()561 The Dispute between the North and the South (3)

The journey from Hutu Büen to Victor is not long, the road is made of gravel blocks, neatly polished as if it had been heavily polished, and along the road are flanked by large areas of bōhua woodland.

This hardy plant, even in the cold winters, is evergreen and evergreen, so it is also called evergreen, these dense forests, make up the main body of the earth. Like a clump of dark green sè grass spread on the vast land,

When the cold winter is gone, the earth revives, and a fragrance wafts from the fields, the meadows, the bushes, and the huā that fills the forest, and the birds fly to and fro on the rooftops, and make all sorts of sounds among the branches by the side of the house, and the bushes covered with huā, until the forest that is shaded by the sun and the rising sun to the distant mountains.

On the top of the mountain, there are shallow, silver, gold, purple and transparent clouds, which are sometimes thick and sometimes light, slightly setting off the clear blue sky around the horizon

A white carriage drove on the wide pavement, and there was no frills on the carriage, except for a starlight sign on the carriage, but on either side of the carriage, a dozen or so horsemunuks dressed in ornate decorations followed behind with a reverent and solemn face,

Most of them were young and handsome-looking, with a proud smile on their faces that belonged to the knights of Mamunuk, the armor on their bodies shining dazzlingly in the sun, and the high xōn chamber was inlaid with a hexagonal coat of arms in gold,

The tall war horse walked with a strange step, which looked like it had been arranged in advance, neatly lifted, and then neatly put down, giving people a strange and fresh sense of rhythm,

It was popular among the Salander nobility for the "horse step" and is said to have more than thirty kinds of step rhythms,

It is often used in the promotion examination of the Mamunuk knights, which is a compulsory course to win the favor of those big men or noble ladies, but it is used in this place, which seems nondescript, but it also shows that the identity of the owner of the carriage is extraordinary

Among these Mamunuk knights, one more xōn was wearing three such hexagonal insignia, a young man with silver hair, and his keen eyes from time to time looked at the pedestrians in front of him.

The other Mamunuk knights were close behind him, no one dared to overtake his horse's head, even if they sometimes accelerated, they would deliberately keep a distance from him, like an invisible horizontal line, drawn deep in everyone's mind, this is a mark of combat valor, only the Mamunuk senior knights who had a heroic expression in the battle and were rewarded by the Ministry of Military Affairs are eligible to wear such a hexagonal badge, representing the meaning of the starry sky,

Three represents three times, indicating that these Mamunuk knights had participated in brutal battles, and not those who had just been recruited from the nobility and only knew how to show off.

They were the warriors of the Salander army, warriors with a strong sense of pride, and their current status was the bodyguard of the kingdom's starry sky sacrifice Parschena, personally assigned by the great king Xià.

Of course, not everyone was happy about the beauty of this trip to the north with the Heavenly Sacrifice, such as the silver-haired knight leader Yesug, who was the one who rode in front,

He was a well-known warrior in Kyoto, and he and his squadron of Mamunouk were proudly hailed by the Kyoto army as "our war eagles"

This title comes from the fact that he once had a record of taking the initiative to meet the battle falcon cavalry of the Normans with only one squadron, although he was defeated that time, suffered heavy losses, and had the opportunity to fight all his subordinates, but he was the only commander who did not break up under the strong attack of the goshawk Avi,

At this moment, he looked at the foreground with a hint of melancholy in his eyes, the news of the death of the goshawk Avize had reached the kingdom of Kyoto, although there was no physical confirmation, but the strange behavior of the Normans outside the city during this time had made a good proof,

Goshawk Avize, this undefeated nightmare, actually fell silently in the north of the kingdom, this news became the news that after the killing of the wild wolf Hou Savis, the people of Salander felt the news of the jīn god, and the people of Kyoto were shocked, but it also shocked Kyoto for the hidden power of the north,

Jesug and Jehardo, who served as the commander-in-chief of the north, were both representatives of the main war faction in Kyoto, and both advocated the establishment of a solid logistics line in the north to transport supplies and soldiers through guò to support Kyoto's long-term war.

The difference is that Jesug advocated a moderate policy towards the north, and a certain amount of favor was used to envelop the lords of the north.

Gerhaldo, on the other hand, advocated the adoption of high-pressure measures to force the north to submit to submission with strong pressure, and if necessary, to take advantage of the great reduction of the Normandians' close attacks to deal a military and political double blow to some of the lords in the north who were not subject to management, and completely firmly put the north in the hands of Kyoto.

If these northern hillbillies dare to object, they don't mind declaring the northern lords treason in the name of the kingdom's regular army, and then arrest all these guys who don't know gratitude

This idea was very popular among the nobles of Kyoto in Salander, because of the loss of a large part of the south, eighty percent of the nobles of the kingdom were gathered in Kyoto, and in the presence of Normandy soldiers, these southern nobles who escaped were still able to suppress their resentment and hatred in their hearts.

But now, the momentum of the Normandian attack has been alleviated by some unexpected circumstances, and these originally suppressed contradictions have erupted.

Since the land in the south cannot be taken back, then give us the land in the north, anyway, in the hands of those hillbillies, it is useless

This kind of argument has flowed out of many southern nobles, who have never taken the weak nobles of the north into account, not before, and not now.

What's more, some news from the north made them stupid, known as the mainland treasury Vicchia, actually in the north of those poor eggs to do trade, and jā is extremely easy, countless sea ships shuttle between the two places, carrying thousands of boxes of goods every day,

It is said that as long as any commodity can be boarded on those ships and meet the other side of the strait, it will immediately enter a place called a trading place.

If you can run safely for a month, after deducting some subtle and incalculable wear and tear that may occur on the road, and about less than 10% of the excise tax, tens of thousands of yellow and dazzling gold coins will be in hand.

I have never heard of such a person making money, it is simply a robbery, I heard some merchants who have been to the north say that even a poor small northern lord can easily take out a few thousand gold coins to repair his country hut

The Starry Sky Priest Parschena gently lifted the curtain of the carriage, and looked at the wide road under her feet that could be run side by side with four carriages, with a little surprise on her face,

From Kyoto to Hutu Beien, hundreds of villages in the barren mountainous areas along the way were either burned down, or only a few old men and fùnv in tattered clothes were left there, and the bony children looked innocently at anyone who walked through the villages with their big blank and helpless eyes, and the villages were lifeless, completely unrecognizable to the activity and busyness of the hūn season of sowing.

But this is not terrible, through the study of astrology, Parschena can vaguely sense in her heart that this year there may be a great drought that is rare in a century,

There was not a drop of water in the whole winter, and the land just after the severe cold was still white, and there were dry and cracked ravines everywhere, and large swaths of land were abandoned on the roadside, and waist-high weeds grew on them, and when the wind blew, it made a whooshing sound, and in the night, it sounded like a whimpering sound.

This situation has been going on for half a year, all men over the age of 14 have been requisitioned into the army, and the entire north-central part of Salander has completely lost its due momentum, and everywhere is a wither, and even the lords of some small places have to leave their territories and run to the relatively prosperous north

Now, all of a sudden, there was a change in front of my eyes.

First of all, the village on the road began to have a face, here is full of beautiful hūnsè, the earth is shining with a golden luster, the field is full of huā fire, the shrubs around the field, there are hundreds of huā flowers blooming, among the towering trees, you can see the golden roofs of large village houses, decorated with colorful huā flowers,

Young figures abound in the fields, and their male nv bent over together, with a happy smile on their lips, sowed the wheat seedlings in their hands onto the land with strange horizontal lines, which if you look closely, you will find that they are vertical and horizontal deep furrows, and the black sè land is full of the smell of wheat seedlings

This made the face of the starry priest Parschena more surprised and surprised, I had long heard that Heck's territory was a strange place, and instead of enslaving the commoners, the local lords rented the land to the peasants in their own territory at a very low price, regardless of whether it was originally a Heck's or not, as long as they were willing to move to Heck's territory to settle down, they could get a piece of land,

This would be unthinkable in a normal year, but in this era of war, there is undoubtedly a rare and peaceful pure land, which is said to host three-quarters of the refugees north of Salander, and whose population has reached an extremely considerable number of more than 70,000 in a few months.

Parschena saw these built farmsteads, arranged in a trapezoidal shape side by side on the periphery of the city, as if a huge huā garden had been laid out outside the city, this castle was not so much a military fortress as a commercial city, and the people on the road seemed to emerge from the ground, merchants, nobles, and commoners, it seemed that it was difficult to distinguish clearly here.

You may see a carriage loaded with goods rushing by, but the coachman sitting next to him is dressed as a nobleman, and you can even hear the voices greeting each other, most of them are lords, barons, and the like.

Although he is not a big nobleman, he is also a famous person, and the civilians on the side of the road are not afraid of these people, but when there are more vehicles, they call for children playing in the distance to stay away from the wide road, and Parschena has also found an interesting thing, from the beginning of entering the range of Heck's territory, there is not a single checkpoint on the road, it seems that these spacious avenues are for people to use for free,

The wide road disappeared in front of him like a fly, and it was expected to take half a day's journey, but in only three hours, he could already see the walls built by Heck's territory in the distance.

The main castle of Heck City is not large, just like a black sè bulge on the gray sè cliff, countless small black dots are active in it, and the location of the harbor below is full of large and small sailboats, and the streets that crisscross and stretch out from the bottom of the castle, forming a large area of residential groups, and the pointed roofs are densely arranged.

"What kind of person is that Marquis of Victonse?"

Parschena's eyes flickered, and she stretched her somewhat numb limbs in the carriage,

Compared with the ruins of other places, the scene in front of her is as beautiful as a dream, but she has come to destroy this qiē, and when she thinks of this, Parschena feels very conflicted,

This time, she came to preside over the Winter Veil Festival, although it was a procedure for the temple to pass the firmament, but everyone knew that in a situation like Kyoto, where a big war could break out at any time, without the consent of His Majesty the King, it would be difficult to leave Kyoto, even if she wanted to take a step out of the temple, because she had to follow the rules of the temple and pray for the blessings of those warriors who fought bravely on the front line during the war.

At the entrance of Heke City, the fat and graceful Nilai was waiting, the fat eyes stared solemnly at a white carriage in the distance, and Nilai's face was a look of gain and loss, that is, there was a little bit of joy, and the mentor who had been with him for many years was coming, and he was also a little worried, although he knew that the mentor had a transcendent status in the kingdom and rarely interfered in the affairs of the kingdom.

But when this moment comes, it cannot be said that there is no intention of suppressing oneself at all, and now the whole kingdom knows that the richest ones in the north are the port of Lhasa and the city of Heck, as long as they can control these two regions, it is like pinching the lifeblood of the northern economy

For his mentor's too obvious political zhìsè Cai this time, it also made Nilai, who has always admired his mentor, feel a little dazed, and the news that the starry sky sacrifice Parschena might arrive early was notified by the well-informed old Duke of Russia and Germany.

At that time, Nilai didn't believe that if the mentor came early, he would definitely let the red moon report a message to him, and there were still ten days left in the Winter Veil Festival, and according to the custom of previous years, the starry sky sacrifice as the host could only arrive in the last three days, because that day was the night of the stars and the moon in the northern night sky, and that day was also the moment when the stars in the sky were shining

After receiving the news, Fat immediately sent people to monitor the eyes of Hutu Beien, not wanting to really get the news that the starry sky sacrifice Parschena had arrived, and then the messenger from Hutu Beien implemented the news,

The Starry Sky Sacrifice Lord Parschena will depart from Hutu Beien on March 25 to discuss the Winter Veil Festival in Heckling, of course, this is not the point, the point is that Lord Jehardo, the Governor of the North, will then come to Heckling to discuss with Lord Heckdonse about taking over the fleet,

This is a potential information, and when Fat received this news, the first thing that came to mind was that the Northern Commander-in-Chief finally couldn't bear to do it.

Since the northern commander took office, he has shown an extremely tough attitude, and has taken measures to combat separation for the newly established Northern Alliance, first forcing out those weak lords, and then dividing those lords with average strength, just like peeling pomelo, breaking the thick cortex on the outside piece by piece, and then easily grabbing the refreshing and juicy melon pulp, and among these melon pulps, the fat Heckling is undoubtedly coveted,,

The abundant trade income and the position of the first place in the northern ports are enough to become the target of the northern governor to kill the monkey, as long as the Heck Territory is taken, the other big families will inevitably be in danger.

When the time comes, it only takes a slight push, and this seemingly strong alliance will collapse with a bang,

One light and one dark, one soft and one hard, threatening and yòu bait, the means are quite sophisticated, worthy of the characters who fought out of the quagmire in Kyoto, it is said that this time when the decision was made on the choice of the Governor General of the North, it was not this lord, but a duke named Bōervi, and I don't know why, so that His Majesty the King changed his mind

If he doesn't agree to the request of the northern commander, I'm afraid that I won't be able to see the starry sky sacrifice in this year's Winter Veil Festival, and then rumors about my unfavorable will spread all over the north, which will be a heavy blow to the hearts of the entire Heke Territory.

Just as Fat was thinking, the Mamunuk cavalry in the distance had unceremoniously stepped into the outer city, and a white carriage slowly drove away

"Mentor" Nilai greeted him with a jī face, and the captain of Mamunuk, who obviously knew the beautiful Duke of NV who had been in the temple in Kyoto, did not step forward to stop him, but led the horse to get out of the way

As the car opened, a NV man wearing a wide sacrificial robe came down from above, the young NV person didn't look too special on the outside, with a light white sè hat on her head, and fluttering ribbons hanging down all around, making her face looming, although wearing a wide sacrificial robe, she could still see a slender waist and a plump and round tún part, and a pair of very simple cloth shoes on her feet,

At a glance, there is nothing special, only a person with a very careful eye can see the quality of the cloth and the handmade jīn Zhan, and at the same time distinguish that this is definitely not a cloth that can be bought in the market. Like the vast majority of Salander NVs,

The hazy silhouette behind the veil and the slender pink neck like yù. Others can't see her expression, and they can't see her face clearly, but between her every move, she shows a kind of natural pride.

"Nilai, you've lost weight"

Parschena took her beloved brother's hand by hand, because her face was veiled, and she could not see the expression clearly, but her voice was as pleasant as a pearl, and there was an indescribable magic, like a thin silk thread, swimming in the pinna

"This must be Victon who killed Avize the goshawk."

Nilai was whispering to her mentor over there, and here, the silver-haired Yesug looked at the fat with a hint of hostility, he could hardly imagine that the invincible goshawk Avize would die at the hands of such a mediocre fat man