Just as Jane and her sisters were starting to implement their plans on the Vatican side, a heated argument was raging among the coalition of church vassal states facing off against the forces of the Franco-Portuguese alliance.

In the rear of the Allied front, in a village belonging to the Prussians, a dozen generals of the Allied army were gathered here.

In a nondescript building, there was a constant stream of loud arguments.

The soldiers guarding the outside of the building had become accustomed to this. For there have been heated arguments like this, and sounds that seem to be quarrels, for several days.

Anyway, although those big people have very high voices, they seem to be very imposing, and they are just moving their mouths, and it is impossible to do it.

The soldiers guarding outside knew this very well in their hearts.

Therefore, these soldiers still maintained such a cool look on their faces, standing there without moving.

These soldiers who were guarding outside, as you could see from the clothes on their bodies, definitely did not belong to the same army.

Presumably, these soldiers should be brought by the generals who came here, and they belong to their own soldiers.

Come to think of it, even though it's in the rear, it's safe to take care of yourself, isn't it?

That's the only way to be at ease.

The devil knows if the Portuguese-French alliance on the other side will come up with some moths to deal with them.

Although this is unlikely, it has to be guarded against.

The building in the village, which looks like an ordinary peasant house, is a typical Prussian rural courtyard.

The generals who came to the meeting requisitioned the farmer's house and used it as a temporary meeting place. And the owner's family, who originally lived here, has long been driven away.

These generals are not so talkative, and they requisitioned this dilapidated house as a meeting place, so they still give face to the master, right?

In the honorable capacity of these people. It's already very uncomfortable for them to stay here for a temporary party instead of a glittering environment.

Inside, a dozen generals were noisy, making it look like a market.

In the alliance of the vassal states of the church, these people are all powerful.

Although there are high and low identities, they are all counts or dukes.

In this era in Europe, counts and dukes, that was already a very high status. Basically, it's like a king.

At this time, many countries on the European continent had not yet been formed. Most of them appeared in the form of a principality.

For example, Prussia, the Netherlands, Austria and Poland all had large and small principalities.

Even, in Prussia alone, there were more than 30 small independent states, large and small. These countries were all controlled by some aristocracy, and they were united in the face of a crisis, under the name of Prussia.

In addition to Prussia, Poland and Austria were also domestically similar.

Far from the integrated future of the countries of continental Europe.

The great and small nobles of these principalities. Although they are all forces inclined to the church. However, they also have some entanglements and conflicts of interest with some people within their own forces.

It's just that these conflicts of interest and entanglements were suppressed by everyone at this time.

Especially the forces of the Dutch lineage. and the forces of the old church are even more incompatible hostile sides.

If the Spanish Empire had not been destroyed according to the normal course of history, the Dutch princely forces that now supported Protestantism would have been the Dutch princes. At this time, they are fighting to the death and supporting the forces of the old church faction.

And a dozen is thirty years.

But now, the two sides, which should have been dead, have been united by the fall of the Spaniards and the strength of the Portuguese-French alliance. The conflict was temporarily stopped, and they turned around together to clean up Portugal and France.

For them, the two forces belong to the Church, no matter what.

Even if it's a war, it's an internal problem.

However, Portugal and France are different.

Their strength made both forces feel pressured and threatened, so in order to avoid some surprises, they had to put aside their prejudices for a while, settle the Portuguese and French first, and then go back and start fighting each other.

Originally, everyone thought that Portugal and France should be easy to defeat, and it would not take too long at all.

After all, the French, though powerful, are no match for the power of the Church.

Even if the French united with the Portuguese, the Portuguese had been subverted by Spain for so long, and now they could not have much combat power when they had just regained their country.

What's more, Portugal is back in the country, and their country's internal economy is in a mess.

How can there be war potential.

So, the Portuguese and the French united, and it was definitely a drag on the French.

And the French ladyboy taking care of such a thin 'little brother' will definitely divide a large part of the troops and energy.

On this basis, how can victory not belong to one's side.

But in fact, the church forces are really wrong, and they are very wrong.

Although the Church reacted quickly, and after the collapse of the Spanish Empire, the old and new factions quickly made a temporary truce and switched weapons, but the war did not go at all as they had expected.

The French fought very tenaciously, and with sufficient supplies and excellent weapons, they withstood the crazy attack of the coalition forces of the church vassal states in the early stage, which made the alliance of the church vassal states lose their spirit.

At the same time, I don't know what benefits the French used, but in the early days, they also hired thousands of mercenaries from the Song Empire in the Americas to fight.

These mercenaries from the Song Empire in the Americas, with their novel tactics and sharp weapons, defended the border of the southeast of the French to the death, and at the same time inflicted heavy losses on the Holy Roman Empire on the side of the Church's military force.

In this way, the war suddenly fell into anxiety, and slowly turned into a confrontation.

These are things that are very unanticipated by the military clique of the Church.

Moreover, the war lasted for two years.

In the past two years, the military groups on the side of the church have not benefited at all.

At the same time, the war also led to the collapse of the economy in each country.

can be in such a situation. In order to keep the war going on, the leaders of the allied forces of the vassal states had to continue to loot the wealth of the people in their homes to support the war.

Otherwise, if they lose the war, they will have nothing.

The two-year war, which was neither long nor short, consumed too much money.

Even some of the nobles in the Church Coalition now have no wealth to invest.

That is, this war has already led to their bankruptcy.

As a result, more than two-thirds of the soldiers in the Church coalition have been owed half a year's salary. Meantime. Even the food supply began to run short.

This is a very bad sign, and it is a great headache for the generals.

If this problem is not solved, then this war will be a hell for them.

If Portugal and France had won the war, it would have been of no benefit to them, the nobles of the Church, who had belonged to the side of the ecclesiastical power.

Even an idiot knows this.

So, in order to avoid such a thing, those generals in the church military bloc. A solution must be devised to alleviate the current economic predicament.

Originally, the big guy thought, the church sells indulgences every year. There are so many donations from believers and all kinds of ways for the church to collect money, so the church should also be rich.

Besides, fighting Portugal and France was also at the request of the church, wasn't it?

Everyone is playing with their heads. If you teach the enemy a lesson, then the church must show something. Especially at such a critical time, are you able to get some money out. What about emergency response for guys?

Unexpectedly, the generals said this, and the messengers sent by the church here did not agree at all. He even cried to everyone that he was poor, saying that the church had no money or anything.

In short, the church is a suffering.13

Of course, the generals don't believe it, because they are not stupid.

But no matter what they said, the emissary of the Church did not let go, and also consulted the Vatican. The Vatican also gave the same answer on the other side, if you want money, you have to figure it out yourself, the church just doesn't have money.

This made these generals very angry.

Come to think of it, isn't it for the good of the church that everyone is fighting now?

If this were not the case, the ghost would have started a war with Portugal and France.

Moreover, everyone is still a force that supports the church, why doesn't the church support it at all?

Could it be that you just want to reap the benefits, but you don't want to pay at all?

Where in the world is there such a good thing?

Therefore, now the soldiers of the alliance of the vassal states of the church, from the nobles to the bottom, are really complaining.

That is, the church has been brainwashing Europe for too long, and everyone is afraid to express their dissatisfaction.

Otherwise, things would have deteriorated long ago.

But even so, the situation is eroding day by day, and if it is not controlled, the generals know that it will eventually collapse.

Once such a situation occurs, it will be difficult to recover it.

When the time comes, Portugal and France will certainly not let go of this opportunity, and they will definitely deal a heavy blow to them.

Inside the room, a priest in a big red robe and a few black robes looked at the generals who were constantly shouting at themselves like those lowly people in the vegetable market, and the expression on the face of the man in the red robe was very indifferent.

These people are the people who heard about this and were sent by the Vatican to discuss countermeasures with the nobles who had been princes, and they are also one of the twelve cardinals of the Vatican.

"Bishop Ruhl, now that you know the situation, you can't afford to drag it out any longer. Otherwise, the situation will definitely collapse, but fortunately we can control it now, but if the problem is not solved, once it erodes, it will be too late. “

The Count of Basel, who belonged to the Netherlands, that is, the side of the Protestant military community, said to the cardinal from the Vatican with a sincere and serious face. (To be continued......)