Chapter 556 Northwest Road One Just walked into the gate of the imperial capital, Lan Lan seemed to be able to smell the strong smell of war in the air.
The garrison of the royal city was several times stricter than before, and the checks on the entry and exit gates were especially strict.
Especially for those who don't look like the Roland Empire's race, they will be even more suspicious.
Lan Lan saw several brown-haired, obviously mixed-race people in appearance stopped by the defenders of the city gate for interrogation, and then they were forced by the soldiers with swords to take them to the barracks next to the city gate for careful interrogation.
The Roland Empire has been peaceful for a hundred years, and there have naturally been a lot of marriages and mixed races of various races, and in the past hundred years, the mixed blood groups caused by the intermarriage between the people and the different races in the Nanyang and the northwest grasslands have been quite large.
There are also many rich and powerful families, and among some nobles, they will also raise beautiful women of different races as personal favors, and naturally they will also give birth to some children who are not pure-blooded, most of these heirs have no inheritance rights, and they do not even have the status of official members of the family, and most of them are illegitimate children.
Such people are by no means a minority in the imperial capital.
The Roland Empire had a clear law stating that a half-blooded offspring had no right to inherit.
There is also an unwritten unspoken rule in the army: Roland people who are not pure-bloods are not allowed to join the army.
As for the shortcut to heaven in the army: the Imperial Capital Military Academy, it is clearly stipulated in the school rules that non-pure-blooded Roland people are not allowed to enter the school.
Therefore, almost all mixed-race groups are reduced to the middle and lower classes of society.
Even some of the most honor-oriented chambers of commerce don't hire these people.
Especially in this period of time, with the eastward invasion of the steppe people, the imperial capital has strengthened the supervision of mixed-race people, especially those who are obviously of grassland blood, and this supervision is full of hostile nature.
Lan Lan is on her way back from the north.
I heard all sorts of news along the way.
Because of the limitations of this era, the flow of news is not very smooth, and there will be a lot of rumors mixed with it during the period.
Just before she crossed the Lancang Canal and headed south, she heard a rumor that the 100,000 iron cavalry of the steppe people had broken through the city of Mulan, the capital of Nulin Province, and that General Panin, Duke of Caronin, had been killed and martyred.
And the night before arriving in the imperial capital, the news heard from the passing caravan turned out that the Tulip family had fallen, and Panin was leading Thor's Whip to defeat the cavalry legion of the steppe people and was organizing a counterattack After Lan Lan really entered the imperial capital.
However, I heard the news that because of the crisis in the northwest region, His Majesty Emperor Shiloh had approved the petition of the Temple of Light, authorized it to the Temple of Light, and was willing to restore the military power of the Temple of Light, and allow the Temple of Light to reorganize the army of the Holy Knights to go to the front line to help in the war All kinds of news are flooded in the market, and no one knows which one is true and which one is false.
However, Lan Lan judged at least one thing from various rumors: Nulin Province must have been invaded by the steppe people.
So what are the Tulip House doing?
There were also noticeable patrols on the streets of the imperial capital.
I heard that the city guards had all been mobilized, and even the reserve officers had all received call-up orders.
His Majesty the Emperor has ordered the expansion of the army.
It's just that the Wangcheng Guards will expand by two divisions.
The local garrison has received the withering of the military headquarters.
More than 100,000 local troops are gathering.
And the other two divisions of Thor's Whip are also coming from the station.
The entire imperial capital has almost become a hub for mobilizing military supplies.
The walled wharves of the Lancang Canal have been crammed with various transport ships piled high with military supplies.
The military has taken over river transport, requisitioned all possible vessels and regulated river transport.
Normal civilian commercial transportation has been halted at least seventy or eighty percent.
And the direct consequence of such a move is that the originally most prosperous imperial capital has become depressed in the market.
Lan Lan didn't go back to the Temple of Light, in fact, she didn't plan to go back to that place at all.
She just cautiously inquired about the news in a few places in the imperial capital.
She needs to go to the Northwest The fact that the steppe people invaded on a large scale shocked Lan Lan unexpectedly, and she couldn't believe that the steppe people were raised as shepherd dogs by the Tulip family.
How could he suddenly turn into a pack of hungry wolves?
She couldn't understand why the huge strength of the Tulip family hadn't been shown at all after the invasion of the steppe people.
And let the steppe people directly hit Nulin Province.
She couldn't understand what the Tulip family was doing, and in fact, there were all kinds of bad news circulating in the market in the imperial capital.
This invasion of the steppe people also shocked the people of the imperial capital.
The Tulip Family, known as the pillar of the empire, has no news in this invasion of the steppe people, which is really hard to figure out the reason.
Those who knew the news from above followed the orders to keep the secret and did not dare to divulge the slightest.
In fact, the upper echelons of the imperial capital, including the emperor, prime minister, and military bigwigs, naturally knew very well what the female duke of the Tulip family had done, which made His Majesty the Emperor very embarrassed.
The Duchess Tulip allowed the steppe people to invade, and was even suspected of luring wolves into the house, but this practice was based on the revenge of the Tulip family for His Majesty's attempt to plot against the Tulip family's Northwest Independent Division.
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This situation was caused by Shiloh.
Therefore, the upper strata were silent, and no one dared to say much about His Majesty's mistakes.
There are many rumors below.
The most rumored thing is that the Tulip family has been wiped out by the fierce steppe people.
The mighty tulip home has become a thing of the past.
After all, the patriarch of the contemporary Tulip family is a chick, and he has long since lost the strength of his ancestors.
There are even some slogans circulating in the market, "Revenge for the Tulip Family".
Of course, there is another reason for the secrecy above: no one dares to reveal the truth Because, if you say it, it is said that the Tulip family, the first pillar of the empire's loyal family, betrayed the empire and seduce the steppe people to invade.
Or if you sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight after the invasion of the steppe people I'm afraid that no one will want to believe this kind of thing.
And once the people are really convinced of such facts, the situation will only get worse, and when the time comes, the people's hearts and the army's will be disturbed How can it be accepted that the mighty Tulip family has become an enemy of the Empire And it's natural for everyone to ask: why is this happening?
Then, I'm afraid the answer is obvious: the rule of His Majesty Emperor Shiloh is unacceptable The final result will only be to point the finger at the emperor, who dares to talk too much about this kind of thing Lan Lan, who didn't know anything about all this, walked quietly in the imperial capital for three days.
In the past three days, she has thought of many ways to try to go to the northwest.
It is difficult to go by land, the army has blocked the road and many checkpoints have been set up.
And it's too slow by land.
Then the best option is to take the waterway.
However, the northwest direction of the Lancang Canal has been classified as an officer, civilian merchant ships have been stopped, and only cargo ships transporting military supplies for the army can go to the northwest.
It's not easy to get on a military cargo ship.
Lan Lan could not reveal the identity of his church.
She knew very well that once she revealed her identity in the imperial capital, she would be forcibly taken back by the holy knights of the Temple of Light as soon as possible The Pope was anxious to know what had happened to the first expedition he had sent out in the middle of the sea.
On the third day, Lan Lan's efforts finally had some eyebrows.
She found a martial arts hall owner who practiced martial arts together when she was in the imperial capital.
The owner was not a devout churchist, but in a martial arts tournament, he became famous for defeating his opponent with martial arts, but was hated by a big nobleman who lost money for participating in the tournament and betting on it, and his family was almost ruined.
And Lan Lan, who had a high status in the church at that time, happened to watch his martial arts competition and appreciated his swordsmanship very much, so out of sympathy, after Lan Lan learned about this incident, he helped the martial arts hall owner.
With Lan Lan's status in the church in the past, coupled with her close personal friendship with the duchess of the Tulip family, it was easy to keep the martial arts hall owner and his family property.
This martial arts hall owner became a good friend of Lan Lan in the imperial capital.
On the fourth day, Lan Lan quietly came to the door and secretly visited the old man.
The owner of the martial arts hall was also very righteous, and made a promise to Lan Lan's request for help, and at the same time, he was also very smart not to ask Lan Lan any questions: why did a dignified saint in the church hide her identity incognito and hide from the people of the church, but asked for help from the owner of a small folk martial arts hall like herself, and the hall owner did not ask.
Lan Lan lived in the martial arts hall for two days, and finally ushered in good news.
The owner of this martial arts hall had a disciple who happened to serve in the army, a junior officer of the middle and lower classes who was transferred from the local garrison army to the imperial capital, and the army he was in happened to be instructed by the military department to take on the task of transporting military supplies to the northwest.
This disciple of the master of the martial arts hall happened to serve on a transport ship and served as a small leader.
The owner of the martial arts hall asked the other party with the affection of the teacher and the student, and asked the other party to help take a person on the boat to the northwest.
It's not easy In peacetime, the army's ships quietly carry a handful of people.
But nowadays, it is the most important thing for the army to be the quartermaster of wartime, especially the ships that transport baggage, and they are even more closely checked, and it is not easy to bring strangers on board.
If you are caught, you are afraid that you will be charged with collaborating with the enemy or even a spy With the relationship between master and apprentice, plus a bribe of a few hundred gold coins.
In addition, the martial arts hall owner guaranteed that Lan Lan was not a spy of the Prairie people, but a pure-blooded Roland person.
Then I made up a story: a brave girl from the imperial capital who fell in love, in order to go to the northwest to find her fiancé who was lost in the war zone. “”: