After Becoming The Tyrant

Rose Palace.

The Duke of Buckingham polished his sword slowly.

On the shelf beside him hung neatly the set of armor that belonged to him.

When William III was still the crown prince, he wore this armor to go out with his brother; when William III was crowned king, he wore this armor to meet the challenges of 36 states; after William III fell, he wore it This armor guards the territory of the young king; in the civil strife during the Rose Incident, he wore this armor to defend the throne for the king.

Now, he will once again put on this armor and fight for the king.

This is Defender of the King.

General John hurried in: "Get ready."

The Duke of Buckingham scabbard his sword, rose, and reached for his armor from the rack.

General John couldn't help but said: "Father, let me go."

When the Duke of Buckingham received the battle report from the north, as the king expected, the first thing he did was to prepare for the next war.He not only made a series of preparatory work before conscription, but also mobilized the royal family's personal soldiers and the old subordinates of William III.

The personal soldiers transferred to the southeast by the king were the "Iron Rose" cavalry expanded after October.The original royal family soldiers are still stationed in the king's territory, waiting to fight for the king at any time.

Before heading to the southeast coast, the king not only handed over the Rose Palace to the Duke of Buckingham, but also temporarily handed over the royal family to the Duke of Buckingham.

"The stakes are high at Newcana Castle."

said the Duke of Buckingham flatly.

Although the conscription order has been issued, it will still take some time to start mobilizing food and horses from all over the place.And Newcana Castle in the Northland is currently under siege by the enemy. Newcana Castle is the anchor of the royal family nailed by Legrand in the Northland, and it cannot be breached no matter what.

Newcana Castle is controlled by Legrand, whether it is advancing or defending, it has just been relied on.

Once the castle falls, the royal family will lose a vital barrier and throat.

The rebels in the North also knew this, and they were trying their best to capture Newcana Castle at this time.Legrand couldn't afford to wait for the time for conscription, nor could he afford to gamble on whether Newcana Castle could hold its ground until the army supported it.

Therefore, the Duke of Buckingham decided to personally lead the royal family and those trusted old ministries to break the siege of Newcastle.

Today is the day of departure.

"Where are you standing now?" The Duke of Buckingham took off his helmet, and he turned to look at his son.

"The Rose Palace."

General John was a little puzzled as to why his father suddenly asked such a question, but he answered anyway.

"This is the Rose Palace, and this is the heart of the kingdom." The Duke of Buckingham snapped, "Brother Wang entrusted it to me, now His Majesty entrusted it to me, and now I entrust it to you on behalf of His Majesty. You must always remember So, where you stand, you must always remember that even if you give everything, you still want it to be safe and sound."

"Yes, father."

General John suddenly became serious, and he stood up straight.

"Swear to defend the palace to the death."

"After the army is assembled, the conscription order issued by the monarch's order can only be led by His Majesty himself. When Your Majesty and I are not in the Rose Palace, you must do what you say today." After finishing speaking, the Duke of Buckingham opened his hand. , gently hugged his son.

General John stood frozen.

In his memory, his father had never acted so gently.He grew up listening to his father's glory, and witnessed his father's battles again and again, and the glory of bloody return. Armor, sword, and war constitute all his memories of his father.

"Your Majesty told me."

The Duke of Buckingham let go of him and patted him on the shoulder.

"The Battle of Bouwen was not your fault."

The old knight who had followed his father for many years put on the armor for the Duke of Buckingham.

The set of armor soaked in countless blood was finished on the Duke of Buckingham, and the steel and murderous aura revived on the Duke of Buckingham.He became that majestic Imperial Lion again, making enemies fearful.He is the "defender" of the king, and all those who provoke the king's power will be trampled into mud by his cavalry.

Lions never grow old!

The Duke of Buckingham strode out of the Rose Palace.

The torrent of iron armor gathered in front of the gate of the palace, and the soldiers of the Qiangwei royal family stood quietly under the sky. Dozens of scarlet royal banners were unfurled in the wind, like a wave of blood surging.Foremost among these were some knights with gray hair on their temples, but they were more to be feared than the young knights.

"set off!"

The Duke of Buckingham mounted his horse.

The armor reflected the scorching light, the king's flag was rolled up, the iron flow was turning silently, and the knights galloped out following the Duke of Buckingham on their horses, and the horseshoes picked up the flying slush.

This is the cavalry of the Qiangwei family!

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When the Duke of Buckingham led his own troops to the north, tall catapults were set up in the cities along the southeast coast of Legrand.

This is the order of the king.

The plague ships that crossed the Abyss Strait at the beginning of the new year were the first to meet the royal fleet.After receiving a secret letter from Ferry III, the king ordered the strengthening of the sea blockade, and the urgently expanded royal ships patrolled the coast more closely than before.

Before the plague ships could approach land, the royal fleet hurled boulders and sank them.

However, compared with the entire long coastline, the patrol of the royal fleet is limited after all.Still some of the plague ships approached land and managed to hurl some corpses into the city.

However, fortunately, there is already an example of the Kossoya plague, and various cities have imitated examples of how to deal with the plague.

Once a corpse was thrown into the city, the drawbridges at each city gate were immediately lowered, and the city was immediately sealed off.After the Kossoya plague, other cities also stepped up their cleaning of the city, and imitated Kossoya to lay sewage, which more or less played a certain role in curbing the epidemic.

But it is the king who really keeps people calm.

Not so long ago, the king succeeded in saving Kothsoya from the plague.Today, the king is in the southeast.This allowed people to have a precious calmness and rationality in the face of the outbreak of the Black Death, and it did not turn into panic.

The Plague Ships did bring a lot of trouble to the southeast of Legrand in early January.

During that time, cities in the southeast were infected with the plague one after another.

During that time, the king's carriage was on the road almost every day.In a day, the king spends nearly a third of his time rushing from one city to the next.Thanks to the king, the royal fleet, and the countermeasures of various cities, the Black Death was gradually brought under control along the southeast coast of Legrand.

The carriage crushed the snow on the road.

The Chief of Internal Affairs just delivered the letter from the Rose Palace to the King.

The king pressed his forehead with one hand and took up the letter with the other.

The letter was written by his cousin, General John.

In the letter, General John informed the king that the Duke of Buckingham led his own soldiers to go out and temporarily handed over the Rose Palace to him.At the end of the letter, General John made a request to the king.

—he asked to be the king's "defender".

The king looked at General John's nervous words at the end of the letter, smiled slightly, put the letter paper on the low table in the carriage, and agreed to General John's request with a pen.

"The Low Countries..."

After writing the reply to General John, the king leaned against the wall of the carriage wearily. During this period of time, the frequent opening of the gates of hell was also a big burden for the king.

The specific battle report of the Northland was also sent to the king.

After seeing that the Newcana rebels had excellent equipment, the king already understood what was going on.

The Low Countries and the northern part of Legrand faced each other across the sea. Of course, the Low Countries, famous for their "sea sailing ships", had the ability to secretly send weapons and equipment supporting the rebels to the northern part of Legrand under the cover of merchant ships.This is not something that can be accomplished overnight.

This rebellion in the North has been planned for a long time.

It seems that the Holy Court has been preparing for a long time in order to make Legrand fall into the flames of war, and has no time to take into account the establishment of the Holy Court.

The carriage stopped.

This is the end of this "plague" journey, the last port city to be infected on a large scale.

As he rushed to each infected city, the king had issued an order:

He demanded that all coastal cities carry out self-defense activities against the plague.Every day, every city has people watch the approaching plague ship from the observation tower.And every city must set up trebuchets. Once non-royal warships approach, they can be directly sunk without any communication.

If such an order was issued before the plague harassed Legrand, it would definitely encounter a lot of accusations and resistance from "humanity".

However, these coastal cities have now been exposed to the Black Death in unprecedented close quarters. Even if there are "merciful people" who want to speak, they will be drowned out by other voices who are more concerned about their own safety.

The city reduced the risk of being infected, and the king caught off guard the infected city... Under such a response, the predicted "dead fish" failed to approach the coast of Legrand, and the plague was brought under control.

When the preparations for food and grass are completed, and the knights serving in the army are gathered from all over the country, the king will leave the stable southeast and go north to join the war in person.

In the cold wind, the king got out of the carriage.

He raised his head and looked at the Rose King flag flying in the motorcade.

Why did the Qiangwei family finally choose "scarlet" as their logo?

——Because the flag of a country is always stained with blood.

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What is war?

Blood, fire, glory.

These are the things that those in power, the confronters, have.

But for ordinary people caught in the flames of war, there are others—the groaning wounded, the lying corpses, the indiscernible hatred.

The flames of war that started at the end of 1432 spread across the Northland, like a huge monster, devouring life little by little.The market town Legrand set up in Newcana was involved in this rebellion.

The outer wall of the fortress of the town was overthrown, and the victorious rebels rode into the town of the Legrands who had settled here on their horses. Merchants in the market, civilians... Both men, women, and children were slaughtered, and their wealth was looted.Then flames blazed through the howling borough.

Brier is such an autonomous town established by Legrand in the Northland.

Three days ago, the Northland rebels captured it, and a scene of disaster unfolded in this ordinary town.

"Dean."

Two young priests in black robes hurried into the Brier Abbey carrying a stretcher.

This modest monastery was the only one that survived the war, and the rebels did not step into the monastery.When the city was broken, many nearby people hid in the monastery, and Abbot Anil sheltered them.

At this time, the monastery was full of the groans of the wounded, and the stretchers had already been placed in the courtyard. The priests had been shuttled through the ruins these days, collecting the corpses for the dead, and bringing back those who were still alive to the monastery.

Rescuing the sick and the wounded is as much a maxim written into St. Benny's Rules as giving to the poor.

God loves the world, so He requires His believers to love the world too.

Father Anil, the dean of Brier Abbey, came out quickly. Together with the priests, he washed the wounds of the wounded and read a short passage from the Holy Book.

After the new wounded were settled, Dean Anil returned to the cross.

These days, his face is always covered with sadness.

"Dean."

He spoke anxiously as the young Father Lemy followed him.

"What you feared happened."

Dean Anil raised his hand and drew a sign of the cross on his chest, and said painfully, "This is a sin."

The accents of Dean Anil and Father Lemi both have the color of the east side of the Abyss Strait.

More than 20 years ago, Dean Anil was the youngest theological genius in the Holy See, and he was considered very likely to become the youngest cardinal in the history of the Holy See.However, Father Anil, who had a promising future, made a voice in the Holy Court that was contrary to the Pope and the sanctuary.

——He demanded that "the holy court should return to cleanliness."

Father Anil believes that over the years, some actions of the holy court have violated the purpose of the holy court.

He advocated that the clergy should abide by poverty, meditate quietly, oppose the sale of clergy, and oppose the participation of clergy in power struggles.In 1411 at the Holy See Whitsunday Castle Conference, Father Annick protested against the interpretation of the Confessions by the Pope-led conference.

Soon, the Pope ordered his trial at Vinocen Castle.

In court, Father Annick successfully refuted the accusation of "heretics" by the bishops' conference, and his quotations from the holy books and many holy court classics are outstanding.Even, that outstanding rebuttal, in order to win some supporters.

The sanctuary couldn't find any reason to put him on the stake, and in the end he could only be exiled from the power center of the holy court to Legrand North to serve as the humble abbot.Some of his followers crossed the raging abyss with him, and they lived a life of ascetics in the desolate north of Legrand.

These people, headed by Father Annick, successively established dozens of monasteries in the Northland. They formed a faction that "should not rely on authority to oppress the poor without reason; the trial should be impartial and selfless, Orphans and widowed mothers should be supported, and the poor should be helped as much as they can economically." It became their own purpose.

20 years like a day.

Now, what Dean Anil worried about at the beginning has really happened.

These days, he watched in pain as the battle unfolded across the Abyss Strait and swept across the land.

Those who hold power, they push the torrent of history, but——

They want to establish the kingdom of God, but where do they leave those who are merciful, merciful, and pious?

Like these pious young people in the monastery, their dedication and dedication, this love, will be overwhelmed by the flames of war and hatred.

What are they going to do?what will happen to themHow many people will be involved, and will be gently crushed into dust?

"Holy Lord! This is our sin."

The dean, who already had white hair, knelt down and pressed his forehead to the cold ground.

The young priest watched him knelt silently in the cross, and at that moment, he thought he saw an icon.

The power of the gods lies not in the stake and the sword, but in love.