Early the next morning, a piece of news shook the whole of Salo Yang, and soon the whole region of Marcellus would also have a very great upheaval because of this news.

Admiral Priestley, the commander of the Blue Corps guarding the city of Saloyan, resigned from his post as commander of the corps, and with the permission of the Marquis of Whitehead, the governor of Marcellus, he had already left Saloyan in a military airship to report to the imperial capital.

At the same time, seventy percent of the officers of the Blue Corps submitted applications for retirement, and Governor Marcellus approved all of them. In the next few days, as the Royal Musketeer Cavalry Regiment arrives in Saloyan, the Emperor's special military column will bring these retired officers back to the empire mainland on their return journey.

The mutation of the Blue Legion caught the Marcellus side by surprise, which was equivalent to the surrender of this important corps to the Governor of Marcellus, and it only took one day for the Marquis of Whitehead to take the power of the Blue Legion into his hands.

To be exact, the military power of the army part of the Blue Corps.

Only a very small number of officers in the Corps of the Navy have submitted applications for retirement, and most naval officers have not been affected by the turmoil.

The navy was a very valuable branch of the Flominque Empire, and the Empire did not have a special naval officer academy, only a few sailor training academies. All naval officers were returnees from abroad, and they had their own system among the various branches of the Empire, and the coastline of the Empire depended on this fleet to protect it. Therefore, the navy has become a very special existence in the imperial ** system, and the threat of the Marquis of Whitehead is ...... for the navy It's not a thing at all.

The navy is monolithic, not to mention that you may not have evidence, even if you have evidence, everyone can say that your evidence is fake.

However, just the Blue Corps Army was put into service, and the Marquis of Whitehead could be regarded as a major step in recovering military power. It is believed that with the arrival of the 1st Division of the Royal Musketeer Cavalry Regiment and the replenishment of the new officers of the Blue Legion, the rest of the Imperial garrison of Marcellus soon surrendered to the Governor.

This is not good news for the Marcellus Council.

The council has invested a lot of energy and wealth in the Blue Corps, and the officers in the corps have some control in their hands. Smuggling and some gray business have brought unimaginable wealth to the consortium behind the council, and now that the power of the Blue Legion has been taken over by the Marquis of Whitehead, the business of the consortium will definitely be affected.

Governor Marcellus is like a dagger driven to the vital position of Salo Yang, as long as his position is more and more secure, the consortium will not be able to make money as comfortably as before.

It is necessary to honestly pay taxes to the empire.

For the capitalists, to make them pay more taxes is to kill them......

By this time, rumors had reached the Imperial Palace that the Marquis of Whitehead had snatched military power, forced Admiral Priestley away, and purged dissidents from the Blue Corps.

The Marquis of Whitehead found himself in a worse political environment than all his predecessors. How long the Emperor could trust the Marquis in constant rumors, the Marquis himself did not know.

What he can do is to follow his own plan, first take back the military power and then increase the tax of Marcellus, so that the emperor can see his results, and then attack the capital bodies hiding behind the parliament, increase the proportion of capital controlled by the empire in Marcellus, and finally use the capital to compete with the local capitalists of Marcellus at the Marcellus parliament.

As long as it can control the executive body of the parliament, the Flamenque Empire can be on the right track to truly own Marcellus.

This strategy was originally the Empire's original plan to annex Marcellus, but no Marcellus governor made it through alive.

Every emperor of the empire knows that every time he kills the governor of Marcellus, it represents the total defeat of the imperial capital in Marcellus. But the emperors' nerves were as fragile as the Tossan Railway, and the news they feared most when they woke up every day was ...... The Governor of Marcellus cut off the Tossan Railway, and the Empire lost contact with Marcellus.

The capitalists of Marcellus are already familiar with the whole process of how to get the emperor to kill the governor of Marcellus, and they can even buy the emperor's close attendants to say that the governor of Marcellus summoned those generals and how many weapons he added......

How many soldiers recognized only the governor and not the emperor.

True or false, who can stand the gossip that can be heard every day when they open their eyes?

The Marquis of Whitehead knew he had less time than he thought.

In the morning, after the Marquis had approved all the applications for retirement from the Blue Corps, he began to look at the recent changes in the capital market of Salo Yang sent by the Whitehead family estate.

Marcellus was the richest province in the empire, and the city of Saroyan concentrated forty percent of the wealth of the entire province of Marcellus. This is a real treasure land, and almost all of the empire's magnates will use their power to run some of their own industries in Salo Yang.

The Whitehead family also has its own company in Salo Young, which is involved in ocean trading, real estate, hospitality, manufacturing and finance...... With the status of the cabinet minister of the Flominck Empire, as well as a large area of estates and dependencies in the empire, the strong background made the Marquis of Whitehead's business in Saloyan very good.

Governor Marcellus wanted to attack the native capital in the capital field of Salo Young, and the noble capital of the empire in Salo Yang naturally became the most preferred weapon used by the Marquis of Whitehead.

And the Whitehead family company became a personal soldier in the hands of the Marquis "near the water".

The mouth of the politician can be bought, behind the votes is the non-stop krypton of the consortium, and every seat in the parliament is a collision of money bags and money bags.

The Flominque Empire has not implemented currency reform, abolished the use of paper money for metal currency, and did not want the economy of Marcellus to become independent from the empire so as to facilitate the operation of imperial capital in the province of Marcellus.

But currency reform was the general trend of the whole world, and the insistence on the use of metal money made the Flominck empire suffer greatly in international trade.

The Marquis of Whitehead knew that the time was not far off for the Empire to passively implement currency reform, and that it was probably the last time for the Empire to peacefully annex the province of Marcellus. If this opportunity is missed, the province of Marcellus will seek an opportunity to promote its own paper money, and the advantage of imperial capital will become a disadvantage......

The only problem in the province of Marcellus is war.

And the war ...... The situation and technology in the world are not 200 years ago, and the empire is not at that time when the whole people are united in martial arts. The wind of freedom in the east is blowing westward, and the empire, though richer than before, can no longer fight a Hundred Years' War.

Thinking of these, the marquis felt that he was born in the right era, and only this kind of turbulent times can reflect his own value.

Sitting in his study, the Marquis retrieved a file from a stack of intelligence materials.

The cover of the file reads "light·kg".

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