Section 253 of the main text: The decision of Asturias (II)

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"Bethesda is blackmailing us. One of the councillors shook his fist and shouted in indignation.

The rest of the people who listened to Solomon's story also had ugly faces, but the vast majority of them were much more intelligent than the councillor.

Akatosh was indeed blackmailing, and he put himself on an equal footing with the Kaos plane, and he didn't even bother to send an emissary to do it.

But Asturias, and even the entire Kaos plane, cannot be ignored, and if you really want to say that this is also the Kaos himself bumped into, if Asturias did not have the Beesda plane in mind, there would not be this trouble in front of him.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Akatosh's intentions have been confirmed, and it is useless for us to curse him no matter what, it is better to face reality. "Prime Minister Benjamin was the first to wake up among the crowd, of course, this is also related to their psychological preparations, Solomon inferred before going to confirm that he is definitely qualified to be the first to know the news brought back by Ranmarlock and others.

"Since war is inevitable, Ladies and Gentlemen, analyze it with the sanity of a Sainzian, and although Akatosh's intentions are despicable, I must admit that it is in the best position of our cooperation with them, Duke Solomon, what do you think?" Austin also raised his hands and motioned for everyone to calm down.

The people in front of him were the first people in the Asturian circle of power to know the situation, and among them, in addition to the members of the cabinet, were important parliamentarians.

There were mostly Demoxites, but there were also many Sainzians.

"There is no problem cooperating with them, Akatosh has proposed that they resist the Celestial Front, and that we will be responsible for the attack on Purgatory. Solomon stated Akatosh's intentions, "But I want to say, gentlemen, this war is inevitable. But it's not just about us. ”

"Yes, yes, it should also be Titania, Aurora, Saxon. The orcs of the Skyfire Plateau, and even the High Elves and Centaurs must participate. This is a war for the entire plane. Someone chimed in.

"But how do you explain this qiē to them?" Benjamin's brows furrowed deeply, he was really having a hard time this year, first the Heavenly Gate of the Church of Light, and then he even encountered this even bigger trouble in front of him, if he wanted to negotiate with other kingdoms, he would bear the brunt of it, and he would face the interrogation of other kingdoms.

"No need to explain. I think we just need to sue them, and I think we can take this opportunity and maybe we can do something else by the way. ”

"Anything else?" questioned Krausa this time.

Solomon looked around and said: "Everyone should know that before this, we in Asturias had ambitiously promoted a plan, and the beginning of the plan was the union of rock crystals and metals, and it was realized, but I want to say that this was originally only the first step of the plan, and there will be a larger alliance in the future, but this will also touch the interests of many people, causing the worries of Titania and Aurora." Therefore, after the rock crystal and the metal are combined, the subsequent steps are stopped and can no longer be pushed. But guys. Sometimes when bad things happen, they can be used to turn them into good things. ”

"Duke Solomon, you mean that this crisis can be used to promote a union in the financial and monetary fields?" Austin reacted.

"Yes. Solomon said, he stood in front of the people and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, you may not have a deep enough understanding of this crisis, but I think this crisis is definitely not inferior to the time when the High Elves went to decay, it will only be more troublesome than that, if we can't resist, the whole plane will fall." Think of Yugudral, who was once ravaged by monsters, where it took more than twenty years to barely clear out the monsters produced by the effects of purgatory. I myself have seen the Ligurian plane go to ruin. Our Kaos plane has a long history and civilization, and we must not perish like them. ”

The crowd was shocked by the consequences described by Solomon. In those years, the rebellion of Yugudral and the destruction of the Ligurian plane, some of the people here witnessed it firsthand, and some of them also heard about it. If the Kaos plane falls to the same fate as them, then the only way to escape to other planes is to use other teleportation channels, which is destined to make it impossible for all creatures to leave, and most of the creatures will be destroyed with the destruction of the plane; , and now the Alien Planes that have been conquered and ruled by the nations will take advantage of the situation to rebel.

For example, the Falmalik continent has not completely become a colonial plane, and the Langulisa plane also has a strong indigenous people, which have not been conquered.

If something goes wrong with the Koos themselves, these semi-colonial planes that are still in conflict will definitely be in trouble.

"Yes, all of our qiē are from the local area, this is our home, and we will defend it to the death. Austin raised his fist and roared.

Infected by him, many Sainz MPs also shouted, and the Democists also nodded.

"So we have to give it our all. I can imagine that at the most critical moment, we may have to devote all our resources to war, which means that maybe a lot of Mithril and Adamantite will be used to make various weapons, instead of new coinage, and even the old currency will be recast. "Solomon, in addition to suing the other kingdoms about this trouble, we should take this opportunity to change and unite monetary and financial policies to build our unified logistics and resource support, and currency is the key to this, in order to prepare for future wars, we should now start asking other kingdoms to immediately reach a financial and monetary alliance and change the current monetary system." ”

"But, but how should we change it, and don't want Mithril Currency altogether?" said one councillor hesitantly.

"Yes, abolish the peg with Mithril and issue a new currency based on the credit of the nations, which is unified in all countries, and the right to issue coins in each country must be discussed, distributed, and communicated in the consortium. Solomon said.

"But. The councillor still hesitated, no wonder he hesitated, even if Solomon had already explained, if this war had to break out, it would probably be one of the harshest tests ever, and it would force everyone to resist with all their might, and then a large amount of Mithril would be used for military purposes, which would inevitably affect the minting and circulation of physical currency, but people were used to physical currency, even if there were Mithril coupons before, Asturias had further carried out a certain currency reform, and implemented the Mithril exchange system, but after all, it was taken because of the digestion of Modo, and the Mithril exchange system was still an incomplete system based on physical Mithril, which still needs to be stored in sufficient quantities of Mithril in the designated banking system as a guarantee, is not completely decoupled from the Mithril system.

But what Solomon is proposing is to completely decouple Mithril and issue it on the basis of national credit, and in order to strengthen this foundation, the second step of his great plan is to implement the financial and monetary union of the nations, so that the countries will form a greater credit base in the form of a federation than the individual nations.

Seeing that there were still people hesitating, Solomon said lightly: "Ladies and gentlemen, don't you understand that if we lose this war, we may have nothing, so why can't we use the credit of the nations as the basis of currency?"

Benjamin smiled bitterly, "That's right. Now is indeed the best time to implement the Teal Commonwealth plan, as long as the currency and finance can be unified, the forces of the countries can be integrated and functional, and the third step will not be so difficult to build a unified military command. ”

In the Ambergris War, although the countries were united, they were still independent from the perspective of actual command, so there was a defeat of Saxon and Zhenli in the elven city, which was once counterattacked, and finally reunited under the threat of the opponent's counterattack, but there was no effective unified command from beginning to end.

But this time the enemy is different, facing Purgatory and the Heavenly Realm, even if you only need to deal with the battle line of Purgatory, but the pressure is unprecedented, Purgatory is definitely not comparable to the High Elves who have gone into decay and lost their former glory.

"Duke Solomon, I see what you mean, and you can rest assured that I will do my best to push this matter forward. Benjamin said, "But I have a request. ”

"Speak. Solomon replied.

"If you can successfully promote the follow-up plan of the Consortium, I hope that you will be the supreme commander of the Coalition Army that resists Purgatory and the Celestial Realm. ”

Everyone was shocked, Solomon's prestige in Asturias had not faded for decades, but it was a bit of a forced retreat, because the other factions were too jealous of him, and almost ninety percent of the people agreed with him in the hope that he would interfere less in the affairs of the kingdom, so the command of the Ambergris War was not granted to him at the beginning, although in fact it was still influenced by him in the end.

But this time, Benjamin offered Solomon as the supreme commander, and it seems that he was also greatly stimulated in the face of the crisis.

"I promise you. Solomon said slowly, he raised his hands to everyone and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I promise that as long as I can promote the success of the follow-up plan of the Consortium, I will be the commander of this resistance war, if nothing else, just because this is my home and I have a piece of Qiē that I love." (To be continued.) )