From Wild Mage to Wizard King.

Chapter 418 Bloodshed
With the official sale of the civilian communication equipment, the external network within the province was also successfully put into operation.

Since the cost of civilian communication devices has been reduced to the extreme by the device makers, and coupled with large-scale production on the assembly line, the price of a civilian communication device is only five dollars.

Based on the value anchored by the committee's food stamps, one dollar is just the minimum price an adult spends on food in a day. If you want to eat a little better, it is normal to spend two or three dollars a day.

Based on this calculation, civilian communication equipment is not expensive and you can buy one by saving a little money.

If you don't want to save money, you can also find something to do in your free time. The committee is in need of manpower everywhere now. You can just find a part-time job, such as going to a construction site to move bricks for half an hour or an hour every day. You can earn money after moving bricks for a few days.

However, given the current stable situation of the committee, most people still have some savings on hand, so it is not that difficult to get a few one-yuan food coupons.

Moreover, after all these years of hard work, the committee's rule has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even if they don't know much about it, many people are willing to spend money on it.

Therefore, within seven days after the civilian communication device was put on display in the official store, the number of accounts on the external networks of various provinces increased by at least hundreds of thousands, and in some cases the number of accounts exceeded one million.

After a large number of accounts logged into the Internet, the account owners quickly began to explore the Internet under the official guidance provided by each province.

From being deserted at the beginning to becoming extremely popular, all external websites quickly became lively in less than half a month.

As the external network became more lively, connections within the province were gradually established.

Since it was their first time to use the Internet, many people from various cities in the province were very excited to discuss various topics, from what the Internet was, the development of the committee in recent years, what the chairman was doing recently, to sharing what they had eaten today and which store had the best food.
Although the committee has arranged personnel to carry out management and diversion, it is the first time for these personnel to manage these things. Therefore, in the seven provincial external networks, except for the official section, other sections are a bit messy.

However, the committee was well prepared for the chaos. After receiving the news, Julius immediately transferred more than a dozen spellcasters from the administrative department to the emergency rescue. With the efforts of these spellcasters working in three shifts around the clock, the chaos in the administrative extranet gradually subsided, and under constraints and restrictions, it gradually became standardized.

Roland took his own communication device and handled government affairs while browsing the external network.

Although civilian communication devices can only connect to the external network, customized communication devices like Roland do not have so many restrictions. They can connect to the internal network as well as the external network. It is just a matter of adding a connector.

Roland browsed the external network of Apocalypse Province, looked at the posts on the public section, and looked at the hot posts at the top of the section highlighted in red. Roland felt a little emotional.

This familiar feeling is back, all back.

Thinking of this, Roland also looked at the names of these hot posts.

[Church Division] Pantheon, you are a bunch of **, come and argue with me if you don’t agree.

[General Part 1] Let me briefly talk about my experience and redemption during my escape and in the Old Apocalypse before the establishment of the committee.
[General Zone 2] Briefly share the interesting cases and relevant laws published by the Ministry of Justice, which can be supplemented.

[General Zoning 2] How to use the limited space of a house to grow plants within the scope permitted by law?
[Life Zone 2] Simple and convenient life tips that can be used by ordinary people and low-level extraordinary people.

Is this still Donnar? What did this do to me?

Wasn't this external website opened less than a month ago? How come it has evolved so quickly? Why does the style of the painting feel so weird?

Also, does this hot topic involve provoking war?
Thinking of this, Roland opened the backend of the external network forum. In the inspection of the forum backend, the inspection result of the first post was normal. It did not involve provoking war. It was just a few churches arguing about doctrine.

As for the ** in the post name, it is not blocked by the forum. The external network does not have such advanced blocking functions. It is completely written by the poster himself on purpose, as if he wanted to circumvent the relevant provisions of the [Golden Rule] regarding insults and verbal attacks on the external network.

In fact, her idea was successful. Considering that apart from the deliberate title, the content was still very sound, the forum administrators did not block the post.

Roland raised his eyebrows slightly, and just as he exited the forum and was about to click in to take a look, a report came through the communication device.

An urgent report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was delivered to Roland.

Seeing the prompt to speed up the report, Roland gave up the idea of ​​continuing to browse the forum, logged out of the external network, and looked at the speeded up report.

When the Silver Empire was caught up in the struggle between the Silver Emperor and the Silver Family and had no time to manage other affairs, more and more veterans joined the Ginza parade because they could hardly make a living.

They only hope that the Silver Empire can fulfill part of the salary it promised them so that they can continue to survive, that's all.

But how could Ginza, which was caught up in an internal political struggle, care about these veterans? Of course, even if there was no internal political struggle, Ginza would not be able to fulfill its promise.

Therefore, approximately 17,000 to 20,000 retired veterans from all over the Silver Empire, including a large number of unemployed veterans, gathered in front of Ginza and asked Ginza to at least give them some travel expenses.

Ginza remained indifferent to this. In fact, there were sympathizers for the veterans in Ginza, and some military nobles and religious personnel of the Pantheon had also spoken for the veterans. However, no one, whether the Silver Emperor or the Silver Families, was willing to pay this sum of money.

Even if the military nobles and religious personnel who sympathized with the veterans pooled together some money and wanted to help them, Ginza deducted all the money on the grounds that they just asked for travel expenses today and dared to ask for full salary tomorrow, and they must not compromise. Then, the money disappeared without a trace within a few days.

However, although Ginza restricted them, the Silver Empire was, after all, a loose alliance of countries. No matter how powerful the Silver Emperor and the Silver Families were, they could not control the military nobles and religious personnel.

Therefore, they were still able to secretly help the veterans in private. For example, the old leader of the Radiant Knights recruited veterans under the pretext of hiring guards and let them follow the caravan back to their hometown.

But even so, most veterans still have hope for Ginza and continue to persist in Ginza, so there are so many veterans still staying in Ginza.

However, they have hope for Ginza, but the Silver Emperor and Silver Families of Ginza only see trouble as trouble.

In particular, with the support of some political forces that opposed them, military nobles and religious figures who sympathized with the veterans, a proposal to pay relief funds to the veterans was presented to them. In response, the Silver Emperor and the Silver Families tacitly dragged their feet and did not respond.

Both parties tacitly agreed to let the Ginza city defense forces supervise the veterans and prevent them from making any big noise.

After that, the old soldiers and the city defense forces confronted each other, and their dissatisfaction and complaints increased. The anger was accumulating. Until May 1458, 5, the old soldiers stayed in a large square in Ginza.

When the Ginza city defense forces tried to drive them away, one of the city defense forces accidentally killed two veterans with a blunt weapon. Then, the angry veterans began to fight back, seized weapons, attacked the police with blunt weapons, killed the city defense force that had made the mistake, and injured and repelled the remaining city defense force members.

However, even at this point, the veterans still did not think of using violence to collect the money. After repelling the city defense forces, the veterans dropped their blunt weapons.

The veterans still believed that Ginza would give them a perfect answer, but Ginza didn't think so. When the city defense authorities reported to Ginza that they were killed by the veterans and could not maintain order, a military order came from Ginza.

The Silver Empire's army entered Ginza.

So, on the same day, in Ginza, the capital of the Silver Empire, a bloody conflict broke out between retired veterans and the army. The veterans who once fought bloody battles for the Silver Empire were attacked by the imperial army unarmed and completely unprepared.

Under the leadership and command of a third-rank noble knight, a thousand elite cavalrymen launched a charge against five thousand veterans, and quickly defeated the veterans' parade with swords and whips. They were outnumbered one against five, which was very impressive. They easily suppressed five thousand veterans at the cost of zero casualties. It can be called an epic victory.

More than fifty veterans died tragically on the streets, hundreds were injured, two veterans were tied up with ropes and dragged for thousands of meters by war horses and died tragically, the wife of a veteran who was traveling with her was brutally beheaded, and the baby less than three months old in her arms was trampled to death by the war horse, two innocent people were shot and killed, and more than a thousand innocent citizens were affected.

If the wailing and screaming after the suppression had not attracted the attention of the extraordinary people in Ginza, and some nobles and religious people who happened to pass by had not rushed to the scene and quickly provided treatment to the wounded, more than just these people would have died.

At the same time, after receiving the news, some knights of the Huanguang Knights who were about to escort the caravan out of Ginza also quickly rushed to the scene. Under the leadership of the old captain, they stopped the cavalry from chasing the veterans, otherwise the number of casualties would have increased several times.

On the streets of Ginza, a thousand elite cavalrymen led by third-order transcendents were openly confronting less than a hundred knights of the Radiant Knights. One side was covered in blood, while the other side looked at the blood on their bodies, each of them looking murderous.

If the extraordinary people from all over Ginza had not come here, the first open military conflict since the establishment of Ginza would have broken out on this street.

You know, whether it was the civil war in the Silver Empire or the Rose War, Ginza had never been affected by war, let alone attacked by foreign enemies.

The first military conflict in Ginza was an internal fight between the Imperial Army and the Radiant Knights, which was a huge loss of face for the Silver Empire.

After much persuasion from all sides, the two sides barely avoided fighting.

However, this incident still spread throughout the entire Silver Empire at an alarming speed. Regardless of whether it was true sympathy or just taking advantage of the issue, the various vassal states, free cities and the Tower of Truth in the Silver Empire all expressed their great concern and sympathy for this.

Especially the political groups in the Tower of Truth, they basically just started cursing.

Damn, how did the Silver Empire become like this!
However, even after this incident broke out, Ginza still did not intend to give money to the veterans. The Silver Emperor and the Silver Family also said they were unaware of the order to mobilize the army to station in Ginza. But they all blamed the other side, saying it must have been done by the other side, and it was none of their business anyway.

Although no one wanted to take the blame, after this bloody suppression, the veterans in Ginza were completely depressed. With the help of nobles and religious figures who sympathized with them, they stopped talking and quietly evacuated Ginza in batches.

In addition, three days after the bloodshed broke out, the third-level noble knight who commanded the cavalry to suppress the rebellion was found dead in his own residence with a look of horror on his face.

As for why the Ministry of Foreign Affairs knew it so clearly, it was naturally because they learned the specific situation through the Knights of Radiance.

The War Committee and the Knights of Radiance have a relatively friendly relationship, not only because of Roland's personal relationship with the old leader, but also because of former Knights of Radiance members in the Church of Dawn within the committee, and also because of the commercial interests of both parties.

Roland naturally believed that the various free supports from the Radiant Light Knights should be reciprocated. Therefore, the Radiant Light Knights relied on this relationship to almost monopolize more than 70% of the sugar trade in Ginza.

Therefore, the relationship between the two sides is still relatively close and solid. Even if the old leader steps down in the future, the relationship will not be too bad as their interests are tied together.

As for the Silver Empire's suppression of veterans and the bloodshed that broke out, what that had to do with the War Council was also related to something the Radiant Knights said to the ambassador to Ginza.

When the War Council annexed the United Army, didn’t it also accept a large number of veterans who were expelled from the Silver Empire and exiled to Donnar?
Although the Silver Empire wanted to drive all the veterans and their families here, the veterans were not stupid, and many of them tried their best to keep their families in Sinar.

Over the years, after these disabled veterans have received free treatment from the committee and settled down, they naturally want to bring their families over.

With the idea of ​​helping as many people as possible, the committee also took the initiative to help the veterans and brought their families back from Sinnar.

In order to persuade their families to come, the veterans naturally wrote various letters confirming their identities and praising the committee. Therefore, when they brought their families back, some veterans who helped them hide their identities and were not disabled but retired also learned about the situation of the committee.

Therefore, after experiencing the bloody suppression of the Silver Empire, these veterans also thought of the committee.

They were completely disappointed with the Silver Empire, and some of them wanted to join the Run Committee.

Looking at the report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Roland was also thoughtful.

As far as I can remember, there has never been such an incident of suppressing veterans in the Silver Empire.

If the veterans were suppressed in such a bloody way, would the incident in memory where Ginza was almost captured by the coalition of princes and veterans from all over the country spontaneously gathered to rescue Ginza still happen?

In the Silver Empire's war of unification, will those old guards who provide their own food and are veterans appear again?
Roland shook his head. He felt that it was highly unlikely to happen.

Forget it, what does the future of the Silver Empire have to do with the War Council?

With this in mind, Roland agreed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' plan to proactively contact and recruit veterans.

The Silver Empire despises these veterans, but the War Committee does not. They are all good seedlings that have been tempered by war. It will be easy for them to become knights if they build up their foundation.

Even if that doesn't work, being an ordinary middle-aged laborer would be fine.

(End of this chapter)