That feeling was absolutely awful!
A general rushed into the palace, quickly knelt on one knee, and said urgently and nervously, "Your Majesty, run! Those guys are already attacking!"
The young king was breathing heavily. He wanted to curse them all, saying they were all useless and couldn't even stop people, but then he thought, there was no time for such words. He quickly put on a coat and escaped from the palace under the protection of his guards.
Everything changed overnight!
On the very night that Alan conquered the Duchy of Roland, another team led by Alice also conquered the Duchy of Piroshu.
The two major powers in the northwest have officially been declared extinct.
On the battlefield in front of Earth Dragon City, with the arrival of reinforcements, 80,000 of the 150,000-strong army were killed in battle, and more than 60,000 were captured. Three of the five honored ones were captured, and two others died by suicide. All of them were honored by the Principality of Piroxiu.
The majority of the 80,000 who died in battle were soldiers from the Principality of Piroshu.
The sheer brutality and madness displayed by this country's army in dire circumstances is truly terrifying.
But faced with an army far superior to theirs, and those dark cannons, they were slaughtered, with seven or eight out of ten being killed.
After a day of fermentation, the news spread, shocking the entire Northwest. The other seven small principalities trembled in fear and sent envoys to sue for peace, offering princesses and wealth.
Su Qing accepted the princess and her wealth, and at the same time ordered his army to quickly occupy the nine kingdoms, intending to swallow up this vast fertile land.
In addition, Su Qing also spread the news that all the nobles of these nine countries have been recorded on his list, and any country that dares to take them in will be making an enemy of the Dragon Territory.
It could be said that most of the wealth of the nine countries was in the hands of these nobles, and Su Qing was unwilling to give up the fat meat on his lips.
What followed was three months of post-war work.
On one hand, they were purging the remaining rebels, and on the other hand, they were appeasing the civilians in the new territory and carrying forward the policies of the Dragon Territory.
At the same time, new cities were being built, as the old cities were too dilapidated and not conducive to the unified management of the territory.
Su Qing continued to implement the policy of large cities governing small cities and small cities governing towns. After the re-division, the current Dragon Territory has exactly ten large cities, one hundred small cities, and over a thousand towns.
Mechanized land reclamation and cultivation are being promoted, as are tax reduction and exemption policies, and bird delivery services are also being promoted simultaneously.
The conscription policy is also being promoted!
With such a large territory, Su Qing plans to expand his army to 200,000.
The reason for not expanding the army too much at once is that there are still concerns about the development of the territory. According to the current census, the population of Dragon Territory is about one million to ten million. Without affecting farming and industry, it is really not possible to support too many troops.
Because the soldiers Su Qing requested were simply too expensive.
The number of aerial fortresses can be increased to five, with appropriate optimizations.
The puppets continued to be manufactured, and the animal seeds, which had been researched and optimized by the Elf Plantation, were promoted.
Cement roads continued to be paved, schools continued to be built, and industry and commerce continued to develop.
The vast resources gained through the brutal war were being rapidly depleted, gradually transforming into the foundation of Dragon Territory.
During this time, Su Qing stayed in the castle, tending to the flowers and watering them every day. She even dug a pond and raised some small fish and shrimp, living a leisurely and carefree life.
The only time he left the castle was because that fiery woman had given him dozens of cousins.
I can clearly feel the power in my body increasing exponentially every day. Countless people are working hard to serve his strength. This feeling is really not comfortable at all.
This feeling can make people lazy, cause them to lose their fighting spirit, make them lose their goals, and completely ruin a person.
Fortunately, he's a dragon, so he doesn't need to worry about these things.
After lying down for a while, Su Qing got up, spread out the map, and considered the next direction of development.
Although it has absorbed a huge amount of resources, at the current rate of development of the territory, it can only last for a year at most. After a year, it will have to find other resources for the development of the territory.
The Twilight Forest is nice, but the outer area has been almost completely destroyed by them. All the trees and everything else have been cut down to build houses. Further in is the inner area, where the magical beasts are powerful and will be difficult to deal with in the short term.
Looking at the area on the map that bordered his Dragon Territory, Su Qing could now choose to continue crushing the northwestern kingdoms and swallow the entire northwest.
While this can acquire a lot of resources, it also increases the territory that needs to be controlled, which is tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst.
Similarly, the same logic applies to expanding to the far west and far north, so the best course of action now is to open up the coastal area.
Dragon Territory lies a vast wilderness off the coast, a desolate and uninhabitable place with a sparse population, most of whom are bandits. It is a lawless zone in the northwestern kingdoms.
If Su Qing wants to open up a road to the coast, he needs to conquer this wilderness and eliminate these bandits.
These bandits made a living by robbing caravans and plundering villages and towns; they were the kind of trash that Su Qing had originally planned to get rid of.
However, we need to find ways to maximize their effectiveness.
There's no need to train them. The new recruits haven't finished training yet. Once they're done, they can be sent to the Twilight Forest. It's too much of a waste to use the veterans' swords.
However, it's time for the second batch of students in the Academy of Scholarly Families to gain experience.
A team of five is formed. The head of a bandit is worth 1 point, a regular knight is worth 5 points, and a grand knight is worth 10 points.
We also need to find someone to look after him... Li Ming, that's the one!
As the dean of studies, this was his duty.
In addition, Su Qing remembered the seven guys who were captured last time. Two of them had already obediently joined them and signed contracts.
Although the five guys from the Purple Fire Mercenary Group were willing to cooperate, they were unable to sign an employment contract.
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