I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

Although the good grain-producing land of the past is still good land, the value of areas rich in various minerals and other natural resources is also skyrocketing, quickly filling or even exceeding the output value of the land owned by the old aristocratic families.

Especially with the development of exploration, mining, metal smelting and synthesis technology, things that were worthless before have now become expensive. Oil and natural gas may emerge from the bottom of the wasteland that seemed to be barren before, or large mineral veins may be hidden deep inside.

The lands owned by many new nobles or weaker families were naturally not as good as those owned by the old noble families. The gap in economic benefits between the two sides was enough for the old families to always have the advantage and initiative.

But now many new families, or simply a down-and-out noble who occupied two barren lands, have gained the opportunity to rise to prominence through unexpected wealth because of the different resource outputs in different regions.

To rise means to fight for the right to speak, because the role of the right to speak is to set rules and standards.

If you don't fight for it, sooner or later what you have will be taken away by the family that has the power in various ways.

The old guys are used to enjoying the benefits of the right to speak, so how can they easily give it to you? If your wealth has caught up with your status but not yours, the conflicts between the old and the new will naturally increase.

In other words, it seems that all the countries on the main continent have the same privileged class, but they can only be classified together in a general direction.

In fact, if we classify them more finely, there should be at least four major groups: old nobles, emerging nobles, business owners, and warlords who rose rapidly due to the popularization of firearms and the turbulent situation.

The four parties have common interests, but there are more conflicts and contradictions due to the uneven distribution of interests, which gives Media a lot of room for maneuver.

In fact, she subconsciously ignored this issue at the beginning, because the biggest goal of her country, whether in the past or after its rebirth, was unification. This was beyond doubt and no one felt that there was anything wrong with it.

This is undoubtedly hidden in everyone's mind.

For example, if we remove the country as an entity, many regions can actually develop better and live more comfortably after being separated from this whole.

Because the distribution of resources is random, some areas are naturally chosen places and have everything.

For example, a certain unknown three provinces have extremely rich population, oil, minerals, grain, forestry and fishery resources, as well as a natural deep-water port. They have a very good strategic location both on land and sea. If such a region were to become self-contained and become a second-rate or even quasi-first-rate country, there would be no problem at all.

However, because of the existence of the country, these advantageous resources will be allocated to support other disadvantaged provinces to nurture each other. This kind of contribution cannot be measured by benefits and cannot be priced in.

Almost all provinces have received blood transfusions from them in various fields, so they have the honorific titles of eldest son and eldest brother.

Because we are a whole, we have such responsibility. If we lose sight of the loss, then it will be impossible to accomplish this.

So she subconsciously grouped all the powerful people within their kingdom and empire into one faction and one entity on this continent.

But later she realized that this was not her hometown after all.

The country here is not the same country she was in before.

Not to mention anything else, even nationalism and national confidence are still in their infancy.

So there is a huge breakthrough hidden in this, that is, they are actually a loose combination, have not been baptized by the centralized system of counties and counties, and have not yet developed a national overall identity that goes beyond the calculation of gains and losses.

She can easily pull one group to fight another, by importing large quantities of resources and raw materials from a certain region, or giving enough orders to a certain region, then within a few years, the economic gap between regions within the country will quickly become apparent.

The imbalance in resource output will lead to regional income imbalance, and income imbalance will divide the strong and the weak.

Why should the strong give you a blood transfusion for no reason? Why should they share their own interests with you?

If you give me less, I will naturally live a better life. Both the local people and the local nobles will feel unbalanced, and the imbalance will impact the old ruling system.

This problem cannot be solved without one or even multiple bloody purges, because this is itself a process of redistribution of interests, and this does not take into account the more frequent infighting among internal factions.

Therefore, the second way seems simpler and more feasible, which is to go it alone and not play with you at all.

The resources in my area are enough to live a good life. You can fight as much as you want. I will protect my own piece of land.

As long as one can withstand the first wave of wars triggered by the declaration of independence and possess sufficient military strength to deter the other side, then one can actually complete the separation.

Later, by vigorously promoting racial and ethnic characteristics to distinguish you and me, we can rebuild recognition and achieve cultural separation.

Whether in terms of economy or military, the Seris Alliance is fully capable of protecting those regions that want to secede from independence, and it is only natural for it to send garrisons.

Once you really separate because of interests, it will be almost impossible to unite again in the future. There is no win-win solution for all parties in the world. If you enjoy the happiness, others will suffer for you.

If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.

Looking back at the big map, the fate of the Demetria Church is already determined. Ernesto's air force has also begun to be active on the battlefield, gradually tipping the balance of victory in the war back, and Surya has also escaped the crisis of national destruction.

The Alliance's armored army has already broken through into the territories of the Ixia Kingdom and the Puelent Kingdom, pushing the front line back. In fact, the Alliance's grand strategy is on the verge of failure.

The people of the two countries, having escaped from extreme pain, will launch a major counterattack under the guidance of the alliance with tremendous resentment.

The time left for the Allied Forces is running out~

Chapter 284 Terrorist Attack

As the conflict between the continent and the alliance intensified, the remaining forces of the Kingdom of Cabancia joined the Allied camp. Both sides stockpiled their troops on the border and the war situation was imminent.

However, the top leaders of both sides tacitly maintained a state of confrontation. Cabancia did not want to be a pawn and take on the tough bone of the Alliance's local garrison, while the Alliance did not want to waste its time on Cabancia.

Winning the battle is easy, but dealing with the mess in the Cabancia area afterwards will consume some manpower and material resources.

At the same time, if the remaining areas of Cabancia were forcibly annexed, in addition to facing attacks from the remaining Cabancia followers, the overly large coastal defense line would also dilute the number of alliance border defense forces, and further reinforcement and expansion of security fortifications would be necessary.

The Alliance is now simultaneously supporting the supply of materials to three major war zones and three armored armies that are fighting mobile warfare, and logistics are reaching their limit.

In this case, it would be better to reserve a strategic buffer area, hold back the fists and let the allied forces in to fight. Anyway, as long as the main battlefield is not within the alliance territory, it will be fine.

But the Allies are not all gilded rubbish, and they will not allow the Alliance to achieve its goals entirely at its own pace.

Torriles Intercontinental Airport

A K-90 large passenger plane manufactured by the Kesh private aircraft manufacturing plant was quietly parked on the runway, waiting for passengers to board.

K-90, driving crew: 4 people.

The wingspan is 35.8 meters, the length is 28.6 meters, the height is 8.38 meters, the empty weight is 19 tons, and the maximum take-off weight is 33 tons.

It is equipped with four 1450 horsepower piston engines, with a maximum level flight speed of 450 km/h, a cruising speed of 365 km/h, a ceiling of 6800 meters, a range of 6839 kilometers, and can carry 86 passengers.

The alliance's public passenger aircraft have only been in operation for a few years, have not yet been fully deployed within the alliance, and the air traffic network is still in the construction stage.

The plane should not have been in Cabancia.

However, the situation has changed dramatically in the past two years. Many citizens in the alliance originally came from the Kingdom of Cabancia. They want to bring their family members to the alliance in order to avoid the war.

In principle, a citizen of the Union can allow one relative to enjoy a special channel for naturalization, so these people naturally become candidate citizens of the Union.

For this purpose, the Union Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Kingdom of Cabancia held consultations and opened a cross-border route in exchange for some small benefits, helping the families of those citizens to enter the Union to hide, which laid the basis for its appearance here.

The two countries each provide half of the crew for these aircraft, with Cabancia responsible for ground security and the Alliance responsible for driving and passenger cabin services.

Before this, it had operated smoothly for 12 times, and this was its 13th flight.

Most of the people had never seen such a huge and slender bird-shaped steel behemoth. Exclamations came one after another. With the excitement of being able to step onto safe land, they took out their passports one by one at the gangway car for inspection and boarding.

Several ground crew members who were transporting luggage in the abdominal luggage compartment completed their task, looked at each other, closed the cabin door and left.

Marika was sitting in the cabin seat, looking around curiously, and occasionally touching the armrests of the seat wrapped in velvet. At this time, the stewardess in a dress came to her side and put down the folding table considerately:

【We will start distributing meals soon, you can find the menu in the pocket in front of you】

"Oh, oh! Okay, thank you." Marika was stunned for a moment and quickly thanked him.

The stewardess nodded, with a warm smile on her face: [You're welcome, please wait a moment.]

The flight attendants continued to help passengers in each seat one by one, solving their needs and questions.

As the stewardess gradually walked away, the stranger who had been silent beside her turned around and looked at her: "Your name is Marika, right? Your brother Monk is a second lieutenant in the Union Army."

Marika looked at him in confusion: "How do you know? Who are you?"

"We know each other?"

The strange man looked at her with a smile:

"You may not know me, but I know you Marika. Your brother was once a very good warrior for the kingdom. He fought against the rebels of Olyalu and Sangahaji, but unfortunately he was corrupted."

Marika frowned in disgust: "That was a long time ago."

Her younger brother Monk belonged to a local noble family. Every time he went on an expedition, he would go to put out a fire and then return to his original base after the battle. Therefore, she heard a lot of information about the battlefield.

According to Monk, it would be more accurate to say that they went to massacre civilians rather than to quell the rebellion.

Because the scale of the rebellion in several states had already been fully aroused at that time, and the main groups that composed them were almost all poor people, this gave rise to a question, that is, how to distinguish the poor from the rebels?

The answer given by the Kingdom of Cabancia is that there is no need to distinguish and kill anyone you see. If you kill the right person, you will eliminate a rebel; if you kill the wrong person, you will eliminate a potential rebel.

Under such a policy, anyone with a black heart would certainly turn his butcher knife against ordinary poor people who have no ability to resist in exchange for military merit.

Why not attack the rebels? Of course, it is because the rebels have guns and cannons, and it is not certain who will win the military merit in a direct battle.

Monk just couldn't accept this fact, so after the victory in suppressing the rebellion, he chose to use the reward he received to buy a retirement quota and run away.

As his sister, Marika could understand her brother's choice, and no one brought up the topic again. When the old matter was brought up again, she felt more disgusted than panicked.

The strange man put away the smile on his face, took out a revolver from his arms, pointed it at her and whispered threateningly: "Don't make a sound! Listen carefully, this plane has been controlled by us, the air police are all our people, and so are you!"

Marika was dragged towards the cabin crew area, where the four stewardesses had been tied up and gagged. An air marshal in the cockpit pointed a gun and forced the captain, whose face was covered in blood, to descend the flight altitude, while the other two were dealing with the bodies of the other crew members.

The man threw Marika next to the team members with a flick of his hand. A young man with a backpack climbed into the luggage compartment. He handed the backpack to the man and then went back into the luggage compartment.

The man unzipped his pants and saw bundles of black powder inside, which made Marika's face change drastically.

Having lived in the chaotic Cabancia for so long, almost no one would not know what this thing is, and many people have even tasted it.

"Your reaction is very good. I'm looking forward to your next performance." As he said that, he tied explosive packs to Marika's body and did not stop until Marika's upper body was completely covered.

"You bastard! Take this off! It's full of Cabancia people, how could you do that?"

The man put his finger on Marika's lips and said, "Hush, Marika, you will be a hero of Cabancia today. Anyone who opposes the kingdom should die, especially traitors who are the most hateful."

"And you, you are a freedom fighter inspired by the Kingdom and determined to fight against the Alliance. Your life will be sublimated in the fireworks, and the sins of your brother and you will be washed away."

"Boss, the airspace has dropped to 2000, and the speed has been reduced to the limit."

"Oh, let's get started then."

As he spoke, the man lit the fuse on her body. The fuse burned very quickly, but it was also long and would take some time to burn through.

“Are you a terrorist?”

Marika: "No! I'm not!"

“But you look like one now.”

After stuffing Marika back to his teammate, the man put on the parachute backpack handed to him by someone next to him and patted it:

"The Alliance products are really good~"

After putting on their backpacks and opening the cabin door, several people cast magic and ejected one after another with shields. The remaining terrorist pulled Marika into the cabin.

The passengers in the cabin saw a woman with explosives tied all over her body rushing out and they immediately burst into screams of fear.