Riding and Slashing

Chapter 136 The Past and Present of the Bacchus Empire
Perhaps these policies to commercialize agricultural work are still a bit rough, but in any case, the desired effect of the lord has been achieved.

After the lord's policy was confirmed, all the people in the territory were frantically opening up wasteland.

In just two weeks, more than 50 pounds of grain have been turned into seeds in Maixiangling—almost every production group has received almost [-] pounds of grain!
You know, there are only eleven people in a team including the non-commissioned officer team leader. To change to Pan De's normal state, each team can store up to [-] pounds of grain at most, and plant dozens of acres of land.

But now, almost every group has reclaimed [-] mu of land.

Yes, two mu of land per capita is reclaimed every day-you know, this is reclaiming wasteland!
Mai Xiang led these thousand people, and within two weeks, they managed to produce more than 3 mu of land!
Along the road, a large wheat field extends from Maixiangling to the direction of White Hart Castle, and this territory has become a truly worthy of the name Maixiangling.

In order to prepare for the future in advance, the lord also required that all farms must dig holes in the wheat fields and fill them with straw and plant ash.

And everyone is required to urinate in the pit, but the stool has to go to the field or the latrine.

It's not for storing fertilizer...

It's for making nitrate.

This simple method is not high-tech in the Pendor Continent, because the Pendor people would have used this method to obtain high-purity saltpeter.

But the use of Pendor to make nitrate is mainly for tanning leather or making cured meat, and occasionally as fertilizer.

If it is explained in a scientific way, potassium carbonate solution can change sodium nitrate in saline-alkali soil into potassium nitrate.

The main component of plant ash is potassium carbonate, and potassium nitrate is often called saltpeter.

Bury wheat straw, fallen leaves, and plant ash in a field, and then pour human and animal urine into it, and a large amount of saltpeter can be harvested in the coming year.

The output of saltpeter will also be used as part of each team's assessment output.

Amy followed the lord's operation mode throughout, and applied some of the policies to White Hart Castle.

Such as group competition.

Although she can't control the knight leaders under White Hart Castle, she can learn from Godric's direct leaders.

The direct jurisdiction belonging to Godric himself has nearly a thousand households, but the population is actually only about [-].

The population of each household in Bian County is extremely small.

Amy reformed the lord's policy, and used Godric's guards to manage them in groups of five.

The reason for this is that Godric used the recruitment method of five households and one member before, which is how his own guard of 200 people came.

Using conscripts from these families to manage the working group would at least not be a bad thing, and Godric's guards were obviously loyal enough.

After all, the people of White Hart Castle don't have any shares to support them.

Godric can also change the guards of Changhe Town—now that Changhe Town is stable, let the elite troops directly under him guard their territory, and let the newly recruited soldiers cooperate with the horn to call the ranger group to serve as the garrison of Changhe Town. plan.

As for the internal competition method Amy used in White Hart Castle, the rewards and punishments are more traditional.

To put it simply, the top managers, that is, members of the guard, will become knights and own the land reclaimed by their own group.

The groups with the worst grades will be heavily taxed.

The method is slightly different, but the effect is still good. White Deer Castle also reclaimed nearly [-] mu of wasteland during the half-month sowing period.

Now, Maixiangling is really connected with White Deer Castle, and the road between the two places is full of wheat fields and farms!
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In early May, spring and summer intersect, and the climate becomes warmer.

This is also the time when spring wheat is planted in the area south of the Tongtian River.

Usually, at this time of year, all countries in the Pendor continent will cease fighting, and this year is no exception.

After arranging the internal affairs of the territory, the lord let Sir Roland be in charge of the security of White Hart Castle, Anson was in charge of the affairs of Maixiang Territory, and he took the Mettenheim people, Amy and Sarah to the south, followed by a The transport team went to the territory of the Bacchus Empire together.

The destination is of course Emperor Lingang.

He was going to solve the famine problem of the people of Mettenheim.

After Sir Roland joined the team, Sarah was finally able to throw away her military training and began to work as a foreign officer seriously.

She has sorted out a lot of information and information for the lord, such as everything related to the Bacchus Empire.

The Baccus Empire was not originally the aborigines of the Pendor Continent, they came from the Amara Continent overseas in the south.

The former Bacchus Empire was a big country in the Amala Continent, and it once formed a three-nation situation with the Barclay Empire and the Pendor Kingdom.

In other words, the three continents stand together.

There used to be two groups of human ancestors living on the continent of Amala.

One is the ancestors of the Cubaks, who lived in the plains and coastal areas of the Amara continent, mainly farming and fishing.

The other is the Jatu ancestors, who were originally nomads living in the grasslands of the Amara continent.

Later, the ancestors of Bacchus established the unprecedentedly powerful first empire of Guabax, with unprecedented cultural prosperity and national power. At this time, the ancestors of Jatu were only vassals of the Bacchus.

However, powerful empires will always be destroyed by civil wars. After the Bacchus First Empire completely ruled the Amala continent, internal struggles occurred due to cultural barriers, and then split.

The ancestors of Amala gradually evolved into two different ethnic groups, 'Bacchus' and 'Malitine'. The Malitines established their own country and occupied a part of the continent of Amara.

From then on, the Jatu ancestors no longer attached themselves to the Bacchus Empire and became an independent force like a warlord.

The Bacchus Empire at this time was called the Bacchus Second Empire.

But even if it is split into three parts, the Bacchus Empire at this time is still powerful, and it can still compete with the Gupande Kingdom and the Bakley Empire, and even has a larger population.

In the 198th year of the Pande calendar, the ancient Pande kingdom collapsed rapidly due to the Red Death, and wave after wave of royal family members died of diseases. Only a few days after the death of the king, his successor also died of illness, and several kings were changed within a month.

This situation naturally caused the lords everywhere to have some ideas that they shouldn't have.

Coupled with the fact that the Misty Mountain tribe took the opportunity to invade aggressively, the Pendor Kingdom became torn apart in a short period of time.

First, the Northern Ravenland, which faced the barbarian army of Misty Mountain alone but could not get support for a long time, declared its independence. They summoned the northern lords to form an alliance, defeated the rebellious Misty Mountain army, and then established the Ravencrow Kingdom.

Since then, various lords in the south saw that the Pendor Kingdom was too weak to fight against the rebellion, so they all took over the city and established themselves.

For a time, countless principalities appeared in the Pendor Continent, and the Pendor Kingdom was completely caught in the melee of warlords, and wars broke out everywhere.

Naturally, neither the Buckley Empire nor the Bacchus Empire would give up this good opportunity to invade the Pendor Continent.

But these two powerful countries, before swallowing the extremely weak Pendor Kingdom, fought over who could share the bigger cake...

The two sides fought from the sea to the land, and from the land to the sea... But the two sides were evenly matched, so it became a protracted war of attrition.But both sides can't retreat, otherwise all previous efforts will be wasted.

As a result, the fight between the two sides lasted for several years, and the two countries were dragged into the quagmire by the flames of war. This, on the contrary, allowed the Pande Continent to take this opportunity to resurrect the Jedi.

Alfred, the Duke of Sarleon of the Pendor Kingdom, defeated many rebellious warlords during this period, established a huge dukedom in the center of the kingdom, and gathered countless knights in his camp.

Moreover, because he sent troops to support Ravencrow Realm to repel the army of Misty Mountain, he has comrades in arms.So his duchy formed an alliance with the Kingdom of Ravencrow, announcing that they would put aside their internal fighting for the time being and jointly resist the invasion of enemies from the Outer Continent.

The war between Bacchus and Barkley has lasted for several years, and the consumption is too great. There are also many domestic conflicts that need to be resolved.And Pendor was resurrected under the alliance of Ravencrow and Sarleon.

This has once again formed a three-way tripartite force, and the cake is probably inseparable.

So the three countries re-signed the peace agreement.

However, before the ink on the agreement was dry, the Second Empire of Gubacus sent General Osa to lead a large number of fleets and expeditionary forces to land directly from Dilingang in the southern part of the Pendor Continent, and invaded Pendor without declaring a war. .

This was a surprise attack that tore up the agreement. The people in Pendor didn't expect that the emperor of the Second Empire of Gubacus would make such a decision!

Due to the signing of the peace agreement, the Kingdom of Pendor, who thought that there would be no more foreign enemies, was dealing with internal turmoil. Alfred, the Duke of Sarleon, was attacking other independent rebels at this time, and there was no time to react.

And the southern part of the Pendor Continent is basically all small forces, and they basically don't obey the kingdom's command, and they are almost powerless to resist.

General Osa went all the way north, and the only decent resistance he encountered was the Knights of the Glorious Cross. General Sa caused a lot of trouble.

However, only a knight order good at medical skills could not stop General Osa's conquest. The civil servants and doctors had no choice but to surrender.

Shocked by the Order's dedication, General Osar accepted their surrender request and kept the Order's symbolic cross.

Then General Osa went all the way, hitting the city of Lion.

At the time of life and death, Alfred, the Duke of Sarleon, appealed to all the Lords of Pendor, hoping that everyone would abandon their internal conflicts and go to Sarleon City to resist the invaders.

The lords from all over the place were deeply aware of the truth, and stopped fighting one after another, summoned their followers to organize their equipment, and gathered outside Lieshi City.

With Alfred as their marshal, they blocked General Osa near Sarleon City with the determination to fight to the death, and established the Qicha Fortress there.

Then, began a long tug-of-war.

Alfred at this moment can be called the guardian of the Kingdom of Pendor.

And the goddess of luck finally stood on the shoulders of the guardian.

After a year-long offensive and defensive tug-of-war, the news of the assassination of the emperor and the great rebellion of the domestic Snake Cultists came from the mainland of the Bacchus Empire on the continent of Amara.

The Bacchus Second Empire, which originally had a vast territory, ended up similar to the Pendor Kingdom, and quickly fell into a bloody civil war in a short period of time.

The extremely powerful Bacchus Empire also fell apart in just one month, becoming dozens of duchies, city-states and kingdoms.

The most powerful regime among them was a religious country established by the priestesses of the Snake Cult—the reason why the emperor was assassinated was obvious.

And General Osa, who is far away in the continent of Pendor, is in a stalemate - his motherland has perished, he has lost all support, and even lost contact with the continent of Amala, he has no way to retreat!
After thinking for a long time, General Osa withdrew from Qicha Fortress.

He decided to consolidate his gains and rebuild the Bacchus Empire.

In the southern part of the Pendor Continent that he had already occupied, he claimed himself as a conqueror, executed and exiled a group of nobles in the southern part of Pendor who were not loyal to him, and after recruiting some lords, he proclaimed himself emperor in the coastal city 'Siyuan City'.

His country, which is today's Bacchus, can also be called 'New Bacchus'.

The names of Siyuan City and Emperor Lingang were changed when General Osa established the New Bacchus Empire.

From the names of these cities, one can probably imagine the mentality of General Osa at that time.

But where it is conquered by force, it is not so easy to manage.

In order to be able to rule the people in the southern part of Pendor smoothly, General Osa integrated the Glorious Cross into his elite cavalry.

He re-established the Knights of the Radiant Cross with the remaining civil servants and doctors as the main body, and set an example to protect civilians and business travelers, so that the army should practice chivalry as much as possible, and win the public's approval with the fact of doing good and eliminating evil and the influence of the Radiant Cross .

This method is very effective.

Although these cavalrymen are not true knights recognized by the Varides Charter, the citizens still believe in the Radiant Cross crest and believe that they are the continuation of the once noble Knights of the Radiant Cross.

Although General Osa's act of arrogating himself as emperor was condemned and ridiculed by almost all the lords of the Pendor continent, in any case, he survived with the lone army on the expedition to Pendor, and also achieved his purpose when he came - to conquer .

And those Jatu people were originally mercenaries brought by General Osa from the Amara continent.

After the collapse of the Gubaks Empire, Jatu mercenaries rebelled against General Osa, went to the eastern grasslands, and became an independent warlord force, which is today's Jatu people.

This defection was actually the work of Alfred, Duke of Sarleon.

He gave the Jatu people all the horse breeding land in the Pandor Kingdom, the large grassland east of Lion Lake City at that time, and allowed the Jatu people to plunder, in exchange for the Jatu people to cooperate with him.

The new Emperor Osa, who lost the Jatu mercenaries and the support of his home country, could not defeat the Duke of Sarleon and could only accept the result of a close match.

And the rebellion of the Jatu people led General Osa to use a similar method to make the Principality of Desha, which was originally subject to the Kingdom of Pendor, also rebel. Hand over to the Duke of Dexia.

This means that the D'Shar people can begin to change from nomadic to semi-nomadic and semi-settled. The D'Shar Principality, which has acquired the wealthy city of Singal, can no longer succumb to the barren desert, and it is also strong enough to withstand the revenge of the Pandor Kingdom.

So this ferocious people rebelled against the kingdom of Pendor and became an independent principality.

As a result, Pande Continent became a stalemate situation.

The Kingdom of Ravencrow defends against the Misty Mountains and the Vanskerry Pirates;

The Kingdom of Pendor lost most of its land, and was surrounded by enemies, unable to regain its homeland;

The New Bacchus Empire and the D'Shar Principality are both newly established and need to be consolidated and digested internally.

So Pendor Continent ushered in a strange truce.

The situation of Alfred, the Duke of the Lion, is not optimistic at this time.As a powerful minister, he has suffered a lot of attacks-Pender has almost no royal family members who can be king, except for an infant baby.

Others will of course suspect that this is the hand of a powerful minister...

But not long after, even the baby disappeared strangely.

As for why the royal heir disappeared, Sarah did not find any information, and probably no one will disclose these secrets...

Anyway, Alfred, Duke of Sarleon, was condemned and attacked by countless nobles loyal to Pendor, and it quickly turned into a civil war.

But at this time, if the intensified internal friction breaks the weak balance of Pendor Continent, then needless to say what will happen.

I don't know exactly what Duke Sarleon thought at the time, but the result was that he got the support of the Lion Knights and the Jatu people in a few months, and used the fastest and most violent means to suppress all dissatisfied, expel or kill All the lords who attacked him-this is obviously not something that can be achieved by a simple frontal war.

Then, he presumptuously became king, established the Kingdom of Sarleon, and the Kingdom of Pendor was destroyed.

No one knows the specific inside story, but in any case, the fierce lion king has indeed stabilized the country, and he has kneaded a powerful fighting force, enough to compete with the enemies on all sides.

Alfred the Lion King and General Bacchus Emperor Osa are actually unreasonable usurpers.

But are they really careerists from the beginning?
Not necessarily.

Before the death of his mother country, General Osa was a famous general with illustrious military exploits and an invincible conqueror. He probably didn't intend to become emperor himself.After the establishment of New Bacchus, he has been committed to protecting his subordinates and the people, and has never launched any "conquer".

When the Pendor Kingdom collapsed, Alfred, the Duke of Sarleon, was also the marshal who turned the tide and was the guardian of Pendor. He did not declare independence when the Pendor Kingdom fell into the warlord regime.

But after repelling the powerful enemy, he became the king instead...

Maybe it's for profit, maybe it's for saving the country, maybe it's for ambition - maybe it's all of them, who knows.

The world is like this, full of accidents and changes.

These are more than 150 years old.

Today, the Bacchus who still remain in the Amara continent are divided into two parts.

Some of them are called 'Ashborn', that is, the descendants of the Bacchus who still insisted on resisting the Snake Cult in the ruins of Guaccus, and they established a federation to resist the invasion of the Snake Cult.

The other part is completely Snake Worshipers.

The Snake Cult established a huge religious state on the site of the Second Empire of Guacax.

Whether voluntarily or by force, the Bacchus who converted to the Snake Cult are attacking the remaining Ashborn compatriots while invading various continents, including the continent of Pendor.

The route of the Snake Cult's invasion of Pendor Continent was almost identical to that of General Osa back then.

They also landed near Emperor Lingang, and then from south to north, they gradually eroded the people, and slowly penetrated to the top of the Bacchus Empire.

(End of this chapter)