Chapter 42 Governance Strategies
The war between the human and beast tribes broke out suddenly on the northwest battlefield of Isaac, but the ending of the war was even more strange.
The human and beast tribes only broke out in a head-on battle near Hongyan City. The orc army collapsed and many well-known orc heroes died in battle, but the lion king Elliot was strangely missing.
The human army originally thought that the Lion King would restrain his defeated troops and look for opportunities to fight the human race again, but since the battle in Hongyan City, Elliott seemed to have disappeared out of thin air and never appeared again.
If the Lion King is the mystery of this battle, there will be a more strange scene next. The human race only chased the orc army for three days and announced the seal of the sword. Then the orc tribes and villages rushed to surrender to the human army.
In just half a month, Arthur recovered the entire northwest border with the cooperation of the Wind and Snow and Frost Thunder Legion. The death price paid by the human army in this war is almost negligible compared to the scale of the war.
This is a complete victory over the orcs in the Kingdom of Isaac!
However, as the detailed report on this battle was passed back to the royal city, it caused an uproar in the political arena. Some people even believed that this battle was not counted as Arthur and Fengxue, and the Frost Thunder Legion won, because the invading orcs were not driven back to the orc wasteland. They just surrendered and handed over their weapons and promised not to be enemies with the human race anymore, and they stayed on the land of the human race in a noble way.
So rumors and slandering Arthur flocked in the royal city. There were rumors that this was a deal between Arthur and the orcs, and Arthur exchanged the land of the human race for his position of duke. There were even rumors that Arthur had been bribed by the orcs, and Ling Yu, the first orc beauty he married, gave birth to him a small half of orcs.
These rumors were even deliberately spread to King Strech's ears, and some nobles took the initiative to write letters to the king to attack Arthur, and collected a series of evidence including trade with orcs.
King Strach ignored all rumors and even memorials about Arthur.
These princes and nobles did not know that before Arthur left Singalore, he left a sentence to His Majesty the King, "As long as His Majesty gives me absolute trust, I will send His Majesty 200,000 orc warriors to conquer the world!"
This sentence firmly grasped Strach's heart!
Strach not only ignored the rumors about Arthur, but also ordered people to prepare for the enthronement ceremony of Grand Duke Jiayong and the site selection of Grand Duke's Mansion in the royal city.
This alone shows the king's attitude. If there are no eyes, it will probably cause trouble.
Arthur, who was far away on the northwest border, had no time to pay attention to the rumors in the royal city, because the aftermath of the war was more troublesome than the war.
It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. The land in the northwest region is far fertile than the orc wasteland, and the natural environment is not that bad. Therefore, as soon as Arthur's policy of surrender was released, seventy or eight hundred thousand orcs chose to continue to stay in the northwest region.
The number of orcs left behind was completely beyond Arthur's expectations, and how to manage them became Arthur's most difficult problem at present.
The first thing to be affected is how to resettle orc tribes? Such a vast land in the northwest region cannot be occupied by these orcs by their preferences. Not to mention that they will relocate back to the human race in the future to form a mixed situation, it is inevitable that these orc tribes will fight each other because of snatching territory.
So Arthur moved the human aristocratic feudal system directly to the orcs, and distributed it to the land and hunting grounds for each tribe to fill the stomach according to the population, and gave the lowest-level titles of the tribe's patriarchs.
If each tribe wants more land and the patriarch wants a higher title, it needs to exchange military merit. The easiest way to exchange military merit is to join Arthur's legion.
Arthur, who is about to be appointed as the Duke, can form a legion of 100,000 people. The Kingdom of Isaac has been conquering years and recruiting soldiers for years. It is very difficult for Arthur to recruit 100,000 qualified soldiers from the inland areas of the kingdom, and it is difficult to form combat effectiveness in a short period of time. If orc warriors are recruited, more than half of the qualified soldiers in the northwest region, and the combat effectiveness of the legion is immediately comparable to the most elite legion of the human race.
Orcs naturally have disadvantages. The fighting spirit, identity and cohesion of orcs are all factors that directly affect the combat effectiveness of the legion.
The linkage between military merits and fiefdoms solved the problems of soldiers and fighting spirit to a certain extent. For example, the first surrender of the Nailhead Crocodile Tribe, five hundred soldiers joined Arthur's newly formed Orc Legion, so they immediately distributed an additional 100 square kilometers of land. In the future, these soldiers made military merits on the battlefield, and they could still choose to replace military merits with the tribe's fiefdom.
In order to solve the problem of identity and cohesion, the orc legion that Arthur is about to form will have two legion commanders. The nominal legion commander Ling Yu let the first orc beauty serve as the legion commander, and there will be no problem with the sense of identity. Once on the battlefield, these male orcs will be in front of the legion commander, and they will rush forward with blood boiling in front of the legion commander.
The other is Huey, the commander of the legion who leads troops on a daily basis. The orcs have their own way to deal with these aggressive orc warriors.
There are even more problems in the fiefs of each tribe. Tribes with revenge should not be too close, otherwise conflicts and disputes between tribes will continue in the future; tribes with too close relationships should not be too close. Arthur must also be wary of the rebellion between orc tribes.
The complex historical grievances between the orc tribes alone are a headache. Arthur had to ask Lingyu to invite his cheap father-in-law Cang Yukong, and the leader of the Holy Spirit Crane, who is familiar with the history of orcs, will distribute the fiefs of each orc tribe.
In addition to the fiefdom of the orc tribe, there are also issues of public security and order in the entire northwest region.
The racial hatred that has lasted for thousands of years is not something that can be easily let go. Although the tribes handed over weapons, orcs are natural warriors. A few animal skins can sew a set of tough armor, and a simple bone rod can form huge lethality. How to manage these impulses, a fighting guy will be a headache in the future.
As the situation in the northwest region stabilizes, the human people who had fled before will definitely move back one after another. By then, the northwest region will have a situation where humans and beasts live in harmony, and it will be even more difficult to avoid conflicts between the people of the two races.
Arthur's current solution is to separate the living areas of the two ethnic groups, but not completely closed to each other, allowing the areas to trade with each other, gradually eliminating the hatred between races and achieving racial integration.
Arthur established a hundred patrol cavalry brigades of 100 people for this purpose, and found that the orcs who were willing to do something and intended to cause trouble firmly suppressed them.
During the implementation of this series of policies and measures, it is inevitable that the orc tribe will be dissatisfied, but in the face of the powerful military forces of the human race, they have to choose to endure and accept it.
Now orcs don’t accept it. The two passages from the northwest border crossing the Great Rift Valley to the Orc Wasteland have been controlled by the Fengxue and Frost Thunder Legion respectively. Orcs in the northwest region have no way to retreat.
Chapter completed!