May 10, 359 Pander.

Nearly 10,000 people from the three newly reorganized legions of the Bacchus Empire appeared outside the city of Changhe.

Most of the troops under the command of Leon, including those of the Duchy of Lion and the Duchy of Noldor, also gathered here.

However, these armies are not here to fight, but to conduct joint military parades.

Leon and Alina's wedding is about to take place in the city of River.

The wedding was very grandly prepared, and almost the entire continent was invited to be present.

Even Lord Vidis of Fieldsway, Queen Ursula of the Raven Kingdom, and Gregory IV have all come in person - there is a civil war going on in their own country, Vidis's forces are still attacking Crag Bay, and Ursula's forces are still besieging Dawn Furnace.

But they had to come, because this time, in addition to the wedding, there was another important thing.

Leon is going to be emperor on this day.

Why did these two people get married and bring the armies of the two countries to hold a 'joint military parade'?

Isn't it just for the sake of partnership to scare people......

There are wars going on in both Fields and Raven, and if it's just a wedding, Vidis, Ursula and the others really don't need to come in person. But if Li Ang called the emperor and they didn't come, then I am afraid they would have to be beaten in a few days......

The Neopander Kingdom is strong, plus the army of the Bacchus Empire...... Fieldsway and Raven, two countries in the midst of a civil war, really can't afford to mess with them.

In fact, Li Ang had no intention of becoming emperor - he didn't care about the title at all.

But the problem is that Alina cares......

When the Pander Academy was founded, Alina inscribed a message on the inner wall of the college: "If you are a nobleman, you need knowledge to preserve the wealth for the family; If you are not a nobleman, then you need to have more knowledge to create wealth for you and your children and grandchildren - Luciana Marius Justes Basilius. ”

This can be regarded as an encouragement to the students, but the focus is not on the message itself, but on Alina's payment.

Alina is the name she chooses for herself, which can be understood as her 'self-title' - for the Bacchus, the self-name is also the official name, and it is common to replace one's own real name in letters or everyday salutations.

'Luciana Marius Justus Basilus' is Alina's real full name.

Luciana is her real name, and Marius is the family name inherited from her father, Emperor Marius; Justus was the original family name; Basilius is an additional name, also a title, meaning 'emperor'.

Emperor Marius actually did not have a title - he was not recognized by the Senate at the beginning, and he used a mutiny to coerce the Senate into ascending the throne, so he did not use any title.

According to the tradition of Bacchus, 'Augustus' is the title of Bacchus's reigning emperor, and if from the point of view of the so-called 'legitimacy', Demoses Augustus is the legitimate emperor recognized by the Senate, and Marius should be regarded as a rebel......

Therefore, in order to avoid any kind of rebellion in Bacchus's country, Alina no longer used the title Augustus, but added the title of 'Basiles' to herself, indicating that she was the emperor recognized by both the Senate and the elected parliament - although she was only nominated as a candidate at the time, the process was indeed completed......

However, the title of Alina is peculiar - 'Basiles' is a masculine word, usually used by male emperors, and the empress should use the feminine word 'Bachillosa'.

She used the title of male emperor.

This is because rulers known as 'empresses' usually have husbands as regents. But Alina intends to personally manage the Bacchus Empire, be a dictatorial emperor, and will not let anyone else regent.

This title represents her determination.

This means that, according to the standard written title, Alina should also be referred to as 'Emperor Marius', not 'Empress Luciana'......

But out of habit, no one actually refers to Alina as Marius the Great, and her title of emperor is rarely mentioned.

Even in Bacchus, the name 'Alina' is simply called - the word 'Alina', according to the Cubax language, also means 'noble and wise empress'.

But Alina's title of emperor, that is, 'Basilis', was a little embarrassing after she confirmed her marriage to Leon - Leon did not have the title of emperor, but Alina did, and it was the title of a male emperor, if you didn't know it, you might think that Leon was her male favorite......

Leon himself really didn't mind, even on the marriage book, his handwritten name of Alina was still 'Luciana Marius Pendragon Basilus'.

In other words, after Alina and Leon got married, she was still the emperor of the Bacchus Empire, and only Leon's family name was used instead of her original family name, and the title of 'Male Emperor' would still be retained.

Leon actually agrees with Alina using this unique male emperor title.

However, even if Leon didn't care about these issues at all, everyone else felt that it was inappropriate, and Alina didn't think it was appropriate.

Everyone felt that Leon was no longer suitable for the title of 'king', and that the kingdom of New Pander should not be just a kingdom.

So Amy, Wendy, and Alina 'conspired' again, and then forced Leon to change the new pander into an empire.

Leon's current title has also changed to 'Emperor of the Pandes'.

The emperor of the Pande and the emperor of the Bacchus are married, so this is the equivalence.

Although the female emperor of the Bacchus used the male title...... Forget it, it's a small matter, don't limit the gender so rigidly......

Of course, there are many other people involved in this 'forced emperor', such as Godric, Eric, Forsette, Leofrick, Risardillan and a whole bunch of other lords, and even honest people like Anson who have little desire for power.

Even the process is very rigorous - Li Ang, the emperor, is not self-appointed, but 'divinely granted'.

What god is so good that he can appoint an emperor?

Of course, it was the new official belief of the new Pander Empire a few months ago - the God of Wealth......

On behalf of the God of Wealth, it was Amy who put the emperor's crown on Leon, Wendy handed the scepter to Leon, and it was Alice who sent the emperor's guard of honor and a purple robe.

That is, the three spokespersons of wealth who are widely worshipped at present.

Thus, the ceremony of the divine emperor was held on the morning of the wedding, and at the same time, a grand military parade was held.

If it's just getting married, of course, there's no need to do any military parades, but it really takes this process to become emperor - why should you be called emperor if the army is not strong?

And, as Amy says, the king's marriage must have been politically involved......

Why does everyone want Leon to be emperor?

The reason is simple - for convenience.

Yes, after Leon became emperor, many things will become more convenient.

For example, persuasion.

After the Duchy of Dexia was successfully forced to surrender by Sarah, Amy naturally planned to try to persuade Fields or the Raven Kingdom...... Or maybe it's one of them.

The division and infighting between these two countries were caused by Amy, who was unable to pick the fruit at that time, and now, she has enough strength to close the net.

Not long ago, Leslie went to Fog Cage City to pretend to be a big money - in fact, it was not a pretend, Leslie, who had a large amount of state-owned assets in her hands, was indeed a real big money.

She bought a large number of properties in Fogcage City at a very low price, and due to the economic downturn in Fogcage City, various industries were in a state of stagnation, and the price was very low, and Lesli basically bought the entire city in a month.

How much did it cost?

A lot, more than 600,000 dinars - the old dinars.

Leon did not let the new currency enter Fieldsway, and the new currency is currently only circulating in the central part of the Lion Realm, Long River City, and White Deer Castle, and has not yet been fully popularized - just half a year, and it is still in the process of exchanging the old for the new, and it is impossible to fully popularize it.

These more than 600,000 old dinars were exchanged for new currency.

On the surface, a large number of dinars have entered the city of fog cages, and it looks like there is a lot of hot money entering the market, which should be a good thing, right?

But in reality?

Not at all good......

Money is actually a double-edged sword.

More than 600,000 dinars were invested in the already extremely depressed economy of Fog Cage City in just one month, and there was only one consequence - a catastrophe of collapse.

Yes, the City of Fog Cage has now completely collapsed.

Because all the people who sold their property to Leslie moved with money......

They exchanged their money-losing properties for cash, then recklessly procured large quantities of household goods, and fled Fieldsway – it's human nature, and what businessman wants to stay in a place where the economy is sluggish and taxes are often raised?

Most of them have fled to the inland Lion Realm, where the bankrupt pirate lords are looking for sheep because of the insecurity at sea, and even King Vidis' own fleet has been in the old business at sea.

These people's large-scale purchase of daily necessities, as well as their escape after purchasing, directly led to the complete end of the already bleak business of Fog Cage City.

Inflation.

The price of grain in Fog Cage City was already ridiculously high, and these people were all owners of all walks of life, and after they got cash, they bought the only remaining grain at a high price from various sources in order to relocate......

But what happens after they buy it?

There are no daily necessities for sale in the city, and there are a lot of dinars, but the dinars are useless......

According to Lesri's return, the flour in the city of foggy cage had risen to ten dinars a pound, fish and meat had a starting price of fifty dinars per pound, wheat bran could be sold for one dinar a pound, and even a pound of bark could be sold for five diarhans.

This price is 700 times the price of grain in Changhe City, and there is no market.

There was also a shortage of food elsewhere in Fieldsway, a constant war in Rock Bay, a war in the Raven Kingdom, and a large number of pirates cruising the seas - the pirate lords were also short of food, and they had to find fat sheep.

This means that no grain merchant can go to the Fog Cage City to rescue the market, because the grain can't enter the Fog Cage City at all, as long as there is food, it will be robbed halfway.

King Vidis, of course, wants to save all this, but he missed the winter plough last year, and now it is difficult to recover the situation - he is bankrupt.

At this time, of course, it is a good time to persuade you to surrender......

Amy has a large amount of food in her hands, enough to save Fogcage City, and even the entire Fieldsway.

The two million acres of land she had cultivated around Lion City were now ready for the wheat and corn harvest.

In fact, there are potatoes too, but they are not grown much. But not many of them here are relatively speaking—many farmers have planted them, adding up to 100,000 acres.

Amy's side was different from the situation of Lord Dean in the village of Emer, and if it weren't for Amy's demand that he pay taxes only on wheat and corn, the farmers would have been happy to have a variety of potatoes.

Because Amy had promoted potatoes two years earlier when she was struggling to resist in Lion City, the farmers already knew the yield of potatoes.

But in order to ensure reliable food reserves, Amy was only allowed to use shelf-stable grains such as wheat and corn as food taxes - she could grow others if she wanted, but she had to pay the grain taxes on these two crops.

Two million acres of land, even if you don't count the rest of the land, the state treasury can get at least 200 million pounds of grain—the standard agreed upon by Amy and the farmers, and pay a tax of 100 pounds per acre, either wheat or corn after drying it.

These two hundred million pounds are not the total production, they are just taxes, surplus food that can be sold or used as material reserves.

The farmers had enough food, and the Griffin Grain and Oil Purchasing Station sent by Leon confirmed that the farmers around Lion City could sell an average of about 500 pounds of grain - that is, after paying the tax, after deducting the next season's grain and their rations, each household would have an average of 500 pounds of grain left.

Nearly 100,000 peasant households, with an average of 500 pounds of surplus grain per season, are not much, and most of them are not enough to repay their agricultural loans.

But in any case, at least their food and clothing are fine.

This also means that after the farmers dry their grain, Leon's grain and oil company can buy 50 million pounds of grain from the vicinity of Lion City at a reasonable price, which is also surplus grain.

The parity price is indeed relatively flat, and the purchase price of 50 million pounds of grain is about 500,000 dinars, that is, 100 pounds of one dinar.

Because the price of grain in the city of Long River and the city of the Lion is also cheap, flour and corn flour are now at the same price, and one dinar and four dirkhans (1.4 dinars) can buy a hundred pounds of flour.

A hundred pounds of wheat or corn can be ground into more than seventy pounds of flour or corn flour, which is about one dinar.

In other words, even if the farmers don't sell to the 'state-run purchasing station', they can sell it in the city for the same price, and they have to find their own place to grind the noodles.

Elsewhere the harvest was not so good, because the area around the Noldor Forest was really badly infested this year, and with the coordination of the Long River Express, it was largely self-sufficient.

Only places such as the Gulf of Tonkin can provide some more food taxes, but the exact amount is not certain.

This is the difference between the overall industrialization development and the increase in the number of aristocratic realms - the 300,000 people under Amy's unified management can bring 250 million pounds of grain reserves to the country, but the rest of the country adds up to 600,000 people, 450,000 agricultural population, but there may not be a surplus of grain.

Right now, Vidis is shivering in River City.

It's not an adjective, he's really shaking.

On the way to Long River City, he had already seen the endless farmland around the Lion City, and also saw the scene of farmers rushing to harvest.

Now, he saw seven more fully formed regiments, 20,000 people, parading outside the city of Changhe.

He knew that the 'new Pander Empire', which had just been formed today, lacked nothing.

He could also tell that Leon was scaring him.

In fact, Li Ang didn't say anything, he greeted every guest with a smile, after all, after the military parade is the wedding, how bad is the wedding scene to scare the guests......

Look at the petals fluttering in the sky, look at the cheering crowd, look at the beautiful carriage carrying Alina slowly - what a warm and romantic scene if you didn't look at the Bacchus army behind Alina!

But when Justus put Alina's hand in Leon's hand, Leon looked back at the 'foreign guests', and now not only Vidis, but also Ursula and Gregory IV began to tremble......

So Leon asked them, "I heard that you are all about to go bankrupt...... Want to get rich? (End of chapter)