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In the Mountain Territory, Hudson, who had just returned from the construction site, was directly shocked by the news from the royal capital.

It was one thing to acquiesce to the Kingdom of Hesse's annexation of the County of Kolubia, but it was another thing to frame him personally.

At the beginning, what everyone was discussing was the policy of anti-Japanese war, but they did not say that they would help the Kingdom of Hesse annex Kolubia. Thinking of the diplomatic note jointly issued by the two countries, Hudson knew that his king had begun to take action.

After all, Caesar IV was not a peaceful ruler. He had only been on the throne for a few days, but he could no longer hold himself back.

The busyness is definitely not in vain. Just a failed prince assassination case is not enough to make the Alpha Kingdom pay such a high price.

If we jointly issue diplomatic notes and jointly frame others, there will probably be no lack of joint sharing of the spoils.

By carving up the Count of Corubia, the kingdom can indeed take advantage in the short term, but once a precedent of blatant frame-up is set, there will be endless troubles!

Hudson still understands what the Hessian Kingdom did. Being in the land of four wars, catching up with this era of hundreds of boats competing for the crossing, if you don't work hard to expand your strength, you will be the meat on others' chopping boards sooner or later.

The strength of the human race is inversely proportional to the binding force of the rules. The faster the race's strength improves, the less attention everyone pays to rules.

The orc empire was crippled and the humans occupied the orc prairie. The major alien races only came forward to mediate and did not send troops to intervene.

At first, Hudson thought it was the orcs' excessive hatred and the good diplomatic work of the humans that contributed to this situation.

As his status grew and his understanding of the situation on the mainland deepened, Hudson discovered that this was not the case at all.

In the face of racial survival, few races will act out of anger because of past hatred.

Watching the human race continue to expand without taking action to intervene is equivalent to slow suicide.

The truth is that after hundreds of years of continuous suppression, the living space of all ethnic groups on the mainland has been severely squeezed. In the past few decades, the overall strength of many races has declined instead of rising.

When the Orc Empire sent out a signal for help, various tribes also wanted to send troops to intervene. However, due to their own strength, they were unable to deal with the war that took place in the Orc Empire.

Theoretically speaking, the combined strength of all the alien races on the Aslant continent is still higher than that of the human race.

It's a pity that this is only strength on paper. There are also many conflicts between the major alien races. They lack enough trust in each other and cannot cooperate closely at all.

What's more, they are still divided across the continent by various human countries. Even if they can really unite, they will not be able to assemble for a while.

If only to save the orcs, a war would be launched in a hurry. The alien races scattered across the continent not only cannot take advantage, but also fall into the embarrassing situation of fighting on their own.

The final outcome is most likely to be defeated one by one by the concentrated forces of all human nations.

After the Orc Empire was crippled, the human race, which originally had a strategic advantage, became more and more obvious over the various races on the mainland.

Correspondingly, the crisis awareness of the senior human race officials also declined. Everyone pays less and less attention to the threat of alien races.

Without the threat of foreign enemies, everyone's minds became active, but they still retained a certain moral bottom line.

Caesar IV's operation this time has undoubtedly reduced everyone's already low moral integrity.

If the two countries succeed in carving up the County of Kolubia, there will be many others who will follow suit. It can be said that a new round of merger frenzy is just around the corner.

Now it all depends on the ambitions of those in power in several big countries.

If you are ambitious, you can verbally condemn it and secretly add fuel to the flames, trying your best to promote the two countries to annex Kolubia, laying the foundation for their subsequent expansion.

If you don’t have much ambition, then intervene decisively and maintain the current status quo as much as possible.

Hudson was helpless at this uncontrollable change.

Rules are the thing that cannot stand the test of time. Today you break one rule, tomorrow I break one rule, and the day after tomorrow no one cares about the rules.

The rules gradually lost their effectiveness, and everyone's moral bottom line continued to be lowered. In the end, the "transition from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period" was inevitable.

If this trend cannot be curbed, the Aslant continent will become increasingly difficult to mess with.

He wanted to stop it, but when he put the pen in his hand, Hudson put it down again.

All the diplomatic notes have been sent out. Even if the Alpha Kingdom stops now, the bad political impact has already happened.

What's more, Caesar IV was not a person who liked to listen to advice. Even a group of princes and ministers in the royal capital could not stop him. Hudson did not believe that one of his letters could be effective.

Glancing in the direction of the royal capital, Hudson couldn't help but sigh: "The political credibility that His Majesty Caesar III has worked so hard to build has been lost in one fell swoop!"

After pausing for a while, Hudson regained his composure and started writing furiously again. But this time the letter was not written to Caesar IV.

"Tom, send someone to deliver this letter to Mr. Jose, and let our people in the royal capital do the work."

If you can't persuade your own king, then use your hoe to dig out the base.

After Caesar IV succeeded to the throne, in order to win over people's hearts, he held a large-scale canonization of nobles, making up for all the ceremonies that had not been carried out before.

However, among the many canonized persons, Jose could not be found. The court earl, who had taken the blame for the crown prince, seemed to have been forgotten.

The fact that other people were forgotten may be due to a mistake by the person in charge. It would be unreasonable for one of our own people who followed the royal family to be forgotten.

Even if Caesar IV was busy and forgot, someone would come out to remind him. After spending so many years in the royal family, it was impossible for Jose to not even have a friend to help him talk.

After all, he was the "hero" who helped take the blame. Now that Caesar IV is on the throne, proper care should still be taken.

It is a pity that after waiting for such a long time, Caesar IV did nothing and never even summoned Jose in private.

Perhaps Caesar IV wanted to erase his own dark history too much and didn't know how to face Jose, who had witnessed the entire history, so he simply chose to treat it coldly and use time to downplay everything.

If there weren't too many people who knew about it, Jose might even have been silenced. Those in power will do anything to protect their reputation.

Since Caesar IV didn't care, then Hudson was rude. He has long been covetous of the royal family's talent pool.

In order to be able to recruit people, Hudson has also laid a lot of groundwork, and now it's finally time to reap the rewards.

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In the Frankish Kingdom, Charles III was first shocked when he received the news, and then he was overjoyed.

As the first kingdom in the mainland, it is certainly majestic, but it has been in the limelight for a long time, and it is impossible to do anything out of the ordinary.

Although it clearly has huge military strength, it can only bully the surrounding foreign races. Any small movements within the human race will be deeply interpreted.

Perseveringly, the foreign races bordering the Frankish Kingdom had long been driven into a barren land, and there was not much money to be made.

In order to break the situation on the mainland, Charles III also made a series of strategic plans. The biggest plan was to pull all the countries on the mainland to cripple the Orc Empire.

Facts have proved that his judgment was not wrong. After the threat of alien races was reduced, the balance within the human race was also broken.

Now that the Hessian Kingdom and the Alpha Kingdom have taken the lead in breaking the rules of the game, the shackles that were originally bound to the Frankish Kingdom have become looser.

Charles III had a premonition that as long as the Count of Kolubia was divided, the political philosophy currently pursued by the human race countries would be impacted.

When everyone abandoned their moral principles and began to expand wantonly, the power of rules that restrained the Frankish Kingdom ceased to exist.

In a game of troubled times without rules, everyone competes for strength.

"What do you think of the actions of the Hessians and Alphas?"

asked Charles III.

"Your Majesty, this will be the beginning of chaos in the mainland. After so many years of peace, many people have already lost their patience and want to start a big fight.

Take the Holy See as an example. In recent years, it has been causing trouble one after another in order to provoke a continental war.

Now that something like this has happened, Pius VII will definitely add fuel to the fire and add fuel to the chaos in the northern continent.

Once Corubia is divided, the true and false nature of the Alpha Kingdom will be exposed. Everyone knows that their determination to stop the central powers from advancing northward is not strong.

The Dante Kingdom and the South Bank Kingdom, which have long been ready to move, will not watch the Hessians eat meat, and will definitely follow suit.

Perhaps it will be the turn of the two poor countries, Grint and Nadal, to be unlucky next. The Alpha people will not fall out with two big countries because of two traitors.

The Principality of Moxi has limited strength and does not have the ability to send troops to intervene; the Warhammer Kingdom is still busy with civil war. By the time they finish fighting, it is estimated that half of the countries in the North will be lost.

Of course, if we take the lead in intervening, we can make them unable to do anything. But this is not in the interest of the kingdom.

The strategic focus of the three central kingdoms has shifted northward, which is also a good thing for the kingdoms.

The kingdom of Oprus next door has been in decline for a long time. It was a gift from the Lord of the Dawn to the kingdom. Now there is only one chance! "

Prime Minister Bergson said murderously.

In other countries, Hesse and Alpha are still carefully plotting a country of 50,000 square kilometers. The Franks, who are standing still, have already set their sights on the vast Kingdom of Oprus.

The structure of the two sides is obviously not on the same level.

The Kingdom of Oprus also had great splendor in history. Even if it is in decline now, relying on the strong family wealth left by its ancestors, it can still be ranked among the top ten kingdoms in the mainland.

It's just that the glory is only in the past. With the rise of the Frankish Kingdom, their hard days began.

In the past hundred years, seven wars broke out between the two sides, and the Kingdom of Oprus lost all of them. And three of them, the entire army was wiped out, and only the pants were left as compensation.

No matter how solid the family background is, it cannot withstand such a torment. After successive defeats, the decline of the Kingdom of Oprus was inevitable.

Land cession and compensation can only be regarded as trivial matters. Under the constraints of the rules, they have been defeated seven times and lost most of the province. The key is that the nobles of the Kingdom of Oprus have lost their morale.

When the backbone of a country is broken, it would be too difficult to pick it back up.

Successive generations of Aupulus kings wanted to reverse the kingdom's decadence, and to this end they also adopted a series of political reforms.

Unfortunately, there was too much internal resistance, and there was a good neighbor next door who came from time to time to cause trouble. Amid internal and external troubles, the more they carried out reforms, the faster they declined.

"The prime minister is right. Now the major forces on the mainland are unable to hold on any longer. All they need is a fuse.

However, before proceeding to annex the Kingdom of Oprus, I personally recommend clearing out the surrounding alien races and nipping the hidden dangers in the cradle in advance.

In order to reduce political pressure, we can also pull the Iliban Kingdom together. They have been eyeing the declining Kingdom of Avarat for a long time, and there is only one opportunity left to take action.

If necessary, we can also incite the Holy See to invade the Kingdom of Ruthenia.

It can be said that once the war breaks out, it will surely spread to the entire continent. At that time, not only our human race and other countries will be involved in fighting, but all major alien races will also be involved.

Calculating the time, I estimate that it will be almost ten thousand years before the continent falls into chaos.

Perhaps this is the ten-thousand-year catastrophe that our ancestors are most taboo about.

I just don’t know if this is a coincidence, or if there is a mysterious force deliberately pushing it. Every ten thousand years, the continent of Aslant will definitely be in chaos.

Unfortunately, it has been so long ago that only a few fragments of information are left, and it is impossible to restore the historical truth.

Even though the kingdom has excavated many ruins, its understanding of the previous era is still very limited! "

Marquis Jesus' sigh directly affected everyone's mood. Almost all ancient ruins and great powers that have been passed down for a long time have records about the "ten thousand-year catastrophe".

But everyone just mentioned it once on the paper without any specific description, followed by a series of strong warnings.

If the information wasn't too old, distributed over a wide area, and appeared in the ruins of foreign races, so it didn't look like it could be manipulated by an individual, they would all have couldn't help but suspect that it was a prank.

"There's no need to think too much, even if you find detailed information, it's useless. The Aslant continent ten thousand years ago was not the same as it is now.

The human race at that time was so weak that they could only survive in the cracks of the alien race and lived a precarious life all day long.

The slightest movement by the foreign race would be a life and death test for the human race at that time. Perhaps what our ancestors saw as a catastrophe that lasted ten thousand years is just a cruel war in our eyes.

But since there is talk of a catastrophe of ten thousand years, we have to take advantage of it.

Send someone to release the news, saying: The alien races are conspiring to unite, attempting to start a war within a hundred thousand years and subvert the dominance of our human race.

When public opinion builds up, they will call on all countries in mainland China to launch a major purge.

I don’t expect to cleanse all the alien races on the continent. At the very least, I have to cripple them first to prevent any possibility of them making a comeback! "

Charles III said fiercely.

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