[Devil's Law] When the Tulips Bloom

In the late autumn of the third year of the empire in 960, Du Wei returned to the northwest Desa province.

Due to Du Wei's extremely irresponsible departure for more than half a year, he left all the affairs of the Northwest fiefdom to a group of civil servants headed by Philip. The tired Philip lost at least eight ◎ or nine catties in a few months.After Du Wei returned to the Northwest in a long journey, he was greeted by Philip's dark face.

Du Wei coughed and laughed, and patted Philip's shoulder, which had obviously lost a lot of weight, "Okay, don't make such an expression, I'm all back now?" For a long time, it seems that it really seems to be so unreasonable...

Philip and the others welcomed Du Wei into the Governor's Mansion, and then went straight to a meeting. He wanted to discuss with the Duke his pent-up plan.Du Wei didn't protest either. The situation in the Northwest is indeed not optimistic because of the imminent invasion of criminals. Lu Gao must be dealt with, but before that, it is the prairie people who need to be dealt with.

Combining the situation in this life and his own memory in the previous life, Du Wei can easily judge and distinguish the various situations that appear. Of course, there are many solutions.Therefore, Du Wei is still confident.After discussing a series of matters in the northwest with Philip, General Longbottom, Rodriguez and others, Du Wei finally chose to send a beautiful woman who had been trained for a long time to the Prairie King, and clothed her with magic The life-threatening magic pattern.

Du Wei remembered that woman's name was Hanyue, a beautiful woman with a beautiful name, and she died willingly for her own plan.Du Wei is a very contradictory person. Most of the time, he has some persistence that others disdain, such as the abstinence and love that have continued from his previous life to this life, and some inexplicable persistence, but Du Wei is undoubtedly a despicable person. Nasty and shameless people.He still remembered that he had complicated feelings towards this woman in his previous life, after all, it was such a miserable death for a weak and innocent girl, although he had indeed saved her and her family's lives...

Du Wei closed his eyes and concealed the redundant feelings in his heart. In his magic laboratory, he slowly prepared the potion for Prince Chen. This is a habit he has developed all the year round. At this time, you can calm down faster than usual.He prepared the potion, packaged it, put it in the closet, and sent it to the imperial capital the day after tomorrow.

After finishing all this, Du Wei saw Philip in the study room. This proud student of Lan Haiyue stared at him with a pair of thick dark circles under his eyes.Du Wei yawned, rubbed his temples, and asked, "Philip, it's so late, what's the matter?"

Philip looked at Du Wei silently for a long time, and then he said in a tone that he couldn't tell what it was, "Master Duke, please don't forget that you are the Duke of the Empire." Even though Philip is far away in the northwest, he still has a steady stream of People told him all kinds of news that happened in the imperial capital. Of course, he knew very well that the reputation of his own Duke was really not very good-of course, Duke Tulip was still regarded as a god in the northwest.Philip is one of Du Wei's confidantes, and he is extremely smart. Naturally, he can more or less guess what Du Wei is thinking, but he never expected that his Duke would be so... well, so unscrupulous.

Du Wei shrugged indifferently, "Okay, Philip, I know what you mean, but now is not the time to talk about this." Du Wei stood up and walked to the window, looking at the dark sky outside the window. Xingguang, "Let's muddy the water in the grassland first, and then clean up the northwest with our hands free."

Philip looked at Du Wei for a long time, and replied with a slight smile, "Yes, Your Excellency the Duke." As long as the Duke has not forgotten what he should do, then he doesn't need to say anything.

In the winter of 960, the third year of the Roland Empire, the grasslands had fallen into chaos.After Du Wei and Saladin, the son of the Prairie King, designed and killed the Prairie King, the power of the royal family on the Prairie was dispersed, and several princes established themselves as kings to fight each other, and Saladin got Du Wei's support behind him and continued to grow. own strength.

Saladin has always kept Du Wei's words firmly in mind, and slowly established himself as king.From the beginning to the end, he did not set up a king's banner, and he did not stand up as a king of the grassland.Instead, he took his army and devoured all the snobbery that could be found around him step by step, and then took advantage of the disintegration of the royal court and the short-term vacuum of forces in the southwestern direction of the grassland to rapidly grow his capital...

When winter came, Saladin already had an army of more than [-], and became one of the most powerful leaders on the grassland.At this time, several large tribes on the grassland jointly issued a declaration, requiring all the tribal leaders to bring people to the former site of the "Wangting" to hold a grassland tribal meeting and elect a new grassland king.Saladin, who received the news, just sneered, but sent people to the meeting, but gave an order to only elect others to be kings, and he would never be called king.

When Du Wei received this series of news, he smiled lightly and said to Philip beside him, "The royal family in the past was too powerful to hold down the entire grassland, so the grassland people will quietly unite under the royal court. But now , the most powerful royal family has disintegrated. The remaining large tribes, even the largest among them, are far from strong enough to hold down the entire grassland and do not have an overwhelming advantage. Therefore, even if someone is elected as the king , still can’t sit firmly in this position, and soon there will be new challengers to stand up and set off a new civil war. According to our calculations, the civil war of the prairie people may last at least seven or eight years, and there will be Saladin The existence of this ambitious guy may take longer. So within ten years, we don’t have to worry about these prairie people.”

Philip replied, "Yes, the grassland is no longer a threat to us for the time being."

"Then only the Northwest is left..." Du Wei looked up at the direction of the Northwest Army, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

And in the winter of this year, another major event happened in the empire.At the huge prayer ceremony of the Temple of Light held at the end of the year, the Acting Pope, who was hastily elected by the Temple, officially announced that the next successor of the Pope would be Cardinal Maximus.At the same time, it was announced that the pope's succession ceremony would be held as soon as possible—but when this so-called "as soon as possible", the temple was silent.

Du Wei was not surprised when he received the news, but he couldn't figure out why the temple refused to immediately delegate power to Maximus, who had already been established as the next pope, but desperately wanted to find an acting pope.But these have nothing to do with Du Wei. When he got the news, he immediately sent someone to contact Maximus's people, ready to fulfill his promise.

On January 960, [-]th year of the Empire, on the square in front of the Governor’s Mansion in Loulan City, the capital of the Desa Province, the Duke of Tulip held his own initiation ceremony. In front of tens of thousands of onlookers, he Accepted the baptism ceremony of Bishop Maximus.Bishop Maximus personally completed the initiation ceremony for the admission of the Duke of Tulip, and also awarded a "Medal of Outstanding Contribution" to the newly-enrolled Duke.

Just after Du Wei officially announced his conversion to the God of Light, Du Wei publicly announced that the reason why he made such a choice was entirely due to the personal charm of Cardinal Maximus.He highly praised the cardinal's charisma and what a kind old man he was, and praised how devout he was for his faith.After giving myself many earnest teachings, I finally moved myself, convinced myself, and fell into the embrace of the goddess.

Then Du Wei announced in a high-profile manner that his territory, Desa Province, had officially become a newly established diocese of the church, and Rams, a close friend of Bishop Maximus and former vice-bishop of the North Central Diocese, would serve as the diocese of Desa Province. Archbishop.At the same time, Du Wei said that he will fully support the construction of the religious institute in the diocese, and is willing to provide a good training ground for the holy knights who will soon become the diocese of Desa Province, and he also generously donated [-] excellent horses war horse.

Du Wei's expression was extremely sincere after this show, but he was almost disgusted by himself in his heart.However, such a show is still very worthwhile. Facts have proved that Archbishop Maximus is a very good collaborator, and his reward for Du Wei's performance is quite generous.

First, he reduced the religious tax in the northwest region for five years. Secondly, Du Wei won the title of "Honorary Bishop" of the Diocese of Desa Province. Third, Du Wei got the qualification to meet the Pope at any time. The fourth and most important point , just to show respect for the honorary bishop, the church has made a resolution that Du Wei can draw out a cavalry with a scale of 500 under his command, and the church will grant this cavalry the status of "Holy Knights" .Moreover, this cavalry is not dispatched by the diocese, but only obeys the honorary bishop.Of course, the premise is that this cavalry must ensure that each of them is a believer of the goddess.

"Killing a holy knight will be regarded as a full-scale declaration of war on the Temple of Light." According to the law of this scripture, Du Wei has his own "Holy Knights" squad, so in the future Northwest War, when When facing the Northwest Army, this will be a very effective weapon.

Immediately Du Wei stuffed these knights into the fortress that had been built long ago. The fortress was located at the junction of Desa Province and Nulin Province. Of course, there was an additional religious place in this purely military fortress—— —Specially for those knights to pray.

When Du Wei hurriedly stuffed most of his troops to the east of Desa Province and deployed them carefully, a long-overdue but far-reaching official document finally came from the imperial capital.

"The Emperor of the Roland Empire, the Imperial High Command Military Order, hereby order Lu Gao, the commander of the Northwest Army of the Empire, and the generals of the Northwest Army. The Imperial Military High Command decided that due to the raging monsters in the north, the Storm Legion entered a large-scale reorganization. The Northwest Army and the Storm The Legion exchanged defense areas. The Storm Legion took over the Northwest Theater, and ordered the Northwest Army to prepare for all matters within one month after receiving this order, and follow the marching route stipulated by the military command to go to the Northern Theater of the Empire. The Northwest Army took over the Northern Theater The personnel arrangement in the Northwest Army will not be changed. Lu Gao, the commander of the Northwest Army, will be granted the title of Marquis, and will be the commander of the northern theater, and the entire army will be paid double. The change of defense must be completed within one month, otherwise the military law will be enforced.

——Imperial Military High Command, Acting Minister of Military Affairs Rob Schell (signature), Regent of the Empire. "

When Du Wei received the copy of the official document sent to the Northwest Army's Watt Fortress at the same time, he showed a faint smile to the cronies around him, "Finally, it's about to start."