"Lord Duke, let's not talk about whether we are sure of victory in the event of a war, just in terms of blood, you have to call Lord Lawrence an uncle, plus Duke Lawrence once helped you succeed to the throne after the death of the old duke. Therefore, Lord Lawrence has nothing but kindness to you, and if you want to be ungrateful, then you may first encounter moral condemnation, and even lead to other nobles crusading against you. Sebastian said calmly, as if he didn't care about the serious consequences.

"Ahem, I'm just talking about it." Alan snorted awkwardly.

Sebastian didn't think about it, and said, "Lord Duke, in fact, there is a way. There are three ways to address the current fiscal crisis. First, I heard that there is a dragon entrenched in the Rollin Mountains in the west, and if you can destroy it or get the dragon's treasure, then this financial crisis is not a problem at all. ”

"Well, interesting, let's talk about the second one."

"Second, we can raise the tax rate, and as we have calculated, as long as we raise the current tax rate by 50%, then the fiscal crisis will be solved."

"Haha, what about the third?"

"Third, we can borrow from bankers, although our credit rating is blacklisted among bankers, but if the interest rate is raised a little bit, and some real estate is taken out as collateral, there should be people willing to lend to us." Sebastian quietly put forward three suggestions, just like the legendary strategist who proposed three strategies, the clouds are light.

But Eren has the heart to kill him, is the dragon so easy to slaughter? For thousands of years, the Western Continent has only heard of dragons slaughtering cities, and has never heard of humans slaughtering dragons! also raised taxes, and Alan himself succeeded to the throne under the prying eyes of various forces, and this tax increase immediately fell into a reputation of cruelty and inhumanity, and it would not be long before someone overthrew Allen's brutal rule under the banner of doing things for heaven. As for usury, not to mention, where does the industrial mortgage come from?

Hey? Where did the industry come from?

"Lao Sai, what are you talking about?" Alan silently planned to knock him down with a punch if the old thing didn't say anything.

"Your Excellency, the family owns two mills, three wine estates, and five bakeries?"

"Mom, don't you say it earlier, Lao Sai, don't pant when you talk in the future, it will scare people to death." Alan interrupted Sebastian and was relieved to hear that the family still had so much property. But I immediately wondered, shouldn't these industries be profiteering industries in a barbaric and backward place like the Middle Ages, how could they still be so poor?

Sebastian immediately answered his question, "Lord Duke, although these estates currently belong to our family, they are not under our management. When the old duke was seriously ill, your cousin Count Andrew was regent because you were still young at the time, but in the end, Count Andrew seized the estates, which made the duchy's finances so tight. After speaking, Lao Sai sighed deeply.

"Damn dog thing! Dare to rob Lao Tzu's money!" Alan was an ordinary person before he crossed over, just graduated from college and worked hard to get such a salary, and he had a very deep concept of money, and now when he heard that someone dared to forcibly seize Allen's property, he suddenly broke out. "Lao Tzu worked hard to support such a big family business, and there are still people who give Lao Tzu a trick-or-treat, just such a salary, that's enough to spend, and now he still owes debts, and he doesn't even have the face to find a girlfriend. The old man at home is still urging hard, why don't you think about my feelings, I@#¥%amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; *!”

"Your Excellency, please calm down." Sebastian saw that Eren was going mad, and quickly interrupted Alan's thoughts.

"Old Sai, immediately help me write a letter to that Andrew, and tell him to return all the seized property immediately, and if he doesn't respond after three minutes, I'll pick it up myself." Alan gave the order.

"Lord Duke, it will take three days from our city of Isis to the city of Tulga, the city of Count Andrew."

"Then tell him that if I don't get a reply within a week, I'll go get his dog's head!!"

Dressed in delicate plate-chain composite armor with a broad-bladed knight's sword at his waist, a respectful and standard knightly salute, Viscount Guy Horsen saluted Allen and said, "Hello Lord Duke."

"Hello, Sir Guy. I'll take a look at my army and tell me about it. "Guy is the veteran general of Ouranos, who has been the chief of the guard since the time of the old duke, and later became the commander of the legion, commanding and managing the entire Essis Guard.

During Guy's explanation, Alan learned that there were currently more than 2,000 warriors in the principality, including more than 1,000 soldiers, more than 500 crossbowmen and more than 300 light cavalry, as well as more than 100 general guards.

That is to say, with those vassals of Allen, plus the general army to recruit peasant soldiers, you can also make up seven or eight thousand people, this is the full strength of Allen's Principality of Essis.

"By the way, Sir Guy, why do you keep having this word in your report, and can't you count the number of people?" Alan asked dissatisfiedly, the play of statistics in the previous life led to the accuracy of each data, and now he has to add more words to calculate everything, and Alan is not used to it.

"Lord Duke, this is because our soldiers are all compulsory soldiers, and the number of people who can be recruited changes every day, and I dare not guarantee that such an accurate number can really be recruited in wartime, so I can only say an approximate number." Guy replied.

"What? Is it still the era of compulsory military service?" Alan complained. In the Middle Ages, the compulsory military system was completely unworkable, after all, this was an era of three days and a big fight, two days and a small fight, do you need to be economical when you recruit soldiers to fight every three or five times?

"Guy, tell me about Tulga, will you?" Alan asked Guy.

"Yes, Lord Duke, the city of Tulga is located in the southwest of the Essis Domain, and it is the largest city in the Essis Duc Domain."

"Bigger than the city of Escis?" Alan asked in disbelief, a border city is actually bigger than the main city?

"Great. Because Tulka is south of the southern forest, west of the kingdom of Lorraine, and east of us, trade is very developed, it is a transportation hub, and the place where soldiers must fight. However, due to the perennial convenient transportation and prosperous trade, and the fact that there was no war for many years, Tulga was very prosperous in commerce and the city was very rich. The strength of Tulga is about 3,000 people, and if the fighters are mobilized, they should be able to recruit about 6,000 people. But they did not have many knights, most of them were infantry. After all, no matter how rich Tulgar is, it is only an earldom. Guy responded carefully to Alan's question.

"Then you say that if we go to war with Tulga, we will have a chance of winning?" Alan asked softly.

"Your Excellency intends to go to war with Earl Andrew?" Guy asked, giving Alan a deep look.

"Haha, I'm just asking, don't you think a sixteen-year-old young boy like me likes this kind of fighting and killing the most." Alan laughed.

"It turns out that the adults are just joking, if we go to war with Tulga, the victory is between five and five. Although the number of Turka knights was small, the soldiers were well-armoured and well-armed, and they were well supplied for a protracted war. However, they have not fought for many years, and the soldiers are negligent in training, if they can catch the flaws of the other side, they can be defeated in one battle!" Guy is worthy of being an experienced veteran, and slowly explained the weaknesses and strengths of the two sides to Allen sentence by sentence.

After listening to Guy's explanation, Alan suddenly had a feeling of being sudden, Alan used to like history, liked to play wargames and other games, and liked to read all kinds of discussion posts on the Internet, although he was familiar with all kinds of things in battle, but after all, he had never actually operated it. Now after such an analysis of all aspects of Guy, it seems that the martial arts master who has opened up the second vein of Ren Du is rising, and he has the feeling that the heroes of the world can fight.

Taking advantage of this good atmosphere, Allen asked Guy, "General Guy, what do you think we should do if we change the compulsory military system to a conscription system?"