Proof of the Sun King

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That night, the Knights Road army camped on the Curona Road.

The time has come to December, the weather is already very cold, and even the knights know that it is enough. The Knights Road army did not bring too much food and logistical supplies when they set off, because the empire has promised to solve all logistical problems. .

In fact, Lane has already received the first part of the logistics supply from the border line, which was arranged by Marienburg and delivered by the Imperial Frontier Forces. Since Schultz gave a very detailed list of items, the Imperial bureaucracy will only "transport" The "loss" was set at 8%, and the remaining 92% was fully delivered to the Knights Road army.

This made Veronica, who is familiar with the way of doing things in the empire, complained that you are the king of knights, and the money and food were purchased by Marienburg, and the empire took the initiative to invite, so those imperial bureaucrats did not dare to go to court. This money is just out of hand.

And Ryan also knew that this kind of money and grain transportation was indeed attrition, and the King of Knights didn't say much. He simply handed over to the imperial bureaucrats who transported them, asked if there was any new information, and then let them leave.

After leaving, Ryan thought more about the Emperor's layout.

Has the Emperor already predicted that he will become the King of Knights? No one knows this, but there is no doubt that the Emperor's decision to send Schultz to this world was indeed a very far-sighted decision, and Schultz played his part in several key moments, including Ryan's first arrival. Marienburg, including the futile end of the emperor's several attempts to take back Marienburg, including a series of moves after Ryan's ascension to the throne, and the sudden attack at this critical moment to make the plan of the Tzeentch demon and the Tzeentch believers come back in vain.

The King of Knights has always felt that there is an invisible hand that dominates everything. Behind him, the Emperor's cold eyes are watching the chessboard, what to do next, while on the opposite side, the Four Chaos Gods, the Elf God, the Old Sage or the other. Something like the Endless Taraxin or the Star God is on the opposite side, and the icy game of chess continues.

At present, we only need to concentrate on dealing with this tide of destruction... The King of Knights persuaded himself in this way. He inspected the area around the camp for a while, and soon found a troll who came out to hunt for food and came from the gold near the camp. There were a few goblins in the special mine, and Ryan wanted to find a chance to shoot, but before he got close, the old guards who defended the king immediately rushed up and lined up to fight.

Speaking of which, this troll is unlucky enough. Bertrand's arrow pierced the heart and even the troll with super recovery ability was directly beaten to one knee, and then the musket grenadier shot the troll with a salvo. He fell down, and then a Molotov cocktail smashed on the twitching troll. The troll struggled for a long time and was finally burned to ashes. The goblins were defeated immediately after a little battle, and were served by knights. They kill them all.

Ryan didn't find a chance to make a move throughout the whole process. The King of Knights could only smile indifferently. Well, too many powerful enemies died in his hands. Now that the opponent's level is not enough, he also felt that his shot was very cheap.

Looking at the scorched corpse of the troll, Ryan suddenly remembered the legendary hero of the high elves, Azharion the Grim, he recalled the final outcome of this guy and the green-skinned pot-bellied king Gollum. Heard it with his own ears from Rhys—Etharion threw Pot-bellied King Gulu's body, which was constantly healing and recovering, into the magical furnace of Tar-Iris, and burned it for five days and five nights to finally completely destroy Pot-bellied King Gulu. burnt to ashes.

Just then, the soldiers made a new discovery.

"General, look, this is the body of a pilgrim." The company commander of the old guard's musket grenadier, the little Hugo immediately signaled that there were corpses on the side of the road, and he hurriedly shouted to Bertrand.

Bertrand wanted to walk over, but the blessings of the Eye of Tar and the Lord of Nature were not given in vain. He saw the corpse nearly 100 meters away at a glance, indicating that he did not need to go over, but said to Ryan. : "It's a pilgrim, Your Majesty."

"Normal, this is the road to Corona." Ryan immediately understood what happened, and the King of Knights sighed lightly: "Okay, we can almost go back."

"Yes." Everyone just glanced at them and decided to return.

In addition to being the border area between the Empire and Brittany, the Way of Curona is also a pilgrimage route for the famous Church of the Lady of Mercy.

As we all know, the Church of the Goddess of Mercy is headquartered in Curona, the capital of Brittany, but the largest sanatorium and the most patients of the Church of the Goddess of Mercy are basically in Brunswick, the capital of the empire. Every year, the Church of the Goddess of Mercy in the Empire encourages Those sick and handicapped pilgrims make pilgrimages to the Church of the Goddess of Mercy on this side of Curona.

The priests of the Church of the Goddess of Mercy promised that as long as they completed the pilgrimage, they would be blessed with free medical resources and divine arts, which made a large number of pilgrims suffering from illness or hoping for divine rescue to gather from all over the empire to the cloth every year. Lunswick, and then from Brunswick, trekking thousands of kilometers to Curona.

In fact, the priests of the Church of the Goddess of Mercy always try to encourage as many believers and patients as possible through speeches and commitments. If the number is not enough, the Church of the Goddess of Mercy will even take the initiative to send people away with money. Most of the pilgrims are average Before leaving Rikland, they were reduced to begging for a living. Some pilgrims who looked like beggars were sent back by the Brittanian border army, and others were thrown into prison cells. Lack of food and water leads to weakness and death from disease.

To make matters worse, this group of pilgrims had to pay a transit tax when they crossed the border. Originally, the Brittanian knights felt the need to show their mercy and declared that the pilgrims were free, but soon bad traders And the postmen and smugglers took advantage of this rule to claim they were all pilgrims, and eventually made the knights angry and stipulated that no matter who they were, they had to pay the transit tax.

And as everyone can see, the border between the Empire and Brittany is very barren and full of greenskins and bandits and even many small groups of monster war gangs, so finally the pilgrimage to the headquarters of the Goddess of Mercy in Curona There are only about 3%-10% of the pilgrims. After arriving in Curona, these pilgrims will receive free medical treatment from the headquarters and divine treatment released by the Archbishop himself. After the treatment, the pilgrims will be asked to return to Brunswick immediately. Only 1%-3% were able to return to Brunswick to promote the generosity of the Church of Mercy and to encourage other believers to continue the pilgrimage.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, you will know that the so-called "Curona Pilgrimage Road" by the Church of the Goddess of Mercy is a bit strange and has some strange meaning?

You taste, you taste carefully.

Ryan had long seen why the Church of the Goddess of Mercy did this, and he also knew that this pilgrimage road was covered with the bones and blood and tears of pilgrims, but the King of Knights remained silent about it.

The reason is very simple, that is, the Church of the Goddess of Mercy is one of the very few in the world. It accepts patients, the elderly and the homeless, and treats the sick for free. This is the teaching of the Goddess of Mercy, Saria, but there is a The problem, because the Church of the Goddess of Mercy does not collect tithes, basically all of its income comes from donations from nobles and citizens, the church does everything it can to help the poor but seriously lacks sufficient power and financial resources, so they need pilgrimage rituals, and they need to pass this kind of pilgrimage. The way to "eliminate" a very large number of poor and sick people who rely entirely on the Church of the Goddess of Mercy for relief.

On the way back, the King of Knights was silent. Ryan thought that this also involved the "right and left struggle" that could never be resolved, that is, the issue between the left and the right. This issue is very complicated. Let me briefly say it here, then It is on the issue of relief that the leftists are "requesting social security and guaranteeing the welfare system", while the rightists are showing that "the kingdom does not support lazy people, and emphasizes competition and stimulates subjective initiative."

The poor of course like the leftist social security and welfare system, but there is a problem here, just like the problem faced by the Church of the Lady of Mercy, that is, high welfare, high social security = high taxes, so do the poor like high taxes? Obviously I don't like it. In the end, everyone is mixing welfare together.

The rightists advocate that competition is cruel and does not support lazy people, which leads to the polarization between the rich and the poor, which is abhorred by the poor, but the rightists have low taxes and high degrees of freedom that everyone likes. So do the poor like low welfare or even no security? Obviously I don't like it either. In the end, the class is solidified and completely loses its aggressiveness.

This problem has plagued human beings for thousands of years. Just like populism and elites, human beings sway from side to side and cycle back and forth, always only temporarily easing conflicts, and never finding a real solution to this problem. Many times, but none of them have been successful. Countries with high welfare and low taxes will go bankrupt within a few years, and countries with high taxes and low welfare... There are quite a few.

Back in the king's red, blue and gold-top tent in the camp, Ryan gently opened the inner tent. Veronica was sitting in the hall of the tent, and Aurora and Teresa discussed the future of the sorceress meeting place. Development and debate, the theme of the debate is roughly whether magic theory is more important or practical experience is more important. Seeing Ryan's return, Veronica said casually, "Lane, why did you come back so quickly?"

"I'll be back after patrolling casually." Ryan smiled. He glanced at him and noticed that Lawn and Duke Berhemonde were sitting in front of the stove stewing a bullwhip. When Berhemonde saw Ryan come in, he smirked. Said: "Your Majesty, try my craftsmanship, you must need this."

"No, thank you." Ryan thought that the stewed bullwhip would be useless except to fill his stomach. The Knight Dynasty said to Lawn, "How many corpses of pilgrims on this road have always been?"

"A lot? I've sent someone to clean it up a few times." Raun said helplessly: "Since your majesty, you signed a contract with Emperor Karl Franz, the main energy of our border troops has been used to clean up small-scale greenery. Skins and bandits, and these pilgrims, sometimes there are so many that we have to act together."

"Very good." Ryan had nothing to say. The Knight King once again emphasized to himself that his current goal was to resist the frenzy of chaos, and put everything aside beforehand: "Where's Hagen?"

"The Duke of Hagen will come a little later. He has called up the young knights of Ghisoleaux and is giving a lecture." The Duke of Berhemonde said carelessly: "He said that these young knights are the last wave of the waves. The Holy Grail and endless glory lie ahead of them, and the battle of chivalry is their best stage."

"Ha, if he just addressed the young ranger knights and knight squires like this, there would be no problem." Ryan nodded with a smile, the king of knights thought for a while, and walked towards the interior: "I'll go and see the dinner preparations. How's it going?"

In the kitchen, Morgiana, the witch of the lake god, and a few servants happily hummed music and made dinner. The dinner was very simple. It was corn, ham and egg bisque + fried foie gras + grilled steak + vegetable salad + Tyrell black pepper. Chicken noodle + cream bread, seeing Ryan come in, Morgiana said softly: "Why did you come in, dinner will take a while, wait."

"What, why can't men cook when women can cook? Gas! Shaking! Cold! When will our knights really stand up?" Lane smiled and walked to the cauldron where the corn, ham, and egg bisque was being boiled, indicating The servant stepped aside and did it himself: "I'm a master at cooking. When I was young, I often ventured alone. Morgiana, how long has it been since you left the territory of Brittany?"

"I have never left Britannia since I became a witch of the lake god." Morgiana wore a maid's apron and a white turban on her head, giving her a homely beauty: "This is the first time I have left the cloth. Litania."

"Laun and the others outside are really lucky to be able to eat the food you made." Ryan smiled.

The King of Knights had reason to be happy. Due to the logistical guarantees of the Empire, the army of the Road of Knights marched very fast. At most, the Army of the Road of Knights could arrive at Middenheim in a month, provided there was no battle.

The King of Knights also found a handful of leeks in the corner of the kitchen, and Ryan couldn't help laughing: "Isn't this an 'organic back wave'? Morgiana, where did you get it?"

"What organic backlash?" Morgiana didn't understand: "It was found in the logistics supplies of Marienburg, but no one liked it, so it was put there."

"So it is." Ryan grabbed the leeks, and suddenly wanted to cut a wave with a sickle, which was refreshing.

After a while, dinner was ready, and everyone began to sit down and prepare to eat. Ryan, Lawn, and Bethmond prayed to the fairy in the lake. Veronica and Teresa were waiting for Ryan to move the fork after they finished praying. Move the fork again.

Only Aurora looked at the steak, thick soup, salad, and Tyrell noodles in front of everyone with black lines, as well as an empty plate wet in front of her, and said dissatisfiedly to Morgiana: "His Royal Highness Morgiana ,What does it mean?"

"Oh, Ms. Aurora, you're still here, I forgot." Morgiana sat beside Ryan, and the witch of the lake **** said coldly, "I thought you weren't going to have dinner with us at night, so I didn't. Prepare your portion."

Veronica almost fainted with laughter, Teresa wanted to persuade but was pulled by Ryan to signal no use. Ryan signaled that Teresa would just look at it. Out of trust in Ryan, Teresa said nothing.

"What do you mean I don't have dinner with you at night?!" Aurora almost stood up in anger, and the Sanctuary Witch said angrily: "I came here to have dinner on the king's order, and I have been sitting here all the time. , are your eyes blind?"

Lawn and Berhemond also looked at Morgiana strangely. This doesn't seem like a mistake that the witch of the lake **** would make? But the two dukes were inconvenient to speak, so they could only eat with their heads down.

Ryan's face was full of black lines, the King of Knights opened his mouth, and finally he could only say: "It's okay, I'll make another copy right away, Ms. Aurora, wait a moment."

"No, Ms. Aurora, I'm sorry, I'm not prepared, so, Ms. Aurora, you can deal with this." Morgiana waved her hand to the servant to give a large enough weight to two kilograms. No. barley bread and a jar of butter: "Now in the wilderness~www.wuxiaspot.com~ You can overcome it a little."

Aurora stood up directly, and blue veins appeared on the face of the witch of the sanctuary: "It seems that, Your Highness Morgiana, we need an honorary duel to solve the problem!"

"It's an honor!" Morgiana also stood up, the witch of the lake **** was aggressive.

In the end, the two great sanctuary wizards had a fight outside the tent. The final result was that Aurora was defeated. She was not Morgiana, who mastered both life and sky magic, and was the first choice of the fairies in the lake at the same time. The opponent, the witch of the sanctuary, was locked in a tent by Morgiana, her limbs were tied, her eyes were covered, her mouth was closed, and she was "teaching" a lesson. No one knew what Morgiana taught, but Ryan vaguely knew that Olika was in the The army seemed to have had a private exchange with Morgiana before the army set off.

Since then, Aurora has kept a low profile and restrained a lot in the army.

It took the Knights Road army more than ten days to quickly pass the Curona Road and pass through Marienburg. Here, they received the second logistics material loaded with thousands of carriages.

Afterwards, the army continued eastward and came to the south of Westerland, gradually approaching the Drakwald Forest in Midden.

At the end of December, Ryan received the first emergency military information.

"The main force of about 130,000 Chaos forces is close to the northern border of the Empire! The imperial coalition forces of the three provinces of Nord, Oster, and Ostermark have successively lost several battles with the Chaos Army in the south of Kislev!"

"Erengrad still stands!".

"Bekafen, the capital of the province of Ostermark, is facing the attack of the Nurgle Legion! The Elector Hertwig-Wolfram has gathered tens of thousands of troops and is ready to resist!"

"The news shows that the new hundreds of thousands of Chaos reinforcements have begun to descend south from the Mourning Mountains!"