Law of the Devil

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Chapter 358 [Empire 963]

Roland Empire 963rd Year.

During the year, a lot of important things happened in the Empire. In any way, these things that happen are worth a big book in history.

Especially these things, which occurred before the onset of the fierce Roland Continent War era, highlighted the subtleties of some things…

At first, in the early spring of the year 663, the last famous Earl of Raymond, known as the late Augustine dynasty, who had served the Empire at Hector Station, died ill in his room bed in the castle of his hometown of the Rollin Plains. The Empire General, who had participated in the Northwest Station Commander more than two decades ago and had personally commanded two Southern Ocean expedition wars, had completed his journey. Although there was also stain in his career: coup d 'état.

But it doesn't erase his life's accomplishments. And in future generations' assessment of this general, there is an interesting addition:

“Throughout this general's life history, whether outstanding as a result of the first Northwest Battle of the Grasslands, the credit for his subsequent expedition to the South Ocean will be no less than that of any other person in history. However, this is not the General's greatest contribution to the Empire. Many believe that General Raymond's greatest contribution to the Roland Empire, to the continent and to the people, has been his birth of a good son. ”

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The second thing that happened this year was the start of dramatic recruitment across the continent. The Empire invested a great deal of financial and material resources, pulling elites out of reserve service, and massively selecting elites from local armies into new Imperial Battle Corps.

And at the time -- nobody knew why. Public statements were made to supplement the Northern Storm Legion, which had suffered heavy losses following the ravages of warcraft. But everyone knows that's just an excuse.

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The third thing that happened this year, in the spring of the Empire 963, took place in Empire, in a baptismal ceremony that did not come alive. His Royal Highness Prince King Chen of Regent, the current de facto ruler of the Empire and supreme ruler of the continent, accepted the religious baptism given to him by Pope Paul XVI.

Although every emperor for generations has to be baptized by the Pope to be considered a legitimate emperor. However, the baptism of the Regent was extremely rare: Pope Paul XVI would become his godfather after he announced his baptism in public!

The ceremony was very lively that day, and tens of thousands of Imperial Metropolitan citizens came to watch the entire baptism.

This matter has been strongly opposed by many royal aristocrats, which in everyone's view is an absolute disgrace to the royal family and even a strategic failure! The royal family has maintained its pride and dignity for thousands of years against the Church, even at the time of the greatest crisis in the historical kingdom of God, and has never bowed its head to the Church! And this young and wise future monarch has done this “foolish” act, which is extremely confusing to all.

Many believe that this is a deal: obviously, because of the strong support of the Temple during the coup d 'état, the Regent is rewarding the Temple for what happened.

That guess is correct. However, it is believed that this leaves a stain on the wise Regent's career: for his own sake, he trades his royal dignity for the support of the Temple, so what is the difference between him and the late Grand Prince who caused the coup d 'état?

But then two things happened, once again increased the support rate for Prince Chen!

On the third day of the christening ceremony, the Regent issued a proclamation: at the behest of His Majesty Emperor Augustine VI. Little Emperor Sun Charlie is the first heir to the Empire's throne! Until the Crown Prince reached maturity, his Royal Highness Prince Chen, the Regent, remained in charge of the imperial affairs. At the same time, Prince Chen was awarded the title of Prince.

Prince Chen, by his actions, actually gave up his throne voluntarily… although he was already the actual ruler of the empire.

On the other hand, the temple suffered losses: they did not receive an imperial prince, but only a princely prince. The political significance of this baptism has led to a huge discount.

At a time when everyone thought the temple would definitely be so annoyed that it would strike a series of counterattacks with the royal family - all surprised that the temple and the royal family were even more united!

After numerous meetings and consultations, the Pope and the Regent signed a series of agreements in which, over the next three years, the Temple expressed its willingness to renounce religious taxes in some areas and then donate them to the Imperial Army in the form of non-reimbursable donations to demonstrate its support for Imperial military expenditures.

For its part, the Empire announced the construction of new religious centres in more than a dozen places to promote the teachings of the Goddess of Light. This includes the territory of the Duke of Tulips, Dessarong Province.

It is noteworthy that, in fact, it has been discovered that during the ceremony of the Regent's ministry, His Holiness the Pope in attendance, as old as possible, the spiritual leader of the Roland Empire, appeared to be very old and weak, and many devout followers feared that His Holiness the Pope would soon be summoned by the Goddess.

Only after Dewey received this information did he realize that it appeared that the Pope's serious injuries were far from recovering after the Battle of the White River with the Witch King.

Another detail is the presence of the leader of the Limosa faction of the Temple of Light, His Excellency Maximus, Archbishop of the North-Central Region, at that christening ceremony. To everyone's surprise, this Mossad leader, wearing a red robe, has shown that his place in the Church has changed: the Cardinal!

Moreover, during the baptismal ceremony, the new Archbishop of Red is always in his first place under the Pope! This further implies his identity, which has been designated by the Pope as the "Chief Archbishop”.

Normally, in the Church, the status of "Chief Archbishop” also has a special significance - heir to the Pope!

Taking advantage of this public occasion, Pope Paul XVI undoubtedly made a silent announcement of his future successor.

Anyone who has knowledge of the Church knows. In the church, the mosas represent the moderates, while the Yeni are the hawks. This move by Pope Paul XVI undoubtedly laid the foundation for the rise of the Mossad faction.

And the establishment of a moderate leader as an heir undoubtedly reveals the temple's attitude in the time to come: to restore relations with the imperial royal family and live in harmony.

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The fourth major event of the year. The news of the ravages of warcraft in the North had spread throughout the continent, and the Empire had issued a broken decree officially declaring that: but every private mercenary adventure team in every part of the continent, starting on the date of the decree, could hunt warcraft in every part of the North, and the Empire had even drawn up a very detailed list showing clear bounty amounts. Any warcraft that is captured can collect a reward from the local government!

Such an announcement was published and immediately revealed the actual nature of it by the sensitive smeller!

Mercenary Corps of the Roland Empire, now legitimized!!

Years after the fall of the knighthood, the announcement is undoubtedly of special significance! It stimulated the flourishing of mercenary adventure organizations everywhere, while a large number of low-level samurai classes, who were once so poor that they could not work or eat, finally found their way out - a large number of newly built mercenary regiments in the north are circulating notices of recruiting new recruits!

And the news is that the Knights Association in a city in an area of the North where warcraft is ravaged suddenly receives 300 applications for a samurai rating within a day of the announcement - a figure that is normally already their workload for a year.

The rise of large groups of mercenaries, combined with the profitability of hunting warcraft, has driven many people on this adventurous path, despite the horrors of warcraft.

Soon, however, the ravages of warcraft were greatly alleviated, flowing into the northern part of the Empire. In the face of a large number of human bounty hunters who had lost their minds in money, the Empire effectively solved the ravages of warcraft without spending a single soldier.

And… the financial aspects of the Empire are not insignificant. Although there are bounty payments for hunting warcraft, the Empire is not unpaid… Any mercenary regiment must declare its roster to the Empire's official authorities. The Empire even has an official mercenary jurisdiction, and… each mercenary regiment must pay taxes annually to the Empire in order to maintain its legal identity.

This decree was supported and opposed by supporters who felt that it would be effective in solving the problem of the warcraft ravages in the North. Opponents are worried that once the legitimacy of the mercenary regiment opens up, only civil security issues will be left behind! This leads to a large number of fatalities, which is not what people want to see.

After Dewey got the news, she just laughed. He was a supporter, and his attitude was: "Even if the Empire did not have this order, there would have been various groups of mercenaries in the North, which is an open secret. Since it can't be blocked, why don't we just open the ban and then we can have more taxes. ”

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The fifth major event of the year took place. The Imperial Army announced that they would build a large military fortress in the northern part of the Empire, some 10 miles from the southern end of the ice-sealed forest.

The location of this military fortress was rigorously chosen, and the location chosen was extremely critical. It was on the Bijing main road leading to the south of the frozen forest, with large mountainous areas and difficult to walk on both sides. Only this area was relatively flat, and in the last incident when the beast rushed out of the frozen forest, this place was the main way forward for the flood of warcraft.

According to the Imperial Official, this time the Empire is prepared to spend a great deal of military money to cultivate one of the largest and strongest military fortresses ever! Ever since, eradicate any possibility of a monster ravaging! As long as such a fortress stands in the northern part of the empire, a large portion of the northern territory of the empire south of this military fortress will henceforth be guaranteed security.

The Imperial Army, led by Old Prime Minister Robustschel, has put forward a vast plan.

“This military fortress will be the most outstanding product in the history of the Imperial Army.” All the military experts who have seen this plan have had this sentiment, and the only objection is that some can't help but say, "Would it be too wasteful to spend so much on this almost miraculous military iron wall just to stop the unwise beasts? ”

Until now, no one is aware of a major enemy invasion in the North in the next three years.

In order to create this military fortress, the military again had a major argument with the Minister of Finance for a few days. And finally, it was the Duke of Tulip who solved their problems.

The Duchess of Tulips has once again donated 10 million gold coins in her private name.

Such a move amazes everyone and speculates… how much wealth does this tulip duke have? The previous donation of 50 million gold coins was no longer a secret.

Under the leadership of the Duke of Tulip, the Dragon Mountain Warcraft has expressed its willingness to donate three million gold coins worth of weapons to arm a new army of main warriors in the future. Nobles such as Count Billia donated dozens to millions of gold coins each.

This summer, on Dewey's 16th birthday, Dewey received a small gift from the military.

Messengers from the military indicated that, as the military fortress was built at the donation of His Excellency the Grand Duke of Tulip, they were willing to ask the Grand Duke of Tulip to give a name for this new military fortress in the future in order to show respect for the Grand Duke of Tulip.

In fact, Dewey has already seen the architectural drawings for this military fortress. Although it is highly classified, there are no more secrets in terms of relations with the Regents of Duwei and Regent. And… many of these constructions, even the proposals made by Dewey.

For example, the strongest prismatic walls, with sharp barbs all over them! And there's a tower every ten meters above the walls with a heavy military crossbow! And a huge military fortress, enough to hold more than 200,000 troops, even more! Inside the military fortress, huge cellars have also been dug for food reserves, which, combined with the cold weather in the north, would have been less perishable, and if the cellars had been piled up, there would have been enough food in them to allow the garrison to support them for a long time.

Even Dewey personally designed several catapults… Moreover, the catapult is not a rock. Rather, it is based on a new type of "gunpowder bomb”, which has been upgraded from the production base in the city of Gilliant.

Everyone who has seen the design plan says unanimously, "This is a line of defense that will never be broken! ”

Never to be broken?

When Dewey heard these statements, he suddenly moved into his mind and the idea of mischief came back to life.

So, in the face of the messenger sent by the military, Dewey waved a lot on the document, giving this future's strongest iron wall defense line a name...

Kabaski...

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The sixth major event of the year. In the spring of this year, according to the traditional spring performance of the Imperial Army, some 50,000 private troops belonging to the Rollin family of the Rollin Plains in the southern part of the Empire, the two divisions of recruits - not counting as recruits in fact, are veterans who were discharged and re-enlisted, after careful selection, the integration was completed, in the name of the "Spring Play” long distance pull, from the Rollin Plains to the northwest.

Subsequently, the army was stationed in the north-western province of Desafar. Although this army is nominally a private army of the Rollins, everyone knows that in his current capacity as Lord and Young Master of the Rollins, and that the elder is his minor brother, the private army is actually under the command of Dewey - not to mention that even the salaries are paid by Dewey.

As a result, together with the more than 40,000 horses of the Tulip family originally under Dewey, Dewey's men assembled a total of 100,000 troops, while Governor Bohan of the adjacent province, after the last conscription, had more than 40,000 troops. The landscape of the Northwest has changed dramatically in one instance. Even the fool could see that Dewey's move was clearly directed against the Northwest Legion.

And above the continent, everyone is watching, wondering how the future of the Northwest will change. Northwest is like a firehouse that's going to explode any minute, and with just a few subtle changes, it could trigger the biggest war in the Empire in decades - and it's a civil war!

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The seventh major event of the year…

When this thing happened, nobody noticed it happening, the process. And it wasn't until this thing turned out that people were staring. It can be said that the landscape of the continent has been completely reversed by a very small, even insignificant person...

963rd year of the Empire, late autumn.

The Governor's Office of the Duke of Tulip, Lancheng, Northwest Tessa Province.

Dewey frowned and his fingers gently touched his eyebrows as if he wanted to allay the anxiety between them. He is looking at a document, a report to be exact. Philip stood before the Tulip family, Dewey's current first conspirator and chief of government. The young man's appearance was more mature, with a hint of silence between his eyebrows, his hands conventionally tucked in his sleeve, standing quietly there, and a deep unpredictable smell emanating from his body.

Dewey finished looking at the file in front of him and slowly closed it. On the cover, he wrote a big red line:

Top secret! Northwestern military plan for the next three years.

Dewey pondered for a moment and glanced at Phillip: "Did you write all this alone? ”

Phillip laughed: "No, I've heard some comments from General Lombardon and some inspiration from Knight Jolyn. ”

Dewey picked out the eyebrows. Jolyn did a pretty good job this year. Since the operation in the South China Ocean, when Jolyn's military talent was completely developed, Dewey simply transferred the knight to the army under his command. At first, Dewey had her commanding a cavalry battalion, and a year later, Jolyn had become commanding officer of 3,000 cavalry in a cavalry battalion because of her prominent performance and Dewey's deliberate promotion.

And if it wasn't an accident, the first female general under the future Tulip family would probably be her.

Even QQ, this guy, talking to Dewey by chance, talking about Jolyn, this guy couldn't bear to give a shout of admiration.

“This knight reminds me of the Messiah of the day. ”

“Aragon's wife? Chief Knight of the Knight of Saint Laurent? ”

“That's her. ”

And Jolyn's performance, the proud cavalry that Lombardon had taught him, had to be discouraged. The female knight's martial arts level, after grinding, has reached level four —— not very high, but pretty good. After a long time of reflection, Dewey consulted with Hussein, and then passed on the Starry Fight's starting base action to Jolyn, after which Jolyn's strength immediately increased again. In the northwest, outside of Jolyn's military career, her entire spare time was spent on the teachings of two powerful men, Hussein and Rodriguez.

Rodriguez's assessment of Jolyn was: “She looks a lot like me… she's late. ”

It can be said that the descendant of the Moon, who experienced too much wind and rain in her youth, finally sanded her rays and edges.

Dewey looked at Philip and sighed: “It's a good plan... but if it's implemented, it's a lot harder... Philip, we look like a big family now, 100,000 male soldiers... but you have to understand that our army is not as large in quantity and quality as Lugo in the Northwest Legion! His 200,000 armies, all elite, his generals, all old. ”

And he didn't say a word in his heart: Lu Gao's identity is actually the Snow Mountain disciple red water broken! If they do fight, I'm afraid Hussein and Rodriguez, alone, are not his opponents.

“Moreover, we must guard against the western savannahs.” Dewey sighed.

Although, Snow Mountain Witch King White River sadness, as if he had established a good personal relationship with himself, and White River sadness promised not to enter the mainland for ten years... but he promised not to enter the mainland, it was him personally! He didn't promise not to invade!

And even further... Dewey is not a child! This is a big matter of life and death, and he won't build confidence on verbal promises!

Three years... three years. It has now been more than half a year, and time is running out and there is not much left for me.

“I mean... before and after.” Dewey tapped the table gently: "The Northwest Legion is there, staring closely, and we still have Bohan as an ally beside the Northwest Legion, even if something happens, he is the first to top the cylinder. Our goal is to take care of the Prairie before the Northwest Legion starts, at least to make sure that… the Prairie will not stab the knife in the back when we deal with Lugo in the future! ”

Philip laughed, and then he said, as if he were leisurely: "In that case the Duchess, Mr. Alpha, should be back soon. ”

Alpha Guard Chief, Uncle Alpha. For much of the past six months, he hasn't been around Dewey, not even in the northwest. Most people in the Duke of Tulip don't know where the Alpha Knight went. Only a handful of core circles, including Philip, know where Alpha is.

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Alpha in the prairie. To be precise, he has been on the prairie for some time. The sun on the prairie showed a dark complexion, and drinking the horse's milk, eating the sheep's life, almost completely turned him into a prairie man, even his hair dyed by Dewey with a special medicine into a common brown among the prairie people.

Moreover, he deliberately disguised a long scar on his face, which allowed him to blindly veil his face and not reveal his true face - which could conceal his nose. After all, the Roland's nose is straight, while the meadow's nose beam collapses.

Alpha's current public identity is the number one general beside Lord Saladin, whose name is Igor, which in the language of the prairie means "eagle on the prairie”.

Saladin, the boy named Saladin that Dewey put back, the thirteenth son of the Prairie King, was born to a Roland slave.

After that defeat, he went back and began to suffer a lot, because the defeat, the anger of the prairie king spilled on all the deserters who had been fortunate enough to escape, and after the execution of hundreds of deserters, the prairie king was furious, almost turning his son into a slave. Fortunately, he was persuaded by those around him, "After all, he is your blood, and if he becomes a slave, he will also damage your dignity. ”

The prairie kings didn't know that these sympathizers actually received a lot of salad benefits —— of course, the payer was Dewey.

After the punishment that Saladin had fortunately escaped, he was punished to leave the court and sent far away to graze horses and cattle and sheep far west of the grassland court. In fact, he was sent to destroy himself.

And then, Captain Alpha, with more than 2,000 prairie slaves that Dewey had given him, came to the prairie —— half of those slaves that Dewey had bought all over the continent, and half of them were given by that prairie prince during the peace talks.

Two thousand slaves, Dewey picked out some good guys, and Alpha took them into the meadow, and then contacted Saladin.

Dwight asked Alpha to give Saladin a message: That's all I can do. If you can't make the climate any more, then it's just a sign of your incompetence.

It turns out this salad is not incompetent, he's very capable!

He quickly surrendered the 2,000 slaves with a superb wrist and made them into a cavalry. After he first ate black and robbed several small strands of grassland horse thieves, his men quickly increased to 4,000, less than six months later, he annexed a weak tribe and finally publicly disengaged from the court and became the chief of a small tribe.

These things did not come to the attention of the royal court. After all, the tribe that Saladin annexed was only a small tribe with less than 10,000 inhabitants, and there were many old and sick people.

But then, the power of the salad grew like a snowball!

Alpha became the point of contact between him and Dewey, led by Alpha and supplied by Dewey with quality weapons from a number of Saladin empires!

The lack of minerals on the grasslands and the lack of high-quality armor and weapons in the grassland cavalry, while defending them, are their historical weaknesses. And Saladin, with Dewey's weapon support, was even more tiger, and he was a very capable guy. In another year, the population under his control reached tens of thousands, more than 20,000.

Anyway, this number, on the prairie, is enough to be a medium tribe size.

Besides, Dewey even sent two magic cadets of his own to give him more strength!!

When Wang Ting finally noticed the abandoned son of the prairie king, the prairie king was surprised by the amazing momentum of the development of this son he did not like, on the one hand, hidden some dissatisfaction.

Soon after, however, Saladin made a move in which he volunteered to bow to the King's court, stating that the tens of thousands of people under his command, and the 20,000 cavalry, were willing to obey the orders of the Prairie King, the most loyal fighters of the Prairie King.

And the only condition he put forward —— it doesn't even make people feel like it's a condition anymore.

His request was, "I'm just begging my father to treat me like a son! After all, you are my father. ”

Prairie King is pleased. He made only one gesture and could get tens of thousands of people and 20,000 cavalry, something no one would refuse.

Over the next month, Saladin sent many cows and goats and horses to serve in the royal court... Although the prairie king did not lack these, this abandoned son made such a filial gesture to his satisfaction.

Besides, salads don't even bring any entourage to the king's court alone! And then that day, in the court of kings, in the king's golden tent in the prairie, in the presence of many leaders under the king of the prairie, and a dozen other sons, and a lot of tribal chiefs.

This salad, kneeling down in public, made the most solemn, most respectful courtesy on the prairie:

Kiss the Grassland King's feet!

Such a respectful attitude even touched the Prairie King, and he even felt he seemed a little too harsh about the son. After all, although he is a female slave, he is a species of his own. And... he seems quite capable and respectful to himself.

Then one thing happened, and the last of the King's doubts about the salad were dispelled.

Here's the thing. Because of the defeat of the 20,000 cavalry men of the Golden Wolf Head, a tribe that had originally been loyal to the Royal Court was repugnant to the Royal Court, which decided to relocate and no longer obeyed the Royal Court's orders.

It pissed off the Prairie King, who ordered that this disobedient tribe be taken. Saladin, on the other hand, was brave enough to do it.

He did a great job, and he quickly wiped out the tribe and handed it back to the Prairie King with the head of the tribal chief. And destroy this tribe, all the captives, cows, goats, horses, all turned in, and he didn't stop at all.

More importantly, his cavalry suffered enormous losses during the battle, killing more than 4,000 people. Almost a quarter of our strength has been lost. Instead of complaining at all, he made a sincere statement on the king's gold tent that he was the father's son, the son of his own men, and the father's men. There is nothing wrong with losing one's strength, even if one loses a lot, as long as it makes the father happy.

Anyone would say that. But really, there aren't many people left.

Saladin was harsh enough, and he traded 4,000 of his men's death and blood for the trust of the Prairie King. Let the Prairie King believe that this son is not a soldier, he is indeed a man willing to bleed for himself.

Less than two years ago, in such a short time, Saladin jumped from the son of a female slave to one of the sons trusted by the King of the Prairie in the court of kings.

At this time, Dewey was still recruiting in the Rollin Plains.

Dewey knew all about the process and all about this salad, according to a letter sent back by the Alpha Guard Captain.

When he saw the salad in the tent, in front of everyone, in disregard of his dignity, he crawled to the ground and kissed the King of the Meadows' feet...

I don't know why, Dewey suddenly felt a cold gush!!

Sending Philip away, Dewey took out Uncle Alpha's handwritten letter again, and he looked again and sighed softly: “Almost, it's time. ”

Thereafter, Dewey walked out of his study and did not allow any guards to follow him directly under the castle, through a long corridor, onto a small building behind the castle. From a distance, the sound of a loud organ came from the room.

When Dewey pushed the door in, she saw a beautiful girl, all dressed in a light veil, dancing with an accordion rhythm. They perform standard palace dances, all taught by the best palace ceremonialists.

All the girls here, those poor “prey” that Dewey brought out of the Northwest Army camp.

Dewey's eyes quickly fell in the middle of the house, the girl sitting there playing the organ.

Without a doubt, she is the most beautiful of all girls, and her eyes, like her name, are as pale as the moon.

When Dewey walked in, the people saw him, everyone stopped immediately, and then the girls turned around, bent over and saluted Dewey, and then, under Dewey's wave, they quickly retreated.

“You stay.” Dewey pointed at the girl playing the organ.

The room calmed down and the girl seemed a little nervous, but the rigorous training kept her standing still and then smiled at Dewey like a spring breeze, courtesy of the court.

Dewey narrowed her eyes and said, "You're Moon, right? ”

The lunar cheeks were slightly reddened and his head dropped: "Yes, Duchess. ”

Dewey took two steps, then suddenly lifted his hand and gently lifted her lunar chin, lifting her face up, then looked carefully at every detail on her face.

Lunar blush, her eyes a little dodgy, a little shy.

“I remember you. I remember you from the beginning. You're a beautiful and charming girl.” Dewey let go of his hand, his face was only satisfied, but he didn't look obsessed with beauty.

Apparently, he's not finished yet, so Moon is quiet to listen to.

“How have you been here for over a year? ”

Moon immediately raised his head and solemnly said: "My life was saved by the Duchess. I live here very well and very happily. I've never had such a happy life in my life. ”

Dewey nodded: "So you're grateful to me? ”

“Yes.” With the sound of the moon trembling: “I… am willing to repay the Duchess with everything I have. ”

“Very good.”

Dewey smiled and his voice was steady and calm.

“Well, now it's time for you to repay me. ”

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