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Chapter 887 The army is out of money!The king is bankrupt! (Night Dream Ice Reward Plus 2)

Duke Flamingo suddenly realized that his life here was difficult.

The first is supplies.Originally, the delivery of materials in the rear has always been very regular: food and grass are delivered every 10 days, valuable and light materials are delivered every 5 days, and military orders are delivered whenever they arrive.

But now, the wine, ham and oysters that were supposed to be delivered to the barracks were two days late. ——Nothing else, if the oyster gets stuck on the road, it will rot!

"What's going on?" He sent his confidant officer back to inquire.The attendant rushed to the horse and ran for two full days, and rushed over sweating to reply:

"Reporting to Your Excellency, the territory of the Duke of Ardennes is setting up checkpoints along the road! It is said that the plague has been so severe recently that people and goods must be strictly checked on the road. Anyone who is sick or contaminated with goods will be detained!"

Duke Flamingo: "..."

"Is this checking for the plague? This is targeting me! Pass my order over, and if you don't open the checkpoint quickly, I will treat them as maliciously detaining military supplies and punish them as treason!"

The attendant hurried back to deliver the message.The Duke of Flamingo poured himself a glass of three-year-old champagne, tasted the ham happily, and then went out to appease his subordinates:
"There is a little trouble in the transportation of military supplies. Everyone bear with it a little bit, and it will be resolved soon... When you go out to fight, it will never be like having a dance party in the capital. Everything is complete. Let's work hard to overcome it..."

The noble gentlemen complained.The Duke of Flamingo appeased, comforted, and promised to "let's hold a banquet when the supplies arrive and take a good rest", and finally suppressed him.

After the suppression here, there is still a visit to the chief referee: After all, although the clergy are hard and simple, the necessary supplies still have to be supplied;

Just like although they strictly abide by the precepts and cannot drink too much, the "Wisdom Water" packed in the shell of the holy scriptures is still indispensable...

His Excellency the Duke urged many times, and finally the first batch of supplies arrived.However, the second batch of valuable supplies, including food and grass that should have arrived at the barracks with the valuable supplies, just...

"So why this time? Is the Duke of Ardennes still investigating the plague?"

"Still investigating, but the Duke has ordered that the convoy of the Royal Army can be let go. But, but..."

"but what?"

asked the duke anxiously.The attendant shifted his weight from his left foot to his right foot, and then from his right foot to his left foot, with a disturbed expression on his face:
"However, roadblocks and horse refusals have been set up in many places in order to carry out the order. It is very troublesome to dismantle them one by one. In some places, the roads were simply dug, or the bridge deck was demolished..."

Duke Flaminger's eyes went dark.Digging roads, demolishing bridges, blocking traffic in this way, light horses can pass through casually, or just take a detour, but heavy grain carts...

"Forget it, I'll write him another letter..."

Duke Flamingo sighed.Speaking of which, the Duke of Ardennes is also a powerful duke with a large territory, ranking higher than him in the aristocratic sequence, so people can really ignore him.

The letter was written in the past, and it was useful anyway, and the food and grass were delivered over stumbling.However, what came with the food delivery team was more bad news:
"The Grand Duchess of Alva ordered a strict investigation. All people who enter the territory will be quarantined for seven days, and they can only walk around if they don't have typhoid fever!"

"The Earl of Anjou ordered that all outsiders entering the territory must obtain a certificate of 'infection-free' from the local church within one day. Otherwise, they are not allowed to take a carriage, take a boat, stay in a hotel, or Enter any public place!"

"The Duke of Upper Lorraine..."

"Duke of Lower Lorraine..."

One bad news after another.Duke Flamingo was so dizzy that he wanted to vomit blood:

"This group of central barbarians, are they trying to rebel?"

Whether the big nobles in central Brolin want to rebel, they have to go back to the king, or even to the glorious Holy See, and everyone will tear it up at full speed.Before the Duke of Flamingo, it was a naked and realistic problem:
Food and grass are gone!
The military pay is gone!
For food and grass, you can also send troops to search around, smashing every barn and prying open every cellar.Anyway, the food is heavy and difficult to transport, and those country bumpkins in the Netherlands will never be able to transport all the food away;
Military pay is another matter.No matter what the world is, businessmen run faster than farmers, and rich people run faster than poor people.The farmers are still digging caves bitterly, trying to hide the last bag of grain, what about the merchants?

Run it, run it 800 years earlier.

Anyway, it is common for business people to run around everywhere. Once the gold and silver are packaged, they can go wherever they can!
When the Duke of Flamingo remembered that he ransacked every house and blackmailed those shops, workshops, and workshops to take out gold coins——

"I'm sorry, but this is the property of Bishop So-and-so."

"Sorry, this workshop has been donated to a certain monastery."

"I'm sorry, this workshop is where the nuns produce sacrificial garments and tapestries and worship the Lord of Radiance. Are you sure...the workshop will be closed if you don't hand over 100 gold coins in three days?"

"Businessmen are the most cunning!" Duke Flamingo gritted his steel teeth.No wonder the scriptures say that it is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle...

Such a cunning and innocuous person deserves to go to hell after he dies!

No, even if they are alive, as long as they are caught by him, they will be tied to the stake one by one!

The Duke of Flamingo cursed, cursed.After the curse is over, I still have to try my best to raise funds for these soldiers:
No way, without military pay, they really don't work!Not only do they not work, but they can also be deserters. No, in the name of self-financing, they go to the surrounding cities and towns to search randomly...

That's fine, they're mutiny!
How dare they mutiny!

Can you believe that the king's army dared to mutiny with the black cavalry at the side of the tribunal?Oh, although the black knights of the referee did not openly mutiny, they also secretly stopped working...

Your Excellency the Duke pulls with one hand and strikes with the other.Hanged a few, pacified more, and promised to make up the military salary as soon as possible.Yes, make up, plus interest!

He tried his best to write a letter, asking the king for military pay.There was no reply to the first letter, and no reply to the second letter. After seven or eight letters in a row, finally the king's news came:
No money.

The royal family has no money, the treasury has no money, national debt cannot be sold, and businessmen are unwilling to borrow money. In short, there is no money.

The country is already in serious financial crisis.Hope Duke Flamingo.To experience the difficulty of the situation, take care of yourself, and don't burden the king...

"Is the king declaring bankruptcy?" His Excellency held the letter in both hands.The great knight who can wield a giant sword of length and split mountains and rocks is now holding a thin roll of parchment, with both hands trembling:

"Can the king, the country, also declare bankruptcy?"

"I haven't declared bankruptcy yet." His secretary pushed the edge of his tortoiseshell glasses with a solemn voice:
"However, the king has refused to pay once. His wedding is said to have cost him another 20 years of taxes. In the language of our merchants, this situation is called 'extremely low credit rating'. Generally speaking, merchants The group will not lend him any more money."

Duke: "..."

Belatedly, he thought of a saying: You don't know that winter has come until the last leaf falls.

If I had known that the king would be so shameless, I should have thought of today's incident when the king pulled his face and refused to pay the national debt of the Netherlands.

If you can not pay the national debt over there, you can naturally not pay the military salary here...

If he didn't want to add another piece of land to the family, he wouldn't have ended the battle in the west and rushed back with an army of [-]!It's all right now, I'm back, and I stepped into the quagmire!
The Duke choked back the old blood welling up in his throat.Pull off your face and continue writing:

For the family members, for their relatives and friends.For the bishops of various churches, for the priests, for the middle nobles headed by the Duke of Ardennes, and for the wealthy businessmen in the noble territories...

Borrow money!

If you can borrow empty-handed, you can borrow empty-handed, if you can't borrow empty-handed, you can mortgage the loan, if you can't, then sell the gold and silver on hand, and sell all the property that can be sold!

Silver helmets and gold collars from the battle against the barbarians;
Fighting in the west, the set of gold pots and gold cups snatched;

Awarded by the king, a gold crown in the style of the New World;

Booty from the field in the Netherlands, full armor, weapons and BMWs...

One after the other, they left their masters and flowed into the hands of unknown people.Not long after, the duke's tent was as clean as if it had been washed by a flood, and it was as clean as if it had been robbed.

In exchange for jingling gold and silver coins, distributed to the knights and their retinues, warriors, in exchange for the temporary obedience of these people.

However, the time to buy gold coins is limited.One month, two months...

Duke Flamingo's face and treasures are finally exhausted.Faced with the threat of another mutiny, he desperately rushed into the barracks of the referee, and rushed to the chief referee of Gravela:
"I need money! I need money! I can't find a penny, and I can't expect the king to send it here! I can't borrow a penny! No one here has any credit, no one!"

The chief referee of Gravela slowly stood up.Before he had time to answer, he continued to roar:

"If there is no miracle, the entire army will fall apart. It only takes a blink of an eye! A blink of an eye! From the time I found out that something was wrong and left the military tent, before reaching you, the entire army is over! It's over!"

"In this case, let's start another big battle." Gravella Chief Referee replied slowly.The Duke was taken aback for a moment:
"what?"

"Start another big battle." The chief referee said firmly.His gray eyes couldn't see the slightest wave, like a piece of hard ice, looking into the distance:
"Defeat the rebel army and take the city of sinners. Tell the soldiers that when the city of the Netherlands is taken, everything will be theirs."

Duke Flamingo suddenly felt his heart beating extremely fast.He opened his mouth and tried twice before making a sound with his dry throat:
"Then... the people in that city..."

"At that time, the Lord sent brimstone and fire down from the sky to that city." The chief referee recited expressionlessly:

"Destroy those cities, and the whole plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and everything that grows on the ground.—Your Excellency, do you have any questions?"

No doubts, and no more doubts.Duke Flamingo gave a deep salute and silently withdrew.Before returning to his own camp, he heard earth-shattering cheers from the barracks.

The army pulled out its camp, mighty and mighty.Such an obvious move naturally cannot escape the eyes of the watchers.And the parliamentary response to this was—

"The chess piece of Ostend can finally move."

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Although I understand the truth, I still can't figure out what is the operation of issuing a bankruptcy decree when a country declares bankruptcy...

Ah, I really want to declare that my brain is bankrupt, that I have no ideas, that I don’t want to write a single word... lie flat...

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