Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

A knight lying on the back of a horse galloped into the capital.

In the outer city, no one dared to stop the knight who was riding recklessly in the royal capital, and when he reached the inner city, the nobles were even more afraid.

Because the knight's cloak and the flag he held clearly showed that this was an urgent military intelligence report. Not only did the people in the outer city deserve to be killed, the nobles in the inner city would also be held responsible if they stopped the knight, especially in the current highly tense environment.

When the knight arrived at the palace, he had no strength left and was almost dragged by the guards to see Lilith.

"Your Majesty, great victory! Great victory news! Victory news on all three fronts!"

Although several horses had died due to traveling day and night, the knight had a dry mouth and began to retch in the palace after he finished speaking, but Lilith and the people around him did not care. Instead, they asked the guards to take the knight away to rest quickly and rewarded him.

There are indeed some means of long-distance communication in magic, but they must go through many transfer stations along the way, and there may be distortion. Lilith has received the good news from the court wizard, but she didn't feel relieved until the knights of the Southwestern Allied Forces appeared in front of her.

In addition to the new equipment, Judith also volunteered to leave the royal capital and go to the front line to supervise the battle, and finally defeated Anjou's professional army in a field battle.

You should know that since Augustine III, the lords of the four realms are not allowed to leave the royal capital unless necessary. However, this rule is not so absolute. It basically depends on the king's personal wishes, so Lilith still agreed to this request.

Although Lilith knew that this good news contained a lot of exaggeration, now as long as they were not losing, they had won. Not only did the Capetian Kingdom need this victory, but Lilith also needed it very much.

The whole capital was in an uproar when the good news was confirmed. Lilith punched the King of Anjou who had teased her in the face and vented her anger.

All of a sudden, all the rumors disappeared overnight, as if they had never existed. The nobles who had originally criticized the Duke of the two southwestern regions also raised their glasses to celebrate, and some were so shameless as to even come out to take credit for it.

It was all because he inspired the dukes of the two southwestern territories that the coalition forces were able to achieve such a great victory this time, and his analysis was also very logical.

Even Claire came to congratulate Lilith on behalf of the royal family.

However, when Lilith received the detailed battle report later, she quickly calmed down.

In fact, two of the three fronts were never fought at all, and the only front that was considered a win was just a victory until the enemy retreated, and this was when there was a duke personally commanding the rear.

Judging from the current situation, Capet's Southwestern Alliance is actually under great pressure when facing the opponent's professional army, because of the absolute disadvantage in the number of professionals, coupled with the range problem of muskets, they can basically only take the beating.

If Judith had not been there in person this time, and the commanders on the three fronts had withstood the pressure and not lost too badly, they would probably have been defeated by the enemy's long-range firepower and cavalry harassment.

In fact, the outcome of the fight is still uncertain, and the initiative is always in the hands of the opponent.

If Anjou is a magic knight who has studied magic hard, practiced both magic and martial arts, and achieved excellent results, then Capet is a bloated knight who relies on various drugs, mortgages half of his family property, and loans to buy a bunch of weapons and equipment.

It looks very intimidating, but in fact it has no follow-up combat capability.

This is also the reason why after winning the battle in the two southwestern regions, they immediately retreated back to the city and continued to hide.

The noble lords in the royal capital were well aware of this.

But winning is winning, no one will blame the winner, and no one will ask how the winner won. Originally, I just thought that winning one game would be a success, but I didn’t expect to win all three games.

Even if the win was ugly.

"His Majesty..."

Nora held a report and placed it on Lilith's desk.

"This is the bill for the purchase of weapons and military equipment. It was sent by Gray Collar."

Lilith looked at the thick bill and sighed, Fire Gun and Miracle were not free, although Fire Gun was mainly used to help with purchases in the two southwestern regions, it was impossible for the king to not spend a penny.

Of course, Lilith could also choose to default on the debt and throw the bill directly to Judith and Scott, but in that case, these muskets would probably be aimed at the royal capital.

Lilith had spent a lot of effort to make the Southwestern Alliance realize that they were loyal not only to the two dukes, but also to Her Majesty the Queen Lilith, and now this impression must be consolidated.

"Do we have any money left?"

Seeing Nora's painful expression, Lilith already knew the answer.

Nowadays, the budget of the palace is occasionally overspent, which happens frequently.

After reading the bill, Lilith said, "I looked carefully and it would be more cost-effective to use raw materials to pay off the debt. Since our plan is unlikely to be realized in the short term, why not just use raw materials to pay off the debt."

After looking at these raw materials carefully, Lilith discovered that the materials required by the gray-collar workers only accounted for a small part of the materials for muskets. Most of the materials, such as ballast and gravel, could not be used to make muskets.

This is the gravel that supports the railway in the railway system, mainly to facilitate drainage and railway correction.

Also, the raw materials of the magic waterproof materials and sleepers have no connection with the production of muskets at all, and are more like the laying of railway systems.

If you ask Lilith why she, who is not a railway professional, is so familiar with it, it is because one of the purposes of Lilith's previous recovery of these industries was to lay railways. For this reason, Lilith was collecting these industries and materials when she first started laying the New Deal. Almost all the industries recovered under the New Deal reforms were in this field.

Of course, Lilith also tried to boil water, but after finding that it didn't work, Lilith still planned to lay the railway.

Although we cannot build a steam locomotive, we can use horses to pull a carriage.

This is not Lilith's intention to learn from an old witch in her previous life. The outrageous thing about a horse-drawn train is not that it is a horse, but that it is pulling a train.

Not only did horse-drawn trams appear as early as the 16th century, they also ran stably for at least half a century and laid the foundation for later railway tracks.

Even in the early days of train development, when some trains were out of service due to malfunctions, they could simply switch to being pulled by horses.

The idea of ​​a tram was completely feasible, but now all the materials that Lilith had worked so hard to accumulate were going to be taken away by the gray-collar workers.

These are Lilith's last assets. Originally, these raw materials were to be used for the industries that Lilith had gathered, but now it seems that the tram project can only be postponed.

"His Majesty..."

Nora had also read the bill report and knew that the governor with a gray-collar job probably wanted to build a railway system.

When Nora heard Lilith's proposal, she was not only shocked, but also had an epiphany. The tram could carry almost twice as many people and goods, and the production factories needed were almost being recovered bit by bit by Lilith, and a lot of raw materials had been accumulated.

As long as the trams can be successfully rolled out, the capital might be able to regain its former prosperity.

But I didn't expect that the gray-collared governor actually had the same idea as Your Majesty.

This time, Nora was really taken advantage of, and she was already feeling very upset.

"Look at it from a bright side, this can at least save us a lot of money, right?"

After hearing what Lilith said, Nora wanted to say that this was nothing compared to the profits after the trams were rolled out.

But when Nora saw Lilith's forced smile, she immediately realized that Her Majesty the Queen was comforting her, and she felt mixed emotions for a moment.

Indeed, even if we do not pay with raw materials now and force payment with currency, there will be no money to deploy trams in the future, not to mention that trams are a project with a very long payback period.

From this perspective, it would be better to just hand over the raw materials to the white-collar workers.

Thinking that these plans were supposed to be her job, Nora nodded and said, "I understand, Your Majesty. I will arrange it."

Looking back, Nora quietly wiped away her tears and decided to devote her whole life to protecting Her Majesty the Queen.