Realm of Power

Falcon Empire Kyoto, Red Palace, rain patters on the streets, splashing crystal clear water splashes

Through the window of the room, you can see the black armor of the Imperial Guards standing guard outside looming in the white rain. The cold blade at the front of the spear reflects a cold light. The dark red Imperial Red Palace, the center of power of the empire, is surrounded by the outside world. Known as the Blood Palace, in the eyes of outsiders, the Empire's Red Palace points to the top of the sky like a sword, showing the empire's ambition to control the entire Obaro.

"The Fezers sent Caruso, the Kingdom's Minister of Internal Affairs, this time, and proposed to use Luansock in exchange for peace with the empire. What do you think of such conditions?"

Mao Mona's green figure turned around from the window. The first princess of the empire was originally a snow-capped mountain beauty. Her slender figure, set against the long and delicate dark green dress, was exquisite and soft. She has become more and more popular in recent years. The oval-shaped slap face and the sharp chin reveal a confident, noble, cold and arrogant temperament, but there is a hint of aggressive pressure in the eyes, looking at the fat man with great affection." Such conditions are not allowed. It meets the needs of the empire, so this document cannot be signed. "The fat man closed the document on the table. Mao Monaqing came to the fat man's side with graceful steps. She glanced at the rejected documents on the fat man's table. She looked slightly surprised, charming and mature. The dignified and various temperaments are perfectly integrated on that beautiful face that is both happy and happy. He is quite tall, a little taller than a fat man. He has been in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Empire for a long time. On top of his original aura, he has more With a bit of worldly understanding and a comprehensive consideration of the empire's situation, Mao Monaqing hesitated and said curiously, "I thought your majesty had always been determined to win Lu Ansok, so I didn't raise any objection. Your majesty." I have also mentioned that if Luansoke can be obtained, His Majesty is confident that it will become the largest trading port in southern Obaro. "Haha, what is the virtue of the Feize people now?" Ansock came because the value of Luansock was no longer what it used to be. Although it had the reputation of being the largest port in the north of Feize, and was almost known as the second Lisbon in its most prosperous period, it has not been the same since the last encounter. After the bombardment by the Imperial Navy, the economy suffered a heavy blow. The Imperial Navy blocked the port, and Fezer's maritime merchants in Luansok lost all their money. The prosperity was already a thing of the past, and there was no maritime trade."

"Merchant ships can't go out to sea. This large port in the north of Fezer is a dead port. Moreover, the Fezer people have other motives for throwing out Luansoke." The fat man said with a noncommittal face. Moreover, the Fezer people proposed Luansoke. After the defeat, I immediately let the Intelligence Department know that Luansock was far worse than imagined. Compared with the original peak of 300 ships docked every day, there are now less than 20 ships left. Less than one tenth”

"And most of these twenty ships are old abandoned ships. Because the cost of leaving the port is too high, they were abandoned by their original owners because they were too close to the imperial coastline. The warships of the Imperial Navy dock almost every day Outside the port of Luansock, no matter how good the golden port is, it is still a trouble that everyone avoids at the moment. However, in order to prevent the empire from possible military operations in Luansock, Fezer had to push the 50,000 garrison to Luansock. The supplies consumed every day were not a small number, and there was no benefit at all. It also required continuous The Feize royal family would have given it away even if they had cared about it!

Mao Monaqing's beautiful eyes blinked. She was in charge of the empire's internal affairs. This includes the development of imperial commerce, so Luansok is not completely unknown. If this large southern port falls into the hands of the empire, it can echo the southern trade center of Lisbon and become a super port with huge throughput. Logically speaking, the Feize people took the initiative to surrender this time and surrendered to the empire's wishes, sending out The largest port in the north was used as a condition for negotiation, both in terms of appearance and interests, and it could be said that it played into the empire's hands, so even she did not expect that Fatty would veto it without hesitation.

"According to the news, there is a clamor in Fezer to march eastward and start a war. Especially the rapid expansion of the power of the Paput Kingdom has shocked Fezer. Now Fezer is fully mobilizing troops and troops on the border, just because he has been worried about the empire. Will use this to intervene, so it has been delayed. Now it is waiting for the signing of the imperial agreement, and then it can attack the Paput Kingdom with all its strength. It claims to seek justice for the vassal country, but in fact it simply wants to open up the road to the east. the way!

"A dead port can be exchanged for the revitalization of a desperate economy, and it can give the empire a pretext to prevent it from intervening in Papute's dispute. This deal is not an ordinary bargain!" The fat man paused, and took the hand from Mao Mona. He came over with a glass of ice-cold wine and smiled slightly, "I know the Feizer people's intentions. The main thing is that the situation in the south has started to change since the defeat of the Eero Empire." The empire began to get out of control. In order to expand its strength and enjoy the benefits, the Papute Kingdom had already spent thirty years of domestic taxes and seven or eight mines in one fell swoop, and even completely gave the Rilang City area to the empire. Such a crazy move This move seemed to completely put the country's economy into the hands of others, but in fact it created a situation that tightly tied Papt and the Falcon Empire together."

"The Feize people are trying to avoid the enemy now. Feize wants to touch Paput, but he has to consider the attitude of the empire! The interests of Papt are the interests of the Falcon Empire. The Kingdom of Paput is just a second- or third-rate small country. Who would really take him seriously? In the face of the big country Feize, they had to bow down and use women to win over them. Now that they rely on the more powerful Northern Falcon Empire, they have become much stronger."

"Although the material mines were signed to the empire, the support received was genuine, and the empire would not point fingers at Paput's national affairs. King Paput knew very well that with Paput's strength and family background, he wanted In this once-in-a-lifetime experience in the south If you rise in chaos, without a strong backing, you will only become an object of engulfment by other countries. As for the idea of ​​putting the economic lifeline in the hands of the empire, Papt also has to ask himself, a small Papt , can it impress the Falcon Empire?"

"Then His Majesty also requires the Imperial Bank to fully support Papt. If Fezer ignores the empire's attitude and attacks Papt, I'm afraid Papt will not be able to fight back."

After listening to the fat man's explanation, Mao Mona's pretty face showed a hint of relief, and she roughly understood what was going on. As one of the few great powers in the south, Feize Kingdom has been the hegemon of the west coast for hundreds of years and has great strength. Although it was damaged in the North-South War, its strength was not greatly affected. Naturally, one cannot just sit back and watch one of his vassal states being cannibalized one by one. However, there is obviously no certainty in starting a war with the Falcon Empire. After simply proposing peace talks, Feize will attack Paput with all his strength. At least the Falcon Empire will not directly use combat troops. Intervention, just a short period of time suddenly strengthened Papt, regardless of background or combat effectiveness. Even if it increases several times, it is still no match for the old overlord Feize. This is what confuses Mao Monaqing. There is a huge power disparity between the Paput and Feize kingdoms. According to the fat man's eyes, how can he not see it? What is the point of the empire supporting such a small, second-rate country?

"Haha, if you say that Paput will fail, I believe that if you say that Paput is completely powerless, that's not necessarily the case."

"Papte loaned a total of 5 million several times, and the standing army expanded from less than 50,000 to 150,000. The armaments were supplied by the empire and reached sophisticated standards. With such a military strength, even if it is not among the big countries , and also entered the ranks of the southern first-tier countries, so Papt Only after the first military operation had benefited the kingdom, only one month later, it launched another brazen attack on Nan'anfu, another vassal state of the Feize Kingdom. Facing the aggressiveness of Papt, the previously aloof power Feize. You can only watch it temporarily if you are from the south. Lord, if you see a weak country quietly stepping into the ranks of a front-line country overnight, even if you know that this method will have endless consequences, you will be moved. This is what I want, and I want to shock more than just. It’s the current chaos in the South, and it’s more about people’s hearts. I want to The monarchs of the southern countries stretched their necks one by one, secretly thinking about how far they would be able to develop if they replaced Papt in their place, and wondering whether they would be able to leave Paput if they relied on the big tree of the empire. "Further?" "So, His Majesty will not intervene in the Paput dispute."

After hearing the fat man say that Papute would fail, Mao Mo Naqing knew the whole answer, but Papute had too many connections with the empire's interests, could he really just watch Feize annex Papute like this? This is definitely not in line with Fatty's usual style. From the bottom of her heart, Mao Monaqing does not want the empire to intervene in the Papute dispute. The empire has expanded too rapidly, especially in the past two years, with the high frequency of large-scale battles involving hundreds of thousands of people. happened, the empire's commercial wealth was sufficient, but its basic agriculture was very average. In every major war, the army Moving forward, the carriages transporting supplies and food have never been interrupted. Even though the empire is vast, this pressure is making the empire's internal affairs stretched. Fortunately, His Majesty stopped the momentum of continuing to attack after the Battle of Istan. Otherwise, Mao Monaqing doesn’t even know whether the empire’s logistics line can sustain it.

With the empire, a huge war machine, operating at full capacity, many problems were originally ignored. Now that the empire has entered a period of peace, these problems have become conspicuous. Since the empire took over Obarro, it has conquered the northern Gaul region and the Although the Barrow region in Central Europe has vigorously developed infrastructure, restored the originally damaged fields, and migrated the population to the desolate areas after the war, it has only been able to restore normal and peaceful life in most areas. It is said that it will become the rear of the empire. A large granary is still not a task that can be completed in a short time

The empire has stopped fighting since last winter. For more than half a year, the Imperial Ministry of Internal Affairs has carefully cleaned up the government affairs and development of the empire-occupied areas, re-divided the empire areas, and injected a large amount of imperial funds into the northern part of the empire, which originally belonged to In the northern region of the Gallic Empire, after more than two years of peaceful and war-free recuperation, the destroyed field cultivation and economy have recovered to a certain extent. When the autumn wind in August blows through the vast hills of the Gallic plain, the yellow wheat ears wave in the sea. Rolling with the wind, In the south of the empire, the freed northern region of Congo became the area where a large number of migrant populations from the Barro region of Central Europe moved in. Towns rose one after another on the vast and fertile land, while in the south of Congo, Lisbon supported the Thriving maritime trade , allowing the entire southern economy to recover rapidly. Under the expansion of the empire's influence, the Barrow countries in Central Europe have begun to consider themselves vassals of the empire. At this time, the Falcon Empire is extremely powerful militarily, prosperous commercially, and has a large population. Breaking through 2.5 billion,

The current main source of finance and taxation is still concentrated in the Ikadiva continent and the northwest and southwest regions. Even if the empire issued the largest migration order last month, the fertile and vast northern Congo has finally opened its door to the entire Obaro, with excellent The land policy attracted refugees in the Obaro area who were turbulent due to the war, but the effect was not very satisfactory. Although it has a population of more than 200 million and vast fertile land, it is still affected by the war. The reason is that the formation of large tracts of barren areas is the biggest problem that the empire currently needs to face. The areas where the empire has developed are mainly concentrated in coastal areas, and they are all based on commerce. The internal affairs of the empire led by Mao Monaqing The Ministry is already operating at full capacity, but it is still overwhelmed by various problems. Fortunately, the empire is a country with military power. Under the suppression of the imperial side, these contradictions in the empire have not caused major turmoil.

Mao Monaqing believes that Fatty knows this better than she does. For the entire Oubaluo Continent, Fatty is the emperor, the commander of millions of imperial cavalry, and a feared king. But only she knows that the empire It has been able to reach this point, and it has not been crushed by the militaristic expansion. Instead, it has become stronger and stronger. To a large extent, it is because Fatty is always there. At the critical moment, he can hold the reins of the ferocious chariot of the empire. This man with eyes like a falcon is sitting in the driver's seat of the imperial chariot. "The empire will indeed not intervene in the Paput dispute, the Paput people thought. This precedent of tying the empire to a carriage must not be used! Otherwise, the empire will fall into the quagmire of the south, and there is no talk of profiting from chaos! "

The fat man glanced at Mao Monaqing and couldn't help but feel a little sad when he thought about how this beautiful woman had taken care of the empire's heavy internal affairs for him in the past few years.

He stood up and came to the window, looking at the light in the corridor outside the Red Palace that looked particularly cool. He looked through the window at the drizzle and wind outside, making a crackling sound. Although it was not very loud, it was enough to disturb the owner. "Sweet dreams," he said. As for whether Papt will It will be annexed. Don’t worry about this. It can be seen from the fact that the Fezer people came to discuss that the Fezer people have lost their spirit. Even if they win in the end, at most they will take back the original area. We have not signed a peace treaty. , Feize doesn’t dare to really enter Paput!”

The corners of the fat man's mouth turned up slightly, revealing a smile. "I have a thick stack of information about Feize in the past three months in my hand. From the meetings of Feize's upper-level officials to the banquet discussions of Feize's nobles, Feize's side Although he denounced Paput, he still lacked the courage to go to war with the empire. He could fight Pratt, but he couldn't if he wanted to take advantage of the empire! "

The end of the year is indeed the most disturbing time, with various inspections, summaries, and even being sent out on business trips. Alas, there is no hope of perfect attendance this month. I haven't seen you for a few days, making everyone wait for a long time. (To be continued.)