When the Lan Alliance was established, the elves in the Northland also joined in those months. In fact, the entire Northland joined. If they didn't join, they would isolate themselves, and then they would become the little dragons sleeping soundly beside the dragon's mouth. sheep.
But even if they joined in accordance with the situation, their status in the Lan Alliance has always been embarrassing.
What is the relationship between elves and humans? Needless to say, the sweet and sour friendship over the years, the grievances and grievances in it have resulted in countless historical stories, and it is no problem to support how many playwrights and novelists.
The core of the Lan Alliance is the two major Lan Kingdoms, and the people of the Lan Kingdom are humans, so the core of the Lan Alliance is naturally humans, while other foreign races such as orcs, northern barbarians, undead, and underground forces are either allies from the beginning. Or it is the defeated opponent. When one side is strong enough and the vassal side does not have much resistance, fusion is not much difficult.
The so-called unity, is to have a voice say what we should do, and no one will face the opposite.
The alliance of the entire Lanmeng is simple to say, but it actually includes a series of actions and projects.
The most important ones are probably the construction of traffic routes, the re-division of administrative responsibilities, and the unified adjustment of military ranks.
This kind of policy seems to be nothing, it seems to be a face project, in fact, it is directly related to whether the Lan Alliance is truly united, or it is still a mess.
The roads between countries in the past... If those muddy and chaotic mountain roads and trails can be regarded as roads, the coverage rate of roads can barely exceed 5%.
"Build roads before you get rich" is a slogan, but it's definitely not empty talk. Especially in the age of cold weapons, the difference between horse-drawn carriages and walking is not only about speed. The transport volume of mules and horses and individuals are two concepts. When going out, farm products are rotten in the fields, and the transported products in the mining area are higher than the price of ore, the so-called development is empty talk.
As for air freight? Not to mention the abysmal ratio of air freight and freight, the battleships of the Guanglan League are unlikely to undertake regular transportation duties. You must know that the road looks inconspicuous, but the ships that pass by it every day The number of people can exceed 10,000, and it is a permanent investment, but every time an airlift is carried out, the cost must be calculated to see if it can be recovered.
But unlike the better residents that a certain world aspires to, the residents of the feudal era lived like this for generations, and they didn’t think there was anything wrong with them. It seemed natural to continue the way of life of their ancestors by relying on heaven to eat.
If they really start to build roads and start to requisition labor, they also feel that this lord is too much labor and money.
And the lords are not much better than them. Some people are really ignorant, and the ratio is astonishing, while others feel that once their road is repaired, other lords can not invade themselves along the road. Isn't that shooting yourself in the foot
The establishment of the Lan Alliance, on the one hand, also represents the disappearance of the scruples of "being beaten when building a road". On the other hand, the rapid development of Donglan, Siluwei and other countries, as well as the improvement of people's living standards, of course, the most Directly, there are endless gadgets, which have indeed touched the hearts of the people who have not changed for generations, and made many people really start to yearn for change.
But it sounds nice. In the past eight years, nearly 20% of the total tax revenue of Lanmeng has been invested, and the road coverage rate has increased from 5% to 10%. It is a unified two-way four-lane stone road... Don't look at the small number, don't Looking at the shabby road specifications, this already means that the main roads of various countries are barely passable, and it will not be completely cut off when it rains or snows.
As for the minutiae to a certain township or village, that is the responsibility of each country and each lord. As an alliance between countries, the Lan Alliance has done a good enough job.
The completion of the construction of the main road also means that the normalized administrative tasks and document transmission can be normalized, and the centralized system has gradually replaced the enfeoffment system. His simple desires and hostility to bad lords were the result of inconvenient transportation and unfulfilled government orders.
With the smooth and normalized connection, the re-division of responsibilities at the administrative level has also made the participating countries no longer separate individuals. While weakening the kingship and lordship, it has also made all regions begin to follow the Lan Alliance's policies and plans. Let this huge northern giant have a skeleton to support him to stand and walk.
Of course, these policies are all conventional policies that have been approved by the kings of various countries.
The subsequent mutual recognition of military rank and army reorganization is probably equivalent to assigning a number to all the Knights, officers, and nobles of the Lan Alliance member countries, allowing them to recognize each other's rank, and in the name of their own kings. , listen to the commander-in-chief of the Lan Alliance. Of course, this is only an unconventional schedule that will only take effect in wars. On weekdays, the Knights still go their separate ways.
At this point, the combat power of the Lan Alliance can cooperate with each other and play a role in combat. Let's stop here. The messy things can be written into a novel. It's too long to talk about it in detail.
And the elves, to be precise, the moon elves in the north... directly stuck the joint plan in the first step.
Originally, according to the plan, it was necessary to clarify a section of the road to the Moon Elf Kingdom, but one of the sections was naturally the area where the Tassel Elf Kingdom was located, which was the link between the Elf Kingdoms and the Human Kingdoms.
There used to be a road there, or a good road built by the Tassel Kingdom. Although the natural disaster caused serious damage to some sections of the road, it is much easier to repair the original road than to start the construction from scratch, regardless of the time period and cost management. , to save more than 70% of time and capital costs.
but…
"This area does not belong to any elven kingdom, and we refuse to pay for the road construction along this route."
In a sense, this is simply talking nonsense with your eyes open. This road can only lead to you. What do you mean by not cultivating.
According to the current Lanmeng policy, the local country pays 70% of the road construction expenses, and Lanmeng pays 30% of the finances. This is both a common practice and common sense. The local revenue is the largest, and naturally the local country accounts for the majority. 30%, considering the mask, that is already an astronomical figure.
There is a small problem with this policy. As mentioned earlier, the area of the original Tassel Kingdom does not belong to any country on the map.
But in fact, there are also such vague areas on the map, but in the end, the lords all willingly paid. After all, no one is a fool. Refusal to build roads not only means missing the opportunity to develop infrastructure, but also isolates themselves into the Lan Alliance system. outside.
However, the Elf Kingdom refused, or completely refused without leaving any room...
Are they out of money? Speaking of which, even the undead (ghosts) don't believe it. Their exclusive magic products and artworks are a profitable business, and robbery is not as fast as they come. Coupled with years of savings, who would believe that the elves are actually poor.
Are they reluctant? To be able to maintain the normal temperature magic barrier in the Northland, the capital and magic materials consumed are astronomical. The daily life of those elf mages who even want to walk is so extravagant that they can be poorer than human lords.
No one is a fool, but since the Elf Kingdoms insisted that this area does not belong to them, they are not obliged to pay.
Then... nothing and then.
When the road began to be built, strange things kept happening. Either a certain section of the road suddenly became haunted, or a certain section of the road was hit by horse thieves, the workers were dispersed, and even tools were taken away.
This kind of thing happened more than 20 times in three months. Even a fool knows that the situation is wrong, but the investigation team of the Lanmeng went back the night before, to be able to do this kind of thing in this position. Apparently the elves did it.
What does the moon elves want to do? The top management of the Lan Alliance was in a state of confusion, and finally Suana, the former moon elf princess, revealed the truth...
"The moon elves in the north have always looked down on humans and feared humans. They are probably worried about being annexed..."
Well, the elves don't say it directly. They turn the corner to show their distrust with this uncooperative attitude. This may be the elves' usual careful and direct... elegant diplomatic trick.
Now, the problem is on the leaders of the Lan Alliance countries. What can the human countries do next
Continue to forcibly build roads? The money is out, the manpower is out, the hot face is sticking to the cold ass, wash your face and stick it again, how can you not take this face.
Forcibly break through, interfere with power, and ask the Moon Elf Kingdom to fulfill the covenant? The elves are very careful, even if they know they did it, they can't get the evidence, and even if they get the evidence, can they use this as a reason to attack the elves? Even more aggressive.
At this time, the reason why the moon elves were so easy to join the Lan Alliance came out. They sat on this plan from the very beginning. Groups, play cold violence, small independence, non-cooperation.
Not to mention, this is already a coup in the relatively straightforward (simple) political circle of Ashe. It is the crystallization of the elves’ thousands of years of political experience, and it does play a role, but…
"... The elves have always been like this, they kept making small abacuses, eating what was in the bowl and watching what was in the pot, they made a lot of money, but they calculated too much and didn't want anything. …”
The road plan in the tassel elf kingdom area has stopped, and the other elf kingdoms have not started.
Over the years, the rapid development of the Lan Alliance has been seen by the northerners, but only the elves still live their relatively independent lives. Do those elves regret it
"No, they won't regret it. They only celebrate to thwart the conspiracy of human beings to annex the elves again. As for the development of the outside world, it has nothing to do with them. They are still alive ten thousand years ago."
Suana's words are completely in line with my consistent understanding of elves. Even if the young elves of the new generation have opinions, in the kingdom of elves, the right to speak is in the hands of the elderly, and tradition is extremely important.
The final result is that the elf kingdoms have won in a sense, they have maintained their expectations, but human beings have not lost, anyway, there is no elf Lan Alliance to move forward, the nominal alliance allows them to be able to from the elf kingdom Purchasing special products and dispatching international students there still has certain benefits.
The entire Lan Alliance is becoming more and more integrated. It has been two years since the second phase of the major project "Operation Galaxy", but only the elves, the first phase of the project has not ended, but they have always been separated from the entire Lan Alliance, and the impact is extremely bad. And now the principals of the Lan Alliance don't have time to play with them, so it's up to them.
But I was able to endure it before, but this time I really can't.
According to tradition, the moon elves in the Moon Elf Kingdom have become one of the four high-ranking elves in the newly-born Northland Elf Empire. The "real power faction", they once again played their own small abacus.
"Ask the Northland Elf Empire to make the City of Moonflowers its capital? The southernmost lonely city in the territory of the three Moon Elf Kingdoms? Pull down the entire Northland Elf Empire and play isolation with them?"
"It is required that since the moon elves have provided the territory, the ownership of the territory by the moon elves should be retained? Should the moon elves be the consuls and guards of the Northland Elf Empire? Are you planning to make up the queen before the country is established?"
"The moon elves and the dark elves have a long-standing feud, demanding that the dark elves not set foot on the territory of the newly-born elf empire... The four high-ranking elves, the silver elves, have just arrived, and the number of wood elves is small, so the dark elves are strong enough. This is to directly seize power. Subject kicked out?"
"Requesting independent diplomatic and military power... What's the difference between this and active splitting, the moon elves are planning to have a civil war?"
I slowly read these documents with a smile, but the elf patriarchs in front of me were trembling, and the killing intent in the hall seemed to be real. In their eyes, the next plot should be a feast with dozens of swordsmen and axemen
I didn't target anyone, and even smiled kindly at Suana, the representative of the moon elf who was pushed out... Judging from the fact that she took a few steps back, it seems that she also has no confidence in me, or I accidentally leaked it. Planning to use a knife
"Moon Elf..."
I reluctantly tossed the document aside. I had expected the situation to develop to this point, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly.
When Heloise was coronated before, the northern moon elves could not introduce a new patriarch, and in the end they could only let Suana, who has become a gray blood elves and undead, act as their representatives... Since then, they have probably been fighting for once. In the end, if we can't talk about it, we don't want to recognize the previous agreement.
My proposal at that time was also a chance to break the game. I gave Suana a chance to resurrect. Once she becomes a moon elf again, she may be able to play a great political role and change the current more and more people. Helpless development situation... I have no patience for those stupid moon elf elders who have not been baptized by war and only know infighting! I'm doing my job and those bastards are holding me back!
If she replied to me at the time, she needed time to think about it, okay, think about it, and then she was too busy, so she left it.
So, now I try to keep a friendly smile and keep asking questions.
"Suana, have you thought about it long enough? Have you made your final decision? Resurrection or continue to maintain the status quo... In advance, you'd better choose carefully, I have no patience for the moon elves, I am not threatening you! But yours I don't believe that only the top three elves in the Northland Elf Empire can't survive if it decides to affect the life and death of the entire moon elves!"
"...Don't be scary! You don't call it a threat, what is a threat?"
The clone of Heloise, who had been pretending to be on display, finally spoke, and the elf patriarchs breathed a sigh of relief, but her next words made them laugh and cry.
"Actually, I also hate the moon elves who always cause trouble. They rebelled back then... In fact, I am confident that the new elf empire can develop very well with only the top three. Suana, don't worry about rejecting this idiot. ."
All the elf patriarchs did not speak, but their expressions were very strange, as if they were holding back panic, as if they were talking.
"...You've already said this, rejection is not the same as death! Who dares to refuse!"