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Chapter 306 The Grand Plan of the Valley Kingdom

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    The sudden arrival of the golden dragon undoubtedly cast a shadow over William's coronation ceremony, at least in the eyes of ordinary people.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? of a newly established kingdom, and before the king could even sit on the throne, a group of giant dragons came to beat the autumn wind, and the prospect was obviously very bleak.

    Don't say that golden dragons are kind dragons. Ordinary people can't tell the difference between golden dragons and red dragons. Aren't they all dragons that breathe fire and like to drive away with draft horses or cattle in their mouths?  .

    No one likes to be a subject of a giant dragon. Even the world-famous Golden Dragon Queen of the North. If she wants to rule the Silver Moon Alliance stably, she has to live in seclusion behind the scenes and rely on the so-called Supreme Mage to act as an agent.

    Yes, the real boss of the Silver Moon Alliance and the real boss of High Queen Alustriel is a female ancient golden dragon.

    However, the golden dragons failed to replicate the past events of the North in the valley. William was not a country bumpkin from the North. He had enough strength and power to make the golden dragons bow their heads, especially when a whole regiment of Titan-level golem mechas were walking in Faer?n.  On the earth, even groups of ancient golden dragons had to lower their arrogant heads.

    The golden dragons even reached a joint agreement with the Valley Kingdom represented by William. William guaranteed that the golden dragons would have some privileges in the valley, such as the right to legally live in humanoid form, travel, and even participate in work, including the right to join the army and participate in politics.

    Accordingly, in principle, the golden dragons give up their right to inherit the throne of the Valley Kingdom. When the Valley Kingdom is invaded by foreign enemies, the people of the Valley can summon the golden dragons to join the battle. Of course, this work is not free, and the people of the Valley need to pay a certain amount of treasure as reward.  .

    Anyone with some background and knowledge knows that a kingdom that can establish a relationship with a giant dragon must have a bright future, such as the Silver Moon Alliance in the North. As long as the Golden Dragon Queen Vera Marendis is still alive, regardless of the North,  No matter how much trouble occurs, the Silver Moon Alliance will not collapse.

    A more direct example is Cormyr, which borders the Valley Kingdom.

    As we all know, the birth of Cormyr is inseparable from the legendary purple dragon. In order to show this close connection, the people of Cormyr specially engraved the purple dragon seal on the royal coat of arms.  The elite knights are also called Purple Dragon Knights.

    It is said that when the last purple dragon dies, Cormyr will cease to exist.

    Some people say that that day is not far away, and many enemies of the royal family are searching for the whereabouts of the Purple Dragon, intending to kill him and bring about the end of the Kingdom of Cormyr.

    With the fermentation of the golden dragon incident at the enthronement ceremony, many people who, in our words, are "children from poor families" are quite optimistic about the future of the Valley Kingdom, but they have left the Valley one after another to seek life elsewhere.

    But those people who had some background and knew the inside story secretly came to the Valley Kingdom to settle down and find jobs.  It's just that this group of people are very strict with their mouths, and no one is stupid enough to leak out the details. As a result, the Valley Kingdom's reputation on the streets and in taverns is not very good, which in turn affects the Valley's openness to immigrants from other places to a certain extent.  Appeal.

    However, as time went by, the government affairs of the Valley Kingdom began to gradually unfold. Thanks to William's advance layout, various functional departments of the kingdom's government functioned in an orderly manner.

    Among them, one of the wisest things William did was to transfer almost all administrative power to the chief consul of the kingdom. The first chief consul of the Valley Kingdom was Ms. Hillen.

    There is no doubt that Xiren is a very capable woman. Her governance ability is considered to be top-notch even in the whole of Faer?n, and she can handle the numerous government affairs with ease.  Especially after William set the general direction, Hillen gave full play to his delicate and flexible political talents.

    Thanks to Hillen's efforts, the kingdom's taxation, law, education, public construction and other projects were quickly on the right track. Although there are still many flaws and shortcomings, the future prospects are undoubtedly very exciting.  .

    Of course, William and Sheeren were not without their differences, especially regarding the handling of prisoners. In the past, during the conquest of the city-states in the valley and the fierce battles with the people of Zhentil Castle, William had at least 100,000 people under his control.  Prisoners of war, and most of these prisoners of war were able-bodied young laborers.

    Prior to this, William had been organizing these prisoners into labor camps (battalions) to participate in the development of transportation and road facilities in the valley.

    Hillen believes that since the kingdom has been established, these captives should be released, or absorbed into becoming a part of the Valley Kingdom, or allowed to leave, instead of continuing to enslave them inhumanely.

    Of course William would not agree with Hillen¡¯s Madonna-like idea. It¡¯s so hard to get it together and it¡¯s so free.Motivation, you want to release them with an inhumane word. Have you ever thought about what to do with the infrastructure of the Valley Kingdom after they leave.

    The total population of the entire Valley Kingdom is less than 600,000, and the labor force in the current year is probably less than 200,000, not to mention how much it will cost to recruit 100,000 young people from among them, and how much delay it will cause.  affairs.

    ??This alone is equivalent to a labor gap of 200,000 people. William is stupid and would be deceived by Xi Lun to abandon his martial arts.

    "If he wasn't worried that excessive exploitation would go against William's conscience and even damage the reputation of the Valley Kingdom, he would really want to keep those captives for the rest of his life.

    Slaveing ??is a historically reversing, and this William does not do it.

    In order to appease the dissatisfaction of Sheeren and even a series of good-hearted people under his command, most of whom were from the Harper Alliance and occupied a large number of positions in the government departments of the Valley Kingdom, William had to formulate a relatively enlightened reform of the captive labor force.  plan.

    All captives need to undergo labor reform in the Valley Kingdom for at least three years to atone for the sins they committed against King William in the past. For more serious cases, an additional two to five years of labor will be added.

    After the prisoners complete their labor reform, the Valley Kingdom government needs to pay a relatively considerable settlement and severance fee to the reformers. With this money, they can freely choose to join the Valley Kingdom or leave the Valley.

    Although William's proposal still dissatisfied some people with overflowing Virgin Hearts, Sheron and most of her friends and companions reluctantly accepted it. Compared with most of the rulers of the kingdom in Faer?n, this was considered relatively benevolent.  plan.

    In fact, many of William's plans are somewhat difficult to understand for most people in the valley and even Faer?n, such as the three valley arteries in William's plan.  One of the earliest major arteries to be constructed was the arterial line from Shadow Valley - Fornla - Yulas - Yuanshan City.

    The road of the main artery requires lava as the road base material. The magma is injected into the trench that has been excavated in advance, and magma concrete is laid three feet wide and one and a half meters thick. Then it is cooled into a stable granite roadbed.  Can become an almost natural super concrete road.

    In fact, pouring lava is nothing, because this aspect of the work can only be done by the indigenous people of the Flame World, a whole world's labor force plus a certain amount of engineering golem assistance, and there are also the archmages headed by Yin Erminster and the silver-haired sisters.  The developed super lava pouring machine makes the pouring work surprisingly worry-free and labor-saving.

    Speaking of the super lava pouring machine, it is a spider-shaped super giant engineering mecha composed of the core of four Titan-class golem mechas. The mecha is equipped with a semi-permanent flame gate (designed by the great sage Yin Erming).  (Leading the layout), this engineering mecha is powered by two power cores. One power core charges the Flame Gate, and the last power core is responsible for pumping energy after the Flame Gate is opened.  Molten lava powers the device.

    The real expenditure of manpower and material resources in the Arterial Project is the excavation of the roadbed. This project is so large that the amount of trench excavation alone is definitely no less than the volume of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal excavated by the Sui Dynasty in the previous life.

    You must know that Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty had tens of millions of human resources, and the entire country was digging the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, but the people's hearts were in turmoil and the country was in trouble.

    With the population of the Valley Kingdom being only a few hundred thousand, it is definitely not an exaggeration to define it as a crime and evil to undertake such a horrific project.

    Fortunately, William had 100,000 captive laborers to exploit, and the total area of ??the entire valley was only one or two provinces in the previous life. The land was small, the population was sparse, but the products were extremely rich. Only in this way can William's wonder-level empire be supported.  Infrastructure projects.

    ?Some people may ask why William doesn¡¯t use engineering golem mechas on a large scale?

    It¡¯s really not that William doesn¡¯t want to use it, but that he doesn¡¯t have the conditions.

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    In particular, this golem mecha was manufactured in the Fire World. After it was moved to Faerun, the main material plane, its failure rate has greatly increased. It could have been running without failure for more than a month in the Fire World.  An excellent machine, once Faerun can run for three days without lying down, it will be considered to be of excellent quality.

    Including William¡¯s so-called Matador mecha battle group (Faerun), which is the most powerful, after two or three battlefields, it basically became a bluffing display.

    William¡¯s comprehensive reserve of outstanding technical talents in the Flame World can only barely guarantee the normal logistical maintenance of a small number of golem mechas in Faer?n.

    In fact, William used manual labor to excavate the roadbed, and there is another unknown factThe only thing is to completely absorb and digest this rare group of high-quality labor force so that they can better integrate into the Valley Kingdom.

    As the saying goes, people often don¡¯t want to cherish things that are too easy to get.  Although William always made the prisoners work as much as possible, he was never stingy in terms of food and treatment. With the extraordinary food production capacity of the valley, the living standards of many prisoners were even better than before they were captured.  many.

    So when the captives who have been trained through hard labor regain their freedom, most of them will have a high probability of choosing to become a part of the Valley Kingdom. Learn about Stockholm Syndrome.

    The starting point of William's planned arterial project plan in the north is not Yuanshan City or Yulas. He is more fond of Zhentil Castle. However, to achieve this goal, William needs to conquer that city first.
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