Chapter 407: Chapter 407: The Defense of Melox

Aslan is different from other lords, the tax he collects has been used for various public facilities.

School construction, try our best to make all the children of the people able to study. The construction of new urban areas allows people to live in bright and spacious new buildings.

Not to mention the benefits of connecting roads and other public facilities in various places, so that the people can feel the benefits personally.

People are naturally happy to pay taxes.

Anyway, whoever is a lord has to pay taxes. It's just that they pay taxes to Aslan, and the people pay them willingly.

The half-month-long plunder made the ten-party alliance furious, and quickly pulled up a big net to encircle the three troops that penetrated deep into the hinterland.

However, the old foxes like Yizhak immediately evacuated at the slightest sign of trouble, leaving the Ten-Party Alliance in vain and had to rebuild the defense line.

The former unified army camp is still in ruins, but the original big pit has been filled.

When Yitzhak led the people through the old camp, he couldn't help sighing, "Aslan is even crazier than I expected."

The surrounding officers remained silent one by one.

Can that be described as crazy? That is simply a demon.

There are not half a million soldiers from the ten-party coalition army rushing to the camp of the unified army, but there should be 400,000! It's all gone.

The construction of the new fortress is in full swing, and there is a huge camp next to it, which is filled with countless supplies, many of which are the food and grass they need now.

Aslan was leading people to count the food and grass, and Jiedu quietly appeared behind Yitzhak, acting as a guard.

Yitzhak walked over with a smile on his face.

"A complete victory! Congratulations."

Aslan handed the list to Jiedu, and said unhurriedly: "It's just that the casualties are a bit heavy. In the next few years, Melox province can only rely on farming at home."

Yitzhak became a little embarrassed and couldn't talk anymore.

"Here is the one million tons of grain in the treaty, and the other side is the first batch of grain sold to the kingdom, a total of one million tons." Seeing that Yitzhak was embarrassed, Aslan also changed the subject at the right time.

"That's great, these grains are just right to meet the urgent needs of our army!" Yitzhak said happily.

Aslan asked directly, "Then how much are you going to buy?"

Yitzhak was dumbfounded, and at the same time understood what Aslan meant. The price at which the contract was signed at the beginning was completely the price of the grain harvest period. Compared with the grain price in the current market, the difference between the two is more than ten times.

"Five times the price!" Yitzhak asked tentatively.

Aslan pondered for a while, then nodded and said, "Happy cooperation!"

Yitzhak couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and was worried that Aslan would open his mouth like a lion. After all, this time he went south to plunder, he couldn't get much food at all, but consumed a lot of food. From this point, it can be seen that in the future, I don't know how many people will starve to death.

After loading all the grain, a mighty convoy began to drive out of the camp of the United Army. Watching the huge convoy leave, Yitzhak suddenly said a word.

"If possible, I hope your army can accept more refugees who wander over."

Aslan nodded.

This is the development plan of Melox Province in the next few years, and it will naturally take in refugees with all its strength.

When Alonso came back this time, he also came back early, but he was stopped by strange enemies on the way. When he came back, he happened to see Yizhak receiving all the food and grass, and was slowly retreating back to the capital. Alonso couldn't help roaring at the swaying convoy.

In this plunder, he robbed hundreds of millions of mark coins, and only a few tens of thousands of gold coins. Today's ten-party alliance has suffered severe inflation due to war, and now the mark coins have been severely depreciated, not to mention that Kyoto no longer accepts mark coins as currency. Started to implement the new currency, the new currency is still mainly metal coins, with a very stable purchasing power.

Bringing these mark coins back to Kyoto seems to be a lot of 100 million, but the actual purchasing power is not even one-tenth. This is the attitude of the entire Kingdom of Cleveland towards mark coins today.

If it were not for the pressure of bulk commodities, the depreciation rate of Mark would continue to rise.

"It's not the time for Alonso to act impulsively now. He will buy food from Aslan with the stolen marks. Otherwise, the Snow Fox Legion will be under great pressure in the future." Yuri reminded helplessly.

Alonso opened his mouth slightly, and in the end, the responsibility of buying food was completely handed over to Yuri.

Obviously, he didn't have the guts to go himself, he was afraid that Aslan would humiliate himself by doing so.

He finally realized that when the support agreement was signed, there was no fixed choice for the purchaser of grain and grass. This was the reason why Aslan firmly chose the Kingdom of Cleveland.

From the very beginning, he planned to use this to tie the kingdom's neck, and the food would still be sold, but it was impossible to sell it at the price that was signed.

Because Aslan has the right to choose, if he doesn't buy it, there are a lot of nobles and lords in the kingdom who will sell it.

Yuri went to the United Army camp alone, and then bought food very simply, but bought it at ten times the original signed price, and then calculated the depreciation of the mark.

Nearly 100 million marks, Yuri only bought 100,000 tons of grain, almost 200 million catties of grain, enough to consume the 100,000 troops of the Snow Fox Army for eighteen months, and should be able to support the Snow Fox Army until the locust plague passed.

In the end, the future Karal was very straightforward. He had already received the news that the very bachelor handed over the 200 million mark coins he had robbed to Aslan in exchange for 200,000 tons of grain to take back.

It’s just that he is more experienced than Alonso. In this plunder, he robbed a food storage warehouse of the Ten-Party Alliance, which contained more than 200,000 tons of food. The food was enough for the Iron Wall Army to consume, and he could also subsidize some Give territory.

As for handing over to the emperor, that is impossible, even the regent. This is the biggest loophole in the existing system of the Kingdom of Cleveland.

The only area that the royal family can really rule is the province of Cleveland. When the Ten-Party Alliance split the kingdom, the local lords refused to pay any taxes on the grounds of preparing for war. If the emperor could not protect them, they would directly surrender to the Ten-Party Alliance and become the Ten-Party Alliance. a member of

This has to be said to be a kind of irony.

After staying in the field hospital for another half a month, all the soldiers who could be saved were rescued, and all the soldiers who could not be saved were sealed by Aslan with ice magic and brought back to their hometown.

One month after the Battle of Melox ended.

Marquis Aslan, Lord of Melo, escort 40,000 heroic spirits home with your Melo army.

Every time they pass through a region, the corpses of frozen soldiers will be handed over to the regional unified army under the city gate.

The soldiers of the Melo Army took off their helmets one after another, lowered their heads and watched the bodies of the fallen soldiers enter the martyrs cemetery.

This is Aslan's strong request to allow the regions to be established after the war.