Regardless, whether the plan to ally with the Iron Ridge Kingdom would succeed remained uncertain.
The shortage of population had always been a massive problem plaguing the Flame Kingdom, and Liszt, intent on forging ahead at full speed, was unwilling to slow the pace of development.
Thus, launching a Pioneer Order war was the best approach.
"But the Pioneer Order's format needs to be innovative. Raiding deep into the Eagle Kingdom once a year is simply too frequent," Liszt said. You couldn't keep shearing the same patch of wool with all your might—you had to switch to another place before you could keep shearing. Naturally, he understood that principle.
"If we do not plunder the Eagle Kingdom, then we can only plunder the Wind Snow Mountain Principality," Leewilliam said.
"Then notify Marquis Yevich Shuihuasheng of Realgar City and Marquis Amat Ice Shield of Bramble Left Territory. They must accelerate their conquest of the Wind Snow Mountain Principality. Before June arrives, I need at least five hundred thousand serfs transported back from the Wind Snow Mountain Principality. The more knights, the better as well."
The Wind Snow Mountain Principality was not a large principality. Located on a plateau, it was exceedingly barren, and its total population was only six or seven million at most.
When the civil war between the First Prince and the Second Prince had just begun, Yevich had already joined forces with his father-in-law Amat to secretly transfer more than five hundred thousand people to the Flame Kingdom. Now they were going to take another five hundred thousand or more. In the span of a single short year, its population would plummet by one-fifth.
Add to that the Yellow Stone Plain Kingdom secretly shearing its wool as well, and perhaps by the time the two princes decided a