War, if there is no material support, can only be a group of unclothed savages fighting each other. War requires all kinds of resources, people who gather supplies, people who produce weapons, people who transport armor. And none of this comes out of nowhere, it is necessary for the leaders to pay salaries to these people who work for the war.

Some would argue that it was cost-effective to use slaves, and that the purchased captured prisoners of war or those who had been sold into slavery for various reasons did not need to be paid a salary. Most of the countries of the Central Plains were using slaves to a greater or lesser extent, and a commercial country like Carthage, which had a large number of merchants, had a large number of slaves in all workshops and plantations.

But in fact, the use of slaves seems to be cost-effective, but in fact it is an extremely wasteful system. Because they are slaves, they have no motivation to produce at all, and can only engage in some simple manual labor, and they also need a large number of free men to guard, otherwise there will be fugitives or riots.

That's why Mo Yan liberated a thousand gray dwarf goblins from the dungeon after he asked for them to become free people. Employing slaves as artisans is a brain-dead act, and there is nothing to be gained other than to make the products produced by Thunder Bluff inferior.

Since the Grey Dwarves belong to the Free People, their work is paid. After the Council City declared war on Thunder Cliff, due to the lack of equipment to defend the city and the weapons and equipment of the monsters, Mo Yan reduced the export to the outside world and ordered the gray dwarves to produce at full strength.

In such a situation, all occupations in the city need to be paid. In addition, Mo Yan recently sent a caravan to Carthage with a lot of money to buy ships to buy magic materials, and he was producing materials needed to build a port city, which directly led to the financial crisis of Thunder Cliff.

"I accidentally played hi. Mo Yan looked at the report in front of him, and the big red negative equity was a little big: "Lilith, is this really the income of the city? Could it be that you are undercounting? I remember that last time in the vault of the city, there should be more than 1,000 gold coins." ”

"That's right. Lilith looked at Mo Yan, who was rarely distressed, and said with a smile: "All the expenses and income this month have been integrated, and Emily has also calculated it, without any mistakes." Master, you have spent lavishly, and you have emptied the vault of Thunder Cliff. The 1,000 gold coins you mentioned had already been paid to Dungeon Santos last month, after all, the drow artisans and spider farms in those drows needed to pay salaries. ”

"Why pay those ants. Jones sat on the bench opposite Mo Yan, eating the latest candy from Thunder Cliff and said, "Obviously, you have the final say on everything, why do you have to pay? If you can save this expense, you will get a lot of extra money." ”

"Stupid, there are things that can't be saved. Mo Yan sighed helplessly and said: "For a high-intensity job like Thunder Cliff, if there is no such salary support, will anyone come? ”

"But that doesn't solve the current financial crunch, and if we don't have extra income at the end of the month, we'll have to owe some artisans salaries. Lilith reminded Mo Yan, who was a little off-topic, and said, "So what we're solving now is a financial problem." ”

"Money, money, ......" Mo Yan, who had just forgotten a little, immediately resurfaced and muttered to himself: "Why don't the dragons here like gold coins, in that case, you can find a dragon's nest to grab some, maybe you can get some dragon scales or something to sell for money...... Huh?" Mo Yan raised his head as he spoke, looking at Jones, who was eating sugar, as if he remembered something.

"What's wrong?" Jones said as he looked at Mo Yan staring at her with a slightly red face.

"Anyway...... Are the black dragon's dragon scales worth anything?" Mo Yan suddenly laughed.

"Huh?"

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In the city of Parliament, the councillors of the city had gathered in the council chamber of the castle. This place of opportunity for the whole of Elam, even when there is no large gathering of the whole of Elam, is counted as the council chamber of the city, where the councillors elected from all walks of life in the city meet each month to vote on the next month's taxes and important resolutions.

As the end of each four years draws on, the next Speaker is elected here to take charge of some of the usual tasks of the entire Council City. It is also responsible for maintaining order at the time of the all-Elam vote, announcing the results of the all-Elam resolution, and canceling the privileges of some municipalities according to some rules, such as the last vote was a convocation order owned by Santa Fe, and has no other rights.

Most people already knew the theme of the regular session of the meeting before it began, an issue about the impeachment of the current speaker. The proposal was put forward by the parliamentarians who were opposed to the war, and although the decision to declare war was passed by a majority vote, it ended in defeat and 1,200 soldiers died outside.

There had to be a scapegoat for the bitter consequences, and the inhabitants of the city had to be given an explanation, and the Speaker, who advocated war and persuaded the majority of the councillors, was cited as the source of the defeat. If he hadn't advocated a declaration of war, how could he have come to such an end? It was said that the ambassador had been killed, but the truth of the matter was that almost all the parliamentarians knew what was going on, and it was just that he had stolen other people's secrets and found out.

After all three hundred councillors were seated, the Speaker, dressed in a robe that only the Speaker was entitled to wear, walked in with two soldiers of the Legion. This unusual behavior made all the councillors frown. Legionnaires were not allowed to sit in parliament, and no speaker in history had done so.

Some people with a keen sense of politics immediately thought of the bad side. Stealthily leaving his seat, he lowered his body and walked out, but as they expected, there was a group of soldiers guarding the door, and it was standing facing the council chamber.

"What do you want to do! Azela!" the old councillor stood up and pointed angrily at the Speaker, shouting, "No soldiers are allowed in the council chamber, this is where the councillors meet!"

"Huh...... Not anymore. Azera walked up to the speaker's stand, looked at the councillors who stood up one by one, and said with a smile, "From today onwards, the city council will be dissolved, and you will be imprisoned until the day you destroy the city of the monsters." For the good and glory of the entire Parliament City, I am crowned the first Emperor of the Parliament City. ”

"Vainly trying to become emperor in Elam, there is only one way to die!" The chubby councillor pointed at Azela and shouted: "The Salts have no emperor, and those who try to destroy the freedom of the Salts will be punished by the god of war!"

"I'm sorry, Congressman Tut. Hearing the fat councilor's words, Azela's smile became brighter: "The Temple of the God of War will be on my side, and the God of War will also bless my coronation." I, who have taken control of the Legion of the City of Parliament, am the absolute victor of this revolution, and you have no role to play except to accuse me in prison. Guards! Invite the councillors to the dungeon of the castle. ”

Hearing Azela's words, groups of Salt warriors rushed in with weapons in hand, pushing and shoving the elected councillors and escorting them to the castle's dungeons. Some of the parliamentarians, who had come by as warriors, resisted and were then cut to the ground one by one, unarmed and no match for the fully armed soldiers.

A thousand years later, the blood of the Salts stained the floor of the council chamber of the council city again, but at that time it was to resist Maro's invasion, and this time it was their own warriors who did it.

"Captain, is it really okay for us to do this?" After escorting all the councillors, a group of soldiers was sent to clean up the corpses in the council chamber, and a soldier carrying the corpses asked in a reluctant manner, "These are the councillors we elected." ”

"Think about army expansion! Think about military spending. The captain heard the soldier's words and said with a smile: "Our legion commander has always wanted to expand the army, but every time he was vetoed, it was these councilors who obstructed it. I've heard that we're going to expand our army by 10,000 this time! We're going to kill even the dragons in that city! Don't you feel excited? The gray wolf and the giant bear army have killed so many people? We must avenge this revenge!"

That sounds right. The soldier, who felt that what the captain said was very reasonable, casually threw the people's councillor onto the wooden cart and said: "10,000 people, just when the current legion gathers, it is already a sea of people. I really don't know what the scene of more than 10,000 people looks like, these parliamentarians are imprisoned, and no one has stopped the increase in military spending, right?"

"Of course. The captain nodded and said, "Our salary will also be greatly increased, I saw a good sword in the blacksmith shop some time ago, I should be able to buy it this time!"

"Hehe, I also want to buy some spider silk cloth for my mother. The warrior laughed.

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