Chapter Seventy-Four: Competing Interests
"Heh, with 20 million gold coins of materials, the Neville Federation is worthy of being a commercial country, and the Speaker is worthy of being an ancient commercial aristocracy, and he really understands the bottom line of the price. ใ้ ใ็นใๅฐใSay," Prince Nicholas's words are obviously ironic, the Neville Federation and the Farraar Empire, as two pure human countries, have broken out countless wars between each other, if you count the respective predecessors of these two countries, then the number of deaths in the war for thousands of years is in the tens of millions, although because Hughes established a neutral place four hundred years ago, the forced separation of the two countries prevented the intermittent war between them, but for hundreds of years, the high-level leaders of the two countries still use each other as imaginary enemies to propagandize, on the one hand, to increase the sense of urgency of the people, so that the people will not live too comfortably, on the other hand, it is also convenient to divert the contradictions in their respective countriesใ Therefore, no one was surprised by the sarcasm of Prince Nicholas, his appearance here naturally represents His Majesty the Emperor of the Falar Empire, and his attitude is also the attitude of the Emperor. It can be seen from Nicholas's attitude that the imperial side is not satisfied with the method proposed by the Neville Federation, Nicholas's demeanor and tone are elegant and polite enough, but the meaning of his words is obvious: "However, I wonder if the tide of the undead is approaching the Neville Federation, will the speaker have the courage to propose to the undead to exchange gold coins and materials for the preservation of national power?"
"Haha, His Royal Highness the Prince laughed, of course we won't negotiate a deal with the undead. The Duke of Nernas didn't even blink his eyes under Nicholas's sarcasm, and said with a smile: "It's just that our Neville's soldiers are not as heroic and powerful as your knights of Falar, our soldiers have been addicted to pleasure for many years, and their combat effectiveness is very low. This time, we prepared for a joint operation in advance, and the original purpose was to reduce casualties, and if we had to send troops to die, it would be contrary to our purpose. What's more, the guarantees sent by our side are all absolute elite. The combat effectiveness will definitely not be worse than that of the friends on the grassland, and since the friends on the grassland have retained half of the elite troops as mobile forces, it is natural for us to retain some of the troops with low combat effectiveness to protect ourselves, not to mention that we have also provided compensation, I think this is enough. โ
"That's because our God of War followers border the Sighing Desert, and if there is a problem with the defense line, the undead can directly attack our homeland, so we have to keep a large number of elites. The Tiger War Shaman from the Temple of the God of War among the orcs was very dissatisfied with the prevarication attitude of the Duke of Nernas, and snorted heavily and said, "You are not adjacent to the Sighing Desert. If the undead want to set foot on your soil, they must first sweep half of the grassland and wipe out most of the combat power of our people. I'm afraid that because of this, you will sit here peacefully and bargain with us a little bit, if you still maintain such an attitude, there is nothing to talk about, our believers in the god of war will launch this coordinated operation, focus on their own defense, but in case because of poor scheduling, there are some loopholes in our defense line that should not be there. Let the undead enter your territory, and you have no reason to blame us. โ
"Hehe, who said that war shamans are thugs with muscles in their heads, it's just discrimination. "The people of the adventuring group want to avoid the trouble of socializing. Sitting secretly in a corner of the high platform, Pannis pouted as he shoved the dried fruits on the table into his mouth, "Look at him, where he looks like a thug." On the surface, he has a rude and unreasonable posture, but in fact, he uses the orc's unreasonable reputation to threaten his opponent in exchange for more benefits. This is what a man whose brain is full of muscles can do? If he really didn't have a brain, he wouldn't have said such a thing at this point. โ
"What the hell are they discussing?" Vivien, a standard mage and scholar, was almost completely ignorant of what was happening in front of her, and asked suspiciously, "What's there to fight about in this kind of thing." โ
"It's disgusting that they don't understand, they fight back and forth, in fact, they are fighting for more benefits. Catherine frowned and said: "This kind of thing, in the end, is only that, nothing more than maximizing benefits." โ
Vivien said puzzledly: "That Duke of Nernas, no, the entire Neville Federal Assembly jointly decided to reduce the number of soldiers sent in order to maximize profits? โ
"It's that good. Freya sneered on the side: " Don't you know the military system of the Neville Federation, unlike the Farar Empire, Neville belongs to the recruitment system, in order to attract soldiers, they will provide high pensions to the dead soldiers, and when performing war missions, the salaries paid to the soldiers are much higher than usual, that is, whether there will be a second war of the dead, once their troops are dispatched, they will lead to a large amount of gold expenditure, and in case the war really breaks out, the more dead soldiers, the more pension expenses they will have to bear, and the two parts add up to a very large numberใ From the point of view of those merchants, this is simply a more terrible thing than killing them, so after sending a part of the army, they would rather pay a large amount of compensation to other forces than send more troops, because the compensation is far less than the losses caused by their troops. โ
"It's disgusting. Vivien frowned and said in disgust, "It's time like this, are you still thinking about this?"
"In fact, as a leader of a country, they have to think about these things as well. Catherine instead defended the other party: "No matter how the war develops, as long as the war ends one day, the remaining people will always have to continue to live, and the country will always continue to develop, so it is the responsibility of every force leader to strive for the greatest interests of their own forces, but this time, the Duke of Nernas's appearance is a little too ugly, and everyone can't stand it." โ
"I see. Vivien showed a sneering smile and nodded, "So several forces put pressure on the Duke of Nernas at the same time, just to force him to share more of the profits he wants to eat." โ
"That's right. Catherine nodded, "Look ......"
"Forty million, that's the bottom line. The smile on Duke Nernas's face had disappeared, and he said with a straight face: "If it is still unacceptable, then the joint operation plan will simply be canceled." (To be continued.) )
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