Take Taobao with you to another world

As a kindling of unrest, this is enough.

People don't need any evidence to know that the northern kingdom's move has no good intentions, and the ruler's conscience can be counted on, and there will be no such war in the first place.

In fact, there are some rumors that may not be presumptuous, saying that although the Northern Allied Forces retreated last time, the intact Central Army obtained the secret weapons of the Gentiles by some means, cracked their secrets, and may have copied them out.Among the [-] captives left in the second administrative region were also hidden spies from the north. The purpose of allowing the captives to return suddenly was to let that one or those secret thieves send back the other secrets they had stolen.

At this period when the public opinion supporting the unity of the desert tribes and resisting the tyrannical rule of the princes is being paved, these rumors have had a certain impact on the prisoners of war. Many people are already reluctant to go back, but they have to go back.

After the liberators did some necessary work for them, these prisoners of war finally returned to the northern countries in batches.

Whatever the true purpose of the Northern Kingdom in accepting their return, it is clear that they, like the captives at first, believed that Gentiles would never give invaders any good fruit, and that slavery was their natural fate.Moreover, they have a "very certain" source, saying that in less than a year, except for a few selected people, the rest of the prisoners of war have been tortured to only five or six out of ten.So when the Gentiles repeatedly confirmed with them, the nobles who negotiated with them firmly stated that they must return "all" the prisoners of war.

So when these prisoners of war gathered at the border, not only the aristocratic envoys who were negotiating with foreigners were struck by lightning, but when they crossed the border in groups, the border guards of more than one country mistakenly thought that they were foreign troops invading, causing some people to panic reaction, leading to confusion large and small.

The state of these people is completely beyond the imagination of the king and the nobles. They are not yellow and emaciated and ragged, but strong and neatly dressed. They are not empty-handed, but carry large and small bags. They have bright eyes and orderly actions. , rather than saying that they escaped from birth, it is more like returning home.The disturbing organization of these prisoners of war, who were called brothers from different countries and from different regions, made them look more like real soldiers than when they first joined the army, when they marched in large groups. At that time, even the bandits didn't dare to attack them easily-although it was not that people who were not greedy enough or driven by other purposes had attacked them.

Then they were severely retaliated by the prisoners of war.

The bloody scene of bandits being revenged confirmed certain rumors about the south, and also made it difficult to implement many plans predetermined by the northern royal family. Even though there were many twists and turns along the way, most of the prisoners of war returned to their hometowns safely.

For the relatives and friends of these prisoners of war, their return is both a shock and a surprise. Only those closest to them still have a weaker hope than Mars for their survival, because "Gentiles" have been rumored to be unstoppable in the north. The defeated demons, except for the central army who was blessed by heaven, could return, and the remaining hundreds of thousands of troops—this is what the nobleman said—were all torn into pieces by the "foreigners" in the abyss.

But there are still people who can come back!

People almost think that this is a demon returning from a dead body, especially since their appearance has changed a lot, completely different from when they left home, but the outline of the skin is still familiar to them, the accents, intonations of the returnees, Memories, indeed, are no different from people's memories. The most important thing is that they not only come back, but also bring very valuable gifts—the value of gifts is sometimes even equivalent to a person's life.

So people who were moved by curiosity and gifts could not help but listen to the stories told by the returnees. It is conceivable what these returned prisoners of war would say, and they can fully imagine what these stories will do to people. shock.If even the princes and nobles who intend to isolate the second administrative region from the influence of the north cannot avoid paying attention to the upheavals in the south, and feel remorse and a strong sense of crisis as a result, then the peasants and wanderers who have suffered heavier taxes and labor due to the defeat in the war The pastoralists, who had come to believe that the Gentiles of the South had inhuman power to crush the earth, believed that they could use that same power to improve their own lives.

A strong man is rich, and a strong and rich can do anything, and even if what they do is incomprehensible, how could they be enemies of kings and nobles if they were not so incomprehensible?

People are willing to listen to these stories, willing to believe that the south has become a brave new world, and envious of ordinary people who have a better life because they depend on foreigners, but this does not mean that they will have the same strong feelings as returnees. Yearning, instead, they advise these people who feel lost and painful because their hometown is too poor, let them cherish the life they have saved by chance, and live a good life with their relatives.

Only after experiencing war can we know that a peaceful life is rare.

But this kind of tranquility is not what the returning prisoners of war really want, nor is it what the nobles and the church class are willing to see, because they have seen through the sinister intentions of the foreigners and know that these returnees are thrown into their territory by foreigners The mold in the human body, if not removed, will corrupt the minds and actions of the people--like those Southerners who gladly accepted Gentile rule.What's more... mages have made considerable progress in the study of alien weapons. Even though the specific results are still unknown, there are very credible rumors that these weapons neither use precious materials nor require the blessing of talented people , Their secrets will soon be explored to the end, and then they will be reproduced by wise mages in the Northland!

In this way, they no longer have to be overly afraid of foreigners. After being convinced of these joyful news, not only to find out the secrets of these weapons faster and better, but also to clean up their territory, the nobles declared that those returning home The prisoners of war have been completely depraved by the Gentiles. Unless they are willing to bind themselves to the church to prove their piety and hand over all the heresies brought from the south, otherwise they are out-and-out demons——

"Greedy demons who don't know the lesson, don't think we don't know what you want! You are the real demons!"

The returnees scolded like this.

There are only a few people who are willing to compromise with the nobles and the church for various reasons, but all of these people are gone forever.The nobles and the church said that there is sufficient evidence that these people have indeed been possessed by demons, so they cannot be buried in traditional cemeteries, and can only be purified by the church and mages.

There were more than 100 prisoners of war who returned to the northern countries, and only a little over [-] were "purified" at the beginning. Before they were purified, the church used various means to inquire about those who had been closest to the Gentiles among the returnees. The latter is the material needed by mages. They only need to select these materials, which are no more than one or two hundred at most, and the rest are not heinous as long as they are willing to prove their piety—but the returnees can't even tolerate this .

They jumped up and resisted as if they had stepped on coals.

Their resistance is even more premeditated than that of the nobles and the church.And they not only encouraged others to rebel in behavior, but also preached outrageous theories everywhere, denying the necessity and rationality of the existence of the aristocratic system and the church from a spiritual level. Undoubtedly, this must be because of the instigation and pollution of foreigners.Don't they know that the more they do this, the more determined the nobles and the church will be to destroy them?

"Hunting!" shouted the nobles and the church.

If the returnees are really just some blind people with only hot blood, then the witch hunt is indeed very likely to develop into a bloody massacre of internal purges, but as mentioned above, when they were prisoners of war, they accepted and accepted the new citizens of the second administrative district. With the same education and training, they know how to unite and unite their forces to help each other. Whether on the way home or in the struggle with the church and the nobles, they all know that the struggle related to fundamental power can only result in life and death, so they don't hold any A delusion of peace.

More importantly, they are armed.

These weapons--sharp spear-points and arrows of every kind--are collected from the scattered luggage of the prisoner into the hands of his most trusted men, before his return home, and are hidden by them in some safe place, so that they may be readily available.When the horn of the hunt sounded in the northern kingdoms, the flames of struggle began to spread everywhere.

When things develop to this point, anyone can see the Gentiles playing with fate behind their backs. Some people even reasonably suspect that the mages first got the attack part of the secret weapon, and then successfully stole its launch when they retreated. In part, this is also a deliberate handwriting of the Gentiles, and everything is just to facilitate today's situation.

If the nobles and the church hadn't taken these returning prisoners of war as proof of defeat at the beginning, the shame of being able to walk, and the mages hadn't regarded them as talking material; if they could see the merits of these returnees, Realizing that the power they have been given by the Gentiles can be used for themselves if only they master their weakness of attachment to homeland and kindred; Those who despise them and take advantage of them will be brought back by the hundreds in the end...

But no what if.

The Gentiles had succeeded in sowing destruction through these returnees, and they did not have to wait long for the northern strongholds to be breached from within.

When the returnees from the northern kingdom united to form a rebel army, when these rebel armies began to attack the city, like a sharp knife cutting through the hinterland of the northern countries, with a very clear purpose all the way to the south, when the foreigners also gathered troops at the border... The northern countries finally understood why the coalition army was let go. They could get that set of weapons, but they couldn't let it play any role in their hands.

Before committing suicide, the royal coach of the coalition forces had his last words, saying that "the general situation is over".But others were not convinced.

It is right that people should not easily succumb to fate, and in a sense, the Gentiles have left room for them to resist, and it is considered ample, because the second administrative district needs time to digest those newly increased territories, But it is very clear that the northern states have not seized the opportunity before them.They were in no way different from the other enemies the "gentiles" had encountered since they entered the sphere of man.

Ramsay had seen some interviews about them in the newspaper during his spare time between fighting and working. The interviewer asked them if they regretted it?Of course they regret it.If they could do it all over again, they would definitely discover it earlier, stop it earlier, hide it deeper, and plan longer...

"And then fail more completely," Ramsay said.

"They're not failures," Akan said.

"What's that?" Ramsay asked.

"'Natural selection,'" Arkan said, "they were eliminated."

It took a year for the second administrative region to digest the newly added territory. In the process of opening up the two mountain passages and aiding the multi-ethnic alliance in the desert area, the northern countries fell apart little by little, and the rebel army led by the prisoners of war grew to a giant of 10 people. Afterwards, the rebel army and the northern countries that were still in chaos were nominally incorporated into the new administrative region. After that, less than half a year later, the northern countries were completely pacified by the liberators, and then they started in an orderly manner. The land and other reforms that have been done very skillfully.It was at this stage that the Second Administrative District was upgraded to the Central and Western District. The alliance also completed the rectification of the narrow strip between the former border of the Orc Empire and the Central and Western District in the past few years. Since then, there has been no obstacle between the two places.

In addition to the fifth administrative region that is taking shape, except for some countries in the extreme northern strip, the territory of the alliance has already occupied more than a quarter of the western part of Central Continent, and has developed into a veritable behemoth.As long as you think about how long it has been since the concept of "Industrial Alliance" was born, no one is shocked by the speed of expansion of this country.People call it the Empire with awe, even knowing that the League has been working to wipe out the nobility as a class.

What makes such a behemoth run efficiently and accessible is their means of communication superior to all traditional feudal countries, and their astonishing traffic network. But the builders of all infrastructure are human beings, and the users of all technology are also human beings. The technology can only play a role in changing the world in a matching system. The alliance wiped out the soil of the existence of the nobility, and created a thorny oath as a bond, formed by the most loyal, noble and outstanding people. The new group, they are given the name of "liberators", and they are also given the mission of liberating people from many shackles in the world.

In such a radiant group, no matter how many dazzling stars are born from it, they always revolve around only one center.

Does the magician think that the "liberators" who emerged from him as a template have met his expectations?

Ramsay didn't know.

After he completed the formalities in Xinmaxi City, he returned to his hometown, Dele Town.When he fought with the army and contributed to the establishment of the fifth administrative region of the alliance, the town of Dele also changed with the development of the central and western regions. This time he returned to his hometown again, and the old appearance of the waterside town was completely gone. up.In fact, Ramsay felt that his town should not be called a town anymore, perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it a city.

Just the deepened and widened cargo terminal is as big as the original Dele town!The population has also increased a lot. The town's main road is level and wide enough to accommodate four carriages passing by in parallel. Standing on this side, Ramsay can't even see the end of the other side of the street.On the side of the driveway is the rickshaw driveway, and the sidewalk is separated by a hedge. There are various shops on the sidewalk. The counters and display racks are full of goods, and the salesperson reads when there are no customers.The commercial area is always adjacent to the residential area. There are no tall buildings in the town. The residential buildings are constructed by a special construction team according to the drawings, so the outside looks exactly the same with white walls and black tiles, tall and large houses, and those hollow doors Most of them are opened or half-opened, and you can see patches of vegetable fields and various fruit trees and flowers in the courtyard along the road. Ramsay brushed away a flower branch that fell on his shoulder from the wall, thinking of the flowers in the central city of the fifth administrative district. Central Park, I wondered when did people's need for such an ethereal thing as beauty come into being?

The new residents are not familiar with the former king of Dele Town, but the old residents have never forgotten Ramsay for a day, and this time of separation is not enough for them to forget that this young lord is more powerful than anyone else. Foresightedly seized the opportunity of development, and considering the longer-term development of the town, he voluntarily gave up his position as the lord, joined the army, and participated in many important battles. A glorious liberator who went on an expedition to the Shahai Sea is a figure even more legendary than myths and legends!

"Thank you, thank you, I am very grateful to all the elders for their love..." Ramsay said, "Can you swallow this drink first before saying these words?"

That being said, being popular is always good.Although Ramsay's residence in the town has been maintained for him, since he came back, he has been busy with various banquets and invitations, and it took four full days before he could lie down on his own bed, and then he used it again It took a day to sober up, and finally set off for the dam site on the sixth day.

Accompanying him is the current mayor of Dele Town, also his acquaintance, and the team leader Arik who first came to Dele Town.

"I can't imagine anyone more suitable for this position than you." Ramsay said, "If I were still the lord of Dele Town, it would not be able to develop into what it is now."

"I didn't do any special work, I just let it play to its natural advantages." Arik said, his attitude was still pragmatic.

"There is a pier, there is a school, there is a hospital, and there will be a station," Ramsay said. "There is also a training base nearby. Will Dele Town become Dele City?"

"That depends on the planning of the administrative district." Arik said.

"About the plan for the new administrative district," Ramsay asked in a low voice, "I heard...the central and western districts will be divided into two districts again?"

Arik glanced at him.

"Are you coming back?" he asked Ramsay.

"No." Ramsay quickly replied, "I'm in the army, and I will stay until I can't. But I want to know the next step of the alliance's development direction, whether it will continue to go north and unify the entire territory, or go downstream And down, ramp east into the Great Plains? We've got some ground there, too."

"War is not the purpose of our development." Arik said.

"The meaning of the existence of the Liberator is to eliminate the source of all misfortunes." Ramsay said, "Of course, I know that everything has its own arrangements and can't be fooled around, but sometimes I also feel...we want to change the world, very... …easy."

"Easy?" Arik said.

At this time, they had arrived at the construction site camp of the Tagore Dam by car. The two got out of the car and walked for a while. After they found the construction site management office and showed the letter of introduction, they boarded the dam of the dam accompanied by a guide. top.As the project progressed to this day, it can be said that the main part of the project has been basically completed. The gray-white concrete dam body is so majestic that it makes people dizzy whether viewed from the bottom of the river valley or from the top of the dam. Ramsay even felt that he was here A little afraid of heights.

Leaning on the railing and looking down, it is a geometric cliff composed of various huge and regular cubes. At the foot is a flat and solid dam crest. Looking back after a certain distance, under the clear sky, the breeze is blowing and the waves are blue and green. The rippling water is the rising surface of the reservoir lake.

Since its inception, the Alliance has been good at creating all kinds of amazing and wonder-like buildings, but this dam is still the most shocking one among many wonders.Man's interference with nature can go so far.

"Three years and four months, 10 people, and millions of earthworks, you have never seen so many resources." Aric reported a long list of figures, almost each of which could make the feudal country's finances The minister fainted instantly, "Even with the blessing of the most special talent, 35 people still gave their lives during the construction process. Is it really easy to change the world?"

"Even if it was true, I still think it's easier than just running around hopelessly," Ramsay said. "Everyone in a miserable situation wants to do something and get something, but they have no direction. There is no other way. They can only go round and round like a grinder—what is more hopeless than hopeless is unimaginable."

Arik was silent for a moment.

"What you said also makes sense."

Ramsay laughed.It wasn't because he gained the upper hand in the debate, but because he remembered his partner who had talked with him about related topics, the former mercenary and the current general of the Red Banner Army, Rosal.Also of noble origin, the situation of Rosal, the second son of the poor baron, is obviously much more difficult than that of Ramsay, otherwise he would not be reduced to a mercenary. In comparison, he is more principled than ordinary mercenaries. As for his former companions who often ridiculed him for being "just a knight", but a mercenary is still a mercenary, he has done a lot of black work, and the darkness in the world he has seen is one after another.

So when I asked him why he joined the Red Banner Army without hesitation, it was not just because it was a good opportunity to change his destiny.

"As long as you've seen the light," he said, "how can you bear to go back to the dark?"