Chapter 1264, The Plague of the End Times II.0

Latest URL: Imperial Calendar 2524, Autumn.

In the Principality of Montfort, the mountain road leading to the ax bite pass is full of refugees from the empire. They lined up in a long line of nearly one kilometer. The hundreds of meters high mountains look insignificant against the background. As the most important trade route between the empire and Brittania, the ax-biting pass has been operated for thousands of years. It is wishful thinking to accept so many refugees in one go. Montfort Duke Ford didn't like so many imperial people pouring into his territory. It is well known that the Principality of Montfort is not a fertile and rich principality. Duke Ford was very dissatisfied with why so many refugees came from the empire.

The strong fortress tens of meters high is covered with Britannian troops. In addition to the defenders of the Principality of Montfort, the Britannian royal flag is also erected. In Ryan's book, the sword and iris banner Standing on top of the Monteverl Castle, there is also the tricolor flag of the Old Guard here.

With the advent of 2524 in the Imperial Calendar, the situation in the Old World is already at stake. The Chaos army in the north, led by Archaon's lieutenant Kron-Conqueror, continued to storm the Golden Fortress. Under the leadership of Vlad, the empire is struggling to support, due to the strength of the golden fortress and the assistance of Vlad's undead army from time to time, the empire can still barely resist the attack of the chaos army.

But the real problem is behind the empire. With this year's food production once again reduced and the beastmen and greenskins continuing to wreak havoc, with the chaos in the empire and the inexplicable appearance of many chaotic warbands from the forest, the logistics and logistics of the empire Law and order suffered the most severe challenge, and most of the energy of the imperial army was placed in the north, and the emperor was unable to solve the problems in the rear.

The supply of food and military pay made the empire's finances stretched. Emperor Karl Franz announced the introduction of new taxes in desperation. The taxes are as follows:

New poll tax: It is collected once every six months, mainly for urban residents. The tax rate for men is two silver coins, and the tax rate for women is one silver coin.

Bull tax: It is collected once every three months, and the targets of the collection are mainly farmers. Every time a farmer owns a cow, he has to pay a tax of six copper coins.

Dinner tax: It is collected once a day. The objects of the collection are small vendors, taverns, and restaurants in towns. As long as there is a place to sell food, the tax must be collected. The tax is 3% of the price of the food as an example.

Window tax: Taxes are levied on every building in the city. The logic of taxation is that a window is taxed once.

Belt Tax: Taxes are imposed on fat people. When entering the city, soldiers will measure the waistline of citizens. The thicker the waistline, the heavier the tax, ranging from 1 copper coin to 2 silver coins.

Liquor tax: Additional taxes are imposed on various wineries and taverns within the empire,

Even wine buyers and drinkers.

These types of taxes are relatively typical taxes. These taxes are collectively referred to as the "Northern Three Funds" or "Northern Three Rates", which are "New Gold (anti-mixing funds)", "Suppressing Gold (domestic security funds)" and "Lian Jin ( for drills and formation of new armies)",

The new taxes imposed a very serious burden on the common people of the empire, especially when the food harvest continued to fail, but everyone silently endured it.

At the same time, the Imperial Court formulated a new "Conscription Code", and 68,000 soldiers were sent to the northern front again, of which 20,000 were the provincial troops on the border between the Empire and Britannia, the southern border of the Empire and the black fire pass of Aiweiling, and 8,000 There are 40,000 recruits and 40,000 recruits. Two-thirds of these recruits are under the age of 18. There is a serious lack of experienced veterans and officer commanders, and there is also a lack of weapons and equipment. Noor is unable to provide new equipment for so many troops, in addition to limited production capacity.

And the most troublesome thing is not only these, the empire's war horses have also begun to be in serious shortage. Many signs indicate that the empire has begun to be unable to support its northern defense line, and the flames of war will quickly spread to the entire empire.

Uncontrollable panic.

So where else in the old world is safe?

There is no doubt that only Brittania is left. A large number of imperial civilians and many imperial nobles came from the ax bite pass with their families, trying to enter the border of Britannia to seek asylum.

This made Britannia feel very embarrassed. Chivalry and chivalry are Britannia's national policy and national image. It is reasonable that the Knight Kingdom has no reason to reject the refugees' asylum requests, but from the Knight King down to the The serfs have settled their accounts very clearly. You didn’t come when we fought bloody battles against the Skaven and Prince Sigvald, but now you are safe?

Ford, Duke of Montfort, and Casson, Duke of Palaon, set new customs clearance standards. All imperial people who want to enter Britannia have to pay "poll tax", "likin" and "pass customs duty". However, if the imperial refugees can Prove that you have a skill, such as a priest, a veteran, a miner, a hunter, a doctor, or a scholar, and the country of Brittany is still open.

Of course the most important are apothecaries, armorsmiths, bowmakers, winemakers, scribes, carpenters, cartographers, gemstone cutters, gunsmiths, herbalists, vendors, shipwrights, blacksmiths, stonemasons, tailors and weapons Craftsmen, these craftsmen are considered to be the most precious wealth in the old world, Britannia not only does not want them a penny, but also directly arranges housing, work and provides free meals for two months.

Looking at the long list, Duke Ford's face was about to smile crookedly.

The ax bite pass has been operated by the empire and Brittany for a thousand years. Compared with other old world mountain roads, the road is still very easy to walk. Because of this, Monteverl Castle and Herm on the opposite side of the mountain Gat was attacked by the Plague coalition forces (Skaven + Nurgle tribe) at the same time. The Skaven seemed to have no idea how to send the entire Norscan tribe of the Yankees to the Gray Mountains.

Montfort immediately asked Sun King Ryan for help. Ryan didn't say much. He immediately led the reorganized Old Guard, Coldstream Guards and First Guard Lancers to Montfort, and saw Ryan and the Old Guard The army's tricolor flag appeared on the field, and the Skaven and Nurgle believers were so frightened that they fled into the deep mountains on the spot.

It is said that Ryan got a new title "仏の战鬼" from the Skaven.

The current situation is that apart from the green-skinned gangsters, the psychopaths of the Khorne believers, and the happy people of the Slaanesh believers, there is no enemy who wants to be hostile to Ryan.

Montfort's threat was lifted in an instant, while Hemgart on the other side of the mountain was attacked by the Skaven and Nurgle's rotting blood tribe with all their strength.

However, Hemgard did not fall. At the most critical moment of the city, five heroes stood up and saved the city.

They are Imperial Captain Marcus Kruber, Silver Hammer Order Templar Victor Salzpires, Wood Elf Ranger Kerillian, Dwarf Ranger Bardin-Goreksh and Bright Fire Witch Sienna Forgnathus.

These five heroes thwarted the Skaven's plan to destroy Hemgart again. They even defeated the Nurgle Wizard, Nurgle Champion, and Skaven Warlord successively, and then went to Norsca through the portal to destroy The Skaven's teleportation device then returned to kill the Thirteenth Gray Seer, Rasknit, just before the portal collapsed.

It was a miracle. Thanks to the efforts of these five heroes, Hemgart did not fall. They saved more than 50,000 lives. Britannia immediately dispatched Sir Amanric, the Holy Grail A legion led by him temporarily took over part of Hemgard.

By the way, the first thing Amanrik did when he arrived in Hemgard was to build a chapel for the fairies in the lake.

All in all, Brittania is now in a very tense and calm state. The bards hired by the Church of the Fairy in the Lake and the nobles are dispatched everywhere to preach how many crises the old world has encountered. You can still be in the tavern Drinking, isn't it just to thank the fairy in the lake for the blessing and Sun King Ryan and Queen Suria for their unremitting efforts?

In the lobby of the most advanced "White Castle" hotel in Monteverl, a large number of Britannian freedmen and refugees from the empire are sitting together, drinking and chatting, the darker the moment, Alcohol becomes more necessary, and the darker the time, the more fanatical and pious the common people's beliefs, especially when the Fairy of the Lake proves that she is indeed capable of protecting her followers.

There was a lot of noise on the first floor, and the VIP suite on the fourth floor was also noisy.

"Things...that's...that's it." The sweet voice of the fairy from the lake came from the room, and the light voice of the goddess seemed a little rough at this moment: "Malekis became the Phoenix King...he was in Lother En ascended the throne, and... well, Tyrion also announced that he is the orthodox Phoenix King...he ascended the throne in Cosque."

"Oh, that's right." Ryan's voice was rough. He got the latest news from the fairy in the lake. The Sun King then asked, "Malekis passed the test of the Asuryan holy fire after all?"

"Hmm... yes." The lake fairy gasped, and the goddess' voice was mixed with joy and sorrow: "The outer kingdom of Ulthuan... supports Tyrion, and the inner kingdom... supports Malekith , the dark elves' followers of Kane and Grond... support Tyrion, and the rest... um."

The voice of the fairy in the lake gradually faded away: "In short... the vitality of both sides has been seriously injured... the original total of more than 300,000 troops... now there are less than... 200,000 people... this is Gao Jinghe The dark elves' last army, Olika... and I have collected as many souls as we can."

"Did Malekith succeed in proposing to Alarielle?" Ryan asked casually, panting quite loudly.

"It didn't...succeed, because Alarielle and...Alaier merged into one, she is now...is Isa...is Olaine...queen, can't marry...Mahler..." The Fairy of the Lake The voice is getting smaller and smaller.

"That's right, master." Olika's voice sounded in the room, and the Pale Queen said: "Because of becoming the incarnation of Isa, in theory Alarielle is already the queen of the wood elves, the wife of Orlaine, and she cannot now Married to the Phoenix King Malekith, Malekith failed to propose marriage, but our new Phoenix King does not intend to give up at all, the high elves are less hostile to him seeing Malekith being so good a lot of."

"Malekis can still play." Ryan sighed. The Witch King seemed to have really changed his gender. It didn't matter whether he married Alarielle or not. The key was his attitude that made the entire high elf They all realized that the Witch King is really willing to integrate into their culture and respect their customs. The first step of the union has been taken, and the effect is good.

"Hmm...um...um." The fairy in the lake groaned a few times, expressing her agreement with Ryan's point of view.

"It's not that Malekith has no chance. Isa has returned to heaven after giving her power to Alarielle. Assuming the reincarnation of the battle of heaven continues, then Kane and Kunos must have a bloody fight, and all the elves and gods will return to heaven." Go to heaven and Hades." Olika said sweetly: "It will not be difficult to marry Alarielle when the time comes."

"Return to heaven and Hades? Including you and Lilith?" Ryan was a little concerned.

"Lilith escaped the last reincarnation, and this time she used your power to pick out the reincarnation." Olika said with some displeasure: "As for me, I am not Erth Haai at all, my mother I have completely fallen, and I am not a part of reincarnation, so what does it matter to me?"

"That's it." Ryan wanted to say something more, but Olika interrupted him: "Okay, Lilith, get the hell out of here, it's my turn."

There were rustling sounds in the room.

"So what's the situation now." Ryan's voice changed, and he paused.

"Now both sides are in a truce. Malekith needs time to integrate the power of the high elves and dark elves, and reorganize his court. Tyrion is seriously injured. Lilith's dog-licking toxin and injury made Terry Ang has to rest." Olika's joyful voice sounded: "The two sides are expected to have a truce for a while, but the outcome will definitely be decided again."

"...Didn't you make a lot of plans before?" Ryan's breath gradually became heavy.

"Yes... I have made... a lot of... strategies." Olika's voice began to be intermittent, but still so sweet: "It's a pity... the situation is changing too fast... it's useless... Shadow King Aris is very tired. Stubbornness... no matter what... um... kill Malekith first and then... lead to..."

Gradually, Olika couldn't speak anymore.

Lilith's lazy and charming voice sounded: "We originally took Alisara to Ulthuan, hoping to make a final decision at the critical moment of the duel between Malekith and Tyrion, but we didn't expect Morasi to let Tyrion The time for Ang to draw his sword was greatly advanced. Malekith was no match for Tyrion, who became the incarnation of Kane with the sword of Kane at all. In addition, Aris refused to listen to me. He insisted on killing Malekith first. , so Olika and I decided to give up the action first and talk about it later, you don't want us to have an accident, do you?"

"That's it... ah." Ryan snorted, and his voice stopped.

"Alysara has gone back to Nur, and I have brought Eltharion's nephew and niece to the old world, together with Iris's few remaining 1,000 remnants." The fairy in the lake made a long speech. Tone: "They are too young, too innocent and too weak. Participating in the elf civil war is courting death. Didn't Berleon suffer a huge loss in the Skaven's attack? Give them a piece of seaside baronship, and put them first. "

"Etharion is a great hero, do me a favor, my dear." Seeing that Ryan could not speak, Lilith continued: "His sacrifice inspired me, his nephew and niece are Prince Iris The last bloodline."

"Oh...you Azul are hypocritical...and...the last blood...hmph." Olika complained: "Useless things... don't keep it."

Conversation in the room disappears.

After more than two hours, Ryan's voice sounded again, and the Gray Knight Primarch gasped and complained: "You...two goddesses...this...doesn't talk about martial arts."

"It's not over, master, I've consumed a lot on this trip to Ulthuan, and master can't rest until I make up for it!" Olika said with endless enthusiasm.

"Lian, your beard has grown again, and it hurts me. Come on, I'll shave it for you today." The lazy voice of the fairy in the lake followed.

"I can't, my back is really bad, you can move on your own, I'm going to rest for a while." Ryan answered irrelevantly.

"Then, I'm going to start!" Olika was excited.

There are layers of snow on the top of the gray mountains, solitary peaks, and migratory birds flying across.

Today's Montfort is also a calm day.

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