I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

Food supply began to be restricted, many industries were conscripted by the state to meet the needs of the army and were left unattended, various daily necessities became scarce and their prices skyrocketed.

Later, there was a large-scale conscription across the country. The lord's lackeys went door to door to count the heads, and exchanged their brothers and sisters for a piece of paper to send them to the military camp for training and then die on the battlefield.

Some families did not even have the chance to wait until next week to go to church to pray for their children's safety. Within two days, they received a notice that a family member had died in action.

It was not until then that they realized how wrong they were. None of them knew whether winning the war would bring any benefits, but their children were sent to the battlefield, and even the hometown where they had lived for generations became a battlefield. They felt the pain personally.

Nothing is more important than a peaceful and ordinary life. They have always hoped that the war will end soon. Fortunately, the alliance finally came.

patriotic?

In their eyes, Puerente was no longer their country.

You can ask me to sacrifice my life for the country, but you cannot ask my loved ones to sacrifice their lives. Puelente doesn't care what the lower-class people think and still does his own thing, so the citizens basically applaud the disappearance of the kingdom.

Disappeared well! Disappeared well!

After the Alliance entered the various continents of Puelente, they did not feel disappointed or worried for too long. The Alliance Army immediately began to reshape the new order for Puelente after the war.

After the alliance soldiers took over Puelent, they opened warehouses to store grain, built bridges and roads, cleared ruins, and maintained public order. They quickly restored stability in the Kingdom of Puelent until today.

This time, Medea's target is Puerente, which is in need of reconstruction. She wants to establish the first company under her new goal plan here.

At this time, Puerente had basically been recovered by the entire alliance, bringing order back to the country, along with various infrastructure support and new recruitment and disaster relief plans.

The Puelente government, which was reorganized under the leadership of the Alliance, reached an agreement with the Alliance. The Alliance provided a large amount of support and industrial assistance to Puelente, while Puelente would produce according to the Alliance's plan after the industry was restored.

As for the specific agreement, what Puelente has to pay for it depends on Medea's appetite today.

Medea took Kate out to play for a few days, and at the same time, based on the intelligence data, he conducted a survey of the remaining assets of the entire Puelente, and finally set the standard.

First of all, there is no doubt that Puelente was a defeated country. The country disappeared, but the alliance did not issue a sky-high fine. Instead, it asked for a pension based on the casualties of the alliance soldiers. At the same time, a brand new company was established in Puelente.

This company does not participate in any field, but instead listed something that the people of the main continent have never seen before, called a security company.

At the same time, a Puerente Bank was established as a new institution to connect with the Union Central Bank.

It is said that all support funds from the alliance will be distributed and transferred through it in the future, and it will also provide funds for people who want to start a business.

At the same time, the Puelente Kingdom was officially downgraded to the Puelente Region, with each state relatively independent.

A state referendum will be held later, and states will vote on their own. Each state will be free to choose whether to form a new country or simply join an alliance. Everything is decided by themselves.

According to the intelligence Anna passed on to Medea, three major ethnic groups in the Kingdom of Puelente have a tendency to establish independent countries, and it is certain that at least three or four small countries will emerge in the future.

The alliance will later implement this method in all occupied areas, and carry out propaganda simultaneously with the advancement of the battle line, in order to undermine the opponent's people's determination to resist to the greatest extent possible.

The alliance does not need too many big countries to become brother countries. It is expected that the only ally-level country is Ernesto's family, and Surya can perhaps be considered half an ally.

The rest were all split up into small countries that were independent of each other and had an "economic independence".

This is also the fundamental reason why the Puelent Kingdom disappeared so completely.

Compared to restoring that unknown country, the ethnic groups in each state are obviously more interested in how to allow their own people to establish their own paradise when the alliance has made it clear that it will not interfere.

Chapter 318: Flexible Blood Clan

When the two were showing their affection for each other, an old woman hurriedly passed by them with something wrapped tightly in linen in her arms.

Medea subconsciously turned her head to take a look. The other person lowered his head and looked left and right. His sneaky style aroused her curiosity.

There was definitely no sense of crisis. There was not a single magical fluctuation on the old woman's body. Just as she was about to check whether it was a human trafficker, a young man suddenly rushed out from the alley at the side, and the two people collided head-on.

"Ouch..."

The old woman was knocked to the ground, and the things in her arms fell to the ground and rolled twice, revealing the vegetables, flour and a large amount of banknotes flying in the air.

The man quickly got up, ignored the coins scattered on the ground, grabbed the basket and ran away.

The old woman raised her head with difficulty and looked at the robber running away, feeling angry and anxious: "Ouch! Stealing food! Stealing food! Help!!!"

"How can my children survive without food?"

Medea glanced at the guards around him, and one of them nodded and used magic to quickly chase after the young man.

Kate, who was lying in his arms, glanced at the Puerente banknotes with zeros on the face and said, "Tsk, these coins are probably not as valuable as the paper they are made of."

Medea shook his head: "If a country has no paper money, it will naturally lose its purchasing power. Even if there is more paper money, it will only be enough to burn."

The emptying of wealth was just one of the most basic side effects of war. If she was right, those vegetables and flour were probably distributed for free by the alliance, and there was no market at all.

Because Puerente is the main battlefield, its most basic land cultivation has almost stopped.

All those who could be withdrawn were requisitioned to build trenches and fortifications, and the remaining old, young, women and children farmed to produce only enough to meet part of the consumption.

The national wars in the old times were far more brutal than any other period. The casualties on the front battlefield might not be as massive as those later, but the damage to a country’s deep-seated foundation was inestimable.

After all, when productivity cannot keep up, the simplest solution besides improving productivity is to reduce consumption.

The acquisition of materials is much slower and less than the loss. If you have food, eat it. If you don’t have it, rob others. If others don’t have it either, then eat others.

In any case, people will die on the battlefield and starve to death at home until the internal and external losses and supplies reach a balance, but it is not certain when it will stop.

Otherwise, opening warehouses to release grain would not always be one of the necessary options for various policies. Without food supply, everything is nonsense.

The old woman's basket of vegetables was taken back by the guard. When he came back, he was accompanied by two Surya patrol soldiers. Everyone left with the old woman's many thanks.

Puelente's miserable situation was actually closely related to Medea. In the early days, she exported a large number of industrial equipment overseas, and cotton gins were the main machines. Its selling price was generally cheaper and more favorable than other machines.

The ultimate goal is to guide mainland countries to change from growing food crops to growing the cash crop cotton.

This is a very bad move. Except for a few areas with unique natural conditions, cotton planting in most areas is harmful and has no benefits. Irrigation in the early stage requires a huge amount of water resources, and the rainfall in the later stage cannot be too high. At the same time, picking also requires a lot of manual labor.

Moreover, cotton is a deep-tillage crop with a deep root system. The damage to the soil caused by each round of planting is almost irreversible. Providing various fertilizer supplements can delay the damage to the soil to a certain extent. However, if only soil fertilizer is used, a fertile land can be drained dry in less than ten years.

It requires huge amounts of water resources, but not too much rainfall, and a large number of workers. It goes without saying what these three requirements represent for an ordinary agricultural country.

If the distribution is under the control of a country, these problems can be avoided to the greatest extent, but which lord will take care of this under the feudal system? Seeing that you can make money by growing cotton, I will also grow it. I will grow more than you and make more money than you.

As time went by, each lord's territory had a large number of cotton plantations, and the total amount for the whole country was a very terrifying amount.

It can be said that it was she who called for the abolition of slavery, but it was also because of her that the resistance to the abolition of slavery on the main continent was so great that it was almost impossible to accomplish.

Despite paying such a huge price, the regions and countries that grow cotton may not really earn any money from the alliance. The money spent will be earned back many times over in the second round of textile products and food exports.

Because cotton has a high yield and is grown in many countries, it is true that there is no problem selling it, but it is also true that you cannot sell it at a high price.

Even if the two camps fought to the death on the mainland, the trade routes between the two sides were still open and were not greatly affected.

While Puelente continued to fill the meat grinder with people's lives, he would rather let the people starve to death than not find a way to maintain the picking and milling of cotton in October last year, and then sell it to the alliance at a low price.

Isn't it ridiculous? But there is no other way. They need the alliance's currency to buy food and other daily necessities from the alliance. Even most of the Surya wealth they looted was transferred back to the alliance through various channels.

A small piece of white cotton not only prevents the main continent from getting rid of slave labor, which can minimize labor costs, but also reduces the total amount of arable land for grain cultivation, making the other side dependent on external grain supplies.

With the existence of a large number of slave laborers, vested interest groups will always hinder the advancement of slave labor liberation, and the country will always maintain a slave circulation system, reducing ordinary people to slavery.

In order to maintain this system from being challenged from below, you will never be able to wait for universal education in your lifetime, internal contradictions are numerous and acute, and industrial development will never be effective.

The breeze blew through the cotton fields, bringing up red waves.

Economic warfare can sometimes produce effects far beyond what can be achieved by cannons, planes and tanks.

port baled

Countless Allied soldiers ran out of the large portal in panic. The defense force led by Adjutant Ardashir stationed near the portal kept firing guns to signal the other side to stop attacking the headquarters.

Just when the large army had finally calmed down a little and began to understand the signals, bursts of screams and roars came from behind. The zombie beasts mixed in the crowd immediately blew up the mentality of the allied forces that had just calmed down.

The corpse beasts seemed to have evolved to a certain extent, from being infected upon contact to being latent within 30 minutes to 3 hours. Every time they regrouped, there were always a few soldiers who suddenly turned into corpse beasts.

After one or two incidents, they all became frightened birds and had no trust in their comrades around them.

Ardashir also has a group of high-level young corpse beast kings under his command.

Originally, he was planning to rely on this group of Saint-level teams to lead the army of zombie beasts to break through the Allied defenses at the critical moment. However, when the situation became deteriorating and he wanted to mobilize them, they did not respond to his orders. In the end, they simply killed a group of his personal guards, broke through the siege, and ran away.

There is no doubt that his allies abandoned him at a critical moment.

Chapter 319 Miss Qiu

He didn't know why. It was obvious that the chaotic situation could be controlled by using the corpse beast kings. Why were they unwilling to do such a simple thing and unwilling to give him a second chance?

Medea suddenly turned her head and looked at the subcontinent on the other side of the ocean, and so did Kate.

In their field of vision, all the elemental particles in the originally calm elemental network appeared to be pushed and squeezed, with obvious concave and convex arcs appearing. From a wide angle, they formed a spherical cavity under the influence of external forces, and a violent special energy erupted from the subcontinent and swept across the world.

Kate grabbed onto Medea's head, wanting to climb on top of her. Her little body arched up and down, and she stared at the direction of the alliance with wide eyes and said in surprise: "Woc! What is that thing!"

"Such a strange and powerful energy. Hmm, it also feels so evil."

Mitia used all her strength to straighten her small body and put it on his neck: "Here, can you see more clearly this way?"

Kate came back to her senses and looked down at Medea's head with shame and anger in her eyes. Her chubby hand grabbed Medea's ear and said, "What do you mean? Do you treat me like a child?!!!"

Medea showed a harmless smile on her face: "No, no! Riding a big horse is too childish for a child, but it's just right for an adult."

Kate looked skeptical: "Really?"

Medea nodded vigorously: "Zundu."

"Forget it, you should tell me what this energy is. I have never encountered it before."

Mitia said casually: "Nothing special, just a small toy."

Ten hours ago

In front of a stone house on the Gobi Desert, guards in groups of three or four were standing guard bored, but beneath their seemingly lazy movements their eyes were bright and energetic.

Three jeeps drove out of the desert and stopped in front of the stone house. A dozen soldiers surrounded two ordinary people in white coats and walked up to the guards. The leader was holding an iron box tightly in his arms, and an iron chain locked his hands and the box together.

After checking their IDs and saluting each other, the group walked into the stone house. There was nothing in the house except a passage extending downwards and two soldiers in heavy mechas on standby.

As they went deeper into the passage, the surroundings became more spacious. Along the way, there were either patrolling soldiers or various defensive weapons. Everyone didn't breathe a sigh of relief until they reached the exclusive assembly room.

The leader carefully placed the box on a steel table covered with thick velvet and waited for a moment. An officer walked in from outside, and another officer in the group each took out a key and inserted it into the lock of the two-way handcuffs, and each entered half of the mechanical code.

After a series of preparations were completed, it was finally unlocked successfully.

Several men in white coats hurriedly drove everyone out, changed into full sets of protective clothing in the locker room, and had several magicians and nuns cast layers of magical protective spells on them.

Finally, under the serious gaze of everyone outside the glass house, the box was opened, and inside was an ordinary semi-circular iron ball.

three hours later