Chapter XXVIII: The Second Alliance

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If William hadn't said that, maybe Victoria wouldn't have been angry to that extent. www.biquge.info Of course, if William hadn't said this, Victoria might not have made up her mind. All in all, after revealing the scene that Victoria couldn't accept and wanted to cover up the most, Victoria's expression became very ugly. In that case, William would never doubt that he would say to William, "She is going to pounce on you and kill you by all means."

Arrogant people, arrogant people, there is only one way to make such a guy angry, and that is to take her arrogance and arrogance, or by extension, so that she can be arrogant and arrogant. It's like this.

If it weren't for the fact that the main owner was still here, it would be a bit difficult to get it, and William could hardly help but look at Victoria with admiration.

Think about how confident this guy was when he first saw him, and how arrogant this guy was.

If Victoria's hatred for William comes from the contrast of power that changes every time they meet, then William's feelings for Victoria are actually similar.

Don't bully the young man to be poor, such words that make people feel blushing and ashamed, William naturally can't say it. However, he took this sentence to heart.

Think about the face of Victoria in the past, and then look at the virtues of Victoria now. William instantly felt so happy that he almost laughed out loud.

Of course, reserved, reserved. If you really laugh or cheer at this time, then it seems too superficial, and this is simply forcing Victoria and herself to fight hard.

William understands very well what the bottom line is, what the last fig leaf is.

Now, Victoria's feelings have reached a critical point. If William continues to stimulate her, she is likely to be impatient and turn her face directly with William. This is not the outcome that William wants to see.

Although it is true that the option of keeping peace with the Visigothic Republic and mutual benefit is among the Empire's alternative policies, it is not a good choice for William, not even the top three options. After all, William's ultimate goal was to unify the entire Gothic nation.

He had an essential contradiction with the Visigoths, and this contradiction simply could not be resolved. Unless one of the two sides gives up first, there is no way for anyone to solve it.

In fact, now that William is saying this kind of thing to Victoria, he wants to make Victoria more accommodating, more compromised, and come up with more things to share with himself.

It's like the United States during World War II. But if we say that the country with the highest level of science and technology is actually the world's largest industrial country, it is not Germany, which the German batons think is the world's first. It was Britain, the old world power at the time.

The reason why the United States was able to explode science and technology after World War II and become the world's number one scientific and technological power. The plundering of Germany's scientific and technological achievements is one of them, and on the other hand, it is through alliances that he legitimately "obtains" the centuries-old scientific and technological heritage of his two allies, the old powers of Britain and France.

It has the technology of the top three old empires, Britain, France, and Germany - and these three countries can almost represent the highest level of the whole of old Europe. After all their technology has been acquired, it would be strange if the United States could not become the number one in the world.

What William wanted to do now was to do this, as he did in the United States at the time, to force the Bretons to comply, by playing up a certain country - of course, the Visigothic Republic on the current world line - by playing up the threat of the Visigothic Republic.

As the world's second-largest industrial nation -- after losing its continental territory, the Britons had to be relegated to second place after being overtaken by the Russian Gothic Empire -- and at the same time, they were also the world's No. 1 scientific and technological power. The roots of the Britons are naturally unimaginably strong.

Even the dwarves, who have always been arrogant, acknowledge the Britons, claiming that the Britons are the only ones among the human race who are qualified to cooperate with the dwarves in technology.

At the same time, William could not forget the shock he had been given to the difference machine he had seen in Frisia - and at the same time, William knew one thing. The Bretons had smart people after all, and the Bretons had a huge number of spies in the Empire - and William even felt that the number of spies placed by the Britons in the Empire was likely to exceed the Visigothic Republic, which posed the greatest threat to them at the moment.

William has been covering the lid of "the industrial value and practical value of the differential machine" for several years, and now he finally can't cover it.

When the Bretons finally realized the huge role of the differential machine in terms of productivity, they were shocked. At the same time, when they knew that their number one potential adversary, the Russian Gothic Empire, had made massive use of the Difference Machine in industrial production, their unwillingness, and even their anger, naturally erupted -

This anger and unwillingness, the result of the shock can be imagined, that is, the Bretons people caught up in the shortest possible time, and the difference machine has now become the most sought-after product of Breton. At the same time, it is also a new machine that is indispensable for every large factory. It's like a steam engine from decades ago.

Catching up -- if not the rise of the Visigothic Republic that followed, the Britons would not be able to say that they would have to catch up with the Russian Gothic Empire in terms of industrial production capacity -- although the empire was still superior to Britten in terms of development with state capitalism and a more advanced industrial system, the ability of the state to co-ordinate, and so on -- but the two sides had different foundations.

The Britons occupy developed, densely populated and rich territories. And the vast majority of the territory of the Russian Gothic Empire was undeveloped and primitive barbaric territory. Or territories like the Ottoman Empire, the Zoroastrian Empire, and the Uzbek Khanate in the south that could hardly be digested properly.

While these territories gave the empire enough wealth, they also put a heavy burden on the empire. These realms are to be converted into empire proper, and these realms to be developed. The amount of energy and time required is definitely not inferior to the time it takes for the Empire to unify the world.

It can be said that this is a war that is absolutely not inferior in importance and difficulty to a world war. It's just because everyone in the world prefers destruction, more conquest, and doesn't pay much attention to construction and management, so they don't care much about this.

Of course, not including Wilhelm von Hereford.

"So, to be clear in advance, things have actually come to this point that the Empire's demand for land and resources has reached a bottleneck. William calmly said to Victoria: "In fact, there is more than one person who has persuaded me more than once. What the empire needs most now is not war, but recuperation. The empire now has a large enough territory, enough resources, and enough population. What the empire needs to do now is to recuperate, as long as it takes about fifty or a hundred years to recuperate, with its size, population, and resources, the empire can naturally become the master of this world. William said such words to Victoria in a relaxed tone that almost made her heart tremble.

She couldn't help but start thinking. If things really turn out as William says, then what will become of the old world in the future.

First of all, without the help of the world's largest industrial power such as the Gothic Empire in Russia, it would have been difficult for the Britons alone to defeat the Visigothic Republic, which is now in full swing. Even if you add the Ostrogothic Empire, the Lombard states, and the Kingdom of Asturias, which are not much better than the five scumbags of war, the same is true.

The end result is likely to be that the Visigothic Republic will be victorious, easily annexing the fragmented Ostrogoths and Lombardy, and then Asturias will either be defeated or become a vassal of the Visigothic Republic. All in all, when the whole Old World was subjugated to the feet of Visigoths, the second-rate state of Asturias was absolutely not spared.

As a result, it was almost impossible for the Bretons to return to the mainland. And with the resources, population, and territory of the Briton Islands alone, the Britons simply cannot maintain their hegemony. Even if Britun can rely on her background in a short period of time to be compared with the Visigoths that unified the two goths, the behemoth-like Russian goths, the final result is not optimistic.

In the end, even if Briton can maintain his **, it is impossible to appear on the world stage as the world's number one hegemon. The ultimate fate of the Bretons is to sink, a stepping stone to a new overlord, and an insignificant second-rate character.

As one of Bliton's de facto rulers, Victoria is bound to be recorded as a fool, an idiot, an idiot, and a piece of waste.

This is something that Victoria could not accept in any case.

“......”

Looking at Victoria, whose face was cloudy and uncertain, and even said that she was struggling in pain, William smiled with satisfaction. Yes, yes, this guy has become like this now - although it is pitiful, but there is no way, there can only be one number one in the world, either Russian Gothic or Britton. Then they are destined to be competitors.

If you're a competitor, it's natural to fool each other with a little trickery, isn't it?

And just like that, after a fierce inner weighing and fierce struggle, Victoria finally made a decision to be ready to give in, as well as to compromise.

Although he is still arguing with reason, he still looks arrogant and wants to fight for enough benefits for his country. But in reality, Victoria's heart had already yielded.

"Good, maybe, of course, just maybe. In your case, perhaps the Empire could once again make an alliance with the Britons. At the end, William smiled and uttered a promise that was not a promise.

"That couldn't be better. ”

Having said that, there was no joy on Victoria's face. (To be continued.) )ad_950