A Tale of Strategies For the Throne - 232. P. 232

There were a total of five armies who fled at the beginning, and their backgrounds were all cities with family succession, that is, cities where the city lord was in charge of power and the royal court could only collect taxes but had no management power.

After Gallan had announced to the world that these five city lords were all rebels, these city lords wanted to resist the city and could not defend themselves, but even the people in their cities were unwilling to support their lord.

The Aaron Landis people are not cowardly, if they are allowed to fight the invaders, they will definitely fight to the end with their city lord. However, if the target of the battle is replaced by an army sent by the king to conquer them…

The people in the city were terrified.

The king of Aaron Landis, that exists with the blood of the gods.

It was the son of the gods, who was blessed by the gods from birth to death.

If you are hostile to the king who is the son of the gods, you will definitely be rejected by the gods. After death, the soul will surely be plunged into hell, endure the pain of being burned by fire all day long, and never exceed life.

In particular, there are rumors in the world that the current young king has been extremely favored by the sun god Shamash since he was a child, and even sent his mount lion to the world to protect him.

Wherever the young king went, the brilliance of Shamash followed.

With such a dispersal and disagreement, even if it weren’t for Huymos, these rebels who wanted to defend the city would not last long.

Now as soon as Huimos went out, he was naturally taken down one by one and escorted to the royal city, and their city was naturally brought under the direct jurisdiction of the royal court.

Gallan’s behavior shocked many people at once.

When the new king comes to the throne, there will always be people who will test the new king’s temperament in secret.

If Wang is weaker, they will increase the intensity of temptation little by little to overwhelm each other.

If the king is tough enough, they will be much honest.

For this young king who was praised as a gentleman and benevolent when he was a prince, many people wondered about his good temperament, so they all tried to stretch out their paws and try to do something for themselves. Take advantage of it.

The reason why those city masters refused to accept Wang Ling to go to the royal city to meet him was because of the fluke mentality of being able to hold a group to make Garlan take a step back and not care about their behavior of fleeing.

Even in the royal city, some of the high-ranking ministers either accepted their benefits, or proceeded from the consideration of maintaining the stability of the country, persuading Garland to appease them and generously pardon them of their guilt.

However, the young king declared his majesty to the people of the world very strongly with practical actions.

The army went out brazenly.

King Gallan directly used thunderous means to ruthlessly knocked down those city lord who had been high above them to the ground and reduced them to prisoners.

This is the fate of the rebels.

This is the fate of violating Wang Ling.

The young king declared this to everyone with practical actions.

This young king with a beautiful face that the goddess Afdomir would fall for is very uncomfortable, and his tough posture is not inferior to the lion king.

Everyone immediately realized this deeply.

Those who concealed their paws were also frightened and shrank their hands, and frankly shrank.

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“You hit three, Kayjos hit one, and there is one left.”

Garlan, who was sitting cross-legged on the stone platform, thought for a while.

“I will leave the rest to you.”

“good.”

Hiemos agreed casually while continuing to eat.

With an understatement, it’s no different to just follow the mouth and promise to help others a little favor.

And the facts are also true. Those few waste city lords who are greedy for life and fear of death are not even comparable to the Gastards, and even the Geshurs are inferior. For him, the battle to solve those guys is very easy.

Especially after using Gallan’s method, it was easier to break the city.

He swallowed a mouthful of milk and said, “This time around 20,000 slaves were brought back.”

When he went to conquer, Garlan told him directly that he wanted to minimize civilian casualties and at the same time gave him a will.

The decree declared that as long as the slaves in the city assist the king’s army to break the city, they will be pardoned as slaves in the same way as the examples of Tozes, Rudas and other cities.

This is also one of the reasons why Huimos can easily take the city within a few days every time, but the consequence of this is that every time he returns from the battle, he will bring tens of thousands of freed slaves.

Although some dignitaries have some slight comments on the young king’s will, according to the law, all the property of the rebels will be confiscated by the king, and the slaves are naturally included in it—Gallan releases the slaves belonging to his own property and loses them. It’s his own interest, and others can’t control it.

If Garlan was still a prince, these dissatisfied people would probably sue the king. But now Gallan is the king, they can’t sue the king against the king, they can only default.

Huimos continued: “Including the last time Kayjos brought it back, there are almost 50,000 or 60,000 slaves that you have pardoned.”

After swallowing the last bite of bread, he stopped eating and looked up at Garlan.

He asked: “What are you going to do?”

Fifty-six thousand slaves… No, they should be civilians now.

This amount is not small.

Although some of these people have joined the army, they are a very small number of men with strong physiques, and there are only a few thousand in total.

The vast majority of the remaining people, because they have been slaves since childhood, are accustomed to a life that only needs to obey the master’s orders, and they have almost no self-thinking ability.

Their status has become common people, but their thinking as slaves still stubbornly occupy their brains, making them only know how to live by relying on others.

Such people have no ability to earn a living on their own.

Now, these people are barely living on the little wealth that Gallan rewarded when they were pardoned. But Huimos knew in his heart that they couldn’t just sit and eat like this.

These people have no way to support themselves and their families. When the meagre rewards are exhausted, in order to prevent themselves from starving to death, and under the agitation or persecution of caring people, they are likely to find a master to sell themselves in desperation, and again. Become a slave.

If it becomes that kind of situation, Garlan’s actions to release the slaves will be reduced to everyone’s laughing stock.

Gallan hummed.

“Don’t worry.” He said, “I have already thought about it.”

He thought that it was almost time to start implementing his plan.

“This meal is a reward.”

Sitting cross-legged, Garlan rested his chin in one hand and glanced at Hiemos slantingly.

“Tomorrow in the chamber, look fierce and help me scare those who oppose it.”

The black knight who cannibalized the mouth naturally had no objection and nodded obediently.

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In the morning, the bright sun shines on the earth as always.

Aaron Landis entered the summer with very few rainy days, and most of the days were sunny.

In the half-opened small chamber, at this moment, everyone in it is the most important figure in Aaron Landis.

On the high platform, the throne carved from emerald green malachite is drenched in the sunlight.

The blond young king sat on the throne, and the azure cloak spread out on the emerald throne.

The powerful ministers who participated in this discussion, after bowing to Gallan above, took their seats on the white jade-carved seats on both sides of the chamber.

The high priest Ximuer stood on the left under the throne.

Huimos and Kayjos stood in sequence on the right under the throne.

The old right secretary sat on the right side of the white stone chair, still with that dangling look, looking down, as if he was not interested in anything.

Doing nothing, this is the life rule of the right hand.

Seeing him like this, Zuo Sixiang, who was sitting opposite him, stood up.

The original Zuo Sixiang has passed away. The newly appointed Zuo Sixiang by Gallan is in the prime of life. He is strong and has clear eyes. He is an upright person.

The reason why he was appointed by Garlan as the head of the civil servants was because he had performed extremely well in the battle of the royal city. During the period of defending the city, he not only was not afraid of danger, but also handled everything that was handed over to him in an orderly manner, which attracted the attention of Xiemur and Huimos and entrusted him with a heavy responsibility.

And he did not live up to his trust, so he was rewarded after the war and was appointed as the chief secretary.

A few months ago, after the former Secretary-General Zuo passed away, he succeeded him as Secretary-General Zuo.

“Your Majesty, is there any important thing to summon me?”

As the head of civil servants, Zuo Sixiang naturally stood up and asked on behalf of everyone.

Gallan nodded, then turned to look at Taal who was standing below.

Taer understood, and, with a sigh, unfolded a large map.

Everyone looked closely and saw that it was a map of Aaron Landis.

But unlike ordinary maps, on this map, the lines representing the roads are painted with different colors.

Each line is made up of several lines of different colors.

Just when everyone looked at the colorful map route in doubt, and didn’t know what Galan meant for them to see this map, Gallan spoke.

“All the main roads of Aaron Landis are drawn on the map, and the different colors represent the damage status of these roads.”

He said, “Red is the most serious, almost completely damaged, followed by orange. Although it can still be used, it is in distressing conditions, and so on.”

It can be seen from the map that Aaron Landis’s roads are not in good condition. There are a lot of orange lots and a lot of red lots. Although there are black lines that symbolize the well-maintained condition, they are scarce in a colorful patch. pitful.

This was the task Garland had assigned to the bard Shuros a year ago.

Those bards are also part-time rangers, walking around all the year round, and are most familiar with the road conditions.

Garland asked Shuros to commission the group of rangers to go to different parts of the country to check the local road conditions, and then summarize the situation. It took a whole year to make this map.

There are three ways in Aaron Landis.

Dirt road, gravel road, then standard flagstone road.

A gravel road paved with gravel and gravel is already pretty good.

And most of Aaron Landis’ roads are dirt roads on the surface, that is, the soil is compacted and used as roads. This kind of road has been accumulated over the years, naturally it is bumpy and difficult to walk.

The slate-standard road is a spacious road paved with rectangular stones built in strict accordance with road standards, and only exists around the royal city and some very affluent large cities.

At present, the ownership of Aaron Landis’ roads belongs to the city of its jurisdiction, and the construction and maintenance of the road are the responsibility of the city.

However, maintaining the road requires a considerable amount of money.

The city under the direct jurisdiction of the Royal Court is okay. The consul of the city will follow the order of the Royal Court to withdraw a sum of money from the tax to maintain the roads, so the roads near these cities are still passable-they are barely maintained.

But the roads in the areas under the jurisdiction of the city lord are not so good. After all, if the law hadn’t forcibly stipulated that each city must maintain the main traffic arteries within its jurisdiction, those city owners who believed that the roads outside the city had nothing to do with them would not be willing to pay the money at all. Even if you have to maintain it in accordance with the law, it is just to deal with it.

After hearing Garlan’s words, everyone looked at each other, and they all vaguely guessed something in their hearts.

Someone asked tentatively.

“Your Majesty, what do you mean…”

“I want to build a road.”

Garlan answered categorically.

He got up from the malachite throne, walked down the steps, and pointed at the map.

“With the Wangcheng as the center and the old roads as the foundation, I plan to build roads connecting major cities. Using the roads outside the Wangcheng as a benchmark, I will spread the roads across the country.”

He said, “All the roads that have been built will be used and maintained by the royal court and will no longer be under the jurisdiction of each city.”

Everyone was stunned.

Traditionally, the new kings who have just ascended to the throne have tried their best to strengthen their military and political influence. They thought that Gallan was the same.

But they never thought that the first decree proposed by Gallan was to build roads.

And everyone could see that this was not a decree made by King Garlan on a whim—just look at the map made up of colorful lines to know that the young king had done it before he brought it up. Planned for a long time.

Everyone looked at each other, and someone immediately opposed it.

“Your Majesty, you may not know yet. If you don’t talk about road construction, the maintenance cost of roads across the country is a huge amount. It is difficult for Wang Ting to bear this cost.”

Maintaining roads is originally a costly and unthankful thing. If the cities knew about this, they would be happy to get rid of the burden, but they were unwilling to take this hot taro back.

“Yes, our manpower is simply not enough to maintain such a large road.”

“Your Majesty, you’d better consider it carefully before making a decision.”

Everyone objected one by one.

“It’s best to continue to let the city be responsible for the roads within its jurisdiction. If you are worried about road damage, you can directly order and ask them to increase road maintenance.”

Even the Secretary-General, who was pulled out by Garlan, frowned and opposed.

“Your Majesty, the construction of a national standard stone road is an extremely huge project. It will cost a lot of money and manpower. Not long after we ended the war, many places are still being rebuilt. I am afraid it will be difficult for both financial and manpower. Support this project.”

It’s not that Zuo Sixiang didn’t know the benefits of building roads, but in his opinion, the young Wang’s approach was too presumptuous, so lofty, he didn’t consider the actual situation at all.

Even if King Gallan is offended, he has the responsibility to oppose this impossible project.

“This is not something that can be done overnight. It requires long-term recruitment of a large amount of labor. Not to mention that shortly after the end of the war, it is a time of labor shortage. Such a long-term recruitment of labor may cause dissatisfaction among the people…”

“Who said I want to levy labor to build roads?”

Gallan interrupted him bluntly.

Zuo Sixiang was startled.

Throughout the ages, roads have been built directly from the locals forcibly recruited labor, otherwise, who would voluntarily build roads?

“You are right. Road construction is a long-term project and takes a long time. Therefore, I plan to hire people to build roads.”

“Hire?”

“Yes, and the royal court does not need to pay for the property, I will bear it.”

The huge wealth accumulated by the royal family from generation to generation was used by Garlan like a prodigal.

“However, in this way, the ownership of the roads that I spent on building will be owned by the royal family.”

He continued.

“As for labor, you don’t need to worry, I have made arrangements with Huimos and Kayjos.”

In the early days of road construction, those fifty to sixty thousand people who had just been pardoned as slaves and did not know how to make a living were completely enough.

He hired them to build roads and gave them opportunities to work. Although it would be more difficult, they would have enough time to adapt to the status of civilians and live well.

Looking at the crowd, he asked: “Okay, what questions do you have?”

When Gallan said this, all those who had objected to the opinions were beaten back one by one, and they looked at each other immediately, and were silent.

However, even so, some people still think that the grand plan is a fantasy, impossible to succeed, and it is very likely that it will only waste manpower and material resources in the end.

Therefore, some people continue to talk to persuade Garlan to abandon this plan.

“King Gallan, I think this project is still too risky, do you think about it seriously…”

“This project is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and I am afraid it will bring you a very heavy burden on Aaron Landis…”

“You still…”

Garlan stood in front of the crowd, his golden eyes swept across the crowd.

At that glance, everyone closed their mouths.

“This is my decision.”

Gallan said.

The tone of his speech was very calm, and his expression was very indifferent.

But when the young king’s gaze slowly swept across his courtiers, there was an invisible sense of oppression that made everyone’s hearts suddenly startled.

He is the king of Aaron Landis.

The king of Aaron Landis has made a decision.

At this moment, the entire chamber was silent.

After a moment of silence, everyone bowed and bowed their heads to the young king in front.

“Follow your will.”

They said respectfully.

The first decree of King Gallan decided on this.

At this moment, the people in the chamber still don’t know how much what they are discussing today will leave in future history.

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Aaron Landis Avenue.

This is the general term for all the roads densely scattered throughout the continent of Aaron Landis in that ancient era.

With the city of Aaron Landis as the center, it expands radially outwards, connecting all the cities of Aaron Landis.

The existence of these roads allowed Aaron Landis to extend in all directions and benefited Aaron Landis for more than a thousand years.

It has played an extremely important role in many matters such as military affairs, commercial transactions, promotion of population circulation, and strengthening of the central government’s rule over localities.

The road construction project was implemented from the rule of King Xianming, and the construction was advocated by King Garlan.

The project was originally planned to be completed within 50 years, and during the period, it continued to extend outward as the territory of Aaron Landis expanded. It took a total of more than 100 years to complete the construction.

After completion, the total length of roads exceeds 300,000 kilometers, spreading across the entire continent, connecting all cities.

This vast road project has amazed future generations.

It became one of the symbols of the Aaron Landis Empire in its most prosperous and glorious period.

It is also one of the greatest achievements of the Wise King Gallan.

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hhhh all guessed wrong.

Later generations said that the infrastructure madman Gallan king.