Chapter 113
"If I go to Great Britain, I'll be the Crown Prince too!"
Following this, Morgan began the simulation with full confidence.
First year of the Grail War, January: Morgan distributed wealth lavishly among the nobles of Onik, gaining the support of the entire noble class and quickly assembling a powerful army.
Same month: In Camelot, Artoria announced a decree to reduce harsh taxes and levies. At the same time, Lin Ye sent Tristan and Percival to take an army out to sea.
First year, March: Morgan led the Knights of the Round Table on various campaigns, quelling all rebellions within Onik.
Same month: Camelot underwent institutional reform, separating military and political affairs, designing a prefecture-county system, and implementing centralized power.
First year, August: Morgan held the first Knight Selection Tournament in Onik. The scene was unprecedented in its grandeur, with countless knights arriving one after another. Morgan formed a powerful order of knights, which she named the Battle-Axe Knights.
"Battle-Axe Knights? Is she planning to chop up the Round Table? My royal sister is unexpectedly childish." Lin Ye laughed helplessly. He basically understood Morgan's strategy; she was essentially following the path King Arthur had taken back in the day.
Historically, King Arthur was like this: first winning over the nobles, then the knights, and finally conquering the entire territory. However, King Arthur was a wise ruler after all; later, she began to focus on the people's livelihood, elevating the status of the commoners while suppressing the nobles, which is why Mordred's rebel army found it so easy later on.
At the time, Mordred didn't do much; she simply found those nobles and gave them sufficient benefits, and those nobles defected to Mordred one after another.
First year, September: Artoria ordered the establishment of an Academy of Sciences, with Lin Ye serving as its first Dean.
First year, October: Mordred served as the commander of the Battle-Axe Knights. In the same month, a deafening roar echoed through Camelot.
First year, December: Mordred trained the troops, and Morgan handled political affairs; the territory of Onik was orderly and flourishing.
Second year, January: Tristan and Percival returned. They brought back various crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes from South America. (Don't ask why they returned so quickly; the answer is they flew back riding the White Dragon.)
Second year, March: Morgan issued a "Recruitment Decree," ordering at least one male from every household to enlist.
Same month: Artoria promulgated the "Grass Reclamation Decree," strengthening agricultural production, planting potatoes and sweet potatoes nationwide; she raised the status of farmers, weakened the privileges of the nobles, and ordered the domestic nobles to participate in agriculture as well; she implemented a unified tax and rent system for landless farmers.
Second year, April: Onik was militarily strong, with unprecedented combat power.
Same month: Camelot's nobles launched a rebellion, with wars of varying sizes breaking out across the land. Artoria sent the various Knights of the Round Table to suppress the rebellions.
"Haha! Do you see that, my sister? I told you, my method of handling things is the correct one. How about that? A rebellion has started, hasn't it?"
Morgan, before the simulation, wore a happy smile. Camelot had fallen into internal strife before the battle had even begun. It was a pity that she and Artoria had agreed to develop separately for three years without interfering with each other; otherwise, she would definitely have gone over to cause some trouble. Perhaps Camelot would have collapsed on its own without needing three years.
Second year, June: Onik discovered that they had too many troops and insufficient food reserves. Morgan decided to go to Falanxi to borrow grain...
Same month: Camelot had a bumper harvest of crops.
Second year, July: Morgan returned successfully after borrowing grain from Falanxi, but she left a huge pile of foreign debt for Onik.
Same month: The Knights of the Round Table returned, and the internal strife in Camelot was quelled.
"This... how does this seem a bit off..." Morgan felt something was wrong. Her side had strong troops and sturdy horses, but why did she feel so poor?
Watching the situation on Morgan's side, Lin Ye started to laugh.
"Waging war while impoverished is not advisable, my royal sister."
Lin Ye understood that Morgan was in a hurry. Three years, only three years. Onik's own military strength could not compare to Camelot's; Morgan had to develop rapidly to have the strength to fight Camelot.
Otherwise, it's no boast to say that 150 Knights of the Round Table could wipe out Onik.
Of course, some might say this is unfair to Morgan. But one must know that personal charisma is an important standard for evaluating a monarch. One-third of the 12 Round Table seats were held by Morgan's own children; if they wouldn't even help her, doesn't that speak for itself?
It could be said that Lin Ye was exploiting this psychology of Morgan's, and furthermore, Morgan had no choice but to bite the bullet and fall for it; otherwise, she would have to admit defeat.
Second year, September: Morgan went to the Fairy Forest to seek Vivienne's assistance. Vivienne refused Morgan's request on the grounds that the Great Mother Fairy could not violate her original mission.
Morgan went to the major fairy clans again to seek help, only to find that these fairies were wholeheartedly researching various strange but interesting things named "Yiwu Small Commodities."
They claimed that they had decided to aim for the development of various interesting small commodities, so they had no time to attend to Morgan's plea for help.
Same month: Artoria officially appointed Lin Ye as the Commander of the Knights of the Round Table!
Morgan...
"Lin Ye!!! It's you again!! It's you again!!"
Morgan gritted her teeth as she watched this scene. With the final duel period drawing closer, what else could she do?
It seemed she could only continue to develop her military!
As long as the military could win, everything else would no longer be a problem!
Isn't there a saying? "The neighbor stores grain, I store guns; the neighbor is my granary." ===== CHAPTER 115 =====
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