Tax cut stimulus is a long-term mechanism; it had little impact on the Snow Moon Territory in the short term.
The city-building work had fully launched, leaving the security of the construction teams on Hudson's shoulders.
The Kingdom planned to station two hundred thousand troops in the Near East, but that was only on paper. The first batch of troops that entered the Near East numbered merely eighty thousand, and the cavalry among them amounted to only twenty thousand.
The only consolation was that half of those twenty thousand cavalry came from the Expedition Army Corps; their combat strength was notable across the whole continent.
This military force would certainly be inadequate against the Orc Empire, but was more than enough to handle any individual Orc tribe. The only problem was that the start of city-building required attention to be spread too thin.
