Chapter 902, The Opening of the Golden Age

On the face of it, François' words hit the mark.

The meeting resumed in the afternoon, and Morgiana conveyed the news she received after contacting Ryan.

The king and lady approved the northern knight nobles' plan to conquer Obien.

At the same time, Ryan also learned from Morgiana that the dukes are very resistant to building a new fortress. The King of Knights wondered if he was a little too hasty. He said before that he should cherish and save people's resources, but now he has to do a lot of construction. .

No, no, no, you can't be Yang Guang. Ryan thought that the big battle and the big infrastructure construction can only be done at the same time. He finally laid the foundation for the Knight Kingdom, so don't overturn it casually.

At the same time, Ryan also found that he underestimated the fighting spirit of the northern knights and nobles, and also underestimated Lawn's eagerness to prove himself as the regent of the kingdom.

Ryan and the northern nobles were so eager to fight, which made Ryan also feel embarrassed. After careful consideration, the King of Knights decided to agree to Lawn's proposal for Obien's expedition, but put forward three requirements.

The first is to unite the local Truthsayer natives and the Empire's garrison in the Newland province there to figure out the local geography and some peculiarities of Obien's locality before going to war.

The second is that the King of Knights requires the northern knights and nobles to organize their own troops and raise supplies, and at the same time, this war must be completely over before the spring plowing.

Third, Ryan demanded that the war must focus on plundering O'Brien's resources and destroying the barbarian's vital forces, and should not go too deep into the interior, nor be too war-loving.

These three requirements are relatively strict, but the knight nobles in the north were very happy to see that the Knight King was finally willing to let them go and fight. They immediately elected Regent Lawn as the commander of the Obien Expeditionary Army. Prepare to organize an expeditionary force of 20,000 people to attack Obien.

Obion Island is about 500 kilometers away from the mainland of Brittania, and it will take about two weeks to arrive. It is now the first ten days of December, and spring plowing will begin at the end of March next year, leaving it to the northern nobles Our time is running out.

As for the southern nobles, Ryan asked them to build a permanent fortress on the road from the Black Mountains to Tyrell and the withered swamp.

The King of Knights expressed his concerns about the Skavens in the south, and the idea of ​​the King of Knights was also recognized by most of the dukes. With the help of the Skaven, they clearly knew the existence of the Skaven, and there were many wars between knights and ratmen in history.

In this way, the national policy of attacking the north and defending the south was formulated. In addition, Ryan also ordered Morgiana and Lawn to send more people to detect the movements of Norsca and the northern barbarians. This kind of action is very dangerous , but it is necessary.

The time went back a little to the time Morgiana discussed with Lawn.

"Also, when will you be able to come back...

? "At the end of the communication, Morgiana asked with some resentment.

"It will probably take another two months." Ryan said softly to the reflection of the pure water in the jade bowl.

"As soon as possible." There was a little expectation and a little resentment in Mogiana's voice, her face was reflected in the water, and her expression was quite rich: "I'm not in a hurry to ask you to come back to accompany me. You can leave it to Su Liya to do it, but this time you took Su Liya away, and it will be difficult for the dukes to make a decision."

you're lying! Ryan looked at Morgiana's resentful expression with black lines all over his face. The Lake God Witch has a cold and arrogant personality. At the same time, because she has been in power all the year round, she is even more cold and unreasonable. Only when she is with him does her expression change. So rich, Ryan knew that Morgiana must be counting the time and looking forward to his return.

However, the two parties had an agreement, and Ryan couldn't say anything more, the king nodded: "That's it first,

Be sure to scout out the movements of the barbarians. "

After getting an affirmative reply from Morgiana, Ryan put away the jade bowl and turned off the communication.

Suria was sitting next to him. The queen of knights listened to the whole question and answer. The elegant female knight was about to say something, but she saw Ryan stretching out her hands. Suria quickly understood what her husband meant. She smiled softly, Leaning into Ryan's arms: "What's the matter, my husband, what are you troubled by?"

"I'm a little too nervous." Ryan hugged Suria, groping lightly on her beautiful long legs wrapped in thick black velvet pantyhose, feeling the silky and delicate touch, warm and fragrant nephrite in his arms , Ryan hugged his wife on his lap: "I was too anxious, and I almost made a serious mistake."

"Serious mistake, do you mean to build the fortress?" Surya immediately understood Ryan's meaning, and the queen stretched out her jade finger and tapped Ryan's forehead: "You, I'm too anxious, we just repaired it. After the Grand Canal connecting the north and the south, the Landuin Grand Canal connects the Sandnes River in the north with the Grace Murray River, the Chinon River and the Belayon River in the south. This is already a remarkable project. It's a big project, you should give everyone a rest before thinking about building the fortress."

"Well, I want to be Li Zhi, not Yang Guang." Ryan nodded, and the Knight King knew that he was subconsciously anxious again.

"Who is that?" Surya didn't understand.

"That's the story of the two emperors of the ancient dynasty of Cathay...Let me tell you." Ryan hugged Suria like this and told the story, and Olika soon came in and became interested to listen.

After telling a long story to Suria's heart's content, Lane motioned for him to hang out.

Coming out of the king's suite, Ryan met Talleyrand head-on. The elf nobleman was leaning on a cane. When he saw Ryan appearing, he immediately showed a flattering smile: "Good morning, Your Majesty, it's a pleasure to see you here , Your appearance made the sky clear."

"..." Ryan looked at the cloudy clouds,...

In the sky of lightning and thunder, I don't know whether Talleyrand is flattering or sarcastic: "Mr. Talleyrand, are you still used to living on a battleship?"

"Fortunately, it's better than living in a cowshed with Chares." Talleyrand made a dangerous joke, and he bent down very humbly: "I mean the manor of Chares and the cowshed." The shed is more or less the same, not that the cow shed is more or less the same as Charis' estate, Your Majesty. 00kxs."

"You have a special sense of humor." Ryan nodded with a smile. He noticed that Olika came out of the king's suite, and when Talleyrand saw Olika, it was like a mouse seeing a cat. Trembling, the body trembled: "What's the matter, Mr. Talleyrand, is Orika so scary?"

Does the king know who his maid is? Talleyrand looked at Olika's malicious warning gaze, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, supported the deck vigorously, and put the matter aside with a smile: "As an Azul, there is no way to do this."

This explanation made sense, and Ryan didn't delve into it.

The three walked a few steps along the deck, and Talleyrand answered fluently, and the high elf could always say some humorous one-liners, and even Ryan asked him, "If Finnubar and I fell into the water, what would you do?" Who to save?" Talleyrand replied humorously and wittily to the question of deliberately embarrassing him: "Your Majesty, you are so great, you must be able to swim!"

After strolling around for a while, a wounded old guard passed in front of the three of them. He was on crutches like Talleyrand. Ryan recognized him. His name was Yves, and he was an old guard from Montfort. In the previous big battle of the Dragon Fjord, he was concentrated by the splash of the undead artillery, broke his leg, shattered his bones, and was seriously injured.

Thanks to the high-quality medicine and super-high medical level of the high elves, an old guard like Ive was originally going to be forced to retire, but now he only needs to rest for three months and wait for his bones to heal before he can return to the battlefield .

From this point alone, the large amount of medicine given by the high elves allowed Ryan to earn all the cost of this trip to Ulthuan, not to mention that the Safray Kingdom is willing to partner with Ryan to open a hospital in Musilon.

"Your Majesty, look, that soldier, he is lame, but he is very strong both physically and mentally." Talleyrand humorously pointed at Yves, and then pointed at himself: "But, Your Majesty, I am from dozens of I knew years ago that I was crippled, not only in my legs, but in my body and mind.”

"Anyone can stand up and face everything about themselves." Ryan put his hands behind his back, and the majesty of the King of Knights was almost overflowing: "Physical disabilities are no reason, Talleyrand, I believe you can be in other places Find your own place."

"But definitely not in Ulthuan." Talleyrand shook his head: "As long as I am in Ulthuan, I am crippled in every sense."

Gao Jing likes handsome men and beautiful women, and even Teclis was discriminated against when he was young, not to mention lack of strength, not handsome and poorly dressed,...  

There is also Talleyrand who is physically disabled, Ryan nodded secretly in his heart, discrimination is really everywhere.

"But in the old world, in the human world, I, Talleyrand, am a healthy person. Not only am I a healthy person, but I am also superior!" Talleyrand continued to laugh at himself: "Humans are used to the elegance and wisdom of elves. There is also longevity, so I think of the old world, I can't solve my mental incompleteness, but I can change the environment, half a head short can become half a head tall, and the thing called Talleyrand finally found an object that can get along with him on an equal footing, really A good deal."

What a clever man this man is! Ryan's face remained calm.

"Talleyrand?"

"Here I am, my lord."

"Would you like to be my foreign minister to Nur?"

"Honored and extremely pleased."

……… I am the dividing line for smart people………

A few months passed by, and with the arrival of the spring of 2514 in the Imperial Calendar and the return of His Majesty the Knight King Ryan, Brittania also ushered in the most glorious era in history.

This era is called the "Golden Age" by all historians and writers of later generations.

In politics, the great Knight King "Unifier" Ryan Macado continued to reform Brittania. He further restricted the privileges of the great nobles, eased the contradictions between the serf class and the knight class, and canceled a large number of exorbitant taxes. , Light corvee and low tax, greatly improved the living standards of the Bretons.

In terms of personnel, the bureaucratic system that Ryan had been brewing for many years finally began to appear in Brittania. With the assistance of several major churches and nobles, circuit courts and officials began to appear. Most of them were made up of ambitious yeoman, workers, The down-and-out nobles and small traders were formed after receiving the training of the church, and the legal interpretation and arbitration rights of local noble lords or village elders and village elders were withdrawn.

At the same time, Ryan began to revise the laws of Brittania, which protected the interests of the emerging class of freemen and yeoman farmers, restricted the privileges of nobles and restricted their exploitation of serfs in the territory, and at the same time Ryan officially wrote "incompetence is a crime" From then on, the waste who could not train qualified knights within four generations had only two choices, one was to be confiscated and become free citizens, and the other was to participate in the Arabian expedition.

Economically, the Fairy of the Lake dropped a super bombshell.

After a thousand years, the Church of the Fairy in the Lake officially announced a tax cut, and the church tithe will be changed from one tenth to fifteenth one.

Don't underestimate these few percentage points. The Fairy Church in the Lake has given up as much as hundreds of thousands of gold crowns in income just for this item.

All the people in the country knelt down to thank the goddess, and many serfs shed tears until dawn, prostrating endlessly, thanking the goddess for the gift, and their fanaticism towards the fairies in the lake reached a new height.

In terms of military affairs, the Obien Expeditionary Force led by Lawn won a complete victory in the Obien Expedition.

In mid-January 2514, the North...  

The 25,000-strong Obien Expeditionary Army composed of knights landed on Obien Island under the escort of the Poseidon Fleet and the Le-Angulan Fleet. Their opponents were the Norsca barbarian tribe "Vana Sea Mlyn", this is a team of more than 10,000 barbarian warriors, hundreds of Chaos Warriors, thousands of Chaos Marauder cavalry, more than a dozen warbands of Marsh Dwellers and many Chaos Behemoths.

Yes, in the imagination, the enemy should have such a large scale, but the northern knights and nobles soon discovered that the resistance of the Vanaheimlin tribe was much weaker than imagined.

The first battle was the Battle of Corpse Demon Island. In this battle, Lawn and the others made full preparations for a tough battle, but the expeditionary army soon discovered that the defenders of Corpse Demon Island were actually only a few barbarian raiders. , plus less than a hundred barbarian marauder riders and less than two hundred marauder spear throwers.

This is a joke for the expeditionary army, which has more than 25,000 people and has purchased (credit) and bought (accounts) a large number of firearms from the Musilon factory.

At first, Lawn thought that the cunning Norscans might believe in the Falcon God, so he marched cautiously. As a result, when he rushed into the core area of ​​the barbarian settlement, he only encountered a dozen barbarian champion warriors. .

That's it?

Lawn personally led a group of Holy Grail knights to rush up and slaughter more than a dozen barbarian champion warriors.

Immediately afterwards, the Obien Expeditionary Army started their righteous looting journey. For some reason, there were very few barbarian tribes on the island, and almost all of them left only the most basic defense forces, even those legendary Chaos Warriors and Chaos Champions are gone.

No one understands why, but there is no doubt that this is a godsend opportunity. Since then, the Obien Expeditionary Force has plundered unimaginable treasures on Obien Island, which is rich in resources, especially various magical ores and gold and silver. Abundant supplies, with the progress of Obien's great expedition, almost all ships in Britannia that can sail and carry cargo have all gone to Obien to "pull goods".

Even so, I pulled back and forth three times.

Several victories in a row made the Obien Expeditionary Army a little bit smug. Fortunately, Lawn was able to restrain his subordinates, but even as the commander and regent, he couldn't suppress his subordinates from knights, nobles and serfs who wanted to go to Obien Island. Requirements for deep marches.

Earl Clement led more than 2,000 troops deep into the vicinity of Konquata in the interior of Aubion, hoping to obtain more spoils.

Then, this entire army disappeared along with hundreds of ranger knights. The two thousand people seemed to have completely evaporated from the thick fog of Obien.

Lawn personally led the carefully selected elite troops of more than 3,000 expeditionary troops, cooperated with the spells of the Lake God Prophet and the large magic scroll obtained on credit from Morgiana and Veronica, and went deep into the depths of Obien , looking for traces of the two thousand troops.

They only found a few terrifying scenes of large-scale chaos sacrificial ceremonies, where dozens of people sent...

Crazy, sanity to zero, Lawn immediately ordered to retreat, but the army was still attacked by a large group of Chaos Demons. Fortunately, Chaos Demons could not exist in the mortal world for a long time, and Lawn led all elites. After leaving three hundred After many corpses and praying for the guidance of the goddess, Lawn led the army to successfully withdraw from the dense fog in the depths of Obien Island.

The regent of the kingdom held back the fear in his heart, and he announced to everyone that the victory was about to begin, preparing to draw the curtain down on the Obien expedition.

At the same time, Lawn became even more curious and wary of what the northern barbarians were planning.

"Your Majesty Ryan and His Majesty Morgiana must be informed immediately about the discovery in the depths of O'Brien!"

"What the hell are the barbarians doing?"