Chapter 584: Compromise
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Opening his mouth to ask for the two regions of Merlincha and Kapnos, it is indeed Dane who is opening his mouth in the lion. However, if it was only one Capnos, it was the minimum that Dane could accept.
After all, if the Holy Empire is really forced to rush and start a full-scale war, there is no way to estimate the war potential that a large empire with a population of tens of millions can launch. Even if Dane's entire army is dispatched to pull out all the millions of undead in the dark jungle, it will be a great price to pay if he wants to win.
So, relatively speaking, if you move your mouth, you can win an entire area, so why not?
Besides, who said that after the treaty was re-signed, it could not be torn up again?
Including His Majesty the Pope himself, understands this. He was willing to pay the price to end the war with the Hindlaires in the hope that he could devote all his energy to fighting the Everters. Nor would he be naïve to think that everything would be fine when the peace treaty was signed.
If the Holy Empire is not eye-catching enough in the war with the Ivot, defeats the opponent at a great cost, or even loses directly, then Dane will never care about the covenant, and will definitely stab the Holy Empire in the back and divide the Holy Empire with the Ivots.
Of course, if the Holy Empire had repelled Evert's magic legion with a thunderbolt after the war mobilization, then Dane would not have messed around, wouldn't it be nice to have a Kapnos region for nothing?
In the future, if Dane wants to seek more things, it will be up to him to see if there will be any opportunities in the future.
However, all in all, the hundred-legged insect dies but does not stiffen. The Holy Empire is such a big plate, and if you want to swallow it in one go, no force in this world has that ability. In the future, even if you want to really get rid of the Holy Empire, you still need a certain opportunity.
For example, the Holy Empire's own civil strife.
This time, Dane planted a thunderbolt for them. After the Holy Empire handed over the Templars who had attacked his undead camp into Dane's hands, there was no way Dain would keep them alive. Public trials, public executions, are certainly a must. In particular, the leader of the Templar sub-division, the young man named Rick, was sure to die - and a terrible death.
This is something that Dane has already thought of right now. Rick died tragically at the hands of Dane, guess what his own grandfather, the head of the Templar Order, who has always regarded him as his successor, was in the mood of the Paladin?
He must have hated Dane and the kingdom of Hindlaire, and that's right. However, if there is no pope who can shelter his own people and directly hand over his grandson to death, will Richard hate?
God knows.
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At the end of the negotiations, under Dane's insistence, the Pope had to make repeated concessions, and finally agreed to hand over the entire territory of Capnos to Sindelare, and promised to support it in writing when Dane became emperor and announced the establishment of a new empire.
Similarly, Dane made some concessions.
For example, the waiver of the war reparations in the previous agreement, such as the fact that the region of Capunos was not ceded by the Holy Empire, but a transaction between the two countries. Schindlaire paid a sum of money to buy back the land from the Holy Empire.
The amount of this money is not small, a million gold coins is quite a huge amount. But that's a drop in the bucket compared to the whole of Kapnos. One million gold coins, even on the shore of Linshui Lake, is already a big bargain to buy five or six manors.
After the deal was initially finalized, Dane stopped his move.
Subsequently, within three days, all the forces of the Holy Empire withdrew from Changlu County, and Dane took over completely.
At the same time, in order not to further irritate the Holy Empire, Dane also made his due attitude. The undead army retreated completely, and the troops sitting in Changlu County were all humans and elves.
Subsequently, within a week, the official forces of the Holy Empire had begun to gradually withdraw from the Kapnos region. At the same time, Prime Minister Verina led a group of administrators urgently selected from Hindlaire and Florence to the region of Capunos and began to establish the rule of the Kingdom of Hindlaire over the region.
It's going to be a long process.
The region of Kapnos has been under the rule of the Holy Empire for more than two hundred years. Even if Verina is in charge herself, it will take a certain amount of time to initially establish the rule of the kingdom, let alone complete control.
But it's at least a good start.
Subsequently, Dane's army stayed in Pudri for a long time.
On the one hand, his army needs to take on some of the work of purging the undead scattered in the territory, and on the other hand, it is also a military guarantee for the reconstruction of the kingdom of Pudri.
Of course, these jobs were not practical and Dane stayed in Pudri with an army of 80,000 men. And the main reason why he had to do this was that the frontier war of the Holy Empire had been resolved.
The situation of the war did not develop as Dane had hoped.
This transaction between Dane and the Holy Empire is so big that it is impossible to hide it. In fact, not long after the deal was finalized, the Everts should have sensed the change in the situation.
Evert, who is a rival to each other, and the Holy Prometic New Empire obviously know each other's roots.
His Majesty the Pope knew that he would have to use all his strength to resist the full-scale invasion of the Ivots, so he reluctantly cut his flesh to Dane.
When the Holy Empire regained its strength and mobilized for war at home, intending to fight the invading Ivots, Evert's magic legion slowed down its offensive first.
There were several battles between the two sides, and when the Evettes found that there was no way to continue to take advantage, they also honestly chose to give up and withdrew to the Holy Empire, which was ****** of foreign troubles, and naturally it was impossible to pursue. This war between the Everette Federation and the Holy See has a slight anticlimactic meaning.
And in the more than a month that the Holy Empire and the Ivters have been tossing and turning, Dane has made a fortune in silence, and has basically completed the basic domination of the newly acquired regions in the West.
With Dane in charge and Prime Minister Verina directing the work, the region of Kapunos, which was acquired from the Holy Empire, has established a government belonging to Hindlaire. The government representing the Sindelare regime has a weak grip on Capnos, but with the army under the pressure of the army, the increase in control will increase quickly in the coming period.