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Taipingjing, Edsa Palace.

The fall of a fallen leaf starts from the root. The thick branches collapse and sway. Without the breeze, it rises up in the wind and falls on the snow-white jade steps... Even the guards standing like statues at the door of the disaster are covered with clothes. Withered and yellow.

The Elsa tree, which is still green even in late autumn, has begun to lose its leaves...

This means that time has quietly entered the most terrifying season in the North, winter!

During this season, the barren orc empire on the grasslands outside the northern border usually runs out of food reserves, white snow blows on the ground, and the cattle and sheep they raise begin to lose weight.

So the annual raid south became the only way for the orcs to survive!

The nightmare of all human countries in the north is coming!

There are two human countries bordering the orc prairie, namely the Longxia Empire and the Tianlan Kingdom.

When these two countries were penetrated by the orc craze, it was the turn of the Kingdom of Rhodes and the Kingdom of Lieyang in the south. These are the four countries of the Northern Continent, referred to as the Four Difficult Brothers of the Northern Continent!

You ask why the nobles of Tianlan Kingdom are martial?

Why do all the nobles not pay much attention to enjoyment, but attach great importance to military training, and almost every family engages in military affairs?

Because we were neighbors with orcs, we were beaten by orcs a lot!

Every year, hundreds of small and medium-sized nobles are exterminated by orcs! The five major provinces in the north are in a stinking state. Millions of people have been displaced, robbed, enslaved, and become food for the orcs...

The fear of orcs and the fear of insufficient force are almost engraved in the genes of Tianlan Kingdom!

At this moment, there was also a commotion in Aisha's palace.

"Negotiate peace! We must negotiate peace with the orcs this year. The kingdom's finances can no longer support a winter war! I don't even know where to pay the salaries of officials from all over the country next month!" the finance minister yelled while holding the financial report.

"How should we negotiate a peace and send another princess over for marriage? The Kingdom of Rhodes tried it last year, but the princess was cooked and eaten by them, and the skeleton was sent back. These beasts don't have any human emotions!" Prime Minister Chishima Kein! Test responded.

"I think it's better to just send food to negotiate for peace... What the orcs are short of is food. Let's give it to them directly to avoid heavy casualties..." the Minister of Agriculture said tremblingly.

"No! Absolutely not. The ancestral motto of our Tianlan Kingdom is that we must never succumb to the enemy. We have fought for thousands of years and never surrendered. Are we more difficult than our ancestors when we first founded the country?" The Right Prime Minister was so angry that he was shaking all over and stood. came out and shouted.

"Where is the heroic spirit of your ancestors?! How come you are such a coward!"

Zaxiang Yilihui also stood up to criticize the Minister of Agriculture. As a court noble, of course he stood on the side of the king.

"Aren't I also doing this for the people of the kingdom? You're just a slanderer!" the Minister of Agriculture replied angrily.

The dispute between the two parties seemed to have their own reasons, but more than half of the noble ministers stood behind the Minister of Agriculture.

"I second the proposal!"

"I second the proposal!"

...

On the throne.

The king was wearing a red robe, reclining on the couch, his left hand bent to support his handsome face slightly tilted under the crown. The two thick eyebrows on his face were frowned into a deep groove, and there was a heavy look of exhaustion hanging from the corners of his eyes.

At this time of year, it is the most tiring day for Uesugi. The most powerful southern nobles in the court have proposed peace as always. To put it bluntly, they do not want to shed blood and seek peace by cutting their flesh!

But Uesugi knows that most of the smugglers who do business with the orcs on the border every year and transport iron, pottery, and human products are supported by these southern nobles!

The southern part of the kingdom does not have to face the orcs directly. It has received the least impact and is also the richest. Therefore, they are the absolute peace advocates. Even if the five major provinces in the northern part have been penetrated year after year, what does it have to do with them? Just don’t hit your own territory!

This is a group of short-sighted, despicable and despicable traitors!

Uesugoshi gritted his teeth countless times in his heart, but could not attack directly.

Because three-fifths of the kingdom's annual tax revenue comes from the southern border, they are the kingdom's money bag. In order to get his group of nobles to spend money to defend against the orcs, he has to lick these guys every year!

I'll hang you all sooner or later!

Uesugi yelled angrily in his mind for the ten thousandth time.

On the surface, he still maintained the majesty of the king, waving his hand gently and thoughtfully: "The laws of our ancestors cannot be violated, and the orcs must still resist!"

This time, the king's skillful efforts to harmonize the mud did not work.

Marshal Laurent of the Kingdom, representing the military, spoke: "Your Majesty!"

"The kingdom has not recovered from the trauma of the national war with several countries in the Central Continent five years ago. If we fight the orcs again this year, all the veterans in the standing army will die! How can we compete with the countries in the mainland in the future?"

"I suggest...it is better to let go of the northern defense line this year and let the orcs...after their patrol, they can return on their own without seeing the weapons..."

Hearing this, even the king, who was accustomed to these ministers having no bottom line, instantly widened his eyes, and the northern nobles were even more stunned.

Let go of the northern defense line that the kingdom invests in dozens of tons of purple gold every year, let the orcs enter and plunder, and abandon tens of millions of people?

Is this what a marshal of the kingdom should say? !

How many benefits have the nobles of the Southern Territory given you? ?

Uesugi felt that over the years, he had adapted to the shamelessness of the nobles, and could even be more shameless than them, but this time he found that he was wrong.

For the first time, the king's face became so gloomy, as if it was darkened along with the candlelight in the palace, and the atmosphere reached freezing point.

It doesn't matter what nonsense the nobles say, what matters is that this is a signal!

This year the military and the southern nobles have united!

Holding a money bag in one hand and a gun in the other, when their interests overlap, this is the last thing Uesugi wants to see.

In recent years, he has been giving eye drops to the military and nobles.

But when this happens, it also means that he, the king, cannot stop the decisions of these two forces.

Now he only had two choices before him.

1. Give the orcs food and pay tribute!

2. Let go of the northern border and allow it to be plundered!

This is the plan the nobles gave themselves!

This is the plan given by ministers who are full of loyalty and serve the country and the people!

Uesugi was going crazy.

In Elsa Palace, no one spoke for a long time.

Under the extremely gloomy face of the king, he finally uttered two words with a pale face.

"Have a rest and we'll discuss it later in the afternoon!"

"Long live your Majesty!"

The ministers bowed together. The southern nobles looked at the frustrated palace nobles and northern nobles with cold eyes, feeling proud of victory, and then had a pleasant chat with the military and others.