Chapter 75: Enlarged Meeting of the Imperial Council
Monday, September 30, 1444 in the imperial calendar.
"Bishop Madeleine." Madeleine was walking in a hurry, but he heard Grampwin's voice coming from behind.
"Are you also going to the Bucks Room for a royal meeting?" Grampwin had four bags hanging on his waist and was walking quickly, holding the bishop's scepter, "Come together, I'm just in time I also have something to ask you.”
Madelan and Grandpven walked side by side in the corridor, talking quickly as they walked.
"What happened to the prisoners of war from the previous battle?"
"All the innocent ones stayed, and those with families were let go. That Quincy was injured, and we didn't treat him. He was already dead. Yes, that monk is still fine."
"Is Tang Li still there?"
Grandpwin choked: "His leg injury has not been healed, and his lower body is basically rotten. I am relieved, but he still has 30 sticks left to fight, so..."
"Give him a good time, don't leave him to the church, let us know, this is also the papal crown. The meaning of "down"
"I understand."
Wiping the cold sweat on their faces, Grampvin and Madeleine came to the door of the Bucks Room.
Before they could get closer, three or five boy soldiers hurriedly walked in, and several tens of households or soldiers hurriedly walked out.
From the time of morning prayer to the time of noon prayer, the door of the Stag Room was never closed.
After all, the "Special Transfer Contest" is about to begin, so you should be more prepared.
The boy soldiers came and went passing orders from the center of the Papal State, and the bishops came in and out, passing on logistics and investigation situations.
On both sides of Horn's large desk, a monk scribe sat on each side, responsible for organizing and classifying documents.
When the ten households and the bishops came in to report, if Horn was too late to listen, the scribe would switch to text mode.
As for Horn’s orders, they were delivered by the boy soldiers who served as messengers.
"No, no, no, we are not retreating. Let me say it again. We have a unified approach to the four armies. It is called turning and marching, or turning in for short."
"Slogan, what new slogan?... Gather the will and defend the Pope? It sounds good, then use this."
Sitting at the desk, after this period of training, although Horn is not I would say that these 1,200 people were arranged in an orderly manner, but at least it was not chaotic, and it was much better than before.
"Sit down." Raising his head, Horn glanced at the two people in front of him, "Have you read the reform of the Imperial Council?"
"You have read it all, Your Majesty the Pope is wise. "Shenwu, we admire you greatly."
At least in the next month, the entire Papal State will have to make a long-distance transfer and face the pursuit of the church army.
This kind of transition is different from Horn's original stay. Once the movement starts, things can easily become a mess.
So Horn needs to prepare and arrange in advance, especially the need to add a lot of Papal State government agencies.
You know, Horne has always adopted a small government operating model, but now, he has to reform in the direction of a big government.
Military transition requires political transition.
Under the Council of the Papal States, five new institutions were established.
In the Ministry of Truth, Cosset is the minister of truth and Armand is the deputy minister. They are responsible for preaching, explaining the gospel and psychological counseling. There are two people in total.
In the Manufacturing Department, Jeanne serves as the Minister of Manufacturing, Recdo serves as the Deputy Minister, and Gillot serves as the minister and director of the Manufacturing Bureau. They are responsible for supervising the manufacture of weapons, armor, textiles, and tailors, a total of three people.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with Chilvis as the Foreign Minister and Sissi as the Deputy Minister, is responsible for diplomacy and ceremonial matters. The main direction is diplomacy with the Duke of Kush and the Secret Party. There are two people in total.
The Staff Department, with Busak as the Chief of Staff, is mainly composed of small traders and monks in the armed farmers. It is mainly responsible for transmitting messages and organizing documents.
This is a huge department under the Royal Council, with a total of ten people.
In the Logistics Department, Madelan is appointed as the Logistics Minister, responsible for logistics support and material allocation.
Of course, just in case something unspeakable happens, the positions of Holy Treasurer and Grand Marshal are under the direct control of Horn alone.
As an accountant and the commander of two major battles, no one understands finance and war better than Horn.
"Okay, the imperial meeting is about to be held. Everyone who is irrelevant should go out."
After driving most of the irrelevant people out and rearranging the seats, Horn This imperial meeting started directly.
"Before reporting on the work, let me first talk about the general process of our transfer operation this time.
According to brother Sissi, from our place to Fort Joan of Arc, I calculated that it is about 500 "About 10 miles."
This distance is equivalent to the straight-line distance from Shangluo to Luoyang. He took out his pen and drew a zigzag line on a simple map, pointing directly at Fort Joan of Arc on the map.
Horn drew a circle on the first half of the section with charcoal: "However, not all of this 500-mile journey is in the Wild Spider Forest and Black Bone Swamp.
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You can take the main road for the first 150 miles and the last 50 miles, and only the middle 300 miles are in the Wild Spider Forest and Black Bone Swamp.
The first 150 miles are all mountain roads, which are difficult to travel on horseback. We can avoid the knights, but we cannot avoid the infantry. We must complete these 150 miles within 8 days.
There are many dangers during this period. In order to protect the safety of the citizens of the Papal State, we need to carry out a new round of military expansion. "
Pull out two pieces of paper and hand them to these important ministers of the Papal State. Horn said to the two legion commanders:
"Jeshka, Das, I hope that the Guards and The two armies of the Black Hat Army will complete their major expansion before noon tomorrow.
The Black Hat Army will expand by 60 command companies, and the Guards will expand by 65 command companies. In this case, the Black Hat Army will have three divisions with 180 people, and the Guards will have two divisions with 120 people.
In addition, with ten large vehicles as the center, 60 command companies will be expanded to form a sacred armored division, which will be directly under my jurisdiction and affiliated to the Guards.
There are ten armored brigades in the Holy Armored Division. The armored brigades are listed as special organizations in the army sequence of the Papal State. Each brigade only has 6 command companies. ”
In addition, in Horn’s military reform plan, the security tasks will be handed over to the Knights of the Holy Grail, and one brigade will be seconded from the Black Hat Army and the Guards.
Add 15 escort companies to the logistics battalion, jointly managed by Busak and Madeland
If this military expansion operation is successful, the total number of Papal States troops will reach 405 imperial companies.
In this way, most of the 1,200 young men in the Gulag Papal State joined the army.
As a military-first country, almost all the people in the Papal State are soldiers, and almost every household has one or two soldiers.
"How did the ten households react to this?" Horn asked, looking at Chap aside.
This dull and honest villager from Moulin Rouge Village has become the head of the 200th household by relying on his success and stability.
"The ten households are still very cooperative, but they have also been complaining recently, saying that those legion soldiers are difficult to manage."
"It is difficult to manage? Why?" Horn looked at Jeshka, " Do you know about this?"
Jeshka said with a wry smile: "I have warned them many times, but they didn't listen."
"The soldiers are unruly and the general is arrogant. This is not the way for the Pope to maintain long-term peace and stability." Busak immediately said in a strange tone.
Knocking on the table with his knuckles, Horn stopped the argument between the two and continued to ask: "What's the reason? Have you investigated it?"
"I investigated and found that those soldiers thought they were junior generals and were higher than the officials of the ten households, so they didn't listen much to the heads of the ten households they belonged to."
This can be regarded as the sequelae of Horn's abuse of the title.
Since the ranks of the soldiers are too high, and any one of them is a general, they naturally do not want to listen to the words of a small ten-household leader.
"Let's do this." After coughing awkwardly, Horn hit his head with his quill, "I remember that there is a Senate in the El Empire? Canonize senators for all ten households."
Many of the knight stories circulating on the market, including the stories of various saints in the Gospels, took place during the Aiel Empire.
The elders in these stories have always been at the level of big bosses, and even generals would not dare to neglect them.
In this case, those young generals will probably be much more at ease.
“Speaking of which, this just allows them to form the Senate. Just let the ten households decide on some trivial matters, otherwise they will always come to me.”
“Very good. , Very good, I will draft the edict right away." Upon hearing this, Busak's face burst into laughter.
He picked up the carrot seal on the table and was about to write the carrot seal edict.
"Wait a minute, there are other things." Kesai stopped Busak.
Armand immediately stood up: "Our Gulag Papal State has a clear political system, the monarch and his ministers are in harmony with each other, the superiors and ministers are united, the Holy Pope rules from the top, and the seas and rivers are clear.
Now Prince Condai's army At present, we do not want to go to war with our brothers, so we choose to avoid it a little bit.
But we know these things, but the people do not. The only people who are worried are the 120 people of our Grand Papal State. My opinion. "
ps Transition chapter, only one chapter, sorry.
As it’s getting closer to being put on the shelves, there are some things that I haven’t thought about before, so it’s a bit stuck.
Will make up for it later.
(End of this chapter)