Realm of Power

"The empire's investment in the Long family in western China has made the upcoming spring a bit more busy. The wave of merchants who were put on hold due to the freezing of the ocean in winter, under an earthquake-like storm in the business alliance, neatly turned their attention to Representing the rich and mysterious Eastern continent,

"If the empire can guarantee the safety and smooth flow of this trade route, we don't mind turning this narrow path filled with gold into a widened road." The news from the top of the Business Alliance has always been a bellwether for merchants, because those The adults have more resources and are better able to detect the intentions of the upper echelons of the empire in advance, especially the imperial side. Throughout the history of the expansion of the empire, the military has been the initiator that brings the most wealth and benefits. But this time, when the Business Alliance deacons meeting made a decision and made the expansion of the Eastern Trade Road a prerequisite for the two new alliance deacons to enter the deacons, in this morning when there were still ice cubes floating on the frozen sea, a wave of businessmen came from Among them, the warm current of the frozen era between the east and west continents, which has been separated for thousands of years, has spontaneously rolled into waves. "-----Excerpted from Chapter 7 of Volume 3 of "The Wind and Cloud of the Empire", "The Wind of the Empire Rises"

January 17th is the traditional New Year calendar of the Ikadiva continent. No matter how busy it is, in the first year of the establishment of the new Imperial Capital in the empire, the streets are hung with various celebratory objects. The Falcon Emperor stands in the expectation of everyone. Panxia appeared on the streets of the Imperial Capital Ocean City in the far north. After accepting the cheers of the people along the way, the emperor entered the Imperial Winter Palace where the last building, the observatory, was completed in November last year.

Standing next to the window of the Imperial Grand Ballroom, you can see the dazzling red Winter Palace through the glass window decorated with exquisite mandala patterns. Under the white snow, there is an enterprising spirit. Some people privately say that it is the emperor. His Majesty dyed it red with the blood of 300,000 people in Feishan, but for the generals of the empire, the scale in front of them was majestic, like the red winter palace with a sword piercing the sky. It is the ambition of His Majesty Falcon to conquer the four wilds. If the emperor loses his spirit and settles for pleasure, it will not be a good thing for the ambitious generals of the empire.

Reminiscent of the rumors that spread around last year, saying that the empire's territory would end at Feishan, the generals couldn't help but surrounded Varisien who returned from the Feishan front line. The 300,000 Feishan troops were completely wiped out. The prestige of a famous general in the empire shocked the entire Oubaluo, after the top five in the empire. Varisien has become the sixth pillar of the empire.

‘If nothing goes wrong, Fei Shan will cease to exist before this summer’s celebration! "This good-luck general, who had just been transferred from the half-term Governor-General of Southern Africa to Governor-General Feishan, raised his glass and looked at his colleagues. His rosy face was filled with a sense of pride that could not be concealed.

Four imperial regiments, with a total strength of 140,000 imperial troops, are in his hands. They are definitely the largest military cluster of the empire in the Barrow region of Central Europe. Not only does it intimidate the entire Central European Barrow, but it also threatens to point its sword at the Istan Empire at any time. While pretending to be a good guy to express sympathy, it cuts Feishan's land with a knife without hesitation. By using methods to win over and divide the nobles of Feishan Capital, they have successfully divided the forces in Feishan Capital into adherents and capitulators. The already suppressed Crown Prince Feishan is about to vomit blood.

the past year. Both the Imperial Army and the Navy achieved situational expansion, and the Imperial Army defeated Gang Fei. Subsequently, troops entered the north of the Long Wall and achieved control of the original Slavic areas. In Central Europe, Oparo and Feishan killed many people, and almost conquered a territory as large as the Confederate Empire in one year. ,

The Imperial Navy destroyed its old enemy the Strand Navy, severely damaged the Feishan Navy, and also showed off its power in Kyoto of the Istan Empire. It poured the empire's influence into the entire inland sea area. The Imperial Navy Minister in the Eero Sea Dostronkai also sent news that the negotiations with the Ero people are nearing completion. Under the strong pressure of the Imperial Navy, the local authorities in Erault agreed to use the Port of Kelo as a free port. In a sense, the Port of Kelo was already under the control of the Imperial Navy. Unfortunately, the progress of the negotiations was really slow. No matter how fast the method is, otherwise the hall will be filled with not just the noise of the army generals.

Compared with the absence of Dostelenko, the new star of the empire, the governor of the Eastern Province Hayela, undoubtedly made people look at him more. This chubby governor has a kind smile on his face and looks harmless to humans and animals. Mo Yan is truly the number one general in the Istan Empire. In the Battle of Gangfei, he defeated 200,000 Gangfei main troops in one fell swoop, which directly led to the defeat of Gangfei Kyoto. This was enough to impress the generals of the empire.

The empire has star-studded generals with outstanding military exploits. There are many unruly people, but they are all leaders. Why don't you know that generals who can single-handedly command hundreds of thousands of troops in combat, and generals who can only command 30,000 or 40,000 people? The difference between powerful men and the importance His Majesty the Emperor attaches to Hayela shows that this person is by no means as shallow as he seems on the outside. In fact, His Majesty Falcon is more beautiful than the others. The generals of the empire have long regarded creatures like Fatty as a sign of danger,

"I heard that you are in some trouble?" The fat man came to the new imperial minister, the Eastern Governor Hayela, with a wine glass in his hand, and asked gently.

"Thank you for your majesty's tolerance and help. He arranged a special fleet to help me transport the people. It not only greatly shortened the distance from the Eastern Province to the northwest, but also gave them a piece of land sufficient to live in." Hayela looked excited. A warrior who had been in the Istan Empire for half his life, his eyes flashed with deep gratitude.

"The Northwest Wilderness people who migrated south this time include more than a dozen tribes, large and small, with more than 200,000 in number. I heard that you spent a lot of money to encourage these Wilderness tribesmen to move south." The fat man took a sip. With the wine in the glass, he said calmly, "Not only did I take out my savings for many years, but I will also All the prosperous industries in the southern region of Congo were sold out and shipped back with ships full of food. Unfortunately, there are more than 200,000 mouths. How can an industry of a few hundred thousand gold coins be enough to fill them? There are still a large number of people. It’s only been more than half a month since I’ve been waiting to see your settled house, and I heard that your wallet is so empty that you can run away from mice.”

"If it weren't for Your Majesty's emergency money, I would have jumped into the sea! Who would have thought that raising two hundred thousand mouths would be so expensive!" Hayela's eyes turned red when she heard this, and her mouth trembled slightly. For someone like him who has seen life and death battles, General, being in such embarrassment is enough to prove how much pressure there was at that time. Seeing that the hearts of the people who migrated south began to become unstable, people began to starve to death under the cold winter, and even some bad habits on the plateau, such as cannibalism, were eliminated. appeared. During that time, Hayela was so regretful that she didn't even know whether she had done a good thing or brought hundreds of thousands of people to a dead end.

Fortunately, the emperor sent three million military relief and a large amount of food. According to the emperor, this was his own pocket. According to the customary resettlement fee allocated to the new people who settled in the empire, not only the plateau wilderness people had , there were also Slavs and Huns who had surrendered earlier, and the empire treated every race equally. But this kind of relief can only be provided once. The empire is not a place for leisure people. If you want to have enough food and clothing, you must use your own hands to get it.

The empire not only transported food, but also threw to him tens of thousands of Feishan army equipment captured in the south of Feishan. If he really counted all these as money, he would have a total of five million. This is where Falcon Emperor is ruthless. There is no food, but there are weapons and equipment. Opposite are the Istani, the ancient enemies of the past.

"Fight it! Now it's time for the Istan people to pay with blood!" The people of the West Wilderness and the Istan Empire have had decades of hatred and grudges. It is already so strong that it cannot be resolved. Think back a hundred years ago, people in the plateau wasteland lived freely, with a population of more than two million. It even established its own cities and kingdoms, but eighty years ago, the Istan Empire entered the plateau. In more than ten years of war of conquest, the number of people on the plateau dropped sharply from more than two million to less than one million. In the following decades, the Istanbul border guards randomly killed people and the harsh living environment made them worse than dogs in the wilderness. ,

Now armed with the support of the empire, the highland wilderness people have hungry stomachs growling, but they hold elite weapons that they could not even imagine before. Even if they don't need to be incited, they will spontaneously demand to march to the Istan area. , they are going to rob the Istani people of their food, land, and everything, and avenge the decades of suffering in Iraq. For the Stan people, the relief food can only feed the 200,000 plateau people for less than 20 days, and it is only one meal a day. For the plateau people, this is revenge against the people of Stan, and it is also a way of survival for themselves. For twenty days, they must find new food, otherwise they will have to painfully choose to kill the useless old man first.

His Majesty Falcon's methods of fueling the flames have reached the level of proficiency. Even if Hayela still hesitates at this time, the people below will not let him waver anymore. Will the Istan people send troops? Hayera knew very well that no, he had been in the Istanbul Army for so many years. If he was familiar with the struggle for power within the Istanbul Army, who else was more familiar with it than himself? His Majesty Falcon uses himself to contain the Istan Empire. There is really no more suitable candidate.

The Istan army is no longer the invincible elite that destroyed the Gangfei Empire back then. Now the civil strife has not been settled. The local forces are waiting and watching. Most of the generals who are good at fighting and experienced have died on the battlefield of Feishan and were left behind by the previous emperor. The gangsters in the country are all people who rely on their elders and sell themselves out. They hold the power of the Ministry of Military Affairs, but they only want to make deals with the new emperor and benefit themselves. In exchange for more benefits for their descendants, these generals who have been raised in Kyoto are already old. If they lead the troops of the imperial capital to march towards the Eastern Province at this moment, it will be like throwing away all the important things at once when the results are about to be achieved. For this reason, these empire veterans who may have been keen on playing four cards when they were young will also choose to turn a blind eye to the current war situation.

The emperor's main force is deeply trapped in the Bavaria region. The emperor who invaded from the Eastern Province is also tightly entangled by the Feishan local army. Unless he chooses a large-scale massacre policy, it will be impossible to break through this entanglement in the short term. , at this time, Istan can have an outstanding person, If you are willing to give up the feud with the Feishan people and gather all your strength to strike the Falcon Emperor in the back, you may not have the ability to turn the whole situation around. The reason why the Falcon Emperor forces himself to march within twenty days is that he hopes to seize the lead. Take the opportunity to gain these twenty days,

Twenty days will be the deadline for the end of the war of Barro hegemony between China and Europe. Hayera is worthy of being the first general of the Istan Empire. The direction of this war can be roughly guessed from the supply time of the empire's relief grains, but Not everyone has such a keen war sensitivity

For example, in the Imperial Capital of Istanbul, the second prince of Istanbul accelerated his efforts to ascend to the throne of the emperor in Kyoto. The big bosses of the Ministry of Military Affairs clung to the military power and refused to let go. At such a critical juncture when the opportunity to fight was fleeting, what both sides saw was Just my own interests,

Thirty thousand troops from the Eastern Province successively captured seven or eight small towns on the border. Only then did the ministers of Istan begin to denounce the military bosses for not ordering the army to be assembled, which was betrayal, collusion between inside and outside, and rebellion. . Although the military bosses are strong, they cannot afford such a crime. However, to delay the gathering of troops, there are really too many ways for these veteran generals who have been in the military all their lives.

The real elites have been abandoned in Fei Shan across the sea. Most of the generals who stayed in the mainland are small figures in local factions. If they are taken up, they will be cannon fodder for the Kyoto army. It is better to keep their own one-third of an acre. Ideas, no benefits from above. Who is full and goes to mobilize the army to fight?

People from the imperial capital asked, and the generals promised to do it as soon as possible. However, the staff officers and logistics officers in the army chased the special envoy and asked, when the envoy is pushed to the front line of the battlefield, who will protect his flanks? Who will compensate for the losses in the army, and what standards will be used to compensate dead soldiers? Without a certain amount of incentive money to set off the army, the soldiers cannot move at all. What's more, it's still winter when the roads are blocked by heavy snow, and many soldiers don't even have winter clothes. How about asking the special envoy to get hundreds of thousands of winter clothes from His Highness the Second Prince first, so that the army can have enough to eat. Only when he had clothes to wear and money to settle down could he risk his life to serve His Highness the Second Prince, otherwise he would freeze to death. How can I fight when I'm still hungry? At this moment, Hayela had to be grateful that she had jumped ship in time, a ship that was rotten from the root. If you can compare with the huge imperial ship in front of you, when you return from here, you will start to attack the Sun Province, the most prosperous province of the Istan Empire. And His Majesty the Emperor has already stated in private that the empire will send troops at the appropriate time. Thirty to fifty thousand elites assisted in the attack

Boom! Boom! Boom! "The huge bell representing the arrival of spring in the empire rang, and the hall full of people fell silent.

The fat man looked up at the night sky and saw several stars shining brightly in the dark blue night. Entering the new year, the young conqueror is about to welcome the twenty-seventh heat and cold of life. From his deep black pupils, sharp eyes like ice arrows radiate towards the night sky. The ceiling of the hall is made of hard glass, and the starry sky is as bright as a long river. Is the time and space I am in a psychedelic or real place? Some people say that they are the murderous devil, and others say that they are the overlord who comes out every thousand years, but so what. In this way, at this moment, standing in the imperial hall, looking up at the starry sky, I feel confused, or more like myself,

Unfortunately, there was not much time for him to express his emotions. When the fat man turned around and focused his eyes on the imperial generals in the hall, he felt the expectations of everyone here for him and the empire. The fat man understood in an instant What is family, country and world?

I am the world!

The fat man smiled slightly, walked to his table, raised his hand and filled the crystal glass with wine.

"Come on, cheers!" The fat man's voice resounded through the hall, as loud and shocking as ever, and the general responded to his actions neatly and enthusiastically, exchanging each other's gazes with the light waves reflected in the crystal cup.

"Cheers! To the new year"

"Cheers! For the great achievements -"

Among the domineering cheers, a particularly loud voice shook the eardrums of everyone present. The person who can be so arrogant and make his master laugh is naturally the imperial vicious dog with the light above his head, the Governor of the Southwest Region. Salon, the emperor's absolute confidant, wearing a black and slightly smaller Imperial Governor's uniform, stood among a group of figures. Among the outstanding generals, he was like a huge wild bear mixed into a pack of wolves, a rough but definitely the most formidable battlefield general, a ferocious and important imperial minister who made the entire southwest region lively. This year, Salon was regarded as The one who makes the most money among the five big guys in the empire, the southwest legion of the empire and the southwest business circle have become the most dazzling part of the empire.

"Cheers! For the empire's thousand-year foundation!" Hayela shouted passionately

"Yes, for the thousand-year foundation of the empire! Cheers!" Everyone shouted in unison, looking at their lord with hot eyes and raising their wine glasses high. His voice and expression were somewhere between proud and proud. A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he drank it down. His eyes were full of young imperial generals. Whether they were serving as front-line commanders or operational staff, they were all true to His Majesty Falcon's words, "The truth only lies within the scope of the imperial sword." true believer,

"A group of highly motivated imperial people, the cornerstone of the entire empire is so high-spirited, and the empire has given them the highest honor and power. If the Emperor of Istan also treats himself with this attitude, do I still need to betray him? "The Eastern Governor Hayela, who was attending the Imperial Annual Meeting for the first time, came to the window.

I thought that the annual meeting of this powerful and wealthy empire must be extravagant, just like what I experienced in Istan. But what I saw here was that there was no sense of splendor in the grandeur, but an empire full of vitality and momentum. annual meeting,

What's more important is that among the imperial generals present, it is very likely that some of them will immediately set off for the battlefield at the end of the banquet. I heard that the first spring battle of the empire will be in the distant north of Changqiang. The wind is rising in the empire! (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!