"Wouldn't we have the slightest hope of victory?"

"No, what kind of cornerstone are those peasants? What Councilor Charin said is completely wrong!"

Hearing Xia Lin's novel statement of making cakes and sharing cakes, many small nobles suddenly realized, and suddenly realized why they were willing to support Princess Dorothea.

Because Her Royal Highness represents the interests of these enlightened nobles and merchants, the Queen's ascension to the throne means that they have the power to share the cake.

However, the comparison of the strength of the enemy mentioned in Xia Lin's statement made many smart people who realized that the truth was indeed a little desperate, and even began to deceive themselves.

"How can farmers not be the cornerstone? They surrendered all kinds of crops and copper bis, and sent their sons to serve in the army.

If we, the enlightened faction, are in power, and announce that we will reduce the commercial tax and increase the land tax and the agricultural tax, will it not be said that the sons of the peasants and the sons of the lords and nobles of the manors who are the backbone of the army will not rise up and overthrow us?"

Facing those fools who ignore the forces at the bottom and can't distinguish the situation, Xia Lin said with a sneer.

As an empire, the military service system of the Sassen Empire is still quite advanced, at least it is not a medieval painting style of a few knights pulling a group of peasant soldiers to the battlefield, but a combination of the more formal freeman transfer service system and the mercenary system.

In such an army, there was undoubtedly the upper hand of the conservative forces, represented by the more numerous manor owners, the aristocracy and the peasants.

And the historical experience of his previous life told Xia Lin that the famous words of the great man about the power coming out of the barrel of the gun are applicable in at least 90% of the cases.

"So what should we do?"

Earl Stuart Lawrence, one of the five Speakers, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked for the first time at a meeting of the Alliance, his words were full of heaviness, and the meeting room suddenly fell silent, and everyone was expecting Xia Lin to come up with an idea.

"Throughout the ages, all victors have one thing in common, and that is to strike more and less, and to attack the weak with the strong.

We need to unite more people, including peasants and haciendas, and turn them into our people, part of our system, by all means, in order to win this battle for the throne."

Xia Lin said categorically.

"Say it lightly, if you have any ideas or plans, say them as soon as possible, don't dwell on them, Councilor Charlin, what are we going to do?"

Count Karen Hozia, who was in the speaker's seat, said impatiently.

"Quite simply, my alliance strategy is divided into three areas.

First, we will establish agricultural cooperatives, open agricultural banks, and take advantage of the technology and capital of our business alliances to provide farmers with high-quality agricultural tools and low-interest agricultural loans, and penetrate our tentacles into the vast land of the empire.

Second, find a name to set up our own army, not the palace guard, not the city guard, only a new army, with an armed force loyal to our business alliance, we can have the confidence to deal with all kinds of emergencies!

Third, through the overall price control of our alliance, the chamber of commerce engaged in shipping or land trade can go abroad to buy grain, cotton and other raw materials and ship them back to China, so that we can keep the domestic raw material prices down.

By this means, the peasants and the aristocracy of the haciendas were unprofitable, and the cornerstone of the conservatives was struck so that they could only accept the offtake agreements we had proposed for agricultural products.

Then, through economic binding and technical means, these peasants and the aristocracy of the estates were transformed into members of our alliance system, and they were given enough profits to hand over their land to the agricultural cooperatives we had set up to run.

In this way, we will separate them from the conservatives, weaken the enemy and increase our own strength!"

Xia Lin recounted his envisioned plan to defeat the conservatives, and the contents of it caused countless lawmakers to be shocked and speechless.

"That...... Can we really do that?!"

After a long time, a viscount let out a strangely toned question, like a duck pinched by the neck.

It's not that it's suspicious of Xia Lin's plan

Feasible, but what Xia Lin said is too feasible, it looks like a sophisticated machine, as long as it runs step by step without errors, it can make them win, so he asks so much.

"Of course, decades ago, Archduke Connes Rand, the maternal grandfather of Her Royal Highness Dorothea, asked Your Majesty that the Imperial Capital Royal Guard be responsible for training a group of troops to fight in the north.

However, due to some reasons, it eventually became the Royal Academy of Magic with the addition of sergeant students, and the imperial capital was responsible for providing magical reinforcements to the north.

If a new army can be formed near the imperial capital in the name of the Grand Duke of the North, I believe Your Majesty will agree!"

Viscount Hart said loudly. Of the three proposed by Xia Lin, the formation of a new army was the most difficult, but it was not a big problem for a business alliance in the name of Dorothea's princess.

If the other two aspects proposed by Xia Lin can be implemented, maybe they can really convert the peasants and manor lords and nobles around the imperial capital into their own people, and the conservatives who have lost their roots can only be slaughtered by them.

It's just that this is the best scenario that is conceived, but the worst is the worst, and the strength of the enlightened faction will increase a lot, which is really a good plan to harm others and benefit themselves!

Thinking of the future in which the enlightened faction would take power after success, Viscount Hart couldn't help but value Xia Lin more and more.

"If the new army can be formed, then our chances of success can go up to 50%, and in addition to the new army, we also need to build good relations with some strong people, even if we can't get them to support us, and we can't get them to support the conservatives."

Xia Lin didn't expect the appearance of the sergeant to have such a story, nodded and continued.

If the alliance can have a new army, then the chances of success can be said to be increased by half, because the palace guard is also on the side of the enlightened.

"Let me and the two Earls take care of this! The five archmages of the court were originally inclined towards me, and I think they would be willing to remain neutral as long as more resources were promised to those generals.

As for Field Marshal Hubbard, though he is a conservative, if my father had given the order, he would not have been involved in my struggle with my brother."

Empress Dorothea showed a solemn look on her face, and she got up at the right time to explain, and the two counts and the two viscounts beside her also nodded frequently, as if they saw the feasibility of this plan.

Since these nobles who knew the empire and the court the most thought that they had a good chance of victory, the junior councilors in the audience were naturally even more excited, and the hall was constantly buzzing with conversations.

"Ladies and gentlemen, if we can successfully defeat the conservatives, then those interests of the Star Blue Industrial Park will not matter, I think everyone should give our Councillor Xia Lin some support, and start voting now!"

Thinking of her bright future after taking power, the ambitious Queen Dorothea also showed a rare look of excitement on her face, and she looked around the councillors below, feeling for the first time that she really had her own power.

"Agreed!"

"Agreed!"

……

"Then I declare that the steel aid proposal and the coalition countermeasures proposed by Councilor Charin have passed!"