After spending several months, Li Yi finally swallowed up the entire province.
At the border, Li Yi set up several outposts to guard the edges of the territory.
The main force, meanwhile, was pulled back into the major cities.
The province once controlled by the half-elves had done a rather thorough job of suppressing bandits.
Li Yi left behind two thousand cavalrymen as a mobile force within the province to eliminate bandits.
All the other troops were pulled back, training while absorbing the captured soldiers.
A vast amount of resources was transported to the rear. Some were kept behind, but Charles decided to digest the greater portion.
The gains from this campaign were immense.
Within this newly occupied province, Charles chose a major city at its center as the provincial capital.
At present, his main army was stationed there.
So far, the territory he possessed already encompassed two provinces.
One was the disputed region that had originally belonged to the Land of Chaos.
The other was the conquered Mil Province.
Mil Province had a larger population and generated more taxes.
After conquering the place, Charles also reclaimed all the prisoners who had been temporarily held in the Verdant Crystal Domain.
After being screened, the human soldiers among those prisoners were incorporated into his army.
During the postwar period, Charles confiscated the estates of every rebellious half-elf noble.
Their assets were all seized by the state, but the members of those half-elf noble families were not turned into slaves and sold off by Charles.
Selling them would have meant tearing all pretenses apart completely.
Almost every day, letters of rebuke arrived from the capital, Elegy City.
Some demanded that Charles release those half-elf nobles, while others demanded that he withdraw his troops and return the territories.
But Charles paid them no