Chapter 420: Butterfly wings (Ⅰ)

Since the fortress of Nisesi was bombarded with fire giants, many small cracks have appeared in the walls inside the fortress.
There was a gap in the wall in front of Joanne, and the voice of the conversation next door passed through the gap to his ears.
Joan listened to the gradual dignity of his face and turned back to Kandy: "Quick! Dig a tunnel to the next door!"
With only one wall apart, Kandy didn't even use the "ground digging technique". With the hard forelimb of the weasel digging his head, he doubled the crack in the wall within two minutes.
The lights in the next room projected through the cracks in the wall, and the conversation became clearer.
Joan held his breath, leaned to the wall, and glanced at the opposite room.
Sure enough, the two people who were in a fierce dispute next door were General Louis Jumonville and his friend and chief of staff Diego Antonioni!
"Louis, I know that you can hardly accept this fact, but the fact is the truth, whether you like it or hate it, it is there, and you have to face it correctly."
"Teach me less, Diego, I hate everything you say! Ah, this cursed command! It's crazy!"
"Calm down, my poor friend, you need a drink of brandy to calm down."
"Okay, let's have another drink, I can't wait to get drunk!"
A clear sound of glass collisions came across the wall, and General Jumonville sipped a large glass of spirits and fell down on his armchair, angrily replaced by decay.
Antonioni took a sip of wine and walked behind his friend, holding his shoulder, and said softly, "Louis, remember that story about butterflies?"
General Jumonville rubbed his cheeks with both hands and said angrily: "Come on, I am not in a mood to listen to your story now."
Antonioni smiled broadly and said to himself: "When the ancient wise men described the impermanence of the world, they would always use an analogy: when a butterfly its wings, it will lift up on the meteor star ocean thousands of miles away. A storm."
"It sounds ridiculous at first, how could a small butterfly have the ability to trigger a storm in the ocean?"
"However, sometimes we have to admit that this fable is very brilliant, because everything in the world has subtle connections. These connections are difficult to detect, but they exist objectively, and can often lead to unexpected results in the case of coincidence."
"For example, at this moment, a butterfly on the ground of the Far East flapped its wings, which resulted in a violent storm here."
"What you said is empty talk, Diego, I still can't figure it out. People in the Far East are independent, and the headache should be the power of the Ashan Empire, but we are sea-blue people. What does Far East independence have to do with my country?"
"Why is our border guard stationed at the border of the New World colony implicated? This is really a disaster!"
General Zhu Mengville shouted angrily.
"Butterfly wings, my friend, this is the butterfly wings!"
Antonioni said with a wry smile.
"Far East warlord Rudolf Kolas launched a rebellion and became the king, proclaiming the independence of the Far Eastern province from the territory of the sacred Ashan Empire. This is a political event that is enough to change the world's pattern. This is very nervous."
"Now, the royal family, cabinet, military and ordinary people of Ashan have raised their voices against the rebels and recovering the Far East. However, with the current financial situation of the imperial government, it is difficult to raise sufficient military funds to start this war of rebellion. The imperial authorities must make a choice for this, Louis, do you understand what I mean?"
"Nonsense! I'm not interested in tricks like politics, but when it comes to strategic situations, I don't need you to teach."
General Jumonville said with a sullen face.
"The sacred Ashan Empire is like a'mudfoot giant' with a strong surface. In fact, the foundation is very fictitious. Years of colonial expansion have exhausted the national treasury savings. The rebellion in the Far East Province gave the mudfoot giant a heavy blow and exposed it. Out of a weak nature."
"The expansion strategy that the empire authorities insisted on in the past is now unsustainable. It is like a greedy man who eats too much indigestion. Only withdrawing his fist can he severely attack the rebels in the Far East."
"Yes, the truth is so obvious."
Antonioni nodded and applauded.
"For nearly a century, the Ashan Empire has continuously launched colonial expansion of the New World and established two colonies of Meadgard and Yalfheim in the Wilnoa region. This is not yet satisfactory, and it has extended its greed to the New World. The Grabellen region in the south is trying to establish a new colony there."
"However, greed always has to pay the price. The colonies need not only immigrants, but also the military power and supplies to ensure the survival of immigrants. The empire has established more and more colonies overseas, and it needs money, materials and garrisons to build colonies Soared."
"To this day, these overseas investments have become an overwhelming burden for the imperial authorities. Compared to these high costs, the imperial authorities have not really collected much real money in the colonies."
"Think about it, Louis, as far as Yalfheim is concerned. As far as I know, the colonial government can’t even collect taxes on the ground. The rampant smuggling activities have also caused the customs to be useless. What benefits does it bring to the home country?"
"Trade income is not enough to pay for the garrison. The more colonies you open up, the more money you waste. This is basically a loss of money!"
Antonioni put down his empty glass and paced in front of General Jumonville, who was lost in thought. Then he said:
"In fact, the imperial authorities now realize that too many occupied colonies are not necessarily a good thing. Compared with the wasteland in the New World, the current more urgent task is to settle the rebellion and recover the Far Eastern Province."
"After all, the Far Eastern province belongs to the empire. Once the rebellion spreads west, the entire empire will fall into turmoil and panic. Compared with it, the colonies across the ocean are not so important."
"So the imperial authorities decided to abandon the colonial expansion strategy that they had insisted on for many years, and withdrew a part of the garrison from overseas colonies, and instead invested in the Far East to quell the rebellion."
General Jumonville followed Antonioni's thoughts.
Antonioni nodded with a smile.
"The general plan is like this, but there are some details that are interesting, such as the matter of'withdrawing troops.'"
"The security of the colony is mainly maintained by the garrison of the home country. Withdrawing the troops means giving up the colony."
"If you are an empire ruler and now you have to give up part of the colony, then you will choose to give up the Meadgard and Yalfheim colonies that have invested countless manpower, money and materials, and have operated for hundreds of years, or give up At the beginning of the circle, the Graberon colony has not yet been officially put into construction?"
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