The King of France's nickname is Edward, but most people call him His Majesty France, or His Majesty the King.
Edward is a name that is quite popular among the people. There are anywhere from 100,000 to 80,000 people in the world. After he ascended the throne, no one dared to call him that to his face.
So when Roland called him His Majesty Edward, he was stunned for a while, and then he remembered that it was his nickname.
"It's been twenty years." Edward clicked his tongue in displeasure, "I almost forgot that my name was that."
Roland shrugged. After all, it was Stephanie who said the king's name was Edward.
Although under normal circumstances, he should be called His Majesty France, Stephanie is also France, so... it is easier to distinguish by just calling him by name.
This is a family banquet. In the side hall of the palace, His Majesty the King is sitting on the main seat. On his left is His Majesty the Queen, who has been newly promoted for less than three years. Then opposite the Queen sits Stephanie. As for Roland, He sat opposite the king.
The king took a sip of fruit wine from a gold cup studded with colorful turquoise gems, and then said: "Roland, I heard that you want to discuss some business with me? What business?"
"population."
"When did you become a slave trader?" The king scratched his head in embarrassment: "We in France prohibit slave trading. Although this order is almost non-existent for the great nobles, they will still trade slaves secretly. But you The mage... is not very powerful here. It is backed by the Magic Association and Stephanie's help. Although you have some strength, it is not enough for you to openly sell goods on our land. Slave."
This king seems to have a bit of a big mouth. Is it appropriate to tell the dark side of his country to an outsider like himself
"It's not about slave trading, it's about rescuing some humans from the demon world," Roland said.
Now Edward was interested.
He put down his knife and fork and asked curiously: "Are you trying to say that you, the Golden Sons, are going to attack the demon world?"
"Indeed."
The king pondered for a while and said with a smile: "I know that you, the Golden Sons, generally have a strong sense of justice, so you plan to save the humans who were kidnapped by the demons in the past. I can understand it, but the problem is... what can we France get from it? What a benefit!”
"A huge population," Roland said.
"not enough."
not enough
In this world, population is very important.
Because of the high mortality rate, even the population density of France is not large.
Another reason is that their land area is very large. If you have to find a comparison, it would be an ugly country plus a kangaroo country, which is more or less like this.
It is very easy for such a country to accommodate one to two hundred million people when the population density is not high.
Moreover, people in this world are easy to feed. As long as you give them a piece of land and a house, they can feed themselves.
Of course, this is unless there are any natural or man-made disasters.
And if a country suddenly has one or two million more people, as long as they can feed them, it will definitely be an extremely resource-rich country.
Population can also be converted into combat power.
Nobles everywhere were happy to recruit a group of tenant farmers to their empty territories.
The king, who has substantial power to distribute the population, will definitely get greater benefits as long as he operates it.
It's a real benefit... Even so, he's still not satisfied
Roland frowned.
Looking at Roland's puzzled expression, Edward clapped his hands and said, "Indeed, what you gave is very interesting and a great benefit. It is worth a lot of gold coins. But the problem is that I am the king. I already have enough gold coins. I don't need it." So many useless things, you know? I need something more interesting, something more joyful."
When he said this, Roland understood instantly.
"Your Majesty, please build an expeditionary force to join us. Normally they don't need to fight, but our Golden Sons will announce to the public that this expedition plan was promoted by His Majesty Edward. It was you who provided the funds and information. We Only then can we enter the demon world and save those miserable fellow humans."
Hahahahaha!
Edward smiled happily. He poured himself a glass of wine, drank it with his head raised, and then continued to laugh: "It's smart, it's easy to talk to people like you."
"Everywhere, it's His Majesty Edward who is far-sighted."
Roland never liked flattering others, but thinking about the miserable human beings who were treated as pigs by the demons, Roland felt that it was not a bad idea to flatter others for the sake of justice.
When Edward heard this, he laughed again, looking quite happy.
Stephanie looked at Roland in surprise. In her impression, Roland was extremely arrogant... so arrogant.
She even had a feeling that Roland might not even take God seriously.
But now he is flattering... not for money, not for power, just to settle some rescued humans, and flattering his arrogant and extremely unreasonable father!
It was really embarrassing for him.
The queen sitting aside was also a little surprised. This was the first time she saw the king so happy.
Indeed... Edward looked at Roland more and more now.
He doesn't have a good drinking tolerance. He's already a little drunk after a few drinks, and his mouth doesn't hold the door shut.
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For example, what is his relationship with a lady from a noble family, and what happened to him some time ago
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Roland wrinkled his eyelids when he heard this, and kept telling Stephanie to take care of him.
But Stephanie's expression was very calm, as if she was not surprised.
But the queen was a little restless.
Although he was a little drunk, Ed was not really drunk. He saw Roland winking at Stephanie from time to time and smiled: "By the way, I heard that you and my eldest daughter have a quite ambiguous relationship!"
"No." Roland denied flatly.
Stephanie also shook her head: "Roland keeps himself clean, he only has two women!"
"Oh, who are you lying to?" Edward naturally didn't believe it: "There is no pure friendship between men and women. Besides, my daughter is so beautiful."
Roland was a little depressed.
He suddenly felt... This king didn't look like a king at all.
Instead, he looks a bit like a street gangster.
"So Roland, do you think my daughter tastes good?" Edward continued to ask.
Roland sighed: "Her Royal Highness and I really don't have that kind of relationship."
"Ha!" Edward said with a 'just keep pretending' look on his face: "My daughter is beautiful, has a good figure, as beautiful as a goddess, so sexy, so attractive! If she hadn't been my daughter, I would have..."
A glass of red fruit wine was poured over Edward's head.
The king was so drunk that he suddenly sobered up.
Stephanie said depressingly: "Father, I hope you can stop saying such misleading words. It's because you keep saying this that your reputation in the royal city is extremely bad."
Edward wiped his face: "That's right, those people just have dirty minds."
The queen covered her face with her hands, with a blank expression.
Stephanie sat back in her chair and stopped talking.
"Okay. Let's get down to business." King Edward wiped his hair and face with a white towel and said at the same time: "I will send an expeditionary army, but this expeditionary army is composed of nobles, so you don't I hope they can go to the battlefield. But if anyone dares to disobey you and act recklessly... you can teach them a lesson for them, do you understand?"
Roland nodded. When it comes to business matters, His Majesty the King is quite reliable.
"Well, Roland, I have a question I've been holding back for a long time and want to ask you."
"Your Majesty, please speak!"
"I heard that you seduced the queen of Huolaiwen. How did you do it?" Then he pointed to the queen beside him: "Try it on her. I want to see what you are capable of, letting a queen I am willing to go with you, a poor mage."
The queen turned pale!
Roland thought the damn king was sick and almost overturned the table.
Then before Roland was about to get angry, Stephanie pulled Roland away.
The two left the palace and took a carriage to Stephanie's manor.
On the carriage, Stephanie said sheepishly: "Sorry, I made you feel wronged."
"It's okay. Although I do want to get angry, it doesn't seem to be a big deal if I get past him." Roland waved his hand.
"My father, he is a big boy." Stephanie's expression was also quite helpless: "According to my grandfather, my father has been like this since he was a child. He likes to press for other people's privacy, and at the same time he can't control his mouth and messes around. say."
"Although your father is a bastard and a gangster, he is also one of the most powerful people in the world." Roland closed his eyes and felt a headache: "This is simply a disaster."
Stephanie gave Roland a helpless look.
Although her father was indeed a bastard, she would definitely feel a little uncomfortable hearing it from an outsider.
He is the father after all!
Arriving at the gate of the manor, Stephanie asked before getting out of the car: "How is the progress of your floating city now?"
"The degree of completion is probably only 1%."
"This is a bit slow." Stephanie frowned.
She wanted to have a shelter on the floating city, so that if something happened, she would have a place and opportunity to make a comeback.
This matter is very important to her. The sooner the floating city is built, the more at ease she will feel.
"Everything is difficult at the beginning." Roland thought for a while and said: "Next, my strength will gradually increase, and the construction progress of the floating city will be greatly accelerated."
Stephanie nodded: "I believe what you say, and I will wait for your good news. By the way... I will help you check the expeditionary force. I will help you with the people in that team beforehand, no. Make them so unruly."
"sorry to bother you."
"It's easy to say, we will lead the expeditionary force away in half a month."
The two quickly ended their conversation.
Roland teleported back to the Demon Realm, found the Pioneer Army conference room, and found Solisa and the others.
"How was your discussion over there?" Seeing Roland, a group of people immediately gathered around him.
The rescue is now proceeding in an orderly manner. One-third of the people in the breeding city have been transferred to the main plane, and are then escorted to the wetland city by other players from Sicily.
Most of the farmed humans can live healthy lives after being blessed with detoxification and healing techniques.
But a small number of people still died.
Their bodies are very dry and thin, and there are even squirming white maggots on the surface of their bodies.
Breeding city... what kind of good environment and conditions can it have.
Those bone demon and mind flayer breeders only need to ensure that most humans do not die and are not infected by the plague.
Hundreds of weak humans... If they die, just throw them outside the city.
Anyway, humans are born, and new human babies will appear soon.
The more the players rescue and clean up the central area of the city, the more shocking the tragedy becomes.
Many bones were piled in the center of the city.
Based on the tooth marks on it, a picture of a monster eating a human alive can appear in his mind.
As a result, the players became more and more angry and began to look for new breeding cities on their own.
And now... they began to ask Succubus about the breeding city.
It has been determined that there are three breeding cities near this city, within three to four hundred kilometers.
If you save this one, you will be saved next.
In other words, there will be at least 300,000 or 400,000 people to be saved.
However, Wetland City can only hold 100,000 people at most, and the city will not be able to bear any more.
Therefore, cities or countries that can accommodate a large population must arrange it as soon as possible.
This is also the reason why Solisa is anxious.
"The negotiation has been completed." Roland nodded and said: "But we still have a very important issue now. Even if France is willing to accept these people, it is not feasible for them to trek nearly two thousand kilometers to France. It's too realistic. It's easy for a small group of people, just rent some carriages, but for millions or tens of millions of people, how many carriages are needed? If they just walk, how many people will die during the migration? "
A group of people were stunned.
They had not thought about this problem before.
At this time, someone was running a live broadcast, and the barrage in the live broadcast room became calm because of these words.
"Can we only move them from one fire pit to another?" Solisa felt a little uncomfortable.
"I have an idea and I need your cooperation."
Solisa's eyes lit up: "You tell me."
"You all know that I can teleport magic circles to multiple people."
Everyone nodded.
Roland continued: "But the transmission cost is too expensive, so I will find a way to reduce the transmission cost to an affordable level."
"how long it takes?"
"At least a month." Roland continued: "In other words, if you rescue more people, you will need to solve their food problem for at least a month. Survival rations for hundreds of thousands of people are not easy to solve."
Everyone was silent.
There are two to three hundred people in their guild, and the logistics pressure is huge.
It is too difficult for them to control the eating, drinking and drinking of hundreds of thousands of people.
"They don't eat much, just two meals a day. Special methods at critical moments." Solisa gritted her teeth: "Fifty thousand people, our Phoenix Guild can take care of this number of people."
At this time, the presidents of other guilds also stood up.
"I guarantee thirty thousand."
"I guarantee twenty thousand."
"Forty-five thousand."
In less than a moment, more than a dozen guild members had taken over half a million people.
In the live broadcast room, more people were shouting.
'We will be small, but we can still cover three thousand. '
'We'll cover five thousand. '
'Six thousand. '
"I will definitely develop a cheap magic circle within a month."
Roland shook his cloak and immediately disappeared in front of everyone, leaving only a blue light.
Chic and simple!