Warhammer Throne

The Dark Rolling River, as the name suggests, was excavated by the Dulong City dwarves to connect the northern Gulf of Norsca with the underground river secret roads of the Norsca South Bay. The Dulong City dwarves can communicate with the outside world through the secret river, trade and even dispatch. Army, this river channel located deep in the mountains of the Norsca Group became the lifeline for the Norsca dwarves to contact the outside world.

However, this lifeline cannot be used all day, because it is easy for the Norskans or Skavens to know, so the way for the dwarves of Dulong City is to choose a safe time period and reduce the frequency of use to keep it hidden.

The dark rolling river is extremely dark, and there are only a few Norsca dwarf rune stones and the torches on the passenger ship to illuminate and provide the way forward. The complex and changeable river channels even carry different dwarf rune marks, which need to be identified. Once you go wrong, you will either end up in a dead end or fall into a trap, or even a pit that you don't know where to lead.

The result was that Ryan got up early, only to find that it was dark outside, with stones on both sides, the ceiling with stones, and the distance with stones. The Knight King looked bored and stayed on the deck for a while and found that he had nothing to do.

Little Thorgreen and his good friend Jed are still staying on the deck. What these two mustaches like most is this cave environment. Needless to say, the dwarves have a special preference for this environment. To the dwarves Saying that they are born to love mineral veins and caves, little Thorgrin whispered about what he would do if he were the great king of Dulong City, how he would build this place, both inside and outside of it did not take eternity The Supreme King of Zhifeng is serious. The moustache is a bit swollen just like his father Belega. Anyway, without the help of the Supreme King, wouldn’t we also regain Bafeng Mountain?

"Oh, it's your Majesty Ryan." The mustache was very happy to see Ryan appear. He dwarfed Ryan, and then said to Ryan: "Have you had breakfast? Would you like to have some?"

The two mustaches were eating breakfast on the deck. The dwarf’s breakfast consisted of beer, sausage, goat cheese, and dwarf lye bread.

Ryan thought that you would prepare this hard dish early in the morning? The Knight King shook his head quickly: "I have already prepared it there. I am not used to eating such hard food in the morning."

"Aha, it seems that Your Majesty Ryan has better food." Jed-Honesty smiled. This mustache respects Ryan. He is grooming his beard. Although Jed's beard is only to his chest, he is a dwarf. He has always regarded his beard as a symbol of status and seniority. The beard must be washed and cleaned frequently to be beautiful and smooth. The two mustaches are naturally back waves. They wash their beards every day on the passenger ship.

"Huh? Your Majesty Ryan, why did you shave your beard clean again?" Jed immediately noticed that Ryan had shaved his beard clean again, leaving no stubble, so he complained: "Your Majesty, you have everything. Okay, but why is there no good habit of growing a beard? I know that humans and dwarves have different habits, but don't you humans all grow beards when they are old?"

"Uh..." Ryan touched his bare chin, thinking I can't tell you that the fairy in the lake is painful and ticklish, right?

Speaking of this goddess, I’m a bit too much, and now I’m going to have to make her feel comfortable with her, but she is really too aware of Ryan’s weakness, and the two sides have already determined the relationship. Ryan is still going to be dressed up by the goddess. Shamefully obeyed.

After thinking about it, Ryan could only smile and said, "It's easy to handle it, just like many people in the Empire like to shave their heads."

"Your Majesty Ryan, we will arrive in Dulong City in two days. I had an exchange with Maharaja Tolgard while supporting Olengrad. The Dulong City dwarves are separated from the Kingdom of Mountains by as much as 7,000. Years later, there has been a big difference in culture and customs. When you get there, no matter what requirements Lord Tolgard makes, as long as it is not too excessive or strange, please do as he says." Holding a piece of lye bread in his hand, young Thorgrin added: "It should not be difficult to embarrass us. The defense of Olengrad and the Bagration Operation Dulong City have participated in full, and I will also take you I’ve told the Maharaja’s deeds."

"It seems that the Supreme King's law aimed at Dulong City does not work?" Ryan understood the meaning of the young Thor Green.

"It's been too long." Little Thorglin shook his head: "We have to be thankful that the Norsca dwarves are not like our group of chaos-like cousins. It can be said that it is fortunate."

Ryan nodded silently.

The enfeoffment expansion system recommended by many people has similar problems. It is true that the enfeoffment system is the fastest way to control some remote and backward areas and newly regained areas. However, the enfeoffment system is most likely to cause two problems. The first is the localization of vassals. The second one is that the tail can't be dropped.

I have already talked about the issue of annexing territories, so I won’t repeat it here.

Ryan has always opposed the view of some people that a large number of immigrants and confederations can promote their own culture, spread their racial blood, expand their own legal principles, and do not care whether they can really control it, as long as they admit that they are a person of a certain race, You just need to use your own culture and system. Everyone feels that way, and that the meat will rot in the pot in the end.

This is actually a very wishful thinking. Take the dwarves as an example. The two largest branches of the Dwarf Crowd during the Great Geographical Discovery of the Mountain Kingdom are the Dulong City Dwarves and the Chaos Dwarves in the Dark Realm. In the weird state of non-submission, the latter simply succumbed to the chaos, abandoned the faith of the ancestor god, and became a subject of Hasselt, the father of darkness, the secondary **** of chaos.

The dwarves who fancy tradition and the glory of their ancestors are like this, let alone humans.

These are the two problems that are most likely to occur in confession. The first one is that the tail can’t be dropped. Take Dulong City as an example. The dwarves here have formed their own culture and social organization after they came to Norsca. They are unwilling to do so. Do not want to return to the Kingdom of Gunsan, so the two sides can only maintain the status quo after the Supreme King and the Maharaja negotiate.

Who wants to have multiple masters on his head?

The second problem is even worse. It is like the chaotic dwarves. After they are far away from the border and disconnected from the central government, the dwarf expeditionary army quickly localizes, abandoned the original culture, and gradually turned to worship. Chaos, and the Kingdom of Mountains became complete enemies, and claimed to be orthodox.

Then someone will definitely say that this is only after the disconnection, assuming there is no disconnection? Suppose it is only sealed outside the national border? Suppose it is the bloodline of the Supreme King to guarantee legal rationality?

Take Ryan’s previous celestial dynasty as an example. It has only been sealed outside the border, most of which were ruled by ji, but there have been real seals. But once this head is opened and there is a precedent for real seals, then the seals will gradually begin to be sealed. It has been sealed into its own core area, for example, the Jiedushi system is gradually taking shape in this way.

As for the imperial lineage, it’s even easier. Lao Zhu has explained everything with the Saiwang system. When the central government changes, all these imperial lineages have the right to inherit. You guessed it after they got the news. Are you willing to continue to live in the desolate and backward fief, or to bring the army back to the central government to fight for your position or even the throne?

The Eight Kings War warns, Feng Tianjing can hardly warn.

As mentioned in the previous article, over time, there will be problems with the central government.

Furthermore, even if the fiefs were linked together, the regimes that were entrusted could easily be "localized" gradually. The four khanates of the Mongol Empire were completely greened within a hundred years except for the Yuan Dynasty.

why? There are only two ways to enfeoff the population to be small, and to use less to impose more. The first is to kill all the locals. For example, the American imperialism did this to the Indians. The second is to simply localize itself, just like The Four Khanates soon gradually localized.

Of course, there is also a third type that the central government continues to provide large-scale blood transfusions, giving money to people and resources.

Regardless of such a long and large-scale blood transfusion is the way to subdue the country, the large-scale blood transfusion alone is actually sealed to others instead of sending bureaucrats to manage it. What does the central government do?

So it is very difficult. Sealing at close range is a death, and long-range sealing is not beneficial to expansion. If you do not intend to do the same as the American imperial approach to the Indians, you must have a large and sufficient population, otherwise you will be killed. To drive away (such as the Yuan Dynasty) is either gradually localized like the chaotic dwarves (such as the Four Khanates).

However, Ryan doesn’t think that zoning is of no value at all. For example, if zoning of immediate family members is far away and can’t come back, there is no local people, let him live on his own and keep some seeds of hope, then there is still room for manipulation. Yes, such as the Eastern Song Dynasty in Australia, the Ming Dynasty in North America, and the Third Rome. Similar to this is possible, and there is room for manipulation.

Just like the five hundred worlds of brother Killiman established the second empire at the critical moment of the Horus rebellion, and resolutely provoked the burden of rejuvenating the human empire, claiming to be the orthodox empire! At least some hope of revival is retained.

In fact, according to Jr. Thorgreen, Dulong City even retains more traditional rune techniques and ancient forging techniques than the Dwarf Mountain Kingdom, but because it has not experienced the cataclysm era and faced the devastating green skin Attacking, Dulong City dwarves are very backward in civil engineering and firearm technology.

Ryan thought about it a lot, until the fairy in the lake appeared on the deck. Today the goddess wore a bright and colorful cascading silky dress with mint crystal blue, with long bright blond hair curled up behind his head, a high elf lady's hairstyle and then like a waterfall. Hanging down like an ankle, a pair of beautiful feet wrapped in white ultra-thin lace back-stitched thin line pantyhose is wearing a pair of pumps with golden iris embossed high heels, revealing the beautiful toes wrapped in silk stockings. Wearing the green nail polish, she was bathed in platinum rain. Seeing Ryan in a daze on the deck, the fairy in the lake called him: "Ryan, what are you doing on the deck? Come here. "

"Breakfast is ready?" Ryan noticed that no one on the deck noticed the appearance of the goddess except for himself, it should be her illusion.

"Yeah, Morjana is done." The fairy in the lake motioned to Ryan to come over.

When Ryan returned to the cabin, he shrugged and smiled at the goddess: "Look, Lilith, it's black everywhere, I almost thought it was not breakfast, it was dinner!"

"Dinner? Dinner is good. After dinner is over, you can just exercise a little bit to save our knight king from lack of exercise!" The fairy in the lake skillfully took Ryan's arm and pressed her plump softness directly on Ryan's arm. superior.

"Uh..." Ryan's face suddenly turned green. During this time, he dealt with Lilith and Morgiana at the same time. These two women are both big psionic users, and Morgiana was carefully selected as a fairy in the lake. The divine power generator and storage device can absorb Ryan's psychic energy almost unlimitedly, and since Morjana can absorb a large amount of psychic power from Ryan recently, she has simply begun to try to hit the peak of the sanctuary.

This was originally impossible, because since accepting the inheritance of the Lake God Witch and the power of the Lake Fairy, the strength of the high-level Morjana Sanctuary has basically been nailed to death, and it is impossible to break through.

But this is Ryan, a man who can turn the impossible into possible.

It's just that the process is a bit tiring... Ryan thought in his heart.

Walking into the cabin, Mogiana was obviously in a good mood. The Lake God Witch was wearing a white muslin shirt and pink hip skirt today, underneath the skirt are long flesh-colored pantyhose stockings, stepped on a pair of cotton Dragging, with an apron on her chest, she put the last fried egg in the plate, then lifted the plate with one hand, and pressed the skirt of the hip skirt with one hand embarrassingly: "Ryan, you are back. Ah, breakfast is ready."

Ryan couldn't help but cocked his mouth. He took the plate from Morgiana, helped her untie her apron, and took her to sit down together. The fairy in the lake still only eats some fruit as usual.

While eating breakfast, the two chatted together about other things. The fairy in the lake looked at Mogiana leaning on Ryan to eat, and said uncomfortably: "Oh, by the way, about what you arranged before, that Jia Congresswoman Lan? It's Catherine, isn't it?"

"Well, yes." Ryan thought for a moment: "But did that matter pass?"

"The controversy is not small." The fairy nodded in the lake: "In the end, the knight nobles saw such a great feat made by Karad, plus Sulia's approval and she has given birth to a child. Finally recognized her new identity."

The fairy in the lake was talking about Catherine, Veronica's personal disciple. After Catherine got pregnant by luck and successfully gave birth to a boy, Karad asked Ryan to make Catherine his countess.

This is a very troublesome thing. It is not without precedent for a witch to become a noble lady, but it is really the first time in Brittany, but fortunately, it was done in the end.

"Very well, but she won't be a countess soon." Ryan smiled and put down the fork: "She will be a marquise soon, and I have planned to wait until after returning home to canonize Calade as Brittany. Marshal, also named Marquis Garmente."

Ryan had already planned to go back and continue the pace of centralization.

"The second thing is that Emperor Karl-Franz took this opportunity to send some Rick guards to reorganize the army in the northern provinces of the empire, and at the same time establish Rick fortresses in some key towns." said the fairy in the lake. The second news came out: "At the same time, the emperor announced the Rick standing army system, preparing to bring back a small number of electors’ poor control and excessive losses to the local provinces and elites to the imperial court to reorganize and establish a new Guards Corps. He has direct control."

"Normal, now the imperial situation is in chaos, but the emperor's army has not suffered much. This is the best time to further strengthen centralization and establish a new army." Ryan nodded slightly: "It seems that Karl has learned nothing from me. Less."

Regardless of the financial difficulties of the Kaiser, Rickling now has a population of 6 million, and the entire country of Brittany is only more than 8 million. With such a large population base and tax revenue, the Kaiser wants to relax. Coming quickly.

The two things were finished, and the breakfast was over. Ryan was holding Mogiana in his arms and was about to say something, but the knight king immediately noticed that the fairy in the lake had gone to close the door of the cabin, and he quickly remembered: "No! Lilith! Not now!"

"You can't say no, my champion! I believe you, it will do it!" The fairy in the lake held Ryan, and the goddess said with a smile: "Mogiana, come, together!"

"Okay." Morjana nodded shyly, she suddenly reached out and put her arm around Ryan's neck, blocked his mouth, and prevented him from getting up.

"Well……"