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When it comes to appointing and removing talents in this country, he will not exclude or discriminate against anyone based on their origin, race, wealth, status, etc., but at least he will do so within the framework of the tribe before he successfully defeats Margarita and gains initial support from the southerners.

The four beastmen with the descendants of Aiur as the core are still the absolute main body of the tribe. With about one-fifth to one-sixth of the current population, they firmly hold more than 99.9 percent of the power.

All the management personnel selected from refugees, as well as the nobles and parliamentarians who barely maintained the status and power inherited from the old system.

But in the end, all power belonged to the group of "Four Beast Mothers", and even after they parted ways with the kingdom and converted to the Four Mothers to become the nominal "insiders" of the tribe, this structure did not change much.

At most, among the refugees, there are more people who can climb to the middle level in the tribal system, and there are also many people who can come before El and participate in the discussion of important affairs.

This will not be a big problem in the short term. Those who have escaped death are grateful to the tribe, a force represented by Ai'er. In addition, while the north and south of the kingdom are in a state of disarray, the tribal environment is relatively stable and thriving.

As long as there is a stable life where I can have enough food to eat and I don't have to worry about the greenskins coming to my doorstep all day long; and the kingdom can issue a transfer order, and the conscription officer will knock on my door and take the man away to the front line, I will be satisfied.

But this is only temporary.

As the saying goes, when you are well fed and warm, you will think about sex.

Once the most basic survival needs are met, people will desire higher things such as voice, interests, and power.

Of course, for most people, most of the time, it is enough to just live their own lives well. However, given the human population and fertility, it is inevitable that all kinds of elites will emerge in endlessly among the southern humans, who will be the largest ethnic group in the future. If these capable people are not given as much as possible to strive for status that matches their abilities and to be able to see and intuitive promotion, rather than the kind of promotion that is divided into nine grades and high and low castes based on blood and origin.

Even if it is a huge army crossing a small bridge.

In Al's cognition, that was also a very serious matter, so serious that the inherent programs in his original world, which seemed to be reliable and long-lasting, collapsed suddenly, and the Human Alliance rose like lightning, which was largely due to this reason.

The effort is not matched by the reward.

This was extremely difficult for Al to understand, let alone agree with, or even agree with.

Therefore, he has been working hard, trying his best to ensure that everyone in the tribe can get "positive feedback" in their work, fighting and life, even under the influence of the backward reality framework and long-term reform considerations.

Judging from the proportion of the output of the factories and lands owned by an Imperial factory owner or a Bretonnian knight, of course in today's medieval world, the degree of exploitation of these two is much worse than their own, and is even whiter than a black cat.

In short, under Ai'er's governance, the tribe's tax collection ratio for the surplus under its jurisdiction was very low, and the boy himself, including his descendants, who were undoubtedly the ruling class of the tribe, were in a very clear state.

Compared to humans who have more demands, beastmen are relatively simple and easy to satisfy.

Ai'er did not accumulate wealth of his own, except for a palace and what it contained. His love for gold and silver combined could not compare to the fulfillment and joy of carrying a fishing rod and casting for a day and then returning with a burst of catch.

Of course, given Aiel's status, there is no difference between public and private property. For example, the batches of gold and silver "military expenses" sent by the northerners one after another. From Aiel down, the beastmen basically have little interest in these things. The refugee group is still relatively concerned about the value of gold and silver, so Aiel is not reluctant to distribute gold and silver as rewards.

The Beastmen gained satisfying positive feedback from the expansion of their faith and ethnic group, which was consistent with Aiel's primary goal. He encouraged the Four Mothers faith to develop and take root within the tribe, and captured Chaos Beastmen to preach and naturalize them - rewarding childbirth generously, wishing that the Beastmen would have a fertile mother like the Rat Mother, who would give birth to cubs 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The cubs are given a dual education of family and public education, which reduces the time and energy that the beastman couple needs to spend on raising children, and provides the cubs with unified education based on their ethnicity, age, and personality.

At present, these measures are still very effective. It is estimated that the number of newborns will double by the end of this year. As the beastmen grow much faster than the average human, these cubs will be able to join El's army as adults in three to four years.

Although it is a little slower than the speed of fast-born offspring growing up and going to the battlefield in half a year, they are real population and workers with unlimited potential.

The Knights of Bartor wanted to build a world of virtue. Although Al didn't know the inside story, he was willing to build it. Lilith wanted the wood elves to divide the house and took extreme measures, but Al still agreed with a frown. In a fit of rage, he captured the priestess who cooperated with Lilith and even deceived the beastmen, but did not kill her. He planned to usurp the right to interpret the scriptures and use her for the purpose of teaching the God of Binding. The heirs liked to get along with their young father, so he tried his best to get close to them and play family games without delaying other affairs. The foster mother, the sheep mother, and the wives wanted to be sexy and wanted to be satisfied, so Al would fuck them day and night... Well, okay, he liked this too.

He toiled day and night, relying on the energy of the Son of God to complete the work from beginning to end of the year.

Everyone is practicing this.

After the tribe's power expanded rapidly, the talented and elite Estalia people who had met their basic survival needs naturally wanted to serve the tribe. In terms of faith, patriotism, strengthening the tribe, and making a name for themselves, El always had to satisfy and agree to their demands.

Therefore, the tribe cannot maintain the monopoly of the Beastmen in the future. From the perspective of both inside and outside, this is no different from the behavior of the greenskin warlords trying to conquer the Estalia. It is still using foreign races to enslave and dominate humans.

There has never been such a large-scale case in the world where an entire human kingdom has been ruled by alien races, whether dwarves, elves, vampires, greenskins, or beastmen, and they have established a stable rule (not counting the fairy Lilith of Lake Lilith). The tribe is bound to become the target of public criticism.

However, in the face of current realistic factors, ensuring victory in the war and becoming militarily strong are still the common and top priority goals of the tribe and even the entire Southern Kingdom.

Because failure in war means destruction!

Of course, this is not absolute. For example, Aiur has considered moving to the Runinara Mountains; the Northern Parliament can go to neighboring countries to establish a government in exile; the greenskins...well, the greenskins Waaaaagh have failed, they are a group of scattered sand, and a large-scale encirclement and suppression will not be able to make a difference given the terrain of Estalia.

But if they lose the military battle and are kicked out of the big chessboard of the South, the fight for this fertile land is certain.

Therefore, El cannot risk military instability by bringing too many Estalia into the regime at this time. This is the same reason as in a certain Victoria's Secret 3, where it is best not to force them into the government when the union power is weak.

It will not achieve the desired purpose, but will affect the original ones.

Except for the New Army, which is mainly composed of humans from top to bottom, under the influence of the Blood Mother faith, it is essentially no different from the Wrathful Horned Beast Army, with the only difference being in combat effectiveness and reliability. The Legion is under the absolute control of El, and in a sense, is a separate human force that is not under the control of El and his descendants such as Misha - the Beastmen - without his authorization.

However, according to El's flexible racial definition of himself.

When he was among the beastmen, he was a beastman; when he was among the humans, he was a human; when everyone was together, there was no difference between them:

Beastmen are people too!

I am the son of four mothers!

I am a tribal people.......

It is hard to say whether the new army can be considered a true human army.

Chapter 42: The dice is about to be rolled! [First update~Thank you for your support these days]

Under the dual cover of dense forests and fog, the tribal army marched quickly and covertly, and soon arrived at the northeast of Weiling and ambushed in the forest.

Now that Ai'er has completed the integration of the scout army, the shadow servants and spellcasters have put all directions under strict surveillance, and no movement can escape the eyes of the tribe.

The occasional greenskin teams that passed through this area were almost always under the tribe's surveillance. If nothing unexpected happened, these noisy greenskin teams could leave the area safely, completely unaware that they had just narrowly escaped death next to a jungle where a group of dangerous giant beasts were lurking and waiting for an opportunity to hunt.

And if something unexpected happens... those who touch the danger, whether they are greenskins or pirates, will melt and decompose silently and disappear into the forest like snowflakes encountering the scorching sun of Arabia.

The scouts would fake the traces of their reckless entry into the forest to deceive latecomers. This was not surprising considering the looseness of the Greenskins. It was even common for Greenskins who left the team to perform missions to run farther and farther and become a wandering war gang. From the warlords to the generals, no one cared about this at all.

There won't be any problem as long as there isn't a long-term, large-scale situation where patrol teams in a certain place disappear continuously.

The day when Al officially tears up the thin non-aggression treaty that doesn't even have a single page of paper on it is approaching.

The specific time of launching the attack depends on Al. He will not pin his hopes of victory in the war on a group of enemy forces "changing sides on the battlefield and changing flags". False surrender and delaying tactics have emerged one after another in history.

If by any chance the human defenders in the Weiling were forced to continue being traitors and choose to betray the tribe for one reason or another, then the legion that Aiel had put together with all his might would suffer huge losses.

It is always better to anticipate the enemy and be prepared at all times. No matter when, you must make multiple preparations. It never goes wrong to make multiple preparations.

Al was frightened by all kinds of accidents.

From the Ministry of Internal Affairs...yes, Al really gave the intelligence department such a name, and in the future, the functions will be divided and named from the First to the Nth General Bureau.

From the intelligence reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs behind enemy lines, the work of instigating the human defenders of Weiling City to revolt at a critical moment and side with the Tribe-Kingdom Coalition (this time, El also incorporated the advance corps into his own command, and used this as an excuse to raise the banner of the Tribe-Kingdom Coalition) was progressing very smoothly.

In just less than a month, Lucius and his party had already contacted many people who were confirmed after observation that they were not idlers or day-travelers. Even if there were such people, no one would want to be under the command of a group of greenskins who only knew how to Waaaaagh if given the chance.

Middle and upper-level military officers who have a certain sense of family and country and feudal traditional patriotism.

Most of them swore an oath and made a promise: as long as the tribal army launched an attack, no, as long as the army representing the kingdom appeared outside the city of Weiling! They would immediately launch an uprising, kill the greenskins and pirate monitors, attack the greenskins in the west city, and support the tribal army in attacking the city.

Because no one wants to be in that position and bear the infamy, the Weiling army in the city does not have a supreme commander, even in name. Although the people from the National Salvation Association have been operating, they also understand the principle of keeping a low profile and are not impatient to jump up and down to fight for that position. Whether they can get it or not is another matter.

If the greenskins don't like us or our performance is too outstanding, and that strange warlord becomes alert, all our efforts will be wasted.

Therefore, the command center of the vassal army is the "Ten-Man Committee" composed of ten officers in charge of the army, logistics, and liaison with Margarita. In addition, there are two pirate supervisors from Sartosa, but the latter spend most of their time eating, drinking, gambling, and reveling with their men, abducting women and treasures from the south. Although they are called supervisors, the pirates actually stay in their houses most of the time, and rarely wander around the camp except when dumping feces and waste.

I guess he's also worried about being backstabbed.

If the supervisory officer was a necromancer or a vampire, it would be very scary. These dark, magical creatures that have transcended the mundane world possess mysterious powers. At least Lucius and his team would not be able to collude with the officers so smoothly.

But mortal pirates... well, that's just the way it is.

He was so stupid that after being beaten up by the Southern Kingdom, he suddenly thought that the Bretonnians were easy to rob (where did this illusion come from), and ran to plunder Bretonnia, where the Duke of Bordello, the chosen one of the sea god, was guarding the patrol.

Before they could see land, they were overturned and swallowed by huge waves.

Previously, Sartosa was mainly a gathering place for garbage in the old world. All kinds of shady existences could be exposed here openly. Thieves, robbers, and murderers were just ordinary people here. Ratmen, green-skinned ogres, pirates, undead Norsca, all met all the imaginations of a stinking ditch...

Although the subversion work has achieved great results among the middle and upper levels, most of the officers contacted are willing to swear an oath to testify. The small number of those who did not agree on the spot were mainly worried about the success rate, but at the same time they also vowed not to leak any of the news. When the time comes, most of them will still join the defection side.

But in Al's opinion, he and Lucius have the same view:

Believe that the thoughts of the lower-class soldiers who make up the majority are more important.

After all, what he wanted was the tens of thousands - now this number has been roughly figured out with the development of intelligence work, about 24,000 people, of which less than one-tenth or one-twelve had military service and battlefield experience, and this is because Estalia has always had a deep mercenary tradition.

In other words, it is a completely loose militia force with little training. They are not even in the reserve force. In fact, most of them were originally laborers responsible for transporting supplies. After completing the previous task, they were left behind and forcibly conscripted into the vassal army.

It is impossible to expect such an army to have any combat effectiveness. They can barely be used to defend the city, but if they go to the frontal battlefield, they will definitely be killed by the Dragon Emperor champion chosen by the Heavenly Court of Eastern Zhendan and the old farmer spearman. Their combat effectiveness in the entire southern battlefield is currently estimated to be... uh, a fight with a goblin boy who has no big guys.

Moreover, the situation of the vassal army is different. In most cases in most parts of the world, the commander of an army has absolute authority in the legion. Even if the order will risk leading the troops into an irretrievable danger, in most cases (the protagonist's halo is turned on) the soldiers will still obey the order silently.

This is true from the elves to the Empire, from Kislev to Cathay.

Those who like to pool resources and develop collective wisdom, like Al, are an exception. The one-man system was prevalent in the Middle Ages.

However, the vassal army was "rebuilt" when the old kingdom's military system was completely destroyed. It would be more appropriate to describe it as "building a thatched hut". They had no systematic inheritance or prestige to ensure the implementation of orders from top to bottom and the implementation of rules such as soldiers obeying officers.

What's more, most of the members of the entire vassal army were tied to this loose framework in this way: "The kingdom asked me to transport grain to a certain place. After unloading the grain, the officer asked me to take a sword and said to me, 'You are now a soldier of the kingdom's army! New recruit.'"

Under such circumstances, it is impossible to expect them to have any good ideas about the officers, legions, greenskins, and even the city-state autonomous council headed by Margarita who issued such orders, and to be willing to obey the orders of their superiors.

Desertion, defeatism, giving up, and lying down are common among the vassal armies.

When the desertion situation was at its worst, nearly three hundred people ran away in one day, which attracted the pirates who came to supervise the army. They asked the greenskin leader stationed in West City to send out patrols of wolf riders. In three days, they either captured or killed about two hundred people. All the survivors were sent to West City to become slaves for the greenskins' entertainment, and the dead were directly physically sucked of their marrow.

After all, the warlord only emphasized that those Vilings who were stationed normally should not be interfered with, but those who escaped were ignored. The greenskins naturally treated the deserters the same way they were accustomed to treating their enemies.

This move undoubtedly shocked the defenders in the city. After all, most of them were just civilians before and were forced to work for the greenskins. It was disgusting to be away from their homes, but at least they were still alive, right?

Therefore, the trend of desertion was curbed a lot, otherwise the number of vassal troops reported to Al would probably be much lower.

Under such circumstances, how could these civilian soldiers, who were "frightened", "afraid of the greenskins", "disappointed in the future of the kingdom" and "whose families were still behind", be willing to risk the entire city being slaughtered and defect to the tribe on the battlefield?

Ai'er's spy gave him a plan that satisfied him very much.

After careful consideration, he decided to support the work of the soldiers behind enemy lines and cooperate with them.

For this reason, Al was even willing to reveal the time of launching the attack to Lucius and several others, allowing them to make careful judgments and propose modifications based on actual conditions.

The war in the north has stopped for a while, and there is no sign of it reigniting so far, but the greenskins have sent a detachment to build a military camp outside the city of Sahagen to attack. It seems that there are more elements of surveillance and prevention, but no signs of continuing the fighting.

Even the practice of sending small war gangs to the east to cross the river for harassment has stopped. It seems that the greenskins really don't want to fight for the time being.

The armistice negotiations, which Aiel was very concerned about, had been going on for nearly a week. It was said that the greenskin warlord Ben Greenskin personally attended the negotiations and quoted from classics: "Brother Goge said: blah blah blah" and engaged in a debate with many scholars, which was eye-catching. He often refuted the eloquent northern envoys, leaving them with a gray face and sweating profusely.

Perhaps it has little to do with the warlord's behavior of slamming the table with one hand and pressing the axe handle at his waist with the other.

Ai'er must speed up his actions, even if the northerners privately abuse him and destroy the truce, he must act quickly to completely muddy up the small lake of Estalia and lead it in the direction that is most advantageous to him.

In this way, Al can take the opportunity to strengthen himself and accomplish his goal in one fell swoop by performing the feat of swallowing an elephant.

Chapter 43: Armistice Negotiations

North of Estalia.

In the south of Sahagen, there is a small town called "Skarabüst".

Before the greenskin army reached the fortress of Santa Mona, the residents of the city had already fled, all with their families, and either fled to the northern Sahagen-Bilbarri route, or continued to cross the Thomas River to the east, and take the Cartabio Road to Barboza by the sea in the north, to the town of Port on the outskirts of the Florian Hills in the middle, and go south along the Thomas River to the southernmost tip, near the town of Porgas in the Einara Mountains of the Pina Forest.

What was left for the greenskins was an empty city.

Even the temple of Myrmidia was moved away as far as possible by the monks, and after a solemn ceremony the walls of the temple were demolished, leaving a ruin for the greenskins, leaving no possibility of desecrating the majesty of the goddess.

A negotiation of great importance, awakened from silence, is taking place here at this moment.

This negotiation has been going on for some time, but the differences between humans and greenskins, and between humans and barbarians, are as numerous as the air in potato chips. Not only are they difficult to bridge, but there are also signs that the talks are going to fall apart as time goes by.

A full-scale fight almost broke out, which frightened the peace faction so much that they quickly replaced some of the more radical figures in the negotiation team. After all, even if you want to fight, don't do it in front of another person's army. If you lose, you go to see the goddess, and if you win, you still go to see the goddess.

The negotiation process then proceeded with difficulty but progress.

Cunning, good at word games and logical traps - these pirates' signature skills, the Sartosa envoys, as representatives of the greenskin warlords, constantly mocked and provoked the Northern Parliament with various means, and several times made the Estalia envoys who attended the meeting so angry that they trembled all over and their hands and feet were cold, and they had to change negotiators midway.

The conditions were also very harsh. During the first formal negotiation, the pirates representing the Invader Alliance proposed a truce agreement that would mean the destruction of the Estalia:

Two-thirds of the land south of Demonterrey was ceded to the Greenskins.

Greenskins, Sartosa trade caravans, and mercenary groups, as long as their numbers are within a certain range, can travel freely in the north without any hindrance;

The Estalia can keep all its overseas colonies and interests, but the price is that the greenskin and Sartosa fleets will patrol the northern waters and collect a tax of one-tenth of the value of the goods from all the ship caravans that land north of Demonterrey;

From now on, if the Sartosa (pirates) break the law in Estalia, they should be handed over to the Alliance for punishment, and the Kingdom of Estalia shall not try them.

Since there is no more war between the two sides after the armistice agreement, there is no threat of war in Estalia - the Northern Kingdom, so the army should be restricted and only allowed to have a quota of 30,000, including the garrisons and militias of various towns. Military supplies such as artillery, war machines, warships, etc. cannot be purchased or imported from foreign countries...

When the pirate envoy, who was stating his conditions with great excitement, said the first item, most of the envoys from the Northern Parliament clenched their fists with veins bulging.

When the conditions were halfway discussed, someone slammed the table and stood up. If all the weapons had not been taken away, it would not be impossible for the case to be solved on the spot.

Such harsh and humiliating conditions almost made the Estalia Kingdom almost the same as being completely destroyed.

Admit that such a treaty, which cedes two-thirds of the country to a group of barbaric green-skinned orcs, pirates, undead, and sewer scum (the Skaven were not involved), is an unprecedented shame since the Old Saints created the world and the order races dominated the mortal world.