Chapter 570: The Last Resort
The Goldsmith Empire, a medium-sized empire with a high degree of agriculture. In this empire, agriculture accounted for 85 percent of the country's total production. These 85 percent account for 70 percent of the entire continent.
Basically, 75 percent of the self-supply is exported, except for 10 percent of the self-supply.
Therefore, although the national defense of this empire is weak, no empire has dared to attack until now.
After all, it's about almost the entire continent, and no one is going to risk the world's condemnation to threaten the empire.
This empire is also very self-aware, and he consciously stands in the position of a neutral empire when several other empires are fighting each other.
Thus, in the 1,000 years since the founding of the Goldsmith Empire, there has not been any war in the entire empire.
This is indeed a miracle. A man-made miracle.
But this miracle must be discarded today.
In the most central castle of the capital of the Columese Empire, King Colesmee XI was happily studying the new crop with his group of scholars.
"Your Majesty, this crop can yield a yield of 100 tons per acre, so I beg that it be planted throughout the country. ”
"Go away! Your crop has a high yield, but your crop does too much damage to the land! And your crop consumes three times as many nutrients as a normal crop!"
"If you want me to say, your crop is garbage! It has no other effect than to destroy the land! Your Majesty, you still look at me, although my fruit can only reach fifteen tons per mu at present, but his growth cycle is very short, it only takes two months to mature. ”
"Fifteen tons? It took you the last two seasons to reach half of what we are doing in the whole country. ”
"Fast growth means we can plant at any time, and he can effectively avoid our risks. ”
"What nonsense! Your results have grown so quickly without considering the labor of the Empire, and you want to exhaust the people of our Empire?"
Seeing his faction of ministers arguing there like ordinary people, His Majesty Goldsmith XI expressed three major pressures.
"You've got enough! This time you're all working on it. I declare that the plant to be planted in the whole country this year is the fifth in the country!" suppressed the ministers with his own voice, and then used his power to determine the crops of the year.
Although the plants of the national brand have not been updated for many years, the stability of these plants is beyond doubt. After all, this is a plant that has been cultivated in the Goldsmith Empire for almost a thousand years.
After sending this group of ministers, Goldsmith XI, who had thought he would be able to rest, had just returned to his study when he was stopped by his personal guards.
"Your Majesty the King! Your Majesty the King! There is an urgent telegram from the front, and a large number of unknown troops are attacking the XX Empire!"
"XX Empire? Isn't that the country to the east of our empire? What's wrong? Does this have anything to do with us?" Goldsmith XI was puzzled, I don't know how many years, these countries have been replaced all the time, but they are very conscious not to touch themselves. Therefore, no matter how high the war around his home is, there is no need to pay attention to it.
"Yes, Your Majesty, not only the XX Empire, but also our nearby XX Duchy has also been attacked. According to the emissary, the armies that attacked both countries were the same force. ”
As soon as he heard this, our Goldsmith XI had the vigilance of a king.
"Their target is us? No, we must let the Elemental City send some people over, our country's defense capability is a joke at all!" "Successive Goldsmith kings have known that the Goldsmith Empire has no defense at all, and the defense of the Goldsmith Empire depends entirely on the surrounding countries.
But. Now that the surrounding countries are under attack, then they are also attacked.
"Your Majesty, do we need to sign some of the young men for emergency training?"
Goldsmith winked at him, then he thought for a moment and said, "Don't recruit too many people. Just be able to defend the royal city. ”
"Okay, Your Majesty, how about I sign a thousand men?" asked the captain of the guard, cautiously, knowing that the country was based on agriculture. If more people are recruited, perhaps the real system of the whole country will collapse.
"Okay, just decide, recruit a little bit first. Other than that. Let the mercenaries take a look and keep an eye on the guys, and if the situation is really urgent, then I allow you to sign it without limits. "Goldsmith XI felt a little tired. So he went straight into his bedroom.
However, Goldsmith XI still underestimated the speed of the Scourge Legion's advancement. The next morning, before dawn, he received the news.
"Oh no! Your Majesty the King! XX Empire and XX Duchy have been breached!"
The first news of waking up was really a bit frustrating, and Goldsmith XI immediately ran to the place he thought he would never go in his life.
"Marshal's Mansion of the Goldsmith Empire"
This is a place that has been established by the Goldsmith Empire since the first king is not under the command of the king.
It's funny to say that the military command of an empire is actually independent of the royal power, if it weren't for the peculiarities of the Goldsmith Empire, or this regime would have been subverted long ago.
The gates of the "Imperial Marshal's Mansion of Goldsmith" were covered with dust, and it looked like no one had been to this place for a long, long time.
"Father, you must not be fooling me. "Goldsmith XI was a little nervous, and his father made it very clear when he handed over the throne to him that if the Goldsmith Empire was threatened with annihilation, then he could go to the Goldsmith Empire's Marshal's Office to get support, so as to ensure that the Goldsmith Empire would not be destroyed.
"Knock knock!" knocked softly on the door, and then an old voice came from inside.
"Come in, now King of the Goldsmith Empire. Although this voice sounded old, Goldsmith XI could feel a great fluctuation of power in this voice.
Goldsmith XI was a very self-motivated man, and although he loved the study of plants, he never gave up on exercising his body.
Although he only has the strength of the sixth level now, he is the second most powerful person in the entire Colesmee royal family.
(The first powerful is to drive the emperor)
Approaching the door, he immediately saw three statue-like old men standing there motionless.
However, Goldsmith XI knew the occupations of these three men by looking at the clothes on them.
Two armors, one robe.
"Three tributes, the empire is in trouble. Goldsmith XI said helplessly, and then one of the men in armor said slowly: "What's the trouble? Why, after so much time, there are still people who will attack the Goldsmith Empire." What are the empires near you for?"
Goldsmith XI smiled bitterly: "I don't know, now the two countries of the Gongwei Empire have been broken, and the troops of the Empire are not ready. So I hope to be able to get help from my seniors. ”
However, just as Goldsmith XI had just finished saying this, he suddenly found that the expressions of these people were very cold.
"The troops are not yet assembled, what are you going to eat, there are no troops, you have the three of us to resist the overwhelming army, what are you kidding!" the warrior roared, apparently not satisfied with Goldsmith XI's answer.
However, although Goldsmith XI was very unhappy at this time, he could only accept it silently, after all, now he can only rely on these few people in front of him.
"Forget it, the third one, you go and call those old guys out! It's time for Goldsmith V to repay the kindness of a few of us!" said the eldest mage helplessly, after all, this is a favor he owes to others, although so many years have passed, but this kindness has not been repaid.
Although this mission was difficult, it was also the last time.
"After this time is over, we will leave this place, and as for the future, you will have to deal with it yourself, no matter what happens in the future, it has nothing to do with our three brothers. ”
Goldsmith XI nodded, although he was a little sorry that these powerful people could not protect the Goldsmith Empire, but the difficulties he faced were about to be lifted, which could be regarded as a relatively good news he heard now.
"Let's go, give up places other than the imperial capital, there is nothing in those places anyway. ”
Goldsmith XI nodded, he thought the same way, after all, the Goldsmith Empire was an agricultural empire, and the entire empire had nothing to be valuable except for the national capital.
Therefore, when he was warning the soldiers, he always asked for the siege of the imperial capital.
Goldsmith XI left this Costsmith Imperial Marshal's Mansion, and his heart was extremely depressed at this time.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I've finally found you! Now those unknown legions have split into two ways to attack our empire, and the empire has lost ten percent of its land!" "When the captain of the guard saw Goldsmith XI, he cried and hugged him as if he had seen his father, and Goldsmith XI felt that things were already very bad!
"Hurry up! Mobilize all the people who can be mobilized for me! Everywhere else can be lost! The imperial capital must not be lost!" (To be continued.) )