The dwarves took the lead, and the interracial alliance responded. The dwarves don't need to worry about the specific contact transactions, they just get it done.

The strategic purpose of containing the Terrans is to make a fortune as a second-tier dealer, which is also one of the reasons.

Involved with great fanfare, the tribes quickly exposed themselves. Everything else can be hidden, but the weapons and equipment made by the dwarves cannot be hidden.

Occasionally, one or two high-quality weapons can be said to be exquisite craftsmen, and a large number of high-quality weapons are mass-produced only by dwarves in the whole continent.

After the officers and soldiers on the front line noticed the intervention of the alien alliance, they quickly realized that the matter was about to be a big deal, and immediately fed back the news back to their respective forces.

……

Alpha Kingdom.

As soon as he received the news, Caesar IV ordered a high-level council of the kingdom.

On the strategic side, he's always done a good job. Although his strategic judgment ability is average, he is better than knowing how to hold meetings and discussions.

The plan that has been discussed by all parties may not be the best one, but it must be the one that best meets the immediate needs of the kingdom.

"Your Majesty, it's true that the Interracial Alliance secretly supports the Inner Earth Race, but it's too early to say that they will end up in the war.

At least the elves don't want to start a war now!

There is gossip that the elven mother tree can already give birth to elves.

If the news is true, for a long time in the future, the elves will choose to be silent and accumulate strength. ”

The Prime Minister, Marquis Delgado, was the first to speak.

The news of the restoration of the Elven Mother Tree is purely a guess on the part of the Terrans.

The theoretical basis is very simple, the Elven Forest is completely under martial law, and even the envoys of all clans are not allowed to enter their royal city.

Any weird behavior has a story behind it.

If there is such a big movement, even if it is not the revival of the elf mother tree, there are other major events.

In case of uncertainty, simply release the grapevine to test the elves' reaction.

There has been no official response yet, but there are already some people within the Terrans who believe that the Elven Mother Tree has been revived.

Evidence is not needed, as the opponent's intuition is enough!

If the news is true, what the elves need most now is time.

The elf mother tree can not only give birth to elves and flowers, but also increase the probability of elves becoming pregnant.

In the past, the elves were able to dominate the continent, and the biggest hero was the elf mother tree.

"If the news is true, then the elves should move even more and muddy the waters of the continent.

The Alliance can tolerate an elven race in a corner of peace, but it will definitely not tolerate an elven race that can threaten the hegemony of our human race!

If the Elven Mother Tree can be damaged once, it can be damaged a second time, or even completely destroyed.

Although each country has its own calculations because of its interests, everyone still has the same position on the issue of racial hegemony.

It is theoretically feasible for the powerful in the alliance to mediate and organize a large army expedition! ”

As he spoke, Earl Aikman glanced at Hudson.

Once such a large-scale military operation is passed in the Coalition Parliament, the probability that the commander-in-chief will fall to Hudson is as high as nine in nine.

As the closest Terran power to the elves, the Alpha Kingdom is definitely the main force in the coalition.

There is no doubt that this is a big gamble with both risk and reward.

to clear the last obstacle to the kingdom's domination of the Northern Continent; If you lose, you will be greatly injured and return to the era of passively beaten gas bags.

"Count Aikman, what you say is only military.

In fact, the elves have been able to survive until now, not only because of military problems, but also because of economic and political problems.

The elves are different from the orcs, they are not only strong in general, but also in terms of individual strength.

Especially in the jungle, they are also able to exert stronger combat effectiveness.

Once a major war is launched, it must be protracted. The amount of money and food that needs to be consumed is definitely an astronomical amount.

Although it was shared by the entire alliance, the money and grain had to be transported from each country to the kingdom, and from there through the Duchy of Moxi before it could be transported to the battlefield.

A soldier fighting on the front line requires at least thirty soldiers to transport food and grass supplies.

Considering the complexity of the battlefield, the attrition will increase further as the battle line advances.

If you want to destroy the elves, it's not enough to have 1.8 million. The huge consumption of money and food is enough to bring countries back to reason.

Even if they want to fight this battle, it is only after clearing away the few alien clans entrenched in the Central Continent that everyone dares to give it a go.

As for the restoration of the Elven Mother Tree, there is no need to worry.

Even if it is really restored, the fertility of the elves has also increased, and these newborn elves have no combat power.

Give them more counts, 100,000 newborns a year. The fertility population of the elves is almost constant, and the growth rate is almost negligible in a hundred years.

The rapid growth of the population will have to wait for this batch of newborns to reach adulthood.

If you want to threaten the hegemony of our human race, you need to accumulate strength for at least a few hundred years.

In the current situation on the mainland, the interracial alliance wants to support it for hundreds of years, but I am afraid that it does not have the ability.

If nothing happens, the kingdom will encroach on the orc empire within thirty years, and complete digestion within a hundred years.

If the high-level elves have the foresight, what they need to consider now is not how to increase their strength, but how to protect themselves! ”

After listening to Earl Francis's explanation, Hudson could only sigh that he was worthy of being the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and this ability to settle accounts was different.

War seems to be a competition for military strength and forced for money and food, but in fact it is a competition for productivity.

The rapid rise of the human race is due to the fact that in addition to the slippery political means and the military strength is not weak, the most important thing is that the productivity exceeds that of the races.

Pushing forward in the timeline, the original Terran did not have any advantages, and the racial talent could only be regarded as below average when looking at the continent.

However, the Terrans have a strong learning ability, and the things that each race is good at have been learned by the Terrans.

The crystallization of multi-racial wisdom collided in the human race, and sparked a civilization leap.

If you don't have a strong cultivation talent, you can optimize the exercises and create the exercises that are most suitable for you.

In the case of the relatively single cultivation of other races, various cultivation branches of the human race world emerged one after another, showing a prosperous era of a hundred flowers.

The expansion of the Holy See has stifled this prosperity of cultivation to a certain extent, but the Holy See has declined.

As long as the base is large enough, there will always be strong ones.

The current human race, the advantage in the number of top powerhouses may not be very obvious, but the strength of the middle and lower classes is definitely far superior to that of all races.

……

The courtiers continued to express their opinions, and soon Caesar IV was confused.

What everyone said makes sense, and there is also their own theoretical basis to support it. No one dares to say what the future situation will be.

"Marshal Hudson, what do you think of the current situation?"

was named, and Hudson was still in a state of bewilderment. It was clear that he, like Caesar IV, had been stunned by his courtiers.

There are certainly opinions, but the current discussion is tantamount to extrapolating the future situation.

Everything is based on a defined logical template, and if something happens in between, all inferences will be null and void.

Just like the previous predictions: the Holy See will decline all the way under the encroachment of various countries, until it is finally destroyed.

As a result, because of the outbreak of the Demonic Calamity, the invasion of the geocentric race, and the return of overseas powerhouses, the three major variable factors pulled the Holy See back from the brink of destruction.

"Your Majesty, for the kingdom, it doesn't really matter at all whether the Interracial Alliance intervenes in the war or not.

There are no geocentric races entrenched in the kingdom, and foreign races can't find support targets if they want to support them.

If the alien alliance directly participates in the war, we still have to fight the orcs, and it will be regarded as the beast war in advance.

In the current state of the Orc Empire, it is no match for the kingdom at all, and at most our border line can advance hundreds of miles in half a year.

Whether the elven mother tree is restored or not, then there is no need to waste time.

If you hide it for a while, you can't hide it for a lifetime. As long as the number of newborns of the elves increases significantly, we can default to the restoration of the elven mother tree.

After the destruction of the Orc Empire, you can start the war against the Elves.

Follow our strategy against the orcs, start a war every few years, and keep fighting them for attrition.

The most important thing to do now is to divide the land on the border first.

The freedmen who had migrated before the kingdom had now taken root. The results are still good, and 30% of the money and food of the front-line garrison have been solved.

In the future, this proportion is expected to increase to 50%.

Whether it is to continue to migrate the freedmen, or to directly divide the rule of the nobility, you can't let the land sit idle all the time! ”

Hudson replied cautiously.

There was no political statement, but it represented the interests of the aristocratic group.

The Royal Government wants to increase the number of direct domains, and it is not a day or two. The idea is very beautiful, but the reality is very cruel.

Migrant freedmen, don't look at Hudson's words, the actual resistance is beyond imagination.

Since ancient times, "garrisoning" has been the number one drudgery in the world, and it is generally exiled criminals.

In front of the migration of free people, the royal government was strongly pushed by the pressure. Even with Caesar IV in the people, the dog who was scolded was bloody.

Continue to migrate free people, not to mention the pressure of public opinion, there are not so many jobless vagrants in the kingdom!

Now those who remain are those who have skills and can gain a foothold in the city, and all of them are owners with families and businesses.

If the royal government dares to force these people to go to the frontier to clear the wasteland, they dare to turn around and run away to settle in other countries.

The real way left for the royal government is to continue to divide the land and let the nobles who have the courage to expand and expand their ambition pass.

This is not a deliberate digging by Hudson, it is entirely a follow-up strategic need of the kingdom.

If you want to destroy the orc empire, how can you do it without a group of eager pioneers?

Hudson's approach was simply to set an example for the younger generation of the Kingdom to see the benefits of outreach.

Ten years ago, the border was Beidi, seven years ago the border was the seven provinces of Northern Xinjiang, five years ago the border was the Near East, and now the border has reached the eastern part of Xueyue Lake.

At this rate of advancement, the current frontier will become the hinterland of the kingdom in a few years.

It's just a few years of hard life, and the enterprising noble children still don't mind.

Locally, these people are the most staunch warlords of the kingdom.

The further the kingdom advances, the safer their territory becomes. To support the war is to safeguard one's own interests.

This is a conspiracy, and even if all parties know about Hudson's plan, everyone must support it.

The destruction of the Orc Empire is a fundamental national policy, and all interest groups must serve this strategic goal.

"The marshal is right when he says that these border territories really need to be governed.

Prime Minister, this issue has been put on hold for a long time, how did your government plan it? ”

Caesar IV took advantage of the situation.

The delay was the result of his consultation with the government, but unfortunately the time was successfully delayed, and the royal government still did not come up with enough people to fill it.

The noble lords had robbed a large number of people in the Papal States, but these were private property, not for the royal government.

The main reason is that when the policy was first formulated, it was negligent, and it was only patronizing and collecting money, forgetting about the population.

Later, the royal government wanted to purchase serfs from the noble lords, but everyone knew the purpose of the royal government and decisively chose to refuse.

Anyway, the royal government is not the only buyer, and it can't cut off the future of its children for a fraction of a small profit.

Even if there are no children of appropriate age, they must consider the reputation in the aristocratic circle, and they must not betray the interests of the class.

Of course, you can still buy it if you really want to. The nobles of the kingdom do not sell, there are nobles of other countries who will sell, as long as the price is high enough, everything is negotiable.

The main factor that led to the bankruptcy of the plan was that the executor of the plan was also an aristocracy.

At the time of the specific operation, a discount was made. Instead of purchasing at the first time, he waited for Hudson to make a big purchase and the price of serfs soared before he made a move.

For a poor kingdom, cost performance always comes first.

As soon as the price went up, the original budget was not enough, and the plan could only be aborted.

Caesar IV did not rush to the front line, it was all decisions made by internal meetings, and this pot is now undoubtedly going to fall on the government.

With a simple glance hint, the Marquis delgado understood what the king meant, which was to activate the backup plan.

"Your Majesty, the government has made the relevant plans. For the disposal of the new territories, in general, we still follow the tradition of the kingdom - military merit knighthood!

It's just that the number of heroes who have achieved enough military merit in the last war is limited, and only a small part of the land can be divided.

Due to the need for control over the new territories, we decided to seal them all out.

In order to uphold the principle of fairness, unqualified nobles need to pay a certain price if they want to obtain a fief.

In addition to paying three gold coins per mu of land, an additional five percent agricultural tax must be paid. ”

According to the tradition of the continent of Aslanth, the land of the nobles was not subject to taxes to the kingdom.

The government's fiscal revenue mainly comes from commercial taxes, mining taxes, and customs duties, and war taxes can be levied in times of war.

The situation of the Alpha Kingdom was special because the military pressure was too great, and the nobles had to amortize part of the cost of military rations on the front line.

These are all forced out, and if everyone does not take on this part of the obligation, the poor royal government will not be able to raise so many soldiers.

Theoretically, after the destruction of the orc empire, this part of the amortization will be gone.

Only a small amount of taxes are collected, and a tax package system is adopted, and it is inevitable that the government will be poor.

As a last resort, there was a reformist tax reform. In the agrarian era, however, these taxes were ultimately limited.

The government is not coveting agricultural taxes, and it is not a day or two.

It's just that the aristocratic group is not easy to mess with, and no one dares to tax the nobles, so there are the migratory free people in front of them to open up the wasteland.

There is no doubt that a limited number of free people cannot meet the needs of the Kingdom.

It can solve the problem of 30% of the military rations on the front line, and that is only in peacetime, and there are not many garrisons on the front line.

Once the war years began, that little output was a drop in the bucket.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the separation, the royal government hit the idea of the emerging aristocracy.

The lack of military merit has become the best excuse for the government to levy agricultural taxes.

In the past, if you dared to make such excessive demands, there would definitely be an embarrassing situation where no one should be sealed.

Guarding the border, such a dangerous thing, the government does not subsidize it, and no one goes.

The situation is obviously different now, and the high-risk border has become low-risk.

The current situation is that if the kingdom doesn't trouble the orcs, the orc empire will have fun, and the orcs who dare to come over will become fertilizer on the prairie one by one.

"Prime Minister, it's Jue Jin, and it's agricultural tax, I'm afraid the small and medium-sized nobles can't afford it!"

Hudson spoke slowly.

He was clear about the government's motives, and deep down he supported them. After all, he won't be asked to pay these taxes.

It's just that the status is limited, and at this time, it is necessary to fight for one or two promising young people in the military.

"Marshal, the knight is allowed to be owed on credit!

If you make a great contribution later, you can also offset these knights. So the pressure in this regard can basically be ignored.

The issue of agricultural taxes is not a big problem. The government has only levied five points, and everyone can bear it.

Fewer banquets a year saves you money.

The main thing is to uphold the principle of fairness in the Kingdom!

It would be very unfair to others to receive a knighthood without paying a certain price for the lack of military merit. ”

After the Marquis Delgado finished speaking, Hudson nodded.

The reason given by the government is very good - lack of military merit!

As for the flaws in the details, Hudson deliberately pretended not to hear the extraneous meaning of the future military exploits that could be offset against the knighthood, but could not exempt him from agricultural taxes.

(End of chapter)