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Chapter 575 - 575 130 Early Preparation V S Failed Test_1

575: Chapter 130, Early Preparation V S Failed Test_1 575: Chapter 130, Early Preparation V S Failed Test_1 In fact, the notice was superfluous.

As a confidant of Caesar III in the military, Marquis James received the message earlier than Hudson, the Commander-in-Chief.

Having worked together for most of a year, he had a good grasp of Hudson’s morale.

Past experience told him that this tricky, unpleasant job was likely to fall to him.

As the person in charge of coordinating external affairs in the military, he couldn’t shake off this responsibility.

Even if he wanted to be apathetic, everyone knew he was good at socializing.

Both Hudson’s division of labor based on personal ability and realistic needs and Caesar III approved it.

Marquis James, struggling to find a way out and in a particularly foul mood, forced a smile and attended the meeting upon receiving the notice.

Those who love to smile are never too unfortunate.

This was a good habit he had cultivated since childhood.

Even if he knew that the path ahead was fraught with difficulties, he would still respond with a smile.

Despite coming from a noble family, Marquis James was just a distant relative.

Apart from bearing the surname of the nobility, it was more appropriate to say that he came from a family of merchants.

Starting from his grandfather, their branch had fallen into poverty, and the enormous debt left by his ancestors forced them into commerce.

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

The combination of power and money is always the quickest way to build wealth and rise in status.

Protected by the shelter of his family and endowed with a remarkable business talent, his grandfather quickly rose to prominence in the business world.

By his father’s generation, he had become one of the considerable merchants in the kingdom.

Perhaps because they had accumulated enough wealth, by James’ generation, the elders felt that they had enough money and needed to return to the center of power.

James, who was exceptionally talented, quickly gained the recommendation of his family under the onslaught of his elders’ ambitions.

He was sent to the side of Caesar III, who had yet to ascend the throne.

James, educated in pragmatism from an early age, was more willing to humble himself than other noble children.

He quickly stood out among many competitors and became a confidant of Caesar III.

After Caesar III ascended the throne, James launched his extraordinary life journey, making accomplishments along the way and achieving his current status.

The closer he got to the center of power, the more nervous James became.

Being a confidant of the king was not easy.

In pleasing the king, he inevitably offended a group of major nobles.

Most of the bad reputations he carried were the handiwork of these people, with the minority stemming from the envy of smaller nobles.

Hudson faced similar troubles.

Especially after serving as the Commander of the Army, controversies about him never ceased.

The only difference was that Hudson did not offend many people in the early days when he set up a base in the Moxi Duchy.

The first battle when he arrived at the frontline was a rescue mission.

Other nobles could criticize him, but the ones who were saved could not.

Even if they were ungrateful in their hearts, they had to put on an act on the surface.

Moreover, with so many rescued nobles, some would speak well of him out of gratitude, occasionally coming forward to praise him, preventing his reputation from being swallowed by “jealousy”.

People of the same kind tend to sympathize with each other, so James and Hudson got along pretty well.

Unfortunately, both of them were realists, hence they couldn’t become genuine friends.

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Gazing out at the vast prairie beyond the city wall, the three of them forced a bitter smile.

What they need to face now is not just the issue of accelerating the pace of war but also the annihilation of the Orc Empire.

The Kingdom’s appetite and its actual strength are not matching at all.

“Marquis James, the pressure is now on you.

If you want to launch a major counteroffensive in advance and completely annihilate the Orc Empire, you have to secure all the reinforcements,” Hudson said with a slight embarrassment.

If they could really annihilate the Orc Empire, their names would go down in history, leaving a deep mark in the history of the Human Race.

Unfortunately, after weighing all possible scenarios, Hudson concluded: to overthrow the Orc Empire, he must first unify the Human Race.

Simply looking at the map would reveal that the land occupied by the Orc Empire is one-third the size of the Human territory.

Millions of kilometers, such a vast territory.

To even march through it all would take years, let alone conquer it.

This obvious problem was well known to the nobles in the Capital.

While their slogans called for the annihilation of the Orc Species, few really believed it.

But defeating the Orc Empire is indeed the Kingdom’s real strategy.

Defeating and annihilating are two concepts, and the difficulty between the two is hundreds of times greater.

Theoretically, as long as the Five Major Royal Families of the Orcs are severely damaged, losing their control over the Orc Empire, this multi-species empire will collapse.

However, what Hudson worried about most was this point.

While the existence of the Five Major Royal Families protected the Orc Empire, they also hampered its development.

In order to maintain their own rule, countless strong combatant species within the Orc Empire were suppressed; those that were declining continued to decline, those that needed to be destroyed were destroyed.

If they were defeated, it would be equivalent to releasing this valve.

The Orc species, free of the constraints of the Five Royal Families, could proliferate as much as they wish.

Unless the Human Race could control the vast territory of the Orc Empire in a short time, within the next few decades, numerous strong combatant species would inevitably rise on this land.

Solving one problem only to create a bigger one, Hudson was genuinely unwilling to take this risk.