Chapter 7 Preparations for the Great War

On the day Ouyang Yu appeared publicly, he ordered the guards and the garrison of the royal capital to block the gate of the royal capital, allowing her to enter but not leaving, and then sent an envoy with her order to leave the city to spread the news of her return throughout the country.

Duke Mazur and Duke Williams' subordinates did not have Ouyang Yu's warrant to leave the city, and they were trapped in the city and could not go out to convey the order that the two of them wanted to make a last-ditch fight.

The commoners and enlightened nobles of the Kadesh Kingdom spontaneously organized themselves to celebrate when they heard the news of Ouyang Yu's return, while the nobles and officers who had taken refuge in Duke Mazur and Duke Williams were in fear as if the world was apocalyptic.

After the death of Duke Mazur and Duke Williams, Ouyang Yu searched their residences on charges of embezzlement, dereliction of duty and other crimes, and not only found a large amount of property but also found a lot of letters with officials and officers, some of which could simply behead some people's entire families.

After getting the letters, Ouyang Yu summoned the main political officials and military chiefs, took out the letters in front of them, and then burned them cleanly, and said at the same time: "Now that the evil leader is dead, I don't want to pursue the previous things, if you think you can stay in your current position, continue to stay, and if you don't want to stay any longer, hand in your resignation to me tomorrow." ”

Ouyang Yu had such an obvious intention, where did the people below still not understand, this was to let them live, they all knelt down on one knee and shouted three times. This is an honor that can only be enjoyed by a monarch, but in the Kadesh Kingdom, Ouyang Yu is no different from a monarch.

There are too many things to deal with after Ouyang Yu's return, and the political situation is unstable when she is away. The army was panicked, and it would take time to put things in order, so it was impossible to send troops to join the coalition immediately, so she wrote a letter to the Valhalla Emperor Ancastrom to explain why.

After receiving the letter, Ancastrom immediately replied to Ouyang Yu with a letter, and Ancastrom's letter expressed his understanding of Ouyang Yu's current situation, and hoped that she could rectify her internal affairs with peace of mind, and then send troops to join the coalition forces. Anyway, it's all good words.

After reading the letter, Ouyang Yu felt that there was something wrong with Ancastrom's brain, and the person she knew was simply two people, but since Ancastrom said so. Then some things can be taken slowly, and there is no need to rush so much.

In fact, Ancastrom did this for a reason, once he gave a task to his eldest son, the actual commander of the coalition army, asking him to do his best to please Ouyang Yu after she joined the coalition army. Try your best to marry Ouyang Yu back.

The reason why Ancastrom gave her eldest son such a ridiculous task. It was because he knew very well that the Turani Kingdom, which had long been against his Valhalla Empire, had been destroyed by the elves, and the only country in the western part of the continent that could compete with him for the dominance of the west was Ouyang Yu's Kadesh Kingdom.

When Ouyang Yu had not yet returned, he secretly wooed Duke Williams, hoping that his second son could marry Princess Ariel and annex the Kadesh Kingdom in disguise as a future prince.

Now that Ouyang Yu has returned with a high profile, and Duke Williams has also committed suicide, the previous plan must not be implemented, so he has set his target on Ouyang Yu. Let the heir to the throne, the eldest prince Terry Ancastrom, personally go to please her, if he marries Ouyang Yu. Then the entire Kadesh Kingdom will definitely be ruled by the empire as a dowry, and it can also avoid a strong enemy and grab territory with himself, Ouyang Yu's strength is very jealous of Ancastrom.

For the possibility of the success of the plan, Ancastrom is not at all worried about not succeeding, his eldest son Terry is handsome, chic, masculine, quite popular with the noble women of the imperial capital, and is also quite brave, at the age of thirty, he has a fourth-level fighting spirit, and often leads the army to fight against the Turani Kingdom, and has rich experience in military struggles.

The only thing he was worried about was that his son was not Ouyang Yu's opponent, and after he got married, he would be put in the air, and then the Valhalla Empire would fall into Ouyang Yu's hands.

Since the Valhalla Empire, as the main body of the coalition, did not put pressure on Ouyang Yu, she simply began to rectify the somewhat chaotic Kadesh Kingdom step by step.

After Ouyang Yu burned their correspondence with Duke Mazur and Duke Williams in front of his ministers, many interested nobles took the initiative to submit their resignations and resigned from their positions in the government or the army, and their positions were naturally taken over by nobles or civilian officials loyal to Ouyang Yu.

But there are still some nobles who are lucky and blind, and they continue to stay at their posts, Ouyang Yu will not be polite to these people, and order the military intelligence bureau that has resurfaced to investigate these people, and soon the evidence of corruption and perversion of the law will be put on Ouyang Yu's desk.

"Celine, pass on this text. ”

Celine respectfully took the pile of documents handed over by Ouyang Yu, this is an arrest warrant, and the dense names on it are all the names of those who are unwilling to resign voluntarily and have no ability to work, and there are a series of charges behind the names of these people, these charges are collected by the Military Intelligence Bureau, and they will definitely not be wronged.

One order after another spread from Ouyang Yu's office, in addition to rectifying government affairs and removing moths from the army, the domestic economy of the Kadesh Kingdom is also slowly changing from a peacetime economic model to a wartime economic model.

Reduce or close the factories of luxury goods, let these factories and workers produce related military supplies, increase the import of iron ore, gather a research team led by Dacros and Winslet, and give them all kinds of relevant materials obtained from the parallel world and the tomb of Restian IV, let them study the materials and then transform the technology into finished products, and arm their own armies with indigenous technology combined with the technology of another world.

In addition, Ouyang Yu also sent a large number of propaganda teams to go deep into various places in the Kadesh Kingdom to carry out war propaganda and mobilization, and publicize the brutality of orcs and elves. It is claimed that this is a fight to the death between races, and the position of either the enemy or my death is unified, and the people's minds are unified. Call on the whole people to resist the war.

At the same time, it was announced that commercial trade would be abolished and a population inventory would be carried out, the whole society would be rationed, the gold and silver currency would no longer work, and all the people of the Kadesh kingdom, whether nobles or commoners, would have to take a household registration book and go to the local government to receive daily necessities according to the number of people who ascended the throne on the household registration book. (Each class has its own number and rank of receiving, and both subordinates and slaves are required to ascend the throne.) Otherwise, they will not receive food and other supplies. )

Fortunately, the commoners had no opinion on this move, and the entire aristocratic class was in an uproar, but Ouyang Yu soon secretly met with the aristocratic representatives. said that he would establish a secret caravan to buy luxury goods and other materials from abroad to supply the aristocratic class, which appeased the nobles who enjoyed and had a good face.

Ouyang Yu also ordered all healthy men between the ages of fourteen and fifty in the kingdom. Two hours of queue and combat training must be done every day. All the children of the nobles of appropriate age were summoned to the newly established military academy of the royal capital for the study of non-commissioned officers and junior officers, and at the same time, it was ordered to purchase sturdy male slaves throughout the country and abroad, with the intention of using them to create a slave army to make up for the shortage of civilians of appropriate age.

Kaspersky was a slave, his parents were also slaves, and her mother was often used by her master to reward obedient male slaves, so he didn't know who his father was, and at the age of sixteen, he had to join the slave army separately from his mother because of Ouyang Yu's orders.

All countries on the mainland have slave legions. It is generally used as cannon fodder to consume the enemy's arrows and body, and it is not good to eat. There is no armor, and the weapons they hold are all broken and unrepairable scraps, the battle of the slaves can be imagined, and the slaves who joined the slave army formed by Ouyang Yu this time also think so.

Ouyang Yu purchased 50,000 slaves in the Kadesh Kingdom and several neighboring countries at one time, all of them were young and strong slaves between the ages of sixteen and thirty, and these 50,000 slaves were concentrated in a military camp not far from the king.

One day, under the reprimand of the guarded soldiers, these 50,000 slaves gathered and lazily and reluctantly formed a phalanx of inspection.

It didn't take long for Ouyang Yu, a version of the royal sister wearing a set of silver-white armor, to ride a white horse without a trace of miscellaneous hair into the barracks under the gaze of 100,000 slaves, and the reason why she transformed into a royal sister was because Lori had no sense of prestige at all, and it was almost the same to sell cuteness.

Turning over and dismounting, Ouyang Yu walked up to the review stand of the barracks and stood still, looking at the standing posture of the lazy slaves below, he was slightly displeased, but Ouyang Yu didn't blame these slaves, the biggest beneficiary of her series of policies in recent years was the aristocratic class of the Kadesh Kingdom, followed by the free people and commoners with citizenship, for the slave class, except for the mandatory requirements to improve their living conditions and not to be executed at will, they did not enjoy any benefits, but this alone made the slaves grateful to Dade.

As for the noble mission of liberating slaves, leave it to Andy, Ouyang Yu herself is the largest slave owner in the Kadesh Kingdom, and the number of slaves belonging to the royal family and her territory is as high as 100,000, creating wealth for the royal family and her every day, how could she do this if she is not a brain-dead.

However, Ouyang Yu did not abuse slaves like other slave owners, not only gave them higher food and housing treatment, but also allowed slaves to marry freely, except that they did not have wages and freedom of life, and their food and housing were similar to ordinary civilian life.

Ouyang Yu stood on the review stand and looked at it for a while before he spoke: "Everyone, I am the Prime Minister of the Kadesh Kingdom and the Master of the Duchy of Carlos, Catherine Moon, Victor!" The magic power transmitted her voice to the ears of every slave.

Ouyang Yu's name doesn't matter the slaves of her own country, even the slaves bought from foreign countries have heard of it, as soon as she reported her name, the slaves below began to commotion, but it was not a malicious commotion, but a well-intentioned commotion.

The slaves of the country thanked her for giving the order of kindness and not to be executed at will and began to cheer her name, and the slaves who belonged to the royal family or Ouyang Yu themselves knelt down to see the master who had never been faced, and at the same time they were also very grateful for giving themselves and the common people a good life, although those foreign slaves had not received Ouyang Yu's favor, but thinking that they already belonged to this adult, then their lives should be much better than before, and they also shouted Ouyang Yu's name with other slaves.

Ouyang Yu stretched out his hands and pressed them weakly, the voices of the slaves gradually disappeared, and she continued: "Everyone, in the days to come, you talk about participating in the racial war with the orcs and elves as my soldiers, what I need you to remember is that you are my soldiers, not cannon fodder to send to death, I will give you good weapons and armor, food and accommodation in line with the soldier's identity, and a salary of fifty copper per month!"

The 50,000 slaves below were stunned, they were already ready to be cannon fodder to send them to death, and they didn't expect Ouyang Yu to treat them as real soldiers.

"Now the distribution of weapons and armor begins, and everyone comes forward to receive their weapons according to their number!"

With Ouyang Yu's order, a carriage full of weapons and armor drove into the barracks, stopped at the bottom of the review stand, the long swords glowing with cold light, thick leather armor and bright iron shields, they looked very safe, coupled with the food and warm housing in the barracks during this period of time, the slaves immediately believed Ouyang Yu's words.

Before they could finish their happiness, Ouyang Yu threw out a bombshell, and she said loudly: "In the battle, you will calculate the military merits in a ten-person squad, and the military merits you want to calculate are also very simple, that is, the head or prisoner of the invader, if the average number of heads or prisoners in a squad reaches fifty, then all members of this squad can be released from the status of slaves and become free people!" If the number of heads or captives reaches 100, then not only the team members can become free people, but even the immediate family members of the team members can be released as slaves and become free people!"

After hearing Ouyang Yu's announcement, the slaves were stunned for a moment, and then the earth-shattering shouts rose instantly, and the 50,000 slave soldiers kept shouting Ouyang Yu's name, and knelt down on her knees again with some excitement, and the other slaves also knelt down together, shouting in unison: "Willing to die for His Highness! Willing to die for His Highness! Willing to ......die for His Highness!"

The deafening voices of allegiance from the slaves were so strong that even the kings in the distance could hear the shouts coming from inside the slave barracks. (To be continued......)