Both countries have relatively small territories and their ruling classes are inhumane, so their rule is loose.
There is no need to say much about Corlia. The rule of the Black Duke Lucian is extremely unpopular. And given the current strength of the empire, there is no need to be afraid of the Dark Magician Council he has put together.
To save the territory and the people from the rule of the evil black magician is the great cause of Aslanism.
The rulers of Iberval are all elves, and the majority of the people are humans. They are not very happy with the high and mighty elf masters. What's more, Aslan has a nominal weapon. That is, the elf princess who is fucked by him every day until she reveals her Ahegao.
Of course, in order to prevent other countries from becoming alert, Aslan did not directly launch an attack, even against Iberval and Korlia.
What he is doing now is to conduct trade negotiations through the permanent diplomatic envoys of various countries in order to carry out trade cooperation.
The Empire's industrial products are very strong, but you also have products that can be provided to the Empire on a large scale, right?
Elven products from Iberval, sugar, coffee, cocoa, spices and wine from Lensenor. Horses and livestock from Lotharingia. Agricultural products from Wende.
We can conduct trade negotiations to balance trade without fighting.
Chapter 11 Occupy the Trade Upstream
Permanent diplomatic ambassadors were a small, insignificant innovation among all of Aslan's reforms. In the era before this, people usually sent envoys to conduct diplomatic activities when they needed them. They would not directly send permanent diplomatic ambassadors like Aslan did, which would facilitate more, more active and more positive diplomatic actions.
With such a permanent diplomatic ambassador, the Golden Eagle Empire can avoid quite a lot of conflicts and confrontations, and get intelligence before the other party wants to do anything to the Golden Eagle Empire, and then counter it.
Just like this trade friction.
If there were no resident diplomatic ambassadors, the matter would have been conveyed as quickly as possible and Prince Aslan's intentions would have been conveyed.
After this, the ruling classes of other countries grumbled to each other, and finally decided that it was best not to fight if possible.
After all, the Crusaders are so powerful that the entire Golden Eagle Empire is now completely controlled by the Crusaders.
Although in every noble court, there are always a few downtrodden nobles from the Golden Eagle Empire, who are full of resentment and constantly add fuel to the fire, hoping to fight back.
They claimed that as long as they helped fight back, they would become the best of the best and would never forget the big guy who provided them with help now.
At that time, they will not hesitate to split from the Golden Eagle Empire and take their territories with them, and then become vassals of that country, remaining loyal all their lives. Loyalty cannot be expressed in words, and that's all.
In order to deceive the nobles and monarchs of other empires to attack the Golden Eagle Empire, they naturally described the current empire as one that was hated by heaven and people. As Aslan went against the grain, everyone was expecting Aslan to explode with gold coins.
"What we are going to do is not even a war, but an armed march. All we have to do is send troops to march towards the Golden Eagle Empire. After that, everyone on the road will have food and drink. We don't need to waste a single shot to recover the entire Golden Eagle Empire.
That evil tyrant and the yd queen can at most organize a small number of evil minions to be our enemies.
Good will triumph over evil, and we will triumph over Aslan, that's it!"
Of course, in addition to this, they also have another set of rhetoric, which is: "The Golden Eagle Empire is very powerful and aggressive. If we don't find a way to kill the Golden Eagle Empire, then the Golden Eagle Empire will definitely attack us first. By that time, we will be defeated!"
Their rhetoric is so inconsistent. In their rhetoric, the empire is about to collapse one second, and becomes extremely powerful and vicious the next second.
Although many idiots believed that they were telling the truth, at least the monarchs and their staff had a fairly realistic understanding of the Crusader Knights and the Golden Eagle Empire, and confirmed that they were not what those impoverished nobles said.
These impoverished nobles just want to get their wealth and money back. This is their only goal and they don't care about their current monarch at all.
Fortunately, because the empire was so powerful, the power of the Runren nobles in the Golden Eagle Empire was not strong, and not many people liked them. So in the end, these trade agreements were pushed forward.
This made Aslan feel relieved and very happy, because everyone could see that the Golden Eagle Empire had a dominant position in this trade agreement.
The Golden Eagle Empire exports industrial products with higher technology and added value. Most of its imports are agricultural products and raw materials. Except for some elven gadgets from Iberval, which can barely be considered handicraft products, and can compete with the Empire in terms of added value and trade, all other countries cannot.
More importantly, most of Iberval's elven stuff are dispensable works of art and luxury goods. In terms of necessities, the Crusaders are undoubtedly the world's number one.
In terms of metal and cloth, the Golden Eagle Empire is invincible.
Textiles and metal products are the two most important bulk products in the primary industrial era. When the Golden Eagle Empire has unified almost all markets in the human world, including the Beast Tide Wasteland, the first phase of the Golden Eagle Empire's five-year plan can be declared complete.
During the second half of the first five-year plan, Crusader Biscuits did not engage in any war with any country for any reason.
Although there are occasional small-scale border conflicts, as well as the suppression of bandits in the country, and the rumors of orcs, goblins, gnolls, or similar monsters, but overall, the whole world is still immersed in a happy peace.
In Aslan's plan, the entire human world will be united in the future, so the humans in other countries now will eventually become Aslan's subjects. Therefore, in terms of foreign trade, the empire does not pursue excessive additional trade profits - even though these trade profits are so easily available.
Because what Aslan hopes for is the development of the whole world, so he is willing to sacrifice some benefits.
If it were another country, there might be people who would strongly oppose this. However, in Aslan's country, it is completely his own decision.
During the implementation of the first five-year plan, high-ranking puppet maids gradually occupied the positions of governors and senior officials in various provinces. At the same time, a large number of generals in the army were also puppet maids.
The puppet maid is roughly equivalent to Aslan’s harem - no, it should be said that it is completely Aslan’s harem.
They were infinitely loyal and obedient to Aslan, so they could do anything, even math problems, when Aslan gave an order.
……
A five-year plan. In five years, Aslan grew from a young man to a slightly more mature young man.
He looked no different from before, except that he was more calm and domineering.
In contrast, the Golden Eagle Empire has made tremendous progress compared to five years ago.
The continuous dredging of the canal made many merchants feel satisfied - but when they found that the convenience of hardened road surface and four-wheeled horse-drawn carriages was not inferior to the canal, they began to allocate part of their resources to land transportation.
They were even happier when they found that steam trains and steam airships were better than hardened roads and four-wheeled carriages. Of course, at the same time, they were also somewhat confused. According to their traditional feudal merchant concept, there was not so much demand for goods. How should they deal with so many goods? Dump them into the sea?
This is also one of the problems that capitalism cannot solve, that is, periodic economic crises. Fortunately, Aslan’s is not a laissez-faire capitalism, but a capitalism with super-strong state regulation.
Chapter 12 The State Controls Everything
If one says that the biggest problem with capitalism is the economic crisis, even the most arrogant person would feel deep down that this is correct.
No matter how many tricks, methods, and efforts capitalism uses, it can only delay economic crises but cannot completely resolve them.
Especially in the era of laissez-faire capitalism, people have not even realized what the existence of capitalism is, let alone a solution.
By the way, let me tell you a joke. Probably the first person in the world to explain capitalism and discuss what capitalism is,
Some people write jokes, saying that through hard work they have solved problems that do not exist in other countries.
Then America should be "Through hard work, it has created problems that do not exist in other countries." and "Through hard work, it has not solved problems that do not exist in other countries." That's it.
If European capitalists, after experiencing various setbacks, threats and fears, would at least give up some profits to the common people, then American capitalists are tempered and indomitable, with an incomparable grandeur and terror, just like an indescribable existence in another world, Cthulhu Cyberpunk.
……
Okay, that’s getting a bit off topic.
Laissez-faire capitalism is a very crude system. Naturally, Aslan has no interest in implementing such a system. Although many people believe that the market can solve everything and the invisible hand is invincible, Aslan is obviously not one of them. Regulation is necessary, and state planning is also necessary. The visible hand is 65,535 times more powerful than the invisible hand!
Of course, in this situation, some people will want to complain. There once was a country in this world called the Soviet Union. Don’t you know?
Well, I have to complain here. The planned economy of the Soviet Union itself, firstly, is not as fast as the super invincible magic computer of Aslan. Secondly, if the plans designated by those mathematical experts were strictly implemented, then the lifespan and living standards of the Soviet Union would actually be longer than in real history.
However, in this process, the cadres at all levels did not strictly follow the plans specified by the technical and mathematical experts, but liked to mess around. The result was like a computer system. If it was running normally, there would be no problem. But bugs kept appearing, and the number of bugs accumulated increased, eventually causing the system to crash.
This situation would not happen in the current Golden Eagle Empire, because Aslan was almost completely dependent on the nearly invincible execution ability of the puppet maid in terms of specific policy implementation. Even some human officials, under the supervision of the puppet maid's monitoring system, had to work hard and seriously to prevent themselves from being killed like other people who were found to be negligent, corrupt, or taking money that they should not have.
As a result, the administrative efficiency of the empire has improved by leaps and bounds. If the administrative efficiency of other countries is 1%, the monarch issues orders, specifies laws, and then finds people to execute them, the executors then find specific executors, the specific executors then find local nobles, the local nobles then find retainers, and the retainers then find partners...
It goes down layer by layer like this. At the monarch's level, it is 1, and at the specific execution level, it is considered good if it can reach 0.001.
Of course, the reverse is to collect taxes. The monarch +1 tax, when it comes to the specific implementation level, I am afraid it will become 65535 taxes.
In contrast, the Golden Eagle Empire has an efficient administration. After the monarch issues an order and makes a law, the maid network will execute it. The head maid and the maids below can implement the prince's order perfectly at the fastest speed. Aslan is 1 here, and the next one is 1.
Of course, this 1 is a combination of many feedbacks and improvement measures. When the results of this 1 are submitted, everyone in the maid network happily says that Master Aslan has fucked a few more sisters today. In addition to sharing the sisters' shared experience in the public channel, the follow-up improvement measures will also be listed. Then they will be reported to Aslan. After Aslan confirms that there is no problem, the next round can continue in this way...
In this way, when the administration of other countries is still in the feudal era, Aslan's administration has completely become cyber-informatized with brain-computer interfaces. The gap between the two sides is no longer a generation gap, but a generation gap of generation gap. Aslan has completely left all his competitors far behind.
……
But this is not enough. Having a strong administrative system is like having a superb brain and a keen sensory neural network.
This is of course good and excellent, but it is not enough.
Because a matching, strong body is required to form a strong and excellent human body.
Infrastructure construction is like the blood vessels of human beings. The excavated canals, the hardened roads that are being laid, and the railway networks that are being built with the blood and sweat of slaves and beastmen are like opening up the Ren and Du meridians.
These advanced road transportation networks connecting farms, mines, factories, borders and cities were only built in their prototype form during the first five-year plan.
Especially in the northern region, the ice and snow in the northern region seriously hindered the construction on the surface. In this case, the Crusaders prepared to follow the wisdom of the dwarves and build a brand new underground giant transportation system in the underground world with the help of the old dwarf road.
"If this happens, the relationship between us and the underground dark elves may be irreversible."
After the plan was submitted, the Crusader cabinet held a series of discussions on it, and the final conclusion was as follows.
It is a good and feasible idea to build a new underground railway transportation network with the help of the old Dwarf Avenue.
The only problem is that this will inevitably lead to the deterioration of relations between the Crusaders and the Golden Eagle Empire, and the indigenous inhabitants of the underground world - mainly the dark elves, and even the outbreak of war.
Whether such a war would delay the progress of the Second Five-Year Plan and interrupt the industrialization process of the Golden Eagle Empire, all of this must be seriously considered and cannot be taken lightly.
……
With the full implementation of the first five-year plan of the Golden Eagle Empire, many areas of the Golden Eagle Empire have achieved tremendous development.
The eastern part of the empire became more prosperous because of its participation in the development of the Beast Tide Wasteland. The northern part of the empire developed through the trade in the Sea of Dead Souls and further the trade in the Endless Ocean. The central part of the empire, with the imperial capital as its core, began to develop labor-intensive industries because of its large population. Various textile industries, glass, ceramics, wood processing, lacquerware manufacturing, etc., all developed very well.
To the west and southwest, the regions bordering Lunsenau and Lotharingia prospered from the latest trade agreements, importing Lunsenau's raw materials and processing their sugar, coffee, cocoa, spices, and cotton, making these regions wealthy.
The large river valleys in the southeast were originally developed agricultural and pastoral areas, and became even more prosperous after acquiring the latest agricultural and animal husbandry technologies. They became the empire's bread basket and the base for dairy products, meat products, and leather products.
Against the backdrop of all this, the North Region, which was originally the birthplace of the Crusader Knights, seemed desolate. Although the Giant Mountains in the northernmost part of the North Region were the best source of metal minerals and magical metal minerals, they were too far away and lacked good transportation conditions, so these mines gradually began to give way to some secondary mines within the empire.
But the problem is that these secondary mines not only have insufficient ore grades, but also their reserves are not good enough. With the increasing industrialization of the Golden Eagle Empire, these secondary mines will definitely not be enough.
These problems must be solved. The North Territory must also be developed. This is not only related to the quality of life of the residents of the North Territory, but also to the development strategy of the empire.
In the face of all this, the threat of war and concerns about the dark elves can be placed in a relatively secondary position.
The Empire will definitely build the underground railway network in the North! No matter who opposes it, it will be useless!
Chapter 13 Railway Wars
In this way, after careful consideration, Aslan made the Northern Territory Underground Railway Network the top priority of the Empire's second five-year plan. After that, he began to try to organize an expeditionary force to attack the dark elves in the Underdark.
When talking about dark elves, one thinks of the Jade Empire, and when thinking of the Jade Empire, one thinks of the Dark Elf Queen Olivia.
Aslan was not afraid of that Gou Babiti, and the Jade Empire was so far away from the Northern Territory that even if Olivia wanted to interfere, there was no good way.
But we still have to be careful. After all, this world has a small technology called teleportation. Olivia's million-strong army certainly can't kill them. But if we want to send in a small batch of troops and provide some instructors, weapons and equipment support, it may bring extra trouble to Aslan.
Aslan felt that the Dark Elf Queen would definitely do this, because if it were him, he would do so.
The Golden Eagle Empire focused most of its attention on domestic construction and its first five-year plan, but this did not prevent it from providing support and assistance to the various rebel heroes of the Jade Empire.
After all, the current Jade Empire is the biggest rival of the Golden Eagle Empire. Both sides are now accumulating strength and trying every means to cause trouble for each other in preparation for future wars.
Aslan believed that there were spies from the dark elves in the empire. After all, the ethnic composition of the Jade Empire was a bit difficult to describe. Even if the rule of the dark elves was lower, the Jade Empire could find enough people who were willing to be spies for Olivia.
Yes, perhaps under the traditional fantasy concept, the "humans" in the area ruled by the Jade Empire would not be classified as the "human world". But Aslan's Aslanism generalized the concept of humans. Don't say that the peoples of the Jade Empire are humans. If you round it off, elves and dwarves are also the same kind of people.
If he tried hard, Aslan thought that he could classify the giants and even the hell demons as humans. Anyway, as long as they could produce production tools with normal intelligence, why should they care about their genetic origins?
If Aslan is pushed to the limit, even dragons can become human beings.
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Because the Golden Eagle Empire implemented such a policy, the bullied people all over the world had a huge favorability towards the Golden Eagle Empire. Especially under the propaganda of the Church of the Goddess of Light, Aslan's royal tenant system of permanent tenancy, as well as the improvement and development of a large number of productivity, made countless farmers yearn for the rule of the Golden Eagle Empire.
In their discussion, the farmers in the Golden Eagle Empire had more food than they could eat, so they didn't have to worry about going hungry. They even had enough money to buy some property for their families, such as clothes, livestock, and grow some agricultural and sideline products to change their taste.
The corvée labor was not heavy. There was no need to force you to go to the battlefield to be cannon fodder, or force your wife and daughter to go to the lord's castle to be raped until you showed your Ah Hei face.
For ordinary serfs, this was simply a fantasy, a good life that even gods wouldn’t have.
Many people did not believe these things at first, but they could not resist the Church of the Goddess of Light repeating them over and over again.
At least if there really are gods in this world, under the supervision of the Goddess of Light, the Church of the Goddess can still do some serious work.
Therefore, the credibility of the Church of the Goddess of Light is quite high among ordinary people.
Of course, on the other hand, the credibility of the Dark Goddess Church is also high to another extent - that is to say, if they kill your whole family, they will kill your whole family.
A lie can become true if it is repeated 1000 times, let alone it is not a lie. What's more, the power of the empire can be demonstrated.
When those guys who were looked down upon by the common people were wearing the latest imitations of the Golden Eagle Empire, hats made of chemical fibers and the latest silk, tweed or otter skin, using the latest four-wheel shock-absorbing carriages from the Golden Eagle Empire, as well as bright magic alloys or bone china utensils, and eating chocolate, candy and salted egg yolk meat floss rolls from the empire, even the idiots in the village would know how powerful the Golden Eagle Empire under Aslan's rule was.
The serfs who fled from neighboring countries became the main force of the Crusaders to open up the Beast Tide Wasteland in the East.
Although all this made many people feel unhappy, they had no choice. Trade with the Golden Eagle Empire was also beneficial to these nobles themselves. So in the end, even those nobles began to actively sell the serfs in their territories.
For traditional European nobles, population is a resource that grows randomly in the ground like weeds. Selling the serfs who have lost their land to the Golden Eagle Empire can not only reduce the instability in the territory, but also make money. Why not do it?
That's it, because there are enough immigrants, trade is close enough, and there are many human races that have been bullied by foreign races, who regard the Golden Eagle Empire as their spiritual home, and come to the Golden Eagle Empire to establish branch bases on a daily basis. They want to be the guide one day... For example, the Jade Empire of the Dark Elves, the Jade Empire, and the Jade Empire...
Under such circumstances, it was impossible for the Golden Eagle Empire to completely prevent spies from entering. Although the empire could guard most of the important areas and nothing would happen, more unimportant areas were still infiltrated, and those ordinary news and big news that could not be hidden at all, such as the Northern Territory Underground Railway Network Plan, which was actually published in the Crusaders' newspaper, were naturally sent to Queen Olivia's desk, making Her Majesty the Queen couldn't help but want to complain:
"Is Aslan crazy? He actually built such a huge road infrastructure. How much will it cost..."
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