Utopia

Obviously, as a monarch of a small country in the feudal era, Carl Ailimu is completely an unqualified monarch.

To know that a monarch who is the most basic and qualified monarch, he must know two things, not knowing anything else.

The army and the treasury.

The former can determine whether a monarch can sleep peacefully, rather than waiting to be beheaded at any time and place; the latter can determine whether a monarch has the ability to develop a country and make the people voluntarily obey the monarch's orders.

This is only what a qualified monarch needs. The problem is that the Principality of Ailimu, facing internal and external difficulties, does not need a monarch who is just qualified.

Therefore, if the Principality of Ailimu sends envoys to the Kingdom of Golson to inquire, they should have a new understanding of the rumored dark elf kingdom, the Kingdom of Nigan, which they dare not even think about.

Queen Winnie is a person who rules but does not govern. The state affairs are basically all handled by the parliament formed by the prime minister.

However... Does the Principality of Ailimu, which is still in the serf economy and small peasant economy, and handicrafts and commerce are not developed, have this ability? The Kingdom of Negan is a fully modernized parliamentary constitutional monarchy, which has undergone the industrial revolution and is currently undergoing an electric revolution.

In this regard, the dog-headed men in the north, the princes in the south, the domestic unrest, and the crying of the people, all these things add up to mean that the person who can sit on the throne of the Grand Duke of the Principality of Elimu had better be a hero with great talent and strategy.

But the very bad thing is that Grand Duke Karl always has his beauty in his mind. Even when his mother and a group of sisters who have no inheritance rights kneel in front of his father's body and ask everyone to help deal with the funeral, he has no idea how he should be a Grand Duke.

If possible, he would even like to give the position of Grand Duke to his younger brother. Beauty is what he should enjoy in this life, and it is also the superior treatment he deserves as a duke.

"I said..."

"Don't talk about it here."

Compared with Grand Duke Karl, who was disappointed that he would lose a lot of time to accompany the beauty in the future, the ministers who witnessed this scene were extremely gloomy.

Is the Principality of Elimu going to perish?

To be honest, if it were any other time, the performance of Grand Duke Karl who was absent-minded and openly provoked the ministers would be enough to make even the dumbest people understand one thing.

That is, Grand Duke Karl, who only relies on his status as a duke to flirt with women everywhere, is not suitable to be the Grand Duke of the Principality of Alimu.

But is there any other choice now?

The Principality of Alimu cannot be in chaos.

Once it is in chaos, the history of the Principality of Aken will repeat itself in the Principality of Alimu. Moreover, compared with the dark elves, the kobolds do not have any "good" style of wanting to trade, mutual benefit, etc.

The fact that the kobolds captured slaves on a large scale to dig canals was known to everyone in the Principality of Alimu. At the same time, the slaves who died...

Sometimes the people in the north, or the very few slaves who managed to escape, witnessed the kobolds throwing corpses directly into the canal many times.

Obviously, the kobolds would never give the Principality of Alimu any face. Even the ministers knew that the dog-headed people wanted to destroy the Principality of Alimu, and burn it down, and completely take over the population, land, and all valuable things of the Principality of Alimu.

So compared to the dark clouds over the Principality of Alimu’s palace, the Guangwu Empire, which was full of singing and dancing, rarely had a celebration ceremony.

"Your Majesty, the number of people in the empire has now exceeded the 440,000 that has been used recently. I dare to ask, should I go south..."

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"No! To the north! The empire needs a hunting ground that can provide slaves continuously. And I want to see if there are any wild natives who are not obedient to the empire in the mountains and ridges in the north. The big forces will not care about regular looting for the time being, and the small ones will be swallowed up directly."

"Yes, sir."

Quan Dunde is not stupid as the Guangwu Empire. Because the terrain is more open as you go south, and the area of ​​the plains increases, he knows better than anyone that the territory of the Kahn Empire in the south must be very large.

Therefore, he hopes to develop his own national strength by continuously absorbing and even squeezing the wealth of the Kahn Empire. And compared to the south, the wilderness in the north makes him very vigilant.

Especially when he was forced by the fleet of the Orchid Republic to find land to build a country in the south, his fleet went along the coastline for half a month before finding Butterfly City. He himself did not know how big the territory of the Orchid Republic was.

But he needs to expand so that the Guangwu Empire has more room for activities. To this end, he began to find officials to investigate.

"Your Majesty, the territory of the Orchid Republic is currently 70,000 square kilometers, and the population is as high as 720,000. The total military strength is 50,000, and... Your Majesty, I have contacted them, they are the descendants of slave escapees from the Old World."

"What?"

"At the same time... Your Majesty, I didn't quite believe it at the beginning. The founders of this Orchid Republic... were a couple of jackals. In order to prevent the invasion of the Old World, they claimed that every citizen had at least three grenades."

"This... do they have the money to burn? Three grenades for each citizen?"

"Therefore, I highly doubt that this is a lie to intimidate others and cannot be taken seriously. So I think that if the Orchid Republic really has such a number of grenades, they are all backlogs used for sales."

"But... who would buy them specifically... Oh, yes, I almost forgot. The Empire also bought a lot."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Okay, rely on the natives in the south and expand to the north."

"Yes."

Although Emperor Dunde is notoriously stingy, he would not develop submachine guns or even self-loading firearms if he could avoid them.

He doesn't have that money.

Even though the generals below have often reported that revolvers are outdated and cannot compare to self-loading pistols with much larger ammunition capacity and better performance in actual combat.

Especially when the military and police of the Iron Fist Empire basically do not use revolvers with slow loading speed and generally small ammunition capacity, and all use self-loading pistols to fight.

But Emperor Dunde still understood one thing, that is, when it is time for the people below to enjoy the benefits, he has to give them some sweet treats to make them obedient.

After all, the development of new territories requires the active participation of the people.

The power of the people cannot be ignored.

Otherwise, it would be difficult for the Guangwu Empire to take root and survive in this new continent full of various unknowns.

But then again, is a pistol important in actual combat?

In Emperor Dunde's own opinion, instead of giving him a pistol, it would be better to give him a rifle with a bayonet...