419.Chapter 419: The War That Goes On

That's pretty much it, the Hereford family has so much to do at the moment. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info is enough to keep everyone in the system busy enough to keep everyone on all fours. And like the vast majority of emerging powers, the vast majority of the members of the Hereford family are young people, and the vast majority of them are motivated. The vast majority of people are looking forward to their future.

In the Hereford family system, they have plenty of avenues to rise. As long as you can make achievements, then whether it is glory and wealth or social status, you will get it for granted. And after a little bit of social settlement, and finally after hundreds or even hundreds of years, and finally forming an inherent vested interest group, this power will become rotten......

Therefore, if a force wants to maintain its youthful vitality and continue to move forward, it must have sufficient upward channels. The upward channel comes from two points, one from the new economic growth point. Whether it is a new industry, a newly found mineral and industry. Or the newly occupied lands and colonies...... This is also the time when William's previous life was that the economy of various countries was stagnant or when there was an economic crisis, they always wanted to start a war or something...... Plundering resources from other countries is the easiest, most solvable solution for anyone who doesn't want to use their brains.

That's pretty much it, and for now, the Hereford family fits both of these requirements perfectly.

First of all, the Hereford family is a fast-growing individual, with all trades, industry and commerce, and agriculture thriving. The recent need to deepen the implementation of industrialization, as well as the construction of railroads, has given the Hereford family sufficient economic growth. At the same time, the empire has won frequent foreign and internal wars in the past two years, and has also seized a large amount of land, which seems to be somewhat indigestion at present.

That's it, in William's plan, at least in the age of his existence, the whole Hereford family will keep moving forward, and the whole country will continue to improve, continue to be vibrant, and even explode.

In this way, the edge of the human world in four years became the most stable and peaceful part of the human world, just as any imperial civil war would have. Mass refugees have been displaced, either because of the military disaster, or to escape the military disaster. All in all, there is a massive flow of refugees.

In the original human world, once this happened, these refugees usually had only two paths, one of which was better, which was to buy a boat ticket and go to the New World.

Although the New World is all kinds of wilderness, the degree of development is very low, and there are all kinds of messy Indians, scalping cannibals and whatnot. But just like the sentiment of the Chinese sage Confucius in another world, the harsh government is fiercer than the tiger. Compared to the mess of Indian skinning or something, starving to death if you can't survive in the Old World is more difficult for the vast majority of Goths to accept.

However, it also takes money to go to the New World. In this era, there is no such thing as large-scale development. The vast majority of governments have a very one-sided and superficial view of overseas territories, and basically build and plunder according to colonies. Very few people invest and build according to the local area.

Like the New World is so vast and so good, it can fully support the territory of a new empire, these guys are just troublesome, just looking for gold, just plundering resources. No one ever thought about the large-scale organization of migration and the all-round development of new territories on a national basis.

Rather than doing so, they prefer to maintain colonial rule in densely populated areas with sufficient resources and exploitation, such as the Indies. It's as if William had heard Victoria talk about a Breton kingdom with ambitious plans.

They were ready to bring the entire Indy Subcontinent under the control of the kingdom, annexing a territory that almost outnumbered the entire "human world". And this colony, which already had a sufficient base for development, would give the kingdom unimaginable benefits—although in the long run, the benefits of developing the New World would be tenfold, hundredfold, or even more than those of the colonial Indies. But as I said before, Briton failed to see the politicians and rulers who were strategically enough decades or centuries later.

Of course, this feint costs a lot of money, a lot of money, and it also takes time. But in the end, after decades, hundreds of years, the return on investment is predictable.

"That's it, population, population, and then population. William lamented the influx of people, and was overjoyed by the fact that a family could have four or five healthy children if they were well nourished, that is, the population would have doubled. After that, four or five healthy children can bring eight, nine, or even a dozen healthy offspring.

As long as there is enough food and supplies, the number of people in the territory under the jurisdiction of the Hereford family will double and double in a few decades. 10 million people become 20 million, 20 million people become 40 million, 40 million people become 80 million......

William currently has someone working on chemical fertilizers. Three acids and two alkalis or something have enough eyebrows at present. As long as this level is broken, then the whole world will be clean - in William's previous life, the total population of the territory he controlled could be hundreds of millions. William is currently working in this direction.

Therefore, the refugees who are flowing in now will flow in two today, and tomorrow they will be twenty. While the vast majority of people, rulers regard these refugees as a burden, William treats them as treasures.

Of course, this is also a very ...... Ahead of the curve.

Well, how to say it, the people are wealth, the people can create wealth, they can get taxes and they can go to the army. This kind of modern consciousness William doesn't want too many people to know.

So usually, the refugees run away to the New World with a little money. And those scum who have no money at all, or who were originally rich but were robbed by the rebels or something, can only wait for death with tears in their eyes.

Very few people travel to Wende. Few people go to Frisia or Visigothic. This is so because the former is, in a sense, less secure than an empire in a civil war. It was a time when the Tartariya Khanate was still in its heyday, and the entire Great Frontier was in the shadow of the iron hooves of the centaurs. Only those who can really get out of it...... Or they were abducted by some illegal organization, such as the Gothic Order, and went to the Great Frontier.

This would not be too much - because the Gothic Knights "escorted" the refugees for money.

Now it's different.

The political situation in the Great Frontier is completely different today.

The strong rise of the Hereford family led to the flight of the Half-Man Matartarya Khanate, the enemy of humanity. Occupy the Wende Kingdom strongly. William's father, King Otto, was ready to ascend the throne and be crowned King of Wende.

The Hereford family was politically stable and had a huge food surplus - William had calculated that the area of arable land under the family's control had nearly tripled during the annexation of Wende. After a comprehensive agricultural reform, the Hereford family could double their food production.

This grain production can supply almost all the food needs of the entire human world. Neither the provision of food for the relief of the victims, nor the provision of military rations for the warring sides or for internal stability could consume these surplus food production.

In this way, William had to be surprised to find one thing, and that was that he had to find a good enough way to produce surplus food.

The first is winemaking, yes, winemaking.

After a short trip to the dwarven settlement, William understood that selling spirits to the dwarves was an absolutely profitable thing to do. So much food and so much wine, so much wine could bring untold benefits from the dwarves - gold, silver, precious metals, copper, iron, non-ferrous metals, high-quality coal, and all kinds of precious stones that they mined from the ground...... It's all needed by the Hereford family.

In addition to the minerals that can be mined from the ground, the dwarven engineers, scientists, and scholars themselves are also what William wants.

The Hereford family diplomats are working on diplomacy in the Dwarven Kingdom, and they expect to establish a closer relationship with the Dwarves. Gain more dwarven talent by exporting enough food and spirits to the Dwarven kingdom to work for the Hereford family.

Diplomatic efforts are currently in a difficult situation, and progress is slow - mainly because of the stubbornness and conservatism of the dwarves.

In fact, even the kingdom of Briton, which cooperated with the dwarves the most, was unable to establish effective contact with the dwarves through official channels. Dwarves are afraid to get too involved in the affairs of the human world, which can cause them to lose their neutrality. Finally intervene in the war, consuming the dwarves' already small and valuable population resources.

Therefore, being able to establish formal diplomatic relations with the dwarves was only the best option that William hoped for, and his bottom line was that the dwarves could consume enough of his surplus food production to be good enough.

That's it. The Hereford family continues to push forward. At the same time, negotiations with Archduke Christian, the Duchy of Jutland, were on the agenda - in the case of the war against Kalman IV, the Archduke Christian suffered the greatest round of diplomatic blackmail - the Hereford family wanted to be able to reduce the tax on the channel - the only channel between the North Sea and the Polotsk Sea, and the Hereford family, whose coastline was all in the Polotsk Sea, was inevitably in contact with the outside world.

While the Hereford family's shipbuilding, shipping and navigation flourished, one of the things that upset William the most was that he had to pay a road money to the Duchy of Jutland every time he sailed in and out of the Polotsk Sea. With the full development of the Hereford family, the passage of water through the Straits has become one of the most important economic pillars of the Duchy of Jutland.

The reason why Archduke Christian was confident that he could fight for the throne of the king, and even the emperor, was also affected by economic stimulus. I think that with money and capital in my hands, I can give it a go.

Until then, William's focus had been on Wende, far from the Duchy of Jutland. In addition, the looming figure behind the Grand Duchy of Jutland also made William quite scruples.

It is clear that any country that wants to develop its maritime power will be "taken care of" by the Britons.

But now it is different, the power of the Hereford family extends not far from the edge of the Grand Duchy of Jutland, and more importantly, in the face of the threat of war from the Emperor, Archduke Christian no longer dares to take the risk of pushing the Hereford family into the camp of the Emperor.

Therefore, it is most appropriate and easy to succeed in making a request at this time.