Chapter 577 Disarmament Proposal

Blue sea and blue sky, sunny beach.

Lorist lay comfortably under the sunshade tent made of grey linen veil, watching his wife and children playing on the beach. This is life. Lorist let out a sigh and tried to forget all the unhappiness and troubles he encountered in the imperial capital.

Duke Kenmas walked over with a small wooden barrel. The small wooden barrel contained ice cubes made of saltpeter cooling method, and two bottles of fruit wine were placed in the ice cubes. After sitting down next to Lorist, Duke Kenmas took out two glasses of wine from the small wooden barrel and opened a bottle of fruit wine. The amber fruit wine was clear and transparent, and it spread a charming fragrance in the transparent glass.

He handed a glass to Lorist, and Duke Kenmas drank the wine in the glass and exclaimed: "I really don't know how there are so many wonderful ideas in your mind that can make ice cubes in such a hot summer. Drinking a glass of cold fruit wine in such a weather is an unparalleled enjoyment..."

Lorist didn't say anything, but just dried the fruit wine in the glass in one gulp, then poured himself half a cup, found two ice cubes from the small wooden barrel and threw them into the glass.

It is early September. After attending the second high prince's throne ceremony in the imperial capital, some disputes with the second high prince also broke out in the evening, which led to the celebration banquet that was not happy. So Lorist, Kenmaith, Felim, Shahin and other three grand dukes left the capital early the next morning and left without saying goodbye. Back on the island of Shilovas, they met with their families.

This is the white beach in front of Wanghai Manor. Compared with the platinum beach of the Kenmai family, this beach is much smaller, but it is enough for the families of the four grand dukes to play here. Looking at the crowd playing on the beach, Duke Kenmai sighed deeply. He spent a huge amount of money to invest in the platinum beach of his family territory, building it into a summer resort for the entire kingdom, preparing to welcome a large number of kingdom nobles and their families to visit every summer. Then the second palace came down and lobbyed the kingdom nobles to send troops to fight the commercial alliance. As a result, after three years of bloody battle, all the kingdom nobles suffered heavy casualties and no longer had the intention to go to the Platinum Beach to escape the summer. Everyone stayed at home and licked their wounds...

"It's okay. Next year you will invite those nobles to visit Platinum Beach. It's been five years since then, and you have forgotten what you should have. Now that the empire is revived, there shouldn't be wars again in the past few years. If you have money in your pocket, you will naturally go to your place to play." Seeing Duke Kenmas staring at the beach in a daze, Lorist certainly understood what he was thinking.

"Ah, no..." Duke Kenmas came to his senses: "I'm not worried about this. What I just thought about was what the disarmament proposal meant at the dinner party on the day of the ceremony?"

After the ceremony of the Ascension of the Second Highness held a grand welcome banquet in the palace to entertain all the imperial nobles and their families who came to attend the ceremony. Although some unsatisfactory things happened before the ceremony, with the efforts of the Second Highness, today's Ascension of the Second Highness can be said to be a complete success. The satisfied Second Highness announced his policy policy for the next three years at the celebration banquet, which was nothing more than focusing on internal affairs and people's livelihood, increasing the empire's fiscal revenue, enriching the national treasury, encouraging businesses to vigorously develop mineral resources, and streamlining government...

The focus is on simplifying the military and government. The second highman believes that the empire is now reviving, so he is preparing to restore the three-legged system of the former empire, that is, the Royal Guards guard the imperial capital, the White Lions conquered the external, and the Fierce Winds cleaned up the bandits and bandits internally. At the same time, a garrison corps was established in each province directly under the royal family to suppress the place. In addition, the second highman will also prepare to establish the Royal Knights again, recruit relatives and children of the nobles of the kingdom to become royal knights to serve the Crison royal family, etc....

These are actually the old system of the Crison royal family, and no one cares. Just like the Royal Guards, White Lion Legion, and Fierce Wind Legion are the three standing corpses of the former Crison Empire. They are directly under the royal family. As long as the second highman can afford to build more legions, there is nothing to say. As for the Royal Knights, it is a way out for the children of the imperial nobles who cannot inherit titles and territory. Sometimes in order to avoid disputes during peace, these children cannot even join their own family's armed forces, so as not to cause confusion and threat to the family's heirs. Like Lorist, the second uncle who has already died in the battlefield, is the former deputy commander of the Crison Empire Royal Knights.

However, what all the imperial nobles did not expect was that after talking about the standing military system of these empires, the second highness proposed a disarmament proposal to the imperial nobles present. He said that the empire is revived and peace is expected. The empire's territorial nobles should no longer continue to expand their family armed forces, and should invest limited money in the development of their territory. Therefore, he suggested that the empire's territorial nobles should streamline their family armed forces and discuss the establishment of a family armed force system that everyone follows to limit the family armed forces organization of all territorial nobles.

The Second His Highness believes that an imperial baron could establish two or three hundred teams as family armed forces, the viscount could have five hundred people, the earl could establish a family armed force of a thousand people, and the imperial marquis had up to three thousand people. As for the territory, he could form a family armed corps or a small-scale family armed corps. For example, the large-scale army with 45,000 people now can be reduced to four small-scale army corps with 6,000 people plus a thousand-man team responsible for logistics, so the total number of such a legion is only about 25,000.

The Second Highness emphasized that this is for the wallets of all the imperial nobles. After all, supporting a large-scale family armed force in the peaceful years is a lot of expenses and burdens for any imperial noble. The Second Highness believes that reducing the expenditure on arms will help the imperial nobles better build territory and enjoy a better life. As for the bandits and bandits entrenched everywhere, the Empire will carry out a vigorous clearance after forming the Wind Legion, without the need for the territorial nobles to bear the responsibility of suppressing bandits on their own.

The Second Highness expressed his compassion that the three-year bloody battle in the Manaqiu Plain almost caused a lot of casualties to all the nobles of the imperial territory, so reducing the military expenditure of the nobles of the territory was the compensation given by the empire. The three standing legions of the empire will be completely responsible for the foreign wars in the future. The family armed forces of the territory were to guard their respective family territories. Unless the empire was threatened with the threat of national destruction, the Second Highness would not recruit the family armed forces of the territory to go to the battlefield.

As for the disputes between the territorial nobles, the Second Highness said that he did not want to see such a noble territory war occur. If there are any contradictions, he could submit it to the noble court for ruling. After all, launching a territorial war is not worth the loss for everyone. Whether it is a loss or a win or a victory, the three standing legions of the empire may intervene in such a noble territory war to calm the war and wait for the aristocratic court to make a ruling on this territorial war.

All the nobles who attended the celebration banquet focused their attention on the three great dukes, Lorist, Grand Duke Fisabren, Kenmes, Filim and Shahin. It is well known that the Norton family's armed forces are stronger than the imperial armed forces commanded by His Highness. Even if the Second Highness has formed the three standing legions of the Empire, it will be difficult to compete with the Norton family. If the family armed forces of the three great dukes in the Northland Four Alliance, it will be enough to sweep the entire empire. Even if the Second Highness, the Fisabren family and the family armed forces of all other imperial territorial nobles, may not be able to resist the front of the family armed forces of the Northland Four Alliance.

It is obvious that the Second Highness suddenly put forward this disarmament proposal at this moment, targeting the four alliances of the Northlands headed by the Norton family. For other nobles in the imperial territorial territory, the Second Highness's disarmament proposal did not matter to them. Even the Grand Duke Handra, Grand Duke Forento, and Grand Duke Sabaji, they agreed with the Second Highness's disarmament proposal. As the Second Highness said, this disarmament proposal did reduce their military burden and did not need to maintain the full force of the family armed legion. Even if they received the conscript order from the Second Highness in the future, they would not have to send so many troops to assist in the war.

Perhaps because he had been angry with Grand Duke Feisabren, Grand Duke Feisabren stood up: "Your Majesty, the Posabren family firmly supports Your Majesty's disarmament proposal. I am willing to return the border ranger to the imperial system and re-incorporate it under Your Majesty's command."

Old slippery! At this moment, I don’t know how many imperial nobles were cursing in their hearts. Anyone with a little brain understands that Grand Duke Feisabren, this old guy, is a cheap and acts good-looking. The border ranger, although not the three standing legions of the empire, is also a well-known imperial group armed force. It was originally formed to deal with the plunder of the Caoman tribe on the border area of ​​the empire by the Caoman tribe on the northeast prairie. The correct definition of the border ranger is a local armed force.

However, when dealing with the plunder of the Caoman tribe's cavalry, the border ranger fell into the hands of the Fisabren family and became the Fisabren family armed forces. At present, the border ranger has the first and second legions, with nearly 80,000 troops, and is the main armed forces of the Fisabren family. Lorist formed a family armed hunting cavalry corps and deployed in Makinohara Province, mainly to prevent and deal with the border ranger.

The Grand Duke of Fisabren said that the border ranger returned to the imperial system, which means that according to the organization of the former Crison Empire, the border ranger had 45,000 troops and was a local armed force of the empire. The military pay and equipment were responsible by several provinces in the northeast region, and were not considered to be armed by the Fisabren family. Therefore, the Grand Duke of Fisabren said it nicely and was re-introduced under the command of the Second Highness, but in fact the entire legion was still in the hands of the Grand Duke of Fisabren.

The old guy had a wonderful idea. He pulled out a border ranger and converted the other into the Fisabren family armed corps, which was just a new name. In fact, both legions were still under the control of the Fisabren family. Moreover, in this way, the Fisabren family only had to pay the armed expenses of one legion, and the cost of the border ranger was distributed to the local area, which would greatly reduce the burden on the family and provide more armed resources to the family's garrison legions and the reserve legion mainly composed of Caoman Jingqi, which was formed in the mercenary mode.

The second prince smiled and nodded: "The Grand Duke of Feisabren is loyal to his country and does not remember the gains and losses. It is worth sighing. This way, I remember that the military expenses and equipment expenses of the Border Rangers were shared by the three provinces of Makinohara Province, Winston Province and the Southern Province. Then, according to the previous example, the Grand Duke will be responsible for the annual expenditure budget for the entire Border Rangers, and obtain funds from these three provinces according to the previous proportion."

This is to give eye drops to the four alliances in the Northland! At that time, Makinohara Province, Winston Province and Southern Province were both hard-hit areas for the plunder of the Caoman Clan. For this reason, the three provinces proposed to form a border ranger to prevent the plunder of the Caoman Clan, and the military expenditure was shared by the three provinces. However, as the border ranger fell into the control of the Feisabren family, the Eastern Desert Province was opened, and the southern provinces and Winston Provinces no longer had the threat of the Caoman Clan. However, as the border ranger became the armed corps of the Feisabren family, the agreement to share military expenditure was long ago invalidated.

Now the Southern Province has become the territory of the Felim family, and Winston Province and Makinohara Province have also become the jurisdiction of the Norton family. At this time, the Second Highness took the righteousness and took the banner of returning to the imperial system and allowed these three provinces to redistribute the military expenditure of the border guard Rangers. It is obvious that the four alliances in the Northland region were disgusting with their own money to cultivate opponents' arms. But it was so righteous that it was really difficult for the second Highness to spend this effort.

Duke Philip slammed the golden cup in his hand on the table with a "bang" and stood up angrily: "This is absolutely impossible! Back then, the border ranger was formed to deal with the Caoman Cavalry. Is the Caoman tribe still threatening now? The border ranger has become a family armed force of the Feisabren family. Why should we pay for the money?"

Lorist sighed and stood up, stopping Duke Felim's anger: "The Southern Province was not the Duke Felim's family territory at that time, so it was normal to share the armament expenses, but now the Southern Province has become the Grand Duke Felim's family territory. It would be inappropriate to allocate the military expenditure of the border ranger to the southern province. So, your Majesty, Grand Duke Fisabren, our Norton family is willing to take over the military expenditure of the border ranger and ensure that the border ranger does not lack military expenditures..."

The second highman was overjoyed: "It is the Locke brothers who understand the truth and are willing to contribute to the country."

Grand Duke Feisabren was also very happy: "Duke Norton said seriously? In front of so many imperial nobles, you can't regret what you said..."

"Of course, keep your word." Loris nodded: "In addition to military pay and daily expenses, the Norton family is willing to provide the Border Rangers with complete equipment again. However, this requires the Border Rangers to be pulled to our Norton family territory for reorganization and retraining them according to the characteristics of the equipment. Everyone knows that our Norton family's armed forces are unrivaled. We are willing to teach the Border Rangers without reservation. It only takes half a year to ensure that your Majesty is an elite Border Rangers."

Grand Duke Fisabren's face turned pale and he was pulled to the Norton family for half a year for training and reorganization. Can the Rangers Legion listen to him? He guaranteed that even the people and horses would become part of the Norton family's armed forces. Even the military pay was taken from the Norton family. Will he still listen to other people's commands? If he was stupid, he would send the Rangers Legion to the Norton family territory...

The second prince also understood this point. Lorist said this a few words and resolved the problem he had raised: "Let's discuss this again, anyway, there is no hurry now. By the way, my Locke brothers, what do you think of my disarmament proposal just now? Now that the empire is peaceful, your Norton family doesn't have to maintain so many family armed forces. I think your Norton family can completely reduce the four family legions to two, or even one family armed legion."

The picture is revealed! Lorist shook his head: "Your Majesty, I'm sorry I can't agree with your disarmament proposal, because this will affect our family's plan to send troops."

"Send a military plan?" The second high prince was shocked: "Where else do you Norton family want to conquer?"

"It's not a conquest, your majesty doesn't have to worry at all." Lorist said: "In the next stage, our Norton family is preparing to explore the Demon Dragon Mountains and the Manyuan further north, and prepare to expand the territory in the north to build a province to open up new territory for the empire. Now the four legions of the family will have two legions to prepare to go north, the other is arranged in Makinohara Province to prevent the Caoman tribe, and there is also a legion to guard the northern part. In fact, our family's troops are also very tight, and perhaps we need the help of the armed forces of the grand dukes..."

Lorist pointed out that the grand dukes were Duke Kenmas, Duke Felim and Duke Shahin. This prevented the Second Highness from forcing them to reduce the family armed forces.

The second highness's face turned pale. He thought Lorist was completely making excuses to refuse to cut the family armed legion. However, after taking a few deep breaths, he still reluctantly endured it: "By the way, Locke, since you are unwilling to cut the family armed legion, I will not force your wishes. But should you change your name to your Guard Legion? After all, he and my Royal Guard Legion are the same, and there may be someone gossiping..."

Lorist laughed: "Okay, your majesty, according to your wishes, our family's Guards will be renamed the Iron Guards from today."

For Lorist, it doesn't matter what the name of the legion is. Since the Second Highness is afraid of disagreeing with the name of the Guards, it's better to change the Guards to Iron Guards, which is both simple and easy to remember. But unexpectedly, the Second Highness got angry as soon as the name of the Iron Guards was spoken, and he kicked over the table in front, turned around and left the hall, and the celebration banquet ended unhappily.

When he left the palace, Lorist was still inexplicably angry and felt a little angry. Is the Second Highness turning his back on me? It's outrageous!

Duke Kenmas laughed: "Locke, you are so amazing. If you had known that you had changed your name to the Iron Guards Army, it would be better not to change your name. This was like slapping our Majesty in front of us..."

"No, I haven't understood why I can't call the Iron Guards?"

"Haha, have you forgotten? The Grand Duke of Madras formed an Iron Guard Army, with 8,000 troops defending the city of Kebo. The second prince's father, Prince Andinak, brought the entire Royal Guard Army with 60,000 troops and attacked for more than six months but could not capture it. Instead, he lost most of the people and only more than 20,000 soldiers were left in shame. The situation in the empire changed drastically, causing the final split. You said that you changed your name to the Iron Guard Army. Isn't this slap Your Majesty in the face? It was obviously aimed at him... "

Lorist was silent. He was unintentional, but the Second Highness must have thought that he was interested. Now the gap between the two was getting deeper and deeper. However, Lorist also explained without intention and left the imperial capital early the next morning.

Comfortably lying on the sand, Lorist said: "That day, His Majesty's disarmament proposal was actually to give us a condom. He didn't care whether we would cut down the family armed forces. The important thing was to determine the organization of the armed corps of our families. After clarifying the establishment of this family armed corps, if we have any problems, we can accuse us of expanding our troops for bad intentions. If we don't expand our troops, we can only ask him for help. At that time, he can let the standing legions of the three empires intervene in the internal affairs of our family territory... I guess that."

Duke Kenmas killed the fruit wine in the glass: "Your Majesty is very thoughtful now."

"Of course..." Loris nodded: "There is no threat outside, and your Majesty is now paying attention to our four alliances. Perhaps for him, our four alliances are more threatening than the commercial alliance back then. Therefore, the armed armed legions of our four families cannot be cut, and they must practice and maintain combat effectiveness at all times, so that we can ensure the continuation of our family and the safety of our territory."

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Chapter completed!