Chapter 113: Preparation
“Can this area proceed with the railroad tracks as shown in this diagram?'”
Reineke asks
"That's right. Ah! This area tends to get muddy during the rainy season, so it might be better to divert it a bit."
“In that case, a little further into the forest then?"
"I think it would be better. The ground is stronger there."
"Count Shiro"
Another person joins the conversation.
He's a civil official (nominated) from Ulfrica.
"How's the examination going?"
“I'll have to check the details, but I don't think it will be a problem. I'd also like to have a backup site, just in case."
We're discussing how to route the railroad through the four countries.
I had traveled around the country for a long time, so I remember the geography
Kusuof has been making maps of their country for a long time and it is useful
(Actually, it's a classified document, so it's top-secret.)
Ulfrica, on Gadoga's orders, has been surveying the country immediately, and is working on it to great acclaim.
The map is expanding every day.
Since there was no history, lore, or geography for Sutska, a civil official from Berdereich was seconded to conduct a survey.
"How many years will this take..."
I'm getting dizzy with the work I can't see ahead
What I'm doing now is just a theory
We have to plan the main project and several preliminary projects, and actually go there and understand the environment.
Then we'll start construction.
All four countries are simultaneously working on multiple top-priority projects
"Count"
"What?"
Ulfrica's civil officer asks
“Why is there such a hurry? Shouldn't we finish all in Berdreich first, and then proceed one country at a time?"
Well, I think so too
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It happened a few days ago
"We have discovered the inner workings of the Principality of Orario!"
One of the civil officials speaks
One day, I was summoned to the royal capital by Quies.
In addition to me, ministers, civil officials, and nobles working in the royal capital are also gathered around.
"Oh, what was their intention when they called us country bumpkins?"
One of the nobles asks the civil official in a displeased tone.
It's not the civil official's fault.
But the civil official let the pressured remark slide and continued
"The Principality of Orario was undergoing a revolution."
"Nonsense!"
"Who caused it?"
“Viscount Barbatt.”
That's a strange thing to say.
"Barbatt is in captivity in our country!"
Yes, he's still in the depths of the dungeon, screaming hoarsely from the neck down.
“Viscount Barbatt is under medical care, so his second-in-command is giving orders.”
“What kind of idiot would be a second-in-command who would follow a Viscount who doesn't even exist?"
"...He called himself Prelati."
Everyone in the room stops talking.
After a while, one of them speaks up.
It's Marquis Andrei
"We can assume that he is related to the blue water. No, he might be the maker."
Everyone realizes what he means.
"Don't tell me that everything in the Principality is like it was with Viscount Kyrgy?"
Those who knew what happened in Kyrgy's territory could easily imagine that scene.
"What about neighboring countries?"
Only Quies was different.
"What? The neighboring country? Well, they say it's full of refugees who have fled the principality."
"I knew it. Perhaps that's what they're after."
"With all due respect, what did his majesty see?"
"If I'm right, they're using the refugees as weapons."
It was the worst possible tactic, and the most effective.
"It's probably a strategy to weaken the national power of neighboring countries by flooding them with refugees."
"No way! It will cost the Principality its own strength!"
No, the Principality would not.
"No, they can make a soldier go insane with blue water."
"It would be impossible! In the Alliance war with Urfrica, the mad soldiers fought without eating or drinking, but within a few days they wasted away on their own!"
"That's because we were able to defend ourselves for a few days."
"...No way! That's!"
Yes, if the soldiers die in a few days...
They can get the same number or more before they die.
The captured enemy soldiers.
The commoners who fell.
Refugees from their own country flooded into the enemy
"Is blue water really a liquid? I don't know if it's just a metaphor and it's actually solid. Maybe it's not something to drink or eat. But we can't rule out the hypothesis that at some point, the people will suddenly become a mad soldier."
"I don't even know what they're after."
If you want a country, this kind of behavior is stupid
After it's all over, there will be nothing left.
So isn't the purpose like wanting a country or wanting to be a ruler?
"E-excuse me!"
Suddenly, one of the civil officials enters the room.
His breath is ragged
"What are you doing! We're in the middle of a meeting right now!"
He was caught by the guards, but
"All right, I'll allow you to speak. Speak."
Quies allowed it, so the guards obediently let him go.
"A-Aretha Kingdom has been destroyed!"
“Count Shiro, do you know where that country is?”
I know
I believe it was Jodowig.
He's the country's Knight Commander.
It is said that it was a fairly large country even in the central
I thought I gave Quies a detailed report about it.
Did he forget?
"How do you know it was destroyed?"
The minister asks the civil official.
"It seems that the people are dancing around while holding up King Aretha's head."
"When was this?"
"Three days ago."
“We got the information so quickly.”
That is the true value of Heliograph
High-speed transmission of precise information becomes a powerful weapon above all
"And what happened after that?"
“While advocating for freedom and equality, they launched an armed aggression against all their neighbors at the same time.”
"That's crazy..."
I agree
They are going to their own death
"Who's the ringleader?"
"The one who is said to be the new king..."
When I heard that name
We all remembered the Kyrgy disaster again.
"Prelati."
The center of the continent will be engulfed in a huge war.
Berdreich decided so
And telling the three countries
The three countries also thought that urgent reinforcement of military power was necessary.
We no longer knew when the mad soldiers would arrive in the north.
It became necessary to quickly lay the railroad tracks
Building materials for the defense line
Soldiers and weapons
Logistics
We need the railroad in every situation
And so we were forced to deal with a war that could happen at any moment.
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