Since he was ordered to go to Athena Province to organize the veterans' reclamation, Orange has gradually established his own forces here little by little, cautiously, relying on the veterans' reclamation regiments, he has gradually had his own forces.

Orange's rapid success was due to the chaos of the Directory, the growing non-payment of salaries due to the depletion of finances, and the fact that the fighting on the Western Front was not too intense, so which regiments could be paid on time? The answer was that those who were loyal to the officers could be paid on time.

The army on the Western Front has begun to develop in the direction of warlordization due to chaos, specifically to have soldiers for generals, control the descendants of their own legions, and the remaining miscellaneous legions can be ignored.

A regiment is only 3,000 men at most, and it is enough for an officer to rely on his own family background and local donations, but there is one exception for an officer, and that is Orange, because in addition to supporting his own descendants, Orange must also support a large number of veteran reclamation regiments.

The veteran reclamation regiment, if you want to expose the black material, can be said to abound, but this can't stop the veterans from flowing here, because at this time, in this chaotic era, the only place that can give veterans a place to settle down.

So up to now, how many veterans are in Orange? The answer is that it has already exceeded the 100,000 mark, and the number of people of this scale is not to mention Orange, even those merchant groups with strong financial resources cannot afford it for a long time, so this is destined to be under the regular way, and Orange will never be able to afford it no matter how much it is saved.

So from the very beginning, Orange used all kinds of methods to maintain his veteran reclamation regiment by following some crooked ways.

The first way, which is also the way that veterans can directly feel, is to issue military tickets as currency in the cantonment area, and if soldiers want to use these military tickets to buy, they must gather in groups with knives, guns and sticks to make the shops understand the reason.

The second method is to play empty salary, Orange only supports his own descendant legion, and for those legions that theoretically belong to him but are not descendants, he usually only pays double salaries to officers, and the low-level soldiers can deduct it.

The officers, lured by double pay, were mostly unaware of Orange's methods, and if an honest man had to say something about it, he could only die of an unfortunate epidemic.

The miscellaneous legions were not paid on the one hand, and the Orange legions and veteran cantonments barely fed their families, which caused a large number of soldiers from other legions to flee because they were unwilling to continue fighting.

For such soldiers, Orange usually gave them two options, one was to pay a ransom fee to Orange so that they could go home, but their names would remain on the roster, and no one would pursue them as deserters, and the other way was to enter the Orange Veteran Reclamation Regiment.

As for the soldiers who did not want to pay the ransom money to Orange and did not want to go to the cantonment, Orange could only reluctantly let them go to Ropierre.

Speaking of ransom money, this is actually an income from Orange, of course, it has to be shared with the officers of other legions, after the ransom fee is received, the Western Front will not report it, and the empty salary of these ghost soldiers will naturally become another income for Orange and others.

It's just that there are not many veterans who choose to pay the ransom fee, because the high ransom fee restricts the veterans who take this path, and now that Siber is so chaotic, the army is one of the best places to work, so in the end, most soldiers choose to join the cantonment of Orange, which on the one hand increases the power of Orange, and on the other hand, it also increases his financial pressure

Orange's largest income actually came from borrowing, borrowing from the merchants in the province of Athena who were not hard at the back, in order to support his legions and veterans, often playing some tricks of tearing down the east wall to make up the west wall, and symbolically repaying some loans.

Normally, most of the merchant groups are afraid of people like Orange, but there is one exception, not only will he not hide, but he will rush to lend Orange a loan, and this merchant group is the Taugocha merchant group.

Founded by the Taugocha family, the Tuugocha Merchant Order, who had always been the native emperor of the slave-hunting province, had a large amount of money on hand, so they lent it to Orange in waves.

The money was like flowing water, which made some of the clansmen feel distressed, saying that they could still hear the sound of throwing a stone into the sea, and what they could get by lending the money to Orange, to which the patriarch smiled silently.

Battyros was not ignorant of Orange's actions, and some newspapers and magazines bluntly asked: "So whether those armies are Siber's army or Battyros's army, what does Orange want to do?"

What did Orange want to do? He wanted to climb the ladder instead of being abandoned as a tool after the coup d'état, and the veteran cantonment regiment had now become a sharp weapon in his hands, even the commander of Siber, Mael, did not have as much prestige in the army, especially among the low-level soldiers.

After all, compared to the huge number of troops, there are only a few who can be promoted to the officer class, and most veterans are at most mixed with senior soldiers and then have to retire, and for the vast majority of retired veterans, Orange is their god, so they don't recognize anyone except Orange.

In the end, the criticism of Orange was like a stone bull entering the sea, because Mael stopped all these attacks, but there were too many attacks on Orange, and the more he got to the back, the more impatient Mael became, he felt that Orange was really not a worry-free little brother.

Before the autumn breeze arrived, Orange soon felt that his place in Mael's heart was no longer important, which made Orange very nervous.

The news that made Orange nervous came from the events that took place in Siber on the 6th of September this year, that is, another coup d'état in the city of Battiros. Leng Yi said that the word "again" is really wonderful, and it sums up the recent situation during the Sibotu government in just one word.

So why did Battyros coup d'état again? This can be traced back to the fact that the Directory connived at some control in order to bring people back from the Royalist camp after the "Moonless Coup" overthrew the Royalist parliamentarians.

As a result, this led to a very bad consequence, and a bad consequence for the Directory, that is, the people began to remember the stable prices of the Reign of Terror, and even called for the rehabilitation of Ropier.

Some of the younger legislators took advantage of this call to come to power, calling themselves the "new rulers of terror", declaring that they would not restore the "reign of terror" in Lopier, but would carry out a "moderate reign of terror".

The so-called "moderate reign of terror" lies in the fact that its moderation is reflected in the fact that there is only economic terror and no political terror, after all, the greatest disgust of the people for the reign of terror lies in its rampant killings, and if only economic terror is used to stabilize prices, it will undoubtedly alleviate the disgust of many people for the reign of terror.

With the slogan of "Moderate Reign of Terror", the "New Ruler of Terror" received extremely enthusiastic support, and it was also clear from this that the Directory had really become a disgrace to the point of being hated by the people.

Therefore, in this year's general election, the "new ruler of terror", like last year's royalist parliamentarians, managed to occupy most of the seats of the new parliamentarians, which is a very bad sign for Mael and others.

Don't forget, the jurisprudence of the Directory comes from the overthrow of the Reign of Terror, from the "Moon Coup" that killed Lopier, and the resurgence of the "New Ruler of Terror" means a rather bad future.

In view of the fact that last year he convened an extraordinary meeting to wipe out all the parliamentarians, this year Mael did not dare to convene an emergency meeting to avoid startling the snake, so he patiently waited until the 1st of Guoyue (September) to launch the "Guoyue Coup".

On the first day of each month, the day of the regular session of the National Assembly, all members of the National Assembly must be present if they do not ask for leave, which is undoubtedly the best time to act.

The new commander of the Reform Legion will not disobey orders, he will not even dare to be neutral, and like his predecessors, he will be liquidated afterwards, and the master will be deprived of all power to the end.

So, while the National Assembly was in regular session, the Reformist Corps marched again on Batiros, and found that the National Assembly was surrounded by troops, and the members were already very skilled in waiting to read their names, and then left unrelatedly, and the relevant ones stayed to sign their words.

This year, there are still a few lawmakers who refuse to sign, and it took more than an hour to solve the matter of signing with the physical persuasion of the butt of the flintlock.

Ma'er later claimed responsibility for the coup, claiming that his actions were for the sake of a better future for Sib, so he removed all the arrested councillors from their posts and exiled them to the Valle Province, where he was joined by the royalist councillors who had been exiled here last year, in what became the "Goyue Coup".

Afterwards, a newspaper sarcastically said in an editorial, "The year before last, the royalists came to power and let the swing swing swing back, and the Directory felt that it was not good, so they kicked it towards the swing, but the royalist faction was kicked away, but this kick was too much and let the remnants of the Civil Rights League rekindle the ashes, and then the Directory felt that this was not okay, so he kicked the swing again." ”

The assessment was so vivid that within a few days it quickly spread in Battiros, and the newspaper editor was arrested the next day for violating the National Security Act.

Mael's failure to use Orange in the "Coup d'état" can be explained by the fact that the Legion of Reform no longer dared to disobey Mael's orders, so it is reasonable that Orange did not know about the coup.

But Orange was still not at ease, feeling that Mael had turned from admiration to boredom with him, and that he might be the next to be purged.

And this year's conflict is just a rehearsal, and the worst of the conflict is bound to come next year, because according to the provisions of the 2928 Mother Law, the five governors who have served three years will be elected next year, and the contradictions between the parties will reach the point of irreconcilability.

In the previous two years, only one-third of the National Assembly had been elected, and what would happen to the entire Directory this time? Will it be a peaceful end, or a daily coup, or an era of horror in Lopierre?