Chapter 294: The defeated general (Part 2)

Tiger said seriously: "Yes, your words make sense! I have a premonition that there will be major changes in the Roland Continent, otherwise Your Majesty would not be so anxious to exchange us back - and it was the price of using 800 warships!"

Roddy nodded: "After you return to China this time, I guess His Majesty the King will definitely reuse you, and your abilities must be available."

Tiger shook his head and said, "Although I am a soldier, I am not a war maniac. If you can do this, you will be exempted from it. Once a war occurs, there will be countless money, food and life."

Roddy was solemn and said seriously: "I didn't expect you to have such noble thoughts."

Tiger smiled bitterly, as if he looked around, with a hesitant expression on his face, and whispered: "Emperor, if I'm not wrong, then your Majesty is so anxious to change us back this time, and he must be ready to fight the temple! You must know this... Just from your point of view, can we win?"

Roddy couldn't help but smile and said, "General Tiger, you don't seem to be suitable for me to ask this question?"

Tiger smiled faintly: "There is nothing wrong. Anyway, everyone knows this matter in their hearts, and I have some ideas in my heart, but our Sauron Kingdom currently lacks talents, so it is rare to meet someone like you who is familiar with the military. I naturally can't help asking you for some advice."

Roddy's heart moved and couldn't help but smile and said, "General Tiger, your words must be asked by His Majesty the King, right?"

"Not bad!" Tiger had no intention of vetoing: "Although I don't understand what Your Majesty meant, he actually asked me to come to you to talk about these things, and he valued you very much in his words. I was a little confused in my heart, but after talking to you just now, I found that you do have extraordinary insights on these things. If I came to you just as your Majesty's order, then now I asked these questions out of my personal respect for you!"

Roddy squinted his eyes and looked at Tiger for a while.

Although he had no good feelings for the king, it was obvious that the king was preparing to use him for the last time and dig out the last little value from him before leaving. However, the general Tiger in front of him did give Roddy a little good feelings. This guy dared to speak and do not make any falsehood at all, and was the kind of person Roddy admired.

After thinking about it, Roddy sighed, forget it, for the sake of Tiger, he would not make things difficult for him.

"General Tiger, if you must listen to my opinion..." Roddy said seriously: "To be honest, I think even if more than a dozen countries of Roland unite to fight against the temple this time, they may not be able to win!"

"Oh?" Tiger just raised his eyebrows, but did not show an expression of surprise.

Roddy nodded and said, "I'm talking about it clearly, the quality of the army! I admit that if more than a dozen countries of Roland unite, you will naturally have an absolute advantage in the number of troops! The Holy Knights in the Temple, no matter how much they expand, will only be 200,000 people. If more than a dozen countries of Roland really fight to the death, even if they piece together more than one million troops, it will not be difficult... However, the combat effectiveness of the army does not lie in its huge number, but in its elite!"

"Not bad!" Tiger sighed, "If we only compare the number, we will not lose to you. I later learned that your Thunder Whip had just been reorganized before the war. In that war, your Central Cavalry Legion had only 50,000 people on the battlefield. But these 50,000 people, in conjunction with your Northern Legion, could actually defeat our huge 800,000 army."

"Yes, the combat power of the Holy Knights is no less than that of Thunder Whip, and more importantly..." Roddy thought for a while and said, "It is the heart of the people! The temple has ruled the Roland continent for too long. Neither the nobles nor the people, almost most of them believe in the temple. Even if the king ordered the war to start, then the people's hearts will be to say something! I even suspect that after the war begins, the people in the rear will riot before you retreat!"

"Yes." Tiger's face was a little melancholy: "This is also my concern. The temple has won the hearts of people in a religious way! If we cannot win the hearts of people, it is terrible."

Roddy smiled slightly and said, "But there is no possibility of defeating the temple. It's just..."

Tiger raised his eyebrows and said seriously: "It's just something? You don't have to worry about it, please just say it."

Roddy seemed to look at Tiger with a smile and said slowly: "I'm afraid that if I say this, you will think I have selfish intentions."

Tiger immediately said with great pride: "You don't have to do this, and I'm not a fool. If you really do something bad, can't I see it?"

Roddy smiled slightly, then put away her smile and said seriously: "My solution is to drag it!"

"drag?"

"Not bad!" Roddy's eyes flashed: "Procrastinate! The longer the war is delayed, the better! It's better to fight for three or five years, or even longer, and it's nothing to fight for ten or eight years!"

"What?" Tiger's eyes finally showed a surprised look: "Ten and eight years? How much damage will such a war cause to the Roland Continent? Do you know!"

Speaking of this, a little anger appeared in his eyebrows and he looked at Roddy fiercely.

"I know!" Roddy said coldly: "The longer the war is, the more people will die, and the Roland Continent will be seriously damaged..."

"Since you know this, you have given me such advice!" Tiger narrowed his eyes and said coldly: "Does your Empire of Light hope to lead the Thunder Whip to kill the sea after our Roland Continent hit the vast land?"

"Hahahahahaha..." Roddy burst into laughter, his laughter was a little shocking, which made Tiger feel trembling when he heard it.

"General Tiger, I said just now. I'm afraid you may not be able to listen to my suggestions. Since that's the case, I'll just stop."

Tiger's eyes showed a complicated look, and he seemed to hesitate for a while before he bent down and bowed, raised his head and said seriously: "I'm too impatient, please continue talking."

Roddy looked at Tiger coldly and said lightly: "Don't you doubt my intention?"

Tiger said, "Suspicious! But I think more."

After a pause, the first general of the Sauron Kingdom said seriously: "From the conversation I just talked to you, you can see that you are extraordinary. Even if you want to plot against us, you will definitely not say such a plan that can make people see through at a glance. So I think you must have a deeper meaning!"

Roddy narrowed her eyes and stared at Tiger, and a little feeling suddenly surged in her heart--if...

If during the war, if the Roland coalition was not united within itself and had not unified the orders between each other, it would probably not be so easy to defeat this guy!

Roddy finally withdrew his gaze and said slowly: "Okay... General Tiger, in your opinion, the war between your country and the temple must have been analyzed, what weaknesses do you think the temple can be exploited?"

"This..." Tiger just hesitated for a while and said, "I think the biggest weakness of the temple at present is that their army is too small. Although the Holy Knights are powerful, if we take advantage of the number of people and fight with them, we may not have no chance..."

"Hahahaha..." Roddy laughed coldly a few times on purpose, pretending to be dissatisfied, "You are telling me lies! If your knowledge is only this, then I really doubt General Tiger, who is known as the No. 1 commander of the Sauron Kingdom, could only have such a little experience!"

Tiger's face turned red, and then he gritted his teeth and said, "I... well, my opinion is that the temple lacks foundation!"

"Oh?" Roddy was slightly surprised. He didn't expect that this pure soldier could have seen such a little!

Logically speaking, the temple has ruled in the Roland Continent for thousands of years! Its history is even longer than that of many small kingdoms, but Tiger said that the temple lacks "foundation"!

Roddy sighed: "I didn't expect you to think of this too."

After a pause, Roddy decided not to go around with him anymore and said seriously: "If you want to hear my opinion, then I'm just speaking out!"

Tiger nodded, looked around and then pulled Roddy to the edge of the pool and sat down.

Roddy pondered for a while and spoke slowly.

"Although the temple has a great influence on the Roland Continent, it has its most fatal weakness! It has no territory! It can be said that even the weakest countries on the Roland Continent have their own territory, their own people, and their own grain fields, but the temple does not have these!"

"In other words, the temple has always ruled the Roland Continent with its prestige. Its fiscal revenue is only based on the worship of various countries in the Roland Continent, as well as various religious taxes from the people!"

"You also know that when fighting, you are fighting money and food! Without territory, there will be no money and food! Its Holy Knights are an extremely elite army, but the more elite army, the scarier it is when it spends money... Humph..."

"At the beginning of the war, the temple may still have a lot of money and food to use, but it is impossible for them to spend all of them. Moreover, in terms of financial resources, the more than a dozen countries in the Roland continent are more powerful than the temple, right? Humph, I think that in the beginning, the temple may be able to defeat you step by step with its powerful army... But as long as you can lead the army to fight steadily and delay with the other party..."

"The temple will definitely feel unable to support it! Once the war begins, the countries on the Roland continent will not continue to pay taxes on the temple. If the temple loses its money and food, it will become a big tree without roots!"

"Why can the temple win the hearts of the people now? I think worship of gods or blessings from gods are all fake! Do you know? According to my understanding, if ordinary families in Roland have a year's income of ten, four out of ten of them are to pay taxes from various countries, and the religious tax given to the temple is only two out of ten! The rest is their own. Ordinary people actually don't have much thoughts. The taxes of the temple are low and the taxes of the kingdom are high, so in their hearts, the temple is better than the kingdom!"

"If it were me, I would immediately lower the taxes of the kingdom before the war begins! It is even outrageous! Then after the war begins, at the beginning stage, you will definitely lose some territory first. However, in order to obtain the support of money and grain, the temple will definitely start to collect taxes... In this way, no matter how much tax it collects, it will inevitably lose the people's hearts! According to my guess, the temple's current financial resources, facing a full-scale war on the entire continent, can last the war for up to half a year to a year. When it is consumed, taxes will be an inevitable outcome. In this way, the taxes collected by the temple will inevitably be higher than the taxes of the kingdom, because if the tax is low, it will not be enough! The people's hearts will gradually no longer support the temple!"

"But……"

Roddy smiled and said, "People's hearts are selfish! For an ordinary family, you ask them to give 20% of their income every year to worship the temple and believe in the gods. Maybe they can accept it, but if you ask them to give half or even half of their income to worship the gods, then half of them will not be willing... Faith and religion will become insignificant in the face of survival, eating, such a big thing as a matter of greatness! "

Roddy smiled deeply: "I know, maybe some religious fanatics may even donate all their property, but those lunatics are a minority after all. It would be nice to have one religious fanatic among a thousand people! Most, well, no, should be the vast majority of people, they are very ordinary people. In this way, things will become much simpler, and the temple loses the hearts of the people. As long as you persist for a long time, then the final victory will not be without hope."

"There is another important point. The temple has only 200,000 Holy Knights. Their only way is to hope to defeat your main force in a major battle as soon as possible. Therefore, you might as well give up some territory and avoid each other. If the temple wants to occupy those territory, it can only divide its troops to take over, so that their already slightly powerful troops will be even weaker... You don't have to worry about the problem of military force. Just occupy the local forces, and wait until they divide the troops and take them back. Those small groups of local defenders, no matter how elite the Holy Knights are, they must not be able to withstand it! In short, it is a purpose, not to allow them to receive money, grain and taxes smoothly!"

Roddy sighed: "Actually, the most difficult thing about this method is the early stage of the war! The guys in the temple are not all fools. Some people will always think of these things and will definitely try their best to end the war as soon as possible - so in the early stage of the war, you will be under great pressure! So, persistence is the only way! If... if... if you are not defeated by the temple within two years, then in two years, the situation will improve!"

Tiger took a deep breath, as if trying to digest Roddy's words. He then smiled bitterly: "You mean, we will reduce taxes in the early stages of the war to win the hearts of the people, but our huge army also needs money to support..."

Roddy sneered: "With the financial resources of more than a dozen countries in the Roland Continent, it will definitely last longer than the temple! Even if your financial resources cannot be supported in the end... Humph, then has the king forgotten that there is a dwarf country behind him! The people there are not from the Roland Continent, and they can collect high taxes at will! The dwarfs now don't even have their own army, and there is an inland sea in the middle! Do you think the temple can fight the dwarf country? Moreover, the dwarf country has been engaged in ironwood trade for hundreds of years, and they are very rich!"

After a pause, Roddy said carefully: "Even if you still find it difficult to support it in the end... Our Empire of Light can consider funding some money and food to you at the right time... Of course, in order to ensure our position and not to disturb you, we will not directly send troops across the sea!"

Tiger smiled bitterly and said, "This plan is really weird... But now I think it's the only way. But I'm really not very proficient in finance..."

Roddy made a fuss in his heart and simply made another bad note: "There are so many kingdoms and so many nobles in the Roland continent, and the family is always full of slaves, and the wealth is as good as a country. If you really lack money and food, you might as well use a knife against these nobles! Has the king not done the house scout? Humph!"

Tiger was so scared that his face looked like a mortal color, and he couldn't help but say, "This is not possible..."

Roddy looked calm: "When things are at a dangerous moment, everything can be adapted! If you can't figure this out, then I guess the king can figure it out!"

Tiger's face was gloomy and seemed to hesitate. Finally, he gritted his teeth and said awkwardly: "I thank you for your advice in advance! Although I have retained some ideas about your views, I will definitely convey these words to His Majesty the King... and..."

Tiger seemed to have finally made up his mind and said, "I admire you very much. I wonder if Mr. Earl is interested in staying in Roland and helping me? I must promise to convince His Majesty the King to give you the best treatment...I want..."

Roddy smiled faintly. Tiger didn't know his identity, but the king knew it. He just simply refused. Tiger did not give up and even came up with the relationship between allies on both sides and invited Roddy to help him in the form of a military adviser, but Roddy refused.

Finally, the commander of the Sauron Kingdom sighed and said slowly: "I didn't expect that the Tulip Duke of the Light Empire is full of talents. Although I have never seen the strength of the Earl, I am amazed in my heart when I talk about it today!"

After pausing, Tiger sighed: "It seems that I have no chance to compete with Duke Tulip on the battlefield in my life! I am convinced by your country's powerful army and talents!"

The general finally bowed to Roddy and then left with great pride.

Roddy breathed a sigh of relief and was about to turn back to the hall when he heard the voice of Nidis next to him.
Chapter completed!