The follow-up of the Black Torch Festival, of course, does not stop at the imperial capital Dandong.

There were nine rebel lords who fled that night, and even though there were pursued by the royal swordsman regiment and the private soldiers of the noble lords along the way, but due to the death of those nobles who were held hostage and the death of Phoebe II, Danton was also in chaos, unable to pursue the defector lords with all his might, and finally seven lords returned to their territory alive.

There is no doubt that the next step for them to do is to rebel and attack the imperial capital in the name of "Qing Jun's side" and "proving innocence", and what they want to clear is undoubtedly the Merlin envoy represented by Lancet.

Regarding this excuse, Lin An had expected it a long time ago:

In the monarch's vassal system in this era, in addition to the maintenance of morality and etiquette of loyalty to the monarch, there is no strict etiquette and morality similar to that of father and son in previous lives.

In other words, for a vassal, it would be against morality for the heir of the lord to poison, assassinate, or even kill his father, but it would not be within the scope of etiquette and law:

The vassal lords can stand in line or watch from the sidelines, or join in the name of allegiance to the main room, but if there is no nominal monarch name in front, the vassal blatantly rebels in the name of dissatisfaction with the royal rule and overthrow of the monarch, even if the monarch's evil act of killing his father and relatives is known to everyone and is spurned by everyone, the rebellion of the vassal still violates the justice and etiquette of this world, and may even cause foreign royal families to intervene and send troops to help the rebel monarch quell the rebellion.

Because the cornerstone of the vassal system is the loyalty of the vassal to the monarch, the royal family as the ruling class and even the nobles as the lord will spare no effort to maintain this cornerstone, otherwise once the cornerstone of loyalty is shaken, then they may also encounter betrayal by the vassal's subordinates.

Therefore, in this society, betrayal of the monarch is a crime far more severe than killing one's father and relatives, and loyalty is the most recognized quality in the world.

Even if a nobleman is brutal and incompetent, and notorious, if he is loyal to the lord to the point of hell, then in the eyes of the lord and the rest of the ruling class, this nobleman is a good vassal, and the rest is a small section. It can even be used as an example for other vassals.

Therefore, even if the betrayal of these rebellious lords was already naked before the people, nominally, they did not dare to oppose the entire aristocratic etiquette, and it was reasonable and legitimate to expel and eliminate the foreign envoys who had bewitched the monarch.

These lords rose in a hurry, and the defeat was sudden, they may still not be able to figure out why their side was defeated so quickly, but there were not many reasons for them to rebel, and Lin An didn't have to think about it to know that Merlin's envoys and Lancet were the biggest excuses.

And for the xenophobia of the population. The natural enemy of the Merlin envoys is really quite reasonable and in line with the hearts of the people.

But soon. Jupiter was the first to get several noble lords to rebel. He stood up and declared that the envoys of Randster and the Merlin envoys were his trusted and friendly friends, and that the crimes of treason, hostage, and slaughter of civilians were confirmed, and ordered the rebels to send troops to assist the royal family in quelling the rebellion.

Because of a previous victory with the House of Lords, Jupiter gained great prestige among the people. The other nobles in the rebel leader's mind did not procrastinate.

The other noble lords of Peret could clearly see that the young emperor had a firm foothold soon after ascending the throne, with Merlin's support behind him, and he already had a lot of prestige among the people.

The noble lords saw that they could not separate the relationship between the monarch and Merlin, and profited from it. It also consciously conformed to the general trend and attached itself to Jupiter's tail.

Under the general trend of foreign enemies, the internal strife set off by the rebel lords is not in the interests of Pere and all the other lords, and no one wants Pere to be weakened by internal strife, so that he will lose under the overall situation of the world. Therefore, the encirclement and suppression of the rebels by many nobles is not a united city, throwing their heads and spilling blood, but they also have the same goal and actively cooperate.

In just ten days, the combined forces of the royal family and nobles slaughtered the main force of the rebel lords' coalition and forced the rebels back to their territory.

Since the territories of the rebel lords were not all connected, the rebels fled separately after the rout, which further increased the weight of the victory of the rebellion, but because the battlefield was scattered, and the royal and noble coalition forces were also scattered all over the place, the military information from the front line of the battlefield was much slower than the previous news of the victory of the main force of the rebels, but everyone could see that it was a matter of time before the rebels were eliminated, and this deadline was not far away.

At this moment, the wolf smoke of Little Pere ignited, and the urgent military intelligence of the royal family of Little Pere was transmitted to Dandong:

On the 18th of October, five days after the Black Torch Festival and the third day of Jupiter's accession to the throne, the 100,000 garrisons of the fortress of St. Lenza of Tyrin, under the pretext of Perret's betrayal of the Holy Covenant, broke through the Cauldron and invaded the Petit Perret;

On the same day, Pope Aegis II and the Supreme Envoy received an oracle at the same time on the Holy Mountain, ordering the three Holy Knights under the Pope's command to wave their troops and launch a "holy war";

On the same day, the Holy Empire's Santa Naria royal family, the royal families of the five kingdoms under it, and all the noble lords under them responded to the call of "holy war", and the eastern front of Chen Bing, the small Peret and the western front of Ponto were all broken due to being caught off guard!

As soon as the news came out, the government and the opposition were shaken, and Perret angrily denounced the undeclared war of the Holy Empire, and at the same time, the military consumption that had been in full swing was fully mobilized and civilians were conscripted.

It just so happened that the autumn harvest had just passed at this time, whether it was military rations or spare youth, it was more than enough, plus Perre's own people were fierce, mercenaries were prevalent, and the noble lords everywhere were not without war preparations, and the civil strife set off by the rebels made many noble lords join forces early, and the first batch of coalition troops had been formed in a short period of time, sending troops to aid little Perre.

"Time difference!" Anatoly sighed, "Presumably the Holy Empire did not expect that those lord rebels would be defeated so quickly. ”

"This is the disadvantage of the territory being too broad, even if it is a legendary powerhouse, if you want to convey the message thousands of miles away, you have to pay a lot of price." Lin Andao.

The formation of the vassal system, and the fact that the ancestors of the two countries of Peremialin liked to divide their brothers to guard the border, was not without reason, there were no other royal lords to guard it, maybe there had been a month of fighting on the border, and the emperor in the imperial capital had just received the news.

"If the previous civil strife had not been so smooth in quelling the rebellion, and if it had been delayed for another ten days and eight days, and when the news of the Holy Empire's 'holy war' had been launched, there would have been external and internal troubles, and the previous civil strife might really have become a catalyst for Perre's downfall." Salin said, looking up at Lin An.

The rest understood what he meant.

The bargaining chips and advantages of war are not simply added or subtracted, but the relationship between one and the other:

If Jupiter had not taken control of the political situation earlier, then his tug-of-war with the House of Lords might have led to a stalemate in civil strife; The stalemate of civil strife will hold back the forces of the royal family and the noble lords; When the Holy Empire launches a war, it makes it even more possible for the rebels to cooperate with the inside and the outside, and help the fire against the wind.

What's more, the people are not united, the efficiency and results of the battle against the Holy Empire can be imagined, and it is an internal and external war, if the Holy Empire has the right time, and it is taking advantage of the time when the divine envoy is born* to launch a holy war, and in the case of the lords of Pere fighting separately, maybe it is really possible to conquer Pere - especially when most of Merlin's legions are gathered on the northern front and there are not many troops to help.

But now it is different, after a counterinsurgency, although it is not completely over, it has also reached the end, and the rebel lords have no more troops to ignite, and Jupiter has also relied on the prestige of this civil war to initially lay the foundation for rule.

Even if not all the nobles below are convinced of him, in the current situation of this great enemy, Jupiter's previous prestige is enough to become Perre's only voice, unless he wants to commit suicide, Perre's other nobles will never be stupid enough to engage in internal struggles at this time.

This is also Lin An's previous goal, using the external form shì to quickly remove all the obstacles that stand in Jupiter's way, turning these obstacles into motivation, and making Jupiter a veritable king of Peret as quickly as possible:

By this time, it would be time for their previous investment to begin to reap the rewards - Jupiter and Pere would become Merlin's strongest shield and ally, and would also gain great benefits and prestige for Lenster!

In fact, Randster had now begun to reap the benefits, and no one in the Dandong aristocratic circle was now aware of the young emperor's deep friendship with the Grand Duke of Randster.

The young emperor couldn't wait to eat and sleep with the Archduke Rünster, and although the Archduke Rünster could not attend the court meeting, if a certain resolution had been basically passed at the court meeting, but the young emperor suddenly changed his mind the next day, there is no doubt that this was definitely another kind of advice given by the Archduke Rünster to His Majesty Jupiter.

Rancest's status at the Palais de Perré was incomparable, and his status within the legation was increasing day by day, not only Charles and others, but even His Majesty Gucci treated Randster differently:

This is not only because of Lancet's position in front of Emperor Pere, but also because of Lin An - although the people who know about it are limited to the two half-step legends and Charles, they all know that Lin An standing behind Lancet is the one who seized the opportunity in the Black Torch Festival to crush the Holy Empire's plot to start a civil war in Pere and wait for the opportunity to start a holy war.

Although they haven't fully figured out how Lin An did it, Lin An's use of Ryan's secret spy also exposed some of Ryan's intelligence lines.

Interested people naturally know some of the forces behind Lin An: Grand Duke Ryan and the Oginets family.

Then Lin An stood behind Rancest, which is equivalent to Grand Duke Ryan and a legendary powerhouse, standing behind Randster.

If the influence is quantified, then Lancet is undoubtedly jaw-dropping in just two months.

Moreover, this increase in influence and prestige is far from the end, as the situation of the war changes, Lancet's position in maintaining the relationship between Merlin and Perret can be expected to be far beyond the limit of a vassal Grand Duke, and even the Emperor Merlin can no longer manipulate him as lightly as before.

(To be continued)

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Ten o'clock two.