A sudden victory made the members of the Blood Alliance very happy, and at the same time, it also witnessed the flaws of the canonization system. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The power of lords and city lords was too centralized, and cities far from the imperial capital became independent kingdoms. There are some die-hard supporters of the royal family, but more often than not, there are selfish self-interested people who disregard the laws and loyalties of the empire for their own benefit. It can be seen that the scope and tragedy of this civil war will definitely not be much easier than the previous two times.

As the second province to the west of the imperial capital, once the whole territory falls, it means that the imperial capital is on the brink of war. From the imperial capital to the province of Medalo, there are a total of seventeen cities spread over the territory. Among these seventeen cities, there are only eleven or twelve cities that are completely controlled, and other lords and city lords may not continue to support them at critical moments.

That night, Generalissimo Grace was secretly summoned to the palace to meet the Empress of Pars.

"I want to hear good news, but the world is full of malice. The sleep-deprived Empress Pals was a little haggard, and the city lord of Haofu City had committed treason to the enemy, which made her feel an indescribable grievance. As the choke point to the northwest with Medalo, the lord of Hoff City has always been favored. The Empress of Pars not only gave him enough trust and knighthood, but also gave the guy a lot of policies.

In the rest of the empire, ten to fifteen percent of the tax revenue withheld by the lord was already the end of the day, and a little more stretching out his hand could lead to dismissal. But the city of Hoff withheld twenty-five half, a quarter of the city's taxes! Some of this money naturally went into the pockets of the city lords, but some of them became the city's development funds, as insurance for the reinforcement of the city walls and the conscription of soldiers.

It was not only the city of Hoff that received such preferential treatment, but many city lords were taken care of by Empress Pars, including some lords, such as Angelo, and the city lord of Baratan.

Both cities are important choke points, on the one hand, the first line of defense against the invasion of other provinces, and also the bridgehead for invasion of other provinces. Even if you attack another province, there is no need to fight exactly this way, and if Tulum wants to invade Bell Province, there is no other way to go than to face Venier. However, most of these roads do not have a complete official road, not to mention the rugged and bumpy, and many heavy materials are difficult to pass.

Especially in some deserted places, there are countless natural traps created by nature, and it is clear that there is a grassland at a glance, but it may be said that there is a swamp somewhere, just like a wide mouth ready to swallow people and things at any time and anywhere.

An army may be able to carry forward its style and get through the difficulties, but the strategy of a province is definitely not such a hasty thing.

Therefore, in every transportation artery, Empress Pars has invested a lot of money, but it still can't stop some people from trembling in the face of the Blood Alliance's soldiers, and then choose to join the enemy.

Grace was silent for a moment before she spoke, "Actually, that's fine. ”

Lack of sleep and being carried away by the bad news, Empress Pars suddenly stood up and pushed the lamppost next to her to the ground, "You say that's okay, isn't it a good thing that my city lords have surrendered to the enemy? Isn't it a good thing that the shameless nobles have beaten the imperial capital?", Grace's words stimulated her a lot, and her psychological burden during this time was also extremely heavy, because she herself knew it very well.

Once the situation of the war is out of her control, it means that in such a civil war, it is very likely that the whole situation will go to the other extreme.

The reason for her civil war is to purge these disobedient nobles, make the aristocratic class shrink a lot, and consolidate the authority of the royal family in the empire. But she wasn't dying, and she didn't want the nobles to really overthrow her to the ground, she just wanted more centralized power, not a change of dynasty.

So Grace's words ignited her emotions that were completely out of control due to the disadvantage of the first game.

Her eyes widened, and she stared at Grace angrily.

The latter's face was still indifferent, and he bowed slightly, "I'm deeply sorry for what I said before, but I have to say that this is indeed a good thing." ”

"I'm waiting for you to explain the good things to me, my Generalissimo of the Empire!", Empress Pars's narrowed eyes shone dangerously, and in places that Grace didn't notice, two black shadows kept wandering on the ground, finally merging into the shadow behind Grace.

"If the rebels stay in one place, the situation in this war will become foggy. If they don't attack first, we can't find their shortcomings, as long as they move around, it is equivalent to giving us a chance. Now that we know that Pilagos himself has arrived in the city of Hoff, and will continue to advance eastward in the near future, the almost complete line of defense of the rebels has opened a gap because of the gains and losses of one city and one place. ”

"If we do it at this time, it's obviously more efficient than before. The battle between fist and fist is often a lose-lose situation, but if one side takes the initiative to release two fingers......", Grace stretched out his hands and made a simple demonstration, "then there must be an incurable injury, and if he stretches out a few fingers, he will break a few fingers." ”

Grace's words caused Empress Pars to gradually fall into contemplation, and the previous anger was nothing more than a sudden change in her emotions that made her emotions a little out of control, which is one of the reasons why those ministers and nobles thought that women were far inferior to men as emperors. Women really can't control their emotions perfectly, although many men can't, but at least they are better than Queen Pars.

After pondering what Grace had said, Queen Pars gradually returned to her composure, for what Grace said made sense. If the rebels have maintained a high-intensity defense against the outside world, even if the Imperial Army can gnaw on a few of their cities, it is estimated that they will have broken their teeth. Instead, it is better to break them into pieces, and change from a defensive position that is a joint defense of each other's horns to an attacker with several lines of attack.

Empress Pars has a deeper interpretation, once Pilagos has made great achievements, his reputation will inevitably be pressed within the Blood Alliance to Isaac to become the first person in the Blood Alliance. Isaac and Pilagos seem to be one and the same, but they are two people after all. Isaac's strong lust for power will never let Pilagos stand out alone, whether it is for himself or for anything else, he must make at least the same contribution as Pilagos and accumulate more prestige in order to suppress Pilagos's dominance in the Blood Alliance.

Empress Pars uses a deeper hypothesis, assuming that in the end she fails, that the Orlando Empire is dead, and who will be the emperor of Isaac or Pilagos?

They can still unite when they are passive, but once they get out of the passive situation, they become rivals in competition, and even more so - enemies!

With this in mind, Empress Pars was completely relieved, and she muttered for a moment, "I apologize to you, Gray. Grace lowered her head and said that she didn't dare to bear the apology of Empress Pars, Empress Pars stepped down from the throne and personally helped Grace up, "In military affairs, I don't know much, only your brothers are my most trusted generals in the empire, from today on, except for the very important strategic guidelines related to the fate of the country, you can decide other things in one word." ”

Empress Pars straightened up Grace's makeup, and finally patted him on the shoulder, "Maybe between us, there will be an archduke!"

We are referring to the group of golden nobles, although Orlando I vigorously defended and praised this group in the covenant, and said that if one day the Orlando family can no longer maintain this empire, the responsible and capable golden family can be elected to replace the Orlando family and become the royal family of the empire.

It's a beautiful word, but I can't do it.

It stands to reason that the golden aristocracy, as the pillar of the empire, should hold heavy power in each hand and unite with the royal family to suppress all the nobles. But in fact, this is not the case, the royal family controls the strength of the golden nobles as if they were nothing, and through dozens of purges, the four surnames have become history. Of course, this can't be blamed on the emperors behind, whoever says that the golden nobles can replace the royal family when necessary, it is impossible for all the emperors to really sit back and watch this group of threatening people become powerful.

The constant suppression and restrictions since the founding of the country have finally made the group of gold nobles docile. One by one, their wings were broken, and even if they still had some strength, they were only enough to protect themselves.

Want to meddle in the ownership of the empire?

There are no doors!

Check out this line of Antoon, Shuenna, Capofil, Alcaria...... and other golden surnames, how many of them have real authority in their hands?

And now, in order to consolidate the rule and power of the royal family, the Empress Pars has given the first lifting of restrictions since the founding of the country - the Grand Duke.

Grace, a man known as the god of war, once faced the undefeated god of war with 5,000 soldiers who had just 100,000 full moon iron horses, and his breathing became rapid at this time.

Grand Duke means that he can establish his own principality, within the scope of his principality, even the royal family can't control him, and he will become the king of the third principality of the empire!

"Your Majesty, half a year at most!", he clenched his fists hard, gritted his teeth with a cold face, and squeezed out a sentence, "I will definitely sweep away all the unministers!"

Empress Pars nodded in satisfaction, "I look forward to your performance. ”

When Grace gained the power of arbitrariness and left in high spirits, the smile on Empress Pars's face retracted. She looked thoughtfully at the shadows on the palace floor, and finally showed a sneer.

These people can't be trusted!

If she hadn't come up with this bargaining chip that was enough to attract everyone's attention and hook everyone's desires, I'm afraid Grace wouldn't have shown such a side.

At the end of the day, it's because you don't have enough chips.

The shadows on the ground flowed, and a pair of hands reached out from the shadows that were as dark as an abyss, pressed against the junction of shadow and light, and with a strong force, twisted his head and stood up. He wears a pitch-black cloak with a hood that covers his face, revealing only his pale chin.

"Empress, Your Majesty has secretly met a lot of nobles in the past few days, and I have made a list. The guy who crawled out of the shadows respectfully handed over a list of many surnames, and the Empress Pars glanced at it, folded it and held it in her hand.

"Don't alarm him for a moment, see what he's going to do, and wait for my orders. ”

The man seemed to be stepping on the ice, and the ice suddenly cracked, and he fell into the black shadow, quickly turning into a black line and disappearing into the palace.

These are the Shadow Dancers, known as the Shadow Clan, whose ancestors are said to have been children of the gods, and now they are nothing more than lackeys of the Emperor.

The old emperor's sudden disappearance in the palace would naturally alarm the Empress of Pars, but she was not surprised, just like herself, the old emperor also had his own bloodline ability. Empress Pars didn't know what the old emperor's abilities were, but she had always been careful and vigilant, so she arranged for two shadow dancers to keep an eye on the old emperor. Sure enough, I didn't expect that at this juncture, the old emperor actually escaped from the palace.

In fact, she already had a guess in her heart that the departure of the old emperor was directly related to this civil war. She also guessed the old emperor's thoughts, and he was nothing more than a last-hand insurance to find a way out for the royal family after the defeat of Empress Pars.

This is also the reason why Empress Pars has not moved Orlando VI until now, after all, whether he is selfish or not, in the end, his purpose is still for the royal family.

Sometimes the Empress Pars also sighed, would sigh. Born into the royal family, there was no such thing as family affection, and even in the last years of Orlando VI's reign, he became a little softer and more benevolent, and it was just a political show.

In this big family, there is a cold relationship between people who use and are used. She sometimes sighs that it would be nice to be born in a civilian home, to enjoy the warmth, and to enjoy the warmth, thoughtfulness and care between her family and family.

She yearns for that kind of life, with older brothers and sisters who love her, younger brothers and sisters who she can love, and the family lives happily and happily together. Maybe she doesn't have money, maybe she doesn't have power, but that kind of life full of laughter really makes her yearn for it.

However, the next moment, all the expressions on her face disappeared, and she gritted her teeth, she was the emperor of the empire, the empress of the empire, she controlled the lives and future of millions of Li people, she couldn't be soft-hearted.

This is her mission in this world!

Power!

Supreme power!

Only power can lead this family to glory and let her go to the top!