said in it,
"Lu Muaiqing, do you really think so?"
Laureen II is not so foolish. He looked at this General Fezer, who was about his age, with a smile on his mouth. Lu Muai was the oldest general in the immediate army. He has always He is known for his smooth life and is also known as the most promiscuous General Feize. According to Feize’s rules, the general can launch the legion early at the age of sixty and return to the family to take care of his life, but this Lu Muai He didn’t want to retire until he was 60 years old, because he controlled the logistics of the entire direct legion, which was a fat and oily position. There are rumors that half of every grain consumed by the direct legion went to Lu Mu every day. Egypt
Under the eyes of His Majesty the King, the logistics general was full of embarrassment. He hesitated and said, "I just don’t understand. We cede the entire coastline that belongs to the military to the Falcon Empire, seventeen ports and With a population of more than 3 million, it can be said that the military is completely sold. Once the military mobilizes and kills them, the consequences..." Lu Muai stopped talking, although he did not continue to speak, but it was already very meaningful. I understand that the consequences are very serious. The Fazer family has been fighting against the military for more than a hundred years. It can be said that they understand each other quite well. It is not the time to turn their faces with the military.
"The consequences? What are the consequences?" Laurie II's eyes narrowed into a line, and the corners of his mouth still had a constant smile
"Your Majesty, there are some things that shouldn't have been said, but since your Majesty has made a decision, the subordinates have to say it at the risk of death." The gray-haired Lu Muer paused, and under His Majesty’s eyes, Bite the scalp and said, "It is not sixty years ago. At that time, the military power of the Fazer royal family and the military was five to five. The military still has a fear of the royal family. The military power is definitely more than that of the royal family. In addition to the fact that the Imperial Guards leave Beijing, once the military turns around, it may not be necessary to return to the border guards. The local garrisons in nearby areas are enough to put the capital into trouble."
"It was because I knew it was not sixty years ago that I had to make such a decision." Laurie En II's face was dark and unclear, and he said slowly, "I Fitzger occupied the coastal area sixty years ago. In the battle for the supremacy of the Myas, the military defeated the Fazer’s centuries-old enemy Myas who occupied the coastal area in one fell swoop, and gained thousands of miles of fertile west coast area."
" For decades, the military has seized huge wealth on the West Coast. Coupled with decades of smuggling and selling slaves, its power has far surpassed us. Sixty years ago, the power of the royal family and the military was compared to Since the founding of the country, it has been five to five. Now, Lu Muai, you can tell me, how much is it?"
"Is it because my royal family broke the balance regardless of the rules, or the military has already abandoned the original agreement"
"This!" The gray-haired Lu Muai's face changed. As an auxiliary logistician, he felt very much about this change, and his age happened to have experienced the decline of the royal family. The royal family and the military were different. Half and half of the power was determined when the nation was founded, but sixty years ago, after the military occupied the coastal areas, its financial and material resources had been greatly increased. The total area of the fief was larger than that of the royal family. Basically, the agreement was It has already lost its binding force. In a sense, it was the military’s abandonment of the agreement. Ten years ago, King Laurian II came to the throne. The contrast between the military power and the royal family’s power is already shocking. Than three
In other words, among the current 500,000 Fezer standing forces, the military controls more than 300,000 combat troops, while the Fezer royal family only controls 200,000, and within this 200,000 military power, Only the 100,000 directly under the Legion can really fight, and the rest are the Janissaries with as many as 100,000.
But what is the Imperial Guard? It is a pig belly unit that has not left the royal capital for hundreds of years. It is so huge that the military power is so huge that the prestige of the royal family has no effect in the military. Everyone is cutting their heads and wanting to enter the military. Who will remember the royal family of Fazer? Even Lu Muai spent a lot of money on management, just to get his nephew into the military system, as a royal family, he also needs to say good things to some middle and lower-level military officers. It is definitely not a memorable one. Experience, when I think of this, Lu Muai's face can't help showing a bit of helplessness
The era of the royal family has passed, and now it is completely the military dominance
Seeing that the generals were silent, Laurian II looked at the ceiling of the hall and took a deep breath. The situation is like sitting on a volcanic crater that does not know when it will erupt, and it may be rushed into the air at any time. The source of Fazer’s economy is mainly prisoners of war, conquering areas, and looking at the current royal regiments. You will know the situation. It has not absorbed fresh blood from the outside world for 30 years. Although still holding combat duties, looking at the generals and officers now serving as generals and officers, without exception, they all come from the royal family and are extremely loyal. But when it comes to having military ambitions and ambition, that’s nonsense."
" Everyone is here to mess around. The only difference is that the Janissaries can only mix in the royal capital, while the directly affiliated regiments can go to the royal territory. It's a field army. In fact, the most recent war was Ten years ago, the soldiers changed two or three batches. The army without war, who dares to say that it can be effective even on the battlefield."
" Your Majesty, it’s our incompetence that made your Majesty be so humiliated." More than a dozen generals directly under the Legion Kneeled in front of Laurian II with an awkward look, but just as Laurian said, many people It’s all messing around, and some people just start smuggling. There are a few people who want to temper themselves.
There is no other way,
The direct royal army has always been stationed in the north, and the imperial guards cannot leave Kyoto. The double-headed eagle merchant group is a royal minion, notorious for being a slave trader. It can also be regarded as a big source of money for the direct army, but most people don’t know. In the double-headed eagle merchant group, the royal family accounted for less than one-third. The military forces that controlled the coastal area occupied two-thirds of the double-headed eagle merchant group, which was relatively controlled by the royal family. The military forces are still squeezing that part of the military, and the direct legions can get very little.
So when the double-headed eagle merchant group suffered an extinction, the royal legion did not hesitate to kick out the minion who had betrayed the master long ago. On the contrary, the various forces of the military suffered heavy losses and paid for the imperial meeting. Ze's military has issued a ban on the attack, but because the royal family has not stated its position for a long time, he dared not act too blatantly. Therefore, the troops sent to join the Southern Allied Forces were only 10,000 or 20,000 people.
The directly affiliated regiments outside are even more unbearable. The guards in the royal capital are even more unbearable. They eat, drink and have fun. A group of waste soldiers, because the financial resources are withered, the Fazer royal family also banned nearly 100,000 yuan in the first half of the year on the grounds of insufficient funds. The guards were downsized to the current 50,000 people. Only when the Imperial Guards left the capital, they were strong and strong, mostly young and middle-aged, because those who were old, old and disabled had already been reduced in the previous downsizing. Cleared out
It’s helpless for the Guards to leave Beijing. If they can’t get out of Kyoto now, the 50,000 Guards will also be withdrawn if the financial resources continue to wither. At that time, the royal family’s control of troops will be There are only 100,000 people. In the face of a military with more than 300,000 people, it is a question of whether the directly affiliated corps can guarantee the status of the royal family. This is still the case when the directly affiliated corps is regarded as a first-class field force, and the directly affiliated corps Combat power has long been no longer the main force in the first-class field battle.
"The Battle of Paput, the military force broke through the capital of Paput, and there are countless spoils to be brought back. If the royal family does not take action, there will be no chance again. At that time, whether it is financial or All military forces whose prestige has reached the apex will inevitably ask for the royal family to give power. Since our power is no longer capable of restraining, we should find a force that can restrain the military. Look at the entire Obaro, except for the northern hunter. Eagle Empire, are there other forces that can suppress the military? Are you still confused about that agreement?"
"No more, Your Majesty" The generals replied neatly. They are all royal children. I still know the truth about laying eggs under the covered nest, but they are still a little uncomfortable with the sudden change of their lord,
In the outside world, the reputation of the Lord of Fazer is very general, and even in the southern countries, he has almost become a laughing stock. Fortunately, the grandfather of Wang Taizheng is in good health. Otherwise, if Fazer If the first king drags on for a few more years, this fifty-year-old Wang Taijiu may be one step ahead of the previous king, and in the ten years when Laurie II succeeded to the throne, he has done little, just Like his age, it feels that it is already the sunset, and there is no new king's determination and ambition at all. It looks like he just hopes to be stable for a few years, and then pass the throne to the next generation.
Even the legions directly under the regime believed that King Fazer was the most useless among the kings of all dynasties. He was in chaos and chaos, I don’t know the so-called, no one would have thought that it was this guy who looked like he was eating and waiting to die~ IndoMTL.com~The cowardly king who was waiting to pass his throne, unexpectedly, at such a juncture, with lightning-like means, directed and acted a story about the South, in the name of pursuing the southern rebellion, before the military hadn’t reacted. After coming over, the 50,000 Fazer Guards were justly dispatched to Kyoto, breaking the century-old rule that Fazer Guards were not allowed to leave Beijing, and the royal family and the military were completely torn apart.
"Then immediately transfer the immediate legion to the royal capital, and first control the military personnel." Laurie En II's low voice revealed a **** smell, and his eyes swept over the royal general who was kneeling in front of him. Everyone, finally fell on the wall of the royal hall, which has been hung there since the days of the first kings. The golden vine coat of arms of the Fazer royal family
Laurie said in a cold voice, "Now the military can't get a hand, so it seems to endure it. Once the military is really launched, then everything is over! The life and death of the royal family are on your shoulders! "Lorrain II is the fourth king of the Fazer Kingdom. Don’t look at the 60-year-old man. In fact, this king was only able to inherit the throne at the age of 50. He has really experienced wind and rain and watched step by step. The royal family has gradually declined from the military confrontation. Ten years of forbearance is to wait for an opportunity to counterattack the military.
Regarding the combat power of the 100,000 directly subordinate legions, Laurie En II actually did not dare to trust too much. After all, it was an army that had not been on the battlefield for a long time. He really wanted to face the main force of the upper army, even if it would be defeated in a battle. , So simply take back all of the royal capital. This is the royal capital, where the royal family is located. Here are their relatives, children, and clansmen. Once the king falls, then everything is over. Only in this way will the 100,000 royal family directly affiliated legions Show off the fighting will to fight against the elite of the military [to be continued] []