As the leader, Wolf gathered the bankrupt or bankrupt minor nobles to form the "Knights' League", whose creed was simple anarchism, with the long-cherished desire to regain the rights and glory of the ancients. These last barons became an independent force in the western part of the empire for the last time before they were about to be swallowed up by the tide of history.

The bold and brutal knights, like hungry wolves that have broken into a flock of sheep, ambushed the cities and highways of the western Lynn Rand region, barricaded, robbed, killed and plundered. As a result, the nearby princes and the free cities of the empire were helpless when they were attacked by the knightly alliance while suppressing the peasant uprising. These people hoped to reconcile with the knights through their networks, but the low-ranking nobles, who had already decided to make a big move, naturally rejected them sternly. At the same time, after the break, Wolff, who had no way out, approached each other with other important spokesmen of the barons, von Absberg, von Garsenberg, von Schotter, the head of the von Belichengen family and the recent winner of the Menichaut Tournament, Viscount von Loclein, and united to form a solid core of the knightly alliance. This group of brave and ruthless outlaws, who like to rob and duel, makes people within a radius of hundreds of square kilometers uneasy in the future.

Realizing that the knights would never stop until they got what they wanted, the previously unruly princes finally thought of the emperor of the empire, whether it was a monk or a councilor of a free city, and their distress letters flew like snowflakes to Higismund V's desk.

In the secret chamber of the Litomyšl Palace, the emperor's father and son once again had a separate conversation.

"Father, now is a good opportunity! The Imperial Free City in the Upper Linhe Lante area, the Imperial Court Earls, several archbishops, and bishops in the Lower Linhe Lante are all seeking our help, if we send troops and horses to help them at this time, our voice in the western part of the Empire will definitely be strengthened in the future!" Max was very happy to see the emergency letter.

"No, we'll have to wait. Unfortunately, Higismund V had a different opinion.

"But standing by will affect our prestige!"

"Hehe, little Max, do you think you get more gratitude for helping someone who has just fallen into the water, or more for saving someone who is drowning and drowning?"

"That being said, it's always not good to see death and not save it!"

"This is politics, and it seems that you will need more experience to carry this crown in the future. The current situation is also the reason why I will reuse the Duke of New Mark or the Count of the Reedlingen Empire. The two of them were good at figuring out what I meant, and if we had suppressed the peasants when they were just rising, it would have been useless for us to have the fishermen profitable, and for the rebels to greatly weaken a few of the most hated princes, or to get rid of a few more unpopular monks. We just need to keep the situation under control at all times. ”

"Father, do you want to learn the story of the Isle of Three Kings and the Kingdom of François?" Hearing Higismund's words, the prince suddenly woke up.

"That's it, just shedding some blood and losing a few greedy and ignorant heads will make our imperial power more stable. ”

The story that Maximinus tells is the War of the Two Roses for royal power on the Isle of Three Kings and the War of the Holy Maidens in the Kingdom of François. The War of the Two Roses refers to the end of the war of feudal lords, in which the two major aristocratic families attacked each other after the former ruling dynasty of Three Kings Island was extinct, and finally 80% of the feudal lords died, and the foundation of the country became the free people and the burgher class, and the power of the king of the Republic of China was greatly strengthened by relying on these direct vassals.

François's War of the Virgins is even more famous, as the Valois royal family was originally an insignificant family in the Western Kingdom, and it was only because of the compromise of various powers that it was allowed to ascend to the throne. Later, the successive generations of King François and the expansion of the Three Kings Island broke out in a war that lasted for hundreds of years, François was defeated in successive battles, lost consecutive battles, a large part of the country was occupied, and at the same time, the great lords of the whole kingdom died in several unprecedentedly large scale battles, and more than sixty percent died, so that after countless painful years, a certain generation of princes won the key battle by relying on the saints from the people. After the forces of Raja Raja were expelled from the country, the king found that most of the land had become terra nullius, and he instantly occupied these places and became the most powerful feudal lord of the country, achieving absolute superiority over the nobility, so the Duke of Bolandi launched a "public welfare alliance" between the great lords to fight against it.

Despite thinking about this, Max still had some doubts: "But Father, it's really good to use the power of the peasant army and the knight alliance to weaken the great nobles, but will it make them too big and it will be difficult to end up at that time?"

"So that's what we're going to do to form the Imperial Central Army, and these seeds of rebellion are already there, and it's too hard to look for them, and it's just the right thing to use to make use of the current situation to allow them to surface on their own and quickly come together. When the time comes, we'll catch it. Even if there was anything left, it was all frightened, and there was no threat in the slightest. ”

"Hahahaha, I get it thoroughly. Then until the construction of several mobile divisions is completed, the noble lords and wealthy citizens will have to rely on themselves. Even if there is damage, it is inevitable. They can only blame their luck, they are too oppressive to the people on weekdays. ”

Higismund V nodded, and then said to his son in a serious voice: "However, we must beware, I have heard the voice of the Reformation, and such heretical words need to be closely monitored! ”

The emperor was alarmist, but the prince did not think so.

"But I don't think it's a bad thing to let the church carry out some reforms and take the land back from the hands of the princes of the church!"

"Oh, Max, have you forgotten the origin of this crown? The God-blessed Tutonian Empire! All the founding laws we have come from the legitimacy and legitimacy given to us by the Orthodox Church! Since the Edict of Millan in the ancient empire, the emperor has had to rely on the support of the gods. To this day, it is no exception. ”

"Cut, it's still up to those money-hungry guys. Oh, yes, they have moderate reformers in the north, led by Lindemann, and radicals in the south, represented by Mintzel, and how about we let the two factions fight among themselves?"

"Well, what a plan! Let them dog-eat-dog. Then do it, Max, I'll give you full power. ”

"Yes, Father!"

Therefore, the royal family's action was to send the imperial advisor Count von Plantenberg as a mediator to the western Ringerland to try to reconcile the contradictions between the imperial princes, the free cities and the knightly alliance, and he also listened to the opinions of some peasants and made all kinds of sympathetic actions, but that was all. Due to the pressure of the Turde Empire in the east, the royal family no longer has the strength to divide troops to the west. Naturally, mediation would not have yielded any results, but only made the peasants and knightly allies aware of the weakness of the empire, and they launched an even more fierce attack on the monks and lay princes and cities.

In April of that year, the Knights' League, at the suggestion of its staff officer, Viscount von Loclein, held a secret meeting with representatives of the Northern Reformation. The viscount was now the number one wise man for the rude and unliterate barons to obey willingly.

At that time, Lindemann had already become the leader of the Reformation in the North, he became an instant hit with "The Sixty-Five Questions", and later became the guest of honor of Moritz von Epenzel, Duke of Kelzen, the largest force in the North. Duke Gain's arguments about the abolition of the "indulgences" and the independence of the Church from the control of the Pope and the ownership of the land by the secular aristocracy were very much to his liking. And the Orthodox Church in the north was also afraid to act because of the prestige of Duke Kirzen.

Not only that, but Lindemann got a copy of the material on his desk one day. Now the venerable priest no longer doubted that he had indeed received the favor of the Holy Lord. He then took advantage of the Duke's protection to calmly publish works of new ideas based on the content of the material. The core idea is simply that the people should choose their own way of believing in the Holy Lord, and not be bound by rotten church rules. Those who have since adhered to Lindemann's teachings have called themselves "Lutherans" to distinguish themselves from the traditional Orthodox Church.

The Lutheran approach of breaking the rule of the church without destroying the feudal system was also very much in line with the idea of the knightly alliance, and after the meeting between the two sides, the petty autocrats hit it off with Lindemann and immediately accepted his theory in its entirety. Because the knights fully feel that it is too slow to get money just by robbing the house. To do great things, you need religious righteousness. Subsequently, they used the "Lutheran faction" as a spiritual weapon to expand their power again.

In April and May of that year, Viscount von Loclein, a staff officer, presided over an unprecedented gathering of low-ranking nobles, some of whom were enthusiastic about the new doctrines, others who wanted to compete with the great princes, and some who were purely interested in profit. In the end, they formalized their own program, that is, to establish an aristocratic democracy like ancient Athens, which of course would not succeed if it was divorced from the course of history and the masses of the people, but this was exactly what Viscount von Loklein wanted. In addition to the original core force, many knight families from the east and south of the empire have joined. Famous families such as von Kromberg, von Schauenberg, von Fürstenberg, von Helmstedt, von Görmgen, von Menchingen and many others came together.

Although nominally they were led by Wolff, everyone knew that the backbone of this force was Viscount von Loclein.

"Well, there's enough Wolf here, I don't want him to be a puppet, he has big ambitions. Now that we've drawn cards for him, it's up to him what he does!"

Viscount von Loklein left with a few of his entourage under the guise of liaising with the Schwartenn Peasant Army, and he did go to the south-west of the empire to get in touch with the "shoe club" organization there.