Mage Veigar

Chapter 486 The King's Angry

Once the opportunity is missed, it can never come back.

If he fails to start a war before the Empire gains a foothold in the Kingdom, then he can wait until the Empire has annexed the Kingdom and then have a 1v1 decisive battle with the Empire. Vega will undoubtedly be the loser.

In summary.

Before the end of spring, war must be waged on the Empire at all costs.

In order to have enough capital to launch overseas wars, Vega will never allow the opportunity to be lost due to domestic economic problems. Therefore, whether it is to treat the symptoms or the root cause, Vega must maintain domestic stability.

"Use the same strategy as the Empire."

Vega finally chose the temporary solution mentioned by the Minister of Finance and officially launched a trade war with the Empire. Now both sides are throwing money into the fire. Whoever can hold on longer will win the trade war.

But one thing you need to know is.

Vega is definitely no match for the Empire, because 40% of the dynasty's national income comes from import and export trade with the Empire, and tariff revenue from the Empire and its vassal states is one of the dynasty's largest income pillars.

Follow this trend.

Vega might be able to hold out until the trade between the two countries is thawed, but he certainly does not have the extra funds to launch an international war. After all, international wars have always been a big spender, and the annual investment in war airships accounts for almost 10% of the country's income.

"I'll take care of it now, sir."

The Chancellor of Finance also understood the current situation, but there was nothing he could do. They had to accept this move of the Empire. Once the society of the dynasty was in turmoil, it would bring unpredictable consequences.

Da da da--

The Chancellor walked towards the door, but as he was about to leave the office, Vega felt more and more unwilling. He had never been led by the enemy by the nose and entered the enemy's war rhythm like today.

"and many more."

He stopped the finance minister and said, "I am really unwilling to keep spending money to support those chambers of commerce. When issuing the policy, I told them that there is no problem in subsidizing their chambers of commerce, but they must change the original research and development direction of civilian industries and transform towards military industries according to my requirements. Chambers of commerce that do not accept this will not receive any subsidies."

"I don't think any chamber of commerce would refuse this condition."

The Finance Minister showed a puzzled look: "But may I ask, Prime Minister, if we start research and development from scratch, it will easily lead to stagnation of our civilian industry level, and the military industry will not be able to achieve results in a short period of time."

"Don't worry about that."

Vega thought of the blueprints that Qilis brought from the Empire. "I will give you the blueprints of the Empire's main military industries later. You will give copies of these blueprints to those chambers of commerce. I need them to complete the transformation in a short period of time. If any chamber of commerce fails to fully master the technology and achieve certain results within half a year, their subsidies will be stopped. You will arrange the specific details."

"Yes, Prime Minister."

The Minister of Finance immediately followed Vega's instructions.

Veigar was born into a commoner family, and he placed a high value on gold coins.

In Vega's opinion, if these chambers of commerce still cannot produce what he wants, given the physical objects purchased from the empire and the production drawings, then they might as well go bankrupt. Are his subsidies so easy to defraud?

It turns out that where there is pressure there is motivation.

After Vega's decree was issued, these chambers of commerce immediately stopped their original product research and development direction in order to obtain subsidies to overcome difficulties, and focused on studying the drawings brought by Vega.

The enthusiasm of various chambers of commerce is very high.

It is impossible not to be motivated. When it comes to one's own interests, everyone's potential can always be aroused.

Therefore, neither the Minister of Finance, Vega himself, nor the Empire had ever thought that Vega's angry order would directly cause the dynasty to rush from a civilian industrial power to a military industrial power.

The butterfly effect is not just talk. With the blueprints and the physical objects, plus the support of policies, it is hard not to achieve results.

Of course, Vega didn't know that his angry act could have such a powerful effect. He was still unwilling to be led by the nose by the Empire, so after thinking about it, he prepared to issue a new announcement to protest to the Empire -

Move the wedding date forward by half a month.

Isn't the empire's goal to use various means to postpone his wedding so that he has no time to worry about the international war?
So he chose to advance the wedding date to disgust the Empire and indirectly tell the Empire that others might be frowned because of the Empire's methods, but he, Vega, would not buy it.

Besides.

Of course, there is another reason for doing this. The domestic situation is relatively stable for the time being, and the trade war has not caused social unrest for the time being. Therefore, now is the best time to get married. If you wait until social unrest occurs, it will be too late.

If Vega could think of this, the Empire certainly could too.

At the beginning, the Empire never thought that the first three punches would be enough to make Vega postpone his wedding date. In fact, the first three punches might even backfire. Therefore, the last punch was the decisive punch, and it was also the one that Vega had to take.

Vega got the news the next day.

Eighteen vassal states of the empire formed an alliance and formally invaded the dynasty's border through the city of Kareni in the north of the empire.

The dynasty's territory was invaded and its compatriots suffered greatly. At a time when such a powerful enemy was at hand, it was neither reasonable nor morally appropriate for Her Majesty the Queen of the dynasty to get married.

"What a great empire!"

Vega slammed the table with a loud bang. This combination of punches was one link after another.

Since the trade war and the war of public opinion take a long time to ferment, they may have a counter-effect and force Vega to advance his wedding date. Therefore, an enemy is deliberately found for Vega that cannot be resolved in the short term, otherwise he will not be able to get married.

Once Vega has dealt with this enemy, the follow-up effects of the trade war and the war of public opinion will come into play. It is very likely that Vega will be unable to get married again due to social unrest, and this delay may last for a whole year.

And this news will not come earlier or later.

Just when Vega announced to the whole country that he wanted to move up the wedding date, the Empire ordered its vassal states to launch an attack.

This was equivalent to slapping Vega in the face in front of the international community, causing him to suffer great humiliation but having to postpone his wedding.

Faced with this situation, it would be a lie to say that I am not angry.

However, Vega still forced himself to suppress his anger. In order to appease the people, he overturned the order to advance the wedding date issued yesterday, regardless of his face, and re-ordered to postpone the wedding date. He also made a promise to the subjects of the whole country that the wedding date would be postponed indefinitely unless the imperial invaders were driven out.

While publishing new announcements.

The furious Vega ordered the reorganized Royal Army to assemble and enter the highest state of combat readiness.

Before officially sending out troops, Vega sent a warning letter to the coalition forces of various countries, warning them to immediately withdraw from the dynasty's territory and provide war compensation, otherwise the dynasty would not rule out the use of force to launch a self-defense counterattack.

At the end of the warning letter.

Veigar made it clear that if the countries were determined to start a war, then all the consequences would be borne by them, and the Holy Dynasty would not accept any form of surrender from the countries this time.

Vega's move was equivalent to making it clear to all countries his bloody stance of not accepting surrendered soldiers.

Or, withdraw the troops and pay compensation.

Otherwise, the fight will end until death!
If countries insist on their own way.

Veigar swore that he would let these ignorant coalition forces know what true cruelty is.

(End of this chapter)