259 Political and military
"Shall we just allow the Great Abbey to stir up chaos in the country?" At the moment, Grerell was not with Beryl, but as if infected by the red-haired former nun, he roared at his superior, "Why don't we send a force and just take those people in the convent and smash them at stone?" I believe that smashing rocks in the sun for a few days must be very good for the souls of these people! ”
"Yes, I think so too, but now is not the time, how do you say that sentence? Military affairs are an extension of politics...... "Chief of Staff Jason did not move in the face of the roaring eight winds of his subordinates, and fully expressed the suzhì of a professional bureaucrat," the dog wags its tail, not the tail wags the dog, she said, Her Majesty is against the war with the Grand Monastery...... For now, that's the case. ”
"Military is an extension of politics?" Beryl was very confused, "What is a political zhì?" ”
"Uh...... I don't know anything like budget diplomacy. In fact, Jason agrees with Beryl in this regard, he thinks that the so-called politics is the game of the nobles in the court, and he understands that this kind of game can extend to war, and the boring games of the court ladies often cause war, but he doesn't believe that all wars are caused by this kind of game, isn't it obvious? The people of the two tribes, even if they look different, speak different languages, and none of them know what "政zhì" is, but this does not prevent them from getting together! "Is there also a political dispute between a wolf and a fox, a cat and a dog?" He once asked his queen majesty like this, and the answer to him was two sentences haha, obviously. The Queen's Majesty's words didn't know where they came from, which upset him. She is still stubborn.
Thinking of the brutal and extraordinary budget war, Beryl shrank his head. He secretly made up his mind to get as far away as this damn "political zhì", but he didn't give up and said to his superiors: "We can't watch the Great Monastery set fire everywhere in vain!" ”
"Where are we looking in vain? It's true that we can't go to war with the Great Monastery right now, but we've been doing the thing of capturing its lawless minions and cutting off its tentacles, and besides, His Majesty definitely doesn't mean that to the Grand Monastery...... "Although the Great Demon King Luo Yi didn't say it explicitly, Jason was very sure that his boss was quite pragmatic in his attitude towards the gods, and as for the venerable archbishop, ha. He must have been happy to see the death of the priests who practiced different rituals than he did, the priests, all of them, their peers were enemies, and Jason understood very well. Based on this understanding, Jason made the judgment that "not going to war with the Grand Abbey is only temporary".
"But they have been setting fires everywhere, and we can only wait for the flames to rise and catch the arsonists, so isn't that a lot of damage in vain? What exactly is His Majesty worried about? Is it a scruple of the gods? "Beryl was very unhappy. If Her Majesty fears the punishment of the gods, the people will suffer, and the great monastery will gain an inch.
"It's not about the gods, it's about the people who serve the gods." When explaining for Belier. Chief of Staff Jason also slightly understood some of the truth that "military affairs are an extension of politics", and he told Berlier his experience: "There are a total of twelve bishops in Neustria, and two bishops go with the royal family. There are still ten more bishops, and the archbishop is on our side. Of the remaining nine, three were on the same page as the Great Abbey. The other six attitudes** - they did not openly oppose it, nor did they incite it in private, I don't think it can be said that they approve of us in their hearts, but as long as they don't do anything, time will be on our side! ”
"Buying time?"
"Yes, time, it can defeat all the strongmen in the world." The Chief of Staff suddenly sighed, because he remembered the militia that had been recruited and trained, the others who had also been organized and trained, and waited for them to be integrated...... Gotta wait for them to integrate! Then he sighed when he thought of the roads that were being repaired, the deserted land that had been cleared, the people who were beginning to get a respite, and he hated the situation of putting out fires everywhere as much as Beryl, especially when he was appointed chief of the fire brigade, but he had to be patient and rack his brains to do this tedious and painful firefighting work.
Her Majesty the Queen named the exercise a fire drill when she practiced in her domain before, which was really prescient......
"Therefore, we must not act directly against the Great Abbey, otherwise the others—not only the bishops, but also the abbots and the lower priests—will panic, and then the chaos will be considerable, and we really don't have the manpower to fill the vacancy that has been vacated by them, and some of the people are still on their side, but we can't do nothing, and in this way, they will be unscrupulous, and it will be really troublesome."
Those who aspire to command the military power of the whole country probably can't imagine what a hot position this will be, and now it is not only the Royalist stronghold of the Great Abbey that keeps Jason busy, but also characters like the former Baomai merchant Karl, not only in Turnest, but in the whole Newsterian Kingdom, wherever they are touched by the New Deal, they can be seen everywhere. They don't have the strength or guts, but incitement and rumors are their forte, and in the old days, if the cows didn't produce milk and the child was sick, they blamed the evil witch's magic, and now there are rumors in many places that people are unlucky because of the absence of the orthodox king of Neustria.
"If the Orthodox King is on the throne, the cows will produce milk and the people will not get sick, so let's pray together that the one who left will get his crown back soon!" Such words are circulating everywhere.
There were also bandits, who had been hunted down by the royal family in the past, but now had the strange idea that at such times, loyalty to the former royal family could be rewarded by the nobles. With this will, they slaughtered in broad daylight those whom they considered "allies with the usurper", some of the government officials were killed by them, and some of them were pure unlucky people who were killed only because the bandits needed to stand by themselves, or who were unfortunate enough to be at the scene of the killing, or who refused to supply the "army of the orthodox crown". Among the bandits caught by the army, some of them were instigated by the Great Abbey and other people loyal to the old royal family, and some were purely self-proclaimed, and their actions were all kinds of speechless, and Jason's men even caught a fool who claimed to be the reincarnation of the Savior to help the orthodox king restore the throne...... (To be continued......)