Riding and Slashing

359th July 5 of the Pandeli calendar.

Nearly [-] people from the three newly reorganized legions of the Bacchus Empire appeared outside Changhe City.

Most of the troops under Li Ang's command, including the troops of the Sarleon Principality and the Noldor Principality, also gathered here.

However, these troops are not here to fight, but to conduct a joint military parade.

The wedding of Li Ang and Alina will be held in Long River City soon.

The preparations for the wedding were very grand, and almost all the famous people from the whole continent were invited to the scene.

Even King Vidis of Fieldsway, Queen Ursula of the Ravencrow Kingdom, and Gregory IV have come in person—they are all engaged in civil wars in their countries, and Vidis's troops are still attacking Cliff Bay, and Ursula's troops are still besieging Dawnforge City.

But they had to come, because this time, besides the wedding, there was another important thing.

Li Ang will proclaim himself emperor on this day.

Why do these two people get married and bring the armies of the two countries together for a "joint military parade"?
Isn't it just for partnering to scare people...

Both Fieldsway and Ravencrow had wars in their country. If it was just a wedding, Vidis, Ursula and others really didn't need to come here in person.But if Li Ang declares himself emperor and they don't come, they will probably be beaten in a few days...

The New Pendor Kingdom has a strong army, plus the army of the Bacchus Empire... The two countries that are in civil war, Fierzway and Ravencrow, are really not to be trifled with.

In fact, Li Ang didn't intend to become emperor - he didn't care about the title at all.

But the problem is Alina cares...

When Pande College was established, Alina wrote a message on the inner wall of the college: "If you are a nobleman, you need to master knowledge to preserve wealth for your family; if you are not a nobleman, then you need to master more knowledge to create wealth for you and your descendants - Luciana Mario Justus Basilius."

This can be regarded as an encouragement to the students, but the focus is not on the message itself, but on Alina's signature.

Alina is the name she chose for herself, which can be understood as her "self-proclaimed"--for the Bacchus, self-proclaimed is also a formal name, and they are generally used in letters or daily address to replace their real name.

The inscription 'Luciana Mallor Justus Basilius' is Alina's real full name.

Luciana is her real name, Marius is the family name inherited from her adoptive father, Emperor Marius; Justus is the original family name; Basilius is an additional name and a title, meaning 'emperor'.

Emperor Marius actually didn't have a title - he was not recognized by the Senate at the beginning, and he ascended the throne by coercing the Senate through a mutiny, so he didn't use any title.

According to the tradition of Bacchus, 'Augustus' is the title of the emperor of Bacchus. From the perspective of so-called 'legitimacy', Demoses Augustus is the orthodox emperor recognized by the Senate, and Marius should be regarded as a rebel...

Therefore, in order to avoid any rebellion such as restoration in Bacchus, Alina no longer used the title of Augustus, but added the title of 'Basilius' to herself, indicating that she was the emperor recognized by both the Senate and the elected parliament. Although she was only nominated as a candidate at the time, the process was indeed completed...

However, the title Alina is very peculiar--'Basilius' is a masculine word, usually used by male emperors, and the empress should use the feminine word 'Baxirosa'.

She used the title of male emperor.

This is because the ruler, known as the 'Queen', usually has her husband as regent.However, Alina intends to manage the Bacchus Empire herself, to be a dictatorial emperor, and will not allow other people to be regents.

This title represents her determination.

This also means that, according to the standard written title, Alina should also be called 'Emperor Marius' instead of 'Empress Luciana'...

But out of habit, no one would really refer to Alina as Emperor Marius, and her title of emperor was rarely mentioned.

Even in the Bacchus country, people directly call Alina by the name - the word 'Arina', according to the Cubax language, originally meant 'noble and wise queen'.

But Alina's title of emperor, that is, 'Basilius', seemed a bit awkward after she and Leon confirmed their marriage - Li Ang didn't have the title of emperor, but Arina did, and it was a male emperor's title.

Li Ang himself really didn't mind, even in the marriage letter, he handwritten Alina's name as 'Luciana Mario Pendragon Basilius'.

That is to say, after Alina and Leon got married, she was still the emperor of the Bacchus Empire, and she would only use Li Ang's family name instead of her original family name, and the title 'Male Emperor' would still be retained.

Li Ang actually agrees with Arina's use of this unique title of male emperor.

However, even though Li Ang didn't care about these issues at all, everyone else felt that this was inappropriate, and Arina also felt that it was inappropriate.

Everyone felt that it was no longer suitable for Leon to use the title of 'King', and the New Pendor Kingdom should not be just a kingdom.

So Amy, Wendy, and Alina once again 'colluded', and then forced Li Ang to change New Pendor into an empire.

Li Ang's current title has also become 'Emperor of the Pendor'.

The emperor of the Pendors married the emperor of the Bacchus, that's the right thing to do.

Although the female emperor of the Bacchus used a male title...forget it, this is a small problem, don't restrict gender so much...

Of course, there are still many people involved in this "forced proclaiming emperor", such as Godric, Eric, Fawcett, Leofric, Lisa Dilan and many other lords, and even an honest man like Anson who doesn't have much desire for power.

Even the process is very rigorous - the emperor Li Ang is not self-proclaimed, but 'God-given'.

Which god is so awesome that he can actually give orders to the emperor?

Of course it is the new official belief of the New Pendor Empire a few months ago - God of Wealth...

On behalf of the God of Wealth, it was Amy who put the emperor's crown on Li Ang, Wendy who handed Li Ang the scepter, and Alice who sent the emperor's guard of honor and purple robes.

That is, the three wealth spokespersons who are currently widely admired.

Therefore, the ceremony of the god bestowing the emperor was held on the morning of the wedding, and at the same time, there was a grand military parade.

If you are just getting married, of course there is no need to hold a military parade, but proclaiming the emperor does need to go through this process-how can you proclaim the emperor if the army is not strong?

And, like Amy said, the king's marriage is definitely full of political factors...

Why does everyone want Li Ang to be emperor?

The reason is simple - for convenience.

Yes, after Li Ang becomes emperor, many things will become more convenient.

Such as persuading surrender.

After the Principality of Desha was successfully forced to surrender by Sarah, Amy naturally planned to try to persuade Fieldsway or the Ravencrow Kingdom... or one of them.

The division and internal strife in these two countries were all caused by Amy. At that time, she was unable to pick the fruit, but now, she has enough strength to close the net.

Not long ago, Laislie went to Fog Cage City to pretend to be a rich man—in fact, she wasn't pretending to be a rich man. Leslie, who held a large amount of state-owned assets in her hand, was indeed a real rich man.

She purchased a large number of properties in Fog Cage City at extremely low prices. Due to the economic downturn in Fog Cage City, various industries were at a standstill, and the prices were very low. Leslie basically bought the entire city within a month.

How much did it cost?

A lot, more than 60 dinars - old dinars.

Li Ang did not allow the new currency to enter Fieldsway. The new currency is currently only in circulation in the middle of Sarleon, River City, and White Hart Castle. It has not yet been fully popularized—it has only been half a year, and it is still in the process of exchanging old for new, so it is impossible to fully popularize.

The more than 60 old dinars were exchanged by people for new currency.

On the surface, a large number of dinars have entered the city of fog, it seems that a large amount of hot money has entered the market, logically it should be a good thing, right?

But actually?
Not a good thing at all...

Money is a double-edged sword.

More than 60 dinars were invested in Fogcage City, a place where the economy was already extremely depressed, in just one month, and there was only one consequence—a catastrophic collapse.

Yes, Fogcage City is completely broken now.

Because those who sold the property to Leslie all moved with money...

They exchanged the money-losing property for cash, and then recklessly purchased a large amount of daily necessities, and then fled Fieldsville-this is human nature, which businessman would like to stay in a place where the economy is sluggish and taxes are often raised?

Most people fled to the inland Sarleon Land, because the sea was not safe, and the pirate lords who were on the verge of bankruptcy were looking for fat sheep everywhere, and even King Vidis's own fleet started old business at sea.

These people's large purchases of living supplies and their escape after purchase directly led to the complete end of the already bleak business in Wucage City.

inflation.

The price of food in Fog Cage City was already ridiculously high, and these people were property owners from all walks of life. After they got the cash, they bought the remaining food at high prices from various channels in order to relocate...

But what about after they bought it?

There are no daily necessities for sale in the city, and there are a lot of dinars, but the dinars are useless...

According to Leslie's report, the flour in Mistcage City has risen to ten dinars per pound, fish and meat start at fifty dinars per pound, wheat bran can also be sold for one dinar per pound, and even one pound of bark can be sold for five dirhams.

This price is [-] times the price of grain in Changhe City, and there is no market for it.

Other places in Fieldsway are also short of food, and there has been a war at Cliff Bay, and Ravencrow Kingdom is also at war, plus a large number of pirates cruising the sea-the pirate lords are also short of food, they must find fat sheep.

This means that no grain merchant can go to Wucage City to rescue the city, because food cannot enter Wucage City at all, and as long as there is food found, it will be robbed halfway.

Of course King Vidis wanted to save it all, but he missed the winter plowing last year, and now it is difficult to recover the situation-he is bankrupt.

At this time, of course it is a good time to persuade you to surrender...

Amy has a lot of food in her hands, enough to save the city of fog cage, and even enough to save the whole of Fieldsway.

The two million acres she has cleared around Sarleon are now ready for wheat and corn harvest.

In fact, there are also potatoes, but not many are grown.But not much here is relative—many farmers have planted it, adding up to at least [-] mu.

Amy's situation is different from the situation that Lord Dean of Yimer Village encountered before. If it weren't for Amy's request that he could only pay taxes with wheat and corn, the farmers would actually be happy to grow potatoes.

Because Amy had promoted potatoes in the previous two years when Sarleon was struggling to resist, the farmers already knew the yield of potatoes.

But in order to ensure a reliable grain reserve, Amy only allowed to use storable grains such as wheat and corn as food tax - you can grow other things if you want, but the food tax must also be paid with these two crops.

With 200 million acres of land, even without counting other places, the treasury can receive at least [-] million pounds of grain—this is the standard agreed by Amy and the farmers. A tax of [-] pounds per acre can be paid for dried wheat or corn.

The [-] million pounds is not the total output, it is just a tax, and it is a surplus that can be used for sale or as a material reserve.

The farmers have enough grain. The staff of the 'Griffin Grain and Oil Purchase Station' sent by Li Ang confirmed that the farmers around Sarleon City can sell an average of about [-] pounds of grain. That is to say, after paying the tax, excluding the next season's grain and their rations, each household has an average of [-] pounds of grain left.

There are almost [-] farmers, each with an average of [-] pounds of surplus grain per season, which is not much, and probably not enough to repay their agricultural aid loans.

But in any case, at least their food and clothing are no problem.

And this also means that after the farmers dry the grain, Li Ang's grain and oil company can buy 5000 million pounds of grain at a low price from the surrounding areas of Lie Lion City, which is also surplus grain.

The price parity is indeed relatively flat. The purchase price of 5000 million pounds of grain is about 50 dinars, which is one dinar and one hundred pounds.

Because the price of grain in Long River City and Sarleon City is also cheap, flour and cornmeal are currently priced at the same price, and one dinar plus four dirhams (1.4 dinars) can buy one hundred pounds of flour.

One hundred pounds of wheat or corn can be ground into more than 70 pounds of flour or cornmeal, which is about one dinar.

That is to say, even if the farmers don't sell to the 'state-run purchasing station', the price is the same if they sell it in the city, and they have to find a place to grind the noodles themselves.

The harvest in other places is not so good, because the pests in the surrounding areas of the Noldo Forest are indeed particularly serious this year. Under the coordination and transshipment of the long river express, they can basically guarantee self-sufficiency.

Only Beibu Gulf and other places can provide some food tax, but the exact amount is not certain.

This is the difference between the overall industrialization development and the layer-by-layer increase in the noble territories-the 30 people under Amy's unified management can bring 5000 million pounds of grain reserves to the country, but the combined 60 people and 45 agricultural population in other places may not have surplus food.

Right now, Vidis is trembling in Long River City.

This is not an adjective, he is really shaking.

On the way to Long River City, he had already seen the endless farmland around Sarleon City, and also saw the scene of farmers rushing to harvest.

Now, he saw seven fully formed legions, 2 people, parading outside Changhe City.

He knew that the 'New Pendor Empire' that had just been established today had nothing to lack.

He could also see that Li Ang was scaring him.

In fact, Li Ang didn't say anything. He greeted every guest with a smile. After all, the wedding is after the military parade. It's not good to scare the guests at the wedding...

Look at the flower petals floating in the sky, the cheering crowd, and the exquisite carriage driving Alina slowly approaching—if you don’t look at the Bacchus army behind Alina, what a warm and romantic scene it is!

But when Justus put Alina's hand in Li Ang's, Li Ang looked back at the "foreign guests" again, not only Vidis, but also Ursula and Gregory IV began to tremble...

So Li Ang asked them: "I heard that you are all about to go bankrupt...do you want to get rich?" (End of this chapter)