People in Terra, governing a weird little country

"The living conditions of the Sarkaz are indeed deteriorating, and there is no limit to this deterioration. Just like what Miss Holhaiya said, the lowest level of treatment that humans can give to other humans is slavery, but for the Sarkaz, the Terrans have no bottom line, and there is something even lower than slavery."

Ernst smacked his lips and nodded in understanding.

Kal'tsit's meaning is very clear. In the eyes of the Terrans, the Sarkaz are on the verge of being inhuman. There is indeed a difference between people and animals. The most obvious difference is that if a person kills a person for the first time, the instinct of hurting their own kind will make them feel uneasy and panic. The so-called nausea, nausea, fainting and other adverse conditions are also due to the influence of this instinct. And the first time a person kills an animal......

Do you still remember how many ants you crushed to death beside flower beds or under roadside trees when you were a child?

You don't remember, just like DIO never remembers how many slices of bread he has eaten.

The current situation of the Sarkaz is that of a creature between humans and animals on Terra. To put it nicely, they are gorillas that can be kept in captivity obediently. To put it bluntly, they are humanoid creatures that can be killed without breaking the law.

After all, the law is to regulate social interactions between people. If humans are sentenced to death for killing animals, wouldn’t that be against the will of heaven?

Ernst did not agree with this idea. Even though this was Terra's conservative "rule", he found it difficult to adapt to and agree with it.

Is it right if it has always been like this? Not necessarily!

However, to be honest, this "current situation" has indeed helped Ernst reduce a lot of psychological burden.

At least no matter how much of a bastard he is, if he really brings over a bunch of Sarkaz labor, it will be to let them experience the baptism of advanced capitalism 007. It won't be like what they did before. To say that they are a little feudal is a compliment. If he really has to evaluate them, Ernst really thinks they are about to degenerate to the point where they rely entirely on animal protectionism to survive.

Otherwise, how do we say there is no harm without comparison?

Alas, Sarkaz! Alas, the Royal Court! Alas, Teresis!

Despite his complaints, Ernst still sought advice:

"Then Ms. Kal'tsit, are you suggesting that I recruit some Sarkaz labor?"

But Kal'tsit immediately shook her head: "I didn't say that."

"There must be something hateful about pitiful people. The reason why the Sarkaz have suffered the bitter fruit of today on this land is by no means without cause. It is superficial to hastily judge the position issue with the theory of good and evil, and I believe that Mr. Ernst does not want such superficial advice. In my opinion, the question of whether Kjerag needs Sarkaz labor must be combined with Kjerag's actual situation, and after a more systematic and comprehensive analysis, and with the attitude and support of Kjerag's local residents and the god Yelagund for this policy, a comprehensive and overall consideration must be made. Only in this way can a policy that integrates all opinions, based on the overall situation, and does not ignore the opinions of the people be perfectly implemented."

Ernst was stunned for a moment, and then he spoke after a long while:

"what?"

"I mean......."

"Keep it short!"

Kelsey paused for a moment and rolled her eyes in grievance: "We need to discuss this matter later."

Hey! After discussing for so long, this is the answer you gave me? Then why did I come to you?

You can't just say something, you know, but you can say no opinion at all, right?

Ernst didn't have to ask Kel'tsit for any decisive advice, nor was he so anxious that he had to make a decision immediately after listening to Kel'tsit's opinion. That would be a "snap decision" and extremely irresponsible. But Kel'tsit's words seemed a bit perfunctory!

Seeing Ernst's dissatisfaction, Kelsey could only say:

"Mr. Ernst, although Miss Holhaiya's information is correct, it is a bit outdated."

"If it was last year, then there would be nothing wrong with what she said. In fact, the situation might even be worse. Fifty Victorian pounds? It's no exaggeration to say that in the middle of last year, a Victorian drove a truck into the settlement of Kazdel and only spent a few cents to fill a truck with young Sarkaz girls. But..."

Ernst knew that when a sentence contains the word "but", it means that the content of the previous part is not very important.

But is there anything that can really change the Sarkaz's situation? Ernst couldn't think of it for a moment, what could Kal'tsit be?

Under Ernst's gaze, Kelsey's expression flashed with embarrassment for a moment, but she almost immediately returned to normal and said a fact that would probably make Delphine and Vina feel complicated:

"But, Mr. Ernst, things are different now than they were last year... Ever since Theresis and the Military Committee entered Londinium, the girls standing on the roadside in the red-light district are all Victorian girls..."

Ernst opened his mouth but no words came out for a long time.

At this moment, he suddenly realized that both he and Holhaiya had overlooked a very important fact.

Using race to define the situation of a group of people is too broad. In reality, even if you are the noble father of Londinium, when war comes, you will be reduced to a girl who has to compromise in the red light district. And even if you are a Sarkaz who is hated by everyone and has the same social status as a warm man, when war breaks out, you may become a superior person that everyone depends on.

It is extremely difficult to ensure that destiny always stays on the right track, but it is disgustingly simple to destroy it.

Kal'tsit understood this principle too well. Throughout her life, no, throughout many lives, she tried her best to ensure that Terran civilization could move forward on a "step-by-step" track, curbing any possibility of technological explosion, and strangling all threats that could cause civilization to be interrupted. To this end, she could take away some vital scientific and technological information, or simply launch an expedition to the Sarkaz's homeland in the name of "possible threat to the development of civilization"!

But Ernst didn't understand.

No matter how much you read, how much you listen, how much you read in history books, or how much you learn in political classes.

He had never really experienced war.

As one in 14 billion people who have never experienced war, no matter how much they boast, it is just a piece of paper talk. And the achievement of billion people talking about war on paper is a feat that many countries dream of.

With mixed feelings in his heart, Ernst nodded and understood what Kal'tsit meant.

The issue of labor force can indeed only be discussed later.

Because there is no war on Terra.

The Sarkaz, whom he had been thinking about all the time, were now in a rare period of rise. Tresis had occupied Londinium, and the Military Committee had begun to call on the demons to join in the cause. Although the future was bleak, the Sarkaz already had hope at this moment.

The people who are most difficult to convince are those who have hope. They will risk their lives for that tiny bit of hope and fight until they get a glimmer of survival or are crushed into ashes!

But what Kal'tsit didn't expect was that Ernst knew the time for "re-negotiation", and it wouldn't be too far from today.

At the end of 1096, it was only two years and a few months. In terms of the development of Terran civilization, it was just a drop in the ocean.

However, he, who once had some expectations and ambitions for this point in time, now suddenly feels a little suffocated.

When the old order was burned to ashes in the turbulent times, a great change that had not happened in a century appeared again. War, a war without regard for cost, consequences, or casualties. This corner of Kjerag was facing such a dangerous situation.

He understood Lateran's sense of urgency very well. This is the sense of crisis that every small country with poor geopolitical conditions will have.

Where to go?!

The Kjerag Plan cannot be delayed!

The World Expo opens grandly!

Chapter 1 The Most Special Visitor ()

One month before the opening of the World Expo.

After traveling thousands of miles, Ernst's letter finally reached two countries at the two ends of the earth.

Sami, and Iberia.

Sami actually does not have a unified government in the strict sense. Just as Hermann, the mayor of Xiosta, said, Sami is actually a larger Kjerag. Not only is the natural environment in which it lives basically the same as Kjerag, it also has a giant beast and its master who are friendly to humans.

But the difference between Kjerag and Sami is that Kjerag’s “geopolitical environment is so bad that it is at risk of being invaded at any time”, while Sami is already being invaded.

After the Ursus Great Conquest Era came to an abrupt end with the sudden death of the previous emperor, the many contradictions accumulated in the Ursus Empire due to the war gradually emerged. Without the dividends brought by the war, the original military merit group began to stir, and the overly powerful military force was Ursus's external sword during the war, but when peace came, Ursus had no scabbard that could hold this sword.

When the blade was pointed towards themselves, the Ursus people finally understood the helplessness and despair of the people in the countries they conquered.

The overpowering military finally chose to act on its own. The Great Rebellion was a landmark event in which several army groups dissatisfied with the government's current policies took advantage of Ursus's disastrous defeat in the Ursus-Eastern Kingdom Campaign to suspect that the emperor was being misled by villains, and thus marched towards Fort Saint Stein, ultimately dragging the entire Ursus into the war.

After the end of this massive rebellion with over a million casualties, although the emperor finally managed to gain control of the situation, he completely lost control of the empire's borders. In fact, the empire's territory was divided into pieces. The biggest reason why Emperor Feodor was not hanged like the Lion King in Victoria was that he learned the lesson of the Lion King, always firmly grasped several powerful armies in his hands, and did the work of the Zhou emperor in the Warring States period and the Tang emperor in the late Tang Dynasty.

With an army in hand, he could ensure that he could not be destroyed all at once. If any warlord disobeyed and wanted to rebel, he would authorize another warlord to attack him in the name of the emperor. After destroying the rebellious warlord, he would redistribute the rebellious warlord's inheritance, taking part for himself and rewarding part to "meritorious officials". As the saying goes, when two poets fight, one will be injured. The emperor who reaps the benefits will always earn the most. In this way, step by step, the emperor can slowly but successfully regain power.

Some people may ask, aren’t you afraid that the warlord you support will become more powerful after destroying another warlord?

In fact, you are not afraid, after all, the emperor's power has not been damaged. Even if you become powerful, as long as you have not reached the point where one place can resist an entire country, it is nothing more than the emperor appointing a few more warlords. The emperor is happy with this, after all, the more people there are, the more scattered they will be.

The Ursus counselor who proposed this plan was very capable, because under normal circumstances, as long as the emperor did not commit suicide, there would not be any major accidents. Of course, this is only in theory. Because this plan is only limited to the game between the emperor and the warlords, which one of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty was really destroyed by the warlords?

One was that the capital was breached by a third-party alien force, and the other was that a third-party "general" trampled the bones of the nobles on the streets!" This belongs to the exception. Of course, if you are a reckless military god like Xiang Yu, just ignore what I said.

And when the internal problems were basically solved, Emperor Ursus had to find something to do outside - letting the domestic warlords fight each other would only lead to internal friction. Although from a macro perspective, it was good for national centralization, the political hurdle was difficult to overcome.

People don't want to live in a country in civil war forever. If the fighting continues like this, everyone will start singing "We all hope the old emperor will come back."

It is still necessary to carry out necessary external expansion to ease conflicts and prevent the Ursus people from "losing their confidence".

But given Ursus' current situation, the fact is that the emperor, as the core of the empire, has become the first to lose confidence.

After the new emperor ascended the throne, Ursus suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of Blood Peak against a backward Eastern country. How could the decision-makers at the central government believe in the current combat effectiveness of the Central Army Group?

Besides, if the army sent by the emperor to fight Casimir was defeated and suffered heavy casualties, it might cause the balance that had been hard-earned in the country to be broken. However, sending the warlord's army out would not be internal friction, but open up new sources of income. What if some blind warlord really took it?

They were war heroes, would the emperor reward them? What reward would satisfy them? They were already rich, and the land was occupied by them, what could Fyodor give them? Would he make them co-emperors and start the co-rule of Eastern and Western Rome... no, Eastern and Western Ursus?

Of course, that was impossible. If Fyodor did that, he would truly become the eternal sinner of Ursus. When he died and went to the Conscious Empire, his father might grab his neck with one hand and use a copper-headed leather belt with the other, whipping him like a spinning top!

So where should Ursus fight to ensure that it does not affect the domestic balance of power too much while easing domestic conflicts?

This place must meet two conditions. First, it must be weaker than the East Country, so weak that even Emperor Ursus, who was defeated in the Battle of Blood Peak, would think that if we attack here, we will succeed!

Secondly, the place must be big enough and poor enough so that no one has much appetite for it and no one will come to fight for it, and the dispute will drag on for a long time!

The wicked and smoky Fyodor swiped left and right on the map, and finally found a country that perfectly met both requirements.

Needless to say, this country is of course the theme of our issue of this issue of the peculiar little country - Sami!

Ahem, I’ve gone off topic.

All in all, under Ursus's persistent policy of "slipping in but not coming in", Sami was forced to make some reforms.

Among them, the most conspicuous is that this closed country has finally opened an external interface - on the other side of Ursus, facing the direction of Colombia, a small settlement called "Chapat" began to be built as an external port recognized and open by many Sami tribes.

Ernst's letter was naturally sent here.

But as soon as the letter arrived, a small problem unexpectedly occurred.

When Ernst sent the letter to Sami, there were so many tribes in Sami, and there was no unified leader. He also had no friendship with any Snow Priest, so he really didn't know who to send it to. So he immediately consulted Holhayya, but the other party didn't know this time either. After several twists and turns, he could only fill in "Sami's most prestigious Snow Priest" in the recipient column at Kal'tsit's suggestion.

And here lies the problem.

Let me ask, who is the most famous snow priest in Sami?

There is only one answer - the guardian of the Winter Teeth Mountains, the most beloved child of the grandfather's spirit and Mother Anma, the enemy of evil, the leader of the Tree Scar Tribe, the common hero in the hearts of the Sami people, and the fastest man in all Sami, "Wood Split" Ektilnir!

But Ektilnil obviously did not live in Tsapat. In fact, among all the Sami tribes, he was the most xenophobic, the most opposed to the Sami opening up to outsiders, and the most opposed to the tribe's migration to the south.

As a radical who believes that "the truth about the evil should be told to all Sami people, so that all Sami people can overcome their fear and fight the evil", Ektilnir has been leading the warriors of the Tree Scar Tribe to wander on the final line of defense of the Winter Teeth Mountains, watching day and night for unusual movements coming from the Infi Icefield. There is a chance that he will appear in Chapat, but that only means that the evil has already attacked and the front line is already rushing towards Chapat!

So a paradox arises.

No one except Ektilnir dared to acknowledge Ernst's letter, but Ektilnir was not there at all, and no Sami with nothing to do would be willing to take a letter from outside the country and cross the entire Sami from south to north to deliver it to Ektilnir...

Well, not entirely.

"Elki, are you really calling me just to deliver a letter this time?"

The Sarkaz girl with two pairs of big horns, who could only be described as having a baby face and big breasts, combed her purple long hair that was covered with snowflakes, and looked at the Cyclops in front of her who was much taller than her with some disbelief.

The Cyclops are the outliers among the Sarkaz. They possess the seemingly awesome ability to predict the future, but because they can only see a pessimistic future, they feel that "the Sarkaz will surely perish" at first sight, so they expelled Kazdel early and adopted a non-interference attitude towards the Sarkaz's internal affairs.

And Elki is an outlier among the Cyclops. For some reason, she sees more things than the other Cyclops, so she sees the ending of "Terra's destruction" at a glance, and even sees some specific processes. Therefore, she lives in seclusion, ponders over and over again, trying to find a way to reverse the situation.

But recently, even though she hadn't done anything yet, she found that the future she saw had undergone some slight changes.

This change is actually not that big. In her eyes, Terra's future is still being swallowed up by the terrifying evil demons and turned into nothingness, but there are some small changes in the process. For example, Terra, which had not been able to unite until the evil demon crisis broke out, seems to have united this time.

Although it is useless, it is a serious signal!

Elki immediately began to collect all the recent news from all over Terra, and finally selected five people from all the people who had been relatively active recently.

The very active Sarkaz leader Tresis, the very active Duke of Victoria Caister, the very active Rhodes Island leaders Amiya and Kal'tsit, the very active Columbia scientist Christen, and the very active Kjerag Prime Minister Ernst.

It's said to be five people, but in fact there are only three. Sarkaz have no human rights in Terra, and Duke Kast is an anthropomorphic creature, so these two can be directly excluded.

As for the remaining three people, Elki thinks they are all possible. Rhodes Island, which has become active recently, has inherited the philosophy of Theresa, the most gentle demon king in the history of the Sarkaz, and is committed to the peace of Terra. It is indeed possible that there will be a deviation in the future unity of Terra. Columbia scientist Christen Wright has been famous for a long time. Her dome research project has been a hot topic during this period. If it can really succeed, it means that Terra has opened the door to the outside of the isolation layer. Whether the affairs outside the isolation layer will help unite Terra, Elki does not know, but this possibility is not ruled out. As for Ernst, although he is the least impressive one among the three in Elki's eyes-after all, she only knows one of Ernst's speeches-but it is still a possibility.

Of course, Elki also tried to use his prophetic ability to predict something, but to be honest, it has little reference value.

All I saw were tragedies. Rhodes Island was destroyed, Kal'tsit died, Amiya was killed by the Sarkaz, Christen crashed, and even after opening the door to the isolation layer, he was swallowed by the things outside. And Ernst...the prophecy showed nothing.

As if his fate was disturbed by some higher and elusive existence, his predictions showed a blank situation, which had never happened before and was indeed a bit strange. But isn't a blank also a tragedy to some extent?

Elki decided that since he couldn't tell which of the three people caused the change in his prediction of Terra's future fate, he would try contacting them all.

She then asked the staff of Rhine Life Sciences in the Chapat office, and she was shocked when she asked.

"General Kristen? She is in Kjerag. The Dome Project is being carried out on the Matterhorn in Kjerag. She has been in Kjerag for a long time."

"Rhodes Island? Are you talking about the medical company that helps transport the building materials? Is there a land-based medical company? Hmm... Actually, I don't understand why a medical company would accept such a transportation order. Isn't their scientific research level quite high? Oh, sorry, I got off topic. They should be in Kjerag now. The building materials were ordered by Kjerag, so they should be in Kjerag now."

"Ernst? Which Ernst are you talking about? Ernst Shivaash?"

Alqi still remembers the look that Rhine Life Sciences employee gave him. It was a look that looked at a mentally retarded person.

"Sarkaz, what's wrong with you? Where else can Prime Minister Kjerag be if he's not here?"

Elki was completely speechless.

At this point, even if she was a complete idiot, she could still figure out who the "source of the disturbance" was.