I'm confused.

The same goes for Alexander.

Looks like Eagle Castle is something that Cheap Daddy made up when Alexander and I weren't around. In my knowledge of cheap daddy's ideas, there's a good chance that Eagle Fort has a very iconic building. Because he has never had much imagination and innovation when he was codenamed.

Sure enough, this is Eagle Castle, and it's really Eagle Castle.

Sitting in the carriage, he saw the two-headed eagle with its wings outstretched and clutching a round cake under it.

Hehe, it's worthy of my cheap dad.

Alexander glanced at the projection of the eagle and lamented, "That eagle has a lot of money." ”

The place where the Eagle Castle was located was quite familiar, and I looked left and right for a while, and vaguely remembered that it was originally a port attached to the fleet, and there was a small town outside. But now two years ago, the townspeople have been moved, and I didn't expect that Daddy built a castle on the cliff.

Alexander withdrew his gaze from the window and said, "This should be the new naval headquarters." ”

Navy Headquarters?

The headquarters of the Imperial Legion has always been where the cheap daddy is, and the navy has always been in his hands with the infantry legion.

Now, with the establishment of such a big castle, does Cheap Daddy want to decentralize power, or does he choose to use this place as the headquarters for handling government affairs in the future?

The port town became an annex to what was most likely a naval base.

The carriages clattered along the gravel streets, and I saw all sorts of wagons parked on the side of the road. Some are transporting food supplies. Some were bundled with stone and wood, and some were loaded with bundled cannons.

The junior officers commanded the workers in the town to do this and that, in the harbor and outside the castle. I could see that several 16-pounder guns were being lifted by crane to the battery, and on the side of them, soldiers were carrying shells and gunpowder into it, and it looked like a magazine of shells. In short, inside the Imperial Navy Headquarters, the whole town is full of busy scenes, obviously. The Imperial Navy headquarters has not yet completed its operations.

This is not only to build forts and ports, but also to make beautiful fortresses, so that military life is fully equipped. It's really hard to imagine that Daddy Cheap is really willing to pay such a huge amount of money for a group of admirals who have never even fought a few naval battles when the country is spending money everywhere. But when the guys in the army see that the navy has obtained such a beautiful headquarters, will they not clamoring to increase military spending?

With the record of the Imperial Navy, it is still the same thing as a decoration for intimidation, and it is really necessary to fight. That's the same thing again. You know, the enemies of the empire have always been Muslims, and Muslims have fleets?

Probably in the twelfth century, but in the later centuries, the money they could use to buy ships, shipbuilders, and cannons was used to breed horses and camels, and to play cavalry warfare on land with our Roman Empire.

However, it is not that the Imperial Navy is not taken seriously, you must know that the Lu Dao Navy is a force to defend the right to trade at sea, but the previous imperial family is a little weak. The Imperial Navy was decadent for more than a decade under his rule. Later, the navy of the empire was only re-emphasized after our Seofano family seized power. But no matter how much the empire attaches importance to it, it can't conjure up a group of enemy warships out of thin air to fight against the imperial warships.

So the Empire allied with the Netherlands, and then helped them to fight, out of a strategy to make up for the lack of naval strength of the Empire?

I shook my head at this point.

The carriage followed the gravel road to the castle gates.

At the gate, with two huge black vertical flags sandwiched in the middle, there were already two officers waiting there. Looking at the military ranks, both of them are corps commanders in the army.

Alexander and I slowly stepped out of the carriage. Seeing me coming, the two of them hurriedly stood up and stretched out their hands to salute.

The two sides saluted, and one of the legion commanders said to me with a smile on his face: "Welcome back, two highnesses, on the day you return to the Empire, all of us are worried about your safety. You know, you are passing through Russia, and the journey is so long, God knows what those Russians will do to you. We were all delighted to hear that the two had finally arrived at the borders of the Empire. ”

Another legion commander on the side answered, "Caesar, in particular, who could not wait to see you, arranged for us to meet you at the door, and asked them to send someone to inform him as soon as they arrived. ”

The interior of the castle is lavish, with a new picture of the brightly lit floor, thick oak furnishings, scarlet wool curtains, crystal chandeliers everywhere on the ceiling, and at the same time, proportional to the luxury, a heavily armed court guard standing every ten meters.

Alexander and I continued to follow the two corps commanders deeper into the naval headquarters.

Through a gate guarded by four soldiers, I saw the open hall behind the gate.

The hall was the size of a basketball court, and an untold number of soldiers were carrying tables, chairs, huge globes, and sand tables.

Shouts, reprimands, and orders came from all corners in a row, a tense and lively scene.

On the façade in the middle of the hall, the mosaics of the Byzantine tradition are presented in a different form, and the Cheap Daddy has the traditional religious craft turned into militaristic propaganda work, on which a vast territory encompasses Russia and the Black Sea, as well as Siberia.

"Attention !! All"

The Legion Commander who led the way for the two of us shouted at this moment.

"Salute to the two Highnesses!"

The officers all ceased to act, and at first they were stunned, as if they were remembering who the two Highnesses and I were, Alexander, and then immediately stood tall in the same place, and raised their hands in salute, and I found that they looked at me with the same admiration and reverence as the guards in the aisle, and at Alexander's eyes with adoration and fanaticism.

Alexander and I raised our hands in return, and then he said, "Go on with your work." ”

Further up was the level where the most important high-level personnel stayed, a thick door guarded by a dozen soldiers blocked out the noise downstairs.

"Two Highnesses, Caesar is waiting for you inside. ”

"Caesar, Your Majesty, the two Highnesses have arrived!" said one of the legionnaires, knocking at the door, and after shouting, he opened the door for us. ：

"Please come in. ”

Sunlight shines through the fluttering curtains of the windows into the room, and the whole environment is unusually holy against the bright light, and when I look around, I see that this hall is not much smaller than the one below, and the layout of this hall is similar to that of the hall below, except that the painting symbolizing the territory of the vast empire is placed on the ground, and on the vault-like ceiling, there is a huge mirror, which shows the map below again.

Behind the map was a black carpet with scarlet gold trim, and a large black-brown solid wood desk was on top of it.

Behind the table is a row of tall bookshelves filled with books of all kinds. On the other side hung an imperial flag and a flag of our family of Theofano. To the left of Alexander and I, there was a huge combat sand table with toy chess pieces representing an army on it.

Alexander, who seemed to be still immersed in the extravagance of this hall, turned to the two captains who had brought us here, and said, "We will go to Caesar now, and I will have you called when I need you." ”

"Yes, Your Highness. ”

The two of them nodded their heads, then stood up and saluted.

When they returned the salute, they closed the door and left.

Compared to the movement outside, this place is as quiet as if it were another world. Before the two legion commanders could take a breath, Alexander said, "Millions, four or five million." ”

I replied, "It shouldn't be so many, it's about two or three hundred thousand." ”

"I'm talking about the cost of the entire port and the fortress. ”

"Oh. ”

While I was talking to Alexander, I was so surprised that I almost bit my tongue with a figure out of the corner of my eye. (To be continued......)