Chapter 899 Integrating Nanling

On June 12, 775 in Terra, the Empire released many photos and news reports of the use of demonic technology in the Flying Fire Land, officially announcing to the entire continent of Terra that the Flying Fire Land had adopted forbidden technologies and had committed atrocious crimes against humanity in the western border of the Empire. act.

In response, Feiyandi responded that they were not using simple demonic technology, but artificial demonic technology that used human hearts to control the power of demons - they had found the basic laws of demon generation and could completely destroy demons with demons.

As for anti-humanity acts, they believe that after ten years of war preparations in the Western Territory, there are no civilians irrelevant to the war. Those who should be moved out have all gone. Those who are still staying in the Western Territory so far cannot be ordinary civilians. They are the absolute supporters and reserves of the empire's war. They are just the reserve forces to destroy the empire.

Although this shameless statement is very shameless, they did not originally want to persuade others, but just fought against each other to ensure their own righteousness.

As for the nobles in Nanling, after encountering the terrifying Feiyan Land raid, they had no energy to care about public opinion.

Because, there is Earl Yinfeng, who may be more terrifying than Feiyandi, watching them.

On June 15, two weeks after the Nanling attack, Nanling declared that it had entered a full-scale war mode. In order to prevent a second such tragic and damaging raid, the Governor of the Empire's Nanling Province, the Marquis Barton It was announced that all nobles in Nanling would be integrated into the grid for management.

This is a very reasonable request. After all, if our side is not monolithic, it means that the enemy can infiltrate and mix sand at will. As soon as the artificial demon technology is made public, anyone with a brain knows that if there is no corresponding prevention technology, the enemy can Feel free to dig deep into your own core management team.

But even so.

There are still many imperial nobles who are unwilling to manage online.

"Listen, I will never join this bullshit networking system of yours!"

Baron Issa was extremely angry and said to the Xiahui Ling engineering team who came to lay the terminal signal transmitter and cables. He violently expelled the Xiahui Ling engineering team and even caused deaths and injuries.

Not only that, he also said that if Ian's people dare to come to him, he will never show mercy and invade his territory without permission. He has the right to kill all of them.

Such people are not uncommon in Nanling.

Even if he is just a baron, he is still the emperor in his own territory. Except for the necessary taxes handed down by the empire and abiding by the empire's noble laws, the baron is free to do whatever he wants in his own territory.

Especially in places like Nanling, it is impossible to popularize and abide by the noble law. The nobles here have long been accustomed to freedom.

There is an extra person to take care of you for no reason. If the other party is strong, then you can just swallow it. After all, strong people are justified. No matter how ruthless and ignorant the nobles are, they all know that if a powerful person wants to be ruthless, he can How cruel, their opposition is meaningless.

But the most abhorrent thing is this ‘network’.

Now, after the Yinfeng leader made a large-scale publicity that their side did not suffer any losses in the Feiyan Land attack and captured several crucial spies, all the Nanling nobles knew that Ian relied on that so-called 'Network' to monitor everyone.

Even the spies of Feiyandi can monitor it, so wouldn't they themselves have no secrets?

No, we must oppose it, we must oppose it!

Otherwise, wouldn't Ian have seen all the evidence of his private smuggling, illegal activities, sacrifices, secret collusion with Feiyandi, and more, probably even more terrifying actions? !

But asking them not to do those things is even worse than killing them.

However, those nobles who are relatively close to the Silver Peak Territory, no matter how much they do not want to connect to the grid, do not have the right to refuse - the Silver Peak Territory does not even need to set up base stations in their territory, and can rely on the signal within their own territory to They have it all covered.

But for nobles like Baron Isa, who are located in a remote location next to the Golden Plains, they don't have to give Ian any face. They just refuse if they don't want to connect to the Internet. Marquis Barton's order can also be delayed using various methods, such as It is said that the construction site of the base station needs to be inspected, or the base station may have a toxic effect on local residents, or it may even be destroyed directly after being built. The question is whether it is a natural disaster or the work of Feiyandi.

"These Silver Peak people are getting more and more outrageous."

After driving away Ian's engineering team, Baron Issa returned to his castle. His face was ashen, and he looked at the city where a big hole had been blown out. He had no other thoughts except gritting his teeth: "These damn people The Feiyandi people not only failed to destroy the prophet’s territory, but actually blew up my city!”

Baron Isa's territory mainly produces various agricultural tools. His territory is close to the Golden Plains and has many high-quality mineral veins. The related agricultural tool workshops and various weapons are considered to be sophisticated.

However, the small handicraft workshop, faced with Yinfengling's industrial production and new metal refining techniques, and various new concepts of next-generation agricultural tools, had only one result.

That is to be completely crushed!

It has lost almost all its market share, and the result of asking Yinfeng Ling is "We can help you build a factory, but you have to join our system." This is almost the same as annexation. How can Baron Isa have a good impression of Ian? ?

As a result, before Baron Issa could think of any way to regain his wealth, the Silver Peak Territory's network was about to be laid out again.

"Now I have driven away a group of people, but how many more times can I drive them away? Feiyandi will definitely continue to invade by then, but at the worst, I will move to Nauman City for refuge. If you have the ability to guard Yinfeng, show me !”

With this thought, he went to sleep with resentment and anger.

Immediately afterwards, the next day, it was no longer the engineering team of Yinfeng collar who came to the door of Isa collar.

Instead, Qingchao led the team, and Yinfeng led the exoskeleton unit ‘Steel Feather’.

Ian doesn't trust humans - he doesn't trust human perception.

Human vision, smell and hearing are all extremely easy to be distorted and tampered with, especially in this world where there are many spiritual powers that directly target the spiritual will. Not to mention that the demons in Feiyan Land are so advanced in technology that they want to invade a person's mind. It's really too simple.

So, let’s use machines to assist.

The improvements in endurance, strength and defense brought by the exoskeleton armor are secondary. The most important thing is that the person inside the armor does not need to contact the outside world, but uses an indirect screen to perceive the world.

Everything is data, and it is the safety perception screened by the Heart of Terra, and Steel Feather also has a certain jet jumping ability, which can cross extremely complex battlefields.

In short, this is the elite armed force under Ian's direct control.

So, why did this elite armed force appear in front of him?

Baron Issa's brain was a little short of oxygen, and he didn't understand the situation.

But Qingchao knew it very well.

"kill!"

Without any nonsense, the swordsman drew his sword and slashed at Baron Issa like lightning. He was also at the second level. He had practiced meditation and sharpened his sword skills to the limit. Ian rated him as being able to solve it with five swords. other side.

But Qingchao felt that his lord underestimated him... When one party came prepared for the surprise attack and wore exoskeleton armor, the other party was at a loss and didn't know what happened.

All it takes is one sword!

Facing the sword of the wind that Baron Issa hurriedly slashed out, Qingchao flashed the sword in his hand, and a stream of azure source of light deftly dismembered Baron Issa's offensive. The air exploded wherever it passed. Cut to the crotch, diagonally dividing the person into two halves.

Of course, Baron Issa is not really weak. Even if his sword energy was separated by Qingchao, the aftermath still hit Qingchao on both shoulders - but the defensive power of the exoskeleton armor plus Qingchao's own body-protecting essence , allowing him to receive this life-changing blow with almost no injuries.

he died.

"Kill everyone in the castle."

The swordsman, who was usually kind and optimistic in front of everyone, showed unusual indifference after killing Baron Issa. He waved his sword and shook off the blood on the sword: "Then blow up the entire castle and disguise it as a flying sword." Flame Land Attack.”

The Steel Feather troops faithfully carry out their orders.

There was a loud roar, and after two weeks, Isaland once again experienced a grand fireworks explosion.

"Will there be any consequences?"

In the Lord's Castle, when Scott reported on today's base station construction work, he asked with some concern: "Baron Issa just rejected our networking operation yesterday, and he died today - everyone knows it was us. "

"That's what I'm here for."

Ian raised his eyes and looked at his supervisor. He explained patiently: "You may understand some political and popular matters, but you don't really understand the world of the Ascendants."

"Today, the demonic legions of Flying Flame Land have cut off the roads leading to the Imperial Capital from the Western Territory and Nanling. Although Nanling is isolated and helpless at this time, it is also as high as the sky and far away from the emperor - no one can point out on the spot that we did it, so In two months no one will care about the death of a baron."

"Even if someone in the imperial capital wants to target me and specifically talk about this matter, they will not have evidence. As for the Marquis Barton who may have evidence, he will not speak in this regard... And if it is delayed a little longer, Then I might be at the fourth level."

"At that time, it will be Baron Isa who takes his own life and has nothing to do with me."

Scott nodded repeatedly, indicating that he understood, while Ian looked at the report in his hand with emotion: "The Internet connection rate exceeds 91%. It feels good to use Terra's morality occasionally. Disobedient Just kill him, there won’t be so many intrigues and intrigues at all.”

"It's so simple. Just look at the world of power...this chaotic world of total war."

Ian actually didn't want to use such a cruel and simple method. With his wisdom, he could naturally come up with a better way to scare the monkeys.

However, Baron Issa actually dared to attack his people - this signal is very dangerous, which means that the Nanling nobles are indeed too brave. Do they really dare to attack? Didn't they expect that Ian would fight back?

In order to prevent more people from turning against him based on the example of Baron Issa, Ian decided to send Qingchao to kill him as soon as he learned the news. If it weren't for the implicit advice of Marquis Barton, saying that if you kill such a person, just kill him, but don't be too arrogant, Ian didn't even plan to blow up his castle, but just hung the body on the castle.

Asking was done by the Feiyan Demon. Why, who is dissatisfied?

Of course, no one dared to dissent.

Soon, the next day, all the 10% of the die-hard aristocrats who had been very tight-lipped and refused to give in to the Internet relented. Ian even received four extremely sincere letters of apology. It's probably like 'I'm cowardly, you adults have a lot of people, and you're farting on the younger ones'' From now on, you will be the big brother of Nanling. If you say we will go west, we will never go east'... and so on.

"Look."

Ian directly showed off the apology letter in his hand to Scott: "We have said that the Nanling people can't be killed without killing them. It's not useless to reason with them, but it turns out that physics is the most effective."

At this point, just as the Western Territory was in a state of chaos and Feiyan Dibing Peak was getting closer and closer to Nanling, the preliminary base station network was completed based on the territories of the major imperial nobles in Nanling.

Not only that, in the name of the 'Special Vaccine against Feiyan Land Biological Warfare', Ian began to popularize 'artificial souls' targeting other imperial nobles.

It's just that the Silver Peak Territory is too slow to accumulate primitive souls for the Heart of Terra, and to be honest, Ian is a little reluctant to let the people on his side get hurt. In other words, the Silver Peak Territory The number of deaths will definitely be small, which is obviously not good for the accumulation of souls in the Heart of Terra.

In this case, it is better to directly spread and popularize artificial souls. If there are no deaths on my side, then the war will always kill people. When the time comes, it will not only save the souls of the people in Nanling, but also enrich the reserves of the Heart of Terra. It is the best of both worlds. Why not? ?

Not only that... at Ian's instruction, the medical troops under the Chongling Sect began to conduct free clinics in major areas that were severely attacked, treat the wounded, and rescue refugees.

The Chongling Sect once again began to form a "land reclamation group" to collect people and send them to the wild swamps northwest of the Baisen Mountains to develop.

The living conditions there may not be worse than in other territories, not to mention the convenient food supply in Silver Peak Territory, so applicants are enthusiastic.

The entire South Ridge was affected by the disaster, but Ian was well fed - this was not an accident, but a benefit brought about by the good performance of the sheltering circle when it was attacked.

Who doesn't want to live in a safe city? Who doesn’t want his lord to be a prophet who can foresee disaster?

Although the foundation-laying ceremony of the Holy Land of the Chongling Sect did not end successfully, its far-reaching impact has been bringing intangible but expensive publicity benefits to Ian.

Of course, there are indeed spies among the refugees who applied to join the Chongling Sect's land reclamation group.

They were quickly captured and put forward, and then publicly executed under Ian's arrangement - not in the Silver Peak Territory, but on a circuit throughout the South Ridge.

Because there is actually no harm to the Silver Peak Territory, they are so well protected that they have no anger towards these spies. It would be a pity to kill them in the Silver Peak Territory, as they will not gain prestige and influence.

Touring public trials can actually gain people's support.

Everything was just as Ian predicted - Feiyandi's side accelerated to attack him, intending to bulldoze him before he could develop as a prophet... but this indirectly led to Ian's quick takeover of the power of Nanling, not only Relying on the power of Feiyandi to build an entire base station network, it even won the hearts and minds of the people.

"Wait, this is too similar, isn't it?!"

Thinking of this, Ian suddenly thought of something. He immediately asked for help and got the news report from the Imperial Capital from Isengard.

Then, he was shocked to find that the Imperial Capital had done the same thing as him!

In the recent period, to be precise, it was the time when Feiyandi announced a full-scale attack. The Northland and Eastern Provinces have also encountered 'raid attacks' and various 'sabotage operations'.

The reason why I put the quotation marks is because Ian could tell at a glance that it was definitely not done by people from Junling Castle and Cangtian Royal Court like here in Feiyandi!

Junling Castle does not have that strength. At most, they can only fight back and forth with the nobles of the North. They have the power to defend but cannot advance.

The Cangtian Royal Court is also facing enemies from both sides like the empire, and there is no precedent for planning in this area. How could it be possible to carry out such an attack.

But even so, the empire still had several towers and alchemy workshops in its main cities destroyed, causing quite severe casualties.

The people of the empire were angry - not only that, the imperial capital also took advantage of the situation and announced something similar to what Ian had done... They were also popularizing terminal base stations and began to compulsorily connect every territory to the Internet!

Although their networking does not have the heart of Terra, and only increases the convenience of communication and builds base stations in various places, this attitude and policy is intentional no matter how you look at it!

However, in the face of Ian Yinfeng, the small nobles of Nanling might still dare to resist, but when faced with the central noble group of the empire headed by the royal family, the local nobles could only kneel and lick after hearing the order. Under the pressure of the war, They have no right to refuse or delay at all.

This is a forced reform...internal reform with the help of external pressure!

"Axel...in this aspect, he is even better than his father Inaga II..."

Watching the news, Ian murmured to himself: "What if Inaga II had dared to blow up his country's checkpoints, then announced that it was an enemy who did it, and then immediately invaded the enemy's country brazenly, announcing that he was a victim, and carried out the war under the oppression of war? Social reform...maybe it can really be achieved?"

In fact, it can't be done. Because the aristocracy of the empire at that time was the older generation of aristocrats, not the new aristocracy that was massacred by Hilliard and Axel. If they unite to fight against the imperial power, they can at least ruin Inaga II's affairs.

Moreover, even war may not really force them to obey the central government's orders... they may even surrender!

Still have to kill.

"It seems that Axel is indeed prepared..."

After coming back to his senses, Ian was quite emotional: "These two months, now one and a half months, are the time for the empire to accelerate internal reforms - so the empire will not strike back until one and a half months later."

"The Earthkeeper lives up to his reputation... He really has some tricks up his sleeve."

But this was what happened later. Next, Ian asked Scott to pay attention to the food issue, and contacted the Marquis of Barton and Viscount Grant, asking the South China Sea Fleet to protect the trade routes of Canaan Moore.

After all, no matter what the purpose of the Flying Flame Land is, at least at this time, their invasion will cause the agricultural production in South Ridge to be affected - even with Ian's promotion, agricultural buildings have begun to spread in South Ridge, but not yet Completely meet the food needs of Nanling.

In order to avoid a second food disaster, reserves must be made as soon as possible.

And just when Ian was communicating with Viscount Grant about issues related to the Internet and ‘vaccine popularization’, he suddenly got good news.

In the attack half a month ago, Adebert, who transformed into a giant of light and was in a coma after stopping the airship from falling into the wreckage, finally woke up today.