During harlott''s happy business trip, the relationship between the kingdom of Colombo and several other human kingdoms deteriorated day by day.

    Other countries have been clinging to the enfeoffment of Asian nobles by the kingdom of Colombo, forcing the kingdom of Colombo to make concessions in the negotiations, including but not limited to opening up the land reclamation right to other countries and giving up the origin of some heroes'' water herbs.

    These are the most important and core capital of the kingdom of Colombo. After letting them out, the kingdom of Colombo will soon become a vassal of other countries. This is not a negotiation, but a signal of declaration of war.

    After hearing this, the king of Prague directly lifted the table and began to fight. Clarion also turned and started to fight. The scene of the meeting was a mess. Archduke lance and the king of Prague, the only legendary strong men of mankind, started to tear down the house.

    Mingming fought side by side 17 years ago. They were comrades in arms who killed the powerful Centaur leader together.

    The negotiations broke down completely, and the diplomatic relations between the new kingdom of Colombo and the other three old human kingdoms fell into hostility.

    In fact, this conflict has nothing to do with the so-called enfeoffment of Asian nobles. Other countries are greedy for a large area of land in the kingdom of Colombo and several herbs that can mass produce the water of heroes.

    They just couldn''t spare the trouble to find the kingdom of Colombo before. They have been living in peace. The withdrawal of orcs has relieved all countries and can develop smoothly.

    After nearly 20 years of recuperation, King Chiat finally healed the damage caused by the orcs, and the population ratio returned to normal. In addition to the increase in the number of young and middle-aged labor force, the number ratio of men to women began to recover. It was not the case that a man had to marry three or four women, and the recovered territory was rebuilt.

    The kingdom of lucanier is busy competing for and annexing the eastern provincial territory originally ruled by the Marquis of Prague. After the establishment of the country, the nobles of the kingdom of korodo must abandon these original lands.

    The kingdom of Babylon began to wantonly attack the weak and small races around, which is why there are more Asian slaves and refugees.

    Now the development of the three countries has reached a certain level. If Kiat wants to expand, he will have to invade the territory of the orcs. The kingdom of Babylon does not have the courage to fight against a large country such as the "winged Dynasty" or the "dragon country (lizard country)". Lucanier is also embarrassed. Except for the human kingdom, it is the forest of elves around the country. You can''t invade the forest of elves!

    However, the kingdom of Colombo can expand and grow at will and is still developing at a high speed. How can other countries stand it? Because of the threat of foreigners, the human kingdoms still maintain limited unity and dare not open a large-scale war to invade directly. In particular, the kingdom of Colombo has legendary strongmen.

    More importantly, the kingdom of Colombo has a large number of heroic water, and the other party can use Heroic water to strengthen soldiers on a large scale. The probability of noble birth in human civil war is very low, but don''t forget that the basic function of heroic water is to greatly strengthen combat effectiveness!

    Any soldier who drinks the water of heroes on the battlefield is a powerful martyr. He can do it for dozens of enemies with one life. If the war reaches that point, the gains are not worth the losses for any country.

    But just let the kingdom of Colombo develop, and several human kingdoms are angry. The small kingdom of Colombo has only more than 30 nobles, half less than the weakest kingdom of Babylon, and the strongest kingdom of Chiat is four times that of it. Why do you mix best?

    The neglected event that the nobles of the kingdom of Babylon demanded compensation became the fuse, the enfeoffment of Asian nobles became an excuse for pressure, and other countries carried out small-scale military operations against the kingdom of Colombo.

    Some sent a small number of troops to rob and burn villages, plunder and kill people, some sent spies to burn food and materials, and cut off any trade with the kingdom of Colombo in an all-round way.

    Now, the kingdom of Colombo is really stuck and can''t cope with it, especially stopping trade and burning food.

    After the founding of the kingdom of Colombo, it was busy expanding its territory and had to recruit a large number of soldiers. The number of soldiers and civilians was seriously mismatched. The territory construction was far from perfect. A large number of materials were imported from other kingdoms every year.

    Now all the nobles couldn''t sit still. They urgently convened a national conference and began to discuss solutions.

    "I don''t understand. Well, why should we provoke the elves? Besides, can''t the great nobles in Babylon ask for compensation? Now all countries are hostile to us!"

    "All countries have stopped trade. We can''t buy food. The most we can rely on our own output is to supply the people. What does the army eat? Maybe there will be a war soon, and we can''t dissolve the army!"

    "Eight villages in our territory have been looted. They not only rob materials, but also kill people and destroy farmland! Many people in our territory are hungry!"

    The nobles complained that the agricultural level of the kingdom of Colombo was much worse than that of other countries. Food depended on imports, mainly because there were too few farmers and domestic products were too rich. Why can''t you make money by collecting medicine, hunting and mining?

    Of course, it''s not that the nobles ignored land reclamation. After all, food planting is the foundation of mankind. However, due to the rapid growth of population in Colombo and the high proportion of soldiers, the production capacity of food is far from keeping up.

    It takes a lot of labor to reclaim land and grow food. However, the kingdom of Colombo not only needs to recruit soldiers for war, but also needs to build cities and towns. There is not much surplus labor, and most of these surplus labor are not farming.

    The income from mining is more than 10 times more than that from their own land. Collecting medicinal materials and hunting are also higher income behaviors. The nobles are more willing to let the collar people engage in these high-income jobs rather than farming.

    In other countries, due to the balance of territorial area and population, there is no such situation that the labor force can be fully distributed only by natural resources.

    But the kingdom of Colombo is big with few people! Therefore, agricultural development is far behind population development. Once food cannot be purchased from other countries, there will be food shortage.

    "Don''t complain. What problem can complaining solve? Other countries will fight us sooner or later. It has nothing to do with the nobleman of Babylon!"

    "Think of a solution. You can''t really compromise with those shameless robbers!"

    Several more rational nobles began to put aside their negative emotions and face problems.

    The problem was really serious. The nobles had never expected that the food problem would be so serious. They were all immersed in the joy of expanding territory and building territory.

    Marcus still has his own opinion and responsibility as always. He proposed: "stop the construction of the territory as soon as possible, stop mining, textile, mining and other production activities, and free up manpower! Quickly arrange them to hunt and fish. In addition, the army stops expanding the territory and comes back to expel those rampant robbers from other countries!"

    Another nobleman added: "we must pay attention to the reclamation of farmland. Grain depends on imports. What''s the significance of laying such a large land?"

    The nobles were a little uncomfortable. They stopped land reclamation and territory construction, and those production activities were suspended. They didn''t want to develop for a long time, but the food gap was too large, so they could only do so.

    There are a large number of soldiers in the kingdom of Colombo, with a population of only 2 million, but there are more than 100000 soldiers. This is not farming in peacetime. The militia recruited in wartime are regular soldiers recruited for war. They have to carry out all kinds of training in peacetime, which consumes a lot of food.

    More than 100000 soldiers sound like a lot, but some are allocated to various territories to maintain law and order, some follow the nobles to kill centaurs, and some are used to patrol newly reclaimed territories to prevent centaurs from invading. The number of soldiers is not even enough.

    The number of troops is far more than the normal bearing capacity of the kingdom of Colombo. The kingdom of lukanir with a population of 4 million has 60000 standing troops, with an average of less than 1000 soldiers per noble.

    The nobles feed the army by purchasing food. Most of the civilians and slaves in the territory are busy building buildings, mining minerals and collecting resources. They are even difficult to be self-sufficient. They can''t expect to collect food.

    At present, the army should be busy with the harassment of other countries. It must not be reduced. After the cessation of trade, the food problem has become serious.

    "We can''t spend so much time with them. Don''t we develop?" a nobleman said.

    Marcus also has a headache. Other human countries have no intention of massively assembling troops to attack, that is, sending small-scale robbers to harass and implement a trade blockade, just to fight a war of material consumption with the kingdom of Colombo.

    With a population of 2 million and vast land, can the kingdom of Colombo be self-sufficient without diplomacy? Certainly, a large country with two million people, let alone a small country with more than 100000 people, can be self-sufficient, but what about the speed of development?

    Without trade circulation and alliance exchanges, the country''s development speed will be much slower, and even retrogression will occur because the stalls are too large.

    Many nobles are also troubled. They are willing to open up wasteland because they have strong ambition and desire to stop their expansion and fight small-scale guerrilla warfare with other countries.

    At this time, a dwarf nobleman said, "trade with other races is not enough. The dwarf Kingdom has sufficient food production!"

    A halfling nobleman also said, "yes, there are many Asian races. There is no need to trade with human countries!"

    This is a good idea, but the human nobles were silent. Even the king of Prague, who supported the Asian nobles, did not speak. The main body of the kingdom of Colombo is human. All nobles think so.

    The concept of race is not so easy to break. If these Asian nobles open up business routes, their status is higher and higher, and the number of Asian people in the kingdom is more and more, will it still be the human kingdom at that time?

    Can they still maintain absolute dominance?

    "We can do business with Asian countries, but we should set up our own caravans and chambers of Commerce!"

    The king of Prague gave an indisputable answer. There has never been a precedent for large-scale trade between the human kingdom and Asians before. This is no small matter.

    The nobles argued fiercely about the military policies towards other countries and the measures to form caravans, and discussed the results for a whole day.

    Then when Marcus returned to the castle to rest, he suddenly thought of something.

    "No, is Harold still haunting other countries with caravans?"

    The deterioration of Colombo''s external relations with other countries occurred within a month, and it is still a secret for people other than the nobility of other countries. It was the official forces of other countries that traded with the kingdom of Colombo, and there will be no shock if the trade is stopped.

    Harold probably doesn''t know the news yet! Marcus is a little anxious. If only the caravan is detained, it''s OK, but Harold is not a noble. Maybe the Lord who robbed the caravan will kill Harold!

    Marcus immediately got up and prepared to lead troops for support, but he was about to go out of the door and stopped his action. The situation in the kingdom of Colombo was not optimistic. As the largest lord under the king of the country, he could not take the lead in making trouble.

    And he doesn''t know where Harold is now and how to support him? Is it difficult to lead troops to sweep the other three countries?

    Marcus sighed. He could only hope that Harold would be smart and not impulsive. In this era, even if there was a war between countries, he paid more attention to the face of the nobility. Based on his position, the nobility must fight, but they rarely end their hatred.

    No one cares about the deaths and injuries of civilians and soldiers, but nobles, knights and nobles'' confidants generally exchange ransom as prisoners. As long as Harold reports the flags of Marcus and Kryon, his life will be fine.