Chapter 703 Situation Analysis (Hydrology)

There is no doubt that what Lance said made Greendale feel uneasy.

Because she knew what those so-called forces represented, the Empire, the Church, the Mercenary Guild, the Medical Association, the Business Alliance...

These are just the big ones, and those smaller forces are not counted.

"We are under a lot of pressure now. The problem of the ruins requires soldiers to guard, and there are so many nobles threatening us around.

More importantly, there are various forces. If the Medical Association blocks our drug sales, what should we do if those merchants cut off our supplies?

And if the church intervenes, those nobles will not be perfunctory like they did to the Empire, but may form a coalition to attack us..."

"Hahaha!"

Lance couldn't help laughing when he saw her so serious, which made Greendale a little dissatisfied, and frowned and questioned.

"You can still laugh at this time?"

"You think too highly of those guys. If they are really as terrible as you said, it is impossible."

Lance talked freely and gave Greendale an in-depth analysis of the current situation.

"I want to explain the situation here. First of all, although the Empire is in a stalemate and there is no war, neither side has the energy to cause trouble to us.

The same is true for the Church. According to the information collected, the Holy War failed, the Holy City was robbed, and a large number of Church legions were scattered and lost there, which has been a great loss of vitality.

Even the civil war in the Empire is a manifestation of the weakening of the Church's control, which has allowed a lot of messy things to emerge. Otherwise, they would not have reacted to such a big thing as the ruins.

The second is the various forces you mentioned. What can the Medical Association block us? Have you forgotten the medicinal fields you made in the past? The raw materials have always been in our hands, and we use the Roma channel. How can they block us?

The guys in the Mercenary Guild are scattered themselves. If they want to make trouble, they can only recruit some mercenary groups, but the problem is that all the mercenary groups that come here now go to the wilderness.

They have seen the power of Hamlet. Do you think they will fight us for the guild? Or go to the ruins to make money?

As for your worry about being blocked by them and causing difficulties due to lack of supplies, it is even more impossible. You may not know much about it because you have left the system during this period, but you should know that Hamlet has always exported agricultural products. What is the most popular now?

It is food. The empire has not yet come out of the natural disaster. In addition to the war, bandits and robbers are rampant. It can be said that whoever controls the food now controls the initiative.

And do you know how exaggerated the grain stored by Hamlet is now after the autumn harvest? Now it is not that they want to do business with us, but whether we are willing to do business with them.

It’s not that I look down on them, but these guys can be seen from this retreat. They all have their own interests, a mess, and are timid. "

Why is Lance so sure?

Because he is really confident. He started to arrange reconnaissance of the surrounding situation very early, and at the same time, he has been building a large number of warehouses and storing various supplies.

You have to know that Lance only got one million gold coins by plundering a rich neighborhood in Totnes. This amount is actually very exaggerated. Many surrounding territories do not have this income in a year.

Only some special ones, such as Bastia monopolizing the mountain trade route, can have this accumulation, but without the Deer Head Tribe, he has shrunk by half. Now that the mountains are disconnected, it is hard to say whether he can afford to support those knights.

Why did he spend his one million gold coins so quickly and force Tiffany to block him?

The reason is that in addition to those welfare policies, Lance has been buying at all costs.

The caravans that appeared in Hamlet and its surrounding areas and frantically purchased food and various supplies on land are all his people. No one can refuse money to open the way.

Especially the water route, at the most exaggerated time, a shipload of goods was twice the market price. Even now, it gives those profits that are higher than the market price. It is not an exaggeration to say that Lance spent money on that route.

However, it was precisely because of this that the situation was opened up, allowing them to recognize Hamlet again, and at the same time, a large amount of supplies were stored.

Especially for basic materials such as metal, gunpowder, and food, even if they are blocked for half a year, it will not affect the normal life of ordinary people.

And if Lance can't handle this situation in half a year, he doesn't have to do it.

Lance's long explanation also made Greendale, who was not very sensitive to the situation, see more and more clearly.

She realized that the raw materials of those herbs and various potions were indeed supplied by Hamlet internally. This also had to do with the strategy formulated when opening three farms and preliminary wilderness development, and began to transplant herbs and cultivate medicinal fields.

Speaking of this, I was still responsible for it. Later, after the start, I handed it over to those people to take care of it. I was so anxious just now that I actually forgot about it.

When there was no problem with the raw materials, the sales of those potions were also outsourced to Sera, and this special channel could not be blocked.

As for Hamlet's reserves, it was indeed exaggerated, and the initiative was in his hands.

The pressure was still very high, but now it suddenly eased a lot.

But thinking carefully, Greendale was suddenly a little shocked, because these current foundations were prepared by Lance a long time ago, as early as when Hamlet was still penniless.

In other words, he had seen the situation that Hamlet would face and had been preparing for it since then?

What a terrible foresight!

In fact, Lance is far from being as outrageous as Greendale thought. Transmigrators are born to be surrounded. What he did was simply driven by the strong anxiety that made him independent.

It was difficult for Greendale to understand these. In front of her was not Lance, but the thousands of years of historical experience. He knew very well what to do in troubled times.

"According to this, our main enemies are the lords around us?"

Greendale thought about Lance's words and found that he had been talking about various forces, and did not mention the noble territories in the region, so there was this problem.

But Lance still shook his head. It seems that Greendale is really not sensitive to military affairs. However, it is also because Lance did not let her have the military power. She is also worried about causing Lance's suspicion and actively stays away from these.

"Warfare is not that simple. You can't just start fighting. The logistics and supplies before the battle are very troublesome.

Do you remember how long we prepared and how much supplies we mobilized before we figured out the beast cave tunnels and prepared to clear the wilderness on a large scale?

Because of the problems here, Tiffany chased me and I had no way to escape. This is so troublesome even for Hamlet. Have you ever thought about the efficiency of those feudal territories?

I'll take the example of the war between Bastia and the mountain barbarians some time ago. They fought for this..."

Lance can easily tell the situation of Bastia at that time. You should know that there are many things that even they themselves don't know.

It can be imagined how good Lance's intelligence work on Bastia is. After all, his hands have reached the earl's left and right arms.

"You know, the Earl has a very strong control over the territory, and there is also the Eagle Group, but even so, there will be a shortage of warehouses, and there are a lot of disputes over the interests of the nobles. Can you imagine what the situation is in other places?"

"So even if those territories are controlled by the Ascension Sect, it will take a long time to take action?"

"You are only partially right. What is more important is that the large-scale mobilization of troops and materials cannot be concealed. We have a large number of intelligence personnel around us, and we don’t even need to collect them specifically. We just need to pay a little attention to the prices.

And Owendo is now in our hands, but it has not directly revealed its relationship with us. Walter has already established channels with the Imperial Army during this period.

As for those forces who want to move us, I don’t know whether the Roma people agree or not, but Sera definitely disagrees, because her interests are deeply tied to us, and she will notify us as soon as she has intelligence.

Let me put it this way, if they take action, no matter which side, the first to know is not the army under those guys, but us."

She was a little worried at first, but she was relieved after hearing Lance's analysis.

At the same time, I also understand why Lance doesn't like those Roma people, but still chooses to cooperate with them, and treats Sera very generously, giving up part of the profits from those potions.

It turns out that Sera is bound by interests. With the help of the Roma channels, not only can Hamlet's current largest foreign trade channel be stabilized, but also more can be learned.

At the same time, there are also news channels belonging to Hamlet himself, so it can be said that nothing can be hidden from him.

However, thinking of this, Greendale suddenly realized why Lance said so much, and looked at Lance with a strange expression and asked.

"You don't want to solve the dungeon first?"

"Yeah." Lance answered directly without much hesitation, which is enough to show that everything has been thought of.

But Greendale disagreed with this answer, and did not understand it. She refuted it rarely:

"Isn't there a seal left by the church? There will be no problem there in the short term. Shouldn't we deal with those guys around first? There are still many forces lurking in, and these are our current enemies!"

Unlike some people, Greendale actually has no ambitions. She is also very gentle. She was forced to deal with some things before, and she followed the plan made by Lance. If she really couldn't solve it, she would postpone it and wait for Lance to come back.

So she is more inclined to take advantage of this time to fight first, and put the dungeon aside. Anyway, the cult's nest has been destroyed, and as long as those guys are killed, Hamlet's living space can be expanded.

"There is no way out if you think you can rely on others." Lance criticized Greendale and emphasized again: "The cult is not important, and those nobles and forces are not important. What is important is the extremely dark dungeon under the old house, and the evil ritual."

As he said, Lance found the map of the ancestor and unfolded it in front of Greendale.

"I know that many people don't understand why I haven't expanded outwards to seize more land and population, but instead turned to open up the wilderness and gnaw on those hard bones.

But in fact, have you noticed that apart from not directly seizing land, we have monopolized the food in the Hamlet area. As for population growth and strength, you should be very clear." Lance raised his hand and circled on the map.

"The reason is that most of the Hamlet area has been swallowed up, and the remaining villages and towns are divided into pieces by large tracts of wilderness.

If we swallow those places, we need to divide our troops and they will be cut off. More importantly, controlling those places also requires bureaucrats. Where can I find so many people now?

In Hamlet, corruption has appeared while we are watching. Once they stay away, to put it bluntly, wherever they go, they will become corrupt and degenerate in a short period of time. In that case, do we really control those places?

It's just a burden. On the contrary, we are constantly siphoning the surrounding population. It is more useful to concentrate our efforts on development than to occupy those places. "

“Also, I want to refute your claim that Hamlet does not expand. Didn’t you see that Owendo, including the surrounding farms, has been controlled by us?

The empire chose this place because as long as it controls Ovendo, it controls Hamlet's access to the outside world. The same is true for us.

The remaining areas after taking control of Owendo are no longer important. "

It's easy to conquer, but difficult to manage. Besides, the food in those places can be bought with caravans, so why bother to manage it?

When the investment and reward were not proportional, Lance only chose to control Ovendo, and in turn developed the wilderness to fight against the cultists.

"Now you know why I have always disagreed with outward expansion? When we shrink, we are not shrinking, but concentrating our strength. This is how we have strength."

Lance stretched out his hand towards her, then clenched his fingers into fists and said viciously:

"Then punch them to death!"

Once the sacrificial ritual is broken, Lance will be able to send out troops without any scruples. No one can defeat any rotten fish or shrimps.

Greendale knew that she had been persuaded and said nothing. Her current task was to help fill in the possible loopholes in these plans.

"Can we release the connections between the cultists and those nobles to give the church a headache and disintegrate them from within?"

"No, now not only do we need to be stable, but they also need to be stable. It will not be good for us to introduce the church."

"Then we can only strengthen the intelligence work and keep an eye on them. Can Tamara get in touch? She may be able to find out the attitude of the Roma towards us. It is a bit risky to only trust one Sera."

There was no one else here. Greendale's words were not polite at all, which showed that she did not trust Sera, or that the Roma people were really notorious.

Lance, who was still high-spirited just now, suddenly fell silent. He really couldn't say anything about this issue because the connection between him and Tamara was broken.