Realm of Power

The rain in early summer fell patteringly on the eaves on both sides of the street, and on the waterway that ran across the city, creating circles of ripples. Standing on the edge of a waterway with rolling waves, you can see the The windows of some merchant ships were open and filled with cargo. Some sailors were trying to control the direction of the sails. The large hulls moved forward with the waves of the waterway. Some were not merchant ships. Most of the smaller ones were so-called wealthy ships. For example, the black-haired emperor saw the wind blowing the hair of two young aristocratic women on the deck. The woman's eyes also looked at the black-haired young man by the river. She looked over here and pointed with her finger.

“There’s really nothing to see”

The black-haired emperor looked a little bored and looked back. She had dealt with some urgent matters in the past two days and went to the city of Rowuya, which was eighty miles away. Feishan Governor Prais was almost drowned by spittle. , just when Plais, as the governor of the Feishan region of the empire, accepted one hundred and sixty-seven former Feishan nobles to return. Returned, and then appointed these Feishan nobles as political officers, giving them high trust and sending them to various places in Feishan. Plais, the governor of the Feshan region, finally completed his important task of attracting all the firepower and became the target of public criticism. "If so If you forgive these enemies of the empire easily, then how should you face the imperial people who fought bloody battles before?"

"What is Plais doing? This is treason!"

"We should suggest to His Majesty that Plais be removed from the post of governor, because it is extremely certain that Plais is crazy." The storm about this matter was like a continuous explosion in the empire's management, and the emperor's Minister of State Hu Keqi smashed his favorite flowerpot from China and Libya with all his strength. When Deputy Minister of the Interior Hasengu saw the report Immediately fainting, Governor Feishan accepted the former Feishan's escaped nobles, setting a precedent for the Falcon Empire to accept escaped nobles, which aroused the emperor's anger, and the strong reaction from the emperor's side seemed to confirm this. According to the rumors, the Imperial Minister of Affairs Hu Keqili has left the Imperial Capital Sea City and is coming to the Feishan area.

Even if Plais is the rumored former adjutant of the empire and an important minister of the empire, he still cannot bear it when faced with the most powerful military in the empire.

"Are you really going to be a coward here all the time?" The black-haired emperor clasped his hands behind his back and looked back with interest from Plais who was bent over staring at the water transport map in his hand. He couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Your Majesty, you are just doing what a regional governor should do. Please don't harass me." Plais put down the water transportation blueprint in his hand and glared.

"Connect all the water routes. It's more than 600 miles long and crosses sixteen cities. Oh my God, it costs so much money and material resources. How do you report this to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Empire?" The black-haired man said. The emperor pretended not to notice his subordinates' gazes

"Didn't His Majesty once say that Feishan District's finances do not need to be reported to the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"

"Did I say such a thing? Are you sure you heard it correctly, or did you realize it was wrong?" The black-haired emperor touched his chin, his eyes flickering.

"Well, last month, His Majesty transferred 1.5 million gold from Feishan Governor's Mansion. This month, His Majesty transferred 800,000 gold from Feishan Governor's Mansion, and Dorok Cloud transferred 400,000 gold. These Please also report it to the Imperial Ministry of Internal Affairs!”

"Is there such a thing? Why don't I remember it? You remembered everything wrong. The accounts of Governor Feser's Mansion are too confusing. I think you should record them again!"

"Perhaps Your Majesty is right, I should clean up the accounts, otherwise I may be in bad luck!" Plais sighed, knowing that it was impossible to get the rogue emperor to admit that the emperor was originally going to spend money. As a special area of ​​the empire, it was the emperor who ordered the Feishan nobles to be admitted. Now the entire empire is focusing on him.

As the imperial minister of affairs, Hu Keqili came directly to Fei Shan this time, which attracted the attention of countless people. Plais also smiled bitterly. This time, he was settling old and new scores together. Even Plais felt a lot of pressure. When cleaning up all the forces in the Feishan area, even the military forces were not spared. , at most, for the sake of the imperial government, they would arrest people and beat them half to death, and then hand them over to the military and secretly take them away. I heard that two people died. Asshole, I had killed people alive at that time. Those who went out obviously had a problem with the military, and they framed it on themselves, but it was useless to talk to anyone about this kind of thing!

"The Feishan area is a special area. There are many people who hate the empire. In an area where there is a danger of riots at any time, the Feishan Governor's Mansion has driven away all the imperial intelligence lurkers. Does the Feishan area want to be independent? !" The imperial minister Hu Keqili was extremely angry and wrote a letter in person to ask questions. Naturally, Plais It was ignored. Dorok Cloud naturally took over the intelligence work in the Feishan area and swept away all forces, also in order to allow Dorok Cloud to settle in these gaps. However, these were the emperor's secret arrangements and had no connection with the Imperial Ministry. An explanation was necessary, and he did not dare to disclose the matter to the Ministry of Imperial Affairs without the emperor's consent.

It is clear that the emperor allowed Dorok Cloud to take over the Feishan area in order to set up the empire's eyes and ears in the eastern part of the Inland Sea. This was to steal the job of the Imperial Intelligence Department. In other words, it was once said that everything within sight was the empire's. The Imperial Intelligence Department, after being separated by the Southern Intelligence Department in the South Europe Barro region, will be lost again. Going to the Barrow region of Central Europe and the eastern Inner Sea region, from now on, this special institution that once moved the entire continent will only cover the northern part of the empire, the Gangfei region. The emperor secretly took over Feishan's Dorok Cloud, which is obviously Unwilling to let the higher-ups of the empire know, Plais was even more afraid to reveal it.

It's just that this kind of attitude, in the eyes of the Imperial Ministry of Military Affairs, naturally becomes a sign of ignoring the Ministry of Military Affairs.

The instigator of this incident was the emperor, but what made Prais's nose almost crooked was that the emperor was watching the fun from the side, but he pushed him, the governor of the Feishan region, in front

What kind of thing is this? Plais had to feel depressed. The military power in the hands of him, the governor of Feshan, came from Varisian, the commander of the army in the joint region of Feshan and Istan above him. Valician His military power is under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Ministry of Affairs. In other words, the Imperial Ministry of Affairs cannot remove him as Governor Fei Shan, but it can directly remove him. He, the Governor of Feishan, has military power, and what he relies on in the Feishan area is the garrison of 20,000 troops. Once the military power is withdrawn by the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Feishan Governor's Mansion will be empty, just like what Hu Keqili said. As it is said, in an area that is always in danger of riots, the Governor's Mansion without military power is not even qualified to scare people!

Pulais proposed to build a security garrison in the Feishan area. The result was that the imperial minister Hu Keqili went south this time. The Feshan area was not a small area. It was also the famous Feishan Kingdom, and Pulais Yis proposed to the Ministry of Imperial Affairs that the number of regional garrison troops to be established was 50,000. According to the regulations of the Ministry of Imperial Affairs, the deployment of an army of more than 300 people must be reported to the Ministry of Military Affairs. For a regional garrison of 500 people, the local military leader must go to verify it in person, and Plais Proposing a garrison of 50,000 people is tantamount to calling the Imperial Minister to come in person.

Plais did not dare to reveal the emperor's arrangement to the Ministry of Military Affairs, but that did not mean that the Ministry of Military Affairs could not come to see it for himself. Why did the emperor not understand this little thought? It is no wonder that Plais was so cautious now. One party did not know The emperor is making up his mind. On one side is the emperor's side, who has taken control of the Feishan area in front of him, and has taken drastic measures to conquer the entire empire. Most of the forces were offended, and then they implemented a special model in the Feishan area, completely ignoring imperial laws and fully accepting smuggling. It has caused dissatisfaction to an unknown number of people. Now they are the first to accept the collective return of fleeing nobles. In the eyes of outsiders, In his eyes, what Plais has done in the Feishan area for more than half a year is simply the madness before destruction.

Judging from the time, the Imperial Minister of State Hu Keqili should have arrived in Gangfei. The shortest road from Gangfei to Feishan is undoubtedly through Barrow in Central Europe. However, the Barrow area in Central Europe is now covered with war clouds, and the Rila people The war with the Biang people has begun, and crossing Central Europe is undoubtedly dangerous. Therefore, Hu Keqili should choose to take the sea route. The sea route from the Gangfei area to the Feishan area takes two days. Plais, who roughly estimated the time, did not dare to stay in the Governor's Mansion, but as a The Governor of Feishan Region always needs to find a suitable reason, and that is to build waterways!

In the past, Feishan's cities had no waterway facilities, and there was only a pitiful gravel road connecting the entire coast. However, after the empire ruled these areas, in order to facilitate transportation and commercial trade, some connecting waterways were previously built, but mainly It was in the wild. As the important minister of the empire, Plais, took office, this man was The former adjutant general of the empire, who was responsible for the construction of the empire's infrastructure, even planned to build a vertical and horizontal waterway to connect all the coastal areas. As an important measure to govern Feishan, under the leadership of Plais, the waterway was completed within a few months. Not only is it covered with coastal wilderness, but even urban areas are included in the waterway network.

Especially cities close to rivers play the role of transportation transit and hubs. In the Imperial Ministry of the Interior, there is a Water Transport Department, one of the six internal affairs departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It is responsible for the construction of the Imperial waterway network. After several years of construction, the imperial waterway network has connected the northern part of the empire, the Congo region, and the Gaul region. The waterway network has greatly improved the empire's material transportation capacity and promoted the flow of population in these areas.

Plais, who once served as the adjutant general of the empire, is very clear about the role of waterways.

If we still rely entirely on land, it would take at least more than half a month to travel from the Gaul region in the north to the Congo region in the south. If we encounter a season with continuous rain like the one we are seeing now, it will take even longer. Even riding on the most comfortable carriage of this era, walking on it was specially built by the empire. The big trade route is still a hard job, but if you transport it by water, from north to south, down the river, starting from the Gaul area in the morning, you can enter the Congo region in the south in five days, which greatly shortens the time. , and waterway transportation greatly shortens the speed of commodity circulation and reduces the transportation cost of commodities.

"My greatest hope is that one day I can take a boat from here and reach the Imperial Capital Ocean City via waterway, which is to finally connect the waterway network in the Feishan area with the waterway network in the empire!" Prais stood in the waterway. On the river beach, he glanced at the sparkling river water and poured it into a tributary on the side. He said hopefully, completely ignoring the emperor's supercilious look, and made up his mind. The number one thug under your command is here. I won't take the blame anymore. ! Before Hu Keqili left, I was building the waterway here!

"There is a Central European Barrow sandwiched between the empire and here. Unless you can connect the waterway through the Central European Barrow, no matter how good the waterway here is, it will not be connected to the imperial water network. But this idea is good. You can give it a try, or I will give you the Barrow region of Central Europe so that you can realize this dream!" The emperor shrugged. He shrugged his shoulders and curled his lips in disdain, "Your sister, you dare to threaten the emperor. I don't believe you are not afraid of the chaos of the Barrow countries in Central Europe. They are all as smart as monkeys. Whoever bumps into them will have a headache. It's all your own expense." With so much effort, we were able to barely wipe out some of the more prominent mountaintops among the Barrow countries in Central Europe, but it was still far from calm.

"Your Majesty, please spare my old bones. I still want to return to the empire alive!"

Plais looked dumbfounded. Why did Barrow in Central Europe become like this? Plaice knew very well that in the name of mediating the disputes on the Sulav Terrace, he was the one who represented the empire as an envoy to the Kingdom of Robles, and hinted that Robert He was also the one who formed an alliance between the Si Kingdom and the Biang people, but he was also the one who knew that the emperor secretly received the envoy from King Rila. Although he did not know what the emperor said to the envoy from King Rila at the time, he knew what happened next. , Kingdom of Rila After a raid on the Kingdom of Biang, a hundred thousand Riela troops marched into the border of Biang. Before Biang could wake up from the pie-in-the-sky alliance with the Kingdom of Lobos, they were immediately slapped in the face by the angry Riela people. In two days, the Kingdom of Biang lost 40,000 people, massacred 110,000, expelled 170,000, and lost more than a dozen cities that took more than ten years to cultivate. It can be said that it lost two cities. The size of the province, and all of this is just an embellishment for the war that will follow.

As the imperial governor closest to the area where the war broke out, Plais knew from Dorok's Cloud that the Kingdom of Rilla had not sent out 100,000 people this time, not 150,000, but a full 180,000. Yes, after the whole country was mobilized, there was not a single soldier left in the entire country of Ruila. How could the people of Ruila dare to mobilize the entire country's troops without the emperor's acquiescence!