Warhammer

Out of caution, his range of activities is temporarily limited to the city of Margarita, because Niu Niu will check on him from time to time, worried that his little father will let himself go and run away without limits and encounter danger again. Having just had such an experience, Al is still very obedient and just hangs around in front of his house.

Then I met Ms. Nancy leading the choir, followed her all the way home, and heard strange noises in the middle of the night...

.........

Al wandered aimlessly on the streets of Margarita. Because he was wearing that white robe with gold edges and red six-pointed arrows, he could easily attract attention in the crowd. He basically never encountered any unusual situations. It was not until the second time that he was found by a patrolman in a blue hat and asked if he needed help or if he was lost that Al realized that his clothes were too conspicuous. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that he was a kid from "Paradise", so he found a remote alley to change his coat.

I felt much more comfortable after that. I no longer attracted attention when walking on the street. I looked like an ordinary teenager who was idle.

It is true that he is idle. Although Al pretends to be young, except for a few moments such as in Paradise Church, it is impossible for him to really play and fight like a child. Compared with his peers, he seems out of place and a little immature compared to adults. Wandering on the streets of the city, if he is not dressed decently, he will probably be mistaken for a vagrant and unemployed young man from another place. In that case, the blue hat will not come to him to ask if he is lost, but will directly question his background and hometown, and whether he needs help from the church.

If the young people or teenagers have no one to rely on at home, are past the best period for education, and have the ability to survive on their own, the church can still provide them with certain assistance, such as finding jobs, arranging accommodation, etc.

There may be only one or two idle people among a hundred people in Margarita nowadays. If we look at it from the perspective of "unemployment rate", it can be said to be a perfect number.

Because the United Kingdom is now looking for people everywhere.

After ascending the throne, Al monopolized power. He hired members of the Council of Scholars who had secular tendencies and were willing to serve as government officials as advisers. He also gathered a group of knowledgeable and talented old elites through his relationships with Pope Gregory, Countess Melisande, Lady Christina and others, and incorporated them into the government framework to provide advice and suggestions for the construction of the new country.

For example, Eve Catherine, a "scholar" and veteran of the National Salvation Association, was a bookish beauty who had a neutral stance and recognized El's rule, but was also wary of his overly pagan and alien attributes. El also included her in his advisory group with great fanfare as a laborer, working hard to build a "common" country.

However, only those old elites who are deemed reliable and have converted to the Four Mothers and Five Seals can actually touch the threshold of power. In most cases, they serve as advisors who make suggestions, formulate plans, and answer questions.

Al recruited these talents with generous treatment, and this was also the fastest channel for advancement in the civil and political fields of the new country.

The army of the United Kingdom has always been the base camp of the tribes, the new human army, and now that the war is over, it is not so easy for the old elites to gain fame through fighting in battle, not to mention that they are unlikely to compete with these believers of the Mother of War who have already experienced the test of blood and fire.

On the religious level, the Four Mothers and Five Seals and the restricted War Church were attacking them openly and covertly, and they had no chance of interfering.

The only areas left are government, society, and economy.

The emerging kingdom was seriously lacking in talent, and Ai'er expanded government departments in order to fill the need for administrative power, and also to bring together the elites inside and outside the old system. After all, the legitimacy of Ai'er's regime was very low. Even though he had an invincible legion and was fearless, Ai'er did not want to send angry-horned beasts to cities and countryside one day to deal with civilians who mustered up the courage to take a walk.

When they stand with them, the Wrathhorn Legion is a brave and loyal guard, but once they are on the opposite side, they will unleash the same fury and brutality they have inflicted on their enemies on their former companions with the same ruthlessness.

The angry-horned beasts who pursue a competitive path love to challenge the strong, while protecting the weak. Under the influence of El, protecting the weak is also seen as proof of strength, and strong ones will continue to emerge from the weak.

But facing enemies who have taken up arms, no matter whether they are well-trained elites or a mob of citizens and villagers, we will not show any mercy.

Therefore, how to prevent the spread of the problem within the kingdom is a major hidden task in the early days after El ascended the throne.

Although in the end it was inevitable that the candidate Bilbarri would emerge, and Galen Kirsis led his supporters in a rebellion, which was suppressed by Kael'thas and then fled to the hilly areas to continue guerrilla warfare, but overall the work of maintaining stability was still very good. The most important thing is that Ai'er has prestige, skills and trump cards, and the occupied territory is a blank sheet of paper to paint on. As long as it is done, it will be a result, and as long as action is taken, it is progress.

The success of the restoration and reconstruction work is the decisive factor in the people's heartfelt support for the United Kingdom of Aiel.

What orthodoxy, status, and the ancient system of selecting kings are all bullshit. His homeland is broken and he has no food to eat. He stayed in overseas colonies from beginning to end to enjoy himself after fighting the entire Patriotic War. After the war, he was invited to the neighboring country of Tyrell by the exiled royalists. Why should the overseas opposition who claimed to be the legitimate heir to the royal family of Estalia and the heir to the royal family let the people serve him and go against the powerful legion of "Imperado" (meaning wise commander, a military title after Aiel became regent)?

Myrmidia coming down to earth is more like that.

But in that Galen "rebellion", not to mention that the Southern Church, led by Pope Gregory, denounced it as "a shameful betrayal of all the people of the kingdom, a conspiracy to seize power planned by a small group of greedy elements in order to fight for power", even Tolosa, which was allocated to it by El and taken to the south for resettlement in an outpost of the Imperial Expeditionary Force under his supervision, did not express any opinion on the matter. Naturally, these external opposition voices had no effect on the kingdom that had been in chaos for a long time and wanted peace.

Soon after Aiel ascended the throne, he formulated a three-year plan with the help of his advisers, which was mainly aimed at restoring the kingdom's economy and production life, expanding grassroots governance institutions, and establishing a preliminary and stable new national system from all aspects of administration.

Under the guidance of advanced ideas and with the assistance of a large advisory think tank, Al replaced the thinking in his original world, "Under the light of the Human Union, everyone has sufficient freedom to choose, or they can choose to do nothing", into the present, but removed the second half of the sentence.

Factory and shipyard? Build!

City repair? Repair! Simply tear down the city walls and expand the city! Professionals are responsible for everything from blueprints to implementation plans. The church organizes and recruits people, while carrying out missionary activities.

Amid the vigorous construction campaign, what is least in short supply is jobs, but what is most in short supply is manpower.

Al said he would rather let production positions wait for people than let people wait for jobs.

The old rural system in the past, with self-cultivating farmers, tenant farmers, landlords, gentry, aristocrats, etc., not only restricted manpower but also failed to create any output. It can be seen as a closed cycle that can achieve initial self-sufficiency internally.

El had written an investigation report in the past and learned about some of the situations in Estalia. The population loss in the local area was largely due to landless farmers and bankrupt craftsmen who chose to go out to make a living by mountaineering boats. Of course, a large number of them were "adventurers" who could make a living by staying in the local area but had dreams of getting rich.

Al said:

No matter where you go, stay here!

The mainland has not been fully developed yet, but Al still has to develop the colonies to brave the frost and dew and cut through thorns, use slash-and-burn farming, and fight against diseases, climate, and indigenous peoples, as well as face all kinds of dangerous and complex environments. It is hard to understand why they are playing the "Great Voyages" with such a high mortality rate.

Of course, this is due to problems with the old distribution system and the wealth stimulation of the new world. However, the former was basically smashed to pieces by the greenskins and Al. Now how to divide it and how to divide it is up to Al and his 100,000 troops. Naturally, he will not allow a large amount of now very valuable labor force to be tied up in farmlands and manors.

The latter, Al, strives to rebuild his homeland and make the great revival of his native land as its banner. At the same time, he deliberately exaggerates the high death rate of going to sea, gradually destroying the wealth myth of "taking risks on board a ship". Although he is also making plans to maintain sea shipping, his goal is to turn the connection between the two places into a simple trade and commodity circulation, rather than absorbing ship after ship of people into the colonies. He even wants to let the population of the colonies return to the native land.

El's three-year plan is mainly based on restoration and preparation. Its purpose is to try to completely smash the old, neither fish nor fowl system, which is too loose if you say it is centralized, but also a little loose but has a little appeal, and turn it into a high-speed national chariot. The army and religion are the two tracks of this southern chariot. El hopes that after the three-year plan is met, he can basically incorporate the local population into this chariot, emulate the empire - or even go a step further, a few steps, to carry out rapid and efficient industrial development as soon as possible, so that the production and mobilization of the United Kingdom can surpass the old corrupt system even though the population is not as large as before.

Such a roaring and grunting tank or battleship would naturally not be parked in a warehouse or port.

It is bound to expand, it has to expand.

Naturally, Al's first target was the increasingly restless neighboring country.

The United States of Tyrell.

They took in the National Salvation Association and the royalists and gave support to the opponents, obviously with the aim of disrupting the United Kingdom and gaining benefits for themselves.

Al certainly wouldn't just sit there and wait for death; he didn't have such a good temper.

In other words, even if Tyrell continued to peacefully exchange courtesies with his "new neighbor", Aiur would not ignore this neighboring country. In order to face the end in the future, he must expand his base as much as possible. The southern twin kingdoms have a combined population of tens of millions, which is enough to face the initial challenges after integration.

Chapter 10: Pub Speech

Al's three-year plan is now more than halfway done, and the progress and results have far exceeded the expected goals. Therefore, at the state consultation held three months ago, the goals of the final phase of the three-year plan were readjusted. Matters such as naval construction, the re-establishment of shipping routes, and stable communications with colonies were put on the agenda.

The United Kingdom's central government, led by El, fully supported the expansion in all areas and carried out various government-led construction projects at all costs. Huge sums of money were poured into the mouth of the "state machine", the gold-devouring Leviathan. Soon, the entire country of Estalia, which had been devastated by war, famine, plague and population loss, quickly "came to life".

Steady progress toward a level of greatness that transcends the old.

Labor, work, life became stable, busy, and better day by day. There was no need to think too much about status, beliefs and such things. Even if one began to think spiritually and on the level of faith, he would be trapped deeper and deeper in the magic web woven by El for the Four Mothers and Five Seals, which had already touched every aspect of the entire Estalia society and had unknowingly ensnared millions of people, and finally fell into the arms of the "Five Seals Faith."

Therefore, the demand for manpower is also in a highly vigorous state. Commodities are circulating, the economy is prosperous, material resources are abundant, and civilians have a variety of jobs to choose from, but all this is only based on the surface.

To the extent that when Al was walking on the street, he met many recruiters who handed him briefs and introduced part-time jobs suitable for young minors, such as handing out flyers, delivering newspapers and goods, and cleaning. Today, labor agency is also an emerging field. Those eloquent and quick-witted people go to the countryside and towns to give speeches and agitate, calling on people to give up the pitiful output of the land and go to the city to find a job. Then they bring men and women into the city, and they are quickly absorbed and integrated into various places that are in urgent need of manpower.

The output of the Pina Forest provides a safety net for all of this. Food will never be a problem, so there is no need to worry about famine due to abandoned fields. The destroyed rural environment recovers more slowly for towns and receives less attention, which in turn promotes the influx of labor into cities.

El's fanatical pursuit of big plans, big development, mobilizing and utilizing every bit of human power means that the Estalia people never have to worry about finding a job. Even if they know nothing and have nothing, they can just find the Four Mother Churches, attend a prayer, and then the clergy who are also the bureaucrats of the United Kingdom will find some jobs for them through the kingdom.

But all this is not perfect and without flaws.

Improvements in productivity will lead to higher prices for raw materials, an increase in the number of goods and lower profits, requiring larger markets and sources of raw material supplies... These are just some of the small motivations that Al can see, and they are also the driving force behind his expansion.

But there are more complex and obscure things that Al does not know. At the time and world he came from, the influence and importance of the "market" in society had been greatly weakened. With unprecedented resource output, under the supercomputing and regulatory organization that surpassed what people could imagine in the past, any demand can be taken into account, and the output supply can be increased or decreased at any time according to the trend, always maintaining a very stable situation, without shortages, without lack of anything...

The United Kingdom is a large-scale "social experiment" that was carried out by El after he used his "advanced experience" in another world to adapt to this world, and then put it into a state machine that was essentially oriented towards religion and militarism.

Where this will lead is still unknown.

Al opened part of the think tank provided by the All-Knowing Mother to his own consultants and think tanks. Of course, only those who are considered reliable or worthy of competition, such as "scholars", can get the key to the new world.

This is an irresistible temptation for every scholar...

The Kingdom of El needs the legion, the church, and an advanced and efficient organizational system to stand on three legs!

Let them study the art of statecraft!

......

"So! Judging from the current situation, the Tyrells support those exiled old nobles and conservatives as weapons to attack us and interfere with our internal affairs. This is by no means simply in the name of supporting 'orthodoxy'!"

"As the main target of the greenskins' attack, our country suffered a heavy blow, while the Tyrells survived the war. As one side gained, the other lost. Although we are recovering rapidly under the command of Imperado and moving towards a more glorious stage! But some people - I won't point out who they are directly here. Anyway, those who are hostile to us will obviously not sit back and watch us catch our breath and become stronger!"

"Everyone, I have talked a lot about us and a certain country before. Yes, you are right. It is probably 'that' country."

"Competition in trade, scramble for the interests of the New World, and the rumor among their people that we are the descendants of the great conquest launched by the Tyrells from the east to the west, have all blatantly demonstrated their hostility towards us!"

"But there is one more thing, one more key point!"

The boy jumped off the stool and walked to the middle-aged man who looked like a worker and was wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts and was sitting next to him. He pointed to the glass of beer next to him, which the man had only taken a sip from the beginning to the end and had been concentrating on the boy's speech for the rest of the time.

"Can I have a drink?"

The man was stunned for a moment, and handed the cup over in a hurry, even fearfully. The boy thanked him, took a big sip and put it back.

"Go on!"

"What's the key point?"

Everyone in the tavern urged everyone to continue, it was so exciting and magical.

A young boy who looked at least a hand younger than the youngest among them gave a fluent speech to the crowd, analyzing the contradictions and conflicts between the United Kingdom and its neighboring country Tyrell, and the argument that a war was inevitable.

His data and opinions were things that the people who gathered in the tavern at the dock for entertainment in their spare time had never been exposed to. Some people knew a little about them, but had never closely linked them together, from the past to the future, from wooden boards to countries. Originally, everyone treated the boy who ran into the tavern and was almost asked to leave by the bartender as a joke, but he suddenly interrupted everyone's complaints about the recent incidents of Tyrell Navy extortion and robbery of United Kingdom merchant ships.

As a result, compared to other industries that are thriving and developing, the maritime trade sector, which should have been the mainstream, is in a somewhat untimely "depression".

Many captains go out to sea with the idea that they may lose everything, so many port docks and workers in marine-related industries have also been greatly affected. Although they can go north if they can't go south, the profit is not as high as that of the New World route, not to mention the cost...

At first, no one took it seriously, thinking it was just a child's desire to show off and nonsense. But as the boy's various powerful arguments, which at least sounded reasonable and made sense after some thought, came out like a stream, everyone soon became fascinated.

"Give him two large glasses of beer, no! A glass of juice and a glass of milk!" Someone said, and the bartender quickly brought the drinks up. He simply didn't go back to the bar, but sat aside, next to the worker who was drinking beer, holding the tray in his arms, staring at the boy who stood on the stool again.

He cleared his throat and said in a trembling voice:

"This key point lies with each of us!"

"Our daily lives, our communication, our traditional customs, and every aspect of them...are very similar to those of the Tyrells. Ladies and gentlemen, this does not mean that the lies they made up to boast about their pitiful self-esteem are true. On the contrary, they are close to us!"

"Our language, our culture, our festivals, they are all similar to us! In life, unless you deliberately express it and pursue tradition, the difference between a United Kingdomer and a Tyrell standing together is extremely small!"

"The relationship between southerners can be described as 'same culture and same race', and this gives them the possibility to conquer us!"

"The same is true in reverse."

"We, too, can conquer them! Unite the South under one great banner, one... noble faith!"

"Build a huge and prosperous country that can rival the old Bretonnia! This country has a population of tens of millions, rich colonies, a powerful fleet, and an invincible army!"

"She straddles two worlds at the same time, touching the four seas; she is the civilization of the South, a great country that will not and is not afraid of any foreign invasion; a prosperous, civilized and tolerant ideal paradise where everyone can live a good life!"

Chapter 11: Jian Zheng went in

After wandering the streets aimlessly for a while, Al reflected on the fact that he was always playing around with the world, and had not really integrated into the life of "mortals" either mentally or in reality.

So I decided to find something to do.

Then, with the goal of "getting in touch with more people and things", Al went to find a simple job that required both hands and feet:

Cargo boy.

It was very simple, daily work included delivering newspapers, milk, wine and some small items.

It is equivalent to take-out combined with express delivery.

After running around the city for a while, he decided to find a place to rest, so he came to the location of the tavern he had noted down when he came to the dock to pick up the goods and deliver them to a wealthy family in the city.

Then, Al discovered a new hobby, fishing.

Teahouse Key Politics.

Most of the people who gather around the dock for a long time are inseparable from the ocean. Compared with the inland villagers and the small citizens in the city, their horizons are relatively broader. After all, they can often come into contact with many different new things.

When they have free time, they can easily talk about all aspects of people's livelihood and national affairs.

The original purpose of Al's coming here was not only to rest, but also to accidentally see a pretty woman coming in and out. At first he thought she was the kind of young lady who made money by physical work. After asking out of curiosity, he found out that she was the owner of the tavern.

This "Tuna Tavern" is the legacy left to the proprietress by her late husband. The man died at sea many years ago and was a captain of some fame during his lifetime.

He wasn't very interested in anything else - if you mentioned beautiful widows, Alco would perk up.

So he tried to look at the proprietress a few more times, just in case, just in case something happened?

Nothing can happen, right?

just come over.

As a result, he faced the strange looks of many adults in the tavern who looked at his "child" and found that the beautiful widow did not appear in the tavern at all. He was originally feeling a little disappointed, but when he heard a few people who seemed to be sailors discussing the recent unrest on the sea routes, he could not help but interrupt them. As a result, he soon became eloquent and could not stop at all. He also succeeded in getting free food and drinks from the people who were fascinated by his speech.

He had a very fulfilling sense of success, and even considered giving more speeches, hoping that in the future he would have the opportunity to form a force like the United Kingdom XX Party, run for elections, take control of the government, merge positions, and monopolize power...Oh, I'm the king anyway, so that's okay.

In addition to what Al said, the people in the tavern were also very curious about one other thing, which was Al's identity, and they even started discussing it in front of him.

Some people thought that Al was a kid from an upper-class family who had received an elite education, and that it was natural for them to have such an opinion. However, someone else quickly pointed out that they had seen Al working as a courier at the dock with their own eyes today, and that no matter how rebellious a child from a wealthy family was, it was impossible for him to run to the dock, a place where all kinds of people gathered, to do such low-level labor (Al: You're right).

Some people say that Al may have come from a failed elite family. The family foundation is still there, but the family has fallen into decline. It may also be due to war or something else, so even the children have to go out to work to support the family.

This guess was quite logical, so someone curiously asked Al whether it was true. He was too lazy to fabricate an identity, so he nodded decisively and agreed with this statement. People would not ask about the specific background circumstances anyway, so he did not need to think about it anymore.

Al became famous in the Tuna Tavern and became a "child star" of some importance.

Soon, his original target, the proprietress he had been thinking about, showed up and went straight for Al.