The villain queen eavesdropped on my inner thoughts and won't let me lie down?

On the back of a silver dragon.

"Lord Jostar, is this truly the only way?" Zhentashika looked at the Green Vine army marching straight into Serena City, her face stained with tears in the sea of consciousness.

Old Jostar's voice was devoid of emotion: "Without enough blood, the hatred between the tribes cannot be concealed."

Zhentashika suppressed her sobs, then became firm: "I understand. Then, together... we shall unite the orc tribes and resist the tyranny of the Green Vines!"

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Arcane Capital, Charles Manor.

Angelina was pulled out of bed by the Eternal Night Empress.

She didn't complain.

As the Empire's chief minister, having her sleep disturbed by urgent official duties was commonplace.

Moreover, this time it was Her Majesty visiting in person, rather than summoning her to the palace. She instantly woke up and came to the drawing room in her nightgown.

Then, she saw her own brother drinking tea and eating pastries with the Eternal Night Empress, chatting enthusiastically and congenially.

Angelina: Is this my good-for-nothing brother? He can actually discuss national affairs with Her Majesty?

"Your Majesty, what urgent matter requires your presence late at night?" Angelina sat down in a chair that had been specially left for her.

The Eternal Night Empress held a bowl of cream puffs, eating while still speaking clearly: "Oh, it's not urgent. I came here mainly because Councilor Roger said your family's desserts are better than those at the Royal Magic Academy. I came to try them, and then I suddenly remembered that I needed to talk to you about the Equal Field System."

Angelina: "Is Your Majesty putting the cart before the horse?"

Shouldn't we discuss the Equal Field System first, and then casually sample the desserts?

You are the wise and mighty Empress of the Empire!

The Eternal Night Empress's intelligence was temporarily occupied by the desserts, and she subconsciously responded: "It's not reversed. It's really delicious. Don't you want to try some?"

"I'm sorry, I'm not hungry, Your Majesty. What about the Equal Field System?"

Angelina turned her head with difficulty.

I'm not a powerhouse like you. I'm an ordinary person. I can't burn off the calories. I refuse to continue eating desserts!

I already have three pounds of fat on me with nowhere to go. Please don't tempt me with cream puffs!

Especially at night!

Isn't eating this calorie bomb at night just asking to get fat?

Please give me some official business to distract me!

"Then, Sister, try this mango mousse. It's a new recipe I wrote for the kitchen."

Roger dragged a beautiful triangular cake and handed it to Angelina.

"You are all devils!"

Angelina still couldn't control herself and took it.

Her brother's desserts were always delicious, and she couldn't bear to miss a new recipe she hadn't tried before.

She wasn't really hungry, but she was greedy!

As for the problem of getting fat...

Oh well, a small cake like this won't make me fat, it definitely won't!

Next, the three discussed the issue of the Equal Field System.

The Restoration Army, feigning their attacks under the Empire's direction, was very targeted against the remaining nobles of the Seventeen Kingdoms. In addition, the people in the former territories of the Seventeen Kingdoms were severely bullied afterward, and their uncontrollable emotions were vented on the remnants of the Seventeen Kingdoms.

This resulted in large areas of land in the former territories of the Seventeen Kingdoms being left without owners.

After discussion by the cabinet, Angelina led the formulation of the "Equal Field System", preparing to distribute the farmland obtained this time to the people in the former territories of the Seventeen Kingdoms according to population.

This new system was conducive to the reclamation of ownerless wasteland, increased farmers' enthusiasm for production, and had a positive effect on the agricultural recovery and development there.

Moreover, the increase in the proportion of self-cultivating farmers was actually beneficial to centralism.

Compared to the backward and outdated territory management level of the nobles of this era, the Equal Field System, if successfully implemented, would definitely be a step forward.

But the current situation of the Green Vine Empire was that even if the land was distributed, those farmers would face famine before they could harvest.

Then, they would be reaped by the southern nobles, and neither the people nor the land could be preserved.

In this way, the Empire's previous hard work in feigning the actions of the Restoration Army, and the land and population that were finally liberated, would instead return to the traditional landed nobles.

The Eternal Night Empress and Roger discussed this situation, and they both agreed that now was not the right time to implement the Equal Field System.

Even with the existence of Mokra, if those southern nobles operated properly, they could still make a lot of money and plunder large tracts of land.

Therefore, Roger's suggestion was that the land controlled by the Empire should not be distributed, but rather state-owned farms should be established.

The state would directly invest, directly manage, uniformly harvest, coordinate distribution, and control grain prices.

The Empire's central government holding enough food in its hands would fundamentally eliminate the possibility of big nobles hoarding grain and making a fortune from national disasters.

It could also greatly strengthen centralism.

Moreover, subsequent Mokra, seed improvement, magical water conservancy facilities, and more alchemical farming tools could all be tested on state-owned farms.

Concentrated and large-scale farmland was also suitable for this "mechanical-like" development, avoiding the drawbacks of ordinary farmers not being able to afford it and big nobles not paying attention to it, which would hinder the development of related industries.

This was an economic self-circulation model practiced by the old大哥.

The industrial sector manufactures mining equipment and sells it to the mining sector, the mining sector buys equipment and mines ore and sells it to the industrial sector, the industrial sector uses ore to manufacture more mining equipment and sells it to the mining sector...

Before the output reaches its upper limit and there are no external competitors, the economic scale and vitality will continue to increase through this self-circulation, and the country's productivity will be pulled up.

Applying it to the Empire's agricultural development was also feasible.

In the early stage, the Empire invested in construction, ensuring a large enough market for alchemical farming tools, and magicians were motivated to conduct research and production.

The Eternal Night Empress had limited understanding of economics, but Angelina was an expert in internal affairs, and she could hear that Roger's state-owned farm, which expanded the scale of agriculture like magic, was very likely to be realized!

"Catching up with the famine, displaced farmers and serfs are also more likely to accept state-owned farms. Even if they are unwilling to accept new things, they can compare and see that this is much more benevolent than the indenture provided by the southern nobles... Now is really a great opportunity to implement state-owned farms!"

Angelina praised with dazzling eyes, staring at Roger in disbelief and saying, "Are you really my brother?"

"Please look at the problem with a changing perspective, thank you."

Roger didn't dare to answer directly, it's hard to say that your real brother at this time may have been killed by Jostar.

Of course, Angelina didn't suspect his identity, but was pleasantly surprised by Roger's great progress in a short period of time.

He created "New Arcana", and the ideas and magical industrialization achievements triggered by "New Arcana" promoted the Empire's agriculture...

A Mokra may only make Angelina amazing, but the concepts of state-owned farms, tractors, enchanted rice, combine harvester puppets, etc., completely shocked her by the infinite possibilities brought by magical industrialization!

Damn it, I don't have to rob Peter to pay Paul to satisfy Her Majesty's war needs anymore!

The Eternal Night Empress looked at her little expression and couldn't help but laugh: "Angelina, take your time, magic will only bring you more miracles."

She pondered that some large alchemical farming tools could be regarded as the pre-technology of human-controlled magic statues.

This shows that the debut of our magic statue army is another step closer!

After settling this matter, the Eternal Night Empress teleported back to Fengling Yueying Palace.

After all, after discovering rebellious traitors and calling a halt to the Equal Field System that could cause great chaos, she should go back and arrange an expedited list.

Angelina waited for the Empress to leave, still a little dazed, and asked Roger suspiciously: "Not only do you feel different to me, but Her Majesty... seems different too?"

Roger nodded: "To be fair, indeed."

Angelina immediately grabbed his ear: "Is this related to you? What did you do to Her Majesty, what did you say?"

The former Eternal Night Empress would not run to her ministers' homes late at night just to eat desserts.

Okay, even if she actually just wanted to eat desserts, she would find an official excuse and never say it so directly for the sake of appetite.

Not only was she stubbornly face-saving, but she was also trying to maintain a textbook-level image of an iron-blooded empress.

But now the Empress was still working hard and diligently, but the subtle details made Angelina, who was extremely familiar with her, feel the difference.

It seemed that a layer of restraint had been lifted, and her suppressed mood and burdens had been relaxed a lot, just a little...

Doing as she pleased? Carelessly?

No longer a symbol called "Empress", but the feeling of a person?

Angelina couldn't tell what the Eternal Night Empress had just given her.

Roger quickly took her hand and cried aggrievedly: "Sister, be gentle, I can't take the blame. It's the southern nobles who wanted to defect from the church that hurt Her Majesty's heart, and then I comforted her well. You don't know how scary the scene was at the time, Her Majesty was about to hurt me, an innocent passerby."

"They not only hoard grain, but also dare to defect from the church? If I were there, I would definitely order them to be slaughtered on the spot!" Angelina immediately became filled with righteous indignation.

No matter how kind she was, she could still tell who was the enemy and who was the friend.

As a prime minister who came through the war years, she would never hesitate to take action when she should.

"Who says not, those people are too chilling to Her Majesty." Roger patted his thigh and recounted the scene to Angelina.

Of course, he didn't dare to tell Angelina all the words he used to enlighten the Eternal Night Empress.

Those thoughts are actually very rebellious in this era, and even his own sister would not understand.

At that time, Roger felt the killing intent on the Eternal Night Empress, and in order to save his life, he actually expanded and processed a hymn written by a senior royal chef to the Eternal Night Empress into a perfect composition.

The core of it was that the Eternal Night Empress had done enough for the Empire, and you owe the Empire nothing.

We love you even if you don't wear the crown and bear its weight!

Blood treasure, fly bravely, Mom will always be with you!

Roger didn't feel anything after reading it at the time.

But after traveling through, learning about the past of the Eternal Night Empress, knowing that she also wanted to be a "small person" and had girl dreams.

Not only was she reckless, but she was also greedy and gluttonous. Such a performance was definitely not a ruthless king with no desires and a transcendent state of mind.

But for various reasons, she was chosen to lead a country on the verge of destruction to become the strongest in the world.

Hundreds of millions of people supported her, respected her, but how many understood her and cared for her?

Was she born to dedicate everything to this empire?

It was true that the Empress also enjoyed the beauty given by the country, but if quantified, was the pace that the Empress led this country enough to repay?

These are the questions that modern royal chefs often argue about.

And Roger thought that she would have to fight to the last drop of blood under the pressure of the Seven Gods in the future. Apart from a very few loyalists in this empire, the rest were just a group of ignorant and unconscious people who didn't understand her at all...

When the empire was crazy, they were crazier than anyone else. When the empire was not good, they ran faster than anyone else, and by the way, they kept scolding the Eternal Night Empress for being incompetent.

Because her name only has four characters, five characters are...

It seems that something strange has mixed in.

Therefore, Roger occasionally feels sorry for Blood Mom.

Although it was to get rid of the crisis of death, seeing that the Eternal Night Empress seemed to let go of some burdens and become more real and more herself after his words, Roger was also happy for her.

Maybe the Eternal Night Empress will still fail, but at least this time she was not morally kidnapped by those imperial people who depended on her, but fought to the end with her own will.

This way, when she fails, she will not be as deeply remorseful as those in the CG, and feel that she has dragged down the empire...

But this empire is not worthy of a king who surpasses the times!

"So... I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing." Angelina's expression was complicated.

She could feel that the things on her best friend's back had become less.

But whether this was good or bad for the empire, she had no way of knowing.

Everyone's position is different, and there will always be differences in the way they look at problems.

Roger didn't delve into it, and smiled: "Sister, go to sleep, I still have some official business to go back to Yinbing Manor to deal with."

"So hardworking?"

"Everything is for the empire."

"Go for it, stinky brother!"

Angelina tiptoed and kissed him on the forehead, and returned to the bedroom.

She would not persuade her brother to take care of his body, but would only be pleased that her brother was serving the country.