rise of empire total war

Chapter 123 Peace Talk
Renato, who was stunned, didn't continue to ask, but closed his mouth resentfully, and stood behind Richard without saying a word. The latter ignored the young knight, turned and left.The matter of the three so-called soldiers who can communicate with God has been decided for the time being, but Richard actually has no other way but to execute them.

On the second day, the mouths of the three soldiers were still gagged with smelly cloths, and under the escort of the Danish soldiers, they were tied to the fire frame built overnight on the school grounds. Many onlookers included Ravana, Imperial, Germanic, and Ramirez soldiers. Although the ethnic composition was complex, the gods they believed in were not complicated. They were either native phantom deer or followed Richard De came to this world with God.

When more and more soldiers gathered around, Toolagris, who was in charge of the execution, took a step forward, holding the parchment that recorded the crimes of the three, and shouted loudly: "Soldiers, today we are going to approve the crimes of these three people. The crime of blasphemy, burn their sinful souls with pure flames, let them go to hell, and accept the punishment of the devil!"

"Blasphemy? How could they blaspheme..."

"Damn blasphemers, they should be thrown into a boiling cauldron!"

"..."

Listening to the discussions of the soldiers onlookers, Tooragris remained expressionless. After a while, he raised his hands to suppress the voices of the soldiers, and recited the three crimes aloud: "Article [-], Ram Ya Duff, Peter Markham, and Mamadou Samber claimed to be able to communicate with the gods in their dreams, and then spread the so-called revelations from the gods in the army, causing an atmosphere of fear to envelop the entire army and shake them. The morale of the army violated the military law."

"Second, they claim to be able to communicate with the deer, and they also believe that it is the deer god who appears, and believe that his words and deeds are kind and correct. But how can the three lowest-level soldiers communicate with the god? They only listen to The one-sided words of the so-called gods determine that the other party is the Phantom Deer God, which proves that their beliefs are too rash and their confirmation is too arrogant."

"Article [-]..."

As the crimes were exposed one by one, the struggle of the three soldiers tied to the stake became more intense. Although the six crimes in total were basically fabricated out of thin air or added to the story, the onlookers did not know the inside story. Will only believe what the higher-ups are willing to tell them and blame three poor soldiers for it.

Some of the soldiers may have sensed that something was wrong, but the habit of following the crowd and blindly following the crowd prevented them from speaking out to defend the three soldiers, so they could only keep their mouths shut and join the army of accusations.

When the six crimes were read out, Tooragris glanced coldly at the audience, and then set his eyes on Richard who was standing in the distance observing here. The flames purify the souls of the three prisoners who sinned.

"Fire and execute!"

As soon as Tooragris finished speaking, the three soldiers standing in front of the burning frame immediately used the burning torches in their hands to ignite the inflammables piled up under the burning frame. , the soldiers threw the torches into the very center of the fire, and then retreated a few steps one after another, looking at the three prisoners struggling painfully in the flames.

Because their mouths were blocked with stinky cloth, the three prisoners could not make any sound. Their wailing and screams were all blocked in their throats, and they could only use their bodies to struggle violently to express their pain.

……

Standing in the distance and looking at the black smoke rising into the sky, Richard remained silent. The young knight Renato behind him couldn't help asking: "My lord, did those three soldiers really blaspheme the gods?"

"I don't know." After a long silence, Richard finally said this.

"Before your arrival, the news of Bandak's mutiny had spread in the army. In order to avoid causing greater panic, I ordered them to be arrested and interrogated. As a result, all three of them claimed in unison that they were in their sleep. Get the enlightenment of the phantom deer."

"How is this possible?" Renato's face changed slightly, "Someone must have passed the news to them before me through some means."

"I think so too." Richard said with a sneer, "But no matter how hard you search, you can't find the trace of the mysterious person behind them. For the time being, you can only end with a revelation from the gods."

"This..." Renato was speechless for a while, but then he remembered something and asked, "Master Earl, haven't you informed the whole army of Bandak's rebellion?"

Richard nodded and said, "I'm going to announce it in a few days."

"I respect your decision, but my lord, we don't know the progress of the war in the kingdom itself, so it's better to leave as soon as possible."

"Before that, I have to resolve the war with the Ramirez people first." Richard said, turned to look into Renato's eyes, met his gaze, and said: "Knight Renato, for La The war of the Miles people has continued from last autumn to now, without a satisfactory ending, I think not only I will be unhappy, but also the soldiers under my command will also be unhappy, not to mention the dead soldiers who returned to heaven. would be happy."

The young knight Renato, who was being stared at by Richard, only felt surrounded by a pair of threatening and intimidating gazes, which made him dare not express his opinion easily. While he was astonished, he was also surprised, why such a young nobleman would There is such an aura.

"My lord, this is your freedom. Under your command, I will fight bloody battles against the enemy."

Richard, who had been sworn by Renato, just smiled slightly, retracted his menacing gaze, and cast it to the north, towards the city of Aquique, which was still under siege.

……

Three days later, the negotiations with Croft, the king of the Ramirez people, finally came to an end. Although Prince Gaia dissatisfied and opposed it, it finally came to an end.

For the Ramirez people, this negotiation was almost a shameful alliance under the city. Under Richard's military pressure, Croft was forced to accept most of the treaties they proposed, not only to cede Abadran To the kingdom of Ravana, at the same time, a castle less than [-] miles north of the city of Aquique should be handed over to Richard, so that Richard can send troops to station—the army stationed in this castle can threaten the city of Aquique Croft did not dare to tear up the covenant easily.

In addition to the loss of land, they also need to pay Richard a war indemnity of 10000 Morse coins and hand over 20.00% of the kingdom's fiscal revenue to the Kingdom of Ravana in the next ten years. Merchants were also not required to pay commercial taxes or duties when entering the Kingdom of Ramirez to trade.

Originally, Richard wanted to make the Kingdom of Ramirez a vassal state of the Kingdom of Ravana, but was strongly opposed by Croft. In order to prevent the negotiations from breaking down, Richard could only cancel the treaty in disappointment .But even so, the signed contract can still make the Ramirez people completely decline, unless they can get a leader like the head of state.

(End of this chapter)