John Lauer's suicide initially surprised Roland, and when he thought about the red-haired man's arrogant and conceited personality, he felt that it was also reasonable. What really surprised him was that John Lauer did not forget to pose for him before he died, drawing a Far Eastern flag on the bed sheet with blood, and publicly leaving a will, asking that the blood-stained flag be buried as his shroud.

Anthony tells a ghost story in the voice of a bard, describing John Lauer's suicide to Roland, which makes Roland feel creepy. He originally thought that John Lauer used his own blood to draw the flag of the Far East before his death, to inflict some kind of deathbed curse, but after listening to Anthony's story, he suddenly realized that the red-haired man was framing the Far Eastern government with his life, trying to make people believe that John Lauer was a dark chess piece buried in the holy city of Assan, ten years ago by the Far Eastern rebels, and deliberately issued paper money indiscriminately under the banner of "currency reform", creating an unprecedented and tragic financial crisis in the empire, causing countless people's wealth to turn into waste paper overnight.

This conspiracy theory is, of course, ridiculous, and any sane person with a little analysis will find that it is full of loopholes and cannot be believed. John Lauer was born in Phigen, and he has never set foot on the land of the Far East in his life, not to mention that ten years ago, the government of Kolas did not even have a shadow, and Rudolph was only a small militia leader under Archbishop Philip, how could he have anything to do with John Lauer, a speculator who mixed up in the major casinos of Philip?

However, after thinking deeply, Roland couldn't laugh. No matter how unreasonable it sounds, he can't deny that the above conspiracy theories have a strong market among the people. The people of the Empire were happy to believe this absurd rumor, not because they were brainless, but because they were suffering from the economic crisis, and they were in desperate need of a scapegoat to vent their anger as they watched their hard-earned wealth come to naught.

Now that John Lauer is dead, the people's grievances have not yet been fully vented, and it is inevitable that they will be reluctant and urgently need to find a new scapegoat. John Lauer's performance before his suicide was tantamount to forcibly tying himself to the Far Eastern government, leading the public to transfer their resentment against him to the so-called "masterminds" of the Far Eastern rebel group. Anger and hatred make people lose their minds, and in this state people only believe what they want to believe, and unfortunately, the Far Easterners are very suitable as a "punching bag" for the people of the Empire, and John Lauer's deathbed plan gives them an excuse to vent their grievances, regardless of whether it is the truth or not.

Roland had long anticipated the rise of the conservative cabinet, and although the conservatives were more hostile to the Far East than the reformers, the person who qualified to sit on the prime minister's throne could not be an impulsive madman. At the "round table" held at the Imperial Central University last year, Roland had a meeting with Prime Minister Claude, and was impressed by the archbishop and papal economist, convinced that he was a rational and wise man, and that he was a suitable candidate for prime minister, except for his political disagreement.

Roland is the best at dealing with such smart people, and even if the radicals of the Imperial military fanned the flames, he still had a glimmer of hope, trying to get in touch with Prime Minister Claude through various channels to try to persuade him to give up waging war.

Unfortunately, the situation in the empire has changed, and it is now not only a few military radicals who are calling for the crusade, but also the public opinion of the empire that is disgruntled from the bottom up. Diplomacy may be able to change the position of a politician or even a political group, but it cannot calm the mania of the 200 million people at the bottom of the empire.

A powerful government that rules with an iron fist may also use the supreme power and prestige of the dictator to forcibly suppress public opinion. However, the "paralyzed giant" of the Assanian Empire has long since lost a strong central government. Emperor Charles has been sick for many years, Crown Prince Frank's prestige has been damaged due to setbacks in reform, and Claude, who has just come to power, has not yet sat on the hot ass, and the rebels have risen all over the country, where will there be courage and self-confidence to disobey public opinion?

In such a situation, whether Chancellor Claude wants it or not, the government he was ordered to form is destined to become a populist government.

Once he saw the situation in the imperial government and the opposition, Roland no longer had the luxury of peace. Since war is inevitable, the most important thing at present is to race against time to reorganize the armament and make logistical reserves for winning this fateful war.

From the first day of September, Roland shifted his focus to preparing for the game. First of all, he accompanied his father to inspect and comfort the capital garrison and the front-line troops stationed on the east side of the Zhuolang River, and delivered a speech to all the officers and soldiers, clearly pointing out that the war was imminent, and it was time to fulfill the duty of protecting the family and defending the country.

After returning from the inspection of the three armies, His Majesty Rudolph believed that the existing defense forces in the Far East were not enough to ensure the repulsion of the aggressors from the West, and for this reason proposed a plan to expand the armament of the war, intending to create a new mechanized mobile corps equipped with "wind guns" and magic armored vehicles unprecedented in the world of Vares.

His Majesty the King, in the plan for the expansion of the army, personally drafted the name of this corps as the "Far Eastern Shooting Corps", which was intended to emphasize that its combat method was mainly based on the concentrated use of rifle shooting, and also borrowed from the tactics of traditional crossbowmen to form the Far Eastern air riflemen into a "line" formation, so as to concentrate their firepower to inflict maximum casualties on the enemy.

The "Far East Shooting Army" consists of three divisions, with an estimated total strength of about 30,000 troops, and the number of soldiers comes from reserve militia in various towns and villages across the country.

According to the statistics provided by the Ministry of National Defense, the total number of reserve militias in the Far East has exceeded 3 million, excluding women, children, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, almost all healthy adult men have reserve qualifications, and no less than one million of them have received at least three years of militia training.

Let's start with weapons. His Majesty the King explicitly requested that the Marksmen be equipped with the Far Eastern "Type 1624 Air Rifle", and in order to maintain firepower, the standard combat equipment of the Far Eastern Air Musketeers would consist of an air rifle, two spare cylinders, and at least twelve magazines, each containing ten rifle rounds, and each squad would be equipped with a small "magic inflator" for continued firepower.

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