"The Duchy of Hazard recognizes that foreign races, including monsters, can become citizens of the Duchy of Hazard, and also allows elves and orcs to become nobles of the duchy... What do you think, Satan Ye?"
Satan Ye was taken aback by Ira's question and subconsciously looked to Ira, Sirina, and Vera for help, but then quickly realized that this seemed to be a test.
If it were Vera, she'd probably just casually say something like "look with your eyes" to brush it off and make a fool of herself...
"Hmm..."
But Satan Ye thought about it seriously and came to a conclusion, saying, "The Duchy doesn't have the confidence to defeat the Empire... because they simply don't expect that the Empire will decisively stop the war against us."
Indeed, this is something many people can recognize.
The Duchy initiated the war against the Empire. After observing for a long time, the Duchy believed that the Empire's strength was completely insufficient to deal with the two battlefields at the same time: the monsters on the southeast front and the Duchy on the northeast front.
And that is indeed the case...
The Empire's "Governor" is a profession used to slaughter monsters. Although it works on all creatures with mana except humans, it is ultimately ineffective in wars against duchies.
Even if the monsters are destroyed within a hundred years, the empire will suffer heavy losses during that hundred years due to the war on two fronts.
No one expected that the Empire would decisively withdraw its troops from the monster-controlled territories and the Empire's borders on a large scale, and devote itself wholeheartedly to the war with the Duchy.
Even though a large-scale battle has not yet officially begun, and there are only small-scale frictions and collisions, the outcome is obviously predictable... When two behemoths collide, both sides will suffer varying degrees of damage.
The principality may suffer more damage.
"That's right. So do you think the Duchy's decision was correct?"
When asked about Ira's question, Satanye looked at Ira, who was sitting on her horse carefully holding the reins. She thought for a moment and said, "Probably not... because the various races wouldn't be dragged into the duchy so easily."
"Yes."
Ira, who had never learned to ride a horse, responded from his borrowed horse, watching Satan Ye ride around, and said, "The Duchy hopes to receive help from the source and other races, and we (the monsters)."
"But that's impossible. We need to work hard to recover from our severe injuries, and other races won't be able to enter the fray so easily. In the end, all they can get is the help of some free non-human races."
Although it was a lesson on horseback riding and a lesson on world affairs, it seemed as if Ira was the one learning in the former, saying, "Non-human races can also easily cope with this thanks to the power of the Archon."
"..."
Satan Ye thought about it carefully, then nodded in agreement and said, "Whether we recover our strength or not, as long as the World Tree still allows the [Governor] profession to exist, then we will not pose a threat."
"The Empire took this into consideration, which is why it decisively abandoned its continued attack on us and gave up the opportunity to completely annihilate the monsters' nation... Isabella's strategy is truly brilliant."
Satan Ye, feeling she still needed to learn more, said this, then, lost in thought, looked in Ira's direction and saw Ira avoiding her gaze. She felt she understood something and said, "No... this was your suggestion, Mr. Ira, wasn't it?"
Indeed, this viewpoint was put forward by Iraq... This is the principle of not pursuing a cornered enemy.
"Actually, there are deeper considerations. As I said before... the empire needs the existence of monsters."
As Ira said this, if Isabella had listened to what I said back then, then the monsters wouldn't need to worry about the Empire attacking for the time being.
"The demons have reached their limit. Within a hundred years, the empire will choose a suitable time to turn the demon-controlled areas into empire vassal states, and then gradually assimilate the demons."
As Ira recounted his past plans, he gradually became familiar with the feeling of riding a horse. He simply said, "This is the strategy I proposed. The premise, of course, is that within a hundred years, the empire's happiness and abundance of resources will reach a level that all races will envy."
Although I'm very embarrassed, but...
"In my plan, monsters and foreign races will replace the current slaves of the empire, while the slaves of the empire will have the opportunity to rise to become commoners, and commoners will become nobles based on their contributions such as military merits."
"Then they began to issue titles to commoners and nobles on a large scale. The hereditary system of titles below marquis was abolished, making the titles that nobles had earned by contributing land worthless. The royal family, on the other hand, gained loyalty, population, and land, achieving a high degree of centralization of power."
After Ira said those words that left Vera, Sirina, and Satan Ye speechless, he awkwardly touched his nose and said, "My plan may indeed be a bit vicious, but from the Empire's perspective... it's a great thing."
It's more than just "somewhat" ruthless. You could say that this national policy has calculated human nature, demonic nature, and the inherent nature of the nobility with perfect clarity, and it has laid out the grand strategy for the empire's next two hundred years... no, even the empire's five hundred years.
It is as rough as a monster, but it also has a high tolerance for error, and it sweeps in with the same righteousness and unstoppable force as a monster.
Even now that Satan Ye knows about this plan, he has absolutely no idea how to deal with it.
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