Utopia

"Your Majesty, the siege failed."

"Failed again?"

"Yes. All three generals were killed."

"It was really hard to fight."

In a large house built of stones, a brown-haired, white-skinned man with a golden crown on his head could not help but nod.

"Your Majesty, these elves are very powerful, and there are many iron pipes that can make noises and kill our soldiers..."

"Those are guns and cannons! I didn't expect that elves these days don't use bows and arrows much, and directly equip their armies with gunpowder weapons."

Since coming to this world five years ago, Maokoleta Rufus van Kaan has unified these brown-skinned natives with his knowledge and skills and became their king.

However, the smooth sailing before does not mean that it will be so smooth now. These elves who suddenly appeared in his rule at any time are very strong, so strong that he has no idea what to do.

Fighting them during the day is self-destruction. Just their shells, he couldn't imagine how those elves, who should be very thin, produced them, and used cannons that they shouldn't be able to operate easily to hit his troops.

And what embarrassed him was that the night battle, which could effectively reduce the enemy's casualties, was useless in front of the elves.

Could it be that this was the dark elves he had mentioned in the original world before?

But shouldn't the dark elves like to engage in low-level behaviors such as assassinations... Why are they so proficient in positional warfare?

In short, the siege three days ago failed again, and the next task was to think of a way to ensure that the power of the dark elves would not continue to expand.

If possible, he would directly draw a siege line here to control the range of the dark elves' activities.

But is this possible?

The Glatiers short sword that made his troops invincible in the world, even if there was a chance to fight the dark elves in close combat, the one-handed sword in the dark elves' hands, with a blade like a willow leaf, a half-moon-shaped handguard on the grip, and a total length of more than one meter, was simply a nightmare for the soldiers below.

Not to mention that the Dark Elf troops he encountered now, even without using spells or any gunpowder weapons for shooting, were obviously trained in stabbing. The simple formation and the precise thrusts that took advantage of the length of the weapons made him wonder if the Dark Elf had been taught by a visitor from another world similar to himself.

However, he had been in this strange continent for five years, and apart from various beasts, he had basically not encountered any humanoid intelligent creatures different from himself. In addition, this new continent has always had a kind of white fog that can make the compass rotate irregularly from time to time, so his journey of conquest and expansion is very difficult.

Even though he racked his brains to spread the forging method of the Glatiers dagger, which was called the "Sword of Conquering the World" in his original world, on a large scale; but he really hoped to think of more good things, or directly seize them from the hands of the Dark Elf.

No way.

The weapons and equipment of the Dark Elfs were far superior to those of his kingdom, which had finally entered the Iron Age. Not to mention that there were dangerous guys like mages in the Dark Elf army (i.e., priests of the Kingdom of Negan, a group of experts who were proficient in magic and knew how to study magic to make it practical). He had no idea how to deal with them.

Of course, he also thought about having a peaceful and friendly exchange with the Dark Elfs.

But... there were minotaurs in the Dark Elf team. And since he was old enough to understand, he was very afraid of creatures like minotaurs. These creatures were evil in the legends of his hometown Hispania, and they were the most taboo evil existences for him, his relatives, friends, and classmates.

What made him even more uncomfortable was that the Dark Elfs also had those eyeless, brown dwarfs as vanguards or front-line workers. The Dark Elfs could stand it, but he and his men couldn't stand these things that made people feel scared no matter how they looked at them.

"Things without eyes are scary?"

"That's just your opinion."

At the same time, Sogen, who had finally finished the meeting, heard other members of the meeting room's comments on the cave dwellers.

He agreed with this. However, as an official, he could not casually reveal his views to the outside world.

"Going back next?"

"Si Rui, you pack up your things first. We will go back tomorrow morning."

"Yes."

"I didn't expect them to be so positive about the safety part..."

The so-called safety part that Sogen mentioned refers to the establishment of an expedition team in Solo City to develop the outside world.

Although the danger outside is obviously not low, thanks to the temptation of land and wealth, the officials of Solo City are determined to expand their safety range.

And on this basis, Solo City has to build a double-layer wall to divide the inner city and the outer city.

Maybe it seems a bit redundant from the outside, but judging from the development of the Kingdom of Negan in the New World, it is really unsafe without the protection of the double-layer wall.

And with the protection of the wall, the people of Solo City can work and live in the city with peace of mind. Although they all guessed that the enemy would use the sewers to conduct underground sieges to reduce casualties in frontal sieges.

But they couldn't be lazy. After all, if it was Male City, the double-layer city wall would not be able to escape.

"To put it bluntly, do they think that there is gold and silver everywhere outside?"

"Yes. I think so too. The riverbed of the White Milky Way itself has a lot of silver sand. As long as anyone has the leisure and energy, it is not difficult to get rich overnight. However, collecting silver sand is a very time-consuming task. Silver sand will not condense under the riverbed."

Having said that, Sogen returned to the room and began to analyze the map of Solo City.

As a country that implements the silver standard, the Kingdom of Negan needs to store countless silver in the treasury to issue the interest currency.

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Although with the economic development of the Kingdom of Negan, the banks opened by the royal family and the banks opened by the private sector have greatly promoted the growth of Negan's commodity trade and financial business; but there is something here that needs to be guaranteed.

That is the commodity itself.

At this point, the Kingdom of Negan, which is not worried about agriculture at all, can naturally develop the economy through the scissors gap. At the same time, he himself has a confusion.

Will the future Negan Kingdom, like the Eastern Human Kingdom, start a financial and economic war with its opponents?

Yes!

Definitely!

So he had to continue writing a document specifically about economic issues...