Tauren Overlord

"I will abdicate early, but according to the tradition of the Republic, I cannot directly appoint you to take over. The New Town Council needs to start the election in advance."

"I have already informed the councillors. In this extraordinary period, most of them support this decision. You can just treat it as a formality."

Since it was just a formality, Lu Heng was too lazy to leave the illusion.

He directly manipulated the illusion, causing the New Town councillors to appear in the center of the illusion, right in front of him and Anastasia.

"Members of the House, you may begin voting by raising your hands."

Lu Heng did not force these congressmen to vote in favor, but they were all under the watchful eyes of the public.

It is easy to see who voted in favor and who voted against.

While the vote was being cast, the people in the stands could also express their opinions in a flood, making the lawmakers very nervous.

These parliamentarians are either big businessmen, other city lords, or spokesmen for other city lords, and have long distanced themselves from ordinary people.

In this republic, ordinary people, who make up the vast majority of the population, have no right to decide the direction of the country.

Now Lu Heng was already making ordinary people sweat just by letting them watch the congressmen vote.

They all seemed to want to be free quickly, and cast their votes in favor of Lu Heng succeeding as the ruler of the New City Republic.

In this way, Lu Heng became the new ruler of the Xincheng Republic in response to the people's call.

Even after the illusion disappeared, people were still immersed in the ocean of happiness.

As long as Lu Heng's promise can be fulfilled, part of the debt can be forgiven, and even the people who will get to eat the meat will be them!

Lu Heng also sincerely intended to put meat into the pancake.

After the last victory, a large number of gentle beasts such as giant deer remained, becoming an important source of meat.

Although the rocket launchers and the Rat-Terling machine guns were extremely powerful, they were not strong enough to wipe out all living creatures on earth.

Those giant beasts that were not completely killed can be rushed to the new city so that the people here can also share the fruits of victory.

Anyway, the people in New Taimenia City had already feasted on the meat, and Lu Heng also symbolically distributed some to Shanhai College.

But it is better to digest these foods in the Northern Continent, because teleportation itself consumes a lot of spiritual energy.

If it is only used to transport food, it will be insufficient on the psychic level, so it is better to send it to the new city.

In addition to the part of the behemoth that is used for welfare purposes, another part can be used for trade.

This will not only give the wealthy people in the new city a place to spend their money, but also allow the city of New Taminia to earn more income.

As for what to do after eating the gift from Nargis… there is no need to finish it in the first place.

In the city of New Taimenia, Lu Heng has begun to promote the livestock contracting system to train the remaining gentle giants.

I can only say that Nargis is a really good governor. He brought so many behemoths. He is even more generous than Boss Cao.

Lu Heng killed some of them during the battle and transferred some of them to the new city, but there was still a surplus, which allowed the herdsmen to grow more good food.

As for the problem of not getting enough meat from grazing, it is also very easy to solve. Just continue hunting.

In the sparsely populated northern continent, there is no problem of imbalance between population and land like in Lu Heng's hometown. Instead, there are too few people and too many wild beasts.

The rampant wild beasts and thieves have resulted in 99 percent of resources not being effectively developed.

Fortunately, these wild beasts and bandit gangs are generally far inferior to the strength of Governor Nargis.

Therefore, Lu Heng’s Survey Corps can be divided into different small forces to speed up the elimination of bandits and beasts.

New living space is constantly being opened up, which also solves the problem of vegetables.

The Northern Continent has always been vast and sparsely populated, and the wild vegetables around the new city have always been very abundant in both quantity and variety.

As the safe zone continues to expand, people here will be able to eat more delicious food made from wild vegetables.

In the next few days, more new policies will be promulgated, covering all aspects of the new city’s residents.

For example, the original law stipulated that although beggars could beg, they could only gather in poor areas and must not ruin the fun of the rich.

But after the new regulations came out, people who lack income can beg on the streets in wealthy areas at specific times.

If the rich really can't stand it, just give them more money.

In addition, the city should allow and even encourage citizens to express their opinions, such as posting their demands directly on their doorsteps.

After implementing these benefits, residents of the new city generally feel that life has more potential.

If the Empire attacked, they believed from the bottom of their hearts that the new life was worth defending.

For Lu Heng, incorporating the 50,000 people in the new city into his industrial system is undoubtedly a major benefit.

Although Lu Heng has mastered an advanced magic industrial system, technology has never been an achievement alone.

If it is not transformed into commodities that can be actually used by the public, industry is just a gorgeous empty framework and cannot achieve actual circulation.

During these few days, the clouds of war have been gathering more and more.

Lu Heng did not allocate all of the Snake Feather Arrows he obtained from Medusa to the Survey Corps. He also deployed some to the ratman scouts in the East Continent.

The feather arrows transformed into small snakes can not only conduct long-range reconnaissance, but are also more covert and can continuously observe the empire's actions on the Maoergan Peninsula.

According to the latest reconnaissance results, Marshal Selron's Imperial Headquarters Legion deployed in New Luna City has already headed north.

If nothing unexpected happens, his target is the southeastern border of the Sea Alliance - the Kingdom of Volachia, also known as the country of vampires.

Whether people like it or not, the days of peace are numbered.

If the Empire is victorious, they will surely destroy and enslave the other nations, just as they destroyed the former Kingdom of Tymenia.

There is no way that New City Republic and Shanhai College will be immune.

In fact, even if the Sea Alliance won, the situation would not improve much.

Both the Luna Court in the south and the New City Republic in the north were invited by the Sea Alliance to join, that is, to become one of their provinces.

Once the Sea Alliance wins the war, they will no longer need to invite the two countries, but can directly use the most powerful force to force them to submit.

For Lu Heng, the Empire's attack on the Sea Alliance was not bad news.

He knew that peace could not be maintained, and he was waiting for Marshal Selron's main force to be dispatched in the next few days.

Selron stayed in Maoergan Peninsula, and Lu Heng continued to develop the New City Republic;

If he mobilized his main force to attack the Sea Alliance, Lu Heng could take the opportunity to recapture the city of Thessaloniki.

In this way, Lu Heng always maintained the strategic initiative.

It was also during these few days that Sword Master Gadlan, Zombie Skjan, Black Knight Tamika, and Bone Dragon Sandro were all transferred back by Vampire King Degal.

Lu Heng originally planned to pay them on a daily basis, after all, they were mercenaries, but they left in a hurry and did not ask for a penny.

But not everyone left. Ghost Zarna, Lilia and Elsa all stayed.

Lilia and Elsa did not receive any new instructions for the time being. The Vampire King seemed to just want them to stay in New Themenia City.

The ghost Charna floated directly to the new city.

She stated that she wanted to establish diplomatic relations with Lu Heng's New City Republic on behalf of the vampire king Degal, and that she herself was a diplomat.

This relationship is actually a little sensitive because she does not represent the Sea Alliance, but one of the member states of the Sea Alliance.

From the perspective of the Haijian Alliance, if Lu Heng agreed to this diplomatic relationship, it would seem to be somewhat destructive of the internal unity of Haijian.

But the Haijian Alliance was never Lu Heng’s ally, and they just sold out the New City Republic. What was there to trust?

Besides, Lu Heng himself was in need of diplomatic relations.

When he was the president of Shanhai College, he did have some trouble dealing with diplomacy.

For example, if the Haijian Alliance directly signed some kind of treaty with Lu Heng, wouldn't that mean that Lu Heng was the orthodox one?

Will the remaining forces of the Luna Academy on the west coast and the southern continent naturally become more wary or even hostile towards Lu Heng's Shanhai Academy?

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265. Defense, stalemate and counterattack

Later, Lu Heng became the Northern Marquis of the New City Republic, but this also made it difficult to make much political deals with other countries.

If you do this, it will inevitably arouse Xincheng's vigilance, so even if you want to act as a matchmaker, it is best to do it quietly.

After he came to power in the Republic, he finally made better progress in diplomacy.

Time passed quickly and it was already mid-August of the year 1204 in the Kuzhu calendar.

Faced with the impending war, the Golden Dragon Queen Aurelia has no intention of sitting still and waiting for death.

She led her golden dragon army across the sky of the Cat-Eared Kingdom.

As a fifth-rank aerial spellcaster, she possesses extremely strong combat capabilities.

Add to that the rune bombs of the cat-eared Viya, and the strength will be even stronger.

As one of the fifteen leaders of the Sea Alliance, she constantly travels between the member states, trying to establish a solid defense system.

In her strategic planning, the war between the Sea Alliance and the Empire can be divided into three stages:

The first stage is the strategic defense stage, the second stage is the strategic stalemate stage, and the third stage is the strategic counterattack stage.

Why do we need to develop a defensive counterattack strategic plan?

Because even if the Maritime Alliance's army has certain advantages, they lack sufficient navy to deploy the army.

The Sea Alliance is surrounded by the sea, but only dwarves and humans can provide combat-capable warships and landing craft.

These navies may not be small if taken individually, but compared with the empire with extremely strong naval power, they are only one-fifth of the other's strength.

Even if the dwarves and humans were howling and banging their shields in a desperate fight, it didn't mean they could really defeat the Empire's navy.

If the Imperial Navy cannot be dealt with, it will be even more impossible to ensure the safe landing of the Army.

Even if a small number of troops were to land on the beach, they would only be sent down in waves until they were destroyed in batches by the Empire.

This is one of the reasons why Aurelia opposed going to war with the Empire for the New City Republic.

It's not that she really doesn't care about the contract, but given the actual situation of the Sea Alliance, even if war is declared, it will be difficult to carry out a large-scale ground offensive.

Even if we really have a strategic defense, it would be like saying that we are going to be attacked passively in the future, and all this is for foreigners far away, which is very demoralizing.

Under the premise that the Sea Alliance is already in a difficult situation, any behavior that reduces morale will be regarded as a fatal luxury by the Golden Dragon Queen.

What's more, the New City Republic has not been occupied by the Empire, so it naturally cannot serve as a springboard for attacking the Sea Alliance.

This has already achieved the strategic goal of the Sea Alliance to regard the New City Republic as a protectorate.

If she had a choice, Aurelia really didn't want to be the dragon that sealed off the hope for peace.

But no matter how much she desired peace, planning for war still had to be done.

In her plan, the first phase cannot be simply defended, but must be coordinated with the air force's strategic bombing to consume the empire's national strength.

The only ones capable of carrying out this mission were the Sea Alliance's remaining air force - that is, the dozens of golden dragons led by Aurelia.

Their number is only one percent of the Imperial Air Force, but their troop quality is extremely strong.

Even if the main force of the Empire's air force cannot be found, the Golden Dragon can bring the cat people's rune bombs and directly carry out strategic bombing on the Empire's major cities.

Whether the national organizations in this world can survive depends largely on whether the spirit of the spellcaster is sufficient.

Although spellcasters are powerful, they also need to eat. The higher the level of the spellcaster, the more they need to consume food rich in psychic energy.

This requires a large number of ordinary laborers to raise food or other psychic supplements for them.

Once the production in the rear collapses, it will sooner or later feed back into the psychic energy supply of the upper-level spellcasters, not to mention the rations of ordinary soldiers.

This also means that once the war breaks out, the population and any industry that can provide spiritual energy will become the main targets of plunder and attack by both sides.

Whoever does not rush to harvest or even burn the enemy's crops and drive away the enemy's livestock will sooner or later receive the spiritual energy supplied to the enemy and hit him in the face.

Even if she couldn't seize the industries of the Western Continent, Aurelia would at least destroy the empire's production and war potential as much as possible.

Only in this way can we create the most basic conditions for persistence in the next stage.