Moreover, the East Sea Alliance now faced another problem: even maintaining its current army placed an enormous burden on the entire nation.
If they used up what little wealth the East Sea Nobility had now, what would they do if the war dragged on? What if the East Sea Alliance had no money and no supplies left?
The current expenditure alone had already become too much for the Noble Council's aristocratic members to bear. The forty-odd legions consumed supplies and funds worth nearly ten thousand gold every day during wartime, and that figure could even double if the fighting intensified.
The East Sea Nobility had originally believed that the momentum of the previous month would continue. Perhaps in another month or two, they would be able to recover all their lost territory.
But with the battlefield locked in a stalemate, their purses would likely be the first to give out. An endless stream of supplies and money had to be sent to the front to support the army.
Everyone had been willing to pay because, aside from winning the war and protecting their own wealth and titles,
another reason was that if they won and recovered the remaining territory, it could be divided among them.
After all, most of the nobles in the occupied territories had already been killed or wounded. Many had even died without heirs, leaving no one to inherit their family fiefs.
And even if direct bloodlines still survived, how could those noble descendants, with neither soldiers nor money, smoothly inherit noble titles and territories?
Those ownerless lands in the occupied regions had become fat morsels that the remaining East Sea Nobility could carve up. They were true foundations of power, more stable in value than supplies or money, which was why the nobles were willing to