Mage Veigar

Chapter 485: No Solution

Winter passes and spring comes.

It is now early spring, and the warming weather is gradually becoming suitable for war.

Both Vega and the Kingdom speculated that the Empire might use Dragon City as a springboard in late spring to officially begin the road to conquering the Kingdom. Therefore, the Kingdom has sent several letters asking Vega to fulfill his promise and march towards the Empire.

Vega certainly wasn't going to go back on his word this time.

But if you want to wage war against other countries, you must stabilize the internal situation and unite the entire country.

As long as he marries Xia and becomes the prince of the Holy Dynasty, his position will be as stable as Mount Tai, and no one can shake his position in the interests of justice. He is the true orthodoxy. His orders will also be unconditionally trusted and supported by the people.

So in Vega's plan.

He will marry Xia in a month. After the wedding, he will take advantage of the domestic momentum to attack the Nolan Empire.

This time, it will be a battle of revenge.

Vega wants to make the Empire understand how wrong it is to abandon him again and again.

Even if Vega left the empire, he could still live safely.

But early this morning, Yiluo reported several important things to him——

First, the Empire unilaterally banned import and export trade with the Dynasty in many civilian fields at the cost of losing 1,000 of its own money and killing 800 of the enemy. As a result, the Dynasty lost the Empire's largest export market, and domestic economic problems began to emerge.

Second, domestic public opinion seemed to be manipulated by someone with ulterior motives. The original support rate for Vega and Shia's wedding had dropped from 37 to 46, and was heading towards 55 to .

Third, the palace guards have recently captured a large number of assassins. Vega has personally killed three or four of them in the past few days. They are undoubtedly members of the Imperial Inquisition System.

However, the assassin did not attack Xia.

Vega knew the reason for this, because Shia's death would not only not cause the Holy Dynasty to collapse, but would also unite the entire country and launch an unprecedented revenge against the Empire.

After all, Xia is their faith.

Now that the empire dares to destroy their beliefs, it is unknown what the crazy citizens will do.

But this combination of punches was really too much for Vega to handle.

"You want me to postpone my wedding date by such a despicable means?"

Vega smiled coldly and ordered Qi Lisi: "Notify Holt Scimitar in the Empire. I don't care whether he has organized his men or not. I need him to start fighting against the Imperial Judgment System right now. I don't want the Judgment System to have extra energy to assassinate me in half a month."

"I'll do it right away." Qi Lisi left angrily.

The reason why she was angry was, of course, because the Imperial Judgment System was so bold as to try to take the life of the person most important to her, which made Qi Lisi unable to suppress the anger in her heart.

Although the assassination did not pose any threat to Vega, it had to be resolved.

If an assassin appears on the wedding day, not only will it affect the wedding, it will also directly hit Vega's prestige, making Vega a laughing stock, and the people will also question whether Vega is capable of protecting Shia's safety.

After dealing with the enemy's tactics, the next step is to guide public opinion. Vega looked at Menno and said, "I will let the army cooperate with you. On the day of the wedding, I don't want to hear any discordant voices. If you don't handle this matter well, you can return to the kingdom."

Menno quickly wiped the sweat from his forehead and responded quickly.

If Vega no longer protected him, he would probably be killed before he even set foot on the territory of the kingdom. This made him secretly determined that it would be better to kill someone by mistake than to miss the opportunity. Even if he died, he had to take a few people with him.

After solving these two problems, the last economic problem remains.

He looked at Iroh and the Minister of Finance: "Do you have any ideas about the trade war against the Empire? To be honest, I am not very good at this kind of 'soft' means, and I don't have any good ideas for the time being."

Iroh turned his gaze towards the Chancellor.

Although he has been working very hard to learn about this subject recently, unfortunately, everyone has their own expertise and he only has a vague understanding of this kind of economic war.

After looking at Vega cautiously, the Minister of Finance stepped forward.

He said to Vega tremblingly: "Report to the Prime Minister, because the Empire has restricted the import and export trade of 578 major industries in our country and increased tariffs on 1100 industries regardless of the losses. If we do not take measures, I am afraid that many chambers of commerce in our country will face bankruptcy. Once these chambers of commerce go bankrupt, it will directly cause large-scale unemployment and indirectly lead to economic depression."

What are the consequences of an economic depression?
When people have no jobs and no income, it will cause social unrest. Once the society is in turmoil, the queen's wedding at this time will not only not receive support, but will be criticized.

The Empire's combination of punches almost drew blood with every punch.

Vega understood the seriousness of the situation, so he continued to ask the Minister of Finance: "Is there no way to solve this problem? The action of force is always mutual. Since the Empire has issued these bans, they cannot be without losses. So how did they get through the difficulties?"

"Report to the Prime Minister."

The Chancellor of the Exchequer gradually forgot his fear when he talked about his own field, and began to speak freely: "The Empire mainly adopts the method of economic subsidies to keep these industries alive, so that they can ensure the normal operation of the domestic economy and support them until the day when the trade is unfrozen."

"Can't we take the same approach?"

"It's possible, but it's only a temporary solution and not a permanent one."

The finance minister said with some distress: "Although our economy cannot compare with the Empire, it is not completely powerless. The only thing we need to consider is that we don't know when this money-burning economic war will end. If you want to start a war against other countries in the future, I am afraid that the treasury will not be able to pay enough military expenses."

Vega finally understood the key.

It turns out that the empire took money out of its own treasury to stabilize the domestic economy and prevent large-scale bankruptcy of chambers of commerce, so that there would not be too many civilians unemployed. Without unemployment, there would naturally be no social unrest.

Veigar could indeed take the same approach.

However, the Empire had always been very stable. Except for the northern part of the Empire, which was plundered by the Kingdom, other places had not been affected by the war. Although the Holy Dynasty had always been a wealthy country, and even surpassed the Empire in terms of economy at its peak, it had just been plowed by the Kingdom, and most of the treasury was used for post-war reconstruction.

With our current economic strength, this trade war is not impossible to fight.

But once the war breaks out, it will be a bottomless pit. What Vega is afraid of is that the military expenditure used for the war will be lost as well.

The ultimate goal of the Empire's doing this is obviously to prevent Vega from being able to support the Kingdom by invading the Empire. At this moment, Vega discovered that the victory of a war can be determined without soldiers, weapons, or deaths.

How to solve this problem?
For the first time, Vega was completely helpless in a completely unfamiliar "battlefield". If this continued, he might really be trapped in the country.

(End of this chapter)