Outside the window of the headquarters of the First Division, puffs of dust and smoke rose on a vast flat field. With the raising of swords, thousands of cavalry rushed as fast as lightning.

"Commander, these things are honored by those politicians. Bernadotte quickly walked into the headquarters of the 1st Division, and handed a document that had just arrived to Briand, who was observing the combat training of the cavalry brigade: "At this time, the sixth protection fee for us this month has been given, a total of three million five hundred and fifty thousand francs. ”

"Sure enough. The corners of Brion's mouth raised, and he took a sip of coffee: "I said a long time ago that those big men have much more savings than the state, if you don't intimidate them, how can you let them obediently shed some blood?"

Suddenly, Briand looked a little displeased: "What's going on? Why hasn't the Brussels regional officials collected the protection money yet?"

"They don't believe in our strength. What does the division commander want to do? Do you need me to send my men to warn or urge them?" Bernadotte respectfully took the document and waited for his master's answer.

Brion shook his head, but there was a rare murderous aura on his face: "I never give others a second chance, especially this kind of villain who will only eat up the treasury! Act immediately, and report to the Paris government immediately if you have the handle, and with my face, the government will definitely deal with them strictly! If you don't have the handle, just create an accident and send the improvised Skynet! By the way, tell those boys that they are just probationary members, and if they can't do it this time, they don't have to come back!"

"Understood!" Bernadotte nodded tamely, and slowly retreated as he had treated the Emperor.

Brion, on the other hand, was still sipping his coffee while looking at the latest financial reports of the First Division, and he had so far looted nearly ten million francs.

However, this is not a loot, because he only used intimidation, coercion and other American underworld methods to make the aristocratic officials along the Rhine spit out all the stolen money from the previous embezzlement of the government. Theoretically, this is to kill the rich and help the poor.

However, this situation can be achieved not only by the deterrence of the Rhine Army itself in the Rhine region, but also by the Skynet spy organization that Brion recently secretly formed with national military funds. Its nature is basically the same as that of the FBI in the United States and the Military Administration of the Kuomintang, that is, it infiltrates a large number of spies throughout Europe. However, it is still under construction, and due to lack of funds, such a large plan has not been implemented.

However, although Brion scraped out more than 10 million at once, he is not a person who only cares about his promotion and fortune, this money is mainly used for the construction of the Rhine Legion troops, relying on these dark money, his power in the Rhine Legion has been further strengthened.

Brion first took a small amount of money, secretly expanded and strengthened the Iron Guard, which was only subordinate to him, and its combat effectiveness was much stronger than that of the Guards formed by Napoleon as emperor. This guard has a total of 2,500 veterans who have been on the battlefield, all French smoothbore guns, plus dozens of advanced mortars, and hundreds of war horses, which is very satisfying for Brion, who has just been promoted to major general. Of course, the main task of this army is to serve as a reserve and to protect Brion personally.

At the same time, Brion was also secretly cultivating his own forces, and he gathered 3,000 horses in the entire 1st Division to form a cavalry brigade with strong combat effectiveness, and secretly assisted Davout to become the commander of this cavalry army. He was also promoted from a petty junior officer to a colonel, and from then on he became a loyal follower of Brion.

In addition, he also spent a considerable amount of money to buy a factory, and set up an exclusive military factory dedicated to serving Brion personally. At Brion's behest, the military factory has been working on a secret weapon that has never appeared before in this era.

The most important part of Titan's plan is to expand the army of 80,000, but the apparent lack of funds is obvious. The French authorities would of course be suspicious if they found out that the Rhine Corps had 10 million troops at once, as well as 80,000 fully armed and well-resourced recruits.

If it was an ordinary person, of course, because of this fact, the expansion of the army would be stopped, but Brion had already thought of a countermeasure.

Even Pisgru was kept in the dark, Brion secretly recruited 80,000 strong men in the name of recruiting workers in his southern France and in Germany. In order to hide this fact, Brion also specially brought these people back to the fiefdom. The policy of unarming and farming turned them into militias driven by the Duchy of Baden. Not only did it increase the productivity of the fiefdom, but Brion also had its own army of 80,000.

Eighty thousand people is indeed a large number, and it is true that the fiefdom cannot support them. So Brion simply sent an order to his temporary Skynet to sweep the eunuchs in the Rhine region once a month, so that their funds would be enough to support these soldiers......

Amid the sound of galloping horses' hooves, an elaborate carriage stopped in front of the headquarters of the 1st Division. Brion hurriedly grabbed a blue document and got into the car that had been prepared.

Driving the carriage was a young lieutenant named MacDonald, the last marshal in history who was loyal to Napoleon. However, he only joined the army in 1785, so Brion had to promote him to lieutenant first.

"General, where are you going?" asked MacDonald, very respectfully.

Brion looked around like a thief, and when the alarm was cleared, he replied, "Let's drive around and see if anyone is following." Recently, the results of the research on weapons in military factories have come out, and I want to take a look. ”

In fact, the young lieutenant officer has become Brion's henchman, and has become a loyal follower of Brion along with Davout and Bernadotte. Otherwise, such a secret and important job as going to the munitions factory would not have been handed over to such a young man who had just been transferred to the Rhine Legion.

"Yes, General, but didn't you plan to go and see Second Lieutenant Napoleon in Ozon first?"

"Okay, let's go see my old friend first. Brion nodded expectantly, after all, the city of Ausonne was not far from here, and he hadn't seen him for two years and didn't know how Napoleon was doing now.

So MacDonald, a master driver, drove Brion in a horse-drawn carriage for about three hours, and came to the town of Ozon, the temporary garrison of the Valence Legion. According to Napoleon's address provided by the legion, Brion's carriage turned into a deep alley after searching for about half an hour. After a while, a cheap rental house appeared in front of the two.

Brion slowly got out of the carriage and turned back and handed the lieutenant a hundred francs: "You can drive around the city for a while, and buy whatever you like." ”

MacDonald nodded, and after pulling the reins, sped away in the carriage, and vanished after a turn. Brion looked around, and after making sure that his pistol was ready, he slowly walked up the stairs of the rental house. When I walked to the door of the fifth room on the second floor of the rental building, I reached out and knocked on the door.

The door was opened by a child of about eight years of age, who looked very similar to Napoleon, which Brion could not help but recognize the child at a glance.

"Are you Monsieur Louis?" said Brion smiling, touching the little head of Napoleon's brother, Louis Bonaparte.

Brion was no stranger to this child, as Louis Bonaparte was later appointed King of the Netherlands by Napoleon. It was he who fought hard against Napoleon's blockade of the continent, and it can be said that he was a very important talent of the Bonaparte family in this era.

The child didn't show much affection, and after a while he ran into the room, and I followed the footsteps of the child into the door of this crowded low-rent house.

"Duke of Baden?!!, how are you?" came out of the room, a dirty, unkempt young soldier, but he was not as friendly as Brion had imagined.

However, Brion still treated Napoleon as friendly as he did back then, and he stepped forward: "Napoleon, we haven't seen each other for two years." ”

"But I haven't seen you for two years, but you've changed. Napoleon looked at Brion in the uniform of a senior general with contempt, as if he were looking at the nobles of the past: "You are now a major general, are you?"

"That's right, I'm a major general now. ”

"But why do I think you don't look like a person?"