Section 244 of the text: The distinguished guests of the Made Empire (middle)

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When Solomon saw Arya again, she was wearing a soft robe with gold buttons, and she was sitting on the balcony of the Lord's Mansion of Lonely Castle with her hands on her cheeks.

The sun shone on her body, like a goddess, and with a girlish beauty.

It seems that since she invited Solomon to be the guest of the Solitude Castle, she seems to have rejuvenated, although she is not too old in the first place, but in order to take on the heavy responsibility of the lord, she has prematurely forgotten how a girl should laugh in her past years.

"Lord Arya, don't you know what you're looking for me?" said Solomon, politely.

"Ah, Mr. Aglavin, you are here. Arya woke up, not knowing what she was thinking.

Solomon laughed, and a blush rose on Arya's face, and she quickly coughed and said, "I want to hear sir, no, no, it's really something." Actually, the Imperial side has also heard of the name of the gentleman, so someone wants to see you. ”

Solomon listened to Arya talk about the whole story, the real situation is that after Solomon became the guest secretary of the Lonely Castle, he gave Arya advice on how to build it, plus the merchants represented by Rand were there, and the Wolfheart Queen family still had residual power in Skyrim Province, so the trial construction of magic communication between the cities did not encounter too many obstacles and began to be implemented.

Once it was built, the lords who had been skeptical about it found it very useful, and then built a few more for the white-glove merchants who specialized in running businesses for the various lords.

In this way, the news in the territory of Skyrim Province is much faster than before, and once there is a demand, the merchants will no longer be able to run over the goods by someone to get on the way, because they can use the magic communication to ask the assistant over there to come to the door to negotiate with the other party first, and set the delivery date.

In this way, the trade in the region is much more active than before, you must know that this is in the extremely cold area, once it runs out, and there is no next family to take over, whether it is to transport it back. It is still sold cheaply on the spot, and the cost is higher than that in other regions.

Even if the news is outside of Skyrim Province, it is much easier to get information than before, after a city knows about it. Another city might know in a few hours.

Therefore, in the past half a year, the commercial taxes handed over to the imperial side have increased by thirty percent in Skyrim Province, which can't help but attract the attention of the imperial side.

Initially, the Imperial Agents rewarded Skyrim with some merchants from other continents, causing business to flourish.

But then some of the spies in charge came back with some information, which showed that. Although the arrival of the merchants of the other continent is a fact, there are more important reasons for some unprecedented construction from the Lonely Castle, such as the establishment of the Magic Communication Company, which is a joint venture between the merchants of the other continent and the female lord of the Lonely Castle to build magical communications from the Lonely Castle to several other major cities, so that the cold weather is no longer an obstacle.

After arousing the curiosity of some in the Imperial Senate, the Imperial Agents worked even harder to gather information.

Of course, from beginning to end, Solomon did not hide his promotion of the Solitary Castle, because his initial intention was to move from the local to the center.

Then probe. The adults in the center of the empire knew a few more things, and Arya was suddenly able to make this qiē so organized, and also made something like magic communication that had never been done before, because of the help of an extra guest secretary.

In this way, Solomon fell into the eyes of the center of the empire and attracted attention.

The Maider Empire is now at war with the wild elves, and the regular army has been frustrated and needs reinforcements.

Reinforcements are either conscripted by the Empire, which is the most expensive, followed by the requirement that local lords in places like Skyrim send their own troops to fight for the Empire, and mercenary armies. The latter can hire snake people from the Black Marsh Province, tiger people from Ilsvi Province, and so on.

But as can be seen from the above, it costs money to recruit new legions or hire soldiers in the Empire, and the cost will be quite high, and it seems that there is only the second type. Imposing a part of the obligation on local lords was the most cost-effective for the Empire.

In fact, the empire had already planned to do so before, and the population of Skyrim Province was originally less than that of other places because of the severe cold zone, of course, the combat effectiveness of the Nords was very famous, but they had experienced more natural disasters**, and after each support for a new empire, from the First Empire Alicia Dynasty to the current Maider Empire. When they started their troops, they were all supported by the Nords in different ways, but after gaining power, none of them gave the Nords more help, which made the Nords not resentful.

Therefore, in this elven rebellion, of course, the Nords did not want to send troops, and finally bribed the Senate and the Minister of War to deal with the past with satisfactory weapons and equipment.

But that was before the Empire decided to put down Morrowind's rebellion, and now it was the Empire that was thwarted and was about to start a second round.

And Skyrim Province has improved recently, and naturally it has once again become the object of bleeding.

"Say, are they too much!" said Arya, her voice reaching the ears of the maid outside the door through the room, and the two maids glanced at each other, and quickly lowered their heads again, not daring to look inside.

Since they started serving Arya, it was really rare to see her speak to people in this tone, so now there are rumors that the female lord is moved by the heart is not groundless.

"I can't help it now, I'm going to go to Celeordir in person. Arya said hatefully, and her tone changed softly: "The Minister of War and a certain senator have promised to meet with me then, but they have heard that Mr. has also played a role in planning the construction of the Solitary Castle, so they insist that I take you with me when I go to Syrodil this time." ”

Her voice was a little strange, and she seemed a little embarrassed, probably thinking that she was causing trouble for Solomon, but if someone who knew her very well could feel a glimmer of joy in her voice with great uncertainty.

This feeling may be the legendary snickering.

Solomon nodded slightly, and Arya couldn't help but be happy to see that he didn't object.

"I did make a contribution to the construction of the Solitary Castle, and if there is anything the Imperial Center wants to investigate or inquire, I will not be inconvenienced. Solomon said.

"There won't be anything, it should be that the empire has a financial problem now, and it is worth spending even more on the elves to use troops, so we have to make up our minds for the local lords. Arya sneered, "So when I heard that the current prosperity of commerce and trade in Skyrim Province is related to Mr. Jinyan, these people have made up their minds, if Mr. is indeed magical, they will not hesitate to adopt Mr.'s plan, and by the way, they may give Mr. a little sweetness, and if it doesn't work, they will continue to pressure us to pay and help them fight this battle." Until the elves are driven away. ”

There was a heavy disgust in Arya's tone, probably remembering that she shouldn't be like this in front of Solomon, so as not to leave a bad image, she smiled and said, "Forget it." These patriarchs and ministers are so greedy, it's useless to deal with them, I plan to go this time still in the same way as last time, our Skyrim Province will not send troops, but we need to donate extra money to the empire or prepare certain supplies to avoid military service. I don't know if Mr. thinks there's a problem?"

"I'm afraid it's not as easy as last time. Solomon said, "Be prepared." ”

"I'm mentally prepared to bleed profusely. Arya sighed. "But there's no better way, I'll consult with the other city lords or archons through the magic communication guò to reach a consensus. ”

"That's fine, if you want to be external, naturally you must first unite internally, if you lords are of the same mind as you, I'm afraid the center of the empire will be more worried. Solomon said.

"Hmm. Arya nodded and smiled, and hearing Solomon say the same, her mind became even more determined.

"Then I'll go back and prepare. When Solomon had figured it out, he took his leave.

Arya wanted to talk to Solomon for a little longer, but saw that he intended to leave. Remembering that going to Cellodil does require some preparation.

"Then sir go back first, and I'll have someone give him some information about Selodil's current situation. I will also try my best to get in touch with the other lords and consult, and if they all agree that I will go to Syrodil on my behalf to make a case to the Empire, I will set out in three days, and then I will have to work hard, sir. ”

"No problem. Solomon said.

After sending Solomon away, Arya went one by one to discuss with the other eight local lords of Skyrim Province how to make a case to the Empire.

In this matter, the minds of other lords in other places are similar to Arya's, and last time it was also Arya who led the consensus, but at that time there was no magic communication, so they could only be used by each other. It takes a long time to come and go.

It was now two days, and Arya had reached an agreement with the lords, and then began to prepare for the journey.

Of course, Arya had already ordered someone to send it to Solomon.

However, due to the geographical location of Skyrim Province. In addition, Skyrim Province has long been discouraged by the Maide Empire, and does not have much hope, and is eager to stay away from the battle in the center of the empire and the Senate, so the information collected is actually quite limited, although it is relatively comprehensive, but it is not detailed enough. And some may have long since lost their time limit.

But something is better than nothing, and that's what Solomon needs now.

Although the information that can be obtained through commercial activities alone is abundant, it is still limited, especially regarding the political level of the other party, and it is impossible for the people of the Beesda plane to be completely at ease with the merchants of the other plane, even if they do not show it at all on the surface.

But if it is the reputation of Mu Solomon, this is the initiative to give Solomon a chance, not to mention that Arya who is more active in providing the information obtained by his side first.

For the plane of Beesda, Solomon believes that if very tough means are directly adopted, such as military occupation, or in essence the development of the plane of colonialism, the latter will inevitably use force, the difference is that it will encourage a large number of civilian private forces to enter, and both need to be cautious.

Because Edra and Didra are stronger than other planes they have experienced in the past, any of them have the strength of the Purgatory Demon King, that is, only a few legendary powerhouses can deal with it, but there are quite a lot of them, whether it is the Nine Holy Spirits or the Seventeen Evil Gods, if they join forces, it will be even more terrifying.

It is likely that the use of strong means may be able to win, but the cost is even more than the Ambergris War, which is necessary and is an inevitable process for the Terrans to pursue control of the Kaos plane, which requires the High Elves to be further weakened.

The Beesda plane is different, although Solomon's idea for the countries can be solved by external expansion, but it cannot be achieved by military means, and it can also be plundered in disguised form by commercial means, which is really not possible, and it is not impossible to give up on Beesda for the time being, and choose other secondary planes to make up for the damage.

Therefore, understanding Bethesda and looking for loopholes within it is one of the purposes of Solomon's trip. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please visit wènhttp://mnet

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