Chapter 740 Chapter 1716 Blade of Fairness

Chapter 740 Chapter 17.16 Blade of Fairness

In May of the 3233rd year of the Fire Emblem Calendar, Tiexing has been gaining more and more advantages on the Wanlun Continent.

The Southern United Government tried to negotiate with Tiexing, but these gentlemen wearing aristocratic clothes and holding pipes and Tiexing's working group wearing blue cloth could not reach an agreement on core issues such as "material procurement", "industrial capital" and "financial currency".

The southern political thugs wanted to bypass Tiexing's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and directly talk to the top level of Tiexing (Enma), but this attempt did not succeed.

Enma: I am an average person. An average person can "familiarize" with one or two skills, but it is impossible to be proficient in everything, so professional matters (diplomacy) should be left to professionals. How can I interfere in such a professional matter as financial interests?

Wei Keng wanted to avoid unnecessary human relations, but the "social relations" that have evolved for thousands of years can always achieve their goals through roundabout routes.

Ludis had a dialogue with Enma in the defense zone division on May 4th.

This dialogue included reminiscing about the past, but the two sides still could not reach an agreement on the core issues.

Enma learned from Rudis that the "reconciliation faction" in the south hoped that the north and the south would be governed along the line of Braun City, York City, and Limin Steel City.

However, the Agricultural Youth Association has established a large base in the south, and Tiexing has repaired two railways heading south, which can directly transport northern industrial products to the southern agricultural areas.

Enma criticized Rudis's wrong ideas with righteousness.

Rudis remained silent because he was in the wrong.

Compared with the depression of major cities in the empire, Tiexing Northern Heavy Industry Group has accumulated almost the same personnel and technology, and it is impossible to give up the agricultural consumer market in the south.

Enma further fought for Rudis: Even if the reformists in the imperial cities are reforming, they are just making the city people fair and playing the game of urban citizen voting rights.

The agricultural areas are still ignored. Therefore, in order to control their own light industrial capital, the southern agricultural areas cannot let the city people come down.

Especially when the reformists came to power, in order to win foreign aid, they signed a series of unfair trade agreements, which allowed Anglo-Saxon high-priced industrial products to come in and plunder.

After these black materials were dug up by the Agricultural Youth Newspaper, the enthusiasm of the farmers in the southern part of the former Sky Empire to defend the country suddenly became higher than that of the urban class. (The country is a general term for public interests. Governing the country is to connect public interests to everyone through real channels.)

A few years ago, the reformists had been using the enthusiasm of "defending the country" to force the upper class of the empire. Now that they were roasted on the stove with the same words by the mud legs, they felt quite arrogant in their hearts, thinking, "You are also worthy of defending the country."

Oh, of course they would not say what they thought so bluntly, but complained in a large number of newspapers in the city: "Country people are vulgar", "irrational, extreme", "defending the country traitors!" and other words.

... Within a few years, comrades who had once fought in the same trench began to go their separate ways. …

On May 25, Enma met with Greve at the agricultural technology pilot site of the Southern Agricultural Mechanization, where the largest lake in the South was being netted and the "captive edible fish" was being tested.

Three kilometers away from this meeting place, four "heavy infantry" land frigates led by Orr were responsible for security. The sturdy gun barrels and the tranquil fish pond formed a unique contrast

Enma chose this location to provide evidence in the conversation with Greve. Both of them are old party members.

Oh, to some extent, Greve is more senior, but the Youth Farmers' Association where the "postman" is located, an organization that has been successfully transformed and grown, is far more valuable than Greve, a faction that is getting smaller and smaller in the Southern coalition government.

Facing the fish in the net, Greve's plan in his mind is how to persuade the "postman" to pay for the overall situation of domestic peace. However, he smelled a strange fragrance.

…A big fish came out of the water amid the splashing water, was gutted, and put into the hot oil pan…

Enma picked a fish weighing one and a half kilograms, cooked it on the spot, cut open the belly of the fish, took out the gills, removed the internal organs, and threw it to the free-range country chicken. After washing the black film, it was coated with oil and instant noodle seasoning, and marinated with wine, onion, ginger and garlic powder for half an hour. A handful of straw ignited the charcoal in the iron stove and rolled it for baking. Oil was applied every three minutes, and then cumin was sprinkled in the cutter.

It took only twenty minutes, the first step of baking, the skin was fragrant, but the fish was not cooked yet. (If such a big fish is fully cooked, the meat will fall apart)

The next step: put the raw inside into the iron plate, put a ceramic dish filled with hot salty soup in the fish belly, and then cover the lid and steam it, making sure that the hot soup in the ceramic bowl continues to heat and cook the fish belly. In this way, the outer skin retains the smoke flavor, while the inside is boneless and melted.

After opening the lid, a fresh fragrance came, and the cooked rice noodles just came up. Wei Keng served Gray a bowl of rice noodles, then cut a piece of fish meat and scooped a few spoonfuls of fish soup.

Enma handed it to him with both hands: "Fish soup mixed with noodles, farm-style" (the white deer in the system sneered: "Oh, you are feeding cats, fish soup mixed with rice" Of course, she did not deny that it would be delicious)

Greve picked up the clip and picked up a noodle: it had a smoke-roasted flavor, while the fish meat did not lose its soft and glutinous fresh fragrance.

Of course, Greve knew that he had already lost this time without making any remarks.

…At the "governance" level, theory is not as good as practical examples…

Next to the two people's meeting is an agricultural and sideline products processing plant. The processed big fish meat will be air-dried and salted, then packed into vacuum packaging bags, and then packed into tinplate boxes and transported to supermarkets. The fish heads and fish viscera will be dried and processed into feed to provide protein for pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks.

This is the continuous investment of the accumulated "capital" after the enthusiasm of the rural areas has been guaranteed in governance, and the production efficiency has been greatly improved. In the era of the Sky Empire, rural people could not run such "enterprises". Ordinary people's homes might have just had some oil and water, but they would be plundered by some bastards, so-called: "These mud species can't eat too much, otherwise they are unwilling to work."

In the "Postman" agricultural newspaper, the "mouth cannon faction" in Duman was ridiculed, and the urban reformists were criticized for their so-called governance, which was only thinking about how to be selfish and foolish, and wanted to maintain the stability of various interest groups in the city through violent blood sucking in the rural areas, but ignored the crude collection system, and would plunder the only rations of everyone in the rural areas. But they didn't get much supplies.

On the contrary, under the governance of the Agricultural Youth Association, the city is also supplied with materials.

The grain output per unit area of ​​farmland is three times that of the old empire!

And the labor force for growing grain is only one-tenth of the past. A large number of workers processed a large amount of meat, the number of agricultural and sideline products is more than twenty times that of the past, and a large number of cement hardened roads with third-level indicators are being built.

In terms of actual wealth production, can any agricultural area controlled by the urban faction reach such a level?

Nowadays, the urban faction just wants to rely on the "currency issuance center" to obtain the economic results of the Agricultural Youth Association in the past to fill its own economic loopholes.

Economically, the Agricultural Youth Association has no shortcomings and has won the northern heavy industry collective.

And after winning the arm wrestling with Anglo-Anglo, the western economic zone has obtained stable industrial production space.

And the reformists in the city, let alone food, even the industry that should be their advantage now is getting worse and worse, with only 30% of the production capacity in operation.

The 30% in the city mainly exists because of the agricultural ticket channel. In order to exchange for the "food" and "light industrial consumer goods" that are currently in short supply in the city, these smart cadres in the factory directly accepted orders for "fertilizers" and "hydrocarbon fuels", and of course some key steel bearing parts.

… Even if the "strong men" in Duma want to "rob", the city system where they are now cannot act, and they can only be tough. …

After the meal, Greve asked Wei Keng: "What are your conditions!" Wei Keng glanced at him and said nothing.

Greve looked at Enma. Once upon a time, when he saw the youth and execution of "Enma", he felt terrible. At that time, the two sides belonged to the same camp, but now the two sides are facing each other.

Greve stated his conditions: "If we promote domestic peace, we will nominate you as the Consul of the United Duma."

Enma sighed: "First, the Sky Empire royal family must completely abdicate, and all imperial property must be subject to Iron Star review. The imperial royal family, dukes and nobles must be tried according to law. Second, banks, railways, and all heavy industrial factories must be nationalized. Third, adopt a system of spokespersons for agricultural and industrial positions (banning elections, that is, eliminating the use of money and feudal status to gain seat advantages)..."

Enma was ready to raise his fourth finger, but looking at Greve's expression, His emotions twitched, and he shook his head and sighed: "You can't agree to any of the first three. So, sir, it's difficult for me to discuss this with you."

Greve stared at Wei Keng, wanting to get angry, but looking at Wei Keng's unmoved expression, he sighed: "We have different ideas. The cost of doing this is too high."

Enma nodded: "Yes, we have different ideas, because I think the cost of doing this is worth it, and if we don't do this, the cost of dying in the past will be wasted."

…After three glasses of wine on the table, Enma made a new fish for his old friend to take on the road. If you can't eat it, you'll have to take it with you...

After Greve went back, this condition really caused a great shock to the coalition ruling faction, and they denounced this as an attempt to launch a full-scale civil war.

However, Tiexing responded with practical actions. On May 28, the Corps surrounded York City. The reason for choosing this city was that 80% of the city's operations had been controlled by Tiexing, and the city was ripe and natural.

Of course, the final result was particularly natural, and Sugmat announced a peaceful welcome to Tiexing. There was no fighting throughout the whole process.

When Sugmat made this decision in York City, he said something very meaningful: "The empire is gone, and we don't need to fight." (The diehards in the old camp are often only diehard once. Unlike the flexible conservatives, they can be conservative many times)

Two years ago, Sugmat was a royalist and loyal to the royal family, but with the revolutionaries, that is, the current group of reformists coming to power and destroying the empire, will Sugmat place his loyalty on the southern reformists?

In addition, in terms of interests, York City, as an industrial city in the east and a city of reformists in the southwest, belongs to two factions. Obviously, the old general reached a comprehensive peace agreement and the troops did not fight.

Of course, for Enma, this could not deal with Sugmat. To a certain extent, he agreed to Sugmat's conditions. Reorganize his troops, and at the same time, give up the marginal interests to them in the economic reconstruction.

…At this time, there is also a complexity of interests within Iron Star, and it is particularly important to hold a clear banner. …

After June, six land frigates advanced into York City as the vanguard, followed by steam chariots of all sizes.

The whole city is a sea of ​​flowers. Willie also met Sugmat. The old general was wearing a black officer's uniform, while Mikael was very restrained.

Sugmat looked away from the troops entering the city and couldn't help but admired: "It is indeed a strong army."

In the subsequent meeting, Sugmat made a request: that is, to handle royal issues on behalf of the new Iron Star government. To use Tie Xing's speech, without the title of emperor, he can only be called sir.

Willy said meaningfully to Sugmat: "I promise you, but there is something unpleasant to say. If they collude with external imperial forces, then all liquidation will be complete. Please share your interests with them." Make it clear."

…Under the rules of multiple planes, the longer something exists, the more lasting it is, and the empire on Wanlun Continent has also existed for three thousand years…

In Enma's strategic plan, taking York City is a crucial strategic move. This means that Iron Star completely separates the east and west of the empire, and even if there is resistance in the east, the city's outcome can be established within three months. .

But now in the plan, York City is voluntarily surrendering, which will not only separate the east and west of the empire.

The response effect of big cities is very strong. When the Swan City uprising occurred, all the big cities in the south joined forces to riot, which instantly weakened most of the empire's power.

Sugmat's surrender also led to the surrender of the military commanders of major cities in the east. This surrender was not the "nominal response" of the reformists.

Instead, the company's top military commander, all armed and defecting to Iron Star, was asked to disband the original military structure.

Why didn't these military commanders resist? This is about the regional conflicts within the Sky Empire.

The eastern part of the Sky Empire is cold and inland. This is because the southeastern plate extrusion forms a plateau, which blocks the warm and moist airflow of the southern ocean. Therefore, the eastern part of the Sky Empire has always been a traditional agricultural area, and its capital is weaker than the port cities and river cities in the southwest.

As for business, it is more serious than making up for the shortcomings, and internal cannibalism is even more serious. The imperial legions here are also considered nobles, but according to the disdainful chain of the aristocratic circle in the Sky Imperial City, they belong to the eastern countryside nobles.

When the imperial reform era began three hundred years ago, there were only small businesses in the Eastern Sky, and most of the people who could read and read newspapers were only farmers. When the Agricultural Youth League first began to expand, their organizational power was low and they were completely trapped within the framework of the new order.

Now these eastern rural intellectuals have been embedded in the rural and rural economic structure.

Under the original Eastern Imperial Army system, the manor-owning families behind the military chiefs, even if a few people resisted in the early days and were forced to redistribute, it was still the redistribution of personnel within their families. Basically, we didn't lose our land, we just lost our right to dominate. The resentment caused by the loss of privileges has been filled financially with the new small and medium-sized factories. It immediately said "it smells so good".

…There is a chain of contempt within the aristocratic circles of the empire. …

In short, these eastern land-holding classes used to be called the "aristocratic" class, but in fact they only had some acres of land.

These Junker nobles sacrificed their lives for the country on the front lines during these decades of war, but the fertilizers and machinery they obtained on the rear were in short supply, so that large areas of land were abandoned without sufficient "technology" and "management". Food production has always been insufficient, and even income is not enough to support a decent life in big cities.

When these concubines of rural nobles came to the cities for the first time to go to school, they still wore old-fashioned clothes and were incompatible with the new young people in the cities.

These aristocratic young people from the east who have farmland in the countryside are even ridiculed by urban students in the city who claim to be more civilized, with topics such as "Is the first night tax charged on the daughters of pig shepherds?"

Because in the arrogant impression of the imperial cities, the eastern countryside was ignorant. In the past two years, whenever conflicts arise in the empire, the intellectuals of the empire do not dare to directly criticize the imperial royal family, so they ridicule them desperately. These knights and aristocratic families canonized by the empire in the east are rude and barbaric. This further heightens the impression of disdain.

In order to ensure the loyalty of the eastern army, the empire's generals also recruited troops from noble families in conservative agricultural areas instead of selecting combat forces from active-minded cities.

…At the end of the Sky Empire, it took a huge amount of effort just to reconcile the contradiction between the east and the west. …

But after two years, the Agricultural Youth League provided them with enough fertilizer and arranged for them to hire a team of cheap manpower for planting and harvesting during busy farming times. After completing the acquisition agreement and insurance agreement, these farming nobles could really afford to take care of their ancestral homes. This will also give more funds to the "bastards" in the city.

With the collapse of the empire, this naturally included the middle and lower-level officers under generals like Sugamat. Overnight, the ideological restrictions of allegiance to the empire were lifted, and all of them were inclined towards the idea of ​​​​reforming agricultural regions.

The pseudo-left in the city (pretending to be progressive while holding on to the stick of civilization) has bullied the extreme right in rural and rural areas into being emotionally neutral in the past two years, and too many have left-wing interests. "

...Now Iron Star is currently in conflict with the "Southern Duma Capital" in terms of political system, so Sugmat has begun partial cooperation...

After July, the entire northern and eastern region of the Sky Empire was planted with the Iron Star flag, so that the main task changed from military takeover to economic takeover. But Iron Star now lacks cadres.

Rural cadres cannot replace urban cadres at present.

Wei Keng: Rural areas need a lot of liberal arts to explain "policies" in a practical way in various "unconstrained" environments in the countryside. This is related to the fact that rural space is large enough. For example, dogs can be tied up, and you cannot have enough law enforcement power in a large space. The dog bit the neighbor's chicken to death, and the chicken was at fault first and ran to the neighbor's vegetable garden to destroy the vegetables. Such trivial matters cannot have enough judicial resources to adjudicate, and can only rely on cadres with strong liberal arts to explain the truth according to local conditions.

Cities are intensive, and everyone naturally defaults to discipline. Even walking must abide by the "left-hand" order. When everyone has the requirement to abide by the order, efficiency must be considered, and efficiency is calculated mathematically, which requires science cadres.

Enma calculated Tiexing's current assets. In the heavy industrial cities currently controlled, all kinds of cadres are in short supply and cannot support taking over the whole thing. Because if the takeover is rushed, the intellectuals of the old forces will infiltrate and advance.

Master Wei attaches great importance to the basic base and would rather expand slowly than eat "unclean" "things".

So after the busy farming season in September, when a large number of agricultural laborers were transferred to factories, Tiexing even suspended the task of taking over some cities due to the lack of cadres.

So these cities began to coordinate and govern themselves, waiting for the takeover of Tiexing farmers and workers.

In the final analysis, Tiexing is currently over-investing in military resources. Of course, a year ago, no one in Tiexing dared to underestimate the military strength of the "Imperial Army", "Anglo Intervention Army" and "Osima Intervention Army".

But in fact, the war that was originally planned to fight for several years did not break out.

After Tiexing eliminated the second wave of Anglo Intervention Army, Tiexing did not encounter large-scale battles in half a year, and took down the city after low-intensity confrontation wherever it went.

During this period, Iron Star started to expand its army to prevent any eventuality. The Peasant Youth Army, which originally occupied the north, had less than 700,000 troops, but during this period it expanded to 3.2 million, and the Land Cruiser units (over 300 tons) expanded from 53 to 267.

The army construction consumed a lot of talents, which made logistics a bit tight

… It was another year of green grass and blue sky, but the flowers were more red than blue…

In May 3233, the Duma Front, which had originally declared to suppress the peasants, faced Iron Star, which controlled three-quarters of the country and all agricultural areas, in just half a year.

So, at the end of November, Greve looked at the "Duma Front" that had been compressed into a few large cities at this time, and muttered to himself: "Who is betraying whom?"