In this era, knowledge was basically monopolized by the aristocracy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info so except for the higher education rate of residents in the city, the people everywhere in ordinary towns are basically illiterate. If the lord wants to send a notice, he has to send someone to read it several times. Although Cauchy is now down, he was educated under the guidance of his father. He glanced at the contents of the newspaper, confirmed that he knew them all, and happily accepted the task.

Letting the guy at the door of the bar lead the horse, Cauchy went into the house and found a seat near the middle. After ordering the cheapest ale, he unfolded the newspaper in the dim light - he was going to see for himself what was written on it, but this was a little fascinating, a small piece of parchment was covered in handwriting on both sides, and such a large amount of information was very shocking for an age of poor communication. Cauchy forgot his original mission as he watched it, and his behavior of reading the newspaper while drinking ale suddenly became the focus of everyone...

For no other reason, deliberately looking at parchment in a place where there are many illiterates, isn't this a deliberate display of culture?

"Hey, man, I want to read a book and look outside, how bad the light is here!"

"That is, do you drink ale as wine?"

"Come, read it to us, see how obsessed you are!"

Cauchy looked away a little reluctantly, and said to the bald head who asked him the question, "I'm sorry... This is the news of our Karen Kingdom in recent times-"

"News, what news can there be? Isn't it the fact that Count Moore was broken through the line by the orcs and rolled back to the royal capital, what is there to say?"

"No, no, no, that's more than that. Cauchy pointed to the headline: "Evta wins!

This sentence immediately caused an exclamation, and the other voices in the room immediately became quieter, some people were skeptical, some people said it must be nonsense, but when Cauchy read out the content word by word, the people in the room were almost dumbfounded!

"More than 20,000 orcs just ran away!?"

"Captured 4,300 orcs, and pursued all the way to the Nehemian steppes?"

"Where did you get this?"

"It was brought by the Pal Collar Firm, and this thing is said to be updated every week in the future, so that people can know what is happening in the country at any time - you see, it also writes about the attack on Earl Moore, and even the damaged towns are marked..."

Everyone is from Bergen's territory, so they naturally know what has happened here. As soon as Cauchy read the contents, everyone immediately decided that the contents of the newspaper were absolutely true!

Now, even if Cauchy doesn't read it, someone will force him to read it. In addition to the war situation in various places, there is also a part of the prediction of the winter "famine" in Bergen's territory... After the well-founded words were read, the originally lively tavern fell silent.

There are people from all walks of life who stay in bars. Mercenaries, merchants, neighbors in town, and passers-by are all inadequate, and although they are not the ruling class of this society, those who can come over for a drink are all those who have a little more knowledge and a fairly clear mind. When the farmland was destroyed, the grain was looted, the farmers were killed, and the territory was empty, Charles II had to conscript troops to attack Evta...

"Is our King insane?"

"Count Moore relinquished command and was replaced by Count Mirno? When did that guy Mirno become good at fighting? What else would he do besides make money?"

The news of Efuta's victory may still be unbelievable, but the news of Charles II's imminent army has indeed been circulating in many places in the past few days, and people did not take it seriously at first, but now they immediately realize that it may mean that they will all suffer varying degrees of losses.

Where can I find food? Where can I find the source of soldiers? Who will transport the logistics?

Although the newspaper does not explicitly say who suffers, when the information spreads, it naturally brews, ferments, and eventually forms an invisible storm...

Cauchy didn't understand what he could change by reading a newspaper. And he wouldn't have known that even when he was reading the newspaper, the same newspaper was being distributed and spreading the same information in the Bergen Territory and even all the places where the Pals merchants in the Karen Kingdom were merry!

The power of information is like a giant spider's web, slowly spreading to the entire kingdom.

The newspaper was soon on the Count of Mirno's desk, and not surprisingly, there was no such news on Charles II's desk, either today or ever since.

"It's all... It's deception!"

Count Mirno slammed the newspaper on the table, his head bloodshot with rage, and his ears seemed to be buzzing. He wanted to curse, but he knew it was useless.

He had confirmed what had happened to Ivota through various channels, but Mirno preferred to believe that it was all a hoax: what was said to be a precarious situation?

Charles II had already given him the task, and Mirno had never thought of backing down, but he was only a powerful minister and not a general after all—Mirno had no clue about the war, and the adjutant he had found was not very talented, so it was difficult to predict the real effect of the "newspaper" at this time.

After all, this kind of thing has never appeared before, and the illiteracy rate of more than ninety percent in the Karen Kingdom makes the "newspaper" seem to have little soil to survive.

"Find out who spread the newspaper and lock them all up!"

Mirno had no choice but to give such an order, but his adjutant looked embarrassed: "Lord Count... These things seem to be found in most of the villages and towns in the kingdom, and we..."

This is obvious, no matter how powerful the Earl of Mirno is, he is only a count, and the Bergen territory is not majestic, and out of the Bergen territory, even if there is the "Shang Fang Sword" of Charles II, it is not easy to use it-who are you?

"Catch all the things that can be caught, and find a way to catch those who can't be caught!"

Mirno was so angry that he crumpled the parchment into a ball of paper and slammed it in the adjutant's face - "Do you want me to teach you this kind of thing?!"

The adjutant who didn't dare to breathe hurriedly responded, and then bowed and retreated, leaving Mirno, who was pale-faced, to sit in front of the armchair and continue to meditate...

The city of Houllier had already restored order very quickly after the war.

Speaking of which, in the days when the orcs attacked, Hollier City was at the rear of the battle line and had never faced the danger of besieging the city, so the city looked no different from before the war, and it was even more lively than before.

Prices have risen a lot because of the war, and now they are in the process of falling, including the price of grain -- the nobles all have the idea of hoarding goods to make a fortune, so in the past, if there was a war, it was possible for the price of grain to rise by eight or ten times, and no one could stop it. However, under the emergency mechanism of the cabinet, the city of Hollier, which had stockpiled more food in advance, easily stabilized the price of food, and there was no scene of civilians starving to death because they could not afford food.

The dozens of decrees issued by the "Cabinet" before the war were not useless after all, and both the integration of the military districts and the details of the implementation of various aspects proved the superiority of the "Cabinet" over the rule of the traditional lords -- of course, on the premise that a large number of Lord Evta's lords died.

The "Rosicrucifixion" also played a lot of roles in the war, but the war came and ended faster, and the overseers couldn't help but have a deeper view of the duke and the "cabinet" while rejoicing, and the most important thing... It is they who recognize their position.

If Sally is a weak duke, with no available ministers at hand, and cowering and cowardly, then the "Rosicrucifer" is definitely more than happy to take control of the Duke's Palace, and in this way, the sect has a wider space to develop in the "Rosicrucius". But apparently the Cabinet headed by Roddy did not give them this opportunity at all - at the first "Cabinet Meeting" held on 8 June, the abbess of the "Rosicrucian" order in the city of Hollier were not informed from beginning to end.

Obviously, Roddy did not intend to give the religious forces any chance to influence his base.

In the conference hall of the Ducal Palace, six cabinet members sat on either side of the long table, with Roddy and Duke Sally as Prime Minister at opposite ends. At this time, there was no controversial situation that usually occurs in the general "parliament", on the contrary, the entire meeting was basically dominated by Roddy from beginning to end.

In other words, this is basically Roddy's "One Word Hall".

"Ladies and gentlemen, it seems to me that Ivota is now facing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and we now have the highest administrative efficiency, the most suitable environment for development... But there's one idea that I need to re-understand, and maybe it's going to take some time for you to come to terms with it. ”

Roddy's words echoed through the chamber, the other six lords of the cabinet had long been under Sally's rule, although they still nominally held the title of Earl and Marquis, but now they knew that they had no right to oppose at all - Roddy and Sally had the military power in their hands to wipe out all of them at any time, and in this case, choosing to hold their thighs was the only option.

So they all made a statement: everything is up to the duke.

And Duke Sally was even more happy: "The Prime Minister has the final say on cabinet decisions, and I support all the decisions of Prime Minister Roddy." ”

Luo Di was not surprised by this, just nodded and elaborated: "What we need is not a country governed by a patchwork of countless lords. The decentralization of power means a decline in executive power, and I don't say that you know that, so in the future the political structure of Evta will always maintain the current model - the cabinet is the center, and we will gradually take back most of the power in the hands of the lords and establish a state with uniform laws!"

This sentence made the six lords look at each other, after all, they are vested interests, how could they agree that their things will be taken away?

However, Luo Di was naturally not so stupid: "Of course, we will not take back the lord's current right to govern the territory, but we must make one thing clear - the lord must obey the decision of the cabinet, only in this way, can Evta complete the unification in the future!"

"Unification..."

This word makes people think about it, not to mention a few lords, and even Sally's eyes glow with a strange look: "Charles II has sent people to prepare to attack, when will we fight back?"

"Prime Minister, can we still fight now?"

Count Parker's face was embarrassed, his territory was beaten the hardest by the orcs in this war, and the population was heavily lost.

Roddy waved his hand: "Do you really think that Charles II can fight if he says that he can fight? Sending Mirno to recruit troops in Bergen's territory will not work in itself, otherwise Moore will not just give up." ”

He tapped his finger on the table and said solemnly: "The only thing we need to do now is to complete the post-war reconstruction and recovery as soon as possible and develop with peace of mind." In the future, Elson City will provide floating towers for 'artificial rainfall' to maximize the grain production of all cultivated land, and as for the offensive on Milno's side... It's enough for me to take care of this kind of thing. ”

At present, the cabinet is not a departmental sub-control, and the lords can only take care of the affairs in their own territories, and Luo Di temporarily regards them as the "number one" of the six most powerful provinces and cities, and the external affairs are naturally handled by themselves with military power.

The lords were 100% convinced of Roddy's braggart reply - they had been terrified of orc attacks before, but the results had proven the strength of the iron-fisted prime minister.

But that's not all, and Roddy's subsequent decision made them even more dumbfounded: "In the next three months, we must expand our territory into the interior of the Nehemian steppe, establish enough pastoral areas, and set up enough guard towers to make up for the shortage of horses and the scarcity of cattle and sheep." ”

Expanding the frontier sounds like a good thing, but it's actually something that the lords don't want to do... There is nothing to build on the bare grassland, basically you can only build it by constantly throwing money, who knows when you will be able to return to the basics? The grassland is a forbidden area in the eyes of the lord, even if they have just beaten away the orcs, most of the common people still have an irresistible fear of these green-skinned barbarians.

"I know you don't think it's worth the investment, but it's not the grasslands that are really going to be invested – every three months, we're going to have to bring a shipment to the Tasman to support the stability of these 'good allies'. ”

As soon as these words came out, the group of lords suddenly felt their heartbeats speed up: the construction of the grassland turned out to be just a springboard, and it turned out that the real purpose was the Tasman behind the Gondola Mountains!

The other side of the gondola is much richer, with all kinds of minerals. Adding fuel to the fire when they play their brains internally, and making huge profits from it... If the Tasman wants to fight, he needs equipment, right? He needs food, right? The country in the war does not produce, but can only exchange all kinds of materials - Roddy is like a wood-gatherer squatting by the fire, and when the fire is smaller, he throws a piece of firewood into it, which not only makes the fire burn stronger, but also exchanges resources as a matter of course...

As long as they don't unify for a day, this exchange will go on forever. Everta paid for the finished materials, but in exchange for the abundant resources several times more -- what is war money? This is called war money!

I went out all day today and drove back at ten o'clock in the evening, and the update was a little late, so the two were more in one. By the way, ask for a new week's recommended tickets and subscriptions!Friends who support the field are good in the genesis.,I didn't divide the starting point of the field /(tot)/~~ (to be continued.) )