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Unless you completely disregard all subordinates and do everything yourself, you'll either be exhausted or ruined—either way, it will only be worse.

Thinking about all that stuff in the Governor's Mansion, Old Wei couldn't help but envy how the Doctor and Old Xia managed to get such reliable grassroots cadres and staff. Their reach extended all the way to the bottom, allowing them to mobilize the greatest possible resources.

Is it that the Great Yan invested less in education than its counterpart? That doesn't seem to be the case. In fact, the Great Yan invested in education and culture by no means less. Even the army set up academies according to the standard of one academy per thousand households, recruiting military children to study. These children could also participate in the imperial examinations and become officials, and the Great Yan did indeed provide the court with a group of pragmatic officials.

Of course, officials from such backgrounds are no match for those who studied at local academies, cultivated their reputation, and rose through the ranks after passing the imperial examinations three times in a row. Not to mention, these pragmatic officials also have their weaknesses. They have a stronger sense of regionalism and form local factions within the court, completely disregarding the fate of other places to gain benefits for their hometowns.

Similarly, many famous and capable ministers of the Ming Dynasty came from the academies set up by these thousand-household units, such as Yu Qian. Everyone knows the extent to which they were marginalized in the court.

Therefore, Lao Wei was truly baffled as to why Kazdel didn't have such a group of people.

Because the promotion and management methods used by the other side are different from those of aristocratic autonomous countries, and are more like the centralized state of the Great Yan, theoretically speaking, the other side should also have a group of such bureaucrats.

The reason is simple: Xia Gui had no baggage. He rose from humble beginnings, but he wasn't truly a commoner. This is a significant difference from the founding emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty, who also rose from humble origins and didn't need to inherit the systems and burdens of the previous dynasty. However, a man who is merely a rough, powerful figure from the countryside must compromise with the feudal gentry in order to establish a nation.

One option is to not need it at all. It has enough initial staff and automated management measures, and by the time the system becomes unusable, a new group of leaders will have already been trained from a group of illiterate newcomers.

In addition, the initial shortage of manpower meant that the limited talent was constantly being moved around to put out fires, which indirectly disrupted the progress of the local group.

Most importantly, he started as a business, which meant he always held the reins of finances and resources.

The emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty could not personally go to the fields, nor could he grow enough food to feed half of his army. He had to rely on the gentry to organize the supply of provisions. Once the financial power fell into the hands of the gentry, no amount of personal strength or military merit would be of any use. Unless the army was turned into bandits and relied on robbery to maintain supplies, such a "beast army" would be of no use.

This kind of incompetent army already demonstrated to all of Terra during the Central Province Campaign last winter how vulnerable an army can be when it loses its overall organization, facing an army composed of "mud-legged warriors" whose fighting spirit and individual combat strength are far inferior to its own.

On one side are troops trained from childhood and veterans of battle, and on the other side are farmers who were still carrying hoes and pitchforks just three months ago.

Then, the latter destroyed the opponent head-on with almost overwhelming efficiency.

Of course, except for the Northern Campaign. However, that wasn't a problem with the army itself, but rather that flesh and blood simply couldn't fight against steel.

The fact that the enemy was able to hold out without losing more territory, even without a fleet, demonstrates that their combat strength far exceeded the predictions of military experts from various countries before the war. It should be noted that Kazimir had boldly predicted before the war that the Doctor's army would be annihilated at an alarming rate.

This is not surprising. Perhaps those who have experienced modern warfare believe that an individual cannot fight against an army, thus raising the standard of combat power for "against an army".

In fact, in earlier times, it was not uncommon for a fully armed knight with a few squires to rout an army of thousands of farmers.

According to this theory, a knight with the "force to break through a thousand armies" ability could find a reinforced regiment in Kazimierz, and then you could send them to fight against the Ursus artillery regiment.

Even the most stubborn Kingdom of Knights was bombarded to the point that it began to vigorously develop high-speed warships and destroy secret manuals, which shows how low the value of the so-called "Broken Army-class" personal combat power is.

Even someone as strong as Patriot, who could take on demons single-handedly, was overwhelmed by the Doctor with a dozen or so people. If he were equipped with the current weapons of Kazdel, Patriot himself admitted that he could only deal with a maximum of four shield guards at the same time. Any more than that, and he would probably only be able to fight to the death.

Based on this assessment, Victoria believed that the Doctor would achieve a local victory in the central region, but the northern fleet would eventually break through his base in one fell swoop.

However, the land-based defense system, combined with the civil engineering-constructed fortifications, has made the progress of the land-based fleet lackluster.

Once the central province is lost, they will have to retreat. If the supply and repair stations along their rear are captured or destroyed by the doctor's northward-bound troops, this massive fleet will be left to anchor and surrender in the wasteland, or simply wait to starve to death.

Kazimir believed that the elite knights composed of mercenaries recruited by the Regent could quickly scatter these peasant soldiers who were farmers just three months ago, just as knights slaughtered peasant soldiers. However, in reality, his knights were wiped out in the mountains and plains by trench warfare and mountain artillery warfare combined with air superiority.

Ursus's prediction was the most accurate. They believed that the Regent would gain the upper hand and then be blown to bits by the enemy's superior artillery fire. Their reasoning was that their Northern Legion had already been decimated by molten cannons, Titans, and assault vehicles in previous battles.

If Ursus hadn't immediately moved its elite artillery north, and if the Reunion Movement hadn't maintained a tacit military understanding due to its reluctance to shift its focus, their predictions would have been even more accurate.

Of course, there were some discrepancies. Ursus thought the enemy would be blown away by artillery fire, but in reality, they were blown away by air force. Ursus's opinion on this was... "Give it to me."

The terrain of Ursus is characterized by icy landscapes in winter and muddy, turbulent waters in spring, making the Aviation Warlock Corps the optimal solution for mobile fire support on the Ursus front.

Moreover, these large drones can also lift cargo and transport supplies, allowing the Ursus army to advance and maneuver more easily.

Combined with their exceptional artillery corps, precise artillery strikes will quickly eliminate enemy strongpoints, while continuous air fire will prevent the enemy from returning to their positions, allowing the assault troops to rapidly occupy positions and fortifications.

The reactions of the various observation groups varied, and Ursus was indeed the first to strengthen its anti-aircraft gun system. The bear-men, of course, had their own bear-men's ...

Two warlocks operated four linked amplification staves, while one warlock was responsible for operating drones to remotely scout enemies and using their exceptional mathematical calculation abilities to inform the operators below of the attack directions.

Then came the high-speed aerial magic attacks. They improved their staffs, abandoning the powerful spells of the past and instead using continuous and dense magic projectiles, mainly the fastest particle projectiles, with Originium particle spheres flying everywhere.

Real-world testing has shown that it has devastating effects on low- to medium-altitude drone swarms, but whether it poses a threat to Kazdel's hummingbirds is unknown.

After all, Ursus has not made its "439 Air Defense Project" public, and Kazdel has not released performance data such as the Hummingbird's maximum altitude.

As for Rembitox, they said nothing, but once again began a heated discussion about whether to impose an embargo on Kazdel's ore.

On the one hand, some believe sanctions should be imposed to protect the Kara-Rey trade route, while on the other hand, they think the idea is utterly stupid.

"So, after all this arguing, you mean we're going to spend at least 30 billion LMD to kick all our ore suppliers out of our trade routes and replace them with Ursus suppliers?" Speaker Rembiton stared dumbfounded at the suddenly silent senator in front of him.

"But if this continues, we will inevitably be threatened by them. You know, our neighboring countries..."

One is the Great Yan, the king of trade deficits and a money-guzzling beast; the other is Iberia, a poor wretch who has no money but no shortage of minerals.

"And now that they have won the Kazdel civil war, it means that our ore will no longer be able to be sold. Kazdel will definitely set up tariffs and transportation barriers to pave the way for their mining development."

The congressman earnestly tried to persuade his colleagues to agree to this seemingly absurd idea, saying, "They are also a major mining country!"

"And I've heard that New Kazdel and Ursus have signed a whole bunch of cooperation agreements to jointly develop minerals within Ursus."

"Resource plunder? The Ursus Emperor agrees to this condition?"

"Whatever his motives for agreeing, the point is, Ursus and Kazdel, two major mining nations, oh, and Iberia, whose marine mineral resources are equally vast, if these three mining giants unite, will we still have a place in the world market in the future?"

Of these three, one was hampered by mining—mining from the sea was extremely costly; another was hampered by transportation—Ursus, that wretched land, even using slaves to mine was unprofitable; and the third lacked technology—it had previously been a model of colonialism for various countries. And these three combined became…

Iberia, or rather Agor, has the technology, including an advanced automated mining and refining system;

Ursus has plenty of cheap labor, so costs can be kept to a minimum;

A company that is now frantically building railways and air routes in the occupied territories, with abundant industrial demand and transportation capacity—these three combined make it a world-class monopolistic mining giant.

What does Rembitox have? They used to be cheaper than Iberia, mined more than Ursus, and were more advanced than Kazdel. Now they are more expensive than Ursus, have less transport volume than Kazdel, and are less efficient and backward than Iberia. They can't even find a reasonable place to join.

The key point is that these three countries are geographically adjacent, like a sharp blade cutting the world in two, east and west, and then becoming a mining technology monopoly group linked by mining.

Oh, and they also brought in Casimir and Syracuse, seemingly out of the whole agricultural union.

"The Ursus-Kazdel Axis is about to emerge, and you're still arguing over such petty gains?"

"Their strongest and weakest core right now is Kazdel. If Kazdel is lost, or if Kazdel fails to unite for a long time, this axis of evil will not appear!"

Instead, they will be divided into three completely different countries by Kazdel, unable to pool resources, move people freely, and have goods bypass the war zone and travel through our territory. What a huge benefit that is!

"This is such a huge benefit, I have no reason to refuse—" The young emperor of Ursus spread his hands to his ministers, "Why should I refuse to exchange useless northern lands for a formidable city that protects the country and to share the glory of ruling the world?"

"Yes, why refuse—" the Doctor said the same thing. Why refuse? Cooperation with Ursus might make that polar bear raise its head, but the core of the cooperation would still be on their side.

Moreover, Ursus' vast lands and abundant mineral resources are simply waiting for a reasonable way to be utilized. For the Doctor, who will need astronomical amounts of food, people, and minerals in the future, there is no reason to let these riches continue to lie dormant under the snow and the Black Forest.

In mid-April, the "Ussas-Kazdel-Iberia Trilateral Economic Cooperation Agreement" (hereinafter referred to as the Ukaya Agreement) was signed in Satti, the capital of New Kazdel, with the three countries agreeing to share some technologies and cooperate economically.

Kazdel provided Ursus with affordable food, while Ursus provided minerals, which Iberia needed. Kazdel also contributed Agor technology as equity, and provided Iberia with a 10-year interest-free loan totaling 400 billion for Iberia's reconstruction.

Furthermore, Agor and Kazdel, as witnesses, reached a cooperation agreement, promising that after the civil war was quelled, the two countries would send a professional strike force deep into the coastline to clean up the sea.

At the same time, the trilateral agreement also stipulated that the two countries would grant each other most-favored-nation treatment on a total of 11 major categories and 67 subcategories of goods, including food, minerals, refined metals, textiles, and synthetic semiconductors, exempting each other from most tariffs.

At the same time, Kazdel promised to excavate and build 22 model mines in Ursus after the civil war was over. Ursus's price was that mining would be allowed for 10 years, and after 10 years, or when the total tonnage of ore mined reached the agreed value, the equipment, personnel and technology of the mine would belong to Ursus.

In exchange, Ursus opened its military and industrial shipyards to Kazdel, allowing the latter to order warships, land vessels of various classes, and even city modules. Of course, considering Ursus's technological capabilities and construction efficiency... it's basically better than nothing.

"Industrial relocation and dumping... it's neither a good thing nor a bad thing."

It's not a good thing because Ursus might be the one that suffers the most in this agreement. It's very likely that they'll encounter a stubborn person who will complain about being taken advantage of and withdraw from the deal, even though Ursus happens to be the largest supplier of raw materials.

Moreover, once the industries are relocated in the future, Ursus is likely to become a new industrial center and begin dumping its products on others.

The first to die will be Casimir. If they can't deal with Colombia, they'll have to face the onslaught of goods.

Although Ursus has high production costs, under the Ukaya Agreement, which grants them the right to reciprocity among the three countries, their raw material and technology costs can actually be kept to a minimum.

The good thing is that this will lead to technological diffusion. Repairing the Ark is not a matter for one country or one person; it requires the combined strength of the entire Terran. This is a true project of the century. Therefore, only by promoting the progress of the entire Terran society can there be a glimmer of hope.

The doctor knew perfectly well that a smart man leading a bunch of barbarians could accomplish nothing.

Now, the most embarrassed person is the Regent. Ursus's brutal and tyrannical behavior has almost torn away his fig leaf. This national-level cooperation and joint statement is tantamount to acknowledging that the new Kazdel is the legitimate Sarkaz.

Moreover, this posed an even greater threat to him: his territory bordered Ursus, and although they had not signed a military alliance, neither of the two allies was capable of fighting—one was riddled with internal problems, and the other was on its last legs.

However, within this framework, there is absolutely no problem in adding a new military security regulation under the guise of protecting trade routes.

In other words, this giant bear can join the war anytime, anywhere; as soon as it catches its breath, it can immediately launch a war against the south.

However, there was an unexpected bonus—Leytania yielded, refusing to recognize the new Kazdel and instead fully supporting the Regent.

For no particular reason, just look at the Terra map. These three things are connected, plus Syracuse and Casimir, which are exchanging glances. See where Letania is?

Surrounded by enemies on all sides, if war breaks out, they might have to surrender before the enemy even reaches the capital.

Just a little rant

Why do some people always like to make assumptions and deduce things from the social sciences? Why do they prefer to use logic to measure reality?

For example, my Great Yan here.

Many people think this is unscientific. How could a feudal country where the scholar-officials ruled the world have developed into a modern society?

So, I couldn't help but look at neighboring Japan—brother, tell me, how did you manage to become a modern developed country or a feudal country in the guise of modernity?

At the grassroots level, people are practically migrants; the state's ruling power hardly reaches the countryside; and the cities and city-states are almost in a state of fragmentation. How come they haven't been destroyed by the surrounding countries yet?

I couldn't help but look towards America. Yes, why?

Why hasn't a country with its own state military units, its own laws, a near-uncoordinated system, frequent government shutdowns, and a largely disorganized grassroots population been destroyed by its neighboring countries?

Is America full of martial spirit? Doesn't it despise soldiers? Don't be ridiculous. The US military despises soldiers the most. Do you think "fourth-class livestock" is a joke?

In the U.S. military, most generals come from backgrounds in accounting or related fields. In other words, true combatants and rank-and-file soldiers never rise through the ranks and are often looked down upon—what, the U.S. military has good benefits and high status? —A veteran from Pennsylvania Avenue (ojpg);

Ultimately, it's just that their ancestors were wealthy and had a lot of money, which is why you can't beat them.

I don't even need to check my conscience to tell you that in Terra's natural environment, a medieval agricultural feudal superstructure could completely support a modern industrial nation.

Because in the modern era, with closer and more complex international relations and trade, there are more than one country that maintains a modern industrialized or even a modern developed country with a feudal superstructure.

Because their environment is better than that of neighboring Japan, natural disasters and the relocation of cities almost naturally demand that the gentry and the local authorities in charge of the city be given the power of self-determination—otherwise, by the time you report to the capital and get permission to relocate, the entire city will have already been wiped out.

Correspondingly, the Casimir chapter also makes it very clear that large-scale trade in the city depends on a few waterways connecting with the city, which in turn naturally provides the foundation for feudal rule.

If we have to point out something illogical, it's that industry is impossible in Terra's environment. Industry requires centralized production, centralized living, and a stable supply chain, but natural disasters make it impossible to achieve such a supply chain and centralized production.

However, they simply used the artifacts of their ancestors to solve the problem of how the first mobile cities were created manually when they couldn't develop basic industries.

You don't even need to go back to social sciences unnecessarily. Just take a look at the shapes of the countries around the world, without trying to apply our special case to them. You'll find that your deductions are at least eight hundred Wallaces off from reality.

The reality is that social sciences, including economics, are almost all hindsight analyses; they are merely trying to build a model for things that have already happened, only to be proven wrong by the next event.