Chapter 15 Give me a way to fend for myself

From the fourth generation of the Rodney family, the royal family has gone into decline, and this trend of decline is not that a young child falls and can cry twice and get up again, but more like an old man in the twilight of his body, slowly approaching the ground, and falling to the ground with his head, never having a chance to get back together. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

By the 10th Century, the royal family wanted to regain their lost power, but it was too late, and the Church had become a big climate, holding the military power of the entire empire. The Rodney family used their remaining feudal and administrative powers to curry favor with some local forces and give them titles, so as to win them over to serve the royal family, so in the past seventy or eighty years, the Amellot Empire suddenly had more than 200 nobles, and there were a lot of barons and marquises.

This practice made the church very dissatisfied, but perhaps it was the existence of these nobles that made the pope not ruthless to the royal family, and it has been maintained until now, after a long war, Heino finally controlled the entire empire, and even took away the administrative power, leaving only a false name for the royal family. The Church also showed no mercy to the petty nobles who caused the division, and directly outlawed their titles and fiefdoms, leaving only one of the most difficult bones to gnaw in the whole south, the Duchy of Seneh.

Now it seems that Brian left a life for Alex, which did play a certain role, and the Grand Duke has now become the object of aristocratic support, and they have defected to him with their families and their own arms, which has formed a great obstacle to the realization of the unification of the South by the Church. Of course, Brian didn't do it on purpose, he just gave up the assassination because of his own nightmare. A year later, Brian realized that he had made the right choice, that Alik was not as easy to kill as he thought, and that if he had attacked rashly that time, he would probably not have survived now.

Everything that exists has its own reasons, just like the barbarians, who also look stupid, but who knew that they had such a powerful protection as the centipede people. It's like a dwarf, who has been living in the southeast for tens of thousands of years, and doesn't seem to have any military support, but it has not been wiped out, who knows what their hole cards are?

When the lord of the Giant City, the Marquis of Hobson, took his army and defected to the Archduke of Alec, the fat man was still very excited, and the 10,000 soldiers brought by Hobson greatly enhanced Seneh's strength. But the successive defectors behind made the Grand Duke scratch the top of his head bald and his head was broken, so many people, where to arrange?

As soon as there are more people, eating becomes a problem, how can Alik have excess reserves to support these people, and they are all nobles, not ordinary people, they need a certain amount of territory to be stationed in, they need mansions to live in, can it be said that the whole Seneh is cut into hundreds of small pieces and distributed to these guys? Alik shook his head, he didn't trust these nobles, in the Great Patriotic War in Yamelo, in the original battle between the two popes, this group of people were all watching the fire from the other side, and they barely contributed much, how could they be trusted? (When Alik condemns others, he forgets that he is actually watching the fire from the other side)

Seneh swelled, swelled to the point where it was necessary to start a war, or expand outward, if not solved immediately, hundreds of forces would be fighting within the principality, this is not the result that Alik wants to see, even if it can be suppressed, it will also suffer a lot of attrition, just so that the church can take advantage of it.

Alec gathered all the nobles into his mansion and held a general assembly.

The obese Duke Alex sat on a high platform, accompanied by Hobson and others, and Alex's nephew Kellogg led the forbidden army of Sacred Heart City and imposed martial law on the whole city to prevent anyone from making trouble.

"I have invited you here today because of an important matter to discuss. Alik coughed and said what he meant, "Ladies and gentlemen, I am grateful that you have come to me with your army to inject new strength into the Duchy of Seneh. However, Seneh was too small to accommodate two hundred nobles, like a thin man who could not eat two hundred pounds of fat. ”

After Alik finished speaking, his small eyes looked around for a week, observing the movement under the stage, although there was a commotion, but no one took the lead in jumping up to express dissatisfaction, after all, these goods are lost dogs, and it seems that they can't stir up any storms.

"I now announce a list of the names of the ten marquises, whose names are read, who may remain in their own country, and enjoy new fiefdoms and related benefits. Alik said, picked up a blank piece of paper on the table, and read the names of the ten marquises. "At this time, someone will definitely ask me, what to do with the rest of the people, I just want to say, you can do it. ”

The Grand Duke's words caused an uproar, and he waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet: "Please calm down, with the strength of my army and the ten marquises, it is impossible for you to do anything. Now I will show you a way out, my lords, there are still many places around the Duchy of Seneh that can be developed, and you can show your strength to your heart's content, and go there to establish your own territory. ”

Alik had the man hang up a huge map, then came to the side of the map, and pointed to it: "To the south, Toby Town and Maple Town are deserted, you can go there to rebuild, and Clay City has a large territory, as long as you are good at dealing with volcanic ash." Of course, you can choose to go further south and either invade the Mist Kingdom or attack the Gnome Realm, if you love nature. But I still have to warn you that it's best not to provoke the Mist Kingdom easily, Brian's bastard can't afford to mess with, he always makes people suffer. ”

"The north and west sides are not bad, the Duchy of Godobotan is gone, there must be nobles from there, you can choose to take back your land, as long as you have the courage to oppose the church. ”

There was a boo from the audience, and the meaning of everyone was obvious, if you dare to go against the church, you can still come to you Alik, you fat man still drive us back?

"If you're feeling frightened by the north-west, there's another direction, the east. Alik smiled and tapped the map with his hand, "There is an endless sea to the east, I can provide you with some ships for free, maybe you will find islands that can survive, maybe you can also find Dragon Island, live with the sacred dragons, and become their neighbors." ”

The Grand Duke suddenly glared and said: "In short, there is a way out in the south, east and west, you are limited to leave within a week, whoever makes trouble first will lose his head first!" (To be continued.) )