Proof of the Sun King

There are five days until Sheffield, Kislev, Bokha Palace, Kislev State Duma.

Representative of the Kislev Poye nobility, General Marshal of Kislev Dimitri Zayev.

Konev, Marshal of Kislev, Marshal of Kislev's Wings, Romanov, Commander of the Griffin Legion, Marshal of the Bears of Kislev, Rokossovsky, Commander of the Northern Front of Kislev, Zaka- Fedosov.

Kislev Chief Court Minister Petrov and Kislev Finance Minister Demirov were present.

These Kislev army leaders and landowners gathered to discuss the recent difficulties facing the kingdom.

Interestingly for Kislev, this is a very, very empty country, with sparse settlements separated by vast ice sheets and large tracts of land, even domestically, except for the three cities of Kislev. , Erlengrad and Prager, the news of other settlements is intermittent, and direct rule is difficult to achieve. Therefore, each settlement has become highly independent, and a Boyer noble completely controls the military and political power. There is no doubt that everyone recognizes the authority of the Tsar, but if Her Majesty Catalin really crossed the State Duma and gave them any coercive orders, these Boyer nobles will be very surprised and show their faces "You are kidding me. "table.

The reason is this, in theory, the nobles of Boyer must be appointed by the tsar, but in fact this is a hereditary title,

Therefore, Kislev's army was mainly composed of three forces, namely the city army directly loyal to the Tsar, the local army controlled by the nobles of Boyer, and the imperial garrison supported by the various empires of the empire.

In this case, the Boyes in various places were highly independent and eventually formed the State Duma.

Now, in the Bokaja Palace conference room, which is luxuriously decorated and covered with all kinds of bearskin tapestries and ice sculptures, frescoes in bright colors and multicolored ceilings, the people of the State Duma are discussing what to do next. .

"The supply of the northern frontline army, the relief of the refugees, and the supply of the army of the southern Jiakova fortress have all been arranged. We try to maintain 70%-80% of the ration. As for the army's unpaid wages, we will give priority to guaranteeing the bear cavalry. Most of the salaries of the Griffin Legion and the Kerim Guards can be paid out, as for the salaries of the few Ksa Legion, Strike Army and City Defense Battalion, we will deal with them first, and then make plans after this festival is over." Marshal Dimitri Zayev nodded, and he slowly said to the crowd: "Priority is given to ensuring the combat effectiveness of the front-line army."

"What? The cost of repairing the fortress of Ostrosk, and the cost of rebuilding the fortress of Slugkhov farther north, there is no room for it?" Marshal Zaka Fedosov, the representative of the Northern Front Army, said dissatisfiedly: "Then what do you think? If we can’t guarantee the repair of the two northern fortresses, how can we ensure the smooth flow of trade with Dulong City?!”

"Then what do you mean?" said Marshal Kislev, the commander of the Central Army of Kislev Konev. This is a godly determined soldier with a big bald head. He is wearing a brand-new marshal. The military uniform, tasting vodka, with very sharp eyes, looked directly at Marshal Fedosov: "What do you want to do? Fedosov, let's just say it straight, I'm not interested in playing riddles with you."

"What I want to say is that the military expenditures and supplies you allocated to the Northern Front are too small!" Field Marshal Fedosov said loudly: "Many frontline soldiers lack food and clothing, and they don't even have medicine when they are sick! That’s okay, I understand the difficulties of the kingdom now, but what about the fortress? Since the end of the Winter War more than two years ago, the two fortresses have built their bases, but they have not been able to complete the construction. The soldiers are hiding in the semi-open fortresses. We will spend the winter inside, if you don’t allocate enough money and raise manpower, we won’t be able to finish building these two fortresses next year!”

"This time the Norsca expedition, the treasury received almost 120,000 ducats, but you only allocated 40,000 to us, which is really too little. To build a fortress, it would cost a lot to build a fortress in the harsh environment of the cold and the ground, and you want the horses to run and the horses not to eat grass!"

"I said, what did you think?" Marshal Konev repeated: "I don't want to listen to your complaints, I want you to come up with a solution!"

"At least another 40,000 ducats should be allocated to us." Marshal Fedosov emphasized: "I know that after the trade agreement with the Dulong City dwarves was concluded, the tariff and mining tax formed a new income, which was also a sum of money. We have ensured the smooth flow of trade routes, so why can’t we take part of the tariffs and mining taxes as our military expenses?”

"Trade tariffs and mine taxes are directly recruited by the tax officer of His Majesty Katarin and sent to the Ice Palace, which has nothing to do with us." The representative of the Boye nobles, Marshal Dimitri said in a deep voice: "Katarin Her Majesty Taryn is going to carry out a very important ice magic experiment and urgently needs money, as for our application..."

"Your Majesty disagrees. The treasury and inner treasures of the Ice Palace have been rescued many times. You all know this." Czarist Finance Minister Demirov said slowly: "The inner treasure can not only produce items and not receive items. what."

"Very good." Marshal Dimitri nodded helplessly. He turned to the Marshal of the Bear Cavalry and asked, "Constance Dante, what can you do?"

"I don't know." Marshal Rokossovsky's attention was obviously not focused on the meeting, he just said casually: "Perhaps, we can re-audit to see which expenditure can be re-costed? Save a little. A little?"

"How to audit?! How is it worth it!!" Marshal Konev slammed the cup in his hand on the ground, and he blushed and roared: "That's all the money, 120,4566. Dukat! How can we make a deal again, let the northern front army go to war with the barbarians hungry? Or the refugees will not get relief? Or will they simply not pay their salaries?!"

The cup fell to the ground and shattered into several pieces, and the crisp sound was clearly audible in the conference room.

"I am Marshal Kislev and Commander-in-Chief of the Central Army of Kislev, and I know best that the soldiers of the Ksar Legion and the battalion, the soldiers of the city defense battalion, many are already in bakeries, merchants, and even gods. I owe a debt for several months! Many soldiers came to my house to ask me for help, what can I do!" Marshal Konev roared: "Don't I know that there is no money in the treasury, and we are constantly at war with the barbarians in the north. And the Jakova fortress in the south is also facing a full-scale invasion by the green-skinned red-eye tribe!"

"If this goes on like this, Kislev's Millennium Celebration of the founding of the country will be our country's death soon!" Marshal Konev's loud voice echoed in the conference hall, and he didn't care that the words were spread out.

"Marshal Romanov." At this moment, an attendant rushed into the conference hall, and he shouted anxiously: "I'm in a hurry."

"What's the matter?" The winged cavalry marshal raised his head, and the squire whispered in his ear: "No, the Ksa army and the strike army mutiny because they paid too little, and they scuffled with the guards! General Andre killed himself with a musket, which quelled the grievances, but the officers gathered together and came to the palace, we must give an explanation!"

"What?!" The entire conference room shook.

"Konev, hurry up and stop them. You are the commander-in-chief of the Central Army and the commander of the city defense of Kislev. You have enough prestige to be able to quell public grievances." Marshal Dimitri immediately turned his attention to Konev.

"Humph! Thinking of me now? It's too late!" Konev said impatiently and helplessly: "What do you want me to do?"

"You explain the truth and the law to them clearly!" Dimitri advised: "You have always had a high prestige in the army, and the soldiers will understand."

"I have always only cooked beetroot soup and pancakes on the spot. How can there be reason and laws on the spot?" Konev spread his hands: "Give me a deadline. When will the problem of unpaid wages be resolved?"

"This……"

…………I am the dividing line between beetroot soup and crepes…………

Not far from the armory, Ugor General Beria and his lieutenant Sherepin looked at the scene of the armory with complex expressions.

The mutiny has subsided for a while, for the time being.

When the scene was the most chaotic, General Andrei, who was in charge of the logistics, suddenly stood up. He stood on the table and shouted in his loudest voice: "It's me who didn't do it well, you owe your wages, I can't do anything, it's me Incompetent, sorry for His Majesty Katarin, and sorry for you guys, I declare that I am responsible for this!"

After speaking, General Andre suddenly took out a short-fired gun and aimed the muzzle at his chin.

A gunshot woke up the mutiny soldiers who were fighting and the armory soldiers and Kerim guards who were suppressing. Seeing that General Andrei died for this, the Ksa warriors and the strikers were really upset, and they finally gave up. Besieged the Armory.

Then, the officers turned to go to the Bokaha Palace. The Ksa warriors did not believe that they could not send money. Many generals Kislev and Boyer nobles participated in the Norsca expedition, and they pulled them back. Ships and carts of loot once filled the streets! They have money, go to them!

Thousands of soldiers selected dozens of officers to go to the Bokha Palace to ask for their salaries, and the rest queued up for the first time to pay for the emergency and returned to the barracks to wait for news.

In the depths of an alley in the street, Beria led more than 20 fully-armed Ugor cavalry archers. Looking at the scene in front of him, he looked a little complicated, but he still held back and did not attack: " It seems that the problem is more serious than I thought."

"I don't pay, the streets are full of hungry refugees." Deputy General Shelepin also said indignantly: "I just went to ask, General, ten kilograms of Leba, two large bags of potatoes, a piece of butter and fifteen tenga, That's the treatment of company commanders and battalion commanders! Ordinary Ksa warriors and battalions only have five kilograms of big leba, two large bags of potatoes and nine tenga."

Only nine! Beria remained calm all the time. His heart moved, and then he asked: "What about the market price? Have you investigated it clearly?"

"It was an emergency, and I didn't have time to investigate the market price." Shelepin shook his head repeatedly: "But I just asked a few passersby, General, guess how much an ordinary roast chicken sells on the black market in Kislev? "

"How much?" Beria was not interested in playing guessing games, and General Ugor was obviously planning something.

"Three silver coins! My God, three silver coins!" Shelepin said quickly: "I can't believe it's only twenty-five or twenty-eight in one of the best roasted capons in Brittany. Copper coins, what I like most is half a roast chicken and a bottle of vodka after the patrol, and here, the price has more than doubled!"

"Let's go, let's follow." Beria didn't answer Shelepin's words, and General Ugor immediately got on his horse, leading a dozen or so cavalry archers to keep up immediately, until he got on the horse, he said slowly: "Hall Jin Na, do you know her?"

"When...of course, your new maid, General." Xie Lepin didn't understand what Beria meant, and he also accepted a young and beautiful girl as his maid.

Has the general changed his mind?

"She's a little Boye's daughter! A little Boyer's daughter who owns the entire village with wooden fences and wooden gates outside the city!" Bellia snapped: "Little Boye! Lord of a village of three hundred! She has already drunk three Months of porridge! Do you know what that means? Boyer has started drinking porridge, what about the citizens? What about the farmers? And what about the refugees?!"

Xie Lepin understood, and the lieutenant suddenly felt chills: "Why did it become like this?"

"So as I said before, our tsar may be a good wizard, but by no means a good king and commander-in-chief. Since her accession, the kingdom has been messed up, and she has rarely led the army herself. , everything is to appoint generals or send supervisors, and she never visits the people as often as His Majesty Ryan, she only has her research, her research, her research in her heart!" Beria had to say more, Shelepin immediately lowered his voice. Sheng Sheng said, "Be careful, General, don't forget, you were also a member of the Internal Affairs Committee. You should know that Cheka secret police are everywhere in this city."

"This is a very bad omen. We all know that if for a country, the burghers, the small lords and the nobility have begun to fall completely, then the entire kingdom has already faced many crises." Bellia ignored it. In response to Sherepin's words, General Ugor knew that if he was still an officer of Kislev, he would have "disappeared" long ago, but he was the special envoy of the Knight King Ryan, and those Cheka did not dare to do anything to him. kind of.

In this world, after all, it is still about strength.

In fact, both Beria and Shelepin knew in their hearts why the recent food shortage in Kislev caused prices to skyrocket?

There are only two main reasons. One is the non-stop wars ahead and the large-scale grain expropriation for a long time. The second is that the empire has recently been in turmoil, which has greatly reduced the amount of food aid from the empire to Kislev, but the two people I didn't say anything because it wasn't necessary.

While talking, the Bokaha Palace arrived, and Beria signaled everyone to stop, and they stayed to observe from a distance.

The Crimean Marshal Alexei looked at the large group of middle and low-level officers who appeared in front of the palace, his face flushed with anger: "What are you trying to do? After damaging the armory, do you still want to come to the palace to loot your military salaries? ? Soldiers, take up arms!"

"Wait! We are not here to be robbers, we are all Mrs. Keisler! We want to see His Majesty Katarin today!" Alyosha, the leader of the Ksa warrior, shouted loudly: "The State Duma What are the people doing? We are in arrears with our military pay! We are family by family, and no one has been owed more than half a year of military pay. Many of us have been gnawing on the big bus for five months, and even selling children and daughters! I will ask, when will you be able to pay off our debts!"

"Didn't we ask General Andrei to pay you a debt?" Marshal Konev rushed over from behind with several marshals. This talented guy with a big bald head was quite prestigious in the army. The marshal quickly stopped at the gate of the palace: "It may be a bit small, but there is nothing I can do, this is my responsibility, I apologize, the past is past, please go back first, have a good time, let's think about it again. The way to do this, okay? I, Konev, pledged in the name of the bear **** Ersun, and I did not receive any salary this year!"

Marshal Konev is the guard commander of Kislev City and the commander-in-chief of the Central Army. He has a high prestige in the army, but today he miscalculated.

"You? Are you counting on that salary for the holidays?" Immediately, a Kesar officer came out and said, "Many of you have participated in the Norsca Expedition. Many of us have seen it with our own eyes. You plundered from Norsca. A lot of wealth, all kinds of armor, furs, paintings, velvet, gold, and silk plundered by the barbarians! The iron and copper ore, all kinds of livestock, and even many good goods of the high elves, one cart by one The truck and land were transported to your mansion, but they are all gone. It is all yours. The victory of the war is yours, the casualties are ours, and the capture is yours~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The disability is ours, now Even the military pay is not ours!"

"That's right! Her Majesty Katarin handed Kislev over to your group of State Dumas, but what are you all doing?! Hand over the money! Send out our military salaries!"

"Get out! You wolves who can't get enough to eat, spit out the army pay!"

"State Duma, man-eating jackals, we must let Her Majesty Catalin know your true colors!"

The words of the officers left Marshal Konev speechless, and he had a clear conscience about the distribution of the spoils, because he did not take anything.

But he couldn't swear to Ersun that no one took it. In fact, many of the great nobles, generals, and Boyers who participated in the Norsca Expedition did frantically collect a large amount of loot and transport them back to the country and their own. At home, they not only appropriated countless gold and silver treasures for themselves, but also refused to hand over even a little bit according to Kislev's "honorable tradition".

Konev sharply accused a colleague. He alone brought back more than twenty carriages of wealth from Norsca, and his home is about to become a "Norska Museum"!

Don't look at everyone arguing so happily when the State Duma held a meeting, but in fact, they all made a fortune! It's just that none of these windfalls will fall on the treasury or the soldiers, it's all theirs.

Seeing that the marshal could not answer, the scene gradually became chaotic. The excited officers moved forward and tried to break through the defense line, while the Kerim guards raised their weapons and aimed at their comrades, brothers and Paozer.

Before the palace, the smell of gunpowder was full, and it seemed that another mutiny was imminent.

Beria rode a horse and stood in the distance. When he saw this scene, he couldn't stop sneering.

You must be watching from somewhere in the palace, right? My Tsar's Majesty?

Also, Konev's obviously doesn't work, Yezhov, it's your turn to play.