Roland attaches great importance to Ms. Fanny's visit, on the one hand, because of Andrea's love for the house and Wu, and on the other hand, because of the importance of the strategic location of "Dragon Sleep Valley".

After years of painstaking management by Andrea, Longmian Valley has now become an important commercial town in the southern Xinjiang economic circle, second only to "Moon City" and "Media", and the local rich reserves of magic crystal ore are also an indispensable energy guarantee for the economic take-off of southern Xinjiang. In addition, the dragon vein clan is also the best source of soldiers, such as the "Flying Dragon Knights" mentioned by Fanny, built by Andrea, with more than a thousand dragon vein cavalry skilled in controlling bipedal flying dragons and a perfect logistics team, even if the comprehensive combat effectiveness is not as good as the "Blue Sky Knights" of Corofa, at least not inferior to the "Wind Knights" of Medes, who also ride bipedal flying dragons, if this strong new force is accepted, the strength of the Far East Air Force will definitely jump significantly.

After careful consideration, Roland finally accepted Fanny's allegiance, and from now on, the vast area from Mochizuki City to Longmian Valley will be included in the territory of the Kolas Kingdom, and all the residents of Longmian Valley will automatically obtain Far Eastern nationality and be placed under the protection of Roland and the Far Eastern government he represents. As for Fanny and her "Flying Dragon Knights", Roland allowed them to join the Far East Air Force, but they still maintained their independent titles, and did not recommend that they participate in the southward war, and instead transferred them to the banks of the Turbid River to assist Marshal Pavel in guarding against the Imperial garrison from the west bank of the Great River.

As a "Bo Scholar" of the advanced mage, Miss Fanny was certainly not a dull-minded person, and immediately woke up to Roland's intention of such an arrangement.

If the Dragon's Eye and the Order of Naro have long been allied, the Kolas Army will inevitably clash with the Order of Naraku when they attack the Order of Naraku, and if the Knights of the Wyvern participate in the battle south, Fanny and her people are likely to encounter the Dragon's Legion taken by Andrea on the battlefield, which will be a fratricidal tragedy for both sides. It was precisely because he didn't want to see the Dragonvein clan kill each other that Roland deliberately transferred her to the Western Front to avoid a reunion with Andrea on the battlefield.

Realizing the good intentions of His Royal Highness the Regent, Fanny couldn't help but be moved to the redness of her eyes, and immediately accepted Roland's arrangement, promising to lead the "Flying Dragon Knights" to the Western Front Command as soon as possible.

At the same time that the authorities in the Far East were making full preparations for the southward war, the holy city of Yashan, thousands of miles away, also presented a tense atmosphere of impending rain.

As early as early January 1625, as soon as news of the attack on Krasbourg reached the holy city of Assan, rumors spread that Rudolf Koras, the leader of the rebel party in the Far East, had been assassinated. Initially, many of the empire's top brass, including the new prime minister, Claude, were skeptical of the rumors. As time passed, more news came from the Far East: Rudolph Kolas had not been seen in public since the day of the attack, and his son Roland Kolas was acting as regent on state affairs, making rumors of Rudolph's assassination doubly credible.

It follows common sense that since the founding king of the Far Easterners is no longer alive, it is inevitable that the government and army he created will be in turmoil, and this is undoubtedly an excellent opportunity for the radical generals of the imperial military who dreamed of recovering their lost territories.

However, the opinions of the imperial military and political leaders were not unanimous as to whether or not to seize this seemingly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to launch an Eastern Crusade, and the "radicals" and "moderates" had their own opinions and quarreled from the beginning of January to the end of February, and the decision was still undecided.

As far as the Imperial military was concerned, it was the minority that opposed the Crusade, and Field Marshal Sigmund was the spokesman for this minority.

On more than one occasion, Sigmund openly expressed his opposition to the Crusades, and the reasons for his opposition were nothing new:

"In recent years, the Far East has been actively expanding its armaments and warfare, and its military strength has been greatly increased, coupled with the support of the surrounding allies, it is difficult for the Imperial Crusade to see any hope of victory in the short term, and with the current embarrassing financial situation of the Empire, it is categorically unable to support a long-term war, and even according to the most optimistic estimates, it will inevitably end up in vain; If the army of the Eastern Crusade fell into a stalemate quagmire, it could not advance or retreat, and the continuous loss of blood and military setbacks would lead to financial collapse...... The consequences are even more dire. ”

In his lifetime, Marshal Sigmund commanded no less than 100 battles and battles, without a single defeat, and was recognized by the world as the god of the imperial army, and was widely loved by middle and lower-ranking officers. In reality, however, Sigmunt's pessimism was not popular at home.

First of all, the current mainstream public opinion in the empire is inclined to support the Crusades. In recent years, the radical reforms implemented by Prince Frank have suffered setbacks one after another, and the lives of the people at the bottom have not improved because of the reforms, but have deteriorated, social contradictions have intensified, and armed uprisings have broken out one after another in various places.

After the collapse of the Müller cabinet, the successor Prime Minister Claude was a conservative member of the Church and was the most relied on by Patriarch Gregory, and although he had not completely abolished the reform policies of the previous government, he had no incentive to continue them. In the face of the rotten situation in the country, in addition to strengthening the social function of the Church and implementing the policy of "reducing the rent of religious property and guaranteeing the production to households" advocated by Patriarch Gregory to appease the people, more active countermeasures are needed to divert domestic contradictions.

For this reason, Prime Minister Claude had no choice but to compromise with the radical military faction who supported him to worship the prime minister, seized the blood-stained Far Eastern flag left by the "red-haired" John when he committed suicide as a breakthrough, and used the propaganda machine in his hands to publish a series of articles advocating conspiracy theories in the mainstream newspapers and magazines in China, insisting that the "red-haired" John was an undercover spy sent by the rebel party in the Far East to the top of the empire, with the aim of bewitching Crown Prince Frank and implementing the so-called "reform" plan that brought disaster to the country and the people.

There is no shortage of sensible people in the Yashan Empire, and it is easy to debunk the above-mentioned loopholes, but unfortunately the people who distinguish between right and wrong are a minority after all, and they do not have the opportunity to speak publicly in the press, and the majority of the people prefer to blindly follow the official rhetoric, and these people are precisely in the reform of the interests of the damage, they are holding a breath of resentment, and they need to find a target to vent, and under the deliberate instigation of the imperial authorities, people naturally aim their hatred and anger at the rebel party in the Far East, and the public opinion basis for calling for the Eastern Crusade comes from this.

In this general environment where the whole country is full of resentment and demands that the Far East be severely punished, Sigmund openly jumps out to speak out and makes discouraged and pessimistic remarks, which undoubtedly runs counter to the expectations of the people, and it is reasonable that he will be generally treated coldly and even fiercely criticized by all strata of society.

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