Chapter 358 [Nine Hundred and Sixty-Three Years of the Empire]

Nine hundred and sixty-three years of the Roland Empire.

In this year, many major things happened in the empire. No matter from any angle, these things that happened are worth mentioning in the history books.

Especially these things happened before the vigorous Roland Continent War that followed, which highlighted the subtlety of some things...

First, in the early spring of the 663rd year of the Empire, Count Raymond, who had made great contributions to the Empire and was known as the last famous general at the end of the Augustinian Dynasty, was in his room in the castle in his hometown of Luolin Plain.

He died of illness in bed. This imperial general who had served as the Northwest Station Commander for more than 20 years and personally commanded two Southeast Asian expeditionary wars had completed his life journey. Although there was also a stain in his career: a coup.

But this does not negate his life's achievements. Later generations' evaluation of this general also added an interesting saying:

"Throughout this general's life story, whether it is his outstanding performance in the first Northwest Prairie War or his contribution in the subsequent Southern Ocean Expedition, he has been on par with any famous general in history. However, this is not the case.

A general's greatest contribution to the empire. Many people believe that General Raymond's greatest contribution to the Roland Empire...to the mainland and to the people is...that he gave birth to a good son."

The second thing that happened this year was that a massive continent-wide conscription began. The empire invested a lot of financial and material resources, drawing elites from the reserves, and conducting a large-scale selection of elites from the local garrison.

The group became the Xindi Empire Assistance Corps.

At the time, no one knew why. The public statement was that it was to supplement the Northern Storm Legion, which suffered heavy losses after the raging warcraft. However, everyone knew that this was just an excuse.

The third thing that happened this year was that in the spring of the 963rd year of the Empire, a unique baptism ceremony took place in the imperial capital. The current actual ruler of the empire and the supreme master of the continent, His Royal Highness the Regent Prince Chen, accepted

Pope Paul XVI performed his own religious baptism.

Although every emperor in the past dynasties had to be baptized by the Pope before he was considered a legitimate emperor. However, the baptism process of this regent was extremely rare: he actually announced in public that after he was baptized, Pope Paul XVI would become his

godfather!

The baptism ceremony that day was very lively. Tens of thousands of citizens of the Imperial City came to watch the entire baptism process.

This matter has been strongly opposed by many royal nobles. In everyone's opinion, this is definitely a great shame for the royal family, and even a strategic failure! In the thousands of years of confrontation between the royal family and the church, even in history,

When the empire was in greatest crisis, the royal family maintained its pride and dignity as always and never bowed to the church! But this young and wise future monarch made such a "stupid" behavior that made everyone

They were all extremely puzzled.

Many people believe that this is a deal: obviously, because he received strong support from the temple in the coup, the regent was repaying the temple for that incident.

This guess is correct. However, everyone believes that this will inevitably leave a stain on the career of the wise regent: for his own selfish purposes, he actually used the dignity of the royal family in exchange for the support of the temple. In this way, he and the people who initiated the coup

So what is the difference between the eldest prince?

However, two things happened subsequently, which once again increased people's support for Prince Chen!

On the third day of the baptismal ceremony, the Prince Regent issued an announcement: According to the instruction of His Majesty Emperor Augustine VI, the young emperor Charles is the first heir to the imperial throne, the crown prince! And until the crown prince comes of age, the state affairs of the empire will still be managed by

The regent, His Royal Highness Prince Chen, is in charge. At the same time, Prince Chen was awarded the title of prince.

With his actions, Prince Chen actually gave up the throne on his own initiative... even though he was actually the de facto ruler of the empire.

The temple suffered losses: they did not get an emperor's godson, but only a prince's godson. The political significance of this baptism was greatly reduced.

Just when everyone thought that the temple would be very angry and launch a series of counterattacks with the royal family, to everyone's surprise, the temple actually became more united with the royal family!

After many meetings and negotiations, the Pope and the Regent signed a series of agreements. In the next three years, the temple expressed its willingness to give up religious taxes in some areas, and then donated them to the imperial army in the form of free donations to express

Support for imperial military spending.

As for the empire, it announced the construction of new religious centers in more than a dozen places to promote the teachings of the Goddess of Light. Among them was the territory of the Duke of Tulip, the province of Desa.

What is worth noting is that someone has actually discovered that His Majesty the Pope, who was present at the regent's acceptance ceremony, looked very old. This spiritual leader of the Roland Empire seemed to be very old and weak, and he was very pious.

All the believers are worried that His Majesty the Pope may be called away by the goddess soon.

Only Du Wei, after receiving the news, understood in his heart that it seemed that after the battle with the Witch King Bai Hechou, the Pope was far from recovering from his serious injuries.

Another detail is that the leader of the Mosaic sect in the Temple of Light, His Excellency Archbishop Maximos of the North Central District, also attended the baptism ceremony. What surprised everyone was that this leader of the Mosaic sect

The character actually wears a red robe, which already shows that his status in the church has changed: Cardinal Archbishop!

Moreover, during the baptism ceremony, the new cardinal archbishop always stood in the first position under the pope! This further implies that his identity has been designated as the "chief archbishop" by the pope.

And usually, in the church, the identity of "chief archbishop" also has a special meaning: heir to the pope!

Taking advantage of this public occasion, Pope Paul XVI undoubtedly silently announced his future successor.

Anyone who knows the inside of the church knows that in the church, the Mossads represent the moderates, while the Yenis are the hawks. This move of Pope Paul XVI undoubtedly laid the foundation for the rise of the Mossads.

cornerstone.

The appointment of a moderate leader as the successor undoubtedly revealed the temple's attitude in the future: to repair relations with the imperial family and live in harmony.

The fourth major event that happened this year. News of the raging warcraft in the north had spread throughout the continent. Immediately, the empire issued a heaven-shattering order, officially announcing that all kinds of private mercenary adventure teams from all over the continent would be protected by the law after the order was issued.

Starting from that day, you can go to all parts of the northern continent to hunt Warcraft. The empire even issued an extremely detailed list, with clear bounty amounts for various Warcraft. All hunted Warcraft can be collected from the local government.

Bounty!

When such a notice is released, people with a sensitive sense of smell immediately see clearly the actual nature of it!

The mercenary group of the Roland Empire has been legalized since then!!

After the age of knights had declined for many years, the release of this announcement undoubtedly had special significance! It stimulated the vigorous development of mercenary adventure organizations in various places, and a large number of low-level warriors who were once so destitute that they had no work or food.

Finally found their own way out, a large number of new mercenary groups in the north are recruiting new recruits!

There is news that the Knights Association in a city in a certain Warcraft-infested area in the north suddenly received 300 applications for samurai level assessment within one day after the announcement. Normally, this number is already theirs.

A year's worth of work.

Due to the rise of large-scale mercenary groups and the profitability of hunting Warcraft, although Warcraft is terrifying, many people still embark on this adventurous path driven by profit.

And soon, the raging situation of Warcraft was greatly alleviated. A large number of Warcraft fled into the north of the empire. Facing the large numbers of human bounty hunters who were blinded by money, they hunted down the Empire without spending a single soldier.

It solves the problem of raging monsters.

Moreover... the empire's finances are not without some help. Although bounties must be paid for hunting Warcraft, the empire is not without income... Any mercenary group must declare its roster to the empire. The empire even opened an official mercenary group.

The military administrative department, and... each mercenary group must maintain its legal status. It must pay taxes to the empire every year.

Some people support and some oppose this law. Supporters believe that this can effectively solve the problem of rampant monsters in the north. Opponents are worried that once the legal loopholes for mercenary groups are opened, they are afraid that public security problems will be in the future.

It left behind chaos! This resulted in large numbers of desperadoes, which was not what people wanted to see.

After Du Wei got the news, he just smiled. He was considered a supporter. His attitude was: "Anyway, even if the empire does not have this order, there are already various mercenary groups in the north. This is an open secret. Since

If we can’t stop it, we might as well just lift the ban and get more tax revenue.”

The fifth major event happened this year. The imperial military announced that they would build a large military fortress in the north of the empire, about ten miles away from the southern end of the frozen forest.

The location of this military fortress was carefully selected, and the location finally selected was very critical. It was on the Bijing Road leading to the south from the frozen forest. Both sides were surrounded by large mountains and difficult-to-walk places, but only

This area is relatively flat, and in the last incident when Warcraft broke out of the frozen forest, this place was the main direction of the Warcraft torrent.

According to the official statement of the empire, this time the empire plans to spend a lot of military expenditures to build the largest and strongest military fortress ever! From now on, there will be no possibility of Warcraft raging! As long as there is such a fortress standing in the north of the empire, then this military fortress will be

The safety of the vast tracts of northern territory of the empire in the south can be guaranteed.

The imperial military, led by old Prime Minister Rob Schell, proposed a huge plan.

"This military fortress will become the most outstanding product in the history of the imperial military." All military experts who have seen this plan have expressed such emotion. The only thing that is a bit dissatisfied is that some people can't help but ask "such a huge military expenditure"

, would it be too wasteful to create this almost miraculous military iron wall just to stop those unintelligent monsters?"

Until now, no one knows that a powerful enemy will invade the north in the next three years.

In order to build this military fortress, the military once again argued with the finance minister for several days. In the end, it was the Tulip Duke who solved their problem.

Duke Tulip once again donated 10 million gold coins in military expenses in his own name.

Such a move made everyone marvel and start to speculate... How much wealth does this Tulip Duke have? His previous donation of 50 million gold coins was no longer a secret.

Under the leadership of Duke Tulip, the Delan Mountain Warcraft expressed its willingness to donate weapons worth three million gold coins to arm the new main battle legion in the future. Nobles such as Count Villa also donated dozens to

Ranging from one million gold coins.

In the summer of this year, on Du Wei's sixteenth birthday, Du Wei received a small gift from the military.

The envoys sent by the military said that because this military fortress was built with military funds donated by His Excellency Grand Duke Tulip, in order to show their respect for Grand Duke Tulip, they were willing to ask Grand Duke Tulip to give a name to this new military fortress in the future.

In fact, Du Wei has already seen the construction drawings of this military fortress. Although they are highly confidential, judging from the relationship between Du Wei and the regent, there are no secrets. And... many of the construction contents, even

These were all suggestions put forward by Du Wei.

For example, the strongest prismatic city wall is covered with sharp barbs! There is also a tower every ten meters on the city wall. A military heavy ballista is placed on it! And the huge military

The fortress is enough to house more than 200,000 troops, or even more! Huge cellars have also been dug inside the military fortress. They are used to store food. Coupled with the cold weather in the north, food is not easy to rot. If the cellars are

If the pile is full, the food inside will be enough to sustain the defenders for a long time.

Du Wei even personally designed several trebuchets... Moreover, the trebuchets fired were not stones. Instead, they were new "gunpowder bombs" that were improved based on the production base in Gilliat City.

Everyone who has seen the design plan unanimously said, "This is a line of defense that can never be breached!"

Will it never be broken through?

After Du Wei heard these remarks, his heart suddenly moved, and the idea of ​​making a prank came up again.

So, facing the envoy sent by the military, Du Wei wrote on the document and gave a name to this strongest subway wall defense line in the future...

Kaspersky…
To be continued...