Chapter 899, Lawn's O'Brien Plan

As the regent of the kingdom appointed by the Knight King, Lawn has been very unhappy for a while.

During this period of time, what is the plan of the northern knight nobles headed by Lawn? Obviously, as mentioned above, it is a plan to come to Obien's great expedition. Lawn wants to change his embarrassing position, the northern nobles want to get more benefits and improve their status, and the serfs and freemen want to To change fate, everyone wants to beat O'Brien.

According to intelligence, it can be known that Obien Island has very rich magic veins and various gold and silver treasures, and even includes many fascinating ancient holy relics, and now occupying Obien Island, except for a small amount in the south Except for the newly established territory "Newland" by the Truthsayer tribe and the empire, the rest of the area has been basically occupied by the northern barbarian tribe "Wanahemlin". The Raider Hunter, whose tribal chief is called Rafe Gulbranson, is a powerful and legendary chaotic champion with more than 12,000 barbarian raiders and hundreds of Chaos Warriors under his command. The Truthsayers and the many beasts of Chaos are countless.

Therefore, Lawn knew very well that O'Brien could fight, but before that, he had to reorganize the army of the northern nobles,

That is to say, to fight Obien, Lawn must give priority to solving the problem of army decay. The knight nobles in the north are not like the knight nobles in the south who followed Ryan to complete the reorganization and intensive training of the army. Modernized and equipped with a large number of firearms, and established the Old Guard, one of the most powerful troops in the Old World.

What Lawn now has in his hands is only a few hundred elites left after Ryan completed the Eight Peaks Mountain Expedition. Lawn reorganized them into an independent legion and named it the Connet Royal Highland Defense Regiment.

However, it takes money to form such a completely out-of-production elite army! Ryan is rich, he can afford the elite of the Old Guard, François is rich, he can form the Unicorn Guard, even Berhemond and Boderick have money, the Red Dragon Guard and Mannen The guard has also been formed.

However, the northern nobles led by Lawn and their army are still reorganizing and training, and they need to be equipped with muskets and artillery collectively, so they need a lot of financial support and food supply.

This involves the third problem to be solved, money, grain and taxation.

Then the problem arises again. Although Lawn is the regent of the kingdom, it is impossible for him to command the court established by Ryan. The two responsible for managing the finances are the two deputy finance ministers appointed by Ryan, Geffen from the Empire and Steve from Brittany. These two people are bureaucrats appointed by Ryan. They only obey Ryan's orders and want to approve funds. , They will only approve the items that Ryan asked to allow before leaving and some established items that Ryan made before.

Is the expedition to Albion a given? Obviously not,

Moreover, it was something the king clearly opposed, and Lao Enxiu wanted to get a copper coin from the treasury for military expenses.

Therefore, it extends to the fourth question, which is the political system of Britannia. As we all know, Britannia is a two-headed political system, which is the Holy Grail system represented by the lake goddess Mogiana and In the secular feudal system represented by Ryan, if the northern nobles headed by Lawn want to get military expenses, they must get at least one faction, or try to persuade Morgiana to engage in a chivalrous war, or find a way to get the bureaucracy left by Ryan to assist Expedition to Albion.

Who can Lawn handle?

So during this period of time, the regent of the Kingdom was tossed back and forth like being kicked. The framework left by Ryan made him very uncomfortable. He could do a lot of things within the framework, but once it exceeded the framework, all of them were rejected. This regent is indeed worthy. It's kind of boring.

However, the opportunity is rare. Recently, Lawn has noticed keenly that the barbarian army in the northern Chaos Wasteland and Norsca has greatly reduced the plundering of the Old World, and seems to be shrinking their troops. Obviously, the northern barbarians cannot suddenly become "kind". If so, there is only one possibility, that is, the barbarians are preparing for a big move.

This is a good opportunity, and Lawn put the document aside. After thinking for a long time, he told the attendants: "Did she say it was because of something?"

"Ms. Aurora said that she has recently obtained some information from Nord, Oster, and Kislev, and wants to exchange it with the Regent, about the movements of the northern barbarians." The attendant said respectfully.

"Oh?!" Lawn suddenly became interested. Originally, the regent was still considering whether to meet this mature and glamorous sanctuary witch. When he heard the news brought by Aurora, he thought it was interesting. necessary.

Otherwise, the regent of the Kingdom originally did not intend to see Aurora. As we all know, the MI7 established by Aurora is only responsible to Ryan. She is Ryan's personal adviser and courtier and is not subject to the existing system of Brittany. Jurisdiction.

Moreover, there are faint rumors in the kingdom's court that Aurora is actually the same as her daughter Teresa, and is the forbidden domain of Knight King Ryan. Aurora often just smiles and refuses to talk about this topic, which makes many people believe this idea. Therefore, Aurora can often walk sideways in the kingdom. Hit her, this sanctuary witch will definitely participate in a lot of court social activities for her own benefit.

Lawn didn't really want to see him to avoid suspicion, but now he had to: "Bring her in."

A minute later, Aurora appeared. Today, the sanctuary witch was wearing a black satin classic dress with a white fox fur coat on the outside, showing off her own proud figure, and the shiny black dress The skirt is distinct from the white fox fur coat, and a row of metallic buttons of different sizes is more fashionable. The slender legs wrapped in skin-colored stockings lie quietly under the skirt, and a pair of black matte high-heeled shoes are together , Aurora bowed to Lawn, her face was serious: "Hello, good afternoon, Your Excellency Regent, I am sorry to disturb you, you must be very busy?"

"Fortunately, I'm surprised you found me." Lawn signaled Aurora to sit down, and the regent of the kingdom cut to the chase: "I heard that you have information to share with me?"

There was a little helplessness on Aurora's mature and beautiful face.

The days of sanctuary witches have not been easy recently.

Since Ryan left, Aurora's life has become very difficult.

In the Garland Council, she and Teresa were completely suppressed by Veronica. Obviously, Veronica is the speaker appointed by Ryan. Her status is higher than that of Aurora, and the two parties have never been the same. Before When Ryan was there, Veronica was still a little restrained. As soon as Ryan left, Veronica threw Aurora and Teresa aside and began to rebuild the sorceress's assembly hall, and the important positions in the sorceress's assembly hall are obviously Veronica arranged for her own people, Teresa is okay, Aurora is very dissatisfied with the status quo but helpless, Veronica participated in the Eight Peaks Mountain Expedition, and has a special status in the eyes of the knights and nobles.

Recently, Aurora reported something to the sanctuary witch from the intelligence network that Aurora had managed to establish in the empire and Kislev, which caught her attention.

It seems that there is a great power of chaos who is integrating all the forces of all the barbarian tribes and chaos tribes in the entire Norsca and northern wasteland. The barbarians are shrinking their forces on a large scale, and they have completely stopped their southward raids.

Aurora instinctively realized that things might be unusual. Once this happens to the northern barbarians, there is only one possibility, that is, a certain Chaos Champion, Chaos God's Chosen, or even a Chaos God's Chosen Champion and a more terrifying existence. After reading the oracle of the evil god, they began to integrate their forces.

However, after getting the news, Aurora discovered a problem.

Ryan and Su Liya are not here, the distance is too far to contact and make up, who do I report to?

She went to Veronica first, and Veronica said that this matter is out of my control, did you find the wrong person?

Then Aurora approached Katzenberg, the court steward appointed by Ryan, and Sylvia, the head of the maid, who also said that this was not their scope of responsibility.

Neither this nor that, in the end Aurora had no choice but to bite the bullet and go find Morgiana.

Morgiana was already very prejudiced against Aurora, but she still listened to Aurora's description, and then asked three questions coldly.

First, you said that there might be a Chaos power integrating the barbarian armies throughout Norsca and the northern wasteland, so who is this person?

Second, can you predict the approximate time when the barbarians will go south?

Finally, what is the specific distribution of the barbarian troops along the Norsca coast and the Kislev border? Have you investigated it?

Aurora couldn't answer any of these three questions. Morgiana laughed angrily after hearing this. The Lake God Witch said that this is the result of spending a lot of money on Ryan in a year? You have to apologize to the entire knight kingdom for doing this!

After finishing speaking, Morgiana said that I still have a lot of things to deal with, and I don't have time to talk to you now, so come back when Ryan comes back or you can get relatively accurate information.

But Aurora is also wronged. The sanctuary witch can't tell the pain. The intelligence network she originally designed and laid out was almost completely destroyed in the destruction of Jialan. It is not easy to get this information now. She got it from the contacts she had made with Kislev and Nord.

So after much deliberation, she simply came to Lawn to see if she could exchange some valuable information from Lawn.

Lawn has detailed information and intelligence on Obien Island, and indeed pointed out that the northern barbarians have recently been shrinking and stopping their looting on a large scale, and Obien Island's defenses are empty.

Aurora clearly pointed out that according to the intelligence, there should be a Chaos Power integrating all the barbarian forces. According to the information from Nord and Kislev, the barbarians are shrinking their forces and preparing to concentrate their forces, and may soon go south.

"I see. I understand what you mean, Ms. Aurora." Lawn's eyes lit up after hearing Aurora's information, and the regent of the kingdom thought that I was just thinking about how to find a suitable opportunity to attack Obien. Well, in the end, Aurora sent a good reason to come over. Now, don't they just have an excuse to fight Obien?

The regent of the Kingdom thought about it, and tried to express his gratitude in polite but distanced language: "Ms. Aurora, thank you very much for the information you brought, which will be beneficial to our next meeting and the direction of the kingdom. Thank you on behalf of His Majesty Lane."

"You don't need to thank me." Aurora heard the hidden meaning in Lawn's words, and the sanctuary witch sighed softly, and forced a smile: "We each get what we need, exchange valuable information, strengthen It's just communication."

"Well." Lawn also nodded politely, and the regent of the kingdom said very cautiously: "Special period, special treatment, special treatment, but Ms. Aurora, don't you have a way to contact His Majesty Ryan?"

"Originally there was, but my contact information would be invalid if it was too far away." Aurora said helplessly: "Now I can contact Ryan... Your Majesty is only His Highness Mogiana, but she is unwilling to help."

"That's it, okay, I'll go and explain this to Her Majesty Morgiana." Lawn thought for a while, and then added: "Also, we should collect as much information as possible about the northern barbarians, and wait until His Majesty Ryan You can report directly to him when you come back."

"I will." Aurora became even more helpless. The sanctuary witch knew that she had really become Ryan's private property now, and everyone was eager to draw a distance from herself, but she was already at Ostermark After hitting a wall once, it is not hard to accept it now, but I am a little unwilling: "If there is nothing else, I will leave first, Your Excellency the Regent."

"Please, I am also preparing to participate in the Duke's meeting." Lawn did not say anything to persuade him to stay, and the regent also had his own affairs to do.

After Aurora went down, Lawn adjusted his dress, got up, and walked towards the conference hall of the palace.

Five minutes later, the attendant pushed open the domed door of the conference hall, which was more than ten meters high.

At this time, all the dukes of Brittania and the lake goddess Morgiana were already present, and each duke was accompanied by an attendant, and most of them were their juniors, such as François With Sir Gerald, let's say Bodrick with his son Frederick.

As usual, Hubald, Duke of Carcassonne, was not present, he was the only one absent.

"You're late, Lawn." Morgiana, the witch of the lake, said coldly. She sat on the bench next to the throne, and her tone didn't sound very pleasant: "Let's start as soon as possible."

Lawn first said "yes" to Morgiana, and then sat down in front of his seat. The seat of the Kingdom's regent is not far from the left in front of the throne, which is vaguely opposite to the Lake God Witch: "His Majesty Ryan is going to Ulthuan left several orders before, and today we convene everyone to discuss how to continue to implement the king's orders, what problems were found, how to solve them, and how to report to His Majesty Ryan when he returns."

The dukes had different expressions, but they all nodded seriously.

"Generally, there are several things like this." Lawn stood up, took out a thick stack of parchment, and signaled the courtiers to deliver it to each duke.

Adehad, the Duke of Lyonnaise, frowned. He had just received the parchment from the courtiers, and the first sentence on it made the duke's head so big that he broke out in a cold sweat. It's true that Ryan can hold back the place where there are many mountains, because he has prestige and strength, but I can replace him...Your Majesty, you want me to die!

The parchment reads: "Further reduce, change, and eliminate incompetent knights and nobles."

Berhemond, Duke of Bastogne, also took the scroll. He frowned and looked at the first one. He nodded thoughtfully, thinking that the incompetent useless knights and nobles really need to be rectified. As Arthur's direct descendants He couldn't bear to read the offspring, but when he saw the second article, Bohemond also showed a embarrassed expression.

"Further cancel exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes, uniformly reduce tariffs, and encourage trade and population circulation."

François, Duke of Winford, was very skilled at nourishing his spirit. He kept seeing the third article, and couldn't help but twitched his lips. His son-in-law really had a lot of ideas.

"Establish regular warehouses and strategic grain reserves, and appropriately subsidize grain prices."

This is also what Francois wanted to do. He hadn't brought it up yet. He wanted to wait for Ryan to come back to discuss it.

Looking at the next one, all the dukes frowned.

"Each principality must build no less than five permanent military fortresses along the border of its own kingdom, at its own expense."

"Everyone, if you have any comments and suggestions on the national policy left by His Majesty, you can directly put them forward at the meeting." Seeing that Morgiana was silent and the Lake God and Witch seemed to be wandering, he had to say it himself: "Your Majesty Having said that, you can freely raise any issues you have, and everyone can discuss them, but if you don’t speak up in person and talk nonsense behind your back, that’s talking about state policy indiscriminately.”

After speaking, Lawn gave the dukes some time to digest, and the dukes immediately discussed with their relatives or courtiers.

Five minutes later.

"objection!"

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