Warhammer Throne

After sending away the emperor of the Supreme King, the people in the king's account began to express their opinions.

Obviously, whether it is the enlightened knight aristocrat represented by Francois, the traditional knight aristocrat represented by Karad, or the church power represented by Alfred, and the new one represented by Bertrand, the commander of the old guard The Jinjungong nobility, even the rest of the Holy Witch Veronica, who had barely come out to discuss, all lacked interest in garrisoning in the evil places, but the Dwarf Supreme King and Bellega were willing to bear military expenses and After the supply, everyone's opinion still tends to try. After all, the dwarves have more money, but there is no population. Since these dwarves are willing to pay to help the Bretons to support this army, then everything is still easy to say. .

After discussion, most of them dispersed, leaving only Ryan, Francois, Carrad, Veronica, and others. Among them, Veronica immediately signaled Catherine to serve tea and pour water, and the Witch of Galan directly Sitting on a comfortable and soft backrest wide chair, she said to her apprentice, "Catherine, do you have any coffee beans?"

"Yes, mentor, there are many left on my side." Although Catherine has been promoted to the legendary witch, she still has to rely on her mentor. At least for now, the state is unstable, lacking hard power and financial resources. She is not yet independent. Capital, and Veronica is actually good for this proselytized apprentice, and the relationship between the master and the apprentice is good, and there is no conflict in interests.

"Then give me a cup of hazelnut vanilla almond Jialan super-large dessert caramel sauce Mocha sauce mixed with Starbucks cream Frappuccino." Veronica's face was flushed, leaning lazily on the chair and waving Catherine to go. arrangement.

"Okay." Catherine and Karad glanced at each other, and Karad opened his mouth. Count Garment immediately felt Lane's teasing look, and he could only blush old. What he was about to say, Catherine gave it immediately. Carrard took a look, then bowed respectfully and went to make Veronica a hazelnut vanilla almond Jialan oversized dessert caramel sauce Mocha sauce mixed Starbucks cream Frappuccino.

François and Carrard have already blamed Veronica's character. Even from a certain point of view, even the knights and nobles of the expedition of the Eight Peaks led by Carrard have even recognized Veronica. It's very high, just one step away from Queen Surya.

Ryan knew exactly why this happened. This was a side effect of the Expedition. Due to the great effort of Veronica and the high sense of existence, even the knights are right. She has made a huge difference, especially the knights and nobles of the northern factions highly recognized Veronica's status.

The Cavaliers can feel that his backyard is going to be in trouble again, and Ryan must not be able to interfere with this kind of thing personally. The extent of the matter will depend on the follow-up, because Veronica and Orica have already used His performance conquered the knights and nobles and established his own prestige.

When he went back, Ryan could take the responsibility of Veronica.

"Ryan, how many people do you intend to stay?" Francois was actually not very interested in the so-called Garrison Eight Peaks. Duke Winford cares more about when to withdraw his troops and return to the country, dividing the dwarves' huge wealth.

"Leave Durant and his Brittany Independence Group first." Ryan Shen Sheng said, and the Cavaliers also felt a little bit of a pain for the dwarves to have such rich conditions: "Now, it seems that we will not leave a little People ca n’t work here anymore. It happens that there are more than 3,000 swords in the Principality of Brittska left by Blackheart Rep. It ’s better for Durant to move all the population to Mount Bafeng. How can this be better than the green leather? , Beastmen, chaotic cultists, and all kinds of bandit bandits, murderers, and border princes are rampant. "

"Well." Francois nodded slowly.

Is that place good for the Prince of the Border?

Do n’t be bothered, the border princes are a real place where bulls, ghosts and snakes haunt, where various bandits, robbers, murderers, and chaos sects expelled and exiled by the empire, Brittania, and the southern kingdoms, and chaos sects are rampant, It is always harassed by the green skin and the beastmen. In addition, the internal wars of the border princes have never stopped.

The most recent disaster that brought disaster to the border princes was Tamu Khan. Today, several years later, those chaotic gangs are still hiding in the forests and mountains, and they come out from time to time to harm the residents here.

But even so, the intensity of war faced by the border princes is still much smaller than that of the empire. The vast land is rare and the harassment of various forces is often destined to make it impossible for the border princes to form a powerful kingdom. The independent regiment moved to eight. There shouldn't be too many difficulties for Fengshan to come here. After all, Bafengshan is actually very defensive. You only need to guard the Titan Gate and the ground network. The eight dangerous peaks that penetrate the sky are enough to block all enemies.

"The stay of Durant and the independent regiment is a matter of time." At this point, Francois nodded slightly, but the Duke Winford soon frowned again: "But if you look at the dwarf's request, they Not only do we want to station our troops at Mount Bafeng, the dwarves hope to build a new defense system with the help of human power. "

"Well." Ryan nodded slowly: "Yes, I hope so too. It happens that while Bafeng Mountain is regained, we can build on Bafeng Mountain and Haimen Pass to build a mature defensive system to ensure that there is evil. During a massive invasion, it can delay the pace of the green skin and prepare the empire and dwarves. "

"But ... we don't seem to have to do this." François was still suspicious, and the old man touched his beard: "Ryan, we are going to be stationed in a bad place? The environment here is so bad, the army is here. It will only gradually be consumed by bad weather and severe military pressure, and, if we are stationed here, wouldn't it benefit Brittania too much? "

"..." Ryan said nothing, and the cavalier thought of something, he was still hesitating.

"Your Majesty, our expedition has consumed a lot of national power. Although the harvest is extremely rich, the new knight needs time to get his own spurs. The new serf infantry also needs time to train. Your old guard also needs time to add. "Karad also said:" If we continue to station a large number of troops in evil places, not only will we be unable to eat, but even the nobles in the country will also have a lot of opinions. "

"How about recruiting some new troops? We can recruit troops in the country, leaving a small number of veterans with a large number of recruits, and rotating them in three to five years." Lane thought for a while, and finally said his plan: "garrison on the edge of the northern evil , It is of great significance to defend against the green skin frenzy of the evil land. We can pull the empire in, especially the Grand Duke of Ivy and the elector of Tuscany, Marius. I think he must be willing to send an army to assist us, And by this means, we can extend our sphere of influence into the border princes, we can dump our goods here, and we can also get a lot of raw materials and cheap labor here. "

"The border prince." François nodded after hearing it. The old man thought for a while and suddenly smiled: "Ryan, you should not want to tell me, you want to annex the border prince, open here Xinjiang, do you? I want to remind you that the bigger the country, the better! "

"Ha ha ha ha ha! I know I know." Ryan couldn't help laughing after hearing the half-joking warning from Francois.

Indeed, in many countries, the bigger the better, because a country ’s conquering ability and control ability actually have a ceiling.

Before ascending the throne, Ryan once thought why the empire adopted the electoral system rather than the centralized system, why divided the entire empire into multiple provinces, and almost completely let the electoral autonomy, why not deploy it uniformly, The military aristocracy under the empire is in charge.

It wasn't until Ryan truly became king that he realized that it was not impossible, but not.

After the land area is huge, the imperial court will face three outstanding problems.

First, the border is long, and the enemy is on all sides, and many forces are simply objects that cannot be negotiated (chaos, dark elves, greenskin, orcs, etc.), resulting in great military pressure on the outside world, which makes it necessary for the empire to station heavy troops on the border, Defense against possible invasions, it is easy to form a military town system (that is, the border count system).

Secondly, for this world, the land area is too large, and the way of information exchange and transmission here determines that the imperial court cannot be remotely commanded from a distance. The Kingdom of Noord is more than 1,500 kilometers away from the imperial capital Braunschweig. The Kingdom of Slovakia is more than two thousand kilometers away from the imperial capital of Braunschweig. Ryan personally saw the messenger sent from the winter city of King Nord, even if it was an urgent six hundred miles. It will take seven days to reach Braunschweig. Time and other commands allowed by the capital to attack, Nord can be destroyed, and the magic power consumed by long-distance magic communication is extremely amazing.

In this case, the emperor must allow the localities to form and command the army autonomously, so that the electors have independent military power to cope with various emergencies, protect their territory, facilitate the unification of military orders, and maintain the combat effectiveness of the army. As he grows older, the electors will of course do their own thing and ignore the orders of the emperor.

Third, the financial problem, this is even simpler. For example, Lane ’s previous emperor attacked the Huns. One hundred and sixty stone grains were sent from the center and only one stone was delivered to the front line of war. The transportation loss was as high as 90%. Above nine, similarly, if the imperial courts did not allow the electors to be financially autonomous, tax themselves and raise their own troops, let alone the front line of the north to resist chaos, even Ivy led the black fire pass against green skin. Years of food losses will make the Empire's finances bankrupt.

Brother, the local taxes must be collected from the locality to the central government, and then transferred from the central government to the localities. Even if there is no corruption or any supply lines, the loss is very amazing. Do you think it is Alipay transfer? On the side of King Nordisk, a key was pressed, and the desk of Emperor Karl Franz, located in the capital, sounded "Ding ~ Imperial treasure arrives in account ~ Thousand gold marks ~".

So why the empire clearly has the ability to conquer Kislov but let it be independent, why the Grand Duke Nord dared to claim King Noord, and the empire can only open one eye and close one eye, that is the reason.

When a threshold is exceeded, the bigger and weaker the country, the bigger and weaker it is, enemies are everywhere on the border waiting for opportunities, and the imperial defenders often can only watch the destruction happening and are powerless, stretched financial resources, insufficient troops , So that the great empire has no energy or ability to resist foreign enemies.

So Ryan now recalls what many people clamored in the previous life for drinking the Danube and the iron hoof to conquer Madagascar, and he felt very speechless. When the empire was born, it was emotionally positive, optimistic, and enterprising, but it does not mean that it will always be. In this way, it is even more difficult to conquer and rule such a huge empire. It took only a few years for the Mongolian empire to split the Danube River into the four major Khanates and the Yuan Dynasty?

So, suppose that the emperor needs centralization, control of the army, control of financial power, and remote micro-operation, is it possible?

Yes, there was a dynasty in the dynasty. All the elite troops were concentrated in the center, leaving only the old and weak and sick to the place, and collecting all local taxes to leave only the basic maintenance fee. The emperor fine-tuned all day, and the general was only responsible for following orders. Ling Jian.

This dynasty is called Datong.

Even if it is a big gift, the empire will not learn it. The reason is very simple. Some ancient great man said that he must first settle down.

Because even the territory of the empire is full of danger, chaotic cultists, beastmen, and green-skin tribes, as well as undead and chaotic demons from time to time, assuming that the imperial court has taken away the elite local army, leaving only the security system and the militia system, What relies on that place to deal with these enemies enough to destroy a civilization?

This is the difference between Ryan and Carl Franz. Ryan did it. Brittania has gone through many years of southern battles (in fact, he has to continue to patrol with Angelang and the four emperor imprisoners. Very important!), Has basically solved the problem of An Nei, since the king has the ability to ensure the tranquility within the kingdom, the Duke naturally convinced him and willing to respond to his call.

And Karl Franz ca n’t do it, let alone guarantee the security of the entire empire, even his Rick collar, even the security of the blood pine forest only a few dozen kilometers from Braunschweig ~ www.ltnovel.com ~ He can't guarantee that in this case, Ka Huang has tried his best. The electors did not listen to the announcement, and occasionally came to the capital to hold a meeting, it was enough to give Ka Huang face.

With a thought in his head, Ryan thought that he also had something to learn from it.

"My vision is this. We can properly station troops in the arsenal of the fortress and in the Bafeng Mountain. We can set up an army station system to allow the defending troops to cultivate themselves and supplement them with support. The soldiers rotate for three to five years. As for the city, We can ask the dwarves to assist us in the construction. I think the Supreme King or Bellegar will not object. "Ryan and Panto have their own plans:" The main garrison consists of a small number of veterans and a large number of recruits. Let the empire also send troops to participate. We are also recruiting troops at home and at the border princes. Anyway, there are dwarves who pay for equipment. "

"At the same time, before the arsenal of the arsenal and the Eight Peaks, we looked for a place with water and mountains, and let the dwarves help us build a new fortress, so that we can build a new line of defense and warning line in the northern evil. The goal is not to eliminate and resist the possible green-skin invasion, but to delay the attack time of the green-skin army as much as possible, and at the same time report the news to the dwarves and the empire to prepare them for defense. "

"The three guards are collectively referred to as the" three guards of evil "!"