After so many years of management, the princess fiefdom cannot be said to be impregnable, but it is not so easy to escape control.
Especially now that she has the leader of the Eternal Night Army behind her to support her, and there is also the invisible giant of the Strachey family standing behind her. Anyone who dares to touch her fiefdom is simply seeking death.
In just half a year, Sophia Liya showed signs of reaching the peak of martial arts and martial arts cultivation.
This situation is really rare, and it also shows how powerful Dragon Vein Technique is when it has sufficient magic energy.
As long as their own talents are not particularly bad, warlocks will have the opportunity to use it to reach the heights they dreamed of before.
Just as Sean expected, the six months in the Northern Fortress had a huge impact on Sophilia.
The new knowledge system has opened a new door for her, not only in terms of personal cultivation, but also in terms of governance concepts.
Before coming to the Northern Fortress, Sophilia had already recognized the elemental tide theory. Now, more evidence was put in front of her.
If the element concentration of the entire environment is on the rise, the re-emergence of magical civilization will be a major trend in the future.
As long as they can grasp this main line, they will be in a leading position for a long time to come.
As Sean often says, the more you know about magic energy, the more awe you feel in your heart. It is the biggest variable in normal life in this world. Many things become different under its intervention.
Already.
During the six months when Sophilia was raising a baby and studying in the northern fortress.
Within the Byron Alliance, there isn't much to say.
The biggest unstable factor, Pope St. George, was restricted by the agreement signed with Sophilia and was trapped in St. Ann's Land and could not move lightly.
It is true that Sophia Liya resigned as regent, but the agreement she signed is still in effect, because it represents not only the will of the Lancelot royal family, but also other grand ducal families, even if it is
King Lowry could not easily cancel this agreement.
What King Lowry needs to do most now is to concentrate power on himself.
Although Pope St. George did not leave St. Andrew's Land, his holy words were sent to various territories of the Byron League, and he issued a summons to the knights of the Holy See and the young believers who were interested in becoming knights of the Holy See.
They are preparing to form a more powerful Holy See armed force in St. Ann's to protect the safety of the parishioners.
Countless knights of the Holy See and young believers responded. Many people sold their belongings and did not hesitate to buy a complete outfit and embarked on the road to Saint-Anti.
For them, this is the best way to express their devout faith to the God of Truth.
As for the young king of the Lancelot royal family, when he actually sat on the throne of the king, he discovered that the fruit of power is often not sweet, but bitter.
In the past, King Laurie always thought that Princess Sophia was overwhelming him.
As everyone knows, most of the storms and difficulties have been blocked by the other party, including internal conflicts.
Princess Sophia has withdrawn completely, and all kinds of messy affairs of the Lancelot royal family have been squeezed onto his desk.
The tax revenue from a certain earldom has been delayed in being collected.
Two lords directly affiliated with the royal family had a serious conflict over the ownership of an iron mine on the border. Armies from both sides gathered on a large scale on the border, requiring the royal family to intervene.
In a certain area, a severe drought occurred and grain production was severely reduced. Not only could this year's taxes be paid in full, but the royal family also needed to organize disaster relief. At the same time, it was also necessary to organize manpower to prevent locusts. Because of the drought, there is a high possibility of locust outbreaks in this area.
The concurrent disaster locust plague will not only sweep through one area, but several surrounding areas will be affected.
A large-scale infectious disease similar to the epidemic broke out in a certain barony. The baron here has died in the epidemic, and the heir has sent an envoy to the royal family to request the royal family for support.
The situation of monsters attacking villages and towns is getting worse day by day. This is no longer a problem of one territory or one place, but a problem of the entire royal family territory and the entire alliance. The royal family has the responsibility to thoroughly investigate and solve this matter.
Due to the attack by monsters, people in the territory are panicked and rumors are flying everywhere. Some heretics and cultists with ulterior motives have taken advantage of the situation and spread the word that the end is coming. You must believe in their gods and donate money to redeem your soul. You will not be in the end.
Falling into hell, the Holy See asked the royal family for permission to send out Holy See Knights to investigate the matter thoroughly.
The God of Truth will not help King Laurie solve these matters. He must send the right people to solve them.
If the ministers sent are inappropriate, not only will they not solve the problem, but they will intensify conflicts.
Take the issue of ownership of the Bianjing Iron Mine, for example. This issue has existed for half a century. Since the discovery of that mine, the two noble families have been wrangling in lawsuits. Every time the royal rulers change, they always
Bring this issue up and talk about it, bluff it, and see if you can win greater benefits for your family.
When Princess Sophia was in power, she went to war over matters that no one could figure out. Each family had fifty shares, and the iron ore family had half. Although both families were dissatisfied, they at least managed to resolve the issue.
The matter was suppressed.
The special envoy sent by King Lowry this time was a fool. He did not thoroughly investigate the matter and relied on his personal judgment to award the ownership of the iron mine to the family he thought was right.
The other family was naturally unhappy. They used to have at least half of the iron ore ownership rights, but now they don't even have half. The army, which was just a bluff, directly crossed the border and launched a surprise attack to start the war.
Seeing that the envoy was in a bad posture and ran faster than a rabbit, he slipped back to the capital in the blink of an eye and handed an even bigger mess to King Laurie.
Once both sides resort to force, the possibility of a peaceful resolution of the matter is almost zero.
Although the territories owned by these two powerful lords are not large, their backgrounds are not small. They are both highly qualified in the Lancelot royal family and have many in-laws. The forces behind them have entangled interests. They use this as an excuse to launch a campaign.
Armed conflict is not a strange thing.
Some politicians with a sharp political eye even found clues to the higher level behind this armed conflict. The ownership of the iron mine may be just an excuse. They are using this method to test the young king.
If King Laurie is like Princess Sophia, who is very sophisticated at a young age, they will just stay there and continue to be their obedient subjects like before.
If King Lowry and his ruling team perform too poorly, they will inevitably have other ideas and want to take advantage of the opportunity to gain more benefits.
There is no doubt that King Laurie and his ministers performed extremely poorly in the first battle. If they do not adjust as soon as possible, more and more such messy things will happen, draining their energy.
And in this process, the conflicts between King Laurie and his ministers gradually began to emerge.
This is particularly evident in the attitude towards pagans.
King Laurie's intention is still to favor the Holy Ether Church, and just let them directly send the Holy See Knights to handle this matter. They have rich experience in this area, and at the same time, they do not need the royal family to send people to send food. When the time comes, they can sit back and enjoy the benefits.
, the best of both worlds.
This proposal was strongly opposed by the royalists headed by Douglas, not only because this matter was unprecedented in the history of the royal family, but also because it had far-reaching significance.
This is tantamount to handing over the arrest and trial rights that originally belonged to the royal family to the hands of the Holy See.
At that time, the Holy See can blatantly detain and judge their citizens in the royal territory in the name of arresting cultists.
Whether this will intensify the conflict between the local lords and the Holy See is not yet discussed.
However, it will definitely have a far-reaching impact on the people of the territory. Many non-believers will be forced to join the Holy See to seek asylum in order to avoid destruction.
Once this kind of precedent is set, the royal family may be able to get some negligible benefits from it in a short period of time.
But in the long run, there will be endless poison, which will greatly affect the stability of the Lancelot royal family's rule.
At this time, the royalists began to understand the helplessness of Princess Sophia.
His own ruler turned his elbows outward as if he had committed an evil act, handing over the royal power to other forces.
On the contrary, the people below them jumped in hastily and blocked it, which only made the young king angry and turned his head to rectify himself in other aspects.
But for the sake of the future of their territory, they had to resist with all their strength.
Even with the combined efforts of the royalists, this matter was suppressed, but their position in King Laurie's mind has plummeted. If not for many things in the territory, they need to rely on them, they would have been eliminated one by one.
was abolished.
Under this situation, many royalists even began to miss the days when Princess Sophia served as regent.
Although Her Royal Highness the Princess's temperament is a bit domineering, they will lose many opportunities to gain benefits and rights from it.
But there are not so many messy things. Such ridiculous requests from the Holy See will be sternly rejected without them having to take action.
To be more precise, they doubted whether the Holy See would dare to make such a request to Princess Sophia, because according to the Lord's temperament, he would probably label them as having evil intentions and exploit them in turn.
During this period, Douglas, as the acting prime minister, even secretly sent a messenger to the princess fief to seek help from Princess Sophia.
As you can imagine, the courier was thrown into the princess fiefdom and kept in the cold for more than half a month before he was received by a local mayor.
Not to mention Princess Sophia herself, not even the core figures of the Princess Faction have ever met her, and it is impossible to get any promises.
What a joke.
Princess Sophia finally jumped out of that bowl of rancid, disgusting muddy soup. How could they allow such a bad thing to disgust the eyes and ears of Her Highness the Princess again?
They can easily forget the disgusting things they did in the royal capital of Valesta, but they cannot.
Her Royal Highness Sophia is already married, and now she is first the mistress of the Eternal Night Army, and then the princess of the Lancelot royal family.
The most important thing for her now is to raise her baby with peace of mind.
This kind of information was ignored from top to bottom, and was not sent to Princess Sophia at all.
Sean also turned a blind eye to this kind of thing.
My wife attaches great importance to her family, which is both her strength and her weakness.
If he treats his half-brother like this, he will definitely treat his future children no differently.
But she had invested too much emotion in King Laurie, and it had begun to affect her normal life, especially when the other party was the most aggressive.
If Sophia Liya continues to charge forward, she will only be injured more seriously, and the relationship between the two of them that has been dependent on each other for many years will be wiped out.
It's better to keep some distance and let King Lowry do whatever he wants.
Time will prove whose decision is the most correct.
As for the Lancelot royal family, it is not so easy to collapse, because it is a huge interest group, and the king is only the leader of this group.
When the decision made by the king is beneficial to this interest group, they will naturally actively support it.
But if it is unfavorable, they will rebound. The more unfavorable it is, the stronger the rebound will be, and the royalists are only part of it.
This pagan incident is the best proof.
Even if Princess Sophia has to come forward, it will have to wait until King Laurie's abnormal thinking has exhausted the whole Lancelot royal family.
At that time, King Lowry didn't even realize what his problem was.
The veteran lords and nobles of the Lancelot royal family will also realize that the disgusting things like before that were not thankless for their efforts will not happen again.
Compared with everything that happened on the Odin Steppes, these dirty things within the Byron Alliance are a bit out of place.
The Theodin Empire's extermination plan has begun to take effect.
The relatively humid and hot environment of the Barsin Prairie in summer turns the place into a huge steam furnace. The corpses that have been frozen all winter are rapidly decaying, becoming a hotbed for germs, insects and flies to hatch.
With their appearance, the plague appeared almost inevitably and began to wreak havoc in this troubled land.
The people of the Eastern Odin Empire, who were like moles, burying themselves deep in every corner, before they had time to rejoice that they had escaped the disaster, they were all attacked one after another, watching helplessly as their tribesmen, like autumn vegetation,
Wither in front of yourself.
They could escape the monstrous troops of the Theodin Empire, but they could not escape the claws of the plague.
No matter how powerful the troops of the Theodin Empire are, it is impossible for them to reach every corner of the Barsin Prairie, especially since they themselves are in a state of movement.
However, the plague is vectored by hundreds of millions of mosquitoes and flies, so it is simply unavoidable.
What's more, most of them don't know at all that the culprits that caused a large number of their people to fall ill are these inconspicuous little things.
Soon after the plague raged, they had to face a more severe famine.
Because what fell in droves was not only people, but also the livestock that the Odin Orcs relied on for survival.
If we make a serious comparison, humans are far more resistant to disease than animals.
When the plague rages, at least some people can survive.
Once a herd of livestock is attacked, they will fall in pieces, and the survival rate is frighteningly low.
Even the inexperienced Odin orcs knew not to eat these animals that had died from the disease.
Because the number of deaths was too high, they were simply unable to deal with it, which resulted in the disease further worsening and expanding among the livestock.
In the summer when products are most abundant, the remaining tribes of the Eastern Odin Empire will face famine. How will they survive the winter when products are scarce?
This is a question before all the survivors of the East Odin Empire. Several heirs of the Lion Tribe who had fought to the death for the right to inherit had to give up their past prejudices and gather together to discuss the future of the East Odin Empire. Although
In the eyes of most Odin orcs, the Eastern Odin Empire has no future, but they still cling to it.