26.The Destruction of the Kingdom (5)
Li Lin's goal was for the United Duchy of Albion and Rus to construct a blockade wall on its own on the border of the occupied territories, thereby suppressing the national consciousness of the Charlemagne, and at the same time allowing its own side to occupy the moral high ground and gain an advantage in the strategic layout of future exchanges.
However, building and maintaining a long blockade wall will not only require huge financial expenditures, but also consume human and material resources. It is also destined to greatly shake the people's trust in the occupation authorities, which in turn will cause a series of suspicions, concerns, dissatisfaction, and finally give the opponent a reason to attack itself - there is only one situation that can make a government do such a thankless task, that is, the country's performance in all aspects is very unsuccessful, after a strong contrast, the people are disappointed with the authorities, and a large number of human resources, including high-end talents, have left the country, causing serious damage to the economic and social order of the occupied territories. There is no other way than to close the border with an integrated blockade line to stop the outflow of people.
Only this kind of pressure, which can affect even the extent of the country, and the background of trying to avoid an all-out hot war and an all-out confrontation of the thinking and way of life of the three parties, can lead to the birth of the "wall".
Therefore, the first step in Alfheim's policy towards Charlemagne was to make Charlemagne's people feel an intuitive and stark contrast in their quality of life. That is, Yarfheim has the ability to quickly solve the food crisis, others cannot. The part of Alfheim then became an attractive place in the eyes of the people of the other occupied territories, which in turn induced a large exodus from the other occupied territories, and finally prompted the United Principalities of Albion and Rus to seriously consider the feasibility of closing the borders of the occupied territories and put them into action.
Therefore, the most important thing at the moment is not to blindly expand the occupied areas and grab territory, but how to solve Charlemagne's food crisis.
As a result of the successive wars and the increasing scale of the wars, more and more young and middle-aged laborers were being transferred. By the time of the war with Alfheim, all the young and middle-aged laborers had become strong men, and all farm work and industrial production had been handed over to the elderly, minors, and women. Originally, Charlemagne's agricultural technology was relatively backward, and most of the agricultural production still relied on pure manual labor, and when the labor force was insufficient, there was naturally a shortage of food production.
Charlemagne's countermeasure was to "collect" grain from Ostoria, the Crown of San István, northern Castile, and the foreign colonies. To put it bluntly, it's robbery. When the submarines of the Alfheim Defense Force cut off the pipelines for the overseas colonies to send supplies to the mainland, the development of the war began to become more and more unfavorable to Charlemagne, and the garrisons of the various occupied areas were constantly transferred to the Rhine front, and uprisings and riots in the occupied areas sprung up one after another. The amount of food delivered to Charlemagne has also dropped to almost negligible proportions. It is no exaggeration to say that now the entire middle and lower classes of Charlemagne are struggling with hunger. You must know that some city dwellers have begun to exchange their ancestral possessions for oats and turnips on the black market, which are fodder for livestock, and they used to not even look at them. The situation is even worse in the rural areas, where a considerable number of families rely on wild vegetables and mushrooms dug up from the mountains by women and children in order not to be beaten to death by the gendarmes for failing to meet the quota.
At present, the war is not really over, and Charlemagne's food crisis is naturally not over. According to the projections of the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Health, if the situation is not effectively improved, millions of people could starve to death by the end of the year.
In this context, compared with the ideals, ideas, beliefs, propositions, and sense of national honor that have nothing but beautiful sound, Charlemagne's people have no value at all for the Charlemagne people, who can only consume up to 900 kilocalories a day (ordinary adults can eat less than 900 kilocalories a day is called hunger, and a large number of people will starve to death if they are less than 700 kilocalories). For them, whoever can give them flour and olive oil, all kinds of meat, and all kinds of work, is their god, and everything that man says is the truth of the incomparably true.
It's as simple as that. However, there are still some problems in implementation.
According to preliminary estimates, at least 2 million tons of food will be needed to avoid starvation in the occupied territories, which involves procurement, storage, security, transportation, distribution and other areas. If you don't have a well-thought-out plan in place, no amount of effort will be more effective. Moreover, before that, Alfheim must obtain the unreserved full cooperation of Charlemagne's various levels, so as to ensure that all material distribution is accurate and not caused by the stupidity and greed of a few people. There is another issue at stake – the seamless reception of the occupied territories and the screening of Charlemagne's officials.
Now that the outcome of the war is very clear, Charlemagne's officials' loyalty to the country and the people is also declining like the morale of the army, and the first thing these guys who have no discipline to speak of after realizing that the situation is gone, is not how to pacify the people, stabilize the situation, or organize resistance and evacuation of personnel. On the contrary, all these guys are thinking about how to keep their power and wealth, to whom they should be loyal to a new master, and how to sell the goods, people, and territories under their jurisdiction for a "good price" in order to have a place in the future occupation government, or even go further.
So the snowflakes of allegiance poured from all over Charlemagne to the control area of Alfheim, down to the village and town administrators, up to the state management, and what made people squirt was that there was also a general marshal of the royal army, and then look at the name, all of them were the most fanatical and dangerous **** elements. Look at the well-known names, recall their hysterical performances on the podium, and look at the touching flattery and eloquence of the two races, the coexistence of the two races, and the merger of the two countries to dominate the world, as if they have always been the staunchest supporters of the elven camp and have never changed. The guys who chanted "Kill all the pointy-eared ghosts!" and "The war will not end until the last pointy-eared ghost or noble Charlemagne falls!" are either not them, or they are not Charlemagnes at all.
After enjoying Charlemagne's military and political show throughout the whole process, the elven officials couldn't help but sigh that Charlemagne's people were terrible, and they all thought that after this group of guys sent others to the battlefield to die, they would also go to Huangquan to show their responsibility. I didn't expect these guys to directly start the curve to save the country, the whole process was so natural and fast, and their results could not be measured with the best computer meter. If you don't send a little golden man to these bastards, I'm really sorry for their acting skills.