I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

They can then take over the role that the Alliance previously played in the trade system and sell their products across the continent.

If they can achieve this goal, the pressure they face at home will instantly be reduced.

The people said, "If you don't give me food, I will find a way to eat myself. Anyone who can have a bite to eat is not willing to hide in the woods and starve every day."

The two countries have very consistent ideas. Under the current circumstances, it is best for them to work together to resist pressure from the alliance and create a space for their own survival.

And the Kingdom of Cabancia is the most suitable knife in their hands.

Even if they fail, they won't lose much. They won't lose anything if they can exchange weapons aid for the income from some minerals or land in Cabancia.

The price of food in the Kingdom of Cabancia is cheap, but that doesn’t mean food is also cheap in other places.

Moreover, the Subcontinental Alliance is rich in white sugar and tobacco made from sugarcane, and Cabancia has similar climatic conditions for growing sugarcane and tobacco.

However, neither of them expected that inside the mural of the king in their room, there was a little guy working silently.

The principle of the eavesdropping device is mainly based on the reflection, refraction, interference and diffraction of sound waves, while the one in the mural is an air dielectric capacitor.

The structure is very simple, consisting of an air inlet and support ring, a membrane, a silver-plated cylindrical cavity and an antenna.

The distance between the film and the silver-plated cylindrical cavity is very small, forming an air-dielectric capacitor.

Based on the principles of electromagnetics, when sound waves vibrate the film, it causes the capacitance value of the air capacitor to change, thereby affecting the electromagnetic field in the resonant cavity, and receiving and recording the sound signal through the antenna.

A signal device emits specific sound waves to obtain reflected waves. After eliminating the sound wave glitches, clear sound can be heard.

Chapter 227: Cabancia Rises

The use of eavesdropping devices can be said to be a groundbreaking product.

Neither of them would have imagined that the vibrations produced by the air on which they depended for survival would be the culprit for revealing their secret conversation.

Medea has emptied the pockets of many countries through this black technology. In many cases, the intelligence agencies even use eavesdropping devices to help the alliance's chamber of commerce play an open game.

If we say that the First Industrial Revolution was still at a stage where ordinary people could basically understand or comprehend it as long as they saw the real objects, it was the application of mechanical force and steam power.

It is also imitable and replicable by copying others.

Then the core of the second industrial revolution [electrical revolution] represented by new media such as electromagnetic force behind the eavesdropping device gradually began to go beyond the scope of ordinary people's understanding.

It is something that requires systematic teaching and understanding through the inculcation of textbook knowledge; you cannot understand the principles by just guessing.

Electricity is like magic that mortals can master. It is a million or even a billion times more powerful than human muscle power. It can transmit information, drive trams, illuminate streets and houses, and move invisibly through the streets and alleys like an elf, changing every aspect of society.

The Kingdom of Cabancia has been living a very miserable life in recent years.

The Seris Alliance's red, white and black three-district division policy replaced and disintegrated the previous kingdom fiefdom system.

The original red zone was later incorporated into the alliance, and the four white zone states isolated the two sides. Although the latter states still belonged to the black zone, there were not many that the Kingdom of Cabancia could fully mobilize.

Cabancia is now a nominally united kingdom. The states under it have not established independent countries, but they are independent in finance, taxation, military and politics. Whether they listen to the kingdom's opinions is entirely up to them.

Such a situation is unacceptable to any country. The huge domestic pressure forced the previous king of Cabancia to die of illness, and the former crown prince Warwick took over the throne and began to readjust policies.

It can be said that the Alliance is the kingdom's number one enemy in public, and privately it is also the culprit that forced the king's father to death. It is reasonable and moral for the new King of Cabancia to find a way to make some trouble.

In recent years, he has been stirring up trouble in the White Zone states, creating attacks from time to time to cause chaos, and trying to kill the governor and other pro-Union leaders.

However, Warwick's self-consciousness in fighting a battle of wits and courage with the Alliance was actually entirely wishful thinking on his part.

Media originally positioned Cabancia as a test field for comparison, with the three districts of red, white and black running side by side on the same land with different systems.

Except for the initial period when Medea used various means to support a group of idealists to come to power, it basically half-let go and allowed them to develop normally.

With the rapid development of the alliance in recent years, various public welfare and infrastructure construction has been completed, and the living standards of the red states incorporated into the alliance have basically changed three times a day.

The prices of basic necessities such as food are stable, there are a few surplus jobs, and with the opening of transportation networks such as railways, roads and shipping, the flow of materials within the alliance has become extremely fast.

The most obvious benefit is that the ingredients on the table are obviously richer. Although meat is still at a relatively high price, there is still sufficient supply of dairy products and sugar.

At the same time, great efforts are made to promote basic education and literacy, and the government-subsidized school meals have greatly saved parents' living expenses.

As the world's largest source of industrial product supply chain, the largest raw material distribution center and general consumer market.

In order to capture the huge domestic market, companies have spontaneously integrated and optimized costs, making industrial products very cheap. Some small traders have even begun to take risks by forming smuggling alliances to sell products within the country abroad to earn the difference.

And because of its vast territory, the alliance officials have been vigorously promoting car affordability, the supply price of gasoline has been maintained at a very low level, and the number of cars owned within the alliance has also been increasing year by year.

In comparison, life in the white area is much worse. You can forget about driving a car, but many people drive trucks and become truck drivers, transporting mined resources back and forth between the red and white areas.

Thanks to the consumption boost from the Red Zone, life in the White Zone is not extremely affluent, but it is definitely not bad either. It is even much better than the lives of people in most countries and regions.

The black area where Cabancia is located is basically a slum, and the people there live in poverty and the public security is definitely not very good.

Gangs and mafia are everywhere, and the air is filled with the smell of gunpowder.

Under the influence of the cluster effect of the alliance, the closer one is to the alliance, the harder it will be for the local people to survive. Under the dumping of the alliance's products, it is impossible for local enterprises to develop, and food aid is a deadly strategy.

Moreover, with the White Area as a transit station, the cheap raw material resources of the Black Area are continuously exploited, which is equivalent to constantly bleeding the other side, making it difficult even if they want to resist.

The general direction has been determined, so Medea naturally doesn't pay much attention to other details, and the entire alliance is hidden in the deepest part.

Those who have been competing with Warwick in wits and courage have always been the current vested interests, who live on the development dividends spilling over from the alliance.

In other words, all the white states are the same, the benefits are there, and there is meat to be eaten by following the alliance.

So it doesn’t matter who becomes the spokesperson, as long as he becomes the spokesperson, he will automatically become the new spokesperson for the alliance.

So when the three-nation joint conspiracy plan appeared on Medea's desk, she felt both amused and confused: "Who gave them the illusion that Cabancia could cause us trouble?"

"Due to their imitation firearms, or Cabancia's current poor mobilization capabilities and soldiers' physical fitness?"

"If he can manage the people in the white areas well, I think his reign is not in vain."

Don't take bean buns as dry food. After training by the Alliance Army and absorbing professional combat ideas and equipment, the White Area Army has 60% of the combat effectiveness of the Alliance's regular army, even after taking into account the equipment gap between the two sides.

It was not as easy as Warwick imagined to defeat this White Area army that even had an organized tank unit.

However, Warwick did not think so much. He mobilized the surrounding military forces and a total of 100,000 troops launched an offensive towards the white area without declaring war, hoping to take the white area into his possession before the alliance could react.

The total number of regular military forces in the four white states was no more than 20,000, which was also the source of Warwick's confidence.

Although the troops in the white areas responded quickly and launched a counterattack, there were still a considerable number of small troops that dispersed into the white areas and caused extensive damage.

They looted the villages and towns that were caught off guard, slaughtered the rebels, and took away all the food and women. No one could tell that both sides were citizens of the same country just a few decades ago.

Because they had to defend the important city to clamp down on the enemy's main force, the main force could only watch the destruction caused by these small-scale armies and wait for reinforcements and counterattacks from the rear.

Chapter 228 Cabancia voted

"Woo~~~~"

The loud sound rang out in Kopalaq Port, causing cheers from the people gathered at the dock.

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The Dreadnought-class battleship was huge, like a moving mountain on the sea. When it docked at the dock, its majestic size and thick gun barrels immediately captured the attention of most men.

It is no exaggeration to say that the leap from 3,000 tons of wood to the current 30,000 tons has completely established the national self-confidence of the citizens of the Alliance.

And today it will serve as the flagship and lead a large number of students from the alliance to Ernesto to support construction. It can be said that the alliance has given these students enough honor and attention.

It is also an official way of showing the public that supporting the construction of other brother countries is a very honorable thing.

Medea and Anna were also watching the magic live broadcast in the palace. As they watched the fleet gradually leave the dock and go away, Anna, who had recovered a little, subconsciously asked, "Miss, is this okay?"

She understood many of Medea's thoughts. Everything else was fine, but he was extremely stingy when it came to talent, and he wanted to take away other people's work.

And the current situation can actually be regarded as that one's own talent has been seduced away by someone else in disguise, so Anna asked such a question.

Medea, who was half lying down, played with Anna's little hand and said helplessly: "Although I am not very happy, this is normal. This is determined by the thoughts we have cultivated."

"A person's thoughts become words, words become actions, actions become habits, habits become character, and character determines destiny."

Anna nodded thoughtfully.

This passage can be said to be a summary of how to guide others to become what you want them to be.

Use a favorable atmosphere to guide the other party and change their thoughts subtly. When this idea can stand up to scrutiny, it will penetrate deeper and deeper into his thinking and begin to change his behavior and habits.

If there are more people like this, they will gradually lead to changes in social customs, which will in turn affect the country as a whole and push the country in that direction.

While the students of the Alliance were traveling across the ocean in search of their ideals, a large number of human tragedies were occurring on the other side of the subcontinent.

Whenever Cabancia's army captured a village or town, they would slaughter and plunder the enemy without caring about their identities or whether they surrendered. The looted property was distributed among them, and the food was used as military rations.

Even though they have been equipped with firearms for many years, they still maintain the style of the old aristocratic army.

This distribution method maintains the strong fighting desire and aggressiveness of the army of the Kingdom of Cabancia, making it more combat-effective than soldiers from other countries.

As news of the attack on the front spread, Odrinsar State assembled 20,000 men to reinforce the main battlefield of Putum, while Ongita State reinforced Kurgas State.

Escorting the fleeing people along the way, and at the same time rebuilding a line of defense in Kurgas State.

After the initial chaos, the State of Putum quickly stabilized its position and continuously covered the front-line defense positions with a large number of 75 field guns, preventing the main force of Cabancia from moving any closer.

At the same time, after several days of emergency construction in the rear, trenches began to be put into use, making the defense of the White Area Army more effective.

One hundred thousand men against twenty thousand, this seemingly overwhelming numerical difference did not produce the results Warwick expected in front of the trenches.

Even as the machine gun and artillery fortresses began to be put into use, the trench network that was eventually formed with more and more trenches dug became an unforgettable nightmare for the soldiers of Cabancia.

Under the shadow of a powerful foreign alliance, Cabancia has not experienced a large-scale war for many years except for occasional small-scale frictions.

Neither side had ever experienced the brutal baptism of trench warfare, and all military ideas were still stuck in the previous way of fighting between two armies.

When Cabancia's 100,000-strong army ran headfirst into the trench defense line, less than three days had passed, and the 100,000-strong army collapsed after only three charges in total.

They didn't see the money or the beauties they wanted. All they could see were endless defensive fortifications covered in smoke, bullets flying over their heads from time to time, and artillery shells exploding around them.

They had never experienced such a bloody hell before, and some of them were tortured to the point of mental breakdown by the sound of artillery fire.

The cowardice was so great that even the officers of the Kingdom of Cabancia were helpless. If they continued to encourage them to die, they would not get any good results.

Fortunately, the kingdom's progress in increasing its troops in other areas was pretty good, so they built fortifications on the spot to surround this important city, which was considered an explanation to their superiors.

But this was not a situation that Volcker could accept. His goal was to forcibly take back the white area at lightning speed, and then engage in tug-of-war negotiations with the alliance that had reacted, rather than playing a war of attrition in front of the opponent's city to delay the battle.

However, before he could issue the order to attack, the nearby Red States of the Alliance sent out their own fighter units to attack Cabancia's supply lines.

The pressure of supplying food and drink to 100,000 people was naturally terrifying, and the fighter group directly cut off the kingdom's army's supplies.

Although they did not have the authority to mobilize medium and large bombers, they could still command ordinary fighter fleets.