Cyrodiil is a wealthy province, despite its desolation. If Cyrodiil spent its day svcking money from Skyrim, we would know it. Not even Stormcloaks say anything about Skyrim's assets being directed to Cyrodiil. If anything we hear of Cyrodiil sending large amounts of money to Skyrim to make sure its Jarls stay loyal, and as far as I know the Jarls generally use those funds to the well-being of their people.

Don't forget that Cyrodiil sent a lot of food up to skyrim from it's farms.

Lol, thats what happens in our rp.

Skyrim has plenty of farmland on its own. This wouldn't be an issue, they'd just have to do this themselves.

Actually they do talk of taxes a lot. But we don't know how heavy those are of course. And they don't talk about it now because the Empire isn't yet trying or promising to rebuild Skyrim.

BRING IT ON.

I say empire because the empire has gold. Ulfric? Nothing.

That's probably best.

Skyrim's farms don't offer up a lot of food due to the cold and if there was to be a incident where the temperature dropped rapidly say like in winter it would cause the farms to be ruined, cyrodiil on the other hand has a moderately temperate climate meaning that even in winter they could easily grow food in their farms. Also due to skyrim being mostly mountains and harsh and cold terrain means that they wouldn't have much farmlands to expand and people would go without food often especially if the stormcloaks goto war because resources would focus on supplying the armed forces with food.

I think the better question is whether or not she is willing to do it for the people. After all, it is a political marriage; Elisif liking Ulfric or vice versa isn't really a requirement.

Well I'll be.

Dude, they have farms way up north. I doubt it would be an issue. Look at whiterun and all that open good land just begging to be farmed. They're used to farming in those conditions, and they dont even need to go up there when they have whiterun which is the perfect farming hub for them.

In the case of the Empire winning most of their troops would return to Cyrodiil to reinforce their defence (You hear Tullius complaining about lack of troops because of this) leaving even less men to rebuild Skyrim, were as Ulfric would have his entire army rebuilding Skyrim, it's a case of money and no men or men and no money

But the point is that one bad harvest could end up throwing skyrim into a food shortage and even in whiterun the farmers talk about how hard it is to farm, one even says that a slight cold nip in the air could be bad for the crops.

Farming is always hard. Have you tried it? It's a lot of work. There's always things that could lead to a bad harvest regardless of temperature. Seriously, I can't see something like this being an issue. They've survived before without the Empire.

Taxes are a normal part of life and any nation that is in war levies very high taxes. That's just how it is.

This makes so much sense it's not even funny.

Believe me, I know. They didn't sound like ordinary taxes to me, but I guess no one's ever happy about taxes. Even normal amounts.

Where does it say that?

I think it wouldn't matter much. The Empire would have more immediate coin, but Cyrodiil is still in pretty bad shape from what we know so that will likely be their main focus. And Skyrim wasn't all that damaged in the civil war. A couple of cities were attacked, but mostly the fighting was done in the forts around the province.

Frankly, rebuilding Skyrim seem like a fairly quick task. However, I think the Stormcloaks will focus on building Skyrim more than just rebuilding it, to compensate for the loss of the Imperial Legion.The Empire, I think, wouldn't focus so much on that, having 3 provinces to draw recruits from.

Seeing as Windhelm is also a city that has been the seat of the High King for a very long time, I don't think he will move. He is aware that Ysgrammor held the throne, and his father held it. Not to mention that it would be easier to defend in case of a naval invasion than Solitude.

If that's the case then I think the High King's wealth would simply move to him. I don't think this would make him greedy like Cider! said. The man has to run the nation somehow, and no one wants to see Elisif in charge of all the gold I'm sure. Plus, what the heck would Solitude need it all for, right? The national treasury held there when the High King is no longer seated there? That would be silly.

The Most expensive thing for Skyrim is turning the Gates at Pale Pass into a Fortress in the event of a Stormcloak Victory, and that could be accomplished by dissassembling and relocating Helgen. The land around Morthal cold be turned into flat, level farmland. Windmills could be built to change the swamps into a breadbasket for all of Skyrim. Many of the Lakes could be dammed and turned into reliable water sources for other parts of Skyrim, imagine the Reach as terraced farms. The Reach could eventually become as famous as Colovia for Wine Production, even without irrigation projects.

The Empire should use the troops freed from the conflict in Skyrim to restore Rule of Law to Bravil and Cheydinhall. I am one of the People who think the Elder Council is too far into the lap of the Dominion to do anything positive for the actual people of Cyrodill, but there is alot of potential if the Elder Council was purged.

While I think Cider! is exaggerating a bit, Brunwulf Free-Winter does say that the war sapped Windhelm's resources critically, which puts his envisioned restoration of the Grey Quarter to a future date. I think he says that it will take years for Windhelm to recover from the war, but I'm not 100% sure about that.

That is hardly a surprise, though, given that Brunwulf says it after Windhelm has fallen to the Imperials.

The side that I am on is the most likely to rebuild Skyrim.

The Empire, without a doubt, has the ability to rebuild Skyrim better than the Stormcloaks, mostly because they are larger, have more manpower, more wealth, and have the resources to do so. The question is, with all of their other provinces, how they will do it, and that's a murky area to be honest.