The summer of 985 was destined to be an extraordinary summer.

First, the second prince François married Claudia von Schweger, the daughter of the important noble Marquis Schweger, the Marquis Schweger, an important nobleman of the Principality of Saxony.

At the previous engagement ceremony between the two, the second prince François was assassinated, so the formal wedding held in the imperial capital was very simple and there was no grand ceremony to celebrate.

However, people who are politically sensitive can read a special taste from this marriage, and the emperor is going to establish the crown prince.

Regardless of whether François has controlled half of the Northern Territory, the western administrative and military systems of the Northern Territory are obedient to the Second Prince. In recent years, factories and mines that provide the royal family with the main source of income have also been controlled by the Second Prince. What's more, the Supervisory Agency Investigation Bureau is also the territory of the Second Prince.

Just saying this marriage is a clear proof of the appointment of the crown prince. The empire's empress usually comes from Saxony, which has become an unwritten tacit understanding. The prince's concubine's grandmother is the aunt of the current Duke of Saxony. The prince's concubine's father, Marquis Schweig, is both the cousin of the Duke of Saxony and an important ally of the Duke.

After marrying the Saxon nobles this time, the second prince was in the limelight, and everyone was waiting for the emperor's edict to establish the crown prince.

However, the edict of the crown prince had not been issued yet, and another edict ignited the entire empire first.

Robert Baptiste was named Duke Baptiste and became the fourth person in the history of the empire to be named Duke.

This is the Western Monastery royal family recognized the independent status of the South Carolina Alliance. Although the five cities of South Castia only occupy one-third of the territory of the Southern Region, they are the most prosperous and prosperous areas in the Southern Region. What’s important is that the South Carolina Alliance controls all the Hainan Lines of the former Principality of Castia.

The South Carolina Alliance became the principality recognized by the empire but the beginning of a huge change in the entire empire.

Recognizing that the South Carolina Alliance has changed from an autonomous region to a principality is equivalent to the royal family admitting that they cannot interfere in the management of the South Carolina Alliance. It is better to let them stand up to be independent than to let them be independent if they are in name only.

And he also used this to trick Robert. Not to mention how he settled his political allies, just the conditions for the establishment of the principality gave Robert a great headache.

That is, while announcing the establishment of the Principality of Baptist, the emperor also handed over the jurisdiction of the southern colonies of the New World to the Principality of Baptist.

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At this time, the southern colonies of the New World really became a big trouble.

The culprit is the establishment of the South Carolina Federation.

As early as a year ago, when Robert announced that the five cities of South Carolina would not participate in the dispute between Castia and Stuart, Castia's colonies thousands of miles away also underwent tremendous changes.

Originally, the Principality of Castia occupied the southern part of the New World south of the Hurdor Mountains, but the management method was always loose and extensive. Only the Governor's Office was established in Ruio City, and all local management was handed over to nearly a thousand lords of all sizes.

The actual power of these lords is greater than that of the nobles of the empire. In addition to paying taxes to the Principality of Castia, they are basically the local emperors in the territory.

After the confrontation between North and South Castia, the South Carolina Federation controlled all the coastlines of Castia. After independence, it cut off the ties between the colonies and the former Principal of Castia, and inherited all the navy of the Principal of Castia.

Since most of the lords are descendants of the Castia nobles, and they are mainly composed of the five southern cities, they are all the Castia southern nobles who believed in the persuasion of Robert's great-grandfather Lee Baptiste, and took their own guards to the New World to grab land and build their homes.

The descendants of the five cities of South Carolina in this part of the descendants of the five cities of South Carolina proposed to subdue the colony to the rule of the South Carolina Federation, but were opposed by the Governor and other lords from the north.

The representatives of the lords from the south of the New World gathered in Ruiou City to hold a meeting at the Governor's Office to decide how to deal with it.

During the meeting, the two sides were in a stalemate, and I don’t know which wise man suddenly made a suggestion: Since we cannot reach an agreement to belong to the South Carolina Alliance, or continue to be loyal to the former Principality of Cadisia, it would be better to simply be autonomous in the southern part of our New World.

Unexpectedly, this whimsical idea was approved by most lords. The opponents were immediately besieged, and the lords with bad tempers would fight to the ground and soon reached a consensus: the southern part of the New World declared autonomy and was no longer a colony of the Principality of Castia.

The lords were very efficient and immediately began to formulate the autonomous program.

In fact, colonial autonomy has precedents to follow. The three regions in the northern part of the New World are typical autonomous systems. When the South Castia Alliance led by Robert just declared independence, they followed systems like the York City Region. They recognized that the domination was part of the empire's territory, respected the royal family as the supreme ruler, and paid taxes to the royal family. Most of the officials were appointed by the royal family, and only administrative affairs were decided by the "parliament" composed of locals.

However, although the South Carolina Alliance and the southern part of the New World, which had just declared autonomy, claimed that they were the dominant lords who were loyal to the royal family, their actual intention was to pay symbolic taxes to the royal family and maintain their righteousness. In fact, the appointments of military and political officials of the dominant lord were all appointed by the dominant parliament themselves, and most of the taxes were also used for the construction of the dominant itself.

The southern part of the New World is on a plateau, with strong sunlight and prone to sunburn when outdoor activities for a long time. Therefore, the nobles of the imperial world like to call the lords in the southern part of the New World "Red Neck".

It was these "rednecks" who had extremely high efficiency that first established a "parliament", selected more than a hundred lords with larger or more active territories as members, and then imitated Robert's actions in the South Carolina Federation, and appointed officials and officers by the parliament, and used local taxes to establish their own army.

The name of the Dominion was also determined, called "Papas Autonomous Region", which was taken from the Papas grassland that occupied most of the land in the southern part of the New World.

The declaration of autonomy in the southern part of the New World was actually at the end of 984, but there were too many major events at that time, and no one had the energy to pay attention to the farce of a group of Red Neck Lords.

At least most people at that time had no intention of paying attention to Papas Autonomous Region.

Although there is no major confrontation in the areas bordering Stuart and Castia, there are constant skirmishes.

On the other side, the Principality of Stuart and the royal family were at odds in the Gyeonggi region, and it seemed that the war was about to begin at any time.

At this time, the Principality of Stuart had no time to take care of its own New World colony, let alone what the colony that cared about was troubling.

The South Carolina Alliance, which declared autonomy, and the Castia Principal in the north, fought a battle at the border, and both sides claimed victory. But anyone with discerning eyes could see that after the war, the Castia Principal was unable to continue to move south, unable to contain the South Carolina Alliance by force, and even unable to occupy any port. This was the defeat of the Castia Principal, and from then on, the Castia Principal in the north became a landlocked principality.

The Northern Region was messed up by the vengeful army who shouted the slogan of defeating the rich and the poor. The so-called revolutionary ideas were quietly spread among the people of the Northern Region.

The Tavare area in the central part of the New World was occupied by the Kingdom of Light, which scared the people of the Medes area in the north.

Due to the serious damage to the beast tide, the only stable York City area was erratic to disobey the royal family's instructions.

So even when everyone was unable to take care of themselves, the behavior of autonomy in the southern part of the New World was acquisced, and like the South Carolina Alliance, it was nominally a royal autonomy, but actually became an independent kingdom.

Papas made his own collar and had been empty for half a year, and he didn't hand over a silver coin to the royal family, so he was finally targeted by the royal family. He only used an edict to provoke the conflict between Papas's own collar and Robert.

I can't spare my hands to deal with you, Robert has a navy!

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Robert, who became the Duke, did not swallow the "poisonous bait" given by the emperor and chose to allow the "independence" behavior of the "Papas Autonomous Region".

We neither use the jurisdiction given by the royal family to collect taxes nor disagree with the management of the autonomous region. Everything is the same as before, and the colonies will do whatever they want.

Robert focused his energy on the governance of the newly established Baptiste Public.

The first thing is to do is to have stable internal relationships.

When he left Castia's autonomy, other southern nobles put in a lot of effort and they would definitely not be able to get all the benefits by themselves.

So Robert had to visit his allies in person and explain to them that "the title of marquis is not my wish". At the same time, he mobilized people from the Mithril Club to defend his "fixion" of the former Castia's five southern cities in case Rand was angry and launched another attack on the five southern cities.

The Empire of Xizzo was in chaos, and all forces were restrained and feared each other. Instead, no one came to take care of the Kingdom of Light.

The food harvest in the occupied areas of the New World was quite good, which completely solved the food crisis of the Kingdom of Light. In order to build a colony and reduce the cost of grain shipping, Hei Ye still arranged a large number of immigrants to the New World. Since Hei Ye could not be a clone of his own as a fleet that traveled through the Sea of ​​Misty, the ships that traveled between the Kingdom of Light and the Kingdom of New World could only set off from Tavare, with a voyage ranging from one and a half months to three months.

Originally, after Tavare was occupied by the Kingdom of Light, it served as a window to open to the outside world and did not exclude merchants and adventurers from the empire.

Unlike other areas, except for the accidents of the indigenous people, all the imperial people were expelled from the occupied areas of the Kingdom of Light.

However, when new immigrants from the Kingdom of Light arrived in Tavare, and then used Tavare as a transit station to enter the inland in batches, the role of Tavare's transportation hub became more and more important, and the calls for expelling the remnants of the empire, merchants and neutral adventurers became increasingly high.

Even if they cannot be expelled, they need to be strictly managed, rather than allowing them to operate freely in Tavare.

Ordinary residents of the Kingdom of Light are very opposed to people of different beliefs. Even compatriots like the Wujin tribe have the same beliefs, but they will be discriminated against without awakening the light system.

The standard chain of discrimination is that the extraordinary people who awaken the light system are higher than ordinary people who have not awakened, and the ordinary people who have not awakened are higher than those who have awakened other systems. No matter who they are, they discriminate against believers who are not the God of Light.

The indigenous peoples of the New World were very interesting. When the Kingdom of Light came as a liberator, they happily accepted the faith of the God of Light and quickly integrated into the Kingdom of Light.

Tavare, the only open land, has been occupied by the Kingdom of Light for more than a year, and the contradiction between believers and non-believers of Light is gradually deepening.

If Hei Ye's own will, he would definitely expel quickly and show no mercy. In his communication with the empire, Hei Ye has always been known for his toughness.

However, since Marianne West, the most important representative of the empire merchants, was one of the few empires that God of Light particularly valued. Although others could not recognize Fat Ju, Hei Ye knew that as long as Marianne, Fat Ju would not hug Lily, but insisted on lying in Marianne's arms.

There are two major categories of merchants who settled in Tavare. One is the New World merchants who traveled to York City, Reo City and Chippeva. They all have close ties with Marian's West Trading Company. The other is the group of merchants from Musai Port. Their business is mainly about the newly established Principality of Baptist and the Kingdom of Light. Some of them have settled in Tavare for a long time, probably because they are worried about the stability of the Principality of Baptist and the opening of a new retreat in the New World. These people spontaneously surround Fabian's father.

Viscount Bernande is actually not sensitive to politics. He is just a noble child with courage and is educated to safely defend his ancestors and leave his foundation. He became the core of the so-called Musai Party entirely because of his third son. Fabian has been with Hei Ye every day for more than a year. On the one hand, he learns the skills of the natural system, and on the other hand, he acts as Hei Ye’s secretary.

At the beginning, Fabian arranged for him to learn from Hei Ye. Hei Ye soon discovered that although Fabian had average cultivation talent, he was well-organized in dealing with people, was neat and spoke nicely. As soon as Shui Han was over, he was sent to the west by Hei Ye, so he began to deliberately cultivate Fabian.

It was precisely because of Marian and Fabian that Hei Ye was unable to make up his mind to expel the Hesita Empire who had been in Taware.

The real first person in the Kingdom of Light, Fatty Ju, returned to the rainforest to continue training Jacques and Lily.

Hei Ye’s recent work focuses on building railways and telegraphs, which is an important project to cooperate with the Principality of Baptist. Hei Ye doesn’t care about the small conflict between the Empire and the Gods.

It was not until two weeks ago that the first temple of God of Light in Tavare was completed, and believers of God of Light could finally enter the temple to worship the gods according to tradition, but at the same time, it once again intensified the conflict between believers and non-believers.

The reason is that when the priests preached, they pointed out that there were many "lost" non-believers around them, and called on everyone to bring those people into the temple.

In fact, this is the routine operation of the priest of the God of Light. In order to obtain enough faith power to provide the high priest with cultivation, the priest system of the Kingdom of Light has long transformed everyone in the Kingdom of God into believers of the God of Light.

Although Pang Ju knows it, he does not reject it. If Pang Ju was five thousand years ago, he would have opposed the priest's approach. Faith should have been voluntary, and he did the same when Pang Ju was awake. However, partial memory was restored. Pang Ju, who had experienced the death of a friend in battle and was betrayed by the high priest, was eager to restore his strength. In this way, the demand for the power of faith was even more urgent. He even agreed with the priests' actions that required all the indigenous people to convert to the God of Light.

I don’t know whether the priests’ original intention was to call on the indigenous people who had not converted to the God of Light to bring them to the temple, or to target the people of the Hezbollah who were stationed in Tavare.

But since then, the conflict between the imperial people who resided in Tavare and the God Kingdom began to become public and acted on.
Chapter completed!