Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 454: Chapter 184: War Reparations and the Sky Griffin Knight Order!

In fact, the Governor of Hesse Territory’s Provincial Affairs Council, Oliver, can be called a shrewd Prime Minister.

The suggestion he put forward not only possesses the advantages of the tribute system but also fully incorporates the relatively developed industrial and mining characteristics of this world.

Humans and Dwarves both have significant advantages in engineering and industry, requiring a large supply of raw materials.

However, after this bloody battle, Hesse Territory suffered terribly severe population losses.

Therefore, even though the Green Dragon ceded a large fertile hinterland within the Blood Pine Forest, rich in resources, to humans, Hesse Territory indeed cannot develop the thousand-plus miles of land because of insufficient population, which is the territory’s Achilles’ heel.

Now, using this tribute trade system, the Green Dragon can shift from expanding its military preparations to enslaving monsters into this territory to help humans mine the resources.

This effectively enhances the human ability to develop this fertile territory, under the current model, humans and Dwarves undertake upstream industrial production, while the Green Dragon and its minions act as slaves of human colonies, mining basic raw materials.

This actually equivocally increases the human population by thousands, dramatically boosting human mining capabilities.

One of Su Li’s advantages as a transmigrator is his broad perspective and ample historical reference, so he decisively adopted Oliver’s suggestion.

The command from Heisen Castle was conveyed to the front line in less than five days.

Indeed, everything went as Oliver, the Governor, expected, and Hilude’s reply stated that the Green Dragon joyfully accepted the proposal.

The Green Dragon sleeps for long periods, and if it enters a life transition phase, such as transitioning from a young dragon to an adult dragon, it may sleep for decades at a time. This means that if it reached this agreement with humans, it could recover the war reparations just by sleeping for one period.

Moreover, if the Green Dragon were to be a bit more free-spirited, then it wouldn’t be offering tribute to humans; instead, humans would be paying tribute to it with over 13,000 Golden Crowns annually.

This is not the Green Dragon forcibly puffing itself up; rather, it is a lively demonstration of ’how can anyone sleep soundly beside my bed?’.

If it doesn’t reach an agreement with humans, the situation would be like a thin stick hitting a wolf — a mutual fear.

Humans fear that if they don’t weaken it, it will recuperate and then destroy Hesse Territory.

The Green Dragon also worries that humans might send people to its Dragon’s Nest during its sleep to steal its Dragon Nest Treasure.

After all, it no longer has Divine Chosen Level guards, and if humans target it, it surely cannot sleep peacefully. Otherwise, its Dragon Nest treasures will be stolen within months! This is much more distressing than signing a treaty.

Hilude’s reply lifted the entire Hesse Territory’s burden!

Humans desperately needed to recuperate; after the war ended, it took humans three full days to extinguish the fire in the city and suppress the chaos.

Nearly two thousand elite troops were isolated in a forest thousands of miles away, leaving only women, children, elderly, injured, and disabled in the city.

It can be said that Su Li worried every day, fearing any mishap from either direction.

After humans and the Green Dragon signed the ceasefire reparation agreement, they finally stabilized one direction.

And three days after Hilude’s reply, this High-level Attendant Chief finally returned from the Blood Pine Forest to Heisen Castle.

Su Li, after more than half a month of recuperation, has almost recovered from his injuries, mainly due to the powerful effects of the Laurel Flower Gemstone. The potion brewed from it significantly healed Su Li’s injuries.

Even Guardian Otter Kappa, seeing the territory’s dire condition, voluntarily sent a piece of Laurel Flower Gemstone to Su Li ahead of time so he could use Magic Potion to heal more wounded soldiers.

At least the territory’s Medical Knight Commander Dietrich successfully overcame the crisis, binding a bandage to his broken arm and starting to treat other wounded soldiers.

Now the castle is full of injured personnel, so Su Li did not wait for them to report but directly brought Jin Ya to the entrance of Heisen Castle to welcome his most important courtier, War Saintess, Hilude.

When Hilude jumped off the Griffin, seeing her tragic state, Su Li, a grown man, felt his nose ache. He now understood why Li Shimin, the strongest creature on the surface, cried so much.

Seeing those who protect him, his family, and friends, suffer such severe devastation in war, how could anyone not be moved?

The once heroic, youthful girl now had sunken eyes and was gaunt, and the most tragic part was her body. The rumors were not wrong; she indeed was almost drained of Primordial Qi by the Green Dragon’s magic, with only skin and bones left of her once slightly cool and full body, revealing ghastly blood vessels under her skin. Her current appearance was akin to a vampire-drained ghoul, with people doubting little.

Even worse than a ghoul, her thigh was fractured, but she is very resilient, hobbling towards Su Li.

Su Li decisively rushed and tightly embraced her frail body; holding the bony frame in his arms, he just felt heart-wrenching pain, choking on the words: ”Sweetheart, you’ve worked hard! It’s good you’re back, you’ll surely recover!”

Though Hilude’s body was weak, her spirit was excellent. She raised her withered arm and used slender, revealing bones fingers to wipe Su Li’s eyes, saying: ”Lord, don’t be sad. This is merely a depletion of life energy and Primordial Qi due to magic. Once I stay under the Holy Purple Vine Tree for a period, I can recover, though I might trouble Ingrid for a while.”