It doesn't matter what the lord is.

Honglian stretched out his hand, and Huoyan gently brought the cloak to him.

The red lotus draped itself over itself expressionlessly and walked towards the deathly silent palace.

7. We unite!

Reed heard the news of Wu Mi's death at a chat party hosted by Huang Yan.

Thanks to the Succubus Intelligence Agency's efficient means of disseminating information, Reed can always get first-hand information.

Seeing this result, Lid was not too sad. After all, he had expected this outcome when he heard that the coalition was organized by Wumi after he came back. Wumi was a reformist, not a rebel like Huangyan, which meant that he still agreed with the set of monarch-subject etiquette in his heart.

Since he agreed, he would definitely suffer the consequences of being placed under house arrest. This was also the path Wumi had chosen for himself. He walked this path in an orderly manner and then put an end to his life.

As for why he didn't jump out of this path, or make new attempts at the end of this path, Lid was not surprised. Because he was originally a White Guard selected by the White Guard, and the purpose of the White Guard was to select the world's talents for the royal family. Therefore, the people selected by the White Guard always seek "ability" on the basis of "loyalty". The abilities of White Guards in all dynasties have been high and low, but none of them has betrayed the royal family.

From this perspective, Wumi's ability to imprison the king and mobilize all the troops in the world to fight against the dragon clan was already an extraordinary performance. It can be imagined that he should still have felt guilty about the royal family until his death.

In Wu Mi's words, it can be summed up in four words: a disgrace that will last forever.

"Umi is dead."

Huang Yan sighed slightly when he heard the news and said to Lid:

"I wonder if there will be a next White-robed Prime Minister. And Honglian actually killed Chao...Although our intelligence network has learned that he might be the illegitimate son of the previous king, he has the courage to kill a king in public. Honglian should be more difficult to deal with than King Chao."

Lid also had his own considerations about Honglian. He did not immediately respond to Huang Yan's words, but said to He Yue beside him:

"Let's choose an auspicious day and hold a funeral for Wu Mi in Yunyang. We probably won't be able to get the body, but we can build a cenotaph for it." Huang Yan said expressionlessly:

"I don't object, but that guy is not a good person. When he wrote the rookie list, he ranked me as the number one rookie in the world, which caused me to be assassinated frequently. He has the idea of ​​saving the people of the world, but he is unwilling to stand on the side of the people like us rebels. He still helps the two kings to maintain this corrupt rule. I don't like him."

The senior general of the rebel army, Bicas, who was known as the "evil ghost on the battlefield", crossed her legs and said with a smile: "I will open a bottle of wine to celebrate, to celebrate that there is one less difficult opponent on the battlefield."

Lid took a sip of tea and said with a smile:

"It's time to celebrate. My attitude towards my enemies has always been to go all out, kill them all, and root them out. But I am more tolerant towards people like Wumi, especially those who are already dead. Wumi certainly has his problems, but I think his active reforms, refreshing the administration, cutting unnecessary expenses, reducing excessive taxes, promoting high-quality seeds and scientific farming methods, and standing up to form a coalition when humanity is in danger are all remarkable."

Lid put down the teacup and said seriously:

"In my eyes, in an age of ignorance, those who pursue freedom, equality, and progress can be called heroes. Although many of Wumi's actions were hostile to us, he still protected many people. The royal family cannot give him a good reputation and cannot let him die fairly, so let us mourn him. I also want to use this opportunity to teach every Yunyang citizen that people do not have to be heroes, but they cannot confuse right and wrong."

To be honest, what really made Lid a little sad was not that Wumi died, but that he only needed a title of "treason" to wipe out all his previous achievements. To put it bluntly, the people living in the capital were blessed by Wumi, but they didn't believe that there was really such a good person as Wumi in the world. So when the royal family took the hat of treason off, the people were relieved and applauded, just because they were selfish and couldn't stand the selfless people in the world.

This is human nature, but Li De hopes that the people of Yunyang will take this as a warning.

After that, Lid and Huang Yan stopped talking about Wu Mi and talked about the current situation. Huang Yan said:

"The rebel army still has 200,000 elite soldiers, but we are in a dilemma. If we go north to seize the capital, the rebel army will become the target of public criticism. But if we delay,

We are facing a shortage of food and grass again. This dragon invasion disrupted our plan and overdrawn the food and grass that should have been used for the decisive battle. So I came here this time, on the one hand to ask for advice on how to fight in the future, and on the other hand to get some food and grass. "

Becas listened from the side, her expression unchanged, but she was silently looking at Lid.

She felt that Huang Yan was a little too relaxed when talking to Li De. Although Yunyang had formed an alliance with the rebels, important secrets such as the shortage of food and grass should not be easily told to others. Telling it to others would be like handing a knife to others, allowing them to take advantage of it.

But on the other hand, this also shows that Huang Yan trusts Li De very much, just as she has emphasized many times: the two are friends of life and death, and brothers who bear the calamity together. Bicas has never believed that this kind of brotherhood can last long in the face of the temptation of ruling the world, so she is also observing Li De's reaction.

Lid said bluntly:

"We can give you 500,000 shi of grain, but that's the limit. We are also short of grain now. The good news is that our total farmland area is much larger than you think. The autumn harvest will come in a few months. As long as we can hold on until then, the food problem will be solved. But you can't stop. If you can't go north, go west and try to build a road connecting with us."

Huang Yan nodded, but she still subconsciously asked: "Can't we stay where we are and rest?"

Lid and Bicas shook their heads at the same time.

Huang Yan is the daughter of God's hatred. She has a deep hatred for the inaction of the heaven and the injustice of the world. This resentment and hatred will not dissipate easily. But most of the people who make up the rebel army do not have such awareness. Now the rebel army has controlled a very large area. If it stagnates at this time, the atmosphere of corruption and enjoyment will spread rapidly, and the fighting power of the rebel army will drop rapidly.

Human nature has always been the most difficult thing to control, and Lid sees this very clearly. Lid drew a line on the map:

"We will continue to head east, and you will come along this line. After we take out the Apocalypse Territory, we will meet at this location."

Lid pointed at a few places on the map and drew a line, which cut the present-day Kingdom of Eternal Heaven in half.

Huang Yan asked:

"And then what?"

Lid smiled and said to her:

"I will have my own way later. I don't want Yongtian Kingdom to be completely shabby in the end. It will take too much time to rebuild it, and it won't be able to stop the next dragon invasion. But now the various territories are no longer listening to us, and they are all fighting for the throne. So let's pour a basin of cold water on them and tell them who has the final say in Yongtian Kingdom now."

8. Things you are good at

Huang Yan asked Bicas and Fang Shisan to discuss the next tactical arrangements in detail, and then said to Lid: "Have you reached the tenth level?"

Lide nodded, and He Yue beside him immediately pricked up her ears, drinking tea and watching the conversation with a smile. Lide did not hide anything, but said to Huang Yan directly:

"I talked to Merlin before. There must be a reason why humans cannot break through the tenth level. In the end, I think the main reason lies in the heavenly tribulation between the ninth level and the tenth level. The road of martial arts is so long, but there are people who are constantly testing you on this road. Questioning your heart and asking the way, removing hair and cleansing marrow, the heavenly tribulation has always been there, so many people are used to it. But the heavenly tribulation is also an obstacle. The heaven hopes that we will stop here and stop at the tenth level."

Huang Yan looked cold and asked:

"As expected, the gods of the three upper tribes are all the same in my eyes. If they lived in a cold-blooded world that had nothing to do with me, I wouldn't have any complaints about them. But they harvest faith, enslave humans, and completely eliminate the will to resist, turning humans into docile lambs. One day I will kill them, even if I can't do it now."

Lid pondered for a while and said:

"We have asked Little Slime before, and there seems to be no precedent of the Son of Heaven's Disgust surviving throughout history, at least not on the surface. So I am not sure whether you can break through the shackles of the tenth level. But I suggest that you don't advance yet. Let's make two plans. On the one hand, I will arrange for an acquaintance to help you prepare a space that can be isolated from external interference. On the other hand, we must find a way to get the National Defense Array as soon as possible, and I will see if we can improve it on the existing basis."

The national defense formation is in the royal capital, the meaning behind this is self-evident.

Huang Yan nodded and said:

"I believe in you because you can do what I can't do."

Bicas also looked in Huang Yan's direction. Huang Yan looked at Lid and said seriously:

"After coming to Yunyang, I walked around for a long time. This place is very different from my previous impression. I used to think that as long as all those dirty nobles were killed, the world would become clear, but the larger the territory conquered by the rebels, the more anxious I felt. Some generals who were greedy for pleasure became new nobles. I showed no mercy to them and killed them with my own hands. But we discussed many problems for a long time, but there was still no way to solve them."

He Yue asked from the side:

"About the city's finances?"

Huang Yan nodded and said to He Yue:

"As expected of the second in command of Yunyang, you saw the crux of the problem at a glance. Back when we were in the Great Wilderness Mountain, I promised my subordinates that we would kill all the nobles, take back their wealth, and distribute it to the people of the world. Since the king, the lords, and the gods above us don't care about the people, then we will take those who can't survive and tear down the sky above us. But when we really conquered one territory after another, we found that we lacked the means to govern."

The problem faced by the rebels was very direct: they had no means of making money continuously.

The people at the bottom of society did get land, food, and money, but what about other problems? The cities were destroyed so badly that it was unclear whether they should be rebuilt.

Reconstruction would require a lot of manpower and financial resources, and might even slow down the progress of the rebels.

Without reconstruction, many people will have no place to live, and the city’s industry and commerce will be completely paralyzed.

Besides, who will govern this city? Huang Yan can naturally appoint a new city lord, but how can one person manage the entire city? Should the hundreds of officials and guards be laid off? If not, where will their salaries come from? In the short term, money can be taken from the nobles, but the money and grain hoarded by the nobles are definitely not endless. After all the money is shared equally, there will be little left.

In He Yue's opinion, the main problems are concentrated on two points: one is the lack of industrial reserves, and the other is the lack of talent reserves.

Of course, some people in the rebel army could realize this, but it was too late. Take the talent pool for example. Yunyang has been spending a lot of effort to cultivate talents since the Yuxi City period. Education expenditures have remained high in recent years. If this kind of education system is not planned by Li De himself, ordinary people cannot build it in a few years.

As for industry, although Yunyang's heavy industry has not yet fully developed, its light industry and handicraft industry have reached their peak, and the military industry, which is the focus of development, is also very prosperous. Every time Yunyang conquers a place, in addition to quickly confiscating some of the money and grain hoarded by the nobles and distributing them to the people, it will also quickly move some industries to those territories, so that the local people can farm, join the army, and work. Everyone has something to do and there are laws to follow, so the society can quickly stabilize and quickly resume production.

This cycle system was started by Li De and He Yue since the Yuxi City period, and they worked hard to achieve today's level.

If any link is broken, the whole

Problems will arise in the system. For example, if the scale of education is insufficient and the supply of talents cannot keep up, governance will be chaotic; if there are no high-quality seeds,

Scientific planting methods, the land reclaimed by the demons

If there is not enough farmland to guarantee, then the rapidly developing industry will rob the agricultural population, and the decline of the agricultural population will lead to famine. And if the industry is poor, Yunyang will have no place to get high military expenditures, and everything will be over if it cannot win the foreign war.

He Yue has been reviewing a large number of documents every day in recent years to maintain the smooth operation of the entire system. The rebels don't even have the ability to build any link in such a system, let alone such a system. They are just a knife, which can destroy everything and start all over again, but with powerful enemies around them, even if they overthrow the Yongtian Kingdom, they can't defeat the dragon clan that is ready to attack.

This determines that the rebels can only be subversives, not saviors.

In fact, many dynasties have experienced such crises, which is why they learned the lesson that it is easy to conquer the world but difficult to rule it.

When you start a rebellion, you can ignore the rules, but this state cannot last forever. A crisis will break out one day. Huang Yan walked up to Lid, looked at him, and said calmly:

"When I was heading north, I promised you that if one day the world belonged to me, I would give you as a gift. The promise I made

Even if the sky falls, it will be completed.

On that day, please be nice to my subordinates. I don’t want them to be like the group of people who followed Lord Lingwu and risked their lives to guard the border.”

Lid patted her shoulder and said:

"I have no interest in this world, but right now, we really need to unite and do something. You just need to follow your own pace and do what you are good at. I will worry about other problems. I know that as the land you control continues to increase, you will also face many problems. But it doesn't matter, you are doing the right thing now, and some things can only be done by you."

Huang Yan exhaled and put his hand on the knife at his waist. Beatrice listened silently, stood up, and said to Thirteen:

"We are one family, so we should not say two different things. We have taken the food from you this time, so we can't not show some appreciation. There are two things I can help you with.

You guys, first of all, I heard that Yunyang had a large-scale

We will screen people with magical talents. We have nothing but a lot of people in the rebel army. Bring some teaching materials and I will help you screen them. Secondly, we plan to surround the territories of Xiqin and Nanchu, and then send assassins to investigate. I know you have been worried about the situation there, so we will help you keep an eye on it. "

9. Thank you for your blood

The members of the rebel army stayed in Yunyang for about a week, during which time the two sides discussed many issues.

When Huang Yan led his men out of Lingyun City, he looked back at the majestic city. Logically speaking, no matter which territory, the most imposing building is the Lord's Mansion. The Lord's Mansion should gather the money of the entire territory, and the carved beams and painted buildings should be exquisite.

But in Lingyun City, the most eye-catching thing from a distance is the tall building of the research institute and the factories that are rising and falling in the city. The smoke that rises into the sky, the workers in uniform, the neatly stacked containers, and the iron ore that is being laid outside the city, whose function is unknown at present... I have seen it many times in the past few days, and everyone is in a bad mood.

Still full of complexity.

To be honest, although Huang Yan often said that Li De was a very powerful person, for the generals of the rebel army, this kind of praise would not make them respect Li De from the bottom of their hearts. After all, in the eyes of many people, Yunyang is still the backward and weak Yunyang, and this inherent view is difficult to get rid of.

A fierce man wearing an eye patch said to Bicas:

"I always feel that Lord Yunyang's calling us here might be a threat." Bicas smiled.

"That's normal. Our alliance is weak to begin with. There are no substantial constraints, and no master-servant relationship. In the past, we just huddled together for warmth, but now the world has changed, and some things must be discussed in advance."

The fierce man was silent for a while and said:

"But I still can't accept it. We slept in the open air and trained day and night in the Great Wilderness Mountain, and that's how we gained the power to conquer the world. Why should we give it up to others?" Bicas shook her head.

"They will soon attack Shenghe Territory, and we will send people to keep a close eye on them. In this world, the only thing we can trust is force.

If they are not as strong as us in this offensive, we will still fight with them. But if we are defeated on the battlefield we are proud of, then we should not have any more ideas. Ambition without strength will only kill more people. "

The rebel leaders' steps were a little heavy, only Huang Yan looked calm. …

In Lingyun City, He Yue was talking to Li De about the next plan:

"The railway is already under construction. There are currently two lines, both starting from Lingyun City. One leads to the main city of Zhaochen, and the other goes east.

Passing through Tiancheng's main city, we arrived at Zhaoxin Territory's main city. When you were in the Dragon Clan, we conquered Zhaoxin Territory. Originally, according to the agreement, Zhaoxin Territory should be handed over to Yunhai Territory to fight, but the situation was tense at the time, and Zhaoxin Territory provided a passage service for the coalition forces that were attacking Yunyang, so we destroyed it."

Lid waved his hand casually:

"Let's fight. Bai Feng will complain to us at best. It's better for Zhao Xin to take it down sooner. This place has been a transportation hub since ancient times. It's good to build a railway here. Are there enough people to build the railway?"

He Yue nodded and said:

"Although the project is large, it is far less labor-intensive and costly than building a palace. We demonstrated a model of a steam train to the people and told them that transportation would be greatly improved after the railway was completed. At the same time, we promised that everyone who worked would have enough food every day, so many people were willing to come to work."

There are many poor people in Zhaochen and Tiancheng. Considering the current situation in the world, Yunyang’s first mobilization must be conscription.

Using money and food as an inducement, many people were attracted to

Come join the army to further enhance your military strength.

However, during this process, many people were naturally resistant to military careers, and many people signed up but failed the military selection. Now that there are infrastructure projects with low risk factors and low thresholds, there are naturally many people willing to sign up.

Such a large project naturally cannot be hidden from other territories. Now the whole world is paying attention to what Yunyang is planning. Li De said to He Yue and Fang Shisan:

"There are not many territories left with a hope of conquering the world, and countless eyes are staring at us. After the dragons retreated, many territories in the north were restored, and many territories in the south also expanded their sphere of influence to the north, greedily plundering the land. But we are still sitting still, and without time to recuperate, the land is of no use to us."

Lid said to Fang Shisan:

"We will attack Shenghe territory next. I believe that with our current strength, it will not be difficult to capture Shenghe. But I don't just want to win. I want a deterrent. It doesn't matter when the war starts, but after the war starts, I hope we can capture the entire Shenghe territory within a week."

Taking down a midstream territory in a week is impossible in any other territory, including the current Lingwu territory.

But Fang Shisan nodded and said, "I understand."

Lid's words were very clear. This was not just to destroy a territory. This was to shock all the remaining territories in the world. He wanted them to understand that Yunyang was now far behind them in strength, and any resistance would no longer make any sense.

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