"At present, the annual tax revenue of all the territories of Evta, including all the income of Elson City, may only reach the equivalent of three million gold coins, and this is only a theoretical value, counting the share of trade with the Rasiman Kingdom this year, as well as the arms sales to the Tasman Kingdom..."

Duncan pulled out a table of his own statistics. continued: "Prime Minister, I have to sigh that the income level of Elson City is really amazing, if this territory is removed, the income that the entire Efta can provide may be less than a million gold coins. But Elson City is now in a period of development, and if you continue to invest in all aspects of research and development, we will have a shortfall of at least five million gold coins in military spending...

"I don't have to worry too much about military spending, I have already thought of a solution from the moment I decided to start this war. ”

Luo Di turned out a letter, "We don't have enough military expenses ourselves, but we can borrow it." Rasiman's fleet will arrive in half a month. ”

Duncan obviously didn't expect such a method, he had heard of "borrowing money to fight", but it was extremely rare in the Cullen Kingdom. Even if there is a similar situation, it is just a battle of thousands of people in a small territory. The poor lord is in charge, the rich lord uses usury to recruit mercenaries to work for himself or something... Even so, not many people are willing to borrow money. Because the "credit" of the current lord system is very poor, if a lord is destroyed, then don't think about recovering the money lent. If this lord becomes bigger, it depends on whether the other party is willing to recover the money - in a word, it is the uncle who owes the money.

The real credibility is the royal family and several dukes and marquises, plus the "Rosicrucius". But the amount of wealth of these forces, compared to Roddy's current handwriting... Nothing at all.

"To... Is it really okay to borrow so much money from one country?"

"With cobalt gold ore as a guarantee, and Elson City's magic technology as a deposit, plus some port conditions, Rasiman is obviously willing to cooperate with me. ”

Roddy's move actually started very early, and since Raciman's parliamentary winds changed and he frequently made overtures to Elson, he was considering the feasibility of a "war loan". Through the powerful and wealthy impression he had left on them, and with Houdini's analysis of the group of council mages, the loan that had been negotiated since February was finally settled when the new fleet arrived at the port some time ago.

The interest on this loan is very low, only 7 percent a year, and it can be repaid in three years. This means that Roddy has solved his "worries" - at least for 8 months, he will not have to think about everything to tighten his belt.

In this regard, the royal family, which has almost zero foreign trade and can only eat the old bottom, is not an opponent at all. Roddy's war budget is eight million gold coins, and if Charles II fights according to the traditional model, the budget will be less than one million gold coins after a year, and at the same time, for the royal family that has been ravaged by the orcs, whether he can come up with so much money is another matter.

Duncan made a calculation in his heart, and suddenly felt that the boulder that was pressing on his heart disappeared for the most part. Originally, he didn't think that Luo Di could have any deep insights in the economy, but he was actually a bit of a shelf in his heart, but after seeing Luo Di's ability to borrow in the "state" unit, he really admired this kind of execution and had nothing to say...

"If you can solve this problem, half of the war has been won!"

This is his biggest emotion, money is too important for war. He has witnessed the defeat of many wars, big and small... Not because the soldiers are not good enough, but because the side fighting the war has run out of money - the military salary is insufficient, there is not enough food, and no army can escape the end of self-defeat without a fight.

The rest of the staff team was also surprised by the amazing way and amount of borrowing, and they didn't even believe each other. But Roddy didn't feel much about this kind of behavior - he lived through a time when "borrowing money to fight" had become almost a common thing in modern times, but Roddy was not a war maniac with the goal of "defeating the enemy", he always kept in mind one principle: war is a continuation of politics.

The purpose of waging this war, the follow-up plan, has long been included in the future strategic policy. Roddy's fundamental purpose now is clear, he has now gambled on the future of Elson and the whole of Ivta.

What the future holds depends on how this battle can be fought.

On the first of May, troops had begun to assemble in the eastern part of the Karen Kingdom.

Because the Earl of Mirno was killed in last year's war, and the Earl of Moore, who dealt with the orcs, was replaced, it was difficult for Charles II to find the most suitable person to fight for the war for a while.

In the age of cold weapons, Charles II had little choice in strategic planning. The only thing he could do was to gather an army to take the "Temple", the outpost of Evta, and then march westward, step by step. It was only after he had successfully entered the hinterland of Ivota that he had to consider dividing his troops into several ways to attack other places.

After all, there was only one way to get into Ivota for him, and for the army to climb over the central mountains?

Even with the support of the dragons, Charles II would not really think that the dragons would help him carry his army from the top of the mountain. By now, the biggest support provided by the dragons has been the "Dragon Tower" magic academy and magic guidance. Although it doesn't sound like much, as long as such support exists, the prestige of the royal family can be established, and the surrounding lords, big and small, will not have half of their own hearts.

In such a situation, Charles II was much more relaxed when he could not find a suitable commander-in-chief - in his eyes, the battle to be fought at the moment did not have much technical content. In the past, I dealt with orcs because they were powerful and came and went like the wind, and there must be someone who is good at field warfare to deal with them in time. Now that Everta is completely on the defensive, Charles II and his nobles have analyzed and analyzed it, and they all believe that Sally has no courage to take the initiative to attack, and must rely on the fortress to do defensive battles. Therefore, the final order was to let Earl Harrison in the northeast of the kingdom take the lead.

Earl Harrison is nearly fifty years old, and he has to face attacks from scattered bandits in the eastern mountains all year round, and he has accumulated a lot of combat experience in the past 20 years. Last year, Sauron led the orc troops through his territory, and because of the timely contraction of the defenses, the Earl of Harlinson suffered almost no losses, which made Charles II quite interested in him as a talent.

Actually, that's because Sauron doesn't have time to deal with him.

The mountains to the east are also natural barriers, and the countries on the other side of the mountains have been in civil strife for the past decade, and there is no movement to send troops to fight them. There were some roads between the mountains, and occasionally caravans would come to the kingdom of Karen to communicate with each other, but this situation completely disappeared after the orc Sauron led his troops through it.

Earl Harrison had also gathered a lot of troops in fear, for fear that Sauron would kill him. But a winter had passed, and the scouts sent out said that Sauron had crossed to the other side of the mountain, and that there was no trace of this group of creatures on the border except for the corpses of the sick and dead orcs.

The earl was relieved. However, he didn't expect that in the next year, he would be assigned the task of attacking Ivota - at this time, he actually wanted to refuse, but thinking that Charles II now has the support of the dragons, and the economy of the territory does need special means to recover, after weighing the pros and cons, he finally took on this task.

The Earl of Harlinson's domain was just east of the "Temple" area. Both economically and religiously, the Temple has a great deal of influence in the territory. It was just that Charles II's ban made him stop all contact with the "Temple" after the situation became tense. The monasteries in the city were all shut down by him, and in order to avoid suspicion, those bishops and priests were directly locked up by him.

Needless to say, the economic losses caused by this series of actions are now the commander of the "Western Expeditionary Army", and he can only hope to solve Ivota as soon as possible to make up for his losses.

Now that the "assembly order" has been issued, the total number of nobles and nobles that Earl Harrison himself can muster is about forty, and the total number of knights, knights, servants and soldiers brought with them exceeds two thousand. And the total number of troops that had been put together from other realms of the kingdom was tens of thousands, and they were rushing here in batches.

"It's too much trouble!"

Earl Harrison, who was sitting in the mansion, couldn't help but complain. The letters from various regions in front of him had already been piled up, and if it weren't for the temporary recruitment of three housekeepers to form a "staff team", he would not have been able to handle this redundant information alone.

"An army of 20,000 people, eating all day is frightening. Where am I going to get so much food? When the orcs pass by me, they rob hundreds of sheep from the pasture, and this majesty will really give me a problem!"

The three butlers were too busy to talk at this time, Earl Harrison's previous "operations" were all against homeless people or bandits, and there was no need to be so complicated at all, just order the capable knights to lead the troops to clear it out, and the largest time was only three hundred. Commanding such a large army of tens of thousands of people and belonging to different lords at the same time was really the first time for him... Because of inexperience, it is inevitable to be overwhelmed.

Of course, being able to stand in this position also means that Charles II has a fancy for him. The war funds allocated by the royal family have made Harrison's heart move for a long time - for him, just do a few small actions, and the gold coins that leak into his bowl are not comparable to the territory for more than ten years...

So he's in pain and happy now.

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