The left path sequence starts with the animal tamer

In the past year or so, the territory development has achieved the expected results, first solving the food problem in the territory, and completing the development of land and the construction of water conservancy facilities.

"The next task is to build roads and restore factories. In other words, we have to pursue commercial development next." Feng Willow instructed Saiya.

"Professor, very few factory owners are willing to open factories in our territory because we require higher wages for workers, which increases their production costs a lot. To produce the same products, they can set up factories in their territories, especially in cities directly under the royal family, and earn much more than opening factories here.

We can't force these merchants to open factories in our territory!" Saiya said with some embarrassment.

“We can’t force those businessmen to open factories in our territory, but we can ban their products from coming in!

Cloth, clothing, furniture, steel products, all these things are taxed at one-time the commodity price when they enter our territory. However, for products produced in our territory, only one-third of the tax is collected.

Our territory covers three counties, and the population far exceeds that of the surrounding counties. The population of the three counties is greater than that of the surrounding ten counties.

In this way, those capitalists who set up factories outside will not be able to make money in our territory. Although the requirements of our territory are high, they can still make money by setting up factories in our territory.

I believe they will weigh the options. " Feng Willow said confidently.

"But professor, if we raise taxes on foreign products now, we won't have enough supplies to sell to the people. A shortage of supplies in a territory is a terrible thing," Saiya reminded.

"It's okay. Since no businessman is willing to open a factory in our territory, we will do it ourselves first. Once our own factory has sufficient production capacity, we will start to charge heavy taxes on foreign goods." Feng Weiluo said with a smile.

"Professor, this is equivalent to monopolizing all the food, clothing, housing and transportation in the territory. This will indeed make more money in the short term, but over time, there will definitely be problems." Saiya persuaded.

"It won't take a long time. Once someone is willing to come to our territory to open a factory, we will sell all of these factories. We don't have enough energy to manage the territory and do business at the same time," Feng Weiluo said.

"Okay, professor. I'll ask my people to do it right away." Saiya said with a smile.

After dealing with the affairs of the territory, Feng Weiluo continued to draw national fortune and continue to refine his Fire Crow Pot. After more than a year of using national fortune to refine, this magic weapon is finally about to be refined.

But the closer it got to the end, the more national fortune was consumed. Feng Willow made up his mind and directly took out a large portion of national fortune. Seeing that the national fortune of the Viking Empire was less than half left.

There was a sudden flash of thunder in the sky outside. The fortune of a great country was extracted in this way. If Feng Willow did not hold the official position of the Viking Empire's national teacher at this moment, he would have to bear the backlash of the fortune of the entire Viking Empire.

However, as the national teacher, his own destiny is now connected with the Viking Empire, so the backlash will naturally not happen. However, there are pros and cons, and his relationship with the Viking Empire has further deepened. Their destiny is connected, and they have reached the point where they prosper together and suffer together.

In this situation, once the Viking Empire is destroyed, Feng Willow will definitely die with it. The destruction of the country means the disappearance of the country's destiny, and his destiny, which is deeply bound to the national destiny, will also disappear with it.

"Boom!" There was a huge roar in the sky, but no lightning struck. In the midst of the thunder, Feng Weiluo's Fire Crow Pot finally completed the final ritual, and this top-grade magic weapon was completely completed.

The Fire Crow Pot has its own space inside, which can hold 3,000 Fire Crows. It is not just a matter of capacity, as long as there is a Fire Crow as a template, 3,000 Fire Crow soldiers can be created.

Feng Weiluo’s first alienated beast was a crow. After so many years of alienation, it had already evolved into a fire crow, which could be used as a template. This was also the reason why Feng Weiluo first chose the Fire Crow Pot as his top-grade magic weapon.

Using the Fire Crow as a template, he consumed his mana to create Fire Crow Soldiers. As Feng Willow's mana was consumed, one Fire Crow after another appeared in the Fire Crow Pot.

The Fire Crow Pot has a small space inside, and a giant flame tree grows inside. The fire crows live on the giant flame tree. There is a flame that never goes out. As long as Feng Willow inputs magic power, the fire crows can be reborn in the flames.

However, it takes some time for the Flame Crow to be reborn.

With the Fire Crow Pot and three thousand Fire Crows, Feng Willow made up for his shortcomings in legionary combat. Three thousand Fire Crows could also form a Fire Crow Formation.

Feng Weiluo, holding the Fire Crow Pot, can make the three thousand Fire Crows act completely according to his wishes. This is more efficient than commanding an army.

Just as Feng Willow was admiring his Fire Crow Pot with a look of joy on his face, the Viking Empire was in dire straits, having lost more than half of its national fortune in one fell swoop.

A severe earthquake occurred in the country, right in the southern industrial zone of the Viking Empire. The severe earthquake destroyed more than 20 cities in an instant. As a result, most of the steam machinery industry of the Viking Empire was destroyed in an instant.

Countless people were killed and wounded, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced. The Viking Empire had suffered many disasters in the past year, and its treasury was empty, not only in money but also in food.

Faced with such an unprecedented disaster, the Viking Empire was completely unable to provide relief. The entire Viking Empire's national strength was instantly lost by more than half.

For the empire, the loss of money was secondary, but the loss of so many people was. The surrounding nobles did not want to accept these refugees because they had no food.

Suddenly, millions of people were missing. Although the Viking Empire's extraordinary army was still there, the empire was no longer able to support such a large army.

Ordinary people are the cornerstone of a country. If there are not enough ordinary people, how can we support so many extraordinary sequence people?
Kenlohag had no other choice but to ask for help from the other three empires. At least he had to save the hundreds of thousands of victims. The damage caused to the Viking Empire by this natural disaster was too great. The strength of the Viking Empire was already at the bottom among the four empires, and now its strength was halved in an instant. Even if it still had some foundation, it was no longer worthy of the title of the four great empires.

After Feng Weiluo received the news, he had a new understanding of national destiny. He originally thought that the name of national destiny was just luck, but now he realized that national destiny is not only luck, but also a reflection of a country's strength. The stronger the country's strength, the stronger the national destiny.

This time he drew away half of the national fortune to refine the Fire Crow Pot, which resulted in the Viking Empire's strength being halved.

"Saiyan, send someone to receive those refugees immediately and bring them to our territory. Our factory happens to be short of workers right now. Many of the refugees coming out of these industrial zones are skilled workers." Feng Willow ordered.

"Okay, professor, but the disaster-stricken area is quite far away from our territory. Bringing them back will consume a large amount of food. Also, the nobles along the way may not be willing to let a large number of refugees pass through their territory." Saiya reminded.

"Food is easy to deal with. Let Taris take all our space equipment and send out the army from our territory to pick up the refugees. If anyone doesn't let them through, just report my name, Feng Willow. If anyone doesn't give me face, then beat him up." Feng Willow said with full momentum.

The Viking Empire was originally troubled by the problem of refugee resettlement. No nobles were willing to accept them, and the country did not have enough food and money to resettle them.

This made these hundreds of thousands of refugees a hot potato. The other three empires provided some food, but the nobles exploited them layer by layer. In the end, what fell into the hands of the refugees was just a drop in the bucket. They could only barely survive.

Now that Grand Duke von Willow had come out and said he would accept refugees, Emperor Kenlohag was very happy. However, other nobles were very jealous when they saw that von Willow was going to accept refugees.

The nobles never complained about having too many subjects; the more subjects the better. They also saw the benefits of accepting these refugees.

They also envied the hundreds of thousands of refugees. Most of the refugees who survived the disaster were young and strong people in good health. As long as they were accepted, they could create wealth for them.

It's a pity that accepting these refugees requires a lot of money and food in the early stage. The Viking Empire, which has been in war in recent years, has almost exhausted its resources from the empire to the nobility. After finally settling down, various natural disasters have occurred one after another in the past year.

They were short of money and food, and could barely feed the people in their own territory, so they were completely unable to accept additional refugees.

They themselves have no ability, but seeing the benefits fall into Feng Willow's hands, they feel jealous.

A few days later, Taris sent back the news that some small nobles did not dare to offend the Grand Duke von Willow and allowed their refugee group to pass, but now they were blocked in the Enrest Territory, and the Enrest family wanted to charge them a transit tax of ten copper coins per person.

The Enrest Territory is a marquis ridge, with peaks on both sides and a plain in the middle. This plain is the territory of the Enrest Family. If you want to bypass their territory, you have to walk hundreds of miles. The refugees' marching speed is slow, and the food consumed by hundreds of thousands of people every day is an astronomical figure.

If they had to take a detour of several hundred miles, they would lose too much food, and many of the refugees were already sick and in urgent need of medical treatment. The longer the delay, the more people would die.

The Enrest family saw this point clearly and wanted to extort money. Compared with the food consumed and the lives lost in the detour of hundreds of miles, the transit fee he gave him was actually a small amount of money. He thought that Feng Willow would give him the transit fee after weighing the pros and cons.

After Taris reported to Von Willow, Saiyan was also inclined to pay the money. As for the Enrest family's taking advantage of the situation, he would find a chance to take revenge later.

"No, if we pay this time, the nobles behind us will be like greedy hyenas, they will follow suit and come to rob us. In any case, this precedent cannot be set." Feng Willow analyzed calmly.

"Then what should we do? Report it to the empire and let it handle it? If we argue, it will waste a lot of time, and we can't afford any delay." Saiya said with a headache.

"Declare war! On behalf of our family, declare war on the Enrest family!" Feng Willow stood up and said majestically.

"Professor, we are from the same country. Without the consent of the Noble Council, we cannot directly declare war on the nobles of the same country. According to the rules, we need to apply to the Noble Council first, stating the grievances between the two sides, and only after the approval of the Noble Council can we declare war.

But for such a matter, the noble council needs to investigate, and it is easy to drag it out for a few months. Moreover, as outsiders, we have no connections among the nobles of the Viking Empire. The Enrest family is a long-established noble family in the empire.

Even if we have sufficient reasons, it is reasonable for the Council of Nobles to delay us for a few months." Saiya explained to Feng Willow the rules of the Viking Empire nobles.

"No need, just declare war. They have their rules, I have mine! If anyone is dissatisfied, just come and fight." Feng Willow said directly and domineeringly. He had long been unhappy with these nobles of the Viking Empire.

"But professor, if we do this, we will break the rules of the Viking Empire's nobility and offend most of the nobles at once. Even if the empire does not hold us accountable, it will be difficult for us to integrate into the imperial nobility system in the future." Saiya reminded.

"Then let them integrate with us. If I want to reform, it will inevitably affect the interests of these nobles, which means we will have to confront them sooner or later. Even if we don't clash this time, we will clash next time. We can't give in every time there is a conflict.

Rather than swallowing my anger, I might as well just flip the table over with them." Feng Willow said firmly.

"Okay, professor, I'll go and gather supplies and prepare for war." Saiya never compromised on Feng Willow's orders. At most, she would just give him a few words of advice. Once Feng Willow made up his mind, she would firmly carry it out to the end.

Feng Willow nodded. Of course, he didn't need to prepare for war to deal with the Enrest family, but he had to be on guard against the noble council. Would those nobles unite to attack him? Or even would the Viking Empire attack him because of his unruly declaration of war. (End of this chapter)