In May 3233 of the Fire Emblem Calendar, Iron Star has become more and more dominant on Wanlun Continent.
The Southern United Government tried to negotiate with Iron Star, but these men in aristocratic clothes and smoking pipes and Iron Star's working group in blue cloth were at odds with each other on core issues such as "material procurement", "industrial capital" and "financial currency".
We can never come to an agreement.
The political thugs in the South wanted to bypass the Iron Star's Ministry of External Affairs and talk directly to the highest level of Iron Star (Enma), but this attempt did not succeed.
Enma: I am Zhongrenzhi. Zhongrenzhi can be "familiar" with one or two skills, but it is impossible to be proficient in everything, so professional matters (diplomacy) are left to professionals. Financial interests are such a professional matter, how can it be done?
Can I intervene?
Wei Keng wanted to avoid unnecessary sophistication, but "social friendship" that has evolved over thousands of years can always achieve his goal through roundabout routes.
Ludis had a conversation with Enma on May 4 during the defense zone division.
This kind of dialogue includes reminiscing about old times, but the two sides still cannot agree on core issues.
Enma learned from Ludis' words that the "reconciliation faction" in the south hoped that the north and the south would be divided and governed along the lines of Braun City, York City, and Limin Steel City.
However, the Agricultural Youth League has established a large base area in the south, and Iron Star has rushed to repair two railways going south, which can directly transport northern industrial products to the southern agricultural areas.
Enma criticized Ludis's wrong ideas with integrity.
Ludis remained silent due to a lack of reason.
Compared with the depression of major cities in the empire, Iron Star Northern Heavy Industry Group has almost the same amount of personnel and technology accumulation, and it is impossible to give up the agricultural consumer market in the south.
Enma further fought for Ludis: Even if the reformists in the imperial city were making special reforms, they were only trying to make the people in the city fair and play the game of city citizens' voting rights.
Agricultural areas are still ignored. Therefore, in order to control their own light industrial capital, the southern agricultural areas cannot let the cities come down.
Especially when the reformists came to power, in order to win foreign aid, they signed a series of unfair trade agreements, which led to the plundering of high-priced Anglo industrial products.
After these black materials were uncovered by the Nongqing Newspaper, the enthusiasm of the farmers in the southern part of the former Sky Empire to protect the country suddenly became higher than that of the citizens. (Guo is a general term for public interests. Governing the country is to pass public interests through real things.
The channel is associated with everyone.)
A few years ago, the reformists had been using the enthusiasm of "protecting the country" to persecute the upper echelons of the empire. Now they are being roasted on the stove with the same words by the mud-legged people, and they feel quite arrogant in their hearts that "you are worthy of protecting the country."
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Oh, of course they would not speak their minds so frankly, but would complain loudly in a large number of newspapers in the city: "Country people are vulgar," "irrational and extreme," "patriot traitors!" and other words.
…Within a few years, comrades who had been in the trenches began to part ways.…
On May 25, Enma met Greif at the Southern Agricultural Mechanization Pilot Unit where the largest lake in the South was being raked and the agricultural technology pilot project for "captive raising of edible fish" was carried out.
Three kilometers away from this meeting place, four "heavy infantry" land frigates led by Orr were responsible for security. The thick gun barrels and the quiet fish pond formed a unique contrast.
Enma chose this location to provide evidence for his conversation with Grave. Both of them are veteran party members.
Oh, to some extent Grave is more senior, but the Peasants’ Youth Congress, where the Postman is located, is an organization that has been successfully reforming and growing, and is far more powerful than Grave, the increasingly smaller faction in the southern coalition.
Divide colors.
Facing the fish caught in the net, Grave's secret plan was how to persuade the "postman" to contribute to domestic peace. However, he smelled a strange fragrance.
...As the water splashes, a big fish comes out of the water, removes its internal organs, and puts it into the hot oil pan...
Enma picked a fish weighing one and a half kilograms and cooked it on the spot. He opened 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 membrane, it was coated with oil and instant noodle seasoning.
, use wine, onion, ginger and garlic powder, marinate for half an hour, use a handful of straw to ignite the charcoal of the iron stove, roll and bake, brush with oil every three minutes, and then sprinkle cumin with a knife.
After only 20 minutes, the first step of grilling is done. The skin is fragrant, but the fish is not yet cooked. (If such a large fish is fully cooked, the meat will fall apart.)
Next steps: Put the raw meat inside into an iron plate, put a ceramic plate filled with hot salty soup into the fish belly, then cover the lid to steam, ensuring that the hot soup in the ceramic bowl continues to heat while cooking the fish belly
Rotten. In this way, the outer skin retains the smell of roasted smoke, while the inside melts away from the bones.
After opening the lid, a refreshing aroma came out, and the cooked rice noodles just arrived. Wei Keng served Gray a bowl of rice noodles, then cut a section of fish and scooped out a few spoonfuls of fish soup.
Enma brought it to him with both hands: "Noodles in fish soup, a farmer's recipe" (Bai Linglu in the system sneered: "Oh, you are feeding cats the recipe, rice in fish soup." Of course, she did not deny that this would be good.
eat)
Grave picked up the tongs and picked up a noodle: it had a smokey flavor, but the fish meat did not lose its soft and glutinous flavor.
Of course, Grave knew that he had already lost without making any remarks when he came this time.
…On the “governance” level, thousands of theories are not as good as practical examples…
Next to the meeting between the two people was an agricultural and sideline products processing factory. The processed large fish and fish meat would be air-dried and salted, then put into vacuum packaging bags, and then put into tinplate boxes for transportation to supermarkets. The fish heads and fish offal would be
It is dried and processed into feed to provide protein for pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks.
This is the "capital" accumulated by rural areas after ensuring their enthusiasm in governance. They continue to invest and greatly improve production efficiency. In the era of the Sky Empire, rural people cannot run such "enterprises". Ordinary people may just have it in their homes.
Some oil and water will be plundered by some bastards who say: 'These mudbloods can't eat too much, otherwise they won't be willing to work.'
In the "Postman" agricultural newspaper, they ridiculed the "big talkers" in the Dumane and criticized the urban reformists for saying that governance is only about selfishness and foolishly trying to suck the blood of rural areas through violence to maintain various interest groups in the city.
Stable, but paying no attention to the crude expropriation system, it will plunder the little rations that everyone in the countryside has, but not much material can be obtained.
On the contrary, when governed by the Agricultural Youth League, it also supplies materials to the city.
The grain output per unit area of farmland is three times that of the old empire!
Moreover, the labor force growing grains is only one-tenth of the past. A large number of laborers have processed massive amounts of meat, and the amount of agricultural and sideline products is more than 20 times that of the past. A large number of cement-hardened roads with three-level indicators are also 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" in the past to obtain the economic results of the Peasants and Youth League to fill their own economic loopholes.
Economically, the Agricultural Youth League has no shortcomings and has won over the Northern Heavy Industries Group.
And after winning the arm-wrestling with Anglo, the Western Economic Belt has gained stable industrial production space.
However, the reform faction in the city is talking about food. Even the industries that should have been their strengths are now getting worse and worse, with only 30% of the production capacity operating.
This 30% in the city mainly exists because of the agricultural stamps channel. In order to exchange for the "food" and "light industrial consumer goods" that are currently in short supply in the city, the flexible cadres of these factories directly took orders for "fertilizers" and "hydrocarbon fuels".
"The order, of course, also includes some key steel bearing parts.
... Even if those "strongmen" in the Duma want to "rob", the city system in which they are located is now unable to act, and they can only talk hard...
After finishing the meal, Grave asked Wei Keng: "What are your conditions?" Wei Keng looked at him and said nothing.
Grave looked at Enma. Once upon a time, when he saw Enma's youth and execution ability, he felt terrible. At that time, both sides belonged to the same camp, but now they looked at each other.
Grave stated his condition: "If we promote domestic peace, we will elect you as the consul of the United Duma."
Enma sighed: "First, the royal family of the Sky Empire must completely abdicate, and all empire properties must be reviewed by Iron Star. The imperial royal family, dukes and nobles must be tried in accordance with the law. Second, banks, railways, and all heavy industry factories must be collected.
Return it to the public. Third, adopt a spokesperson system for agricultural and industrial positions (forbidding elections, that is, preventing money and feudal status from gaining seat advantages)..."
Enma was about to raise his fourth finger, but seeing Grave's expression twitching, he shook his head and sighed: "You can't agree to the first three items. So, sir, it's difficult for me to discuss this issue with you.
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Grave stared at Wei Keng, wanting to be angry, but looking at Wei Keng's unmoved expression, he sighed: "We have different ideas. The cost for you is too high."
Enma nodded: "Yes, we have different philosophies, because I think the cost of doing this is worth it. If we don't do this, the cost of killing people will be wasted."
...After three glasses of wine on the table, Enma made a new fish for his old friend to take with him on the road. He couldn't eat it and walked around...
After Grave returned, this condition really shocked the coalition ruling factions, who denounced him as wanting to initiate a full-scale civil war.
However, Iron Star 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 Iron Star, and the city was already well established.
Of course, the final result was very natural, and Sugmat declared peace to welcome Iron Star. There was no fighting in the whole process.
When Sugmat made this decision in the city of York, he said a very meaningful sentence: "The empire is gone, and there is no need for us to fight." (The die-hards in the old camp often only die once.
Unlike flexible conservatives, who can be conservative many times)
Two years ago, Sugmat was a royalist and loyal to the royal family. But as the revolutionary party, now the group of reformists, came to power and wiped out the empire, Sugmat will place his loyalty in the south.
On the reformists?
In addition to interests, York City, as an industrial city in the east and a city of reformists in the southwest, belongs to two factions. It is obvious that the old general reached a comprehensive peace agreement and the troops did not fight.
Of course, for Enma, this can't deal with Sugmat. To a certain extent, he agreed to Sugmat's conditions, reorganized his troops, and at the same time gave them some marginal benefits in the economic restructuring.
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…At this time, there are also complicated interests within Iron Star, and it is extremely important to hold a clear banner.…
After June, six land frigates advanced into York City as the lead, followed by steam chariots of various sizes.
The whole city was a sea of flowers. Willy 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: to represent the new Iron Star government in dealing with royal issues. In Iron Star's words, the title of Emperor should be removed and he could only be called Mr.
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."
say clearly."
... Under the rules of multiple planes, the longer something exists, the more lasting it will be. 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.
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But in the current plan, the city of York is voluntarily surrendering, which will not only cut off the eastern and western parts 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 eastern cities. This surrender was not the "nominal response" of the reformists.
Instead, even the top military commanders, all armed and defecting to Iron Star, were 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.
When it comes to things like commerce, what is lost is not enough to make up for, and internal cannibalism is even more serious. The Imperial Legion here can also be considered aristocrats, but according to the contemptuous chain of the aristocratic circle in the Sky Imperial Capital, they belong to the aristocrats of the eastern countryside.
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 were literate and read newspapers were farmers. When the Peasants’ Youth Association 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 Empire Army system, the manor-owning families behind the military chiefs, even if a few people resisted in the early stage and were forced to redistribute, it was still the redistribution of members within their families. Basically, they did not lose their land, but only lost their jobs.
The right to dominate. The resentment caused by the loss of privileges, but as the new small and medium-sized factories are financially compensated, it immediately becomes "really fragrant".
…There is a chain of contempt among the aristocratic circles of the empire.…
In short, these eastern land-holding classes used to be called the "aristocratic" class, but in fact they just owned some land.
These Junker nobles sacrificed their lives for their 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 tracts of land were abandoned without enough "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 fields 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 is ignorant. In the past two years, every time conflicts occurred in the empire, the intellectuals of the empire did not dare to directly criticize the imperial royal family, so they desperately ridiculed these knights who were canonized by the empire in the east.
The aristocratic families were rude and barbaric. This further heightened the impression of contempt.
In order to ensure the loyalty of the eastern army, the empire's generals also recruited troops from noble families in conservative agricultural areas, rather than 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, when the Agricultural Youth League provided them with enough fertilizers, and arranged for the hiring of cheap manpower teams needed for planting and harvesting during busy farming times, as well as purchase agreements and insurance agreements, these farming aristocrats became truly rich.
Take care of your ancestral home and give more funds to the "bastards" in the city.
With the collapse of the empire, this naturally included the middle and low-level officers under generals like Sugamat. Overnight, the ideological restrictions on loyalty to the empire were lifted, and they all tended to the Peasant Youth Congress.
Thoughts on agricultural regional transformation.
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 it has begun partial cooperation with Sugmat...
After July, Iron Star flags were planted in the entire northern and eastern regions of the Sky Empire, so that the main task changed from military takeover to economic takeover. But Iron Star now lacks cadres.
At present, rural cadres cannot replace urban cadres.
Wei Keng: Rural areas require a lot of liberal arts to interpret "policies" in a practical manner under various "unconstrained" rural environments. The rural space is large enough. For example, dogs can be kept on leashes, which is huge.
You can't have enough law enforcement in space. And the dog killed the leader's chicken, and the chicken was at fault first and went to the leader's vegetable patch to destroy the vegetables. It's impossible to have enough judicial resources to rule on such a trivial matter.
, we can only rely on cadres with excellent liberal arts skills to explain the principles based on local conditions.
The city is intensive, and everyone naturally defaults to discipline. Even when walking, they must abide by the "left-hand" order. When everyone has the requirement to abide by the order, efficiency issues must be considered, and efficiency is calculated through mathematics, which means
Science cadres are needed.
Enma calculated the current financial situation of Tie Xing. In the heavy industrial cities currently controlled, all kinds of cadres are in short supply and cannot support a full takeover. This is because once the takeover is rushed, intellectuals from the old forces will infiltrate and enter.
Mr. Wei attaches great importance to the basic market and would rather expand slowly than eat "dirty" "things"
Therefore, after the busy farming season ended in September, when a large number of agricultural laborers transferred to factories, Iron Star even temporarily suspended the task of taking over some cities due to a lack of cadres.
So much so that these cities began to coordinate their own autonomy, waiting for Iron Star Agricultural Workers to take over.
In the final analysis, Iron Star is currently overinvesting resources in the military. Of course, no one in Iron Star dared to underestimate the military power of the "Imperial Army", "Anglo Intervention Force" and "Osima Intervention Force" a year ago.
But in fact, the war that was originally planned to last for several years did not break out.
After Iron Star eliminated the second wave of Anglo intervention forces, Iron Star did not encounter large-scale battles for half a year, and took the city after low-intensity confrontations wherever it went.
At this stage, Iron Star still started to expand its army as a precaution. The Peasant Youth Army originally entrenched in the north had less than 700,000 troops. During this period, it expanded to 3,210,000. Land cruiser units (more than 300 tons)
From fifty-three, it expanded to two hundred and sixty-seven.
Military construction consumes a lot of talents, which makes logistics a bit tight.
…It’s another year where the grass is fragrant and the sky is green, but the flowers are less blue and more red…
In May 3233, the Duma Front, which originally announced that it would suppress the peasant youth, faced the iron star that controlled three-quarters of the country and all agricultural areas in just half a year.
Therefore, at the end of November, Greif looked at the "Duma Front" which had been compressed into a few large cities at this time, and murmured to himself: "Who is rebelling against whom?"