Devil's Law Pit Filling Project

Chapter 76 The Prairie Wind Rises

In January 970, Du Wei married Karina.

The empire generously gave Du Wei the title of Prince, and sealed another piece of land to Du Wei—that is, the northern province bordering the criminals and deploying three major fortresses.

Anyway, these places were originally managed by Du Wei, who had the title of marshal, and Prince Tulip was originally a member of the imperial family, so no matter how he sealed it, it was also a royal thing, and it was just a name.

However, under Du Wei's insistence, the northwest did not hang the banner of the royal thorn flower.Du Wei still wants to maintain the purity of tulips in his own birthplace.

After the wedding was held under the witness of His Majesty the Pope—to be honest, the Pope did not want to see such a scene, so he was always lukewarm—Karina immediately named Du Wei as the regent of the empire, Together with the empress, she leads the government affairs of the empire.

However, the two seem to have a clearer division of labor.Du Wei mainly takes care of the affairs of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Military Affairs, while the Ministry of Finance is jointly managed by the two.

The prairie people and Nanyang people who got the news told Du Wei that Saladin sent the gift directly to Loulan City, while Lufick sent it to the Prince's Mansion.Even the elves in the north heard the news, so Luoxue came here to sit with Du Wei for a while, and gave the elves blessing - a tea set made of leaves.

But Du Wei doesn't live in the Prince's Mansion now—nonsense, which imperial regent have you ever seen live outside the palace?But Qiao Qiao and Vivian insisted on staying in the Prince's Mansion.This gave Du Wei a headache as well, so he could only keep running in two places.Anyway, with his strength, a back and forth is only a matter of a few breaths.

In June, Qiaoqiao traveled around on the grounds that he was not in a good mood.Du Wei knew the young lady's petty temper, but he didn't stop her. He asked Rodriguez to help secretly follow and protect her, and let her go freely.In fact, with Qiao Qiao's current strength, there is really no one who can be her opponent, a ninth-level magician or an eighth-level warrior!And most of the holy rank powerhouses who could beat her had good friends with Du Wei and would not make things difficult for her.

In September, under Philip's plan, large-scale construction began in Northwest Desa Province and Nulin Province.Karina also specially issued an immigration order to encourage citizens of the empire to develop in the northwest.

Speaking of Philip, since Du Wei became a member of the royal family, his status has also changed from a staff member of the local aristocrats to an adviser to the royal family.Although he didn't take office directly in the imperial court, his power was no less than that of the ministers of the empire!

A city of miracles like Loulan City did not appear again, because Du Wei no longer had tears and stars falling.I had to build step by step bit by bit.However, with the dual financial support of the royal family and tulips, the speed is extremely fast.

In November, an emissary from the elves entered the imperial capital, causing a sensation.Overjoyed, Du Wei established diplomatic relations with the elves, and began planning to develop trade with the elves in the northeast of the empire, which is the territory of Kamisiro.Camisiro got his wish and got a son, the earl had a successor, and the family got such a big cake, and they were completely devoted to the royal family and Tulip, and had no second thoughts.

Five years passed quickly in Empire 970.The new year will soon be ushered in.However, Duke Tulip and Her Majesty the Queen have been married for more than a year, but there is no news about the slightest heir, which aroused the curiosity and worry of many people.

But Du Wei ignored this voice at all, and still went his own way, taking care of the government on a daily basis. "Your Highness, according to the news from the Alpha Knights, there have been many conflicts between the prairie people and the orcs. However, when the war broke out, Daxueshan suddenly summoned the disciples, and it seemed to be restored. A large number of wizards withdrew, which brought a heavy burden to the prairie people. Attack. How we should do it, we still hope to show."

Du Wei, who was in the dormitory, looked at the handwritten letter from Northwest Philip, smiled after reading it, and burned the letter.The flames shone on his face, bright and dark.

"What's the matter, Du Wei, is it the news from Philip?"

Karina was still lying on the bed.Du Wei put on his clothes: "Well, there's a big commotion on the grassland."

Du Wei's economic offensive back then has gone through the test of more than three years, and it has shown great results!The herdsmen on the grassland exchanged a large number of cattle and sheep for imperial supplies.However, everything was exchanged for cattle and sheep, and the empire’s cattle and sheep were flooded. Although many of them were moved to the places where grass was planted in the past, trying to cultivate the empire’s own excellent pastures and get rid of the supply of grasslands, there were still too many.

When there are too many cattle and sheep, it will bring depreciation!

Originally, [-] cows could be exchanged for one high-grade gemstone, but now [-] cows may not necessarily be exchanged.The imperial merchants were unwilling to continue accepting cattle and sheep.Because there are too many!Merchants can't get rid of these cattle and sheep at all.The lower and lower profits lead to the loss of trade on both sides.

Later, at the request of many small tribes, the empire "reluctantly" opened a new trading channel: war horses!

right!Since cattle and sheep are no longer enough to look at, let's exchange them for something with a higher gold content!war horse!

In fact, the empire has long wanted to do this.However, the big tribes in the grassland were very opposed to this at the beginning, so it has been left alone.However, with the large-scale depreciation of cattle and sheep, the grassland has nothing to offer!Instead, the empire took up airs and was unwilling to exchange war horses.Later, it was the Tulip family who negotiated with the prairie people and lowered the price of war horses to a very low level, so the empire agreed to add horses to the trade system.

Over the past few years, hundreds of thousands of war horses have flowed into the empire!

Although the large tribe headed by Saladin on the grassland intends to stop it, the goods of the empire are so easy to use!Can't stop it at all.

For example, a set of high-quality mahogany furniture produced by the empire originally required [-] sheep to exchange, but there are more and more cattle and sheep, and after the depreciation, [-] sheep are needed!But if you trade with war horses, you may only need two hundred horses.So, do you think the herdsmen of the small grassland tribe will exchange three thousand sheep or two hundred horses?The answer is self-evident.

Under the ingenious operation of the empire, a large number of war horses flowed into the empire.

Finally, after two years, the United Tribes can't sit still!They began to restrict those small tribes from continuing to trade horses with the empire.As soon as this order came out, it immediately caused a huge wave of protests—why are you allowed to trade war horses, but we are not allowed to use them! ?Because the grassland people are a powerful regime after all, although ordinary herdsmen are ordered not to trade, some princes and nobles of the tribe will still do this!To put it bluntly, only state officials are allowed to set fires, and the common people are not allowed to light lamps.This attracted a lot of hatred to the alliance.

On the eve of the war between humans and criminals, there was even a military mutiny in the grassland - in order to buy goods from the empire, a stupid tribal patriarch forcibly replaced all the war horses of a group of tribes with cattle and sheep according to the price ratio on the grassland up!This is one of the flaws of economic hysteresis.Although according to the price of the empire, the ratio of war horses to cattle and sheep is almost more than one to one hundred, but the grassland is still about one to ten as before!This is equivalent to the direct depreciation of the tribal wealth under his command by ten times!

The uneven distribution of wealth is always the trigger point of social conflicts.The occurrence of this flash point immediately set off a large-scale mutiny on the grassland-small tribes with huge cattle and sheep united to resist the big tribes with a small number of cattle and sheep but a large army!

But Saladin watched from the other side at that time.Just when the alliance was almost completely abolished, Saladin suddenly appeared with an army!He wiped out a large number of tribes in one fell swoop and became the biggest force on the grassland!

Du Wei was in charge of various negotiations with criminals at the time, how could he have time to manage the expansion of Saladin's power on the grassland?

Saladin changed suddenly and became the king of the prairie that even the wizards of the Snow Mountain must recognize!

The first thing Saladin did when he became the king of the prairie was to boycott the trade with the empire!He deeply felt the power of this soft knife. If it weren't for the soft knife to keep cutting the opponent's flesh, Saladin would not be able to unify the grassland.

The empire immediately condemned Saladin's breach of contract with the most severe official document.However, since the empire has just ended a war, and the war reparations have not yet been fully paid, they can only let it go.

Although Saladin resisted the trade, he did not dare to directly prohibit it.He didn't want to have a group of guys with no loyalty under his command.

However, Du Wei was not someone to bully. He immediately ordered to increase the export and purchase of goods on the grassland!He even established a fixed exchange ratio between gold coins and war horses!War horses are directly defined as the standard currency of the grassland, while cattle and sheep are worthless.

A large amount of gold coins flowed into the hands of grassland herdsmen, and the stable exchange ratio allowed them to get more and more wealth.Within a few months, the empire's war horses surged by more than [-] horses!

On the grassland, anyone who entered a herdsman's house could find daily necessities of the empire.And make the lives of herdsmen better.The reduction in the number of cattle, sheep and horses, and the inflow of imperial daily necessities, furniture and goods gradually changed their nomadic nature to settlement.

This created great discontent in Saladin's army!

Why should our soldiers shed blood and sweat, not as good as those herdsmen! ?They eat well, wear well, and use well!But what about us?

Contradictions are gradually accumulating.

But I have to say that Saladin is indeed a very capable person!When society accumulates contradictions, what is the best solution?

war!

War can turn the internal contradictions of society to the outside and ease the pressure of governance.

The criminals suffered a huge blow in the war with the empire, and many orcs moved to the mountains to prevent the war from breaking out again.This led to more orc armies faced by the prairie people.

However, when Saladin was preparing to attack the criminals, a secret order came from the snow mountain—the snow mountain was rebuilt!What made him vomit blood was that almost all the wizards evacuated when the Shuangfa army had reached the border of Chen Bing!This directly led to changes in Saladin's deployment, and the first battle ended in failure.

Du Wei, who was far away in the imperial capital, looked at this information and smiled slightly.He knew that the opportunity to solve the grassland threat had come.