Chapter 75: Enlarged Meeting of the Imperial Conference
Monday, September 1444, 9 Imperial Calendar.

"Bishop Madeleine." Madeleine was walking hurriedly when he heard Grampven's voice behind him.

"Are you also going to the Stag Room for the royal meeting?" Grampven was walking towards them quickly, four bags hanging from his waist and holding the bishop's scepter. "Come along, I have something to ask you."

Madeleine and Grampven walked side by side in the corridor, talking rapidly as they went.

"What about the prisoners of the previous battle?"

"Those without ties were left behind, and those with families were let go. That Quincy was injured, and we didn't treat him, so he died. But the monk is fine."

"Is Townley still here?"

Grampven choked. "His leg injury has not been healed, and his lower body has basically rotted away. He is still hanging on, but he still has 30 strokes left, so..."

"Give him a quick death. Don't leave him to the church and expose our secrets. This is also what His Holiness the Pope wants."

"I understand."

Wiping the cold sweat from their faces, Grampven and Madeline arrived at the door of the Stag Room.

Before they got close, three or five child soldiers hurried in, and several dozen households or soldiers hurried out.

From morning prayer to noon prayer, the door of the Stag Room was never closed.

After all, the "Special Transfer Contest" is about to begin, so it is necessary to make more preparations.

The child soldiers came and went, delivering orders from the Papal State's center, and the bishops came in and out, delivering information on logistics and investigations.

On either side of Horn's large desk sat a monk scribe, responsible for organizing the documents and classifying them.

When the ten households and bishops came in to report, if Horn was too late to listen, the scribe would convert it into text mode.

As for Horn's orders, they were delivered by the child soldiers who served as messengers.

"No, no, no, we are not retreating. I repeat, the four legions are to use a unified approach and turn to advance, or simply turn and advance."

"Slogan, what's the new slogan? ... Unite our will and defend the Pope? It sounds good. Let's use it."

Sitting at the desk, after this period of training, Horn could not arrange these 1200 people in an orderly manner, but at least it was not chaotic and much better than before.

"Sit down." Horn raised his head and glanced at the two people in front of him. "Have you read the reform of the Imperial Conference?"

"We have seen it all. Your Holiness the Pope is wise and powerful. We admire him very much."

At least in the next month, the entire Papal State will have to make a long-distance transfer and face pursuit by the church army.

This kind of turn is different from Horn's original staying in one place. Once moving, things can easily become a mess.

Therefore, Horn had to prepare and arrange in advance, especially the need to add many Papal government agencies.

You know, Horn has always adopted a small government model, but now he has to carry out reforms in the direction of a big government.

We must make changes both militarily and politically.

Five new institutions were established under the Papal Council.

The Ministry of Truth was headed by Cosset as Minister of Truth and Armand as Deputy Minister. They were responsible for preaching, explaining the gospel and psychological counseling, a total of two people.

The Manufacturing Department was headed by Jeanne as Minister of Manufacturing, Recteau as Deputy Minister, and Gillot as a member of the department and Director of the Manufacturing Bureau. They were responsible for supervising the production of weapons, armor, textiles, and tailoring, a total of three people.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with Chilvis as Foreign Minister and Sissi as Deputy Minister, is responsible for diplomatic and ceremonial matters, with the main focus being diplomacy with the Duke of Kush and the Secret Party. There are two people in total.

The General Staff, headed by Busak as Chief of Staff, was composed mainly of small traders and monks among the armed peasants, and was mainly responsible for conveying messages and organizing documents.

This is a huge department under the Imperial Council, with a total of ten people.

The Logistics Department, headed by Madeleine, was responsible for logistics support and material allocation.

Of course, in order to prevent unspeakable things from happening, Horn alone would be in charge of both the positions of the Chief of the Holy Treasury and the Grand Marshal.

As an accountant and commander of two major battles, no one understood finance and war better than Horn.

"Okay, the imperial court meeting is about to begin. All irrelevant people, please leave."

After driving out most of the irrelevant people and rearranging the seating arrangements, Horn directly started the imperial meeting.

“Before I report my work, let me first talk about the general process of our transition this time.

According to Brother Sissi, I calculated that it is about 500 miles from here to Chateau Jeanne d'Arc."

This distance is equivalent to the straight-line distance from Shangluo to Luoyang. Take out a pen and draw a zigzag line on a simple map, pointing directly to Fort Jeanne d'Arc on the map.

Horn drew a circle in the first half with a charcoal pencil: "However, this 500-mile journey is not entirely in the Wild Spider Forest and Black Bone Swamp.

The first 150 miles and the last 50 miles can be traveled on the main road, and only the middle 300 miles are in the Wild Spider Forest and Black Bone Swamp.

The first 150 miles are all mountain roads, which are difficult to travel on horseback. We can avoid the knights, but we cannot avoid the infantry. We must complete these 8 miles within 150 days.

There are many dangers during this period. In order to protect the safety of the citizens of the Papal States, we need to carry out a new round of military expansion."

Pulling out two pieces of paper and handing them to the important officials of the Papal State, Horn said to the two legion commanders:
“Jeska, Das, I hope that the two major legions, the Guards and the Black Hats, will complete the major expansion before noon tomorrow.

The Black Hat Army expanded 60 command companies, and the Guards Army expanded 65 command companies. In this way, the Black Hat Army had three divisions with 180 people, and the Guards Army had two divisions with 120 people.

In addition, with ten large carts as the core, 60 imperial companies were expanded to form the Holy Armored Division, which was directly under my command and registered under the name of the Guards.

There are ten armored brigades in the Holy Armored Division. The armored brigades are listed as special organizations in the military sequence of the Papal States, and each brigade has only six imperial companies. "

In addition, Horn's military reform plan also entrusts the security tasks to the Knights of the Holy Grail, and borrows one brigade each from the Black Hat Army and the Guards.

Fifteen guard companies were added to the logistics battalion and jointly managed by Boussac and Madeleine.

If this military expansion is successful, the total number of the Papal States' troops will reach 405 imperial companies.

As a result, the vast majority of the 1200 young and strong men in the Gulag Papal State joined the army.

As a military-oriented country, almost all the people in the Papal States are soldiers, and almost every household has one or two soldiers.

"What is the reaction of the ten households to this?" Horn asked Chap who was standing aside.

This once dull and honest villager of Moulin Rouge Village, relying on his steady and undefeated career, unexpectedly became the head of the 200th household.

"The ten households are still very cooperative, but they have been complaining recently, saying that the soldiers of those legions are difficult to manage."

"Difficult to manage? Why?" Horn looked at Jessica, "Are you aware of this?"

Jieshka smiled bitterly and said: "I reminded them many times, but they didn't listen."

"The soldiers are unruly and the generals are arrogant. This is not the way for the long-term stability of the Papal States." Bussac immediately said sarcastically.

Horn knocked on the table with his knuckles to stop the argument between the two and continued to ask, "Why? Have you investigated it?"

"I investigated and found that those soldiers thought they were junior officers and were higher than the ten-household officials, so they didn't really listen to the ten-household heads of their respective ten-households."

This is the aftermath of Horn's indiscriminate blocking.

Since the soldiers were of too high a rank, any one of them was a general, so naturally they were unwilling to listen to the words of a mere head of ten households.

"Then let's do this." Horn coughed awkwardly and tapped his head with his quill pen. "I remember that the Ai'er Empire has a Senate. Let's appoint all ten households as elders."

Many of the knight stories circulating in the market, including the stories of various saints in the Gospels, took place during the Aiel Empire period.

The elders in these stories have always been big boss-level existences, and even generals dare not neglect them.

In this way, the young players would probably be much more obedient.

"Speaking of which, this is a good opportunity for them to form the Senate. For trivial matters, let the ten households decide on their own, otherwise they will always come to me."

"Very good, very good, I will draft the edict right away." Hearing this, Busak's face broke into a smile.

He picked up the radish seal on the table and was about to write the radish seal edict.

"Wait a minute, there's something else." Cosse called out to Busak.

Armand stood up immediately and said: "Our Gulag Papal State has a clear political system, the emperor and his subjects get along well, the people are united, the Holy Pope governs with ease, and the country is peaceful and prosperous.

Now that Prince Kongdai's army is in front of us, we don't want to go to war with our brothers of the same clan, so we choose to avoid it a little.

But we know these things, but the people don’t know. The only thing we worry about is the opinions of the people of the Papal States.”

　ps There is only one transition chapter, sorry.

　　As the product is about to be put on the shelves, there are some things that I hadn’t thought through beforehand, so I’m a bit stuck.

　　I will make up for it later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)