The Wells Legion, the Southern Frontier Garrison, the Tignets County Soldiers, and the Lord's Private Soldiers were ordered to stop the southern conquest plan of Kodor and stand by. ”

In the barracks of Beiguan Military Fort Yate, Otto held a military order letter sent by the command camp of the Central Army of the Liberation Army in his hand, and his face was full of suspicion, "What? Don't you fight? It can't be, right? ”

"Yes, my lord, everything can be compromised in this world, but the struggle for power can never be compromised, and the victory and defeat must be divided between life and death between the east and the west." Angus could not understand the mystery of the letter.

Bas and Kazak also nodded in agreement, "My lord, if we don't fight, we don't need to rush to reorganize and expand our army, if we don't fight, it will be too expensive to support an army of thousands of people." ”

Art turned his gaze to Robert, who had just returned to the valley from Besançon, "Bishop Robert, you have just returned from Besançon, tell me what you think. ”

Robert had just been promoted to bishop.

After Yat was given the title of Tignets, the bishop who had been in charge of Tignets was transferred to the abbot of a monastery in the diocese of Lucesen. Of course, all this was manipulated by Art behind his back, although Art did not have the slightest grudge against the original Bishop Tignaz, and the two did not even meet each other, but this did not prevent Art from "seizing power".

The church is highly hierarchical, divided into clergy and government. The three major qualities of the clergy - bishops, priests, and assistant priests; There are nine levels of hierarchy, from top to bottom: the pope, cardinals, chief bishops, archbishops, provincial diocesan bishops, bishops, diocesan priests, parish priests, and priests. There are also a number of other lower grades under the Auxiliary Offerings.

There is a certain correspondence between the ruling hierarchy and the clerical hierarchy.

After Yat was promoted to Barony of the Frontier, Hamish was promoted to parish priest by Bishop Olof of Lucesen, and the presidents of several villages in the valley who temporarily assumed church duties were successfully transformed into assistant deacons.

After being promoted to Viscount of the Frontier and given the title of Tignets, Yat repeatedly decided to leave the bishop of Tignets to Robert, who had been with the army as a staff officer, but the entire church affairs of Tinets would be under the de facto control of Hamish.

Robert was not a man of sainthood, so he was only interested in the church, and he was happy to give up the affairs of the church to Hamish.

Robert's original military priest was only equivalent to the ruling power of the parish priest, but Art directly changed his ruling hierarchy from a parish priest to a parish priest to a bishop, and the clergy hierarchy was also promoted from a second-order priest to a first-order bishop, although it was the lowest level among the governing bishops, Robert was also very excited.

Robert is a careerist, but he is a smart and sensible careerist, he knows what he relies on, so he is also obedient to Art's words and gives advice.

"Your Excellency, Commanders, this time I have been ordered to go to Besançon Cathedral to receive a promotion and have heard a lot of secrets, and I believe that these secrets should have reached the ears and eyes of the Lord in the Northland, and soon your Excellency will receive the news."

Everyone looked at Robert with bated breath, and Robert lowered his voice, "I have quite a few parishioners in Besançon, and they told me that the archbishop of the Duchy of Burgundy sent an archbishop to the city of Thorne in early April, and it is no secret. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Chief Bishop of the Duchy has always had a close relationship with the Duke, and at the critical moment of the struggle for the successor to the east and west of the Earl Kingdom, the Duke's close friend sent someone to the province of Thorne, and there must be a hidden ...... in this."

The speculation of a few small people in this stone house far south is not wrong, but this matter is almost known to the upper echelons of Besançon, and there is no such thing as a "hidden secret".

For the second week after the visit of the "envoy" of the Duchy of Burgundy to the city of Saône, the ecclesiastical procession marched eastward through the province of Saône to the court of Besançon.

The "envoy" did not hesitate to tell Flender and Balwyn about the negotiations with Bernard in the Thorne.

It turned out that Bernard had long known through secret channels that the root cause of the Duke of Burgundy's secret support for Flanders' faction was that Flender promised to obtain the right to rule the Principality of Burgundy and pushed the Free Count to return to the Duchy of Burgundy, so that the Count of Burgundy became a dukedom of the Duchy of Burgundy, in other words, to give up the autonomous region of the Count of Burgundy and return to the jurisdiction of the Duchy's court.

Bernard was shocked that the old marquis had relied on more than ten years of struggle to gain autonomy for the Count of Burgundy, and Flender was willing to sell the old marquis's life's work and vital interests for the sake of that iron seat.

However, as Bernard's faction lost Besançon in the battle between the East and West Successors and gradually perished, Bernard's bottom line became lower and lower - since Flander Ken sold his autonomy for the Iron Throne, he could also sell his territory for the Iron Throne.

Therefore, Bernard gave a strong dose of medicine when the fish was dead - as long as the prince Robert could sit back on the iron throne, the Count of Burgundy was not only willing to return to the Duchy and become a Duke, but also willing to give the most fertile and wealthy province of Saône to the Duke as the private property of the royal family.

It was a piece of cooked fat, and Bernard was de jure and de facto lord of the province of Saône, and he had cut his own flesh and gave it to the Duke of Burgundy.

The court of the Duchy of Burgundy was in a dilemma, and Bernard not only offered a higher bargaining chip, but also the most real and tempting bargaining chip.

The so-called conversion only obtained the right to levy taxes and canonize and dismiss the magnates, but in essence, the Burgundy Special Region after the conversion was also a de jure territory separated by a layer of cotton yarn; But the meaning of the royal private domain is completely different, and it would mean giving up all power in the territory.

Bernard exchanged a quarter of the territory for the defection of the Duchy of Burgundy between the two formations.

Bernard's move is not crazy, anyway, after the loss of Besançon, the Westside has completely lost its advantage, and now there are fewer and fewer people supporting the Westside. If he doesn't make this move, he will also lose the province of Thorne after the iron throne changes hands in the future, it is better to cut out the province of Thorne now in exchange for the support of the Duchy of Burgundy, and wait until he defeats Flender to have three provinces before he can have it, this deal will definitely not suffer in terms of the current embarrassment.

In this way, Flender jumped to his feet.

Seeing that the winter wheat in the provinces of Jonah and Lucesn is about to be harvested, the second phase of the offensive of the succession's war has been deployed, and as long as the grain is harvested and the supply of military food is sufficient, the recovery army will launch a final onslaught on the province of Thorn and recover the whole territory in one fell swoop.

But at this moment, a "special mission" broke all plans.

Flender dared to march to the west with great fanfare, the biggest confidence was the covert support of the Duchy of Burgundy, not to mention the huge amount of food, baggage, weapons and armor aid in the war, the key is that the more than 10,000 troops of the Duchy of Burgundy have never entered the country, and have never interfered with Flender's road to power.

Think about it, if the Duchy of Burgundy sent 10,000 troops from the west and the north to suddenly arrive, how could the four or five thousand patchwork troops of the Liberation Army deal with it?

And now that Bernard has thrown out tempting conditions, it is difficult to say which side the Duchy of Burgundy will stand on......

“...... So I think the biggest possibility is that Bernard promised the Duke more attractive terms in exchange for the support of the Duchy, and that is why our new monarch will have to stop and think about countermeasures immediately. Robert thought carefully about what he had heard, and came up with the reason why the Liberation Army suddenly stopped all movements.

After listening to Robert's analysis, a thin layer of sweat inadvertently oozed from Art's forehead.

Robert's speculation is very reasonable, now that Bernard's disadvantage is fully revealed, the person who is about to lose everything has no bottom line and no worries, and he can open any conditions in this situation.

On the other hand, Flender is different, he is an ambitious man, he is eager to get the iron seat, and he is even more eager to get the actual power under the iron seat, seeing that most of the fruits of victory have been chewed, no one is willing to spit it out, Flender is now a man wearing shoes, the original barefoot strength must be gone, and he can't let him go to great lengths to exchange for an empty shelf of a marquis.

Flender's difficult situation will also turn into a fatal disaster for Arter.

Art is now firmly tied to Flender's chariot, and once Flender overturns, he will not die well, and the inheritance that has been in exchange for countless lives for several years will also be destroyed.

Looking at the tens of thousands of people, thousands of troops, and this territory that everyone longed for, Yate was very anxious.

This sentiment came to a head the following week, when the "Hawkeye" in Besançon and the "task force" lurking in the province of Saône came back with news that Robert's suspicions were confirmed.

At the end of May, the Duchy of Burgundy closed the grain transport route from the northern border to and from Besançon via the Black Iron Castle, and the agreed food aid of 600,000 pounds was abruptly halted after only 200,000 pounds; The purchase order for 1,000 sets of weapons and armor to assemble the Liberation Army was also terminated indefinitely; The three thousand Duchy of Burgundian troops had gathered on the northern border of Besançon and seemed to be moving south overnight......

Besançon's court was shocked overnight, and the tent of the command camp of the Chinese army of the Liberation Army was in chaos.

After a few days of fidgeting, Art gradually regained his composure, and he knew that no amount of anxiety at this time would help, and that this kind of overthrowing the old forces and establishing a new dynasty would be unpredictable, and all he could do at this time was to trust Flender's ability and think of his own coping strategy as soon as possible.

At the beginning of June, Art went into action.

Three things have been done externally.

First of all, he ordered that all the 400,000 pounds of war rations stored in the county town of Tinets and the four warehouses of the Lane Manor, the Southwest Farm, and the Wincheston Manor be taken out, and requisitioned hundreds of wagons from all over the county of Tinets to carry the war rations to Besançon together with the chariots of the Wells Legion, and Otto, Yat's henchman, personally led one hundred and fifty county soldiers to escort the rations north.

Of course, the 400,000 pounds of military rations were bought from Flender, but the price was only the purchase cost of the grain plus some transportation costs, and there was almost no profit.

The second thing was that almost at the same time that 400,000 pounds of grain were shipped to Besançon, six hundred sets of weapons and armor purchased from all over the Duchy of Provence were also sent to the north by the European Comptoir......

Flender, the new prince on the iron throne of the court of Besançon, was speechless when he saw the 400,000 pounds of grain and 600 sets of armaments brought from the impoverished county of Tinetz, and in this time of crisis, the powerful ministers and nobles who accompanied him all day long either abandoned him or cursed the enemy all day long, and so far Art was the first to show his loyalty and support to himself with practical deeds.

Flender was not short of money, especially after receiving the huge loan from the Purchasion's treasury. Therefore, with a wave of his hand, he increased the price of the 400,000 pounds of grain supported by Yate by fifty, and all the weapons and armor were purchased at a high price. Yate's righteous deeds also played an exemplary role, and in the following period of time, the lords at all levels belonging to the Xinjun faction raised military rations, baggage, and armament materials for the Liberation Army.

At the same time, Flender also reacted quickly and found a way to survive in a desperate situation.

Thirdly, Art wrote a private letter to Flender, in which he suggested several ways he could think of a response. Whether Flender will adopt it or not, but at least he tried it in a crisis.

Internally, Yate does three things.

First of all, he ordered that after the harvest of winter wheat in June, all taxes in the county should be converted into grain taxes, and all the grain collected would be brought back to the valley for reserves, as well as the grain from the southwest farm, Wincheston Manor and Lane Manor, and the fiefdoms of the lords of Odogungus;

Second, Art ordered the reorganization and training of the army to be accelerated, and the soldiers of Tiniecs, the private army of the Baron of Fort Andermatt, and the army of Fort Sapp were all temporarily incorporated into the Welsh Legion to prepare for the most difficult situation.

Thirdly, Art ordered Felix to recruit soldiers in Sap and send people to Sap Fort to train the army with Felix, and then increase the defense of Fort Strip.

In the case of external instability, no matter how well the territory is managed, it will not help, so after arranging everything, Art put down the civil affairs of the territory and joined the Welsh Legion to start crazy training......

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Chapter 405: The Times Reversed