"Chapter 38: Internal Negotiations: Part II"
Man and behavior are two different things, a good act is to be praised, and a bad act is to be condemned, and the person who commits such an act, whether he is good or bad, is always respected or pitied for the good or bad of his act.
- Mahatma Gandhi (the founding father of modern India, India's greatest political leader, founder of Gandhiism)
The only province of Nice among the six eastern provinces that has not been devastated by the war has been in the hands of the Nice family for hundreds of years, which cannot be changed by Bai Feng and Prince Pross, and among the remaining five provinces, the province with the best recovery is undoubtedly the province of Brojansson.
The province of Brosiansund, which was not blessed with a unique geographical location, became extremely important after the Sunset Fortress was occupied by the orc army, and the provinces of Montaine, Lyon, and Toulon, which were closer to the Sunset Fortress, were almost reduced to the front line.
Judging from the distance from Sunset Fortress alone, the provinces of Brojansson and Grenoble can be counted as the rear, while the three provinces of Montaine are the undoubted front line, so the division of garrisons proposed by Prince Pross is not fair.
In view of this, Bai Feng did not immediately agree to the division plan of the Prince of Pros, but said on a case-by-case basis: "Your Highness, if you divide it like this, the heavy responsibility of resisting the orc army will all be on my army, which is unfair. ”
"Bai Feng, it's not that I'm unfair, it's that you're arrogant!" Hearing this, Prince Pros smiled bitterly and said: "With the ability of your Yulin God of War, plus the three provinces of Mengdan, Leon, and Toulon as garrisons, I believe you will definitely be able to withstand the attack of the orc army!"
"Your Highness, dealing with the orc army is not as simple as you think. Bai Feng, who still remembered the last fiasco, said with a look of nostalgia on his face: "The orc warriors who rushed up to kill all over the world are not at all something that the flesh and blood of the imperial soldiers can stop. ”
"That's right. "As the prince of the empire, Prince GLP still knows the inside story of Bai Feng's army to recover the eastern provinces, unlike the blindly confident people of the empire, he knows how Bai Feng recovered the eastern provinces, and he knows how much the empire sacrificed in the Sunset Fortress.
Prince Pross, who frowned slightly, after thinking for a while, made a new suggestion to Bai Feng: "Otherwise, we will keep the division of the garrison unchanged, and I will transfer the six legions of your old department to your command to enhance the strength of the garrison, what do you think?"
Facing the Prince of Pros's sincere eyes, if Bai Feng hadn't learned about Prince Pros's thoughts from the secret guard, maybe he really believed the nonsense of Prince Pros, I'm afraid Prince Pros himself didn't know, Bai Feng would have already known his bottom line.
"Your Highness, since you said that you want to be honest with me, why do you have to hide it so much?" Bai Feng, who pretended to be helpless, deliberately sighed and said: "You and I both understand that it is a matter of course for me to return to my command for the six legions I left in the east. ”
"If you're using this as a bargaining chip, can I understand that you don't trust me, or are you willing to base our honesty on the basis of an exchange of interests rather than a deep brotherhood?"
If there is no exchange of interests, why should you, a mere son of a nobleman, be on an equal footing with me, a noble prince? Prince GLP, who almost didn't open his mouth to curse in his heart, had to hold back the resentment in his heart in order to maintain the atmosphere he had painstakingly created today.
"Brother Bai Feng, what you said. Prince GLP, who deliberately disguised himself as angry, immediately played the emotional card and said: "The deep friendship between you and my brother is not comparable to the interests of each other? Treating my brother frankly is the consistent principle of my GLP!"
"Your Highness......"
"What is your Royal Highness, between you and me, if you Bai Feng can afford me, call me Brother GLP!"
Knowing that the other party wanted to die immediately, it was really not an easy thing to watch the other party's hypocrisy and wrongful performance; Bai Feng, whose heart was like a mirror, said with the same hypocrisy on his lips: "This ...... Brother Pross, I actually have two good suggestions. ”
"Oh, what do you think, brother, let me hear it?" Prince Pross then made a deferential look.
"In my junior brother's opinion, the number of troops we have in the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is definitely not enough to prevent a large-scale attack by the orc army, so before we carry out the specific division of the garrison, we must first agree on a practical plan for expanding the army. ”
"After that, while we are implementing the army expansion plan step by step, we are trying to improve the combat effectiveness of the garrisons in the provinces, so as to improve the overall strength of our Eastern Metropolitan Governorship, so that if the orc army really attacks us, we will have the strength to resist. ”
"The plan for the expansion of the army can be formulated according to the actual situation of each province after we have discussed the specific division of the garrison. Prince Pros, who had a smile on his face, said with curiosity: "I still want to hear what good advice you have from the Yulin God of War." ”
In the current situation where it is difficult to achieve fairness in the division between garrisons and provinces, I think there are two ways to move closer to fairness: first, increase the army, and second, increase the number of provinces. ”
"Increase the army, increase the province?" Prince Pros, who frowned slightly, rolled his eyes lightly and said, "You tell me more specifically." ”
"The so-called increase in the army means that I hope that my brother can put the Erik Overseer sent by the military headquarters and the sixty-fifth, sixty-seventh, and eighty-sixth legions under his command under my command, and as long as I have enough troops, I will naturally have the confidence to resist the invasion of the orc army. ”
"The so-called increase in the province means that if you are not willing to put Overseer Eric and his three legions under my command, then the province of Grenoble, which is barely counted as the rear, will be stationed in our troops, so that I can also establish a buffer zone of engagement on the front line. ”
"Will Overseer Eric and his three legions be placed under your command?" the Prince of Pros, who had said this, began to ponder, and hearing the low voice of the Prince of Pross, Bai Feng knew that he had rejected the proposal to assign the province of Grenoble to him.
Sure enough, after about a minute of careful consideration, Prince Pros, who was sitting in a precarious position, asked Bai Feng solemnly: "Brother Bai Feng, if I hand over General Eric and his army to you, can you promise me three conditions?"
Did you finally begin to show your true colors? Didn't you return the brotherly affection just now and don't talk about interests? Bai Feng, who sneered in his heart, made a categorical promise on the surface: "Don't say three conditions, it's thirty conditions; as long as I can do it, I will do my best for my brother!"
"Okay!" Prince Pros, who couldn't tell whether it was true or false, said with excitement on his face: "Brother is like this, life is like a request!"
"Brother, my three conditions are not difficult: first, I want you to help me form three Eastern Legions, second, I want to order 100,000 sets of new weapons and equipment from your army, and finally, I want to borrow 50 million gold coins from you. ”
"My brother is willing to give me even the Inspector of Eric and his army, just 100,000 sets of weapons and equipment and 50 million gold coins, I will give them to my brother! As for the three Eastern Legions, as long as my brother recruits soldiers, my brother's business is my business!"