"Aren't our requests for cooperation too little?" Leo asked with some confusion after leaving the temporary residence where the Queen and the Duke stayed. The reason why he felt this way was entirely because of Queen Theresa just now.

I agreed to their requests very readily.

"Of course not." Sylvia shook her head and said: "I think we are asking for too much. Don't forget, the gunpowder formula belongs to the school. They will know it sooner or later. As for the healing potion, it is just your waste.

The formula, what we brought out is not particularly valuable in terms of value. The reason why she readily agreed to the two cooperation requests we made is because these two things just filled the shortcomings of Teresa's kingdom.

, causing her to lose her ability to judge for a while, and she will regret it when she comes back to her senses after a while,"

Leo nodded after hearing this, then looked at Sylvia and said with emotion: "However, it can be seen that Queen Theresa is very ambitious."

Sylvia also agreed: "Indeed, doesn't this just fit in with our guess about Teresa's kingdom?"

In fact, on the way to the Kingdom of Teresa, they had already conducted some discussions and analysis on the current strange national system of the Kingdom of Teresa, because the current Kingdom of Teresa is so weird that it is so weird that even in Hill

In the view of Via, a practical politician, this system should not remain the same after so many years of development.

In the ancient world of Velen, there were countries where all the people were soldiers. The early First Dynasty of France was a country where all the people were soldiers. It was very similar to the Kingdom of Teresa. Even the New Porto founded by Sylvia.

It is also a country where all the people are soldiers, and as the ruler of such a country, Sylvia knows very well that after such countries develop to a certain level, they will inevitably move towards the path of outward expansion. This situation is irreversible and also

It will not be decided by the rulers.

However, the current Kingdom of Teresa seems very strange. They are all soldiers, and they can even be called militarily. There are as many as twelve thousand legions in the country. Their military strength alone is enough to sweep across the entire Old Continent, and the Kingdom

Because it is a mountainous area, there is very little suitable arable land. Most of the food needs to be imported from surrounding countries. The money spent on this every year should account for more than half of the kingdom's national tax.

With a powerful and large army, domestic thirst for food and cultivated land, the surrounding countries are average in strength, and they are still tributary countries that have been eroded by the kingdom. In this case, the Kingdom of Teresa should have annexed other kingdoms long ago.

Yes, we shouldn’t be huddled in the Teresa Mountains like now.

This question did not come to a result after being discussed on the road. It was not until they came to the school city and saw a census-like research material in the school city library that the question was solved.

It’s not that the Kingdom of Teresa doesn’t want to expand. It can be seen from its continuous use of military power and cultural power to erode neighboring countries and turn them into vassals. The rulers of the Kingdom of Teresa in the past have been eager to get the Kingdom out of the mountains.

, but the reality is that two huge flaws, one internal and one external, have restricted the normal development of Teresa's kingdom, so that the kingdom's system has become as deformed and weird as it is now.

Among these two flaws, the internal flaw is mainly the population. Although the Kingdom of Teresa seems to have a large population, in fact about one-third of the population are refugees fleeing the war. They have just settled in the Kingdom of Teresa.

, have not completely become Theresa people. Once the Kingdom of Teresa launches a war of expansion, the loyalty and combat power of these people cannot be guaranteed, and they may even become the key point and flaw in the kingdom's military operations.

In addition to the refugees, there are also a large number of businessmen, scholars and uncontrolled cultists. These people either have no fighting power or loyalty, or they may become a disaster at any time. In short, the real Teresa people are in this country.

The population proportion has only reached more than half, and this has always been the case. Even though the previous rulers of the kingdom issued various decrees to promote domestic population fertility, the mercenary system where all people are soldiers has reduced the fertility population and war.

The dead population is almost the same, and there is no improvement in the domestic population.

Under such circumstances, if the Kingdom of Teresa launches a war of expansion, there will inevitably be huge casualties on the battlefield, and the population will decrease sharply. By then, even if the Kingdom has successfully occupied neighboring countries, it has even conquered more

The country does not have enough troops to hold on to its achievements, and may even be defeated individually because its troops are dispersed.

If people are not sent to guard the occupied kingdoms and regions, then these kingdoms and regions will inevitably be occupied by other forces, and the Kingdom of Teresa will eventually fall into a thankless and embarrassing situation.

Obviously, the previous rulers of the Theresa Kingdom must have seen the disadvantages, so they have been subtly promoting the growth of the real Theresa population, and there are more than fifty related decrees.

Although the healing potion that Leo is taking out now cannot promote a large population growth in the Kingdom of Theresa in a short period of time, it can help the Kingdom of Theresa to reduce battlefield casualties to a minimum after the war starts, which is a disguised increase.

Number of Teresa people.

Moreover, the healing potion can also make the refugee population who have not completely integrated into Theresa's Kingdom and are extremely afraid of war no longer fear war, and even become more warlike. After all, if a person knows that even if he is fatally injured, he can survive.

And fighting can bring him huge wealth and a higher status, so no matter how timid the person was before, he will become extremely brave.

Therefore, Leo's healing potion is definitely the most desired item in the Kingdom of Teresa over the years. This item alone is enough for Queen Teresa to agree to most of Leo's cooperation requests.

As for the improved repeating pistol and gunpowder formula, it was just a collaboration given by Sylvia for the sake of the same family, and this collaboration was not taken out casually. It was Sylvia's analysis of the Kingdom of Teresa.

Another flaw, deliberately selected.

Another reason they analyzed that affected the expansion of Teresa's Kingdom was the Church of the True God.

Whether it is because of the academic city or the system of the Kingdom of Theresa itself, the relationship between the Church of True God and the Kingdom of Theresa is very general, and they are even in a hostile state at many times.

Under such circumstances, the True God Church will naturally not let Theresa's Kingdom grow bigger, and the True God Church will not be willing to see a powerful capital like the Ancient Central Kingdom appear again in the Old Continent that can influence the church's internal affairs.

So on the surface, the True God Church did not prevent the Kingdom of Teresa from accepting neighboring countries as its vassals, but in fact, in those tributary countries, each True God Church arranged a knighthood led by paladins and assisted by bishops.

Stationed in the church sanctuaries of these dependent countries, these knights are like nails, nailing the Kingdom of Teresa to the Teresa Mountains.

If it were just a knighthood led by paladins, or a holy army led by bishops, the Kingdom of Teresa would not take them seriously. Any one of the twelve legions in the kingdom could easily wipe them out.

But if the two are combined, then such a church armed force will be almost invincible in a cold weapon war. Paladins blessed by various magical powers can activate some special divine powers exclusive to different true God churches. In these divine powers

Under the influence of the knight, any church knight, knight attendant, or even ordinary soldier in the knights can become a monster with infinite strength and no fear of life and death.

Although the Theresa Kingdom's legion is powerful, it is still difficult to face this kind of monster knights. Even if they win in the end, it will only be a miserable victory. Therefore, even if the Theresa Kingdom has the strongest among all the countries in the entire Old Continent,

The military power still dare not expand outward easily.

However, the repeating pistol and gunpowder formula that Leo took out completely rewritten the rules of war in the Old Continent, making cold weapon warfare a thing of the past, just like the Ott Federation in the New Continent.

The Otter Federation's use of thermal weapons has always been the object of study by various countries in the Old Continent, because the Otter Federation has not lost in several wars with the True God Church, allowing these countries to see the hope of getting rid of the control of the True God Church.

It's just that because of the eyes and ears of the True God Church, various countries dare not study blatantly and can only do some research secretly. The Kingdom of Teresa is naturally no exception, but its situation is much better than those countries controlled by the church. At least it can

Such research is carried out in the city of learning, and Lowell's gunpowder research is one of them.

It's a pity that due to the influence of the Divine Power Law Network, various physical laws in the Old Continent have been distorted. Thermal weapons that can be used normally in the New Continent are completely useless in the Old Continent. Even if they can be used, they are still very useless.

Stable, so the form of war in the old continent is still the ancient cold weapon war.

Now that this powerful and stable gunpowder formula appears, the Kingdom of Teresa will inevitably change the use of weapons in a short period of time, making it the second Otter Federation and the result of the war between the Otter Federation and the True God Church.

From the looks of it, as long as the gods don't take action in person, even if the True God Church formed a holy war army, it would be difficult to suppress Teresa's army using thermal weapons.

In this way, the expansion of the Kingdom of Theresa will be unstoppable. The situation will only change when the armies of the True God Church also start to use thermal weapons. But by then, the Kingdom of Theresa will probably have become the Empire of Theresa, and other countries will also

If they follow suit, it will be difficult for the various True God churches to put all their energy into the Kingdom of Teresa, and in the end they will have no choice but to accept the expansion of the Kingdom of Teresa.

Queen Teresa was able to stand out from many members of the royal family and become the ruler of the kingdom. Naturally, she also possessed considerable wisdom. After knowing the uses of the two cooperative items, she was able to immediately think of the impact of these two items.

The importance of the kingdom, in this case, even if Leo made a more excessive request, she would definitely agree. After all, this is related to Theresa's long-cherished wish to expand the kingdom over the years.

What's more, from a certain perspective, the two requests made by Leo are not particularly excessive, and can even be said to be a win-win request.

These two requirements are very simple. The first is to open all research projects on prehistoric civilization relics to them, and the second is to hand over to them all the items related to gods in the kingdom's possession for research.

These two requirements seem to be excessive, because these two things already involve the core secrets of the Kingdom of Teresa. It is impossible for people who are not absolutely loyal to Teresa to come into contact with these two things, so Leo is proposing

When making the request, Sylvia had already considered persuasive arguments.

However, what they didn't expect was that after hearing these two requests, Queen Teresa only thought about it for a moment before readily agreeing, making Leo even doubt whether the two requests he made were too small.

, and even felt that Queen Theresa had plans to break the contract.

Now it seems that the two things Leo and the others took out are too important to the Kingdom of Teresa. Their importance has temporarily exceeded the mysteries of prehistoric civilization relics and the value of divine things, and before the Kingdom of Teresa completes its expansion,

, this imbalance of importance will continue.

In the following days, Queen Theresa and Duke Belmont did not meet with Leo and Sylvia again, and Leo and the others seemed to have forgotten what happened that day, and were still conducting various research at their own pace and rhythm.

, collect various information.

Thomas, the dean of the outer college, also learned about the meeting between Leo and the others with Queen Theresa and the Duke of Belmont, and began to let Leo and the others come into contact with the relics of prehistoric civilization that the college had.

However, he did not immediately invite Leo and Sylvia to join the research team as agreed in advance and directly contact the remains of prehistoric civilization. Instead, he found an excuse to avoid criticism and postponed the invitation to Leo and the others.

, and took out some items related to the relics of prehistoric civilization and gave them to Leo and Sylvia to study, saying that after the two of them came up with some results, he would be able to invite them as a matter of course.

During the process, Dean Thomas hinted that this decision was not his original intention but was influenced by external forces.

As for which external force was affected, you can guess it without much thought. The only person in the academic city who can influence the decision-making of an external dean is Queen Theresa.

After that, Leo inquired about the news and learned that what they expected happened. When Queen Teresa inspected various research projects invested by the royal family, she discovered the stable gunpowder formula developed by Lowell and Leo's cooperation items.

The gunpowder formula was exactly the same, and the next thing I knew naturally was that Leo and Sylvia were actually using her things to make collaborations and discussing cooperation with her.

Although the modification method of repeating pistols paired with this gunpowder can save a lot of time required for related research, and the healing potion is indeed an important item needed by the kingdom, Queen Theresa still feels the atmosphere.

Although she cannot do things like break the contract, she can still create some minor obstacles in the implementation of the cooperation agreement.

It's a pity that this small obstacle is nothing to Leo. On the night when Dean Thomas handed over the prehistoric civilization items to him for research, the complete research report was placed on Dean Thomas' desk, and Thomas Academy
Chapter completed!