"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure you've seen the news that just came back. ”

Sitting in the main seat of the conference room, the maid looked at the officials sitting in the audience with a serious expression, and in addition to this, there were also regional bishops and priests from the various churches of the good gods, because they also had the right to know about it.

Moreover, the maid also had a vague idea that she should establish a 'monitoring mechanism', that is, the clergy from the various churches would not participate directly in politics, but would have the right to supervise the operation of the government, and at the same time be able to participate in some meetings and provide their own opinions and suggestions from another perspective.

Only in this way would she be able to guarantee that after she and Cervantes left, the officials of the principality would not become particularly corrupt.

But now is not the time to think about this, the main thing at the moment is the changes that are taking place in the 'Black Forest'!

The officials seated in the audience began to whisper to each other, for it was customary for the maid to set aside time for them to discuss, and presumably this time would be no exception.

Serena sat on the throne, her scrutinizing gaze sweeping over everyone present, even Edith, who was sitting next to her, sorting out the materials and thinking about countermeasures.

She has always advocated teamwork, especially in the face of such a major matter, which is rarely decided by herself, and most of the time there is a meeting to discuss the countermeasures and plans.

No matter how smart a person is, there will always be shortcomings, but if you brainstorm ideas, you can check and fill in the gaps in time and correct mistakes in time.

In the past, when the officials were in meetings, they were not familiar with this set, so she was in charge, but now, this team can finally do something.

After waiting for a moment, the maid cleared her throat and asked, "Do you have any thoughts on this?"

The officials in the audience, you look at me, I look at you, and finally a young man sitting in the front row raised his hand, "Master maid, you asked us this, we don't understand it very well, after all, you also said, understand is understand, don't understand is not understand, don't pretend not to understand." But we can also make a simple observation, which is 'need to be guarded'!"

The people present were all civilian officials, and as for the officers, she had to hold a video conference with them afterwards.

Hearing them say this, the corners of the maid's mouth curled up in an inaudible arc, and she bowed her head slightly, "Yes, and then?"

The young man who spoke before did not continue to answer, but another person dressed as a classical scholar spoke: "First of all, we must first prepare for war, the monsters and monsters in the Black Forest are no longer as stupid as before, and their actions are beginning to be difficult to speculate, so we still have to be prepared for war, and we must stabilize the market economy and the people when we are conducting war, only in this way can we carry out production activities as usual and burst out more powerful productive forces!"

Now these people's thinking has begun to break away from the medieval war mentality and come to a higher level.

This made Serena very happy, her years of preparation were finally in vain!

At this point, the Principality of Sorrow has been ahead of most of the world's nations for half a century, and after that, even if a new era is needed, the people and ruling class of the Principality have been able to quickly change their mindset and keep the country ahead of others from the beginning.

After a pause, the official dressed as a classical scholar said: "Secondly, in addition to ensuring that production activities will not be abandoned during the war, we also need to guarantee the import of resources, because the territory of the principality is small, no matter what kind of production is carried out, it is difficult to meet the demand for use, so we must ensure the stability of imported resources, and only in this way can we ensure that the principality can carry out a more protracted war, and a protracted war will not affect the improvement of national strength and productivity too much." ”

Hearing this, not only the maid, but even Edith raised her eyebrows, and was surprised by this.

If she remembers correctly, she didn't teach them these things, that is, they figured it out on their own?

Serena tapped her index finger on the table, feeling as if she had found a treasure, and joy filled her heart almost with joy.

Detached from the inherent thinking of the past and using new thinking to look at the connection between 'war' and 'politics' and 'people's livelihood', it has to be said that this official can almost be assigned to the management of a 'city and county'.

As long as he polishes it for a while, he may be able to become a big man in this principality in the future!

Of course, this may not be just what he came up with, but also after discussing with others.

But it doesn't matter, now he's in his sights!

"And the third point—" The official paused again, as if to gather his thoughts, and after a while, he continued, "Since this kind of thing has already happened in the Kurt Kingdom, then something similar can happen in any country and region that borders the Black Forest, so we must inform the elves and the dwarves of the Garol Mountains about this matter as soon as possible, if there is a real war, then these two forces will be a powerful help for us!"

Smack!

The maid was the first to applaud, with a smile on her lips and a 'thumbs up' written in her eyes.

Soon, applause filled the room, and even the church members sitting next to him applauded.

Even to them, this official's speech and suggestions are very wonderful, although there is no specific plan to deal with it, but if the plan is designed according to this outline, it is much more powerful than the noble lords they know.

At least the nobles and their knights would not have such a careful mind, and even their staff would not necessarily notice the huge impact of war on people's lives.

It was the first time they had been invited to an internal meeting of the Principality of Sorrow, but just this meeting had already opened their eyes.

They thoroughly realized that the people were actually the main body supporting the war, and that if production was abandoned when the war began, it would not be able to support a protracted war at all.

No wonder there are always countries or territories that lose inexplicably during the war, it turns out that it is because of this!

Everything in this world is interconnected, and nothing can be detached, and some things seem to be unrelated, but secretly they have a lot to do with each other.

"So, let's discuss freely and enrich this plan!"

............

Caesar XIII looked at the papers on the table with some headaches, and couldn't help but lean back in his chair and groan.

The monsters and monsters of the Black Forest are making trouble again, although they are not on their side of the Sloh Continent, but since this kind of thing has happened in the Mendes Continent, they can't help but guard against it.

But in recent days, he has been heartbroken by the truce between the empire and the orcs, if it weren't for the orc lord god who cooperated very well to shrink the orc tribes around the empire's frontier to the depths of the grassland, maybe their side has not yet negotiated, and the war will break out again.

He had already guessed that the nobles who touched the interests would not give up, and the frenzied aristocratic class would not care how precious the lives of soldiers were in the eyes of their families, the nobles only cared about their own interests, and the casualties of soldiers were just a number in their eyes.

Especially after the military reform of the empire, the number of private soldiers of the nobility was greatly reduced, but on the contrary, the number of soldiers directly subordinate to the empire increased.

It's not their private soldiers who die, then they won't be distressed!

This was already a headache for him, but he didn't expect this to happen again!

...... Maybe in the first place, he shouldn't have promised the Sphinx that thing, and he should have let the goddess of progress directly go to war with the nobles of the empire.

Instead of giving him a headache like he did now.