Chapter 2 Like duckweed
In order to balance the power of the kingdom, he began to support the power of the second prince to contain the eldest prince, he first made the second prince's uncle Anthony the prime minister, and then asked Anthony's student Bohr to train a new army - the old army showed obvious weakness and incompetence in the previous internal rebellion, which forced the old king Frederick VII to make up his mind to train a new army, he wanted to have a new knightly force.
However, things can always be unexpected, and the 20,000 new troops trained by Boer, together with the 60,000 new troops trained by the king's cronies, form the most basic force of the kingdom. However, not long ago, the neighboring kingdoms of Prussia and Frankfurt, which coveted the territory of the Rhine Kingdom, jointly sent troops to beat the Rhine Kingdom and forced King Frederick VII to sign the Rhine Pact, which humiliated the country.
In this battle, the 60,000 new troops controlled by the king's cronies fought very bravely for honor and defense of the royal family, and the result was that they were basically wiped out, while the cunning Bol secretly preserved his strength, used various reasons to work and did not help, and even secretly made peace with the enemy country, so that after the end of the war, King Frederick's defense force was left with Bol's 20,000 new troops.
At this time, King Frederick finally saw Boer's intentions, he regretted, feared, but helpless, in order to stabilize Boer, he had to give Bohl the position of governor of Vienna, which symbolized the highest glory of the kingdom officials. Bol took control of the army, gained real power in the region, and his strength swelled rapidly, coupled with his cahoots with the second prince and Antony, and his power was so strong that King Frederick had to respect them for three points.
However, King Frederick is a stubborn old man who will not admit defeat easily, he had no intention of making the second prince his heir, but he just wanted to use the second prince's hand to contain the eldest prince, so that the power of the kingdom is always in his own hands, but he did not expect such a deviation in the middle.
In order to combat the power of the second prince, King Frederick began to support the power of the eldest prince again, and the specific method was to establish a position of military training minister, to reorganize the army, and restore the vitality of the kingdom. This position is definitely the key of the key points, because whoever holds this position will become the father of the new army and will hold the military power of the kingdom in the future, what this means, I don't need to say more.
According to King Frederick's intentions, he wanted to appoint Gates, a retainer of the great prince who was very capable of military affairs and had a lot of military achievements, to take the position, but this idea was opposed by the second prince and Pol, who already had a great tail.
Bol saw an opportunity, he wanted the position, because he knew very well what it would mean for his career, so he joined forces with the second prince and the prime minister to pressure King Frederick to take the position into his own hands.
King Frederick was naturally a hundred unwilling in his heart, this was obviously Sima Zhao's heart, and everyone knew it, but the other party's power was too great, and the kingdom had just ended the turmoil, and everything had not stabilized, so he didn't dare to tear his face with the other party rashly, and after struggling for several months, he finally reluctantly gave this position to Pol. However, King Frederick was not a political novice, and he also reserved a hand for Bol, and he also appointed Gates, a retainer of the eldest prince, as the deputy minister of military training, and also served as the minister of the exchequer, in charge of the army's food and supply.
This move is very powerful, Gates knew King Frederick's intentions and the prince's expectations, as soon as he came up, he took care of the general's salary, borrowed the money in his hand, and recruited a large number of officers to confront Pol, Pol was very dissatisfied with this, but he was helpless for a while.
This situation continued for a few more years, and by now, the kingdom had reorganized the elite knightly force of nearly 100,000 people, so that the vitality of the kingdom gradually recovered.
Moreover, after several years of support, the power of the eldest prince has begun to grow again, and he can gradually compete with the second prince, but the struggle between them has not stopped for a day.
The small bungalow-like villa where Cliffford now lives was given to him by the eldest prince, and the purpose was naturally to unite all the forces that could be united against the main enemy. The villa has three floors, with a total of sixteen rooms upstairs and downstairs, and of course facilities such as exquisite courtyards and lawn gardens. If you buy it, it will cost about 40,000 silver dollars.
The silver dollar is the basic currency of the Ryan Kingdom and even the Continent of Hill, a silver dollar is divided into ten cents, one dime is divided into ten cents, and one cent is divided into ten cents.
The purchasing power of a silver dollar is still quite good, at this time a pound of wheat in the Rhine Kingdom is only four or five cents, and if you buy barley, the price is nearly half cheaper. The price of a bowl of noodles in a restaurant is only five cents, and if you want wine or food, you can get it for two dimes at most. A hard worker can earn four or five dimes a day of hard work, and if he is lucky, he can earn nearly a silver dollar.
In other words, a laborer who wants to buy such a house must work without food or drink for one hundred and nine years, and this is still under his good luck every day.
The gap between the rich and the poor is really big.
However, to the great prince's speechlessness, a few days after he gave Clifford the house, Clifford's father was killed by the rebels, and the fief was occupied, and he became a waste earl with no foundation, and he had no use value at all.
The eldest prince regretted it, so he could only drink a few more glasses of wine at night and find a few more maids to vent the depression in his heart.
Originally, Clifford had no influence on the struggle for the throne, but the second prince still sent a spy to his side, and the symbolism of his doing so was far greater than the practical significance.
The power struggle is not allowed in the slightest, and if you give up a point, those who see the wind and rudder will think that you have lost to the opponent, and the position will become unfirm in an instant, and it is very likely that the court will change the court, so that the strength of both sides will change to a certain extent.
Therefore, the eldest prince and the second prince are on the tip of the needle in everything, and they do not give in at all, the eldest prince gave him a villa in Clifford, and the second prince gave him a beautiful little maid to act as his own spy in a blink of an eye, which is the reason.
And at this moment, Collie also understood that what he had traveled through was not the real European Middle Ages, but an alternate world.
In a short period of time, the amount of information that came out of his mind was so huge that Clifford almost couldn't bear it, and his face turned a little pale, but he finally calmed down, slowly stood up, and looked around at his three "faithful" servants.