119 Hidden dangers of the empire
"I know what you mean, but do you know that since my ancestors founded this country, they have been pouring a lot of human and material resources into the north just to keep the threat from the north out of the human kingdom. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 At the same time, the kings of the central and southern parts of the continent can sit comfortably on their thrones. Paul remembered what he had learned when he had just returned home to see his father, and he was furious.
"But how did they repay us? While our warriors were fighting for their lives with the enemy, they secretly encroached on our land by means of immigrants, my brother, who had invisibly annexed one-fifth of St. George's land in the past few decades! But their ambition was much more than that, they wanted us to continue to fight the steppe tribes, they wanted to see the empire of St. George fall day by day, and even more so to see St. George fall with a bang!"
Paul excitedly told the news that had not been spread, but it was just him, Marlowe, and James. James, as a high-ranking paladin, belongs to one of the high-ranking members of the empire, and is also a confidant of His Majesty Barbarossa, and he also knows about this, only Marlowe, as an outsider, does not know that St. George's neighbor has done such a dirty thing.
Immigration does not mean official behavior, or overt official policy. When it comes to this, we have to introduce the three countries that are next to the St. George's Empire, which are the Mojave, the Hardamwi Empire, and the Torresman Empire.
Among them, the Mojave and Hadanwi empires were located in the Kanhar Desert in the north-central part of the continent, where the land was barren and difficult to cultivate, the food was mainly made of drought-tolerant starch plants, and water resources were scarce.
Their beliefs are also different from those of other human nations, where they have the sun in the sky as their god.
In addition, the Tothleiman Empire is the same as the St. George Empire, with the belief in God Octavian and the Holy Angel as the main believers, the geographical environment of the country is better than the two other countries, it is located in the central and western part of the continent, there are three majestic and wide rivers from the source of the Torresman Empire, and the last three rivers flow along the terrain to the inland sea in the south and the ocean in the southwest, so Torresman is not short of water, abundant water resources allow the people of this country to grow buckwheat, oats and some other crops.
The three nations did not want to encroach on St. George for religious or other reasons, but for the state all actions were motivated by interests, and the three countries coveted the fertile land of St. George's empire hundreds of years ago.
However, at that time, the civil strife in St. George had just subsided, and the surviving soldiers had experienced the test of blood and fire, although the country's economy almost collapsed at that time, and production almost came to a standstill, the strong combat effectiveness of the army still gave each of the three empires a slap in the face.
After the recuperation of the empire of St. George, the king's efforts were made, and the whole empire was renewed, standing even more invincible in front of its three neighbors. A few years before Paul's grandfather was to die, the St. George's empire reached its peak of imperial power, and the wounds of the long civil war were finally healed by time.
However, the steppe tribes in the north have been consuming the financial and manpower of this human empire, until the St. George Empire reached the peak of development, and the annual cold winter war finally exposed the hidden dangers, which was like a tumor growing on the face of the St. George Empire, and this tumor grew bigger and bigger, so that the three neighboring countries saw the fatigue of the St. George Empire.
The three countries have changed their way of invading, and they are not sure that they can directly divide up St. George, who in their eyes is a seriously ill patient, although it seems painful and tired to look at it, but they still have the spare strength to teach them a lesson in blood.
So they secretly encouraged the people to settle across the border, which seemed like a good thing for the St. George's Empire, after all, the long war had consumed too many people, and the country needed such a group of outsiders to fill the void.
His Majesty Barbarossa was too young to see the hidden dangers that would lay in the long run, so he followed the advice of the minister and acquiesced to such behavior. After some investigation, His Majesty the King, who had matured into the country, found that the ministers had accepted huge bribes from neighboring countries at that time, and that the immediate family members of the ministers had already moved to other countries a few years earlier.
Speaking of going back to the fact that His Majesty Barbarossa sent people to investigate the riots of the people on the border, the results of the investigation surprised the king, and the connivance of more than twenty years has allowed three neighboring countries to invisibly occupy one-fifth of the territory of the St. George's Empire, which is equivalent to the area of one province of Victor!
Barbarossa was even more annoyed by the fact that the people who had moved from here lived in the land of St. George, but did not obey the orders of the lords and kings of the empire. They established their own local government, apparently to be independent of the empire, and they were extremely repulsive to the indigenous people, who were driven and slaughtered by the border riots.
The enraged king wanted to immediately send troops to recover the land, but the perennial war attrition had made it difficult for the whole country to support it, and the three neighboring countries also sent envoys to say that they would never sit idly by.
This is bound to be a long and arduous war, and if the troops stationed in the north are drawn, what will be used to resist the attack of the orcs when the cold winter comes......
Moreover, the war-weariness of the imperial people was also very strong, and Barbarossa could only give away the southern border in the name of the autonomy of the three provinces.
The Mojave Empire and the Hadamwi Empire thus occupied a lot of fertile land. Although the Torresman Empire was a step late, it did the same later, and because the religious beliefs were the same as those of the St. George's Empire, it was more dominant in the later period, so it took the greatest advantage among the three countries.
His Majesty Barbarossa Williams gritted his teeth in anger, but he could only hold back.
He knew that only by solving the long-standing threat from the North would he be able to free up his hands to clean up the three ugly-faced neighbors. The appearance of the Warcry Tribes undoubtedly saw him an opportunity, which is why he is willing to help Marlowe and his people.
The Warcry Tribe wasn't strong enough, but he was willing to wait, and was willing to prop up Marlowe as the new Prairie Leader.
His son's brother's experience growing up in Twin Springs, his parents' insistence on pursuing it, and the food that could be grown in the grasslands all proved that as long as the Warcry Tribe could gain a foothold in the grasslands, the northern side of the St. George Empire would have a reliable ally, and the pressure on the St. George Empire would drop dramatically every winter, at least until the Warcry Tribes unified the steppes.