Tauren Overlord

306. The Magical Use of Illusion

Looking at the vast number of ratmen from the Fera clan, Lu Heng silently complained in his heart.

"He can proactively propose conditions and turn himself into a slave. This rat man is really capable."

But this is also a good thing for Lu Heng.

The conditions they proposed were so low that it was easier to accept.

The real question is, how much benefit can Lu Heng gain by accepting these rat people?

For example, can Lu Heng allow them to serve as new sources of troops?

Certainly not!

Even among the ratmen, they are a particularly cowardly group.

Since they can now be frightened into refugees by the Imperial God-Emperor, once Lu Heng arms them, they will also be frightened by the power of the God-Emperor and be thrown down in disarray.

Fortunately, Lu Heng didn’t need only combatants.

The idea of ​​everyone swinging sticks and hitting people everywhere is often more suitable for the backward tribal era.

With the development of the times, the social division of labor will generally become clearer, and the non-combat population will play an increasingly important role.

No matter how strong a warrior is, there must always be someone behind him who farms for him, builds weapons for him, and gives him greater combat power.

From daggers to spears, from bows and arrows to staffs, and to all kinds of magic props, they always need professional craftsmen to make them.

With these material guarantees, fighters and spellcasters become stronger and stronger.

At the same time, the fighting population in this society will actually decrease relatively.

Lu Heng is also taking the path of an elite force, so naturally he needs sufficient logistical personnel.

However, these ratmen are obviously not very reliable, and it is certainly impossible to place them in key positions.

Lu Heng pondered for a moment and responded to the request of the Fela clan:

"I allow you to earn your right to survive through labor, such as being a tenant farmer in agricultural production or a worker in a workshop."

Lu Heng made this choice not entirely out of pity for them.

Due to the devastation caused by the war, Shanhai College suffered heavy population losses.

The ancestors of the Fela clan also lived in Lunayuan State, so there is not much cultural gap between them, and they can just fill the population gap.

As the power of the leaders of the Empire's Beast Suppression Province has been completely eliminated, the extra land can naturally be cultivated or used for other production purposes.

For elite troops such as the weapons team, Lu Heng certainly cannot just give them spiritual rewards.

It would be more practical to give them the right to use part of the newly recovered land and allow them to contract or subcontract freely.

Lu Heng truly shared the spoils of victory with them, which effectively boosted the morale of the soldiers.

This led to a completely new mental outlook for the weapons team, and they were far from being as easily bewitched by the God-Emperor as the Fela clan.

As for how to use this reward, many soldiers in the weapon group will subcontract part of the land to landless farmers and directly obtain certain benefits;

The rest would require the help of "agricultural workers," or people who were essentially tenant farmers.

Since Lu Heng already had the Cloud of Life as a growth accelerator for crops, farming his land was actually a very efficient and profitable job.

Also under the influence of the Cloud of Life, places in the mountains that were originally not very suitable for farming have become able to grow more crops.

In addition, the yield of Taimenia rye is already very high, so the expected total profit is even higher.

It can be said that everything is ready for Lu Heng's entire territory, except for more labor!

How could the leader of the Fela clan object to Lu Heng's arrangement? He was so moved that he was beyond words!

The worst-case scenario he anticipated was that the Tauren Lord in the south would treat them as enemies and slaughter them all.

The better scenario is to expel them back to the Sea Alliance in the north. After all, this will prevent the northern ratmen from infiltrating them.

But this "a little better" is only a little better than being killed directly.

These traitors who were proven to be disloyal were often captured and made serfs after returning to the relatively benevolent Sea Alliance.

If they were captured by the Undead Army, then it would be literally impossible for them to survive, and they would become consumables for the Necromancer;

It would be even worse if they were caught by the empire, as they would become the empire's "blood bags" or sacrifices, highlighting their inability to die.

The best case scenario is that the Tauren Overlord still treats them as his former compatriots and allows them to live in their homeland, but the price is to serve as slaves...

How could he have imagined that he and his clansmen could work as tenant farmers, or even make a living by handicrafts like the citizens?

Kind, so kind!

The Fela clan, from top to bottom, all knelt on the ground, expressing their gratitude to Lu Heng:

"Thank you for your rescue, great Tauren Lord. Thanks to your mercy, we can finally return to our hometown..."

However, Lu Heng did not simply let them in and leave everything alone. Instead, he pointed out the direction for them:

"Welcome home, but you need to split up into different teams."

"Then find the civil affairs commissioners of different monasteries and register each of your abilities and intended careers."

Lu Heng took a quick look at their size and discovered that this clan had at least tens of thousands of people.

So he didn't intend to let the entire Fela clan be too concentrated.

If they were all concentrated in a monastery or a town, it would be difficult to digest.

If it is really hard to digest, he also plans to arrange some ratmen from the Fela clan to the New City Republic, since there is a need for development there anyway.

While Lu Heng was imagining the future, the leader of the Fela clan hesitated for a few seconds, and finally asked:

"Great Minotaur Lord, the civil affairs commissioner you mentioned, is he a big shot like a civil servant or a mayor?"

The Civil Affairs Commissioner is indeed a newly created administrative team by Lu Heng.

This thing is actually very difficult to create. Without a system like bureaucratic examinations, it is difficult to select suitable people.

But if we really want to build a group of civil servants from scratch, it will take at least years, starting with education...

Fortunately, Lu Heng unlocked his illusion ability in time.

This capability has an even greater impact on domestic affairs than on diplomacy.

What if the local administrative commissioner is not very capable of doing his job?

It’s actually very easy to do. Lu Heng can just open the illusion and talk to them properly.

Anyway, time passes very slowly in the illusion, allowing them to grow gradually.

At the same time, he also recruited a lot of administrative specialists, so that some people who could not learn no matter how hard they were taught could be eliminated.

This situation where everyone meets frequently and chats together in public spaces can also avoid serious corruption.

Why was the corrupt official Tyrell so arrogant?

It's because he thinks that no one knows what he does, so it would be a waste if he doesn't make some money.

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307. Dragon and Cat

What’s even worse is that when a structural problem arises in a link, other relevant people will feel that no one will know about it no matter who they are in charge.

Since it's useless to replace anyone else, and everyone is corrupt, they just go along with the others, everyone is corrupt, and gradually they start to protect each other.

Therefore, Lu Heng couldn't let them do this. If he let them stare at each other regularly and report data to each other, it would be easy to find out the trick.

At this time, if anyone wants to "omit" or "disappear" casually, it will not be so easy.

For example, Lu Heng needed a thousand bundles of wood to build new warships in the newly recovered city of Thessaloniki.

But two hundred bundles of wood disappeared inexplicably. What happened?

It is easy to find the problem by asking one by one.

Even if he can't ask the answer, Lu Heng still has the ability to go back in time.

He didn't even need to activate the great memory recovery technique to discover the truth.

More importantly, with this mechanism of everyone holding meetings together, anyone attempting to engage in corruption will face tremendous pressure.

The greater the pressure on them, the more the cost of Lu Heng's governance will be reduced, thereby improving the overall integrity rate of more than one thousand administrative commissioners.

Although no one is perfect, even with a better system, it is impossible to solve all the problems that philosophers have never really solved.

But at least this can greatly increase the difficulty of corruption and make it easier for new "Tyrells" to cause trouble.

This relatively open and transparent effect can also be used to monitor the newly returned Fela clan.

After all, they are a group of outsiders. Can Lu Heng trust them unreservedly?

Of course not!

Therefore, there are administrative commissioners in various places, so that if any Fela refugees do anything wrong, they can be discovered as soon as possible.

This ability is also suitable for dealing with various emergencies in various places, such as the attack by Selron or the temptation of the God Emperor.

For this kind of enemy that excels in mobility, Lu Heng also needs to use a communicator to flexibly open the illusion at any time to respond quickly.

Another use of the illusion that made Lu Heng extremely happy was that he could organize spellcasters to cast spells with him more quickly.

With the development and maturity of magic wires, Lu Heng can also draw strength from the "ordinary" masses.

This "ordinary" refers to the vast majority of zero-level spellcasters, who can join in the spellcasting as long as they bring psychic batteries that can be mass-produced.

In this way, Lu Heng can work with them to create a larger-scale collective teleportation.

The maximum number of people that can be teleported has also increased from more than a thousand at a time during the rescue of the Fifth Commune to tens of thousands of people at a time.

In short, this art that seems to not directly increase combat effectiveness has become a decisive force in improving the overall capabilities of the Lu Heng camp.

……

It was also at the moment when Lu Heng conquered the Fela clan that the cat-eared queen Tesna looked radiant.

This surprised the Golden Dragon Queen, who was in the private meeting room with her. She couldn't understand why the queen was so happy.

Although they had managed to hold off the enemy's initial... perhaps exploratory attack, the city was still in a rather critical state overall.

The enemy might well launch a further general offensive, not to mention that the Empire's forces outside the siege were far from its full strength.

There are still two imperial marshals and the guards of the Divine Emperor himself who have not yet participated in the battle for this city.

Aurelia also deeply discovered that Tesna's happiness came from the heart.

This kind of happiness that comes from within is a hundred times more nourishing than when you just won a victory.

Really, even Aurelia is a little envious!

Tesna seemed to have guessed what the Dragon Queen was thinking, and she also knew that this dragon was always reserved and didn't like to ask strange questions.

She took the initiative to say to Aurelia:

"My sister Long, have you ever considered letting go of the burden you carry?"

Aurelia knew how difficult it was to revive the Dragon Kingdom.

Judging from the current situation, it would be great if we could keep the Sea Alliance...

But her innate dragon pride, intertwined with her pride as a royal family, made it difficult for her to bow to anyone or any difficulty.

This sense of responsibility made her feel really stressed, and she wanted to get some kind of relief...

Tesna, who had just undressed and taken off her clothes and was fucked by Lu Heng to the point of squirting repeatedly, had some understanding of this state of "good girlfriends".

She also patiently said:

"In fact, from the perspective of the royal family, the biggest problem you have in reviving the Dragon Kingdom is that the royal family of the Dragon Kingdom is short of dragons."

"If we don't create some baby dragons, how will the future of the Dragon Kingdom continue?"

Aurelia also found this difficult to deal with: