Realm of Power

In the capital of Hungary, in front of the gate of a large, ornately decorated dome-shaped building, with the news of the king's death, Yaodel, dressed in snow-covered armor, got off his horse, without even having time to hand over a hot towel from the servant next to him. After wiping my face, I hurriedly stepped onto the marble steps in front of this large dome-shaped building. At the end of the steps is a huge door of ten meters in gold and tin. The tall guards wearing Hungarian guard armors holding long-handled battle axes lined up on both sides of the steps, shining in the sun. This is the most famous golden military tent in Hungary. At the location, a Hungarian officer wearing a golden pointed hat was already waiting.

Seeing Yaodel getting off his horse, the Hungarian officer hurriedly walked over and said in a low voice with a displeased look on his face: "Yaodel, what the hell did you do this time? The Yaoson escort is not good, just wait for the punishment order." That’s right, the military minister, considering his years of loyalty and bravery, always I will try my best to protect him from death, but now the news of the king's death has been suppressed with great difficulty. It is only known among a few adults. Now that you have made trouble, the entire king knows it, especially the Prime Minister. There has been a huge quarrel and the military minister is furious. I want to see how you can explain it to the military minister!"

"I'm sorry, I was ordered to personally escort the body of His Majesty the King back to the country. I thought the military minister had already made preparations. I didn't expect it would cause this..." Yaodel deliberately showed a trace of panic, but his heart welled up. A burst of joy,

"Nonsense! The king's death is equivalent to national mourning. According to previous years, even if the whole country is not in mourning, military activities must be banned for at least one month. Now these guys are clamoring for revenge, mobilizing war horses, deploying border troops, and deploying servants. How complicated it is to mobilize the army to fight! They think that mobilizing the entire army is just a game of housework,"

In the side hall of the Golden Military Tent, an old man with pale temples and a thin body was angrily knocking a stack of reports on the table to the ground.

"Why are you still standing here? Don't you see that the Military Prime Minister doesn't want to see this? Take it away and burn it. If it annoys the Military Prime Minister, how many of your heads can be chopped off!" Jiao Didi's voice was full of anger. , a velvet fox Qiu Meiji with bright appearance and graceful figure happened to walk into the room. Seeing this scene, she turned to scold the more than ten white-robed maids behind her,

These maids in white robes are only fourteen or fifteen years old, and they are already more beautiful than flowers. At this time, their beauty was pale, and they were lying on the ground shivering and not even daring to raise their heads. Looking from above, you can still see their white and delicate necks. One by one, they took away all the scattered reports with panic on their faces.

"Lan Wuna, why are you here!"

The old man raised his head and saw this beautiful girl. His face just improved a little, and he put his hand on his chest and coughed a few times.

He is the military minister of the Kingdom of Hungary, Baidurasu, who has been in charge of the military for thirty years. The side hall of the golden military tent in front of you is very empty, more than thirty meters long. Weapons and armors stand in rows, which adds a bit of chill to the room. However, according to the ancestral teachings, no matter how cold the climate is, fire cannot be lit in the golden military tent.

This is intended to remind every generation of Hungarian soldiers who enter the golden military tent. The establishment of the Hungarian Kingdom was not easy. Hungarian soldiers should have a strong body and mind, not warmth and comfort. Forget the hardships of our ancestors in founding the country in the biting cold. But Baidu Lasu is getting old after all. No matter how heroic and strong he was when he was young and in his prime, his body is now unable to endure the winter weather. Every day when I go to bed, Meji must warm the bed. Logically speaking, the Golden Military Tent, which the Huns regard as the symbol of the highest military power, is strictly prohibited from bringing concubines, not even maids, with them.

But a hundred years have long worn away the fierceness of the Fenghan clan, especially when Baidu has reached the pinnacle position of Baidu, who has controlled the Hungarian military for thirty-one years, who else will care about him? In the past, Baidu led the Hungarian army to patrol the border, which made the whole Central Europe Barrow tremble. It was when he was strong and enterprising, and he was very strict with himself. He was just like ordinary soldiers, and he was the first to fight. In front of the army, there were more than 30 large and small scars all over his body. Not to mention not a single woman could be seen in the tent. Most of the captured beauties from all over the world were given to his subordinates. However, Nowadays, people are getting older. They lost too much blood when they were young, and they are prone to anemia when they are old. The rule that no fire can be made in the golden military tent still exists. For Baidu Lasu, the persistent yearning that was so exciting in his prime is no longer here. This is an empty and cold palace. As an old man, I would not have come to the Golden Military Tent if it were not for the purpose of frightening the various forces in the royal capital that have been turbulent in the past few days.

"Military Prime Minister, you have more gray hair. It's as cold as an ice cave in the golden military tent. No fire is allowed. If you stay any longer, you will really fall ill. If you, Military Prime Minister, fall ill, the Prime Minister's arrogance will be gone." It’s even more arrogant! It’s better to go back home as soon as possible!” The girl named Lan Wuna walked up to Baidu Lasu and gently combed a strand of Baidu Lasu’s white hair with her Qianqian fingers, her face full of sadness. ,

"Okay, I got it!" Baidu Lasu's face darkened slightly. He felt the ray of warmth brought by Mei Ji's fingers across the top of his head and said with a muffled groan. "I have a hunch that Wu Yacha has been here in the past few days." I have contacted many powerful clans and I believe they will soon request that the royal account be reopened! "

"Now only the Golden Military Tent can stabilize the minds of the military generals. As long as the Golden Military Tent does not move and the military does not move, there will be no results in the Royal Tent's discussion. Wu Yacha has no troops in his hands. Although the big clan We have troops, but it’s useless without the orders from the Golden Army Tent, so no matter how cold these days are, I still have to be here!”

"Actually, revenge for the king and the country is not necessarily a bad thing for the military minister. It may be possible... It is said outside that the military minister wants to be the King of Hungary..." Lan Wunajiao Good eyes blinked, and she looked like she was hesitant to speak. It was because of her relationship with Baidu Lasu that she dared to say this. If it were anyone else, Baidu Lasu would have had someone pull her down and chop her with a knife.

Lan Wuna was a little confused as to why Baidulasu was so determined to oppose the revenge of the whole country. The king died in the battle, and the entire Hungarian king was boiling. For the brave and warlike Hungarians, this was a great shame and humiliation. The outside world had long Word spread, and although she had almost no contact with the outside world, there were also many rumors among the maids.

The outside world is saying that the reason why Military Prime Minister Baidu Lhasu resists mobilizing the army of the whole country to avenge the king is because Baidu Lhasu hopes to rely on his military power to ascend to the throne and become the new King of Hungary. As Baidu Lhasu’s favorite concubine, Of course she was very concerned about this. She was just a girl from a small family in Hungary, but she rose to the top by becoming Baidulasu's concubine. The letters from home in the past few days are all eager to explore the news in this regard. If Baidurasu really becomes the King of Hungary, then she, Lanwuna, will be the proper Princess of Hungary, and Baidurasu’s real wife is dead. For twenty years, if she could go one step further, she would be the Queen of Hungary! As long as they are women, they will be so interested!

"Haha, Lan Wuna, this is what ordinary people would think of!"

Baidu Lasu grinned slightly when he heard this. He said, "If you become the king of Hungary, you will deceive ordinary people. Even if Baidu Lasu has this intention, he is old now, and the Baidu family has been able to firmly control the power of the king for dozens of generations. Year, it is because the Baidu family has never shown any ambition for royal power."

"What do you think is the good position of the King of Hungary who has been replaced by the turbulent times?" Baidu Lhasu paused in his voice, and sneered disdainfully at the corner of his mouth, "Actually, it is just a temporary royal family, and it is far less prestigious than the Baidu family that has been stable for decades. . In the hundreds of years since Hungary was founded, there have been four or five members of the royal family, including two that I have seen with my own eyes."

"But no matter how the above is replaced, as long as our Baidu family can stabilize and control the golden military tent and become the biggest giant tree in the Hungarian military, no matter which king comes to power, he must be polite to our Baidu family. On the contrary The system that controls financial power is truly rootless grass."

"Prime Minister? Aren't they always deeply rooted?" Lan Wuna was a little confused.

"You don't understand. When the king is gone, the chancellor is gone." Bai Dulashu smiled slightly, showing a bit of bitterness. Said: "When the king of Wulun came to power, the first person to be replaced was often the prime minister. How could the kingdom's financial power be handed over to strangers? That's why Wu Yacha was so eager to jump up and down. He served as the prime minister. In the sixth year of his reign, the kingdom's finances were gradually depleted, and he and other major clans took advantage of them. The whole kingdom knows that the richest man in the kingdom is obsessed with Wuya. When the new king takes office, the first thing to do is to investigate him. The only way to do this is to destroy the Wuya clan! , is to take this opportunity to gain military power and even become the King of Hungary!"

"Military Minister, Young Clan Chief Yaodel has arrived!" the attendant's voice sounded outside the door.

"You go back first! In such an emergency, don't walk around outside." Baidu Lasu waved his hand to Lan Wuna.

Lan Wuna reluctantly walked out of the hall door and left with a group of maids. On the way, she met a young man with a heroic aura walking by, with wind and snow on his body. He looked at her for a moment and then looked away. Lan Wuna glanced disdainfully. None of the soldiers returning from the front line were good people.

If the king hadn't died outside, why would the military minister now be in a situation like this with his old body sitting in the golden military tent?

"Reckless man!"

Lan Wuna cursed in a low voice and walked past with a group of maids.

Yaodel stood by the road with his head lowered. He didn't raise his head until the woman in front of him was far away. He asked the officer leading the way solemnly, "What's going on? I remember that women can't appear in the Golden Military Tent, right? Is it?" Did I remember it wrong?"

"That is Commander Baidu's favorite concubine, Lan Wuna, and is not subject to this order!"

The officer leading the way looked a little embarrassed. The Golden Military Tent was the most sacred place in the hearts of Hungarian soldiers. The Hungarian Kingdom’s orders to gather the army and conquer all directions came from. The military power of the Hungarian Kingdom even sometimes overrides the royal power. This is also a characteristic of the Hungarian tribal organization. The king has the power to start a war, but to actually mobilize the troops and gather the army, he needs military orders from the Golden Army Tent.

This kind of checks and balances has a history of hundreds of years, which makes the Golden Military Tent have a transcendent status and the royal family can replace it. As long as the Golden Military Tent is not in chaos, the unrest will be limited to a small range, and Hungary will not be damaged by internal fighting. ! This was the balance of power structure set up by the Hungarians who migrated from the bitter cold land in order to avoid the turbulent situation in the country at that time when all the Barrows in Central Europe were enemies.

Two guards wearing armor pushed open the door of the side hall in front of them. Yaodel looked through the aisle that was 30 meters long and wide, with more than a dozen pairs of full-body armor ornaments standing on both sides, and saw a pointed wooden chair sitting on it. Above, with a face as serious as water, Baidulasu, who has guarded the kingdom for thirty years and is known as the Prime Minister of Hungary,

Baidu Lasu is about sixty years old, with gray hair, but his thin body is still very upright, and there is a ray of intimidating determination in his deep eyes. The aura of a warrior and an iron horse seems to be coming from these eyes at any time. Pouring out, although it has been more than ten years since he went to the battlefield, the murderous aura accumulated by Baidula Su on the battlefield for decades is still there, looking at him. It actually caused beads of sweat to appear on Yaodel's forehead.

"Don't panic, you absolutely can't panic now!" Yao'del's face was a little pale, and he was secretly cheering up. It had been seven or eight days since he arrived in the royal capital. The military minister had closed the door behind him, and sent his private troops to enter the Ya'ao family's home. At the border of the fiefdom, Yaodel knew that just as his father expected, the military prime minister must be opposed to revenge for overthrowing the country, and the name of the suppressive prime minister was not for nothing. When it really comes to a critical moment, that person is the one who can decide the situation with just one sentence. If you want to force this old fox to follow his father's route, you must muddy the waters.

The key to this troubled waters lies with the Prime Minister, the military prime minister’s mortal enemy.

This time the Kingdom of Hungary joined the coalition camp, and the Prime Minister Ugacha, who was responsible for the kingdom's financial and internal affairs, was firmly opposed to it. It would cost money to send troops. Soldiers must be recruited and servants must be sent from all tribes. The kingdom's finances have always been in the hands of the wealthy tribes headed by the Prime Minister Wu Yacha. This year's taxes have been collected. Now the major clans are considering whether to send people to plunder the border in winter to compensate for their losses. Now they are asked to draw their reorganized servant army into the royal army to fight. Who is willing to do it? And because it is to assist the king in fighting, it is an obligation. Therefore, apart from any compensation, you also need to let your servants prepare their own weapons and military rations, which is a huge expense for all major clans.

King Bai Jieluoshi was in the prime of life in the Spring and Autumn Period and had two sons and one daughter. However, the eldest son was only seven years old, the youngest was one year old, and his daughter was five years old. At this time, he suddenly died, and all the military expenses provided by the powerful families were in vain. , and the Bai Jie family is destined to be excluded from the inheritance. According to the inheritance conditions of the Hungarian King, only Only the strong can become the Hungarian King, which means that only adult children are qualified to be the Hungarian King. The only person in the Hungarian royal family who meets this condition is Prince Bai Jieye, the younger brother of Bai Jieluoshi. This Bai Jieluoshi is qualified. Prince Jieye is twenty-seven years old this year. He looks pretty good, but he is also known for being lustful, greedy for money, and mediocre and incompetent.

The prince does not lead an army. This is an iron rule that Hungary has made to avoid instability in the throne. The so-called prince title is actually just a consolation prize. In the Hungarian kingdom based on the tribal system, this prince has no deterrent effect. , even the ordinary wealthy families in the royal capital would not sell this prince’s account, so currently they can The only people who became the new royal family were Prime Minister Wu Yacha, who controlled the kingdom's financial power, and Baidu Military Prime Minister, who controlled the royal power. As the royal general, Yao Sen, although he belonged to the Baidu Military Prime Minister faction, this time he wanted to If the Ya'ao family wants to set off a nationwide wave of revenge in order to seek a chance of survival, they can't control so much.

"Yaodel meets the military minister!" Yaodel walked ten meters away from Baidulasu, knelt down on one knee with a respectful expression, and said loudly, his voice echoing in the large side hall.

"Get up." Baidu Lasu looked at him for a while, and said with some emotion, "When your father Yao Sen was the captain of my personal guard, you were just a baby crawling on the ground. How many years have passed. Little Ya'ao has become such an outstanding warrior. It's hard to be disobedient! In a few years, your generation will be the backbone of the kingdom! And as the outstanding ones who have completed the test of the ancestral land, your father will honor you! Proud of it!”

"Tell me, what happened this time? With Yaosun's fighting power, how could the king fall!" Baidurasu stood up from his seat and came to the huge three-meter-high vaulted window. In front of him, he stared at the sky in the distance, put his hands behind his back, and asked in a solemn tone, "Don't tell me that the Falcon Emperor is really strong enough to be able to defeat ten thousand of us with a thousand people. That's against us." The insult of the Hungarian soldiers is also an insult to the Golden Army Tent!”

"The king's death was an accident..." Yaodel hesitated and explained the battle situation that night in detail, describing the night's encounter, fierce battle, and sudden news of the king's death on the way to rescue. The scene was extremely detailed, and he also There is no need to hide,

Baidu Military Prime Minister has been in control of the military for thirty years. Not to mention how many Baidu Lasso's informants under Bai Jieluo Shi's command, Yao Sen himself was also a personal attendant of Baidu Military Prime Minister. The real situation that day, Ya'ao Del believes that someone must have tipped him off a long time ago. Pretending to hide it at this time will only put himself in danger.

"You personally led five hundred elites to pursue the Falcon Cavalry, but were killed instead. The five hundred manpower fought until there were less than twenty people left. If Yao Sen hadn't led the main force to arrive in time, you would have been dead. You have done your best for the Hungarian soldiers. Since you plan to fight the Falcon Cavalry to such an extent, then you tell me "Who is stronger, the Falcon Empire cavalry or our Hungarian cavalry? If the whole country is defeated in a battle, how likely is our Hungarian victory?" Baidu Lasu's face showed no signs of calm, and he turned around and asked, which was even more serious. It turned out that his grasp of the situation that night was beyond Yaodel's imagination, and a chill went down Yaodel's back.

Thinking of the tragic scene that night, Yaodele took a deep breath and no longer dared to have any fluke mentality. He said in a serious voice, "Our army's archers are feared in Central Europe Baro, but in the battle that day, the Falcon Army was also fierce at both long distances and near distances. Our 500 archers have no long-range advantage at all. In terms of close combat, the opponent is as easy as chopping melons and vegetables. Our army has almost no ability to fight back..." Yaodele paused. Although he had a plan in his heart, his eyes were still red and his tone was sobbing.

"So, my Hungarian cavalry can't win. "Baidulasu closed his eyes, his face seemed to have aged a lot, he was silent for a while, opened his eyes, swept away the previous decadence, his gray-blue pupils showed a trace of eye-catching brilliance and looked at Yaodele, "In this case, you go to see the Prime Minister Wuchaya, tell him that the Golden Army will no longer interfere in the war of the country. If he wants to protect himself, I will not stop him. If he has the ability, defeat the Falcon Empire. I will let him be the King of Hungary, otherwise, he will die outside!" (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!