Chapter 1173, Indulgence Notes and Title Freezing

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In March of 2522 in the Imperial Calendar, Brittania went to the beginning of winter and the beginning of spring.

The return of Sun King Ryan and Queen Suria caused the whole kingdom to boil. Sure enough, as the fairy in the lake said, Ryan and Queen Suria can return within three months at most.

Two months after the time passed, the three factions who were secretly planning and contacting each other saw Ryan and Suria coming back. On the one hand, they were relieved, and on the other hand, they also sighed secretly. Well, the vacancy after Ryan and Suria left is really a huge piece of fat, and everyone wants to pounce on it and take a bite.

It's a pity that the couple came back too quickly. If there is no news after a few months and all kinds of methods have been tried to save them, the conservative knights and nobles will really take action.

Ryan was not surprised by this. As a time traveler and a successor of Malcador's thinking, Ryan knew that the entire bureaucratic system he established was enough to maintain the operation of the state machine for a certain period of time. The bureaucratic system has inertia The bureaucratic system of the human empire established by Malcador maintained the operation of the empire for three thousand years before it was declared disintegrated in the war of the rise of the beasts. As his successor, the bureaucratic organization established by Ryan is naturally not weak.

Musillon's Palace of Fontainebleau, with the appearance of Ryan and Suria, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The regent Raun and the chief minister of the cabinet court, François, who were far away in Courona, came. They felt a little uneasy.

Ryan's prestige is too high. This time, even the Mogul, which the wood elves could not solve after thousands of years, will suffer under Ryan's sword. The troubles that Wa has to face are not small.

Fortunately, Ryan just took a look at the situation in the past few months and didn't say much.

In the conference hall of the Palace of Fontainebleau, the Regent Lawn and the father-in-law François reported to Ryan and Suria the work of the past three months, and the two female courtiers of Ryan, Veronica and Teresa, also arrived .

Ryan found it very interesting that Veronica had a calm face, and she was only happy when she saw Ryan come back, while Teresa was full of grievances, and almost cried when she saw Ryan.

what's the situation? Ryan was a little strange. He noticed that Morgiana shrank unnaturally, and wanted to listen to the report first.

It is worth mentioning that due to the disappearance of Ryan, the fairy in the lake lost the source of energy to stay in the mortal world, so naturally she could not walk in the mortal world for a long time, although because of the continuous disintegration of the maelstrom and the great guardian, she has more There is room for movement, but the goddess is still weakened, and she is currently leaving Brittania temporarily due to something.

Behind the long table in the conference hall, Ryan and Suria were sitting side by side. Everyone felt that Ryan and Suria had been missing for a few months, whether it was strength, bearing or state. a great change.

Lawn, who was the regent of the kingdom, reported three important things.

The first thing is that the jihad army formed by the Justice Church for the expedition to Sylvania has basically been assembled in Brunswick, and Cardinal Alfred on the Britannia side also brought a The army went to Brunswick to respond. The estimated number of the army is 25,000-30,000. Since this is a holy war army, the number of combat priests, ascetics, and order knights in its army far exceeds the normal establishment. In contrast, the number of firearms and the elite of the Imperial Central Army is relatively small.

"It's worth mentioning that, according to MI7's intelligence, the Church of Justice has encountered great difficulties in military expenditures and logistical supplies." Lawn reported to Ryan and Suria with the document: "There is also the army, The cost of hiring mercenaries on a large scale is very high, which makes the Justice Church, which was originally rich in financial resources, fall into a difficult situation."

"Normally, less than four years have passed since the Taal Fjord Martyrdom." Ryan nodded slightly: "The original army organization is not so easy to restore,

So, how does Archbishop Vekmar intend to solve this problem? "

"Archbishop Vicmar didn't focus on this aspect, he just ordered the dioceses and the great reciters, cardinals, cardinals and regional patriarchs to solve this problem themselves." Franco Wa stroked his goatee, and the father-in-law took out a thick piece of parchment from a stack of documents: "The subordinates of the church are forced to do nothing by the short time limit and high amount of money. Your Majesty, you also know that the recent situation in the empire is not good."

"Yes, I know, so what is this?" Ryan took the parchment, glanced at it, and was shocked instantly.

I saw that this piece of parchment was stamped with the seal of the church, and it was written in black ink in large words - Indulgence Notes.

"In the name of Charlemagne, forgive your sins." The densely packed text probably says that the church forgives the sinner and punishes him for the crimes he committed—offsetting in the name of money.

This indulgence note came from the Imperial Rick collar, and the price was 30 silver coins each. It was stamped by Hemgard Church of the Justice Church, and the crime was alcoholism and minor brawling.

How did you even get the indulgences out? Ryan was angry and funny: "Do the people of the empire believe in this? Isn't this obviously a scam? Isn't this too much treating the people like sand sculptures?"

Lawn and Francois couldn't stop smiling wryly when they heard the words, while Suria took the indulgence note and couldn't help frowning after a few glances. The female knight covered her forehead with her hand, she was really speechless.

"Facts have proved, Your Majesty, under the very bad situation and various threats, the faith craze in the empire is even more fanatical than before." Lawn spread his hands: "People are scrambling to buy indulgences, just to seek salvation and peace. Let Charlemagne forgive his sins, many people believe that this can lead to salvation, you underestimate the desperation of people in this dark age, they will try to grab any straw."

"But this kind of trick can't fool everyone." Ryan said speechlessly. The King of Knights almost wanted to scold, but thinking that this is not his own kingdom, nor the god of the kingdom, he could only endure it.

"Yes, some church figures, including Cardinal Alfred, and some imperial nobles, including Emperor Karl Franz, expressed their dissatisfaction either explicitly or implicitly." Francois nodded : "But when almost all the civilians support this, the emperor and dissatisfied factions in the church can't say anything. What the empire wants now is stability. Furthermore, as a compromise, the church's indulgences will be taxed by the empire. But a lot of money."

"Someone even came to our door and asked when our Ladies Church in the Lake will sell indulgences. They can't wait any longer." Morgiana, the witch of the lake god, interjected later: "I asked Madam, Madam did not support but No objection either."

"Next thing." Ryan said helplessly.

"The second thing is that after the previous battle, the wood elves retreated into the forest." Lawn then reported the second thing: "Your Majesty, the military alliance we signed with Athel Loren seems to be It has been unilaterally annulled, and the Alaier army front promised by the wood elves is now stationed in the Sharon Forest, not alone but not a subject, but fortunately, the Twilight sisters reiterated the regulations of mutual assistance... But this is obviously not a military alliance."

"Naturally, this is the sequelae of defeating Mogul. Our group of weird neighbors probably think that they can be completely autistic in the future." Ryan said in a deep voice: "It doesn't matter, send someone to inform the Wood Elf that I will come back soon." But, presumably the attitudes of Athel Loren and Alaier Junfeng will change immediately."

All the people present were stunned.

Is this Ryan? His prestige alone is enough to make those isolationists change their national policy? !

The matter was settled, and then Lawn said a third thing.

Three Britannian Crusaders and Expeditionary Forces in Araby report.

The Nicohala Desert is waking up. According to Kalida’s news, the Immortal Emperor Settra ordered all Tomb King Legions and all war machines to wake up, and seems to be preparing for an unprecedented war.

"Pay close attention to the movements of the Tomb Kings, and try not to have a direct conflict with them. If you really can't ask Queen Khalida for help, or just retreat to the mainland." Ryan then ordered: "At this juncture, we'd better not bear the huge lost."

"Yes!" Lawn and Francois both expressed their understanding.

After the three things were explained, Lawn and Francois immediately put forward the idea of ​​"returning the great government". The regent of the kingdom and the chief minister of the cabinet proposed to return the power to Ryan, but what was unexpected and in the process of cleaning up was that, Ryan refused: "I need to retreat, just in Fontainebleau, I need to retreat to attack the realm of demigods."

"Your Majesty, have you made a new breakthrough?" Lawn suppressed the shock in his heart, and asked repeatedly: "But did you search for it in the subspace?"

"Forget it, I need a few months to retreat, and Suria will be with me." Ryan nodded: "During this time, I will trouble you to continue to govern, just follow the existing phalanx."

"Yes." "Understood." Lawn and Francois had no objection to this.

In the coming months, Britannia will continue to operate according to the previously set bureaucracy.

The only difference is that Ryan is back.

The Sun King spent three days arranging many things successively, including letting Talleyrand accept most of the diplomacy, including letting Beria be in charge of military industry and supervision, and also arranging a series of national policy guidelines, and then preparing to work with Suria Retreat.

Sure enough, as soon as Ryan came back, the attitude of the wood elves immediately turned 180 degrees. Queen Alaier personally sent a message, reaffirming the military alliance and trade agreement between Athel Loren and Britannia, and even more cordially. Said that Athel Loren and Britannia have a strategic friendly relationship, the history of the two sides is a history of friendship, we are close friends, Queen Alaier expressed her gratitude to His Majesty the Sun King and Queen Suria through letters Gur thanks and best wishes.

The Twilight Sisters' Alaier Junfeng also expressed his willingness to obey Ryan and Suria's orders.

It's just that Ryan is busy retreating now and has no time to pay attention to these sharp ears.

In addition, within three days, Ryan also accomplished a major event, which was to order the veterans in the army to retire again. Among them, more than 70 old guards retired, and there were thousands of freemen infantry regiments. People were forced to retire, and the best of them did not return to their hometowns, but continued to serve in the court of Ryan as bureaucrats. Their loyalty and ability have been tested, and the barracks have proved to be excellent management after many years of experience. By.

Since then, Ryan has carefully arranged the "military transfer" system for more than ten years before it can be regarded as officially established.

Three days later, Ryan and Suria entered the practice room of Fontainebleau Palace for retreat.

On the way in, Suria was still talking to Ryan with a smile about what happened before, about the conflicts between Morgiana, Teresa, and Aurora.

What happened in Ryan's backyard? In fact, the problem is very simple. Morgiana dislikes Teresa and Aurora's behavior from the bottom of her heart. After Ryan and Suria disappeared, the first thing Morgiana did was to detain Teresa. Sha's baroness and fief transfer matters.

Yes, Morgiana immediately ordered the Knights of the Holy Grail to detain Teresa's full set of baroness costumes, seals and crowns, and temporarily seize the entrusted land. With this arrangement, the sorceress' title and fief were frozen on the spot.

Teresa and Aurora are so wronged, the sorceress turned pale with anger, she immediately questioned Morgiana, saying that this is obviously the title and land granted to me by Ryan, why do you take it away? !

Morgiana said that I didn't take it away. The Lake God Witch said very naturally that there was no precedent for the witch's conferring and entrusting the land before, and Ryan didn't get along with her, so Morgiana said that we just want to "discuss again Discuss, and then study and study", when the research is completed and discussed, it will naturally be returned to you after the adjustment is completed.

Teresa turned to the regency group headed by Lawn and François, but the knights and nobles also had little affection for Teresa and Aurora, so naturally they would not support her at the risk of offending Morgiana.

In this way, Teresa's title and fief were all detained. Veronica took over the title and fief smoothly, and had already begun to exercise her power as a baroness, but Teresa was still stuck here and would not move at all. No, after finally waiting for Ryan to come back, the sorceress was in tears. She quickly seized the opportunity to complain to Ryan and demanded justice from Ryan.

Ryan found Morgiana, and Morgiana presented a series of evidence, Aurora's evidence of "corrupting intelligence funds for personal enjoyment and overquoting many palace procurement projects".

Ryan was confused, didn't he know about Aurora's problem?

Of course he knew, he knew better than many people, but because the mother and daughter were both his female courtiers and Xi'er, he turned a blind eye to it.

But Morgana brought this matter to the fore, and Ryan had to be punished. He first used the price of "15 days" to settle Morgana, and then warned Aurora and Teresa severely After a while, the title was finally sealed.

Even if this matter is over.

"Speaking of which, so many retired officers have entered the court, is this really good?" Su Liya asked the second question, and the female knight sat opposite Ryan in the training room: "I remember... Lord Yifu Didn’t you disapprove of Brother Guilliman’s idea and have never reserved a place for this part of the Human Empire and the High Lord Council of Terra?”

Ryan has to digest the power of the subspace source, the four gods of chaos, and the incarnations of the elf gods swallowed by Mogul.

Surya was to absorb the power of the Primarchs, as well as a small portion of the power bestowed by the Emperor.

Ryan couldn't help but smiled when he heard the words: "I am the successor of my father, but it doesn't mean that I must inherit all his policies and national policies. I have my own considerations, my dear, you know that compared with the The empire of Karl Franz, where is the real weakness and backwardness of our Britannia?"

"?" Surya was puzzled.

"Let me put it this way, the composition of a regime is a pyramid. The topmost one is the sacred value, the one in the middle is the middle-level organization, and the one at the base is the grassroots governance." Ryan nodded slightly, and the Gray Knight Primarch said softly .

"And the solution to this problem is to create a bureaucracy."

"And the establishment of the core of our bureaucratic group is the transformation of the army!"