116 – The Carolingian Civil War
[Charles is unable to move. Now is your chance to perform a gig.]
[…Thank you.]
I don’t like it.
Surely, when Caroling becomes politically chaotic, the profiteers are using me to achieve their wishes.
Well, it’s just that the idea is rude, but the actions that those mysterious collaborators are doing are really helpful to me, so I’ve been keeping my mouth shut for a while. But… Isn’t this going too far?
“Whoa…”
The report they gave me fluttered and fell on the desk, and all sorts of ways to usurp the throne were written on it.
A scenario in which you move past the estates of nobles who turned their backs on the king and raid the capital, Lutesia.
A list of attendants who have a grudge against the king and a scenario in which they use them to poison the king.
There are so many scenarios, such as bribing an army whose morale is low due to not being able to pay salaries and capturing a king caught in a juxtaposition.
What does this mean?
‘I’ve already gone all the way down to the roots.’
It doesn’t matter whether the nobles behind them are domestic nobles or foreign nobles. It’s a problem that you know this kind of information as if it’s very obvious.
Even if I claim the throne, if I don’t oust them, there will be many difficult situations.
No, you can’t even kick them out.
Preliminary work is required to purify or exclude something, but judging from their intelligence network, if you do such a thing, you will be exposed in an instant and things will get messy.
“Damn it…”
Still, things have progressed too far to be bitten by now.
In addition to the funds, weapons, and information I have received over the years, my army has dramatically increased in size in preparation for a civil war. If I remain silent here without committing anything, I will be suffocated by the army, which I have forcibly increased while in debt.
…No, I’m not sure they’ll listen to my commands if I tell them to stay still.
The source of a great many parts of the army, such as the countless weapons, the soldiers holding those weapons, the funds for hiring mercenaries, etc., Are the mysterious collaborators.
In order to reduce their influence as much as possible, I squeezed out the territory I was ruling as much as possible or gathered soldiers with the help of factions, but I couldn’t completely remove their influence from the army.
No matter what happens to me, they will act according to the scenario.
There is no way… No way.
“Chief butler, are you out there?”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
“The time has come to punish Dangsuk, who is claiming the throne, and return the throne that should have belonged to me. Prepare your troops. I will launch as soon as preparations are complete.”
“…I will tell the generals immediately.”
After hearing my declaration, the head butler lowered his head with an expression that he had come, and then hurriedly left the place.
Obviously, even until a year ago, I’ve been waiting for this day… But after meeting you, I’m rather upset than impressed.
…………
But the claimant to the throne did not know.
That means he wasn’t the only one who rebelled against the throne.
“Uh, what should I do, general…? It’s not the king’s army, it’s the Norman duke’s army…?”
“Damn, this wasn’t in the info…!!”
As we all know, stealth is the most important thing to start a rebellion.
No matter how strong it is, if it is exposed that it is causing a rebellion, there is a very high probability that it will be destroyed before it gathers all its power.
For that reason, it was very difficult for the three rebels to know that the others were preparing a rebellion, but the information was even blocked due to the intervention in Rotaring in the middle, so the rebels were literally struck by lightning.
“…Answer me, why didn’t you tell me?”
“What do you mean?”
“The other bastards are rebelling!! That’s how the quick fight was over!!”
“We didn’t know either. We had no idea what the other nobles were doing, as we only gathered information to kill King Carolingian.”
“This bastard said that now…!”
The mysterious collaborators who knew the circumstances inside the Carolingian kingdom clearly spit out lies to the angry traitors, but the traitors who listened to them were unable to act.
Even if you kill him on the spot, nothing will be gained, and since things have already happened, without their cooperation, there is a very high probability that the family will be destroyed in a civil war.
The Carolingian kingdom is literally broken into four pieces in the blink of an eye, falling into a swamp of civil war no less vicious than the Holy Empire.
…………
“So there’s one rebel in the north, one in the west, and one in the southeast…?”
Why is it so complicated?
Chloe and Ines asked me to take care of Caroling because they wanted to be of help, so I gave it a try, and as a result, three claimant revolts broke out at the same time in the Carolingian kingdom.
Uh… Hmm… I’ve had a lot of money sucked from the Holy Empire, so I can do enough to support the rebels… But still, supporting three rebels at the same time?
“Can you afford this?”
“Yes, to be honest, it didn’t cost that much money.”
After saying that, Chloe smiled and held out a piece of paper with a lot of writing on it. Is it a report?
Let’s see…
[As the Holy Empire Civil War ended, the mercenaries who lost their jobs were hired cheaply, and the mercenaries who did not want to receive the payment immediately fabricated the ledger and put it on the leader of the rebels.]
[The funds provided to the leaders of the rebels were mainly provided in documents such as bills as much as possible rather than in kind, and those documents are manipulated, so if things go wrong, they can be destroyed immediately and not paid. ]
[The source of numerous weapons is the vassal states of the empire, which reduced their military due to the Emperor of the Holy Empire’s dissolution order, and could be borrowed cheaply from them in exchange for returning the weapon in its entirety. Of course, the names of the debtors are the leaders of the rebels, so no matter what happens, Rotaring will not pay the price.]
…What is this all about?
The report that Chloe handed over with a smile was full of all the hateful traits he had committed so far. Manipulation of documents is a basic specification, and in the worst case, the work was extremely twisted by tying up completely unrelated countries.
“Don’t worry, everyone who works in Caroling has been well educated, so no one will know that Rotaring is involved. Of course, there may be evidence, but there is no physical evidence, so you can take it off.”
However, there is no thread of our Rotaring in the twisted skein.
I don’t know what to say now, but… My wives are very resourceful. On the evil side, too.
Now, what I have to do is just lie down after eating and watch the situation of Carolingian, which has been twisted according to the twist, or I can claim the throne by using the blood of the Carolingian family that flows in my body through my father’s line, aiming for fisherman geography. .
“Now… The West needs to make a decision.”
‘I don’t really want to get the Carolingian throne…’
Chloe, Ines, and various nobles in the country secretly wanted me to get involved in the mess, but to be honest, I didn’t feel like it.
Of course, if I eat Caroling as well as Rotaling, the territory I rule will be greatly expanded and the magnificence will pierce the sky more, but that is only one.
It’s the same kingdom, but Caroling is almost three times bigger than Rotaring, which means that the power of the nobility is also three times stronger.
Why are the Carolingians and the Empire, which rule over a huge territory, not alert? That’s because there are too many political forces to consider in Korea.
If you can completely control all of the political forces and make them look at one goal, Caroling and the Empire will have to taste hell when dealing with them, but no matter what you do, that is impossible.
‘But will I become the king of Carolingian and the lord of its nobles?’
No. Just thinking about it gives me goosebumps all over my body.
You can’t listen to me when you don’t even listen to the orders of the King of Caroling, who was rightfully inherited from the previous generation, right? If a few of them are bad, they can take care of it, but the problem is that not a few of them are bad.
As they see it with their own eyes, I am half of the blood of commoners in the foreign powers, so it is certain that more nobles will arise than the nobles who now revolted in Carolingia.
I feel like I know how the vassals feel. He was always stuck in the estate and didn’t want to come out, but when he left the house, a lot of troublesome things happened.
I just want to stay home. Our Rotaring kids listen to me well and are very kind.
“Ha ha ha… Let’s just sell weapons and make money. Just like we did in the Holy Empire.”
“Is that so…?”
What Rotaring now needs is stability, not power projection.
I have to mediate between the nobles of the inland and coastal regions, finish the urban renewal, build a waterway, and there are more than one or two things to do. Uh… That’s terrible
“Yes, there are too many domestic projects, such as urban construction and bar development, that I can’t turn my eyes to the outside world.”
After hearing my explanation, Chloe and Ines nodded slowly with melancholy expressions.
Are you sure you understand?