"Deal with him, why should I deal with him?" José shook his head and glanced at Gould a little strangely: "Fatty, you remember, I am the Guardian of Sadland appointed by the Empire, and since Sadland is my fiefdom, I have the responsibility to deal with the affairs here." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Whether it is the Northwest Army or the grassland people in the west, it is the same.

But now is not the time, the most important thing at the moment is how to manage the affairs of the town under Sadland, as for that Gray...... Hmph, at tonight's meeting, I naturally have a way to get him to keep Sadland for me honestly!"

When the fat man heard Jose say this, his eyes couldn't help but light up, and he looked at him with some emotion and asked, "Boss Jose, just tell us what you plan to do!"

Seeing this, Yarok on the side looked a little unnatural, after all, he was also a Moxi soldier, although he did not participate in any faction of the Northwest Army, but he did not like to be involved in this kind of power struggle. So at this moment, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when he heard Gould ask José like this. After all, he wasn't on either side of either José or Gray right now, and he didn't want to get involved in such a fight.

Jose obviously saw Aloke's concerns, he deliberately glanced at this guy, and said lightly: "Knight Alroe, since you fought side by side in Boulder Town, I know that you are a calm and upright imperial general. I know that although you are nominally in the Northwest Army, you are different from those generals who support their own troops, and you are bent on protecting the land of Moxi. I confess that I came to Sadrand to make a difference, and in that respect you are much more noble and selfless than I am and the Northwest Army. ”

When Joseph said this, he couldn't help but chuckle a little, and then continued: "I also know that you may not like this kind of power struggle, in fact, to be honest, I don't like it either! As a county guard of Sadland, I have to think about how to protect myself and how to gain a foothold in the territory of the Northwest Army, isn't it a ridiculous thing? Do you think I don't want the county town of Sadland to prosper as soon as possible?"

Along the way, I have seen many displaced people and poor people who have fled. These people were originally the people outside Moxi Pass, and they were all natives of Moxi. Their homeland was destroyed by the war, but after the war, their land was annexed by the Northwest Army, and if they did not flee, they could only become serfs or slaves!"

Joseph looked at Aloke, whose face was getting more and more ugly, and did not mean to shut up at all, but smiled coldly, and his eyes swept over Aloke's face: "Isn't this ridiculous? Yarok knights? These Moxi civilians originally hoped that after the war, after defeating the invaders, they would return to their homeland and rebuild their homeland. But these Northwest Army, which was guarding Moxi, was forced to drive out of their homes and land?! Haha, tell me, what's the use of the empire wanting such an army, and what is the use of Moxi wanting such an army?!"

Aloke's face was pale, and although he seemed to be very tempted to refute Joseph's words, he could not open his mouth. Within the Moxi Province, especially in the river valley corridor, the reason why the Moxi army was able to garrison troops outside the pass, in addition to their large number of troops, more importantly, the river valley corridor outside the pass, which is fertile for thousands of miles, has enough money and food to support them to feed these tens of thousands of troops!

You must know that although these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses look strong and strong, they also need a huge amount of money to support them:

Armaments, armor, bows and arrows for infantry, and supplies and replacement of expendable equipment for cavalry, and for cavalry, the maintenance of horses, the maintenance of armor, and training...... Tens of thousands of people and horses, even if they don't fight, remove the loss of those ordnance and armor, just the food that 50,000 or 60,000 people eat a year, wear clothes and armor, and live in camp tents, these consumption of money and food is definitely a huge expense.

Obviously, although the Northwest Army can support it for a short period of time, if it wants to gain a long-term foothold in the Northwest, it needs to find a way to solve the problem of military spending. In normal times, when Governor Heru was in office, the Moxi Province would have enough to feed these huge armies, whether it was the grain in the valley corridor or the tax revenue from the east-west trade routes.

But now the situation is different!

The war in the northwest has just ended, not to mention the several counties within the river valley corridor, even the situation in Valen, the capital of Moxi, is not necessarily much better. What these guys don't know is that Mondevia IV doesn't seem to have much thought about Moxi at all, let alone sending troops to suppress the Northwest Army, and even the military funds and disaster relief funds allocated are only barely enough for the pass. Besides, the empire still hopes that the Northwest Army will collapse without a fight, and the empire of the province will clean up the mess of the Northwest Army.

The central government doesn't care, the province has no money, and the Northwest Army wants to feed the tens of thousands of soldiers under it, so it can only start from these ordinary people outside Moxi Pass at this time. Since the Northwest Army was stationed outside the pass, the tax revenue of the counties and towns in various counties has been increased three times in a month, and the tax revenue has been nearly doubled! This does not seem to be too heavy, but Moxi is still on the agenda for reconstruction work after the war, so how can it withstand such heavy taxes again?

However, if you can't get money and grain from the river valley corridor, then I'm afraid that there is no need for the central government to suppress it, and in a month or two, the Northwest Army is likely to be directly in chaos because of the lack of food! This is what the generals of the Northwest Army such as Long Keduo do not want to see, in contrast, although the heavy tax has caused a lot of pressure on the civilians of Moxi, it can at least support it for a short period of time.

So this kind of military order was carried out layer by layer, and many local nobles in Moxi were attached to the Moxi army, and took the opportunity to do some forcible looting of money and food, but they were also acquiesced in with one eye and one eye, and the life of the people in the four counties of the river valley corridor was even more difficult, which also caused a very large-scale wave of displaced people than during the outbreak of the war.

Alok naturally knew these things, so when he heard Jose say this at this moment, he felt that the emotions in his heart were complicated, so he could only sigh lowly before shaking his head and saying: "You are right, for the civilians outside the pass, the Northwest Army is indeed a disaster outside the pass. It's just that Lord Joseph, what do you mean by saying this deliberately in front of me? I, Yarook, asked myself, there is nothing to be sorry for the soldiers and civilians of Moxi, but the situation is like this, and I ...... too."

"Is the situation like this?" José smiled coldly when he heard him say this: "Lord Aloke's words are not right, knowing that the Moxi Army is causing trouble outside the pass, but turning a blind eye to this situation, is this the situation?"

Hmph, I, Joseph, have been appointed to the county seat of Sadland, although it is only a small county guard, but if the situation is really like this, Lao Tzu will also do his best to change the situation!"