Law of the Devil Chapter 358: [Empire 963]

Chapter 358 [Empire 963]

Roland Empire, 963 years.

A lot of important things happened in the Empire during this year. From any angle, these things that happened are worthy of a large book in history books.

Especially these things happened before the coming years of the violent Roland Continental War, and more subtle things emerged ...

At first, in the early spring of Empire 663, Earl Raymond, who had made great contributions to the Empire, was known as the last master of the last period of the Augustine dynasty. Sick in his room bed. The empire general who had participated in the Northwest Station Master more than 20 years ago, and personally commanded two Nanyang expeditionary wars, has completed his life. Although there was a stain in his career: a coup.

But that doesn't kill his life's achievements. In the evaluation of this general in later generations, there is one more interesting word:

"Throughout the life story of this general, whether it was the outstanding performance of the First Steppe Northwest War, the credit for the subsequent Nanyang expedition has been comparable to that of any famous historical person. However, this This general is not the greatest contribution of the general to the empire. Many people believe that the general contribution of General Raymond to the Roland Empire ... to the mainland and the people is ... He gave birth to a good son. "

The second thing that happened this year was the start of a large-scale conquest across the continent. The Empire has invested a lot of financial and material resources, drawn the elite from the reserve, and selected the elite in the local defense army on a large scale, and it has become a new land Empire assisting army.

No one knew why at the time. The public comment is to complement the Northern Storm Corps, which lost a lot after the devastation of Warcraft. However, everyone knows. This is just an excuse.

The third thing that happened this year, in the spring of 1963, in the Empire, a unique baptism ceremony was launched in the capital. The current actual ruler of the empire, the supreme master of the continent, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Chen, accepted the religious baptism given to him by Pope Paul XVI.

Although every emperor in history has to be baptized by the pope, it is considered a legitimate emperor. However, the baptism of the regent is extremely rare: after he announced in public that he was baptized, Pope Paul XVI would become his godfather!

The ceremony was very lively that day. Tens of thousands of citizens of the imperial capital attended the scene to watch the entire baptism process.

This matter has encountered strong opposition from many royal nobles. In everyone's opinion, this is definitely a great shame for the royal family, and even a strategic failure! In the thousands of years that the royal family and the church have fought against each other, even during the most crisis of the empire in history, the royal family has always maintained its pride and dignity, and never bowed to the church! The future monarch, who was known as a young and wise man, did this kind of "stupid" behavior, which made everyone extremely puzzled.

Many people think. This is a deal: Obviously, because of the strong support of the temple in the coup, the regent is giving back to the temple for that event.

This guess is correct. However, everyone thinks that this will inevitably leave a stain on the career of the wise regent: he used the dignity of the royal family for the support of the temple for his own selfishness. What is the difference between him and the late prince who initiated the coup?

But the two things that happened later have once again increased people ’s support for Prince Chen!

On the third day of the baptismal ceremony, the regent issued a notice: according to the instructions of His Majesty Augustine VI. The young emperor, Charlie, is the first heir to the empire. Until the crown prince reached maturity, the state affairs of the empire were still under the control of His Royal Highness Prince Chen Chen. Simultaneously. Prince Chen was awarded the title of Prince.

Prince Chen's behavior is actually equivalent to giving up the throne ... although he is actually the actual ruler of the empire.

The temple side suffered losses: they did n’t get an emperor godson, they only got a prince godson. The political significance of the baptism was greatly reduced.

Everyone thought that the temple would be very annoyed, and when they launched a series of counterattacks with the royal family, everyone unexpectedly expected that the temple and the royal family were more united!

After several meetings and consultations, the Pope and the Regent have signed a series of land agreements in the next three years. The temple expressed its willingness to abandon religious taxes in some areas and then donate them to the Imperial Army as a free donation to show its support for the Imperial military expenditure.

The empire announced the construction of new religious sites in more than a dozen places to promote the doctrine of the goddess of light. This includes the territory of the Duke of Tulips, the province of Desa.

It is worth noting that in fact, some people have discovered it during the ceremony of the regent's acceptance. Her Majesty the Pope. All old, the spiritual leader of the Roland Empire. It seems that his body is very old and weak, and many devout believers are worried. His Majesty the Pope may soon be called by the goddess.

Only after Du Wei got the news, he knew in his heart that after the battle with Witch King Bai Hechou, the pope ’s serious injuries were far from being recovered.

Another detail is that the leader of the Mossa in the Temple of Light, His Excellency Maximus, the Archbishop of North Central District, also attended the ceremony at that baptismal ceremony. To everyone's surprise, the leader of the Mossa faction actually wore a red robe, which had shown that his status in the church had changed: Archbishop Cardinal!

In addition, during the baptism ceremony, the new Cardinal always stood in the first position under the Pope! This is even more suggestive of his identity, which has been designated by the Pope as "the chief archbishop".

And usually, in the church, the identity of "chief archbishop" has a special meaning to the pope heirs!

Using this public occasion, Pope Paul XVI undoubtedly announced his future heirs silently.

Everyone knows the inside of the church. In the church, the Mossas represent moderates, while the Yeniites are hawks. This move by Pope Paul XVI. No doubt the foundation stone was laid for the rise of Moses.

The establishment of a moderate leader as heir also undoubtedly reveals the temple's attitude in the future: repairing relations with the imperial family and living in harmony.

The fourth major event of the year. News of the ravages of Warcraft in the north had spread throughout the continent, and then the empire issued a groundbreaking order officially announcing: all kinds of private mercenary adventure teams across the continent can go to all parts of the northern continent from the date of the order Hunt for Warcraft. The empire even issued a very detailed list, all kinds of Warcraft showed a clear amount of bounty. You can collect bounty from the local government for any Warcraft you hunt!

Such a notice was issued, and the actual nature of it was immediately seen by people with a sense of smell!

The mercenary regiment of the Roland Empire has been legalized ever since! !!

After the Cavaliers Age has been declining for many years, the announcement of this announcement is undoubtedly of special significance! It stimulated the vigorous development of mercenary adventure organizations in various places, and a large number of low-level samurai classes who had fallen into disappointment without work and food. I finally found my way out. A large number of newly-built mercenary regiments in the north are now issuing a notice of recruiting new recruits!

It is reported that in a city in the northwest of a region ravaged by Warcraft, the Knights Association suddenly received three hundred applications for samurai rank assessment within one day after the announcement was issued. It is already their workload for one year.

Because of the rise of large mercenary regiments. In addition, hunting Warcraft is profitable. Although Warcraft is terrifying, driven by interests, many people have embarked on this adventure.

And soon. The raging situation of Warcraft has been greatly alleviated. A large number of Warcraft flowing into the northern part of the Empire, facing a large number of human bounty hunters who have been dazzled by money, killing the Empire without spending a single soldier, effectively solving Warcraft Raging problems.

And ... there's no shortage of imperial finances. Although hunting for Warcraft requires a bounty, the Empire is not without income ... Any mercenary regiment must declare to the Empire official roster. The Empire even opened an official mercenary jurisdiction, and ... each mercenary regiment must maintain its legal identity. Taxes must be paid annually to the empire.

This decree has some support and some objections, and supporters think that this can effectively solve the problem of the ravages of Warcraft in the north. Opponents are worried. Once the mercenary regiment legally opens their mouths, they will be left with a scourge of civil law and order in the future! This has produced a large number of exiles, which is not what people want to see.

Du Wei just smiled when he got the news. He is a supporter. His attitude was: "Even if the empire does not have this order anyway. There have long been various mercenary regiments in the north, which is an open secret. Since it can't be blocked. It might be better to open the ban and then collect more taxes. "

The fifth big thing happened this year. The Imperial Army announced that they would build a large military fortress north of the empire, about ten miles from the southern end of the frozen forest.

The location of this military fortress has been strictly selected, and the final selected location is very important. It is above the Bijing Road that the frozen forest leads to the south. Both sides are large mountains and difficult places to walk. However, this area is relatively flat, and in the last incident where Warcraft rushed out of the frozen forest, this place was the main direction of the Warcraft torrent.

According to the official empire, this time the empire is going to spend a lot of military expenses to build an unprecedented largest and strongest military fortress! Eradicate any possibility of Warcraft raging ever since! As long as there is such a fortress standing in the north of the empire, then a large area of ​​the empire's northern territory south of this military fortress can be guaranteed security.

The Imperial Army, under the leadership of Robescher, the old prime minister, has proposed a huge plan.

"This military fortress will become the most outstanding product in the history of the Imperial Army." All military experts who have seen this plan have expressed such feelings. The only disagreement is that some people can't help but put forward "It costs so much Huge military expenditures, to create this almost miraculous military iron wall, just to stop those unwise World of Warcraft ... will it be too wasteful? "

Until now, no one knows that there will be a large enemy invasion in the North in the next three years.

In order to create this military fortress, the military once again quarreled with the Minister of Finance for a few days. And finally. It was still the Duke of Tulips who solved their problems.

Master Duke Tulip, once again donated 10 million gold for military expenses in his private name.

This move surprised everyone and guessed ... how much wealth does this Duke of Tulip have? It is no longer a secret to donate 50 million gold coins.

Under the leadership of the Duke of Tulips, Teresa Warcraft has expressed its willingness to donate weapons worth three million gold coins to arm the new main battle legion in the future. Nobles like Count Villa. They also donated tens to millions of gold coins.

In the summer of this year, on the sixteenth birthday of Dewey, Dewey received a small gift from the military land.

The messenger sent by the military said that because this military fortress was built by the military donation donated by Lord Tulip, so in order to show their respect for Tulip Grand Prince, they are willing to ask Prince Tulip to give a name to this new military fort.

In fact, Dewey had already seen the construction drawings of this military fortress. Although that is highly confidential. But judging from Du Wei's relationship with the Regent, there are no secrets. And ... many of the contents of the construction were even suggested by Du Wei.

For example, the strongest prismatic city wall with sharp barbs on it! There is also a tower every ten meters above the city wall. There is a military heavy crossbow! And the huge military fortress is enough to station more than 200,000 troops, and even more! Inside the military fort, a huge cellar was dug. It is used to store grain, plus the cold weather in the north, the food is not easy to rot. If the cellar is piled up, the grain in it will be enough for the garrison to support for a long time.

Dou Wei even designed several trebuchets himself ... And this trebuchet did not launch stones. It is a new type of "powder ammunition" after the improvement of the production base in Giliat City.

Everyone who has seen the design plan agrees, "This is a line of defense that will never be broken!"

Will never be broken?

After Dewey heard these statements. Suddenly my heart moved, and the idea of ​​spoof came out again.

So, in the face of the messenger sent by the military, Du Wei made a big wave on the document and gave this most solid subway wall defense line in the future a name ...

Kaspersky ...

The sixth major event of the year. In the spring of this year, according to the traditional spring exercises of the Imperial Army, about 50,000 private troops belonging to the Rolling family in the Rolling Plains of the southern Empire. The recruits of the two divisions are not really recruits. They were all veterans who re-enlisted after demobilization, after careful selection. After finishing the compilation, in the name of "Spring Exercise" long-distance training, he drove from the Luolin Plain to the northwest.

The army was then stationed in the northwestern province of Tessa. Although this army is nominally a private army of the Rowling family, everyone knows that as Du Wei is now the younger master of the Rowling family, and the patriarch is his underage brother, this private army is actually operated by Du Wei What's more, even the army's troops were paid by Du Wei.

In this way, plus Dewey ’s former tulip family ’s more than 40,000 troops, Dewey ’s commander gathered a total of 100,000 troops, and the governor of the neighboring Provincial Bohan, after the last conscription, also More than 40,000. The pattern of the northwestern region has undergone tremendous changes. Even fools saw that Du Wei's move was obviously aimed at the Northwest Army.

On the mainland, everyone is watching. I do n’t know how the future of the Northwest will change. The northwest is like a fire group that will explode at any time. At this moment, only a subtle change is needed, which may trigger the largest war in decades for the empire. And this is still a civil war!

The seventh major event of the year ...

At the time this incident happened, no one noticed its occurrence, process. And it wasn't until the result of this incident that people were stunned. It can be said that the pattern of the mainland is regarded by a very subtle, even insignificant people. It ’s completely changed ...

Emperor 963, late autumn.

The House of the Duke of Tulips, Loulan City, Northwest Desa Province.

Du Wei frowned, his fingers gently stroked his brow, as if trying to smooth the anxiety between the eyebrows. He is looking at a document, exactly a report. Within the Tulip family, Du Wei's current chief counselor is also the chief administrative officer. Philip stood in front of Dewey. The young man was more mature, with a hint of calmness between his eyebrows. His hands were habitually folded in his sleeves, and he stood there quietly. The whole person exuded an unfathomable smell. Come.

Du Wei finished reading the document in front of him, and then slowly closed it. On the cover, there was a big red line:

Top secret! Northwest military plans for the next three years.

Du Wei pondered for a while. A glance at Philip: "Are you writing this alone?"

Philip smiled: "No, I listened to General Longbatton's opinions, and the Knights of Jolin also gave me some inspiration."

Rorin? Du Wei raised an eyebrow. This year, Ruolin did a pretty good job. Ever since Nanyang's actions. After thoroughly developing Ruolin's military talent, Du Wei simply transferred the female knight to his army. At the beginning, Du Wei let her command a cavalry brigade, and one year. Ruo Lin's outstanding performance, coupled with Du Wei's intentional promotion, has become the commander of a cavalry battalion of three thousand cavalry.

If nothing else, most of the first female generals under the Tulip family in the future are hers.

Even qq, this guy, when talking to Dewey by chance, talked about Ruo Lin. This guy couldn't help but give a sigh of admiration.

"This horsewoman reminds me of the Messiah."

"Aragorn's wife? Chief Knight of the Saint Laurent Knights?"

"That's her."

The performance of Ruo Lin made the proud cavalry who had been trained by Long Barton had to be convinced. After being sharpened, this female knight's martial arts level has reached level four. Although it is not high, it is already quite good. Du Wei considered for a long time, solicited Hussein's opinions, and then taught Ruo Lin the basic movements of starry combat. After that, Ruolin's strength immediately increased again. In northwestern time. Outside of Ruolin's military career, she spends all her spare time. Both are used to ask Hussein and Rodriguez for advice.

Rodriguez's evaluation of Ruo Lindi is: "She is very much like me ... Daji is late."

It can be said that the descendant of the Muen family, who experienced too many ups and downs when she was young, finally sharpened her edge and edges.

Du Wei looked at Philip, and then sighed: "The plan is good ... but it will be a lot more difficult and a lot of work ... Philip, we now seem to have a big career and 100,000 soldiers ... but you have to understand In terms of quantity and quality, our army is not as good as Lu Gao of the Northwest Army! His 200,000 troops are all elites, and the generals under his command are all veterans. "

And he didn't say a word in his heart: Lu Gao's identity is actually a disciple of Snow Mountain! If it does, I'm afraid Hussein and Rodriguez are not their opponents alone.

"Also, we need to guard against the prairie in the west." Du Wei sighed.

Although Snow Mountain Witch King Bai Hechou seems to have established a good personal relationship with himself, and Bai Hechou promised not to enter the mainland within ten years ... but he promised not to enter the mainland, it was his own! He did not promise that the prairie people would not invade!

Furthermore, Dewey is not a kid! This kind of big thing about life and death, he will not build confidence on oral promises!

Three years ... three years. It's been more than half a year now, time is getting tighter, and there are not many things left for myself.

"I mean ... first west then east." Du Wei tapped the table lightly: "There is a tight stare at the Northwest Corps, and we have a ally, Bohan, beside the Northwest Army. Even if something happened, it was his first job. Our goal is to get the prairie people before the Northwest Army starts. At least one thing must be ensured ... In the future, when we deal with Lu Gao, the prairie people will not be behind Knife! "

Philip smiled, then he said as if leisurely: "Since this is the case ... Lord Duke. Mr. Alpha, you should be back soon."

Guard Alpha, Uncle Alpha. For the past six months, he has not been by Du Wei's side or even northwest. Up and down the Duchess of Tulip, most people don't know where the Mr. Alpha Knight has gone. Only Philippe in the few core circles in the Mainland knows where Alpha is going.

Alpha in the steppe. To be precise, he has been on the grassland for this time. The sun on the prairie showed a dark complexion. And drinking this horse milk and eating mutton almost completely turned him into a prairie, and even his hair was dyed into a common brown among the prairie by special medicine.

Also, a long scar was deliberately camouflaged on his face, which allowed him to veil his face blatantly, without revealing his face, which could cover his nose. After all, Roland's nose is straight. The nose of the prairie people collapsed.

Alfa's public identity now is the number one general near Saladin. His name is "Igo", and according to the language of the steppe, the name means "eagle on the steppe."

Saladin. At that time, Dewey returned to the boy named Shaladin, which was the thirteenth son of the prairie king, a guy born of a Roland slave.

After returning from that defeat, he suffered a lot in the beginning. Because of the defeat, the anger of the prairie king was vented to all the deserters who were lucky enough to flee. After the execution of hundreds of deserters, the prairie king was furious and almost degraded his son as a slave. Fortunately, he was persuaded by people around him, "After all, he is your bloodline. If you become a slave, you will also damage your majesty."

The prairie king doesn't know, these sweethearts. In fact, there are many benefits of collecting salad, of course, the person who pays is Du Wei.

Salatin was fortunate to escape the punishment, and then left Wang Ting's punishment. He was sent far away from the prairie Wang Ting to graze the horses and cattle and sheep. In fact, he was letting himself die.

Then Alpha Guard, with more than two thousand prairie slaves given to him by Dewey, came to the slaves on the prairie. Half of the land was bought by Dewey around the mainland. Half were given by the prairie prince during the peace talks.

Two thousand slaves. Dewey picked some obedient guys, and was led into the grassland by Alpha, and then contacted Saladin.

Du Wei asked Alpha to bring a message to Shaladin: That's all I can do. If you can no longer be a climate, it only means that you are incompetent.

It turns out that this Saladin is not incompetent, he is very capable!

With his superb wrist, he quickly surrendered the two thousand slaves, and then formed them into a cavalry. He first ate black and robbed several small prairie horse thieves. His subordinates quickly increased to 4,000 people. Within half a year, he annexed a weak tribe, and finally publicly escaped from Wang Ting. Become the chief of a small tribe.

In these cases, Wang Ting didn't attract attention. After all, the tribe annexed by Shaladin was only a small tribe with a population of less than 10,000, and the old, the weak, and the sick were mostly disabled.

But then, the power of Shaladin grew like a snowball!

Alfa became the liaison between him and Dewey. Alfa was the matchmaker. Dewey provided many high-quality weapons produced by Saladine Empire!

The lack of minerals on the grassland. Although the grassland cavalry is strong, it lacks high-quality armor and weapons. This is their historical weakness. And after Shaladin was supported by Du Wei's weapons, he was even more powerful. He was originally a very capable guy. After another year, the population under his control reached tens of thousands, and he controlled more than 20,000 strings.

Anyway, this number is enough to be a middle-level tribe on the grassland.

Not to mention, in order to increase his strength, Du Wei even sent two magic students under his command! !!

After Wang Ting finally noticed the prairie king ’s abandoned son, the prairie king was surprised by the amazing development momentum shown by the son he did not like, and he was slightly dissatisfied.

But soon, Shaladin made a move. He volunteered to Wang Ting, saying that his tens of thousands of people and 20,000 cavalry. They are willing to obey the orders of the prairie king. They are the most loyal fighters of the prairie king.

The only condition he put forward makes people feel that this is not a condition.

His request was: "I just begged my father to treat me as a son! After all, you are my father."

The prairie king is very happy. With only one gesture, he can get tens of thousands of people and 20,000 cavalry. No one will refuse such a thing.

In the following month, Shaladin sent a lot of cattle, sheep, and horses to Wang Ting ... Although the prairie king did not lack these, he was the son he gave up on his own. He is satisfied with this kind of filial piety.

Moreover, Shaladin didn't even bring any followers, and went to Wang Ting alone! Then that day, in the king's court, in the prairie king's golden tent, there were many leaders of the prairie king, and a dozen other sons. There are also many chiefs of the tribe.

This salad, actually kneeled in public, and made the most solemn and respectful etiquette on the prairie:

Kiss the feet of the prairie king!

This obedient attitude even moved the prairie king. He even felt that he seemed too harsh on the son. After all, although he was born to a slave woman, he can still be farmed. And ... it seems that he is quite capable. Be respectful again.

Then something happened that dispelled the grassland king's last suspicion about Shaladin.

It's like this. The defeat of the 20,000 cavalrymen at the head of the Golden Wolf made a tribe that was loyal to Wang Ting feel aversion to Wang Ting. This tribe decided to move away and no longer obey Wang Ting's orders.

This angered the prairie king, who ordered to conquer this disobedient tribe. And Saladin volunteered to do it.

He did a great job. He soon wiped out the tribe, and handed the tribal chief's head back to the prairie king. And he destroyed this tribe, all the population, cattle, sheep, horses, and all of the captive land were turned in. He himself did not intercept it at all.

More importantly, in this battle. His cavalry suffered great losses. More than four thousand people died. Almost a quarter of the power was lost. However, he did not complain at all, but sincerely stated on Wang Ting's golden account: that he was his father's son. Di Erlang, who is under his own authority, is under his father. There is nothing to lose in your own strength, even if you suffer a great loss, as long as you can make your father happy.

Say that, anyone will say it. But really, there are not many people.

Salad is fierce enough. He exchanged the death and blood of four thousand men for the trust of the prairie king. Let the prairie king believe that this son is not a self-respecting soldier, he is indeed an obedient guy willing to bleed for himself.

In less than two years, in such a short period of time, Saladin jumped from a son of a female slave to become one of the sons trusted by the king of the prairie in Wang Ting.

At this time, Du Wei was still recruiting in the Rollin Plain.

Due to the letter sent back by Captain Alpha, Du Wei knew all the processes and all the things about this salad.

When he saw Saladin actually in the tent, in front of everyone, regardless of his dignity, he fell on the ground and kissed the feet of the prairie king ...

Don't know why, Du Wei suddenly felt a chill on his body! !!

Did Philip away, Dewey again took out the letter from Uncle Alpha, he read it again, and then sighed softly, "It's almost time."

Later, Dewey walked out of his study. He didn't ask any guards to follow him, went directly under the castle, passed through the long corridor, and reached a small building behind the castle. A distant organ sounded from across the room.

Du Wei pushed in the door and saw all the charming girls. Everyone wore a veil and danced with the rhythm of the organ. They performed standard court dances, all tuned by the best court etiquette.

All the girls here are the poor "prey" that Du Wei brought out from the Northwest Army camp.

Du Wei's eyes quickly fell in the middle of the house, the girl sitting there playing the organ.

There is no doubt that she is the most beautiful of all the girls. Her eyes, like her name, are as calm as the moon.

When Dewey walked in, the people here saw him, and everyone stopped immediately. Then the girls turned around uniformly, bowed to Dewey, and waved at Dewey. Below, they quickly retreated.

"You stay." Du Wei pointed at the girl playing the organ.

The room calmed down, and the girl seemed a little nervous, but strict training made her still stand up gracefully, then smiled at Dewey like a spring breeze, and gave a court etiquette.

Du Wei squinted his eyes: "You're Han Han, right?"

Hanyue's cheeks were slightly red, and she bowed her head, "Yes, Lord Duke."

Du Wei took two steps, then he suddenly raised his hand, gently lifted Hanyue's chin, raised her face, and then looked at every minute on her face carefully. detail.

Hanyue's blushing, her eyes dodged and shy a little.

"I remember you. I remember you from the beginning. You are a very beautiful girl." Du Wei let go of his hand, his face was only satisfied, but he was not obsessed with beauty.

Obviously, he hasn't finished speaking yet, so Hanyue listens quietly.

"How have you been here for more than a year?"

Han Yue immediately looked up and solemnly said: "My life was saved by the Duke. I live here very well and am very happy. I have never lived such a happy life in my life."

Du Wei nodded: "So, how grateful are you?"

"Yes." Han Yue's voice trembled: "I ... I'm willing to repay the Duke with everything I have."

"Very good."

Du Wei smiled. His voice was steady and calm.

"Then it's time for you to repay me."