"The minister must live up to his mission." Taylor nodded heavily, he had made up his mind to do a good job in the three northern counties, not only for his personal future, but also to repay the old king Frederick VII for his kindness, because just yesterday, the old king Frederick VII had agreed to his request and handed over the fourth legion of the Central Army to him to command, which is the elite of more than 15,000 people, if he doesn't do it well, what face will he have to come back to see the king?

After bidding farewell to the king, Taylor returned to the army, looking at the fifteen thousand elites, as well as the civil servants and their families in his retinue, they were full of spirit, these people were all people who wanted to follow him to the north to create a career, he waved his hand and shouted: "Go! ”

After the sound of a trumpet, the huge force began to set off in an orderly manner, and those who came to see them off shouted various slogans to see them off.

Among the crowd of farewells, there was a person, wearing a blue long dress, dressed extremely beautifully, and her mature and dignified charm was set off at a glance, it was the second prince and concubine Eva, Eva almost stood on tiptoe, stretching her neck to look at something. She wanted to take another look, so that she wanted to die that night, but unfortunately there were too many teams, and she never saw anyone.

Seeing the team go farther and farther, Eva's heart couldn't help but be a little disappointed, and finally turned into a complete eagerness, suddenly, she remembered what Clifford had said that night, and the corners of her mouth unconsciously hooked a curvature, and said in her heart: Little one, I want to see how strong you can become.

On the way, Taylor recruited Clifford into his carriage, the situation of the three northern counties was too complicated, it belonged to the prominent part of the kingdom, the Rhine kingdom's western neighbor Frankfurt Kingdom and the eastern neighbor of the Kingdom of Prussia both coveted that vast land, and once fought for that place, and the Rhine Kingdom was in turmoil at that time, and had no time to take care of it, so they acquiesced in their actions.

The war between these two countries brought great disasters to the inhabitants of the three northern counties, and the ruling order of the Rhine Kingdom in the local area was shattered, and the power of the government failed in many places, which made some unstable elements and the rout of the Rhine Kingdom take the opportunity to stir up trouble, they robbed their homes and houses, did all kinds of evil, and became bandits, causing trouble to the place, and even causing that if that place had not been robbed by bandits, it would be simply embarrassing to greet people.

In addition, some local wealthy families initially set up armed forces at their own expense to fight the bandits, and later some people took advantage of the opportunity to become big and began to defy the authority of the government.

In the end, although the Kingdom of Frankfurt and the Kingdom of Prussia ended in a tie in the competition for the three counties in the north, neither of them gave up on the territory of these three counties, and they both left a lot of power in the local area, each occupying some of the territory of the three counties as a base, and also supporting local bandits and wealthy clans to help them fight for power.

Taylor recruited Clifford into the carriage in order to ask him, where should such a complicated situation and a myriad of tasks begin? After seeing Coolford walk into the carriage, he said lightly: "Coolford, we are about to go to the three counties in the north, what do you have to do about the situation there?" Say it now. ”

At this time, he couldn't hide it, anyway, Taylor couldn't throw him down halfway, Clifford straightened his clothes, bowed to Taylor, and said respectfully: "Thank you for the teacher's attention, then the student will say some of his simple opinions." The students think that our biggest enemies in the north are not those bandits and wealthy clans, these clowns can be suppressed by virtue of our army of fifteen thousand, and our biggest enemies are those two neighboring countries, their strength is stronger than our Rhine Kingdom, and they always covet my territory, and we can't get around them if we want to gain a foothold there and achieve long-term development. ”

Taylor nodded slightly, looked at Clifford with a hint of approval, and smiled: "You think the same as I think, but the question is, what should we do with those two countries?" They are all stronger than us, and none of them are fuel-efficient lamps. ”

Cleifer smiled slightly, and said confidently: "Those who do not seek the overall situation are not enough to seek a domain." Those two countries were very strong, but I had heard that there was an even more powerful empire to the east of the Kingdom of Prussia, separated only by a strait. To the west of Frankfurt, across the sea from him were several powerful states, and with the containment of these countries, it was impossible for them to use all their strength in the three northern counties, only a small part. Although our overall strength is not as good as these two countries, the old king Frederick VII has made up his mind to develop the three northern counties this time, and our strength is quite strong, so in the local area, our strength is not much weaker than theirs. ”

"Of course, our country's national strength is now weak, and there is no way to stop these two countries from developing the northern border, but they can't stop our development of the northern border either. They send one to the north, and we will send two, and they will put two here, and they will put two here. All in all, they took one step in the three northern counties, and we took two steps. When our strength here is full, we will no longer be afraid of them. ”

"Therefore, our strategy in the three northern counties is to focus on economic construction and continuously increase our civil and financial resources, after these two points increase significantly, we will have more resources to recruit troops and build newer equipment, so that our strength in the three northern counties will gradually be in an advantageous position. Complete the task given to us by the old king. ”

"That's a good point, Clifford!" The old fox Taylor couldn't help but praise the knot, Cliffor's words were like seeing the clouds and the sun, so that he could see the dawn in the chaos and complexity, find a place to exert his strength, know what to do in the future, look at Clifford's eyes a few more times, only hate that his daughter is already married, otherwise he will definitely recruit him as a son-in-law.

After Taylor had a strategy in his heart, he was in a great mood, his body was a little floating, he looked at Clifford and smiled: "Cliffor, then what should we do first?" ”

"It's time to crack down on bandits!" Collifer didn't even think about it, and said categorically.

"Why?" Taylor looked confused at this moment, didn't you kid just say that you want to focus on economic construction? Why are you going to suppress bandits all of a sudden? Said with a look of surprise.