In the 1100s of the Qiyao Calendar, the aristocratic system still existed in the Kingdom of Liber a hundred years ago. At that time, just like the neighboring Erebonian Empire and the Kingdom of Calvard, the nobles in the Kingdom of Liber were both politically and
Economically speaking, they are all superstructures that occupy a dominant position.
However, a great revolution broke out in the Kingdom of Kalvad in the east, which eventually overthrew the feudal system and established a republic with power controlled by the common people. This trend of thought also affected Liber as a territorial state.
Ten years have passed since the Great Revolution, and the common people's forces, centered on merchants, have gradually risen. The opposition between the noble forces and the common people's forces has become more and more intense over time. Even if the royal family and the church intervene in arbitration, it has no effect.
What made the situation worse was the death of the king. Although the king's will had established Princess Cecilia as the crown prince, before she ascended the throne, the candidate for the crown wife must be determined. On the one hand, the aristocrats and the civilians blocked each other.
, on the other hand, the princess herself had never made up her mind to choose her favorite husband. The matter was delayed for a year, and during this year, the conflict between the aristocratic faction and the civilian faction gradually came to the fore.
, and even the concept of "bloody revolution" appeared.
Princess Cecilia had two suitors.
One is Scarlet Knight Julius, the eldest son of Duke Lado and the leader of the Knights of the Guards.
One is Oscar, the Blue Knight. Although he was born a commoner, he was a fierce general who made great achievements during the border friction between the Kingdom of Libel and the Empire of Erebonia.
Julius, Oscar, and Cecilia were childhood sweethearts who grew up together.
Although Julius and Oscar are competitors to each other, they both hope to comply with the princess's own wishes and let the princess choose her husband. In order to stick to their principles, both of them are under pressure from the two major factions behind them.
The leader of the aristocratic faction, Duke Lado, disdains freedom and equality, believing that it is just a shameful idea that tramples on tradition and glory, and confuses nobility and baseness.
Speaker Claude, the representative of the civilian faction, hopes that after Oscar becomes a royal family, he will restrict the rights of the nobles as a prince. In this way, the civilian faction can take the lead in the Kingdom of Liber.
It is Oscar's idea to stop the revolution no matter what. It is time to end this political turmoil, this is Julius's plan.
Julius couldn't bear the situation to worsen, so he made a request to the princess, "Please allow the leader of the Knight Guards to duel with the kingdom's fierce general." The winner will have the honor to marry the princess.
In secret, the noble faction sent assassins to assassinate Oscar. Although Oscar successfully subdued the assassin, he himself also suffered some minor injuries due to the sneak attack.
On the day of the duel, when the two were about to decide the winner, the princess suddenly appeared in the field, stopped the duel with her own body, and fell to the ground after being hit by the sword.
Seeing that the situation took a turn for the worse, the big shots who came to watch the battle began to repent and regretted what they had done. At this time, the goddess of space believed in by the Qiyao Church suddenly appeared and granted a miracle, resurrecting the princess.
The two factions temporarily reached a reconciliation, and finally ended the story in a more peaceful way.
◇End of story◇
Warm applause, curtain call
"Joshua looks so good dressed as a woman. What do you think, Levi." In the corner of the small theater, the purple girl said to the people around her.
"Is what you have in your hand a photosensitive circuit? You are really prepared." The pale-gold young man beside the girl said.
"Don't worry, I will make a few more copies."
"Haha, this stage play does have a happy ending in the end. However, this is also good."
"Although it is adapted based on history, the good ending is just what the script requires. According to the real history, the Blue Knight won, right? The fact that Liber has abolished the aristocratic system is the best evidence."
"No, your understanding of the history of this country is only superficial. The nominal 'nobility' was overthrown. But in fact, the nobility has always existed. The businessmen who gained power became the new dignitaries and passed on the rights from generation to generation.
Come down."
Reinhardt pointed to Perth Mayor Maybelle and Luan Mayor Delmont, who were sitting in the first row of the theater auditorium.
"Mabel, Delmon, in addition to Mayor Klaus of Lorente who is not here today. Their ancestors, their fathers were the rulers of Perth and Luan. Their children, their grandchildren
Their rights will be passed down to the next generation. Although they no longer have the title of nobility, their essence is no different from that of the nobility."
At the end of the song, the audience stood up, and the two figures disappeared into the darkness. No one noticed that the two uninvited audience members had appeared in the theater. But the conversation between the two did not end, and
It continues on the forest trail.
"Having been a member of the Royal Army for more than a year, Levi, you already know the country of Libel very well. Why don't you tell me what your Colonel Richard is planning to do? I saw Mayor Delmon
He looked a little absent-minded while watching the show. Your intelligence department set a trap for him, right?"
Levi only found out today that Ling was interested in politics at a young age, but he didn't hide anything. He told her the important parts of what he knew.
Alan Richard, as the second-in-command of Liber Kingdom's army, has been guarding the border for Liber for the past ten years since the end of the Hundred Days War. He has been greatly influenced by the political thoughts of the iron-blooded prime minister of the Northern Empire.
Alan Richard admired the iron-blooded prime minister, but he was always wary of the iron-blooded prime minister. Especially in the ten years after the Hundred Days War, the Erebonia Empire pursued an expansion policy to divert domestic conflicts, either using the economy or diplomacy.
, or use power and intrigue to encroach and annex the many small countries that were originally buffer zones one by one.
In the past, the border town of Alsta, where the eldest prince of the empire, Oribat Lezeyanor, was born, was originally the northwest border of the Erebonian Empire. But now, Alsta is far away from the new border of Dniepermen ().
The distance is further than the distance between Alsta and the imperial capital Heimdall, which shows how much the territory of Erebonia has expanded compared to the past.
In addition to the Republic of Kalvard, a historical enemy that dominates the east, and Nord and Kezhou, which have always been regarded as vassal states by the empire, there are only three sovereign countries left in the world that have territorial borders with the Erebonian Empire.
The Northumbria Autonomous Prefecture in the north, the Principality of Remifilia in the northeast, and the Kingdom of Liber in the south.
Northumbria Autonomous Prefecture has become a wasteland since the Salt Pile Incident. It is worse than useless and is simply a burden.
The Isengard Mountains act as a natural barrier between the Principality of Remifilia and the Erebonian Empire, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.
What is left is the Kingdom of Liber, which is rich in resources and connected to the Great Plains. In the eyes of the empire, it is like a fat lamb.
Alan Richard believes that under the aggressive international situation of the Erebonian Empire, it is undoubtedly naive to want to rely on diplomatic rhetoric to deal with the empire as in the past.
If a war really breaks out one day, the current Royal Army has no chance of winning. Although the Royal Army has an advantage in training, it is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers. This is no longer a gap that can be made up by training. The only option is to expand the army.
, only then can we see a glimmer of hope of victory.
In terms of military sources alone, the Kingdom of Liber has been voluntarily joining the army since ancient times and has not implemented the military service system of Kalvad and Erebonia. The matter of the state recruiting ambitious young people to serve as soldiers does not exist in the Kingdom of Liber.
of.
Some people join the army with patriotic enthusiasm, but most people actually regard the army as a way out. By joining the army, you can learn the martial arts in the army, the military salary is not low, and you also have the honor of protecting your homeland. This is completely professional.
The army created is undoubtedly an elite division, but the number of soldiers in the Kingdom of Liber is too small. To survive the force of the Golden Army Maerebonia, which is eight times its own strength, can it be achieved once
It's already a miracle.
However, after he made this suggestion to the Queen, the Queen rejected it. In Richard's personal view, this was not because the Queen was unwilling, but because reality did not allow her to do so.
Although the aristocracy was abolished a hundred years ago, the Kingdom of Liber is still a decentralized country.
Except for Chase, the mayor of the four major cities is concurrently held by the chief of the central workshop, and the capable person takes the position. The mayors of the other three cities are hereditary.
Except for the military and diplomacy, which are under the control of the central government, all matters that can be handled by local governments, such as agriculture, industry, commerce, transportation, and finance, are in charge of local rulers. Conscription means drawing strong men from the land, and local rulers cannot allow this.
something happens.
Richard believed that hereditary wealthy families were an obstacle to the development of a powerful country. Only by implementing centralization of power could some of the more stringent laws be implemented.
Richard himself has no ill feelings towards the mayors of various places, and is even quite grateful for their contribution to Lieber's peaceful rule over the years. However, in order to realize his political ambitions, he must shoulder the responsibilities of villainy.
In order to take back the hereditary rights of local rulers from the local area, he planned to manipulate intelligence and create incidents to frame those in power in various places. Not only Delmon of Luan, Mabel of Perth and Klaus of Lorente were also involved.
on his elimination list.
"Colonel Richard, want to be a tyrant? He is really a man with great ambitions. It is quite strange that such a person would easily fall for the professor's suggestion." This was Ling's first thought after listening to Levi's explanation.
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Ling's own intelligence-oriented ability is very similar to psychic suggestion, and Tio also learned the spell of absolute suggestion from Wiseman. However, they both found in their experiments that the coercive power brought by suggestion is very harmful to people with strong wills.
The effect is not very good, and it has no effect on people who are particularly strong-willed. The time Ling went to Osborne's house to deliver the goods was simply because the other party deliberately wanted to chat with her.
Otherwise, wouldn't Wiseman directly find an opportunity to plant hints to Cassius Bright to make things easier? It's not because he can't do it that he has to settle for the next best thing. If this ability is really that good
If it works, she won't suffer in the paradise back then. Those powerful people are all hard-hearted and basically won't accept this.
Reinhardt shook his head after hearing her words.
"It was precisely because he was too upright that he took advantage of him. The professor did not distort his ideas, but gave him a push. Wiseman said, 'The reason why Richard can be manipulated is because Richard
He had such an idea in the first place, but it was not an idea forced upon him. The effect of the suggestion was to make his idea firmer, and even into paranoia.'"
"Even without Wiseman's appearance, Richard will sooner or later plan a kingdom coup. Choosing him to be a pawn in the gospel plan is just to follow the trend, and by the way, it will make it easier for him to achieve his goals. Although usually
His interests are bad enough, but Uncle Wiseman is quite reliable when he's doing business." Ling was just discussing the matter, and didn't mean to praise Wiseman.
In terms of ability to do things, among the seven apostles, the white-faced Galug Wiseman is definitely ranked among the top three. Although he does not use any means to achieve his goals, he is not well regarded by everyone, but he himself should have nothing to do with it.
Care.
"So Levi, what do you think? Do you think Richard's ideals are helpful and valuable?"
"No. Even though our worries are the same, the goals that that man and I pursue are different."
"Huh? It doesn't sound like you're telling the truth. Forget it, after hearing the story, it's time for me to leave. Levi, someone is coming. See you next time."
After Ling said this, her figure faded and disappeared into the night.
Not long after, a pink-haired female officer quickly ran to Reinhardt's side.
"Lieutenant Lawrence, who were you talking to just now?"
"It's nothing, I'm just talking to myself."
Kenona looked around, but found no sign of anyone else.
"Captain Kenona, I have to go on my mission tonight. Farewell."
"Hmph, you'd better not hide anything from me and the colonel."
Ignoring the female officer's provocation, Reinhardt went to the location where the equipment was hidden and finished putting on the uniform of a special agent captain.
September 23rd in Qiyao Calendar, Monday, evening.
Second Lieutenant Lawrence came to Luan and led his special agents to attack the Raven Gang's stronghold, administered mind-control drugs to the gangsters who were knocked to the ground, and began to carry out the frame-up operation "instructed by Mayor Delmon."