Tales of the Reincarnated Lord

Chapter 577 Disarmament Recommendations

Blue sea and blue sky, sunny beach.

Lorist lay comfortably under the shade tent made of gray fine linen and watched his wife and children splashing on the beach. This is life, Lorist took a breath and tried to forget all the unhappy and troublesome things he encountered in the imperial capital.

The Duke of Kenmez came over with a small wooden barrel, which was filled with ice cubes made by the saltpetre cooling method, and two bottles of fruit wine were placed in the ice cubes. After sitting down by Lorist's side, the Duke of Kenmez took out two wine glasses from the small wooden barrel and opened a bottle of fruit wine. The amber fruit wine is clear and translucent, and it has a charming fragrance in the transparent glass.

Passing a glass to Lorist, the Duke of Kenmez lightly decorated the wine in the glass and exclaimed: "I don't know how there are so many wonderful ideas in your mind that can be made in such a hot summer. Here comes the ice cubes. Drinking a glass of cold fruit wine in this weather is really an incomparable enjoyment..."

Lorist didn't speak, but dried up the fruit wine in one sip, then poured himself half a glass, found two ice cubes from the small wooden barrel and threw it into the glass.

It was the beginning of September. After the imperial capital had attended the enthronement ceremony of the Second Highness, there were some disputes with the Second Highness, which led to an unhappy banquet in the evening. So Lorist, Kenmez, Felim, Shaheen and other three grand princes left the imperial capital early the next morning with their guards and left without saying goodbye. Returned to Silovas Island and joined his family.

This is the white beach in front of Wanghai Manor. Compared with the platinum beach of the Kenmes family, this beach is much smaller, but it is enough for the families of the four grand princes to play in the water. Seeing the crowds frolicking on the beach, Duke Kenmes sighed deeply. He spent a huge amount of money on the platinum beach of his family territory and built it into a summer resort for the entire kingdom, preparing for every summer Can welcome a large number of kingdom nobles and their families to come and play. Then the Second Hall came down and persuaded the kingdom aristocrats to send troops to conquer the business alliance. As a result, after three years of **** battles, all the kingdom aristocrats suffered heavy casualties, and no longer thought about going to the platinum beach to escape the heat. Everyone was lying at home and licking their wounds...

"It's okay, next year you will invite those nobles to visit the platinum beach. It has been five years, and forget what should be forgotten. Now that the empire is rejuvenated, there should be no more wars in the past few years. Everyone will naturally go if they have money in their pockets. You played there." Seeing the Duke of Kenmez staring at the beach in a daze, Lorist certainly understood what he was thinking.

"Ah, no..." Duke Kenmes returned to his senses: "I don't worry about that. What I just thought was what the disarmament proposal of your Majesty said at the dinner that day of the ceremony meant?"

After the enthronement ceremony, the Second Highness held a grand welcome banquet in the palace to entertain all the imperial nobles and their families who came to the ceremony. Although some unsatisfactory things happened before this grand ceremony, thanks to the efforts of the Second Highness, today's enthronement ceremony can be said to be a complete success. The satisfied Second Highness announced at the celebration banquet his own policy for the next three years, which is nothing more than focusing on internal affairs and people’s livelihood, increasing the empire’s fiscal revenue, enriching the national treasury, encouraging businesses to vigorously develop mineral resources, and streamlining the military and simplifying administration...

The focus is on simplification of the military and administration. His Royal Highness believes that the empire is now rejuvenated, so he plans to restore the former empire's three-legged regiment system, that is, the Royal Guards guards the capital, the White Lion Corps conquered outside, and the Gale Corps cleans up the mountain thief bandits in the interior. At the same time, a garrison regiment was established in each province directly under the imperial family to suppress localities. In addition, the Second Highness will prepare to establish the Royal Knights again, recruit relatives and children of the kingdom's nobles to become royal knights to serve for the Christian family, etc...

These are actually the old system of the Christen royal family, and everyone doesn't care. Just like the Royal Guards, the White Lions, and the Gale Corps are the three standing legions of the former Christian Empire. They are directly under the jurisdiction of the Royal Family. As long as the Second Highness can afford to build more legions, everyone has nothing to say. As for the Royal Knights, it is a way out for the children of the imperial aristocracy who cannot inherit their titles and territories. Sometimes in order to avoid disputes during peacetime, these children cannot even join their own family's arms, so as not to cause confusion and threats to the family's heirs. Like the second uncle of Lorist who had died in battle, he was the former deputy commander of the Royal Knights of the Christian Empire.

However, what all the imperial nobles did not expect was that after talking about the standing military system of these empires, His Royal Highness put forward a disarmament proposal to the imperial nobles present. He said that now the empire is rejuvenated, peace is expected, the empire’s territorial nobles You should no longer continue to expand your own family armaments, and you should invest your limited money in the development of your territory. Therefore, he suggested that the nobles of the empire should streamline their family armaments, and discuss the establishment of a family armament system that everyone abides by to limit the family armament of all the nobles of the empire.

His Royal Highness believes that an imperial baron can build two or three hundred-man teams as family arms, the viscount can have five hundred people, the earl can build a thousand-man clan arms, and the imperial marquis can have up to three thousand people. As for the duke of the territory, he can form a family armed corps or a small-scale family armed corps. For example, we can reduce the 45,000-man large formation corps to four 6,000-strong small formation corps plus a 1,000-member corps responsible for logistics, so that the total number of the corps is only about 25,000. .

His Royal Highness emphasized that this is for the sake of the purses of the imperial nobles. After all, supporting a large-scale clan armed force in the peaceful years is a lot of expense and burden for any imperial noble. His Royal Highness believes that reducing the expenditure on armaments will help the imperial nobles to better build their territories and enjoy a better life. As for the bandits and bandits entrenched in various places, the empire will carry out vigorous suppression after the formation of the Gale Army, without the need for the nobles of the territory to bear the responsibility of suppressing the bandits.

His Royal Highness expressed compassion for the people. The three-year **** battle on the Mana Hill Plain has caused almost all the nobles of the Empire to suffer a lot of casualties. Therefore, reducing the military expenditures of the nobles is the compensation given by the Empire. The subsequent foreign wars will be entirely up to the Empire. The three standing armies of the territorial nobles are responsible, and the family armed forces of the territorial nobles are responsible for defending their respective family territories. Unless the empire is threatened by the subjugation of the country, the Second Highness will not recruit the territorial nobles’ family armed forces onto the battlefield.

As for the disputes between the nobles of the territory, the Second Highness said that he did not want to see such a war of nobles. If there is a contradiction, he can submit it to the noble court for a ruling. Whether it is winning or losing, the three major standing legions of the empire are likely to intervene in such a war of aristocratic territories to quell the fighting awaiting the ruling of this territorial war by the noble court.

All the nobles who participated in the celebration banquet focused their attention on the three grand princes Lorist, Duke Fesabrunn and Kenmez, Philim and Shaheen. It is a well-known fact that the strength of the Norton family's armed forces surpasses the imperial armed forces commanded by the Second Highness. Even if the Second Highness has established the three major standing legions of the Empire, it is difficult to compete with the Norton family's armed forces. If you add the family armed forces of the three grand dukes of the four northern alliances, it will be enough to sweep the entire empire, even if the Second Royal Highness adds the family armed forces of the Fesabrun family and all other nobles in the imperial territory, I am afraid that Unable to resist the frontiers of the family armed coalition forces of the four alliances in the North.

Obviously, at this moment, His Royal Highness suddenly threw out this disarmament proposal aimed at the four Northland alliances headed by the Norton family. For the nobles of other imperial territories, the disarmament proposal of the Second Highness did not matter to them. Even if it was the three of Grand Duke Handela, Grand Duke Frondo, and Grand Duke Sabagi, they agreed more with this proposal of His Highness II. Disarmament recommendations. As the Second Highness said, this disarmament proposal does reduce their armament burden, without keeping the family armed corps full. In the future, even if they received a call-up order from the Second Highness, they would not have to send so many people to help.

Perhaps because of the anger with the Grand Duke Fesabrunn, Grand Duke Fesabrun stood up: "Your Majesty, the Fesabrun family firmly supports His Majesty’s disarmament proposal. I am willing to return the Border Rangers to the Imperial military system. Back under the command of your majesty."

Old slippery! At this moment, I don't know how many imperial nobles secretly cursed in their hearts. As long as anyone with a bit of head knows, the old fellow, Grand Duke Feisabrun, is cheap and good-natured. The Border Ranger Corps, although not the three standing regiments of the Empire, is also a well-known military regiment of the Empire. It was originally formed to deal with the raiding of the border areas of the empire by the grass-barbarian tribes on the northeast prairie. The border ranger was correctly defined as a local armed force.

It was only when dealing with the looting of the grass-barbarian tribe's captives that the border ranger fell into the hands of the Fey Sablon family and became the Fey Sablon family armed forces. At present, the Border Ranger Corps has the first and the second two regiments with nearly 80,000 troops. They are the main force of the Fei Sablon family. Lorist formed a family armed cavalry corps and deployed it in Muyeyuan Province, mainly to prevent and deal with the border ranger regiment.

Archduke Feisabrun said that the border ranger regiment should be returned to the imperial military system, that is, according to the organization of the former Christian Empire, the border ranger regiment has 45,000 troops and belongs to the empire’s local armed forces. Several provinces in the northeastern region are responsible for the equipment and equipment. Therefore, Grand Duke Feisabrun said nicely and was re-incorporated under the command of His Highness II, but in fact the entire army was still in the hands of Grand Duke Feisabrun.

The old guy had a wonderful idea. He pulled out one of the Border Rangers, and the other was transformed into the Fesabrunn Family Armed Corps. It was just renamed. In fact, both legions are still under the control of the Fesabrunn Family. in. And in this way, the Fesabrunn family only pays for the military expenses of one legion, while the cost of the border ranger is shared among the localities. This will greatly reduce the burden on the family and have more military resources available to the family. The garrison legion and the reserve legion formed in the mercenary mode and dominated by grass brutal cavalry.

His Royal Highness smiled and nodded: "Grand Duke Feisabrun is loyal to his country. I don’t remember the loss. It’s worth admiring. Let’s do this. I remember that the military and equipment expenses of the Border Rangers were paid by the Makinohara Province and Winston. The three provinces are divided between the province and the southern province. Then according to the previous example, the Grand Duke will be responsible for the annual expenditure budget of the entire border ranger, and get funds from these three provinces according to the previous ratio."

This is putting eye drops on the four Northland alliances! In the past, Muyeyuan Province, Winston Province, and Southern Province were the hardest hit areas for barbaric captives. For this reason, the three provinces proposed to form border ranger regiments to prevent grass barbarian tribes from looting. Military expenditures were shared among the three provinces. However, as the Border Rangers fell under the control of the Fei Sablon family, and opened up the Eastern Desolation Province, the Southern Province and Winston Province are no longer threatened by the savages. However, as the Border Rangers became the armed corps of the Fiesabrun family, this agreement on the sharing of military expenses has long been invalidated.

Now Southern Province has become the territory of the Philim family, and Winston Province and Makinoyuan Province have also become the jurisdiction of the Norton family. With the banner of returning to the imperial military system, the Second Highness of the Society is holding the righteousness and the banner of returning to the imperial military system to make these three provinces re-share the military expenditures of the border rangers, which shows that the four alliances of the disgusting Northland use their own money to train the opponents’ arms. It just so happened to say that it was so awe-inspiring, it was really hard for the second highness to spend the thoughts.

Duke Felim thumped the gold cup in his hand on the table with a "bang", and stood up angrily: "This is absolutely impossible! Back then, the frontier ranger regiment was formed to deal with the grass barbarians, now the grass barbarians Are there any threats to the tribe? The Border Rangers have become the family armaments of the Fesabrunn family. Why should we pay for it?"

Lorist sighed and stood up and stopped the anger of the Duke of Felim: "The Southern Province was not the family territory of the Duke of Felim, so it is normal to share the arms costs, but now the Southern Province has become the Philippines. In the family territory of the Grand Duke Lim, it would be inappropriate to allocate the military expenses of the Border Rangers to the Southern Province. So, your Majesty, Grand Duke Feisabrun, our Norton family is willing to take over the military expenses of the Border Rangers. Guarantee Don’t let the Border Rangers lack military expenditure..."

His Highness was overjoyed: "Brother Locke understands the truth and is willing to contribute to the country."

Grand Duke Feisabrun was also very happy: "Duke Norton said it seriously? In the presence of so many imperial nobles, you can't regret what you said..."

"Of course, the words count." Lorist nodded: "In addition to military expenses and daily expenses, the Norton family is also willing to re-provide the border rangers with complete equipment. But this requires the border rangers to be brought to our Norton family territory. Come to reorganize. And re-training according to the characteristics of the equipment. Everyone knows that our Norton family is unmatched. We are willing to impart our training experience and combat experience to the Border Rangers without reservation. It only takes half a year. Guarantee Give your Majesty an elite frontier guard ranger."

Grand Duke Feisabrun's face turned white all of a sudden, and he was brought to the Norton family for half a year of training and reorganization. Can the Border Rangers still listen to themselves? It is guaranteed that even people and horses will become part of the Norton family's armed forces. , The food and even the army's salary is taken from the Norton family. Would you still listen to other people's orders? Only when you are stupid will you send the Border Rangers to the Norton family territory...

His Royal Highness also understands this. Lorester said a few words and resolved the problem he had made: "Let’s discuss this again, anyway, it’s not anxious now. By the way, my Brother Locke, you treat me How do you look at the disarmament proposal just now? Now that the empire is peaceful, your Norton family does not need to maintain so many family arms. I think your Norton family can completely reduce the four family armies to two, and even one family armed army is enough. "

Picture poor dagger now! Lorist shook his head: "Your Majesty, I regret that I cannot agree to your disarmament proposal. Because this will affect our family's military dispatch plan."

"Arrangement plan?" The Second Highness was surprised: "Where else do you Norton family want to conquer?"

"It's not a conquest. Your Majesty doesn't have to worry about it." Lorist said: "In the next stage, our Norton family is going to open up the Dragon Mountains and the barbaric plains farther north. We are preparing to expand land and build provinces in the north and open up new territories for the empire. . Now the family’s four legions will have two legions ready to go north, the other will be deployed in Muyeyuan Province to guard against the grass-barbarian tribes, and another legion will guard the north. In fact, our family’s forces are also very tight, and perhaps a few more are needed. The Grand Duke’s family armed help..."

Lorist referred to the princes as Duke Kenmes, Duke Philim and Duke Shaheen. This put an end to the Second Highness's attempt to force them to reduce the family's armed forces.

His Royal Highness's expression was ashen. He thought that Lorist was completely looking for excuses to refuse to reduce the family's armed forces. However, after taking a few deep breaths, he reluctantly endured it: "By the way, Locke, since you are unwilling to reduce the clan's armament, I will not force your will. But should you change the name of your Guards Corps? He and my Royal Guards have the same name. Maybe someone will gossip..."

Lorist laughed: "Okay, Your Majesty, according to your wishes, from today onwards, the name of the Guards of our family will be renamed the Iron Guards."

For Lorist, the name of the legion doesn't matter. Since the Second Royal Highness avoids violating the name of the Guard Corps, then the Guard is renamed Iron Guard, which is simple and easy to remember. But what I didn't expect was that the name of the Iron Guard regiment had just been uttered, and the second majesty became angry. He kicked the table in front of him, turned and left the hall, and the celebration party ended up unhappy.

After leaving the palace, Lorist was still inexplicable and a little angry. Your Highness, is this turning your face to show me? Unreasonable!

The Duke of Kenmez laughed loudly: "Locke, you are truly amazing. If you had known that your name was changed to the Iron Guards, it would be better not to change your name. This is simply a slap on our majesty in front of you..."

"No, I still don't understand why it can't be called the Iron Guard Corps?"

"Haha, have you forgotten? The Grand Duke of Madras formed an Iron Guards regiment, which defended the city of Kebo with 8,000 troops. The father of the Second His Royal Highness, Prince Andinak, brought the entire Royal Guards regiment with 60,000 horses. After attacking for more than six months, I couldn’t attack it. Instead, I lost most of the centaur and only 20,000 remnants left. The situation in the empire changed drastically, which caused the final torn apart. You said it was renamed the Iron Guards. This is not a fight. Your Majesty’s face? It is clearly aimed at his Royal Guards..."

Lorist was dumb~www.wuxiaspot.com~ He was unintentional, but the second majesty must have taken it intentionally. Now the gap between the two is getting deeper and deeper. But Lorist had no intention to explain, and left the imperial capital early the next morning.

Lying comfortably on the sand, Lorist said: "His Majesty’s disarmament proposal that day was actually giving us a cover. He doesn’t care whether we cut the family’s armed forces or not. The important thing is to determine the establishment of the armed corps of our families. After clarifying this family’s armed forces, if something happens to us to expand the army, he can accuse us of expanding our troops for plotting. If we don’t expand our troops, we can only ask him for help, and then he can let the three empires standing legions intervene. In the internal affairs of our family territory... I guessed that."

The Duke of Kenmez killed the fruit wine in the glass: "Your Majesty has a heavy heart now."

"Of course..." Lorist nodded: "There is no external threat. Your Majesty is now focusing on our four alliances. Perhaps to him, our four alliances are more threatening than the business alliance that year. So we four. The family’s armed corps cannot be reduced, and we need to practice from time to time to maintain combat effectiveness, so as to ensure the continuation of our family and the security of our territory."

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