Chapter 661 - Underhanded Alliance (2/2)
“The Soen Dukedo to join the Mist Alliance? When did this happen? Why do they want to join?”
Not only was I surprised to hear this, the other Mist Alliance government officials in the roo the Mist Alliance would definitely bring benefits to the entire country and its citizens, such a decision could only beof those two countries respectively Were they actually willing to give up on their authority and voluntarily be restrained by our rules?
The Soen Dukedoinal Northlands’ seven kingdoms There was also another small country between them and the Northlands The Soen Dukedodom’s territory included the fertile Feen Plains and Shawen River Their lands were vast, and the Feldis Kingdom had quite respectable power It was quite sudden and unexpected for the to join the Mist Alliance
“The application just arrived three days ago Archduke Klein and King Vincent signed the papers together They also submitted the tax income, expenses, military information, and other such basic infore of receiving applications believe that both countries are being quite sincere We should seriously and carefully consider this”
Reyne was casually flipping through the infor at it, expecting me to deal with it as always She had a wry yet serious expression It seeh I just returned
No matter if I accepted or rejected the two countries’ application, this would be a major matter that could affect the Mist Alliance’s development for more than a century If I accepted their application, the entire territory of the Mist Alliance would be expanded by about 33 This would finally directly connect us to the doms, and ould obtain an extremely fertile territory renowned for its food production And if we rejected their application, ould at least have to give sufficient reason
I looked over aat all the tan and blue drawn on it while cos to my memories At this time,information
The Soen Dukedoo, and had only gone through two generations of rulers so far It was a tiny country established in a wasteland, and it only had a few small cities Nor did it have any fa dom’s subordinate country
What wasteland? It was a wasteland left behind by the Yongye Calah, I supposed that these two countries were soh if I looked at it that way, there would be an extreh number of countries in Eich connected to doe on the Holy Church back then, I would obviously pass by these countries whilethe way
“Ha, I reainst ye arrudge against Karwenz instead They were annihilated by his de was killed Their current royalty is from a distant bloodline from mainland Eich”
I was rendered speechless Just as all this? Had we brothers hbors?
“To tell you the truth, you’re absolutely correct With a southern dees would that create? Why do you think that soafter your life recently? You should be happy that hus only care about their own personal benefits They won’t fight you to the death for the sake of their ancestors’ grudges which have already been forgotten about But if they were long-lived species instead, even if the leader didn’t care about a past grudge, the leader’s people would force hiht you to the death”
The silly cat kept bragging about the advantages of long-lived species toquite obedient these days as well? In this day and age, isn’t havingthere is?” Of course, I would never say this to her, since she would quite easily anger about anything related to elven pride And right now, I still needed her protection
“Also, the rise of the Mist Kingdo territory when they didn’t have any to begin with Back in the past, the Northlands had nine countries, not seven What do you think happened to reduce the nued to win as one against three united countries”
To tell the truth, I didn’t really care too o in the past, either Another side of being a short-lived species was that huhed about how short life was and how they would never be able to achieve all their desires, beco like that, a cos The end result was that human royalty and nobles all had a messy relationshi+p with each other Many were blood related with each other, but would still fight each other to the death
Well, all of ye stuff was in the past The relevant hu dead now since more than century had passed Only if it was politically necessary would ain Otherwise, ould noro?
“The short-lived species simply need to live in the present That’s a better life for thenored the silly cat who had such an expression of superiority I focused instead on the information in front of me Based on what I knew so far, I would likely reject their application
That’s right, I intended to reject the their application which would ithen the Mist Alliance
A country wouldn’t always be better by being larger, especially since the Holy War was right upon us Just with some simple calculations, I deterreatly increase the amount of border ould need to defend, and ould also lose many naturally defensive locations and fortresses on our current border Our original iron-tight defense would have cracks naturally appearing in it But if we didn’t do anything to help defend the t member countries at all… The Mist Alliance was intended as ato help any member country, that would make everyone lose all hope and faith in the entire alliance
“Let’s gather information first At the very least, we need to knohy they want to join the Mist Alliance”
I felt a bit of a headache as I rubbed overn me even more books and information
“History, culture, income and expenditures, military inforures, and the true reason why they want to join the Mist Alliance… It seeht, we also have to consider our overall border defenses if they join the Mist Alliance It see to lose sleep by working overti with our diplo…”
I shookaround as I thought… But right when I arrived at the door, I saw that the door was coht se
“Don’t even think about running away! Don’t even think about escaping froether!”
I heard Reyne’s grudge-filled coh yet again…