Chapter 69: The Lombardy Storm

Should I say it's time to run, or something else? Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info All in all, during this time on the territory of the Visigothic Republic, the rules of the political game changed slightly.

From the very beginning, the other party was ****, and then pushed the other party to the guillotine and cut it, and replaced it with the current way to see who has more military merits and whose merits are greater......

Of course, occasionally there will be some unruly guys who flip the table and say that the guy who has more credit than himself is *** or something......

But of course, it is also possible that if you fail to impeach, you will be put on the same hat by the other side, and then a large number of troops will come and mutiny and kill the other side or something.

All in all, Paris is now in such a strange state of chaos and order.

In any case, the army, military command, military power, all this is more and more important. The status of those who were originally seen by the big men of the council as a group of useless, rude and uncivilized soldiers has become higher and higher.

It was in this situation that the Leopold general hooked up, or rather, recognized the current powerful Consul Robespierre as his benefactor. With a backer above, this idle general naturally wants to do something.

That is, Lombardy.

The small states of Lombardy, which are currently in a state of panic, and the Papal States, which are basically powerless, are all included. None could be stopped, and in fact there was little force to stop the powerful Visigothic army from attacking them.

In this case, it seems that there is no one else who can come to their rescue except the Russian Gothic Empire.

However, the question is, why should the Empire come to their aid, and what is the benefit of aiding them. If it's not good, why help these guys.

Come to think of it, the small Lombard states were very frustrated, because they couldn't think of any reason or excuse to think about.

If there is one more reliable one, it is that William is the emperor.

This emperor is not talking about the Russian Gothic Empire, but the Ostrogothic Empire, and if he is the Ostrogothic Empire, then as vassals of the Ostrogothic Empire, as part of the empire, they have a natural reason to ask His Majesty the Emperor for help.

This is also a common occurrence in the history of this world.

That is to say, the princes in the empire do not care about the emperor when they are unhappy, and the emperor has no one to greet him if he wants to collect taxes or anything, and he does not give the emperor a face at all. Moreover, they have to desperately maintain their country's independent status.

In this case, they would be hostile to the emperor.

However, when more powerful foreign enemies invaded, their first thought was still the emperor, hoping that the emperor would come to their aid. And it is better to bring your own dry rations for free assistance. If you can't do it, then the emperor is a piece of garbage, and he doesn't deserve to be an emperor, and he will lose people's hearts or something.

All in all, in the vast majority of cases, the Emperor was in such a rather difficult situation.

The situation did not improve slightly until William appeared.

This is not to say that the previous Emperor had anything - although His Majesty the Emperor of the Swabian family did come close to unifying the entire empire and accomplishing something that had never been done in a lifetime.

But on the other hand, compared to William's achievements, everything is fleeting and not worth mentioning.

In fact, now the last bit of blood of the Swabian family is in the hands of the emperor. Prior to this, in order to inherit Austria, Bohemia and other regions as a matter of course, William had also tried to persuade his father, Prince Otto, to marry the duchess.

But plans can't keep up with the rapid changes. The plan to divide the world between the Britons and the two sides to play in the territory of the Ostrogothic Empire was soon replaced by the rise of the Visigothic Empire and the decline of the Britons.

Nowadays, this mother and daughter are like chicken ribs, and it is a pity to abandon them if they are tasteless. William, on the other hand, gained the power to be crowned Ostrogothic Emperor after an alliance with the Britons.

Of course, this made the princes of all sizes in the empire more or less afraid, and at the same time they were afraid and had some expectations.

Some princes believed that William's coronation as Emperor was dangerous, but that would allow the rules of the game to continue in the Ostrogothic Empire.

Everyone can live a good life with the emperor and the emperor if there is nothing to do.

However, things are not as simple as they think.

After William had allied himself with Briton and succeeded in gaining the power to be crowned, he was slow to proclaim his coronation as Ostrogothic Emperor.

That is, since he is not yet an emperor, then he does not need to fulfill any obligations of an emperor.

This surprised and did not understand many guys who wanted to rely on their theoretical votes for the elector to blackmail William and seek benefits for their families.

Soon, however, as the Visigothic Republic progressed, these fellows finally understood.

It's not William himself who is in a hurry to make William emperor now, but the poor creatures.

If William had been crowned emperor and had led his army to fight the Visigoths, they would have had a future. But if William picks on like this......

He's in Moscow right now, where the mountains are high and the revolution is far away, and even if the Visigoths fight it, they will have to prepare for a few years.

But they're different. The Visigothic armies marched on every day, every day. Seeing that Frisia also fell. The next step was to attack Bohemia and Austria.

These two countries simply do not have enough strength to stop each other. And the small states of Lombardy can't even make up a whole country. With the rulers of those small states alone, that pitiful army, I am afraid that a single glance will wipe out the Visigoths.

In this case, the guys who run to Moscow in groups every day to cry Qin Ting naturally come and go one after another.

It's just that William's technology of robbing while the fire is far beyond their imagination.

In the case of everyone crying and shouting for William to be crowned emperor, William claimed that he was too talented and weak to serve as this important person.

The envoys of the princes of the empire secretly scolded in their hearts, especially everyone elected you as the emperor, so they don't care whether you are weak or not, what everyone cares about is whether your army can fight, and whether your royal family's financial situation is good or not.

If all of this can be guaranteed, you will be a fool and take care of our.

Of course, this kind of thing is just thinking about it in your heart, and it is completely impossible to say it.

So, after William said this, everyone cried and shouted that the most suitable person in the world to be the emperor is you, if you don't serve as the emperor, then there is no hope in this world. The Imperial Council has decided through research and discussion, it is up to you to be the emperor, and you will be crowned as soon as possible, and after the coronation, send a few million troops to kill the entire Visigothic kingdom. And then everyone can continue to live as they want.

However, things are not as simple as they think. The Emperor of the Empire, now the Gothic Empire of Russia, a title that seemed very unscrupulous to the traditional nobility of many empires, was still uninterested.

This made many old nobles feel resentful in their hearts. This is the most honorable title in the world, symbolizing the orthodoxy of the Goths, and you don't even know this, how do you do it, bastard.

If it weren't for the current situation, I really wanted to go back directly, and everyone would have broken up.

However, it's not that simple. If they really go back to their homes with the answer "The emperor doesn't want to be the emperor", their monarch will chop them up and eat them properly.

In this case, they can only compromise and continue to plead while inquiring about His Majesty's interests and hobbies through various channels, and asking what the Emperor wants to do, why he does not want to be the Emperor or something.

That's the right medicine.

Then, they quickly understood why.

Of course, the emperor wants to be the emperor, but what the emperor wants to do is not a nominal emperor like the Ostrogothic Empire.

What the emperor wants to do is a dictator in name and in fact, like the classical Gothic Empire, supreme, with a heavenly constitution in his mouth, who can rule the entire empire as a matter of course, and no one can compete with him, the real emperor.

The emperor wanted to centralize power.

The emperor wanted to revoke the autonomy of all nobles.

The Emperor wants to reform the Imperial Parliament, and he wants to truly unite the Ostrogothic Empire into a single state.

Of course, this is scary for all.

They shouted that this was not in keeping with the traditions of the Empire, which had been operating this way for hundreds of years, and that the glory of the Empire, the pride of the Empire, and of course, the power of the princes would not be guaranteed. If this is not in accordance with the rules, it will never work!

Then William responded with great pleasure.

Well, if you can't accept it, you can't accept it. Anyway, I don't want to be the emperor of the Ostrogothic Empire, you are all here to force me, and you say you can't accept it, so I won't be the emperor.

What a pleasure.

Looking at the expressions of these princes' envoys like idiots, William thought so in his heart.

He was not in a hurry, yes, William was not in a hurry at all.

Now it is the princes, the kings, the electors who should be anxious. They're the ones who should be in a hurry.

That's it. (To be continued.) )