The Natural Empire of the Oceanic Dragon

During the seven days leading up to the ceremony, Artilan thoroughly studied the northern and southern lands conquered by Audelis, finally understanding why she could conquer such vast territories in just five years.

Simply kill, don't bother burying.

She was only responsible for leading the army and eliminating all who refused to submit.

Although she didn't eliminate the resentment of the people from the conquered nations, she eliminated all who dared to resist.

For example, in the north, there were more than twenty human kingdoms and duchies, as well as a gnome kingdom, a dwarf kingdom, a dragon kingdom, and a frost elf kingdom.

The combined population exceeded five million, but after Audelis conquered them, the census showed that only fewer than three million remained.

Of course, not all of the missing two million people died.

According to intelligence reports, the number of people who died due to the war was less than one million, and the rest fled eastward with various nobles.

In the end, it seemed that more than 500,000 people, with the help of gnome technology and arcane elf magic, built ships and sailed to sea.

They successfully re-established their nation on a group of islands in the Eastern Sea.

The gnomes, considering themselves descendants of the Titans, could never submit to dragons.

Although they couldn't win in a fight, they used machines to transport most of their valuable creations to the sea, and also re-established their nation on a group of islands in the Eastern Sea.

It seems that a portion of the gnomes, using digging machines, fled to the underground dark space, and are currently mining various rare minerals from the Earth's core to build war machines.

They are ready to counterattack the surface at any time.

The frost elves also only submitted on the surface; they would launch a war of independence at any opportunity.

The dwarf kingdom, however, submitted under the persuasion of the Black Iron Dwarf King.

Their dwarf king even personally came to the Black Iron Mountains to learn forging techniques.

This dwarf kingdom, hidden in the northern mountains, was originally composed of dwarves scattered across the continent after losing their clans, and were reassembled by the dwarf king's grandfather.

They formed the current Black Fire Clan.

Because they were scattered dwarves, their mastery of Titan forging techniques was incomplete to a pathetic degree.

This visit to the Black Iron Dwarf King was to learn the original Titan forging techniques.

According to the agreement of the dwarf clans, original Titan forging techniques would be unconditionally passed on to any dwarf clan that had formed a certain scale.

It is because of this rule that dwarf kingdoms in various places have formed distinct but related forging techniques.

This Black Fire Clan, although their forging techniques are very poor, are good at farming and having children. The Black Fire Clan lives in the high mountains, grazing, and in the valleys, planting crops.

They rarely communicate with outsiders.

The reason Audelis found them was because their numbers were too large to hide.

The rulers of the various countries who came to observe the ceremony were only about half of those from the occupied territories; the remaining lands could only be directly governed by the Atlantis Empire.

Artilan only hoped that the druid schools had cultivated so many suitable officials over the years.

Otherwise, even if he was an elemental dragon with overwhelming power, he couldn't withstand the ambitious individuals below inciting the common people in the newly occupied territories to resist the ignorant officials sent by Audelis.

Although Audelis was waging a war of conquest under the banner of the Atlantis Empire.

However, she did not communicate with the half-goat Mep and the old fishman, the two prime ministers of the United Kingdom, until she had basically swept through the major kingdoms and forced them to submit, only then did she notify the half-goat to prepare for the empire's founding ceremony.

This infuriated the half-goat.

However, in front of Audelis, he didn't dare to complain a word.

Audelis is different from Artilan; she is full of the nobility and arrogance of a dragon.

Only in front of Artilan, and the bear-man and vine-woman in the forest, two legendary druids who could fight an old dragon, was she barely willing to talk to the druids in the forest.

After all, Audelis is not an ordinary elemental dragon, but the daughter of Sestis, the Ocean Princess.

Naturally, she doesn't need to explain her actions to the half-goat.

In her opinion, the half-goat is just a lackey in the dragon kingdom who assists the dragon in managing the country, but whose main job is to flatter.

However, the half-goat is a truly talented and high-quality person.

Without the half-goat, the entire western continent would not have gradually been formed into a whole.

In a few years, maybe everyone would work together to elect Artilan to be crowned, and the Atlantis Empire would be established.

One season of wheat, one season of soybeans.

According to the different climates in the west, it is divided into three grain breeding research institutes.

The north is mainly grassland, including the northernmost snowy plains occupied by centaurs and werewolves, grasslands, and the former northern territories of the Northern Kingdom.

After reclamation, the northern grasslands can also grow wheat and soybeans. With grazing rotation, the north now produces one billion catties of wheat, six hundred million catties of soybeans, thirty million catties of mutton, nine million catties of beef, and one million catties of horse meat a year.

The central part is the remaining land of the Northern Kingdom and a large area south of the Great River and north of the forest occupied by halflings, the mountainous areas where the Dwarf Kingdom and the Giant Clan are located, and the River Valley Kingdom.

That piece of land is no longer called the Land of Halflings.

Nowadays, many humans, centaurs, minotaurs, snake people, fish people, and wild boar people also live there.

There are even dozens of mermaids.

The central region is a major grain-producing area, with wheat production exceeding ten billion catties and soybean production exceeding twenty billion catties.

Soybean production exceeds wheat because the barren land in the mountains is not suitable for growing wheat. Instead, the breeding research institute unexpectedly cultivated a type of soybean in the mountains.

The yield in the mountainous areas is quite good, and management is not complicated, which is most suitable for the personality of the dwarves, so it has been promoted to the entire Dwarf Kingdom for planting.

The River Valley Kingdom was originally a country based on commerce, but now agriculture has surpassed commerce, completely reversing the national nature of the River Valley Kingdom.

In name, the River Valley Kingdom retains autonomy, but the half-goat selects town mayors with excellent results from the directly governed towns, and assigns several experienced clerks and several outstanding graduates from the druid schools.

He recommends them to serve as city lords in the River Valley Kingdom, and the River Valley Queen dares not refuse.

When the lords of the River Valley Kingdom discovered that Artilan's forces really did not interfere in internal affairs, they became restless, and the River Valley Queen realized that she could sit firmly on the throne.

It depends not on her own talents.

But on Artilan's support!

As for whether there are sheep pushing behind the ambitions of those lords, no one knows.

So when the half-goat recommends talents to serve as city lords, the River Valley Queen directly agrees with both hands.

After assigning city lords from Atlantis to important cities, including those owned by the lords, the ownership of these cities still belonged to the Queen and the lords.

However, the administrative power was completely handed over to these city lords from Atlantis.

How many troops to train, how much tax to collect, what to plant this year, and what to plant next year were all up to the city lords. The Queen and the lords couldn't interfere.

The Sun King, the Eastern and Western Grand Dukes, were caught in a back-and-forth struggle.

Looking back, they were completely surrounded by the powerful Atlantis United Kingdom. The Half-Goats didn't directly fight them but instead joined forces with the Giants, Dwarves, and Wood Elves to launch a large-scale military exercise.

They gathered over 100,000 elite troops from various places for a drill.

Then, they sent envoys to persuade the three, who decisively chose to submit and declare themselves kings according to the boundaries drawn by the Half-Goats.

They had promised the princess to keep the Sun King alive.

Attilan did it.

After joining the United Kingdom, the Sun King could live a life of ease, no longer bothered by politics and the people.

The south naturally included the Southwestern Great Prairie, the Atlantis's place of rise, the Wood Elf Ranger Kingdom in the south, the Water Elf Mage Kingdom, and the Barbarian Prairie in the southwest.

The production capacity of the south was not weaker than that of the central region and even had the tendency to surpass the central region by far.

Compared to the central region, where almost all farmland had been developed, the south still had a lot of land that had not been converted into farmland. Of course, it would take a long time to convert this land into farmland.

For example, the Southwestern Great Prairie, although it appeared to be a grassland on the surface, still had sparse sand beneath the grass, which would take decades to slowly turn into soil.

Before that, grazing on the Great Prairie had to be strictly controlled, and even grazing was not allowed.

On the other hand, the southernmost Barbarian Prairie could be directly reclaimed for farming.

The originally warring barbarians, under the tutelage of the Minotaur Lista's army, had learned to farm and dance.

As for the personal conflicts between the barbarians and the Mage Kingdom, even if they had escalated to the point of local warfare, the Half-Goats turned a blind eye.

As long as the annual taxes were not reduced.

They were all affiliated forces, and it was not good to help either side. Their opposition made it easier for Atlantis to control these affiliated forces.

The west now had an additional highway, about ten meters wide, connecting the entire west from the northern Icefield Coast to the southern Golden Sand Coast, and a large bridge across the river.

The highway facilitated the rapid passage of merchants, who promoted the Atlantis Western Avenue while selling goods, letting the western people know that they had become a whole.

Everyone was an Atlantean!

These were all thanks to the Half-Goats!

Go ask the Frost Elves in the north, the Gnomes in the southeast, the Arcane Elves, the Dark Elves, and the Humans, do they admit that they are Atlanteans?

They have not contributed to the empire, are they worthy of being Atlanteans?

The Half-Goats still put on a smiling face and completed the entire ceremony.

Once the ceremony and the subsequent banquet were over, Attilan found the Half-Goats to discuss how to manage such a large area of land and the three to four million residents.

The Half-Goats, tipsy, slammed the table with dissatisfaction.

"Whoever conquered it should be responsible for managing it. Now you know to come to me? Aren't I just a bug preparing the ceremony?"

Attilan smiled playfully and comforted the Half-Goats:

"Meph, you are an old prime minister, don't work with emotions. You also understand Audrys, she is just temporarily emotional and likes to play the game of leading troops to fight."

"Now that the game is over, the remaining management and operation part is not what she is interested in, so naturally, she will leave it alone."

"But you are different. The ninety-two counties and fifty-six federations of Atlantis are all on your shoulders. If you are not responsible, who is responsible?"

"Don't you think that's right? Without you, Meph, could Atlantis have developed so well! ?"

Attilan got up and poured Meph a glass of wine.

"Have a drink, go to sleep, and give me a plan to manage the entire continent within a week. Do you have confidence, Goat Prime Minister?"

Meph generously drank the wine and slammed the table:

"If I can't do it, who can? !"

"A week? No need for a week, if I can't give you a plan after three days, you can chop off my head!"

Attilan quickly waved his hand.

"Not that far, not that far. If I chop off your head, where am I going to find such a good prime minister?"

After drinking the wine, Meph fell asleep.

Attilan nodded repeatedly.

"Young people are just healthy, they can sleep anywhere."

The next day, Meph got up, his face was very ugly.

Yesterday, he drank a few more cups in anger, but he didn't expect to be calculated by Attilan.

This guy is not a dragon, he is a dog!

His face kept changing, and he happened to see the report on his desk from the eight elementary school principals of the vocational school, jointly requesting the addition of new elementary schools, because their schools could not accommodate them.

There were also reports from middle schools regarding the difficulty of student employment, requesting the addition of new positions.

And the report from the university professors reapplying after the agricultural department rejected the approval of the university's experimental land.

In an instant, Meph had an inspiration.

The application for new elementary schools will naturally not be approved. The Half-Goats directly asked them to raise the admission threshold for elementary schools.

And transfer some elementary school teachers who did not meet the standards to form preschool classes.

As for the employment of middle school graduates and the experimental land of the university.

Meph narrowed his eyes slightly and picked up the quill to start writing a plan.

Attilan was having breakfast when the servant reported that the Half-Goats were asking to see him.

"Eat something together?"

Meph shook his head, took out the plan and handed it to Attilan.

"This is the plan I made, which can improve the problem of surplus talent reserves in the west and the problem of lack of management talent and the trend of division in the east."

"I call this plan the Natural Technician Going to the Countryside Action!"

Attilan picked up the report and looked at it. The Half-Goats actually planned to send middle school graduates directly to the villages to become technicians.

"In the past, graduates worked in towns and cities. Even if they went to the villages, they would directly become village chiefs. When did a professional trained for ten years after middle school graduation..."

"Are they willing to be village technicians? Isn't this a bit inconsistent with their status?"

Meph chuckled.

"This plan is not announced directly. I will transfer a group of excellent officials to the east, which will free up a batch of grassroots staff positions."

"Select the outstanding talents among them through assessment. As for the other students who participate in the exam, naturally give them a consolation prize."

"Send them to the east to be technicians. The position of technician is a bit low, but if they do well, they can still be promoted to mayor or county chief."

"And I will release the wind that I will select an outstanding natural technician from the countryside in the east to study in the Prime Minister's Office, I am not afraid that they will not be hooked!"