From Wild Mage to Wizard King

With the successful completion of the first conquest, the land under Roland's control expanded four or five times.

Although Roland only captured two cities, compared with the old Qi, which had few subordinate villages and towns, these two cities had a lot of subordinate villages and towns, so the radiation control area was larger.

It was also because there were so many villages and towns to support that the food was sufficient. Therefore, compared with the old Qi that was almost completely collapsed by famine before Roland came, these two cities could barely maintain normal order.

Although Roland's conquest caused some turmoil, no matter what, the newly included land was better than the original old Qi.

After recruiting a large number of officials from the old Qi, Roland quickly established his rule on the newly conquered land.

While the officials were working hard, the army that had just completed a war did not rest immediately.

Although it was a bit surprising that Roland could use a small city in the old Qi as a base and easily crush and swallow a force four or five times larger than him, Roland's neighbors were still ready to move.

Even if Roland's army did not suffer serious losses and they did not dare to confront them head-on, they still dared to take advantage of the chaos and secretly rob a few villages and towns on the border.

Therefore, Roland could only quickly recruit all the horses in the controlled area to improve the mobility of the army, so that they could disperse and quickly rush to various border villages and towns to kill all the enemy troops who tried to fish in the water.

For these invading enemy troops, Roland had only one attitude: no prisoners, kill them all, until they dared not come.

Relying on this tough attitude and the rule that Roland gradually established in the newly conquered land, although several villages were massacred, the invading soldiers were basically left behind. Therefore, the various forces that did not gain much advantage and even suffered losses withdrew their prying eyes as if nothing had happened.

Although this was only Roland's first expansion, after owning three cities and a large number of villages and towns, Roland did not plan to continue expanding in the rear.

Although the separatist forces in the rear are already an established fact, it does not mean that the separatist forces can expand recklessly in the rear. Occasional small fights are fine, but if they continue to expand and keep their swords pointed at each other in the rear instead of the Green Tide in the front.

Then, the big fist of the coalition army will come down and crush Roland with one punch.

Although Roland does not think that the coalition army can crush him with one punch, Roland does not need to go against the coalition army now, as the Green Tide is still watching.

After having a sufficient base and making a name for himself, Roland does not plan to continue fighting internally.

Although the enemies in the rear are a bunch of rotten fish and shrimps, they can easily expand, but due to Roland's special ruling policy, there are still certain risks.

For the nobles and knights of these small cities, killing two or three cities is fine, and you can find an excuse to cover it up. After all, other forces will do the same.

But if you keep doing this, Roland will be beaten up sooner or later.

Therefore, in Roland's plan, the expansion in the rear is only used to accumulate original capital. After having a basic logistics base and a suitable population, Roland will attack the Green Tide to the east.

In the current coalition army, fighting the Green Tide is undoubtedly the current version answer and political correctness.

As long as you can defeat the Green Tide and keep the land you have taken back, all these lands will belong to the conqueror, and you can do whatever you want without any restrictions from the coalition army.

If you occupy enough land, even if you want to make yourself an earl, a grand duke, etc., the coalition army will dare to admit it and give it.

Compared with scheming with others in the rear, it is easier to paint on a piece of black paper and redraw it white.

In the old Qi City, Roland sat in front of a chair in a simple room in the city hall.

Opposite him, a fully armed knight was arguing with Roland.

This is the knight sent by Locke.

After all, when Roland joined the army before, he did not join the United Army directly, but chose to join the Locke Rebel Army within the United Army. Therefore, Roland's current direct superior is Locke.

The taxes and soldiers he has to pay are also directly handed over to the Locke Rebel Army.

Therefore, after Roland annexed new lands and cities, Locke also sent people to negotiate with Roland about the tax issues of these newly conquered lands.

At the beginning, Locke threw Old Qi directly to Roland as a negative asset, so he also attached the condition that Old Qi City would not pay taxes for ten years, but Roland's newly conquered land had to pay taxes.

Regarding the tax contract, the two talked very smoothly and soon reached terms that both parties could accept.

Locke wanted more food, while Roland hoped to reduce the expenditure on the eligible population.

The two sides hit it off, and two new feudal contracts were signed on the spot.

However, after discussing the tax contract, Roland's application for an independent attack on the Green Tide had some differences.

The representative knight sent by Locke was naturally happy to see Roland willing to invest his strength to fight against the Green Tide, but he did not agree with Roland fighting against the Green Tide independently.

The Locke resistance army was also quite clear about the situation of the Green Tide warlords' separatism. Therefore, the Locke resistance army's strategy against the Green Tide was to concentrate its strength to encircle and suppress one warlord, while other warlords remained on the defensive and tried to avoid provoking multiple warlords as much as possible.

Therefore, Locke would never agree to Roland fighting independently. What if Roland provoked other warlords and destroyed their strategy?

Therefore, the two sides argued endlessly about this.

Although Roland made a promise, no means no, no matter how much he said.

After a peaceful argument for a while, both sides took a step back.

"It is impossible to fight independently. At most, I can help you apply for a certain degree of freedom and allow you to move within a certain range."

The knight representing Locke was the first to give in.

Although in his opinion, Roland's view of the Green Tide was too naive, thinking that he could fight the Green Tide with his own ability, but no matter how naive Roland was, he was better than those who were scheming in the rear and unwilling to go out at all. Roland was willing to send troops anyway.

Considering the situation on the front line, he thought that it was acceptable to give in a little in order to win Roland's help.

Although he was not very satisfied, Roland could understand it. After all, he had no record, and it was still a bit difficult to get the right to fight independently.

Roland was just trying it out, and it was not bad to get a certain degree of freedom.

Therefore, Roland nodded, agreed with his statement, and said in a calm tone.

"Okay, if the freedom right can be applied for, then I will send troops to support the front line within two months."