Travel through time and become a member of the Warhammer Empire

There is an essential difference between Wendlow and Mousse, and that is their attitude towards dealing with things.

Mousse tends to be impatient and quick, and when faced with a problem, he must respond and deal with it immediately.

This is consistent with her identity as a Dread Lord. As a Dread Lord commanding troops, she spends almost all of her time on the battlefield.

In a rapidly changing situation, what a qualified Dread Lord must do is to act and deploy quickly.

Even if such a plan is not well-thought-out, even if such a plan is full of loopholes.

But there is not so much time to consider the details on the battlefield. Sometimes, moving just a second late can make a world of difference.

There is only a tiny difference between an epic victory and a bloody defeat. Action must be taken immediately.

Perhaps with the passage of time and the accumulation of experience, her judgment ability will be further improved, but her ability to make decisions quickly will not change.

The Dread Lord cannot hesitate, cannot be timid, cannot be cowardly, and cannot be slow.

As for Windlow, he is the complete opposite. He tends to think globally and make overall plans when doing things.

As a businessman, the most important thing is to consider how to safely sell cheap things to places with higher bids.

This requires a lot of research time. We can't just set off on the journey. What if the prices at the destination are cheaper?

Thinking and consideration are also one of Windlow's strengths. Before anything is done, a complete and overall prediction and estimate must be made.

Especially for situations that you are not familiar with, it takes a lot of time to investigate and observe.

Without investigation, there is no right to speak. Even if you are a few days late in setting off on the road, as long as the road is correct, you can move faster and more steadily.

"Moose, I need to think about this. We are the ones who are coming."

This is true. When the situation is completely unclear, it is best not to take action first even if you have an absolute advantage in military strength.

Tactically, there is indeed a classic idea of ​​striking first to gain the upper hand.

But the current situation is that neither the enemy nor the friend can be clearly distinguished.

Hearing Wendlow's discouraging words, Mousse crossed his arms and shook his head.

There was no fighting, no passion, no military merit, no command. All he could do was stay with this guy and protect him while he carried out some so-called investigation.

After changing into simple clothes and dressing like an ordinary elf, Windlow set out directly from the city of Tal Anlek to the most rural areas to conduct the most basic socio-economic survey.

Similar to humans and dwarves, the high elves are also producers, a race that obtains the means of production from fields and their living environment.

Humans have inherited the basic economic system of the elves, and at least in rural areas there is not much difference.

In the rural areas of Tal Anlek, you can see scattered elf farms.

The population of elves is too small. If they were within the empire, in the same living space, the number of humans would definitely be a hundred times that of elves.

If we use Bretonnia for comparison, in a village of the same size, the number of humans in Bretonnia is definitely two hundred times that of the elves.

The most crucial point is the basic economic model of the elves, the small peasant economy.

Every elf farm has an elf family that is bound by blood ties and produces the products.

After ensuring that enough taxes were paid to the lord, any remaining food was theirs.

In some years, only a little extra tribute to the Phoenix King needs to be paid, and the overall tax rate is about 10%.

In contrast, the Empire's agricultural tax rates were very complex.

Even though Windlow was an imperial merchant, he could recite more than a dozen types of taxes, including seed tax, watering tax, harvest tax, flour tax, bread tax, etc. The comprehensive tax rate basically reached about 30%.

It is even more strange in Bretonnia, where there is no fixed amount for agricultural tax, and it is basically impossible to calculate.

With this comparison, if one wants to use the empire's tax rates to restrain these elves, the rebellion that Mousse is most looking forward to will definitely happen.

With a tax rate of ten percent, we can’t expect the rural areas of the high elves to contribute any wealth.

Moreover, although the entire Osuan Islands were blessed by the ancient saints, there was good weather throughout the year without drought, floods, or insect pests, and there was no excessive taxation or threat from beastmen.

But the Kingdom of Nagareth has basically been destroyed and turned into a wasteland, and agricultural output has not been able to keep up.

Rural areas can only consider giving up and maintaining the original tax rate, allowing these elf farmers to do whatever they want.

To be honest, the urban area of ​​Tal Anlek is not much different from the rural area.

In the thousands of years since the Elven Civil War and the War of the Longbeard, the High Elves have been in decline.

The population is decreasing, development is slowing down, and large parts of cities and rural areas are being abandoned, far from what they were when the fight against Chaos began.

This so-called port city of the Kingdom of Nagarys is not even comparable to the Marienburg of the Empire. At best, it can only be regarded as the most basic free city of the Empire.

In the entire Kingdom of Nagarythe, there are only three cities of the size of Tal Anlek.

This visible decline of the elves surprised Wendlow greatly.

At the same time, the worship of the elves gradually dissipated. This was an ancient and corrupt lost empire that was slowly heading towards destruction and end.

"The Age of Elves will end in less than a thousand years."

This is the conclusion that Windlow came to after observing the entire city. In short, it is unrealistic to completely revive the elves.

But if he wants to revive the port city of Tal Anlek, Windlow still has many ways.

The biggest problem of the elves is that the population is too small and there is no internal demand.

Even with the best agricultural conditions and handicraft technology, the products produced by the elves far exceed their own consumption.

When there are too many goods and demand decreases, which is the so-called economic depression, the most important thing is to open up external markets.

"Ah? It turns out that such a complex problem can be described with such simple words."

Inside the lord's office, Izexi pondered over Windlow's words as if he had suddenly realized something. This was indeed what he meant, and it was also the internal conflict of the elves for more than a thousand years.

"We are also sending out external caravans for trade, but due to the naval raiding by the Duruchi, we are unable to reopen our past colonies."

Indeed, two thousand years ago, the entire Old World was a colony of the elves.

Through trade with primitive humans, Nehekhara, dwarves and Cathay, the elves reached a golden age.

But now that the outer colonies have completely fallen, the elves who eventually retreated to the Ulthuan Islands can no longer establish the powerful trade routes they once had.

Windlow took out the nautical chart and looked back and forth at the entire northern waters.

“Now we have a perfect channel.”