The war in the northern part of the island was finally over, and Edo Castle recovered a lot after entering April, and although it was still in decline and depression, and there were still many people living in exile, there was still some joy. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After all, with the fall of the Sendai rebels, the fighting has largely moved away from the city.

If the bastards in the south want to approach this side, they need to face a large number of newly converted officers and soldiers, and the mercenary group led by Alexander is constantly fighting against them, and they will definitely win in the near future.

Seeing the recent successive victories and the collapse of the enemy army, under this great situation, the ruling court of the Jiufeng Emperor also hoped to suspend military operations for a while, in order to develop steadily for a while.

This coincides with Lorraine, and when he came to Dongying, he almost didn't stop the pace of war, just to let the Eastern Army rest for a while, and by the way, analyze the intelligence brought back by the caravan some time ago.

As mentioned earlier, the civil trade routes between Brittania and Dongying have been opened, and many caravans have traveled between the two countries, as well as to the farther east.

They brought back not only a variety of special products, but also a large amount of rice, cloth, non-staple foodstuffs, and saltpeter for gunpowder, which were purchased in large quantities by the Edo government for reconstruction after the disaster.

After consulting with Lorraine and the leaders of the civil caravans, Emperor Jiuho took out a large amount of treasure obtained from the recent raid of his house, and purchased a large amount of materials to appease the hearts of the people in the city, and by the way, he also hoped that the people could have a good holiday.

This is a new festival that has just been announced by the Edo government: the Spring Festival!

Although the days of rice planting are long gone, people still celebrate this new festival with songs and dances, after all, the government has given a generous gift to every Edo resident.

With the official household registration booklet, each man and woman of all ages was given five catties of rice, two taels of jaber, two catties of kelp, one liter of soy sauce and vinegar, and one small bottle of rice wine.

In addition, many wandering artists were hired to perform in Edo, and after the atmosphere of celebration lasted all day, at 7:30 p.m. on the same day, they also paid for the Far East Floating Fleet to launch a fireworks salute, so that everyone could celebrate the end of the war and the end of the world.

Even the refugees who fled to Edo Castle to escape the scourge of war enjoyed the blessings of the imperial court - although the refugees did not receive benefits, they were still able to eat a full meal in the government on a household basis, a bowl of rice porridge, two rice balls, and a salted fish, which was enough for them to be grateful to Dade.

After the festival, the refugees will be reorganized into a wasteland reclamation group by the government, and they will go to the suburbs to reclaim rice fields on the abandoned land, which will take at least three years to solve the famine in Dongying.

However, in such a festival, while Lorraine enjoyed a rare holiday, he discussed the intelligence of the Silk Continent with several high-ranking officers.

As the most vast land in the East, it has the largest number of people, and the inexhaustible supplies and treasures are coveted by all.

Sitting on so many treasures will naturally be remembered, but Song Guo, the overlord of the contemporary Silk Continent, has been firmly in the number one position in the East for one hundred and fifty years, and whoever comes to disturb this giant dragon must be prepared to be killed.

It's just that in the past 30 years, this oriental dragon has not had a good time at all, and various internal corruption and fraud cases have made the people's lives miserable, and externally they have to face the strong challenge of the newly rising steppe empire Batu.

Internal and external troubles are added together, and I don't know how to describe the sour feeling.

"Sounds like the Eastern Empire on the other side isn't doing well, right?"

"It's not just bad, it's terrible! While we were still desperate in Kolsalan, the Songguo people lost the most crucial battle by their mother river, and buried more than half of the land north of the river to the Batu people at one time, which is unbelievable! ”

"Their national strength is not so bad...... Even if St. Orlando becomes what it is now, it can still put together a lot of troops to fight against the Norman Empire, can't the people of Song Guoguo do it? ”

"Perhaps...... Don't forget the mercenaries outside Osaka, a thousand-man rifle team can defeat them with the support of the large number of Toei militia, you must know that those idiots have an artillery advantage, and there are many Tokugawa Ieyasu's infantry in front of them to help block the guns! ”

"That seems to be the case, Chief Lorraine, are we going to go to Songguo next?"

"There's no rush yet." Lorraine shook his head, there are still so many messes in Dongying that have not been cleaned up, and now he will run to the other side to take risks, maybe it will be a mud bodhisattva crossing the river - it will be difficult to protect himself.

"The first thing we need to do is to gather intelligence and prepare the Eastern Army, it is almost impossible to replicate the achievements of Dongying in Songguo, if you want more, then be prepared."

Everyone laughed when they heard this, the reason why these restless guys didn't want to be the regular army in the country was that they were tempted by the desire to fight, hoping to keep fighting more, and it would be better if they could fill their wallets by the way.

It is really because of the invincibility of Lorraine and the Eastern Army and the huge rate of return that it is said that a great tide has been set off in the New World, and there are constantly regular army soldiers who want to head the ranks of the Eastern Army, hoping to be fortunate enough to be prosperous in the East.

More civilians are vying to join the army to advance Brittana's defense, and at the same time hope to have the opportunity to travel to the East and conquer the world with the legendary army generals.

Lorraine really didn't expect that he would have a day to be called a legend, although he was not very good at his own strength, and the few results he had were not convincing enough.

However, he was extremely fortunate that he had never failed in the battles he presided over, and he had never been completely defeated by the enemy head-on, which was really lucky!

"Then Your Excellency Lorraine, let's stop for the time being when discussing intelligence or something, the Dongying people are still waiting outside for us to attend the ceremony."

"Hey, what the hell is the ceremony, why don't you go and drink flower wine with the monster sisters of the military band...... Let's go, let's go, if they wait too long, maybe something strange will happen. ”

When the senior officers of the Eastern Army appeared in front of Emperor Jiufeng, more than one Dongying government official breathed a sigh of relief, and their whole body relaxed.

Jiufeng naturally knew that this was not a normal performance, but the country was plagued to the way it is now, in order to make life better for himself and the people, of course, he had to accompany these foreign bigwigs with a smile.

If these bigwigs can be satisfied with smiles and compliments, the Dongying government's reconstruction loan interest rate may have some chances, which is the only reliable way for the Jiufeng government to make up for the fiscal deficit in the short term.