Chapter 221, The Contract between the Temple Guards and the Prairie Lords
With the liquidation of the embarrassed fleeing guys on the grassland, the temple guards intervened in the subsequent construction of the rat city on this vast grassland with an uncharacteristically strong attitude. and planning.
Given such a plan.
A fortress city and several regional cities fell in an area to form a city cluster.
Such a plan caused dissatisfaction and turmoil. After all, in the plan of the temple guards, only that fortress city can build the temple. Naturally, this fortress city will become the absolute center of this area. .
This is not a problem, but the problem is that the city will not be assigned a Skaven Lord, but will be directly ruled by the temple guards.
If this plan is pushed forward, it will be equivalent to the temple guards becoming the de facto controllers of this vast grassland.
After the radical faction among the senior Skaven Priests was destroyed, the senior Skaven Priests gradually lost control of the faith in the Skaven Kingdom.
The temple guards took over their positions. This was a good move. After all, compared to the rat priests who fought fiercely and consumed each other, the temple guards who had always been silent and not good at raising the name of the gods took over. Location is a good thing for everyone in the Skaven Kingdom except the Skaven Priests.
After all, the position of the temple guards is different from that of the senior rat priests. Even though they are powerful and hold such authority, they are still a group of guards and will not exceed.
The senior rat-man priests don't mind crushing each other in the name of the gods. They are priests and messengers of the gods. Moreover, the senior rat-man priests still have different opinions among themselves. They all think that they are The most pious and unique.
This group of guys is the most noisy.
The temple guards took over the voice of the senior rat priests, or in other words, the temple guards temporarily took away the voice of the rat priests. No one in the rat kingdom objected, and The only senior rat priests who wanted to oppose them had taken over cities one after another and turned into rat lords. They also fought fiercely among themselves and were powerless.
But it is only a temporary profit sharing. Only the rat priests in the entire rat kingdom can be regarded as the true messengers of the gods. This part of the right to speak cannot be completely taken away, but they are guarded by the temple. After they got it, it was not easy for the rat priests to get it back.
The temple guards master the most fundamental thing, power.
Based on the current situation of the rat priests, unless a guy who can suppress all the objections among the rat priests emerges, it will be difficult to successfully get back this part of the voice.
The most important thing is that such a guy does not exist. The white rat is one. Even though these senior rat priests all have a lot of resentment towards the white rat, in fact, as long as the white rat waves, they will get a little closer. If you look at these guys, they will immediately drop everything in their hands and rush back to the barren mountains to see them and show their loyalty.
It's a pity that the white mouse has no such idea.
The temple guards were still too eager and took over the only fortress city where the temple could be built, which triggered a decisive counterattack by the rat lords.
The destruction of the radicals has brought them a sense of sadness. You have taken away part of the right to interpret beliefs, but you are so eager to turn them into rat lords and take over the city. His lifeline is controlled?
Are they really being treated as soft persimmons? The radical move of the temple guards triggered a fierce confrontation. A large group of rat mercenaries were mobilized amidst the throwing of batches of blood mushrooms. The rat lord, or in other words, the senior rat lord as the rat lord, Human priests, they are not peaceful guys.
In the lush forest, under the eyes of the white rats, they still fought a civil war with the rats with real swords and guns, not to mention that they were now being forced by the temple guards.
Not long after, an extremely large mixed mercenary force was assembled, and the temple guards became a little more anxious.
This mixed mercenary force is certainly not a big problem. The temple guards who have gathered together are still stationed in the fortress behind the scarlet pit and have not completely dispersed. Defeat this mixed mercenary force. All the troops need is one or two charges.
Although it is easy to defeat this mixed mercenary, it cannot change the tense situation at this time. These senior rat priests are far from being buried. At this point, the more you oppress them, The fiercer their counterattack becomes, and how much it costs to recruit this mixed mercenary force.
If they are forced into a hurry, it will not be difficult to raise ten more mercenary troops, or they can simply break through the contract and start formal preparations for the regular army. Among the senior rat priests, it is indeed There are no outstanding war commanders, but this does not mean that there are no qualified war forces in the group of rat priests.
The group of excluded war priests, being awakened by them, is just a matter of thought. According to the mobilization ability and resources of this group of guys, it is not difficult at all to forcefully raise a regular rat army.
And this is not even the worst situation. The exit of the senior rat priests lies in their internal divisions, the spreading battles and grudges, but under the huge threat posed by the temple guards , these guys showed faint signs of uniting again.
As a last resort, the leader of the temple guards entered the rat cities alone to talk to the rat lords.
This was a huge show of weakness and gave the rat lords enough face. In exchange for calming the situation, it also obtained a solution in which both sides took a step back.
The fortress city will still be managed by the temple guards, but apart from things related to faith, there will not be more things in it, whether it is a breeding room, a planting room, or a series of other basic measures, these Neither will appear in the fortress city, this will become a city of pure faith.
Such concessions have greatly weakened the autonomy of the fortress city. After all, after losing these measures, the support and maintenance of the fortress city can only rely on other normal cities belonging to the same area.
The fortress city lost its autonomy, but retained its absolute central position. Regional cities were forcibly tied to the fortress city, but they could vaguely check and balance the fortress city.
In this way, both parties have been partially castrated. Through mutual checks, balances and complementarities, a solution can be reached that is acceptable to both parties.
Prairie City.
The temple guards and the rat lords once again engraved the pattern on the stone slab, officially signing the contract.
The Skaven Lords have come to terms with the temple guards.
(End of this chapter)