Tiger Zhengse said: "Yes, your words are very reasonable, I have a hunch that there will be major changes in the Roland Continent, otherwise Your Majesty would not be in such a hurry to exchange us back, and it is still the price of using eight hundred warships" Luo Di nodded: "After you return to China this time, I guess His Majesty will definitely use you, and there must be room for your ability to be used." ” Tiger shook his head and said, "Although I am a soldier, I am not a war maniac.
This kind of thing is still avoidable.
Once war arises, it is countless money and food, human lives. ” Luo Di was in awe, and said with a straight face: "I can't imagine that you still have such noble thoughts." ” Tiger smiled bitterly, seemed to look left and right, showed a somewhat hesitant expression on his face, and said in a low voice: "Your Excellency Earl, if I am not mistaken, then Your Majesty is in such a hurry to change us back this time, you must be preparing to fight with the temple, you must also know this, but from your point of view, can we win?"
Roddy couldn't help but smile and said, "General Tiger, you don't seem to be the right person to ask me this question."
Tiger smiled faintly: "There is nothing that is not suitable."
Anyway, everyone knows this matter in their hearts, and I also have some thoughts in my heart, but our Sauron Kingdom is currently short of talents, and it is rare to meet such a person as you who knows the military, so I naturally can't help but ask you for some advice. ” Luo Di's heart moved, and he couldn't help but smile: "General Tiger, these words of yours, must have been asked by His Majesty the King to ask me."
"Yes" Tiger actually did not have the slightest intention of vetoing: "Although I don't understand what Your Majesty means, he actually asked me to come to you to talk about these things, and he attaches great importance to you in his words, I was originally a little puzzled in my heart, but when I talked to you just now, I found that you do have extraordinary opinions on these things."
If I have come to you on the orders of Your Majesty, then I am asking these questions now out of my personal respect for you."
Roddy squinted at Tiger for a moment.
Although he didn't have a good impression of the king, it was obvious that the king was ready to make one last use of himself, and dig out the last bit of use value from himself before leaving.
But the Tiger General in front of him did make Roddy feel a little good in his heart.
This guy dares to say and do, without any pretenses, and is exactly the kind of person that Roddy admires.
After thinking about it, Roddy sighed, forget it, for Tiger's sake, he won't be embarrassed by him.
"General Tiger, if you must listen to my opinion" Luo Di said with a straight face: "To be honest, I don't think that even if more than a dozen countries of Roland unite against the temple this time, they may not be able to win" "Oh" Tiger only raised his eyebrows, but he didn't show too much surprise.
Luo Di nodded, and said: "To be clear, I admit the quality of the army, if Roland's more than a dozen countries are united, in terms of the number of troops, it will naturally be the Holy Knights who occupy the absolute superiority of the temple, no matter how much it expands, it will only be 200,000 people."
And the more than a dozen countries in the Roland Continent, if they really work hard, even if they cobble together more than a million troops, it is not a difficult thing However, the combat effectiveness of the army does not lie in the huge number, but in the elite."
"Not bad," Tiger sighed, "if we were to compare only by numbers, then we wouldn't lose to you."
I later learned that your Thor's Whip had just been reorganized before the war, and that during that war, your Central Cavalry Corps had only 50,000 men on active duty.
But these 50,000 people, together with your Northern Legion, can defeat our huge army of 800,000. ” "Yes, the combat power of the Holy Knights is no less than the Whip of Thor, and more importantly," Luo Di thought for a moment and said, "It is the Temple of the People's Heart that has ruled the Roland Continent for too long, and almost most of them believe in the Temple of Faith, whether it is among the nobles or the people.
Even if the king orders the war, when the time comes, the people's hearts will be directed to whom, or I even doubt that after the war begins, the people in the rear will riot before you are defeated at the front."
"Yes."
Tiger's face was a little melancholy: "This is also the concern in my heart, the temple has gained people's hearts in a religious way, and if we can't win people's hearts, then it will be terrible." ” Luo Di smiled slightly and said, "However, it is not impossible to defeat the temple.
It's just that" Tiger raised his eyebrows and said, "You don't have to worry about anything, please just say it." ” Roddy seemed to smile at Tiger and said slowly, "I'm afraid that if I say this, you will think that I am selfish." ” Tiger immediately said proudly: "You don't have to be like this, besides, I'm not a fool, if you really hurt me badly, can't I see it?"
Luo Di smiled lightly, then put away his smile and said: "My way is to drag" "Drag" "Not bad" Roddy's eyes flashed: "The longer the war is delayed, the better, it is better to fight for three or five years, or even longer, and it is nothing to fight for ten or eight years."
"What" Tiger finally showed a surprised look in his eyes: "Do you know how much damage it will cause to the Roland Continent if a war like that is ten or eight years like that?"
Speaking of this, he showed a little anger in his eyebrows, and looked at Roddy fiercely.
"I know" Luo Di said coldly: "The longer the war drags on, the more people will die, and the vitality of the Roland Continent will be greatly damaged."
"Now that you know this, you also gave me such advice" Tiger narrowed his eyes and said coldly: "Could it be that your Bright Empire hopes to lead the Thunder God Whip across the sea after our Roland Continent is full of devastation?"
"Hahahahaha" Roddy burst out laughing, his laughter was a little shocking, so that Tiger couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart when he heard it.
"General Tiger, I just said that I am afraid that you may not be able to listen to my advice, since this is the case, then I will stop talking."
Tiger showed a complicated look in his eyes, and seemed to hesitate for a moment before he bowed down, raised his head and said, "It's me who is too impatient, please continue." ” Luo Di looked at Tiger coldly, and said lightly: "You don't doubt my intentions" Tiger said, "I doubt it, but I think more about it." ” After a pause, the first warrior of the Sauron Kingdom said, "Based on what I just talked to you, I can see that your talent is extraordinary, even if you want to calculate us, you will definitely not say such a plan that can be seen through at a glance."
So I guess you must have something more to say."
Roddy squinted his eyes and stared at Tiger, and a little feeling suddenly welled up in his heart that if the Roland coalition was not united within itself and did not have unified orders with each other during the war, then it would not be so easy for him to defeat this guy Luo Di finally retracted his gaze and said slowly: "Okay General Tiger, in your opinion, the war between your country and the temple, I think you must have analyzed it, what weaknesses do you think the temple can take advantage of?"
"This," Tiger only hesitated for a moment, then said, "I think the biggest weakness of the temple at the moment is that they have too few troops.
Although the Holy Knights are powerful, if we take advantage of the advantage of numbers and fight with them, we may not have a chance."
"Hahahaha" Luo Di deliberately laughed coldly a few times, pretending to be dissatisfied: "You are lying to me, if this is all you know, then I really doubt that General Tiger, who is known as the first commander of the Sauron Kingdom, can only have such a little knowledge" Tiger blushed before gritting his teeth and saying, "I'm okay, my opinion, it's that the temple lacks a foundation" "Oh" Luo Di was slightly surprised, he couldn't imagine that this pure soldier actually saw such a point It stands to reason that the temple has ruled the Roland continent for thousands of years, and its history is even longer than that of many small kingdoms, but Tiger said that the temple lacks a "foundation" Luo Di sighed, "I didn't think you thought of that." ” After a pause, Roddy decided not to go around in circles with him anymore, and said, "If you want to hear my opinion, then I'll be blunt" Tiger nodded, looked left and right, and then pulled Roddy to the edge of the pool and sat down.
Roddy pondered for a moment, then spoke slowly.
"Although the temple is extremely influential in the Roland Continent, it has one of the most fatal weaknesses, it does not have its own territory, it can be said, even the weakest country on the Roland Continent has its own territory, its own people, and its own grain fields and land, but these, the temple does not" "In other words, the temple has always ruled the Roland Continent by virtue of its own prestige, and its financial revenue only depends on the offerings of the various countries in the Roland Continent, as well as various religious taxes of the people."
"You also know that war, fighting is that if there is no land for money and food, there will be no money and food, and its Holy Knights is an extremely elite army, but the more elite the army, the more scary it is to spend money."
"At the beginning of the war, the temple may still have a lot of money and food to use, but these money and food can't be spent all the time, and in terms of financial resources, the more than a dozen countries in the Roland continent combined, how can they be stronger than the temple, hmph, I think, in the beginning stage, the temple may be able to defeat you with a strong army, but as long as you can lead the army to fight steadily, and the other party will be delayed."
"The temple will definitely feel that it can't support it, once the war starts, then the countries of the Roland continent will not continue to pay taxes to the temple anymore, and the temple will lose money and food, and it will become a big tree without roots."
"Why can the temple win the hearts of the people now, I think what worship of the gods, or what blessings of the gods, are all fake, I don't know what you know, according to my understanding, at present, ordinary families in the Roland Continent, if the annual income is divided into ten shares, four-tenths of them have to pay taxes to various countries, and only two-tenths of the religious taxes handed over to the temple are their own.
Ordinary people don't really think much, the temple has low taxes, and the kingdom has high taxes, so in their hearts, the temple is better than the kingdom."
"If it were me, I would have lowered the kingdom's taxes to an even outrageous point before the war began, and then after the war began, you would have lost some territory in the beginning.
However, in order to obtain the support of money and food, the temple will definitely start to collect taxes, so no matter how much tax it collects, it will inevitably lose the hearts of the people, and in my guess, the temple's current financial resources, in the face of a full-scale war on the entire continent, can maintain the war for half a year to a year at most.
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When it runs out of money and food, taxation is the inevitable outcome.
In this way, the tax levied by the temple will inevitably be higher than that of the kingdom, because if the tax is low, it will not be enough for the people to gradually stop supporting the temple."
"But" Luo Di smiled: "People's hearts are selfish An ordinary family, you let it hand over 20% of its income every year to worship the temple and believe in the gods, maybe they can accept it, but if you ask them to hand over half or even half of their income to worship the gods, then half of the people will not be willing to face the big things of survival, eating, etc."
Faith and religion become insignificant" Roddy smiled deeply: "I know that some religious fanatics may even donate their entire fortune, but that kind of madman is a minority after all.
One religious fanatic out of a thousand people would be a good majority, well, no, it should be the vast majority of people, very ordinary people.
In this way, things are much simpler, the temple has lost the hearts of the people, and as long as you hold out long enough, then the final victory is not hopeless. ” "Another important point, the temple only has 200,000 Holy Knights, and their only way is to hope that they can defeat your main force in a big battle as soon as possible.
So, you might as well give up some territory and hide from each other.
If the temple wants to occupy those territories, it can only divide its troops to control it, so that their already slightly numerical forces are even weaker, you don't have to worry about the problem of troops, just let it occupy the place, and wait until they divide the troops to take it back.
Those small groups of local defenders, no matter how elite the Holy Knights are, must not be able to resist the same purpose, not allowing them to receive money, food and taxes smoothly."
Luo Di sighed: "Actually, this method, the most difficult thing is that at the beginning of the war, those guys in the temple are not all fools, there are always people who will think of this, and they will inevitably try their best to end the war as soon as possible, so in the early stage of the war, your pressure will be very great, so persistence is the only way, if you are not defeated by the temple within two years, then after two years, the situation will improve" Tiger took a deep breath, as if trying to digest Roddy's words, and then he smiled bitterly: "You mean, in the early days of the war, let us lower taxes to win the hearts and minds of the people, but our huge army also needs money to support" Luo Di sneered: "With the financial resources of more than a dozen countries in the Roland Continent, it will definitely last longer than the temple, even if you can't support it financially in the end, hmph, then the king has forgotten that there is a dwarf country behind him, the people there are not from the Roland Continent, and they can collect high taxes at will, the dwarf clan doesn't even have its own army now, and there is an inland sea in the middle, do you think the temple can hit the dwarf country, and the dwarf country has been doing ironwood trade for hundreds of years, they are very rich" After a pause, Luo Di said cautiously: "Even if it is still difficult for you to support our Bright Empire in the end, you can consider funding some money and food for you at the appropriate time, of course, in order to ensure our position, and in order not to make you uneasy, we will not directly send troops across the sea."
Tiger smiled bitterly: "This plan is too weird, but now that I think about it, it is the only way."
It's just that I'm not very good at finance."
Luo Di was in his heart, and simply made another bad note: "There are so many kingdoms in the Roland Continent, so many nobles, and the family is often full of slaves, and the wealth is rivaling the country, if you are really short of money and food, you might as well use knives to raid the homes of these nobles, hasn't the king done it?"
Tiger was so frightened that he couldn't help but say, "This can't work."
Luo Di looked calm: "When things come to a dangerous moment, everything can be changed, if you can't figure it out, then the king must be able to figure it out."
Tiger looked uncertain, seemed to hesitate a little, and finally gritted his teeth, and said astringently: "Your Excellency the Earl's suggestion, I thank you in advance, although I myself have some thoughts on your opinions, but I will definitely convey these words to His Majesty the King."
Tiger seemed to have finally made up his mind, and said: "I admire Your Excellency very much, I don't know if Mr.
Earl is interested in staying in the Roland Continent, help me, I will definitely promise to persuade His Majesty the King to give you the best treatment, I think" Roddy smiled faintly, Tiger didn't know who he was, but the king did.
He simply refused.
Tiger still didn't give up, and even came up with the idea of inviting Roddy to help him as a military adviser with the relationship between the two allies, but Roddy refused.
In the end, the commander of the Sauron Kingdom sighed and said slowly: "Unexpectedly, the Duke Tulip of the Bright Empire has a lot of talents, although I haven't seen the strength of Lord Count with my own eyes, but today's talk also makes me admire in my heart."
After a pause, Tiger sighed: "It seems that in my life, I will not have the opportunity to re-compete with Duke Tulip on the battlefield for your country's powerful army and talents, I am convinced."
The general finally bowed to Roddy and walked away.
Roddy breathed a sigh of relief and was about to turn back to the hall when he heard the voice of Nitice next to him.
Nidis laughed sharply: "Okay, you Rodi, I can't imagine that you have such sinister intentions, and give such a desperate attention to the Roland people, if the Roland people listen to your nonsense, even if they defeat the temple in the end, I'm afraid that the entire Roland Continent will not be able to breathe for a hundred years."
To be continued: