Chapter 6-039: Su Ze's Life as the Crown Prince (1)

Seven days later.

City of Shadows, Vestas Palace.

Although Su Ze is now the crown prince, he has begun to exercise the powers of the emperor. If it is in China, this status is called "Prince of the Prison State", that is, "Acting Emperor", and the status is naturally extremely respected.

However, to be honest, Su Xue's position as the "prince of the prison country" is actually not a beautiful difference.

Just think about it, in a country with poor mountains and bad waters, dealing with a group of dead people all day long, in addition to work or study, there is not even a harem, what fun does this emperor do?

The most unfortunate thing is that now there is still a war, not to fight others, but to be beaten

He was beaten badly

Now, Su Ze is basically the role of a firefighter who "accepts orders in danger and turns the tide of the tide".

Of course, in theory, he can pick and choose, but in this way, there will be no need to mix in the future.

In the past few days, Su Ze's main task, in addition to meeting with various nobles and officials, and being a rubber stamp, is to understand everything about this country, from history, culture, to the present.

Fortunately, Su Ze has a substitute template, which comes with solidified "proficient language" and "proficient writing" skills, so he doesn't need to spend time learning in language. This saved a lot of things, but even so, Su Xue was still very busy.

He now feels that he is even more tired than when he was in his third year of high school. Fortunately, he is now a Yuan Infant stage cultivator, otherwise if he were an ordinary person, he would have fallen long ago.

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Su Ze had just finished meeting with a group of officials today, and then returned to the royal library and began to study the massive archival materials inside. Urban government agencies are simple, such as the Royal Library, which also works part-time for the National Archives Office and the National Bureau of Statistics.

The scale of the Royal Library is extremely large, no less than that of the Han Imperial Library, with a collection of at least more than 100 million books. However, Su Xue doesn't have the time to read the general books in it now. What he is looking at now is mainly the things that are most needed now, such as the basic situation of the country, the personnel situation, the financial situation, and so on......

Although Su Ze has never been the crown prince, he has been a boss for a few years, and he still has some experience in management. It would be nice to think of the country as an enlarged version of the restaurant, uh, at least that's what Su Ze thinks.

"Your Highness, this is what you want, the details of our country's current armaments, you can take a look first, if you have any questions, you can ask me......" The palace secretary Sasha took a large stack of documents and put them in front of Su Ze.

This secretary is indeed very good, Su Xue has just finished reading a piece of information about the agricultural industry, and he will take out the next piece of information immediately.

Although Su Ze does not have a harem now, there are still beauties. For example, the beautiful silver-haired royal sister in front of her, whether in figure or appearance, if she is of a first-class level, if she gets the earth, she is at least a strong contender for Miss Universe and Miss World.

However, unfortunately, this silver-haired beauty is not a living person, she is a high-level vampire who is fake.

Not to mention age, Su Ze didn't ask about this data very interestingly, this is not to say that age is a taboo for women. This kind of brain-dead taboo is completely made up by those Omi ghost animals, this world is not so boring, and there is no such stupid atmosphere here.

Because according to Su Ze's imagination, although this silver-haired royal sister looks like she is twenty-four or five years old, her actual age is probably calculated in a century. If you don't ask, you can still be vague, if you ask a number of longevity than Pengzu, wouldn't it be boring to be self-deprecating?

"Oh, Miss Sasha, thank you......" Su Ze smiled at her and picked up the information to read it.

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Urban has a very large and powerful military force, because of the invasion of external forces in history, so they have established a complete militia and reserve system, more than sixty percent of the civilians, in wartime can be incorporated into the temporary army to fight.

And most of them have at least level 1 combat classes. Mages, officers, and elite troops sent from the capital and the provinces will quickly arm these temporary legions and integrate them into large combat legions.

Urban has a lean standing army, ranging from heavily armored heavy infantry units to heavy cavalry units riding Nightmare Beasts, as well as legions of undead led by high-ranking undead creatures. Urban's armies used to use low-level undead creatures and summoned creatures as cannon fodder, because for them, every living person was a precious manpower, even a peasant soldier.

Urban has the habit of using slaves, but the scale is not large, and the labor mainly uses undead creatures, especially some mechanical, low-tech jobs, and a large number of undead creatures. It is only in some farmlands and factories that are not suitable for the use of undead labor that more sophisticated living workers are used.

In general, however, slaves were used more for service and auxiliary work. These slaves were obtained mainly through foreign trade, not by plundering. There were also some slaves of the combat profession, which were specially organized into a slave unit.

The establishment of the urban army is also very complete, and when translated into Chinese, it is: "squad", "platoon", "company", "battalion", "brigade", "division", and "army".

For example, the smallest of the "army" level is less than 20,000 and the largest is more than 100,000.

At present, the standing army of the Urban Empire has four "corps" units, eleven "divisional" units, and nine "brigade" units.

The total strength reached 300,000 people, of course, this is only the number of living and intelligent undead, and the number of those low-level undead cannon fodder is at least ten times more than this.

In the case of a general mobilization, the Urban Empire could muster an army of more than 4 million men. Of course, this is only the number of living and intelligent undead, if it is low-level undead cannon fodder, there is no pressure to reach 100 million.

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Su Xue quickly finished reading this information, and then asked Sasha: "Miss Sasha, if we mobilize, how long can the food last?" I just saw that most of our land is used to grow cash crops, and there is almost no ...... in food."

"Your Highness, you can rest assured, there is absolutely no problem with food...... " Sasha smiled and began to explain.

Most of the land of the Urban Empire is extremely poor and treacherous, some places have acid rain all year round, and some places do not see a drop of precipitation all year round, this kind of bird does not lay eggs, dogs do not poop, naturally it is not suitable for farming.

However, with their magical powers, the Arcanists weaved a series of Arcane Chains to adjust the land and climate of some areas to a cultivable state. However, most of this precious and fertile land is used to produce important cash crops, which are exported to the outside world in exchange for food. Others are used to grow various medicines, which are all magical materials that Arcanists need.

Although the Urban Empire does not seem to grow food, in fact, the food pressure of the Urban Empire is not as great as it appears to the outside world. They buy far more food every year than they consume, and there are huge secret warehouses all over the country, and they are stuffed with grain. These grains are all preserved by magic, and many granaries themselves have their own magic arrays. So these grains can be stored for a long time without spoiling.

In addition, they can also obtain a staggering amount of material from some of the resource-rich outer planes through plane trade.

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In the afternoon, Su Ze was taken to the magic academy in the city by Sasha.

Su Ze followed Sasha to the main tower of the Magic Academy, and then went down to the ground through a very secret passage.

"Your Highness, what you are about to see now is the most important equipment in our country, the national mana pool......" Sasha said with some smugness.

In the basement of the Magic Academy in the capital, there is an extremely high-security room. There, there is a very special thing - the mana preservation pool. It is crafted from several special materials, and it is said that the body of a god is also used, and the national mana pool uses a very special technology that preserves a huge amount of magic energy.

For example, whenever needed, Su Ze could "summon" spells from this common resource. Summoning spells from the spell pool can be performed at any distance from the spell pool, but Su Ze's own mana must have a vacancy, that is, the total mana at that time cannot be full.

Su Ze can summon several spells, but the total level of these spells cannot exceed twice the level of his caster. Every time Su Ze summoned a spell, he owed a "debt". He must promptly return a "Power Pack" to the spell pool, i.e. a spell of the same level as the spell he previously summoned, or several spells of the same total level as the spell he summoned.

The "debt" must be paid off within the same number of days as the caster's class level, otherwise, Su Ze's permission to use the spell pool will be temporarily stripped away. As soon as the debt is paid off, it immediately regains access to the spell pool. Mages cannot prepay for spell pools, i.e., they must be in debt before they can pay them back.

Of course, the country's mana pool is not limited to emperors and crown princes, as long as they are a national arcane mage in Urban, they can "borrow" mana from this mana pool, but they are limited in the amount of mana they can borrow each day. Because this mana pool gathers mana "deposits" of mages from the entire nation, its total energy can usually be considered unlimited.

[Dedication]