The Sun King's Evidence

On the face of it, François was right.

The meeting resumed in the afternoon, and Morgiana conveyed the news she had received after contacting Ryan.

The king and lady approved the northern knights and nobles' plan to attack Obien.

At the same time, Ryan also learned from Morgiana that the Dukes were very resistant to building new fortresses. The King of Knights wondered if he had acted too hastily. He had previously said that he wanted to cherish and save the people, but now he was going to build a new one. .

No, no, no, I can’t be Yang Guang. Ryan thought to himself that he could only do one of the big battles and the big infrastructure construction at the same time. He had finally laid the foundation for the Kingdom of Knights, but he didn’t want to overthrow it casually.

At the same time, Ryan also found that he had underestimated the fighting spirit of the northern knights and nobles, and also underestimated Lawn's eagerness to prove himself as the regent of the kingdom.

Laun and the northern nobles were so eager to ask for war, which made Ryan feel embarrassed. After careful consideration, the Knight King decided to agree to Laun's proposal for the Obien expedition, but made three demands.

The first is to unite with the local Truth Talker natives and the garrison of the Newland Province where the empire is stationed there, to find out the local geographical conditions and some strange features of Obien before starting a war.

The second is that the King of Knights requires the northern knights and nobles to organize their own armies and raise supplies. At the same time, this war must be ended before spring plowing.

Third, Ryan demanded that the war must focus on plundering Obion's resources and destroying the barbarian's effective forces, and should not go too deep into the interior or be too war-loving.

These three requirements were relatively strict, but the northern knights and nobles were very happy to see that the King of Knights was finally willing to let them free their hands and fight. They immediately elected Regent Lawn as the coach of the Albien Expeditionary Force. Prepare to organize an expeditionary force of 20,000 people to attack Obien.

The distance between Obion Island and the mainland of Britannia is almost 500 kilometers, and it takes about two weeks to sail there. It is already early December, and spring plowing will begin at the end of March next year, leaving it to the northern nobles. We don't have much time.

As for the southern nobles, Ryan's request for them is to build a permanent fortress on the road from the Black Mountains to Tyrell and the Blight Swamp.

The King of Knights expressed concerns about the Skaven in the south, and the King of Knights' ideas were agreed upon by most of the Dukes. Unlike the Empire, which strongly denied the existence of the Skaven, the Bretons were among the Wood Elves. With the help of the knights, they clearly knew the existence of the Skaven, and there were many wars between knights and ratmen in history.

In this way, the national policy of attacking in the north and defending in the south was formulated. In addition, Ryan also ordered Morgiana and Raun to send more manpower to detect the movements of Norsca and the northern barbarians. This kind of action is very dangerous. , but it is very necessary.

Time goes back slightly to after Morgiana and Raun's discussion.

"Also, when will you be able to come back?" At the end of the communication, Morgiana asked with some resentment.

"It will probably take another two months." Ryan whispered to the reflection of the pure water in the jade bowl.

"As soon as possible." There was a little expectation and a little resentment in Morgiana's voice. Her face was reflected in the water, with a rich expression on her face: "I'm not in a hurry to have you come back to accompany me. Many things have already happened to you. If you are not here, you can leave it to Sulia, but if you take Sulia away this time, it will be difficult for the Dukes to make a decision."

you're lying! Ryan looked at Morgiana's resentful expression with black lines on his face. The Lake God Witch has a cold and arrogant personality. At the same time, because she has been in power all year round, she is even more cold and unkind. Her expression will only change when she is with him. So rich, Ryan knew that Morgiana must be counting the days and looking forward to his return.

However, the two parties had an agreement, and Ryan couldn't say anything else. The king nodded: "That's it for now. Be sure to investigate the barbarian's movements."

After receiving a positive reply from Morgiana, Ryan put away the jade bowl and turned off the communication.

Sulia was sitting next to him. The Queen of Knights listened to the whole question and answer. The graceful female knight was about to say something, but she saw Ryan stretching out her hands. Sulia quickly understood what her husband meant. She smiled softly, Leaning into Ryan's arms: "What's wrong, my husband, what are you worried about again?"

"I'm a little too nervous." Ryan held Lidya Su and gently groped her beautiful long legs wrapped in thick black velvet pantyhose, feeling the silky and delicate touch, the warm and fragrant nephrite in his arms. , Ryan held his wife on his lap: "I was so anxious that I almost made a serious mistake."

"Serious mistake, you mean repairing the fortress, right?" Sulia immediately understood what Ryan meant. The queen stretched out her jade finger and tapped Ryan's forehead: "You are too anxious. We just repaired it just now." Completely connecting the north and south of the Grand Canal, the Landuin Grand Canal connects the Sannes River in the north with the Grismoray River, the Chinon River and the Berlayne River in the south. This is already a remarkable feat. This is a big project, you should let everyone take a rest before thinking about building the fortress."

"Well, I want to be Li Zhi, not Yang Guang." Ryan nodded, and the King of Knights knew that he was subconsciously anxious again.

"Who is that?" Lidya Su didn't understand.

"That's the story of the two emperors of the ancient dynasty of Cathay... let me tell you." Ryan held Sulia in his arms and told the story, and Orica soon came in and became interested. Listen.

After telling a long story to satisfy Sulia, Ryan motioned for him to go out for a walk.

Coming out of the king's suite, Ryan met Talleyrand head-on. This elf nobleman was leaning on a cane. Seeing Ryan's appearance, he immediately showed a flattering smile: "Your Majesty, good morning, I'm glad to see you here. , your appearance makes the sky clear."

"..." Ryan looked at the cloudy sky with lightning and thunder, wondering whether Talleyrand was flattering or sarcastic: "Mr. Talleyrand, are you still used to living on a battleship?"

"Fortunately, it's much better than me living in the cowshed at Charisse's place." Talleyrand made a dangerous joke. He bowed down very humbly: "I mean Charisse's manor and the cowshed." The shed is similar, not that the cowshed is similar to Charis’s manor, Your Majesty.”

"You have a special sense of humor." Ryan nodded with a smile. He noticed Orica walking out of the king's suite, and when Talleyrand saw Orica, he was like a mouse meeting a cat. Shaking, her body trembled: "What's wrong, Mr. Talleyrand, is Orika that scary?"

Does the king know who his maid is? Talleyrand looked at Orica's malicious warning gaze, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, supported the deck hard, and put the matter aside with a smile: "As an Assur, there is no way to do this."

This explanation made sense, and Ryan didn't dig into it.

The three of them walked a few steps along the deck. Talleyrand answered fluently, and the high elf always had some humorous witticisms. Even Ryan asked him, "What would you do if Fenubar and I fell into the water?" To deliberately embarrass him with questions like "Who to save?" Talleyrand responded with great humor and wit: "Your Majesty, you are so great that you must know how to swim!"

After walking around for a while, an injured old guard passed by the three people. He was on crutches like Talleyrand. Ryan recognized him. His name was Yves. He was an old guard from Montfort. In the previous great battle at Dragon Fjord, he was hit by the splash of undead artillery. His leg was broken, his bones were shattered and broken, and he was seriously injured.

Thanks to the high-quality medicine and high medical level of the high elves, old guards like Yves were originally forced to retire, but now he only needs to rest for three months and wait for his bones to grow well before he can return to the battlefield. .

From this point alone, the large amount of medicine given by the high elves allowed Ryan to recoup all the costs of his trip to Ulthuan, not to mention that the Kingdom of Savri was willing to partner with Ryan to build a hospital in Mousilon.

"Your Majesty, look, Mr. Soldier, he is lame, but he is very strong physically and mentally." Talleyrand pointed at Yves humorously, and then pointed at himself: "But, Your Majesty, I have learned from dozens of I knew I was lame years ago, not only in my legs, but also in my body and mind."

"Anyone can stand up and face everything he has." Ryan put his hands behind his back, and the majesty of the King of Knights almost overflowed: "Physical disability is no reason, Talleyrand, I believe you can be somewhere else Find your own place.”

"But certainly not in Ulthuan." Talleyrand shook his head: "As long as I am in Ulthuan, I am a cripple, in every sense of the word."

All high spirits like good-looking men and beautiful women. Even Tigris was discriminated against when he was young. Not to mention Talleyrand, who was not strong enough, handsome and poorly dressed, and physically disabled. Ryan nodded secretly in his heart. Discrimination is real. everywhere.

"But in the old world, in the human world, I, Talleyrand, was a sound person. Not only was I a sound person, I was also superior to others!" Talleyrand then laughed at himself: "Human beings are accustomed to the elegance and wisdom of elves. There is also longevity, so I think about the old world. I can't solve my spiritual disability, but I can change the environment. I can become half a head taller by half a head. The thing named Talleyrand finally found someone with whom he can get along as an equal. It's really A good deal.”

What a smart man this man is! Ryan's face remained calm.

"Talleyrand?"

"I am here, my lord."

"Will you be my foreign minister to Nuer?"

"It's an honor and a great pleasure."

…………I am the dividing line between smart people…………

A few months passed by in a flash, and with the arrival of the spring of 2514 in the Imperial Calendar and the return of His Majesty the Knight King Lion, Britannia also ushered in the most glorious era in its history.

This era was called the "Golden Age" by all historians and writers of later generations.

Politically, the great Knight King "Unifier" Lion-Malcador continued to carry out reforms in Britannia. He further restricted the privileges of the great nobility, eased the contradiction between the serf class and the knight class, and canceled a large number of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. , light corvee and little tax, which greatly improved the living standards of Brittanians.

In terms of personnel, the bureaucracy that Lane had been brewing for many years finally began to appear in Britannia. With the assistance of several major churches and nobles, circuit courts and officials began to appear. Most of them were composed of ambitious yeoman farmers, workers, The down-and-out nobles and small traders were formed after being trained by the church, and the legal interpretation and arbitration rights of local noble lords or township elders and village elders were taken back.

At the same time, Lane began to revise the laws of Britannia, protecting the interests of the emerging freemen and yeoman farmers, limiting the privileges of the nobility and restricting their exploitation of serfs in the territory. At the same time, Lane officially wrote "Incompetence is a Sin" From then on, the losers who could not train qualified knights within four generations had only two choices. One was to have their fiefdoms confiscated and become free citizens, and the other was to participate in the Arabi expedition.

Economically, the Lady of the Lake dropped a super bombshell.

After a lapse of thousands of years, the Fairy of the Lake Church officially announced a tax reduction. The church tithe will be changed from ten tithes to one to fifteen tithes.

Don’t underestimate these few percentage points. The Fairy of the Lake Church has given up as much as hundreds of thousands of gold crowns in revenue from this alone.

Everyone in the country knelt down to thank the goddess. Many serfs wept until dawn and knelt down to thank the goddess for her gift. Their mad belief in the fairy in the lake reached a new level.

Militaryly, the Obion Expedition led by Raun won a great victory in the Obien Great Expedition.

In mid-January 2514, the 25,000-strong Obien Expeditionary Force composed of northern knights landed on Obien Island under the escort of the Poseidon Fleet and the Le-Angoulan Fleet. Their opponent was North. The Kabarbarian tribe "Vanahem Forest" is a group of more than 10,000 barbarian warriors and hundreds of Chaos Warriors, thousands of Chaos Marauder Cavalry, as well as more than a dozen warbands of swamp dwellers and many Chaos Giants. A barbarian tribe of beasts.

Yes, in imagination, the enemy should be of such a large scale, but the northern knights and nobles soon discovered that the resistance of the Vanahem Forest tribe was much weaker than imagined.

The first battle was the battle of Corpse Island. In this battle, Lawn and others were fully prepared for a tough battle. However, the expedition army soon discovered that the defenders of Corpse Island actually only had a few barbarian marauder warbands. , plus less than a hundred barbarian raider riders and less than two hundred raider spear throwers.

This is simply a joke to the expeditionary army, which has more than 25,000 people and has purchased (on credit) a large number of firearms from the Musilon Factory.

At first, Raun thought that the cunning Norscans might believe in the Eagle God, so he advanced cautiously. However, when he broke into the core area of ​​the barbarian settlement, he only encountered a dozen barbarian champion warriors. .

That's it?

Raun personally led a group of Holy Grail Knights to rush forward and slaughter a dozen barbarian champion warriors.

Immediately afterwards, the Obien Expeditionary Army began its righteous plundering journey. For some reason, there were very few barbarian tribes on the island. Almost all of them only left the most basic defense forces, and even the legendary It was as if the Chaos Warriors and Chaos Champions had disappeared.

No one understands why this is, but there is no doubt that this is a God-given opportunity. Since then, the Obion Expeditionary Force has plundered unimaginable things on the Obien Island, which is rich in products, especially various magic ores and gold and silver. Rich supplies, as the great expedition of Obien progressed, almost all the ships in Britannia that could sail across the ocean and carry cargo went to Obien to "pull goods".

Even so, it took three pulls back and forth.

Several consecutive victories have made the Obion Expeditionary Force feel a little elated. Fortunately, Raoun is still able to restrain his subordinates, but even as the commander and regent, he cannot suppress the knights, nobles and serfs under his command who want to march towards Obien Island. The requirement to march into the depths.

Count Clement led more than 2,000 troops deep into the vicinity of Conquata in the interior of Aubien, hoping to obtain more loot.

Then, this entire army and hundreds of knights errant disappeared without a trace. The two thousand people seemed to have completely evaporated from the thick fog of Obien.

Raun personally led a carefully selected elite force from more than 3,000 expeditionary troops, and combined it with the spells of the Lake God's prophet and the large magic scrolls obtained on credit from Morgiana and Veronica, and went deep into the depths of Obion. , looking for traces of these two thousand troops.

They only found a few horrific scenes of large-scale Chaos Sacrifice Ceremonies. Dozens of people went crazy on the spot and lost their sanity. Lawn immediately ordered a retreat, but the army was still attacked by a large group of Chaos Demons. Fortunately, the Chaos Demons could not exist for a long time. In the mortal world, together with the elites led by Raun, after leaving more than 300 corpses and praying for the guidance of the goddess, Raun led the army to successfully withdraw from the thick fog deep in Obion Island.

The regent of the kingdom suppressed the fear in his heart. He announced to everyone that he was about to win and prepare to end the great expedition of Obiun.

At the same time, Raoun became even more curious and wary about what the northern barbarians were planning.

"His Majesty Ryan and Her Majesty Morgiana must be informed immediately about the discovery deep in Obion!"

"What are the barbarians doing?"

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