On the day of the fundraiser, the Dalton family residence was bustling. In addition to the nobles of the southeastern provinces, the nobles of other regions and representatives of various countries also came to join in the fun.

In the name of it: learn from the experience of fundraising.

The nobles in the country really learned from the experience, and as long as the southeastern provinces succeeded in raising funds, they could follow.

People have a herd mentality.

The efficiency of the southeastern provinces is so high, in addition to Hudson, a hawkish elder, who is constantly fooling, the most important thing is - there is money in his pocket.

The representatives of various countries joined in the fun, purely to see if the Alpha Kingdom was bluffing, or if they were ready to play for real.

The final outcome of the fundraising meeting will have a direct impact on their future foreign policy towards the Alpha Kingdom.

Glancing at the nobles in the main hall, Governor Pierce, who had organized the language, said straight to the point:

"My southeastern province is close to the Black Rock Mountains, and it is threatened by animal tides all year round, and the people are miserable.

In order to change this situation, after much deliberation, we unanimously decided to rebuild the Blood Moon defense line to keep the beast tide out of the province.

The main reason for inviting you here today is to solve the problem of funding for the construction of the defensive line. The preliminary budget requires an investment of 3.8 million gold coins.

Of course, it shouldn't cost so much money in the actual construction. The biggest expense in building fortifications was labor, food, and raw materials.

We can recruit serfs for construction, and the cost of labor is directly saved.

In addition to some raw materials that need to be purchased, the main materials of construction can be used locally, and most of the costs can be saved.

Grain, this piece can't be saved, and it can't be saved.

Since the end of the war last year, the military rations provided by everyone to northern Xinjiang have also been saved, which is just right for project construction.

In view of the heavy financial burden on everyone, I have decided after consultation with Earl Hudson that we will not impose the cost this time.

Everyone has money to contribute, someone to contribute, food to contribute, and materials to contribute, and complete their respective obligations according to their own actual conditions.

If you have any ideas and suggestions, you can speak freely now! ”

Looking at the determined expressions of the nobles in the southeastern province, everyone knew that this was discussed in advance. When formulating strategies, it was also deliberately tilted in favor of the minor aristocracy.

Those in the know know that this is a placation for the Dalton family to the petty nobles. After all, what happened before made many small nobles feel cold.

Now that the threat of external enemies is coming, we need everyone to be in the same boat, so it is natural to first handle internal relations.

According to the fundraising model of "money contributes, people contribute, food and materials", theoretically all nobles can fulfill their obligations.

Especially for a group of minor nobles on the verge of bankruptcy. In the off-season, sending the serfs in the territory to repair the defense line can also save a sum of food.

However, there are also many problems. Most of the small nobles in the province will choose to send people, what about the other materials needed for the project?

After all, for many noble lords, the least valuable thing is manpower.

During the off-season, even if all the laborers in the territory are sent to repair the defensive line, it will not affect everyone's daily life.

The final result will be a surplus of labor and a shortage of other materials.

Facing everyone's puzzled gazes, Hudson stood up from his position and said slowly, "If you have no other opinions, then this fundraising will be carried out according to the Governor's proposal."

Labor, food, and other materials are all calculated at market prices. No matter what method you take, you just need to complete the corresponding share of obligations.

The project budget will be split into counties, and everyone will directly multiply the project budget according to the proportion of their original obligations in the county, which is the share that everyone needs to bear.

In view of the actual situation, the labor, materials, and food provided by you may not match the needs of the project, so my Excellency the Governor and I decided that you should declare it first.

The follow-up coordination will be jointly handled by the Dalton family and the Coslow family. If we can't coordinate it, we will work together to ensure the smooth completion of the Blood Moon Line! ”

After listening to Hudson's words, the representatives of various countries who were originally going to watch the excitement were completely dumbfounded. I couldn't help but ask in my mind: Are the great nobles of the Alpha Kingdom so reckless?

When encountering a problem, the big nobles took the initiative to jump out to the bottom, obviously letting the small and medium-sized nobles take advantage.

Either they all operate like this, and what other projects can't be done?

Is it expensive to build a defensive line?

It's just a joke, with the entire southeastern province as a unit, all the materials needed to build the Blood Moon defense line can be self-raised.

I didn't need to pay the last gold coin directly, and the project was completed with the internal coordination of the nobles.

The next thing that needs to be tested in the southeastern provinces is only organizational skills.

Referring to the mobilization of the Alpha Kingdom during the war, we know that what people have is experience.

The specific construction of the defense line can be copied directly from the north. It can block the fortifications of the orcs, and it can also stop the armies of the Terrans.

If there was a fight, the battle would not have been so fierce. After all, Terran soldiers are much smarter than the low-level orcs who have bad brains.

Without any surprise, after the two elders finished speaking, a group of nobles from the southeastern provinces began to declare in twos and threes.

The fundraising meeting went so smoothly that there was no trace of turbulence, which really blinded the eyes of many people.

The nobility within the kingdom is okay, similar operations do not happen much in everyone's life, but they are not without examples.

The representatives of countries are different. From everyone's eyes, it can be seen that they are frightened, and they can shock them for many years by estimating what happened today.

What seems like a simple fundraising meeting is not simple at all. The dedication of the great nobles of the Alpha Kingdom, that is only the tip of the iceberg.

What really frightens everyone is the aristocracy of the Alpha Kingdom - unity.

Everyone inquired in advance, the Dalton family and the Coslow family are mortal enemies, and the two families are crowded in the southeastern province, and there are countless frictions in private.

According to the normal situation, such two families should be pulling each other's backs. Whatever you support, we oppose.

Unless the interest involved is sufficiently large; Or in the event of a life and death crisis, if you don't cooperate, everyone will end up together, and it will be possible to cooperate.

But the reality is very slap in the face, the two families who should have stabbed each other have already begun to cooperate without even seeing the shadow of the enemy.

After all, the so-called Hessian threat is pure wishful thinking. At present, the Kingdom of Hesse has not shown the slightest sign of sending troops, let alone crossing the Blackstone Mountains.

Don't look at the distance between the two sides is less than a hundred kilometers, if the army really wants to cross from here, it will not be easy at all.

Even if a passage is opened, it is necessary to send heavy troops to guard the passage to ensure the logistics security of their own homes.

Unfortunately, most of the nobles of the southeastern provinces, who suffered from paranoia of deep victimization, believed that once the war broke out, the Hesses would kill them from here.

The basis for this theory is - orcs. In the recent orc invasion war, Beamon's army made a detour all the way, interspersed with many countries, and wanted to stab Alpha in the eye.

If Hudson hadn't led the expeditionary force back to rescue in time, the empty southern provinces would have been successfully attacked by the orcs.

You can travel thousands of miles, and open up a passage of less than 100 kilometers, naturally, it is not a problem.

Regardless of whether others believe it or not, Governor Pierce believed it anyway, and with the addition of Lord Hudson on the side, everyone quickly came to the conclusion that the Kingdom of Hesse was preparing to invade the Kingdom of Alpha from the Blackstone Mountains!

This is a life-and-death crisis, and we must unite!

As for the dispute between the Dalton family and the Coslow family, it is only a fight between the eldest and the second, and even if one wins, the other will not be killed.

The conference soon came to an end, and the nobles, who had no excitement to see, left in twos and threes, and finally only the Hudson who stayed here to drink tea was left.

"Your Excellency, can this really deter the Kingdom of Hesse?"

Governor Pierce asked, uncertain.

The defense line can be repaired at any time, and before the southern provinces, the two families spent a lot of money to jointly direct such a big drama, naturally not to pretend to be forced.

"Your Excellency, relax! Looking at the reaction of Minister Hesse, you can see that the meeting just now scared him a lot.

From today onwards, in the eyes of the outside world, our southeastern province is a united province. Anyone who wants to attack us must think twice.

Human nature is originally to bully the weak and fear the hard.

The Kingdom of Hesse and the area bordering the kingdom are not just southeastern provinces, and they realize that we are not easy to mess with, so they naturally will not touch each other hard.

Even if war breaks out immediately, they will not list us as the first breakthrough target.

As long as the Blood Moon defense line is made the strongest defense line in the kingdom, and the enemy realizes that the southeastern province is difficult to break through, we will be removed from the attack target by the Hessian kingdom.

If a large-scale war breaks out in the future, we will still be the rear of the kingdom! ”

Hudson struggled to fool around.

After the end of the war, in order to obtain a period of peaceful development, he was trying to carry out strategic layout, but he did not achieve the desired results for a long time.

Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared.

The sudden assassination of Eucalyptus created an opportunity for him. The Hessian threat theory, which had been preached in the southeastern provinces for many days, was finally put to use.

With the foundation of the previous public opinion, Hudson successfully fooled the nobles in the province, and then used everyone's common consciousness to trick Governor Pierce.

The result was a "united southeastern province". Whether others believe it or not, Hudson believed it anyway.

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Since it is a united province, it is natural that it cannot continue to engage in friction. The skirmishes of the past must now stop.

In order to keep Governor Pierce busy and not have time to think about it, Hudson not only led everyone to increase the construction specifications of the Blood Moon Line, but also gave up the leadership of the construction of the Blood Moon Line.

As for whether the Kingdom of Hesse will fight from the Blackstone Mountains in the future, then I can only ask the Hessians, anyway, Lord Hudson doesn't know.

The enemy's invasion from the Blackstone Mountains is a testament to Lord Hudson's prescience in proposing a defensive line; If the enemy does not attack from this side, then the strategy of "surrendering without a fight" has succeeded.

Regardless of the final outcome, Lord Hudson's judgment is correct.

Once the project starts, there is no turning back. Since in front of so many nobles on the mainland, it was announced that they would spend a huge amount of money to build the Blood Moon Defense Line, it must be implemented.

The cost was huge, and Lord Hudson didn't care. The big deal is to destock, instead of piling up rust in the warehouse, it is better to use it where it can be used.

If there is a surplus of labor, it can also be exchanged under the banner of coordinating the allocation of resources to speed up the development and construction of the territory.

After a few years, the construction of the Blood Moon Line was completed. The swamp of his own house has almost been developed, the first batch of monster cubs have grown up to be officially serviced, and the foundation of the Coslow family is stable.

At that time, even if the Dalton family realizes that they have been fooled and wants to take action to curb the development of the Coslow family, it will be too late.

……

Hessian Kingdom, looking at the information transmitted from the Alpha Kingdom, Alexander V asked suspiciously: "The Alpha Men reacted so violently, Count Niklas, what new military plan has your military department come up with?" ”

Originally, he was going to settle accounts with the Alpha Kingdom, but judging from the current situation, they are the ones who are actively preparing for war.

The news of the prince's assassination has been coming back for several days, but whether to use the question of whether to play a battle with the Alpha Kingdom, the Hesse Kingdom has not yet discussed a result.

It's not that they are afraid of the Alpha Kingdom, it's mainly that the current complex international situation makes everyone feel uncertain.

Through diplomatic probing, one big country after another is hinting to them: do whatever you want, we promise not to make trouble!

The more everyone agitated, the more the Kingdom of Hesse did not dare to move. Don't look at the fact that they are cheering them on now, if the war breaks out, they will immediately turn into a different face.

Unable to understand the reason, Alexander V could only suspect that his strategic plan had been leaked, which caused the Alpha Kingdom to be highly vigilant.

"Your Majesty, our military department has not made a military plan recently!"

Count Niklas replied with a bewildered expression.

Military plans, when did it happen, how did he not know?

Could it be that the people below are fooling around again?

That's not right! The bureaucrats of the Ministry of Military Affairs, one is lazier than the other, who has nothing to do when they are full, and runs to make military plans!

"Oh!"

"It's not your reason, but what's it? The Arfa is like crazy, desperately trying to build a defense line on the border, as if we are going to fight it right away! ”

Alexander V's words made the princes and ministers dumbfounded.

They really can't understand the operation of the Alpha Kingdom. Before they could decide whether to fight a tentative war, they were preparing for an all-out war.

There is no doubt that in the current international situation, it is impossible for the Kingdom of Hesse to launch a full-scale war.

Just looking at the data on paper, they are indeed much stronger than the Alpha Kingdom now, but the Aslan Continent is not only two countries, they have to leave people to guard their hometown.

The forces that can really be put into the war are not necessarily more than the Alpha Kingdom. After all, people are the only ones in the north, and there are not so many countries that are holding back.

"Your Majesty, isn't the Alpha Kingdom frightened by us!"

The Prime Minister, Duke Milton, said uncertainly.

"Your Excellency, there is not a high probability that the Arfa will be frightened. The minister in the Alpha Kingdom sent news that the July Council would declare responsibility for the assassination of Eucalyptus, and that the Alpha Kingdom was organizing a manpower to encircle and suppress him.

We proposed to redraw the sphere of influence, but the other side rejected it without even talking about it.

Since the outbreak of the assassination, they have not done anything other than to send some supplements.

Obviously, they want us to admit that the assassination was carried out by the cult July Club, and then conduct in-depth negotiations. ”

The Marquis of Krasner immediately vetoed.

Whether you are frightened or not, diplomacy is the best way to see the problem. The foreign policy of the Alpha Kingdom has continued to be strong in the past, and it is obviously not afraid of them.

"Let our people test their true purpose, such a big thing happened, it is not something that can be explained by a cult!

In addition, we have strengthened intelligence gathering within the Alpha Kingdom, and if the Kingdom wants to advance north, they are our biggest obstacle.

The order was sent down to convene a meeting of the governors of the provinces and the kings of the county to discuss the strategy against the Alpha Kingdom. This news is released directly, and there is no need to keep it secret.

The military can't be idle, pulling the team to the border and putting pressure on the Alpha Kingdom! ”

Alexander V said angrily.

It can be seen that Alexander V is really angry. His son was assassinated in the Alpha Kingdom, and the other party didn't take it seriously.

"Done by a cult organization," such a crude explanation can also make a fool of children.

In the Aslant continent, two-thirds of all the eucalyptus cases that could not be found were blamed by the cult organization, and the remaining one-third were dumped to the alien race.