Chapter 404 Legendary Woman As an alliance group of many warlords and henchmen in the empire, the Red Round Table is naturally united in the same spirit, and the posture of sharing honor and disgrace is at least external.
In fact, the group has always been fairly united.
After all, it is impossible for any individual Tema military region to compete with such an ancient empire as the Byzantine Empire, and it is impossible to compete with the royal family alone.
The royal family has been doing its best for decades to abolish the Tema military district system, using all means to try to weaken the strength of the warlord party, and the two sides are on the same footing.
Previously, this organization had always borne most of the pressure from the royal family, and most of the heads of various military regions were very clear about their situation.
As a separatist warlord of the Tema Military Region, if he doesn't confront the royal family, then it will be a dead end.
There is an episode here, decades ago, the Empire had a miraculous opportunity, when the Empire had begun to realize that the Tema Military Region had become a parasitic tumor on the Empire's body, and the upper echelons had begun to realize the problem and began to try to weaken the warlords.
At that time, he encountered a rare opportunity, among the many heads of the Tema Military Region, there was such a governor, I don't know if his brain was in water, or this person was really selfless, or he sincerely wanted to serve the country, and actually accepted the imperial central government's order to dismiss him.
The governor had a strong army, territory and supplies, but under the order of the imperial center, he really obediently gave up his land and army, resigned with his attaché, and ran to Osgilia, Yanjing.
Such a situation, whether at that time or in the eyes of later generations, was simply an opportunity given by God to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, because at that time, the Tema Military Region had not really formed a climate, and most of the governors of the military region may not really be opposed, and even many people only had the idea of being able to keep their glory and wealth, or holding the current status, and most people did not have the idea of subverting this empire in their hearts.
It can be said that if we had to cut down the feudal domain at that time, seizing this opportunity would not necessarily have been impossible to make a major breakthrough As long as the empire can adopt the right strategy after the governor obediently leaves office, then maybe things can be done, but the emperor of the empire at that time was a fool The emperor not only lacked wisdom, but also lacked the heart and courage that an emperor should have.
In order to show the majesty of his imperial power, he almost couldn't wait to order the governor to be arrested and imprisoned, and then three days later, the unlucky governor was hanged on the execution ground, along with all the attachés who followed the governor into Beijing The Emperor seems to have wanted to use this childish means to show his majesty, thinking that it would intimidate the governors of the military districts with bad intentions.
As a result, such a stupid act naturally could not get the result that the emperor expected, and the governors of various military regions who were still wavering in their hearts and were still waiting, and many warlords who had not yet had any objections in their hearts, were stimulated by this matter If the empire had been able to treat the governor who had surrendered to him well, given high-ranking officials and lords, and given enough preferential treatment, even if it was just for show, and set up a signboard, then perhaps there were many military governors who did not have much ambition, and maybe they would follow suit.
After all, not everyone has much ambition.
For most people, it is enough to have glory and wealth.
But as a result, when the news spread that the governor and all the attachés had been executed, the whole continent was shaken First of all, the governors of the other military districts, the guys who had already wavered and hesitated in their hearts, immediately made a decision to kill and not surrender The end is in front of him, the guy who gave up the army and the territory, as soon as he arrived in Yanjing, he was arrested and killed, at this time, who does this kind of thing again, isn't he looking for death Although not everyone has great ambitions, many people just need to be rich.
But everyone doesn't want to die The emperor's absurd actions cut off the last vestiges of illusion among the warlords, and even pushed most of the warlords to stand on the opposite side of the royal family immediately without hesitation If you don't do it, you will die, so what's there to hesitate about It was at that time, when the first military district suddenly stood up and publicly declared that in order to strengthen the armament in the military district, the military region would no longer pay taxes to the imperial central government, and after the first person to take the lead made such a move, other military districts followed suit, and some places even began to expel officials appointed by the empire.
For a time, military districts in various regions withheld the financial taxes that should have been paid to the central government of the empire.
Immediately, an even more serious situation occurred: many military regions began to unite for self-protection, and several military regions bordering each other often began to negotiate secretly with each other, and then agreed on a covenant to jointly advance and jointly protect themselves.
Soon, small alliances began to appear on the continent.
At this time, in the face of such a chaotic situation, in the center of the empire, the mediocre emperor once again made a wrong decision If his previous execution of the governor was because he wanted to show the majesty of imperial power, then at this time, things had developed to such a point, and in the eyes of later scholars, the only correct way that the emperor could take was to make a mistake Since the situation is out of control, it is simply tough to the point that the national strength of the empire has not weakened at that time, and the royal family still has a considerable number of troops in its hands, and its financial reserves are far stronger than the current central Byzantine Empire Taking advantage of that time, since he had made a tough start, it was better to fight hard and immediately launch a counterinsurgency war while there was still strength in the center of the empire Since it is tough, it is better to be tough to the end In that case, even if the empire would be greatly damaged afterwards and suffer a huge war devastation, at least at that time, the power of the imperial family at that time could still suppress those military regions.
But it didn't The ridiculous emperor, after the initial toughness, was actually frightened after facing the revolts of the military regions below Obviously, he's just a squishy egg.
When he should be soft, he is not soft, but when it is time to be tough, he can't be tough.
In the face of the fierce persecution of the governors, the emperor immediately weakened, he had no courage to start a war, and even in the face of the practice of the governors in various places to withhold taxes and taxes, he only adopted a tacit attitude of fear of war and fear of strong enemies The attitude of the central government of the empire has increased the confidence of the warlords below.
Since that era, the center of the empire has been declining day by day.
Originally, if the central government of the empire had made up its mind to quell the rebellion, at least there would have been capital to afford this war.
But after the compromise of the soft egg emperor, the local military districts withheld the financial revenue and openly recruited troops to expand the army, while the central government of the empire lost most of the financial revenue and gradually weakened, and gradually formed a situation of strong branches and weak cadres.
After that, when the successive emperors wanted to make a difference, a figure like Kantos the Great, even if he had the heart to wrestle with the local warlords, was powerless.
It was also after that opportunity that the central government of the empire did not seize that rare opportunity and buried the good situation in vain.
This was followed by the attitude of the local warlords becoming more and more arrogant, and in the end, the small alliances in various places gradually turned into big alliances.
Soon after, the Red Round Table was formally established, and the members of the First Circle included almost half of the governors of the military districts at that time.
After the formation of the climate, this organization became the core group of confrontations with the royal family.
Over the past few decades, the Red Roundtable has been united internally, at least on major issues.
For example, the Armenian Military District's abundant high-quality iron ore and sophisticated armor weapons and equipment were only supplied to the member military districts of the Round Table when they were sold to the outside world, and even refused to sell them to the central part of the empire It is precisely because of the solidarity of such a group that has been in place for decades that this time, when the Corsican military district was devastated by the catastrophe, Gaia, the son of the governor who had escaped, naturally placed his hope for help on his allies.
When the army was defeated and the city was broken, Gaia was ambushed by Manninger in the field battle, and escaped by fighting his way under the protection of a group of die-hard soldiers.
At that time, he did not return to the city to fight in the field, and most of the army was finished, and Gaia also understood that the city would definitely not be able to hold it, so he simply did not go back.
And he and his people originally wanted to flee to the east of the military region to reorganize the troops and horses and try to recover, but Manninger's speed was faster than he expected Manninger took the Corsican capital in one fell swoop, and after capturing the governor Carros the Elder, he immediately ordered a surrender.
Gaia was originally the second son of the Governor, and although he served in the army and had some loyal troops, he was only the second son All along, the eldest son Cardoso, who competed for succession, was in charge of the eldest son and the second son was in charge of the army, which was a strange phenomenon in the Corsican military district.
Although Cardoso mysteriously died on the way to the peace talks, he was ambushed and killed by Char's men, leaving Gaia with one of his biggest enemies over the inheritance.
But after all, during Cardoso's lifetime, as the eldest son of the governor, he still had the support of many people, although most of the supporters were local officials and a small number of local garrisons.
And Gaia's supporters are his descendants' army, which is also the core elite main force of the Corsican Military District.
But the problem is that in the battle with the Odin, the main army loyal to Gaia suffered the heaviest losses, Gaia was ambushed by Manninger, almost lost all his belongings, and after the collapse of the troops loyal to him, he ran to the eastern part of the military region with a small number of people to try to rectify the local forces, but those local officials were not too cold to this second son, they were originally centered on the eldest son Cardoso.
There are even secret rumors that Cardoso's death is inseparable from this young master of Gaia.
In such a situation, you can imagine how much appeal Gaia can have.
Manninger, on the other hand, was so quick that he immediately marched eastward, and soon conquered the towns of the Corsican Military Region.
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Gaia and his subordinates saw that they could not do anything, so they could only embark on the road of escape again.
This time, they put their hopes for help on their allies.
The Besta Military District is located in the southern part of the Corsican Military District, and has a border with the Corsican Military District for about 300 miles.
Moreover, the Besta Military District surpassed the Corsican Military District in terms of land and population, and its strength was somewhat stronger than that of the Corsican Military District, and its status in the Red Round Table group was also somewhat higher than that of the Corsican Military District.
What's more, the Besta Military Region is a staunch supporter of El Salvador, the speaker of the Red Round Table, and as a staunch ally of the Speaker, it is natural that he will also receive great preferential treatment.
The Besta Military Region and the Corsican Military Region are located on the border, and the relationship has always been quite good, the Corsica Military Region is a grain-producing area, and every year the Besta Military Region will purchase a lot of grain from the Corsican side, so the two have always been close allies.
This time, the Corsicans suffered a catastrophe and were desperate, so Gaia naturally chose to flee to the Besta Military Region.
Moreover, the status of the Besta Military Region within the alliance is also quite high, and Gaia tried to hope that the Red Round Table Alliance would come forward to seek justice for himself in this matter, so it was also the right thing to come to the Besta Military Region for help, and then get in touch with the alliance group to ask for help.
At first, it was quite smooth, at least after escaping all the way to the Besta Military District, Gaia and the others were treated very well.
Gaia was greeted not only by Yuri, the governor of the Besta Military Region, but also by the beautiful and touching Governor's wife.
On the night of arriving at the capital of the Besta Military Region, a small but non-low-standard banquet was held in the Governor's Palace to surprise Gaia.
And all the specifications were carried out according to the etiquette of the Governor.
In other words, even though the Corsican military district has effectively perished, and Gaia is only the second son of a governor, the etiquette displayed by the Besta seems to be a tacit acquiescence to Gaia's status as the new governor of Corsica.
This made Gaia's heart settle down a little.
In the ensuing negotiations, the Governor Yuri of the Besta Military Region did not participate in the whole process, but only sat for a while and then left under the pretext of having something to do, and the protagonist who mainly negotiated with Gaia and others became the beautiful and touching Governor's wife.
For this, Gaia and others took it for granted.
Because on the mainland, not only within the Red Round Table, but even among the royal family, there was a joke that there were two governors in the Besta Military Region, an outer governor and an inner governor, a male governor and a female governor, a real governor and a false governor.
The former is talking about His Excellency Governor Yuri, while the latter is talking about the Governor's wife.
This Governor's wife is a heroine among women, extremely clever and wise, and I heard that Governor Yuri was fascinated by her death, and she obeyed her wife in everything, and was the most famous wife on the continent.
Governor Yuri himself is mediocre in all respects, and there is nothing outstanding about it, and it seems that he has not done any outstanding deeds in his life, but the only thing he is most proud of is to marry such an excellent wife.
That Governor's wife is not only beautiful, but also has admirable wisdom and brains, with her existence, almost all the political strategies and military strategies in the Besta Military Region are from the hands of this Governor's wife, if it is changed to other places, a woman is in power, so that those officials and generals below How to convince But this Governor's wife is really talented and learned, and the means are amazing, after she married Governor Yuri, these years, The Besta Military Region has been governed by a strong army, and almost no one up and down is not convinced by her, even the arrogant generals in the army are also subservient to the governor's wife.
Governor Yuri is rumored to be in poor health, he and the governor's wife are old husbands and young wives, in recent years the eyes have been spent, ears are said to be a little back, most of the government affairs and things are thrown to his wife, he himself is every day to raise flowers and birds, happy to be idle.
The Governor's wife is also admirable: although she is trusted by her husband and has the power of the military district in her hands, at least the relatives of the lady do not appear in the Besta Military District, that is to say, the Governor's wife never reuses her own family, and her two brothers, one of whom is still a small civil official in a small town in the military district, while the other brother is engaged in business and runs his own business, and never interferes in the political and military affairs of the military district.
The failure to cultivate the power of foreign relatives greatly reassured the officials of the military region who were originally hostile to the governor's wife.
Moreover, judging from the actions of the governor's wife, one by one, over the years, almost all of them have been measures that are greatly beneficial to the development of the military region, and there is no appearance of seeking benefits for herself or her family.
Some even believe that this "false governor" is almost the most outstanding of all the governors of the Besta Military District It is also the talent of this governor's wife that makes the Besta Military Region more and more powerful, and it will have a pivotal position in the Red Round Table Alliance, and become a staunch ally of the Speaker of Parliament Salvador, otherwise, if you are too weak and want to be an ally of others, others may not look down on you.
Of course, the Governor's wife is not without regrets.
Or rather, the entire Besta Military District is worried about one thing.
Governor Yuri is over fifty years old, but there is still no man and half woman, and there is no heir, and the problem is serious.
Of course, this is also a problem for the Governor's wife, but no one actually blames her.
Because Governor Yuri was extremely romantic when he was young, and he had countless lovers, but unfortunately, none of those lovers could give birth to a child for Governor Yuri.
It can be seen that the responsibility for not being able to raise offspring may lie with the Governor himself, and has nothing to do with this beautiful lady.
In order to pray for the gods to bless her to produce an heir to the military district, the governor's wife once went to the church to pray for the blessings of the gods, and personally performed the heaviest prayer ceremony in the church, she locked herself in the prayer hall of the church and prayed all night for seven days and seven nights, during which she fainted several times, and even the clergy of the church finally advised the lady to go down and rest.
But the governor's wife insisted on completing all the prayers.
Afterwards, she fell seriously ill, and the whole person lost weight several times.
Although she still failed to give birth to a child, no one up and down would blame this venerable woman.
Such a governor's wife, who held the actual power of the Besta Military Region, came forward to talk with Gaia and the others, but on the contrary, Gaia and the others believed in the sincerity of the Besta Military Region.
At that meeting, the beautiful Governor's wife first comforted the depressed Gaia with a grace like a spring breeze, and then rebuked the Odin's treachery with undisguised words, and at the same time swore that the Besta Military Region had never given up the tradition of allies, and in the face of the troubled allies, the Besta Military Region would do its best to lend a hand.
Regarding Gaia and others' request for the Besta Military Region to initiate support for the Corsican Military Region in the alliance, the Governor's wife also agreed without hesitation, and said that this was a matter of course.
Later, under the arrangement of the governor's wife, Gaia and the others lived in the capital of Besta, and the governor's wife gave them a comfortable and elegant enough house worthy of Gaia's status, and sent many servants to serve them, and at the same time went to visit Gaia in person almost every day, and there was no lack of relief and encouragement in her words.
She also said that she had asked Governor Yuri to personally handwrite a document and deliver it to the Coalition group outside Osgilia as soon as possible, and strongly advocated that the Coalition must stand up and support the Corsicans in restoring the military districts, and at the same time take tough measures against the Odin.
It seemed that everything was going in the best direction that Gaia and the others had envisioned, but overnight, all of a sudden, these things fell out completely ` To be continued 〗Hanyu Pinyin "" is simple and easy to remember: