When the Lan League was founded, the elves of the Northland also joined in the past few months, in fact, the entire Northland joined back then, and if they didn't join, they would be isolated, and then they would become little sheep sleeping soundly by the dragon's mouth.

But even if they joined according to the situation, their position in the Lanmeng has always been embarrassing.

What is the relationship between elves and humans? Needless to say, the sweet and sour friendship has lasted for many years, and the grievances and hatreds in it have given birth to countless historical stories, and it is no problem to feed as many playwrights and novelists as possible.

The core of the Lan Alliance is the two Lan Kingdoms, and the Lan people are human beings, so the core of the Lan Alliance is naturally humans, and other foreign races such as orcs, Northland barbarians, undead, and underground forces are either allies from the beginning or defeated opponents, and when one side is strong enough and the vassal side does not have much resistance, there is not much difficulty in integration.

The so-called union is when there is a voice saying what we should do, and no one will disagree with each other.

The alliance of the entire Lanmeng is simple to say, but in fact it includes a series of actions and projects.

Among them, the most important ones are probably the construction of transportation routes, the redivision of responsibilities at administrative levels, and the unified adjustment of military ranks.

This kind of policy doesn't seem to be anything, it seems to be some face-saving projects, but in fact, it is directly related to whether the Lanmeng is really united, or it is still a scattered sand.

Past road ...... between countries If the muddy and chaotic mountain roads and trails could be considered roads, the coverage rate of the roads would barely exceed 5%.

"To get rich first build roads" is a slogan, but it is definitely not empty words, especially in the era of cold weapons, the gap between horse-drawn carriages and walking is not only in speed, the volume of mule and horse vehicles and individuals are two concepts, and when the goods can not be sold, the farm products are rotten in the fields, and the finished products transported in the mining area are higher than the price of ore. The so-called development is empty words.

As for air freight? Not to mention the terrible ratio of air freight volume and freight rates, it is unlikely that the warships of the Guanglan League will be able to take on the regular transportation duties, you know, the highway looks inconspicuous, but the number of people walking through it every day can be tens of thousands. And it is a permanent investment, and every time you air transport, you have to calculate the cost to see if you can return to the cost.

But unlike the inhabitants of a certain world who longed for a better life, the inhabitants of the feudal era have lived like this for generations, and they did not feel anything wrong, and it seems to be taken for granted that they continue their ancestors' way of life by relying on the sky.

If you really start building roads, you will start to requisition labor. On the contrary, they also felt that this lord had worked too hard and lost money.

And the lords are not much stronger than them, some people are really uninformed, this number ratio is amazing, and some feel that once the road is repaired, the other lords can not invade themselves along the road, isn't that lifting a stone to shoot themselves in the foot.

And the establishment of the Lanmeng. On the one hand, it also represents the disappearance of the scruples of "being beaten for road construction", and on the other hand. The rapid development of Donglan, Siluwell and other countries, as well as the improvement of people's living standards, of course, the most direct is the endless gadgets, which have indeed touched the hearts of the people who have not changed for generations. So that many people really began to crave change.

But to put it nicely, in the past eight years, nearly 20% of the total tax revenue of Lanmeng has been smashed in, and the road coverage rate has improved from about 5% to 10%. But this already means that the main roads of various countries are barely passable, and they will not be cut off as soon as it rains or snows.

As for the minutiae to a certain township or village, it is the responsibility of each country and each lord to do it, and as an alliance between countries, the Lan Alliance has done a good enough job.

The completion of the construction of this main road also means that the normalized administrative tasks and document transmission can be normalized, and the centralized system begins to gradually replace the feudal system.

With the smooth and normalization of contact, the redivision of responsibilities at the administrative level has also made the member countries no longer separate individuals, weakening the royal power and sovereignty, but also allowing all localities to begin to follow the policies and plans of the Lan Alliance, so that this huge northern giant has a skeleton to support himself to stand and walk.

Of course, these policies are all regular policies that have been approved by the kings of various countries, and the lower limit is relatively high, which is not likely to cause a backlash from the lords...... Don't expand on this aspect, the games and conspiracies in this alone can last for a few days.

And the next mutual recognition of military ranks and army reorganization is probably equivalent to giving a number to all the knights, officers, and knights of the Lan Alliance member countries, so that they can recognize each other's ranks, and obey the commander-in-chief of the Lan Alliance in the name of their own kings.

At this point, the combat power of the Lan League can cooperate with each other and play a combat role, so let's stop it, and the mess can be written as a novel, if you really want to talk about it in detail, the length is too long.

And the elves, to be precise, the moon elves of the Northland...... Stuck in the first step.

Originally, according to the plan, it was necessary to sort out a section of the road to the Moon Elf Kingdom, but one of the sections was naturally the area where the Tassel Elf Kingdom was located, which was the link between the elven countries and the human countries.

There, there was originally a highway, or a good road built by the tassel kingdom, although natural disasters caused serious damage to some road sections, but in the original highway repair can be much easier than starting to build, regardless of the time period, cost management, to save more than seventy percent of the time, capital costs.

But......

"The area doesn't belong to any of the elven kingdoms, and we refuse to pay for the road construction along this route."

In a sense, this is simply talking nonsense with your eyes open, this road can only lead to you, what do you mean if you don't cultivate.

According to the current policy of the Lanmeng, the local state will contribute 70% of the funds for road construction, and the Lanmeng will contribute 30% of the finance, which is both a common practice and a common sense. The local income is the largest, and naturally the local country accounts for the majority, but it is seen that the Lan League only pays thirty percent, and considering the mask, it is already an astronomical amount.

This policy is a bit of a problem, as mentioned before. The area of the original tassel kingdom does not belong to any country on the map, and the elf kingdom insists on not giving money for this reason, and reluctantly says that it is in the past.

But in fact, there are such vague areas on the map, but in the end, the lords are happy to pay, after all, no one is a fool, and refusing to build roads is not only equivalent to missing the opportunity to develop infrastructure, but also isolating themselves from the Lanmeng system.

However, the elven kingdom refused, or completely refused without leaving any room......

Don't they have any money? Let's talk about it. Even the undead (ghosts) don't believe it, their exclusive magic products and works of art are a lucrative business, and the robbery is not as fast as they come, plus years of savings, who would believe that the elves will be poor.

Are they reluctant? Being able to maintain a magic barrier at room temperature in the Northland, the amount of money and magic materials consumed is astronomical, and the daily life of those elven mages who even want to walk is outrageously extravagant, how can they be poorer than human lords.

No one is a fool. But since the elven kingdoms insisted that this area did not belong to them, they were not obligated to pay. Lan Meng held a meeting for three days in a row, and finally for the sake of the internal consistency of Lan Meng, he gritted his teeth and came out with full ownership!

And then...... Nothing then.

When the road was built, strange things kept happening, not that a certain part of the road suddenly became haunted. It was a certain part of the journey that was attacked by horse thieves, the workers were dispersed, and even the tools were robbed.

More than twenty such things happened in three months, and even a fool knew that the situation was not right. And the Lanmeng's investigation team went back from the first day to the same night, and was able to do this kind of thing in this position, which clearly showed that the elves did it.

What do the Moon Elves want to do? The top management of the Lan League fell into confusion, and in the end, it was the former Moon Elf Princess Su Anna who told the truth.......

"For a long time, the moon elves of the Northland have both looked down on humans and feared humans, probably because they are worried about being annexed......."

Yes, the elves don't say it directly, and they use this uncooperative attitude to turn around and express their distrust, which may be the elves' usual cautious eyes and not direct... Elegant diplomatic tricks.

Now, the problem is kicked to the leaders of the Lan Alliance, what can the human countries do next?

Continue to forcibly build roads? The money is out, the manpower is out, the hot face is sticking to the cold butt, wash your face and then paste it, you can't take this face.

Forcibly break through, interfere with power, and demand that the Moon Elf Kingdom fulfill its covenant? The elves are very careful, even if they know that they did it, they can't get evidence, and even if they get the evidence, can they use this as a reason to attack the elves, that not only tears up the covenant and puts everyone in the member country at risk, but also really invades.

At this time, the reason why it was so easy for the Moon Elves to join the Lan Alliance also came out, they had been sitting on this plan from the beginning, rather than forcibly resisting the tide of the unification of the Northland, it was better to join in name only, engage in their own small groups, play cold violence, small independence, and non-cooperation.

Not to mention, this is already a clever move in the relatively direct (simple) Ash political circle, and it is the crystallization of thousands of years of political experience of the elves, and it does work, but .......

“…… The elves have always been like this, the small abacus is constant, eating the bowl and looking at the pot, making a lot of profits, but there are too many calculations, and they don't want to let anything, but they are confused by the immediate interests and short-sighted, and finally lose the big plate......"

The road plan in the area of the Tassel Elven Kingdom has stopped, and the other Elven Kingdoms have not started.

Over the years, the rapid development of the Lan League, the people of the Northland have seen it, and only the elves are still living their own relatively independent lives, do those elves regret it?

"No, they won't regret it, they're only celebrating to thwart yet another human plot to annex the elves. As for the development of the outside world, what does it have to do with them, they still lived 10,000 years ago. ”

Su Anna's words are completely in line with my consistent understanding of elves, even if those young elves of the new generation have opinions, but in the country of elves, the right to speak is in the hands of the elderly, and tradition is extremely important.

The final result is that the elven kingdoms have won in a sense, they have maintained their expectations, but the human race has not lost, anyway, there is no elf Lan Alliance to move forward, and the nominal alliance allows them to purchase special products from the elven kingdom and send foreign students, and there is still a certain amount of profit.

The entire Lan League is becoming more and more integrated, and the second phase of the big project "Galaxy Operation" has been started for two years, but only the elves, the first phase of the project has not ended, but it has always been outside the entire Lan League, and the impact is extremely bad, and now the principals of the Lan League have no time to play with them, so it is up to them.

But I was able to endure it before, but I really can't bear it this time.

According to tradition, the Moon Elf Kingdom has become one of the four high-ranking elves in the nascent Northland Elf Empire, but how to say it, as the most "good at scheming" among the elves, as the "real power" in the nascent Elf Empire, they once again started their own small calculations.

"Ask the Northland Elf Empire to make the capital of Moonflower City? That lonely city in the southernmost part of the territory of the Three Moon Elf Kingdoms? Pull the entire Northland Elf Empire down and play isolation with them? ”

"Demand that since the Moon Elves have provided the territory, the Moon Elves should retain their ownership of the territory? Should the Archons of the Northland Elf Empire and the guards of various places be served by the Moon Elves? The country has not yet been established and intends to epose the empress? ”

"The Moon Elves and the Dark Elves have a vendetta that the Dark Elves must not set foot on the territory of the nascent Elven Empire...... The four high-ranking elves and silver elves have just arrived, and the number of wood elves is small, so the dark elves are strong enough, and this is planning to directly kick out the object of power? ”

"Claim independent diplomatic and military powers...... What's the difference between this and active splitting, where the Moon Elves plan to come to a civil war? ”

I smiled and slowly read out these documents, but the elven patriarchs in front of me were trembling, and the killing intent in the hall seemed to be substantial, in their eyes, the next plot should be to jump out of dozens of sword and axe hands to have a Hongmen banquet?

I didn't target anyone, and even smiled kindly at Suanna, the representative of the moon elves who was pushed out...... Judging from the fact that she took a few steps backwards, it seems that she didn't have much confidence in me either, or did I accidentally leak my intention to go under the knife?

"Moon Elf, ......."

I had some reluctance to put the documents aside, I had expected the development of the situation to this point, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly.

When Heloise was crowned before, the Northland Moon Elves could not push a new patriarch, and in the end, Suanna, who had become a gray-blooded elf and an undead, could only be used as a representative...... Since then, they have probably been thinking that if the final negotiations fail, the previous agreement will not be recognized.

My proposal at that time was also an opportunity to break the situation, I gave Su Anna a chance to resurrect, once she became a moon elf again, she was extremely famous, and she might be able to play a great political role and change the current development situation that is becoming more and more helpless...... I'm impatient with those stupid Moon Elf elders who haven't been through the baptism of war, but only know about infighting! I'm doing my business while those bastards are holding me back!

She replied to me at the time, that she needed time to think about it more, okay, think about it, and then it was too busy, so she left it.

So, now I try to keep a friendly smile and continue to ask.

"Suanna, have you thought about it long enough, your final decision? Resurrection or Survival...... Explain in advance, you'd better choose carefully, I don't have much patience with the moon elves anymore, I'm not threatening you! But your decision is related to the life and death of the entire Moon Elves, and I don't believe that the Northland Elf Empire only has three high-ranking elites who can't survive! ”

“…… Don't be scary! What are you called a threat? ”

The clone of Heloise, who had been pretending to be a decoration, finally spoke, and the elven patriarchs were also relieved, but her next words made them cry and laugh.

"Actually, I also hate the moon elves who always cause trouble, they rebelled back then, in fact, I am confident that the new elf empire can develop very well with only three upper positions, Su Anna, you can rest assured and boldly refuse this stupid."

All the elven patriarchs didn't speak, but their expressions were very weird, as if they were holding back panic, as if they were talking.

“…… You've said that, refusal is not the same as death! Who would dare to refuse! (To be continued.) )