Chapter 289: The Collapse of the Empire (XXV) The Horn of the Minor Nobleman Lul War
In 1415, as one of the logistician officers of the Northern Fleet, I was transferred to Lorne, the seat of the Northern Passage.
During these years, because the consul Lord Lul VIII was busy restoring the taxation of the North, the tasks of the Northern Fleet were very heavy, and the transfers were frequent, and when I took office, I was also busy with my feet on the ground, and I was on the deck of the office every day. However, although I was physically tired, I felt fulfilled because I had just been promoted.
And in Lorne's work experience this year, I have also gained the friendship of some colleagues, whether they are the old Passage nobles or the Northern Passage nobles - of course, the pitiful Glory Northern Passage nobles, not the Bourbon scum - and we get along quite happily.
[Again, the Glory faction refers to the non-old Channel aristocracy who supports the ancient Glory Principle, and the Bourbon faction refers to the non-Old Channel nobles who oppose the ancient Glory Principle. 】
[In the Southern Passage, the distinction between the nobles of the two factions is very obvious, but because the Northern Passage is relatively weak, the line between the nobles of the two factions is blurred, and the Great Palace can only distinguish the radicals in the two factions, and the more specific ones cannot be distinguished. 】
I remember that in the evening of '16, at the end of the day, I went to the banquet at the mansion of a nobleman in Lorne himself, a good friend of the Glory faction whom I had made in the Northern Passages. At the banquet, we enjoyed the delicious food and chatted happily.
In the old waterway, I was just a nobleman who could not be seen in a corner, who would recognize me? Which nobleman would look up to me? However, when I arrived at the northern waterway, because of the ancient principle of glory, I became the guest of honor of the great nobles here, eating and drinking things that I could not have imagined in the past.
Oh, praise the Bourbon, praise the ancient principle of glory.
Time always flies quickly in pleasure, and in the blink of an eye, the stars are half deflected, and it is already late at night. Just as we were about to say goodbye to each other, the alarm bell rang, and the military literacy told me that it was the alarm bell that called all the fleet personnel back to the station quickly.
When we heard the alarm bell, we wondered, maybe because of the many wars in Bourbon over the years (although I had not personally participated in any of them), and we were gradually starting to get used to it, so one of the nobles next to me commented: "Maybe there is a rebellion somewhere? Is it the Bonnes again?"
"It shouldn't be a Bonn person, you must know that the 20-year peace treaty period has not yet arrived, where did the Bonn people have the courage to break the contract set by the sea god, I think there is a problem in the education area. ”
"I guess so, after all, if there is a problem in Middle-earth, there is no reason why the Great Palace will know before us," the other companion also confirmed the other party's conjecture, and then said to several of our Northern Fleet officials, "Then you can only leave the scene first, this time the hospitality is not thoughtful, and you will definitely make up for it next time." ”
"Where, where, it's obvious that we have to leave first, this is too rude," after the noble colleagues in the Northern Passage said goodbye, I and several other fleet colleagues withdrew from the banquet first, and hurried to the docks.
When I arrived at the docks, through the commander's lecture, I finally understood what was wrong, although it was not an accident in Middle-earth, but it was even worse, it was the Southern Passage that actually rebelled!
When the commander said the news from the Great Palace, the discipline of the army collapsed in an instant, and everyone rushed up to ask the commander.
"Sir, it can't be the Southern Passage, right? If it's a rebellion in the Indoctrination Zone, we can understand it, after all, those Bourbon people who have gone overseas have been infected by barbarians, and they are no longer pure civilized people, but the Southern Passage shouldn't be, they are civilized people second only to the old Passage!"
"Yes, the Southern Passage is in solidarity with us, how can they rebel?
Although I didn't go up to ask, I also looked at the commander eagerly, hoping to hear from him the words "It's just a false alarm", although I subconsciously knew that this was just a fantasy, after all, the Great Palace had already notified the Northern Fleet with alarm bells, and the Northern Fleet had notified us at the first level.
However, the hope in my heart is still hope.
After our chaotic questioning had subsided a little, the chief drank a moment of silence before he began to get to the point.
"Actually, the news of the rebellion in the Southern Passage is not the focus of this alarm bell, the meaning of the Great Palace is to let us take precautions against the nobles of the Northern Passage......"
This time, before the chief's words were finished, he was completely drowned, and this time even I squeezed forward to question and ask the chief.
"I have been with the nobles of the Northern Passage for 2 years, and the two sides are like brothers, how can they start a rebellion!" This is my question to the Commander, and in addition to my emotional factors, there are also some rational people who have also argued from an analytical point of view that it is impossible for the Northern Passage to rebel. ”
"Forget about the rebellion of the Southern Passage, with such a weak military force of the Northern Passage, it is more than enough to conquer those barbarians, but to rebel against us, unless the Northern Passage loses its mind!
The noise boiled through the room, making the chief a little distracted, and finally he burst out of his spiritual power and shouted silence to silence the room.
"I know you can't believe it, I know you feel uncomfortable, but this is the decision of the General Palace, what kind of place is the General Palace? The center of power in Bourbon! The supreme place! The notice issued there is false? Since the General Assembly Palace wants us to pay attention to the northern passage, there is naturally a reason for the General Palace, who do you think you are? You can question the orders issued by the General Palace! Are you stronger than the members of the General Palace!"
Hearing the reprimand of the chief, I remembered the past when I asked to see His Excellency An Lu, the "eloquent speaker", but was blocked from the door, the members of the parliament sitting high above the Central General Assembly Palace, compared with me at the bottom of the aristocracy, it can be described as the gap between dust and white clouds, such a gap, what qualifications do I have to question the orders issued by the Great Palace?
So, I retreated in shame, not only me, but many of my colleagues stepped aside in shame, and the surroundings of the chief were suddenly empty.
After we had retreated, the Commander continued: "In addition to the Northern Passage, you should also pay attention to the three on the Edonan Peninsula. Of course, you're in Lorne, so you can't get in touch with it, and you don't have to worry about most things, but if the three bureaucrats on the other side come over, you need to be careful. ”
When the chief said this, I noticed a colleague next to me muttering: "The southern passage has been reversed, the northern passage is reversed, Edonan and the two guards should pay attention to rebellion, the rebellion in the indoctrination zone continues, and Bourbon is now full of wolf smoke, I think that ...... It's a pill......"
Hearing what he said, I was not filled with righteous indignation, but with a creep.
After the party was disbanded and I returned home, I couldn't calm down for a long time, and all kinds of things kept rotating in my head, the southern channel of rebellion, the northern channel of rebellion, the Bourbon of pills, the northern channel of rebellion, the southern channel of pills, and the Bourbon of rebellion...... Spinning and turning, in the middle of the spin, I was in a bad mood, and I fell asleep groggily.
Since then, I have not dared to meet my colleagues in the Northern Passage, and even before attending a banquet, I have to make sure that the other party is a Glory or a Bourbonist, and I dare to go to the banquet only when invited by the nobles of the Glory faction. After going back and forth like this, our relationship with the nobles of the Northern Passage began to become trembling and respectful.
After a bad year, in 1617 we were finally freed. Of course, there is relief from the bad side. The contemptible Glory faction did attack the Bourbonists, and the Bourbonites appealed to us for help.
Although our wishes were more in favor of the Glory faction, the instructions of the Great Palace had not yet been issued, and the commanders of the fleet forced us to stand by and not to pick quarrels and provoke trouble.
After weeks of waiting, the General Assembly Palace finally issued a directive, seemingly drawing the lessons of the old Southern Passage, which, combined with the fact that the Northern Passage was much easier to deal with, issued a directive for us to purge the Northern Passage of rebellious Bourbon elements.
The question then arises, apart from the most radical families, how should we distinguish between the remaining families that make up a large proportion, and whether they are biased towards the Glory or the Bourbonists?
Unfortunately, this is a matter for the army to distinguish between the battlefields, and as a civilian military officer, I can only sit in my office and take care of the logistics, which is the only thing I can do.
However, the news from the front made me feel a little worried.
"I've heard that many troops at the front are looting the Northern Passages, is that all right? Will you force those nobles to the Bourbons?" I expressed to my colleagues my concern about the current behavior of the military.
In the face of my question, my colleague said disdainfully: "At first glance, you have never been on the battlefield, our main force of Bourbon is suppressing the rebellion of the Southern Passage, so the army that came here to interfere in the Northern Passage is a group of scoundrels, the scum of society." If you refuse to give them to plunder in war, they will be scattered in the battlefield. ”
"Where's the military law?" I asked, frowning.
"Military law? If the soldiers plunder, what good things can those short-sighted social dregs snatch? The really valuable things don't fall into the hands of the officers, do you think the officers will use the military law!"
Hearing my colleague's explanation, I was speechless for a moment, unable to say anything other than sighing.
About a year after this conversation, as I was returning from Lorne's office to my house in Lorne, I came across a local Northern Passage nobleman, who was my former colleague and had invited me to a banquet.
"Why are you here? aren't you back to your family?"
When he heard my call, he was stunned at first, and when he remembered who I was, he hugged me and became miserable, crying and complaining to me.
"The GIs robbed my private house in the suburbs, ruined all the female servants in my family, and set fire to my house before leaving, and my lover fell off his horse and was seriously injured when I fled! I finally returned to my hometown and found that your army was eating and drinking in our family house! Although I didn't dare to really touch our female dependents, I was also very dishonest in my hands, what is the matter! This time I went to Lorne, I went to complain, I can't go on like this, I am also a nobleman!"
Listening to his complaints, I smiled awkwardly, remembering that there are a lot of people like him these days, most of them are closed-door, or they are the main business of the water mill, and all kinds of shirks.
Once I also heard the above conversation, saying that most of the nobles who were robbed of this kind were snakes and rats, and being robbed was also a lesson. Some people asked, what if they forced a rebellion in the entire territory of the Northern Passage?
The chief officer said that the Bourbon army had robbed it like this, whether it was in Maisica or Ingena, there was no reason to change it when it came to the northern channel, so the northern channel would be rebelled if it was betrayed, and it was not the southern channel, and the small body of the northern channel could be next to Bourbon.
When I came back here, I patted this old acquaintance guiltily, comforted him with some empty words, and then excused myself that I couldn't go with him to complain about something, and then I slipped with oil on the soles of my feet.
Alas, I look at Bourbon this is ...... Pills......