Chapter 61: Coup

  War, without material support, is just a brawl between naked savages. War requires all sorts of resources, people to gather supplies, people to manufacture weapons, and people to transport armor. None of these things appear out of thin air; they require leaders to pay wages to the people who work for war.

  Some people would say that using slaves is cost-effective, as these prisoners of war or those who were sold into slavery for various reasons do not need to be paid wages. Most countries in the Central Plains use slaves to varying degrees, and commercial nations like Carthage have large numbers of slaves in all workshops and plantations.

  But in fact, using slaves seems to be cost-effective, but it is actually a very wasteful system of human labor. Because they are slaves, there is no motivation for production at all, and only simple physical labor can be done, and a large number of free people need to be guarded, otherwise there will be runaway slaves or riots.

  This is why Mo Yan freed the thousand gnomes from the underground city. Using slaves as craftsmen is a brain-damaged behavior, which has no benefits except producing low-quality products in Thunder Cliff.

  Since the dwarves are free people, their work is paid. After the declaration of war against Thunderhold in Council City, due to the lack of defensive equipment and the armament of monsters in the city, Mo Yan reduced external exports and ordered the dwarves to produce with all their might.

  In such a situation where the payment cannot be delayed, all professions in the city need to pay wages. Moreover, Mo Yan recently dispatched a merchant team with a lot of money to Carthage to buy ships and magic materials, and also produced materials needed for the construction of port cities, which directly led to the financial crisis of Leiting Cliff.

  "Whoops, got a bit carried away." Mo Yan stared at the report in front of him, his eyes widening at the large red deficit: "Lilith, is this really the city's income? Didn't you forget to add something? I remember last time the city's treasury had over a thousand gold coins, didn't it?"

  "No mistake." Lirien looked at the slightly worried Mo Yan and smiled: "All expenses and income for this month have been consolidated, Emily has also calculated it, there is no error. Master, you spent lavishly and emptied the treasury of Thunder Cliff. The 1,000 gold coins you mentioned were paid to the underground city of Santos last month, after all, those underground city's dwarven craftsmen and spider breeding factories need to be paid wages."

  "Why pay money to those ants?" Jones said, sitting on the long bench opposite Mo Yan and eating a piece of candy from Thunder Cliff. "Since everything is up to you anyway, why bother paying? If we can save this expense, it would be a big sum of money."

  "Fool, there are some things that can't be saved." Mo Yan sighed and said: "For high-intensity work like Leifeng Cliff, if there wasn't such a salary to support it, would anyone come? And increasing the workload by twice as much, letting one person do the work of four people, is absolutely a very cost-effective thing."

  "But this can't solve the current financial urgency, if there's no extra income by the end of the month, we'll have to delay paying some craftsmen's wages." Liriel reminded Mo Yan, who had gone off topic: "So what we're solving now is a financial problem."

  "Money, money......" Mo Yan muttered to himself, his worried expression reappearing. "Why don't the dragons here like gold coins? If they did, I could find a dragon's nest and steal some. Maybe I could even get some dragon scales to sell...hmm?" As he spoke, Mo Yan looked up at Jones, who was eating sugar, as if remembering something.

  "What's wrong?" Jones looked at Mo Yan staring straight at her, her face slightly red.

  "By the way... are Black Dragon's scales valuable?" Mo Yan suddenly burst out laughing.

  "Huh?"

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  In the city of Parliament, the members of parliament have gathered in the parliamentary hall of the castle. This place, which serves as a venue for all Elan opportunities, is also considered the parliamentary hall of the city of Parliament when there are no large gatherings throughout Elan. The members elected from various strata of the city every month gather here to vote on next month's taxes and some important resolutions.

  When every four years near the end of the year, the next speaker is also elected here, responsible for managing some daily work in the entire parliament. And when voting across all Eire, it is also responsible for maintaining order, announcing the results of the All-Eire resolution, and canceling some privileges of cities according to certain rules, such as the last vote was owned by San Francisco. Summoning orders, apart from that there are no other rights.

  This time's regular council, most people already knew the theme of this meeting before it started, a motion to impeach the current speaker. The proposal was put forward by members who opposed the war at the beginning, although the declaration of war was passed due to the majority vote at that time, but it ushered in the outcome of defeat in the war, 1,200 soldiers died outside.

  Such a bitter fruit must have a scapegoat, to give the city's residents an account. The Speaker of Parliament, who advocated for war and persuaded most members, was made the source of this defeat. If he hadn't strongly advocated for declaring war, how would they have ended up like this? It is said that the ambassador was killed, but almost all the members know what really happened - it's just that someone stole someone else's secret and got caught.

  After all 300 members of the parliament had taken their seats, the speaker, wearing a long gown that only he was qualified to wear, walked in accompanied by two soldiers from the legion. This unusual behavior caused all the members of the parliament to frown. Soldiers from the legion were not allowed to attend the parliament, and historically no speaker had ever done so.

  Some people with keen political instincts immediately thought of the bad side. They quietly left their seats, lowered their bodies and walked out, but as they had expected, there was a team of soldiers guarding the door, facing the inside of the parliament hall.

  "What are you doing, Azera!" An elderly senator stood up and pointed at the speaker angrily: "Soldiers are not allowed in the parliament hall, this is where senators hold their meetings!"

  "Hehe... it's not like that anymore." Azella walked up to the speaker's podium, looking at the standing members with a smile and said: "From today on, the city council will be dissolved, and you will all be detained until the day the demon's city is destroyed. For the benefit and glory of the entire Council City, I will be crowned as the first emperor of Council City."

  "You think you can be emperor in Eran, but there is only one dead end!" The slightly fat congressman pointed at Azera and roared: "The people of Sault have no emperor, those who try to destroy the freedom of the people of Sault will surely receive the punishment of the god of war!"

  "I'm afraid, gentlemen of the council." Upon hearing the fat councilor's words, Azella's smile grew even brighter: "The Temple of War will stand on my side, and the God of War will bless my coronation. I, who have already taken control of the military in Council City, am the absolute victor of this revolution. You are nothing but prisoners, unable to do anything but accuse me from within your cells. Guards! Take the councilors away to the dungeon in the castle."

  At Azrael's words, squad after squad of Saldorian warriors burst in, armed to the teeth, pushing and shoving the elected representatives of the people, hauling them off towards the dungeons beneath the castle. Some of the warrior-born representatives put up a fight, but were cut down one by one; unarmed, they were no match for the fully-armed soldiers.

  The blood of the Saulteaux once again stained the floor of the Legislative Building a thousand years later, only that time it was resisting the invasion of the Marois, and this time it was their own warriors who took action.

  "Captain, is this really right?" After escorting all the members of parliament away, a team of soldiers was dispatched to clean up the corpses in the parliamentary hall. A warrior carrying a corpse couldn't help but ask: "These are our elected representatives."

  "Think about expanding the army! Think about military expenses." The captain heard the soldier's words and laughed, saying: "All along, our commander has wanted to expand the army, but every time he was rejected. It was these congressmen who were blocking us. But I've heard that this time we will expand the army by 10,000! 10,000 people! Even if it's a giant dragon in that city, we can kill it! Don't you feel excited? The Gray Wolf and Giant Bear armies lost so many men. This vendetta must be avenged!"

  "It seems that's also true." A soldier who felt the captain was making a lot of sense carelessly threw the people's representatives onto the wooden cart and said, "With 10,000 people, just gathering the current military units would already be a sea of people. I really don't know what kind of scene it would be with over 10,000 people, these representatives are being imprisoned, and the increase in military spending won't be stopped either?"

  "Of course." The captain nodded and said, "Our salary will also increase greatly. A while ago I saw a good sword at the blacksmith's shop, this time we should be able to buy it!"

  "Heh heh, I'd also like to buy some spider silk fabric as a gift for my mother." The warrior said with a smile.

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