Throne Steps

While the North was in a state of anxiety, two people met in the southwest of the Redia Alliance.

Brown and Harder.

One of them is one of the leaders of the "Freedom Army" that claimed autonomy, and the other is one of the leaders of the mercenary group that gathered veterans of the Southwest Army.And now the mercenary group of veterans in the Southwest is almost equivalent to the private soldiers of Rose Color and Fujalal, and it is basically equivalent to confronting the royal family who weakened the Southwest Garrison on the bright side.The meeting of these two people can be said to be the meeting of the main forces against imperial power.

However, when both the "free army" and the mercenary group thought they were meeting because of the royal family, the way they recognized their relatives was quite different from what they expected.

In a room with only the two of them, Hader spoke first.

"When are you going to start?"

"There is no exact timetable yet," Brown replied. "He just told me to claim autonomy and get ready, but he didn't tell me to act."

"I heard that he was seriously injured, maybe he doesn't have the energy to direct this matter himself now." Hader leaned back in the chair, his posture was casual, but his eyes were sharp, like a resting hero who could explode at any time. Lion, "The color of rose may want to follow the model of the Northland, you have to pay attention at all times, because the turmoil may come before his order."

"Unrest?" Brown frowned, "The Freedom Army is not moving, where did the unrest come from?"

"So, you're still too young." Harder's tone was lax, and he began to comment on Brown, "It's a fantastic idea that he sent you to join the Freedom Army... Oh, but then again, Only you are suitable, there is no choice."

Not to be outdone, Brown said: "You are similar, Mr. Beast, you just entered the southwest garrison at the right time."

"The mouth is quite sharp, it looks like someone who came out of him." Harder smiled, "We have no choice, so what? No one will look for us except him. A few years ago, more than a dozen Years ago, no one would have guessed that it was the two of us sitting here - except him."

"So, please don't question me, but trust me. To question me is to question him; to believe in me is to trust him." Brown replied, "And I absolutely believe in Lord Lichen."

Yes, Li Chen.

In the southwest where Fjalal and Rose Color control the power, the people placed by Li Chen have rushed almost to the front line with time and chance.

And they met through each other's identities and exchanged the timetable given to them by Li Chen, in order to have a better understanding.

"You called him Lord Lichen, but I called him another name." Harder replied, "And you don't believe it, you believe it, kid. Belief in a black swan will not bring you light. "

Brown looked at him: "So what? I have these differences with you, but I still sit opposite you."

"You're right, we're different, but we still sit together." Harder sneered, "I remember, we have at least one thing in common—no talent available."

Brown was silent for a second: "Everyone doesn't."

"Yes, Clement, Fordhi, Charlotte, me, you, none of them." Harder thought this was funny, and he did laugh, "But we are participating in, and even deciding on, Redia s future."

Brown replied: "If you must fantasize about this matter so grandly, you'd better explain to me what the 'turmoil' that is coming now is."

The topic finally returned to the right track again, but Harder's tone was still casual: "Just like the turmoil in the Northland may not be caused by the Northland itself - the turmoil in the Southwest, or even the turmoil in the Freedom Army, may not be necessary. The Freedom Army did it themselves, at least not at first.”

Brown frowned, "What do you mean?"

"It's very simple." Harder replied, "Find someone to pretend to be the Freedom Army, create riots, and then instigate or directly pretend to be the Southwest Garrison to fight the real Freedom Army. You have been attacked, you must find your way back? Southwest Garrison One Take the blame, won't this start a fight?"

This is the most basic way to create riots. Some people deliberately cause trouble, while others deliberately respond. If they come and go again, more and more people will be dragged into the water, and the riots will never be calmed down.

If Li Chen was asked to give an example, he would say that this method is also suitable for hype.

"Your story starts with actors. What if both sides don't believe it?" Brown asked puzzled. "The Freedom Army and the Southwest Garrison are not small-scale groups. How could they be so easily agitated?"

Harder replied: "So, you are still a kid. You know, when the two sides differ, sometimes people need excuses more than truth."

This starts to touch on some root problems again.Harder saw that Brown was still a little confused, and gave another example: "Let me ask you, if you lived in an utopia where the door was never closed at night, would you raise a hundred-member team to prevent robbers from entering the door?"

Brown came to his senses: "You mean, if there is no enemy, the country will not raise the army; in order to raise the army in a high-sounding way, the country must establish an image of an enemy even if it is fake, so as to take advantage of people's sense of crisis, right? "

This time it was Hader's turn to be stunned. He looked at Brown and raised his eyebrows: "...What does Li Chen usually teach children!"

Li Chen has no children to teach now, and he doesn't even have anything to do, he can only watch the almost stagnant Beidi news in silence.

The letters Saenz and Cervantes wrote to the two Patriarchs of Eternal Color can almost be regarded as the last wave of news they sent from abroad.Li Chen sent a letter to Xiao En, and Xiao En said that the intelligence center had not received any new news from Saenz, and even she had no way of knowing more about the situation abroad.

All we know now is that shortly after Cervantes led the team to the ancient city, Saenz also commanded the team to advance to the ancient city, and then, the news of the foreign army stopped.

If it hadn't been for the troops remaining on the frontier that have not yet been attacked on a large scale, the Redia Alliance might have begun to suspect whether Saenz's troops had been wiped out.

"It's easy to say that a strategy fails, and people must not have accidents." Li Chen looked at the map hanging on the wall. The upper half of the map was full of red crosses, red arrows, blue lines and green lines. The one brought back directly from the ward.The criss-crossing lines gradually decrease near the border, and there are only a few arrows left outside the border.Until recently, this image hadn't been updated in quite some time.

"It's useless for you to say that, he doesn't think the same way as you do." Sitting beside him, he looked sideways at him, "This is a great opportunity for him to capture the Northland, if even the vagrant tribe can be captured, That is to get a trump card. With the escort of this trump card, not to mention the position of Patriarch, even the throne can be obtained."

"It's not that simple. It's not something that can be done after you finish the fight." Li Chen also turned his head, stretched out his hand and scratched on the Beidi, "Now you look at the network of these lines, it seems to be very dense, but it's all because of him. Established under the suppression and governance of China." Li Chen pointed to one of the red crosses, "If he and his power are defeated, these bases will collapse in an instant, and these fragile upper-level networks will no longer exist."

Fu Dexi frowned and said: "Who will destroy these foundations? It's hard to get the Northland to start operating normally. Even if someone wants to seize power, wouldn't it be better to just take it all away?"

"You want to take the whole cake away. It's beautiful, but it's impossible." Li Chen said as he walked towards him, "Now the 'foundation' of the Northland belongs to Saenz, and the new political and economic development of the Northland , culture are closely related to his power. Even if these are temporarily occupied by others and continue to build up, as long as you can control Saenz's power, it is equivalent to slightly moving the foundation - the whole building will follow directly. "

"So, we can only destroy it again while it's still fragile, and then build it up again?" Fudexi still didn't understand, "I don't understand, what's the point of being the master of a ruin? You have to bother building it again."

"You only see the superstructure, but you can only grasp it from the root, which is the most reliable." Li Chen squinted his eyes at the map, and said, "Even if the Northland is just a ruin, there will be a fight to break the ground." crowd."

The doorway here is difficult to explain clearly in a short while.To put it simply, owning a city is of course different from having a good city, whether it is good or bad, it is all a city.Those who own the city have the right to speak in the church.In Li Chen's original world, no matter how poor or small a country is, it has voting rights and can decide world affairs.From this point of view, even the leadership position on the wasteland, people will flock to it.

"If you say this, doesn't it become a paradox with what you said before?" Fudexi asked again, "If the North Land is in ruins, it's okay, then isn't 'finish it' the best way? Now Why bother to work hard on the development of the Northland?"

"This is because he not only wants the right to speak." Li Chen said, "He wants the right to decide, one vote to decide."

"..." Fudexi seemed to understand a little bit, he was silent for a while, and spread the things in his hand on the table, "Then you can see if the southwest side will also give birth to this decision-making power."

A few days later, the secret meeting between the free army and the mercenary group finally came to an end, and the occasional secret talks between Brown and Harder finally came to an end.

In short, after Harder explained his views and speculations, he also analyzed his personal suggestions with Brown.He hoped that Brown would be ready, and then find the right time to take the initiative, at least to destroy the original schedule of Rose Color.If things are allowed to go on like this, I'm afraid that Fujalal and Rose Color will take advantage of it in vain.And even if it is picked up, from the perspective of Harder and Brown, it is best to confirm what to do next, so as not to be too passive.

Brown actually felt that what he said made sense, but he was not sure if he was preconceived.He is indeed still young. On major decision-making issues, he needs to have clear guidance, and even someone to share the main responsibility.

The current Harder can only be regarded as a relatively experienced teammate, and Brown will not fully trust his decision-making.

"No problem, you can write to him and ask, or I can ask." Harder said, "But you have to act quickly, things in the Northland seem to be deadlocked now, if there is still no news in the past few days, there will be turmoil in the Southwest." The window period is here."

Brown nodded and stood up to end the conversation: "I know, let's all ask about the next plan. I believe that even if the battle in the Northland is in full swing, he and that person will not completely ignore the Northland. Maybe they already have planned."

"I hope." Harder also stood up, stretched his waist, and yawned like a lion, "I have spent enough time on the Southwest Army, let's start now."

"Meditate." Brown glanced at him, and walked towards the door first, "After the real start, you might still miss the present day."

"Tsk tsk, I really learned exactly the same thing as Lichen, and Fudexi taught you too..." Harder looked at his back, and said suddenly, "Am I right, Dominique?"

Brown walked to the door calmly as if he had never heard of it, and glanced back when he opened the door: "Who are you talking to?"

Hader smiled slightly, shrugged and said, "No one."