"What? The king ordered the production of weapons in large quantities, but he won't sell them?"
"Did you hear correctly?"
"What kind of incredible move is this, Wang? He actually cut off our city's financial resources!"
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At the meeting the next day, the general introduced the king's new request.
After hearing his words, the ministers began to discuss the matter.
The Prime Minister, the High Priest and the three generals were all confused about what the King's intentions were.
Of course, even if you don’t understand it, you still have to execute it.
After all, everyone has confidence in Wang.
Wang has a far-sighted vision and sees things much more deeply than everyone else!
There must be a reason why Wang Rang did this!
"Interesting! Did Wang realize something? Or is he planning to take the initiative to do something?"
After listening to the old ministers' clueless guesses, Achilles and Odysseus smiled at each other, their eyes shining.
As leaders of the younger generation, both of them participated in the city's meetings for the first time after the expansion of the meeting hall.
Although their qualifications were too low, the two of them didn't say a word from beginning to end.
But secretly, they both thought of the same thing.
After all, both of them grew up playing games with Xia Zhe, and they had different understandings of Wang's style of doing things.
The thinking of these older generations is really too rigid.
All they care about is money! Money is money!
Have they never thought about what the most direct use of stockpiling weapons is?
Although our city only has 10,000 standing troops, all of them have been equipped with heavy infantry.
However, this does not mean that once a large-scale war breaks out, our city can only mobilize 10,000 troops.
Apart from anything else, the three generals have 70,000 to 80,000 veteran miners under their command, and they are all under regular military management.
As long as they are equipped with suitable weapons, they will definitely be more powerful than the ordinary armies of other city-states.
Many of the 300,000 civilians selected by the second general from the new immigrants came from barbarian lands.
Although his discipline may be worse than that of the old miners, if we only consider his personal combat power, he may not lose to the native Stobi youth!
If they can be trained properly, these 300,000 people can become a huge reserve army.
Thinking this way, it becomes clear what the king is going to do!
The city of Stobi has few soldiers, and for hundreds of years, it has only been able to passively defend against attacks from all directions, and has never taken the initiative to attack!
These old ministers are kneeling in nature.
He didn't even have the intention to stand up and fight!
Only Wang and young people like us look outward!
Just wait!
It won't be long before the king takes action!
"Achilles, and Odysseus. This is your first time attending a royal meeting. Do you have any volunteer work?"
At the end of the meeting, the Prime Minister deliberately mentioned the two people's names.
The future of a city-state is always in the hands of young people.
The Prime Minister hopes that the two can take the initiative to shoulder important responsibilities and grow faster.
"I will be responsible for supervising the production of the weapons workshop." Odysseus was the first to speak out.
As he spoke, he winked at Achilles.
Achilles understood, smiled slightly, and continued.
"Then I will be responsible for the follow-up arrangements of the 300,000 temporarily conscripted laborers. Although the city expansion has been completed, there are still a lot of finishing work to be done in many places. In order not to delay the copper mine's full-scale production, let me lead the laborers to do those jobs!" said Achilles.
The rising star of the army was actually willing to take a back seat and become a foreman, just to do the work assigned by the king.
In this way, one disregards personal gains and losses and serves the public wholeheartedly.
All the old ministers nodded frequently and praised Achilles highly.
Only Odysseus knew what Achilles was trying to do!
The days go by and the New Year is approaching.
The operation of Stobi City remains stable.
Xia Zhe, who had been looking forward to a food crisis, was quite disappointed.
He sent people to the copper mine more than once to inquire and confirm that it was indeed operating at full capacity.
He also learned through various channels that Achilles had not dismissed the 300,000 civilians. In addition to repairing the city defenses, he organized them to practice discipline every day, which was in full swing.
Xia Zhe wholeheartedly supports this approach.
In this way, food consumption has increased several times out of thin air, which is really what I want!
But why is there still an abundant supply of food?
After careful inquiry, Xia Zhe found out that Little McTally had signed a new one-for-one-hundred food agreement with Stoby at some point.
Large quantities of beef came from the north.
In this way, Stoby solved the food problem without using a penny from the national treasury.
All of this was done by the high priest.
"He's old, but still working so hard! We must not keep such a person any longer!" Xia Zhe was so angry that his teeth were itching.
The high priest must be transferred away from the front line as soon as possible.
Otherwise, something bad will happen!
But what's the reason to drive him away?
On the surface, the high priest had done nothing wrong. He was universally recognized as a good guy!
Xia Zhe fell into deep thought.
After a long time, he finally came up with a plan.
"Notify all the ministers. I will attend tomorrow's meeting. There is an important announcement!" Xia Zhe instructed Lillian.
"Yes!" Lillian received the order and left.
The next morning.
Sitting on the throne in the newly built magnificent meeting hall, Xia Zhe was quite surprised.
Isn't it just three months since I last attended court? When did they change the meeting room?
Also, there's such a wonderful place in the palace? Why didn't I know about it before?
“Establish a retirement system?”
After hearing the decision announced by Xia Zhe, all the ministers were stunned.
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