Realm of Power

"September 19, Salton's Second Army occupied Kanyaro"

Under the beautiful sunshine in the early morning, the important report sent by the Ministry of Military Affairs was just placed lightly on the corner of the table by His Majesty the Emperor. The Emperor himself was looking at another report with great interest. The Empire and Fezer were in Papt. The decisive battle in the region has been regarded by the entire south as an excellent opportunity to wash away the shame. While everyone's eyes are on the Paput region, the Ero Empire in the east unexpectedly achieved a decisive victory. This With Varisian The self-signed report reads, “On September 16, a partial division of the Eero army that was fighting a fierce battle with the Kingdom of Aden miraculously bypassed the sight of the Aden people. Very unexpectedly, it launched an attack from the rear of the Aden army and captured Aden in one fell swoop. army base camp In the great oasis of Roje, during this battle, Marshal Kamimai of the Kingdom of Aden, who was in charge of the Aden Army's operations, was captured along with 130 of his base camp officers. The nearly 200,000 Aden troops who lost their command were divided and surrounded by the Eero army. pbtt."

"Go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and tell them that you agreed to meet with the Aden people, but the conditions for the Aden people need to be changed. If you want the empire to relax the arms ban, you must exempt the empire's goods from half of the tax. Tax, otherwise there would be no need to talk about this matter." The emperor turned around from the balcony and looked at the respectful supervisor behind him. The minister said, "Is it only one half? The frontline army was almost completely wiped out, and the kingdom's elite officers suffered heavy losses. At this time, my subordinates believe that more stringent conditions should be put forward." Supervisory Minister Lidastov's expression Looking slightly surprised, he hesitated and said, adding insult to injury in such a small way is not the style of an emperor.

Aden was defeated miserably. With such a good opportunity, could the emperor just give it such a gentle and painless cut? The Aden Army lost 100,000 elites in the Civil War, and now another 200,000 people were trapped to death by the Aero people. Looking at the eastern part of Obaro, there are only two people who can rescue the Aden people from the encirclement of the Aero army. An empire of one hundred thousand troops pressing on the borders of Istan. Is there anyone else?

The empire is the last straw for the people of Aden, so naturally it must be squeezed hard!

"I know what you mean. The problem is that the empire has put forward more stringent conditions. Can the Aden people fulfill it after being rescued? Or because the conditions are too harsh, Aden's vitality is severely damaged and it is directly destroyed by the Ero Empire? What should we do as two people? Only within the scope of what both parties can bear, can the empire benefit in the long term." The young emperor smiled slightly. Put that report on the table

'long? Does Your Majesty mean that this meeting is just the beginning? "The stunned face of the Imperial Supervisory Department, which is famous for its darkness, does not seem to appreciate the master's painstaking efforts." Nonsense, you think I am just a month in Lisbon. On vacation? "Someone seems very angry and feels that he has been hurt by a deep misunderstanding." There is a practice called boiling a frog in warm water. Do you know that relaxing the weapons ban on the Aden people is two different things from selling weapons to the Aden people cheaply. In fact, you don't I think let the Aden people join in. Can we increase the price of weapons again? If the people of Aden are defeated, we will be the ones who suffer the greatest losses! So what we have to do is let them fight, the longer the better! As long as the war continues, in order to win, the other side will continue to let go of the empire."

"Yes, I understand."

Lidastov looked at the emperor's excited and somewhat red face, unconsciously feeling ashamed of his despicable bottom line. Sure enough, there was still a gap between him and His Majesty the Emperor. He raises the price so confidently, and immediately gives support when one party is weak, and makes money without saying a word. He is indeed worthy of His Majesty the Emperor.

Since the eastern part of South Europe Barrow fell into chaos. The price of weapons in the empire has tripled. Even so, the supply is still in short supply. Because of their hostile relationship with the empire, the people of Aden have been issued an unlimited weapons ban by the empire and want to purchase weapons and equipment on a large scale. You can only buy it from other channels, and the price you pay is more than three or four times. The emperor has been jealous of this kind of thing for a long time.

Some time ago, the Ministry of Supervision was directly ordered to arrest the persons in charge of these smuggling channels, finally forcing the people of Aden to go directly to the empire. Demanding the lifting of the ban, everyone saw that the Aero Empire suffered heavy losses in the Aden Army's counterattack. Nearly 100,000 elites were buried in the Aden Desert. However, a few people knew that the Aero Army could quickly defeat the enemy in such a short period of time. After recovering from the huge losses, and sending as many as 200,000 reserves to the battlefield in one month, it was because of Eroko It's just a matter of buying the weapons sold by the empire from the market openly. Otherwise, just relying on the poor inventory in Eero, it would have been consumed a long time ago. Not to mention forming five corps a month, even two corps. It's terrible. Without sufficient military advantage, how could they bypass the Aden defense line and launch a fatal blow to the Aden base camp?

As the emperor said, now, the empire is just putting both sides on the same scale, boiling frogs in warm water, and what the emperor is probably boiling is the super-large frog named Nanou Barrow. The strength shown by the empire in the North-South War Military strength was the main reason why the southern European Barons united against the Empire. The Empire recently The absence of war attacks for half a year has allowed this sense of coercion to subside a little, and the empire's current defeat in the Papt area has undoubtedly greatly reduced the empire's military threat to the south. It is in this climate that the empire's influence However, the force has silently enveloped most of the southern region.

In the chaos of South Europe and Barrow, the Empire frantically seized the war profits, sold weapons at high prices, exchanged low-cost loans for the management rights of southern ports, and played a role in the Central Eight-Nation Alliance, which had been strongly opposed to the North. The climate of the Southern Alliance was dismantled in just two or three months.

More than half a year ago, South Europe and Barrow could unite 700,000 troops, but now, it is afraid that it would be difficult to unite 200,000.

The Central Region has become the power alliance of the Empire. The Empire only spent 5 million funds, but it exchanged 80% of the ports of the central countries of South Europe and Barrow and the duty-free trade rights of eight kingdoms in one go. In order to obtain the support of the Empire, the eastern countries no longer advocated any joint fight against the North. Under the shadow of the Empire's seemingly no progress in military affairs, the Empire sold more than 30 million worth of war weapons in one go in the South Europe and Barrow War, directly surpassing the total of all marine trade income of the Empire in the past few years since the opening of the inland sea.

Compared with these, what is a small Papt? Lidastov's eyes fell on a report on the table, and then quietly moved away. It was not that the Empire could not win, but the Emperor did not want to show the Empire's fangs too early! (To be continued.)