In the Northern Territory of Egg, United Industries has restructured its administrative system.
The highest administrative center was officially transferred from the Lord's Mansion to buildings in the fourteen northern cities.
In fact, these buildings originally belonged to Caret, and are now transferred to members of the Supreme Industrial Planning Group. They also worked in this building for the first two five-year plans.
During the restructuring process, only a large number of offices were relisted, which had no impact on their current work. The work that should be done must still be done.
But starting from this moment, United Industries quietly determined the "industrial" governance model.
The previous power structure of the circle of lords in which Karet belonged was short-term and unstable.
If Carrette suddenly disappears, the entire joint industry will be like a headless fly, and chaos will occur. However, once chaos occurs, "some forces with ulterior motives" will intervene.
What is now determined is a long-term and stable power structure, and the governance of the entire industrial area is gradually converging on the industrial planning group selected by Wei Keng.
Everyone in this group has worked from the grassroots to the top, and the route they have taken shows that they are all orderly. (Chaos cannot behave in an orderly manner for a long time.)
All members of the industrial planning team have a working life of forty years, and the personnel keep flowing. Even if the top management is infiltrated by evil gods, they will be eliminated as the personnel changes.
Wei Keng: "Flowing water does not corrupt the door hinge, nor does it cause beetles. Since no one can resist chaos forever, then we should select people with sufficient order and come up one by one."
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The more than 300 members of the United Industrial Center are still accustomed to having Carret as their leader, but they who have assumed the actual functions of the center do not know that Wei Keng has overtaken them.
As long as an unexpected situation occurs, such as Karite disappearing and most of the upper-level group being killed, they will continue to operate according to the inertia they are in, and will replace the vacancies according to the talent selection model, and then start to create heroes based on the situation.
Of course, even if an emergency does not occur, as the team changes and new generations come up, they will still have autonomy if they realize that they are the key to the system.
Wei Keng: "Civilization is not a swarm of insects. It must be able to carry out its will even after being beheaded." - Oh, when Mr. Wei said this, the leaders of the rebel army in the south had gradually experienced surprises and were killed by certain people.
Those who made a pact with evil were replaced.
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In the northeast direction of Fengfu Continent, there is the famous Forgotten Falls. The water elements that originally resided here were signed contracts one after another.
Now this place is used as a channel and pipe detector on the dam construction site.
As for humans, they are building hydropower machines here to prepare for use the energy of the huge water flowing down six hundred meters.
One of Wei Keng's individuals is sitting on the crane, operating the sling to lift the steel tendons. At a height of 70 meters, while pulling the joystick, he can also think about life.
The other individuals of Wei Keng are all in the industrial area, busy with various affairs in a hurry. The individual of Wei Keng now on this steel frame was specially arranged by Wei Keng to "daze".
Wei Keng always maintains a mortal perspective to look up at the world.
For example, in the south: the suppression of rebellion has been a big deal recently.
In Wei Keng's vision, the rebel army's current weapon system appeared. It was a 1.5-meter-long musket with a blue-glow steel pipe and a wooden stock.
Only a very small number of its bullets are copper-cased armored bullets engraved with runes, and most of them are paper-cased bullets. The effective killing range of paper-cased bullets is only fifty to seventy meters. For the current elite heavy-helmeted knights, it is
Invalid.
However, the copper-shell armored bullets engraved with runes have a second-level energy level. They can penetrate the armor of the knight's attendant at a distance of two hundred meters.
Although the intelligence system of the United Industries did not know the specific damage to the troops responsible for the extermination in the south, judging from the situation of a large number of small and medium-sized nobles in the Kingdom of Aige, this uprising definitely hurt the knight class.
Knights in the European Middle Ages in the main world were quite taboo on things like crossbows, and the samurai class during the Meiji Restoration period were also taboo on firearms. This is exactly the situation that the old aristocrats of the Fengfu Continent are currently encountering.
High-energy projectiles and sword arrows all need to be enchanted to achieve the armor-breaking effect.
In the past, the number of arcane mages was as small as that of knights, and they were a very small layer at the top of the ruling class.
But now, with the development of productivity, basic natural science knowledge and mathematics are highly popularized in the Northern Territory, which has led to the popularization of basic runes.
Although the knight class has grown two to three times with the support of fine grain medicine, its conservative aristocratic order has hindered Egger's rise in class.
In order to satisfy the stability of the old order in the old kingdom, the number of elite knights produced under the current assessment order is completely unequal to the arcane mages in the north.
This situation of unequal productivity will intensify conflicts. Mr. Wei, who strictly guarded against the "destiny targeting" of the gods, managed the conflicts under his own governance well, which caused conflicts to break out externally.
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Mr. Wei knows where the muskets and enchanted bullets of the Southern Rebel Army came from.
The Northern Territory has strict controls on muskets, but there are no controls on steel pipes or sulfuric acid.
After the Prime Meridian was opened, these small businessmen in the north were very business-minded and specially transported these "civilian supplies" to the south, and then equipped them with "warning" instructions that they were never allowed to be used for "some kind of illegal assembly."
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The core structures of these enchanted bullets are the runes that arcane apprentices in the north practice on themselves.
In recent years, the number of arcane apprentices on the mainland has increased dramatically. They have transported their works to the south through specialized merchants, which has formed a very broad chain of interests.
Under the Northern Industrial Party, the population has exceeded 23 million, with a total of 3.2 million arcane apprentices.
These arcane apprentices are all grassroots workers under contemporary productivity and have further plans.
Although the industry provides monthly "Energy Materials Knowledge Base" and other benefits to these apprentices, there is still a shortage of apprentices. Their situation is the same as that of college students who are not yet employed.
Although arcane apprentices in the old days lived a poor life, as long as they mastered potion, runes, and mysticism, they could use their skills to exchange money from the upper-income groups.
At present, various low-end pharmaceuticals and workshop-style pharmaceuticals have been directly overwhelmed by industrial mass production, industrialization costs, safety and other advantages.
As for the Occult Science Industrial Zone, there is a special "Pettlement Bureau" which specializes in dealing with matters related to spiritual pollution. Therefore, when people in northern industrial cities find "supernatural problems" that are difficult to deal with, they always find formal channels to deal with them to prevent being cheated.
A liar kills you.
As for the most basic physical runes,
After a regular arcanist reaches the third ring, he can apply to set up his own factory, which is the mage tower of the old era. In the past, the mage tower was a real estate that could only be owned by high-level mages. Now that productivity has developed, "there are tens of millions of buildings.
Great shelter for the poor men of the world"
Arcane mages with local registered residence in NORINCO directly use spiritual topology tools to produce spiritual runes in batches after connecting to the energy network. Standard, stable and safe.
Therefore, the runes that apprentices practice cannot be sold at all.
Apprentices are very poor, especially those from other places, well, including those from the Xuan'ao Alliance. They are very short of money and want to change.
What is good for these apprentices now is that after 1996, various resistance activities broke out in the south, and arcane supplies were urgently needed.
As a result, the basic rune production capacity that the apprentices practiced was purchased by flexible-thinking small businessmen and sent to the southern rebel areas.
These apprentice runes sealed on the cards were rubbed on copper sheets to make rune bullets, which became sharp weapons for severely injured knights.
That is to say:
Under the governance of the north, the small production capacity that was about to be eliminated and was squeezed by formal productivity gave a head-on blow to the knights in the southern part of Aige who were suppressing productivity.
Recently, the Aige Empire has repeatedly criticized the North for not controlling the output of "arcane items".
This is really an injustice to Karit.
All factories strictly control the runes related to arms, but there is no grassroots behavior below.
Carret formulated the diplomatic rhetoric seriously: "Instead of blaming us, it is better to say that you have serious problems in governance. It is you who have forced out so many resisters. Even if we control trade imports, the resisters will still remain
Basic runes can be obtained from other places. The Meridian Railway cannot be closed down because of your problems."
As for the people inside Northern United Industries, what about some people? They are a little afraid of the world being in chaos and think:
The rebels in the south also lacked optical sighting equipment, as well as high-pressure-resistant steam cannon barrels, um, steam chimneys.
Mr. Wei added: And the idea of "protracted war".
Of course, these "more and faster ideas" can only be thought about in your mind. If you really intervene, you must be completely responsible to the end.
Wei Keng still lacks understanding of the uprising process in the southern part of the Egg Empire and maintains a cautious attitude.
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July 15
Egg on the banks of the South Birmingham River.
The collision between 'justice' and 'evil' has reached an incandescent stage.
The cause of the rebel army's evil transformation can be traced back to three months ago.
In April, the kingdom's knight corps besieged the "rebel" city for two months. They used the forbidden law system to lock the possibility of using food-making techniques in the city, and the entire city fell into famine.
However, the kingdom's troops still failed to eliminate the rebels, and the rebels broke through.
It's just that 70% of the troops who broke through were not human anymore.
The rebels who broke out from the rebel city all had gray faces, withered lips that could not cover their teeth, and empty skeletons under their clothes.
Because under the siege of the king, the rebels had no way to go and no food to eat. And there happened to be a "devil's contractor" within the rebels.
In order to continue fighting to the death against the kingdom's suppressors, this is undoubtedly tragic from a historical perspective.
But looking into the details, after these rebels signed a contract with the devil, they began to spread their grievances against weaker people.
After they left the city, they began to expand wildly along the way, turning many unrelated farmers, fishermen, carriage drivers, and urban citizens in the countryside into their own soldiers.
These death regiments whose skeletons are fused with gun barrels have become death musketeers. Their resentment has the ability to block the elemental tunneling of the gun barrel. Even if rune bullets are not used, the speed of their projectiles is already comparable to that of a second-level rune gun.
The power of tube.
The phosphorus fire was ignited from the bones of the dead musketeer's fingers, entered the gun chamber from the trigger, and then the gunpowder in the gun chamber, no, maybe not gunpowder, just the coke powder mixed with the air in the gun chamber, ignited, and ignited what may have been bones
, or a rusty iron nail, launched.
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When Danny, the leader of the king's army, was chasing and suppressing these undead rebels, a large number of knights around him fell, entangled by plague and death.
Every time, the heavy knight can break up the ranks of these undead regiments. The griffin knight's heavy magnetic hammer smashes into the undead group, and can also lift up large pieces of skeletons and gun barrels.
However, if the Corps of the Dead cannot be completely purified shortly after being disbanded and are allowed to disperse throughout the kingdom, they can gather a large number of troops.
Within a few months, in various territories in the south of the kingdom, the undead legions, with their low bone flutes and marching steps, formed battle formations and opened fire on the empire's knights.
And the cursed power in their bullets became stronger and stronger with each battle.
The priests of the temple used holy water to bathe each knight, but it gradually became ineffective.
Danny had to pray to God again and again. God did not give up, but he also did not give an answer.
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Wei Keng, who is always paying attention to this war, deduced the reason
In a situation where quantum information is extremely easy to persist and difficult to eliminate, unless the cause of the information is eliminated, it will be extremely difficult to deal with.
Now, the cause of this undead army is that in the new era, the lords have monopolized all resources and oppressed the middle and lower classes.
Therefore, using suppression to try to suppress this rebel army will not only not make the "effects" of resistance disappear, but will actually increase the "causes" of resistance.
"Industrial scientific machinery" is an extremely rational concept. These concepts need to be lubricated by "civilized heritage".
In order to curb extremes, when Wei Keng created the concept of industry, he would rather give up himself and become a powerful god, but also leave a line of area within his control, which is to prevent him from creating a terrifying god who is his opposite while he is strong.
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Now, Wei Keng's new doubts appeared: "If I can see things, can't the gods of order not see it? So this is it?"
Therefore, Mr. Wei paused and asked himself: "Maybe? In the God of Order camp, it may not be me who is scheming."
Master Wei couldn't help but think of the words of his own supervisor: "As a mortal, when you deal with gods, the more you talk, the more you lose. Master Wei had a vague feeling that the God of Order was not testing his eldest nephew.
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[Master Wei’s question also opened up a new perspective for the supervisors. After re-examination, these supervisors couldn’t help but feel “reliable”.
Because during the calculation, they found that the growth of Wei Keng's "industry" would be beneficial to most of the gods of order. Therefore, there is also a possibility that a large number of evil extremes, connected with some of the extremes in the mortal temples of these gods, will be
It was cleared during this historical change.
Yan Beixiang: So~ what happens next, on the surface it is a small setback for Karit, but in fact, it is to turn "Industrial" into a superior god?
Liao Yangxiu: God will never lose you.
Due to the backwardness of observation ability in the main world, even though the vision can surpass that of mortals in this world, it still lags behind in predicting the gods’ purpose.]
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Returning to the relatively simple mortal world, Wei Keng gained a deeper understanding of the spread of faith in the "arcane" world.
Mortals are dissatisfied with power and hate injustice. Most people will not target the powerful first, but spread the injustice to the weak, allowing themselves to become the "inflicter of injustice" to gain a psychological balance.
Of course, such violence against the weak will not be recognized by the oppressors at the top.
Those oppressors who claim to use high-end means to rule will look down upon the bullying of local ruffians. (Just like in the Zhujiazhuang section of Water Margin, Chao Gai, as the bandit leader, looks down on the thief Shi Qian)
These high-end rulers will have more reasons to suppress "bad people" like you.
Yes, just like the current Knights of the Temple of Order and the Kingdom, they have always been oppressors, but as long as the bumpkins they oppress will become more evil, they are "just".
In this binary world of "either order or chaos, good or evil", the shortcut to becoming righteous is not to correct oneself, but to beat one's opponents into evil.
In recent times, this is the reason why the media, such as those in the free world, are keen on looking for external dirt.
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Now, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, on the banks of the Birmingham River, although it has not yet entered winter, the daylight is dim like dusk.
The two armies faced each other, and the kingdom's troops gathered 70,000. Prince Danny called on the southern lords in the name of the sole heir of the Xingche family.
Such a huge force was recruited, and the front row was uniformly composed of heavy shield soldiers. The muskets and attack troops were sent out in the back row. The cavalry regiment was on the left wing.
The young prince hovered in the sky on the Griffin King, and the griffon troops in the sky also formed a line.
what about this?
There are dozens of heavy-duty unmanned airships floating in the sky. The light beams solidified by energy shaping spells between the airships provide griffins with a line to step on, just like sparrows stepping on telephone poles. These airships are griffins.
Staying in formation in the air provides a fulcrum, which allows the griffons to charge in formation.
The meaning of this seemingly simple air "pillar" arcane method is equivalent to stirrups for cavalry.
In stark contrast to the Kingdom Knights' side, the gloomy atmosphere of the Resistance Army corroded the large areas of vegetation where it was located. The occasional jumping and flickering phosphorus fire made up for the undead army's lack of war cry.
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There are currently a total of 40,000 rebels, but this is definitely the high ground of martial ethics for undead disasters in the history of the mainland.
Most undead natural disasters lose quality after tens of thousands in quantity.
Most of them are skeletons holding what look like bone knives but are actually bone sticks. When they reach the sky, they throw bone spurs or acid. There are more bone mages.
But now this monster in the resistance is protected entirely by steel plates, and even its frame is wrapped with metal wire. It holds a standard musket.
These muskets are not only unique weapons for each undead, these muskets can also be used universally.
A cannon with an iron pipe attached to the coffin can emit a "pillar of corrosive burning fire."
In addition to the basic troops, their giant unit is an eight-meter-tall steam locomotive, which is covered with a large number of flesh-and-blood mechanical arms.
These are "cunning machines" as defined by the North, and they are the most dangerous demonic class.
These iron oxen that the southern farmers plow the fields and grind flour were originally neutral and had no attributes. However, due to years of constant mental pollution, they merged with the dead and became such a weird mechanical unit. The bearings that were once used to drive turning tools are now
, driving the creaking and rotating electric saw, which makes people palpitate.
And in the sky, floating are ghost balloons, each with a diameter of tens of meters, like an empty, decaying canvas.
But this tattered-looking balloon is the top aerial unit among the undead, and its gloomy aura is no less than that of the Griffin Corps.
The tear in the cloth is a strange big mouth. In the gap opened by the shaking of the cloth, you can see the tongue that is twisting like a snake letter and disappears and appears.
Whenever they swoop down to the ground and swallow a person, they suddenly pull up. The swallowed person struggles under the rag for a while and then disappears. Then these full balloons will burp in the air and spray out from the cracks.
Black smoke with cursed power.
Some of these black smokes contain poisonous gas, some contain mental hallucinations, and some of them cause burning flames to erupt from the target within seconds.
The commander of such an undead army is not an undead creature, but a very small number of flesh-and-blood human creatures. Now he carries a dark curse, drives a burning machine, and observes the battlefield.
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Prince Danny looked at such an army of undead, took a deep breath, and entered a state of concentration.
The prince's state then affected the queue of soldiers within a hundred meters of the surrounding area. It allowed him to concentrate, and the armor on his body condensed strength and increased defense.
The prince, who spread his halo, said to the Duke of Golden Blade on the side, "Today, a conclusion must be made."
The old Duke, whose beard and hair were all white, looked at the undead army formation in front and said seriously to Danny: "Your Highness, you are the person God is watching. Let me rush for you first."
