"A lot of things seem too sudden and strange at first glance, but if you look closely at the context, it's not hard to see the inevitability. This is true of the cancerous changes of the human body, and the same is true of the lesions of the state. ”

Putting down the report, the dictator of Alfheim signed it at the end and handed it to the captain of the guard.

Charlemagne has a summary of any important meeting in Alfheim, and he will not be absent from the meeting that determines the direction of national policy. Roland's experience at the military-political coordination meeting was placed on the dictator's desk an hour after the meeting ended.

Li Lin was not at all surprised by Charlemagne's reaction.

It's unrealistic to expect people who have gambled to stop it. No matter how sane the government officials who had worked with Roland and Minerva to prevent the war from spreading, they could never be "pure rational". These people who once shouted for peace could not ignore the thousands of lives and countless materials that had been paid, and they were also afraid of the surging public opinion. It is hoped that the Holy Maiden, who has repeatedly created miracles and turned the impossible into a possibility, will turn the decisive battle of the fantasy of turning defeat into victory.

It should be said that Roland, who has repeatedly brought victories to Charlemagne and caused the whole country to show symptoms of dependence, is also responsible for this. But without those exciting victories, Charlemagne would have cooled his head and accepted an armistice, which would have been an overly optimistic prediction.

As long as the guillotine of "financial problems" exists, Charlemagne will never stop.

"Based on the data so far, even if the truce would cause considerable financial difficulties, it is not yet to the point where the government will go bankrupt. Inflation caused by the indiscriminate printing of money may be troublesome, but it is not impossible to curb prices if aid from various countries and the inflow of goods from overseas after the armistice. ”

Nidhogg really can't understand Charlemagne's thinking, and in order to avoid future difficulties, he takes the initiative to create a greater difficulty or even a desperate situation for himself? What is the difference between this and actively jumping into the mouth of a lion in order to avoid a hungry wolf.

"Quite the opposite. ”

The blood-red eyes narrowed slightly, and the dictator smiled elegantly.

"It's because they won't go bankrupt right away that they are afraid. ”

If the country is the body, the economy is the blood and bones, the army is the muscles, and the government is the brain and heart. Charlemagne now feeds all his blood (the army), his brain and heart are exhausted, and the cells (the nation) have reached their limit. However, at this time of the armistice, the internal organs of the people who had been taking a lot of stimulants (munitions orders) in a state of distortion (wartime system) were bound to have problems, and they had to adjust their physique to the new environment (industrial transformation) through blood transfusions (foreign economic aid) and withdrawal from stimulants.

The reason is roughly the same, but just as seeking medical treatment requires the cost of diagnosis and treatment and medicine, industrial upgrading and transformation also requires a large amount of capital injection. With Charlemagne's current situation, where to get such a large sum of money?

There are two options.

First, the whole country should tighten its belts, reduce all material needs to the minimum standard of human existence, and wait for the right time to complete the national reconstruction. But there are two problems with this choice, the first is that there needs to be a stable external environment, that is, the countries will maintain a friendly attitude towards Charlemagne, continue to provide support, and there will be no sudden conflicts to interrupt the whole process. Second, Charlemagne's various classes need to have great strategic determination and endurance to survive the recovery period in the form of ten years. But the current state of Charlemagne, with all his heads smoking, coughing and shouting "victory, victory, give us more victories" as if he was suffering from tuberculosis, cannot be expected at all.

The second is to sell assets in exchange for funds.

Charlemagne could learn from the great Iron Father, scavenge the country's agricultural products and raw materials, and complete his own industrialization with the determination to starve millions of people to death in exchange for money and technology from other countries. But let's not talk about whether the Charlemagne authorities have such courage and courage as whether they can catch up with such a good thing as the periodic economic crises of capitalism in other countries. Until they succeed in obtaining the capital and technology to invest in industrial transformation, there may not be many workers in the country who can start the machinery and farm the land. More likely, a large number of ex-soldiers and a hungry mob chant the Battle Hymn of the Rhine Regiment to launch a revolution that will sweep the country. Hunger will always be the main cause of revolt, regardless of the time and place.

"The easiest thing to sell, of course, is the colony. Albion, eager to expand its maritime interests, and the United Principality of Rus', keen to find a warm water port, will be interested in this business. The second is to open the market and preferential policies, that is, to abandon tariff barriers and open the market to the goods of countries other than China. In this way, not only did we get what we wanted, but by the way, we also established a bond of interest with other countries and isolated our country. It's a lot of work. However, there is a problem here, and that is to adopt this strategy before the war starts, and now ......"

"Malicious price reduction...... Is it?"

The dictator smiled intently and took the red wine from the captain of the guard.

Under normal circumstances, the full opening of a market like Charlemagne's to the outside world would inevitably be warmly welcomed by all countries, and everyone would rush to get in. Today, Charlemagne has fallen to the point where the country is divided and the economy has deteriorated rapidly. In order to alleviate financial difficulties, we can only give the initiative with both hands.

Colonies that could have been sold at a high price, in exchange for preferential policies with equal concessions from the other side, can now only be sold at the reserve price. There is no room for bargaining, there is no refusal, not even hesitation, and it is completely left to the other party. Conversely, the economically exhausted nations, which suffered the same losses in the war, would not show even the slightest mercy in this feast. They will definitely plunder Charlemagne to fill their shriveled stomach pouches, completely control Charlemagne's economic lifeline, and put a collar on the once beast of prey to make it serve their own interests.

"It's not in our interest either, but it's even more unbearable for Charlemagne...... Think about it, not only do you lose face and your source of income, but the amount of aid you have depends on your former enemy, who will continue to fight with another enemy for more or less aid until they are all killed. After its eventual demise, it was regarded as a 'country that had done something stupid and died' and was constantly scorned and insulted, and as a former citizen, it was continually scorned and tortured after the demise of the country......

It is certainly frightening to be destroyed after the defeat of the war, but this kind of slow demise like Ling Chi makes people tremble just thinking about it.

Fearing the future after peace talks, it is not difficult to understand why government officials who had been striving for peace would turn around and support the war.

"Once the wheel of war turns, it will not stop until all the obstacles in front of it are crushed, and anyone who tries to stop it will only end up in pieces. ”