Just the army Hanna took to the Underground City included four squadrons of the Black Banner Guard.
After all, Lin Rui was the one paying the wages, and Caroline didn't want to embarrass the Lord, so she only briefly mentioned the topic of army casualties and quickly moved on, to avoid making the Lord seem like a tyrant.
"Lord, regardless, the territory and the people are already operating at high capacity, even though the direct conscription only accounts for one-third, it actually exceeds one-tenth of the territory's population. Under high pressure, for survival, for war, the Empire can indeed reach a two-to-one conscription level, where even apart from infants, everyone becomes a soldier."
"But I think this is unfair. Sometimes fairness affects people's hearts even more than wealth."
"Hmm? Fairness?" Lin Rui was surprised, how did it come to discussing fairness.
Don't tell me about that whole set of ideas about 'not worrying about scarcity but inequality.'
