The Sun King's Evidence

In March of the year 2522 of the Imperial Calendar, winter was beginning to end and spring was beginning to come in Britannia.

The return of Sun King Ryan and Queen Surya has caused the entire kingdom to boil. As expected, as the Fairy of the Lake said, Ryan and Surya can return in up to three months.

After two months passed, the three factions who were secretly planning and communicating with each other saw Ryan and Sulia coming back. On the one hand, they breathed a sigh of relief, and on the other hand, they secretly sighed. As a powerful political couple, , the vacancy left after Ryan and Sulia left was really a huge piece of fat, and everyone wanted to pounce on it and take a bite.

It's a pity that the couple came back too quickly. If there is no news after a few months and all the methods have been tried to save them, the conservative knights and nobles will really take action.

Ryan was not surprised by this. As a time traveler and an inheritor of Malcador's thinking, Ryan knew that the entire bureaucratic system he had established was enough to maintain the operation of the national machine for a certain period of time. The bureaucratic system has inertia. , the human empire bureaucracy established by Malcador maintained the operation of the empire for three thousand years before it collapsed during the Rise of the Beast War. As his successor, the bureaucratic organization established by Lane was naturally not weak.

At the Fontainebleau Palace in Mousilon, with the appearance of Ryan and Sulia, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The regent Laun and the chief minister of the cabinet palace Francois from far away in Curona rushed over. They felt a little uneasy.

Ryan's prestige is too high. This time, even Morgul, who the wood elves have spent thousands of years unable to solve, is hated by Ryan's sword. If Ryan blames them for acting arbitrarily without instructions, then Raun and Franso The troubles faced by Wa are not small.

Fortunately, Ryan only took a brief look at the situation in the past few months and didn't say much.

In the conference hall of the Fontainebleau Palace, Regent Lawn and father-in-law Francois reported to Ryan and Sulia about their work in the past three months. Ryan's two female courtiers, Veronica and Theresa, also arrived. .

Ryan found it very interesting that Veronica had a calm face and was only happy to see Ryan back, while Theresa had a face full of grievances and almost cried when she saw Ryan.

what's the situation? Ryan was a little strange. He noticed that Morgiana shrank unnaturally, and wanted to listen to the report first.

It is worth mentioning that due to the disappearance of Ryan, the Lake Fairy lost the source of energy to stay in the mortal world, and naturally could not walk in the mortal world for a long time, although the continuous disintegration of the maelstrom and the great guardian gave her more power. There is room for movement, but the goddess is still weakened. She is currently temporarily away from Britannia because of something.

Behind the long table in the conference hall, Ryan and Lidya Su were sitting side by side. Everyone had a feeling that after several months of missing, Ryan and Lidya Su had improved their strength, demeanor, and state. great changes.

As the regent of the kingdom, Lawn reported three important things.

The first thing is that the Holy War Army formed by the Church of Justice for the expedition to Sylvania has basically been assembled in Brunswick, and Cardinal Alfred from Brittany has also brought an army with him. The army went to Brunswick to respond. The estimated number of the army was 25,000-30,000. Since this was a holy war army, the number of fighting priests, ascetics and order knights in the army far exceeded the normal establishment. In contrast, the number of firearms and elites in the Imperial Central Army was relatively small.

"It is worth mentioning that according to the intelligence from MI7, the Church of Justice has encountered great difficulties in military expenditures and logistical supplies." Raun reported to Ryan and Sulia with the document: "And the army, The cost of hiring mercenaries on a large scale is very high, which puts the Justice Church, which was originally financially strong, into a stretched situation."

"Normally, less than four years have passed since the martyrdom battle of Tarfjord." Ryan nodded slightly: "The original military organization is not so easy to restore, so how does Archbishop Vicmar plan to solve this problem?"

"Archbishop Vicmar did not focus on this aspect. He just ordered that the archdioceses and the grand cantors, cardinals, cardinals and regional patriarchs below should solve this problem themselves." Franso Wa touched his goatee, and his father-in-law took out a thick piece of parchment from a stack of documents: "The subordinates of the church were forced to do nothing by the short time limit and the high amount of money, and the results of raising funds from multiple parties were not good. Your Majesty... Your Majesty, you also know that the empire is in a bad situation recently."

"Yes, I know, so what is this?" Ryan took the parchment, took a look at it, and was instantly shocked.

I saw this piece of parchment stamped with the church's seal, with large words written in black ink - Indulgence.

"In the name of Charlemagne, forgive your sins." The dense text probably states the church's forgiveness of sinners and punishment for the crimes he committed - offset in the name of money.

This indulgence comes from the Reikland of the Empire. The price is 30 silver coins each. It is stamped by Helmgart Church of Justice. The crime is drunkenness and minor brawl.

Why did you even get the indulgences? Ryan was angry and funny: "Do the people of the empire believe in this? Isn't this an obvious way to defraud people of money? Doesn't this make the people look bad?"

Lawn and Francois both laughed bitterly when they heard this. Sulia took the indulgence note and couldn't help but frown after looking at it for a few times. The female knight covered her forehead with her hands and was really speechless.

"It turns out, Your Majesty, under a very bad situation and various threats, the empire's faith craze is even more fanatical than before." Raun spread his hands: "People are rushing to buy indulgences, just to seek salvation and peace. By asking Charlemagne to forgive his sins, which many believed would lead to redemption, you underestimate the desperation of the people in these dark times, who will try to grasp at any straw."

"But this kind of trick can't deceive everyone." Ryan said speechlessly. The King of Knights almost wanted to curse, but thinking that this was not his own kingdom, nor the god of the kingdom, he could only endure it.

"Yes, some church people, including Cardinal Alfred, and some imperial nobles, including Emperor Karl-Franz, have expressed dissatisfaction overtly or covertly." Francois nodded. : "But with almost all the civilians supporting this, the emperor and the dissatisfied factions in the church have nothing to say. What the empire wants now is stability. Furthermore, as a compromise, the empire will tax the church's indulgences. This But it’s a lot of money.”

"Some people even came to our door and asked when our Lady of the Lake Church would sell indulgences. They couldn't wait." Morgiana, the witch of the Lake God, added: "I asked the lady, but she didn't support it. There was no objection.”

"Let's do the next thing." Ryan said helplessly.

"The second thing is that after the previous battle, the wood elves completely retreated into the forest." Raun then reported the second thing: "Your Majesty, the military alliance we signed with Athel Loren seems to be It has been unilaterally nullified. The Aleer army promised by the wood elves is now stationed in Sharon Forest. Not only is it unyielding, but fortunately the Twilight sisters have reiterated the regulations of mutual assistance... but this is obviously not a military alliance."

"Normally, this is the sequelae of defeating Morgul. Our weird neighbors probably think that they can completely isolate themselves from now on." Ryan said in a deep voice: "It doesn't matter. I'll send someone to inform the wood elves that I'm back." However, the attitudes of Athel Loren and Alaire's army will change immediately."

Everyone present was awestruck.

Is this Ryan? Is his prestige alone enough to make those isolationists change their national policy? !

That settled the matter, and then Lawn said a third thing.

Three Breton jihadi armies and an expeditionary force based in Araby came to report.

The Nicohara Desert is awakening. According to Khalida's news, the immortal emperor Settra ordered all Tomb King legions and all war machines to awaken, seeming to be preparing for an unprecedented war.

"Pay close attention to the movements of the Tomb Kings, and try not to have a head-on conflict with them. If it is really impossible to ask Queen Khalida for help, or retreat directly to the mainland." Ryan then ordered: "At this juncture, we'd better not bear the huge burden again. 's loss."

"Yes!" Both Lawn and Francois understood.

After the three matters were explained, Lawn and Francois immediately put forward the idea of ​​"returning the power". The regent of the kingdom and the chief minister of the cabinet expressed the hope of returning the power to Lane. However, unexpectedly and reasonably, Ryan refused: "I need to retreat, right here in Fontainebleau. I need to retreat to attack the demigod realm."

"Your Majesty, has there been a new breakthrough?" Lawn suppressed the shock in his heart and asked repeatedly: "But was it found in the subspace?"

"That's right. I need a few months to retreat, and Sulia will join me." Ryan nodded: "During this period, I will trouble you to continue to govern and follow the existing policies."

"Yes." "Understood." Lawn and Francois had no objection to this.

In the coming months, Britannia will continue to operate according to the previously established bureaucracy.

The only difference is that Ryan is back.

The Sun King spent three days arranging many things, including letting Talleyrand take over most of the diplomacy, including putting Beria in charge of military industry and supervision, and arranging a series of national policies, and then prepared to work with Sulia Retreat.

Sure enough, as soon as Ryan came back, the attitude of the wood elves immediately changed 180 degrees. Queen Allel personally sent a message, reaffirming the military alliance and trade agreement between Athel Loren and Britannia, and cordially Expressing that Athel Loren and Britannia have a strategic and friendly relationship, the history of both parties is a history of friendship, and we are close friends. Queen Allel expressed her gratitude to His Majesty the Sun King and Queen Surya through letters for their efforts to eliminate demons. Gur's thanks and best wishes.

The Twilight Sisters' Aleer Army Leader also expressed his willingness to obey Ryan and Sulia's orders.

It's just that Ryan is busy in retreat now and has no time to pay attention to these pointed ears.

In addition, within three days, Lane also accomplished a major event, which was to once again order the veterans in the army to retire. Among them, more than 70 people from the Old Guard retired, and thousands from the major freedman infantry regiments. People were forced to retire, and the best among them did not return to their hometown. Instead, they entered Ryan's court as bureaucrats and continued to hold positions. Their loyalty and abilities were tested, and they were proven to be excellent managers after many years of experience in the military camp. By.

Since then, the "military-to-cadre" system that Lane had carefully arranged for more than ten years was officially established.

Three days later, Ryan and Sulia entered the practice room of Fontainebleau Palace for retreat.

On the way in, Sulia was still laughing with Ryan about what happened before, about the conflicts between Morgiana, Theresa and Aurora.

What happened in Lane's backyard? In fact, the problem is very simple. Morgiana sincerely dislikes Teresa and Aurora's behavior. After Ryan and Sulia disappeared, the first thing Morgiana did was to detain Teresa. The transfer of the title of Baroness and fiefdom to Sarah.

Yes, Morgiana immediately ordered the Holy Grail Knights to seize Teresa's full set of baroness costumes, seals and crowns, and the enfeoffed land was also temporarily sequestered. With this arrangement, the sorceress's title and fiefdom were frozen on the spot.

Teresa and Aurora were so wronged. The sorceress turned pale with anger. She immediately asked Morgiana, saying that this was obviously the title and land that Ryan had given me. Why did you take it away? !

Morgiana said that I didn’t take it away. The Lake God Witch naturally said that there was no precedent for this witch to enfeoff the land and enfeoffed it. Ryan didn’t get angry with her, so Morgiana said that we just wanted to “discuss it again.” Discuss, then study and study." Once the study is complete and the discussion is completed, the adjustment will be completed and will naturally be returned to you.

Teresa turned to the regent group headed by Laune and Francois. However, the knights and nobles also had a bad impression of Teresa and Aurora, and naturally they would not risk offending Morgiana to support her.

In this way, Teresa's title and fiefdom were all withheld. Veronica took over the title and fiefdom smoothly and began to exercise her rights as a baroness, while Theresa was still stuck here without moving a step. No, after finally waiting for Ryan to come back, the sorceress burst into tears. She quickly seized the opportunity to complain to Ryan and asked him to seek justice.

Ryan found Morgiana, who presented a series of evidence, evidence that Aurora had "corrupted intelligence funds for personal enjoyment and overquoted many palace procurement projects."

Ryan was dumbfounded. Didn't he know Aurora's problem?

Of course he knew it, he knew it better than many people, but he just turned a blind eye because the mother and daughter were his female courtiers and Xi'er.

But Morgiana brought this matter to light, and Ryan had to punish her. He first used "15 days" to deal with Morgiana, and then gave Aurora and Teresa a severe warning. After a while, the title was finally sealed.

This matter is said to be over.

"Speaking of which, is it really good for so many retired officers to enter the palace?" Sulia asked a second question. The female knight sat opposite Ryan in the training room: "I remember... Lord Foster Don’t you disapprove of Brother Guilliman’s idea and never give these people a place in the Imperium of Man and the Council of the High Lords of Terra?”

Ryan wants to digest the power of the subspace essence, the four gods of chaos, and the incarnations of the elven gods swallowed by Morgul.

Surya must digest the power of the Primarchs, as well as a small portion of the power granted by the Emperor.

Ryan couldn't help but smile when he heard this: "I am my father's successor, but this does not mean that I have to inherit all his policies and national policies. I have my own considerations. My dear, you know that compared to those on the other side of the mountain, The empire of Karl-Franz, where is our real weakness and backwardness in Britannia?”

"?" Lidya Su was confused.

"Let me put it this way, the composition of a political power is a pyramid. The top one is the sacred value, the one in the middle is the middle-level organization, and the one at the base is the grassroots governance." Ryan nodded slightly, and the original Gray Knight said softly .

"And the solution to this problem is to create a bureaucracy."

"And establishing the core of our bureaucracy is the military transfer!"

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