Luke was once captured by Mo Yan and was one of the fifty Salt warriors who were detained, and these fifty Salts had been brainwashed by Mo Yan when they were still a cave in Thunder Cliff. Although Luke is not as optimistic about Mo Yan as others, he still agrees with Mo Yan.

When he heard Mo Yan say that he wanted to build a country where monsters and humans coexisted, he even had the urge to help him realize his wish. But impulsiveness is just impulse, the special surname of monsters eating people makes them not acceptable, maybe Mo Yan can restrain those monsters when he is still there, and once Mo Yan is dead?

Those monsters that were originally suppressed by Mo Yan's powerful strength will definitely immediately attack the humans in the kingdom. Then the kingdom that has been established will be ruined, and the current situation will be restored, and all the efforts made will be in vain. Rook didn't want to get involved in the doomed thing, so he just nodded casually and didn't answer.

Then Mo Yan said some jokes, seeing that Luke disagreed with his ideas, Mo Yan did not feel any disappointment. After all, such a thing has to break the inherent idea, and there are still a lot of difficulties to overcome, and Mo Yan's mood of not wanting to get involved is understandable. After talking for a while and understanding the direction of Cabinda's future development, the dinner was over, and Mo Yan and Jones went back to their rooms to rest.

At this time, thousands of miles away in Carthage, Luxembourg, the princess of the kingdom was still dealing with the affairs in front of her, dispatching troops to the defense area to replace the tired legions. The treatment of taxes in the South, as well as the collection of war materials. Artoria is in charge of all these things now, after all, a twelve-year-old boy can't stabilize the situation here.

On their way back to southern Carthage from Elam, they were assassinated five or six times. Serpo suffered some minor injuries, and Trist is still recovering from serious injuries. As the princess's squire knights, they had done well enough that neither the king nor their princess were harmed.

As for the assassination, Artoria did not deal with these matters after coming to Luxembourg. Because now is the time to fight against foreign enemies, some internal contradictions can be dealt with slowly. Although some nobles who were loyal to the royal family also proposed to settle the outside first, Artoria did not take such measures.

It was just a matter of gathering all the nobles and making a statement about the assassination. As long as no one is committing treasonous acts in the next defense, past sins can be abused and sworn in the name of royal honor. The effect of this was obvious, and some people with evil intentions settled down and began to devote themselves to the fight against the Maro Empire.

But even so, the war remains a stalemate. In the absence of internal resistance, Carthage, which should have fought back with all its might, was restrained by Benmaro. Emperor Maro, who was originally besieging the royal city, took his army besieging the royal capital to the front line in southern Carthage.

Caesar, the greatest emperor in the history of the Maro Empire, killed his incompetent and brutal father through a rebellion. In just ten years, the army was trained to rectify the internal affairs of the empire and improve the laws of the empire. Pulled the original [***] Maro Empire back from the brink of destruction and developed into a powerful country.

At this time, Arthur, the king of Carthage, clearly felt Caesar's ambition to expand. It was decided to move the royal capital from the mild south to the north near Maro, and at great expense to build a huge fortress at an important point between Maro and Carthage, which was later killed by Arthur in battle.

But even so, Arthur underestimated Caesar, and when he learned that Caesar Maginot had built it, Maro began to secretly prepare strategic materials for soldiers to begin training for war. Six months earlier, Arthur had launched a surprise attack on Carthage, and Arthur had rushed to Fort Maginot where a third had been built, intending to defend it until the fortress was completed.

Caesar, who knew that the fortress would fail after the construction was completed, used a very risky tactic to use himself as a bait to bypass Maginot Castle and march towards the interior of Carthage. At this time, the Maginot was already half-built, and it only took a few months to complete it.

Caesar cut off Maginow's material transport line, forcing Arthur to fight Caesar in a plain. Arthur, who was already a little older, lost the battle with Caesar and was eventually besieged by Caesar and died in Maginot City. The twelve-year-old prince of Carthage was crowned, and the twenty-year-old princess began to enter politics.

With the loss of Fort Maginot, Caesar's army was able to march straight in, and sent a large number of legions to bypass the royal capital, cutting Carthage in two in the middle. Caesar provoked discord among the southern nobles, so that they could not break through the blocking forces in time to reinforce the besieged royal capital. Eventually, the royal capital fell, and the king and princess had to flee the royal capital and retreat to the southern part of Carthage through Elam.

After the princess returned to southern Carthage, she declared herself regent to act as the king. The young princess behaved very satisfactorily, not only with an open mind, but also with a good political aspect. The use of co-optation and pacification quickly quelled the undercurrent among the southern aristocracy, allowing Carthage to have the strength to fight Caesar.

"So Caesar gave up the royal capital?" Artoria put down her report and asked the nobles in the hall who were also not resting, "If there is a force that can attack Caesar's rear at this time, it can even make him retreat to the vicinity of Maginot." ”

"That's right. A nobleman with a goatee said, "But apparently there is no such force nearby, and the kingdoms around Maro are too weak to launch such an attack." And it is impossible for us to bypass Caesar's line and throw troops into his rear. ”

"We can go to Elam. A young nobleman said, "Sending a legion to Caesar's rear, if not to make him retreat, can attack his logistical lines and make his defensive line porous." When the time comes, we will be able to concentrate our forces on breaking through and recovering the occupied territory!"

"Baron Polke, that won't work!" rebuked the goatee-bearded nobleman, "the terrain of Elamite is rugged, and the Salts they won't allow a regular legion to pass through the area they rule." What's more, Elam is full of monsters, and if the legions sent are not elite enough or even out of Elam, they have all become the dinner in the mouths of monsters. ”

"The Salts should be accommodating. The reprimanded Baron Polk said, "Aren't we doing business with the Salts now? The problem of monsters is also easy to solve, as long as you say, Archduke Obas, it would be good to send a sufficiently elite legion?"

"Business is business. Archduke Obas sighed and said, "We have been doing business with the Salts for a long time, but they will not make that choice. The kings of the past had an agreement with them not to send any regular legions such as Elam, otherwise it would be a signal for a declaration of war. And how many soldiers have retreated from the south, and how many have passed through Elam? Not one in ten!"

"That's all for today. Artoria, who had been frowning and listening for a long time, said: "This proposal will be put on hold for the time being, and I will talk about it when the time comes." The first issue at present is to stabilize the front, to use the potential of the southern provinces to train the army, and to manufacture weapons and equipment. ”

"Listen to your will. The nobles bowed and left the council chamber in twos and threes. There were occasional controversies along the way, with some agreeing with Pock's idea, while most of them thought it was too risky and would cause resentment and opposition among the Salts. Artoria in the hall sighed and rubbed her aching temples.

I began to read the reports sent by various cities in the south, the training of the legions, and the consumption of supplies. Looking at the accounts in and out, although it was a headache, I had to continue to read. At such a critical juncture, one careless person will be wiped out. Artoria has to be extra cautious in handling things.

"Sister, aren't you sleeping yet?" Charlie, who came to the hall at an unknown time, was wearing pajamas and asked Artoria, who was looking at the scroll report in his hand, "It's getting late now, and if you don't rest well, your body will collapse." ”

"If the kingdom falls, then my health is useless. Artoria said coldly, "How is your homework today, and what do you know about business management?"

"I guess I understand...... Charlie's voice was a little faint.

"Then study hard. Artoria buried her head and continued to read the documents and said, "I will give you a whole country, you go to sleep." ”

Charlie looked at his sister, but finally did not say anything, and left the council chamber silently accompanied by the maid.

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