Chapter 645 The moment the chess player sat behind the chessboard, countless victories and defeats were already in his heart
Usurpation is a very technical craft, not only to have face, but also to have a lining.
Satoko can be interpreted as hard power, tough soldiers, elite armies, sophisticated weapons, and advanced magical equipment and so on.
So what is face?
It's righteousness!
The first emperor of the Orlando family was because he couldn't bear the exploitation and oppression of the decaying Holy Empire, which made him, a nobleman, feel that he couldn't live this life anymore. After he saw the empty nature of the Empire, which even those robbers and bandits could not do, Emperor Orlando I raised the anti-flag without much thought. But even so, he listed many of the shortcomings of the Holy Empire, such as brutality and the like.
Therefore, this face is also very important, and if the face is well dressed, then the support from the people will be high. The support of the people is high, and if you succeed in usurping the throne, it will be much more convenient to sort out the forces below.
So face is the most important thing.
During this time, some of the major newspapers and tabloids began to report on the civil strife in the Byronic Empire, and the Orcs under the leadership of Thrace had successfully conquered three cities. As aid from the Federation continues to flow into the hands of the orcs, the morale of the orcs is getting stronger and stronger. The orcs, who had been oppressed and exploited for hundreds of years, finally discovered that they were not just mongrels and waste, as described by humans or orcs. When they were able to stand up and straighten their backs and raise their weapons to defeat the humans and orcs who looked down on them and treated them like pigs and dogs, the resentment that had accumulated over the centuries exploded in an instant.
The harder the pressure, the stronger the power generated when it is released in the future.
With the number of orc troops exceeding 500,000, the entire Byron Empire has clearly realized that this rebellion of the orcs is by no means easy to suppress.
Emperor Byron personally landed on Dragon Island, hoping to use the power of Dragon Island to influence the situation of the battle and completely calm down this turmoil in one go. At this time, there were some small mistakes on the part of the orcs, and some orcs actually chose to back down, they were afraid of the orcs!
But if you think about it carefully, it's not that you can't understand how many people are half-orcs? How many people are there in those small groups of orcs? Even if the individual combat power of the minotaur explodes, one can fight a thousand, but when he is facing 10,000 or even 100,000 half-orcs? Orcs can not be afraid of death, not afraid of sacrifice, their history of blood and tears of exploitation and persecution for hundreds of years has allowed them to give up everything, just for a hope, a hope that future generations can stand in the sun and have the same power as others, they will not be afraid of death!
But those noble small races are different, one dies is one less, the more powerful the race, the more difficult it is to have children, plus most orcs themselves are prone to dystocia, these small numbers of small races choose to back down when faced with a choice that is very likely to make the race collapse.
Whether it is a human or an orc, they are all intelligent animals. As long as it is an intelligent animal, it will not be able to escape the influence from society in the end.
Some people retreated, some people treated it negatively because of this, and some people chose to wait and see.
The situation eroded to an alarming level in an instant, and those desperate orcs used unprecedented tactics to conquer one city after another.
They rushed madly towards the city like ants that had been blown up in their nests, trampling on each other, pushing the waves of people and beasts against the walls like the tide at high tide. No matter how strong the walls or how well defended, they seemed to have no effect in the face of such barbaric crowd tactics.
Because, the orcs are fearless, not even afraid of death, what else can stop them.
In these successive and eye-opening reports, there are also some private goods. For example, the instructors of these orc armies are all veterans of Ortrenburg. For example, the weapons and supplies they used also came from the Marquis de Rennes' personal humanitarian aid. Even every copper they spent was given to the orcs by the Marquis of Rennes for free!
Soon the limelight of public opinion was reversed, and Wren changed from a cruel executioner to a moral model for the liberation of orcs, a pioneer of benevolence and righteousness!
Most importantly, because the Marquis of Wren rebelled against the orcs, the invasion of Orlando by the Byron Empire slowed down. Most of Byron's power was spent in the process of suppressing the successive uprisings of the orcs within.
In other words, the Marquis of Rennes indirectly dragged the main force of the Byron Empire and wiped out nearly half of the Byron elite army, he is a hero!
Not just a hero of the orcs, but also a hero of the Desi!
"Therefore, public opinion can actually be indulged. Wren crossed his legs with a relaxed smile on his face, he played with a handle in his hand, and the nobles in the room all showed a flattering smile at him.
This was the first time Wren had sat with the nobles of the Elysium salon, and it was also the first time he had met officially. Perhaps these nobles had already guessed who was behind the saloon, but when they saw that it was Wren himself, they gasped.
Since the collapse of the three major aristocratic groups of the empire, the "obscenity" of Empress Pars has unstoppably swept the entire aristocratic class. Every nobleman trembled under the hem of the Empress Pars's skirt, and it was a great thing for them to have someone to lead them at this time.
And all this was one of Wren's original plans.
If you want to overthrow the 375-year rule of the Orlando family, you must pry the foundation of the Orlando family's rule, what is the foundation of the Orlando family?
Aristocrat!
Yes, from the very beginning, Wren was thinking about how to make the whole nobility stand on the opposite side of the royal family. This is a very difficult subject, because it is simply impossible to do, and the nobility and the royal family are inherently dependent and at the same time antagonistic to each other, which is a very ambiguous relationship. There is no absolute opposition, there is no absolute submission, and all can stand opposite the royal family when needed, but it can also stand behind the royal family.
And the most important reason for all this lies in the leaders of the three major aristocratic groups within the empire.
That is, Isaac, Pilagos, and Nengalael.
They are very sensible and know when to do something, and it is impossible for them to sit back and watch the royal family expand day by day, and at the same time maintain the strength of the aristocratic group. Only in this way can they, as well as the nobles, get a relatively balanced and peaceful environment, and only such an environment can be in the interests of every nobleman of the aristocratic class.
He was already thinking about it the night Wren moved into Ortlenburg.
Very successful, at least from the current situation. As he continued to incite the Empress Pars to discontent with the aristocratic class, the two forces finally broke out into an irresolvable conflict after several confrontations. The fragile balance they had maintained was completely destroyed by the addition of Wren. In fact, this can't be said to be all the credit of Rennes, they have also made a lot of contributions in this series of things.
If Empress Pars could rule the empire with relative gentleness like Emperor Orlando VI, if the nobles would not be so eager to confront the young emperor, if everyone could calmly resolve disputes through verbal communication.
So, what's the deal with Wren?
He just lit a fire in the middle, and then both sides took the initiative to add firewood to add fuel to the fire, and finally let the fire burn both sides beyond recognition.
Losing the leadership of the big nobles, and these small nobles were unwilling and unqualified to stand up and lead the nobles who had been scattered into a mess, Wren appeared in time to fill the most important vacancy in the aristocratic class.
He has status, strength, and authority.
No one disagrees with him, even if it is only superficially convinced.
Put these scattered aristocrats in the water called profit, and then pinch them tightly, and they will become a whole.
In the face of Empress Pars's high-pressure attitude, they also need Wren to be an umbrella to protect them from the wind and rain.
Hit it off!
With the support of these nobles, what else could Empress Pars do?
The Guards in her hands and the city defense army in God's capital, as well as the people in the hands of the Grace and Greon brothers, are nothing more than one or two hundred thousand. Why are they at war with more than half of the nobles in the entire empire, and why are they at war with millions of troops?
The nobles of the Northwest were already meek as lambs under the rule of the Grand Duke of Joan of Arc, and as soon as the Grand Duke of Joan of Arc appeared, they would throw themselves into the arms of Wren. Of the three provinces on the Eastern Front, the province of Bell was the preserve of Rennes, and the province of Tulum had almost fallen into the nest of the industrial and commercial party. The northern nobles and the southern nobles had reached the point of exhaustion because of Empress Pars's Northern Expedition, and Hukutius, who had not been affected, was now nominally Wren's territory.
In order to marry Ganwen's granddaughter, Nengalel's prestige among the southern nobles is no longer as effective as before, and the Byron Empire's invading army and the Northern Expedition have greatly damaged their vitality, who else in the entire empire can be a role that can block Wren's further progress?
No one!
No one could stop Wren from going any further, so he was now in front of these nobles.
As long as Byron decides to cease fighting, the Great Chief of the Full Moon will take the initiative to retreat, and at that time, while Grace and the Grien brothers have not had time to return to the imperial capital, they will strive to take the entire imperial capital in one go.
By that time .......
Wren couldn't help but laugh.
The nobles in the room, big and small, didn't know why Wren was laughing, but they all laughed.
The laughter was louder and louder, deafening!