Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

Harvey sat next to the magic brain instrument in the office and quickly read the interim strategic report sent back by the Northern Expeditionary Force.

"I thought they would choose to stay at the border Langya Ridge and Highland City, and then wait for the second batch of reinforcements to join with supplies." He clapped his hands and said with satisfaction, "I didn't expect that in order to reach the target location as soon as possible, the expeditionary force actually took the initiative to cooperate with the local anti-church organization and seized a temporary supply point where supplies could be transmitted."

Asdaren smiled and said, "When you asked the intelligence department to reveal the news of the Stone Heart Hermitage to the expeditionary force, didn't you intend to let them contact each other on their own and closely cooperate with the subsequent actions?"

The army did not need to follow the predetermined plan when carrying out military operations in foreign countries far away from their homeland. The senior military officials and the General Staff Headquarters in the base camp only provided the overall strategic deployment. How to carry out each stage of the operation was ultimately handed over to the commanders and officers at all levels who were on the front line.

This also gave the front-line combat teams a high degree of autonomy, and tested the strategic vision and command and execution capabilities of officers at all levels, which just met the outline of the "actual combat training" and "talent training" plans formulated by Harvey.

And what they didn't expect was that... after the expeditionary force successfully established cooperation with the local anti-church organization under the leadership of Wayne and Duff, they actually quickly included these "cultists" in the action plan, allowing them to be active in various noble territories along the expeditionary route as "guerrilla forces" hidden in the dark, creating an internal chaos first, and reducing the possibility of the expeditionary force being blocked by nobles from all over the country.

Even Pierce, who has always been strict with his subordinates, couldn't help but praise in front of Harvey, "It is indeed an effective tactical arrangement."

In this way, the expeditionary force is expected to arrive at the crack of the God's Spine Mountains nearly half a month in advance, and establish a crack defense line at a speed far beyond expectations.

However, the next "plunder plan" is the highlight.

Harvey stood in front of the map covering the entire long table, and set his sights on the Wolf Fang Ridge area on the border of Isengard. This border pass with crisscrossing mountains happened to be located at the border of the three countries of Daeus Enclave, Saint Varen and Isengard.

The Daeus Enclave, which the expeditionary army passed through, was actually a special "wizard principality" that nominally belonged to the wizard kingdom of Daeus, but actually did not border its own country. It was jointly governed by several famous wizard families with long family histories. It also had close relations with the Federation, but its territory was small and its population was sparse. It had always relied entirely on the trade between Saint Varen and Isengard, which sandwiched it, to provide food and material supplies, while the enclave exported a large number of spellcaster consultants serving the nobles of the surrounding countries as a return of benefits.

For this small enclave with an area of ​​less than one-third of the Principality of Yarid, Harvey had no interest in occupying it by force, let alone breaking the good cooperative relationship with the Federation.

After Saint Valen experienced the plague and external disturbances and internal strife, most cities in the country have experienced the baptism of war to a greater or lesser extent. In addition, the continuous recruitment and accommodation in the North has led to people abandoning their land and moving to northern cities such as Spark City. The benefit of this phenomenon is naturally the acceleration of industrialization. A large number of manufacturing factories have sprung up in the North, providing a continuous source of operating power for the huge state machine under Harvey's rule.

But there are also disadvantages on the other hand. The land public ownership policy promulgated by Harvey is promoted gradually. Many lands distributed throughout the country that have not been counted and confiscated in time have long been ruthlessly abandoned by local people. Compared with farmland with heavy taxes and harvests that depend on the weather, the stable and long-term job recruitment in Spark City, which can provide enough food and clothing, can attract these poor workers more.

With the continuous migration of people from all over the country to the North, and the surrounding Grizzly Territory, more and more wasteland has been left in the central and southern regions of Saint Valen. The original "granary of the principality" Fengyuan City has actually seen a ridiculous situation where alchemical agricultural machinery is in place, but the number of farmers is insufficient. Harvey has to reconsider adjusting the population recruitment plan.

Rather than leaving those abandoned farmland idle and overgrown with grass, it is better to directly introduce people from foreign countries to fill the labor shortage in agricultural planting - and the people in Isengard are the most suitable "import targets".

Originally, he was not very optimistic about this group of blind people who devoutly believed in the church, and he had no intention of migrating them to Saint Valen at all - the faith passed down from generation to generation, it is difficult for these people to change their ideas in a short period of time. The rash introduction is equivalent to burying a group of religious explosive barrels that may explode at any time in his own country, and the risks and benefits are completely disproportionate.

However, as the intelligence network gradually invaded Isengard, Harvey discovered that there was still a very unique "borderland tribe" in the country - the number of this tribe, called "rootless people" by the local people, was not small. Although most of them were ruthlessly expelled to the border mountains and the desert near the God's Spine Mountains in the north because they did not want to believe in the church, the total number was estimated to be no less than 100,000.

The "rootless people" who had lived in the bitter cold for generations were eager for grassland oases and fertile fields. As long as the appropriate "diplomatic mission" was sent to have in-depth contact with them, even if only a few tribes in difficult situations could be "tricked" to migrate, as time went on... and with the pioneers' exploration and verification, hundreds of other tribes, large and small, would soon be unable to bear the temptation and flock to Saint Valen to become "good citizens" under Harvey's rule.

Harvey was not too worried about the integration of local people and foreign tribes. The "rootless people" who had no religious beliefs and only a small amount of primitive nature worship were a natural blank sheet of paper. As long as the huge education system of Spark City directly included these people, they would soon be trained to be firm humanists, and no longer have the idea of ​​distinguishing between each other under the concept of ethnic unity.

As for those special living customs and cultural features, Harvey felt that it was a manifestation of diversity. Even in his previous life on Earth, the differences in living and eating between the north and south often led to some controversial topics. Perhaps after the large-scale population migration to Saint Valen, there will be an interesting scene of "tofu brain salty and sweet party disputes" in the near future.

Just when Harvey was a little distracted, Egno and Chris suddenly knocked on the door and came in, "Your Majesty, the two inherited secret treasures from the East Territory and the Southern Cave City, the Golden Tree Heart and the Earth Crystal Core... have now arrived in Spark City under the personal escort of the two tribes."