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The labyrinth and traps were completed, and the main part of the New Rye Fortress was almost finished. Only some trimming work was left.

However, these trimming works are actually very important. Before Sui Xiong traveled through time, he knew an illustrator. Although he was a good painter, his business was not very good. The reason was that the painter's paintings were extremely simple, the background was almost non-existent, and the characters' clothes were not decorated at all. In fact, the painter was keen on painting characters wearing ancient Greek white robes in order to realize his aesthetic view of "simplicity is beauty".

From Sui Xiong's professional perspective, the painter's level was really excellent. Simplicity is beauty, there is nothing wrong with it. However, buyers and players did not agree with this view, so until he traveled through time, the painter was still in a very bad state, relying on running a small grocery store to make a living...

Sui Xiong was not a simple artist. He was a more kitsch artist. His greatest pursuit was to make the audience like his works. So he planned to spend a little more time to decorate this fortress as gorgeously as possible, so that every visitor could enjoy the beauty.

As for how to enjoy the beauty in the maze full of traps? He never thought about it at all.

So he was busy again. At first glance, this work seemed not as large-scale as before. In fact, because of the pursuit of meticulousness and exquisiteness, the workload increased instead of decreased. Especially Sui Xiong had a little obsessive-compulsive disorder, and he pursued that each set of decorations could not be repeated and each mural must have a source, which greatly increased his workload.

It's like a writer writing a novel. If he doesn't want to think about anything and just types randomly, he may be able to type out 7,000 to 8,000 words in an hour; but if he has to conceive the plot, arrange the sentences, and modify them from time to time while typing, then typing out 2,000 words in an hour is already very productive.

Sui Xiong was busy in the New Rye Fortress, but the Northwest Republic started an important task.

Training the army.

The conflict between the merchant faction and the aristocratic faction of the Gold Coin Federation shook the entire continent, and all countries paid close attention to it. As a country directly adjacent to the Gold Coin Federation, the Northwest Republic certainly cares about it.

Although Sui Xiong is currently on the border between the two countries, with him guarding, the war will never spread to the Northwest Republic, but after discussion, the leaders of the Republic finally decided that if necessary, the Republic should send troops to support the Merchants.

In any case, the Northwest Republic is a country based on commerce, and even abolished the aristocratic lord system. Although the current relations with various countries are still good, fundamentally speaking, there are irreconcilable contradictions between them and those countries ruled by aristocrats.

Therefore, even if peace is still maintained, the Northwest Republic should strengthen national defense construction and provide support to the Gold Coin Federation Merchants, who are at least equally anti-aristocratic.

As for how strong the support should be, the leaders of the Northwest Republic are still discussing or arguing.

According to Grand Consul Felix, the Merchants should be fully supported, and it would be best to defeat the Aristocrats, and then establish a republic, so that everyone can support each other and look after each other, so as to ensure national security.

But this radical plan was jointly opposed by several other archons. Whether it was Mrs. Teague, who was in charge of people's livelihood, or Reynard, who was in charge of military affairs, or Gerard, who was the representative of the church, they all disagreed with such a radical approach. Even the leaders of Gars City, Gelten Territory, Keen Territory and Gray Tower City did not agree to go this far.

Mrs. Teague has always been against military action, and her position is anti-war. In her opinion, the Northwest Republic is protected by His Majesty the Void Mask, and there is no need to worry about danger. If one day, His Majesty the Void Mask is unwilling to protect the Northwest Republic, or cannot protect it, then no matter how hard they try, they may not be able to save the country. So thinking about those things is simply a waste of time and energy, it is better to seize the time to deal with more government affairs.

Reynard believes that the businessmen are useless and can't help the wall. It's okay for the Northwest Republic to send some instructors, but if the army is sent directly, I'm afraid it will be dragged down by that group of waste. He thought that if the situation was right, the Northwest Republic could consider annexing the Merchants and expanding their territory. If they were fighting for territorial expansion, he would support them.

Gerard felt that the Merchants were not necessarily good characters. Compared with the Nobles, they were nothing more than "bad guys" and "worse bad guys". There was no need to support the Merchants just to oppose the Nobles. It always felt a bit silly. If you have to support them, you might as well support the people of the Gold Coin Federation to rebel.

Leon's identity was not suitable for speaking in such a discussion, so the spokesperson for Gars City was the Lord of Carissa. She believed that the Northwest Republic should provide support to the Merchants in terms of supplies and instructors. As for sending troops directly... unless the Merchants were defeated and needed help, it would be better not to send troops easily.

The attitudes of Gelten Territory and Keen Territory were similar, but they were slightly more radical. Orian and Anna both said that they could send some troops to support, but not too many.

Old Hart, the lord of Gray Tower City, was more conservative. He said that Gray Tower City and the surrounding cities could jointly send about 100 mid-level mages, led by 10 high-level mages, to help the Merchants do some non-combat work. If more spellcasters are needed, they can also help contact them. But he emphasized that these mages can only be responsible for logistics or support work, and will never go to the front line.

In addition, other senior officials of the Republic also expressed their opinions. In addition to the intelligence director East insisting that "intelligence personnel should not interfere in the internal affairs of the country" and resolutely refusing to express his position, even the medical director Steele, who was sleeping soundly on the table, was awakened and half-forced to ask her attitude.

In the end, the result of the discussion was that the Northwest Republic stepped up the training of the army, but did not send troops to support the Merchants.

"Why train the army if we don't fight?" Mrs. Tigg asked dissatisfiedly, "The soldiers are all young and strong laborers, it's such a waste!"

"Be prepared." Reynard said with a smile, "Maybe we can take advantage of it. If there is no opportunity, it's fine. If there is an opportunity, it's a pity that we don't have enough troops to seize the opportunity!"

So, the Republic sent 1,000 people, Gelten Territory, Keen Territory and Gars City sent 100 people each, and Gray Tower City and several nearby independent cities sent 200 people. A total of 1,500 troops were quickly assembled and began intensive training.

This group of troops was different from the group of recruits sent by the merchants. They were all veterans with a certain foundation. Reynard's training for them mainly consisted of three parts. The first was to adapt to the new equipment specially built for them and get familiar with those armors and weapons; the second was to strengthen running-in and improve the efficiency of executing orders; and the last was to train for some special situations, such as night attacks and forced marches, so that they could fight and win at critical moments.

As for how long it would take to train? Military chief Reynard said that they would train as long as possible, and the more elite the better.

"No one would think that their knife is too sharp." He said so.

Chapter 2, there is another chapter in the evening