Chapter 2042

This time Linton left for quite a long time, so it was natural for Linton to take a break and take the opportunity to spend time with his wife and children.

Of course, just eating, drinking, and having fun every day is quite boring. While spending time with his family, Linton has nothing to do and handles state affairs casually. After all, it can be regarded as helping his wife Yalan relieve work pressure.

After all, she is still the queen in name. Although Yalan has been absent from work all the time, and has reached the state of being absent from work, there are still many things that cannot be avoided.

For example, the elves surrendered recently, and they are going to come to the capital Wangcheng to sign the surrender treaty. The queen must attend. Even if the opponent is a defeated country and has already surrendered unconditionally, you can manipulate them however you want, but Yalan will definitely come forward in a formal diplomatic occasion such as signing a treaty.

There are also some other matters that obviously cannot be shirked. Of course, Linton will handle them here. From the Queen Yalan to the ministers below, no one has any objections. They really want to let Linton handle them all, because Yalan The empress Lan has been absent from work for too long, and the ministers below really think that the emperor is unreliable. Can you two discuss it quickly and let Linton come directly to forget it.

Yalan actually thinks the same way. Although her mentality has changed a bit now, she has begun to value the throne, but she values ​​it for her own children. As for Linton being the emperor, is there any difference between that and owning this position? It doesn't make any difference, you have to sit quickly, I just want to take the child.

The only person who didn't want to do it was Linton himself. Anyway, he was determined not to do it, but it didn't matter to help Yalan with his affairs.

The current overall situation of the Holy Empire of Elan is simply saying that it is thriving. The empire is still in a period of rapid growth, and there is no sign of decline at all.

The main thing inside is still development, which is mainly to absorb the national power after the integration of the three previous human empires. There are no surprises or difficulties at present, all that is needed is time. When the empire completely absorbs these national powers, the overall national power will probably reach one The point of horror is that it will not start to consider further development until then, so don't worry about it for the time being.

As for the outside world, the battle in the north has just ended, and the human army is on its way back to its original garrison. The elves have surrendered unconditionally, and the human race left a legion of hundreds of thousands of troops to maintain the situation there, and the other legions have been transferred back.

The treaty for the elves has already been drawn up on the human side. The other party surrenders unconditionally, and they don't have to care about whether they accept it or not. Anyway, they don't have the ability to resist now.

Linton had directly handed over the power to the ministers before, and the drafting of the treaty was mainly drafted by them, and the leader was Prime Minister Taillard. Linton completely handed over the power to deal with the elves to him, even if he wanted to wipe out the elves, Linton would not care.

But it seems that in the end Taillard chose to accept the surrender of the elves. In fact, Linton felt that the other party should be reading his own thoughts.

Obviously, if Linton is allowed to come, he will be absolutely reckless. As long as the elves dare to confront him, Linton must make them feel so regretful that they vomit blood. But Linton finally handed over the matter to Taillard, and Taillard probably felt that Linton just asked him to handle it a little softer.

As an old minister, Taillard is quite experienced in handling affairs here. In his opinion, in terms of interests, it is naturally not of much benefit to completely eliminate the elves. Linton's toughness belongs to him. Diplomatically speaking, it is a threat of a bad face and a lure of a red face. Now that Linton has given the final decision to himself, the red face, isn't his consciousness obvious?

So Tairad handled this matter fairly gently, at least agreeing to the surrender of the elves. Of course, the negotiations on the final interests of the two parties lasted for almost a month before they were finally reached.

Of course, the currently drafted treaty has also been sent to Linton. Although Linton said to let Taillard be the master, does he really dare to be the master? In the end, of course, Linton was the one to make the decision.

"Just pay for this?" Linton said, looking at the contract.

"Your Majesty, the elves are no match for us. Their annual tax revenue is only more than 3 million taels. In recent years, their expenses have been more than their income. They have been in deficit year after year, and they can't get anything out of it at all." Taillard said, Of course, they determined the final compensation price after carefully analyzing the financial income of the elves. They wanted to make more money if they could, but the elves were really poor.

If you want to ask why they are so poor over there, the main reason is that the elves are too kind to the people under their command. From their point of view, we are all members of the same clan, and we are all family members. Of course, it is impossible to collect too heavy taxes. Although it is difficult to maintain the country with such a small amount of money, the high-level elves really have no plans to change.

Linton looked at the financial report of the elves and felt that this country really didn't think about the future development. You say it’s okay to charge low taxes for your own people, but you should charge more for people of other races. But how did the elves do it? People of other races are not allowed to appear in the big forest, and once found, they will be arrested or expelled immediately.

Didn't they ever think that these people are laborers? As far as the national power of the country is so low that it is easily ravaged by the human race, no one thinks about the problem of development, and dreams of "the elves are invincible" all day long, so it is no wonder that they were beaten so badly in the end.

"That's it." Linton put down the contract casually and said, anyway, he really doesn't understand, so let's leave it to professional people. Letting him come is indeed to wipe out the clan at every turn. Of course, he also knows that killing the clan doesn't actually bring much benefit. As for the poor place of the elves, how much money can they get by killing them? Maybe even the funds for dispatching troops are not enough for reimbursement.

After the treaty is signed, the elves will directly become a vassal state of the human empire. Note that this is a vassal state in law. Once the elves sign the contract and recognize this status, it will be difficult to turn over.

As the suzerain country, their exploitation of the elves will be endless in the future. According to the plan of the human race, anyway, the whole elves will work for the human race. The big forest where the elves are located is a place with very rich products. It's just that the elves themselves don't know how to develop it.

Of course, the lack of development of the elves is mainly due to their love of nature and their homeland, and the human race does not care about their ideas. It is estimated that there will be a lot of conflicts in the local area in a short time. Of course, a legion of the empire stays in the There is also for this purpose, and it will not be withdrawn in a short time.

The matter of the elves has been settled for the time being. These ministers must be better at scraping money than themselves, and they are professional. Linton didn't care how much they could benefit from it, because corrupt officials in this world are not a headache for the country at all. In this kind of martial arts country, strength and force are the foundation of everything. No matter how much money you have, even if the country is rich, it is too far away to rebel, and there is no one to accompany you.

Like those holy grades, can you buy them with money? Can they help you out? Totally impossible. And the country has holy force, what do you dare to do?

But for a person like Linton who has holy power, if you don't pay a penny, a large number of people will follow you voluntarily. Just like Linton raised his arms and said that he would rebel, and ensured that the whole country would beat gongs, drums and set off firecrackers to welcome Linton. For example, Gassen, who has the strength of the holy level, raised his arms and guaranteed that a large number of people would directly follow him to rebel. That is the real threat.

As for corrupt officials, they are leeks raised by powerful people. You have to be greedy as much as possible, and the reason of having no money will kill you. In the eyes of everyone in this world, corrupt officials play such a role, even they themselves know it well, so they have never thought about rebellion, and this matter has nothing to do with them.

As for things like this group of people oppressing the people and causing the country's reputation to decline, they are actually not that bold at all. They can control money but not power, and they dare not do too much in order to protect themselves. Their self-awareness is just a handful of leeks, who knows when the people above will come? So try their best to ensure that they at least look immature.

Of course, these disguises are only for the people under his command after all, as for the elves? I'm sorry I didn't see how upset our Majesty Linton is with the elves? The pressure is so light that it feels like you are not on Linton's side, and they will work together. Looking at Linton's attitude, they will know how to treat the elves. It is definitely the kind that is squeezed to death.

In short, it can be foreseen that the life of the elves for a period of time will definitely be the kind that is full of water. The elves were obviously prepared, they just had no choice.

In terms of foreign affairs, this is the most important thing now. Some other conflicts are considered trivial. To be honest, Prime Minister Taillard didn't even report it, because Linton's temper is really bad. Before the elves The clan just didn't come to the full moon banquet, and the clan was almost wiped out in the end. He was really worried about these small conflicts and another announcement on Linton's side.

It's not that the empire can't afford war now, but it's really unnecessary. There are elves here to kill chickens and monkeys. After a while, the surrounding area will definitely stop a lot, let them develop well and digest for a while.

This is indeed the correct judgment, at least for the whole country. Of course, Linton's side is just a different way of looking at things at different heights.

Not much happened on the state side, and Linton was free. However, while he was doing tasks and spending time with his family, something did come to him.

When he was playing with the child that day, the guard reported to him. The dragon raised by Linton came back, but not in a good way. Gastherland came back with injuries.