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Flowers are blooming and trees are shady; The flocks are vibrant, and the birds are singing. * The most intoxicating.

When the spring breeze blows on the face, with the fragrance of flowers and a cool smell, it makes people feel refreshed. Outings and outings have also become the best afterlife for people's leisure time.

The imperial capital of Proust is bathed in a bright spring light. The bright sunlight like gold beats happily in the windows, eaves, rooftops, and squares, as well as in people's hair, eyebrows, ears, and collars, as if the goddess of spring is dancing.

The streets and alleys lined with shops are always filled with an endless stream of business travelers and crowds, crowded and lively, until the first day of the lanterns, the flow of people is still endless, and the imperial capital has become a city that never sleeps; People always greet each other with a smile, greet each other cordially, greet each other in a friendly manner, and their faces are full of happiness and joy that cannot be concealed.

The imperial capital has created a stable and prosperous atmosphere everywhere, filled with an atmosphere of peace and happiness.

This year is the year 1900 of the Saint-Lun calendar, after the establishment of the new empire has experienced four years of peace and ease, I adopted a foreign policy of "perseverance and courtesy, taoguang and obscurity", for the new empire to win a precious time to recuperate, enrich the country and strengthen the army, in the past four years, the empire's national strength, military strength has achieved a qualitative leap, entered an unprecedented period of strength.

Of course, this peace is only a restless peace, a political drama of hypocrisy at the tipping point of the imminent collapse of the balance, during which the powerful enemies of the new empire are not without the intention of subverting the nascent empire.

Beginning in the late winter of 1895 in the Holy Lun calendar, the Jialan Temple sent priestly clergy to preach in the villages, towns, and border counties where the empire was weak, and tried to secretly establish independent religious districts to replace the local governments in exercising ruling power, directly threatening the authority of the central government.

When I learned that the power of the Jialan Temple was rampant and spread throughout the empire, almost to the point of being out of control, I was extremely shocked, because the momentum of the Jialan Temple's development was so rapid that it completely exceeded my expectations, and it suddenly disrupted the deployment of the new empire, and slammed into the heart of the empire like a giant cone with extremely destructive power.

I did not dare to slack off, and immediately convened the ministers to deliberate, and finally adopted the proposal put forward by Secretary of State Yuhasselblad and Secretary of Military Affairs Simon Stag -- to use the religious theracy of the gods to oppose the religious theocracy of the Jialan Temple, so as to achieve the goal of governing religion with religion.

As expected, the matter was supported by the Cult of the Gods. It is not difficult to understand that the Cult of the Gods is willing to help, because on the side of the tiger snoring, how can the wolf be cared for? While the Cult of the Gods can tolerate the survival of other minor religions, it will never tolerate the existence of a sect like the Jialan Temple that directly threatens its theocratic dominance.

After recuperating at the Templar's Peak of Light, Esafnia St. Befaia, who had stabilized her condition, quickly realized the seriousness of the problem and reacted with the courage of a woman, not only sending three golden-clad archcardinals as envoys to deal with the matter, but also mobilizing 30,000 Templars of the Holy See Legion to the territory of the Empire.

After a secret discussion with Archbishop Banderas, the operation against the Jialan Temple immediately began.

On the one hand, the New Empire and the Cult of the Gods simultaneously announced that the "Religious Independent Zone" and the Temple Missionaries of the Jialan Temple in the Imperial Realm would be designated as "illegal organizations" and "cultists", respectively.

On the other hand, the Holy See legion, with the cooperation of the Imperial Gendarmes, quickly entered the area controlled by the Jialan Temple and carried out a bloody purge, in which more than 200,000 Temple cultists and Temple personnel were culled.

Although in public, neither the New Empire nor the Cult of the Gods officially stated that this operation was aimed at the Jialan Temple, the direct attack was on the "religious independence zone" dominated by the Jialan Temple, and the power of the Jialan Temple in the empire was almost uprooted, so this incident was called the "Sect War".

The Jialan Temple became the biggest loser in the "Sect War", and the results of several years of painstaking management were decisively and mercilessly attacked by the Empire and the Cult of the Gods when they surfaced, which was unexpected by the leaders of the Temple. The bright red blood color has also become the only color in the "sectarian wars" that are scrambling to be described in later epics, but the original strong smell of blood has been diluted and reconciled into a romantic and passionate red.

At the beginning of April 1896 in the Saint-Lun calendar, Ettiria, Aluton, and James met in the county of Eastern Garmont, known as the "Eastern Metropolis League", to discuss a plan to jointly send troops to Proust, in an attempt to form a "joint alliance" against the new empire, which was in a very serious situation and was in a state of turmoil for a time.

But I had already received the news first, and quickly took a counterattack: on the one hand, I gathered a total of 400,000 soldiers and horses, including reserve soldiers, and stationed troops on the frontier, ready to fight with the strength of the empire. On the other hand, Simon Stagg's strategy of division and the technique of "connecting horizontals" - diplomatic mediation with the three parties respectively, and with James as the main entry point, he took the initiative to hand over Tikrit, which was adjacent to the rule of the James regime, and the short-sighted and greedy James really couldn't wait to swallow this bait.

As for Ettiria, according to the characteristics of its commercial country, taking advantage of the psychology of the Henes merchants to attach great importance to the huge commercial interests of the empire, the Haynes Chamber of Commerce exerted pressure on Ettiria.

Through strategies such as strengthening the connection with the northern eagle vulture and reconciling with the kingdom of Dotyr, Aruton and Ettiria were forced to be separated. In addition, a smokescreen was unleashed for the new empire to conclude secret agreements with the three parties.

As a result, the fragile alliance between the three parties was born, and suspicion of each other arose, and Aruton and Ettiria were threatened by the northern barbarians and the economic problems at home respectively, so the alliance was temporarily put on hold, and the alliance was broken, and the proposal to send troops was aborted.

The fact that the crisis of the new empire was resolved without a bloody army -- without the need to use force was indeed a great blessing in misfortune for the new empire that was not firmly established at the time, and a brilliant victory of diplomatic strategy in the history of the new empire -- and the secretary of state should take the first credit for this.

At that time, I was tempted to make Simonzer the Marshal of the Empire, but it was only the strong opposition of the military leaders headed by Memphis, and the resolute resignation of the Lord, that I had to retreat and make him Duke of the Empire.

From 1897 to 1899, although there were also skirmishes on the border between the new empire and the three kingdoms, they were all sporadic and did not affect the overall pattern of peace.

The only major event during this period was the "Return of Tikrit" in 1898.

In the autumn of 1898, Simon Stagg again sent a sorcerer, a skilled man of persuasion and incitement, to secretly penetrate into Tikrit, taking advantage of the drought in Tikrit, the failure of the agricultural harvest and the dissatisfaction of the peasants who could not pay the heavy taxes, to incite the people to revolt and raise the banner of returning to the empire.

At the same time, I gathered 100,000 imperial troops on the borders of Tikrit and marched into Tikrit under the pretext of "co-stopping", and finally I regained the lost territory on the grounds that "by the will of the Tikrite referendum, I accepted the people of Tikrit as imperial citizens and reincorporated the county into the imperial territory."

After James scolded, he could only cry out in vain and accept this established fact dejectedly. Tikrit changed hands after only a year in James' hands.

Since then, thanks to the correct diplomatic strategy, the two major camps of Ettiria and Arutun, which have been eyeing the new empire, were held back by the Kingdom of Dotir and the northern barbarians respectively, and their domestic politics were difficult to appease, so that they were unable to increase the number of troops in the following years.

And the weakest James Donggamont regime was only able to barely maintain the momentum of Gou An out of my "benevolence", and it was in a precarious state of being in a corner of the country, and the so-called "westward expansion and restoration of the country" was only a rhetorical statement of James, just empty words.

In essence, James also knew very well that he did not have such strength and ability, and even if he wanted to keep his current position, it was simply a luxury - finally one day, when I was all ready, I turned back and looked east, which was the period of James's demise. Therefore, James just had the mind of "getting by", and dreamed of his emperor in the land of projectiles. It is said that over the years, he has continued to pay a lot of money to hire some so-called alchemists, and sent people to loot some secret recipes and pills in the territory for his palace and pleasure.

Of course, this kind of peace, which is based on my compromise and forbearance, is only a false appearance, like a layer of paper that can be broken with a finger -- in the first year of the 20th century, I began to shift my foreign policy from "perseverance, courtesy, and obscurity" to "long-distance friendship and close attack."

With the passage of time, the initiative to dominate the political pattern of the South Continent of St. Lunnan gradually shifted to me......

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