Chapter 903, Discussion of Chaos

Imperial Calendar 2514, March, the capital of Britannia, Courona.

The Palace of the Knights is still as brilliant as it was back then. Ryan has not stayed here for a long time since he ascended the throne, but he spent a sum of money to repair the palace to ensure his majesty as a king.

As soon as the King of Knights returned to Britannia, he immediately held a meeting. The king received the expeditionary army returning from Obien's great expedition and gave them high-level encouragement. At the same time, Ryan immediately held a meeting and summoned Regent Lawn and Obi The commanders of the En Expeditionary Force.

In the meeting hall, Knight King Ryan, Knight Queen Suria, Lake God Witch Morgiana, Regent Lawn and Duke Adehad of Lyonnaise, Duke Taubote of Le-Angulan, and Gisoleaux Hagen and the Duke of Montfort were present. These five dukes were the main contributors and the main beneficiaries of the Obien Expedition. These dukes were all smiles. After the blow, he finally felt elated.

According to Lawn's report, during the Obien Expedition, the expeditionary army plundered a total of nearly 300,000 gold kroner worth of wealth, and then the second wave looted about a hundred thousand gold kroner wealth before the spring plowing. , the money will be distributed in a ratio of 6:3:1 according to Ryan's previous request, of which 60% will be distributed by the northern knights and nobles themselves, 30% will go into the treasury, and the remaining 10% will be distributed to only a small part The army, but the southern knight nobles who provided a lot of transport ships and logistics assistance (credit from the northern nobles).

In fact, several parties have opinions on this distribution ratio. The northern nobles believe that they sent out the army, raised the supplies, and fought the battles. In the end, only 60% was divided, which is really too little.

The southern nobles headed by François and Bohemond also had opinions. They felt that they could obviously participate in such things as the Obien Expedition, but they were sent by the king to build the fortress. Getting 10% is really too little.

In the end, Suria also secretly told Ryan, this is a war launched in the name of chivalry, why do you reserve 30% for the national treasury?

Ryan felt very speechless after hearing the demands of the three parties. This kind of thing is that everyone demands fairness in the matter of profit sharing, but the standard of fairness is different for everyone. To put it simply, there is no absolute Fairness is only relatively reasonable.

Fortunately, Ryan's prestige is beyond the sky. Although everyone has some opinions on the ratio he set, it is barely acceptable to everyone. Coupled with Morgiana's nod, everyone is not so fussy about this matter.

Victory can often ease contradictions and cover up many problems.

Sitting on the high throne, Ryan listened to the reports of the northern knights and nobles and Lawn, faintly...

Nodding, while the lake goddess Mogiana on the other side blushed, her eyes wandered, and she peeked at Ryan from time to time, wondering what she was thinking.

"So, you found a large number of Chaos Altars and Chaos Demons in the depths of Obion Island?" Ryan listened to Lawn's report, and the King of Knights shook his head in confusion: "Strange, logically speaking, When the large-scale Chaos Sacrifice Ceremony is carried out, it should be the time when the northern barbarians have the strongest fighting power and the most concentrated strength, how could the troops be so weak at this time that they were stolen by the expeditionary army?"

"Is it because the barbarians are about to abandon Obion Island?" Duke Taubot sat down. This war allowed him and his Duchy of Le-Angoulant to gain a lot of money, a large amount of magic ore and gold and silver veins, Including a lot of rare ores that filled his warehouse to the brim, he said quite relaxedly: "The empire and the natives of the Truth Talkers have been fighting the barbarians on the island for decades. Maybe the barbarians are bored?"

"How could the barbarians get annoyed? They are afraid that there will be no war!" Adehad, Duke of Lyonnaise, said displeasedly: "This is obviously impossible.

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"I think it may be a strategic contraction. The barbarian Vanaheimlin who was originally entrenched on Obion Island saw that their strength was not as good as ours in the Obion Expeditionary Army, so they chose to shrink and stick to the deep fog. Fortress, I want to wait until we leave." Duke Adehad next proposed a plan, and Duke Leonasay clasped his hands in anticipation, and said to Ryan and Suria: "Your Majesty, I think we can Like the empire, build a new stronghold in Obien?"

"A new stronghold?" Ryan frowned. Obien is close to Norsca. Although the chaos and corruption are not as strong as Norsca and the northern wasteland, the very bad environment and harsh climate are really not suitable for human habitation. It is completely different from the three guards of the badlands. Although the climate of the three guards of the badlands, the Arsenal Guard, the Iron Guard and the Eight Peaks Guard, is a little bit worse, they can grow food and herd animals, and there are dwarves to assist them. replace.

"Yeah, a new stronghold, for example, Obion Guard? We can send troops, enfeoff nobles, establish strongholds, choose an area close to the Newland province, and let the soldiers farm and support themselves?" said the Duke of Montfort. De is only 30 years old this year, and he is the youngest among the dukes. He is young and vigorous, and the victory of Obien's great expedition this time made him a little bit elated: "Like the three guards of the evil land?"

"Pfft..." Ryan couldn't help laughing, are you Lao Zhu? Are all the military households out?

The King of Knights vetoed this opinion. The military household system looks very beautiful. It is a professional soldier, a conscript, and an ultra-low maintenance fee. It seems to kill three birds with one stone, right?

But in fact, under the military household system, the combat effectiveness of the army is so fast...  

, Ryan is deeply touched.

In the previous Celestial Dynasty, Dai Ming’s military household was in Lao Zhu’s generation. Lan Yu was able to lead 150,000 people into the northern desert to fight in the fishing sea without water and food, and almost wiped out the Northern Yuan court. It is true that the army is fighting the Mengyuan iron cavalry head-on.

However, military households have only been passed down for one generation. When Zhu Lao four or five conquered Mongolia, the Daiming army was no longer an opponent of Mongolian and Yuan iron cavalry in terms of cavalry. It was necessary to lead the emperor's guard to charge in person to boost the morale of the army, and finally won the victory.

Then there is the civil fort.

Apart from a series of elements, such as the corruption of nobles and serfdom of soldiers, Ryan is very clear that the military household system is essentially the so-called "production and construction corps". The barbarians are fighting in the field... Ryan suspects that within a few years this group will all be finished.

Ryan briefly explained the reason, and then said: "Although this is possible, I don't think it is very likely. Think about it, the barbarians are afraid of war? Will they know how to shrink strategically?"

Everyone was silent, as if unwilling to admit that the victory of this great expedition was a fluke.

"Lauen, and Morgiana, how is your investigation of Norsca?" Ryan still felt very strange, so he had to ask: "What are the Norsca barbarians doing?"

"Huh? Ryan?" Morgiana just came back to her senses when Ryan called her, and she replied inexplicably, "How about I make veal braised in white sauce and puff pastry onion soup tonight?"

"???"

The dukes who were meeting in the meeting hall all had question marks on their faces, Ryan had black lines all over his face, and Suria sitting beside him couldn't help covering her mouth and giggling. The female knight took the initiative to say to Morgiana: " Your Highness Morgiana, we will talk about the dinner later, we are asking, how is the investigation of Norsca?"

Only then did Morgiana come back to her senses, and the Lake God Witch couldn't help but blushed. It took her a few seconds to come back to her senses, and after taking care of the situation, she said, "I'll send Clement and the others to Norsca The coast has been scouted, the barbarians are quiet now, very quiet, many norscan coastal ports and towns are in silence, it seems that they deliberately want to make us forget, but clement found a large army of norscan barbarians Gathering in Ice Dragon Fjord."

"Routine looting of Nords every year?" Lawn said casually: "The news I got here is the same. A large number of barbarian troops gathered in Ice Dragon Fjord, perhaps to carry out a new round of raids on the empire. Looting."

Ice Dragon Fjord is located on the south coast of Norsca, almost facing Norsca...  

Hagendorf, the most important port in the north of Germany.

If it is explained in this way, it seems that all this makes sense. Ryan himself grew up in Nord when he was a child. He naturally knows that the war between the Norse barbarians and Nord is eternal, and the two sides have never planned to stop.

"But it's still not normal." Ryan thought for a while and still shook his head: "First of all, it's true that Nord and Norsca have been fighting all day long over the years, but such a large-scale troop build-up still seems a bit strange. We all know that Norsca The card barbarians' southward raids are generally scattered and independent, but this time the other party did not come to raid in winter, and continued to gather troops, which is indeed a bit strange. We cannot relax our vigilance. This is the second attack on our northern coast, you must strengthen your vigilance."

"Yes!" The three dukes headed by Lawn all nodded, and their duchies were all across the sea from Norsca and O'Brien.

"Second, send people to investigate to the end." Ryan then ordered: "Be sure to find out the next move of the barbarians, and, Lawn, I asked you to contact the empire and the people on Obien Island. Indigenous people who speak the truth, have you contacted them yet?"

"Um... I once contacted the garrison of the Empire's Newland Province, and they sent us a guide." Lawn was a little embarrassed. His contact in this regard was limited to asking the Empire's Newland Province to send a guide to lead the way. Then give them a few gold coins and it's over.

To put it more bluntly, the northern knights and nobles are unwilling to involve the empire to share the spoils, especially after discovering that Obien's expedition went smoothly.

Ryan knew what the situation was, and the King of Knights didn't say anything, but nodded: "Forget it, the Obien Expedition is over now, so I won't mention it for now. Regarding the investigation, try to communicate with Marienburg as much as possible." Contact the Nords of the Empire, they have been trading with the Norscans all year round, and they have established an intelligence network."

Although the Norsca barbarians fought with Nord and Marienburg all day long, basically a looting war would come every 2-3 years, but at the same time their trade was basically uninterrupted.

"Also, what's the situation in Fort Marien recently?"

"Recently over Marienburg..."

……… I am the dividing line to explore again………

The land of the extreme north, the wasteland of chaos, the royal court of the north.

In the whistling of the wind of chaos and the distorted land and mountains, Tzeentch's Chosen Champion Cha-Zan'ek and Tzeentch's Chosen Hal-Eye of Eternity stood in the royal court, and they were discussing with Motkin how to make the Southerners let down their guard.

"Your Excellency, Eternal God's Choice, our large-scale troop mobilization cannot be hidden from the eyes and ears of the southerners." Zan Aike leaned on Tzeentch's twisted staff, and held the poisonous tongue of the demon bird god in his hand...

Sword, the remaining two hands point on the map: "If there is no plan, we will definitely alert the southerners."

"That's right, no matter how we cover up the Barbarossa plan, the southerners should already have the information that there are large-scale barbarian armies concentrated in Norsca and the northern wasteland." Hal-Eye of Eternity also looked at the map and turned towards As Motkin reported: "If the southerners were alert, we would not be able to crush the human resistance in one fell swoop before they reacted."

Black Iron Motkin was silent, Eternal God's Chosen seemed unresponsive, and his dark blue terrifying gaze hidden behind the chaos helmet didn't even fall on the map.

Zan Aike and Hal glanced at each other, and they both felt that this Eternal Chosen seemed to be different from other Eternal Chosen.

After receiving the blessings of the four gods, most of the other Eternal Gods were full of fanaticism and hatred and organized troops to go south, bringing the last moment to those cowardly mortals who refused to accept the true civilization and believe in the true god.

But Motkin seems to be different. The Eternal Chosen has only one goal, and that is the Imperial Osterland and Von-Zhukov Castle (where the tomb of the ancestors of the Zhukov family is located) and the Elector of Wolfen. First in line of succession, Oleg von Zhukov.

Seeing that the God of Eternal Chosen did not speak, Zan Aike prayed to the Demon Bird God in his heart. The champion of Tzeentch's God's Chosen had hundreds of vicious plans in his heart instantly, and relied on instinct to try to choose a plan to implement.

For the time being, the interests of the Demon Bird God and the Eternal God's Chosen are the same, for the time being.

But Hal didn't think too much. The Eternal Eye was sent by Tzeentch to assist Motkin in the mortal world. The oracle he got was to advise Motkin. Seeing that Motkin was silent, Hal went on to say : "Your Excellency, Eternal God's Chosen, we can't cover up the situation of our large-scale massing of troops, and if we try to cover it up at this time, it will be a cowardly and abnormal behavior, and it is very likely to arouse the vigilance of the southerners."

"Well, that's right, if it makes the southerners nervous, it's not good for my revenge." Motkin finally said: "What's the plan? For example, we send people to negotiate peace with the southerners?"

"The peace talks won't work. Instead, it will appear abnormal and cause other thoughts from the southerners." Zan Aike shook his head. The champion of Tzeentch's God-Chosen simply knows the human world too well: "We are the ones who are advanced and truly blessed by civilization." Human beings, how can we negotiate with the low-class people in the South? How many treaties have been signed with the Southerners in the history of Norsca, but how many of them are actually abided by?"

"If you take too many actions, and it's an obviously abnormal behavior, the other party will definitely think the other way around, but if you don't do anything, it will also make the southerners vigilant." Hal agreed with Zan Ike's idea, Tzeent God Xuan quickly thought of a plan: "Since this is the case, then we might as well just...

Just let the southerners get the news of our massing. "

"Let the ignorant southerners know directly?" Motkin said in a low voice.

"That's right, let the ignorant southerners know directly, make them nervous, let them fear, and then wait until they are nervously preparing to fight, but we let them understand that our target is not them." Hal - Eternal Yan Yan grinned and said: "At this time, the ignorance and low wisdom of the southerners will subconsciously relax. At this time, our opportunity has come, Your Excellency the Eternal God's Chosen, we might as well do it now, against Naggaros If the dark elves from behind us launch a plunder, the whole Old World will think that our real opponent is the dark elves, and they will subconsciously relax their vigilance."

"Well, if that's the case, the southerners will feel relieved from the first encounter with the enemy." Motkin thought deeply, and Eternal God Chosen nodded: "At this time, let's march south again."

"Oh, what a beautiful plan, I can't help but get excited." At this time, outside the royal court of the Northland, a whole legion of warriors of Slaanesh God's Chosen wearing gorgeous purple and reflective full-body chaotic blessing plate armor Appeared, the leading champion was wearing full-body plate armor of Slaanesh fine gold. He was slender and tall, with a silver sword hanging from his waist. He would twist his buttocks back and forth when he walked, maintaining his perfect posture, with gorgeous long golden hair Floating in the air: "Besides this, I have another plan, Your Excellency Eternal God's Chosen, are you interested in hearing it?"

"explain……"