Chapter 942: War and Peace (II.)
"Dragon City has developed from a barren land to a magnificent and majestic scene today, and it has poured more than half a century of hard work into our dragon blood clan. Pen "Fun" The Pavilion www.biquge.info us who have accumulated wealth in the wars of the north and south, exchanged mountains of gold and silver for steel and masonry, hired laborers and craftsmen to build cities from scratch to brick and tile, we have worked tirelessly to dig frozen soil with our own hands, built canals and blessed spells, and led clear springs from the top of glaciers to every household through carefully laid pipes, so that people can have clean water to wash and drink at any time as long as they unscrew the brass faucet; we planned the streets, built houses, and built a bustling bazaar and a majestic temple of Tiamat on the desolate plateau; we built this splendid palace for His Majesty the Dragon King, built twelve squares for the residents of Dragon City for assembly and trading; schools and youth barracks for children, green parks and tree-lined benches for couples to fall in love with each other; A lake for the elderly to fish and a trail for lakeside walks; free church hospitals and sanatoriums for those suffering from sickness; Home delivery for women who endure the pain of childbirth, and food subsidies for every newborn baby in every family; In order to defend all of these achievements, we have spent a lot of money to create the Legendary Lock...... There are many, many more, bits and pieces that make up our lives. ”
Andrea's eyes were a little moist, she lowered her head and wiped the corners of her eyes, calmed down, and continued:
"It is our painstaking efforts and dedication to make the lives of our fellow citizens better, and after half a century we have finally built this city into what it is today, look at the smooth and clean streets, look at the well-stocked shops, look at the fields and pastures that provide us with food in the distance, look at the woods and mines that create wealth for us, we dragon-blooded people are not as ingenious as humans, nor are we gifted with mining and wrought iron like the Kitlanders, But we have been working hard to overcome our natural weaknesses, to learn and borrow from the strengths of other races in various ways, and to apply the results of these learnings to the construction of our cities...... Of course, for this there is also the need to do less glamorous work, such as the conquest and enslavement of other peoples, forcing them to work for us, paying taxes to maintain the army and the city, but for whom? ”
"For our compatriots, for our homeland." Yakov sighed softly, "In a harsh and resource-poor place like the Northland, where people have to reach out to their neighbors if they want to live a good life, I have never repented of the robbery and enslavement of the Kitlanders or any other people, just as I will not be wronged by the revenge of the Kitlanders now, either life or death, this is the reality we must face." ”
"Life or death, this is the path we have chosen, but Roland has chosen another path, one that has not been discovered at all in our field of vision." Andrea sighed faintly.
"What the hell do you want to say, can you just do it!" Jabella said impatiently.
"What I want to say is why Roland sent me this drawing," Andrea picked up the sketch on the table, "There is such a perfect plan to destroy Dragon City, why don't Roland and them take action immediately?" Because what they want is not a ruin buried under the ice and snow, but an intact dragon city. ”
Glancing over the shocked Yakov, Racine, and Jabela, Andrea smiled bitterly and continued, "What do you think the Kolas father and son are going north for? To raise the banner of Pero or Sindra to fight heresy, to uphold justice, to punish evil and promote good, to open up territory for the Holy Assanian Empire, or simply to fight for the Kidlanders? No, the above reasons are all excuses, their real purpose is to conquer the land and grab wealth! A dragon city buried by a glacier is worthless, and the streets, shops, factories, windmills, mills, farms, and most of the inhabitants are completely handed over to them means a great fortune, a steady stream of taxes and domination over the surrounding mines, forest farms, cemeteries, estates, rivers, docks, and orchards! Don't you understand? Only the complete takeover of Dragon City Koras and his sons can obtain enough income from this expedition to the north to make up for the huge military expenditure, and only with the wealth plundered in the war as lubrication, can the wheels of war under the banner of the goddess of fate continue to roll forward smoothly, rolling bigger and bigger, accumulating enough strength to crush the next 'dragon's eye', crush all the warlords and warlords who are not subservient, until they sweep the entire Far East, ascend to the throne, and establish a new dynasty worthy of the Holy Assanian Empire! ”
Andrea calmed down her excitement for a moment, and continued: "Actually, from another point of view, there is at least one advantage to the Kolas father and son taking over Dragon City, they will not kill civilians indiscriminately, after all, the city needs people to maintain it, and without enough hard-working people, it will not be able to produce a steady stream of wealth, and even the most magnificent city will quickly fall." ”
Jabella exchanged glances with Yakov and Rahim, and took Andrea's last optimistic forecast with reservations. It is true that the Koras father and son will not use the butcher's knife against the Dragonvein clan, after all, Andrea has a personal relationship with Roland, and as she said, the Koras father and son need the Dragonweaver clan to maintain their work and create wealth, but the half-dragon clan is different from the half-dragon clan who are only a minority in Dragon City, the proud half-dragon nobles will never engage in those lowly occupations, let alone sell their labor force to earn a living, they do not produce wealth but only possess and enjoy it, which is the inherent privilege given to them by blood.
Now that Dragon City is about to change the dynasty, how will the upstarts led by Koras and his son treat the old nobles who are not producing? If you put yourself in their shoes, they will definitely expelle and even hunt down the half-dragon nobles, deprive them of their wealth and land, and maybe even take a small part of it and distribute it to the dragon vein clan to buy people's hearts.
With this in mind, the three Yakovs were determined not to leave the Half-Dragons in the city, causing their relatives and friends to fall into the clutches of the Koras father and son.
Andrea saw what they were doing in their stomachs, sighed happily, got up and said, "I've said everything I want to say, how to choose you to make a decision as soon as possible, the evening prayer time is almost up, I won't accompany you for now." ”