The teacup and the shallow saucer collided crisply, and Nidhogg packed up the high-end tea set and handed it to the orderly, took a black frosted cowhide jiàn clip under his arm, and quietly returned to the side and back of the leather sofa.

Outside the huge viewing window, Muspelheim was walking away a little bit, and Nidhogg didn't look at the dragon base that he longed for in the past, and looked straight ahead.

Above is the endless blue sky, at the feet are carpeted clouds, below there is a sea of sparkling blue waves, blue, white and blue colors meet, depicting the edge of the world on the far other side - such a magnificent picture and the back in front of you are intertwined, and people can clearly feel the meaning of bearing the weight of the whole world. In comparison, Muspelheim is as small as a roadside pebble, and it is not worth the sun at all.

His breathing quickened for a moment, and soon he regained his composure, and after Li Lin nodded, he opened the text folder and began to report.

As always, the report is in good shape, the military industry is in good shape, the profit growth of related industries has basically reached the target, and the Principality has shown a strong interest in the Lend-Lease Act and the talent outsourcing schedule......

This is all good news, in line with the elven camp's consistent attitude of "humans killing orcs, orcs also killing humans", and the latter marks that the long-standing infiltration of the United Principality of Rus' is finally on the right track.

Among the large number of battle plans drawn up by the General Staff of the Defense Forces, in addition to the "Yellow Plan", "White Plan", "Sea Lion Plan", "Eagle Day Operation", "Rhine Guardian" and many other hypothetical plans for human countries, there are also backup plans against the potential adversary of the United Principality of Rus. For example, "Blue Plan", "Barbarossa Plan", "Typhoon Plan", "Fort Plan", "Spring Awakening Plan" and so on.

However, after all, a plan is a plan, and it is not uncommon to find that the plan is out of touch with reality only by drawing arrows with red and blue pencils on the map. For this reason, the pre-war intelligence and material preparations are of paramount importance, and whether the preparations are adequate or not directly determines the trend of the war.

In the nations of mankind, such preparations have been underway for many years and have been fully demonstrated in the Seven-Day War. After absorbing the lessons learned, combined with a well-developed infrastructure, the battle plan can be easily adjusted. Even if the problem of army and material dispatch occurs again in actual combat. With a good road system and unprecedented means of motorized and air transport. Stress can also be relieved. But in the principality, this experience is completely unapplicable.

The Principality's railways and road facilities are very backward and incoherent, scattered over a vast territory. These are disconnected broad-gauge railways built on soft sandy foundations, simply fastened with spikes to rails and sleepers, and have a carrying capacity of only a pitiful 38 kg/m. Almost worthless to the Defence Forces. Once the war began. It is highly likely that a large number of supplies will be stranded and congested on the border in the initial stages of the Seven-Day War. This will undoubtedly severely restrict the speed of advance and the sustained combat capability of the mechanized troops, which are the core requirements of the "blitzkrieg" of the defense forces. Once speed and firepower are lost, it is impossible to achieve all the targets of the battle plan "to end the war before the arrival of the harsh winter." In the harsh winter when the urine will freeze and the mud will be waist-high in the spring. The defenders are incapable of launching a large-scale offensive, and what awaits them next will be a hellish war of attrition......

That would be a disaster.

It is therefore necessary to "help" the Principality to modernize its railways as soon as possible, at least so that the dispatching departments of the occupying forces can change trains to other adjacent spur lines at any time, even if a certain line is always attacked or a natural disaster occurs. But this could not have been done on the Principality itself, and even if far-sighted elites such as Elder Witte and Minister of the Interior Stolypin could see the benefits of building an efficient railway system and were willing to push forward with force, the Principality, as an agrarian country, would not be able to afford the huge costs of construction, let alone a group of stupid and incompetent corrupt officials who could not do anything but drag their feet.

This can only be done by V.E., but it is taboo for any country to have foreign companies in charge of the country's transportation lifeline, and second, it is not an overnight task to build a railway network that can meet the strategic needs of Alfheim, and the resource requirements are quite staggering. Therefore, the best solution is for the company to send professionals to supervise and guide the Principality, grasp the geographical environment of each part of the Principality, and at the same time, improve the business quality of the Principality's bureaucrats, and let the Principality slowly build the railway network on its own.

"Is that possible? ”

Closing the jiàn clip above, Nidhogg asked.

Although this is the best solution under the current conditions, the principality is a potential strategic opponent after all, and the improvement of its official level is tantamount to a disguised increase in national strength, which is not a good thing for the elven camp.

"It doesn't matter. ”

Overlooking the sea of clouds at his feet, an indifferent voice spread in the VIP cabin of the Derlinger-class aviation battleship.

"Without a corresponding material basis and an institutionalized system for training technocrats, relying on external forces to train a group of barely qualified bureaucrats in a short period of time cannot solve the fundamental problem. ”

To put it bluntly, this is like injecting hormones into an old man, he may become very energetic, and there will be some signs of youthfulness, but he is still an old man, and no amount of hormone injection will make him a strong young man.

This is an out-and-out institutional problem, and it is difficult to completely solve it by relying on traditional methods, and it only delays the solution of the problem. If we want to solve it completely, we can only use a way other than the system.

But Li Lin would not give anyone the opportunity to do so, and while it may sound tempting to start a revolution in the principality, the outcome is difficult to predict. It would be nice if the earth finally appeared at the beginning of the 21st century in Iraq, Libya, and Ukraine. But it is not impossible that in 1917 the German General Staff sent the great proletarian revolutionary mentor back to Russia by secret train, and a year later the Second Reich was infected with a revolutionary plague of its own making.

"What we want to do is not to put a collar on the principalities, but to set a mark for them. ”

Li Lin never intended to force a certain country or a certain person excessively, relying on the means of forceful push will not bring any benefits, only by exerting just the right amount of pressure, combined with appropriate temptation, to make the other party follow the signs he has set to act, in order to obtain the most benefits. It's just that what is the "right amount of pressure" is a question worth exploring, and if you don't handle it well, you may lose the benefits you deserve.

"Let's let the Duchy get some sweetness first. ”

The red pupils were slightly tilted to one side, looking at Muspelheim, who was gradually disappearing under the water antenna, and the corners of his mouth were hooked with the face that had no chance of aging. (To be continued......)