Outworld: Rise of an Industrial Empire

Su Xincheng, the City Lord's Mansion, the Council Chamber

"Cass City, Nocante City, etc., are all city-states that the Clare Kingdom has divided again, and the autonomy will be relatively low, and the attention of the kingdom is also much higher, so we didn't take it into account.

"With our own, there are only 21 city-states? that's too little... The population is just over a million.

Su Zheng clasped his hands to his chest, looked at the map and said with a solemn face.

Chris pointed to a city-state on the map with a teaching stick and said

, "But Your Highness, there are two supreme rulers in an empire like this, the city governor and the city captain, who control the politics and the garrison respectively.

Theoretically speaking, the politics of a city-state are basically the words of the city governor.

But there will be more or less wealthy merchant families and aristocratic families in the city-state, and they will also hold power to a greater or lesser extent.

In addition, the defenders are even more difficult, the relationship between the army is already complicated, in addition to the city captain, there is also the imperial overseer...

And even if they are all controlled, if they make a big move in these city-states, they will definitely attract the attention of the governor of the principality...

In addition, these city-state consuls are not like city-state lords, who spend most of their time in their own territory, except for rare gatherings and answering calls.

However, the consuls had to go to the duchy every three months to report to the duke, and the city captains were transferred every once in a while.

In short, if you want to control a city-state directly under the empire, I think it is better to fight it directly.

Chris told Su Zheng the general situation of the city-states directly under the empire, and denied the feasibility of controlling the city-states directly under the empire.

Su Zheng also nodded, the city-states directly under the empire could only be forcibly occupied, and there was no way to control them behind their backs.

Su Zheng looked at the Clal Kingdom next to him, Chris found Su Zheng's gaze, so he pointed to the Clal Kingdom and said,

"Your Highness... There are only a dozen city-states in the south of the Clair Kingdom that are divided, and they just form a border line with Qiongnanling, as a buffer zone with the Purple Cloud Empire in the south, we have not taken it into account, especially the Tanglin Pass, as the main route for trade between the Purple Cloud Empire and the New Qiong Empire, not only the Clare Kingdom attaches great importance to it, but there are also 500 soldiers stationed in the Xinqiong Empire nearby. "

Hmm... It seems that the scope of our expansion is very limited, and the Purple Cloud Empire in the south also has some sub-feudal city-states, but it's a pity that this Qiongnanling is blocking us.

Su Zheng shook his head and sighed, Chris smiled helplessly:

"Hey, it is precisely because of this Qiongnan Ridge that the contradiction between the Purple Cloud Empire and the New Qiong Empire is much less, and we can be rare and clean here for decades...."Su

Zheng nodded, looked at Chris with his hands on his hips and said,

"Tell me about your specific plan!"

"Your Highness, we can divide it into three stages, the first is to control these 21 city-states, carry out the industrial revolution, and after having enough strength, we will try to control the city-states directly under the empire and the kingdom behind the back, and when they react, we will be able to have the strength to fight! Not only that, but we will also unite with the Xingnuo Empire to form a two-sided attack on the Xinqiong Empire!"

"Hey, by the way, this Xingnuo Empire... I'm a little impressed... Hey, tell me more about it.

Su Zheng touched his chin and said to Chris.

Chris pointed

to the east side of the Xinqiong Empire and said, "The Xingnuo Empire is located on the east side of the Xinqiong Empire, and it used to be the most powerful kingdom of the Great Qiong Empire, but later split off and annexed nearly half of the territory of the Great Qiong Empire, and.... After Xingnuo occupied the capital of Daqiong, he directly destroyed the entire palace, and the royal family of Daqiong suffered heavy losses....

The remnants of the Daqiong royal family reorganized the proximity faction of the royal family and established Xinqiong, and the contradictions between the two sides still exist, and it has been quite fierce in the past ten years, and the 700,000 troops of the Xinqiong Empire are stationed on the eastern border.

"Hey! The Xinqiong Empire claims to have a million troops, and there are 700,000 garrisons in the east!"

Su Zheng's eyes lit up, so that Su Zheng's future expansion pressure would be much less.

Chris nodded and said

, "Although the Xinqiong Empire claims to be a million troops, in fact, the direct army is probably only 600,000, and the other 11 kingdoms also have tens of thousands of troops each, I am afraid that almost all the main forces of the Xinqiong Empire are stationed in the east."

"Haha, that's great!Okay, let's follow these three steps first, first control the city-states around us, then encroach on the city-states directly under

the empire, and finally directly confront the imperial chamber!" Su Zheng turned around and came to the table, looked at the mini-map of the southern part of the empire on the table

, and said, "Now it's time to take the first step in the first stage, first choose a city-state to experiment! At the same time, let Suxin, Ted, Merlin, and Port Duotu fully industrialize!"

"That." ... Let's take control of Porto Dotu first?"

Isn't Yet, Isn't Porto Dortu ours long ago?"

"Ahh Hahaha! Yes!".