159. Dragon and lion fight in court
Bony then gave the "Fort Falck" to Lancer as his private land, and the three castles of the city of Peon were divided among the three generations of grandparents. (See 050)
At the end of the engagement feast, Gauss took Karin back to his home country, and agreed that Karin would live here for a month every year to learn the etiquette of the lady of the Franisians, which also meant to be a hostage.
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In January of the same year, the neighbor on the other side of the Caspian Sea, Baiting, was splitting up.
Dongzhuo defeated the Yuanshao coalition army, and his son Lubu defeated three nobles of the allied army (Ma Chao, Tai Shici, and Gongsun Zhan).
Dong Zhuo's personal prestige came to the peak, won the recognition of many nobles in Constantine, Lao Si took this opportunity to break into zero, transported dozens of people every day, mixed into the imperial capital in various capacities, to the middle of April, just 100 days of peace, at this time Lao Si and Dong Zhuo, who had already mastered the numerical advantage, joined forces to drive away the ten permanent servants, killed more than 200 eunuchs, and terminated the dictatorship of the inner servants.
After gaining power, Laoskey did not swell, he knew that the situation in Byttin was very dangerous, Smazhao actually controlled the northern frontier, and although the Austro-Hungarian Kingdom was an ally, it also took advantage of the civil strife in Byttin to encroach on the "Bulgaria" area in the northwest of the empire.
The sea and sea air blow along the river valley of the place, bringing abundant rainfall, making agriculture developed, flowers luxuriant, thousands of kinds of flowers all over the river valley, making it known as the flower capital, losing the place, making the Latin people's grain harvest drop greatly, the price of agricultural products in the imperial capital, rising by one-fifth, and the people's hearts are turbulent.
The Yuanshao uprising led to a group of barbaric lords who disobeyed the order, they destroyed agriculture along the road, and also took a large number of soldiers, so that the northeast defense line was weak, and the foreign country that was becoming independent from Persia, the "Principality of Azov" with the Turkic, Saisi, Tocharian and other Donghu foreign tribes as the main body was also eyeing the tiger, ready to eat the fat of the Baiting meat.
To the southwest, there is the unfriendly neighbor of Xili, surrounded by warships that may send soldiers to invade at any time.
Knowing that the empire was in danger, Lausky's body was very soft, and he did not occupy the fruits of victory alone, so he divided the lords around the imperial capital into four types: friendly, neutral, unkind, and mortal enemies.
Take out the palace treasures and buy them by various means, and divide them.
He released several members of Alessandro and other dignitaries who had been imprisoned by the Mosaics, and they were allowed to return if they swore allegiance to the emperor and himself before the patriarch, but he also left several important dignitaries as hostages in case of emergency.
Later, taking advantage of the dissatisfaction of the local lords who had been harassed by the coalition forces, he obtained their allegiance documents, and generously opened the granary of the imperial capital, which was regarded as the private property of the ten permanent servants, to help the people and improve their popularity.
He also dealt with external problems simultaneously, sending people to the southeastern border of the empire to contact another local Turkic tribe, the Tatars, to put pressure on the principality of Asia.
Even Persia, which had lost a large amount of territory, had its fangs broken, and did not currently border Bytin, received an armistice written in Persian by Rauskey.
At the end of July, Yuanshao regrouped his forces to lay siege to a key city near Constantine.
Lust wanted to make peace with Yuan Shao, he named Liubei as the governor of the northeast of the empire, Yuan Shao was promoted to duke, and the royal family respected Liubei as the emperor's uncle - "imperial uncle", enjoying the title of "Augustus", and also asked the disclosure to include him in the royal succession order.
Liubei Yuntong, and sent people into the imperial capital to negotiate peace, which attracted Yuan Shao's suspicion, and then broke with Liubei, and the two sides had a firefight.
Yuan Shao was arbitrary and arrogant, and the rewards were unfair, and the five young nobles led by the sword ghost Ma Chao joined the Liubei side.
Lauskey sent 4,000 infantry and 500 cavalry to support Liubei, and the two sides fought a decisive battle, and the situation was deadlocked, but a fire broke out in the rear of Yuanshao, and the foreign mercenaries he recruited, because they did not have enough agreed compensation, rebelled against some of the "golden thieves" who had just surrendered in his territory.
At the beginning of September, Yuan Shao was forced to retreat to his hometown, give up a lot of land to conquer, stay in Bei to receive, and become the master of ten cities because of his merits, with a castle built of white bricks, pure white as snow, "White City" as the main capital, and Laoske also rewarded him with a purple robe.
Liubei also rewarded the five nobles who followed him with tiger totems for his use, and called them the "Five Tiger Generals" .......
After alleviating all the pressing pressures, Lauski turned his attention to the unique "military system" of Bytin.
This system was born in the early years to fight against the invincible "Persian Empire", and it was a wartime unique leadership system, in which the emperor sent close cronies or royal families to the border to become military town governors (generals), and these governors enjoyed financial and military power independently, and settled in the place for generations, thus deriving more new military aristocracy.
For the empire, although the tax revenue is reduced, the military town concentrates its power, can be self-sufficient, and has high mobility, and the empire can also reduce the heavy military expenditure, so that the local lords can bear their own burden, and maintain a certain number of soldiers.
The military town system blocked the Persian iron cavalry, and even expanded the empire to the east and north, such as the Thunder-Alexandra family, which relied on this to come to power, but the hidden drawbacks were also magnified, and over time, the border land was annexed by these military town families, and a large number of small farmers went bankrupt, causing serious social problems.
There are medium-talented emperors who come to power, and they can still operate equally, but there have been many mediocre lords for a hundred years, which has made the country's fortunes declining, the central income is getting lower and lower, and the power balance of the empire and local warriors has been reversed from the absolute superiority at the beginning to the era of the tyrant Nero.
Although Laoske successively repelled the chamberlain and Yuan Shao, in the hearts of the lords hundreds of miles outside the imperial capital, the "center" was not so remarkable, and the property they handed over this year was only one-third more than when Nero was still two years ago, and the average was only one-eighth to one-tenth of the amount stipulated by the decree.
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February 419 of the new calendar.
The most prosperous capital city on the left coast of the Prinai Sea - Sardinia City.
A statue of a pair of brothers standing side by side with a wolf towers over Sardinia, the dwelling of the Caesar family through the ages, with towering walls and strong armaments.
"Ahh
Octavian, who was over forty years old, was in the master bedroom, he was a sturdy man, but not tall, a little taller than an ordinary woman, he was naked, he lectured a lover vigorously, and two maids around him, all naked, holding wine glasses and towels.
"Your Highness. ”
"Enter...... Come on!"
Napoleon's request was heard, but Octavian had no intention of stopping, and his speed could not turn back.
"Scream!"
After a while, after he had sown all the seeds on his lover's face, a maid stepped forward to wipe himself for Wudawei, and one of them offered wine.
"Let me tell you. ”
Seeing that Octavian was comfortable, Nabolon opened the secret letter uploaded by the letter merchant and reported the movements of the Baitin.
After drinking a glass of wine, Octavian already had an idea in his mind.
As one of the first to know of the fall of the Ten Permanent Servants, a few days later, he sent an envoy into Constantine, bypassing the titular lord Ultraman to form an alliance with Lausky, and had the Pope he supported, "Agantine", issue a "decree" proposing a "reconciliation between the two sects" (Monroe, Light).
Octavian's capital was directly facing Constantine across the sea, and the two sides were wary of each other, and in Nero's time, the Latins had repeatedly harassed his merchant ships, and now that he had changed powers, Octavian decided to mend the relationship, and when he had no worries, he would free up his hands to suppress Ultraman.
Lauskey gladly accepted the offer, and he needed more allies to acknowledge and help. He also sent the Imperial Patriarch a friendly message, "Bathed in light, do not draw your sword." ”
Octavian and Labory talked hotly, but Ultraman didn't buy it, he didn't have a good impression of Baitin, and he wanted to sabotage Octavian's plan, he laughed at reconciliation, the lord of the Siri Kingdom, in his heart, more or less regarded himself as a Roman descendant, Persia is a barbarian emperor, and if he can't control it, what qualifications does Baiting have to override it.
"Without Rome, there would be no light. ”
Ultraman asked his bishops to call a council of cardinals, proposing that Monroe must change its doctrine, abolish the arrogant titles of "Patriarch" and "Emperor", abandon several islands in the south that originally belonged to Xili, and determine the primacy and inferiority of the two countries in order to carry out the two settlements, which won the support of many knights and merchants.
Octavian took the warning as a joke and still sent someone to contact Bytin, and at this time Ultraman also hurried to consult with Adolf.
In July, the marriage was decided, and after hearing that the Monroe Priests of Byting had landed on the shores of the "Priinner Sea", Altman sent someone to intercept them, and he humiliated them, stripped them naked, forced them to undergo a baptism of light, and drove them away from Siri.
The observatory established by Ultraman, more than 20, the white and fat astrologers raised by him, the bachelors all said that he was fifty years old, will usher in the peak of his life, and in one year, he will be fifty, plus he has just married the strongest family in Gaul, at this moment, he is invincible!
After the expulsion, the "Fire Dragon" issued a joint statement on behalf of the "Golden Lion", who was still unaware of the matter, opposing the two settlements, which deepened Octavian's ties with Lauskey and forced other Cilian nobles to choose sides.
This statement set off a knock-on effect, and the port of Nice, which was about to surrender, was given a respite by the two men turning against each other, and a few months later brought in Saxon troops to counterattack Ciri, and at its peak, conquered the southern part of the Illy Peninsula.
Later scholars believe that this incident greatly accelerated the division of Xili, and was also the main reason for the Crusaders to invade Donghu and attack Baitin, and collectively referred to the series of events that followed as the "Western Rebellion".
And some of the wild history adventures, for the eye-catching, called this statement, "dragon and lion fighting in the court".
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"Your Highness, this month the city of Peon has a net inflow of five hundred and forty-five men, half of whom are from the border between Aragon and Grad, one hundred and five skilled craftsmen and their families, three hundred and twelve peasants, and twenty-four men with combat experience, and have been organized into a standing army, and blacksmiths ....... ”
At the semi-annual government meeting of the territory, the "state minister" Randall was lying on his body, his face was expressionless, and after he lost his sight, he couldn't observe the eyes of his subordinates, so he gradually cultivated a "facial paralysis" expression to deal with it.