After carefully considering Lynn's proposal and concerns, Yuffie offered a new approach.
There were ports in the south. Why not fully mobilize the army now and quickly connect the north and south? Food wasn't a problem for the time being, and they could also seize some of the Empire's Grain Towers.
The economic problem was real. The enemy was ruled outright by the Military Government through violence, so they hardly had to consider the economy.
They could use the brutal approach of sending men to fight and women to transport supplies.
That made it all the more necessary to secure a port.
The front line would be extended, but the South Grand Duke's forces were actually far stronger than he'd imagined. The region was simply in dire need of reconstruction—and they were Puritans.
Their living standards were even more austere than those in Lynn's territory.
Lynn didn't advocate suffering for its own sake. What his people called an austere life simply meant not being wasteful. They still ate meat and enjoyed good food; they didn't miss out on any of that.
In the south, people were being forced to suffer!
After all, they were a group who had lived through the brink of death. Lynn had protected them too well.
The result was that they weren't very conscious of the struggle, having been sheltered too much. A population of overgrown children still existed, though it had already been cracked down on and dealt with.
But people were immersed in a period of rapid advancement, protected to an extraordinary degree.
That was Yuffie's analysis.
It gave Lynn another perspective to consider.
Put simply, when a revolution went too far, people began to wonder whether it had been necessary at all.
When a doctor was too skilled, people might wonder whether the