Author: Xin Haiyue 1

After a series of haggling, the Near East Line of Defense plan was finally approved. Without any nuclear weapons, the Hudson's territory became the core of the line of defense.

The geographical location is second to none. The most important thing is that because of Hudson's reputation, the orc army would not dare to go deep into it without pulling out the nail.

The expeditionary legion's battle deep into the orc prairie has fundamentally changed the mode of war, making everyone realize: it turns out that war can be played that way!

The expeditionary legion can achieve remarkable results without any logistical support. But with the bridgehead in the Near East as its backing, its power will be even greater.

Against that background, the first city to be built in the kingdom is very obvious - the port!

If there are conditions, the conditions must exist. If there are no conditions, the conditions must exist. The biggest feature of the extraordinary world is that human power can transform nature.

In theory, deserts can be turned into oases, wilderness can be turned into fertile soil, and mountains can be turned into plains. It is just a matter of how much effort is invested.

There is no doubt that there is no theory. Reversing the laws of nature is by no means as simple as it seems.

The desert has turned into an oasis. Unless the local climate can be completely changed, it will not take long for Yonghuai to degenerate into a desert.

Wilderness becomes fertile soil, and the weather needs to follow. It is important to know how to nourish the land, otherwise after the fertility of the land is exhausted, it will become a barren land again.

Phase-wise, the man-made port will have minimal backlash. As long as no major changes occur, there will be no major problems in 180 years.

The construction of the port does not need to wait for on-site surveys before the specific location can be determined.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, so the construction of the first port must be completed, and subsequent work can rely on the port to slowly expand outside the country.

The plan is perfect, but the execution is very difficult. The most difficult problem is not the people.

The release of the Near East Defense Line plan has indeed reassured the hearts of many nobles, but it does not mean that everyone is willing to go over and open up wasteland.

The construction of the defense line takes time. Before the construction of the defense line is completed, how can we ensure the security of our territory?

The so-called security of the kingdom means that the orcs will not invade in a short period of time.

Occasionally straying into a group of orc cavalry is inevitable. The enemy will not just watch the Alpha Kingdom take root in the Near East.

Of course, there is nothing in the Near East now, and it is definitely not safe. If the orcs want to come over and plunder, that will not happen after the next autumn.

Please tell me if the kingdom's development progress is slow, maybe the plundering time can be pushed back to two to three years, three to five years.

With the joint efforts of a group of big bosses, the fledgling aristocrats naturally succeeded. They were soon stunned by the various favorable conditions promised by the kingdom, and accepted the canonization in a daze.

Seeing that scene, Hudson realized whether those nobles were really ruthless and deceived people, even his own family members.

Don’t worry about scarcity but worry about inequality; don’t worry about poverty but worry about insecurity.

First of all, Marshal Hudson accepted the fiefdom in the Near East, and then many of the children of the big nobles followed suit. The small and medium-sized nobles with good information could naturally follow the trend.

Each and every one of them was immersed in the preferential policies promised by the kingdom, and took the defeat as an opportunity. They fantasized about becoming the new chosen son of God and hoping to fly to the sky in the Near East.

A few sober nobles were aware of the risks, and sneered at them. Refusing the reward was tantamount to giving up the fiefdom.

Everyone has a sense of luck. No matter how high the risk is, there is no chance of success. With so many nobles going through it together, they can never be destroyed.

If you are lucky and insist on coming east, you will make a lot of money. After all, the kingdom was really generous that time, and the area of ​​​​the fiefdom was not as large as usual.

The knighthood grants fiefs according to the specifications of the barony, the barony grants fiefs according to the specifications of the viscounty, and the viscounty grants fiefs according to the specifications of the earldom.

Next, there will be the newly minted Snowy Duke, Marshal Hudson, whose land area is the largest in the country, and he has become a big landowner second only to the royal family.

No actual Earl appeared. I wonder if several powerful middle-level nobles in the kingdom had arrived in northern Xinjiang a few years ago.

The middle-class nobles in Chengdong are limited by their own strength. Even if they want to take a chance, they are not qualified to participate in the chess game.

Unlike the outer mainland areas, the great nobles in the border areas can have more obligations than benefits.

Taxation is nonsense. According to the conditions promised by the kingdom, the Near East will be tax-free for thirty years.

We have come to the east to fight side by side on the battlefield. Don't expect to squeeze out the little brother's body, otherwise you may be attacked by others.

In addition to a higher political voice, the economic benefits are almost invisible. However, the obligations assumed are not reduced at all.

If the orcs come over, the governor will lead a group of subordinates on the battlefield to fight the enemy with real swords and guns.

The minimum standard must be maintained until the kingdom's reinforcements arrive, otherwise you must be loyal to the country!

Leg Tou doesn't have enough strength to even order the nobles outside the province, let alone fulfill his obligations.

Are the children of the great nobles qualified to compete for the position of governor? But the family behind them does not support it!

No, I don’t want to support it. In fact, after Xingxun took away a large area and divided the remaining eastern area into provinces, there would be no children of a big noble family in each province.

If you want to be able to stay in power, you must spend all your money, and don't think about fooling someone casually and harming others and yourself.

At the Kingdom Council, everyone clearly set the standard for the East. To serve as the governor of a province in the Near East, he was required to maintain a standing army of at least 8,000 people, equipped with two eighth-level experts and eight seventh-level experts.

No matter if he deliberately creates difficulties, without the strength of the governor, Coco will have his head cut off by the orcs at any time on the front line.

The middle-class nobles in the Middle East will die when they die. If the great nobles die so casually, where will the kingdom's face be put?

If you send troops to retaliate, the country's strength will not be able to support it; if you do not retaliate, it will expose the weak nature of the kingdom and trigger more prying eyes.

Exceptions can also be made. If the governor himself is not a strong man from the holy realm, or there is a strong man from the holy realm accompanying the army, those restrictions will be cancelled.

There is nothing wrong with it. The exception clause is completely tailor-made for Hudson. Without opening the back door, how can the weak Koslow family find so many seventh- and eighth-level strong men?

So among the newly released seven provinces in the Near East, only the super-large province of Hudson has a governor, while the remaining six provinces in the East are all vacant.

Caesar IV nominated a son of a nobleman to serve as governor several times, but they were all declined. For no other reason, the risk of investing so much military power in the Near East was simply too high.

For some weak nobles, the total wealth of their entire family would be enough to meet the standards, which would simply mean relocating their entire family.

The standard of the kingdom's demands is high, and the compensation is not small. In the past, the imperial edict of granting the title to Dongda was granted, and the tax exemption would be over for a few years. Now it comes with population support.

The knights supported 500 people, the baron supported 1,500 people, the viscount supported 4,500 people, the earl supported 15,000 people, and the duchy of Hudson was directly allocated 100,000 people.

Without any nuclear weapons, these people are not refugees collected by the kingdom.

Many small countries in the Northern Continent and the Central Continent fell, and the countries in the Southern Continent were not fed by Bu Mao, and the Alpha Kingdom was also a beneficiary.

A large number of refugees are pouring in. In addition to various nobles recruiting people, the royal government is also not idle.

The few people given by the Light Kingdom can naturally develop the land of the Near East, but for the grassroots nobles, this is already a rare wealth.

If you call on your friends and recruit some people, you can initially set up the territory. The problem of Chengdong will be solved slowly.

Every major war is the time when slave traders are most active. Those who seek money rather than life take action early.

In that war, too few people were able to make war profits. Except for the gains from the expeditionary legion, the remaining nobles fighting in the mainland were basically doing nothing.

If you don’t have money in your pocket, you naturally can’t buy anything. What matters most is your family background. The richer the family behind you, the greater the support they provide, and the stronger your legs are.

Children of declining aristocrats who are poor and prosperous are in dire straits. Everything depends on their own efforts. Let’s not talk about development. Just how to feed the people will be even more worrying for them.

If nothing else happens, they will remain "contractors" for a long time to come, leading the people assigned to them by the kingdom to fight on the front line of construction.

The development path has been planned by the big bosses here. They should accept employment from the kingdom to build defense lines, or they should first work for wealthy nobles to build castles.

After you have accumulated a certain amount of wealth, you can go back and build your own castle. If you can manage the relationship well, you can also take advantage of your neighbors and stay there for a few decades.

In border areas, it's all too common to huddle together for warmth.

I wonder if you don't know how to unite. The knights and baronies alone cannot withstand the scourge of the orcs.

…

"What, establishing a new Holy See?"

After hearing the news, Hudson almost cursed people on the spot. He had no problem with those who wanted to oppose the Holy See, but only time would pass!

The kingdom is currently dealing with the Near East issue. In the next few years, its strategic focus will be on the defense line in the Near East, and there will be no time to cause trouble with the Holy See.

Although Xingdeson did not think that the Holy See, whose naval strength was greatly reduced, had the courage to send the fleet north to cause trouble for the kingdom, there was no need to rush out to provoke hatred.

"Bidong, did some fool come up with that plan? Don't you know that it is not appropriate for the kingdom to have extraneous affairs now?"

Hudson responded unceremoniously.

Who proposed it? Anyway, he made the wrong decision. If the Kingdom insists on going its own way, then there is no need to go to the fiefdom in the Near East. It can just go back to the fiefdom and close its doors for a while.

"Marshal, that's not their business. The Franks were the ones who proposed that plan. Although they have made an independent plan, they are not ready to launch it now."

Archbishop Tyron on the side hurriedly explained.

He wanted to be the pope, but that would have hindered the development of the kingdom. If he had delayed the development of the kingdom by establishing a separate Holy See, that would have put the cart before the horse.

In essence, the Holy See is neither a faith nor a business. In addition to the obvious "tithe", the Holy See has many ways to make money through faith.

Every year, a large number of believers donate wealth to the Holy See and purchase indulgences. Even if the Alpha Kingdom and the Holy See do not pay, there is nothing that can prevent the Holy See from sucking blood from the Kingdom.

After hearing that it was done by his own family, Hudson's face looked much better, and the expressions of the nobles present also softened.

"Even if it is not proposed by the Franks, they must refuse it. At least before the kingdom has a firm foothold in the Near East, it should not cause unnecessary problems!"

The words of the Prime Minister, the Grand Duke of Newfoundland, were obviously telling everyone in a subtle way that he did not know about the matter, and he did not deny it with a firm stance.

In an instant, Hudson understood the outside story. The royal family had a problem with establishing a separate Holy See and had not yet reached unity.

It is obvious that the honor and power he gave before stimulated the ambitions of many people, but it did not let the powerful elders of the two dynasties lose themselves.

With the prime minister taking the lead in making a mistake, Hudson will naturally not get involved. Anyway, a proposal that cannot even be unified by the royal family's external position will basically not be passed by the Kingdom Parliament.

"Prime Minister Gedong, do you know about the secret agreement between them and the Frankish Kingdom?
To be continued...