Chapter 354: Mergers and Alliances
Chapter 348 – Merger and Alliance
“It seems like the empire can’t be relied on anymore, we can only rely on Hydra.” Ferrier, because of too many people underneath who saw the wind and ran away, causing her to have to spend a lot of time and energy to stabilize the territory, it was not easy to find the time to invite Solari here, not at all in the mood for nonsense, and very bluntly said.
Solari, who has always been full of energy, looks several years older at this time, and obviously has been under a lot of pressure lately, and nodded at the words, with no intention of objecting.
Now the situation is already very obvious, the barbarians south has become a certainty, and the perennial laxity of the imperial border army makes people simply do not trust, this situation does not embrace the thigh, I’m afraid that we can only wait for the next life.
And the two actually have a consensus on this, but I did not expect it to be so fast, so fast that there is no preparation at all.
The two people neither expected the barbarians to go south, nor did they expect the imperial border army to sit back and watch, and even less expected the situation to change so quickly, so there is a kind of burnt out feeling.
“Since a consensus has been reached, let’s not waste any more time.” Ferrier took out the two-sided mirror, thinking about how they were just cooperating before, but now they were going to completely defect, she couldn’t help but feel a little emotional, but she still activated the two-sided mirror and sent the message of the two people’s defection over.
The complete defection of the two didn’t surprise Owen much, instead, he felt that the two were decisive and smart enough.
Really wait for the desperate before defecting, can still have a few points of value, while they are still enough to preserve the value, to sell themselves at a good price is a wise choice.
In fact, ultimately let the two make up their minds, and Owen’s hands very generous about, for example, the two serving the church from the maid, one became the administrator of the North City, one was cultivated into a legend, the early defection of the Kerens and Howard’s father and son, low birth, but now who is not in control of the power.
Two people in the decision to defect has been a little regret, regret the determination of too late, did not catch up with the good times, and now can only grasp the opportunity in front of them.
“A letter from Ms. Maya.” Ferrier felt the vibration of the double sided mirror, and instantly her spirit was shaken, Solari who had not left was resting her eyes closed immediately opened her eyes.
“This!” The projection and the densely packed schedule put out by the two-sided mirror made the two of them look dumbfounded, it was obvious that the other party had long anticipated their defection and the predicament they faced, and had long prepared a detailed plan, which was to merge.
“Then merge and build a southern city as ordered by Lord Hydra.” Solari said decisively with a slap on the table.
“Alright, you’ll be in charge of personnel mobilization, and I’ll be in charge of material distribution.” Because according to the plan, the merger was dominated by Ferrier’s territory, she took the initiative to cede some of her rights.
Solari didn’t care about this, compared to Ferrier, as a man he was much more decisive, because he knew very well that no one would tolerate a duplicitous henchman.
There were too many duplicity under Ferrier, even after running off a batch, there were quite a few left, she was too lazy to differentiate, and handed them all over to Solari to deal with.
Solari shifted the population while recruiting stragglers, after all, according to the city building plan, the number of manpower needed was not a small number.
Fortunately, Maya sent a lot of middle managers and grassroots personnel, as well as a large number of officers, so that Solari can save a lot of energy, and at the same time there is still room to mix him with Ferrier’s army.
Although things were busy, neither Solari nor Ferrier had any intention of relaxing, because the time was rare.
Now that the barbarians are moving south and the border army is preparing for war, it is the best time, on one hand, the forces within the empire are unable to intervene, on the other hand, a large number of nobles and stragglers who lost their territories are gathered here, so the two of them won’t be lacking in manpower, so the progress is very smooth.
However, the big action of the two people also brought a lot of inspiration to other people, after some exchanges and probing, large and small alliances emerged like mushrooms after the rain. Alliances are nothing new to the Northlands, and no matter what kind of alliance there is, there will always be some sort of rivalry, even from defending against foreign enemies to destroying each other.
However, this time the alliance was a little more professional, a little more restrained, and a little more aware of the art of compromise.
This is mainly related to the composition of the personnel, the previous alliance is composed of the initial batch of northern nobles, most of them are from lowly backgrounds, ambitious, capable, but lack of experience in compromising and alliances, and even more do not understand how to maximize the benefits of betrayal, haphazardly operated, coupled with betrayal of the speed is too fast, resulting in the coalition did not wait to play a role in what the internal collapse.
And now the northland nobles are mostly from the major powers within the empire, no matter the education they receive or their eyesight, all of them are not unfamiliar with compromise and alliance, so the alliance is more quickly molded and has more power.
Because of their different origins, the alliance formed by the newborn Northland nobles first communicated with each other and formulated a plan before informing the two Feryls.
This plan was not harmful to the interests of the two, but since they had already defected, they could not make the decision alone, so the two first passed this plan to Maya and waited for the other party’s reply.
When Maya handed this plan over to Owen, he was also taken aback, but after careful consideration he didn’t find it strange.
The plan wasn’t complicated, those people intended to set up an alliance of northern nobles, and at the same time join forces to build towns along the border of the empire, forming a defense line against the barbarians’ southward movement.
To put it bluntly, they are afraid of being beaten by the barbarians in the north, compared to other plans and benefits, they will first save their lives.
They are also unlucky, not waiting for any benefits to meet the barbarians southward, what’s worse, in the period of foreign invasion, they can not cross the border of the empire to go to the interior of the empire, because this belongs to the behavior of abandoning the territory to escape, the noble council has the right to deprive them of their noble titles and territories, therefore, they are confined to the Northland, can only embrace the group to survive.
The role of the newly formed alliance was dispensable, but it was just a grouping of the weak to keep warm, but it gave Owen some inspiration.
“I remember there are quite a few Northland nobles who hid in Mara Town with North City because they lost their territories, go and organize them, let’s form an alliance as well, let’s call it the Northern Glory Alliance.” Owen knocked on the table and said.
Although the weak are the only ones who embrace the group, but the phrase of many people can not only be used in battle, but also in discourse, once the Northland Noble Alliance is represented by the Northland, then the North City will be in a passive position in terms of public opinion.
Therefore Owen simply set up an alliance as well, directly splitting the Northlands and competing for the right to speak, and I’m afraid that this is what the Empire is happy to see.
However, Owen didn’t intend to let Ferrier and Solari join his own alliance, but let them join the Northland Noble Alliance, the intention is self-evident.
“By the way, don’t forget to spread the word about Archduke Macaron’s plot.” Owen said as Maya was leaving.
“It’s already being done, I’m sure it’s already spread by now.” Maya said with a smile.
It was actually true, because Grand Duke Macaron’s emissary had really contacted quite a few Northland nobles in private, so this matter was directly sat on by those Northland nobles, and it was him who was behind it.
Compared to the Grand Duke of Macaron, the so-called northern nobles are similar to the ragged family, but these people can’t help but have a master behind them, they can’t afford to mess with a Grand Duke, but it doesn’t mean that the forces behind them can’t give this Grand Duke some trouble, let him make a mess.
(End of chapter)