18th century total war

Chapter 182 The Uninvited Guest

In the official residence of the mayor of Barcelona, ​​as Karl arrived at the outskirts of Barcelona with the Black Dragon Legion troops going south, the current mayor of Barcelona, ​​Marquis Aiden Leonard, also welcomed an uninvited guest.

Mayor Leonard Marquis looked at Aragon, the leader of the Catalan independence organization, which was at the top of the most wanted list in the Kingdom of Spain, and couldn't help showing a bit of surprise on his face.

In his impression, the leader of the Catalan Independence Organization, whose alias is Aragon, is not a brave person. The ability of the opponent is best at concealing his whereabouts and even the past.

As a result, many high-level people in the Kingdom of Spain now know that Aragorn is not his real name, but they cannot find out Aragorn's real birthplace and real name.

Even Aragon's past before becoming the leader of the Catalan independence organization is unclear. There are several kinds of information, most of which are deliberately revealed by the Catalan independence organization led by Aragon to confuse audiovisual.

Of course, Aragon was able to do this not only because of his outstanding concealment ability, but also because the underground work of the Catalan independence organization was perfect. The most important reason was that the intelligence agencies of the Spanish royal family and the Spanish kingdom Like the aristocratic and bureaucratic class, it has long been corrupted.

Of course, in this era of Europe, the rotten intelligence system of the Kingdom of Spain is not a special case. Many European monarchy countries do not pay too much attention to the establishment of sophisticated intelligence agencies, or cannot spend a lot of money to establish comprehensive intelligence agencies.

The great nobles in those places don't want all their secrets to be placed on the king's table.

The essence of the enfeoffment system is destined to be unable to centralize power. European kings want to establish a complete and sophisticated intelligence organization, and they are only responsible to the king. This is pure wishful thinking!
If you want to establish a national intelligence system that is only responsible to the monarch, you must first complete the centralization!

This step-by-step process is difficult to reverse.

Therefore, even Aragon, the leader of the Catalan Independence Organization, who is also relatively hip, can live a leisurely life in the territory of the Kingdom of Spain, and even develops plantation in most militias in Catalonia. Members of the Catalan Independence Organization!
The Catalonia region has a huge independent advantage, that is, it has an independent and complete local ethnic language - Catalan.

It is the impediment of the language that causes the vast majority of Catalans to never really return to the Kingdom of Spain, and always think that they are being ruled by a 'foreign government'.

This is actually an obvious obstacle to governance, but Li Wei has never understood why the Kingdom of Spain didn't learn from Qin Shihuang and come to a "book with text and car with the same track"?
Is it because of fear of civil war?

However, considering that the enfeoffed nobles in various parts of the Kingdom of Spain still hold local military and political power, and the Madrid government has not even completed the centralization of local power, it is not difficult to understand why the spiritual culture of the Catalans has not been cut for a long time.

It can be said that the most fundamental reason why Europe has remained fragmented is the deep-rooted enfeoffment system. This is not only the result of the promotion of the church, but also has a direct relationship with some great emperors born in European history.

For example, Charlemagne, who almost unified Europe back then, before his death, he simply and neatly divided his huge empire into three and distributed it to his three sons, forming the embryonic form of today's European regions of Italy, France and Germany!
If the Charlemagne Empire did not split itself, it would be the combination of Germany, France and Italy, which can be said to have condensed the best parts of Central and Western Europe!

The saddest thing is that the Charlemagne Empire was only unified in the hands of one emperor, and the unification time was too short, and the people and even the nobles fell apart without forming a unified idea.

The church at that time did not have the ability to shit on Charlemagne's head!

Therefore, the fragmentation of Europe is purely caused by the ancestors of these European white men. There is no prospect of great unification, and they only want to let their offspring bloom everywhere and reproduce safely...

Of course, the enfeoffment system in Europe cannot be said to be useless. It is precisely because of this enfeoffment system that the "father is kind and son is filial piety" rarely appears in the oriental court, so most of the very ancient nobles retain the inheritance of their children.

Unlike the eastern world, the fall of a dynasty often means that the royal family is driven to extinction!
Therefore, the family conflicts of the European royal family and nobles are relatively peaceful. They will not stab their own brothers at every turn, and the father will not be on guard against the son. The son is thinking about how to kill his father to succeed...

Who is to say that the throne of monarchy in Europe is not attractive enough?

Marquis Leonard watched Aragon, who was escorted in by the guards, poured two glasses of wine from the Bordeaux region of France himself, and handed one of them to Aragon very politely.

"I didn't expect that the rumored heroic leader of the Catalan people would throw himself into my hands.

Should I gather the crowd and celebrate? "

Aragorn took the red wine and drank it down in one gulp without any politeness or gentlemanly demeanor. His movements and demeanor did not conceal the "local spirit" of the local people at all.

"If Marquis Leonard had this idea, I wouldn't be able to enter your mansion at all.

Since Marquis Leonard is willing to see me, he probably has no confidence in the tens of thousands of black dragon legions outside the city. "

"Black Dragon Legion?
Hehe, Mr. Aragon called so smoothly, it seems that he has taken refuge with Li Wei's rebels.

Li Wei is just a rebel baron in France, worthy of your allegiance? "

"Your Majesty, the Marquis, is overthinking. I represent the people of Catalonia who long for independence, and I am just cooperating with Li Wei. You Spaniards cannot rule Catalonia, and Li Wei cannot become the king of Catalonia." .

Of course, as an ally, the people of Catalonia have received the help of Lord Li Wei, so we must reciprocate courtesy and provide some convenience for Lord Li Wei's Black Dragon Legion.

The Spanish royal family was corrupt and incompetent. Carlos IV did not have any political acumen.

This is a gift from Carlos IV to us Catalans, how can I refuse?

Marquis Leonard, I know that your ancestors were not nobles of the Castilian Dynasty. Your family was originally loyal to the Aragonese Dynasty. We can also be regarded as a family. "

(End of this chapter)