After a hellish battle to defend the city, the Slavites in Kiev did not want to come a second time. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Therefore, the city of Kiev did not resist much and surrendered to the crusaders.

Humans, at least the Crusaders were all humans. At least, at least, the Crusaders won't kill them all after they surrender.

In the face of the cover-up, after the fall of Kiev, the whole of Ruthenia changed hands. This also means that this crusade has been a very, very rare success.

It's unbelievable, it's the age of steam, but the Crusaders still succeeded. An entire heretical state has changed hands. It's nothing short of a miracle.

And in the time that followed, the crusaders held revelries. As well as large-scale looting and forcible beeping, fortunately there are not many killings. This slightly better behavior made the Slavians reluctantly accept the rule of their new masters.

Of course, the number of these Slavits, who "barely accepted rule", was not too many.

Years of civil strife, centaur rage, and Crusader massacres reduced the number of Slavites in Ruthenia to less than a million.

That's less than a million people, and about a third are concentrated in Kyiv, the capital of Ruthenia, and nearby towns. The remaining population of less than half a million is scattered over more than 400,000 square kilometers of Ruthenia, which is as insignificant as grains of sand scattered in the sea.

Extreme population deprivation was the most serious problem faced by the Crusader rulers.

Of course, the Crusader rulers themselves did not think so.

They feel that the most important problem they need to face now is this - the power to rule.

The vast kingdom of Ruthenia is not inferior in size to any kingdom in the Gothic world. What kind of path should such a country take? Or to put it more concretely, more practically. Who will be in control of the country?

This was the most pressing problem that the Crusader rulers wanted to solve.

This issue caused a new round of heated quarrels.

In Kiev, the Knightly Crusaders, represented by the deputy head of the Gothic Order, Siboland, argued over this with the noble Crusader faction, represented by the four Grand Dukes of Wende.

The knights wanted to be able to establish a knightly state. The aristocracy, on the other hand, wanted Ruthenia to become a new Gothic feudal kingdom that believed in the glorious lord of the Roman Church.

The quarrel ended in a bitter end—for there was no William, or Duke Otto, or a member of the Hereford family, to help them out.

Although he knew that it was none of his business, William made a full plan to build the Kingdom of Ruthenia.

The first was the compromise between the Knights and the Gothic nobility. By dividing, co-opting, dividing, and granting privileges, the Gothic knights' ambitions to establish a knightly state were eliminated.

Just like the Kingdom of Jerusalem did with the Templars and Hospitallers. Or, it would be better to let this group of runaway knights form a new interest group, a new order of knights. He later became a vassal of the King of Ruthenia.

Maybe Cibolland wouldn't agree to such a plan, but after removing him, the other district captains below him, the knight mentors, would get more. William was sure to put this incompetent deputy head into the air.

In addition to this, a new Order of Knights, with extensive fiefdoms, castles and privileges in southern Ruthenia, will be born, and will become the first line of defense for the new Gothic-Ruthenian kingdom against the Tartarian centaurs in the south.

After this came the internal affairs of the Gothic aristocracy. Of course, the division of power within the nobility was more difficult than that of the Gothic knights. Because there were four nobles who were qualified to be king of Ruthenia. That is, the four Grand Dukes of Wende.

And the throne of the King of Ruthenia will definitely affect the position of King Wende.

If William was one of the four archdukes, it would have been Henry of Sironsk, who had the strongest army and the most powerful state.

If William were him, then he would have taken out the whole of Ruthenia as a feud. Use all the land as bait to bribe the other three Grand Dukes. and the other great nobles of the Wende Kingdom.

Use this partition plan to satisfy the desires of the nobles and win their votes. In this way, he can easily obtain the two crowns of the Kingdom of Wende and the Kingdom of Ruthenia.

Although in this way, he has gained only a little bit of fame, and the actual benefits are almost ...... But many times, a good name is more important than a short-term profit. Especially when the strength of Archduke Henry himself was the strongest of the four archdukes

With righteousness, with strong strength. Co-opting, dividing, suppressing, buying, annexing land. As long as he had enough means, he could easily take the noble privileges of the Wende and Ruthenian kingdoms for himself in a relatively short period of time. Truly master all the lands and power of the two kingdoms.

At that time, he will become one of the most powerful human nobles in the world. And even go one step further and become the emperor of the empire, and even the strongest in the human world.

Of course, Archduke Henry was not William, and he did not understand the truth that if you want to take it, you must give it first. Like all Gothic nobles, he was ...... by the land, crown, land, population, resources, and power of the entire kingdom of Ruthenia

He was dazzled by all this, and then like other nobles and knights, he fought desperately like crazy.

Knights, nobles, native nobles, Gothic nobles...... All of them were like shrews and thugs, and they had turned the whole of Ruthenia into a miasma. Unlike the Crusaders of hundreds of years ago, the Crusaders of today do not have the firm faith of their ancestors. There are just desires and greed that go further than they are.

In such a situation, the quarrel in the city of Kyiv was completely inconclusive. At the same time, something worse happened.

Not satisfied, not satisfied...... After such an easy annexation of Ruthenia, a part of the Crusaders began to swell.

They are not satisfied with the small profit they have now. Hope to be able to get more.

Immediately afterward, the Crusaders began to attack in all directions.

The first to suffer was the kingdom of Pyrm, which bordered the Kingdom of Ruthenia, a country of the Slavites that had just fallen to the Centaurs.

Because Tharida Khan had drawn the vast majority of Tartaria's army back to Tronica, the Kingdom of Pirm, like Ruthenia, was an undefended state. Similarly, the native nobles, who had just been ravaged by the centaurs, could not resist the wolf-like crusaders.

After more than a month of marching, and the suppression of sporadic revolts. The kingdom of Pyrm was declared to have fallen.

The Crusaders had another kingdom for them to fight for - which, of course, did not ease the contradictions within the Crusaders. On the contrary, the contradictions within the crusaders became more acute.

After discovering that he could not get the support of the others, the first to withdraw from the quarrel was the deputy head of the Gothic Order, Siberland, - of course, this is not to say that this guy is a man who respects the old and loves the young, and likes to be humble. Rather, he unilaterally announced the formation of the Knights' State. And most of Ruthenia, the whole of Pyrm, was included in the territory of its own "Neo-Gothic Knights".

He had to establish himself before the people at the headquarters came running over to grab the fruit.

After that, the four Grand Dukes also withdrew from the competition. and almost simultaneously declared themselves kings of Ruthenia and Pyrm.

In this way, in the lands of Ruthenia and Pilm, there were four kings with two crowns on their heads, and a grand master who claimed to be in the same position as the king. The crusaders nominally had five more supreme leaders......

"It's a farce. After learning the news, William couldn't help but comment.

Located in Circassburg.

"yes, it's a farce. They don't even have the slightest aristocratic demeanor. Beside William, Charlumi responded to William's words.

Meanwhile, on William's other side, Princess Elise looked embarrassed - for one of the men who had "lost the most basic aristocratic manners" was his father.

"I believe that the Grand Duke has his own considerations. And Ruthenia with Pirm...... Probably add Wende. That's three crowns. No one can resist such temptation. Across from the three of them, William's aunt Freya comforted.

After the crusaders were "on track", she left the ranks of the crusaders at the strong request of Duke Otto and returned to Circassia.

This was very incomprehensible to her subordinates - in the eyes of the vast majority, now was the time to pick peaches and snatch the fruits of victory. If you don't rush forward, forget it. He even had to retreat. It's simply ......

After Freya confirmed her return to Circassburg, her Crusader forces split. The nobles and knights who were attached to her ran away at the first time. Even the knightly troops who were truly loyal to her were mostly gone.

After returning to Circassburg, there were less than fifty horsemen left with Freya. It was one-fortieth of the glory of her army.

Originally, William felt that he would have to take a little more trouble to appease Freya - yes, he hadn't thought of sharing his "secret" with anyone else, not even Charomie.

But to his surprise, Freya's mood was calm. I didn't feel discouraged by missing such a great opportunity. Or something else.

This made William breathe a sigh of relief, and then inexplicably. And then I just don't think it matters.

All in all, compared to the chaos on the east bank of the Vistula, the Duke of Mystia was calm, even somewhat calm...... Uncanny.