Vol 8 Chapter 595: War money
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Demon Lord
- Deathwing Neltharion
- 2460 characters
- 2021-03-01 03:43:38
In this era, knowledge was basically monopolized by the nobility. Therefore, except for the higher education rate of residents in cities, illiterates are basically everywhere in ordinary towns. If the lord wants to issue a notice, he has to send someone to read it several times. Although Cauchy was now down, he was eventually educated under the instruction of his father. He glanced at the contents of the newspaper, confirmed that he knew each other, and took the task happily.
Let the guy at the bar entrance lead the horse away, and Cauchy went into the house and found a seat near the middle. After ordering the cheapest ale, I opened the newspaper by the dim light. He planned to see what was written on it first, but it was a bit fascinating to see. The front and back of a small parchment was full of handwriting For an age of poor communication, such a large amount of information is very shocking. Cauchy looked at him and forgot his original task, and his act of reading ale while reading the newspaper suddenly became the focus of everyone ...
There is no other reason, to deliberately look at the parchment in places where there are many illiterates.
"Hey man, I want to read a book and look outside. How bad the light here!"
"That is, do you drink ale as wine?"
"Come on, read it to us and see how obsessed you are!"
Cauchy reluctantly looked away, and said to the bald head who asked him the question: "Sorry ... this is the news of our Karen Kingdom in the recent period"
"News? Is there any news? Isn't it that Earl Moore was smashed back by the orcs and rolled back to the capital, what can I say?"
"No, no, more than that." Cauchy pointed to the headline headline and said, "Everta has won! Do you know?"
This sentence suddenly exclaimed, the other voices in the room immediately went down. Some people were doubtful, some people said it must be nonsense, but when Kosi read the content word by word, the people in the room were almost dumbfounded. !!
"That's how 20,000 orcs ran away !?"
"Captive of 4,300 orcs? Still chasing all the way to the Nehemia steppe?"
"Where did you get this thing?"
"It ’s brought by Parr Business. It is said that it will be updated every week in the future, so that people can know what is happening in the country at any time. Look, this also wrote about the impact of Count Moore, even the damaged town. They are marked ... "
Everyone is from the Bergen Territory and naturally knows what happened here. When Cauchy thought about the content, everyone immediately believed that the content of this newspaper was absolutely true!
Now even if Cosie didn't read it, someone would force him to read it. In addition to the situation in each part of the back, there is a part of the prediction of the "famine" in the winter of the Bergen Territory ... After the sound words were read out, the originally lively tavern was also quiet.
People staying in bars have all walks of life. Mercenaries, businessmen, neighbours in the town, and passers-by are all indispensable. Although they are not the ruling class of this society, they can come over to drink a glass of wine, and they are all guys with a little more knowledge and a clear mind . The farmland was destroyed, the food was robbed, and the farmer was killed. When the territory was empty, Charles II had to recruit soldiers to attack Everta ...
"Are our Her Majesty crazy?"
"Earl Moore gave up his command and was replaced by Earl Milnor. When was that guy Milnor good at fighting? What would he do besides making money?"
There may still be people who do n’t believe the news of the victory of Everta, but the news of Charles II ’s imminent troop has spread in many places these days. People did n’t take it seriously at first, but now they immediately realized that it meant something. As a result, they will all suffer different degrees of loss.
Where can I find food? Where can I find Bingyuan? Who do you want for logistics?
Although this newspaper did not say who suffered, the information will naturally brew, ferment, and eventually form an invisible storm ...
Cauchy didn't understand what he could change by reading a newspaper. And he would not even know that when he was reading the newspaper himself, the same newspaper and the same message were being distributed in all the places of the Parnell merchants in the Bergen Territory and the Karen Kingdom!
The power of information is like a huge cobweb, slowly spreading across the kingdom.
The newspaper was soon placed on the desk of Count Milnor, and it was not surprising that no similar news had ever appeared on Charles II's desk, whether today or later.
"It's all nonsense ... it's deception!"
Count Milnor slammed the newspaper on the table fiercely, his head congested with anger, and his ears seemed to buzz. He wanted to swear and yell, but he knew it was not useful.
What happened to Everta, he has been confirmed through various channels, but Mirno would rather believe that all of this is a scam: what good soldiers are in danger and at risk? Why is it suddenly reversed?
Charles II had given the task to him, and Milnor never thought of shrinking, but he was nothing but a minister and not a general. Milnor was completely clueless, and the lieutenant he found was not talented. The real possible effects of the "newspaper" are hard to predict at this time.
After all, this kind of thing has never appeared before. The illiteracy rate of more than 90% of the Karen Kingdom makes the "newspaper" seem to have little survival soil.
"Identify who distributed the newspapers and shut them all up!"
Milnor had no choice but to give such an order, but his adjutant was embarrassed: "Master Earl ... these things seem to be found in most villages and towns in the kingdom, we ..."
This is very clear. Earl Milnor is just an earl. No matter how powerful the Burgundy Territory is, if you go out of the Burgundy Territory, even if you have Charles II's "Shangfang Sword", who is not good for you? Why command me?
"I can catch everything, I can't find a way!"
Milnor angrily rubbed this parchment into a paper ball and smashed it into the lieutenant's face, "Do you want me to teach you this kind of thing?"
The lieutenant, who was afraid to breathe, hurriedly hurriedly, then bowed back, leaving Mirno sitting in the armchair and meditating ...
The city of Hollier was back in order soon after the war.
Speaking of the orc attack these days, Hollier City is behind the front line and has never faced the siege of the city from beginning to end, so the city looks no different from before the war, even more lively than before.
Prices have risen a lot because of the war. Now it is in the process of falling back, which also includes the price of food. Nobles have the idea of hoarding goods, so in the past, if a war happened, the price of food would increase by eight times ten. Times are possible, and no one can stop them. However, under the cabinet's emergency mechanism, Hollier City, which hoarded more food in advance, easily stabilized the price of food, and no civilians starved to death because they could not afford food.
The dozens of decree issued consecutively by the "cabinet" before the war were not useless in the end. Whether it was the integration of military districts or the details of implementation in all aspects, they proved the superiority of the "cabinet" over the traditional lord rule. Under the premise that the lord died a large number.
The "Rose Cross" also calculated a lot of power in the war, but the war came to an end faster and faster, and the governors and bishops couldn't help but have a deeper view of the duke and the "cabinet". And the main thing is that they recognize their status.
If Sally is a weak duke, she has no available ministers, and is timid and timid, then the Rose Cross will be very happy to take control of the Duke's House, so as to allow the sect to have a wider development space in the Rose Cross. But apparently the cabinet headed by Roddy did not give them the opportunity at all. During the first "cabinet meeting" on June 8th, the "Rose Cross" sect ’s monastery presidents in Holliday City did not answer from beginning to end. To notice.
Obviously, Roddy did not intend to give religious forces any chance to influence his basic situation.
In the conference hall of the Duke's Mansion, six cabinet members sat on either side of the long table, while Roddy, the prime minister, and Sally, the Duke, were at each end. At this time, there was no controversial scene that often appeared in the general "Parliament". On the contrary, from the beginning to the end, the whole meeting was basically led by Roddy.
In other words, it's basically Roddy's "speak."
"Everyone, in my opinion, Everta is now facing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We now have the highest administrative efficiency and the most suitable development environment ... but there is an idea I need to re-understand, maybe you need a period of time. Time to take it slowly. "
Roddy's words echoed in the conference hall. The other six lords of the Cabinet had already belonged to Sally. Although they still had the title of Marquis of the Count in name, they now knew that they had no right to oppose it. Sally's military power can always level them all. In this case, the choice of holding the thigh is the only option.
So they all made their stand: everything was to the Duke.
And Duke Sally is even more happy: "The Cabinet resolution is up to the Prime Minister, and I support all decisions of Prime Minister Roddy."
It's no surprise that Roddy just nodded and stated: "What we need is not a country that is governed by countless lords. The decentralization of power means a decline in execution. I don't say that everyone understands this, so the future Everta's political structure will always maintain the current model cabinet as the center, and we will gradually reclaim most of the power in the hands of the lord and establish a country with a unified law! "
This sentence made the six lords look at each other. After all, they are vested interests, how could they agree that their things were taken away?
However, Roddy is naturally not so stupid: "Of course, we will not take back the lord's current control over the territory, but we must make sure that the lord must obey the decision of the cabinet. Only in this way can Everta complete reunification in the future! "
"Unite…"
This word is imaginative, let alone a few lords, and even Sally's eyes glow with a strange look: "Charlie II has sent someone to attack, when will we fight back?"
"Sir Prime Minister, can we still fight now?"
Count Parker was embarrassed. In this war, his territory was hit hardest by the orcs and suffered heavy losses.
Roddy waved his hand: "Do you really think that Charles II can fight if he fights? Send Milnor to recruit troops in the territory of Bergen, this way itself will not work, otherwise Moore would not just give up.
He clicked the table with his finger and solemnly said, "The only thing we have to do now is to complete the post-war reconstruction and recovery as soon as possible, and develop with peace of mind. Elson City will provide floating towers for 'artificial rainfall' in the future. Increasing food production on all arable land, as far as Milnor's offensive ... it's enough for me to resolve this. "
At present, the cabinet is not divided by departments. The lord can only take care of the affairs in his own territory. For the time being, Roddy regards them as the "top leaders" of the six most powerful provinces and cities, and the external affairs are naturally his military power. Come on.
In response to Roddy's bragging response, the lords chose to be 100% convinced that they were still fearful of the orc attack before, but the iron fist prime minister's strength has been proved by the results.
However, this is not the end, and Roddy's subsequent decision made them stunned: "In the next three months, we must expand the territory into the Nehemia steppe, establish enough pastoral areas, and lay sufficient sentry towers to supplement Qi had the shortage of war horses and the scarcity of cattle and sheep. "
This kind of thing like Kaijiang Tuobian sounds good, but in fact it is something that the lords are unwilling to do ... There is nothing to do on the bare grassland. Basically, it can only be set up by throwing money constantly. Who knows which year can return this? The prairie is a restricted area in the eyes of the lord. Even if the orcs have just been run away, most civilians still have an irresistible fear of these green-skinned barbarians.
"I know you do n’t think this kind of development is worth investing in ~ EbookFREE.me ~ but it ’s not the grassland that we really need to invest in. In the next three months, we have to send a batch of materials to Tasman to support these. 'Good ally' stability. "
At this point, the lords felt that their heartbeats were speeding up: the construction of the grassland was just a springboard. The original purpose was the Tasman behind the Gondola Mountains!
The other side of the Gondola Range is much richer and has a lot of mineral resources. When they hit their brains inside, they poured fuel on the fire and made huge profits from it ... Tasman needs equipment to fight? Need food? Countries in the war do not produce anything. They can only exchange various materials for Roddy, just like a fire picker squatting by the fire. Seeing where the fire is small, throw a piece of wood into it, which will not only make the fire more prosperous , And should have exchanged resources ...
As long as they are not unified one day, this exchange will continue forever. Everta pays for the finished goods, but exchanges multiple times more abundant resources. What is war money? This is called war money!
I went out for a whole day today, and only drove back at 10 o'clock in the evening. The update was a bit late, so the two were more integrated. By the way, ask for new week's recommendation tickets and subscriptions! The friends who join the game are just fine. I did n’t divide the starting game into / (/ o ㄒ) /