Black Iron Crown

The news of the imperial capital is often like a broken house with air leaks everywhere. As long as they are willing, anyone can find out the choices and actions made by the decision-makers.

This group of upstarts didn't even have a sense of secrecy at all, and casually yelled at the people of the Bookeden Kingdom in front of their servants, not to mention the lords of the Bookeden Kingdom were often showing off how they persecuted the empire. signed treaty.

In exchange for the support of the Bukden Kingdom, the empire reached many agreements with them.

It includes three years of customs duties on the southern border of the Mortgage Empire, and a reduction of 50% of the tax rate for all merchants in the Bookden Kingdom after three years. In addition, 50,000 square kilometers will be given to the Bookden Kingdom land as a gift.

Moreover, all the spoils obtained during the battle against the Bazaran Kingdom will belong to the people of the Bukeden Kingdom.

It seems that these conditions are not harsh, they just give away some land and give some preferential treatment to the other party's merchants, and they don't even pay any direct currency.

Therefore, when this news spread outward, it did not cause much opposition and dissatisfaction, it just made people feel uncomfortable.

But when the second news came out, it immediately detonated the anger of the gentry and yeoman everywhere.

"Then damn King Dusatli dared to sit on His Majesty's supreme throne! This is a shame! It is a shame to the great Ridka Empire!"

"Shame! Your Majesty, your empire, your empire has become like this..."

Many squires, petty nobles, and yeoman farmers were extremely sad and angry. Most of them were soldiers and low-level officers who had followed Emperor Kaffit in the Southern and Northern Wars and were placed in the prosperous central area of ​​the empire after the establishment of the country.

They are very emotional for the country established by Emperor Kaffit. It is no different from the country they created with their own hands. How could they not be so humiliated by the huge country that they worked so hard to help the emperor build? angry.

All the squires who had a little wealth, could afford several guards, and bought weapons and armor for themselves and their sons gathered to discuss how to deal with this matter.

This is a force that should not be underestimated. These squires, petty nobles, and self-cultivating farmers who are loyal to the empire can form an army of at least 8,000.

This is the number of many self-cultivating farmers who received the omen of the imperial capital and enlisted in the army.

Before Lena besieged the imperial capital,

Earl Redmara and others also gave warnings to this group of people, but these people have long been dissatisfied with the perverse actions of the Queen and Earl Redmara, not to mention that Reiner and others are from the royal family, and they are still fighting against the traitors of the Qing Dynasty. banner.

They all wished to kill the Queen and Earl Redmara, how could they respond to the call to help these people fight.

All of a sudden, the people's sentiments were raging. Many old squires put on the extremely playful armor they had raised when they were young, picked up the long halberds they used in battle, wore long swords around their waists, and held the old emperor's or their own family's tattoos. Zhang, came to the outer wall of the imperial capital.

When these people spontaneously gathered together, almost all of them had tears in their eyes. They were looking for comrades-in-arms who had known each other or met once, and once thought of Zheng Zheng who followed the old emperor to fight in the north and south. It was a glorious experience worth bragging about for a lifetime.

Such behavior instantly affected the imperial capital, which had just begun to recover its prosperity. Many merchants thought that another siege war was about to break out after seeing this situation, and hurriedly left with their caravans.

After learning the news, the queen immediately stood up from the bed and loudly asked Earl Redmara to solve it immediately.

Then he hurriedly put on his clothes and went to find his father, King Satri.

Entering King Satri's room, the queen found that there were several of his vassals here, obviously discussing something.

"Ah, here comes my daughter!" King Satri stood up from his chair and pulled the queen to sit down.

Just when the two were about to say something, an inappropriate voice appeared in their ears.

"Your Majesty, I want to know who are those armed men outside the city? Why are they here?"

This is a vassal of the Kingdom of Bookern.

King Satri scolded in dissatisfaction: "Bron, don't you see that I want to talk to my daughter? Don't be too presumptuous!"

Although he was scolding, King Satri didn't have any angry expression on his face.

Earl Brown immediately apologized and withdrew.

Afterwards, King Satri also asked: "Actually, this is what I want to ask, what are those people outside the city doing here?"

"Such disrespectful siege of the imperial capital, do you need me to help you eliminate them?"

"No, no need for my father, they are just a group of squires who came here to protect us, I will let them leave here soon!"

Although the queen does not understand military affairs, she still knows the most basic theory.

The group of country gentry outside the city is basically leaderless, and their personal force may be very good, after all, under the command of Emperor Caffett, they have conquered such a huge empire.

But without a unified command now, their combat effectiveness will not be stronger than a group of rabble.

The queen knew without thinking about the help that King Satri said, and it was nothing more than destroying and driving them away.

If she agrees to do this, then she will really lose everyone's support, and all the gentry and farmers will be hostile to her, and she doesn't want to be reduced to this point.

The news of the imperial capital is still spreading outwards, and Leiner, who has returned to the northern border, is still unclear for the time being.

He is now rewarding his meritorious deeds in the main castle hall of Mecaron City.

All his vassals and officers above the captain are gathered here, waiting for the coming reward.

Reiner, with a population of 50,000, is not going to hand it over to anyone, and holding it directly in his own hands can play a greater role than holding it in the water reservoir of the vassals.

The first is Leiner's own vassals. Although they did not make much contribution, they followed him to the imperial capital after all, so Leiner gave them half of the land he got.

In addition, Leiner also canonized the officers of the direct line army who had been outstanding in the battle before.

There were four barons and seventeen knights, but these people did not go to their own fiefs, but would continue to stay in Reiner's army to command the army, and their relatives or wives and sons would temporarily manage the territory until the time came. After they retire, they go to the territory to retire.

"Krim, the captain of the 4th Regiment, fought bravely when besieging the imperial capital, and led the soldiers to garrison the city, I canonize you as the Baron of Willenburg, the legal ruler of Willenburg and the 21 subordinate villages By!"

"From today onwards, you can call yourself a baron, and I will provide you and your family with shelter. At the same time, you must always remain loyal to me and my family, and undertake military service and annuity obligations!"

As he said that, Leiner slapped Kerim on the shoulder three times with his long sword: "From today onwards, you can collect taxes wherever you are, and you are the legal ruler there!"