MTL - Heroes of Silver Moon-Chapter 702 : Civil War broke out

One month passed quickly, and among the 216 lords across the country, only more than 30 lords, including the Sissoko family, agreed to hand over their territories.

Seeing no movement from other lords, Simon officially issued an announcement to abolish the lord system.

"I would like to tell all the people that in the long history, the lord system has made indelible contributions to the Silver Moon Kingdom, but if a system cannot feed all the people, then it is a failed system !It's a bad system if it doesn't keep all the populace warmly clothed!

In my opinion, the current lordship system is exactly like this. The lords trampled on the laws of the kingdom unscrupulously, violated the vows of the nobles, and made the people live in dire straits.

I hereby solemnly declare that the lord system of the Silvermoon Kingdom will be abolished in an all-round way. All lords must unconditionally hand over their fiefdoms, and they are no longer allowed to raise retainers and private troops. However, in contrast, they are allowed to keep their family wealth and give them a certain amount of money. The manor hired Hu as compensation.

Cavaliers and jazz are allowed to keep the guards, but they must swear allegiance to the king!

The eighteenth king of the Silvermoon Kingdom, Simon Hauke, was written on February 1, 6636 in the sacred calendar. "

As soon as the announcement came out, the whole country was in an uproar. The lords who did not want to hand over their territories assembled their troops, with the Hood family, Hamilton family, and Rosen family as the core to shrink their forces, demanding that the king immediately stop violating the rights and interests of the lords.

Simon, who had been prepared for this, ordered the new army to set off immediately.

The first army led by Gratton and Bulder went to crusade against the Hood family, the second army of Garken defended the capital, and the third army led by Earl Carmel confronted the Hamilton family under the supervision of Alyosha.

In order to preserve the national strength of the Silvermoon Kingdom as much as possible, and quickly suppress the rebellion, Simon asked Harris to gather the militia and form an alternate army, training and persuading the Rosen family to surrender.

On the city wall, Earl Rosen looked worried when he saw his camp's messy and undisciplined hundreds of thousands of troops, and at the rapidly forming candidate army in front of the castle.

The king's reaction speed was much faster than they imagined, and it was all because of that **** railway!

Now, although he has an army of more than a hundred thousand people in his hands, um... Looking at the messy appearance, he really can't call it an army. Even getting a weapon for the first time.

This kind of army is not to mention fighting against the new legion, even the newly formed alternate legion can easily handle them.

The specific performance is that after several battles, they have suffered thousands of casualties, but they can't even touch the shadow of the alternate army.

These soldiers who had just turned from farmers were beaten and scolded by the lords, but they just refused to fight again.

And because the composition of this army is complicated, each lord is holding his own army tightly, unwilling to hand over the command to others, so the command system is extremely chaotic.

In addition, the king's statement in the announcement basically did not harm the rights and interests of the knights and knights, so a considerable part of the lords' retainers chose to work instead of exerting themselves.

The command system is chaotic, and the junior nobles who serve as officers are ineffective.

During this period of time, the army was almost paralyzed, half dead, and only knew to defend the castle every day, and even fled in all directions when the alternate army launched an attack.

If this continues, they will be arrested and beheaded by the king within a month at most.

When Earl Rosen was worried, a retainer quietly came to his side and echoed, "My lord, Miss Olenna is here!"

Earl Rosen was taken aback for a moment, and then frowned instantly. He knew that this granddaughter had a crush on the king's retainer named Siegel before, so he simply married her off.

After Siegel's death in battle, Olenna took her son to live in the capital and was taken care of by the queen.

When I come back this time, it is estimated that I will be a lobbyist for the king.

However, it was his granddaughter anyway, so it was not easy to see her. Led by his retainers, Earl Rosen came to a secret room in the castle and met Olenna.

Seeing her still hugging his son, Earl Rosen's gaze softened a bit: "Let me hear, how can my good granddaughter persuade me to surrender?"

Olenna smiled wryly: "Grandfather, I'm your granddaughter, and I'm not your enemy. I'm afraid it's not appropriate to use the word persuasion?"

Earl Rosen snorted coldly: "It's all the same. Didn't you come this time to be a lobbyist for the king, but just to visit me, a bad old man?"

Being questioned by her grandfather, Olenna seemed a little guilty, but when she looked at her son in her arms, her eyes became firm again in an instant: "Grandfather, you have seen the current form, your so-called army is completely mob, unable to resist the king at all. will, I am indeed here to persuade you to surrender!"

Earl Rosen said with a straight face: "Then you should go back, I will not give up the inheritance of my ancestors!"

Olenna gritted her teeth: "Grandfather, is the inheritance of the ancestors really more important than the survival of the family? The king has promised that after handing over the fiefdom, we can still enjoy prosperity and wealth for generations! Don't you believe him? I can assure you..."

Before she finished speaking, she was directly interrupted by Earl Rosen: "I have never doubted the generosity and magnanimity of our king, but according to what he said, after our Rosen family handed over the fief, we can only keep The Caihu of the three manors, my God, what can the three manors do, and still enjoy the glory and wealth for generations?"

Hearing what her grandfather said, Olenna retorted: "The king promised that each manor would have an income of at least one hundred gold coins each year, and the royal family would make up for the shortfall.

Yes, compared to the Rosen family's annual income of nearly 10,000 gold coins, it is indeed a drop in the bucket. Excluding the cost of maintaining the operation of the territory and private troops, you can control at most 1,000 gold coins per year.

In addition, for the dignity of the so-called nobles, large banquets are held every year due to countless entertainments, how much money can really be used by the Rosen family?

The castle we live in every day is dilapidated, and my father has no money to maintain the room. How many generations of mother's jewelry have been passed down by the family, does one belong to her?

There are also those out-of-reach collateral relatives who don't make any contribution to the family, yet they want the family to support them unconditionally!

If you still need to run the territory, recruit private troops, hold banquets, and feed a lot of idlers, the income of the three manors is indeed not enough.

But if these were eliminated, moved out of the castle, and only spent on family members, then every member of the family would not be worse off than they are now! "

Earl Rosen's face twitched when it was said that it hurt. According to the current situation, surrendering to the king is actually not bad.

But he still insisted: "This is just your idea, it doesn't mean other family members think the same way!"

Seeing that her grandfather was finally shaken, Olenna showed joy on her face: "You don't have to worry, I have met my father and mother before I saw you, and most of the family members agreed to surrender."

Earl Rosen's face was terribly dark, and as the head of the family, he was the last to know~www.novelbuddy.com~ Even all the retainers must have been convinced.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for Olenna to come and go freely in the castle, but he didn't even hear the wind.

Even at this point, Earl Rosen still hesitated: "Even if I want to surrender, those lords gathered in the castle may turn against the Rosen family."

Olenna's expression was a little weird, but also a little sympathetic, she took out a stack of letters and handed them to the old man.

Earl Rosen took the letters for no apparent reason, opened one and looked at it, his face changed drastically in an instant, and then he opened all the letters in a panic to check.

Without exception, these letters were all surrender letters written by the lords to Harris outside the city, and many of them wanted to sell the Rosen family in exchange for preferential treatment from the king.

He tore these letters into pieces, his face was red with anger, and he growled, "These bastards!"

What he said before was so sweet and resolute that he also felt that he must swear to the death to guard the ancestor's foundation, but if Olenna hadn't come to persuade him to surrender, the Rosen family might really be sold out by these guys!

After all, the reason why the lords refused to hand over their fiefs was because as long as they had fiefs, no matter what happened in the future, they and their descendants could enjoy a rich life.

But now the king has given them two choices, either keep the fief and die, or hand over the fief, but they can still enjoy a rich life for generations, fools know how to choose!

In this way, Earl Rosen opened the gate of the castle, and the lords gathered in the city, without even pretending, raised their hands to welcome the alternate army to take over the castle.

Harris repatriated most of the lord's private army, leaving only tens of thousands of passable soldiers to make up for the minimum organizational system of the three armies of the alternate legion, and began intensive training.