Realm of Power

Lombulus, a port in the northwest sea city region,

Lumbulu Port is a natural inward-curved port on the coast of the northwest sea city. In the era when shipping was not yet prosperous, it was just a small fishing village with less than a hundred people. With the increase in the number of sea ships, this former small fishing village suddenly Getting busy, the morning sun shines down from the thin clouds, shining on a layer of light golden color on the earth.

The farmer on the carriage was holding a riding whip in his hand, with the joy of the harvest on his face. He was shouting and chasing the children playing on the field ridge on the roadside, and his eyes were watching the wisps of blue smoke rising from the top of the harbor in the distance. The wheels squeaked on the gravel road,

This year has been good. The vast and sparsely populated northwest region has already changed with the large-scale immigration of the Ikadiva people. Coupled with the completion of the irrigation network in the northwest region, even the flat land outside the port has become In addition to the fields that can be planted, the northwest region has emerged as a large agricultural area in the empire. No one still remembers the tragic war a few years ago. People who have experienced war understand the preciousness of a peaceful world. For the civilians of the empire, , many people believe that war is a thing of the past.

Pushing open the window, the fat man stretched, and his eyes fell on the calm and peaceful small port outside. Besu Kaya, the princess of the Besu tribe, sent in some reports received in the morning for him to review, and the fat man flipped through them casually. , one from the Ministry of Military Affairs, and two from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, neither of which contained the word "urgent". He casually asked, "Have the documents from the Imperial Council been sent out?"

"The documents of the Imperial Council were sent out yesterday! The Admiralty Department sent a report that Princess Ruitang Tingna will enter the Oparo Sea in three days!"

Princess Besukaya's voice carries the unique sweetness of a girl. She wears tight-fitting pale white trousers that tightly wrap her slender legs, revealing her perfect waist and hip lines. Her shawl hair is curled, and her ears are vaguely delicate. Two light gold earrings, all of which clearly show that the princess of the North has reached the season of adulthood.

"The weather is starting to get cold now. You'll catch a cold if you dress like this!" The fat man's eyes paused for a moment on the princess's infinitely beautiful figure. He wanted to pretend to have an invisible expression, but in the end he missed it. He quickly covered it up and said

"The teacher seems to have forgotten that the ice fields in the North are much colder than here. Where we are, it is already the season when heavy snow covers the earth!" Besu Kaya smiled nonchalantly. "And Kaya also followed the teacher's instructions and was studying. During this period, I practiced swordsmanship. Although I may not be able to impress the teacher, at least I got some exercise from the cold. "

"It's always good to be careful!"

The fat man picked up the report on the table, looked at it, signed his name on it, and handed it to Besukaya. Besukaya folded the reports one by one very seriously, and suddenly raised his head and asked "Teacher, I wonder if you can tell me more about my senior sister, Ms. Bertrand Bonnie."

"Bonnie? Why did you think of asking this?" The fat man raised his head in astonishment, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes.

"Because there is news that the teacher is going to transfer Senior Sister Bonnie to the north of Congo?" Besukaya's face turned red unnaturally, hesitated, and nodded boldly and said, "And I have learned from many generals." I heard everywhere that Senior Sister Bonnie’s military talents are very good. Although she was just a female knight named Rui Erdian at the beginning, under His Majesty's teachings, she actually sat in the northern grassland of the empire. With the power of one person, the 100,000 cavalry in the east and west courts of the grassland did not dare to make the slightest move. Even in the imperial world where stars gather, it is still a dazzling star of light.

"Sometimes Kaya also wonders. We are also the teacher's disciples. Why does what Senior Sister Bonnie learns and what I learn are completely different things?" Besukaya's tone was full of envy, and there was also a hint of resentment. He was dissatisfied with his teacher and said, "The whole continent knows that teachers are gods." The invincible Emperor God, but as a disciple of the God of War, I rarely have the opportunity to come into contact with content that is really related to war. Except for the initial northwest battle, I did not have the opportunity to participate in the subsequent imperial wars. Most of the time, I Being left behind to learn how to deal with government affairs"

"It's not necessarily true that the teacher has a preference, but the teacher's wish to prevent me from being overly exposed to war is very clear." Besu Kaya's voice paused, a wisp of moisture rose in her eyes, and she said pitifully, "War is very important to Besu Kaya is no stranger to him. After seeing the cruelty of war, the disciple hopes to learn more about war, because The empire's several war victories have shown that the best way to stop war is war! The stability of a country first depends on its military strength, including the empire's military industry, military academies, military schools, Imperial Naval Academy, etc. and military institutions. This is the foundation that makes the emperor powerful, and this is something that the general government affairs that disciples are currently exposed to cannot touch at all! "

"The army is a violent institution, and you are a girl..." The fat man hesitated for a moment, and felt a headache under Besukaya's somewhat resentful gaze. Really, he was exposed in front of his face. Why? What to do, I can’t say that I really don’t want Besukaya to come into contact with war-related things.

Not only because war is cruel and merciless, many times, as the commander-in-chief of one side of the war, most of the time he is thinking about how to kill the enemy, but also because Besukaya is the future princess, who was trained by the empire in the north. As a local spokesperson, when such a person grows up, he should give the impression of being open-minded, generous, and calm to his ministers. If a bloody female commander is pushed to the throne of the cold land of the north, he will feel ashamed inside.

Although Besukaya would not intend to rebel, as the leader of a party, he often cannot make his own decisions.

Although the population of the northern cold land is sparse, the cruel environment is destined to be a region where heroes and careerists emerge in large numbers. Once Besukaya is exploited and pushed against the empire, will he still be able to be ruthless? It's hard to say if you clean up the entire cold area.

"I also ask the teacher to promise me that I hope to study military affairs with Senior Sister Bonnie!" Besukaya nervously held the fat man's hand tightly, and the soft and tender feeling came to her.

"You want to learn military skills from Bonnie?" Fatty was surprised. Are you kidding me? That woman's military talent is not that great. She just has a natural intuition and understanding of conspiracy. According to Fatty, this is inherited in the family. Talent, no one knows better than Fatty how Berlant Bonnie cultivated it.

A woman full of revenge and a teacher with evil intentions. The two were almost in cahoots. They hit it off immediately and their relationship was even more unclear. They were master's disciple and lover. During that time, it was a process of completely turning light into darkness. Bertrand Bonnie was such an excellent and patriotic female knight at the beginning, but ended up suffering the tragic death of her father. With everyone betrayed and separated, he watched William Dale, the pillar of the kingdom, fall into a trap and committed suicide. He watched Ruidian being weakened by him step by step. He used the entire Ruidian kingdom to be dismantled as a podium step by step, layer by layer. This woman dyed black,

From the hundreds of top-secret reports from the Supervision Department that he received last year, Fatty knew very well the role that his disciple played in the dozens of bloody conflicts that broke out in the East and West Courts in the previous year. This is a very unstable factor! If anyone else dared to do this, Fatty would have ordered his execution long ago. The East and West Courts were also concerned about this. Ruitang Tingna of the East Court had complained to him many times. When faced with the disciple and lover of His Majesty the Falcon, Xiting did not dare to show excessive offence, even though he was being oppressed very hard.

But now the aggressiveness of the grassland forces has been greatly reduced, and the attention and focus of the East and West Courts have also shifted to Oubaluo's side. The trend of local unification is unstoppable. It seems inappropriate to continue to let Bertrand Bonnie guard the grassland border, just half a month ago. Fatty finally began to adjust the border army. The newly transferred deputy commander Fei Ruoan took over the affairs of the border army. Bertrand Bonnie was appointed to be promoted to the deputy minister of the Imperial Ministry of Affairs. It was a typical promotion and secret promotion, and the official position was improved. But the military power was gone, and then a transfer order was transferred to Obalo.

If this woman is allowed to teach Besukaya, who will be handed over will be the princess or the queen of conspiracy. . . . . A trace of sweat appeared on the fat man's forehead.

"Ahem, you are different from her. You are the future queen of the Besu tribe, and she is a soldier. Naturally, your studies are different from hers!" The fat man coughed dryly and waved his hand, rejecting Besu Kaya's request. , casually closed the report in his hand, stood up, "I had no choice but to transfer Bonnie to the northern part of Gangfei."

"The Intelligence Department of the Southwest Region has issued an alert-level secret report. The atmosphere of war between the Istan people and the Feishan Kingdom has become increasingly intense. Although the war between the Istan people and the Feishan people will not spread to the north of Congo, no one will I dare not say that the Central European Barro Military Alliance composed of the central kingdom of Rola will not take advantage of the opportunity to take action.

"The northern part of Gangfei urgently needs to be transferred to an imperial general with outstanding combat capabilities and the ability to cope with multiple changes. According to Bonnie's handling ability on the northern border, it should be enough to face various emergencies. I don't know where it was revealed. The wind actually let you know in advance, in other words, she is not going to fight! She is just waiting to see what happens!"

"The imperial meeting held this time is the current focus of the empire. It will determine the future direction of the empire. As the future queen of the Besu tribe, do you really want to give up such a precious opportunity?" The fat man looked out the window and saw the mountains. A thin mist floated in the wind, sometimes rising and sometimes falling along the valley, and finally disappeared in the soft light of the morning sun.

The path that passes through the village in the middle of the port extends into the fields, passing through the large newly cultivated fields on both sides, and then winds up the mountains and disappears in the middle of the mountains. Although it was still early in the morning, in front of a hundred-meter-long curved coast, there were already more than a dozen merchant ships loading cargo. Their brown wooden bottoms were eroded by the sea water and turned into a pale white color. The gentle ocean breeze, The smell of wormwood and wheat stalks wafts across the harbor, and these winds blow through the hyacinths on the fields of the northwest, the purple flowers on the flat plains,

A spotted eagle flew up from the haystack and soared in the blue sky, while a carriage loaded with wheat drove on the stone road.

Fatty arrived at Dahai City in the northwest of the empire in early July. The unexpected end of the Gallic War finally allowed Fatty to take a hand to solve domestic problems. The commanders of the empire's armies and local forces received orders from His Majesty the Emperor to convene a royal meeting. All parties have received the news in advance. An important content of this imperial meeting is to establish the Kyoto of the empire.

This is not just the emperor's idea, but also the request of all imperial forces.

The territory of the empire can now be said to have been basically determined. At least in the north, with the remnants of Gaul withdrawing into the mountain plains, and taking extreme measures to close the connection between Gaul and the mountain plains, the Falcon Empire can be said to have completed the complete expansion of the vast territory. The Gaul region was included in the occupation. In the central part, after the empire swallowed Gang Fei, it had no new combat targets for the time being.

The current empire's territory has expanded three times compared to when it was in Ikadiva, and the empire's mainland is separated by sea from the huge control area in Obarro. It is obviously inappropriate to continue to use the original mainland center of gravity. The empire needs someone who can The connection point between the two continents has been recognized by all forces in the country.

This is the value of Imperial Kyoto,

This point will become the center of the empire's knowledge, culture, brokerage and trade, and will become the core of the empire's foundation. It has great potential for Oparo. The focus of many forces has already turned to Opalo. Now that the emperor has this intention, it will naturally come naturally. Before this decision, all forces expressed their approval of the Northwest Sea City as the new capital of the empire. On the one hand, it is the emperor's. Will, on the other hand, is also because Dahai City is geographically far away from the North-South Battle Line and has developed maritime routes and excellent military industry. No matter what happens on that side of the empire, it can play a role in supporting large-scale operations, fully agreeing with the conditions for the empire to be able to develop and cope with war.

At this imperial meeting, another huge move of the empire was the decision to fully advance into the original areas of the northern Slavs, that is to say. The empire is going to take action against the thousands of miles of fertile wilderness left by the Slavs. This is a strategic move, although the empire has already taken action before. However, due to troop restrictions and conditions, the expansion beyond the northern wall was severely slowed down. The empire finally had the time and strength to eat up this huge piece of fat.

"I'm going to set up a ** province outside the empire's long wall, and half of the land will be used as combat rewards!" Fatty unfolded the map in front of all the participants at the imperial meeting. When a huge wilderness map appeared in front of the empire's general When meeting in front of the heads of forces from all parties, the air in the conference room was a little solid, and no one knew what it meant.

"What does **province mean?"

The charming eyes of Mrs. Dillens of the Dillens family are not ordinary bright. The Dillens family has occupied an important seat in the inland sea, but after all, it is ocean trade, not land, and the money from ocean trade can now be used The Dillons family has armed an army of 30,000 people. Now that the land of the empire has been fixed, the Dillons family urgently needs new opportunities to expand. From the map, this land looks quite good.

"To put it bluntly, it's a fiefdom! A family fiefdom!" The fat man threw out this piece of pie without hesitation. In his eyes, the Slavic people's thousands of miles of fertile wilderness was the best imperial defense buffer zone. If this buffer zone was thrown to all forces, , the empire can save a lot of money and manpower,

"Hiss" there was a sound of inhalation in the conference room

"Although I dare not say it is very big, there are some that are more than a thousand miles long. This map is only the three hundred miles that have been detected so far!" The fat man grinned and said again.

"One...a thousand miles away, that's not a kingdom!"

’ Almost like that! This can be regarded as the empire's reward for your loyalty." The fat man tilted his head indifferently. Except for Ruitang Tingna, he had never mentioned the existence of this land to the domestic forces. What he wanted was this sense of suddenness. Sure enough, , everyone's eyes were flashing, only Rui Tangtingna's little face looked a little unhappy, but as someone who knew the content of the meeting in advance, she only dared to gouge the fat man with her ruthless eyes.

"Your Majesty, I'll just follow you. I wonder if I can get a clearer picture, such as the empire's layout of the long wall." The person who said this was Duo Weiyan. His eyes were almost fixed on the map. Such a huge wilderness, Simply created for the steppe cavalry

"Mulu, please explain!" The fat man waved to a military staff officer. A well-dressed imperial officer came over, holding a wooden whip in his hand and falling on the map, and said, "The current situation of the empire in terms of the long wall is There are three forces. The first one is the 45,000-strong border guard stationed at the Great Wall in the north of the empire. It is mainly responsible for the defense of the long wall and also detects the terrain 200 miles outside the long wall.

The second is the dragon armored cavalry of the Murphy family, which surrendered to the empire due to the defeat in the Southwest District. This type of troops is well equipped but extremely in need of material support. It is obviously not suitable for such long-term operations in the wilderness where supplies are lacking. How many of the Murphy family are there? After the first attack failed, he huddled close to the long wall and planned to build a settlement based on the long wall.

The third group is the subordinates of Princess Ruitangtingna. These grassland cavalry are very adaptable to the wilderness and have expanded their exploration range to three hundred miles. The dozen or so settlements established by the princess's people have also expanded to the Long Wall. Hundreds of miles away, the same thing These forward troops also received warnings from the Dongting Cavalry. Due to the serious lack of combat forces, Princess Ruitangtingna ordered her subordinates not to dare to advance within a range of three hundred miles. It is now certain that the enemy outside the long wall It's a grassland empire called Dongting! During the year of delay, Dongting people's cavalry has frequently appeared in the Slavic areas, but our advantage is also very obvious, that is, the original owners of the land, the Slavs, have now belonged to the empire. His Majesty ordered the Slavs to A guide team of 500 people was recruited to accompany the army as it marched north. . . . . . . "

"Dongting!" Everyone looked at Ruitang Tingna,

"They have nothing to do with us!" Rui Tang Tingna said very straightforwardly,

"Then let's start the fight, what are you hesitating about!" Duo Weiyan was the first to express that Xiting supported this northward advance, and other forces also agreed.

This year is the first year of the new calendar of the empire, the 1046th year of the Obaro calendar, and the beginning of the Falcon Empire's eastward expedition (to be continued..)