Lawrence had seen the incident of the Vindobona Guards in the newspapers of the White Eagle Federation before. After all, the newspapers in the Federation liked to publish negative news about the various countries in the Old World to reflect their own excellence. . For example, the riots of the Janissaries that began a year ago were interpreted by the tabloids as a sign that the declining and corrupt empire was about to end.

But the actual situation is not the case. Although an ancient country like the Holy Visby Empire has always accumulated problems of this kind, there are also various internal contradictions. But it is far from talking about facing a crisis of subjugation.

Even the opposite is true, because the previous Industrial Revolution liberated the productive forces and put the entire empire on the fast track of development: the industrialized army successfully pushed the border line south to east for more than two thousand kilometers, successfully moving from wild races and barbarism. Civilized hands regained a large area of ​​territory.

In doing so, on the one hand, it successfully pushed the front line to the natural dangers of the Dacia Mountains and the Danube River, and built a complete defense system with the help of these natural dangers, avoiding the entire country from being attacked by enemy soldiers every time. Amazing losses in all aspects.

On the other hand, most of the newly acquired land is flat land with good hydrothermal conditions, and there are also a large number of mines in the Dacia Mountains. In this case, through correct policy guidance and the wide application of various machinery driven by a large number of steam engines, the empire has allowed these wastelands to be re-illuminated by civilization in these 30 years through construction.

Those efforts to civilize the wasteland are worthwhile. The empire obtained a large amount of food and various other resources from these newly reclaimed lands, which made the Holy Visby Empire change from a mountain country that needed to import food before the outbreak of the Restoration War. It has become a country with enough food to feed all the people, and even enough food for export.

Also because of this round of pioneering actions, the royal family of the empire won the largest share of the harvest. And successfully took advantage of the opportunity to greatly expand his own strength. With this kind of power, the country was reformed step by step, and the country was slowly transformed from an ancient country formed by royal marriage to a modern country.

But it is different from the time when the wilderness was opened up before, when this kind of reform opened up the wilderness. Although the royal family and ordinary people have benefited from it, it has affected the interests of the nobles. Even when the nobles had risen a lot of interest from the pioneering wilderness, they were still very dissatisfied with the reform of the royal family.

These nobles are not ignorant that this country must be reformed if it wants to have a future, but they not only don't want to give up the interests that they already hold, they even want more. This naturally deviates from the goal of reform.

So since the beginning of the reform, the conflicts created by these nobles have become more and more. They tried to demonstrate their strength through this method to hinder the further progress of reforms.

Under such circumstances, as the emperor of the horse who led the army from the wild races and its human lackeys when he was young, Joseph I naturally knew how important it is to have an army of his own direct armed forces in this situation.

But what he didn't expect was that the most modern, most combative and contribution to the development of the empire, the Imperial Guard, which he built by himself back then, completely degenerates after more than 30 years of peace. A stage that was thoroughly infiltrated by the nobles and used as a stage for power competition. This naturally makes the Imperial Guards have a big question mark on their reliability.

In addition, this army was basically abolished because it was stationed in Wendobona, the most prosperous capital of the empire. This is especially true after most of the veterans who had experienced **** battles were discharged and a few became senior officers of this army.

At the same time, these decades can be said to have been the era in which mankind has made the fastest progress since the Dark Ages. Take the army as an example. The army has evolved from an era when flint guns were used to queue for shooting 30 years ago to an era when they used post-loaded paper shell bullets or even metal shell rifles to fight in skirmishes.

But all this has nothing to do with the Imperial Guards, although they can be assigned the most advanced weapons every time they change weapons. But in the current situation, let’s not say how much will be lost in the middle. The tactics and declining personal qualities of this army have almost lost the pride of the army. Its combat effectiveness may even be inferior to those policemen who often have to face certain evil creatures in the middle of the sewer or the shadows.

For this reason, Emperor Joseph I naturally hoped to use the newly-built new type of field army with citizen soldiers as the core as his new capital garrison force to protect his own security and promote further reforms. Because after the formation of these field armies, they have demonstrated strong combat effectiveness and sincere loyalty to the empire in many civilized expeditions.

After all, these civic soldiers are all made up of people who have benefited from reforms, so they are naturally inclined to push forward the emperor, and hate those nobles who try to take away their current benefits for their own enjoyment. .

And this large-scale protest by the Janissaries was precisely because the emperor mobilized a division from the defense line into the capital and awarded them a flag with the prefix guard. Even if the emperor had previously proposed that if the Guards were willing to go to the front line, they would grant them the same glory and allow them to continue to guard the capital, but these already rotten Guards still resolutely refused to do so, and tried to pass various The protests were even armed demonstrations to force the emperor to reclaim his previous fate.

But these did not scare the emperor who has been fighting for a long time, let alone shake his determination. Therefore, after receiving a report from the trial court that senior officers of the Imperial Guard were involved in this conspiracy of using evil and degenerate spells to control the nobles and even to assassinate the emperor’s nobles, he keenly realized that this might be a weakening or even disbanding the guards. Opportunity for the army.

So after receiving the news at dinner, he just thought about it for a few seconds before decisively sending his guards and court officers to arrest the officers involved. But what I didn't expect was that shortly after the squad that sent to arrest people set off, His Majesty the Emperor, who was waiting for the result in the office, suddenly passed out without warning.

Upon seeing this, the royal doctors, royal mages, and those casters criticized by the referee immediately gathered to rescue them. They quickly figured out that this was because of the curse. Fortunately, the emperor himself had sufficient strength, and the palace and the emperor also had a lot of magic defenses that could be used to weaken these evil magic. Therefore, this magic only caused the emperor to temporarily lose consciousness.

Of course ~lightnovelpub.net~ any unconscious situation is very dangerous for the emperor. Therefore, the mages and doctors present immediately gave first aid. Fortunately, according to their judgment, it would take up to 12 hours to lift the curse and wake up the Emperor without any sequelae.

After hearing the results of this examination, everyone in the office showed a relaxed expression. But at this moment there was a quick knock on the door of the office again.

"What's going on?" A guard walked to the door and slightly opened a crack in the door and asked, while he blocked everything in the room with his body.

"The queen ordered me to inform your majesty of an important thing, and I must meet your majesty." said the maid outside the door.

"Sorry, your Majesty is currently discussing some confidential matters and cannot meet with outsiders. If you have anything you can tell me directly.

"--Well, your Majesty's eldest prince in the palace, the third prince and the two princesses were all in a coma just now. So the queen sent me here just to ask your Majesty what should I do next?

"What?" After hearing these words, the guard immediately showed a surprised expression. The situation where the whole family fainted together is really terrible.