Utopia

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Kahn Empire, Overflow City Palace

"Your Majesty, the city of Gualegu Echu has been completely evacuated."

"Did anyone set fire?"

"Yes. And for safety, we buried firewood inside each building to ensure complete burning."

"That's good."

Listening to Prime Minister Mura's report, Emperor Tony felt uncomfortable in a sense. Although there had been relevant proposals since his grandfather's time, and his father officially ordered the relocation of the capital, giving up a large town with a palace was a "wasteful act" of surrendering land anyway.

However, zombies were difficult to eliminate, and even his father did not escape the zombies' bite. Under safe conditions, relocating the capital was their best choice.

Moreover, a fire that completely burned a city would probably turn many hidden zombies into ashes.

"Your Majesty, it's just that next... I am personally very worried that the dark elves will take the opportunity to expand their territory."

"Have you seen them invade the Principality of Akern?"

Obviously, Emperor Tony is optimistic because the Principality of Akern has been trading with the dark elves and has not suffered any type of armed attack.

But in the eyes of Prime Minister Mura, it is even worse for the dark elves not to expand militarily. Because in the Kahn Empire, the fundamental purpose of each country's strong army is to get more wealth and more land.

He doesn't believe that the dark elves who have been constantly accumulating wealth and thinking of various ways to make money before have no such idea at all. Especially when the dark elves' weapons and equipment, and even the overall military strength are very strong.

"No."

But in the end, he thought about it himself and swallowed what he wanted to say for the time being.

After all, judging from the current situation, he himself is very clear that going against the dark elves will definitely lead to a dead end. How to make the dark elves a kind of helper, a helper that can effectively solve various problems is the direction he needs to consider as the prime minister.

What's more, with the existence of the dark elves, not only the empire and the kingdom of his hometown, but everyone can burst out endless collective wisdom under the challenge of the dark elves.

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Even the ascetic church, which is famous for its various rules and regulations, does not interfere in the affairs of various countries now (if it is too out of line, some guys who don't want their identities to be known by the outside world will raise a sum of money to hire dark elf mercenaries to kill church members).

Or...is this the golden age pursued by some scholars?

No matter.

The biggest problem facing him now is not the dark elves, but how to destroy the six countries including the Kingdom of Golson.

In particular, the six-country power group headed by the Kingdom of Golson has not only offended the royal family, but the more hateful thing is that there are gold mines in the six countries that have not been reported actively.

Although the six countries are all countries with their own territorial jurisdiction, not only the royal family, but everyone is short of money. The six countries are currently lacking a suitable reason, a perfect reason for His Majesty to agree to issue a declaration of war.

However, this Kingdom of Golson is also powerful. Watertight, describing the Kingdom of Golson, which secretly carries out various sabotage activities against the Central Dynasty and other countries, while openly remaining submissive and very friendly.

In addition, the six-nation group headed by the Kingdom of Golson has other hidden mineral resources, especially copper.

Compared with gold and copper, the countries now have also reacted. The viciousness of the dark elves has forced the control laws of various countries to be introduced one after another.

But...

"Mura, compared with the Principality of Akern, the countries in the southwest should not be taken lightly."

"Yes."

Hearing His Majesty's words, Prime Minister Mura was furious. If he had known that this day would come, he should not have supported His Majesty's marriage with the Duke of Akern.

The current His Majesty is too biased towards the Principality of Akern, and even to some extent is completely for the Principality of Akern.

Even if the Principality of Akern is indeed worthy of active communication with the royal family and a powerful country like his hometown.

Just one water quenching, few blacksmiths in various countries can do it well.

In the process of red-hot steel cooling down rapidly in water and hardening, bending and deformation are trivial, but the forged swords are too brittle, which is really fatal.

Even if the blacksmiths in the empire's direct territory benefit from the good relationship between His Majesty and the Principality of Akern, they also know the technology of folding forging, but the more times the folding forging is done, the worse the quality of the weapon.

Obviously, Prime Minister Mura is not aware that there is a difference between high-grade and low-grade iron ore. And the forging process required for these two grades of iron ore is even more different.

As for the reason...

It is related to the uneven quality of iron that can be found or even seized in the early days of the establishment of the Kingdom of Nigan. In the case of low-grade iron ore, the blacksmiths of the Kingdom of Nigan are all masters of how to stir or clamp steel.

Not to mention the King of the Kingdom of Nigan, Qingye Gru, who was taught by a master of the dwarves. His solar smelting technology is second to none in the old continent where disputes and riots are frequent.

As a result, in the new continent where high-grade iron ore veins can be found from time to time, the quality of the iron ore is too good, so naturally a different forging process must be used.

Of course, the reason why the Principality of Akern can mass-produce good knives is that most of the iron in the Principality is not high-grade iron, but the Principality implements a salt and iron monopoly, and the high-grade ore is sealed up. So the iron used by the blacksmiths of the Principality of Akern is scrap iron collected from various channels.

In other words, the Principality of Akern has always relied on good knives made of scrap iron to chop up the broken knives forged with high-quality iron ore in other countries.

So this can't be blamed on Sogen, the scrap iron knife beats the good iron knife. Even if the major princes of the Kahn Empire understand this truth, it can't change that they are completely no match for the Kingdom of Nigan.

For this reason, the Principality of Aken, which has been selling high-grade iron ore to the Kingdom of Negan, not only did not realize that the quality of the ore it sold was actually very good, but also how deceptive it was in exchange for a large amount of goods that were worthless in the Kingdom of Negan; it also did not know that it had become an economic puppet and was stepping into the technical control of the Kingdom of Negan step by step.

"Grand Duke, according to your instructions, the recycling device has been designed."

"If it weren't for the dark elves' loose mouths and leaks, I really didn't think that the waste gas and wastewater produced by smelting could be recycled and reused as raw materials for the production of sulfuric acid. In this way, each of our cities must have a large smelter. Otherwise, it will be difficult for us to deal with a worse situation."