Mage? Spell Engineer!

Ah? It's my turn? Rorschach swallowed the duck confit in a hurry, letting the greasy meat squeeze into his throat: "Nice to meet you, Mr. Joe. War Commissioner."

Georges Jacques was unimpressed: "I didn't expect you to be so young. Our neighboring country seems to have undergone tremendous changes in the past year, and preliminary investigations point to a key figure. And we also found out that you studied abroad in the Starry Tower for a year."

The Minister of War contacted Rorschach for the idea he had been advocating: the Sister Republic Plan.

The recent series of victories of Valois means that the Republic has only "the last mile" left to expel the Imperial Army from the country. Next, whether it is the Mountain Party or the Conservatives, there are fanatics among them who began to advocate that the results of the great changes should be exported to the entire continent.

Even the conservatives believed that the initial defeat of the Valois Army against the Empire was the defeat of the Old Kingdom Army, and the National Guard. As long as the tricolor flag flies and they charge, the Republic's troops are invincible.

The fantasy of exporting great changes to the world (by violent means) leads to two seemingly more practical theories:

The first is the theory of natural boundaries: the borders of the Republic should be from the northern coast to the central mountains, and then to the banks of the Tam River, that is, to swallow up all the disputed areas with the Empire until the mountains and rivers form a natural barrier.

The second is the idea of ​​sister republics. George Jacques is a fanatical supporter and advocate. He believes that Valois should support all people who want to overthrow the monarchy, especially those who support the states within the Empire, and get rid of the emperor's rule through similar changes.

In this way, not only can the enemy be weakened, but the new Republic can also gain natural allies. Valois is of course the "big sister", and the others are all little sisters, including the coastal small countries south of Valois and the small states north of Valois.

Oh, there is also a "super little sister" Byrne who has the potential to be a strong ally.

In George Jacques' eyes, the so-called evil god will not pose a threat even if it revives on the battlefield - isn't it enough to just push the battlefield into the Empire?

The war commissioner shook his goblet and gave a passionate speech. He preached this at the National Assembly and the club salon. Unfortunately, his audience today, the mages, had neither applauded nor fierce opponents.

When he was thirsty and wanted to drink to moisten his throat, the room suddenly heard the sound of knives and forks rubbing and colliding with porcelain plates.

Fortunately, George Jacques still didn't care about the embarrassing scene. He smiled and asked Rorschach: "So, what do you think of our idea, Master Rorschach?"

He talked a lot about "exporting reform" and "sister republic", but it was packaged more grandiosely and used the slogans preached to the people here.

Perhaps Pascal and Paul would be scared and their blood would surge and their passion would surge, but the kind-hearted Luo had never "eaten pork" in the other world, and he had learned "how pigs run" in his previous life. Can he defeat the empire thoroughly first and then do this?

Rorschach also responded with a smile: "Sir, can you answer my two questions first?"

"Please speak directly."

"First, when will your country be able to recover the entire territory? Second, what does what you just said have to do with me?"

Georges Jacques smiled and passionately: "I can answer your questions together: Valois, every citizen believes that he is closely related to the fate of the Republic. Just for this reason, I firmly believe that Valois will defeat the Empire immediately.

"Similarly, as far as I know, Master Rorschach's influence on the fate of Byrne should not be underestimated. If you can promote progress in Byrne, I assure you that Valois will give you and the new Byrne great support and grant you the title of Honorary Citizen of Valois. "

One day later.

Rorschach and Caroline's revisit to the old place ended, and they said goodbye to everyone in the Starry Tower and opened the portal to Byrne.

With the help of the great wizard, the return journey was smooth. When they walked out of the workshop of Rorschach's Mage Tower, the teleportation array on this side remained the same.

For Caroline, everything that happened since she passed through this damn door was impressive and exhausting. Returning to Rorschach's Mage Tower, she actually felt relaxed like going home after a business trip.

There is no fast-paced research in the Starry Tower and the Alchemy Department, no bloody battlefields, and no chaos in the Imperial Capital and the heart of the Republic. Everything is peaceful and in order.

The only thing she didn't understand was why Rorschach responded to the "empty check" of the war committee in the end: "Rorschach, I remember what you said to Bart and the others was to strive to make the Special District a free state of the Empire, and now you want Byrne to become a republic"

"I don't have that much ability to say Byrne can become anything, and that pot-bellied committee member can't either. "Rorschach spread his hands. He wasn't playing some game where he could just click the mouse and let a country transform.

"He's just talking big, so I'll... Yeah, right, right. The reason I agreed to him was that I really needed a little help from Valois. Teacher Caroline, a wise man in the East once said that people always compromise."

Many of the characteristics of people are in line with positive distribution, such as magic talent and intelligence, and from Valois' experience, most people tend to be centrists.

Then for the centrists in Byrne, it seems difficult to support Byrne's transformation from a kingdom to a free state under the emperor, but if the voices of changing from a kingdom to a republic gradually rise, everyone will suddenly find that it is best to continue to be under the rule of the monarch, but to be far away from the emperor and maintain their independence.

It seemed as if overnight, a large number of pamphlets from neighboring southern countries flowed into Bavaria. Their printing was not exquisite, but it was clear enough and it was not pirated at first glance. Many tabloids suddenly appeared in the country, publishing treasonous remarks.

If it was nothing in the past, Bavaria's economy outside the special zone is not optimistic now. Many workshops have closed down, food is in short supply, and the people can only hold their anger in their not-so-full stomachs. In big cities like Munich and Nurem, there must be beer halls on every street, and now there must be people in beer halls having heated discussions.

These people's opinions are roughly divided into two factions. One side believes that the system of the empire should be integrated as soon as possible and the previous level of trade should be restored. The other side waved pamphlets and newspapers from Valois and made wild statements against the monarch.

In particular, the completely different records of the Kingdom of Valois and the Republic against the Empire have become a proof of the superiority of the great changes.

As a place where universities gather, Würzburg is the base camp of the latter faction. They have long been paying attention to every move of the Republic.

If that were the case, it would be fine. The royal family and the city government suddenly discovered that the literacy campaign carried out when the new legion was formed was not without side effects - damn, why were the military drill manuals and the heresy advocating the republic written in the common language?

After the summer, Bain began to be infected with the "Valois disease", while the special zone, where the living standards were stable and improving, had been very stable and harmonious, and it was almost abnormally quiet.