Proof of the Sun King

Katalin's manor is located in a relatively remote place outside the city of Marienburg, about fifteen kilometers away from Marienburg. It is not particularly safe, but the threat to Katarin is actually very small. A strong sanctuary, would he be afraid of wild beasts and marsh-dwelling monsters? Or those greenskins from the Gint mines?

After the failed attempt to recover Kislev, Katarin brought her last followers to Marienburg. She declined the invitations of Rikland, Middenland and Osterland. The tsar was quite a bit Frustrated, after successive failures, she began to gradually understand that with her military talents, perhaps it was an extravagant hope to recover Kislev.

Schultz offered her a high salary, and she became one of the guardians of Marienburg and one of the guest wizards. After the Romanov Guards were repeatedly abolished and carefully selected, three hundred people remained. All the rest were disbanded, and the original huge court was also cut down one after another. In the end, there were only forty or fifty people left. There was also the Ice Witch Guild, which was not as strong as before. These five hundred people stayed in the gift of Schultz. within the large manor.

This stay is 7 years, from the imperial calendar 2516 - the imperial calendar is now the winter of 2523.

At the beginning, Katarin also had great expectations for the countries of the old world. She thought that Keslev had done everything to protect the old world. Now millions of Mrs. Kessler have been displaced, relying on generals and ice witches. , Boyer, and the **** battle of the Kislev warriors, the disaster of Motkin's invasion was greatly delayed, without Mrs. Below, the tragedy of the great jihad will be staged again.

Therefore, in the face of Mrs. Keisler's sacrifice, the countries of the old world should of course appreciate it, provide support and help, assist Keisler to restore his country, or at least say that the hero is immortal?

However, although both the Empire and Brittany recognized Kislev's tenacity, there was really no aid, and the Empire had enough resources. Emperor Karl Franz and Countess Emmanuel had given several funds. , there was no sound after that, and Brittany was even more decisive. They established the Northern Army, supported the Archduke Erlengrad, and recruited the last field army of Kislev - Rokossovsky The winged cavalry regiment.

The Tsar seems to be forgotten.

To make matters worse, in reality, the fugitive Mrs. Keisler was not welcomed as imagined, and had a miserable life.

After these refugees entered the empire, they occupied and replaced a large number of low-end labor markets. Under the involution, not only Mrs. Keisler lived miserably, but even the living environment of the local people in the empire was deteriorated. In the case of the job, the contradiction between the two sides escalated instantly, and soon hostility, hatred, and even **** conflict emerged, and the contradiction intensified until it developed into widespread discrimination and hatred.

If these were just rumors for Katarin, then the living conditions of the demobilized Kislev soldiers and veterans were directly revealed to the Tsar.

She saw with her own eyes a former company commander, in her thirties, who came to the talent market in Marienburg to look for a job. The sweet-looking female receptionist asked, "Excuse me, what will you do?"

"I can command a company, a phalanx, or if necessary, I can go into battle myself, as a mercenary, as an escort, or whatever."

"It's a pity, we have too many people like this here." The female front desk opened a scroll, and the long name on it followed the parchment directly to the ground and rolled out more than a meter long: "You don't have equipment yourself, we Don't think about it, even if you have a full set of equipment, there are still 6324 people in line before you, do you have a horse? If you are a knight with a horse, we can arrange work for you now."

"I don't have a horse." The veteran said dully, "I don't have any equipment either."

"Then besides military and martial arts, do you have any other skills?"

"I can work as a dock worker, work in a workshop, deliver on the street, and..."

"Then the daily salary is only 2 copper coins, and it is open all year round except for the Holy Days of Mannan and Sundays. Can you do it?"

"……can."

Two copper coins! Even the cheapest and most **** restaurant costs two coppers for two meals a day with brown bread, hard beans and rotten cabbage!

Catalin can't help but intervene, and the veteran tells her the cold truth.

"The money's gone, we need to live, I've sold my jewelry, my cart, my armor, my fur coat, my saber, my bearskin hat, my medal, sold My everything, my sire, and now my children are starving on the damp floor of the basement, and I have nothing to sell."

At that moment, Catalin finally realized that the strongest and most tenacious country in the old world had been reduced to ruins, and this was just the beginning of all suffering, and what caused all these tragedies, except for the **** chaos, she was. greatest responsibility.

"Your Majesty the Tsar? My Tsar, are you listening?" Bellia's voice came from far to near.

Seeing the Erson Medal shining on Bellia's chest, Katarin shook her head vigorously, barely regaining her senses.

This is not the Bokha Palace, nor her Ice Palace. Now a reception room of only 50 square meters is where she usually sees guests. The treasures and wealth accumulated by the Romanov royal family over the past thousand years are still somewhat, but the distance The splendor of the Bokaha Palace has been far away, and Katarin sneered. She was noncommittal about the "recovery plan" proposed by Beria: "Okay, I know what you said."

Beria was a little disappointed, and the Ugoer looked up cautiously and found that Katarin was not very angry, and he was a little relieved. As a descendant of the Romanov royal bloodline and Miska's ice bloodline, Although Catalin's appearance is not as good as Queen Surya, she is still a beauty. The tsar sitting on her throne is wearing a winter high-neck striped knitted sweater, an ice crown, a bokaha cloak, and a hidden With a long cyan dress and a pair of brown leather boots, she looks like an arrogant and arrogant ice beauty.

Even though she is no longer the Tsar, she is still a high-level ice wizard of the Sanctuary! Bella warned herself.

"Beria." Catalin leaned on the back of the chair, the tsar signaled everyone to go out, and she sighed: "Beria?"

"The foreign minister is here." Beria quickly straightened her sitting position.

"Beria, you say, I have inherited my father's throne for so many years, so many mistakes, how come no one dares to persuade me?" She laughed a few times in a self-deprecating manner: "The team my father left for me has been torn apart by me. Felix, Lev and the others, why aren't they firm?"

"To rule the country in the snow and ice of Kislev is already even more difficult. There is no such thing as a king in the world. Chaos invasion is beyond human resistance. Your Majesty does not need to blame yourself too much." Beria put his hands on his knees The Ugol people considered their tone: "As for the ministers and generals, they have also done their duty, Dimitri, Fedosov, Konev, they have all died in battle, Constantine also did his best, and the soldiers who died in battle have done their due diligence, please don't blame yourself, Your Majesty."

Bellia really didn't understand why Catalin suddenly asked this.

It was a very difficult question to answer, and Beria immediately decided to follow Talleyrand's instructions.

"Don't blame me, do you still blame the empire and the kingdom of knights?" Katarin shook her head with a wry smile: "It's me, it's me, after I took the throne, those ministers and generals always taught me to do things, but I am the most I hate being directed by others, I'm from Queen Miska's blood, I'm born with all ice magic, and I'm born the leader of the ice witches, so I don't like being guided, I replace them, and then, until I change Being obedient, I did something wrong. How many people have I wronged and how many loyal officials and generals have I killed over the years? Beria, you are also a party, so many grievances, so many tyranny, how did you come here? ?"

"Bokaha came from Kurgan. We have been bathed in the grace of the Romanov royal family for generations. We have nothing but respect and sincerity to treat your majesty." Beria paused for a moment, revealing a little The expression of grievance: "If Your Majesty really can't tolerate us, we have no intention of confronting His Majesty. It is nothing more than... leaving our hometown and going to other places to seek life."

"Ah, Ralph Lianji, I've heard too much of these words since I took the throne." Katarin shook her head slightly, and the tsar's face showed a very tired expression: "It's very good to say, it's useless, I heard it before. I'd be glad you said that, because I don't think I've done anything wrong, but it's not right now, not at all, Bella, do you think this will get the problem out of the way?"

Beria's face changed slightly, but the Ugor people didn't lose their composure. He thought that after so much experience, the Tsar finally changed.

Really, it's time for some dry stuff.

"Your Majesty said this, the foreign minister had to tell some unpleasant truths."

"Say~ Say it, it doesn't matter how bad it sounds, I forgive you." Katarin nodded again and again.

"Kieslev was founded around 1500 years ago in the imperial calendar, and it has a thousand years of history. Under the leadership of Queen Miska, we settled in a place that is not suitable for human habitation. The queen defeated the Ugol people, Integrating them, the Kislev nation and country have been formed since then." Beria said slowly: "The whole kingdom was built like a pair of brothers, three cities, hundreds of Boyes, surrounded by darkness. Surrounded by wolves, Kislev's every step is full of hardship and suffering, but we have proved that we are the most tenacious people in the old world, we are a family, and we will thrive here."

"Yeah." Catalin nodded.

"Millions of creatures living in the ice and snow are like the children of the family, and the tsar is like the grandfather and grandmother of the family. As for us generals, Boyers and ministers, we are like the daughter-in-law of the family. Do as much as you can, to obey the grandfather and grandmother, and to take care of the children, this is a hard job, if there is really no way, you can only consider the request of the grandparents first, and sacrifice the children temporarily." Beria He said slowly: "The people who stay, generally think this way, and do it this way."

"Yes, yes, because the children are wronged, it's okay to say that if the grandfather and grandmother are not satisfied, you can change the daughter-in-law. The daughter-in-law does not want to be changed, so she can only try her best to meet the grandmother's requirements." Her eyes were wet, and she remembered what she had done after she ascended the throne, those ministers who had been admonishing her hard, those marshals and generals who died in battle, those Kerim guards and ice witches who sacrificed to cover their escape, a picture of Zhang's fresh face flashed before her eyes, but it was frozen.

"Yeah, it's me, it's all me, I didn't take care of my country, I didn't take care of this grandmother." Tears had blurred Catalin's vision, her slender fingers wrapped in white lace gloves clenched the seat The handle of her hand, and then gently loosened, the tone that had always been stern and full of commands finally softened, she raised her hand, and the thick nasal voice sounded together with the trembling voice: "But... But now I understand, what's the use? The country has perished, those great names and soldiers are either dead or scattered, I'm really not fit to be a tsar, I'm an excellent ice witch, but I'm just an ice witch."

Hot tears flowed down her icy face, Catalin finally cried, the tsar gritted her teeth hard, and she took a deep breath: "Beria, I know that I have made many mistakes, many, but... But sometimes I really I don't understand, can you tell me, what did I do wrong?"

"Since Your Majesty has asked, let me talk a little bit." Bellia sighed again.

Catalin finally woke up, just a little late.

"Your Majesty, as we all know, Kislev is actually not a very suitable territory for human life. It is too cold, too remote, and always faces threats from the north." Beria said slowly: "Especially In the Great Holy War, Kislev had already been completely defeated once. Although the Great Holy War was won and the kingdom was rebuilt, it was immediately followed by the **** Queen Katarina's terrible rule that lasted for decades. Let's sort it out, what's going on with Kislev after Katerina's **** reign is over."

Beria made his point and he broke down the predicament into seven.

One, Chaos threatens, two, the army is decaying, three, the finances are exhausted, four, the nobles are corrupt and infighting, five, the ice witch embezzles national interests, six, the land of Kislev is barren and the environment is harsh, seven, the bottom civilians are overwhelmed.

"First of all, the most important thing is the threat of Chaos. As the only way for Chaos to go south, as long as Chaos can't be stopped, everything will be over." Beria first said: "Only by defending the territory can we survive. possible."

"Since you want to defend the territory, you must have a strong army. In fact, Kislev does not lack heroic soldiers and excellent generals, but the army has no weapons, armor, city walls, camps, logistical weapons, no wages, and no food. , what is the combat effectiveness at all?"

"So if you want to have a strong enough army, you have to have money."

"But the kingdom's finances have been exhausted. This is the problem of three, four and five. The first is the corruption of the nobles. In addition, Kislev's basic national policy is Boyer's autonomy. We can't collect taxes from the nobles, and then there is the ice witch. Yes, Your Majesty, you must be very aware of how far the ice witches have moved the country's finances and resources." Bellia said solemnly.

"...Yes." Katarin nodded painfully.

"But to maintain the army, the Boye aristocracy and the ice witches are the foundation of the country. This cannot be easily moved, but the finances have been exhausted, so we can only increase taxes on the civilians." Beria shook his head: "Although adding Most of the taxes cannot go into the national treasury, but this is the only way, then it is the sixth and seventh problems. The productivity of the land is poor, and the taxation is too much. The tax burden is too heavy, and the kingdom cannot support it at all. There is only a vicious circle, Your Majesty."

Catalin understood that this was an almost unsolvable problem.

Hands-on with the Ice Witch Sisterhood? No tsar would be brainless enough to do this! Besides, if there is no Ice Witch, who will deal with Chaos Wizard?

So what about the Boyer system? Wouldn't that amount to a direct challenge to chivalry in Brittany?

From the State Duma to the country hut, up and down, in all aspects, the Boyes have money, funds, rising channels, land resources, food crops, and even church public opinion! Bloody Queen Katarina was successfully overthrown by these people!

Your Majesty~www.wuxiaspot.com~ You want to rebel again?

"So, Your Majesty, sometimes things really can't be blamed on you." Beria shook his head: "Although your ability is not as good as that of Red Tsar Boris, you are by no means an incompetent monarch in the history of Kislev. , it's just bad luck that you happen to encounter a Motkin invasion."

Yes, I was just unlucky, and my ability was not good enough. Catalin finally stopped her tears, and she agreed with Bellia from the bottom of her heart.

"But Your Majesty, I know that you have made a lot of mistakes, and you are not fit to rule Kislev, but besides you, apart from the Romanov royal bloodline and Queen Miska bloodline in you, who else can rule Kisler? What about your husband? You can't, and it's even more impossible for others!" Beria suddenly said sharply: "If you give up, then everything will really be over!"

"But, what should I do?" Katarin has been told that she has no masters.

"Mrs. Keisler will always remember the outstanding contributions that the Bokaha family has made to Kislov over the centuries. Don't ruin this great family because of your weakness!" Beria immediately Strike while the iron is hot, he said seriously: "You just need to do as I say. Haven't you seen the power and power of the Sun King? This is the only chance, Your Majesty!"

"But...but, my noble Bokaha royal bloodline, as the last blood descendant and heir of Romanov..." Katarin was still struggling.

"Your Majesty! If you are not willing to save Kislev and the Roman royal family, then who else will come?" Beria was angry: "Can those worms manage the country well?!!!"

There was silence in the house.

Finally, Katalin's hesitant voice sounded.

"Then as you said...try it."