Chapter 23 Capital City
The royal palace and various annexes have been expanded repeatedly! Imperial gardens, royal hunting grounds, and artificial lakes are all available. Although the scale of the building is slightly inferior to that of the Constantine Grand Palace, the actual cost is still higher. And it is even more exquisite. The entire building complex presents a Baroque style.
The exterior decoration is extremely gorgeous, like a dream. The interior decoration of the palace is even more than that, with curtains made of precious gold, jewelry, porcelain, enamel, silk and other precious fabrics.
Of course, these things are all attached products of the palace in the system settings, and they cannot be sold outside before being sold. They can only be displayed and look good.
In addition, Egil was even more excited that he had been holding Aurora's bedroom and furniture for a long time, especially the large velvet bed. At this moment, his room also had it. Egil hugged Artoria and rolled around on the bed for a long time before he finished.
Of course, such a large palace complex requires a lot to maintain its normal operation. Even if it is only calculated that the more than 800 people from Tang Zhu, the annual annual salary of maids is thousands. In addition, there are also expenses of food and utensils. Together, the annual maintenance cost of the palace is between 5,800 and 6,500 gold coins. It is comparable to the salary of Viking warriors in three or four thousand-person teams.
But all this is worth it. Perhaps before this, Egil could have suffered a little. Living in a pigpen or a military camp or a house that was just a white house, it doesn't matter. But now, Egil is the emperor, and the emperor examines the emperor... Even if it cannot be compared with the monarch of the East and the extravagant and extremely lustful, it cannot even be compared with the Sultanon Rifa in the Middle East. But at least it has to be worthy of face.
Those terrifying bullies in the Holy Roman Empire are not considered.
After changing the work environment and sitting in the study with large floor-to-ceiling windows, plenty of light but not dazzling, Egil felt that his thinking was much quicker and he handled affairs much faster. Originally, when he was in Brandenburg, he had already completed the military reform plan of about 70% and finally completed it in the past few days. According to this plan, Egil was sure that his army could become the most powerful in the world.
The entire military reform regulations were officially written on March 11th and were published on the next day, that is, March 12th.
According to the regulations on military reform, the entire Norman Empire was divided into three major military regions, namely the Western Military Region: three regions: England, Brittany, Normandy; the Central Military Region, including the entire Scandinavia, and North Saxony; and the Eastern Military Region, including Nova Scandinavia, Livornia, Prussia and Pomerania.
The countries targeted by these three military regions are also very obvious. The Western military region targeted France, or it may be Burgundy, although Norman and Burgundy are now quasi-ally relations; while the Central Military Region clearly targeted only one target, which is the strongest country in the traditional sense of continentalism, the Holy Roman examined the country.
Compared with the other two military regions, the eastern military regions have to face a lot more enemies. Lithuania, Polish autonomous government, Moscow Grand Principal, Zaporoze Khanate, Eastern Roman Empire, and even recently, the royal caravan sent by Egir brought the news: The Kumen... Although they didn't know what they were thinking, the fact is that they had arrived. They were running towards the West with a large number of troops. Their vanguard had already started a war with the Grand Principal of Moscow and Zaporoze Khanate. Perhaps this was also the reason why the ambitious female guild of Moscow so easily agreed to Artolia's harsh peace conditions.
These guys are not good men and women. The Grand Duchy of Moscow, needless to say, has fought with the Norman Empire twice in a row. It is larger than the scale once. They have advanced military systems, ambitious leaders who have opened up territories, strong Northern Ross people, and Slavic warriors. Egil is sure that if there is no accident, there will be another war between him and the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
And Lithuania, let alone this, how can you let others sleep soundly on the side of the bed? Egil made his move and was the first to destroy Yating.
The Zaporoze Khanate, allowing this shameful country composed of tragic Cossack hooligans to exist on this earth is simply an insult to God. It is not because they occupy the Crimean Peninsula, a strategically important Black Sea estuary, so they have to beat them!
Needless to say, the entire Europa is too small and cannot accommodate two overlords.
So Egil wants to regard Eastern Europe as his place of success, it seems that there are really many problems...
The specific settings of the three major military regions are more complicated. Because Egirl is completely worried about other people, the commander of the military region, or the governor, or this one, is not set up, and the actual commander of the three military regions is still only one..." That is the sacred and great His Majesty Egir. The setting of the military region only makes Egirl more than three more titles: East, Middle, and West Military Region Commander. That's it.
The military forces of each military region are as follows: the western military region, the British Isles in the north, Ireland, Scotland and Wales are ignored. Because it is the territory of Northwest Britain. Although these places are largely influenced by the empire, they still implement a conservative feudal system in rural areas. Although officials in various cities are nominally loyal to Artoria, they are actually alleged by Egil through the system, or recruited from university institutions, and recommended to their wives. So who is really inclined toward... This matter cannot be said too carefully.
In England, the original garrison army had been transferred to Brittany. In the British land, there was no more regular army, only a small number of second-line militia troops. These militia units trained during the slack farming period and made peace during the busy farming period, so there was no delay in both. There was no need for maintenance costs.
In the northwest of France, the two regions bordering Burgundy and France, Normandy and Brittany, each have a complete garrison army with a total of 5,500 regular troops, commanded by General John and General James.
The Central Military Region. There are no regular troops in the entire Scandinavian Peninsula. Of course, as a local and Norman gathering place, tens of thousands of elite reserve soldiers can be drawn on the Scandinavian Peninsula at any time. As long as they are equipped with appropriate equipment and a little training, they can become qualified heavy infantrymen.
In the southern Saxony, Egil also recruited the first civilian general Sura from the university. This general from the military academy was higher in command attributes than other generals, and the knowledge about ballistics, architecture and engineering learned systematically in the military academy also made him feel like a tiger in urban defense operations. The only drawback is that this nerd general has a weak constitution and is not suitable to participate in combat in person at the front of the array.
But this is not very important. Egil doesn't need him to come to the front line to take the initiative.
In fact, Egil only needs to be able to earn money into the bridgehead of the Holy Roman Empire, the largest and best fortress in North Germany, and Hamburg is ready. For this reason, Egil gave him more than half of the other garrison generals... a total of 8,500 elite soldiers trained in Oslo, one thousand of whom were professional fat cavalry, and one thousand five hundred were giant shield crossbows holding the latest pulley crossbows. The remaining thousand were Norman infantry... This classic elite heavy infantry that had been reformed for the second time.
Egil and his knights and commanders had done many deductions. They found that if the war between the Norman Empire and Germany went to full swing, the other party would gather all the troops from the entire country to attack. Then the two cities of Lubeck and Bremen would not be able to defend themselves no matter what.
However, it is not worth the loss to completely block them. So Egil finally made a decision. He did not invest development funds in these two cities for the time being. Instead, he made every effort to develop the fortress of Hamburg. As long as the war is guaranteed to be unsuccessful, the thousand cavalry under Sula's can also enter the opponent's territory in this stage to destroy it. Further delay the enemy's advancement so that the empire can arrange counterattack forces calmly.
This is the specific situation of the Central Lan District. In the Eastern Military Region, this issue is further complicated: as the military region with the largest number of enemies, the number of troops in the Eastern Military Region is obviously much larger than that of the other two military regions. Three old garrison generals, former Scandinavian garrison, current Pomeranian garrison Anderson, Prussian garrison Hans, and Livonian garrison Alvin, all three of them have a complete legion. The Second Cavalry Legion under General Qi Teng, formed last year, patrolled these places back and forth as mobile forces.
Chapter completed!