Tang Qi Tan

Chapter 418 Untitled 5
Of course, as the leader of the Special Salvation Government that occupied and ruled more than a dozen provinces/great crowns in the south, it is impossible for Jiang Tian to linger outside for too long.After dealing with these noises and small episodes, he will soon have to face the various official duties that pile up quickly.

From this point of view, he misses the ease and comfort of the adjutant Paulina when she was still by his side; although the first to fifth attendant rooms led by Andrew now have more than 20 professional groups; more than 300 The consultants, secretaries and recorders of the compilation are busy with it.

But none of them can match Paulina's long-term memory, her extensive knowledge and strong document retrieval and analysis ability when she was an adjutant.Work is like an efficient humanoid AI, which can maintain a working state for several days and nights with the most basic eating and short rest.

On the other hand, what surprised him was that the Burgundian dynasty, located in the capital city of Seine, was slow and procrastinated in responding to the situation in the south.You must know that the whole winter when the mountains were blocked by heavy snow and the roads were difficult to navigate has already passed.The Free Army also split up and attacked the surrounding provinces.

However, seeing that the free army has completed the suppression and suppression of bandits in most areas in the province of Rhône where Lyon is located.The two corps led by Madurand have already penetrated the provinces of Ansen and Jura in the north, and began to besiege Franche, Besançon, the capital of the Prince de Comte/Grand Crown;

On the other hand, starting from Toulouse, the Tiago and Podos corps, which attacked the central plateau, have also captured the provinces of Canzel and Haute-Loire, which are adjacent to the existing control area.It seems that the southern part of the central plateau will be connected with the two major regions of Provence and Toulouse.

However, what made Jiang Tian stand ready, the momentum of the Northern Dynasty's large-scale crusade by gathering heavy troops, has never been seen for a long time.On the contrary, some nobles and old dynasty forces in some places have formed many self-defense troops and armed militias; they are spontaneously resisting the infiltration and invasion of the free army.

In fact, in order to sort out the mess as soon as possible, and to meet the counterattack and continuous offensive from the Burgundian dynasty; ad hoc field tribunals composed of military officers;
Think quick and mass trials and rulings, local potential saboteurs and sympathizers of the old aristocracy.Of course, unless there is an act of armed confrontation, direct execution is not allowed; but during this period of time, there were as many as tens of thousands of people who had left their homes and were sentenced to exile in Binhai.

It wasn't until, through the news sent out one after another by Senior Rafaro, who was active on the social stage in the capital, and the experience of the fleeing crowd, that Jiang Tian knew something of the inside story.It turned out that serious differences continued to appear within the Burgundian dynasty on national policy and military strategy.

Although among the ministers of the dynasty, there have always been radicals advocating and clamoring that the three major legions to be rebuilt, known as one hundred thousand people, will quickly send troops to severely punish the mob army that ravaged the south and trampled on the sacred.However, the three major armies that had just recovered/pacified the Norman region were unwilling to continue fighting.

Most of the officers and soldiers just want to have a good rest and play in the routine winter camp tradition; there are even some former mercenary groups incorporated by the dynasty, because of deductions and arrears of salary, as well as the promise of sharing the spoils, unexpectedly Disturbances of varying degrees occurred.

Although it was quickly suppressed by cavalry and retinue troops composed of noble children, they also robbed the surrounding area in disguise under the pretext of hunting deserters.Then, in order to make up for the shortage of soldiers, the company captain and his subordinates were allowed to go to towns and villages in batches to catch strong men.

Then, with the cooperation/collusion of some local officials and gentry; this round of replenishment of soldiers turned into a disguised kidnapping and extortion-style farce of money-making; Some of them are redeemed by relatives through an intermediary.

Therefore, for most of the winter, the capital region and the surrounding provinces were in great trouble; young and middle-aged people were constantly being arrested, and then they used this to blackmail the last bit of food and coins at home; Fleeing from his hometown, he starved to death and froze to death on the road.

On the other hand, with the arrival of severe winter, the prices of various livelihood materials such as cotton cloth, grain, firewood, oil, etc. inside and outside the capital are also increasing day by day with the hoarding of big businessmen and powerful agents; Families broke up cooking or lost lights at night.

Therefore, under such circumstances, crowds of people who escaped from the city of Seine, and even left the capital region, appeared on the road almost in an endless stream; while the superiors of the Burgundian dynasty turned a blind eye to this or It means that 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 upper and lower Norman provinces that had just been pacified.It was the generals in the Allied Army for National Salvation who led their troops to surrender to the new dynasty; even though they were appointed as counts and senior officials of the territory afterwards, the conflicts among them sparked wars.

As a result, the former generalissimo, who had been besieged on the peninsula in the northwest corner of Lower Norman Province, lingering in a corner of Cherbourg County, took the opportunity to kill them; easily broke through the blockade formed by these traitors, and Going north all the way, they captured Rouen, the capital of defense emptiness.

Then, after receiving the support and help of a large number of sympathizers in the local area, they continued northward and entered the Flanders Border Region/Fanhou Territory.Therefore, under the imminent threat of the comeback of the former Generalissimo Motiler's National Salvation Alliance Army, the Imperial Council once again fell into disputes.

At the same time, relying on sufficient funds for activities and the main hall, Senior Rafalo, who was far away in the capital, not only stayed out of the matter, but even became an assistant/senior attendant to the Minister of the Seal, and had the opportunity to attend the Minister of War, Minister of Justice and a meeting of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Therefore, throughout the winter, through the secret channels he secretly organized and arranged, the teachers and students, technicians, scholars and other technical and intellectual classes in the south fled; as many as a dozen groups of thousands of people.Later, there even appeared among them, the sworn priests who were persecuted and wanted.

After the Free Army received them, except for a few directly recruiting scarce professionals; most of them had to go through a period of testing and observation in the newly formed special schools and training classes, and after mutual supervision and reporting, they could be awarded Initial public office and salary.

In this way, even if there are some people with ulterior motives or ulterior motives hidden in it, they can be filtered and screened out slowly.Are they just speculators chasing fame and fortune, careerists who want to gain protection, or saboteurs who hold hatred.

In this way, even if there are occasional fish that slip through the net, the harm can be minimized.Jiang Tian is reviewing and thinking slowly, planning to go to sleep at night, and then have a good chat with Paulina who is far away in North Africa, and pay attention to the local progress.

At this time, Father Racha's notification sounded again from outside: "Sir, the No. [-] secret camp of the pious company has been completed and put into use. I request your presence and instruction."The next day, Jiang Tian came to a large luxury manor near Lyon.

And here is also the predecessor of the Burgundian dynasty in the north today. It came from one of the fourteen original nobles/founding kings, a branch of the Arles-Ode family, and the earliest real estate built locally.Therefore, the history of this large manor can even be traced back to the end of the Rose Dynasty.

As the only surviving branch of the Arles-Ode family, which was born as a Frankish remnant, through matrilineal inheritance/matrilineal inheritance; the Burgundian family in order to protect itself from the vassals and princes in the last years of the dynasty; the core part of the original manor , built into a military fortress.

Finally, after many years of continuation, there are already many towers and small forts here; it is like a small fortress.It is somewhat incompatible with the bright and flashy architectural style of local popular hedonism.Therefore, it is also called "Iron Horse Manor" by the locals.

After the invasion of the North Italian/Siro allied forces led by the Principality of Verona, this place has become an important node in the front line of facing foreign enemies.Although no large-scale battle broke out in the end; around this "iron cavalry manor", there was a fierce offensive and defensive competition, and it changed hands several times.

Therefore, when the Free Army seized the city of Lyon in one go, there were actually still people in this "iron cavalry manor", who stubbornly resisted for nearly a week amidst the ruins.It was only then that the special attack company of the Free Army who found the underground entrance was expelled and wiped out by means of smoke and explosions.

But today's "Iron Cavalry Manor" is just like the Rose Palace outside Toulouse; after simple cleaning on the surface and continuous underground transformation and widening.It became one of the many special companies set up by the Free Army to 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 crooked and unreliable, and there was even a big-headed dwarf and a Disabled people with broken arms mingled among them.

They are also strange people with unique skills that the pious company found in the local market.Therefore, although these people look a little shabby and poor on the outside, after demonstrating their strange abilities, they are still 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 hundreds of meters; therefore, he used this ability to bluff and blackmail some pubs and hotels, and finally Only then was the pious company caught.

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 the cities and villages of this era, mountains of rubbish and rats were the source of infectious diseases and large-scale plagues.

If he can obtain enough rat sources, it can even be used to temporarily disrupt and oppose the enemy's cavalry sequence.Another example is the man with the broken arm, who was originally a falconer for a certain local nobleman; but he was trampled and injured during a safari, and was abandoned in the wilderness to die.

As a result, during the dying struggle of being about to be disembowelled by vultures, he accidentally obtained the ability to communicate with large birds such as vultures, falcons, and swans;In a sense his abilities are more useful.

There are also people who can control tens of meters of rope, and make various winding and binding flexible movements, and some people can use crystal stones to emit blinding flashes... Although most of them are not particularly useful, But there is nothing wrong with getting together first to give a job.

Because, through those more and more frequent encounters and witnesses of strange events, Jiang Tian suspects that some kind of mystery in this time and space is gradually recovering these years; More, never less... so planning ahead and planning ahead is a must.

(End of this chapter)