Although this is a game world, everyone here is real, they are flesh-and-blood living beings, they have names, surnames and feelings, not pure NPCs with a blood bar on their heads that will only go around with a basic IQ of zero, people here have to eat, drink and Lazar, and the emperor here also has the personal ambition to sweep the eight wildernesses, in order to achieve this purpose, they can turn the clouds and rain with one word, can turn countless prosperity into barren hills, and can make the world full of corpses, blood and white bones.

The emperor is the supreme existence of the empire, all people are his subjects, they are his pawns, they can take what they want, they can take it for life and death, or even just an inconsequential nonsense that is inadvertently said, can easily decide the fate of a person or even an entire country.

The choice of the emperor is the will of the whole country, but it is obvious that the little emperor of the Byron Empire did not choose peace!

Regardless of whether the gossip that spread out of nowhere was true or not, almost everyone knew that the little emperor had no good intentions towards the Bauhinia Empire.

Like the horse thieves who come and go like the wind in the sea of death.

The Sea of Death, a desert surrounded by the breath of death, but in this barren land, there are more than a dozen organized horse thieves of all sizes active in it, they are cruel and ferocious, they make a living by robbing houses, and almost every once in a while they will sneak over to harass the borders of the Bauhinia Empire.

Defend?

It's hard to prevent.

Although the Northwest Army of Count McNus was stationed on the border, with three legions, the vast majority of the forces were concentrated in Camel Fort - the central point along the entire Sea of Death, and the shortest straight-line distance from the Byronic Empire, once the war began. The Camel Fort would then become a fortress for soldiers, the strongest barrier against the Byronic Empire's scimitar cavalry from moving south.

Because of this, two of the three corps of the Northwest Army were stationed here, and only one corps was dispersed to defend along the line.

The strength of a legion is a full 3,000 men, which may sound like a lot, but excluding civilian officers, logistical support, and some wounded and sick, the strength that can really be put into battle is only a little more than 2,000. And relying only on these 2,000 soldiers to defend the long line of the Sea of Death is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket, and it is not enough to defend the east and the west.

At most, it plays the role of an alarm.

This trick is okay against the large forces of the Byron Empire. But it is used to deal with those horse thieves who come and go like the wind and rob the dragon without seeing the tail, but it is really a little powerless. Those horse thieves were small troops. A maximum of a dozen or twenty people. Each person has a fast horse, no matter how good he can fight, he never entangles.

They are highly mobile, pick the kind of weakly guarded places, come and go in a hurry, and by the time the large army gets the news to come to support, they have already grabbed their things and retreated.

The horse thief ran in front of him. The Northwest Army followed behind the ass and ate ashes, and the situation was basically the same every time.

For a long time, the Northwest Army was very powerless in dealing with horse thieves. If there are fewer people to be sent, they can't be beaten, but there are more people to be sent, and the horse thief will completely disappear without a trace as soon as he hides in the sea of death, wasting time and energy in vain, but he can't even find a single horse thief's hair.

Earl McNus was also troubled by this situation, and he had to tell the residents in the vicinity to take strict precautions for their own battles, and if they couldn't do it, they should move away from the border, and farther away, the farther the better......

But recently, I don't know if Count McNus had a shit luck or the leader of those horse thieves was dizzy, but he actually happened to block several groups of horse thieves who came to rob several times in succession. Not to mention the long-lost victory, the key is that he also caught a few live ones for the first time.

Interrogate!

Be sure to interrogate well!

Even if these horse thieves have iron teeth and copper teeth, pry their mouths open!

Under the torture to extract confessions, several horse thieves couldn't bear it, and told the truth, whether it was the location of the nest they relied on to hide or the specific course of action, they all said, and the most shocking thing for Count McNus was that these horse thieves were actually sponsored by the little emperor of the Byron Empire!

Lack of money for money, lack of horses for horses, lack of weapons for weapons, and even, the little emperor sent a military instructor to conduct professional military training for those horse thieves!

And the task of the horse thief is very simple, that is, to harass the border line of the Bauhinia Empire as much as possible, making people panic so much that they can't even sleep at night, the more trouble, the better!

It is better to make all the inhabitants of the border move, and then stretch the already fragile supply line of the Northwest Army as much as possible.

The more Count McNus listened, the more angry he became, and if he hadn't wanted to get more information from them, he would have ordered these horse thieves to be cut down long ago. That night, Count McNus wrote a letter detailing what had happened here, and prepared to send it to the imperial capital early the next morning to be handed over to His Majesty Charles XVI.

If it was just a simple horse thief, but now that the matter involves the Byron Empire, although Count McNus is the supreme commander of the Northwest Army, he does not dare to make his own decisions.

Diplomacy is a very troublesome and trivial matter, really.

However, the next day, before the letter could be sent away by Count McNuss, he received a letter from the Byron Empire.

It's a very ordinary envelope, but it has a signature that makes Count McNuss shudder: His Majesty the Emperor of the Byron Empire: Voran

The little emperor who had just ascended the throne for less than a year.

The letter was addressed to Count McNuss, and the wording on it was very polite, but when Count McNus read the letter, he almost crooked his nose in anger.

There are four main points.

First, the two countries are friendly neighbors, although there have been some misunderstandings in the past, but after all, it is all in the past, there is no need to mention it, when there is an opportunity, His Majesty Voran of the Byron Empire will personally go to the Bauhinia Empire to meet His Majesty Emperor Charles XVI, and the two emperors will sit together and shake hands and say goodbye, so as to truly realize the permanent peace between the two countries.

Second, in line with the principle of mutual benefit between the two sides, it is hoped that the Bauhinia Empire can open up the six cities on the border as a platform and market for transactions. The Bauhinia Empire has a wide variety of goods, including a wide variety of ironware, farm tools, cloth, gouache for women...... And so on and so forth, and so on, and so on, these are all needed by the Byronic Empire, but they are relatively scarce. Correspondingly, the Byron Empire also has gold and silver mines and herbs that the Bauhinia Empire needs. Leather, cattle, sheep and horses, and some beautiful handicrafts with exotic styles, if the market can be opened, then it will be of great benefit to both parties.

Third. His Majesty Voran of the Byron Empire is now fourteen years old, according to tradition. I'm already an adult. As the so-called male should marry and female should marry, His Majesty Wolan has not been married until now, I heard that His Majesty Charles XVI of the Bauhinia Empire has a beautiful little daughter named Haniles, who is fifteen years old this year, which is exactly the same age as His Majesty Wolan. His Majesty Wolan, with a very sincere heart, beseeched that His Majesty Emperor Charles XVI would grant him the marriage of Princess Haniles as his wife.

Fourth, the Byronic Empire was located in the northwest. His Majesty Wolan hopes that the Bauhinia Empire can support the economic construction of the Byron Empire and improve the unspeakable poverty of the people on the basis of the fact that the two sides are friendly neighbors, as for the specific number, it does not need too much, 150,000 gold coins a year, 2,000 quintals of various seeds, 250,000 carts of grain, and 1,000 pieces of cloth......

If he hadn't had to send the letter to the imperial capital to show it to His Majesty the Emperor, Count McNus would have tore it up at that time.

It's so shameless, it's a shame that you can say it.

Every year 150,000 gold coins, 2,000 quintals of seeds, 250,000 carts of grain, and 1,000 horses of cloth...... That's not a lot of TMD, so how much is a lot?

Shameless! Bandit!

Earl McNuss dropped the glass of water in his hand. Crazy, almost hysterical, shouted: "Go, go and cut down all those damned horse thieves, don't leave any of them, don't leave any of them, and when you're done, throw all their corpses into the sand to feed the bugs, go, go and ......"

A few unlucky horse thieves could have lived a few more days, but as soon as this letter came, they immediately became miserable Count McNuss punching bag, and in a short time, several horse thieves had their heads cut off.

By this time, Count McNuss's mood had gradually calmed down.

Sitting at the table, with the letter in hand, Count McNuss thought thoughtfully.

He was thinking about the things the letter said.

First, access. Second, mutual markets. Third, marriage. Fourth, seek financial assistance.

It seems that the first three are still decent, and the requirements are not too excessive, but this fourth ...... This is simply a lion's big mouth, and it is simply slandering!

Count McNuss smashed the cup excitedly just now because of this fourth article.

150,000 gold coins, how much is the financial income of the entire Bauhinia Empire in a year? It's just more than 500,000 gold coins, and his mouth is nearly one-third, and he gave them all the money, so we can't get by ourselves? And the 250,000 carts of grain...... TMD, as soon as he saw this number, Count McNus couldn't help but want to scold his mother.

To transport 250,000 carts of grain, you need at least 250,000 horses, 250,000 carts and 250,000 coachmen, right? It's a long way from the Bauhinia Empire to the Byron Empire, and for safety reasons, you need guards to escort you along the way, right? Well, based on the calculation of 10,000 people, the total is 250,000 horses and 260,000 people, not counting those who were temporarily added in for work and illness in the middle. With so many people, it would be good to wait until 250,000 carts of grain were sent to the Byron Empire, and it was estimated that there would be 3,000 carts left, and even they would not have enough to eat, if they wanted to let those scum of the Byron Empire see 250,000 carts of grain, then when it was shipped, this number would have to be at least doubled!

Half a million carts of grain!

What is this concept?

Save some food, almost enough for the entire Bauhinia Empire to eat for a year!

Especially in the past two years, the Bauhinia Empire has suffered several large-scale natural disasters, and its own food is not enough to eat, how can there be so much surplus to feed the white-eyed wolf of the Byron Empire that can't be fed? Isn't this TMD, such a request, pure joke? (To be continued......)