Why didn't Euroton send troops in time? The underlying reason for this was not the quarrel of the court council, but the struggle between the imperial power and the divine power.

The ministers who advocated the immediate dispatch of troops had the shadow of the Holy See behind them. Because the banner of Oghuz's attack on Yan Zhou was "divine warfare" - the unification of the state religion. As we all know, the shamanism that ruled the North Central Continent thousands of years ago split into two religions, the East and the West, and the Eastern Religion was shamanism, which became the state religion of the Oghuz Khanate. Western religion was the shamanic witch system, which was later the state religion of the Yan and Zhou Empires. The Oghuz people played the banner of divine warfare, that is, to unify the shamans. How can the Holy See tolerate this? There is only one god in this world, that is, their all-powerful supreme god, the nature god that shamanism believes in is of course a false god, and it is the sacred mission of the Holy See to eliminate heresy and eliminate false gods, how can the Oghuz people unify the shaman?

In terms of political interests, the Euroton Empire certainly could not sit idly by and watch Oghuz and the Tang Dynasty annex Yan Zhou, but compared with the eagerness of the Holy See, the Emperor Chaleman had other plans.

Euroton's monarchy was subject to divine authority, which is called divine authority. This "theocracy", that is, the Church, is in the hands of the Holy See in the Papal States of San Mano. And the history of the Holy See is much longer than the history of Euroton, which existed for more than 700 years before Euroton unified the continent of Ilib...... This, of course, is in conflict with imperial power. With the strength of the imperial power, this power struggle became more and more intense, and Euroton changed three dynasties in 500 years, and two popes of the Holy See also died. The empire is now ruled by the Third Dynasty of the Rosa Dynasty, and the Emperor Charleman is Rosa IV, who is more far-sighted than his father Rosa III, and has the title of "King Lionheart" during the princely period, and has a strong personality, which can hardly tolerate the excessive power of the Holy See. Since he came to power, he has focused on internal affairs, and only when the country is rich can the army be strengthened. Euroton was repeatedly defeated in battles with the Don army, and Charleman believed that one of the most important reasons was that the Don army was better equipped. Olodon wants to be armed like this, and one of the most important checkpoints is "money". Military equipment costs a lot of gold coins, and military innovation technology also requires a large amount of gold investment, but although the empire's military spending is increasing every year, it cannot afford to invest tens of millions of crowns...... If you don't have money, you can talk about strengthening the army and equipment?

The main source of revenue for the Euroton Empire was the agricultural and pastoral tax, followed by the commercial tax, but the tithes levied by the Church made one-tenth of the agricultural and commercial taxes fall into the pockets of the Church, and the official tax rate of the Empire has reached the highest tithe, or even the tithe, and then the lords will rebel violently. - Taxes cannot be added. Charleman is well aware that the Empire. The basis of rule was the nobility at all levels, not the church, and if he wanted to maintain imperial power, he could not harm the interests of the nobility. If you want to greatly increase the income of the empire, you can only take food from the church. In this way, it will not harm the interests of the nobles, and even many nobles expect that the tithes levied by the church and the right to levy taxes in special times have long dissatisfied the various feudal lords.

This is Charleman's thinking after observing the situation of Euroton for a long time, which is inevitably influenced by the political and religious form of the Tang Empire, the emperor with the heart of an iron-blooded lion regards the Holy See as a cancer in the development of his empire. Of course, he doesn't want to get rid of this "cancer", the existence of the church is still necessary, and he can't get rid of this huge force, but he must curb the power of the church and weaken its constraints on the imperial power, which is the primary policy in his heart: even if he can't achieve the same jurisdiction as the Tang Dynasty, at least he must separate church and state like Oghus, otherwise, if the church power is allowed to invade, it cannot be said that Euroton is the second big food, and the church power has become the imperial power. - Compared to external threats, this is the problem of the heart. Therefore, Charleman never wanted to start a war with Datang at this time.

However, Yan Zhou must exist, otherwise Euroton will face the troops of the two great powers, Datang and Oghuz. It was inevitable to send troops, but His Majesty the Emperor was planning to take advantage of this to trap the knightly legions of the Holy See, rather than damaging the forces of the Empire.

The Pope and the cardinals were not stupid, they planned that the Imperial Army would go to war first, and then they would be the driving force behind it, so that the aristocratic ministers secretly supported by the Church would actively advocate for the Empire to send troops at the court meeting, and secretly instigated the promotion of those military ministers who were eager for military merit and promotion.

The two sides were pulled up.

During this period, the envoys sent by King Zheng Wangfeng to San Mano, also lobbied the Holy See to send troops—compared to the Euroton Empire, the Papal Knight Legion was more combative. Of course, this is not the Euroton Empire. The army is weak, but the Holy See is richer, and the weapons and armor equipped with the Knight Legion are better than the Imperial Army, and everyone in the Knight Legion can get the resources of the Holy See to practice martial arts, and their personal combat power is stronger, and the mage regiment equipped with the army is also better than the Imperial Army, plus the Knight Legion is a devout believer, and fighting for God has a more fanatical morale. Such an army is a strength that no one can ignore.

The envoys sent by King Zheng Fengfeng were still very effective, so that the pope was shaken, after all, the holy war is important: in order to curb the westward advance of the infidels, it is not impossible for the Holy See to have a little more troops - let Chaleman take advantage of it. The pope, who was already one hundred and seventy-nine years old, did not take the young emperor in his early thirties seriously.

But at this moment, the assassination of the emperor occurred.

Chaleman was assassinated while he was out of the palace to inspect the Iron Smelting Bureau.

Although he is not the mastermind, this matter is stirred up by Jing'an Division and indirectly promoted.

The assassination was unsuccessful at the court of the great. Under the protection of the mage and the great swordsman, Charleman was not injured, but the wrath was certain. Investigative evidence points to the Holy See. The Holy See denied it, but pointed out that this was written and acted by Charleman, with the purpose of framing the Holy See and giving the Holy See the notoriety of assassinating the emperor. Pope Dean VII was very angry, thinking that the emperor was dying, and the idea of "giving a step" flew to the island of Java. The Holy See and the royal family are engaged in a war of words. In this way, the combined forces of the Tang Dynasty and Oghuz defeated most of Yan Zhou, and the two sides were frightened and quickly reached a compromise, with the Empire and the Holy See each sending half of their troops to support Yan Zhou.

The Euroton Empire is staging the imperial power and clergy, and what are the Turks and the Great Food Eaters doing?

It is impossible to stare dryly at Datang and swallow Yan Zhou.

This was said by An Yexi.

As a national of Datang, she also bought a lot of war bonds, and she always has to care about whether there is a knife next to her when Datang fights, Turks and Dashi have always loved to do this kind of thing, how can they settle down this time? Oroton's declaration of war has been sent, why are the two wolves in the west still quiet?

"Because they're too busy to take care of themselves." Xiao Yan said, the wolf in his hand was drawing on rice paper, but he didn't know what he was drawing, in short, An Yexi didn't see it. "There is a lot of infighting, and the provinces of Egypt are split. On the Persian side, the province of Smia rebelled, and the Turks sent troops to Smiya under the banner of helping Persian autonomy, and they were fighting fiercely. Fires broke out on both sides of the Great Eclipse, and the Turks were busy occupying the land, and Yan Zhou couldn't take care of it for the time being. ”

Xiao Yan's voice was a little light, perhaps because he was inattentive to the pen, or because he was weak and lacking energy. A few days ago, the two of them were in the north of the capital of Dawa Mountain, she was seriously injured, the bones of the whole body were broken, so she only hung a breath, and the injury was not completely healed for a few days, and her face was as white as the paper under the pen.

An Yexi looked at the painting, then at her face, and said secretly: This "emotional injury" is really hurtful! …… His Royal Highness Murong was too ruthless, and he almost killed people to "fight", ouch hey...... She shuddered when she thought about it, this peach blossom debt was so cruel, not everyone could afford it.

Xiao Yan suddenly stopped writing, his eyes looked straight ahead, which made An Yexi startle, and suddenly got up again, walking around the tent, as if there was some restlessness in his heart. The thick eyebrows flew up, and the eyes under the eyebrow frame were black and bright, and they flickered faintly, which contrasted with the white paper-like face, which was really ...... Intimidating! An Yexi's eyes widened, was this a sudden epiphany or was he excited?

"That's not right...... Wrong...... It's not ......."

Xiao Yan walked more and more quickly on the carpet, her eyes became brighter and brighter, and correspondingly, her white face became whiter.

An Yexi's eyes moved back and forth with her, very worried.

It can't be an epiphany, right?

Oh, do you want to ask Mr. Xiao Qi to take a look?

It was Xiao Liang who brought Xiao Yan back that day.

An Yexi hesitated in her heart, not knowing whether to invite Mr. Xiao Qi.

I heard Xiao Jisi's voice sound outside the tent:

"His Highness Murong."

There was a bit of caution in his voice.

Although Her Royal Highness Princess Oghuz is a friend of her master, her master's serious injury a few days ago was also due to this ...... There was only one breath left in the blood, and it really didn't look like a "meeting between friends".

An Yexi was also stunned in the tent.

Is this a visit or a beating?

She couldn't decide in her heart, stepped forward and lifted the tent door and walked out, saluting and shouting, "His Royal Highness Murong." "He stood in the way of the tent.

Murong Jue was dressed in white, cold and snowy, the blood-sealing sword hung on his waist, and the ancient dark red scabbard had blood light flowing, as if the blood in the sword was leaking out. His eyes were as cold as snow, but it made people feel that he was facing the murderous aura of the sea of hell and blood, An Yexi couldn't help but kick back, fell into the tent door, his face was as white as paper, and he was shocked in his heart: This, this, is this still the Murong Sect Master of Tiance Academy? I just felt that the murderous aura was about to shatter her in an instant.

…… Death has never been so near.

Murong Jue raised his feet and walked into the tent.

An Yexi suddenly found that she was still alive, and wanted to get up to stop her, but found that she couldn't lift up any strength. Xiao Jisi, who was outside the tent, was already kneeling on the ground with one leg, his face was drenched in sweat, and his fists were on the ground, but he couldn't get up.

The murderous aura entered the account and Xiao Yan came to his senses.

"Senior!" The voice was happy, and so was the expression, "Look. With one hand, he pulled Murong Jue's sleeve and pulled her to the front of a few cases to see the paintings she had drawn.

An Yexi Xiao Ji was relieved, and it seemed that he would not fight. The two of them no longer had resistance in their hearts, and they were able to stand up slowly.

Murong Jue looked at the painting in An Yexi's eyes like a child's graffiti and didn't know what to draw, his eyebrows raised slightly, and his voice was so cold that there was no trace of warmth and emotion, "It's still a little close." ”

"Yes, it's not close." Xiao Yan smiled, "Another fight? ”

The two guards who were able to straighten up just now twitched their mouths, and this injury is not good and they have to be sent to the door to be beaten? Is it really not to use the body to repay the love debt?

"You can't beat it." Murong Jue's cold and flat voice said the facts of the previous few days.

Xiao Yan laughed and said, "I can't beat it now, so I have to fight a few more times." ”

Murong Jue's state will really kill her, without leaving the slightest affection, but this kind of exchange is rare, one fight will give one more comprehension, Xiao Yan felt that the comprehension of the calligraphy knife technique was loosened from the bottleneck, as if he had touched something, but he only grasped a few shadows...... Maybe a few more fights.

It's also good for seniors.

"But when I'm well." She laughed.

Xiao Yan didn't want to go for abuse now. Lanling Merry