"Chapter 33: The Balance of Power"
Life comes from death. In order for wheat to sprout, its seeds must die.
- Mahatma Gandhi (the founding father of modern India, India's greatest political leader, founder of Gandhiism)
With Hades, a professional intelligence talent, in the net, it is impossible for any disturbance in the eastern provinces of the empire to hide from Bai Feng's eyes; the crux of the question is whether Bai Feng has the idea of overpowering the prince of GLP to monopolize the military and political power of the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Office.
In all fairness, without the explanations of the Virgin Victoria and the Duke of Nice, Bai Feng would indeed have the idea of overthrowing the Prince of Pross in his heart, and even this idea has already entered the implementation stage, and it will only be officially launched when Bai Feng returns to the county town of Brooksson.
You must know that among the sixteen legions of the six eastern provinces, the nine truly elite legions are all descendants of Bai Feng's troops, and it is still unknown whether the seven legions that nominally belong to the descendants of Prince GLP are willing to be enemies of Bai Feng.
There are two reasons for this situation: first, Bai Feng has the name of the Yulin God of War with his dazzling achievements, and he has a lofty prestige in the imperial army, which is not possessed by the prince of Pros, who lives in the imperial capital.
Second, everyone in the world knows that the troops under Bai Feng's command are the elite of the orc army and the steppe cavalry, and the army under the command of Prince Pros, which is no different from the new soldiers, if it really dares to fight against the elite army under Bai Feng's command, it is simply self-defeating.
Of course, there is the imperial righteousness pressing on the heads of Bai Feng and Prince GLP, no matter how much the two fight for power and profit, it is impossible for them to order their respective armies to do so; this is not only the bottom line of the struggle between the two, but also the bottom line of the empire that no one can touch.
Whether it is the fledgling Bai Feng or the prince GLP, if anyone dares to take the lead in using the army, it will inevitably cause ruthless suppression on the part of the imperial capital;
Putting aside the sixteen imperial standing legions with more symbolic meaning than practical significance, the army that can really be used by Bai Feng and Prince GLP is nothing more than the private army of the two of them, that is, the personal guard under Bai Feng's command, the purple guard of Prince GLP.
Bai Feng's personal guards exist in the name of his title, Duke Yulin's guard, and the purple guards of Prince GLP are subordinate to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion; the maximum number of the former is 5,000 people, and the maximum number of the latter is unlimited.
This means that if the contradiction between Bai Feng and Prince GLP really develops to the point where it is irreconcilable, both sides are determined to use the army to resolve the contradiction, Bai Feng can only use 5,000 troops, and there is no limit to the army that Prince GLP can use.
It's just that the premise of this unrestricted is that the purple guards of the prince of Pros must have enough troops, otherwise, the purple guards with only two or three thousand elite soldiers are not the elite opponents of the five thousand pro-guard system.
In fact, even if the Prince of Pros's purple-clothed guard were to be expanded to the same size as the standing army, it would not be at all a match for the elite pro-guard guards, and of course, the pro-guard at this time was more of a pro-guard battalion than a pro-guard guard.
The personal guard battalion summoned by the Leng Gundam Commander Temple, Leng Gaofei commanding the five hundred Temple warriors, and Steve commanding the battle cavalry is only one of the six armies under the jurisdiction of the Pro Guards, and the total strength is not even 10,000 people, so how can it represent the pro-guard team of the strongest army under Bai Feng's command?
The strongest army under the command of the Yulin God of War recognized by the generals and soldiers in the army is neither the Yulin Legion formed by Bai Feng himself with the Seventh Wing as the backbone, nor the Agni Legion with a long history of war and outstanding achievements, but the pro-soldier guard that has always existed in the name of the Duke's Guard.
From the fierce and fearless orc army to the steppe cavalry who came and went like the wind and were brave and good at fighting, the undefeated record of the pro-soldier guards was fought hard;
The Roman battalion of the Pro-Guard, with 100 units of Roman heavy infantry led by Ajis, was stationed in the Jurchen tribe, and the Shogunate Battalion, which was subordinate to the Pro-Guard, with 50 units of iron gunners and 100 units of Notai-sword samurai, led by Goto Kiji, were also stationed in the Jurchen tribe.
Wink's Shenji Battalion, which consisted of three wings of longbowmen and two wings of crossbowmen, and Leonardo's five military battalions, which consisted of five directly subordinate infantry wings, were also left in the grasslands north of the northern frontier of the empire, just like the Roman battalion and the shogunate battalion.
The only ones who followed Bai Feng back to the east of the empire were the personal guard battalion led by Leng Gundam, Leng Gaofei, and Steve's division of troops, and the Shenshu camp of Urgudai;
In addition to the huge military advantage, Bai Feng also has unparalleled advantages in politics, economy, and popular support;
From a political point of view, without counting the self-contained province of Nice, all the local nobles and key officials of the other five provinces with the province of Brojansson as the core were appointed by Bai Feng and were loyal to Bai Feng.
No matter how much power Charlemagne gave to the Eastern Governorship, the orders of the Prince of Pros, the Metropolitan Governor, would be like a piece of waste paper, because the main officials of the provinces below and the officials of the subordinate towns would only obey the orders given by Bai Feng.
From an economic point of view, the Sophia Chamber of Commerce, which was established with the support of Bai Feng, including the self-contained province of Nice, was the only pillar of the post-war economic recovery of the Eastern provinces, and every town in the eastern part of the empire had Sophia Chamber of Commerce shops.
The Sophia Chamber of Commerce, which is located in every city and village in the six eastern provinces of the empire, completely controls the economy of the six eastern provinces of the empire; without the operational support of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce, the six eastern provinces that seem to be recovering rapidly will have countless people bankrupt and unemployed overnight.
At that time, not to mention the real power of the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Office, it is a question of whether he can recover the imperial capital from the chaotic eastern part of the empire, and tens of millions of angry people in the eastern part of the empire will tear the prince of Pros, who has destroyed their stable life, to shreds.
Even if Prince GLP had seven legions and 140,000 imperial soldiers to protect him, it would not be possible to resist the angry impact of tens of millions of people, and the power of the people would always be brought into full play and displayed at such times.
From the point of view of the people's hearts, it is an eternal truth that the people who win the hearts of the people throughout the ages have won the world; the hearts of the people of the province of Nice are in the Nice family, and the hearts of the people of the other five provinces are all obtained by Bai Feng, which Bai Feng has exchanged for countless grains and gold coins.
At the beginning, after the orc army abandoned the eastern provinces and retreated to the Sunset Fortress, they returned to the five fallen provinces in the arms of the empire, and tens of millions of imperial people were ragged refugees.
It was Bai Feng who bought from the Westminster Chamber of Commerce and emptied the granaries of Rome City at the same time, which saved tens of millions of hungry people in the eastern part of the empire, and this alone was enough to make tens of millions of people in the eastern part of the empire regard Bai Feng as a reborn parent!