Chapter 126: The Same Thing...

Indeed.

Zelen also knew that the ten wives, including Paula, were all "observers" who were specifically following him.

If possible, they probably wouldn't mind going to the bathroom with him.

Of course, if Zelen wanted to, he would have asked all ten wives to wear maternity dresses and wait for them to give birth.

But he didn't do it.

Why?

He had too many things to do.

So many that he wished he could eat, take a shower, brush his teeth and wash his face every day, and then go to bed directly.

Especially now, thanks to the help of a large amount of spoils left by the pig-headed man, the mecha of the Krurod Empire is about to enter the actual combat team.

Therefore, Zelen, who participated in the cooperative research and development, is really tired.

Especially now that this melee land combat mecha officially named Behemoth has to strengthen its defense and add more energy shield protection devices.

Mecha, as for the mecha of the Akitsu Empire, their defense is not achieved by the armor they have. On the contrary, the Akitsu Empire relies heavily on energy shields.

If there is no energy shield, then all the Akitsu Empire...

Hmm?

No energy shield?

Wait... The energy shield itself needs a certain device inside the mecha to maintain it. If, there is no energy, or there is a problem with the components that produce the energy shield...

Hmm!

It seems that this is a good idea to make the mecha troops of the Akitsu Empire vulnerable...

Thinking of something, Zelen naturally had no intention of paying attention to Paula and the others. He quickly returned to his desk after dinner and continued to write his speculations.

Camilla: "Paula?"

Paula: "Let him be. It's not the first day that everyone has seen him like this. Besides, it's good for us that he's busy now. After all, he is the emperor. He hopes more than anyone else that his country doesn't have a piece of lost territory. I can even be sure that he must be thinking about how to get a big sum of money back from the pig-headed people."

Camilla: "In fact, can't the Congress handle this matter?"

Paula: "So he is now focusing on the research and development of weapons and equipment. Major issues of people's livelihood and other miscellaneous matters are all left to the Congress to solve. Of course, in my opinion, our country is already a republic."

Indeed.

Thanks to Zelen's decentralization, and his style of listening to reports and giving personal suggestions once a week at most, the Krurod Empire has naturally become a de facto republic.

Of course, for now, there is actually nothing wrong.

In the context of a virtual monarch, although the current Krurod Empire has His Majesty the Emperor, the emperor who doesn't take care of things naturally gives the ministers a lot of room for activities.

Miao Jie: "Compared to this, I personally suggest that you pay attention to the problem of what we eat now."

Paula: "The quality is getting better and better."

Miao Jie: "I thought you didn't know."

Paula: "We have to thank our soldiers. They have made good progress in how to plunder the enemy's food."

As Paula said, the lunch of ordinary soldiers in the Akitsu Empire now has 230 grams of refined rice, 92 grams of oatmeal cakes, 60 grams of canned meat, 48 grams of dried vegetables and the same weight of candy, 18 grams of pickled vegetables, 12 grams of bean paste, 8 grams of white sugar, 2 grams of refined salt, and 1.2 grams of tea. Such a quantity is completely acceptable for Paula herself, but men like Zelun and the soldiers fighting outside must think it is too little.

Especially meat, 60 grams, and it is canned...

But with such a diet, the pig-headed people are still able to conquer the northern and eastern provinces.

It can fully reflect what a strong fighting spirit is.

It's just that...

Everyone can guess that the soldiers on the front line will definitely give priority to destroying the enemy's rations that should be consumed, and then slow down the consumption of rations on their side.

There is a truth on the battlefield that eating the enemy's food is always better than eating your own food.

What's more, these days, it's not just the pig-headed people who can fight to support the war, the Japanese wheat people do the same.

Of course, Paula herself is also very curious, why do ordinary soldiers in the Akitsu Empire need 230 grams of refined rice for lunch?

"Because they used to be nobles who were qualified to eat refined rice, and as a symbol of their unique noble status. So now the soldiers of the Akitsu Empire, from top to bottom, all feel that they have left the ordinary civilian level and are moving towards the noble class, so they regard the refined rice that was originally only eaten by nobles as a must-have every day."

Regarding this question, Jeanna in the Nigan Empire gave her answer without mercy.

Lison: "Isn't eating polished rice... rice with the bran and starch layer completely removed? To be honest, this is a crime of wasting food! Do they know that grinding the rice too finely will remove a considerable amount of nutrients!"

Jeanna: "So in their view, these polished bran and starch layers are all things that only common people eat, how can noble nobles eat them?"

Lison: "If my father hears them, he will definitely beat them to death."

Jeanna couldn't help but laugh when she heard Lison say this.

Because Lison's grandfather was originally a farmer who made a living by growing rice for a long time.

The Leeson family is not only familiar with rice, but also knows how to eat it to get all the nutrients in it.

So this is why Leeson simply cannot forgive the Akitsu Empire's "malicious crime" of wasting food by presenting first-class ingredients in a so-called "precision-crafted" style.

If nothing else, Li Sen's grandfather was a poor farmer who suffered from hunger and was so hungry that he peeled off tree bark to satisfy his hunger.

Although Leeson's grandfather has passed away, the concept of cherishing food passed down from the past has not changed in any way.

Jeanne: "So on my side..."

Leeson: "What's their current economic situation? If our price here is too high, they won't pay to ransom the prisoners."

Jeanne: "That's it for now. However, due to the intervention of the Abu family, neither we nor the Abu family can increase the cost of ransoming prisoners."

Lison: "These black-haired kobolds are quite smart and know how to use the contradiction between our two families to lower the price."

Jeanne: "And we also know very well that we will not hold prisoners of war for a long time, and we want to get rid of them as quickly as possible."

Leeson: "Forget it. If you earn less, earn less. These black-haired kobolds...father-in-law, doesn't he feel very irritated?"

Jeanne: "My father would not think so. Neither he nor I believe that the black-haired kobolds would abandon their compatriots. We can really bear to see our compatriots being killed by the Rimai people."

Leeson: "I don't really want to know this question, and I don't really care what the answer is. I only care about one thing, whether the resistance forces in the north can be more straightforward when giving money. If not, I don't mind. Let them taste the explosion all over their bodies.”

Jeanne: "Is this necessary?"

Leeson: "They're too slow to give me money."

In response, Jian couldn't help but suddenly shuddered.

Although Jian said that he didn't know who was cursing him, for now, he knew that there were people who hated him and even wanted him to die immediately, and they were gearing up.

no way.

This is what a warrior who is about to overthrow a tyrant and fight for freedom and justice for all people has to face.

But, no problem.

He can bear it.

The only thing that bothers him most now is lack of money.

There is no money to buy back the captives held by the Dark Elf clan.

What made him even more distressed was that none of these dark elf profiteers were willing to take credit. All require him to pay with one hand and deliver the goods with the other. Otherwise, there will be no business for everyone.

well!

He didn't want to either.

Without prisoners of war, how could he have any soldiers worthy of fighting?

You must know that until now, the foolish king named Junwu has not really said that he will buy back a few prisoners of war. Even if the tyrant ransomed a few prisoners, these prisoners of war were all sent to certain factories to work as coolies.

He didn't really take these soldiers who fought for the Takagi Kingdom, no, the Akitsu Empire, seriously at all, and really took them seriously...