Chapter 649: A great loss of vitality (1)
Translator: 549690339
Benefits, everything was for benefits! The orcs had started this war for their own interests, and the Church of Light had also schemed against the orcs for their own interests. The Roson Empire had also done so for their own interests.
It would be stupid to talk about feelings with these big forces. Even the honest orcs did it for benefits. If they couldn’t get benefits, who would be willing to fight? the reason why orcs liked to fight was that they could get benefits from the war, while humans didn’t like to fight because they couldn’t get benefits from the war. It was that simple.
The negotiations went very smoothly. This was the result that the beast King wanted. They wanted food, cheap food, so that they could gain more benefits for the beast clan.
Of course, they also knew that if they conquered the human race, the human race would be able to grow food for them continuously. However, they also knew that the human race would never be conquered by them. They could gain some benefits in the war, but it was impossible to conquer the human race because the human race’s culture was different from the orcs. The orcs couldn’t rule the human race for a long time, so they would rather sell their food at a cheap price.
However, the orcs raised another request after the grain price. They wanted to punish the Church of Light severely, because the Church of Light was the one who had started the war.
The various countries ‘negotiators had different thoughts about the orc race’s request. Some of them were on the side of the Church of Light, while some were not.
However, if they didn’t agree, the orcs wouldn’t leave. They might continue to fight. Even if they forced the orcs back, what would they get? Not getting anything was what the representatives of the various countries were most unwilling to see.
In the end, the representatives of the various countries discussed and decided to agree to the orc race first. After all, after the orc race left, they could do whatever they wanted.
After the orcs had obtained a satisfactory result, they returned to the grasslands with a large amount of food that the Arkas Empire had compensated them with. However, the matter with the humans was not over yet.
This time, the Arkas Empire had suffered a great loss, but the Roson Empire and the others could not help the Arkas Empire for nothing. You caused this trouble, and we helped you solve it in the end. Do you want to let it go so easily? How could that be possible?
Therefore, the Rosen Empire had also made a request to the Arkas Empire. The first request was monetary compensation, and the second was other requests. This time, the Rosen Empire did not ask for any monetary compensation. They only had one request, and that was to give the Duchy of Versailles to the Buda family as their fief.
It was true that the Buda family was a noble family in the Arkas Empire, but the grudges between the Arkas and the Buda family were known by any child on the continent. Therefore, people had long since stopped seeing the Buda family as people of the Arkas Empire.
Even so, the Buda family still had the title of Marquis in the Arkas Empire, and they had their own fief, so if you really counted them, they could be considered as people of the Arkas Empire.
However, the request of the Roson Empire this time put the Arkas in a very difficult position. It was fine if they didn’t do so. The Arkas Empire was at its weakest right now, and the Roson Empire had not lost a single cent. They could use this as an excuse to occupy a piece of land. If the land was chosen to be at the lifeline Canyon, the Arkas Empire would be in trouble.
However, if they agreed, it would be equivalent to letting the Rosen Empire plant another nail in the Arkas Empire. Under such circumstances, the Arkas Empire would not have a good time in the future.
Just like the Roson Empire, the other three countries also made their own requests. They did not ask for land, as they were too far away from the Arkas Empire, and an enclave was useless to them. However, they proposed a huge monetary compensation, which left the Arkas Empire at a loss for what to do.
This time, it wasn’t just one empire that was making trouble for them, but four. Even if they didn’t want to, they had no choice. Most importantly, they had lost almost all of their military strength, which made them very uncertain when negotiating with the other countries.
The reason why the Roson Empire had not yet attacked the Arkas Empire was because the Arkas had lost to the orcs this time, and not any other country. If they invaded the Arkas Empire at this time, it would make everyone on the continent look down on them.
However, even if they could not invade the Arkas Empire, the Rosen Empire could still make a request and even crush the Arkas Empire economically.
If the Arkas Empire was at its peak, they would never agree to the Roson Empire’s request. Unfortunately, they were not at their peak now, but at their weakest. This weakness was not only because they did not have any soldiers to fight, but also because their economy had taken a huge blow.
Although the orcs did not Rob the civilians, the food stores of several countries in the North of the Arkas Empire had been emptied, and the nobles of several cities had been killed and their homes robbed. They had also compensated the orcs with a lot of food. It could be said that the economy of the Arkas Empire had regressed for more than 20 years. Under such circumstances, if they did not agree to the demands of these four countries, led by the Roson Empire, these four countries might impose an economic blockade on them. It would be almost impossible for the Arkas Empire to return to its original state.
The most important thing was that the two important northern towns of the Arkas Empire, the Versailles Duchy and the icksa family territory, had been destroyed. The two families had run to the island of gold, and this news had already spread across the continent. Moreover, the two families had suffered great losses and no longer had the ability to take over their territories. This was why the Roson Empire had suggested for the Arkas Empire to give the Versailles Duchy to Zhao Hai as his territory.
However, the Arkas Empire also understood that this territory could not be given to Zhao Hai no matter what. If they really did give this territory to Zhao Hai, the Rosen Empire would be able to attack the Arkas Empire from the South and the back if they wanted to. Therefore, they had entered a very difficult negotiation with the Rosen Empire.
The Arkas Empire only had one thought in mind, and that was that as long as their territory was not divided, everything else could be discussed. The Roson Empire, on the other hand, would not budge.
In fact, later on, everyone could see that the Rosen Empire did not really want the Duchy of Versailles. They only wanted to obtain more benefits.
In the end, after a discussion between both sides, the Arkas Empire had to compensate the Roson Empire with a large sum of money and also exempt the goods from customs duties.
What was strange was that Zhao Hai had not appeared on the continent during this period of time. This was very unusual. One had to know that the main content of the negotiations between the Arkas and the Roson Empire was related to him. However, Zhao Hai had not appeared. This did not seem like something he would do.
Zhao Hai had been very busy recently. He had been collecting the corpses from the war. There were many of them, and most of them were strong soldiers. These corpses were very useful to Zhao Hai.
The war between the orcs and the humans had produced more than one million corpses. Some of the corpses were buried by the orcs, while some were not. After all, there were too many corpses. Zhao Hai knew that if the corpses were left there, they might become a plague. Therefore, he collected the corpses and turned them into undead creatures.
Zhao Hai also knew about the negotiations, but he didn’t have much hope in the first place. He knew that the Arkas Empire would never agree. Although the Arkas Empire was weak now, the Roson Empire also had some concerns and would not dare to go too far.
However, what Zhao Hai despised were the people from the Church of Light. Everyone in the world knew that the king of the Arkas Empire had become Borich, and the people from the Church of Light had left the Arkas Empire.
Zhao Hai looked down on the Church of Light’s actions. It was equivalent to throwing away their allies and running away.
Borich was no longer in high spirits. The Arkas Empire had attacked the Versailles Duchy and the icksa family because of his suggestion. That was why they had started such a war. In the end, they had lost so badly. After this defeat, the Arkas Empire would need at least 20 years to recover.
Even if he could recover in 20 years, his power would not be as strong as before. Not only did they compensate the orcs with so many things, but they also paid a large amount of money to the other four empires, which greatly damaged the strength of the Arkas Empire.
However, after the negotiations were completed, the Arkas Empire had officially begun its reconstruction. However, the Church of Light had become a street rat in the Arkas Empire. No one in the Arkas Empire liked the Church of Light. It could be said that it would be more difficult for the Church of Light to preach in the Arkas Empire in the future than in the Roson Empire.
The restoration and reconstruction of the Arkas Empire had officially begun. What they needed the most was food. They needed a large amount of food to stabilize the price of food and to restore production. After negotiations, the major empires of the Rosen Empire were no longer stingy. They sent a large amount of food to the Arkas Empire and sold it at a fair price, which greatly alleviated the food problem of the Arkas Empire.
Among them, the most famous was Zhao Hai. He brought a large amount of food to the Versailles Duchy, which was very important for the reconstruction of the Duchy.
Now, the Versailles Duchy and the icksa family both had new owners. The nobles of these two places were all Borich’s most loyal subordinates. Although they had a conflict with Zhao Hai before, they had no choice but to welcome him. This was because both the Versailles Duchy and the icksa family needed a large amount of food to attract the original residents back to settle down.
The food that Zhao Hai had brought was not breadfruit, but ordinary bamboo rice. He believed that breadfruit would be more popular with the orcs.