Then, with Jiang Tian's return, the public audience lasted for a whole week; except for the regent Paulina who was traveling outside, almost all the middle and high-level officials and generals in the capital region rushed to come. Visited and asked for instructions;
Even the Pyrenees Military District/Regiment Commander Porthos, who is responsible for the Holy Kingdom, and the Alpine Theater/Regiment Commander Thiago, who monitors the Western Empire and the Black Forest; and the Flanders Legion, which monitors the princes of the Northern Netherlands. Send your own trusted representative.
They passed through the kingdom's newly built criss-crossing, hardened and glued roads of asphalt, volcanic ash and gravel, as well as the canals and waterways that ran through most of the central and southern regions; they rushed towards the capital city of Seine day and night; corresponding to the Seine There was commotion in the city.
During this period, along with the military police company of the Military Inspectorate, the special attack knight company of the Redemption Knights, members of the External Investigation Bureau, the Domestic Investigation Bureau, and the Anomaly Handling Bureau, they mobilized with all their strength to seize the upper and lower districts and outer rings of the huge Seine City. The left and right banks and riverside areas.
Searches and cleanups were carried out regardless of the size of the net; at least hundreds of foreign spies, remnants of the former dynasty, wanted persons and other suspicious elements were captured, and more than a dozen emerging street gangs, associations and groups were destroyed; it also aroused Diplomatic representatives from all parties reacted strongly.
Although currently, diplomatic relations and trade channels have been officially established with the Kingdom of Sealand/Tulip Dynasty; in addition to being located in the north to fight against the Norman barbarian kings, Ned has long needed to rely on the kingdom and has to accept guidance in political and military aspects. Lan princes;
That is, the Pan-Hessian region in the northwest of the kingdom, the North Rhine League that had had conflicts; and the Eastern Empire, which maintained indirect contacts through the colonies and overseas provinces in Africa. Despite this, other countries did their best to send representatives to Seine City.
Although they do not have a formal official status, they have established personal relationships and communication channels with certain officials in the capital through their own methods. Among them, the one with the most special status is the personal representative of the Holy See who is resident in the largest Notre Dame Church in Seine City.
While representing the Holy See, this Lady Carolina will also privately communicate some news and official attitudes of the Western Empire. For example, the young emperor who defeated the northern Italian princes who carved up the kingdom by attacking and eradicated dissidents in the country, and did not hesitate to point the butcher knife at the royal family.
In front of the young emperor, who is called the "bloody lion" by his subjects, it is said that even the elderly Holy See and the Grand Council of Cardinals of Rome have to stay away from him temporarily to avoid getting into trouble. Therefore, in these years alone, some relatives of the imperial nobles and people in the Holy See have secretly moved to the kingdom.
Today's Sealand Kingdom has a strict attitude towards the old nobility and traditional churches; however, industry, commerce and overseas trade are developing quite well; at the same time, there is a sufficiently open and liberal academic atmosphere; therefore, there are many foreign scholars and exiled monks. Came for refuge.
In the city of Seine alone, at least thirty to forty schools, colleges and technical workshops have been restored and built, large and small, and there are countless private guild schools and night enlightenment classes; It is to provide manpower for the riverside industrial zone downstream.
The abundant output from the promotion of industrial and real estate development across the country, coupled with the rush of wealthy and middle-class citizens, also allowed Seine City, which has been the royal capital for generations, to recover from depression in a very short period of time. , returned to the prosperous metropolis of the Western Continent.
In other words, today's subjects of the kingdom, under the impact of the third wave of mutations, have basically quickly adapted to the new era of coexisting in disguise with the scattered monsters and deformed beasts wandering in the wild; most villages have either built walls or Self-Defense Forces, either abandoned and inhabited.
The towns and cities along the roads have become a safe zone to a certain extent due to the convenient transportation; the army that regularly explores and patrols along the roads will use guns, gunpowder and special attack knights wearing steel armor to Kill any larger nests and swarming threats.
Later, local police and security personnel would use the method of posting bounties in specific places to allow mercenary groups or new generation hunters to clean up the fish that may have slipped through the net; and kill or capture the aliens through potions. Division cannon is made of special effect materials.
As a result, a quite prosperous underground industry has even been formed from local areas to the capital. Under the threat of aliens, the results of population relocation and collective living in villages in remote areas further strengthened the kingdom's control and broke the original social relations.
The old aristocratic system of the previous dynasty, as well as its top-down ruling inertia and residual model, were further crushed in the tide of the times. Although the population of the kingdom has not increased now, but has decreased compared with before the turmoil and civil war, the efficiency of production, administration and mobilization has been greatly improved.
Not to mention other things, the registered population of 1.78 million supports the six legions under the Kingdom's Army Commissioner; the First (Sena) Legion, the Second Gajon Legion, the Third Provost Legion, and the The Fourth Toulouse Army, the Fifth Lyon Army, and the Sixth Vichy Army.
There are a total of 23 corps, 150,000 active field troops; plus six military regions (corps) of overseas corps; more than 50,000 foreign/naturalized soldiers of all ethnic groups. There are also four combat readiness areas in the Alps, Pyrenees, Flanders and Normandy coastal defense.
Border garrison troops and ad hoc militia groups, approximately 45 regiments and 37,000 second-line garrison soldiers. There are also garrison regiments and garrison companies in 23 provinces and cities, and about 100,000 third-line and reserve troops. Not to mention the village and town self-defense forces guided by veterans.
It can also keep the kingdom's finances in good operation and with a slight surplus, if the kingdom has further needs. It is also possible to quickly recruit 100,000 to 150,000 young men who have received simple military training from collective farms and centralized settlements, factories and mines everywhere;
It is precisely because of this that the military operation system Jiang Tian left behind before leaving allowed Paulina, the regent of the kingdom, to repel and defeat the Holy Kingdom from the southwest many times without taking the initiative. , the Western Empire in the east, and even armed temptations in the Hesse region.
In these years, the Kingdom of Zealand has gained valuable buffer time to recuperate with its subjects and thoroughly sort out its internal affairs. The only civil strife and unrest that broke out was the rebellion of some old-fashioned guilds that were banned and purged by the royal government.
Although the other party between Upper and Lower Normandy in the central and western part of the kingdom is suspected of receiving secret support from the Holy Kingdom outside the country, and has gathered a so-called fifty thousand rebels; but even the dozen or so large cities stationed in the kingdom, surrounding and nearby The regular army did not have time to dispatch;
Just as she was cruising here, Pauline, who was besieged in the provincial capital of Rouen, took the initiative to lead her guards to attack; holding a bloody dragon-headed flag, she rushed into the densest array of rebels regardless of arrows; and in a special attack by a small team With the help of the knight, he killed a bunch of enemy leaders.
They even included a dozen of them who had undergone alienation and were suspected of being the Grand Knights/Knights of Glory of the Holy Kingdom; therefore, the tens of thousands of rebels under the city saw their morale collapse on the spot as they saw the gorgeous military flags falling one after another. Tens of thousands of people dropped their armor and knelt on the ground, praying for surrender and forgiveness.
Therefore, she is currently leading a team stationed in the city of Calais in the Normandy Coastal Defense Zone to observe and monitor the movements of the British from the other side. Because, according to the report of the spies who fled across the sea, the Iron Throne, as the lord of the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, changed hands again not long ago.
The contemporary King Alfred, the "Stoneheart King" of the red dragon royal family, died suddenly due to excessive drinking while on a hunting trip. The underage prince Joffrey ascended the throne as the new king; but he obviously lacked prestige in the face of the vassals of the Seven Kingdoms. As a result, the power of state affairs fell into the hands of the regent Princess Melisandre.
Whenever the kingship of the British Isles changed, the northwest coastal areas of the Western Continent began to suffer large-scale raids. All kinds of vassals and rebels who were defeated in the power struggle of the Seven Kingdoms, and even thieves and pirates who use Britain as a harbor and shelter, will follow the trend.
Therefore, although the threat of personally leading an army to land is not as great as that of the contemporary king of the Red Dragon Royal Family, this kind of fragmented and piecemeal invasion is even more difficult to prevent. Therefore, even though she felt Jiang Tian's return, she still decided to stay there and take charge for a while.
After the last round of public interviews ended, two pieces of news began to spread in Seine City: The first was that Ms. Marlena became the chief female designated by the Saint King/Knight by dedicating her two daughters. Courtier; from now on she can only be called Lady Marlena.
Another news is that with the return of the Saint King/Knight King, there will be an old enemy of the Sealand Kingdom who will become the target of his anger and military attacks. Therefore, as the news gradually spread, Since then, the number of spies and spies infiltrating the Kingdom of Sealand from abroad has increased sharply.
But the strongest reaction to this was not the Holy Kingdom, which had experienced many conflicts and confrontations, or the Western Empire, which saw action in the Alps. Rather, it was a diplomatic representative of the Eastern Empire from Constantinople.
