Chapter 720, Failure Expert Bellegar
Whether it is the knight aristocrats of Brittania or the military aristocrats of the empire, they are all extremely martial in nature.
In the empire, if a nobleman with a title has not been on the battlefield for a long time, he will be ridiculed and ridiculed by everyone at various banquets. The title will decrease from generation to generation. The previous generation is an earl, the next generation is a viscount, and the next generation is a baron until the title of nobility is revoked. In order to prevent the title of nobility of their own family from being revoked, almost all military nobles in the empire will Send one of your direct descendants to the court of the emperor or elector to serve in the court of the emperor or elector. When the court of the emperor or elector is recruited for war, the nobles must also lead their own troops to the scene to ensure that they can make military exploits and not be excluded. Otherwise, the title may be lowered or even all territories may be confiscated at any time.
This was what Emperor Karl Franz did when he first succeeded to the throne. When the emperor led his army to the Nord Kingdom to fight against the barbarians, many nobles in Reikland refused to respond to the emperor's call, thinking whether he was a qualified The emperor still needs the test of time, but Emperor Karl didn't say anything, and he left with the army of nobles who supported him.
Then, the emperor won, and Karl Franz came back to deal with these disobedient nobles with the prestige and capture of the victory. No one dared to say anything. A large group of nobles were confiscated and reduced to civilians. They are all waiting for these people to take over the land!
"Don't look at you having a good time today, be careful to pull out the list in the future, this has to be fulfilled. Don't do this kind of thing, there is a king three feet above your head, you must be in awe." Ryan said maliciously: "Empire And so it is with Brittany."
Veronica could feel the faint warning in Ryan's words, and Witch Garland nodded silently. Ryan's meaning was very clear. If you want wealth and wealth, I will give it to you. I have also given you a high position, so as my chief female courtier, you must stand by my side and obey Lane's orders.
Even though Veronica was smart enough that she didn't need to be reminded, Ryan still had to say it, just in a cryptic way.
Witch Garland thought that Britannia is actually similar to the Empire, where military aristocrats rule the country. In the Kingdom of Knights, you can see that the black knights are stupid, the black knights are greedy, and the black knights are corrupt. Question, but no one is ever a coward of the black knight lords, and when war comes, the knights will mount their guns and fight evil to the death.
It is precisely because of the huge external pressure and the eternal need to fight against evil that the knights and nobles still maintain a good enterprising spirit and pioneering spirit after the founding of Brittania for thousands of years. Constantly motivating, Brittany is what it is today.
Wanting to come back so much, is Ryan's gamble, this knightly expedition necessary?
Veronica thought for a while, and the answer was, yes!
In this dark age, huge external pressure, and the special status of knights and nobles, it is destined that Ryan must and can only ensure the stability of the country and the expansion of personal authority through victory in the war. what is it Didn't he not fail since he came to Brittany? No matter how difficult and powerful the enemy is, he has won the victory, and the knight nobles in the whole kingdom would like him to be the knight king.
This is the only way to go, and the only way to centralize power.
This is the man she picked, who turned the impossible into the possible. When Veronica thought of this, her eyes were as gentle as water. Rubbing Ryan's face lightly with the soles of his feet, he said playfully, "Honey, tell me, what should we do if we lose this battle?"
"I won't lose." Ryan reached out and pinched Veronica's beautiful feet, held them in his palms and kissed them, and said with a smile, "Have some confidence in your man, dear."
"Assume, let's suppose." Veronica was still unsatisfied, and Witch Garland's face was a little red: "What will you do? My king?"
"Then I can only go back and inherit my entire legion and Nuo family's business, and obediently follow my father on the expedition in the star sea." Ryan said with a smile.
"Hey, you're talking nonsense again." After hearing this, Veronica felt that Ryan really liked to brag. She didn't know about her man? Where did his father come from? His adoptive father, Norman, is now retiring in White Wolf City, and the territory has not been passed on to Ryan. Godfather Ivan, the Duke of Griffin, has an independent army, but what does this have to do with Ryan?
But Veronica soon thought that Ryan's brothers were all demigods! His father is most likely a true god! If so, maybe Ryan really has a huge family business and legion to go back to inherit?
His origin is very mysterious. The two have been together for nearly twenty years, and Ryan still has a lot of fog on his body, which can't be seen through or figured out.
Anyway, he will not abandon himself, Veronica thought happily.
After chatting for a while, the door sounded: "Boom~dong~dong~"
"Ah!" Veronica screamed and quickly turned over and sat upright, pressing her skirt with a flushed face, and immediately grabbed the pillow on the sofa and pressed it on her knees, shy and annoyed: "Someone is here, dear , Olika, go and open the door!"
The dark elf went to open the door, and it turned out that the attendants brought some logistical documents that Ryan wanted.
After closing the door again, Ryan looked at the document and shook his head again and again: "Okay, let's look at it tomorrow, Olika, make arrangements, I'm going to take a bath."
"Okay master." Olika nodded, and the dark elf smiled sweetly: "Master, do you need me to rub your back for you?"
"I can rub your back too! Honey!" Veronica also stood up.
"No need." Ryan said the bathroom was too small: "I'll just wash it myself, and then you take turns."
"After we're all done washing, we'll have an exchange on how knights and witches fight together!" Ryan said meaningfully, "Wait for me!"
"No problem, master."
"Okay, we'll wait for you!"
In this way, the Poseidon fleet guarded the flagship "Landuin" of the King of Knights of Britannia, sailed on the eastern fjords of the vast ocean, and headed towards Magritte in Estalia.
……… I am the dividing line of coordinated operations………
Just when the Britannian army was approaching Marienburg, the pre-sale of Bafeng Mountain's national debt officially began in the entire human kingdom.
The first batch of Bafengshan national bonds is expected to be issued at 50,000 gold marks. It is a one-year bond with an annual interest rate of 10%. to issue.
Unexpectedly, after the issuance of the war bonds, although they spread rapidly in Brittania and the Empire, except for the good response in Nur, most of the citizens took a wait-and-see attitude towards the war bonds issued by Ryan. Many citizens made inquiries and expressed interest, but not many people bought it.
Nur's sales are relatively good, and it's only because Emmanuel, the Queen of the Empire, came to the place where the bond was issued when she passed Marienburg by boat, and bought a bond worth ten gold marks. On the one hand, the sales will be better, but generally speaking, the sales of the Bafengshan national bonds issued by Ryan are still not satisfactory. After a week of sales, it is estimated that the 50,000 gold marks of the Bafengshan national bonds will only be sold for a little over 10,000.
And those who are most against the national debt of Bafeng Mountain, just as the Grand Duke Schulz of Marienburg expected, are the business princes of Marienburg, and among them, Van Hoog of the Judun Chamber of Commerce in Marienburg is the third President Mance, President Casanova of the Second Gentleman's Union Chamber of Commerce in Fort Marien, and Adaba Huntsman, the leader of the famous underground organization in Fort Marien, "The Merry Man" - Huntsman, they are most disgusted with Ryan's so-called Eight Peaks Mountain National Debt.
The so-called national debt has an annual interest rate of only 10%, and the business princes don't care about this income at all. They want more, more.
The business princes of Marienburg had already planned how much money they would lend to the ambitious new king of Brittania, how many unequal treaties he should agree to, and how to control Ryan's wood elf goods franchise through debts. And the route from Lustria, and how should Ryan agree to hand over all the war seizures to them for sale.
Even Adabe Huntsman, who is nicknamed a romantic guest, has already set his mind on Ryan's queen Suria. That's how I thought about it.
If it is really impossible to repay, then His Majesty Ryan can also use his queen to repay the debt~
With the protection of Schultz's power, this group has no way to prevent the sale of national debt through violence or sabotage, but they have more ways to prevent the sale of this national debt.
In this way, the business princes of Marienburg united to boycott Ryan's Bafengshan bonds. They first advocated "don't buy", "don't look" and "don't ask", and called on the people of the empire not to "don't be impulsive" and "remain rational" "Investment is risky, and you need to be cautious when entering the industry." In this way, the sale of Bafengshan treasury bonds was prevented.
Due to the small number of freemen in Brittania and the fact that many freemen participated in the recruitment, the method of this group of business princes worked.
"Pure passers-by, I have one thing to say, I really don't like the Bafengshan national debt."
"Citizens and compatriots, think about it carefully. If the Britannia were not short of money, would they sell this national debt? Selling this national debt shows that the kingdom on the other side of the mountain has no confidence in this expedition. It is possible that the principal will not be recovered!"
"Perhaps His Majesty Ryan is indeed a powerful knight and an excellent king, but please keep your eyes open, this is a great expedition! You see, the expeditionary army has to go so far, so far! Can they win? ?”
"In the long history of mankind, how many times have the Great Expedition been victorious? In the end, it was not always the loss of soldiers and generals, the gain outweighed the loss?"
"The Poseidon Fleet is indeed very powerful! But Mount Bafeng is deep in the Badlands! The Holy Grail Knights are indeed powerful, but the Badlands and the mountains are the territory of the green skins!"
"You were all deceived by the dwarves, there is no treasure under the Eight Peaks Mountain! Have you seen it with your own eyes?"
"This is an expedition doomed to failure, please don't joke about your hard-earned money and savings!"
The merchant princes launched a massive publicity campaign. From Marienburg to Brunswick, the capital of the empire, from Courona to Nur, there were crazy propaganda by merchants everywhere. People were frightened by the endless propaganda and warnings. The bourgeoisie were, of course, worried about their hard-earned money being thrown into the ocean.
The bonds could not be sold at all, and fewer and fewer citizens even inquired.
Immediately afterwards, a few days later, the princes of the business world even invited a famous scholar to come out for an interview. The next day, a huge headline was immediately published on the front page of the "Mannann Daily".
"Defeat expert? "
"Presumably in the recent period, everyone has been confused by various news about the national debt of Bafeng Mountain. Therefore, based on this situation, Wallace, the reporter of this newspaper, specially interviewed an expert on dwarves, a graduate from Nuer University. , Mr. José Magic Bird, a professor who is sponsored by various chambers of commerce in Fort Marien, who does not want to be named, let everyone have a closer look at the history of the Anglund clan in Belega and his recovery of Eight Peaks Mountain."
"Mr. Jose-Magic Bird, what do you think of this expedition to the Eight Peaks Mountain and the deeds of King Belega?"
"Bellegar is a failure expert!"
"Obviously, I am a professional scholar who studies dwarves. Since I entered Nuer University, I have studied dwarves for twenty years, twenty years! I dare say that there may be no one in Marienburg who knows dwarves better than me! "
"Belgar is the king of the dwarf Angrund clan. This dwarf clan has had many glorious histories. This is true and undeniable, but please note that no matter how brilliant it is, it was a long, long time ago. , At that time, our Charlemagne had not yet risen from Rekdorf, and the Carolingian tribe had not even been condensed into shape. There are very few historical materials left after the disaster, and at that time, Bafeng Mountain was indeed the most glorious and prosperous dwarf kingdom."
"But please pay attention, that was already thousands of years ago. During the subsequent greenskin frenzy, this dwarf kingdom, like many dwarf kingdoms, fell, and the Angrund clan was forced to evacuate."
"After King Belegar succeeded to the throne, he has launched three attempts to recover Mount Eight Peaks. As a matter of course, he has achieved nothing. Apart from reducing the population of his clan and depleting the small amount of wealth, he has nothing. Do, nothing."
"The first time he attacked Mount Eight Peaks, King Belegar caused heavy losses to his clan's elite army and almost fled alone."
"For the second attack on Mount Eight Peaks, our friend, the High King of the Dwarves Thorgrim-The Grudger personally led an army of 10,000 dwarves to support Belegar's action. The dwarves fought bloody battles in the ancient stone pillar hall of Mount Eight Peaks for several days, They achieved fruitful results, and then hurriedly retreated before the greenskins could support them. I mean, if destroying several giant statues built by the greenskins is considered a fruitful victory? Then King Belegal really won all battles!"
"Then for the third time, the entire army of 8,000 was almost wiped out. King Belegar fled back to Haimen Pass with only a few hundred people. At this time, the failure expert faced the situation that no dwarf kingdom was willing to give him The army and material support were provided, so this guy thought of the chivalrous brothers on the other side of the mountain."
"Now, this is the fourth time, citizens, fellow human beings of the empire, this is the fourth time! Eighty years have passed, has the dwarf king achieved any success in his career? Is his persistence correct? ?”
"Obviously, defeat experts, because nothing for eighty years means failure. For me, let alone four times, as long as I fail once, then I, Jose-Magic Bird, will leave Nur and never come back."
"Now, do you know what happened to the Bafengshan national debt? Do you know what to do?"