Chapter 294 Fire Crow Pot

In more than a year, the development of the territory has initially achieved the expected results, first solving the food problem of the territory. Completed land development and construction of water conservancy facilities.

"The next task is to build roads and restore factories. In other words, we will pursue commercial development next." Feng Willow told Sai Ya.

"Professor, very few factory owners are willing to open factories in our territory. Because we require better treatment for workers, their production costs have increased a lot. To produce the same products, they set up factories in their territory. Especially if it is set up in a city directly under the royal family, it will be much more profitable than opening a factory here.

We can't force these businessmen to set up factories in our territory! "Saiya said with some embarrassment.

“We really can’t force those businessmen to open factories in our territory, but we can ban their products from entering!

Cloth, clothing, furniture, and steel products are all taxed at double the price of the goods when they enter our territory. But products produced in our territory only receive one-third of the tax.

Our territory covers three counties, and our population far exceeds that of the surrounding counties. The population of the three counties is larger than the population of the surrounding ten counties.

In this way, those capitalists who set up factories outside will not be able to make money in our territory. Although the requirements in our territory are high, they can still make money by opening factories in our territory.

I believe they will all weigh the choice. Feng Willow said confidently.

"But Professor, if we increase taxes on foreign products now, we will not have enough supplies to sell to the people now. A shortage of supplies in a territory is a terrible thing." Saiya reminded.

"It's okay. Since no businessman is willing to open a factory in our territory, we will do it ourselves first. When our own factory has enough production capacity, we will start charging heavy taxes on imported goods." Feng Willow said with a smile.

"Professor, this means that we have a monopoly on all the food, clothing, housing and transportation in the territory. This will indeed make more money in a short period of time, but over time, there will definitely be problems." Saiya persuaded.

"It doesn't take long. After someone is willing to come to our territory to open a factory, all these factories will be sold, and we will not have enough energy to manage the territory and do business at the same time." Feng Willow said.

"Okay professor, I'll let the people below take care of it." Saiya said with a smile.

After finishing the matters in the territory, Feng Willow continued to extract the national fortune and continued to refine his Fire Crow Pot. After more than a year of practicing the national destiny, this magic weapon is finally about to be completed.

But towards the end, more and more national luck was consumed. Feng Willow was cruel and directly took out a large share of national luck. It seems that the Viking Empire's national destiny is less than half left.

Suddenly there was a burst of thunder in the sky outside, and the national destiny of a big country was sucked away in this way. If Feng Willow had not held the official position of the Viking Empire's national advisor at this moment, he would have had to bear the backlash of the entire Viking Empire's destiny.

But now that he is a national advisor, his destiny has been connected with the Viking Empire, and the backlash will naturally not happen. However, every advantage has a disadvantage, and his relationship with the Viking Empire has further deepened. Luck is connected, and it has reached the point where both prosper and lose.

In this current state, once the Viking Empire is destroyed, he, Feng Willow, will definitely die with him. Destruction of the country means the disappearance of the country's destiny, and his destiny, which is deeply bound to the country's destiny, will also disappear.

"Boom!" There was a huge roar in the sky, but no lightning struck. Amidst this burst of thunder, Feng Willow's Fire Crow Pot finally completed the final refinement. This high-grade magic weapon was completely completed.

The fire crow pot has its own space inside, which can accommodate three thousand fire crows. It's not just a matter of accommodation. As long as one Fire Crow is used as a template, three thousand Fire Crow soldiers can be created.

Feng Willow's first alienated beast was a crow. After so many years of alienation, it has already evolved into a fire crow, which can be used as a template. This is why Feng Willow first chose the fire crow pot as his top-grade magic weapon.

Use the Fire Crow as a template, consume mana, and create Fire Crow Soldiers. As Feng Willow's mana was consumed, fire crows appeared in the fire crow pot.

The Fire Crow Pot contains space. There is a giant flame tree growing in the small space, and the Fire Crows are perched on the giant flame tree. It burns with an everlasting flame. As long as Feng Willow inputs mana, the fire crow can be reborn in the flames.

It's just that it takes a certain amount of time for the Flame Crow to be reborn.

With the Fire Crow Pot and three thousand Fire Crows, Feng Willow's shortcomings in legion combat were made up for. Three thousand fire crows can also form a fire crow formation.

And Feng Willow, holding the Fire Crow Pot, can make the three thousand Fire Crows act according to his own wishes. This is more efficient than commanding an army.

Just when Feng Willow was admiring his Fire Crow Pot with joy on his face, the Viking Empire was in misery, losing more than half of its national destiny in one fell swoop.

A violent earthquake occurred in the territory, in the southern industrial zone of the Viking Empire. The violent earthquake destroyed more than twenty cities in an instant. The consequence was that most of the Viking Empire's steam machinery industry was destroyed in an instant.

Countless people were killed and wounded, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced. The Viking Empire, which had suffered many disasters in the past year, had an empty treasury, not only money but also food.

Faced with such an unprecedented disaster, the Viking Empire was simply unable to provide disaster relief. The entire Viking Empire's national strength was instantly lost by more than half.

For the empire, the loss of money was secondary, but the loss of so many people, and the surrounding nobles did not want to accept these refugees at all because they had no food.

Millions of people were missing all of a sudden. Although the Viking Empire's extraordinary army was still there, the empire was no longer able to support the huge extraordinary army.

Ordinary people are the cornerstone of a country. If there are not enough ordinary people, how can so many extraordinary sequencers be supported?

Kenlohag, who had no choice, could only ask for help from the other three empires. At least the hundreds of thousands of victims must be saved. This natural disaster caused too much damage to the Viking Empire.

The strength was already at the bottom among the four empires, and now the strength has been halved in an instant. Even if there is still some foundation, it is no longer worthy of the title of the four empires.

After receiving the news, Feng Weiluo had a new understanding of national destiny. He originally thought that the name was national destiny, which was just luck. Now he found that national destiny is not only luck, but also a manifestation of a country's strength. The stronger the country is, the stronger the national destiny is.

This time he took away half of the national destiny to refine the Fire Crow Pot, which caused the strength of the Viking Empire to be halved.

"Saya, immediately send someone to receive those refugees and bring them to our territory. It happens that our factory is now short of workers. Many of the refugees from these industrial zones are skilled workers." Feng Weiluo ordered.

"Okay, professor, but the disaster-stricken areas are far away from our territory. Bringing them back will consume a lot of food, and the nobles along the way may not be willing to let a large number of refugees pass through their territory." Saiya reminded.

"Food is easy to deal with. Let Taris take all our space equipment and send out the army of our territory to meet the refugees. If someone doesn't let me through, report my name, Feng Willow. If someone doesn't give me face, then beat him up." Feng Willow said with full momentum.

Originally, the Viking Empire was troubled by the problem of refugee resettlement. No nobles were willing to accept them, and the country did not have enough food and money to resettle them.

This made these hundreds of thousands of refugees a hot potato. The other three empires provided some food, but they were also peeled by the nobles layer by layer. In the end, what fell into the hands of the refugees was just a drop in the bucket. They could only barely survive.

Now that the Grand Duke Feng Willow stood up and said he would accept refugees, the Emperor Kenlohag was very happy. However, some other great nobles were jealous when they saw that Feng Willow was going to accept refugees.

The nobles never disliked the fact that they had many subjects. The more subjects, the better. They, the nobles, were not blind to the benefits of accepting these refugees.

They also coveted these hundreds of thousands of refugees. Most of the refugees who survived the disaster were young and strong men in good health. As long as they were accepted, they could create wealth for them.

It was a pity that accepting these refugees would require a lot of money and food to settle them in the early stage. The Viking Empire, which had been in war for the past few years, had almost exhausted its resources from the empire to the nobles. It was not easy to settle down, but various natural disasters took turns in the past year.

They were short of money and food, and even the people in their own territory were almost unable to survive, so they were simply unable to accept other refugees.

They themselves had no ability, but seeing the benefits fall into the hands of Feng Willow, they were jealous in their hearts.

A few days later, Taris sent back the news that some small nobles did not dare to offend the Grand Duke Feng Willow and allowed their refugee team to pass, but now they were blocked in Enlester Territory. The Enlester family wanted to charge them a transit tax of ten copper coins per person.

Enlester Territory is a marquis ridge with peaks on both sides and a plain in the middle. And this plain is the territory of the Enrest family. If you want to bypass their territory, you have to walk hundreds of miles more. The refugees' marching speed is slow, and the food consumed by hundreds of thousands of people every day is an astronomical figure.

If you take a detour of hundreds of miles, the food loss will be too much, and many refugees are already sick and in urgent need of treatment. The longer the delay, the more people will die.

The Enrest family saw this point and wanted to extort money. Compared with the food consumed and the dead in the detour of hundreds of miles, the transit fee given to him is actually a small amount of money. He thinks that Feng Willow will give him the transit fee after weighing the pros and cons.

After Taris reported to Feng Willow, Sai Ya also tended to pay the money. As for the Enrest family's looting, they will find a chance to take revenge later.

"No, if we pay this time, the nobles behind will come to rob us like greedy hyenas. In any case, this precedent cannot be set." Feng Willow analyzed calmly.

"Then what should we do? Report it to the Empire and let the Empire handle it? If we argue, it will waste a lot of time, and we can't afford to delay it either." Saiya said with a headache.

"Declare war! On behalf of our family, declare war on the Enrest Family!" Feng Willow stood up and said majestically.

"Professor, we are from the same country. Without the consent of the Noble Council, we cannot declare war on the nobles of the same country directly. According to the rules, we need to apply to the Noble Council first, state the grievances between the two sides, and only after the approval of the Noble Council can we declare war.

But for such things, the Noble Council needs to investigate, and it is easy to delay it for a few months. Moreover, as outsiders, we have no connections among the nobles of the Viking Empire. The Enrest family is a veteran noble of the empire.

Even if we have sufficient reasons, it is reasonable for the Noble Council to delay us for a few months." Sai Ya told Feng Willow about the rules of the nobles of the Viking Empire.

"No need, just declare war directly, they have their rules, I have my rules! If anyone is dissatisfied, just come and fight." Feng Willow said directly and domineeringly. He has long been unhappy with these nobles of the Viking Empire.

"But professor, if we do this, we will break the rules of the nobles of the Viking Empire and offend most of the nobles at once. Even if the empire will not hold us accountable, it will be difficult for us to integrate into the imperial noble system in the future." Sai Ya reminded.

"Then let them integrate with us. I want to reform, which will inevitably touch the interests of these nobles, which means that sooner or later we will confront them. Even if we don't conflict this time, we will conflict next time. We can't give in every conflict.

Instead of swallowing our anger, it's better to turn the table with them directly." Feng Willow said firmly.

"Okay, professor, I will go to mobilize supplies and prepare for war." Saiya never compromised on Feng Willow's orders. At most, she would persuade him a few words. Once Feng Willow made up his mind, she would firmly carry it out to the end.

Feng Willow nodded. Of course, there was no need to prepare for war to deal with the Enrest family, but he had to guard against the noble parliament. Would those nobles unite to attack him? Even the Viking Empire would attack him because of his unruly declaration of war. (End of this chapter)