Demon Lord

Parchment will soon be history, this paper is the future.

What Rody held in his hand was no longer the smooth and thick parchment, but the real paper he asked the Elson City Magic Research Department to produce.

Papermaking can be called one of the four great inventions. The important significance is not that Cai Lun invented paper, but that he improved the papermaking process and reduced the cost of paper to an unprecedented level. Low-cost paper means spreading knowledge. The reduction of cost also heralds the leap forward of civilization.

However, Roddy didn't plan to elaborate on the impact of paper on the entire country and the world in the future, and the cabinet members present, including Sally, didn't realize what low-cost paper meant. So he waved his hand and signaled everyone to read the paper.

These are all simple schematic diagrams. Although they are not standard enough, he can still figure out the proportions after learning engineering drawing. The load, speed, road standards and building consumption were all estimated. After reading it, several lords quickly constructed a rough image in their minds. While finding all this incredible, they also raised their own questions: Prime Minister, where are these things going to be built?

The first phase is expected to start next year, extending directly from Elson to Houllier City, and the route roughly passes through these cities. Rody walked to the territory map beside him, stretched out his hand and drew a line, and then pointed down, Pointing to the southernmost coast of the territory: The second phase will be postponed for one year, all the way south, all the way to here.

Beach? What are you doing there?

My lord...you don't want to build a port there, do you?

Saying this made everyone a little silent. Efta is not a mountain of gold and silver. The consumption of this railway system alone is appalling enough, not to mention the need to build a port?

If there is a port, there must be a ship, right? What about the dock? Who will build the boat? At present, those with shipbuilding skills can only find the royal family where Charles II belongs, and may he agree?

That's right, I'm going to build a port here. And you must remember... this will be the most important city in the Karen Kingdom in the future, and I hope this will become the crossroads of the world.

Rody pointed to the blank area on the map: Everyone will definitely wonder whether we have enough manpower, material resources and money to complete all this. In fact, the answer is here.

He took out a standard charged spar: Whether it is the Karen royal family, or the Rahiman kingdom, or Tasman... will be taken care of by it.

*****

When the situation in Karen Kingdom became calm again,

The Bergen territory is the only area that is still stirring the situation.

Earl Mirno was in a terrible mood. He didn't know how many teacups he had smashed, but the messages he sent annoyed him more and more...

Viscount Nusco said that his soldiers suffered heavy losses, and two of the three knights were seriously injured, so...

So this coward chooses to be a deserter? Huh?

The butler was at a loss as to how to respond to Milno's question, because this was already the sixth nobleman who expressed his unwillingness to be counted in the battle. Calculated in this way, one-third of the group of nobles and knights originally gathered by Earl Moore After choosing to quit, they would rather pay huge military expenses than go to war...

Mirno was so full of evil that he had nowhere to vent his anger. His hair had turned gray a lot in the past few days, and his eye sockets were sunken and he looked like a half-skeleton soldier. He waved his hand and said to the butler: Forget it, after all, there are still knights who are willing to fight in the territory. Even if I sell everything, I have to make up for the military expenses. The soldiers are expensive and the elites are not much more expensive. It doesn't matter if you fight Efta more than anyone else. of.

These words were naturally comforting himself, but the steward's subsequent words almost made him spit out blood: Master, after Earl Moore resigned, the logistics of those injured knights and nobles have not been taken care of. If you don't Settle them down... I am afraid that those knights who can continue to fight will also choose to quit.

This damn old fox!

Mirno's sharp voice has changed. For noble troops with cavalry, logistics is definitely an unlimited number... Leaving aside the fact that people eat horses, as the leader of this combat mission, manpower and material resources are all required. You paid for it yourself, do you expect that group of people to bring their own dry food to fight with you in the future? Stop dreaming! Slap your ass and leave in minutes!

Earl Moore relied on the prestige accumulated over the years to quickly assemble such a team. But with Sauron's charge like a broken bamboo, it is actually difficult for the morale-destroyed troops to take on heavy responsibilities. Many of them rushed to fight with their own logistics in a hurry. Now that the battle is over and they haven't returned yet, who will pay for the food, drink and food of the various people? If Mirno doesn't serve him well, the group of nobles who stayed behind will definitely make trouble as soon as possible...

To put it bluntly, this is the sequelae left by Moore's direct rejection of the pick, and now Milnor is pinching his nose and trying to swallow this breath.

Give it to them! Give them everything that should be given, and at the same time tell them that what is going on now is a 'war of conquest', not a 'war of regaining territory'! Mirno waved his hand viciously, the veins on his forehead stood out: Everything in Everta, as long as you can take it down, you can take as much as you can!

As soon as these words came out, the butler's expression changed immediately. Because the war within the Karen Kingdom has never been interrupted, and there are frictions between various families and forces every year, but even if there are casualties, there will never be such bad acts as robbery or even plunder, because the nobles defeated In the end, they are often captured directly and exchanged for ransom. Even soldiers can return them by giving money.

But as soon as Battle of Conquest was exported, it completely meant that Efta was dealt with as an enemy. There was no more ransom, no more gentlemen's battles or duels, and some were just naked attacks and plunders!

Although everything you grab is yours can greatly increase the enthusiasm of the nobles participating in the war, but if you really want to digest the territory of Efta, such behavior is definitely a bad move with endless troubles...

But the problem is, if Milno wants to launch a war as soon as possible, there is only one way to go.

Making this kind of decision also made Mirno feel a little exhausted. He sat back in the armchair and asked a little tiredly: By the way, have you thoroughly investigated those things called...'newspapers'?

The steward showed bitterness, and replied in a low voice: It has been found out that it is the trouble of the Parling business house, but all these companies in the Bergen territory have been evacuated, and the Parling business houses in other areas are still under protection. It is difficult to forcibly disperse them.

Who dares to shelter them?!

Mirno suddenly felt that his teeth were stuffy from drinking cold water, and he stood up angrily: Which lord insists on fighting against me?