Proof of the Sun King

After sending off the envoy of the Supreme King, everyone in the king's tent began to express their opinions.

Obviously, whether it is the enlightened knight aristocracy represented by François, the traditional knight aristocracy represented by Callard, or the church force represented by Alfred, or the new leader represented by Bertrand, the commander of the old guard. The noble forces of the Jin military, and even Veronica, the sanctuary witch who reluctantly came out to discuss after resting for a while, all have no interest in garrisoning in the badlands, but it seems that the Dwarf Supreme King and Bellegar are willing to bear the military expenses and After the supply, everyone's opinion is still inclined to give it a try. After all, the number of dwarves is money, but there is no population. Since these dwarfs are willing to pay to help the Bretons raise this army, then everything is easy to say. .

After discussing for a while, most of the people dispersed, leaving only Ryan, Francois, Callard, Veronica and others. Among them, Veronica immediately signaled Catherine to bring tea and water, and Witch Jialan directly Sitting on the comfortable and soft wide-backed chair, she said to her apprentice, "Catherine, do you have any more coffee beans?"

"Yes, mentor, I still have a lot left." Although Catherine has been promoted to a legendary witch, she still has to rely on her mentor. At least for now, her realm is unstable and she lacks hard power and financial resources. The capital, and Veronica is actually quite good to her direct apprentice, the relationship between the master and the apprentice is good, and there is no conflict of interests.

"Then get me a cup of hazelnut vanilla almond garland super dessert caramel sauce mocha sauce mixed with Starbucks cream frappuccino." Veronica's face was flushed, she leaned back on the chair lazily, and waved Katherine to go arrange.

"Okay." Catherine and Callard looked at each other, Callard opened his mouth, Earl Garamente immediately felt Ryan's playful eyes, and could only blushed, just as he was about to say something, Catherine gave it immediately Callard winked, then bowed respectfully, and went to make Veronica's hazelnut vanilla almond garland oversized dessert caramel sauce mocha sauce mixed with a Starbucks cream frappuccino.

Francois and Callard are no strangers to Veronica's character, and even from a certain point of view, the knights and nobles of the expedition to the Eight Peaks headed by Callard have even recognized Veronica. It is very high, and it is only one step away from Queen Surya.

Ryan is well aware of why this happened. This is a side effect of the Great Crusade. Because of Veronica's great contribution to the Great Crusade, and she always has a high sense of presence, even the knights are right. She has greatly improved, especially the knights and nobles of the northern faction highly recognized Veronica's status.

The king of knights can feel that there is going to be another disturbance in his backyard, and Ryan definitely can't interfere with this kind of thing himself. How far things will go depends on the follow-up, because Veronica and Olica have already used it. His performance conquered the knights and nobles and established his own prestige.

When he goes back, Ryan can take advantage of the situation and entrust Veronica with important tasks.

"Lane, how many people do you plan to keep?" François was actually not very interested in the so-called garrison of Eight Peaks, and Duke Winford cared more about when to withdraw his troops and return to the country to share the huge wealth of the dwarves.

"Leave Durant and his Brittany Independence Regiment first." Ryan said solemnly, and the King of Knights also felt a little pained that the dwarves would offer such generous conditions: "It seems that we will not leave any more. People can't do it here. It just so happens that the Principality of Britska left by the black-hearted Leip has more than 3,000 swords. Just let Durant move all the population to the Eight Peaks Mountain. It's better than the green skin. , Beastmen, Chaos Shoe Cultists, and all kinds of bandits, robbers, murderers, and the frontier princes are strong."

"Yeah." Francois nodded slowly.

Is the place where the border prince leads a good place?

Don't be funny, the frontier prince's territory is a real haunted place, where all kinds of bandits, robbers, murderers who have been expelled and exiled by the empire, Britania, and southern countries gathered, and all kinds of Chaos sects are rampant, In addition to being constantly harassed by greenskins and beastmen, the war within the border princes never ceased.

It is naturally the Tamu Khan who brought disaster to the border princes recently. Today, several years have passed, and those Chaos War Gangs are still hiding in the forests and mountains, coming out from time to time to harm the residents here.

But even so, the intensity of war faced by the border princes is still much smaller than that of the empire. The vast territory and sparse population and the constant harassment of various forces are destined to make it impossible for the border princes to form a powerful kingdom. Fengshan shouldn't have too many difficulties here. After all, Bafengshan is actually very well defended. You only need to defend the Gate of Titan and the leyline network. The eight dangerous peaks running through the sky are enough to block all enemies.

"It's a given that Durant and the Independence Regiment stay." Francois nodded slightly to this point, but Duke Winford quickly frowned: "But if you look at the dwarves' requirements, they Not only do they want us to garrison Bafeng Mountain, the dwarves hope to use the power of humans to build a new defense system."

"Yeah." Ryan nodded slowly: "Yes, I hope so too. Just in time, when Bafeng Mountain is recovered, we can rely on Bafeng Mountain and Haimen Pass to build a mature defense system to ensure that there are In the event of a huge invasion, it can delay the pace of the greenskins and prepare the empire and the dwarves."

"But... we don't seem to need to do this." Francois was still suspicious, and the old man stroked his beard: "Lane, we want to station the army in the badlands? The environment here is too bad, the army is here. It will only be gradually exhausted by the harsh climate and severe military pressure, and it will not benefit Brittany much that we have troops here?"

"..." Ryan didn't say anything, the King of Knights thought of something, and he was still hesitating.

"Your Majesty, our great expedition has consumed a lot of national strength. Although the harvest is extremely rich, the new knights need time to acquire their own spurs, the new serf infantry also needs time to train, and your old guards also need time to replenish. ." Callard also said: "If a large number of troops are stationed in the badlands, not only will we be unable to bear it, but even the nobles in the country will have a lot of opinions."

"How about recruiting some new troops? We can recruit troops in the country, leaving a small number of veterans with a large number of new recruits, and rotating every three to five years." Lane thought for a while, and finally said his plan: "Garrison troops on the edge of the northern badlands. , is of great significance to the defense of the greenskin frenzy in the badlands, we can pull the empire in, especially Marius, the grand duke of Ivey and elector of Tuscany, I think he must be very willing to send troops to assist us, And through this means, we can extend our sphere of influence into the border princes, where we can dump our goods, and at the same time obtain a lot of raw materials and cheap labor here."

"Prince of the Border?" François nodded again and again after listening, and the old man thought for a while, then suddenly smiled: "Lane, don't you want to tell me that you want to annex the Prince of Borders and open it here. To expand the territory? I want to remind you that the bigger the country is, the better!"

"Hahahaha! I know I know." Ryan couldn't help laughing after hearing Francois' half-joking warning.

Indeed, a country is often not as big as possible, because a country's ability to conquer and control actually has an upper limit.

Before ascending the throne, Ryan once thought, why the empire should adopt the electoral system instead of the centralized system, why should the entire empire be divided into many provinces, almost completely let the electoral autonomy, why not unified deployment, It is run by the military nobles under the empire.

It wasn't until Ryan became king that he realized that it wasn't impossible, but it couldn't.

After the country is huge, the imperial court has to face three prominent problems.

First, the border line is long, surrounded by enemies on all sides, and many forces cannot be negotiated at all, resulting in great foreign military pressure, which makes it necessary for the empire to station heavy troops on the border to defend against possible invasions, which can easily form an army. town system.

Second, for this world, the land area is too large. The way of information exchange and communication here determines that the imperial court cannot be remotely commanded. The Nord Kingdom is more than 1,500 kilometers away from the capital of the empire, Brunswick. The Slovak Kingdom is more than 2,000 kilometers away from Brunswick, the capital of the empire. Ryan has personally seen the messenger sent from the Nord capital of Winter City. Even if it is 600 miles urgent, it will take seven days to arrive at Brunswick. Seven days Time waits for the capital's permission to attack or not, and Nord can subjugate the country, and the mana consumed by long-distance magical communication is extremely amazing.

In this case, the emperor must allow the locality to form and order the army independently, so that the electors have independent military power to deal with various emergencies, protect their own territory, facilitate the unification of military orders, and maintain the combat effectiveness of the army. Time After a long time, of course the electors went their separate ways and ignored the emperor's orders.

Third, financial issues, this is even simpler. For example, the first emperor of the Celestial Dynasty of Ryan's previous life attacked the Xiongnu. One hundred and sixty shi of grain was transported from the center to the front line of the war, and only one stone was left for delivery, and the transportation loss was as high as 90%. Nine and above, in the same way, if the imperial court does not allow the electors to be financially independent, collect taxes and raise their own armies, then let alone the northern front line against Chaos, even the Black Fire Pass of the Aiwei collar against the green skin, a Years of food wastage would bankrupt the empire's finances.

Brother, the local taxation has to be collected from the local government to the central government, and then transferred from the central government to the local government. Even if there is no corruption or any supply line, the loss is still very staggering. Do you think it is Alipay transfer? King Nord pressed a button, and on the desk of Emperor Karl Franz in the capital, there was a sound of "Ding~Imperial Treasure arrives at five~thousand gold marks~".

So why did the empire have the ability to conquer Kislev but let it become independent, why did the Grand Duke of Nord dare to call himself the king of Nord, and the empire could only turn a blind eye, this is the reason.

When a threshold is exceeded, the bigger the country, the weaker the country, the bigger the country, the weaker the country. The border is full of enemies waiting for an opportunity, and the imperial defenders often can only watch the destruction happen and can do nothing, with their financial resources and insufficient army. , so that the great empire has neither the energy nor the ability to defend against foreign enemies.

So Ryan now recalls what many people clamored for in his previous life to drink the Danube for horses and conquer Madagascar with iron hoofs, and he feels speechless. When the empire was born, people were emotionally positive, optimistic, and aggressive, but that doesn't mean it will always be In this way, it is difficult to conquer and rule such a huge empire, and it is even more difficult. The Mongolian Empire immediately split into the four major Khanates and the Yuan Dynasty after drinking the Danube River?

So, suppose the emperor wants to centralize power, control the army, control financial power, and be able to micro-manage remotely, can it?

Yes, there was a dynasty in the Celestial Dynasty that did it. All the elites of the army were concentrated in the center, leaving only the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled to the localities. All local taxes were collected and only the basic maintenance fee was left. order arrows.

This dynasty is called the Great Sending.

And even if it is a big giveaway, the empire can't learn it. The reason is very simple. A great man of the ages said that if you fight against the outside world, you must first be safe inside.

Because even the empire is full of dangers, chaotic shoe cultists, beastmen, greenskin tribes, as well as undead and chaotic demons that appear from time to time, assuming that the imperial court has taken away the local elite troops, leaving only the security system and militia system, What does the place rely on to deal with these enemies that would destroy a civilization?

This is the difference between Ryan and Karl Franz~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Ryan has done it. After many years of wars, Brittany has basically solved Anne's problem. Since the king has the ability To ensure the peace within the kingdom, the dukes naturally believed in him and were willing to respond to his call.

And Karl Franz couldn't do it, let alone guarantee the security of the entire empire, he couldn't even guarantee the security of his Rickland, even the blood pine forest only a few dozen kilometers away from Brunswick, Under this circumstance, the Emperor Card has done his best, the electors are not listening to the tune, and occasionally come to the capital to hold a meeting, which is enough to give the Emperor Card face.

After thinking about it in his head, Ryan thought that he had something to learn from. It's not good to give it away, don't we still have big cute?

"My assumption is this, we can properly station troops in the military base and Bafeng Mountain, set up a military colony system, let the defenders cultivate their own crops, and supplement them with supplies. The soldiers are rotated every three to five years. As for the fortress, We can ask the dwarves to help us in the construction, I think the High King or Bellegar will definitely not object." Ryan He explained his plan: "The main composition of the garrison is a small number of veterans and a large number of new recruits, and the number should not be large, two or three thousand as a guard. , let the empire also send troops to participate, we are also recruiting troops at home and border princes, anyway, there are dwarves who pay for equipment."

"At the same time, we are looking for a place with strong support and water in front of the Arsenal Fort and the Eight Peaks, and let the dwarves help us build a new fortress, so that we can build a new line of defense and warning line in the northern badlands. The goal is not to eliminate and fend off a possible greenskin invasion, but to delay the attack of the greenskin army as long as possible, while reporting the news to the dwarves and the empire to prepare them for defense."

"These three guards are collectively referred to as the 'Three Guards of the Badlands'!"