Chapter 650: End of the Year

The impact of this meeting can be said to be very far-reaching, at least to determine the height that the Baltic Empire can achieve in the next twenty years, to digest all the territories and populations that it has now occupied, to turn gains into savings, and from savings to power, and then use these forces to completely solve the problems of the North, unify the North, and turn the Baltic Empire into the Northern Empire, or something else, an empire that does not use the name of the region as its name.

The Baltic Empire, the name of which has been used in the past and in the present stage, has united the people of various regions around the Baltic Sea very well, and it is easy to use the concept of territory to give them a sense of belonging to the empire.

However, when the empire reaches a certain stage of development, the name Baltic Sea has become very inappropriate, because in the future, the empire will inevitably have territories outside the vicinity of the Baltic Sea, and the people living in those territories will not be able to resonate with this name, and even on the contrary, they will have the illusion that they have been excluded from the decision-making circle by the empire.

In this way, it is extremely easy for hostile forces to take advantage of the situation and sow discord, and the people are not as stupid as they imagined, but the people are in fact more blind than they imagined, and when they become blind, all their words will become extremely pale.

After the end of this meeting, the changes that can be seen by the eyes are changing in various parts of the Baltic Sea, and the abolition of benefits can be said to be very timely, and the abolition of benefits before the people have begun to rely on them and get used to them, there are not as many people who oppose them as they think.

On the contrary, the majority of the people are in a state of rejoicing because of another policy, and their children are able to go to education, and through this education they can acquire knowledge, so that they can jump out of their natural class.

A farmer's son is not necessarily a farmer, a herdsman's son is not necessarily a herder, as long as they are talented, willing to work hard, willing to give, then they can get out of their father's trajectory, they may become a warrior, they may become an official, they may become a spellcaster.

Even if everyone knows that such an opportunity is too unlikely for civilians, it is a kind of hope, a hope that can be separated from the old trajectory of destiny.

This empire is an empire that is very different from the past, and now all countries, although it still cannot escape the limitations of the feudal empire, and it cannot really carry out a complete transformation in a short period of time, becoming what Alice imagined, but it has to be said that the empire is developing at a geometric speed.

The future is there, and there is now.

Although the rebellion of Rus was not completely resolved, the situation was on a good note, and many large tribes were no longer experiencing the toss of coming and coming, because spring had arrived.

Spring ploughing in spring is not only an important thing for the Baltic Empire, but also an extremely important thing for these tribes who live in pursuit of water and grass, and even related to their life and death.

In the Rus' steppes, their food is mainly derived from hunting and breeding livestock, of which hunting only accounts for a very small part, and more comes from the receipt of breeding.

Spring is the season for animals to breed, and if they go to war in the spring, it will seriously affect the reproduction of their cattle and sheep, and they do not have the logistics of the Baltic Empire, and the slightest mistake will wipe out the cold and terrible winter of Rus'.

Unfortunately, the initiative in the war was never in their hands, and they needed to face the most mobile and fastest centaur troops of all the armies of the Baltic Empire.

They can't fight and fight, they can't escape and can't escape, and the only thing they can do is to hide in the deep mountains and dense forests, and avoid the pursuit of centaurs through complex terrain and cold winters.

However, it was only in winter, in order to survive the next winter, they had to go out of the mountains and go to the grassland to prepare, but the enemy did not leave, they would snipe at them, and they couldn't beat them, what could they do?

Continuing to stay in the deep mountains and dense forests, they will not be able to survive the next winter, but if they return to the steppe, they will not be able to survive, as long as they do not surrender for a day, and do not agree to join the Baltic Empire for a day.

So there are only two paths in front of them, one is to reconcile with the Baltic Empire and join the Baltic Empire after paying some of the price that should be paid, and the other is to stay away from their homeland and go to a place where there is no Baltic Empire to continue to multiply.

The former may have to pay for the lives of a group of high-ranking tribesmen, and even if they can survive for a long time, they will lose the power in their hands, which makes them even more uncomfortable than killing them.

And the latter, the risk is too great, there are so many unknown things in this world, you don't know what kind of danger is around the new habitat you are looking for, it could be a giant dragon, it could be an ogre tribe.

For such a choice, some tribes have chosen the latter, abandoning the land where they have lived for generations and moving towards an unknown future, and many of their tribes may die on the road of migration or on the battlefield of the new territory against the enemy.

For the tribe chosen in this way, the centaurs did not go to launch an attack, after all, the order from the Baltic Empire was to stabilize the Rus region as soon as possible, and let the unstable factors leave the land, which was actually a method.

As spring approached, the flames of war on the Rus' steppes began to die out, and the whole situation developed in a good way, but then a new problem arose, those who were defeated, surrendered, and surrendered tribes all needed to be resettled, and for all three, the empire had different ways to deal with them.

The defeated and surrendered will be disrupted and settled, and the empire will send new officials to manage these tribes, integrating these populations and forces in a more scientific way, of course, the latter will be treated slightly better than the former, and can directly obtain the status of free people, and enjoy certain benefits in the empire.

What really needs to be dealt with seriously is the tribes that are converted, and the top of those tribes still exist, because it is the reason for submission, the empire cannot directly send officials to take over these tribes, and the empire needs to provide a lot of resources to reward these first surrenders, as an example, in order to reduce the resistance of this area, and to tempt more people to surrender, and reduce the resistance of the empire to this area.

According to the Empire's analysis, it will take at least three years to truly complete the rule over this region of Rus and make this area basically stable, because starting in the spring of next year, the large-scale fighting in this area will stop, but the small-scale, small-scale resistance will inevitably still exist and continue for a long time.

The territory of Rus' began to get on the right track, and the dragon slaying war in Finland and Karelia also came to an end, this battle that lasted for half a month, although it caused some losses to the Baltic Empire, but it has been relatively and really trained a group of real elites, even in the face of powerful dragons, can always be the enemy and win the army.

In the battle, known as the Battle of the Dragons, dragons are either driven out of the land, filled with hatred, anger, and fear, or their heads are succumbed to the Empire, or they are killed, mutilated, and used as marketable materials, and a few captured and unwilling to surrender are to be used as reproductive tools to mass-produce dragon forces for the Empire.

After solving the threat of the dragons, Finland and Karelia can be said to have been completely controlled by the Baltic Empire, and all that remains is for more people to come to this war-torn and sparsely populated land, and start to develop and build again.

Although it takes a certain amount of time and a lot of resources to become rich in these two lands, there are already many people in the empire who can't wait to go there, develop them, and reap the benefits of those two lands.

All of a sudden, the prices of the Empire's various materials began to rise rapidly, especially the stone, wood, and related materials used to build cities, the various tools and fertilizers used to clear the farmland, and the employment prices of those spellcasters.

This is a massive hoarding of these things, because it is conceivable that with the development of Finland and Karelia, these things will become a necessity and are highly sought after by various merchants.

They have a keen sense of smell, and they can easily find a place where they can make money, and they have not violated any of the laws formulated by the empire, and they are not afraid that the empire will use violent means to directly bypass the law to punish, because this is for the empire to personally break the rules it has made.

The other empires, the other kings are hard to say, but the Baltic Empire, at least through what they have seen and heard in this empire during this time, and the knowledge of several rulers of this empire, the goblins do not think that they will overturn the rules that they have worked so hard to build and build and reputation for this worthy action.

The goblins had a very good plan, but unfortunately, they had to deal with an empire, and an empire with all kinds of assembly line factories that could coordinate a lot of resources.

When they are frantically buying supplies from the market, and piling up the prices of materials to extremely high prices, people with different faces are always able to take a small amount of materials and exchange them for a large amount of money.

By the time they sensed something was wrong and began to stop such crazy behavior, the money in their hands and the wealth they had accumulated before were basically turned into materials and stored in warehouses.

If these goods can be sold smoothly, at the current price, or at a higher price, to those who are eager to achieve their ambitions, then they will be able to make unimaginable wealth by selling these goods, and through this trade, they will directly or indirectly gain the voice of Finland and Karelia.

However, this is just a beautiful delusion on their part, the Baltic Empire will not let them take this part of the benefits from the hands of the empire like this, and when they feel that something is wrong, the market suddenly begins to be flooded with a large number of materials, and the price they have worked so hard to pile up collapsed in a few days.

The price was far lower than the price they had purchased, and after two days of trying to save it, all they failed to do, and they could only cry at the materials in the warehouse.

Because at this time, the market has tended to be saturated, even if they sell their materials at market prices, they still need to sell for a long time, and in order to monopolize the market, they have not only invested their own money, they have also borrowed from others.

At this time, the creditors came to them one after another, hoping that they would be able to repay the previous loans, even if there was no interest, but there was still money in the hands of the goblins to repay, because all of them had been turned into supplies.

The creditors were never so talkative, and if they didn't pay their debts, they began to threaten the lives of the goblins, and they didn't need the goblins because they couldn't sell them in the short term.

Just when the goblins were desperate and had no choice, some merchants began to try to contact the goblins, and they were willing to buy all the goods in the goblin's possession at the market price.

For the goblins, it is equivalent to a timely rainfall in the long-arid land, and they immediately exchange these materials for money, and then return the money to the creditors, if they don't pay it back, those creditors will definitely ask the empire to intervene in this matter as arbitration, and then the empire's coercive measures.

This matter has only been a week from the beginning to the end, but there are several types of people who have been affected, first of all, those goblins, whose finances have been collected for many years have been wiped out with the failure of this commercial trade, and they have completely lost the capital to disrupt the order of the imperial market.

And for those who were initially acquired by the goblins, they received large sums of money in a short period of time, and several of them even stood out and completed the original accumulation of capital.

In addition, the large amount of materials that suddenly appeared on the market, as well as the debt collection of creditors behind them, were in fact the masterpieces of the Empire, which plundered the wealth of the goblins through such purely commercial means.

In this sudden business war, everyone is actually the winner, only the initiator of this business war, the goblin who wants to harvest leeks, has become the loser.