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“Vampires can only obtain the nutrients necessary for survival by sucking the blood of intelligent creatures, and there is some kind of deadly poison in our bodies. Ordinary people who are sucked to death by vampires will automatically turn into zombies.

However, if the target is a professional above level five, whose body can barely withstand the vampire's toxins, there is a chance that after being devoured, he will be revived as a new vampire rather than an ordinary zombie.

Of course, this is just a probability. The higher the level, the greater the probability. These blood knights are just our normal little things that suck blood and are lucky enough to be resurrected as vampires. They are much stronger than ordinary zombies, but their level is too low. They can't compare to the vampire lords who have lived for hundreds of years. They are neither good nor bad, so I simply incorporated them into my guards."

"I see. Then how much blood do you need to drink per day?"

Aenarion continued to ask questions, but Sanguinius still raised his head stubbornly and said nothing. It was not until Aenarion approved the contract to enslave the undead and gave the order that Sanguinius spoke very reluctantly.

"You must consume at least one-tenth of your body weight in blood. If you are injured, you must drink more to recover. Vampires can only heal by drinking blood."

Aenarion pondered the cost of feeding these vampires. If he only controlled the zombie soldiers, a level 16 Death Knight, with a 12-fold increase in Slaanesh, could only control 576 low-level zombies, half a battalion.

However, if he controlled these twenty vampire lords, he could command nearly 40,000 undead creatures and nearly 40 battalions through them. The combat effectiveness of these undead soldiers would be greatly improved.

It is obvious that there is no need to even pay the soldiers, which is a huge boost to the empire's combat power. The price is to feed the vampires every day, which seems to be a very cost-effective deal.

"How did the Ottoman Empire control you? Enslaving the dead?"

Aenarion asked the question for the third time, and Sanguinius fell silent for the third time, which made him a little irritated. He forced Sanguinius to answer the question for the third time, and in a malicious way, asked Sanguinius to call him master.

"Master, the Sultan does not need to enslave the undead. As long as the Ottoman Empire has the ability to blow up the entire territory of Wallachia into ruins, we will have no choice but to obey the Sultan in order to protect our homeland."

Sanguinius glared at Aenarion fiercely, with a look of unwillingness to admit defeat.

"You are worthy of calling Wallachia home?"

Aenarion said disdainfully.

"I admit that the Empire was wrong to Wallachia and abandoned your ancestors in the civil war, but look at what you did! In order to protect the colonists, you slaughtered half of your compatriots with your own hands and transformed them into an army of undead. Then, for twelve centuries, you slaughtered and sucked the blood of your compatriots wantonly, and raised the remaining compatriots as animals. Every elf cannot rest in peace after death and will be forced to go to the battlefield by you. What are you protecting? The crown on your head?"

Now, I give you one last chance to bring these undead armies to serve the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire today can also blow up the entire territory of Wallachia into ruins. The reason why I didn't do this is because the people living on this land are my compatriots. "

"No price is too high to bear. All our sins are necessary to protect Wallachia. But you, the Emperor of Rome, cannot protect Wallachia or anything else."

Sanguinius snorted, replying on his own initiative for the first time.

"But then again, I lost this time. Wallachia has once again become a province of the empire. But please remember, my master, as long as your contract to enslave the undead remains, the Ninth Legion of Ghouls will always fight for you."

Looking at the threatening eyes of the Blood Angel, Aenarion was not afraid at all. He directly tore apart Sanguinius' control over all vampires and placed all the 19 vampire lords except her under his direct control. Then, these 19 vampire lords controlled the entire Ninth Legion, leaving the former Lord of Blood alone.

"Since you don't believe in the Empire and believe in the Roman Emperor, I will let you stay with me forever. I want you to see with your own eyes how big the difference is between the Wallachia you rule and the Wallachia I rule."

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Chapter 431: Undead Labor

Aenarion found Caledor, the Lord of the White Tower, and told him of his idea of ​​taking the vampire Sanguinius with him so that she could see the changes in her hometown with her own eyes. He asked Caledor to use his omnipotent White Tower treasures to think of a solution.

Caledo was a little speechless. He teleported back to the White Tower and reappeared an hour later. He took out an exquisite birdcage with gold thread and placed a food bowl, a water basin, and a coffin-like birdhouse inside. He took a few drops of Sanguinius' blood and quickly cast a spell. Then he used two high-level spells, [Malicious Shrinkage] and [Magical Permanence], to shrink the more than two-meter-tall Sanguinius to the size of a pigeon.

Then, he took out a gold chain, tied it around Sanguinius' ankle, and tied the other end tightly inside the cage.

"Do you really think I'm a bird?"

Sanguinius was very dissatisfied. She paced back and forth in the birdcage, her golden anklets rubbing against each other and making rustling sounds. She flapped her white wings and wanted to fly high, but the golden chains locked her white ankles and pulled her back.

"Alright, this golden cage is reinforced with magical properties. As long as you use the Undead Contract to give the order and don't let her return to her original size, she will never be able to escape."

Caledo looked at his masterpiece with great satisfaction.

"See that birdhouse? I made it from the broken wood pieces of her coffin. The vampire's coffin and the lich's life box have the same principle. As long as she is not completely dead, she can slowly recover by placing her body in the coffin. Since her own coffin had been blown up by the collapsed palace, this birdcage, this last coffin, became her real cage."

"Yes, yes, thank you for your help."

Aenarion was very satisfied, picked up the golden birdcage, and began to work.

The first is a tax-free policy. There are only 600,000 people left in this place, and the urban population is only 30,000. It is adjacent to Transylvania and Moldavia. Wallachia and these two places together make up the complete Dacia province of the former empire.

But now the Asian province has been split into three parts. Wallachia has become a paradise for vampire carnival, Transylvania has long fallen into the hands of the Hungarians, and Moldova was originally an Ottoman vassal, but it was too weak and could not fight with Saint Guillemins. After losing the protection of the Ottomans, it was immediately torn apart by the Holy Roman Empire, Poland and the ogres of Chagatai Khan. There are also many Latin-speaking elves in those two places.

The empire had no shortage of tax revenue from these 600,000 people, but there was never too many people. Aenarion issued an order granting all Wallachians Roman citizenship.

Wallachia was tax-free for ten years, and during these ten years, if outsiders had a record of farming in Wallachia, the farming work would be counted towards obtaining a Roman green card, and the tax would be included in the tax period. The government tried to use this extremely preferential policy to attract border refugees from the Holy Roman Empire and Poland.

Secondly, he distributed labor in Crimea, recruited a large number of Slavic farmers, and transported hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep to Wallachia to supplement the local people's farming and animal husbandry economy.

The large-scale agricultural development of the Crimean Peninsula has never stopped since the occupation of that land. Now it is a major agricultural and pastoral province on par with the Thracian province and one of the two major granaries of the empire. More and more Slavs and Vikings have traveled thousands of miles across the grasslands and swamps of East Europe to settle here.

Finally, it was time to repair the fortress and provide protection. Aenarion had originally wanted to mobilize an extra group of laborers from the Danube Province to perform corvée labor after the autumn harvest, but when he saw the zombies everywhere, he suddenly had a new idea. The next day, a large group of ghouls drove tens of thousands of zombies, clearing the rubble on Bucharest's roads day and night, repairing the city walls destroyed by cannons, and the trenches dug by their own people, repairing Bucharest and transforming it into a bastion fortress.

Zombies are indeed slow and clumsy, but they can work at full capacity 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, making them much faster than civilian workers. Their efficiency in recent days has even astonished Aenarion, who has decided to have the remaining soldiers of the Ninth Legion stop fighting and work on construction. No civilian laborer can be as fast as these zombies, and they don't need to be paid.

Aenarion stayed in Wallachia for half a year with Sanguinius in a birdcage, guiding the construction of all parties and allowing this place to regain vitality under the shadow and slavery of vampires. Farmers were delighted to see the larger farmlands and their cattle and sheep. The scale of fields in villages was expanding. Many refugees from Transylvania and Moldova really flocked here to open up new lands, enjoy the rare ten-year tax-free period, and prepare to apply for a Roman green card for themselves.

Looking at his hometown that was getting better and better, even the stubborn Sanguinius said sourly, "If I had the entire Roman Empire as a backing and foundation, I could do better than you, but I don't have such a strong backing, so I can't do that. I can only use zombies to take a shortcut."

Aenarion remained noncommittal. In the past six months, these thirty or forty thousand zombies had done the work of one hundred thousand laborers. They were indeed very useful. It was not without reason that successive vampire lords, including Sanguinius, were obsessed with zombies. These things could be used three hundred and sixty-five days a year, working twenty-four hours a day, and only consuming a little salt for drying and preservation. For the people's power in this era, they were simply a dimensionality reduction attack.

Before, he could only control a few hundred zombies, and no changes were seen. After using the pyramid structure of the vampire army to briefly control tens of thousands of zombies, the quantitative change has caused a qualitative change.

"See, I was right."

Seeing Aenarion's silence, Sanguinius in the birdcage became interested.

"Hurry up and order a new national policy in your Roman Empire, even if it's a milder one, which only requires everyone to turn in their bodies after death and transform them into zombies? I'm helping you get some vampires, and vampires will serve as grassroots control. It won't take long. With the current size of the Roman Empire, you will soon have a zombie army of 100,000 or 1 million! Construction and expansion will be accelerated again! Only my method can help the empire rise again."

"Have you ever thought about a question?"

Aenarion remained unmoved.

"This thing is too advanced. It replaces farmers' corvée labor and reduces the burden on the people. The starting point is good, but what if the rulers marvel at the efficiency of zombies and start abusing them after losing control of their desires?

To be honest, I can see the harm of this thing, but I still feel itchy and can't control my desire. I want to use zombies to replace farmers to plow the fields, zombies to replace craftsmen to weave cloth and burn kilns, and even to replace soldiers to fight..."

"That's great, isn't it? Zombies can work 24 hours a day, and the Roman Empire's grain, silk, and pottery production will soar. Zombies are not afraid of death, and you don't have to pay high military fees to zombies. I've looked at the operating logic of your empire in the past six months, and the military expenditure is too high."

Sanguinius was unimpressed.

"Are you crazy? Zombies have replaced hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people's jobs. What do you want the Roman citizens who used to do these jobs to do?! Go begging on the streets? Or flee the empire? The entire market and the entire army have been replaced by zombies. People have lost their jobs, and soldiers cannot improve their lives or move up in social class by joining the army. There are a large number of unemployed people in the entire society, and there will be riots.

"Then use zombies to suppress them. Impale the dead bodies on stakes for public display. Hang them for a few days to dry before turning them into zombies."

Sanguinius gave his answer.

"Yes, what you said is the most terrible consequence of the entire undead policy. These zombies evolved from living people. Slowly, the undead will replace all the work of the living. The only use of humans is to reproduce like livestock and provide new children. All people will commit suicide immediately after they reach adulthood and become new zombies, because the labor force of ordinary people cannot be compared with that of the undead. The powerful vampires are almost immortal. They will rule the empire from generation to generation until the end of time.

Wallachia has been established for 1,200 years and is already halfway along this path.

I don't believe that your ancestor, who wanted to protect

"The governor who gave up his high position in the Roman Empire, refused to evacuate Dacia, and stood with his people, is this the future he wants? The vampires followed the wishes of their ancestors and fought hard in Bucharest for two months, preferring death to surrender. What are they trying to protect?"

Aenarion stared at Sanguinius in the birdcage, and her holy face showed a slight wavering expression.

"This thing is too exaggerated. It must not be abused. It can only be used to fill places where there is a shortage of manpower. It must never be used to replace other people's work. You are overturning, tearing up, and destroying the foundation of life for all citizens of the empire."

Aenarion said very seriously that this thing was scarier than the machine AI of his time, and that even the 21st century might not be able to withstand the impact of this thing. Sanguinius couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Chapter 432: The New Empire

In December 1459, Wallachia welcomed the first snow of the winter. Almost everyone stopped working and went back to their warm houses to keep warm during the winter and enjoy the few idle time during the farming season. Miaoying, who had been in Greece since she was born, was very happy when she saw the snow for the first time. She tampered with the weather a little to make the snow a little heavier, and then, like all the other children, she started making snowmen and having snowball fights. Even in human form, her speed was astonishingly fast. Other people's snowballs could not hit her, but instead would cover her in snow.

Aenarion was relatively free in the winter, and he happily played with his daughter outdoors. He couldn't keep up with the speed of Wonderful Shadow, but he could cheat by accelerating time, and use the wind to compete with Wonderful Shadow for the weather. He was one of the few who could fight against this black dragon on equal terms. He played with his daughter in the snow and on the bed for the entire winter, which made Sanguinius in the birdcage quite envious.

When I was a child, my father never played with me like this. When I was four or five years old, I and my sister were sent directly to the Ottoman Empire as blood tax.

And those zombies, with heavy snow on their heads, are still working tirelessly on every street in Bucharest.

By April 1460, Bucharest had been completely repaired by the zombies, except for the royal palace, which was not repaired at all. The entire palace sank into a pit more than meters deep. They could only salvage valuable things, and then fill the pit with stones and soil, which were poured to form the foundation of the new palace. Finally, a new palace was rebuilt on it, and it would take at least three to five years to get it back up.

In October of this year, the people of Wallachia welcomed a bumper harvest for which they did not have to pay taxes. The farmers were extremely happy as they looked at the barns filled with grain and the barns with three or four cows, sheep, and a dozen chickens and ducks per person.

The ten-year tax exemption in Wallachia attracted not only refugees but also merchants. They used money to exchange for farmers' grain in Wallachia and sold it to places with higher grain prices. The migrant workers also used the huge sums of money to buy various textile clothes and iron plows and farm tools sold here by the Roman Empire. Some merchants also tried to use the money to hire people who were not farming during the farming season, build warehouses and shops, and plan new trade routes, so that life here gradually improved.

In order to encourage farming, reclaim land and attract population, Aenarion introduced a new policy after discussing with the entire Senate. Anyone who reclaims wasteland must report to the nearest city. Not only will they enjoy the protection of imperial soldiers, but the newly reclaimed wasteland will be tax-free for ten years. This further stimulated people's humanity, and those zombies and vampires were completely treated as corvée 007s to do corvée labor to build the empire's northern border defense line.

After all, the Balkan Peninsula is surrounded by the sea on three sides, east, west and south, so a navy is enough. The only part that really needs to build a defense line is the north.

In contrast to the booming development of Rome in recent years is Albania. Skander and Rogge are indeed powerful. The mountain defenses they built are impregnable. Therefore, the Roman Empire directly blocked the land and sea trade routes. It has been more than two years now. In the first year, Albania could still hold on with its inventory, but now these dwarfs lack everything. They can only hunt in the mountains to get meat, and even large-scale fishing is impossible. The Aegean Fleet bombarded the ships as soon as they found them going out to sea. Now Aenarion just wants to know when these stubborn dwarfs are willing to admit defeat and become the thirteenth province of the empire.

As for other areas of the empire, everything was calm. The six provinces of Peloponnese, Athens, Thessaly, Epirus, Thrace, and the Aegean were the core of the empire. The mainstream population was also high elves, and the empire was as stable as a rock.

The mainstream population of the three provinces of Bulgaria, Macedonia and Serbia were Slavs, but that was not a big problem as most of them were Orthodox Christians, and at least there was no conflict of faith. Moreover, Aenarion married Lady Mara of the Serbian royal family and made her the governor of the three Slavic provinces. The original ruler of Bulgaria, Philus, treated him as a family member. Macedonia had been devastated long ago, and the concept of Roman citizens that was crazily shaped during this period made these places peaceful under the rule of the Romans.

Looking further north, the ogre hordes in the Danube Province were suppressed by Chagatai Khan and supported by the tribal military service system. Twenty legions of ogres took turns guarding the grassland border. The empire respected their traditions and opened up the market for trade. These nomads could buy with money and were too lazy to risk their lives to rob.

In the Crimean province, Khan Irel managed the Tatars, Valkia managed the Vikings, and the remaining Slavs were basically honest farmers. As one of the first provinces of the empire, it was extremely stable.

And finally, there is the province of Wallachia, which was the latest to be incorporated into the empire.

These twelve provinces,

They were slowly built up by Aenarion into his core base. Although there were many cultures and races in the area under his rule, the army and politics were only allowed to communicate in Greek Elvish. Therefore, the elites of other races who could serve as civil servants and military generals all spoke fluent Elvish. At the same time, they admired Roman culture very much, and slowly integrated their own ethnic groups into the entire empire from top to bottom.

At this moment, the entire Balkan Peninsula, except Albania, was completely unified and calm. Peace finally came to this long-war-torn land, and the economy and population ushered in a wave of explosive growth in 1462.

With its huge advantage of spanning Europe and Asia and crisscrossing the Black Sea, Constantinople has once again become the largest and most prosperous metropolis and trade market in the entire European continent, and its trade share has even surpassed that of Venice.

The peace between the Empire and the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire brought about a huge market. Constantinople's unique silk cultivation, Greece's economic crops such as olives and grapes since ancient times, and the oil and wine brewing technology that has been passed down for thousands of years, allowed the Empire to have a considerable number of competitive commodities. Goods on the Silk Road could be transported directly from Constantinople to Budapest and Vienna via the Black Sea and the Danube, turning the previous commercial situation of crazy competition between Genoa and Venice into a competition between the Romans and the Venetians.

By 1463, the Roman Empire's newborn population and immigrant population had reached a new high of 1300 million, and the cultivated land area had increased by 10%. The basic people basically recognized themselves as Roman citizens and lived together in harmony.

Seeing that Aenarion really did not spread the scale of zombies and used manpower to make Wallachia and even the entire empire gradually better, Sanguinius's thoughts were gradually changing. He pondered whether he had abused the undead and was addicted to the convenience and efficiency of zombies and just blindly chose the most convenient path.

In 1464, Skander finally sent envoys again and found his former brothers. After being blockaded for six years, Albania's economy finally collapsed to a situation that the gold dwarves could no longer bear. Skander personally served as an envoy and brought a delegation to Constantinople to seek peace.

"The Imperial Warmaster personally led one-third of the army and half of the fleet to blockade them for six years. These people finally surrendered. They are really capable of holding out."

Aenarion said with emotion, and then he personally led his people to the port to receive the dusty Skander. The man was starved to death and lost weight. Even the king was like this, and the others were even more miserable. Aenarion personally supported him, gave him the highest courtesy, and served the top-quality food of Constantinople at the banquet to entertain his old comrade who had started the army with him.

"I don't understand, brother. Back then, we rose up together to fight against the Ottoman Empire. At that time, Albania and my Athenian Despotism faced catastrophes many times. We were killed miserably by Ryan of the First Legion. We survived because of mutual assistance. Why do you become hostile to me just because I married our biggest enemy? After Ryan surrendered, he also made great achievements in the subsequent war against the Ottoman Empire. He was one of the greatest contributors to the defeat of the Ottoman Empire?"

Aenarion could not understand.

"If you really hate Ryan, I will call her down from the front line and ask her to apologize to you in person. Can we write off the past hatred?"

Faced with Aenarion's sincere hospitality, Skander, who had become a defeated general, dared not let the guy who hung him up and beat him apologize to him, and waved his hands to refuse.

"Forget it, forget it. As you said, Ryan also contributed to the Ottoman Empire's withdrawal from the Balkan Peninsula. Besides, she is your wife. Your Majesty's kindness to the Golden Dwarves is enough to offset the blood debts your wife has committed against us. I have erased her from the Great Book of Hatred. From now on, there will be no more hatred between the dwarves and your wife."

Skander very tactfully bypassed the Dwarf's Great Book of Hatred and found a decent way out for himself.

"Our scouts have seen what the ogres and Tatars look like under Roman rule. As long as Your Majesty is willing to treat the gold dwarves equally, Albania is willing to surrender and become a province of the empire."

"Welcome to the Empire, brother."

Aenarion welcomed the other party with joy.

"From today on, the Albanian province is the thirteenth province of the empire. I will send a fleet with a large amount of food to support your plight. Skander, you are still the governor of the Albanian province. I will send officials to assist you in restoring your hometown as soon as possible."

Chapter 433: West Asia Storm

After retaking Albania, Aenarion obtained one million gold dwarves, as well as Skander's private soldiers, and the entire Seventh Legion: The Sultan's Fist, totaling 30,000 people. This group of people was also very strong, and they maintained professional soldiers that accounted for 3% of the total population all year round.

But after six years of blockade, their cannons and muskets had long run out of gunpowder, and they almost regressed to the Stone Age. Fortunately, the dwarves were able to hollow out the mountains and dive hundreds of meters underground to look for iron ore.

Aenarion put the construction plan of the Albanian province on the agenda. The fleet originally used for blockade transported shiploads of food and supplies to Albania. At the same time, he sent administrative officials to divide the power of Skander, just to let him put on airs and continue to rule these stubborn and rigid gold dwarf compatriots like stone, reducing the cost of rule. Administration, law, and taxation were all handled by officials in Constantinople.

Staff to do it.

As for those dwarf soldiers, Aenarion eliminated some weak ones, and finally only ten thousand elites were left. They were the elite part of the Seventh Legion, the Sultan's Fist, and Skander's personal guards, and they were reorganized into ten gold dwarf field legions.

Today, the empire has fifty field legions of Janissary-level combat effectiveness and one hundred auxiliary legions of various ethnic groups, with a total strength of 15. This is the number of professional soldiers, not including conscripts and the navy.

At the end of 1464, the empire's third fleet, the Adriatic Fleet, was completed. It was responsible for protecting the security of Albania, Epirus and other coastal areas close to the Italian provinces, with the main defense being Venice. The fleet's admiral was his second pet, Mariana.

This leopard was very happy after being promoted to the position of admiral. He had been in the First Fleet: the Aegean Fleet, serving as deputy to Admiral Artemisia. When he was a pirate before, he was obviously the captain, but Artemisia was Aenarion's first familiar, and the Slaanesh Paladin had outstanding enslavement abilities, and was quite skilled both at sea and in bed, so he firmly occupied the throne of admiral of the Aegean Fleet.

Now, I can finally be on equal footing with her.

The mission of the Second Black Sea Fleet remained the same, and the admiral was still Giovanni Giustinia, a defector from Genoa who had excellent naval and land combat capabilities. Many pirates in the Black Sea had been completely wiped out by the Roman Empire's policy of appeasement and this man's relentless pursuit.

As for border defense, Aenarion brought the brothers Jorah and Joan, who claimed to be the king of Serbia, back to Constantinople, gave them high-ranking positions in the Senate, mansions, and beautiful women to enjoy, and had no intention of sending them back to the Serbian province.

Belgrade, the northern city of the Serbian province, is very important. Aenarion sent his own familiar, the Viking shieldmaiden who is good at inland river battles, Valkia, the Chosen of Khorne, with five Varangian field legions and five Serbian auxiliary legions. Now the relationship between the Empire and the Holy Roman Empire is still harmonious, and this place is very important. As long as she can nail it here, the enemy will have no way to dare to cross this city and continue to move south, and the supply line will be cut off at any time - unless you are awesome and don't transport food and troops through the Danube to attack Serbia, otherwise you will be beaten by the Varangian who specializes in inland river battles.

There was nothing much to say about the Albanian province, that damn place was full of mountains, and no one except a madman would want to attack the Roman Empire from Albania. Aenarion left five gold dwarf field legions with Skander to garrison with the Third Adriatic Fleet, and he could also recruit a bunch of gold dwarf conscripts to join the war when necessary. Rogal Dorn and another five gold dwarf field legions, as well as Skander's eldest son, were taken to Constantinople, ensuring the combat effectiveness of that border area while also leaving a backup plan to control them.

The province of Wallachia is permanently stationed with five field legions and five auxiliary legions. The commander-in-chief is Kate, the former marshal of the imperial guards, the representative of the old aristocracy in the Senate, and the governor of Wallachia.

In the eastern Danube Province, Aenarion's familiar, Jagatai Khan, led his two White Scars field legions and eight ogre auxiliary legions to defend the grassland border for the empire and served as the Governor-General of the Danube.

In the easternmost province of Crimea, ten Tatar auxiliary legions are stationed all year round, commanded by another familiar of Aenarion, Irel. She is the Great Khan of the Tatars and the Governor of Crimea for the Romans. She and Chagatai Khan are responsible for defending the land, while the Black Sea in the middle is guarded by Giovanni's Black Sea Fleet.

In addition to these five border provinces, the other eight provinces were built by Aenarion into a rear base, with an auxiliary legion stationed in each province.

Constantinople, the heart and headquarters of the empire, is also the giant fortress closest to the Ottoman territory. It permanently retains three elite field corps and four auxiliary corps just in case. The commander of the capital city defense is Caledo, the lord of the White Tower.