When the Lan Alliance was established, the elves in the North also joined in those few months. In fact, the entire North joined in those days. If they didn't join, they would be isolating themselves, and then they would become the sleeping little ones beside the dragon's mouth.
sheep.
But even if they followed the situation and joined, 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 has lasted for many years. The grievances and hatreds in it have spawned countless historical stories, and it can support as many playwrights and novelists as possible.
The core of the Lan Alliance is the two major Lan countries, and the people of the Lan country are humans. Therefore, 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 a defeated opponent. If one party is strong enough and there is not much resistance from the vassal party, there will not be much difficulty in integrating.
The so-called unity means that there is one voice saying what we should do, and no one will speak against us in person.
The entire alliance of the Lan Alliance sounds simple, but in fact it includes a series of actions and projects.
The most important ones are probably the construction of transportation routes, the redivision of administrative levels of responsibilities, and the unified adjustment of military official ranks.
This kind of policy seems to be nothing, and it seems to be just a face-saving project. In fact, it is directly related to whether the Lan Alliance is truly united or remains scattered.
In the past, the highways between countries... If those muddy and confusing mountain roads and trails could be regarded as highways, the coverage rate of highways could barely exceed 5%.
Although "To get rich, build roads first" is a slogan, it is definitely not empty talk, especially in the cold weapon era. The difference between carriages and walking is not only in speed. The transportation volume of mule and horse vehicles and individuals are two different concepts. When goods cannot be sold,
When the farm products rot in the fields and the finished products transported from the mining areas are higher than the price of the ore, the so-called development is empty talk.
As for air transportation? Let’s not mention the extremely bad ratio between air transportation volume and freight. It is unlikely that the battleships of the Guanglan Alliance can take on regular transportation duties. You know. The road looks inconspicuous, but every day from above
The number of people passing through can be tens of thousands, and it is a permanent investment. However, for every air transport, the cost must be calculated to see if the cost can be recovered.
But unlike the residents of a certain world who long for a better life, the residents of the feudal era have lived this way for generations. They don't think there is anything wrong with it. They rely on the sky for food and continue the lifestyle of their ancestors. It seems to be a matter of course.
If they really start building roads and requisitioning labor, they will feel that this lord is wasting people and money, which is too much.
The lords are not much better than them. Some people are really ignorant. This ratio is extremely shocking. Some people think that once their road is repaired, other lords will not be able to invade them along the road.
Wouldn't that be shooting yourself in the foot?
The establishment of the Lan Alliance, on the one hand, also represents the disappearance of the scruples of "building roads and getting beaten up". On the other hand, the rapid development of Donglan, Siluwell and other countries, as well as the improvement of people's living standards, of course, in the end
Directly, or the endless stream of gadgets, it has indeed touched the hearts of the people that have not changed for generations, and many people have really begun to desire change.
But to put it nicely, nearly 20% of Lanmeng’s total tax revenue has been spent in the past eight years. The road coverage rate has probably improved from 5% to 10%, and they are all unified two-way four-lane stone roads. Don’t look at the small number.
The road specifications are shabby, but this already means that the main roads in various countries are barely passable. They will not be completely cut off when it rains or snows.
As for the minutiae of a certain township or a certain 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 this main road also means that normalized administrative tasks and document transmission can be normalized, and centralization has begun to gradually replace the feudal system. The king's emissary that often appears in novels and dramas expresses some people's desire for fairness and justice.
His simple wishes and hostility towards bad lords were not the result of inconvenient transportation and unfulfilled government orders.
With the smoothening and normalization of connections, the re-division of administrative level responsibilities has also made the participating countries no longer independent individuals. While weakening the royal power and territorial sovereignty, it has also allowed various places to begin to follow the policies and plans of the Lan Alliance.
This gave this huge northern giant a skeleton to support itself in standing and walking.
Of course, these policies are all routine policies that have been approved by the kings of various countries. The lower limits are relatively high and will not cause the lords to backlash... It is better not to start this aspect. The games and conspiracies here alone can last for several days.
The subsequent mutual recognition of military ranks and military reorganization is probably equivalent to giving a number to the knights, officers, and knights and nobles of all the Lan Alliance countries, allowing them to mutually recognize each other's rank and establish a name in the name of the king of their country.
, obey the general command of the Lan Alliance. Of course, this is an unconventional arrangement that will only be effective in war. On weekdays, the knights still go their own way.
At this point, the combat power of the Lan Alliance can cooperate with each other and play a combat role. Let's stop at this point. The messy things in it can fill a novel. It would be too long to go into detail.
The elves, to be precise, the moon elves in the North... directly blocked the joint plan at the first step.
Originally, the plan was to clear a section of the road to the Moon Elf Kingdom, but one section 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 roads there, and they were well built by Liusu Kingdom. Although natural disasters caused serious damage to some sections of the roads, repairing the original roads was much easier than starting from scratch, regardless of the time, construction period, or cost.
, will 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 costs along this stretch."
In a sense, this is simply telling lies with open eyes. This road can only lead to you. What do you mean if you don't cultivate?
According to the current policy of the Lan League, 70% of the funds for road construction are provided by the local state and 30% by the Lan League's finance. This is both a common practice and common sense. The local area has the greatest benefit, and naturally the local country has the majority. However, it is seen that the Lan League only has the majority.
Thirty percent, considering the mask, is already an astronomical figure.
There is a slight problem with this policy. As mentioned before, the area of the original Liusu Kingdom does not belong to any country on the map. The Elf Kingdom insists on this reason and refuses to pay. It is barely justified.
But in fact, there are such vague areas on the map, but in the end the lords readily paid. After all, no one is a fool. Refusing to build roads not only misses the opportunity to develop infrastructure, but also isolates themselves from the Lan Alliance system.
outside.
However, the Elf Kingdom refused, and refused completely without leaving any room...
Don’t they have money? Speaking of which, even the undead (ghosts) don’t believe it. Their exclusive magic products and works of art are a hugely profitable business, and the robbery is not as fast as them. Plus years of savings, who would believe the elves?
Will actually be poor.
Are they reluctant to give it up? To be able to maintain a normal-temperature magic barrier in the North, the funds and magic materials consumed are astronomical. The daily life of those elf mages who can't even walk is so extravagant, how can they be poorer than the human lords?
.
No one is a fool. But since the elven kingdoms insist that this area does not belong to them, they have no obligation to pay. The Lan Alliance held meetings for three consecutive days. Finally, for the sake of consistency within the Lan Alliance, they gritted their teeth and paid out all the money!
And then...nothing happened after that.
After the construction of this road began, strange things continued to happen. Either a certain section of the road suddenly became haunted, or a certain section of the road was attacked by horse thieves, and the workers were dispersed. Even their tools were stolen.
This kind of thing happened more than 20 times in three months. Even a fool knows that something is wrong, and the investigation team of Lanmeng went back from the day before to that night. Being able to do such a thing in this position is such a shame.
Obviously it was the elves who did it.
What did the Moon Elf want to do? The top management of the Lan Alliance fell into confusion, and finally the former Moon Elf Princess Suana told the truth...
"The moon elves in the North have always looked down on humans and feared them. They are probably worried about being annexed..."
Well, the elves don't say it directly, and use this uncooperative attitude to show their distrust in a roundabout way. This may be the elves' usual cautious and indirect... elegant diplomatic tactics.
Now, the difficult question is thrown to the leaders of the various countries of the Lan Alliance. What can the human countries do next?
Continue to forcibly build roads? Money has been spent, manpower has been spent, and the hot face is stuck with the cold butt. If you wash your face and start sticking it again, you can't get rid of this face.
Forcibly break through, interfere with power, and require the Moon Elf Kingdom to fulfill its covenant? The elves are very careful. Even if everyone knows that 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?
That would not only tear up the alliance and put everyone in the participating countries at risk, but it would also be a real invasion.
At this time, the reason why the Moon Elves joined the Lan Alliance so easily in the first place also came out. They had this plan from the beginning. Instead of resisting the trend of unification in the North, they might as well start their own after joining in name.
Small groups, cold violence, small independence, non-cooperation.
Needless to say, this is already considered a coup in the relatively straightforward (simple) Ashe political circle. It is the crystallization of thousands of years of elves’ political experience. It does work, but...
"...Elves have always been like this, they keep making little calculations, eating what's in the bowl and looking at what's in the pot, and making a lot of profits, but they calculate too much and don't want to give up anything. Instead, they are confused by the immediate benefits, short-sighted, and eventually lose it.
The market..."
The highway project in the Liusu Elf Kingdom area has been stopped, and the road plan in other Elf Kingdoms has not started.
Over the years, the rapid development of the Lan Alliance has been seen by all the people in the North, but only the elves still live their own relatively independent lives. Do those elves have any regrets?
"No, they will not regret it. They are only celebrating because they once again thwarted the human conspiracy to annex the elves. As for the development of the outside world, it has nothing to do with them. They were still alive ten thousand years ago."
Suana's words are completely consistent with my understanding of elves. Even if the new generation of young elves have opinions, in the country 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 humans have not lost. Anyway, they can move forward without the Elf Alliance. The nominal alliance allows them to start from the Elf Kingdom.
There are still certain benefits from purchasing specialty products and sending overseas students there.
The entire Lan Alliance is becoming more and more unified. It has been two years since the second phase of the major project "Galaxy Operation" began. However, only the elves, the first phase of the project has not been completed, but they are always outside the entire Lan Alliance, and the impact is extremely bad.
But now the leader of the Lan Alliance has no time to play with them, so he will leave it to them.
But I could bear it before, but I really can't bear it this time.
According to tradition, the Moon Elf family of the Moon Elf Kingdom became one of the four high-ranking elves in the new Northland Elf Empire. But how can I say that, as the most "strategic" among the elves, the Moon Elf, as the most powerful in the new Elf Empire?
The "real power faction" are once again making their own plans.
"Require the Northern Elf Empire to make Moonflower City its capital? The southernmost isolated city among the three Moon Elf Kingdoms? Pull the entire Northern Elf Empire together and isolate them?"
"Request that since the moon elves have provided territory, the moon elves' ownership of the territory should be retained? The governors and local guards of the Northern Elf Empire should be held by moon elves? Are you planning to evacuate the queen before the country is established?"
"The moon elves and the dark elves have a feud and require the dark elves not to set foot on the territory of the new elven empire... The four high-ranking elves, the silver elves, have just arrived. There are not many wood elves, but the dark elves are strong enough. They plan to directly seize power.
The person you want to kick out?"
"Demanding independent diplomatic and military rights... What is the difference between this and active secession? The moon elves are planning to have a civil war?"
I read out these documents slowly with a smile, but the elven chiefs in front of me were trembling. The murderous intention in the hall seemed to be real. In their eyes, the next plot should be that dozens of swordsmen and axemen would jump out and have a Hongmen Banquet?
I didn't target anyone, and even smiled kindly at Suana, the moon elf representative who was pushed out... Judging from her taking a few steps back, it seemed that she didn't have much confidence in me, or did I accidentally let it slip?
Are you planning to go under the knife?
"Moon Elf..."
I put the document aside helplessly. I had expected the situation to develop to this point, but I didn't expect it to happen so quickly.
When Heloise was crowned before, the Northland Moon Elves were unable to introduce a new clan leader. In the end, they had to let Suana, who had become a gray-blooded elf and undead, serve as the representative... From then on, they probably
If we can't reach an agreement in the end, we may not recognize any previous agreements.
My proposal at that time was also an opportunity to break the situation. I gave Su Anna a chance to be resurrected. Once she becomes a moon elf again, with her high reputation, she may be able to play a great political role and change the current situation.
The helpless development situation... I have no patience with those stupid moon elf elders who have never been baptized by war and only know how to fight among themselves! I am doing business, but those bastards are holding me back!
What she replied to me at that time was that she wanted time to think about it more, OK, let’s think about it, but then she was too busy with things and left it behind.
So now I try to keep a friendly smile and continue to make inquiries.
"Suana, you have thought about it for long enough. What is your final decision? Resurrection or continue to maintain the status quo... Let me explain in advance, you'd better choose carefully. I have no patience with the moon elves anymore. I'm not threatening you! But you
This decision is related to the life and death of the entire Moon Elf, and I don’t believe that the Northern Elf Empire can’t survive with only three high-ranking elves!”
"...Don't be scary! If you don't call this a threat, what do you call a threat?"
The clone of Heloise, who had been pretending to be a show-off, finally spoke, and the elven leaders also breathed a sigh of relief, but her next words made them dumbfounded.
"Actually, I also hate the moon elves who are always causing trouble. They were the ones who rebelled back then. In fact, I am confident that the New Elf Empire can develop very well with only three leaders. Suana, just feel free and bold to reject this idiot.
"
All the elf clan leaders did not speak, but their expressions were very strange, as if they were holding back panic, as if they were talking.
"...You have already said this. Rejection is not equal to death! Who dares to refuse!" (~^~)
