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"Yes, the most perfect lie in the world is to deceive people with a lot of truth."

Ivan stared at those silver-gray eyes, and said with a sneer:

"They tell you that closedness brings backwardness, but they never mention the evil consequences of openness. Let me tell you the truth about openness: they emphasize cultural freedom so that they can use propaganda weapons to destroy your culture. They emphasize trade freedom because it can Enter your market and destroy the soil where the local industry was born. They tell you that joining the federal-led division of labor is the future, so that you can recruit a group of low-level slaves to work for them!"

"what are you saying?"

Ai Luluomei subconsciously took half a step back, her deliberately camouflaged docile expression froze slightly, and her originally confident eyebrows and eyes became confused.

"Don't you understand? I want to let you know how wrong you are."

At this moment, Ivan pressed on like a shark smelling blood:

"Do you know what kind of behemoth is the object of the opening? They are greedy and demanding. As long as they are released to the outside world, they will empty out all the assets of the empire with a bunch of numbers. This is a unilateral looting. You don't have any Fight back."

"You'd better calm down and stop worrying about unrealistic things."

This kind of ideological dispute made Elleome unable to show weakness, so she completely concealed her disguise and argued: "Using numbers to empty out the empire's assets is simply ridiculous. Are all the subjects of the empire fools?"

"It's not stupid, but powerless to resist. Without local industry, the lifeline of the economy is naturally controlled by others. As long as there is a little bit of manipulation, a national financial crisis will erupt. The remaining assets will be infinitely underestimated, and then... ...It is an invisible division." Ivan replied lightly.

"Menis is too small for them and won't have much benefit. How could they create a financial turmoil here." She retorted as if dying.

"It's ridiculous, you actually put the life and death of the empire on the goodwill of others... Only the weak will beg for mercy from others!"

The sharp cold light danced in the depths of his pupils, and the temperature of his voice suddenly dropped below freezing point. Standing in front of her, Ivan seemed to have sunk into darkness, as if the entire space was his sight.

"..."

Confusion flashed across Ai Luluomei's eyes, and the divine light in her eyes was gradually disappearing. Her body seemed to lose her soul, and she retreated uncontrollably.

"What I said is so clear, it's impossible for you to understand with your intelligence... Or, you have long been aware of the future trend, but you are just deliberately avoiding it? Are you planning to sell this empire in exchange for your own interests!?"

Ivan looked at her panic-stricken escaping posture, and suddenly clapped his hands, deliberately sarcasm mercilessly:

"Follow your ideas, and the empire will soon become a part of the federation. Perhaps in their history, you will be the first governor of Menis Governor's Mansion!"

"I'm not... I'm not..."

She stepped back and suddenly tripped over a vase, lost her balance and sat down in a trance.Then he covered his head defensively, and murmured in despair:

"Impossible...things won't turn out like that, I'm right...I'm right!"

At this moment, Ellome has been persuaded by Ivan, but she just refuses to admit it unilaterally.In fact, I knew very well in my heart that if Ivan didn't intervene and continued to follow her path, the empire would definitely be destroyed in his own hands.

This is also something she can't face no matter what - admitting that she is incompetent!

Ivan leaned over to her ear, and said the final words of heartbreak: "Whether you want it or not, you must admit that it is the right choice for me to replace you, and the empire will only fall into the abyss in your hands, and it will never be restored! "

"..."

She trembled all over, her eyes instantly became hollow, her pupils were also dull, and tears silently slid down the lines of her face.

Pain at the physical level, or the coercion of power, will only cause temporary submission, and even rebound after a long time.Only by destroying a person's thoughts from the spiritual level is a thorough training.For a power-obsessed, self-important person, the best way to destroy her is to make him realize that he has no such ability.

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In the following month, Ivan ordered a batch of grain seeds from the Federation, raised the reserve price by three times and sold them to the royal bank, and then resold them at a par price to the nobles.Then, using the money from the nobles to buy seeds, they purchased a complete set of technology and equipment for a fertilizer factory—from synthesizing raw materials to making fertilizers, an assembly line that is ready to use.

Waiting for the right time... Naturally, it will be sold to noble gentlemen.

Yiwen made a good plan, spending money to start agriculture first, and when a small number of agricultural population can produce food for the whole country, he will start running towards modernization.

According to his and Xiaoxi’s research, the prerequisites for industrialization, or the bottleneck of the transformation of agricultural countries, are the basic constraints of energy (petroleum, coal), power output (steam engine, generator), food, fiber (cotton, textile industry) ), building materials (cement).

In the case that all technology can be imported, food has naturally become the top priority.

Only with enough food can we support a large number of full-time people.After the empire has connected to the Federation's technology and completed basic education, the full-time population will be able to give birth to teachers, doctors, engineers, scientists, workers, programmers and other occupations.

With the Hyperion Development Consortium as the window to the outside world, and the goddess of wisdom Xiaoxi, Ivan is confident that the empire will only need one or two generations to catch up with the level of the civilian areas of the space city.As for the federation... Unless there is something wrong with it, it will be difficult to catch up.

In the final analysis, there is no core industry in the space city, but the mecha technology of the Federation alone is enough to make ordinary civilizations daunting.

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At the end of the rainy season, there is already an endless yellow grassland outside the city of Ekhtadun.The god of drought quietly descended on this land that was sheltered and favored by the gods, and the eye-catching withered yellow spread to the end of the eyes.The dry color seems to be able to extend infinitely, rolling and stretching layer by layer under the caress of the scorching air.

The turbulent water outlet of Jinghu Lake meanders towards the blurred horizon in the distance, and the azure blue zigzag figure reflects the entire sky on the water.

"I hope this expedition can turn the evil disaster into history..."

Dellu looked into the distance and murmured in a low voice, his brown pupils had a panoramic view of the whole wilderness.

Behind him, [-] crowned knights were silently waiting there.The same silver-white cloak, the same semi-enclosed light armor, and the same wide-brimmed helmet.The dry wind billowed in the air, and the chocobo nestled next to its owner, flapping its wings from time to time to dissipate the heat from its body.

Behind the Coronet Knights, there is a small army of only 300 people, all with closed helmets, all dressed in silver heavy armor engraved with the sun wheel pattern, holding spears and short swords.These stand in two columns beside the sun chariot, like two rows of shield walls, surrounding the sovereign in the centre.

In front of the Knights of the Corona and the Holy Army, there is the largest regular army of the Empire, with a total of 3 soldiers, all of whom are elite soldiers selected from thousands of people.Among them, the artillerymen and rocket soldiers who had undergone special training for two months were also pulled into the battlefield, and their flanks were covered by the Demon Hunt Squad.

If you count the logistics troops, it can be counted as an army of [-].

But unfortunately, the main role of most fighters is to blockade areas, not to fight frontally.

As for the frontal combat... Even if Ivan is not counted, the artillery, rocket troops, demon hunters and the holy armor army are more than enough - the premise is that they can be coordinated, and it doesn't matter if they can't cooperate for the time being, just use this opportunity to practice slowly.

The current Yiwen didn't pay attention to the fear beast at all, not to mention the ordinary fear beast, the devil level fear beast was only at the third level, and he could erase it with a wave of his hand.The reason why Ellome could not completely quell the evil disaster was because she could not see through the disguise of the fear beast, but this was not a problem for Ivan, so he was confident that the evil disaster would be completely contained.

As for the complete extermination... It's hard to say, after all, where there are people, there are fear beasts.

"Besides the Horror Beast...there are six other families that got in the way, I hope they can be eradicated at once. This time I gave them the entire royal court, and the fox's tail should be exposed."

Thinking of this, the young king suddenly pulled out the saber that was carried behind him, and held it up high, and then the cold edge cut the pale golden light into countless filaments.

"Dread Beast! Demonic Calamity... It's time to wake up from this nightmare that has plagued the Empire for several years!" He said, pointing his weapon at the horizon ahead: "We will destroy the Horror Beast hiding in the entire empire and burn them The souls of the people, so that the people will be free from the suffering of demons, and this land favored by the gods will return to peace!"

"I can hear the cries deep in your hearts." Ivan's voice lowered, but it was exceptionally clear:

"You are eager to protect this land, you are eager to let order crush chaos, and you are eager to see the blood of demons stain the land! All sacrifices will be rewarded, and the heroic spirits of the soldiers will return to the Pure Land of Bliss, and their families will be properly taken care of... with everything In the name of God, the whole army is dispatched!"

"The First Legion advances!"

"Second Legion Advance!!"

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"The Corona Knights attack!"

"Holy Army strikes!"