Mount & Blade: Wind of War

"Brother Rod!"

Although they had not been apart for many days, Anna seemed to have been away from Rod for a long time.

When they met again on the day of their departure, Anna got ready and launched a meat bomb attack, and then Rod squatted forward and hugged her like a pig.

"Woo, it's only been a few days since we last met, and our little Anna has become fat again. Is the food in the Moon Palace so good? You little fat girl! Hehe."

While speaking, Rod rubbed the little princess Anna's chubby face. For this, Anna also stretched out her little hand to rub it back, but her little fat hand was too short, so she could only bear it one-sidedly.

"Okay, master, we should go on the road."

Because of the separation and meeting, Cress on the side endured for a while, and finally couldn't help it at this moment and spoke.

"Sister Cress!"

Once again launched a meat bomb attack, and was once again hugged by Cress like a pig.

Everyone in the team laughed, except Katie, Luna, and Barry who were a little worried, everyone else liked this little guy very much.

Fifty dark armored cavalrymen, fifty charr guardians, twenty heavily armored war eagle knights (who had returned after sending James to Lonely Mountain Castle), eighty Rhodok heavy crossbowmen, and forty war lizardmen and wolf servants, all ready to set off again.

Compared with other armies in this century, the army of Lonely Mountain Castle has never lacked entertainment.

Rhodes believes that only a person who works hard can have fun to his heart's content, otherwise there will always be something pressing in his heart, and he will not be happy or happy to play.

On the other hand, if a person is under high pressure for a long time, he will lose most of his strength, just like a spring that has been compressed for a long time and loses its elasticity.

Therefore, in the army of Lonely Mountain Castle, people take turns to guard, those who take turns to guard work wholeheartedly, and those who rest play cards and chess to their heart's content.

Especially after leaving the wilderness, the further south you go, the more peaceful and prosperous you will find, at least in the northern provinces.

Grand Duke Daenerys is very resourceful. She sets up small parliaments with the City of the Bright Moon as the center and taverns and inns in various places as nodes.

Daenerys usually listens to the discussions of the people below about city policies and local laws. Since these debates come from all classes, they are quite intense.

She usually does not listen to the accusations and complaints of local people against local lords, because excessive interference in the affairs of the lords' territories below will cause fear among the entire aristocracy.

However, even so, Grand Duke Daenerys's control over the northern provinces has been greatly strengthened. She only took action against a few unscrupulous lords who were hated by the heavens and the people, conquered their territories, and confiscated their property, but did not occupy the territory, but gave it to the emerging nobles.

Rational, restrained, beat a group, pull a group, and divide a group. Therefore, the people at the bottom regard Grand Duke Daenerys as hope and savior, but at the same time, they do not touch the bottom line of the entire aristocracy. After all, the war was not launched without reason. The guys who were killed did go too far, and the power of the City of the Bright Moon was so strong that it was terrifying.

Therefore, under the management of Grand Duke Daenerys, the reputation of the Khalasar family as the uncrowned king of the North is getting higher and higher.

The behavior of bad nobles has been restrained, the behavior of good nobles has been encouraged and supported, the new knights have a promotion channel, the people's grievances have been redressed, and everyone is happy.

The Northern Province is also increasingly prosperous under the operation of this set of combined punches.

However, after gradually leaving the Northern Province, it is a different scene.

There are many refugees and bandits are rampant. At the beginning, Rhodes was still enthusiastic to suppress the bandits. After all, the army of the Lonely Mountain Castle is also a group of killers. If they don't see blood for too long, their morale will drop and they will become very unhappy.

In fact, normally, it is good for an army to maintain a morale of about 60 for a long time. Those who can maintain a morale of 70 for a long time are elite soldiers. The morale of many lords' local armed forces hovers around 40-50.

However, Rhode and his army were used to staying in the wilderness where there was a small battle every three days and a big battle every five days. When the morale of the troops dropped below 90 through the system panel, he felt a sense of crisis and needed to fight one or two battles to boost morale.

However, after suppressing bandits twice in the local area, he found that those so-called bandits were simply farmers who could not survive.

The Styak Empire has been peaceful for two hundred years. The population has increased greatly, but there is only so much land. Although there is some development, the speed of development cannot be compared with the speed of population growth. People still have a certain attachment to their homeland, and the nobles and landlords have occupied the land. Therefore, any declining noble can sell his property and lead a team to open up wasteland on the border.

Even though many people know that it is a very dangerous thing.

"Master, don't they say that the further south you go, the more prosperous it is? Why do I feel that the inland of this country is not as good as the northern provinces?" Although Cress was also one of the people who followed Rhode out, she was young and had no experience at that time. Now she followed him back again to compare, and she had her own feelings.

"The total economic output is still higher here, but due to the increasing population, once averaged out, the central interior of the empire will not be able to compare with the better-developed border provinces. This is true for any kingdom. It will be strong in the early stage. The trunk is weak and the branches are weak, and the trunk is weak and the branches are strong in the later period. This is an objective law of development, and it does not even change depending on whether the ruler is wise or not.”

Sitting on the horse and leading the team forward, looking at the ragged civilians begging for food on the road, although they couldn't bear it, they could only continue to move forward.

If productivity does not develop, this kind of thing will eventually be inevitable. Even if productivity has developed to an extremely high level in the last generation, there are still many countries and regions that are still living on the edge of barely surviving.

Politics (the country) and economy (the level of productivity development) are like legs for the country to move forward. If any one of them is broken, a large population is not only a strength, but a dangerous warning red line.

"Unfortunately, what I need to consider most now is not to improve the level of productivity development, but to improve extraordinary combat power and enhance the survivability of the race. Otherwise, in the future world, all living beings will be wiped out, and it will be meaningless to increase the level of productivity development. ”

Traveling, thinking, and moving forward, as time goes by, the team from Gushan Castle is getting closer and closer to the royal capital Fastel.