Lynn kept the scale of the war in check while ensuring it didn't affect the domestic economy. It was precisely this approach, coupled with his country's growing strength, that would lead to the following outcome.
Large numbers of elites would transfer their knowledge and assets to the Northern Defense Treaty for the sake of safety and opportunity.
They simply wouldn't understand any of it.
Lynn kept this theory to himself, so much so that no country or faction in the world could understand it.
Everything had two sides.
Lynn's rapid rise had brought too many aftereffects. He needed to appease his people and develop the economy.
But everyone had forgotten one thing: military rule could force people to pay taxes and serve in the army. His struggle to develop the country and raise living standards was, in essence, hiding a move up his sleeve.
It was all for the sake of long-term development.
That was why he had to work so hard to develop the country.
Those who enjoyed themselves first and left their problems for future generations were the sort of people Lynn despised.
Restricting the scale of the war and focusing on development were, in essence, ways of laying the groundwork for the future.
As time went on, his National Strength would only grow, and his prestige would rise.
Because once he had made life materially prosperous for every class and resolved the problem of divisive ideology,
his country's legitimacy would be comparable only to that of the First Empire, which had dispelled the shadow of the Demon Race tens of thousands of years ago.
Louis and the coalition forces already had a fairly advanced perspective.
How many feudal nobles had no brains at all?
How many people believed in nothing but weapons?
They believed only in the