Chapter 1080, Simeone (Part 2)
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your consideration for the people in Hubei. On behalf of the people here, I would like to thank Your Majesty for your grace of survival."
Hearing that Ning Yuan relented, Simone was overjoyed. In order to express his gratitude to Ning Yuan, he bowed to Ning Yuan respectfully with a ninety-degree bow.
After accepting Simeone's salute openly, Ning Yuan suddenly changed the subject and said: "Simone, you may have misunderstood what I meant.
Although I am willing to give the people here a chance for your sake, I cannot guarantee that they will survive.
You heard clearly, I gave them a chance. As for whether they can survive in the end, it can only depend on their own choices and fate. "
Hearing Ning Yuan's sudden change of tone, Simeone's expression suddenly froze. If Ning Yuan was not a superior king, he really wanted to rush over and teach this bastard a lesson.
However, when he thought that the lives of tens of millions of people in Hubei were in Ning Yuan's hands, and that their life and death depended on Ning Yuan's thoughts, he could only suppress the dissatisfaction in his heart and continue to grovel.
After quickly adjusting his facial expression, Simeone forced a smile and asked respectfully: "Then what kind of opportunity is your majesty referring to? If your majesty can clear up Simeone's doubts, Simeone will win." gratitude."
Seeing that Simone was just as he expected, with the compassion and sacrificial spirit of a knight, and that he was willing to go to such lengths to save those innocent people, Ning Yuan immediately smiled and said: "I have decided on the Hubei region, so this place will definitely change. Become a wasteland.
If the people here are wise, then I can show them a clear path, a path to freedom that will allow them to stay away from war and live a worry-free life from now on. "
With that said, Ning Yuan pointed his arm to the east.
Following the direction of Ning Yuan's finger, Simone and the others all looked to the east involuntarily. However, except for the blue sky and white clouds and the mountains in the distance, they could not see anything.
"I hope your Majesty will make it clear."
After wondering what Ning Yuan's intention was, Simone bowed and saluted again, hoping that Ning Yuan could help them clear up their confusion.
“Go east, keep going east, no matter what is in front of you is a mountain or a big river, don’t look back, keep going east.
When you come to an area that has fertile land but is overgrown with weeds, you can usher in a new life.
That fertile land is the only way to survive that I have prepared for you. Once you get there, you can freely choose an ownerless land and settle down.
By the way, it's just sparsely populated, not really deserted.
After you get there, if you meet local residents, as long as you tell them that you escaped from trouble, they will never make things difficult for you. "
Seeing that Simone had completely fallen into the trap, Ning Yuan directly revealed his fox tail.
In the past few years, Ningyuan arranged for the Silver Pegasus Knights to carry out threshing operations in Anhui and Jiangsu. They first deliberately drove a large number of people there eastward, and then specially arranged for the Condor Navy to drive all the people to the seaside. Received the Northeastern region.
The threshing operation of the Silver Pegasus Knights eventually led to the loss of a large number of aboriginal populations in Anhui and Jiangsu.
Although the player lords in those two areas quickly chose to surrender to Ningyuan, Ningyuan did not return the people who were taken away.
So after losing a large number of people, the once populous land of plenty suddenly turned into a rich paradise with vast land and sparsely populated areas.
Although after joining the Condor Empire, all the player lords there lost interest in running their territories.
They only play and hunt every day, but the aborigines under their control are not idle.
Those indigenous people who did not leave immediately began the action of rebuilding their homes after the Silver Pegasus Knights of the Condor Army withdrew.
After a large number of people were lost, a large amount of good farmland became ownerless land, which could be chosen by the remaining people, so every ordinary family immediately became a big landowner.
However, although they actually owned those fields, their status as big landowners was very embarrassing.
Those real landowners not only owned a large number of good fields, but also had a large number of tenants to cultivate farmland for them.
However, these new landlords in Jiangsu and Anhui have no land and no tenants to help them cultivate the land. They can only rely on the labor force at home to cultivate as much land as possible.
An average family, including children, usually has less than ten members, and children can usually do some farming. Therefore, the land area that each family can cultivate is very limited.
So even though the people who stayed behind have become many times more industrious than before, working hard from dawn to dusk every day, there is so much unowned land that the entire Jiangsu and Anhui regions, except for those villages close to the city, Except for this, the rest of the place is overgrown with weeds and desolate as far as the eye can see.
Now that the Northern Expedition Alliance is in a defensive state of contraction across the board, they have no time to send troops into Anhui and Jiangsu. Therefore, although the Condor Army has not officially entered those two areas, in essence, those two places already belong to the Condor Empire. territory.
Unless the Northern Expedition Alliance can turn defeat and defeat the Eagle Army, or the player lords who have taken refuge in Ningyuan suddenly rebel, there will be no suspense about the ownership of those two regions.
Anhui and Jiangsu are two important grain-producing areas in the Yangtze River Delta. The grain produced there will affect the future strategic layout of the Condor Empire. Therefore, in order to restore agricultural production there as soon as possible, Ningyuan must restore agricultural production there as soon as possible. Number of permanent residents.
However, the people in Ningyuan who were transferred from those two areas have now completely settled down. Those people have adapted to the cold climate in the Northeast and have integrated into the local ethnic groups.
After being displaced and just living a stable and happy life, a normal king would never move them back again, because that is simply not what humans do.
Although Ning Yuan is notorious and has done many things to massacre cities, he has always regarded himself as a wise king in the Condor Empire. The people of the Condor Empire think that he is a good emperor and a benevolent king. , so it is absolutely impossible for Ningyuan to move those people back.
However, without relocating a large number of people, the agricultural production in Jiangsu and Anhui cannot be restored.
Ning Yuan's goal is to occupy the entire earth and establish a true empire on which the sun never sets.
To achieve this goal, he not only needs a large number of troops but also prepares a massive amount of grain and grass. Therefore, he must restore production in those two important grain producing areas as soon as possible to accumulate strength for future expansion.
After continuous battles in the past few years, the Divine Eagle Empire has successively occupied Hebei, Shaanxi, Shaanxi and Sichuan areas north of the Yellow River, as well as Gansu, Xinjiang, Qinghai and Tibet, expanding its territory to a large extent. piece.
With such a large territory suddenly added, the original aboriginal people of the Condor Empire are no longer enough, so it is basically impossible to move people from within the Condor Empire to Anhui and Jiangsu. After all, There is a shortage of people everywhere within the Condor Empire.
Since the population within the Condor Empire is not enough, Ningyuan can only focus on lands that are not yet part of the Condor Empire, so the Hubei region next to Anhui and Sichuan has become the best choice.
Originally, Ningyuan just wanted to force the aboriginal people living in Hubei to Anhui and Jiangsu, far away from the war, through endless destruction.
However, he never expected to meet Simone, an excellent elf ranger with chivalry spirit in a small Nanzhang County, so he immediately made a small modification to his previous plan.
He planned to use Simone's compassionate spirit to seduce the indigenous people living on this land and let them take the initiative to migrate eastward.
Although it is difficult to leave their homeland, the aboriginal people may not heed Simone's advice, but as long as the monkey army arrives, Ning Yuan will let them show their hands on the fertile plains east of Nanzhang County.
I believe that the indigenous people who have received warnings from Simone will immediately believe everything Simone said before.
When the time comes, when they bring their families and move eastward, they will become the best propagandists and help the Condor Army spread the news all the way.
When a large number of people move eastward collectively, the Northern Expedition Alliance will definitely not sit idly by and take a series of response actions.
But no matter what countermeasures they take, as long as Ning Yuan and his monkey army stay here in Nanzhang County, all their actions will only serve to quench their thirst.
Because when the people here no longer help them cultivate crops, not only will they no longer be the cornerstone of the Northern Expedition Alliance, but they will become a burden to the Northern Expedition Alliance.
If they want to retain the people who migrated eastward, the Northern Expedition Alliance must provide them with three free meals a day. Otherwise, those people will never obey the orders of the Northern Expedition Alliance and stay when there is not enough food to satisfy their hunger.
And once the Northern Expedition Alliance chooses to provide free food to those people, the food they have accumulated over the years will be consumed at an extraordinary speed.
In the end, it is very likely that the food and grass they have managed to store will be exhausted, and the people will leave directly when they can no longer provide food, and they will end up with nothing in their lives.
To avoid this outcome, the only way for the Northern Expedition Alliance is to repel the Condor Air Force that invaded Nanzhang County and drive Ningyuan and the others back to the other side of Daba Mountain. Otherwise, they will never be able to untie this knot. problem.
And if the Northern Expedition Alliance takes the initiative to attack, it will be in line with Ning Yuan's wishes, because if they want to defeat the Condor Air Force led by Ning Yuan, the Northern Expedition Alliance must dispatch their remaining air force, and Ning Yuan can just take the opportunity to defeat that Air Force. The enemy's remaining air power was wiped out.
After the Northern Expedition Alliance loses its air power, the entire area north of the Yangtze River is completely controlled by the Condor Air Force. By then, this area will completely become the back garden of the Condor Air Force. They can attack wherever they want. Without air power, the Northern Expedition Alliance could only hide in the city and watch helplessly.
In order to quickly push the Northern Expedition Alliance into a desperate situation, Simeone, who has the spirit of chivalry, will play a vital role, because from the moment he opened his mouth, Ning Yuan had already seen that he wanted to choose the second path. Left directly.
That's why Ning Yuan, after a little testing, immediately took advantage of the situation and gradually led Simeone into the trap he had set for him.
After listening to Ning Yuan's specific plan, Simeone's face was extremely heavy, because he knew that it was difficult to leave his hometown. Except for his acquaintances, it would be difficult for others to believe what he said, and people would definitely think that he was alarmist.
After pondering for a moment, Simone looked up and asked Ning Yuan: "Your Majesty, if those people refuse to leave, how will you choose to treat them?"
Looking at Simeone with an expectant look on his face, Ning Yuan replied coldly: "I have said it before, as long as they don't take the initiative to become my enemy, then I and my troops will not harm them. of.
But if they show the slightest hint of wanting to be our enemy, then don't blame me and my troops for being ruthless.
For the enemy, I always give them only two choices, either surrender or die.
Our purpose of leading the army here this time is to cause destruction, and we do not need any prisoners. Therefore, those who are enemies of us will only die.
As for you, I am going to be lenient to you because you are from the elves.
However, it cannot be repeated again and again. Giving this kind of kindness once is enough. I am determined not to give it a second time. No matter what race the enemies we encounter are, as long as they dare to block our way forward, Then I will lead an army to kill them all. "
Ning Yuan knew that for people like Simeone who have an extremely strong chivalry spirit, you have to put enough pressure on them so that they will become braver as they fight, so he directly used a murderous answer to dispel all the luck in Simeone's heart.
Looking at Simeone with a disappointed look on his face, Ning Yuan spoke again: "Simone, I said before that I admire people like you, but my position is different, so I can never be like you.
Now that you know my purpose and choice, please make your own choice! "
Seeing Simone standing there dumbly, Ning Yuan decided to push him again.
After looking up at Ning Yuan, Simone bowed deeply to Ning Yuan, and then resolutely walked to the fields to the north.