"The purpose of diplomacy is to make two countries come to some kind of agreement under certain behavior, in peace, and decide whether war is peace or alliance, and this relationship is usually negotiated!" ”

William nodded, and what Canonon said was about the same as he thought, and motioned for Canonon to continue.

And Canonon saw that William seemed to be more satisfied with what he said, so he relieved his heart, and then continued: "And the basis of diplomacy, in my opinion, is of course the strength of the country, a weak country has no diplomacy, if the country is weak, no country will conduct equal diplomacy with you, diplomacy relies on the strength of the country!" ”

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, although your country has just been established, there is no doubt that you rule a powerful country, and it will be much easier for me to serve you!"

Kanon was obviously a smart and clever man, and although William knew he was making sycophants, he still couldn't help but feel a little complacent.

William nodded and said: "Very good, I am very satisfied with the great answer, you will be in charge of the diplomatic affairs of the Lorik Kingdom, I just need you to remember one purpose, what our Lorik Kingdom wants is neither humble nor arrogant, we cannot grovel to any country, and we cannot do anything that damages the majesty of our country!" ”

William said this solemnly, he is very interested in the dignity of the country, of course, this is all in the case of the country's strength, if the country's strength is not strong, arrogant diplomacy will even bring disaster to the country.

However, other countries do not attach much importance to diplomacy, and even when they send missions, they are selected from among the courtiers, not professional diplomats.

Speaking of which, William is a relatively early country to set up diplomats.

After testing Carnon's talents, William let him out, he had other things to attend to.

According to Vidal's report, there are many outlaws in the territory of the Kingdom of Lorik, and a large number of bandits and robbers are entrenched in the mountains and woods.

Their plundering of the merchants constrained the commercial development of the Kingdom of Lorik, but in fact, it really began to attract William's attention because these robbers actually took the wife of one of William's barons.

This incident made William very angry, the current Lorik Kingdom is different from the original Tskema Kingdom and other countries, the Lorik Kingdom because of the war, coupled with William's exile, the random nobles are far less than other countries, what happened to a baron is enough to bring William's attention.

If this had been placed in the kingdom of Astra, King Leonac would not even have known about it.

Because of this matter, William began to pay attention to this matter, and after two days of investigation, the dark dagger of Tus quickly presented William with their investigation report.

In the entire Lorik Kingdom, spanning 800 kilometers from north to south and 700 kilometers from east to west, almost equivalent to more than two provinces in the Celestial Empire, there are more than 200 bandits and robbers.

Among them, there are large and small, small ones are only a few dozen people, and the large group can reach a staggering more than 800 people.

It was only at this time that William began to notice the dangers of these robbers to the country, and he wondered why so many merchants had come to the kingdom of Lorik at the beginning, but now their growth has slowed down.

It turned out that it was because of these robbers, and William now knew that within three months there had been seventy-two large-scale incidents, and even more small-scale plunder.

The amount involved in the case has reached more than four million silver coins, you know, the current kingdom of Lorik has just been established, even if you count the income of Denlenburg and Isamdenburg, and William's own estate, it is only six million silver coins a year.

That's it, counting his own private property and the taxes of Denlenburg, that is to say, a place as large as the Kingdom of Tskema can only collect more than two million silver coins in taxes every year.

According to rumors, the Rodland Empire received 12 million silver coins last year, which is twice the size of the Kingdom of Lorik.

Their utilization of the land can only be said to be good, and the Kingdom of Tskema was similar to the Empire of Rhodeland before this war that affected the entire territory.

However, after all, the territory of the Rodland Empire is too large, and the Bloody Emperor has also integrated the strength of the entire country, and the taxes of the nobles and the income of the church are all in the pocket, which is much stronger.

The Kingdom of Lorik has just been unified, and the war has consumed too much national strength, so at least for a while, it will definitely not be able to surpass the Rhodeland Empire.

Soon, William sent Norwen, Delcess, and Urimu, as well as Lolitsa, to lead a town of soldiers, a wing of Iron Cross Knights, and a brigade of archers and crossbowmen, to encircle and suppress the outlaws in three directions.

The three-way army marched out of the confines of Denlenburg and rushed to the area for which they were responsible.

William wasn't worried at all about whether they would fail, those outlaws were just a rabble, not even a piece of armor, no, not even a qualified weapon capable of fighting.

If it weren't for the internal strife in the Kingdom of Tskema, the nobles would not have had time to take care of these security problems, and these robbers would not have had a place to survive.

There is no need to worry about whether they can be exterminated, the only uncertainty is the time to exterminate them.

Norwen is in charge of the bandits in the north of the kingdom, and most of the bandits there are relatively large bandit groups, so it is more difficult to suppress.

As Norwin walked along the road, the spring breeze was very kind, and they soon went out of the cobblestone road of Denlenburg, where the peasants from all over the kingdom were sowing seeds, and most of them using heavy ploughs designed by William, as well as oxen brought from the two counties of the steppe.

So they cultivated very quickly, and quite a few farmers had already finished cultivating the land and continued to cultivate the land according to William's orders.

Although their lives have not improved very quickly, it is certain that next year will be much better than this year.

William had already promised that they would pay only 10% of the tax in the first year, which was much lower than the previous tax rate of at least 70% or 50% or 50%, and of course, after a year they would have to pay 30% of the tax as in the original Denlenburg area.

However, after the work of William's propaganda department, they also knew what life the residents of Denlenburg lived, and William, the new king, was also very famous among the people at the bottom, so everyone was convinced.

They were full of enthusiasm to cultivate the land that would bring them more income in the future, and the children were also energetic and cheering when they saw the troops passing by with the Iron Cross flag of Phnom Penh.

In the effective minds of children, these tall and imposing soldiers are the most worthy of admiration.