While the world is still basking in the aftermath of the astonishing results of Lilin and Alfheim, His Excellency the Dictator, who has left countless bigwigs sleepless, is toiling with a high-ranking military officer and Treasury officials over the issue of money.

War is about burning money, not only when preparing for war and waging war, but also when it is over, and when it is over, it is necessary to invest a lot of money in a series of war-related expenses. For example, post-war reconstruction, retirement and dismissal, pension and resettlement, troop garrison, local security, material circulation, market stability, industrial restructuring and ...... It can be said that the end of the war was only the beginning of a series of problems.

Alfheim, who had implemented and implemented the idea of "total state, total war" early on, had already completely shifted the economic structure to the wartime track before the war, and the war ended victoriously at an unusually fast pace, so the impact of the war on Alfheim was limited. However, limited does not mean that there is none, the production of equipment, the consumption of materials, the impact of military production on the production of civilian products, and the mobilization of human resources...... Although it does not hurt the muscles and bones, after all, it will take a while to recuperate before returning to normal.

Logically speaking, this is not a problem. After all, Alfheim has just finished a victory, and he can use the spoils to hedge his consumption, and there is still a surplus if he is not in trouble. But the problem lies precisely in the biggest trophy - the Kingdom of Charlemagne.

The war was a complete disaster for Charlemagne, with a military defeat and Charlemagne's economy almost destroyed.

In order to win the war, Charlemagne squandered the precious metal reserves in the treasury, and the gold yuan bills issued at the end of the war in order to loot the wealth of the people led to the bankruptcy of a large number of middle classes, and the loss of a large number of laborers, the consumption of materials, the severance of overseas material transportation channels, and the collusion of officials and businessmen to hoard and other factors made the country generally in a state of famine. In the end, because of the dedication of the Defense Force and the Air Force, a large number of factories, transportation hubs, and storage warehouses were almost blown into thin ground, and it was impossible to expect to be put into operation in a short period of time.

In a word, if Charlemagne had to be plundered now, Yalfheim would have to face tens of millions of hungry rebels, or a wilderness covered with starvation on every inch of land.

What Alfheim needs is labor, a sustainable market, not a pile of dead people. If it turns out that the Wehrmacht is busy disposing of corpses and making corpses every day, and can't do anything else, it would be better not to fight this battle.

Fishing is a stupid thing to do, and smart people will choose sustainable development. So now not only can Charlemagne be squeezed dry, but also Charlemagne, who is about to breathe, must be transfused and supplemented with nutrients.

In fact, Alfheim had been prepared for this long before the war, and after finding out Charlemagne's situation recently, the aid plan had been prepared, and all kinds of materials had already been prepared.

Before that, there is one more thing to be done, which is crucial and arguably the success or failure of the reconstruction effort.

- Agrarian reform.

To solve Charlemagne's various economic and social problems, we must first solve the land problem.

As we all know, Charlemagne has no shortage of arable land, and the per capita arable land area ranks among the highest in the world. The soil is not as fertile as the land of the Crown of San István, but it is not much worse. It stands to reason that even if the Defence Forces blocked the passage of supplies from the overseas colonies to the mainland, Charlemagne would be able to maintain self-sufficiency for a while. Why did the people of Ostoria and the Crown of San István almost starve to death in the end, or could they not avoid a mass famine in their own country?

In addition to the targeted large-scale air raids and war attrition of the defense forces, a very important reason for this is that the land of this country has been annexed in large quantities, and most of the peasants are nobles, bureaucrats, military chiefs, church tenants and even serfs. Under the heavy tax system, a large number of yeoman farmers abandoned their land and became tenants on their own initiative to avoid taxation. Landlords, who own large amounts of land and peasant households, try to hide the size of their land and the number of tenants in order to avoid paying taxes. On the other hand, these people colluded with speculators, not only paying taxes with worthless gold yuan, but also putting the hoarded grain into the black market, monopolizing the market, exacerbating the food shortage, and thus raising the price of grain, so as to make profits.

When Charlemagne's front-line soldiers were nibbling on bread mixed with sawdust and potato flour, when the people in the rear could only feed on turnips and oats, and when the black market was full of high-priced grain, and people could only exchange ancestral gold and silver jewelry for a little flour, the country's defeat was already doomed. Even if they are given more advanced technological weapons, the outcome will not change much.

In fact, this is already Charlemagne's old problem, and Prime Minister Richelieu was already working to solve these chronic problems when he was still there, so the Archbishop of Lebanon even did not hesitate to allow the consortium to attack the middle and lower class aristocracy, and turned the peasants into disguised tenants in the form of contracts, and cultivated various crops for the consortium, in order to strengthen the central power and solve the problem of local land annexation. But in the end, the old prime minister was unable to solve these problems, and by the time the Dauphin was in power, these problems were further amplified, and finally erupted at the end of the war, laying the foundation for Charlemagne's defeat.

Now that Charlemagne has become the property of Alfheim, these problems have naturally been transferred to Alfheim's hands, and if this bottomless pit cannot be resolved, no matter how much money and experience is invested in the reconstruction plan, it is destined to be in vain.

Agrarian reform is necessary, and without the first step, none of the plans that follow can be launched. However, as we all know, land reform will touch countless intertwined interests, and will be desperately opposed by many vested interests. Historically, there have been countless reforms that have been stillborn due to backlash by interest groups, and how to carry out land reform in Charlemagne and ensure that the reform proceeds smoothly until it succeeds is the top priority for Yalfheim at present.

"The easiest way to do this, of course, is to use the military. Since ancient times, successful land reform has been propelled by bayonets. When we drag those bastards and their families to the base of the wall and shoot them, or simply hang them in the downtown area, all obstacles to reform are gone, at least on the surface. However, history teaches us that violent means can only solve the problem, not the problem itself. For Charlemagne, we are 'outsiders' after all, and those who have been purged – no matter what they have done or what evidence we have published – are 'our own people' after all. This is undoubtedly excellent material for potential enemies who are interested in stirring up nationalist sentiment among Charlemagne's people and causing us trouble. So—"

After a pause, the red pupils swept over the military and civil officers sitting on either side of the long table, and the dictator smiled dangerously like a carnivore staring at its prey.

"We need to use a less bloody and violent means to ask those who get in the way to consciously withdraw from the stage of history. ”