The gods were repulsed, everything was on track, and the situation in the Northland returned to the situation of no major wars and constant skirmishes, and the Baltic Empire continued to advance at a steady pace.

Alice's fleet, after a brief rest, repairing the ships, and treating the wounded, returned to Jutland on the morning of the third day.

As soon as the ship docked, Alice couldn't wait to meet Semiramis, and other matters were naturally handed over by her subordinates, and she didn't need to manage them herself.

She came to the castle and went straight to the chamber where Semiramis was dealing with the affairs of the business, and without taking off her clothes and shoes, she collapsed on the sofa and rolled around like a cat basking in the sun.

Looking at Alice's lazy appearance, Semiramis took a thick document and patted the table and said.

Contained in the document was an idea for the establishment of an elite school that Alice had sent back earlier, and what she wanted to achieve by establishing the elite school.

"Is it time to be free? Do you still want to build an elite school at this time to house monsters who are beyond the ordinary?"

"What's wrong?"

Alice tilted her head and looked at Semiramis, she didn't know what was wrong with this proposal, elite education could gather all those monsters together, educate them in a unified way, and cultivate those guys' loyalty to the empire from an early age.

"Where's the money, what about the teachers, and what about the venue?"

"The site must be a secluded and well-guarded place, otherwise such a school could easily become the first target of the enemy's attack. ”

"Those who can educate those geniuses and monsters must be outstanding, excellent teachers, although there are many such people in the empire, they have an irreplaceable role in every field, and random transfer will affect the operation of the empire. ”

"In addition, our plan on the Celtic Isles, to ensure the execution of this plan, it costs a lot of money every day, in this case, you tell me, where is the money to get you this thing?"

Semiramis felt a pain in her head, and Alice's occasional childish behavior was indeed cute, but at the same time, it would also cause her a lot of trouble.

"Huh, are we running out of money?"

"Of course there is no money. ”

"Is there really no money?"

"There's really no money left. ”

Looking at Semiramis's serious gaze, Alice shook her head helplessly.

It seems that the empire is really out of money, but it is not surprising that the empire's funds are constantly flowing, and it takes a long time to prepare for a new project.

Alice is privileged, because this is her empire, and the whole country is serving her, but in order to maintain the stability of the entire empire, in order to maintain the rules she has made, and let this empire run normally and develop at a high speed, certain processes and regulations still need to be followed.

A king who is too willful will often become an obstacle to the development of the country, and even if they do not have that self-awareness, his subjects will not be able to see it.

The development of the empire is in this kind of steady development in many cases, and that kind of perennial war is the biggest obstacle to development, and if he can, Semiramis does not even want to have a war, because now according to the development of the situation, using economic and political influence, peaceful evolution can be achieved.

"Semiramis, are you afraid of war?"

Alice could easily see what Semiramis was thinking, and this was what most people in the Baltic Empire thought, and it was the mainstream idea that began to germinate in the empire in the past three years.

"No, there is no fear of war. ”

Semiramis shook her head, she certainly wouldn't be afraid of war, even if she wasn't really involved in it.

"So, Semiramis, have you ever heard a saying? No matter how powerful a country is, if it goes through wars all the time, it will surely perish in the long run, but if there is no war for a long time, then it is easy to be in danger. ”

"I know that the continuous wars make the empire lose a lot of soldiers and people every year, and it takes a lot of money to pacify, but this is essential, we need these wars to divert some contradictions within the empire, to promote the development of the military industry within the empire, and to limit the consumption of our population. ”

Populations, especially those with terrible reproductive abilities, would have been repeated in the Baltic Sea if there had been no foreign effect, and even if the industrial system was now adopted for production, there was no way to provide resources for the fishmen indefinitely.

"On land, continue to maintain small-scale exploration of the east and south, try to control the scale of the war, do not turn skirmishes into large-scale wars, do not provoke the nerves of those large tribes, let them unite. ”

"In the sea, it is necessary to increase the erosion of the North Sea, which controls the entrance to the Baltic Sea, and if there is no way to control the North Sea, then the power of the Baltic Empire in the sea can only be limited to the Northland, to the Baltic Sea. ”

"Don't rush into the matter between Drake and those pirates, as long as we continue to maintain this ambiguous attitude, they will not be able to truly unite, because I know that they all want to decide the winner before we actually do it, and use the resources of the entire North Sea against us. ”

"Huh, what's wrong?"

Suddenly, Alice saw something wrong with Semiramis's face and asked strangely.

"Our offensive in the sea is at a disadvantage, although it's hard to believe. ”

Semiramis turned his face away, the middle part of the Baltic Empire is handled by her, although she doesn't want Alice to know such news, but this is already a matter involving imperial strategy.

"How come......?

The Baltic Empire is much more powerful than the North Sea in terms of equipment, technology, tactics, numbers, intelligence, and high-end combat effectiveness, and there is no reason why it will be at a disadvantage no matter what.

The rest of the words, Alice swallowed, did not speak, after all, to say it, it is not a question of Semiramis, a question and doubt of her ability.

"What do you think?"

Alice never doubted Semiramis, nor did she doubt her ability, so she felt that if such a situation occurred, it would only be that Semiramis had other plans, maybe to show weakness to the enemy, to plan the internal contradictions of the North Sea forces, or to train the army, and to train the army with a series of defeats.

"Now with the North Sea side, there is only a small-scale battle, our side is only sent by the fishmen, no matter from which is inferior to the other side, during this period of time, we have lost more than 10,000 fish-man troops, but the results have been few. ”

“……”

"Fishmen are not suitable for skirmishes, and only crowd tactics can give full play to their advantages. ”

"Of course I know this, but in the absence of a major war, I can only use this kind of small, small-scale battle to gain an advantage little by little, weaken the opponent's power, and then at an appropriate time, start a war and lay the situation in one fell swoop. ”

"However, the flaws of the fishmen are still in the intelligence, they cannot understand too complex tactics, and they can't learn a lot of combat skills, even if they are equipped with weapons and armor, if there is a slight setback in the battle, they will turn and flee. ”

"Like a goblin?"

“…… yes, like a goblin. ”

Semiramis looked at Alice's expression helplessly, she knew that even if she had directly said that the situation was serious, she still couldn't attract Alice's attention, because she knew that Alice trusted her and could solve such a small problem.

"Now is not the time to invest in the sea beasts such as sea dragons and dragons, and all the eyes of everyone in the Northland are on us, watching when we will really do something to the North Sea. ”

"So, the result of this series of failures should be good. ”

"Well, those Sea tribes in the North Sea have begun to be careless, after all, our Baltic Empire's troops in the sea have never achieved any decent results, and it is natural to be despised by them. ”

"Except when we attack, they will unite a little, and the rest of the time they are fighting on their own, while also guarding the other tribes. ”

There is no unified country, there is no unified commander, such a situation is inevitable, each tribe has its own considerations, each tribe will consider how to be the final victor when fighting the enemy.

No, many times a region is conquered, often because there are too many smart people in it, that is, because there are too many smart people, no one is convinced, everyone thinks that they can be the final victor, and they are not willing to compromise.

If those elves and humans could join forces to fight against Atila from the beginning, then there would not be a situation where they would have perished in a short time.

"Don't deliberately lead them to civil strife, to create contradictions between them, even if it's a coincidence that no one finds out, no one is stupid, many things, just rely on guesswork is enough. ”

"Forget it, don't talk about these things. ”

Alice shook her head, since these things had been handed over to Semiramis to forage, she couldn't continue to meddle, all she needed to do was to enjoy the joy of victory with Semiramis, or to back her up when she lost.

"I haven't told you anything about it yet. ”

These things are actually mentioned in the letter sent back by Alice, but from beginning to end, I repeated it in words like Semiramis, and I had different feelings.

When talking about being attacked by an unknown enemy with [Acid Rain Technique], causing the ship to be damaged and unable to move, and very coincidentally being caught between the typhoon and the gods, Semiramis interrupted Alice's gushing alice.

"Why didn't the oars move at that time, the sea tribe was used for traction, and the sea tribe could control the currents on a small scale even if they didn't use magic, and the ships couldn't move or something, it didn't exist at all. ”

“……”

Alice opened her mouth, not knowing what to say at this time, if you want to get to the bottom of it, this time it is indeed because of her error in judgment that the battle with the gods will take place.

There was a completely avoidable battle, the loss of something that should not have been lost at all.

"Two ways, Alice. ”

Semiramis guessed Alice's thoughts at the time at a glance.

"You want to try the power of the gods, and the battle with the gods can be a good way to get to know the gods better, which is very important for your plans, and such coincidences can also hide people's eyes, which is much more secretive than going to fight the gods on purpose. ”

"On the other hand, you also want to use this kind of action to hang out the guy hiding in the shadows, if you can cast such a range of [Acid Rain Spell], you must be a legendary spellcaster, and a legendary spellcaster who is an enemy of the empire, if hidden in the shadows, is too dangerous. ”

"The first goal was reached. ”

Alice nodded, then sighed regretfully.

"It's a pity that in the end, the guy put a match, not only did he expose him, but also exposed one of my hole cards, your bow and arrow. ”

The followers of your in the Lord's plane will surely be enemies of the Baltic Empire for the sake of this weapon of the gods they believe in, for they will not allow the things of their gods to be tarnished in the slightest.

But this is only a small problem, without the intervention of the gods, in such a chaotic situation in Scandinavia, those so-called believers of your are not too powerful at all.

"Don't worry, even if you don't expose this hole card this time, this secret can't be kept for too long, don't forget that you have this artifact, in addition to the two of us before, the one in Beihai also knew. ”

"Drake won't say it to the outside, her character is like this, she won't do such superfluous things, even if we don't have the old friendship now, she won't do this, betrayal the same thing. ”

"Well, that's her character. ”

Semiramis nodded, then added.

"However, even if she doesn't say it, there are many ways to get this information from her mouth, and as long as the secret is known by the second person, it is no longer a secret. ”

"Is that the secret of Semiramis that Alice can't know anymore?"

Semiramis blinked, and once again looked away.