Chapter 77 Slow down
This time, the Demon Ant Tide will last for several years. The army has been fighting outside for several years, and it is so tired that it is half exhausted. So this time, the two empires decided to wait until the natural passages are increasing and unable to defend, and then slowly retreat to the border.
The closer the border is, the closer the reinforcements and supplies from the country will be. On the border, you can also get the support of the Adventurers Guild. The borders of the two empires are basically left to the nobles to manage, and the two empires can each take out millions of troops to deal with this monster tide. The troops that came this time were only more than 100,000 vanguards.
The armies of the two empires did not intend to fight to the death here. Instead, they fought if they could, and they could still retreat if they could not be defeated. This time was enough for most of the people in the Kingdom of Murphy to escape from the war zone.
A kingdom has a population of only tens of millions. Although tens of millions seem to be a large number, it can still be resettled by the two empires.
When the war ends, I will throw it to the Murphy Kingdom for a few million people, and even if there is an explanation, I will make it impossible for the Murphy Kingdom to handle this demon ant tide?
Since the Kingdom of Murphy has invited the two empires, it is naturally prepared accordingly. It is basically impossible not to be slaughtered. After this, it will take almost a hundred years for the Kingdom of Murphy to recover.
After killing a colony of demon ants on the other side of the teleportation channel, Link directly opened the portal and went home.
After resting for a few hours and getting information from the old housekeeper, Link was not in a hurry to strangle the demon ants.
According to the information sent by the old housekeeper, the eldest son of the old neighbor of his home territory in the south, Duke Gatuso, died.
According to information, the eldest son of the Duke of Gattuso is a very young powerful man in the holy realm, and a dual cultivation of magic and martial arts. He was also in line with the guy who came to Baishan to make trouble last time.
As for the interests of Baishan, now that the Link Raphael family has occupied Baishan, it is naturally owned by the Raphael family, but if the Raphael family is unable to defend this place, the others will naturally belong to others.
After getting the information, Link looked at the map and found that the Demon Ant Tide was closer to the Duke of Gattuso's territory. What he should be worried about was their family. Even if the Demon Ant Tide could penetrate the boundaries between the Kingdom of Murphy and the Holy Empire, it would take thousands of miles to reach his own Marquis of Raphael.
This war of monster tide may not be a means to rectify this restless old neighbor.
By then, the tide of demon ants will really expand, and the soldiers of the Holy Empire royal family will be mainly in the Murphy Kingdom. I believe that I will not be able to draw much force to rescue Duke Gattuso.
In this way, the only one Duke of Gattuso could rely on was the sacred imperial nobles in the north who had no personal interests. Since there was no personal interests, who would help others to take the thunder?
In the world over there, Link got a lot of supplies by sacrificing ordinary demon ants. The flour was put into the warehouse of Red Earth City and notified the butler to sell his own stock of wheat slowly at the appropriate level. As for the high-quality monster meat, it is naturally left to his own army for food.
The Marquis of Raphael was a territory dominated by agriculture. There was no way to tell what was good about it. The nobles with mines were really wealthy families. Of course, there were also mines in the Marquis of Raphael.
However, now, because a large number of people in the Kingdom of Murphy flowed into the Holy Empire, the food price of the Holy Empire has increased by half. The Holy Empire is not without surplus food, but the population who came to flee this time was calculated in tens of millions.
Even if the population entering the Holy Empire is only a small part, in recent years, merchants have seen that the trend of food shortage will not change. So they started buying grain and storing grain. Before the end of the war, it would be better if the grain price did not soar to the sky.
The rise in grain prices has made life more difficult for urban residents. Because the wage level of urban residents has not increased accordingly, and because of the increase in refugees, the number of urban workers has also increased. If there were no smart people in the commercial union who did not want to cause disaster, they would be afraid that wage cuts would be done.
The people in the business union are afraid that they will not have enough salary to buy food and rent. At that time, there may be people who make trouble and rob, and of course they will definitely be suppressed by the city guards in the end, but the only ones who suffer will be the merchants in the city.
This is also because the bosses of every chamber of commerce are strong people, and they live long enough and will not choose to make money by rushing and instant benefits.
As Link chose to rest at home to make children, the information from the Kingdom of Murphy also came one by one through various channels. This year, the focus was that after the autumn harvest, most of the population of the Kingdom of Murphy had evacuated.
The Holy Empire hired some people from the Kingdom of Murphy to transport food and grass to the frontline soldiers.
The rest of the Holy Empire royal family did not take over the population. After the royal family had shortage of people filled the population, the rest were diverted to the territory of the nobles in various parts of the Holy Empire - the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the Holy Empire royal family, and there was no extra land to be reclaimed.
This time, the diversion of population is a voluntary method of both parties. If a noble from a certain sacred empire says that they can no longer accept the excess population. Then the population will not be divided.
The Marquis of Link Raphael, which recently seized a lot of land from the Warcraft, naturally hopes to get more people to farm or mine.
But this population is not infinite. The highest number of people that the first batch of marquis territories can swallow is 150,000 households. According to the family having three or five children, the population of 150,000 households is about one million.
Before this, the population of the Marquis of Link Raphael was about 1.265,000 households. The territory was less than 10 million migrant population (merchants and adventurers).
With these 150,000 households, it is enough for Link to fill the two towns that have been established, and even dozens of new immigrant villages can be established around the two towns.
These 150,000 households are not all agricultural, many of them are skilled. For example, carpenters, bricklayers, blacksmiths, etc. They will establish their own workshops in the towns of the Marquis of Raphael and engage in healthy competition with the workshops in the Marquis of Raphael.
Competition is always better than a stagnant pool.
In order to resettle the agricultural population of about 128,000 refugees this time, Marquis Link Raphael also bleeded a lot this time. The ox, iron plows, seeds, and food rations needed by new immigrants are now rising sharply.
Take plowing oxen as an example. In the past, a gold coin could buy three big cows and one calf in the territory of the Marquis of Raphael, but now it can only buy two big cows. Although the price of grain and iron has also increased a little, overall, it is still within a reasonable range.
Chapter completed!