Rise of the Empire Total War

Listening to Stephanie's words, formulaic smiles appeared on the faces of Richard and the nobles.

Then, according to the procedure, the new king Stephanie should appoint a new cabinet member next. I saw the palace steward standing aside holding a roll of parchment in his hand and a quill in his other hand, and said loudly: In the name of His Majesty the Supreme King, the Co-Lord of the Ravana, announce the appointment of the cabinet members!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Stephanie said, but her eyes were on Richard: "During the reign of King Lawrence, Richard, the Earl of Cuban, led the army of the Kingdom to fight against the invasion of the Kingdom of Ramirez, and finally won the victory." I won and conquered the city of Abadran. After the war, I resolutely led my army back to the country and fought against the rebels. If it weren’t for Count Kuban’s resistance to the death, I’m afraid I would not be able to stand here and become the new king. Therefore, Ela The sacred and inviolable rights of the King of Vana, I bestow upon Richard Stuart the lands of Cork, Sauron, Mumba, and Abadland, and crown him the Duke of Cuban, the Protector of Ravana. Duke!"

"hiss--"

The appointment of Stephanie shocked the whole audience, and everyone was in an uproar. No one could have imagined that Stephanie would give Richard such a reward. Even Richard himself was surprised, but he quickly reacted and remembered the previous The surprise that Stephanie talked about behind the palace, I think this is the surprise she talked about.

Facing the eyes of everyone talking, Richard took a deep breath, suppressed the shock in his heart, and said: "Your Majesty, on the honor of the Stuart family, I will swear to the death to defend your rule and become your The sword fights for you, becomes your shield to guard your land, is loyal to you, and never betrays."

Listening to Richard's oath, Stephanie smiled from the bottom of her heart. She then continued to appoint other candidates for the cabinet, but Richard didn't listen. His mind was completely attracted by the system prompt that suddenly sounded.

[You have taken the next step in the struggle for hegemony and become a powerful duke. There are even more important earls below the level of dukes. Therefore, you should entrust the counties in your hand in time to avoid being overwhelmed by the fact that you have more than the upper limit. The relationship between the uncle and the country has deteriorated.

The upper limit of the directly-administered territory has been opened, the current upper limit: 5/3 (exceeding the upper limit of the directly-administered territory will cause dissatisfaction of other nobles and fear of the king, and even affect the loyalty of generals)

The reputation system is now enabled. You can obtain suitable generals by consuming reputation. At the same time, reputation will affect the upper limit of your territory directly under your jurisdiction. Too low reputation will also affect the loyalty of generals. Current reputation: 3000 (reputation below 1000 will Being punished, the prestige can be obtained through war, creating a new duchy, becoming a king, etc.)]

Seeing that the system looks more and more like Zombie Storm 2, Richard is a little helpless. The upper limit of the territory directly under his jurisdiction is obviously copied from Zombie Storm 2 next door.

And the prestige system, more or less has the shadow of the next door.

Exceeding the upper limit of the territory directly under the jurisdiction will reduce the loyalty of the generals. Richard thought about it carefully and expressed his understanding. After all, his generals cannot always use love to generate electricity. Everyone wants to become a real noble, let alone those who have military power. the nobles.

As for how to entrust his generals, Richard already has a draft, and after the coronation ceremony is over, he will immediately go to enfeoff the extra counties——if the lord of Abadran remembers correctly, he seems to have been Under house arrest in Richard's army.

When the appointment of cabinet members was over, Stephanie led the cabinet members, including Richard, out of the palace along the red carpet. They surrounded the beautiful new king and walked out of the Trizzi Palace to meet the long-awaited gathering outside. Together densely packed civilian representatives.

These civilian representatives came from all over the kingdom, and they came here to hear the comforting words that the king should say as usual. After the meeting with the civilian representatives, under the auspices of Richard, all the guests moved to the school yard inside the palace wall. Looking at the accompanying arquebus soldiers dressed in strange clothes in the eyes of people of this era, they made pointing and commenting sounds from time to time.

"Everyone, I believe you are very curious about these soldiers wearing strange costumes and holding strangely shaped weapons." Richard, who was standing next to Stephanie, said to the guests after entering the school field, and then won their affirmation response.

Richard chuckled, pointed at the arquebus soldiers lined up at fast pace, and said: "They are equipped with the newly developed weapons of our army. These weapons can shoot through the infantry's armor at a distance of a hundred paces. If they fire in volley, It can also cause more casualties to the enemy."

"hiss--"

Everyone gasped, they could shoot through the enemy's armor from a hundred paces away, even the more powerful crossbow could not do it.

Seeing their surprised looks, Richard still smiled, called Sandro, the arquebus commander in the queue, and ordered the tall officer: "Sandro, let the soldiers Shoot a volley at a target in the distance, and show our guests the power of the arquebus."

"Obey, Your Highness!" In front of outsiders, Sandro did not call His Majesty, but downgraded to call him His Highness. In the ears of others, this His Highness would only be regarded as His Royal Highness, the prince of the Kingdom of Winster.

And following Richard's order, everyone discovered a row of scarecrows in armor placed a hundred steps away. These people were the targets of the arquebus soldiers.

Sandro, who received the order, turned back to the arquebus soldiers who had completed the formation. These arquebus soldiers did not form a dense army formation, and they were half a meter apart from each other. They did not dare to crowd together. Because of the recoil of the shooting, it would be a tragedy if it landed on the comrades around him and ignited the gunpowder canister hanging on him.

"Prepare!"

Sandro shouted loudly. He slowly pulled out the saber at his waist and raised it high. Following his order, the soldiers simultaneously held the fire rope on the hook and blew on the burning fire rope. While aiming at a target a hundred paces away.

"shooting!"

As soon as Sandro finished speaking, the arquebus soldiers lined up in three lines pulled the trigger together. As the trigger was pulled, the metal hook pushed into the fire door, and the matchrope ignited the black powder. Only a series of crackling gunshots were heard. The surroundings of the arquebus soldiers were shrouded in white smoke, and the series of gunshots surprised everyone.

When the choking gunpowder smoke dissipated, the target a hundred paces away suddenly appeared in everyone's line of sight. Following their line of sight, the row of scarecrows were beaten to pieces, and many black spots appeared on the armor. A small hole, revealing the charred straw inside.

"hiss--"

Looking at the armor pierced from a long distance, the guests couldn't help imagining the scene when the target being shot was not a scarecrow but a human soldier, but they didn't dare to continue thinking about it after only making up the general scene.

Seeing how everyone behaved like this, Richard showed a satisfied smile. This is what he wanted. A proper show of muscles would help some people with ulterior motives put away his bold ideas in time.