7. Coffee and Lullaby (6)
The bloody conflict that went down in history as the "Seven-Day War" is over, but the ripples caused by the plundering and consumption of three prosperous cities with hundreds of thousands of lives, countless riches plundered and consumed, will not disappear.
On the contrary, the ever-spreading ripples, combined with the various contradictions that have existed in various countries for a long time, have produced a wonderful chemical reaction, causing the international situation, which was originally a pool of stagnant water, to detach itself from the established track and move towards turmoil.
When the army of Titans, with wagons and wagons of booty, set foot on the axis in front of the Arc de Triomphe of Lüddes, the whole king was boiling. Charlemagne, who had long been numb to the stalemate on the northern front, angry at the country's heavy taxes and the growing number of orphans and widows, cheered like children, and flowers, praises, and the passionate kiss of a certain maiden flocked to the returning "king". Some of the people who participated in the entrance ceremony were too excited to faint, but the people still couldn't suppress their passion, and they wept with joy and shouted long live, the blue, white and red tricolor flag, the royal lily flag, and the Titans eagle flag roared and rose like ocean waves.
The kingdom of Charlemagne had been unable to move from the sea and Castile from both land, and had to bear the burden of helping Lapland resist the frenzy of the orcs westward and southward from the sea. Charlemagne had never achieved any notable victory, and the concept of the word victory and the joy that came with it were almost forgotten. Titans reawakened these.
The new army, richly dressed and armed with new weapons, quickly brought down the long-standing land enemy, the Habsburg kingdom of Castile. Almost ruined the country. When they returned home laden with gold, silver, jewelry, and artworks, portraits, and sculptures that best represented Castilian culture, a sense of national pride was ignited in their genes, and long-suppressed passions erupted through the small openings that were dug up, and evolved into a mesmerizing grand entrance to the city.
When Prince Bernard, who was riding on a white horse, under the admiring gaze of the men and the admiration of the women, announced like a good man who was willing to give a part of the spoils of war as a reward to the soldiers participating in the war, and proposed that part of the reward belonging to the prince himself be used for the construction of schools, orphanages, hospitals, and other public welfare undertakings, the tsunami of the mountain called long live almost turned the entire king upside down, and the fanaticism of the whole people reached its climax at that moment.
In the midst of that boiling ocean. Ears filled with cheers of "Hooray". Roland only felt cold in his hands and feet.
He could vaguely catch a glimpse of Li Lin's mysterious smile as he stared at the scene from his office, and he finally understood the true meaning of this war.
It is not to show the world the impact of new technologies on the shape of warfare, not to give Prince Bernard a foothold in Charlemagne, not to expand the share of V.E in the arms market - these are just the details of Li Lin's elaborate grand strategy.
What Li Lin wants. It's a handy tool. A Charlemagne who can bring turmoil to the world.
The military academy in Alfheim has never systematically expounded on what militarism is. What is its danger hài. However, military regulations and laws have always been strictly guarded against the possibility of the military interfering in politics and the possibility of the army starting a war without permission.
Why do you want to do that? Is it really as Li Lin said, "War is too important to be handed over to the generals"?
After witnessing Charlemagne's crazy performance. Roland seemed to feel the outline of the answer.
Logic and theory aside, the most important characteristics of militarism are that "death brushes hatred" and "death will lead to death." Its outward form is "not a country with an army, but an army with a state." ”
In the absence of internal means to resolve internal contradictions and conflicts, some countries inevitably choose to expand their armaments in order to avoid violent revolutions, and then use foreign wars to transfer contradictions and pressures. However, these countries have limited resources and cannot support military expansion and protracted wars beyond the bottom line of their own strength. Thus, the seizure of the territories and resources of other countries is both an end and a means, and a dangerous double-edged sword.
In order to seize resources, the army was expanded.
In order to defend the fruit, continue to expand the army.
Because of the expansion of the army, the director zhì resources are insufficient. So the army was expanded to start a new war......
A terrifying and dangerous cycle that anyone with the slightest common sense will understand will leave Charlemagne in the impulse of war, and eventually the country will be burned to the ground by the flames of war he has ignited.
Roland knows this, but he knows even more that no one would agree with Charlemagne at the moment.
If you have experienced the suffering of war, no one will have a passion for war. However, the "Seven Days War" did not have any impact on the lives of Charlemagne's people, and the rich results of this "blitzkrieg", which ended in a very short period of time without large-scale mobilization, even gave the people hope of an improvement in their living standards......
Charlemagne's view of war has been distorted by the appearance of lucrative profits, and now "if you follow the banner and go abroad, you will be profitable", and "war is not terrible, but can bring great wealth." -- These brain-boiling rhetoric is the mainstream, and whoever opposes the war deserves to die.
Because of this fanaticism, the pope who mediated the war, Castile who demanded reparations, and Seres, who supported Caslias's demands, were all regarded as "members of the anti-Charriman siege network". This is especially true of Castile, who, in Charlemagne's view, is not qualified to bargain for a soft egg who has been beaten down, who should have ceded his land and paid reparations, and who had relied on the favoritism of the Pope to avoid the destruction of the country. Now they want the victors to pay reparations to the vanquished? Do they think the Mother Goddess is Castilian and is on their side?
"Smash the Castilians again, and let these poor people remember our victory!"
This sound was like a spark scattered on a pile of wood, and it spread throughout Charlemagne's territory at once. People are hungry for new victories and expect more from them.
Therefore, instead of condemning the atrocities of Major General Vlad (brigade leader), the commander of the Titans front, people praised it as a heroic act.
The general from the Count of Wallachia inflicted stake punishment on the corpses and captives who had been killed in battle, and more than 70,000 corpses and living people were pierced from the anus by sharpened stakes, then out of the mouth or chest, and then exposed on both sides of Titans' return to the country like a frog caught by a hundred-tongued bird. There were also many miserable corpses that had been cared for in a sadistic way—those who had been skinned from their feet, sprinkled with salt, and licked to death by goats, who had been knocked open and fed their own brains, minced into minced meat and fed to pigs, and the Count's private collection was the pinnacle of it all—the dazzling human skin table lampshade and human oil soap......
Prince Bernard declared before he set out on the expedition that he wanted Castilla to remember Charlemagne forever, and now this goal has been achieved. (To be continued......)
PS: Guess the small theater Li Lin: The winners of the last issue are the poor nameless, stolen Tianmen, congratulations to the two!Nidhogg: Today's question 1.What is the prototype of Major General Count Vlad? (Hint: The horror of a certain vampire for 400 years, Uncle A is mighty, and Uncle A is domineering. 2. Where did the human leather table lampshade and human oil soap come from (hint: one of the specialties of a certain Auschwitz...... Everyone, hurry up and take action!