On the evening of November 11, 594th year of the Holy Light Calendar, Claude led General Albert and General Beechline into the theater headquarters.
General Bolognik and General Skerry, who had been under house arrest here for nearly half a month, have been freed. They are sitting in General Bolognik's office waiting for the arrival of Claude and the others.
It has to be said that the decree of Sterling XI brought by the kingdom's envoy this time had a serious mental impact on General Bolognik. Now this decree is spread out on the desk. After reading all the contents of the decree, General Bolognik is heartbroken and his face is haggard. He knew very well that if the kingdom's envoys were allowed to carry out the will of Sterling XI in the overseas territories, then everything they had fought for in the past few years would be meaningless...
However, after the three Claudes entered the office and closed the door, General Bolognik still spoke in a cold and dissatisfied tone: "Everything is as you expected, are you satisfied now? Then when are you going to declare the independence of the overseas territories and ascend the throne as king, my Majesty Claude?"
General Skerry, General Beachlin, and General Albert didn't say anything, they just looked at Claude. This action against the kingdom's envoy was all planned by Claude, General Albert was avoiding it, and General Beachlin did not catch up because of the long journey. Although General Skerry was an insider, he kept Claude's plan a secret and stood with General Bolonik to greet the kingdom's envoy. As a result, he was also placed under house arrest at the theater headquarters for more than ten days.
Only Claude avoided the welcome ceremony of the Kingdom's envoy on the pretext that something happened at the Blackstone Gun Manufacturing Workshop in the direct jurisdiction of Port Vibato, and deliberately did not show up in front of the Kingdom's envoy. Otherwise, he would be under house arrest in the theater headquarters like General Bolognik and General Skerry, which would have a great impact on his plan.
Although being placed under house arrest does not mean that Claude has lost his ability to resist, at that time, no matter what resistance he and his subordinates made, they would be regarded as a struggle for power by the upper echelons of the direct jurisdiction, which was not the case at all. Maybe it would be as satisfying as today to lead the troops as everyone expected and arrest the Kingdom's envoys who coveted the gold and silver reserves of the Minsheng Bank overseas.
And General Bolognik's words also showed this dissatisfaction. You might as well arrest the Kingdom's special envoy. After dragging the four of us into the water, are you going to declare the independence of the entire overseas territories and become the king
Claude helplessly shrugged and spread his hands: "To be honest, I haven't done anything. According to my plan, it will take at least six or seven days to attract the kingdom's envoys to take the bait and arouse the dissatisfaction and indignation of the people in the entire direct-administered war zone. Until then is the best time to deal with the Kingdom's envoy. Let all the people realize the bad intentions, greed and despicability of the Kingdom's envoy, and let all the people see clearly our new king's attitude towards the direct territories and his stupidity. true colors.
It's just that I didn't expect these kingdom envoys to be so clever. They started to develop the Overseas Minsheng Bank just two days after taking over power in the war zone. This can only be said that the gold and silver reserves in the bank dazzled their eyes, causing them to go directly to the opposite side of all the people in the direct territory. Although this was not my arrangement, the people in the direct territory were already in a turbulent mood. If the trouble continued, I was afraid that uncontrollable changes would occur, so I came forward to arrest all the kingdom's envoys.
Also, stop kidding me. I don’t want to rebel against the kingdom. Why should I declare the independent overseas territories? The center of the independent world is in the continent of Farea, not the continent of Nubisia. Even though the territory of the overseas territories is very large, here Ascension to the throne is like establishing an independent country for the Nikancha people, and is treated as a joke behind closed doors and having a family dinner."
General Bolognik raised his eyebrows: "You don't want to declare the independence of the overseas territories, and you don't want to ascend the throne as king. Have you never thought of rebelling against the kingdom?"
Claude gave him an affirmative answer: "Of course, I am from the Kingdom of Ovilas, and this is still the territory of the Kingdom of Ovilas on the Nubisia continent."
"Then, why did you arrest all the kingdom's envoys? You could have discussed it with them..." General Bolognik became happy.
Claude was speechless and could only shake his head silently. This was probably his knowledge and life experience. Although General Bolognik is nearly twenty years older than Claude, it has to be said that his thoughts in some aspects are still very simple and very naive. Seriously speaking, General Bolognik is the kind of die-hard loyalist of the kingdom. No matter how the monarch treats him, he will bear it silently without complaining and will serve him sincerely.
In addition, General Bolognik was born as a civilian and has been in the military all his life. He has never thought about the dark side of the aristocratic class in upper class society and the intrigues between them, as well as the various conspiracies and life-and-death battles for interests. He has neither experienced it nor seen it. He believes that human nature is good. Sterling XI is just confused for a moment. The kingdom's envoys cannot disobey the king's orders. As long as there is good communication and discussion, everything in the overseas territories will be restored to its original state and on the right track. . As for his own power and official position, he didn't care much about it...
But Claude is different. He is not a native of this Faslan world. He is a time traveler. In his previous life, as a descendant of Yan and Huang, he had already engraved in his blood the saying that princes and generals would rather have a kind of nature. He would not respect the bloodline and family inheritance of nobles like the children of Western nobles. Instead, he had seen a lot of the shamelessness and darkness of the so-called nobles in the novels and movies he had read in his previous life. Even though he has become an honorary viscount of this kingdom in this life, he still does not take this noble status to heart.
"I am going to send this Marine Corps Battalion and the Kingdom's special envoys to the Rocky Mountains directly under the jurisdiction of the Territory. There is a shortage of miners there." Claude said: "In addition, I ordered the local garrison of Corpicius Port to arrest this time. Let the naval officers and soldiers on the seven warships who sent the kingdom's envoys come over and ask them to dig gold mines in the Rocky Mountains directly under the jurisdiction for a few years..."
"You, you..." General Bolognik was shocked and jumped up: "Didn't you say you won't rebel against the kingdom? Why are you still doing this? This is obviously an act of rebellion."
"No, you are wrong." Claude laughed: "This is just a protest against Sterling XI by our overseas territories, not an act of rebellion. Of course, if our Majesty the King thinks this It's an act of rebellion, and there's nothing I can do about it. Then what can our King do to us? Which legion is he going to send to attack us? Does he have a ship? Is he escorted by a warship? Can he transport one legion at a time
By the way, I shouldn't discuss this, but I should first ask our wise King, does he still have money in the treasury to support this crusade across the Silent Ocean? I hope our King will not forget this fact, The ten standing legions of the Hicks Kingdom have just been wiped out by our direct-administered war zone. Over half a million Hicks captives are working as laborers in our war zone. He has to think carefully about how many legions he needs to prepare to crusade against us rebels... . ...
Boney, you are our friend, we all know that you want to be a loyal general of the kingdom, we too do not want to betray our kingdom. But as the acting supreme commander of the territorial war zone, you have a clear idea of who is the monarch worthy of allegiance. You have already read His Majesty's decree brought by the kingdom's envoys. You should know very well that if the decree is carried out, the future of the entire overseas territory will be dark.
Our resistance is not treason, but to protect this territory on the Nubisian continent for our kingdom. This is a new territory opened up by the late King Sterling X for the future of the kingdom. Our mission is to protect it and protect it. Its prosperity and development is the mission of our old men in the Ranger Regiment, and it is also the task left to us by Marshal Michelic before he left. Therefore, we cannot allow the stupid Sterling XI to spoil and destroy.
Think about the five million immigrants from the kingdom living in the entire overseas territories. Their peace and happiness are more important than satisfying the selfish desires of a fatuous and greedy monarch. Our overseas territories will be renamed overseas autonomous territories. Still It is an overseas territory of the Kingdom of Orvilas, but we no longer accept any will from the fatuous monarch. Only after the next wise King comes to the throne, our overseas autonomous territories will accept the jurisdiction of the Kingdom again... "
Claude's meaning was very clear. To oppose Sterling XI is not to oppose the kingdom. At present, overseas direct jurisdiction leads to autonomy. We will wait and see the situation after the next new king ascends the throne. If the next king is wise and virtuous, he will naturally forgive Claude and the others for their rebellious behavior and re-integrate the overseas autonomous territories under the jurisdiction of the kingdom. If the next king who ascends the throne is still like the current King Sterling XI, then the overseas autonomous territories can still continue to hang like this.
Anyway, now the kingdom itself has nothing to do with the overseas dominions. It takes money and money to lose ships. The entire kingdom only has three ace field legions. What to use against the two legions of the overseas dominions depends on the temperament of Sterling XI. It is impossible for him to work hard and work hard to clean up the old country and prepare to take revenge on the overseas dominions. If he has that free time, he might as well hold a few more dances and banquets to have a drunken life. At least in his dreams, he will not be someone else. Mouth jokes...
General Bolognik's face changed as he stood there. He knew in his heart that what Claude said was true. With the current strength in the war zone, the kingdom's mainland could not even resist, let alone a crusade. This is the difference between Claude and him. Claude will rely on his own strength to resist injustice, but he will only endure it. Even if he wanted to be loyal to the kingdom, he couldn't do it, because Sterling XI didn't care about the loyalty of the general of a small kingdom far away on the continent of Nubisia.
"Alas..." General Bolognik sighed deeply, turned around and walked out the door: "I'll leave this to you, Claude, I'm going home."
Claude stood at attention and saluted him: "Okay, you go home and have a good rest. The two of you have suffered during this period. Now local people from various jurisdictions are rushing to Lanhu City to prepare for the autonomous election in half a month. The conference will need you to preside over it..."
General Bolognik's footsteps stopped at the door. He wanted to turn around but didn't. He hesitated and nodded silently, then pushed the door open and walked out. Under the protection of the newly recruited guards, he got on the carriage and left the theater command. department.
"Claude, why don't you establish an independent country and become king as Boni said? I guarantee that the three of us will be loyal to you, and then wait for you to grant us a grand duchy..." Albert General Lunt asked with a smile. General Skerry and General Beachlin also looked at Claude curiously, waiting for his answer.
Claude pouted, found a chair and sat down, reaching for the cup to drink water. General Albert was quick-sighted and said: "Don't worry, I'll get you a bottle of good wine. I know where the good wine is hidden in Boney's office."
When General Albert poured everyone a glass of fruit wine, Claude tasted the wine in the glass and thought about the answer: "My father once said this to me before he died, if you want to wear the crown, you must bear it. The most important thing is that I lived in Bailu City when I was a child. It was still Bailu Town at that time and had not been upgraded to a city. There was a Temple of the Earth Mother in the town. In the temple, there was a pair of very beautiful and gorgeous crowns, made of real gold and silver, inlaid with Many gems, very precious.
You should also know the purpose of this pair of crowns. During the Harvest Festival in September every year, the most handsome young man and the most beautiful girl in the town will be selected. They will become the Harvest Prince and the Harvest Princess. They will wear this pair of crowns and be draped in gorgeous clothes. clothes, and then hold a parade and carnival in the town to celebrate the Harvest Festival, which lasts for three days. When I was a child, I hoped that when I grew up, I could wear the crown of the Harvest Prince and stand on a gorgeous carriage and parade like a majestic king.
My father knew about my wish. He found a time to take me to the Earth Mother Goddess Lake, brought me the crown, and asked me if I liked it and if I wanted to wear it. Of course I was willing. But my father said, I can wear this crown, but I can’t take it off until an hour after I put it on. At that time, I thought that one hour was too short. I wished I could wear this crown on my head for three days and three nights like the prince and princess at the Harvest Festival.
Then I regretted it, because I never thought that the gorgeous-looking crown would be so heavy and uncomfortable to wear on my head. Within ten minutes I couldn't stand it anymore, and I was crying and asking my father to help me take it off. You know that there is a hidden buckle on the crown, which covers the head when it is buckled on the head. Someone needs to help me open it before I can take the crown. But my father refused my request and just sat next to me drinking tea and watching me cry and want to win the crown...
I don't know how I survived that hour. I only know that my head was very uncomfortable and painful during that hour. When my father helped me take off the crown an hour later, I was like a fish thrown in the mud, breathing in big mouthfuls of air. Then my father told me this and explained it to me. There is nothing in this world that comes for free. When I want to get something, I must consider whether I am prepared to bear the responsibilities and obligations that this thing brings...
The crown is a beautiful and precious symbol of power, but it also means that as a king, you have to take responsibility for your subjects and the kingdom. It is easy to become a foolish king like Sterling XI, but what does such a throne mean to our lives? In the end, it is nothing more than betrayal, leaving a disgraceful mark in the history books, and becoming a person cast aside by his own people. The fatuous monarch.
Today, our war zone has nine directly-administered territories, which are larger than the current kingdom itself. If distributed according to the area of each local county in the kingdom, each direct-administered territory can be divided into at least three to four local counties, and nine direct-administered territories can be divided into more than thirty local counties. And our kingdom's mainland is now divided by our His Majesty the King only ruined 27 local counties, lost 21 newly occupied counties, and gave up four border counties.
The area is larger than that of the Kingdom itself, but the population of our entire overseas territory is only about five million immigrants from the Kingdom. However, the twenty-seven local counties in the kingdom have more than 20 million kingdom residents. Even though the kingdom itself is now in ruins due to civil war, as long as it settles down and the king's governance is wise and reliable, the people will be restored and rejuvenated within five years. This is the strength of the kingdom itself, not ours, which is vast and sparsely populated. It can't be compared with overseas directly-administered territorial war zones.
Under such circumstances, establishing independent states and enthroning overseas directly-administered territories as kings is something only a fool would do. Not to mention that the nearly two to three million immigrants have just migrated from the Kingdom's mainland in recent years and still have deep feelings for the Kingdom. Even if the Kingdom has a wise king, it will only take twenty years to restore the people's power. Let the kingdom become a regional power again, and then our independent kingdom will become its life-and-death enemy. Why bother? At least I don't think I can become a qualified king now...
In addition, think about it, the entire Nubicia continent is a colony of the countries in the Farea continent. If our territorial war zone establishes an independent country, it means that we will become an outlier on the Nubisia continent. It will be targeted by all countries that have colonies on the Nubisian continent, which also means that these countries can declare war on us and attack our kingdom and turn our territory into their colonies.
As an overseas territory of the Kingdom of Overas, even if we establish an autonomous territory, any country that wants to attack us must consider the kingdom's response. But after we became an independent country, other countries no longer had this scruple. We can defeat the ten standing legions of the Kingdom of Hicks, but can we withstand the joint attack of all the countries that have colonies on the Nubisian continent?"
None of the three generals expected Claude to say such profound words. General Skerry thought for a while and said with some shame: "You are still sober-minded and think so long-term. In fact, I was attracted by those kingdoms When the special envoy was under house arrest here, he was full of resentment and wished that he would sever all ties with the kingdom after he was freed. We worked hard to win this colonial war for the kingdom, but we were treated like this by the ignorant king. We are really unwilling to accept it."
General Albert and General Beach Green nodded with concern.
Claude laughed: "I once saw a sentence in a book when I was a child, saying that it is not polite to come and not to return. It means that when friends come to visit, it is polite for us to return the visit. Now the kingdom's envoys and The Marine Corps battalion and the naval officers and soldiers who escorted them were all sent to mine under my orders. Then Sterling XI must still be waiting for news from them, expecting them to collect property from the war zone directly under our jurisdiction and return it for his expenses.
So we have to tell him not to wait, the Kingdom's envoy will not go back. I have ordered the First Thunder Division to break camp and come back. After the self-government election meeting is over, Alan, please work hard and lead the Thunder Legion to land in the Kingdom under the escort of the ocean cruise fleet. Isn't it said that there are many refugees in the Kingdom? You can help collect them and transport them back to our overseas autonomous territories. It can be considered a help. The kingdom has solved a big problem..."
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