Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1640 You'd better be really dead!

After hearing the report, Saint Laurent V felt very disappointed.

He was also a famous man in his lifetime. The Saint Laurent Empire was thriving under his leadership. Even compared with the previous emperors, his political achievements were the best. How could he have met such a bunch of stupid teammates? !
"Send someone to negotiate peace!"

Regardless of whether it can be accomplished or not, we still have to talk about what needs to be discussed.

Think optimistically, what if it succeeds?

But at the same time, he must be prepared for the worst.

"Order the troops stationed in the new area to avoid a direct confrontation with the coalition forces of Great Zhou and Tonglubao, gather their forces and population and retreat."

After the Greenskin War ended, the territory of their Saint Laurent Empire doubled.

Faced with the rapidly increasing territory, they must send troops to garrison. In addition to sending troops to garrison, they also have to send labor to carry out construction and development.

Judging from the situation at the time, their Saint Laurent Empire was indeed a large country with a large population.

But even so, after fighting the greenskins for so many years, their internal population has continued to decline due to war casualties, and the lives of domestic people have also been affected by the war, leading to a decline in the new population.

After the war, the fertility rate cannot be restored immediately. It often takes several years of transition. The new population thereafter is too young to be valuable as a labor force.

That’s right, after the war, the Saint Laurent Empire fell into the same predicament as the Great Zhou.

The effective population did not increase much, but the territorial area increased exponentially, and the limited military forces were greatly dispersed as a result.

It is not so difficult in peacetime, but once war breaks out, hundreds or thousands of garrison troops in one area are simply not enough to resist the offensive of the enemy army.

Saint Laurent V, who had been in power for a long time, was well aware of this, which was one of the main reasons why he had previously refused to start a war.

What they need now is development, not war! What the hell is a bullshit war!!

But now that the reality is before our eyes, there is no point in worrying about these things anymore.

Saint Laurent V also acted decisively at this moment and directly ordered the abandonment of the new territory in order to gather troops and form an effective line of defense in the later stage.

Although Saint Laurent V had mentioned the idea of ​​"joining if you can't beat them" when he was arguing with Saint Laurent I.

But it's not too late to reverse the situation.

If there is any choice, I would definitely choose to be the emperor so that I can have the final say on everything.

However, less than half a day after Saint Laurent V regained his freedom, bad news came from the border fortress in the old district.

The coalition forces of the Great Zhou, the Warrior Women Clan, and the Smith Kingdom have already pressed beyond their side of the border.

All I can say is, it was within his expectations.

If it were him, he would do the same.

However, being mentally prepared does not mean that his mentality is good at the moment. The moment he received the news, Saint Laurent V was still scolding Saint Laurent I in his heart, whose life or death was uncertain.

To be honest, you'd better die!

Saint Laurent V had evidently had enough of his ancestor.

Even if he surrendered in the end, he didn't want to let that old ancestor dictate to him anymore!
At the same time, in Black Moon City...

At this time, Zhou Xu had already returned to Black Moon City. On a new day, the identity information that the dwarves had completed statistics on was also delivered to him one after another.

The number of dwarf soldiers who followed the Great Zhou army into the war has not yet been counted. The identity files that have been sent over now are all from the dwarf people who stayed in Yuancheng at that time.

This group of dwarven people numbered more than 92,000 people! Including the dwarven troops that went with the army, the total population of dwarves was close to 100,000!
This made Zhou Xu very excited.

When he incorporated the elves and centaurs before, Zhou Xu had a headache about increasing the population because their population was too small. Now he has finally incorporated a race that can form a large scale!

Among this group of dwarven people, the one who deserves the most attention is a dwarf named Thorin Copperforge, whose file was singled out by the Population Registration Bureau.

Just looking at the surname Copperforge, you can tell that he is related to the royal family. Not every dwarf in Copperforge Castle has the surname Copperforge. This is the royal surname, and Copperforge Castle is named after the royal surname.

The ancestor of Thorin Copperforge's line was the younger brother of the second king of Copperforge and a dwarf prince at the time, just like Balon Copperforge and Vol'jin.

After several generations, the prince's descendants became marginal members of the royal family. To Woking, they were distant relatives.

But this doesn't mean that they are not doing well.

In fact, this Thorin Copperforge was originally the R&D director of the Copperforge Fort's weapons research and development department! With a top panel of five-star intelligence and four-star spirit, his talent is directly "Master of Arms Research and Development"!
Successfully incorporating the dwarves of Copperforge was a great event in itself, and now he had gained such an extremely important top talent. For Zhou Xu, it was a double blessing.

At this moment, the smile on Zhou Xu's face could not be concealed at all.

The report document was delivered to him at this moment, and its main purpose was to ask him how to make arrangements for this Thorin Copperforge.

Judging from the other party's talents and abilities, there is no doubt that he will be sent directly to the military equipment research and development department.

The key to this matter is obviously not the other party's ability.

This is because the Armament Research and Development Department is one of the most important departments with the highest level of confidentiality within their Great Zhou.

Under this premise, Thorin had just surrendered with the dwarves, and his current loyalty to their Great Zhou was only sixty-eight points.

To enter such an important core department, loyalty is required.

Otherwise, if a traitor sneaks into such a department and sells their Great Zhou's military secrets to other countries, that would be a big problem.

Thorin at this stage obviously does not meet this requirement.

But if Thorin were assigned to other unimportant departments, it would be a waste of his talents.

As his thoughts raced, Zhou Xu made a decision after a brief consideration...

"Assign him to the research and development team of the Thunder Revolver Cannon!"

Don't use the suspect, but don't use it.

Now that the dwarves have surrendered, it is only a matter of time before their loyalty increases.

If he was suspicious of the other party at this moment, it would hinder the dwarves' integration.

Of course, another very important point is that Zhou Xu is not afraid of the dwarves' rebellion. For the dwarves, surrendering to their Great Zhou is the best choice at this stage.

If they betrayed their Great Zhou, what would happen to the dwarves?

(End of this chapter)