Different World Development Manual - Chapter 201

[Chapter 29 Undercurrents of the Empire]

With An Rui taking the titles of Marquis of Tours and Earl of Leen, and possessing the vassal of William, the Earl of Cornwall, An Rui, who has more than half of the de jure territory, put on the crown of Duke Kaffa on his own.

This crown, which was destroyed by Emperor Panda more than 300 years ago, has caused chaos for the vassals in the border duchy of Kaffa for three centuries.

But now, An Rui personally led the new army of Dehebas, from the three strongholds of Onye Fort, Barker Town and Gaga Village, and advanced directly towards the de jure territory of Kafa to the east.

With Guan Lin’s suggestion, An Rui suddenly felt that his political IQ had risen by at least 20 percentage points.

From the original 1.0, it became 1.2.

Because most of the nobles of the Duchy of Kaffa are independent lords, that is, lords who are directly loyal to the Emperor Norman.

In addition, these lords are not the lords directly under the emperor’s jurisdiction, so An Rui, as the Duke of Dehebas and the Duke of Kaffa, can directly ask the nobles in the Duchy of Kaffa to swear allegiance to An Rui, the de jure lord.

Of course, before that, Guan Lin had already drawn up a letter for An Rui, and a messenger rode a fast horse and sent the letter to Torres’ palace.

The letter stated that An Rui, as the Duke of Kaffa, had a monarch-subject relationship with the nobles in the Duchy of Kaffa.

The expedition of the new army of Dehebas is also justifiable.

Norman naturally couldn’t find a suitable reason to stop An Rui’s actions, because Norman really did not expect that An Rui used the title of Earl of Gera to earn 1 Marquis title, 1 Earl title, and 1 Earl vassal in one fell swoop. .

Even more quickly, he re-created the title of Duke of Kaffa, which was unexpected to Norman.

This kind of political maneuvering is absolutely impossible that An Rui, the Duke of Salted Fish, came up with. That guy didn’t do anything serious except take his own small team to take risks everywhere, level up to find treasures, and occasionally spread strange thoughts.

This handwriting must be made by the Chinese people behind.

Guan Lin not only sent letters to Norman, expressing An Rui’s position.

At the same time, he also used An Rui’s Yin-Yang Fish Family Emblem ring to stamp several times, sending the letters one by one to the independent lords in the Duchy of Kaffa.

Tell them that the Duke of Kaffa will restore his rule over this domain.

Either surrender or war, there is no third option.

The lords of Kafa also jointly wrote a letter to Norman, asking Norman to implement the Empire’s “Peace Order” to stop An Rui’s atrocities.

But it is not so simple to implement the “Peace Order of the World”, at least he has to win over the support of several lords of the empire.

Norman’s power is simply not strong enough to dominate the entire empire.

Although the Valkyrie is on Norman’s side, since the peace talks with Huaxia in Anri Fort 9 months ago, the attitude of Duchess Freya of Arnotta has also become ambiguous, swaying from side to side, making it difficult for Norman control.

Many times Norman found Freya, and Freya rejected Norman because she was pregnant and discussed after giving birth.

At the same time, due to Norman’s plan to cut the clan, the Valkyrie lost a lot of troops, so the relationship with Norman began to become estranged.

And the king of Florence in the east is definitely opposed to Norman’s desire to implement the “Peace Order”.

He was happy to see a powerful An Rui appear,

a new force that would surely break the delicate balance that Norman had worked so hard to build.

Tuckland and the Duke of Wia had a high-profile attitude of nothing to do with them.

Only the little Capes located in the north of Anrui jointly signed a letter to support the “Peace Order of the Whole Territory”.

If An Rui takes all the lords of the Kafa region in his pocket, then Cape will border a behemoth.

The last Duke of Capet died of food poisoning, and the little Capets have yet to decide whether the title of Duke Capet is true.

The titles changed hands several times on the heads of the brothers, and they did not have the energy to unite to deal with the sudden rise of An Rui.

In this way, An Rui, with the “acquiescence” of many lords, started a war against Kafa to subdue Jurisprudence.

Once they surrender to An Rui, it means that their own interests as lords will be lost.

Not only nominally need to pay tribute tax to An Rui, but also nominally provide troops to An Rui during the war.

How could the nobles of the Duchy of Kaffa, who have been wild for more than 300 years, endure the sudden end of their free and easy days.

They quickly joined hands and prepared to resist An Rui’s “invasion”.

In their opinion, in the Huapan War, the Kafa nobles joined hands to “clear the field”, so that the coalition forces of Florence and Capet did not get any good fruit to eat in the territory.

The combined army of Florence and Capet is 550,000 troops, while the so-called new army under An Rui is less than 50,000, and An Rui is so arrogant that he does not use the levies in the territory.

This gave the nobles of Kafa a glimmer of hope of winning the war.

An Rui’s more than 40,000 new troops and the coalition’s 120,000 troops broke out in a big battle in the eastern city of Taige, Duchy of Kafa.

The 120,000 army relies on Tiger’s city defense as a fortification and defends the city.

I can’t think of how the new army of Dehebas, who can’t think of 50,000, can capture their big city of 120,000 people.

However, when the war broke out, something unexpected happened to them.

The harassment force of more than 20,000 people sent by the coalition forces in the early stage was defeated by the new Dehebas army after only 3 days of harassment, killing more than 10,000 people and capturing 4,000 people.

The coalition army was immediately frightened by the new army of Dehebas and did not dare to go out of the city to face it.

However, with the advent of artillery, the “boom boom” bombs that kept hitting the city walls and making noises suddenly collapsed on the previously unbreakable city walls.

The morale of the defenders plummeted, and the new Dehebas army had not yet rushed into the city. The coalition forces in the city even fled. Many nobles in the city began to write letters, stating that they were being coerced by other nobles. The reason surrender to An Rui.

An Rui was so angry that An Rui wanted to tie up the nobles who were sent to the wall and whip them, but Guan Lin suggested that An Rui accept their submission and let them be the inner responders and cooperate with the inside and the outside.

Tiger City only held on for 4 days, then under the attack of artillery and “traitors”, they raised the white flag and surrendered.

As the Duchy of Kaffa was fully brought under An Rui’s rule, the border of An Rui’s territory was also pushed eastward, directly to the border of the Panda Empire and the Furry Empire.

In the northeast, it borders the border king of the eastern part of the empire, Nord, the king of Florence.

In the north, An Rui also borders the little Capes.

Everything is progressing steadily according to the plan of the Time and Space Administration. An Rui, who controls more than half of the territory of the Gran people, also has the ability to be crowned the king of the Gran people.

As long as An Rui is crowned as the king, he can launch a war to subdue Jurisprudence against the Cape Duchy, which is also dominated by Granites.

However, in a country under the influence of the Holy See, to become a king and to be recognized by the people, he must be crowned by a senior clergy of the Holy See.

The Crimson Moon Holy See has already regarded An Rui as a thorn in its side at this time, and it is definitely impossible to send senior clerics to crown An Rui.

If An Rui wrote a letter to the Pope, it might not be a coronation, but an excommunication, which would be more troublesome.

Most of the countries in the flat-earth world are countries granted by the monarch, and the god is the goddess of the red moon that the people on this land believe in.

If a monarch is excommunicated by the Holy See, it means that his legitimacy as a monarch has been denied by the gods.

No matter how good the territory he governed, in this era or in this world, he would still be spurned by his people.

Although the Crimson Moon Holy See will not crown An Rui, An Rui also has his own way.

…

Torres’ Norman was busy preparing to cut the clan, and Panda Cardinal Lucelli received a letter from An Rui not long after he returned to Torres.

Lucelli opened the flame paint printed with yin and yang fish and quickly read his friend’s letter, the corner of his mouth raised slightly and said: “This guy, he actually asked me to be coronated, I’m afraid he didn’t push me into the fire pit of the Holy See. ”

An Rui’s preparation for the coronation did not attract Norman’s attention, because Norman’s attention was entirely on the North.

…

In the palace of Duchess Arnotta in Seminya, a baby boy fell to the ground, Freya was lying on the bed sweating profusely, watching the cute little baby boy that the nanny held for her.

At the age of 31, in this world, it is considered an advanced maternal age.

“Lord Duke, he is a lovely younger brother.”

Freya stretched out her fingers happily and teased the wet baby boy, smiling slightly, “You will be called Dante in the future, my child.”

At this time , a close maid walked in, leaned close to Freya and whispered: “Sir Duke, the Valkyrie came to visit with a gift.”

Freya was stunned and frowned: “Huh? Akane?”

[End of this Chapter]