Linton was away for quite a long time this time, so it was natural for Linton to take a break and take the opportunity to spend time with his wife and children.
Of course, just eating, drinking and having fun every day is quite boring. While spending time with his family, Linton also casually handles state affairs when he has nothing to do. After all, he can help his wife Yalan reduce the work pressure.
After all, she is still a queen in name only. Although Yalan has been absent from work all the time and has reached the point where she can relax as much as she can, there are still many things that cannot be avoided.
For example, the elves recently surrendered and were going to come to the capital city to sign a surrender treaty. The queen must attend. Even if the other party is a defeated country and has surrendered unconditionally, you can flatter them as much as you want, but signing a treaty is so formal.
In diplomatic situations, Yalan will definitely show up.
There are also some other matters that obviously cannot be avoided. Of course, Linton will handle it. From Queen Yalan to the ministers below, no one has any objections. They really want to let Linton handle them all, because Yalan
Queen Lan has been absent from work for too long. The ministers below really think that the emperor is unreliable. Can you and your wife discuss it quickly and let Linton come directly?
Yalan actually has the same idea. Although her mentality has changed a bit now and she has begun to pay attention to the throne, but she attaches great importance to occupying the position for her children. As for Linton being the emperor, is there any difference between being the emperor and occupying this position for yourself? There is nothing
The difference is, if you want to sit down, hurry up, I just want to take care of the child.
The only person who didn't want to do it was Linton himself. He was determined not to do it anyway, but it didn't matter if he helped Yalan handle the affairs.
The current overall situation of the Holy Empire of Elan is simply that it is prosperous. The empire is still in a period of rapid growth and shows no signs of decline at all.
The main thing internally is development. The main thing is to absorb the national power after the integration of the three previous human empires. There are no surprises or difficulties at the moment. All it takes is time. When the empire fully absorbs these national powers, the overall national power will be estimated to be a
It’s so scary that only then will we start to consider further development issues, so there’s no need to worry about it now.
As for the outside, the battle in the north has just been fought, and the human army is on its way back to its original station. The elves have surrendered unconditionally, and the human army has only left a legion of hundreds of thousands of troops to maintain the situation there.
Other regiments have been transferred back.
The human race has already drawn up a treaty with the elves, and the other side is surrendering unconditionally. There is no need to worry about whether they accept it or not. Anyway, they don't have the ability to resist now.
Previously, Linton had directly delegated this power to the ministers. This time, the treaty was mainly drafted by them. The leader was Prime Minister Tyrard. Linton, however, completely handed over the power to deal with the elves.
Even if he wants to wipe out all the elves, Linton won't care.
However, it seems that Tyrad chose to accept the surrender of the elves in the end. In fact, Linton felt that the other party was probably reading his mind.
It was obvious that if Linton came, he would be absolutely reckless. As long as the elves dared to fight with him, Linton would have to make them regret it until they vomited blood. But in the end, Linton left the matter entirely to Terrad, Terra
De probably also felt that Linton just wanted him to handle it a little more gently.
As a veteran minister, Tyrad is quite experienced in handling affairs. In his view, from the general's perspective, it would not be of much benefit to completely eliminate the elves. Linton is tough on his side. From a diplomatic point of view,
That is, one person plays the bad guy to threaten, and the other plays the red face to induce. Now, isn't it obvious that Linton has given the final decision to his red face, isn't it obvious?
So Tyrad handled this matter fairly gently, at least agreeing to the surrender of the elves. Of course, the final negotiation on interests between the two parties lasted for almost a month, and was finally reached.
Of course, the currently drafted treaty has been sent to Linton. Although Linton said that Tyrade would make the decision, does he really dare to make the final decision? In the end, of course, Linton still has to make the decision.
"Is this the compensation?" Linton looked at the treaty and said.
"Your Majesty, the elves can't compare to us. Their annual tax revenue is only more than 3 million taels. In recent years, their expenditures have been more than their incomes. They have been in deficit year after year. They can't earn anything at all." Tyrad said,
Of course, they carefully analyzed the financial income of the elves before setting the final compensation price. They would like to earn more if they could, but the elves are really poor.
If you want to ask why it is so poor over there, the main reason is that the elves are too kind to the people under their command. In their view, everyone is from the same clan and family. Of course, they cannot charge too heavy taxes, even though they pay such a small amount of money.
It is a bit difficult to maintain the country, but the top leaders of the elves really have no intention of changing it.
Linton looked at the financial report of the elves and felt that this country really had not thought about its future development. You said it is okay to charge low taxes to your own people, but you should charge more to people of other races. However, the elves
How is it done? People of other races are not allowed to appear in the forest. Once discovered, they will be arrested or deported immediately.
Have they never thought that these people are a labor force? The country's national strength is so low that it can be ravaged by the human race casually, and no one thinks about development issues. They dream about the big dream of "the elves are invincible in the world" all day long.
No wonder he was beaten so badly in the end.
"That's it." Linton put down the treaty casually and said. Anyway, he really didn't understand, so he should leave it to professionals. Let him do it, it would really mean annihilating the clan at every turn. Of course, he also knew that annihilating the clan would not bring much profit, so
How much oil and water can we get from the poor place of the elves if we destroy them? There may not even be enough funds to reimburse them for sending troops.
After the treaty is signed, the elves will directly become a vassal state of the human empire. Note that this is a de jure vassal state. Once the elves sign and accept this status, it will be difficult to stand up.
As the sovereign state, their exploitation of the elves will be endless in the future. According to the human race's plan, the elves will work for the humans anyway. The large forest where the elves are located is a place with very rich products.
It's just that the elves don't know how to develop it. It's simply a situation where they are sitting on a treasure land but don't know it.
Of course, the lack of development by the elves is mainly due to their love for nature and their homeland. The humans do not care about their thoughts. It is estimated that there will be a lot of local conflicts in a short period of time. Of course, a legion of the empire will stay.
That's why they are there, and they won't be evacuated anytime soon.
The matter of the elves has been settled for the time being. These ministers are definitely better at making money than themselves. They are professionals. Linton doesn't care how much they can benefit from it, because corrupt officials are not a headache for the country at all in this world.
.In such a martial country, strength and force are the basis of everything. No matter how much money you have, even if you are as rich as the enemy, rebellion is still too far away and there will be no one to accompany you.
Just like those saint-level ones, can you buy them with money? Can you get them to help you? It's simply impossible. And the country has the holy-level force, what do you dare to do?
But for a person like Linton who has holy-level military power, you don’t have to pay a penny, and a large number of people voluntarily follow you. Just like Linton now raises his arms and declares that he will rebel, ensuring that the whole country is beating gongs, drums, and setting off firecrackers.
Greeting Linton, Garsain, who seemed to have saint-level strength, raised his arms and guaranteed that a large number of people would directly follow him to rebel. That would be truly threatening.
As for corrupt officials, they are leeks raised by powerful people. If you want to be as greedy as possible, you will be killed if you have no money. This is how corrupt officials play this role in the eyes of everyone in this world, even themselves.
It was clear, so they never thought about any rebellion. This matter had nothing to do with them at all.
As for this group of people bullying the people and causing the country's reputation to decline, in fact they are not that bold at all. They can control money but not power, and they dare not go too far in order to protect themselves. Their self-perception is also
It’s just a handful of leeks. Who knows when the people above will come? So try their best to ensure that they at least look immature.
Of course, these disguises are only for the people under his command. As for the elves? I'm sorry, didn't you see how unhappy our majesty Linton is with the elves? The pressure is so light that it feels like you are not on Linton's side.
, they knew how to treat the elves just by looking at Linton's attitude, they were definitely pushing them to death.
In short, it can be predicted that the life of the elves in the next period of time will definitely be a fiery one. The elves are obviously mentally prepared, they just have no choice.
In terms of foreign affairs, this matter is the most important thing now. Other conflicts are considered trivial matters. To be honest, Prime Minister Tyrard didn't even report it, because Linton's temper was really bad. Before, the elf
The tribe just didn't come to the full moon banquet, and as a result, they were beaten to the point of being wiped out. He was really worried about these small conflicts that would lead to Linton getting another sentence.
It's not that the empire can't support the war now, but it's really unnecessary. If the elves are here to scare the monkeys, there will definitely be a lot of peace in the surrounding areas in the future, allowing them to develop well and digest it for a while.
This is indeed the correct judgment, at least for the entire country. Of course, Linton's side just has a highly different way of looking at things.
Not much happened on the state side, and Linton was quite free. However, while he was completing tasks and spending time with his family, something did come to his door.
When he was playing with his children that day, the guard reported to him that the dragon raised by Linton was back, but not in good health. Gathedran came back injured.