Of course, as the leader of a special national salvation government that occupies and rules more than ten provinces/grand crowns in the south, Jiang Tian cannot stay out for too long. After dealing with these noises and episodes, he quickly
Then we have to face all kinds of official duties that are piling up quickly.
From this point of view, he quite misses the relaxation and comfort when his adjutant Paulina was still around to do the work; although now the first to fifth attendant rooms led by Andrew have more than twenty professional teams; three hundred
A number of consultants, secretaries and recordkeepers are busy working on it.
But none of them can compare to Paulina's photographic long-term memory, and her profound document retrieval and analysis capabilities when she served as an adjutant. It works like an efficient humanoid AI, which can rely on the most basic eating and
Take a short break and maintain working conditions for several days and nights.
On the other hand, what surprised him was that the Burgundian dynasty in the capital city of Seine was slow and procrastinated in responding to the events in the south. You must know that the entire winter when the roads in the mountains were blocked by heavy snow had long passed. Freedom has passed.
The army also split up to attack the surrounding provinces.
However, seeing that the Free Army had completed the suppression and suppression of bandits in most areas of the Rhone province where Lyon is located. The two corps led by Madurand had already gone north and penetrated the provinces of Anson and Jura, and began to besiege Franche-
—Besançon, the capital of the Prince of Conté/Grand Crown;
The other group set out from Toulouse to attack the Central Plateau. The Tiago and Porthos regiments have also captured the Conzer and Haute-Loire provinces adjacent to the existing control areas. They are about to separate the southern part of the Central Plateau from Ploire.
Swann and Toulouse are two major areas connected together.
However, the momentum of the Northern Dynasty's large-scale crusade that gathered heavy troops, which made Jiang Fang prepare for the war, has never been seen. Instead, many self-defense forces and armed militia groups formed by the nobles and the forces of the old dynasty in the places they passed; in the spontaneous
Resist the infiltration and invasion of the Free Army.
In fact, in order to quickly cut through the mess and sort out the area as soon as possible, in order to welcome the counterattack and continuous offensive from the Burgundian Dynasty, the Free Army also relaxed the review and authorization of the local old forces in disguise; allowing the company captain, deacon and priest to
The military officers formed a temporary court on the battlefield;
In the hope of quick and mass trials and verdicts, local potential saboteurs and sympathizers of the old nobility. Of course, unless there is an armed confrontation, direct execution is not allowed; but during this time, the people who were exiled to the coastal areas were sentenced to exile.
, but as many as tens of thousands.
It wasn't until, through the news sent out by Senior Rafaro who was active on the social stage in the capital, and the information of the fleeing people that Jiang Tian got to know some of the inside story. It turned out that the internal policies and military strategies of the Burgundian Dynasty continued to appear.
There were serious differences.
Although among the ministers of the dynasty, there are always radicals advocating and clamoring for the rebuilt three legions to be called one hundred thousand strong, and quickly send out troops to severely punish the mob army that ravaged the south and trampled on the sacred. But the Norman region had just been recovered/pacified.
The three major legions were unwilling to continue fighting.
Most of the officers and soldiers just want to have a good rest and have fun in the routine winter camp tradition; there are even some former mercenary groups who were recruited by the dynasty, because of the deduction and arrears of wages, as well as the promise of sharing the spoils.
Various degrees of rioting occurred.
Although they were quickly suppressed by the cavalry and retinue troops composed of noble children, they also took advantage of the situation and robbed the surrounding areas in disguise on the pretext of hunting down deserters. Then in order to make up for the shortage of soldiers, the company captain was allowed to divide the
Send troops to cities, towns and villages to catch young men.
Then, with the cooperation/collusion of some local officials and gentry, this round of recruitment operations turned into a farce of money-making in the form of disguised kidnapping and extortion; after catching a far excess number of strong men, they
Some of them are redeemed by relatives through intermediaries.
Therefore, for most of the winter, the capital region and the surrounding provinces were in turmoil; young and middle-aged people were constantly being kidnapped, and then used to extort the last bit of food and money from their families; some people couldn't bear it and started to fight.
Fleeing from his hometown, he died of hunger and freezing on the road.
On the other hand, with the arrival of severe winter, the prices of cotton, grain, firewood, oil, etc., and various people's necessities inside and outside the capital are also increasing day by day with the hoarding of big businessmen and powerful agents; so that every person
At night, families are without food or lights.
Therefore, in this case, groups of people fleeing the city of Seine, and even leaving the capital region, appeared on the road in an almost endless stream; but the superiors of the Burgundian dynasty turned a blind eye to this or even ignored it.
They say they are happy to see the results; some people even set up cards to charge them.
At the same time, riots and conflicts broke out again in the newly pacified Upper and Lower Norman provinces. However, it was the generals from the National Salvation Alliance who led their troops to surrender to the new dynasty; after the incident, they were named territorial earls and
High-ranking officials and other official positions, but conflicts with each other triggered wars.
As a result, the former generalissimo's old troops, who had been besieged in a corner of Cherbourg County on the peninsula in the northwest corner of the Lower Normandy province, took advantage of the opportunity to fight their way out; easily breaking through the blockade formed by these traitors, and
He went all the way north and captured Rouen, the capital city that was poorly defended.
Then, after gaining the support and help of a large number of local sympathizers, they continued northward and entered the Flanders Territory/vassal territory. Therefore, under the imminent threat of a comeback by the National Salvation Alliance Army of former Grand Marshal Motiler,
, the Imperial Council once again fell into disputes.
At the same time, relying on sufficient financial support for activities and the main hall, Senior Rafaro, who is far away in the capital, not only stays out of the matter, but has even been promoted to the assistant/senior attendant of the Lord Privy Seal, and has the opportunity to attend the meetings of the Minister of War, the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Justice.
Meeting convened by the Finance Minister.
Therefore, throughout the winter, through the secret channels he secretly organized and arranged, teachers, students, technicians, scholars and other technical and intellectual classes fled to the south; there were more than a dozen groups of thousands of people. Later, there were even some
, the persecuted and wanted sworn clergyman.
After the Free Army accepted them, except for a few who directly hired scarce professional talents, most of them had to go through a period of testing and observation in newly established special schools and training classes, as well as mutual supervision and reporting before they could be awarded the title.
Preliminary office and salary.
In this way, even if there are some people with ulterior motives or ulterior motives hidden inside, they can be slowly filtered and screened out. Are they just speculators pursuing fame and fortune, careerists who want to gain support, or are they completely
Saboteurs with hatred.
In this way, even if there are occasional fish that slip through the net, the harm can be minimized. Jiang Tian was reviewing and thinking slowly, planning to fall asleep at night and communicate with Polly in North Africa.
Have a good chat with Na and pay attention to the local progress.
At this time, Father Lacha's announcement sounded again outside: "Sir, the No. 7 secret camp of the Pious Company has been completed and put into use. I ask for your presence and instructions." The next day, Jiang Gao came.
We arrived at a large luxury manor near Lyon.
This is also the predecessor of the Burgundian dynasty in the north today. It came from a branch of the Arles-Ode family, one of the fourteen original nobles/founding kings. It was the first real estate built locally. Therefore, the history of this large manor is,
It can even be dated to the end of the Rose Dynasty.
As a remnant of the Franks, the Arles-Ode family was the only branch that survived through matrilineal inheritance/bringing in; the Burgundy family in order to protect itself from the wars of vassals and princes at the end of the dynasty; the core part of the original manor
, built into a military fortress.
Finally, after many years of continuation, it already has many towers and small fortresses; it is like a small fortress. It is somewhat incompatible with the bright and flashy architectural style of the local popular hedonism. Therefore, it is also called the "Iron Cavalry Manor" by the locals.
After the invasion of the Northern Italy/Ciro coalition led by the Principality of Verona, this place became an important node on the front line facing foreign enemies. Although no large-scale battle broke out in the end, surrounding this "Iron Cavalry Manor",
However, there were fierce offensive and defensive battles, and it changed hands several times.
Therefore, when the Free Army captured the city of Lyon in one go, there were still people in this "Cavalry Manor" who had been resisting in the ruins for nearly a week. Only then were the Free Army special attack companies who found the underground entrance smoked and shocked.
Explosions and other means are used to expel and eliminate them.
But today's "Cavalry Manor" is just like the Rose Palace outside Toulouse. After simple cleaning on the surface and continuous underground transformation and widening, it has become many special companies set up by the Free Army for special use.
One of the secret training camps.
Then in this secret camp, Jiang Tian met the newly recruited members of the Pious Company: a group of men, women, and children who looked like they were crooked, and exuded an air of unreliability; there was even a big-headed dwarf and a
Disabled people with broken arms mingled among them.
They are also strange people with special skills that the Pious Company searched for in the local market. Therefore, although these people look a bit shabby and poor on the outside, after demonstrating their strange abilities, they are actually quite good.
It's somewhat interesting.
For example, the big-headed dwarf nicknamed "Rat Walker" has the ability to sense and influence various rodents/rats within a radius of several hundred meters; therefore, he once used this ability to defraud and extort some taverns and hotels.
Only then was he captured by the loyal company.
But in Jiang Tian's view, his ability was tailor-made to meet the needs of the Free Army's promotion of urban sanitation and epidemic prevention. At least in this era of cities and villages, with mountains of garbage and rats running rampant,
It is the source of infectious diseases and large-scale plagues.
If he can obtain enough sources of rats, they can even be used to temporarily disrupt and oppose the enemy's cavalry formation. Another example is the man with a broken arm, who was originally the falconer of a local noble; but was captured during a hunting trip.
Trampled and injured, he was left to die in the wilderness.
As a result, during the death struggle about to be disemboweled by vultures, he unexpectedly acquired the ability to simply communicate with vultures, hawks, swans and other large birds. Only then was he able to survive and get involved in the mobile circus. From some kind of
In a sense, his ability is more useful.
There are also people who can control ropes that are tens of meters long and make various flexible movements of winding and binding. There are also people who can use crystal stones to emit blinding flashes... Although most of them are not particularly useful,
But there is nothing wrong with gathering together to get a job first.
Because, through the increasingly frequent encounters and witnessing of strange events, Jiang Tian suspected that there is some kind of mystery in this time and space, which has been gradually recovering in recent years; therefore, when he encounters similar weird people and strangers in the future, he will only
More or less...so you need to start planning in advance and plan ahead.