Chapter 801: Complex Politics
Forests need to be kept at the appropriate size, and that's a must
The existence of the forest plays a very important role in the maintenance of the environment, temperature, dryness and wetness, water and soil, and in addition, races like Xiang Elves, even if they join the empire and become subjects of the empire, they are still used to living in the forest.
Alice didn't say much about this, she didn't like to participate in the power entanglement between the courtiers, as the referee who made the rules, she had her place.
After that, there were no waves, basically nothing surprised her, and there were no things that needed her attention, and she needed to mention them a little.
After the administration of the empire has finished debriefing, it should be the turn of the military side to report, which was the process of meetings in the past, but this process has changed this year.
The Baltic Empire needed to maintain the purity of the army and the loyalty of the soldiers to the rulers of the empire.
After skipping the process of speaking by representatives of the army, it was the turn of the representatives of the various races to speak, and now in the hall there were representatives of those races of the sea in addition to those who lived on land.
The sea is an indispensable part of the composition of the Baltic Empire, and those races in the sea are the cornerstone of the Baltic Empire's rule in the sea, and if these sea races cannot be subjugated to the empire, then the Baltic Sea and the North Sea will be unstable.
Now in this hall, there are the three most numerous and powerful races of merfolk, kraken and fish-people, and in addition to these three races, there are also representatives of sealmen, whale people and other races here.
These races carry the corresponding magical equipment on their bodies, allowing them to breathe air freely on land, and allowing their bodies to adapt to the absence of seawater.
The Sea Races are not asking any of the more acute questions, they are still busy solving the problems of the North Sea, and they are busy digesting the spoils they have swallowed in their stomachs.
And in this regard, the empire already has some plans and arrangements
In the next year, the Baltic and North Seas will begin to build cities, cities made of growing coral reefs and rocks, in which the various races will be mixed in a way similar to Jutland.
Boiling frogs in warm water is used to promote the mixing of various races, so as to reduce the influence of the upper echelons of each race on the people below, so that the empire can directly affect every citizen living in the sea.
In addition, the whole year of the next year will be spent digesting the spoils of the North Sea, and by the end of the next year, the Reich will take action against the English Channel.
On the other side of the English Channel, with the defeat of the sea dragons who ruled this sea, the whole sea area has become extremely chaotic, and the various sea tribes are attacking each other, for territory, for supplies, or for survival.
More than 70 percent of these conflicts that have erupted have been caused by the Baltic Empire, and the merchants who carry all kinds of precious goods can always arouse the greed of the tribal leaders.
Sometimes it seems to be a lucky coincidence, with Imperial merchants behind the promotion, such as a tribe who is lucky enough to obtain a precious treasure, and then the news about this treasure is very coincidentally spread, causing the greed of the surrounding tribes.
These seem to be just coincidences of fate, but in fact they are all planned arrangements by the Empire, and in addition to these methods, the Empire will deliberately spread news about the treasure.
Those treasures are all of that kind.,I know it's probably just a false legend.,But there's still no way to give up completely.,The kind that doesn't worry about Aoko's confirmation of falsehood.。
The war and chaos set off in this way is not simply to reduce the empire's strategy for this sea area, but also to reduce the problem of future rule.
Those tribes that can be provoked are screened, have power, and have ambitions, even if these tribes are conquered by the Baltic Empire, they must have different minds, and they will become parasitic tumors on the body of the empire, hindered by the rules of the game they have made, and cannot be simply cut off.
With this in mind, it would be a good idea to deal with these threats before they became cancerous tumors, and it was in the interests of the Sea Clan, and only the fewer new companions they had, the more benefits they could share.
The representatives of the Sea Tribes in the audience all began to discuss, and they mainly discussed two aspects, the location where the city was established has been selected by the city administrators, which is a very important matter for each race.
Those present were educated enough to be called elites, and they understood the hidden meaning behind these policies and measures of the empire.
They knew that they had no way to resist orders from the Empire, and even if all of them were united, they would not be able to change the Empire's mind.
In fact, it is impossible for the people here to unite, there are contradictions between their various races, such as the merfolk, the fish-man and the kraken, the contradictions between the three have been going on for many years, and now that they have joined the empire, the contradictions have been eased, but it still takes time to eliminate the long-standing hatred.
The discussion lasted only a few minutes, and the hall was quiet again, and they would have to discuss these things after they returned, and there would be complicated political transactions.
The alliance and alliance will be repeated within the Empire, and each race will work hard for its own interests, and compete in principle and bottom line within the rules set by the Empire.
As for why no one has discussed these specific strategies about the English Channel, there are tacit political rules, and they have no way of knowing whether the announcement at this time has a deeper meaning.
Is the Empire using this news to test them to see who within the Empire still harbors ambitions beyond the limits of the Empire's tolerance, and who are curious about the Empire's military strategy.
Even if the empire does not have such a complicated meaning, the people around them are not their friends, and there is never any such thing as friends in politics.
It is conceivable that even the slightest mistake made at such a meeting will be magnified by others as much as possible, to spread all kinds of rumors to slander, and to create opportunities for other people.
Alice sat in her seat, which was the best position in the whole hall, and she could see the whole hall very clearly, and she saw the reactions of the representatives of the races, and she saw the ministers who were standing on the other side, standing quietly, not participating in the discussion.
This situation undoubtedly satisfied Alice, even if it was only superficial, that her courtiers had followed the rules of the game she had set, and that they had begun to move from the brutal, undisguised antagonism to the hypocritical political game.
After that, she planned to spend twenty years to reduce the number of racial representatives in the hall, and preferably eliminate the role of racial representatives completely, and turn them into regional representatives.
The focus is on building cities in the ocean, as are the newborn hybrids in the Empire, and when they grow up, they will become important cornerstones of the Empire.
These hybrids will become a new group and will merge with other so-called purebloods at an extremely rapid rate, making all races less pure.
Wait for that time, the gap between races and races will no longer exist, you are mixed-race, I am also mixed-race, no one is superior to the other, and relative fairness can be achieved in the category of bloodline.
In addition to solving such problems with cross-racial combinations, the study of those spellcasters, and more precisely the study of warlocks among those spellcasters, is also essential.
Those warlocks are experts in the field of bloodlines, because their power comes from bloodlines, or they discover the power of ancient bloodlines in their bodies, or they use themselves to fuse existing bloodlines to gain power.
It can be said that the appearance of those hybrids will become the natural preparation of warlocks, they will have no reproductive difficulties compared to their parents, and with the study of bloodlines, they will gain similar powers to their parents, and have great control over this power.
It looks very similar to those druids, but in fact it is a completely different reversal, druids learn from objects and transform through learning, while warlocks dig into themselves, change themselves from within, and improve through bloodlines.
This is all in the future, Alice doesn't need to invest too much energy in this area now, with her current status, she only needs to formulate a general direction, and the rest will naturally have the administrative department of the empire to discuss and come up with a feasible plan to implement.
Slightly different from Alice's expression, Semiramis's face was much darker, and her gaze flashed with a metallic glint.
Because of the angle, the people below couldn't see Semiramis's face, and they didn't know that their actions had annoyed the cold, cold-blooded ruler.
Semiramis is the emperor of the Baltic Empire, but because of her blood and status, her influence in the sea is more profound than on land.
She didn't care that Alice's status was above her, and she didn't care that she could only be relegated to the second position in this Baltic Empire, and could only be Alice's vassal.
What really cared about her was the whispering of the exchange of words between those sea races just now, which was something that she would never have been able to do in Lacey City.
What is now going on is a meeting of the whole empire, a summary of the whole year, attended by people who have important positions in the whole empire.
She could well imagine that tomorrow rumors about the bad things of these sea races would circulate throughout the Empire, and this rumor must be full of all kinds of negative news.
In fact, there is not much communication between the races on land and the races in the sea, because of the problems of their living environment, the races of the sea cannot survive on land, and the races on land cannot breathe in the ocean for a long time.
Originally, it was just two parallel lines, but after they both joined the Empire, they had the possibility of intersecting, and the land race and the sea race had different desires for war.
The land races hope that the empire can focus on the conquest and development of the land, and hope that the empire will invest more resources to cultivate more farmland, divide more pastures and forest farms, establish more villages and towns, develop minerals in the mountains, and plunder more slaves in the mountains to make up for the lack of labor.
The maritime races, on the other hand, hope that the empire will increase the construction of fishing grounds, build more ships, develop maritime trade, and be able to exchange the larger resources in their hands, such as pearls, edible seagrass, all kinds of fish, and sea salt, for the materials they need.
From the land or from the sea, it has become the key to the conflict between the land race and the sea race, and in this strategy against Scandinavia, the performance of the two sides on the battlefield is not without the meaning of competing for credit.
In addition to the battlefield, there is also a rivalry in the court, or the competition in the court is the key, no matter what achievements are made, a certain sentence in the court can be distorted or even erased.
What is happening in this chamber today will hit the entire ocean races, and it is expected that these sea races will be given the title of impolite in the next few days.
These will affect Semiramis herself, and it is easy for people who don't know the inside story to think that Semiramis is a rude person who doesn't understand it.
Those guys didn't dare to spread rumors against Semiramis directly, because that would touch the ruler's bottom line and usher in a secret attack from the Empire.
But this way of beating around the bush is within the permissible limits of the rules, which is a reasonable use of the rules of the empire, as long as the rumor-mongers are clean and do not leave any conclusive evidence.
The representatives of the sea races, who did not know that their actions just now had caused trouble for themselves and Semiramis, they were used to the life of the Empire, but they were not familiar enough with the political games of the upper echelons of the Empire.
Because there is not such a complicated situation in the ocean, they still maintain the culture of the tribe as a unit, and they have only just accepted the culture of the empire for a few decades, and there are not so many fancy intestines, and there is no wisdom to learn from the predecessors.
After all, not everyone in the Sea Clan is willing to read those complicated books that describe politics realistically, not to mention that those books are usually full of all kinds of metaphors, and you need to understand the corresponding historical situation to understand.